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This Has Got to Stop

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     And it will stop because, as the old wag Herb Stein laid down in his law years ago: Things that can’t go on, stop. Which raises the question: which things? And the answer is the things Western Civ is doing in its attempted suicide: inciting war, recklessly running up debt, persecuting its own citizens and stealing their liberties, subjecting them to medical malfeasance, destroying their goods production and food-growing capabilities, and subjecting the public to incessant mind-fuckery in a campaign to falsify and disfigure reality.

     A consortium of public and corporate bureaucracies has institutionalized the falsification of reality under the pretense of saving the human race from a pack of hobgoblins led by climate change, racism, and normal sexual reproduction. They have been driven insane by the actual reality of pending economic collapse, which has only been accelerated by their own suicidal activities. What they apparently really want to save is their own positions, perquisites, and power. Their enabling mechanism is the digital computer and its many ways of assembling and controlling information, and thus controlling people, especially those who object to totalizing control. They do it because they can.

      You can see how bad it got by reading the Twitter Files #19, assembled by independent reporter Matt Taibbi and released on March 17: The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine, Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories The thread tells of the campaign led by Stanford University called the Virality Project, marshalling government agencies, academia, Big Pharma, and NGOs, such as several financed by George Soros, to suppress “misinformation” on social media, including “stories of true vaccine side effects.” Hence, truth became misinformation.

     You might see in that how anyone on the side of falsifying reality is playing at a disadvantage. If that is your first principle in a political struggle, you are fighting not just against your opponents but against the laws of the universe. The only recourse of a faction at war with reality is tyranny, forcing the people to accept your bullshit and do your will, whether they like it or not. That is exactly what you get in America’s Democratic Party and other regimes currently in power around Western Civ. Being at war with reality places them at war against their own citizens.

      The Covid-19 release seems to have been an act motivated by multiple players for their own reasons which, combined, amounted to crimes against humanity. Anthony Fauci, America’s infectious disease czar, apparently sought a crowning career triumph, which would have been a successful vaccine against a dangerous virus. So, he arranged to engineer the organism that he could then triumph against. Like all of Dr. Fauci’s projects over the roughly forty years that he ran the NIAID agency, the mRNA vaccines — subcontracted to the US Military and manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna — turned out to be an epic fiasco.

     Covid-19 also happened to be a convenient device for ridding the government of the troublesome President Trump, who threatened to disassemble major parts of the permanent US bureaucracy. If you revisit the many videos of Mr. Trump appearing in the White House Covid crisis room in early 2020 with Dr. Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials, I’m sure you will notice his discomfort, as if he suspected he was being played (he was). And conveniently, right after that, the locked-down public’s attention was galvanized by the George Floyd, BLM, and Antifa riots until the 2020 election was upon us. (Another grotesque prank against the people, never adjudicated.)

      It took more than a year after the “vaccines” came out for the disturbing actuarial data to emerge from the life insurance industry that many non-elderly people were being killed and disabled by the shots’ adverse effects. (I think the censors were caught by surprise that the truth leaked out from there.) Meanwhile, any able investigator could understand how the half-assed “vaccines,” along with the denigration of off-label early treatment medicines, the reckless use of dangerous remdesivir combined with enormous government payments to hospitals for mis-treating patients with it, the gaming and hiding of CDC statistics, and the obvious censorship of all that information in the corporate news and social media (with help from the CIA and FBI), all added up to a monstrous criminal offense against human decency.

     The government, now led by the career criminal “Joe Biden,” needed another distraction from intrusive reality in 2022 — including the emergence of the Biden family’s crimes — so it arranged to start a war in Ukraine by threatening to turn that country into a forward NATO base on Russia’s border. Russia was exceptionally clear and straightforward that it wouldn’t accept such an arrangement and the US proceeded anyway. Our country was exceptionally dishonest in its positioning for this conflict. (And our NATO allies were astoundingly credulous going along with it, even after we fatally damaged the EU’s economy.)

     Now, entering the spring of 2023, all of this sordid untruth is unravelling along with something else that the news media will have trouble lying about: the collapse of the money system in Western Civ. Unlike Covid-19 and the Ukraine War, a banking collapse has no propaganda value to the regimes in power. There is no narrative they can concoct out of it to their advantage. The public will do what they always do to a government that plunges them into penury and hardship. They will turn it out or pull it down.

      Since money and banking are subject to the laws of physics, we are going to get the ultimate payback for messing with reality. A lot of things that can’t go on will stop.


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898 Responses to “This Has Got to Stop”

  1. Walter B March 20, 2023 at 9:25 am #

    There certainly are a few movements out here that on the surface appear to be attempting to do something about the multiple assaults upon humanity that are underway now, but I for one do not have any hope that any real and concrete actions are going to stop or even slow down the progress of degradation being thrust upon the world.

    On the bioweapon genocide front, Jim’s podcast with Dr. David Martin was superb, and the good doctor is fighting one hell of a battle in the legal system and making great progress. However, in the end, all the evil ones have o do and al that they probably will do is type in a mass of zeros into the bank accounts of the lawyers and victims and let the W.H.O and Bill Gates roll out the next plandemic, lockdown, and mass murder of more of us with no government in the loop to even complain about it.

    The only action that will ever be taken on the banking scam will be to facilitate the Too Big To Fail banks to devour all of the Too Little To Live banks and roll out CBDC and eventual microchip social credit systems. No one is even pretending to address the lie that by firing workers, inflating the cost of everything, and diminishing food production and that one in itself is a real game ender unless we can find a way to survive on diets of dirt and our own excrement.

    No need to go into the WWIII that America wants to engage in and Russia does not want to end, so unfortunately for me (and the rest of us all), I don’t see any real movement that will slow or stop the decay. Jim’s idea of military tribunals was, at least for me, the only plausible fix to what ails us, but with the Three Stooge management of Blinken, Austin, and Milley in the cockpit, Airforce US can only end our flight splattered on the rocky cliffs of Paradise Lost. Sorry, but I spent a career in the Results Business so perhaps my view is tainted.

    • justanotherguy March 20, 2023 at 10:18 am #

      walter, re banks:

      you are probably right on the mark – cbdc is the kill shot, is what i tell anyone that will listen.

      svb failed because their short deposit problem over their (uninsured) long bonds.

      every other regional bank in the country without concentrated deposit bases still has that same problem, but perhaps their risk management is better – in other words, they did interest rate risk management, and purchases interest rate swaps.

      issued by the systemically important banks.

      when their part of the multi-trillion dollar book losses is accounted for, there are only two choices – the money center banks that issued the interest rate swaps will pay up, setting the counterparty derivative domino chain falling, or the regional banks will one by one enter receivership and be taken over by the money center banks.

      onward to central bank digital currency.

      anyone doubting this can observer UBS taking over credit suisse late last night under terms like those described above.

      credit suisse’s bond holders in AT1 were wiped out in favor of the shareholders – probably to guarantee the value portion of credit suisse ends up in UBS’ hands, bondholders and the forward bond market likely wiped out, meaning bank recapitalization sources just got nuked.

      this is just beginning.

      the system has begun to eat itself.

      • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 10:51 am #

        I truly believe in the concept that all we humans have a moral responsibility to treat each other with the same degree of decency and opportunity. Unfortunately for many, not all are born with equal abilities, motivations, or environments that allow for competition for resources to be even close to being fair and equitable. Mankind certainly has not made any progress in fixing that problem, have they?

        I cannot help but wonder if what is going on right now is the targeting for elimination of those humans that the Owners deem to be of least value to them and their precious system. I watched a number of the videos, advertisements, and entertainment productions paid for and promoted by SVB which openly targeted blacks, Hispanics, and the LGBQ folks very specifically, even as they touted the bank’s commitment to “helping” them taking as they apparently took advantage of them at the same time.

        Can an argument be made that those promoting the bioweapon injection program and might be targeting the leftist loonies who reportedly represent a majority of those who were duped into taking them? Definitely possible IMHO.

        If there is any truth to this, perhaps the Owners are actively removing from society those that while they may tout as underprivileged, are actually despised the most by Those Who Rule. The question remains as to what they plan on doing to us once they have weeded out their supporters.

        • elysianfield March 20, 2023 at 11:28 am #

          “The question remains as to what they plan on doing to us once they have weeded out their supporters.”

          Walter,
          Really? Did they teach History at the Point? The question has an obvious answer.

          • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 11:51 am #

            Agreed, it was a rhetorical question.

          • SpeedyBB March 23, 2023 at 1:17 am #

            “Rhetorical? Rhett? That you?”

            “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

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        • Rowdypiglet March 20, 2023 at 12:04 pm #

          “If there is any truth to this, perhaps the Owners are actively removing from society those that while they may tout as underprivileged, are actually despised the most by Those Who Rule.”

          @WalterB, I’ve often wondered along the same lines. The argument in favor of your speculation would be that it represents what they are actually accomplishing. If their intention was to purge the gene pool of the weak, stupid, and mentally ill, they’re well on the way to accomplishing it. It would also make sense of their disempowerment and persecution of the smartest and most able among us. If not, they’re manifesting a particularly malignant and persistent form of delusional incompetence.

          Can any reasonable person believe that the same ruthless corporations that have consistently treated human beings like something to be melted down for its component parts and sold to the highest bidder are suddenly overwhelmed with compassion for “marginal” people and prepared to sacrifice competence and profits on their behalf?

          I don’t profess to know what their deep intentions may be, but we can know for certain that neither “equity” nor “social justice” are among them. I suspect the real plans are known only at the top levels, and that the CEOs of banks, politicians like Biden and Trudeau, all of the lackeys, simply do what they’re told to do by those above them, in exchange for their lavish lifestyles and various perks and protections. Whatever the plan is, the knowledge of it is above their pay levels.

          • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 12:44 pm #

            One can learn about Malthusianism and trace a line of these cultists right through to Kissinger, Schwab, and co.

            Fauci didn’t just come up with the shot to “cure” a disease as suggested in this week’s piece (a disease,mind you, still entirely unproven to even exist, and for which there is no actual test).

            There is a reason they were annoucing that we’d be taking a shot every two months here in Europe for the rest of our lives.

            There is no question in my mind whatsoever that the shot was employed to depopulate, but there was more to it, ofc. It was meant together with the digital ID to bring us under a level of control that extended even to the controllers telling us when we were to die.

          • SpeedyBB March 23, 2023 at 1:19 am #

            Rowdy, if you haven’t read Wm. Burroughs, I suggest that is a valuable source of insight.

            Into “control”.

        • kendar667 March 20, 2023 at 3:56 pm #

          One fly in the ointment is the targeted blacks and hispanics jab uptake rate – certainly much lower than the owners would like. And then you have the millions streaming across the border, mostly unjabbed as well.

        • Yirgach March 20, 2023 at 4:22 pm #

          Given the immense financial and political capabilities of the Gates Foundation and Gate’s parental history of genocide, that viewpoint is entirely possible.

          Once you have your hand on the Reality control knob, anything is doable. Go ask Adolph.

        • bill7424 March 20, 2023 at 5:00 pm #

          Typical of the Socialist / Marxist governments. They rid themselves of the useful idiots when they are no longer needed.

      • Islander March 20, 2023 at 11:03 am #

        One point about SVB (that I read) is that its deposits increased very, very fast as a result of its location and its client base of venture capitalists.

        So (I think this is the argument) they had all these deposits and had to invest them somewhere, and they bought a lot of long-term low-interest Treasuries.

        So, it seems (I may be interpreting this wrong) that they may hvae been really top-heavy in the amount of funds they had in these low-interest treasuries.

        Then, their chief depositors being venture capitalists and not Mr. and Mrs. America with a savings account or some CDs, the VCs responded immediately to the interest rate hikes by pulling out their funds and looking for more income from their funds.

        Mr. and Mrs. American meanwhile, with their quiet self-effacing savings accounts in well-insured savings banks, will be placed at risk while the govt. hollows out all of the savings insurance potential in the US banking system to bail out the VCs and other professional financiers.

        Possibly SVB should have disallowed any withdrawals over $250,000.

        Surely they should have foreseen this eventuality as soon as the Fed started raising interest rates—I mean, SVB should just have looked at a list of their major depositors and seen a big problem in the offing.

        • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:19 am #

          Venture capital supports smoke and mirrors companies. Most go under rapidly. SVB is a high risk institution.

          Period.

          • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 1:37 pm #

            Not only was SVB high risk because it had venture capital clients. It was also high risk because its client base was so monolithic. A basic risk mitigation tactic is to have multiple clients who make up a diverse client base. Throw in not having a risk officer for eight months. Plus, I also read that their board of directors was light on bankers.

            Monday morning quarterbacking is always easy. But this seems so obvious now…..

        • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 11:21 am #

          The system and the government that is tasked with overseeing it are clearly in business to protect Johnny Big Bucks and the donations they make to their politician patsies, and unfortunately, at our expense.

        • Ishabaka March 20, 2023 at 12:08 pm #

          SVB and SBF – California’s 2023 contributions to the Republic.

        • Not_GeorgeT March 20, 2023 at 1:05 pm #

          “Possibly SVB should have disallowed any withdrawals over $250,000.”

          What I have been able to glean is they paid the bonuses and the controllers of SVB sold their stock at very high prices, then they let the SHTF.

          At such point limiting withdrawals would be a pointless exercise. They’d already taken the $$ and run.

        • Yirgach March 20, 2023 at 4:44 pm #

          Yes Islander not only did SVB have a lot of deposits invested in low interest Treasuries, but they also loaned out too much of these deposits to startups. This is fractional reserve banking at it’s most unregulated. Lehman failed with a 20:1+ ratio. SVB was over 200:1+. When interest rates changed there was a bank run and they were toast.

      • TPTB-USA March 20, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

        “bondholders and the forward bond market likely wiped out, meaning bank recapitalization sources just got nuked.” ~ justanotherguy

        Does this take into consideration that the REPO window has had a new false-front for several years, been open 24-7, and like the Salvation Army, they are taking in all kinds of junk?

        Whether intentional or not, the consequence is inflation as a result of devaluation, with the objective of being in power when the dust settles.

        If you were the government, and you knew that you were going to devalue the currency to half its value tomorrow, what would you do?

        • justanotherguy March 27, 2023 at 4:41 pm #

          it does – repo window supports central bank money printing, something the market, whether equities or bonds as bank owner devaluation losses – oh no, can’t have that.

          inflation coming, what to buy? productive assets like farmland, and control of everything so the entire world has to rent.

    • swtNEK March 20, 2023 at 1:28 pm #

      Thanks Walter. I just listened to a good podcast essay by Naomi Wolf concerning the takeover of the World by the evil “Gods” since western civ. Has abandoned A working faith in God. Couldn’t agree more.

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  2. NickelthroweR March 20, 2023 at 9:37 am #

    I’d like to believe the part about people pulling the rotten edifice down but I doubt that will happen. Case in point:

    A lot of people that I know have 401k’s. Before this year, they liked to brag about them talking about the “million dollars” waiting for them when they are finally allowed to retire. They have been quieter as of late with many of them having taken a 40% haircut in the last year or so coupled with the fact that “a million dollars” might only get you a cup of coffee 20 years from now.

    On top of all the bad news these guys are getting regarding their 401k’s, you’ve got that leaked FDIC meeting where the members openly joke that everyone is about to lose everything they have denominated in $$ unless they have it under a mattress. If you’ve seen that video and most of you here have then I have no need to rehash it.

    I put together a little packet with all the facts and links to the damning parts of the FDIC video to family members with 401k’s with a strong suggestion that they take their money out now and buy something tangible.

    NOT A SINGLE PERSON FOLLOWED MY ADVICE.

    Even if the elites openly tell you they are going to steal your cash and then demonstrate that they are putting that plan in motion, people still do nothing.

    • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 9:56 am #

      Oh, I followed your advice NickelthroweR, and followed it long before you even put it out there. While as long as there is a system, we have to have paper assets even though those papers can quickly and effortlessly turn less valuable than toilet paper with a few keystrokes by the crooks in charge.

      Having and holding real, tangible assets in the forms of land, food, water, lead and other precious metals, will allow those of us who have prepared to continue on in extended comfort, even if that comfort is simply the abilities to live and eat.

      In the end, I for one believe that Naomi Wolfe and Johnathan Cahn are correct that the forces of evil are the powers behind the idiots in the suits and uniforms and that only spiritual powers of good will be able to put an end to the agenda that is hell bent on destroying us all. If I am correct, there is the only hope I can maintain. If I am wrong, I can only hope that eternal rest and not eternal torment is achievable.

      • NickelthroweR March 20, 2023 at 10:17 am #

        I am certainly following my own advice. I’m right there with you.

      • bill7424 March 20, 2023 at 5:15 pm #

        Walter:

        Is the land you own really yours when the County government can take it from you for being behind in property taxes. Or maybe you want to put a nice duck pond out there and suround it with trees but can’t due to some stupid environmental reuglation. How about a little chicken ranch? Nope can’t do that either unless you jump through permit and regulation hoops that cost a fortune and take forever to process. Same goes with your home. Is it really yours when you have to pay property taxes each year on it?

        • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 5:51 pm #

          When I was mayor and people would thump their chests and tell us that they were landowners and taxpayers and as such had rights, I always made it a point to remind them, in the most careful, loving way, that unfortunately folks, you don’t own the land, you only rent it from the municipality. I DID stand up against Eminent Domain whenever it raised its ugly head, but yes, we only rent the land.

          However, if you are able to purchase land in a place where the government is small and non-aggressive, owning the right to live on that land and pay taxes to keep doing so still has a lot more value than trusting the government to pay your rent in a barrio or FEMA Camp.

    • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:19 am #

      Maybe one of the reasons people are not pulling money from 401Ks is due to fact that this must be counted as income plus pay a penalty. It’s set up where Wall Street benefits from holding onto your money with no real guarantee it will be available when you retire or have even kept up with inflation.

      About 15 years ago I watched a video by a man whose name I can’t remember or the video so I’m just going to have to rely on my memory for what he said (which may not even be accurate). So with all those disclaimers, according to him, the last nail in the financial coffin of the US will be the bankruptcy of the FDIC. This is looking more likely with the massive bailout of depositors well over the 250k protection.

      I don’t believe for a minute that the government is only bailing out the depositors. The stockholders of these big banks will get their money too — not the little, regional ones (like Walter pointed out) but SVB, etc.

      • justanotherguy March 20, 2023 at 10:26 am #

        isn’t the wipout of depositors the essence of a bail-in?
        but the problem with that is they cannot see clearly what the downstream consequences might be.

        the bail-in concept for svb lasted 2 days, until the politically connected, like peter theil (palantir anyone), got on the horn to scream the sky is falling.

        svb had my own company’s capital, all of it, and go the message just after the israeli companies, to get it out. they worked last thursday and got the wire transfers completed before the pack.

        most of silicon valley and about 1/2 of tech startup had substantial assets in svb. if all those had their working capital wiped out, the effects would have been an immediate avalanche.

        so they punted and opted for a slow motion denouement – popcorn in hand, watching the hurricane come ashore.

        • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:38 am #

          I understand that the depositors who have all their business capital in a bank rely on the good judgement of the bank employees to be doing their job and not take risks with the depositor’s money to keep it solvent. And I don’t want to see businesses wiped out b/c of their incompetence.

          Wouldn’t reinstating the Glass-Stegall Act solve this problem? Why is there never any real reform?

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:14 pm #

            Because it’s Bad-Star or Dis-Aster Capitalism. But remember, one man’s storm is another man’s salvation as per the storm that wrecked the Spanish Armada and helped save England.

            As George Bailey said, they’re not selling, they’re buying. And when people had spent all their money buying their own grain back from Joseph, they had to sell themselves into slavery just to live.

            Joseph the Slaver is revered to this very day by the three Abrahamic religions.

    • Hardrock March 20, 2023 at 11:35 am #

      I have not seen this video…..can someone post a link to it?

    • Yirgach March 20, 2023 at 4:53 pm #

      There is a recent interview with Ed Dowd and Steve Bannon where Dowd mentioned that the M2 money supply (M2 is a measure of the money supply that includes cash, checking deposits, and other types of deposits that are readily convertible to cash such as CDs) went negative back in November 2022.

      Supposedly that was the first time since 1930. Before that it had happened 4 other times in US history. Each of those times there was a financial equivalent of Depression. This time, he said it would be global and he expects a “kinetic” war.

    • megabeth March 21, 2023 at 9:57 am #

      My retirement fund has done very well since the pandemic, thanks to my husband’s savvy, but I can’t liquidate it until September 2024 without a brutal penalty. For my part, I suggested we purchase a lot of tangible things: property improvements, canning equipment, a camper with solar backup, firearms, pretty metals, et cetera, that we can use or trade. So if our retirement fund goes tits-up or inflates ridiculously, at least we will get by.

      • Amman March 21, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

        A full or partial loan against it might work.

        Also, are you getting any quality, low-cost fragrances? Smelling extra nice puts a nice touch on a sunset anywhere.

      • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 2:30 pm #

        Great job, megabeth!

        It’s nice that you and your husband can work together. A friend of mine called the other day asking about the banking turmoil and what to do. I told her to buy gold and put in a fish pond. I’m not sure if she will do either. They are on two acres out in the country.

        Keep sharing with us about about your preparations.

        • SpeedyBB March 23, 2023 at 1:20 pm #

          Hide your gold in your fish pond.

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  3. Michael Dowd March 20, 2023 at 9:39 am #

    Another great one, Jim! One of Connie’s and my weekly rituals is my reading aloud your Monday and Friday posts (around 9:30am or whenever you post – always before 10am) and then discussing. Thank you for enriching our week so faithfully, my friend!

    • ViceGrip March 20, 2023 at 10:54 am #

      “Another great one, Jim!”

      What have I missed here?

      Jim! Really?

      *** “medical malfeasance” ***

    • Pilgrim March 20, 2023 at 11:11 am #

      I too read these posts to my wife but I wait until 5:00pm and happy hour with a glass of hard apple cider. We both enjoy Jim’s colorful writing style and cutting wit. His oft stated optimism helps take the jagged edges off my cynicism. We are both thankful for his efforts to stay involved and commited.

      • Amman March 21, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

        In today’s world, any writer who tells and/or strives for the truth is a hero. Jim is a connection to the past and the possible futures.

        • elysianfield March 22, 2023 at 3:33 pm #

          Amman,
          I would suggest that, in todays world, any writer who tells and/or strives for the truth is a target.

          • Amman March 23, 2023 at 3:55 pm #

            So what. These type of writers win.

          • elysianfield March 24, 2023 at 12:00 am #

            They win? What did Scott Adams of Dilbert fame win?

  4. Penelope Dreadful March 20, 2023 at 9:40 am #

    And another brick in the wall is the imminent arrest of President Trump. What a farce America has become!

    • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 10:19 am #

      I cannot even begin to decipher what that one is all about, but surely it has to be just another distraction, another brick in the wall. Like him or not, DJT at least did have a function brain, perhaps that is why they want him dead. Functioning brains are not allowed any more in political figures.

      • justanotherguy March 20, 2023 at 10:21 am #

        the distractions are coming too fast to get any traction.
        accident, i’m sure…

        • literofoyl March 22, 2023 at 3:04 pm #

          Janet Yellen hasn’t been getting traction now for more than 6 decades – how could she head the Fed and Treasury? The weakest cabinet in US history with a POTUS that is a cardboard cut-out. People question how Ukranian President Zelensky is experience-deficient given his career as a comedian and actor, but the Dude from Delaware has not been right on much from the get-go.

      • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

        It is a distraction from a potential indictment against Pedo Joe.

        As always, inversion is utilized.

        • Amman March 21, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

          “TikTok star Jehane Thomas died instantly on the age of 30 on Friday… after affected by crippling migraines for a number of months.”

          A fatality possibly related to severe headaches that would not go away.

    • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:24 am #

      And Hunter Biden (the village idiot that just keeps on giving) is suing the blind, small business owner who turned his laptop over to the government.

      “Hunter Biden is accusing the Delaware computer repair shop owner who worked on a laptop of trying to invade his privacy and wrongfully sharing his personal data for political purposes, according to new federal court filings.”

      • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 11:22 am #

        The Scumbags of the Earth always prey on the weak and infirmed.

      • redrock March 20, 2023 at 11:40 am #

        Biden’s are all products of anal intercourse. The only way to get one.

      • Minnie Van Horne March 20, 2023 at 11:46 am #

        Well then, it seems that the crack-addicted spawn of our Commander-in-Chief is acknowledging the computer’s contents (many suggesting felonious activities) are legitimate and not the invention of naughty folks in the Kremlin. Good to know!

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:47 am #

        Rudy would have thoroughly researched abandoned property laws.

        • Walter B March 20, 2023 at 11:53 am #

          These days, people are not prosecuted for breaking the law, they are demonized for still believing in it.

          • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 12:12 pm #

            Indeed, Walter. That is the truth.

          • SW March 20, 2023 at 12:44 pm #

            And the Bidens are the new TeflonDons. Whatever happened to the investigation into secret documents in Joe’s garage? Nothing. That’s what.

          • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

            Wanna know what’s in Joe’s Garage?

            Frank Zappa tried to tell us…

          • megabeth March 21, 2023 at 10:06 am #

            Blackbird, I’m convinced that it was a little green rosetta.

    • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 10:34 am #

      About that imminent arrest, therre is something really off there, and I’m not referring to Bragg and his attempts to reinvent law.

      • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:43 am #

        It’s a great distraction for the evening news, NYT, WP and all the rest to distract from the losses in Ukraine, bank failures, Russia-China bromance plus they can relive all the salacious details and pretend to be shocked — yes, shocked! — that a President would do such a thing.

        • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:48 am #

          I hear Ukraine is out of ammo again.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:17 pm #

            Just heard: They’re getting another tranch of 300 million, so don’t worry.

    • megabeth March 21, 2023 at 10:04 am #

      Yes, and Trump said all Biden did was “EAT, SLEEP, AND S–T”, the other day, which I find hilarious and sad, all at once.

      • megabeth March 21, 2023 at 10:07 am #

        Also inaccurate, because he also pees his pants, too.

    • literofoyl March 22, 2023 at 2:55 pm #

      Why not simplify things with a winner-take-all match at the OK Coral.
      Biden vs Trump – 50 paces away … draw.

  5. crudgemudgeon March 20, 2023 at 9:45 am #

    It’s a difficult transition. From consumers to producers, then to defending what you produced, earned. And who has your back? Everyone has to sleep sometime. I have a friend that says “you can’t fix a broken brain with a broken brain”.
    You can’t fix a broken culture with a broken culture.

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  6. tom clark March 20, 2023 at 9:52 am #

    Indeed, Penelope…the devil’s in the phone booth again, dialin’ 9-1-1.

    • Disaffected March 20, 2023 at 4:15 pm #

      So, that’s where all the phone booths went? Might know, the devil’s got them all.

  7. Tucker March 20, 2023 at 10:08 am #

    The only solution is for red states to utterly defy the federal govt and refuse any and all suicidal tyrannical orders. Deny all immigration too. Let the feds attack the states which will rally more red states until its a standoff. The fed will relent or civil war will break out. Either way we win.

    • messianicdruid March 20, 2023 at 10:26 am #

      Recall Senators, no taxes leaving the State.

      • Amman March 21, 2023 at 12:48 pm #

        Interesting.

    • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 10:39 am #

      I agree, it took the Southern “Red” states in 1860s to unite to counter the dominance of the North. We have been schooled that the North was on a holy crusade to eliminate slavery, but looking at Lincoln’s willingness to compromise on slavery to save the Union, it was not that simple.

      Our situation today is a carbon copy of then, with slavery being replaced by socialistic gimme dogma. The East is the North of the first civil war with the big cities the center of the dominance. One party is dominating everything centered on those cities.

      Lincoln prevailed by hailing preservation of the Union as number one and elimination of the slavery as a tool to overcome the belligerence of the South.

      Who will be the next Lincoln to overcome the seperatist Woke and pervert crowd slowly strangling the country, to overcome the globalists that wish the country would become a minor power, to overcome the MIC continuously finding ways to have an enemy to fight.

      Trump tried, but he is a businessman, not adept at dealing with idiotic politicians. Remember The Apprentice, where he was able to dictate what he thought was right. Like Nixon, he was ostracized by almost everyone in the Deep State and lost. Re electing him with force a choice between another battle with the idiots, or a potential dictator working his apprentices.

      What is needed is another Lincoln, or yes Reagan, that can out politic the politicians and be a really effective leader of the Deep State instead of its victim. Someone who represents the people instead of the power structure and gets away with it.

      Want a good example? Watch the movie, “Lincoln” and watch him politically manipulate the DC idiots into ratifying the 13th amendment.

      • Woodchuck March 20, 2023 at 11:17 am #

        Secession is the only way out of this mess. The USA needs to be broken up into smaller nations for sanity to prevail. Trying to save the current arrangement is as futile as trying to win a stinking contest against a porta-potty or an outhouse.

        • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:27 am #

          I agree. A real argument can be made that the sectional differences of the states are too wide to allow DC to run the country as a whole. They represent the criminals on the East Coast and Chicago well, not so much everyone else.

          Interestingly, I wonder if the first to secede will not be California as its agenda is much different. For example, this year they are getting pummelled with water. Last year, climate change clobbered them with drought and wild fires. The dunderheads in DC did nothing!!!!!!! California may be the first to say, DC, I do not need you.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:45 am #

            Ancient peoples had ways of conserving water for when it’s needed.

            Perhaps California’s experts might try reading a book or two.

          • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 12:00 pm #

            How about DC folks reading a few books. California is not the only state dealing with water problems.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:23 pm #

            You agree? You started out on the Southern side and then switched to asking for another Lincoln to put down the woke separatists?

            Conditioning is strong, is it not? News flash: The wokies are the shock troops of the Establishment. We are the South and the would be secessionists. And we are completely disorganized and cannot even begin to try to secede. They won’t let us go.

          • Rowdypiglet March 20, 2023 at 12:38 pm #

            @JohnAZ, I can’t see secession working, though it’s an appealing idea. My state, where we’ve lived for 30 years, is officially blue. But the blue is confined entirely to the cities, the immense rural and wild areas being decidedly and overwhelmingly red.

            Those who have real roots in the state, families that have been here for a very long time, have been driven back from coastal areas they can no longer afford. Section 8 housing in the city is given over to immigrants no one wanted, who are now numerous enough to outvote the locals. Secession would be a tragedy for all except coastal elites and immigrants.

            In Pennsylvania, the state where I grew up, Philadelphia (a once beautiful and safe city) is a den of filth and out of control crime. But PA is a big state, and the rural parts are red without exception. How could secession work in this case?

            The corruption comes from the cities and from enclaves of the elite. The countryside – small towns, farms, rural – would be utterly disenfranchised by secession. I don’t see a way around this, but if anyone does I’d be glad to hear it.

          • WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

            I’ve always thought Texas would be first. It gets talked about there more than anywhere else.

            Perhaps the collapse of the dollar will speed up the process.

            Individual states can issue money backed by tangible value.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

            Rowdy: Cut off the cities, allowing no one in or out. Let them all starve to death or kill each other.

            We don’t have the stomach for that even if we had the power. But our opponents do have the stomach for such things against us.

            So down we go. Never study history too closely. You won’t like how we took this continent and created this nation.

            The Etymology of Nice? An early meaning was fool.

        • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

          Secession might work if the rest of the world just stood by shaking their heads and wishing us the best. But they won’t.

          • Tucker March 20, 2023 at 4:00 pm #

            Russia and China would gladly help not that that’s any better at all. The point is that we need a certain number of states to agree to disband the federal govt.

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 12:55 pm #

        “What is needed is another Lincoln”… Yes, the super-patriot who destroyed states rights and altered the government of the US from federalism to corporatism.

        “or yes Reagan”… The traitor – yes, Traitor – who made a deal to sell arms to Iran (a country our Congress designated a terrorist organization), as long as they didn’t free the hostages. The same Reagan who opened the door – and took off the hinges – to allow Chinese to purchase property in the US, and to allow US corporations to offshore our industrial base to China. But at least Reagan did stick it to those dirty gimmies (the US working class).

        • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

          His whole cabinet was CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) but he wasn’t. A tool, fool, and stooge. An actor even like Zelensky, just playing a nicer role.

          • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 1:58 pm #

            Yeah, I’d assassinate Reagan, if he hadn’t already died – in 1967. That’s right, 1967.

            Many of you are old enough to have watched The Wonderful World of Disney at grandma’s house on Sunday nights. You no doubt remember the Pirates of the Caribbean display shown during the opening credits. And you no doubt wondered, as I did, why there was one less pirate after the ’67 TV season.

            Well, they stripped the animatronics from one of the pirates to animate Reagan. Then shortly before the election, killed John Wayne, stole his soul, and imprisoned it in Reagan’s carefully-preserved body. They did that in order to transfer our affection for John Wayne to that untalented B-movie actor. Ever notice how Reagan walked like a cat? Just like John Wayne.

            So maybe I should take it easy on those who are still enthrall to Reagan.

            Forgive them Father for they know not whom they worship.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 2:45 pm #

            America began to die when Nathan (played by Wayne) didn’t kill his niece in the quintessential Western, The Searchers, despite her having been made into a squaw by a buck.

            I mean, that was his intention all along if she had been. He gave into his bleeding heart. In the end he was just another proto-liberal.

            One is reminded of White brave in the novel, “A Light in the Forest”. Kidnapped by the Indians and raised Indian, he was given back to the Whites in a legal prisoner swap. He escaped and run back to his adopted people. They planned to avenge his honor by butchering a party of Whites on the frontier in a boat, using him as the bait. But tat the last minute he faltered, and yelled to them it was a trap.

            The Indians were shocked. They thought they had replaced all of his weak White blood with Red Blood.

          • Socrates-Detroit March 20, 2023 at 3:36 pm #

            I generally enjoy put-downs of Reagan. He was over-rated.

            But then, look at the alternative in 1980. Walter Mondale and the Democrats.

            If you look closely, you will see the modern USA has always been controlled by big capital, sometimes tightly (like now), sometimes loosely (I’m not sure when that was), but always in control.

            The older I get, the more I appreciate JFK and Eisenhower, who were both establishment men.

            I do agree that Lincoln is overrated also–he was the”3rd party Obama” of his day, who rode the moral issue of slavery into power to serve big Northern capital. He cared not a bit about the slaves. However, he cared very much of maintaining FEDERAL control of the states and was willing to drown the US in blood to see to it.

            Lincoln’s sponsors, the budding capitalists, the NY and northern banks, the budding industrialists wanted the tariff, because they would have a hard time competing with British manufactures and French fine goods. The Southern elites, the slave-owners did NOT want the tariff because they wanted to get more stuff at higher quality for less money.

            That said, slavery was in fact abhorrent, let’s not kid ourselves, or hide behind the Constitution. It was baked into the US, like a crack in the foundation.

            The fact that the African slaves were captured and sold or traded by other Africans to Americans does not make it right.

            The agrarian south could not function without slavery. That is the sad reality. It’s very hot and miserable in the South and in Latin America. The Americans tried using Irish as indentured servants, but malaria killed them…

            Even so, when they built canals in Louisiana, they used Irish, not slaves. Slaves were “assets”, and slave owners did not wish to see them perish. Thousands of Irish perished (I read this in Chronicles, years ago, my apologies if my details are not precisely correct)

            I find it amusing that today’s Southern states are “red” and conservative and…oh yes, patriotic, “support the troops”.

            The post WW2 south owes much of its prosperity to the very same central government it purports to object to (the TVA; and even more important, all those military bases, and all those military retirees–that’s all Federal money).

            Now we are out of party tricks–the Reagan years lived off the liquidation of America’s past accomplishments (boosted by the lack of competition for 15 years thanks to WW2); the Clinton and Bush years lived off the outsourcing of inflation to China first, then Asia, where the Chinese would make things of value for very low cost. Those are gone.

            Fracking is basically squeezing oil of rocks…the easy cheap oil is mostly gone, unless it’s in a war zone and hasn’t been tapped.

            Technology is nice, like this space, but it’s enable the psychopaths to have power the could only dream of.

            God has been displaced, and replaced by tech and ignorance.

            Find God before ill finds you.

            My rant is done.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

            Yes, Ike warned about the deadly peril of the military industrial complex. Who would know better than he who had served it faithfully since a young man under the wing of his dark master, Bernard Baruch?

            His greatest service was the murder of hundreds of thousands of German POW’s AFTER the outbreak of “peace”.

  8. JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 10:14 am #

    What do you do when your own country creates more evil than the country you were schooled and convinced to hate? What do you do when the evil party gets total control over the institutions that comprise your country? How do you deal with the hopelessness that is overcoming the 20th century patriots that believe in the Constitution? What do you do when the people of the country you loved are replaced with gimme socialistic types, and the evil government just encourages more of the same.

    • justanotherguy March 20, 2023 at 10:20 am #

      shrug.

    • Cankerpuss March 20, 2023 at 12:17 pm #

      Not a damned thing. The vote is corrupted. Our representatives no longer represent us. The States have no representation and are corrupted themselves. The military is corrupted. The media is corrupted. The people are too divided to come together.

      There is nothing to be done but stand by and watch the system collapse and pray we can fend off the roving bands of starving thugs looking for our food storage.

      I have no hope for the future.

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 12:48 pm #

        “I have no hope for the future.”

        Yup, take the rose-tinted glasses off, you will be able to see much better.

    • Amman March 21, 2023 at 12:55 pm #

      Given that the context is the 4th Turning/LE, I’d try to do something that makes the Rebirth better.

  9. messianicdruid March 20, 2023 at 10:24 am #

    E. Warren doing her little R. Paul imitation insisting that the FED be examined as if this has been a concern of hers for weeks makes me want to scream.

    Thirty years late you little back-peddler!

    • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:27 am #

      Elizabeth Warren has turned into a big disappointment. She pretends to be an advocate for working people but is just as woke and phony as the majority of the Democrats.

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 10:35 am #

        She’s also something of a raving nutjob.

        She is certainly a liar on the order of Hillary, a pathological one.

        • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:47 am #

          I agree. When she was a candidate for president, she promised to hire a transexual to run some department (forget which one) with the only qualification being a transexual. When she first entered politics she seemed sane and reasonable.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:11 am #

            She said some things that were right, and pro-consumer.

            I guess that was just to get a foot in the door. Or maybe her mental illness got worse as she aged.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

            Beryl, she’s only ever been a massive opportunist.

          • Cankerpuss March 20, 2023 at 12:18 pm #

            She’s a woman and women tend to swallow the insanity a lot easier than men. There are a lot of crazy dudes in politics right now but it seems like nearly all of the women in politics have lost their marbles and have no grasp on reality in any form whatsoever.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

            Women have a lot of commonsense about the mundane things of life. They get better car insurance rate because they’re more sensible drivers. But it simply doesn’t scale. They’re crazy when it comes ideas, be they religious or political. They shouldn’t be voting. If they are allowed to, they elect female nut jobs like Hillary or Liz.

          • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

            That is actually a good point, Jarek. Women do tend to be better at organizing things on a micro level.

            I also have yet to meet one that makes a good boss or does well with any level of authority. The one time I was fired in my life it was because a female boss was trying to force me into a relationship. Didn’t work and she went nuts.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:38 pm #

            Oh night owl like men bosses don’t do that.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:43 pm #

            I just endured months of psychotic friendliness (disguised rage) because I wasn’t into a co-worker who was into me.

            It finally wore off (my deep anger was a catalyst) and she’s acting somewhat normal again.

          • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 2:40 pm #

            It is just one example from my personal life, Beryl.

            I have yet to have one good female boss. They tend to get very involved in personal relationship-oriented nonsense and have a very difficult time remaining professional in that regard.

            Had the same experience at my current job. Department is fully of catty women and the team has been a shambles for years. We still get our work done, but the amount of infighting over petty bullshit is off the charts.

            The only time it was reasonably under control was when a male coworker of mine was in a managerial role.

            He stepped down because he could no longer deal with the nonsense and now just sticks to editing and teaching workshops.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 4:22 pm #

            I’ve had about an equal number of men and women bosses.

            About 1/3 of the women bosses were narcissist assholes. The rest have been the best bosses I’ve ever had. Not one of them are petty, not one of them gossips, they are high-level serious professionals. We might joke lightly about stuff but mostly it’s all business.

            Of the men bosses I had that I can recall, 3 of them were awesome. Really supportive, fun to work with, and knew their stuff, so I greatly respected them.

            But a handful were worse than any of the narcissistic women were, because they had a lot more power. One of them I sued, and won. Another one was psychotic, and was used by the organization to attack workers just because he was willing to (he was foreign).

            I’ve had male coworkers try to get me fired for not dating them, or treat me like shit for the same reason. I’ve had women coworkers who were gossipy and drama-driven. I’ve also worked with men who were gossipy and drama-driven.

            I have a 41-year work professional-level work history, and all told, I can’t fault one sex over the other.

          • SW March 20, 2023 at 4:50 pm #

            Mary — I’ve had the same experience with both men and women bosses. And the same could be said about coworkers. It depends on the character and maturity of the person in charge and, this is true more of women than men, if the person has a personality disorder and likes to create chaos to thrive.

            But hands down the worst boss I ever had was a middle aged gay man who absolutely hated women. After he arrived I only stayed four more months and found another job. He was finally fired but it took the hospital two years to do it.

          • Mac March 20, 2023 at 6:39 pm #

            Night Owl- remember, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

          • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 6:44 pm #

            Indeed, Mac.

          • Islander March 20, 2023 at 8:15 pm #

            I was never one who was meant to be an organization woman—which is why I have worked for myself lo, these many years!

            But when i was part of an organization, Time Inc. one man who was my boss in the copyroom was very nice and helped me get a promotion.
            The woman in charge of the department into which i was promoted was also very nice and helped me (it was the first such promotion in the history of that particular publication).

            The male egomaniac who lorded it over the department was furious that one of his own mentees had not been promoted. He was also furious that a peon from the copy room was actually competent in the Articles Department. And, a girl to boot! Damn.

            He made life miserable for me, insulted me loudly and mendaciously so that everyone could hear (cheap office dividers), and wrote new word definitions (suddenly it was an internship, not a promotion) to make sure I was ejected from my new position. I left the company after that.

          • Islander March 20, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

            “Women do tend to be better at organizing things on a micro level.”

            Pre-programming .. .

            Z-z-z-z-z-z-z

          • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 12:33 am #

            I’ve had some good and some bad women managers, and some good and some bad men managers. The best manager I ever worked under was a woman.

            Maybe my experience is unusual, but most of the male managers I’ve worked under were rarely seen. They were never around enough for anyone to develop a dislike for them. The departments that they headed ran smoothly without their presence being necessary, and this was usually because the women kept everything going and got everything done.

            In one particularly egregious case, there was a department head who almost never came to work at all and an assistant department head who came to work every Wednesday from nine to noon, during which time he sat in his office reading the newspaper. (These were no-show government jobs.) The female secretary ran the all-female office single-handedly and well. The guys knew absolutely nothing about the functioning of the department.

            There was one place I worked at where I was the only person in the department who even knew who the manager of the department WAS, as he was never there–though there was one male employee–a recent hire–who told the other employees that he was the manager (which was not true), and more or less play-acted the management role.

            As far as I can tell, the chief advantage to having a male manager is that you seldom see him. This guarantees a hands-off approach, as well as encouraging your continued good opinion of him.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

            What are the names of your sons? Or are they to remain hidden and masked – like the male images in paleolithic caves? At least some of those cultures worshiped the mother goddess symbolized as a grossly obese woman. Or did that worship extend to actual women, no doubt many of them being fat – since fat had survival value in old Europe?

      • WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

        She sure did get her panties in a bunch when Roe vs Wade was nullified. A raving, squealing lunatic.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

      She’s a horrid joke. One of the worst pandering, lying sleazebags around. But she comes off as a non-descript school-marm, so she gets away with it.

      I can’t stand her.

      • SW March 20, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

        Please, Mary, don’t speak of one of our Native Americans in such a disdainful way. I believe she claimed membership (and scholarships) as a Cherokee or Ute or Apache or Blue Bird or something oppressed and in need of reparations.

        • WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

          Ya-Ta- Hey!

        • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:41 pm #

          It was worse than that. She had a heap big tale to tell about how her own great-grandpa or somebody didn’t want her grandma marrying into the family because she was one billionth squaw.

          • SW March 20, 2023 at 4:54 pm #

            Yes, she played the Native American card with great enthusiasm.

            What is it about politics that brings out the worst in some people? No one cared if she or any other Senator had Indian ancestry so it seems really pointless.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 11:55 pm #

            She has high cheekbones, SW.

        • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 4:15 pm #

          LOL!

  10. Rodulf March 20, 2023 at 10:25 am #

    Oh, now, I bet they can concoct a narrative for the bank fuck-up. “Russian White Supremacist Nazi Communists are trying to stop acceptance of transexual people-of-color and instigate a New Holocaust to kill 6 trillion Jews”.

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    • SW March 20, 2023 at 10:28 am #

      “And the master mind behind it are Trump and a porn star.”

      • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 10:47 am #

        Whatever Trump did to piss off Michael Cohen is coming back to haunt him now.

        What puzzles me is why women want to punish only the man when consensual sex relations happen and the women do not get what they laid down for, in their minds. Stormy did not need to do Trump, or vice versa. Both sides are guilty. Why is Stormy not being prosecuted for seducing a rich man many years ago.

        The male side is not the only causer of manipulative sex. If women want equality, they need to take legal responsibilty for these manipulative women.

        • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:20 am #

          The case was never about the alleged affair. Stormy was talking about it, Trump paid her to shut up and go away, because he like many other wealthy celebrities didn’t want the bad publicity.

          NDRs are not criminal. The payment was not illegal. They are trying to get him on a campaign law violation, but in the process having to turn the law on its head.

          Stormy did get prosecuted, and she owes Trump money, but that has nothing to do with the case at hand.

          However, since we now know that EVERYTHING that happens is a woman’s fault, Stormy must be guilty of something in this campaign law violation case.

          It looks like they are trying to get him for not using campaign funds to reimburse his lawyer for paying Stormy off.

          • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:33 am #

            Bad publicity? Consensual sex? Two generations of Bad Boys are paying the price for their overabundent testosterone. My point is what about the Bad Girls that enticed them. Putting a halo on women is just plain not fair.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:41 am #

            Who is putting a halo on women? The case does not concern Stormy.

            And yes, when you are married to a woman like Melania and there is a porn actress claiming you had a one night stand with her, that is bad publicity.

            Especially when you want to be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidency.

          • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:56 am #

            Beryl

            Like Clinton, you mean.

            Yes, the case concerns Stormy as she originated everything with Avenatti.

            I agree about the presidency, however, how many poorer, celibate or faithful men, or women, that have no history are available to run for office? How come the 2024 election will probably be between Biden, a political crook through and through, and Trump a playboy narcissist?

          • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:58 am #

            One more.

            Besides, who probably set the whole thing up anyway?

            The same person that set up Russia, Russia, Russia and the Steele dossier.

            HRC.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 12:11 pm #

            John, if Trump is really going to be arrested on Tuesday, Stormy Daniels will not be a party to the case against him.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

            You just implied that nothing is women’s fault:

            However, since we now know that EVERYTHING that happens is a woman’s fault, Stormy must be guilty of something in this campaign law violation case.

            Jarek: Should prostitution be legal or not? Sweden solved the problem by making it legal for women and criminalizing the customers. Is this a good solution, Beryl?

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:42 pm #

            No id did not imply any such thing, Jarek.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:45 pm #

            So why did you project that EVERYTHING is women’s fault onto men?

          • Islander March 20, 2023 at 8:21 pm #

            Beryl,

            Was Stormy pre- or post-Melania?

            Anyway, these gay guys’ predilections are much seamier than grabbin’ pussy. IMHO.

        • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

          JohnAZ,

          Your post made me laugh. You have probably exceeded your lifetime tolerance for man bashing. That’s fair.

          But this is not a male versus female thing. Nor is it an anti-man thing. You might be seeing those everywhere you look these days, just as a matter of habit. This is just an old fashioned political prosecution. My understanding is it’s a weak to non-existent case against Trump, but time will tell. And there’s no political hay to be made by Alvin Bragg by prosecuting Stormy.

          There’s no halo wearing here. Trump and Stormy have had several dealings with each other. They traded sex for money. Then she signed a non disclosure agreement trading silence for money. Then he sued her for defamation and won. I don’t expect men to take responsibility because Trump stepped out on his nine months pregnant wife. I don’t expect women to take responsibility because Stormy stars in adult films and is also a sex worker. I’ll let these two be accountable for their own actions.

          I need to get back to work. I’ve retired as a part time virologist and have started studying banking……lol.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

            “Bad girls who enticed them?”

            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

            So know it’s the woman’s fault if a married man wants to have sex with her?

            OMG I think i’m in trouble…

            Good answer, mrs.

            I think I may need to retire from whatever this is that I’ve been doing, because I honestly believe it is making me ill.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

            Beryl outs herself as a fanatic. She’s a prostitute, stupid. Of course she entices, as any merchant does their wares.

            Read it again, Berry. Saj isn’t on your side.

          • Rowdypiglet March 20, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

            Sensible reply, Mrs._saj.

            These two people are each responsible for whatever they respectively did. I do find that many people are not willing to acknowledge the part that’s played by members of their own sex.

            My personal opinion is that married men should keep their promises and be faithful to their wives, and that women – married or otherwise – should refrain from enticing men, especially married men. There is no point in trying to pretend that women never deliberately lay a trap for men, or that pointing it out is an attack on all women or a claim that women are responsible for everything. We’re not responsible for everything, but we are responsible for what we do.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm #

            I read it Jarek. There isn’t any “side”. Mrs. gave a good explanation of the case to John.

          • SW March 20, 2023 at 5:00 pm #

            Both Stormy and Trump knew exactly what they were doing so this whole suing each other stuff makes no sense. I lost the thread of who started suing whom for what reason and then won or lost and then countersued and on and on.

            Hopefully, they’ll both have to pay each other for being stupid and refusing to just let it die a natural death.

          • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 12:43 am #

            Talking about the sexes is so very difficult. We can bring our life experiences into the conversation or debate, whether we realize it or not. Many times what we saw between our parents as kids or how we’ve been treated by the opposite sex as adults colors our views. I know this is true for me.

            I think a lot of times people are looking for larger truths to come out of a specific instance. These are very hard to find because each instance deals with specific people. Faults and responsibilities are a very individual thing.

            Every person is a member of their respective gender, but they aren’t a representative for 50% of the population.

          • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 12:48 am #

            @ Beryl of Oyl:

            This “she enticed him” sping on the thing is absolutely bizarre. The premise seems to be that men have absolutely no responsibility in cases of ilicity sex, because this happens because a woman “entices them.”

            If I could refuse to take responsibility for every time I bought a new dress or a can of baked beans on the grouds that I was “enticed,” I’d be disputing everything on my charge card.

            Obviously, canned goods should be packed only with plain black-and-white generic labels with no pictures on them, lest someone be “enticed.” And dresses should come only in cotton khaki and with no ornament of any kind, lest someone be “enticed” to purchase them.

            We are supposed to believe that the sight of an attractive woman relieves men of all agency and hence responsibility for their own actions.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:35 pm #

            Anthea sums it up: Everything is always men’s fault. Women have no moral agency – children in other words. And children should be treated as children.

      • Rodulf March 20, 2023 at 5:13 pm #

        ?

        • Rodulf March 20, 2023 at 5:14 pm #

          That’s not what I meant to post. Sorry. I tried to put up a laugh emoji.

          • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 10:11 am #

            Rodulf,

            I’ve been experimenting with only a couple of emojis. They do translate on this site.

            : } without the space in between is the smiling emoji

            ; ) without the space in between is the winking emoji

            I haven’t figure out the laughing emoji

            using an “i” gets you italics

            using a “b” gets you bold

          • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 10:14 am #

            Well crud. My comment did not completely work.

            desired italicized text

            Without all those spaces, you’ll italicize the desired text.

            “b” for bold works the same way.

          • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 10:16 am #

            Forget it. This site won’t display the “less than symbol” and “greater than symbol”. That’s what you have to use for html editing features like italics and bold.l

      • Ricechex March 20, 2023 at 9:02 pm #

        LOL! Made me laugh out loud 🙂

  11. John K March 20, 2023 at 10:34 am #

    “The public will do what they always do to a government that plunges them into penury and hardship. They will turn it out or pull it down.”

    If the last three years are any indication, the public will do exactly what the government tells it to do—bend over and accept the CBDCs that will be rolled out as the “solution” to the problem of a banking collapse.

    • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 10:50 am #

      When a society gives its free market decision making power to a central government, that society is no longer free and will progressively become more dependent and totalitarian.

      The current examples are hugely evident of this simple statement.

      • SW March 20, 2023 at 11:00 am #

        If the only way people can pay their bills and buy food is to use CBDCs then they won’t have much of a choice.

        The manipulation of money has entered the Twilight Zone. A friend’s grandson worked at a Wendy’s in Florida and he was paid with plastic card that he had to take to a bank to get his meager paycheck. And was charged a fee to use it. No more issuing checks to be deposited in your account or, in this case, given to his Mom to put in her account so she could then give him the money.

        • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:36 am #

          Think, SW, to qualify to get with the program, you have to sign up to all the governments directives, like getting a clot shot.

          Nice. Kbird would love it as the government knows best about everything,

          Right?

          • kbird March 20, 2023 at 12:29 pm #

            Wrong Johnaz, what I’ve noticed quite often is that you lump everyone into one bucket. Let’s do a comparison like this, Take the auto immune disease Lupus, you can have 5 people with Lupus, and they all have completely different symptoms. They don’t even look the same, yet they all have Lupus. I think it’s damaging to do what your doing. I have disagreements on policies with friends who are Democrats. So not all Democrats are the same, not all Republicans are the same. I could care less if a fully grown and mature Adult has a sex change, it’s been happening for years, I don’t care, it doesn’t affect me. But doing that to children, which seems fairly new, wrong, 100 percent wrong….same goes for competing in sports, a man who transitioned to a woman, competing in womens sports is wrong on all levals and not fair to the women.
            I never said nor do I believe that the government knows best about everything.

          • SW March 20, 2023 at 5:07 pm #

            John AZ —

            The Canadian government gave us all a preview of what can be done with your money if you step out of line. Even though cash has been devalued it remains private and accessible. But most of us already (myself included) rely almost exclusively on plastic for even day to day transactions. Convienence has seduced us into surrendering a lot of freedom without even thinking about it.

            And you’re right — restrictions and demands could be placed on our ability to access funds.

        • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:37 am #

          Those “work today. get paid today” places only give you cash if you use their ATM for which they charge a fee.

          You want a check, you have to wait weeks for it.

          • lizharmon March 20, 2023 at 12:02 pm #

            Those work today get paid today places rely on slaves who have no other options. The trick is to be smart enough (and it doesn’t take too much to be smart enough) to never be a person without options.

          • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 2:10 pm #

            I ended up in one of those “work today get paid today” places in West Palm Beach, shortly after arriving in town with fumes in my tank, some change in my pocket, and a shiny new Bachelor’s degree.

            I didn’t get there until 5:45 am, and so missed out on any opportunity that day – you had to be there by 5:30.

            The place was filled with what appeared to be alcoholics, crackheads, and the homeless – greedy gimmies looking for a handout, in other words… Almost all white, a few Hispanics. Up at 5:30 to work jobs nobody wants. One old guy told me, “Get on the Lion Country Safari crew if you can. You’ll be shoveling elephant shit all day, but it’s better than the other stuff they’d have ya doin’.”

            I was given a 5-page form to fill out, full of invasive questions they had no right to ask. Part way through page 3, I crumpled it up and threw it in the trash.

          • Disaffected March 20, 2023 at 4:12 pm #

            I had an Uncle in Law that git rich starting one of those places back in the day. I worked there from time to time in the year after high school. The trick was to work hard for the better employers they might send you to and then they’d hire you on regular. The pay was shit, but it wasn’t bad work if you truly didn’t give a shit and just wanted to work whenever you felt like it.

    • Anthea March 20, 2023 at 12:28 pm #

      @ John K:

      I still can’t figure out why CBDC should be any more acceptable to people than the dollar. I.e., the dollar becomes worthless because there is nothing backing it. Since CBDC has nothing backing it either, it seems to me that it would be worthless.

      Now, someone on Zerohedge told me that the CBDC would be “handled” by the BIS (Bank for International Settlements). Apparently the current statutory purpose of the BIS is “fostering the cooperation between its member central banks.” The thing is, these are the Western banks, and they’re all insolvent, so I don’t see how they can get together and guarantee a currency.

      Further, most of the Western nations produce little that can be traded in international commerce. Most of the world’s resources and productivity lie with the BRICS nations. They are unlikely to accept worthless CBDC in exchange for real goods.

      Now, I suppose you could get Americans to accept CBDC in exchange for dollars, assuming the dollar’s value gets to be pretty close to zero, just by telling people that CBDC would have value. But when people tried buying groceries with it, they’d quickly realize it didn’t. Your employer could force you to accept CBDC by paying your salary in CBDC, but once people figured out it was worthless, you’d get a “You pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work” scenario. Or, alternatively, people might refuse to go to work at all, and occupy themselves with barter or black market dealings.

      I notice there are a couple of people here who seem to have some understanding of these matters, so perhaps they could enlighten me on this.

      • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

        Why wouldn’t it work? They got away with paying people starvation wages for decades. The minimum wage never kept up with inflation.

        • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 12:52 am #

          Well, mainly because we are looking at a virtually worthless dollar. Hence, the pay involved is the difference between something and nothing.

  12. Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 10:40 am #

    I want to congratulate Matt Taibbi on the exemplary job he is doing with those files.

    This is akin to an Olympic contender (back in the days before the olympics went woke), shutting out all the noise, ignoring the pressure, and just doing what he has to do to the best of his ability, at the moment when it really, really counts.

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 12:09 pm #

      He is a hero, and not just an American one. What he is doing is shining a light on the corruption that is infecting this entire planet.

    • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

      Yes, just like Elon who gave the files to him.

      • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 4:39 pm #

        Jarek,

        Agreed. And Kevin McCarthy who turned over the video of Jan 6 to Tucker Carlson. And the computer repair store owner who found a way to distribute Hunter’s laptop. Sharing the truth is a courageous act!

  13. Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 10:44 am #

    In the last few days I have become even more appalled at the level of sociopathic, methodical planning that went into the covid holocaust.

    I didn’t know that there were higher levels of shock and disgust to be reached, but I have learned.

    • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 10:54 am #

      Fauci and his political supporters are the center of it all, utilizing the ignorance of the American people to enlarge their power domain.

      In Fauci’s case, he was covering his butt after the classic FU his virus dominions created.

      The leader of the WHO did the same thing to China.

      • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

        Some of us saw through it. Some of us didn’t. Alas for the latter!

  14. Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 10:49 am #

    There’s a warrant out for Vladimir Putin for war crimes, but Bill Gates has been openly declaring he wants to overrule our sovereignty and make us eat bugs and such, and has even been taking steps like buying up farmland to enable him to do these things, and he’s still out walking around.

    He’s like the guy you see on Dateline, on camera at Walmart buying rope, duct tape, matches, a gas can and a hunting knife, when they are doing a show about a guy whose wife just up and went missing.

    • SW March 20, 2023 at 11:25 am #

      Speaking of Bill and bugs, check the ingredients on food and if E904 or E414 are listed then it has bugs in it. I guess listing “crickets” was off-putting.

      Really, Beryl, I can’t understand why you’re so suspicious of St. Bill of Gates who unselfishly funds the WHO (who only want what’s best for us and have no intention of running anyone’s life), provides employment to four pilots and crews to man his four private jets, and believes a vaccine is a cure for everything even if it’s untested.

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:34 am #

        But it gives American cheese that nice orange color.

      • stelmosfire March 20, 2023 at 11:37 am #

        Bud’s 100% Pure Cricket Powder, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free High Protein Flour available at Walmarts . $36.99 a lb.. I’ll stick with the porterhouse for $9.99

        Good for ya too! From the description:
        Crickets also contain more calcium than dairy milk, more iron than spinach, more Vitamin B12 than kale, and more omega-3 than salmon.

        • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:11 pm #

          Funny how the cricket powder is supposed to replace the superfoods.

          Of course, it doesn’t, and it can’t. And it’s horrible for you.

          But lots of people (dummies) will buy in.

        • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

          If only humans could digest it…

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:47 pm #

            There you go.

          • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 1:16 pm #

            American Exceptionalism on display here.

            Humans eat bugs in many countries. Saying that “humans” can’t digest bugs when you actually mean “Americans don’t want to eat bugs” is grating.

            Just say what you mean. You don’t want to eat the bugs. Fine.

            But humans can, and do, digest bugs.

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:51 pm #

            I said humans can’t digest cricket powder, because humans can’t digest cricket powder.

            Which is what I meant.

            Americans are exceptional because we don’t want to eat bugs.

            Is there supposed to be something wrong with that?

            I am well aware that there are people who consume ants. We had National Geographic when I was a kid.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 2:04 pm #

            Beryl specifically said cricket powder and I concur.

            I’ve seen enough nutritionists explain why it’s bad for you.

            Same as most of the stuff we already eat, such as seed oils, canola oil, corn, soy isolate, etc.

            You’re going to trust the people the government is pushing to give us cricket protein? OK then.

            I don’t see that as being an American Exceptionalism thing.

          • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 3:28 pm #

            I don’t trust the government or the corporations and I don’t eat animals.

            It just bugs me when people claim that “humans” can’t eat bugs. That is clearly untrue.

          • SW March 20, 2023 at 5:12 pm #

            Paul D — and they’re welcome to my share of the bugs. I find them gross (and liver, kidney pie, calf brains, bull testicles) and I don’t think it has anything to do American exceptionalism.

          • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 7:47 pm #

            I used to eat organs, back when I thought you needed meat to be healthy. The organs are the healthiest.

            But yeah, SW, I agree with you now about all of that.

            My complaint was not that people didn’t want to eat bugs. I don’t want to either. I understand that most Americans don’t want to either.

            My complaint was saying that “humans” can’t digest them, thereby dehumanizing all the humans who eat bugs. Just say that you don’t want to eat bugs and that is fine with me.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 8:24 pm #

            But we didn’t, Paula. We were specifically talking about cricket powder.

            That being said, people in other countries also eat dogs and snakes etc. and I don’t want to do that, either, and neither do most folks. I don’t call that “exceptionalism” by any stretch of the imagination.

            BTW, people with shellfish allergies will be allergic to cricket meal.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

            Right, and people who have no problem throwing a live lobster into boiling water feign disgust at eating their smaller relatives.

            Whatever.

            If by indigestible you mean that the shells cannot be processed into usable fodder for your body, remember that insoluble fiber is essential for good gut health.
            I assume that is what we are talking about here.

          • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 2:38 pm #

            My points are 2: 1) processed food sucks and is bad for you

            2) crickets give people the same allergies as shellfish.

            I don’t call that healthy.

        • stelmosfire March 20, 2023 at 2:09 pm #

          You could always try the variety pack. Crickets, ants, meal worms, and a scorpion for dessert. only $12.95 Now that is a deal!

          walmart.com/ip/Lil-Bugz-You-Can-Eat-4-Pack-Edible-Insects-Scorpion-Black-Ants-Superworms-Crickets/1836068525?

          • Ricechex March 20, 2023 at 9:11 pm #

            Paula,
            I was always bothered by people that were “allergic” to smoke. Just say you don’t like the smell and do not want to be around it. Being “allergic” was just an excuse.

        • Woodchuck March 21, 2023 at 4:02 am #

          I’ve got lots of groundhogs around here and I set traps for them, they dig holes everywhere and destroy young garden plants. I toss the dead hogs into the woods and they rarely last longer than a couple of nights outside, buzzards and other scavengers feast on ’em, foxes probably get their share. If it gets down to eating crickets, I’ll say no to that. I’ll start eating grilled groundhogs before I eat crickets. I’ve found some groundhog stew recipes online. Yum!

          • badberries March 23, 2023 at 10:39 am #

            Lessee,

            Ants? yep. Kind of acidic.

            Bees? yep. in our honey, crunchy.

            Dog? yep. a Native American staple.

            Horse? yep. Jerky in Russia.

            Crayfish? yep. Fresh outta the pond.

            Elk, Deer, Antelope, Bear, Birds, Fish, Pig, Cow, yep. and the list goes on.

  15. badberries March 20, 2023 at 10:53 am #

    “Gold and Silver are money”- wrong.

    “Funds to finance the federal government are derived from; Taxes, Duties, Fees and Tariffs upon goods Imported and Exported” – wrong.

    “The right of the people to keep and bear arms of a caliber no greater than .177″ shall not be infringed” – correct
    Got BB’s?

    The government that “governs” least, “governs” best. Let May 4, 1970 Kent State stay in mind.

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  16. Islander March 20, 2023 at 10:53 am #

    ” It took more than a year after the “vaccines” came out for the disturbing actuarial data to emerge from the life insurance industry that many non-elderly people were being killed and disabled by the shots’ adverse effects. ***(I think the censors were caught by surprise that the truth leaked out from there.)”***

    Brilliant apercu!!

    Thanks also for this clear (re)explication of the 2020 Trump-Covid-Election syllogism—

    “Covid-19 also happened to be a convenient device for ridding the government of the troublesome President Trump, who threatened to disassemble major parts of the permanent US bureaucracy. If you revisit the many videos of Mr. Trump appearing in the White House Covid crisis room in early 2020 with Dr. Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials, I’m sure you will notice his discomfort, as if he suspected he was being played (he was). And conveniently, right after that, the locked-down public’s attention was galvanized by the George Floyd, BLM, and Antifa riots until the 2020 election was upon us. (Another grotesque prank against the people, never adjudicated.) . . .”

    TPTB don’t like things set out this clearly.

    Thanks, Mr. Kunstler.

    • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:06 am #

      The requirement that the mRNA stay in the deltoid muscle instead of travelling throughout the body is in the tech’s model to stop the adverse effects of the mRNA from invading other organs. Much research has shown the spread of immunological damage from escaped mRNA doing weird things to those organs.

      Until a deltoid muscle exists that has no blood vessels to divert the mRNA elsewhere, the tech is dangerous and the effects of new mRNA vaccines will remain an unknown threat.

      Part of the injection process for an IM injection is to pull back on the syringe plunger to check for blood, indicating the needle tip is in a vessel. During the panic of 2020, I will guarantee you this did not happen. I have wondered, how many clotshots went directly into an arteriole and off to the liver or heart et al. How many liver (proven) or heart cells were attacked by the mRNA to produce s proteins there instead of a muscle.

      • Islander March 20, 2023 at 11:13 am #

        With all due respect, what does this have to do with my comment????

        • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:41 am #

          You commented on the Fauci debacle, I commented on info they knew going in,

          and did it anyway.

          I will guarantee you Trump had no clue.

          • Islander March 21, 2023 at 6:04 pm #

            I didn’t comment on that.

            The comments were JHK’s.

  17. Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:05 am #

    This should cheer up male athletes who got the vaxx. Heart disease may not be your biggest problem.

    Testicular turbo cancer in young athletes? Diagnosis to death in days or weeks. COVID-19 mRNA vaccine spike protein injury to the testes

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/testicular-turbo-cancer-in-young

    Speaking of male athletes, people criticize the mere schoolgirls who don’t stick together against boys being allowed on their teams, when those girls aren’t getting the help they need and should be able to expect from adults.

    But look what is going on in Miami. Again, Novak Djokovak is not being allowed to play because he won’t get a dangerous shot he doesn’t need and won’t work against a virus he already had.

    What are the other grown men doing? Looks like they are going ahead without him. If they refused,this would all be over.

    Maybe they welcome the chance at a participation trophy, which is al the winner will be getting,since he will not have proved himself against the best in the business, and the only real man among them.

    • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:17 am #

      Beryl

      Not just boys. Remember that the reproductive organs, male and female are the same in the fetus and differentiate according to the presence of the y chromosome. So if a male cancer is being created, better look for a similar occurance in females. Testicular cancer = ovarian cancer for example.

      One thing that makes me uneasy about the effects of the Vaxx is the changes in reproductive cycles in women. They “scientists” have absolutely no idea why women’s cycles change considerably.

      The inclusion of men as women in female sports is insanity. I can picture it. A boy who is not a good athlete being pushed by parents, oh yes that happens, suddenly deciding to compete with the girls to assuage his ego. These jerks do no even remove their genitals to ” be the girl they want tobe.

      A vivid reminder of how totally insane this country has become.

    • stelmosfire March 20, 2023 at 11:42 am #

      All the more reason to convince young men to get their stones cut off. Fits right in with the trans agenda.

      • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:48 am #

        You are right. How about making the surgical removal a prerequisite for participation along with a waiting period to allow the body to adjust to female standards of strength and endurance.

        If they did that, it would stop immediately.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:12 pm #

      Great point, Beryl.

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 12:18 pm #

      Beryl,

      Great link. There are consequences from the vaxx in women including increased rates of ovarian and uterine cancers. It’s important to also document analogous cancers in men and boys.

      All of it so so sad.

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 12:23 pm #

      Beryl,

      I have to share this tidbit from your link:

      Coincidentally, Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine partner BioNTech received European approval for new testicular cancer treatment on June 23, 2022, just as testicular cancer cases exploded across the German Bundesliga (click here).

      Interestingly, their novel treatment targets heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory advanced testicular cancer. In other words, particularly aggressive (turbo?) testicular tumors that don’t respond to conventional treatment.

      Again, it’s almost as if they knew.

      Unbelievable!!

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 12:29 pm #

        Similar to how the FBI creates crimes for them to solve.

      • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

        They’ve been doing this for over 100 years.

        Create the illness, “cure” the illness.

      • elysianfield March 20, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

        Saj,
        You might like this…it is clever;

        https://odysee.com/@foundring:1/science:6e

        • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 4:50 pm #

          e,

          Too funny! Thanks for sharing. He has some great lines in there. I liked “our fate is still unlearned [unknown]”. And his sweatshirt is hysterical. We’ve all seen the evolution of man graphic were the neanderthal eventually transforms to an upright man. But his most evolved image in a man sitting at a piano!

          😉

    • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 12:55 pm #

      Yes, the cult of radical individualism has a very dark side to it. The cult of “any one should be allowed to go anywhere”.

      Such an attitude destroys culture, which is getting everyone on the same page. Bringing in aliens who can’t/won’t assimilate can only degrade and destroy that.

    • Rowdypiglet March 20, 2023 at 3:59 pm #

      @Beryl, I think the Djokovak case is different in that the game simply goes on without him, so the other players’ only real motivation to refuse would be to stand in solidarity with him. They are either pro-vax, or see no personal advantage in supporting him.

      In the case of women’s sports infiltrated by men, failure to object effectively puts an end to their careers. They could, of course, object simply because it’s wrong. But, whether they object for reasons of self interest or ethical ones, the practice of admitting biological men puts an end to women’s sports.

      I’ve never advocated that young girls take this on without support. My previous question as to why they didn’t just refuse to take part was directed to the participants of a “beauty” contest, whom I understood to be adults (at least, they certainly appeared to be) not high school girls or children. From the lack of lawsuits against school districts, I can only assume most “parents” are fine with their female children being in a no-win situation. Or possibly the kids are so brainwashed that they’re fine with never winning.

  18. Pam March 20, 2023 at 11:24 am #

    Why isn’t anybody talking about Mike Gill out of NH?? Interesting story he has to talk about……….Mr. Kunstler………would love to see you write something about the political (american made) cartels’ in NH …….and all the money laundering happening in the quiet little state of NH…..Wink wink.
    I think the monies that left SVB were sent to a backdoor bank up in Concord, NH somewhere………..Listen to Mike Gill. He’ll tell you……..
    It could be a great breaking story…….and then they kill you………..

    • neurodoc March 20, 2023 at 12:32 pm #

      Everything I’ve read about Mike Gill is that he is a standup guy with incredible information about the extent to drug cartels have infiltrated the US. He supposedly turned down a multi million $ bride to shut up by the NH cartel people and then they went after him, with murder attempts and smearing.
      Interesting situation that few will ever hear about. Too many people with too much dirt on them to let the story out.

      • malthuss March 20, 2023 at 2:20 pm #

        bribe

    • Q. Shtik March 21, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

      Why isn’t anybody talking about Mike Gill out of NH?? – Pam

      =========

      I have never understood why people use the term “out of” in this fashion. Seriously, does Mike Gill live and work “in” NH or doesn’t he? It reminds me of homeless people who are said to be living “out of” their car. I smack my forehead and say “how foolish, if I were them I’d live “in” my car.”

      • Pam March 21, 2023 at 2:36 pm #

        I think you missed the point. Perhaps you are “out of” your mind from too much forehead smacking. Picky picky……….

  19. Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 11:30 am #

    Stormy Daniels was ill-used by Michael Avenatti, probably for political reasons, but he also cheated her out of money.

    I’m no expert on these cases, I did not pay strict attention, but there is a lot of confusion about the current alleged case against the president, which does not involve Ms. Daniels.

    “Adult film star Stormy Daniels has lost her appeal in her failed defamation suit against Donald Trump — leaving her owing almost $300,000 in legal fees to the former president.

    “I will go to jail before I pay a penny,” Daniels tweeted Monday after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against her in the long-running case.

    Trump hailed the ruling by the appeals court, which he often bashed as president, calling it “a total and complete victory and vindication for, and of me.”

    Michael Avenatti filed the defamation suit against Trump in 2018, when he was Daniels’ lawyer. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said in a statement Tuesday that Avenatti had filed the suit “without my permission and against my wishes.””

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-must-pay-300k-donald-trump-losing-defamation-case-appea-rcna21002

    Michael Avenatti convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing from Stormy Daniels

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/michael-avenatti/index.html

    • JohnAZ March 20, 2023 at 11:46 am #

      Hmmm.

      I wonder what Trump “promised” her for her favors. I wonder how he reneged on those promises that pissed her off as much as it did.

      Or Bill Cosby?

      Or Weinstein?

      Or Clinton?

      Bad Boys, Bad Boys whatcha gonna do?

    • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

      Trump triumphed over Stormy “Horse Face” Daniels, riding her off into the sunset. The Wokies can’t stand a man ever coming out on top. All Feminists are Wokies. And since you’re a Feminist, you’re a (fill in the blank).

      Now you try to blame her sleaze bag lawyer. Anything but holding Stormy to any kind of account. Women are innocent of everything, right? Like children….

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 2:07 pm #

        This is about money, not about sex.

        • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 3:45 pm #

          About money that came from money from sex.

          I know it’s a lot to keep straight…..

        • badberries March 20, 2023 at 9:45 pm #

          A man doesn’t pay for the sex, he pays for the right to get up and leave, no phone call tomorrow, no dinner and a movie.

  20. malthuss March 20, 2023 at 11:33 am #

    Paula
    theres an old saying, never believe it until it is OFFICIALLY denied.

    Frazzledrip – RationalWiki
    Sep 12, 2022Frazzledrip or frazzled.rip is a supposed secret video of Hillary Clinton doing obscene and felonious things to a young girl, which some factions of the Pizzagate and QAnon community believe truly exists but is hidden from the public.

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    • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 12:01 pm #

      Thanks. I already believed it because they put in Trump instead of Clinton, which was completely unexpected, and clearly upset our ruling overlords, even if they went along with it.

      Why would they do that? The only thing that makes sense to me is the video.

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

        Sounds like a reasonable theory. They had to wait until half the country would defend to the death obvious lies to install the Hildebeast.

        At this point, the ‘Beast could be seen by the whole country cutting the face off a living, screaming, little girl and laughing as she tries it on, and about 40% of the country would be yelling “Debunked!!!” And threatening to kill you if you claimed she was guilty.

        Trump had to be installed to create that level of division.

        The Hildebeast will be put back into the game to amp up hysteria for the war with Russia.

        • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:44 pm #

          Yep. Hildabeast fans would just call it a Deep Fake promulgated by Trump, and move on.

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:10 pm #

            Are men making her act like this? Or Liz Warren? Or Liz Cheney?

          • kbird March 20, 2023 at 1:43 pm #

            Yowza, is this now a Qanon blog?

        • kbird March 20, 2023 at 1:48 pm #

          Sounds alot like the Satanic panic of the 80s…Qanon either turns normal people into crazy people, or Qanon only attracts crazy people…

          • malthuss March 20, 2023 at 2:23 pm #

            FRAZZLEDRIP may be a psyop.

            trafficking is real.

            podestas coded emails are real.

            the signage on some pizzerias is FBI agreed upon pedo symbols, etc.

            WISH IT AWAY.

            jimmy comet one of the most important people in washington, the media poll says…the bookstore is next door to what? huh.

          • kbird March 20, 2023 at 3:31 pm #

            Malthuss,
            Of course Trafficking is real…The story you posted about is not.
            Posting such nonsense takes away from the real kids that are trafficked and abused..
            Kids deserve to be protected from real, not imagined, boogeymen.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 8:34 pm #

            I said trafficking was real and was called a Qanoner.

            Get your story straight, kbird.

          • kbird March 20, 2023 at 9:12 pm #

            Maryq,
            Calling Democrats Pedophiles is full on Qanon, and the story above which is so awful I don’t even want to type it. Those fake stories, just like the Wayfair conspiracy theory, that shit detracts from real trafficking and abuse. I’ll say it again, Kids deserve to be protected from real, not imagined boogeyman. I’ll keep saying it, Child abuse, sex trafficking and abuse etc, is not a partisan issue, it is a world issue, no matter what side you are on you should be fighting to stop it. Do you disagree?

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 12:06 am #

            Actually it’s not at all. Well before Qanon existed, I used to share the list of names of Republicans and Democrats who were convicted of pedophilia and rape and other crimes on social media, because people liked to pretend that politicians never do such stuff.

            The list is looooooooong, in the 100s.

            And it’s easy to google. Anyone can.

            It’s strange you think that has anything to do with the Qanon psyops.

            Maybe you should learn more about it before flinging the term about where it doesn’t apply.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 1:01 am #

            Mary,
            I posted this accidently down below, so apologies for the double post everyone but it’s not in order. Here’s my response to your last comment

            Mary, I”ll try to break it down as there seems to be a communicatin issue here going on.

            1. You consistently vilify all Democrats as Pedophiles. Which is the main belief of the Qanon cult.

            2. The gross fake stories above that Matthus and Paula D were talking about, which are Qanon fake stories,(which are dangerous) you also seem to entertain the idea that it is true.

            3. I said, fake stories like that takes away from the Real kids that are being trafficked or abused, it takes the focus off of them and onto these gross untrue claims. That fake wayfair trafficking story literally took time away from saving real children while they waisted time with the bogus wayfair qanon story.

            4. Yes, thank you, I have heard of google and I’ve seen the long list you are talking about. Of course Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Liberals, gay, straight, bi, trans, so called celibate priests, they all have done terrible things to children.

            5. When I state it’s not a partisan issue, it’s not!! Who cares what party someone belongs that is a pedophile, that’s aside the point. There’s bad people in every party, every religion, everywehre, so it doesn’t matter, stop distracting with making it a partisan issue. It’s everyone. We essentially agree on the same thing, but you would rather go down in flames and fight me tooth and nail before ever agreeing on even a tiny point with me.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:14 am #

            One of your many problems, kbird, is that much like self-identified liberals of today, you panic when anyone even broaches subjects you are afraid of them talking about. Why is that? No one said anything was proven. Someone said, “hey have you heard about this?” Others said, “yeah, makes sense, could be.”

            Why does that threaten you, if you think it’s ridiculous? Seems to me that on some level you think there might be some veracity.

            And I notice you spend all your time excoriating people for an opinion, but you skip over the FACT that a Clinton Administration official was arrested for child trafficking.

            That’s pretty amusing, of course.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

            I don’t follow Qanon, but I know that what Qanon was. I heard the story from a woman whose husband worked in NY City and had contact with cops there.

            Why do Democrats go nuts about Qanon? I have no idea. Qanon was like a religion, in which people tried to decipher cryptic pronouncements and make some meaning out of them.
            Also like a religion, it promised that there were decent people coming to the rescue and were going to clean up the corruption and decadence of Washington, DC.
            A version of “Jesus is coming and boy is he pissed”.

            There is no reason to fear Qanon and no reason to heap so much scorn on it.

            The problem with liberals is that they have been taught to label ideas and information as heretical and to scream “Heretic! Qanon!” and refuse to listen to them. It’s the secular version of holding up a cross to ward off vampires.

            They also are now being taught that the criminal justice system should be used to shut people up and to persecute political opponents.

            I don’t see how bringing attention to child trafficking and pedophilia is harmful to trafficked children. That makes no sense at all.

            The more attention the better. Outlawing discussion of child trafficking is suspect, imo. Why are Democrats so focused on stopping discussion, instead of stopping the actual trafficking?

            And no one said that all Democrats are pedophiles, or that no Republicans are.
            I have heard bone chilling descriptions of what Dick Cheney was involved in, for instance.

            But it does seem to be the Democrat faithful who have been carefully taught to reject all discussion of pedophilia.

            You can see that when they refuse to talk about the obvious fact that actual drag queens, who are gay men, have no interest in twerking in front of children. Drag shows are adult entertainment.

            Men who volunteer to “read to” children, wearing skimpy outfits and who expose themselves to the children and who teach them to twerk or allow them to crawl on their supine bodies are suspect.

            But liberals will not allow discussion of this.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 12:25 pm #

            Maryq,
            I absolutely know about Anthony Weiner being arrested, as he should have been. Do you see me listing all of the Republicans who have been arrested also? No, that’s my point to all of this, it’s not a Party issue. It’s on both sides which means it’s a systemic issue.
            Qanon is dangerous Mary, fake stories like the one mentioned are dangerous. Focus on real ones. How about the Father from Santa Barbara, who was a Qanon follower and believed the ridiculous claim about Lizard people, he thought his kids had lizard dna so he drove to Mexico and killed his 10 month old and 2 year old with a spearfishing gun. SO yes, Qanon is dangerous, I have no tolerance for that.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 12:45 pm #

            Paula
            “I don’t see how bringing attention to child trafficking and pedophilia is harmful to trafficked children. That makes no sense at all.”

            You misunderstand, fake stories cause harm. The qanon fake wayfair trafficking story caused harm. The National Human Trafficking hotline was inundated during that time with calls about wayfair, real trafficking victims couldn’t get through to anyone because so many people were calling about fake wayfair story.

            We should all be discussing real sex trafficking, abuse and pedophelia, and leave politics and party out of it.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

            Claiming that speech causes “harm” and is “dangerous” is another liberal narrative now.
            You want to stop free speech, and that is wrong.

            Do I believe that the National Trafficking Hotline was inundated with fake Wayfair calls so that ”actual victims” could not get through?
            No, I don’t believe that. That is absurd.

            Do I believe that Qanon convinced a father to kill his children because….”lizard people’?

            No, I do not. Qanon did not talk about lizard people, that is David Icke. And anyone who kills their children is crazy, which is not caused by free speech. It is a brain misfunction, unless it is caused by mass brainwashing, such as we get here about various Establishment narratives, when half the population exhibits clear signs of paranoia and psychosis.

            Definition of psychosis: noun
            a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

            Which group is it that has lost contact with external reality? I think we all know.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 1:19 pm #

            When I say “here” I mean America, not CFN.

            Here in America we are gaslit constantly. And they are determined to turn us all into psychotics, unable to tell reality from fantasy.

          • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 2:42 pm #

            Well said, Paula.

          • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

            Kbird must have watched CNN/MSNBC/PBS/NPR/ABC/NBC/CBS squawking heads saying information is a threat to our democracy too many times.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:44 pm #

      That claim doesn’t seem to be so far-fetched once one knows about the Clinton Foundation trafficking of minors.

    • kbird March 21, 2023 at 1:51 pm #

      Mary and Paula

      Paula and Mary,

      If you care about sex trafficking, than you should read this article.

      ://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/on-wayfair-and-viral-conspiracy-theories-about-sex-trafficking/

      “Share responsibly-sourced information. Parents, educators, health professionals, and law enforcement need to become educated on signs of trafficking rather than viral hoaxes.”

      • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 2:54 pm #

        I have no problem with the information about where and how sex trafficking is usually done in the US. I agree that it is mostly done by people the child actually knows. And Pornhub is a major problem and so are major corporations who profit from the abuse.

        I have a problem with the big leap from those handy hints to:
        “Don’t allow people to spread information we don’t like online”.

        That is especially odd since they don’t call for shutting down Pornhub or Instagram or Tik Tok, just Qanon.

        But who has the actual biggest influence on society?

        And saying that children are never trafficked from, you know, Haiti or Ukraine is not accurate. War zones create widows and orphans and that creates sex trafficking, but that site completely ignores the wars. That is overlooking a big contributor to human misery.

        What is their agenda? To stop trafficking or to focus concern on a narrow aspect only?

        • kbird March 21, 2023 at 3:54 pm #

          Paula,
          That link was an article specifically about viral hoaxes, it was ONE article on the website as I was trying to show why fake stories of trafficking are bad.

          Nowhere did they say children are never trafficked from other countriees.

          They do say this”Sex trafficking is simultaneously a global and a local phenomenon. Even so, it is not uncommon for people to believe that sex trafficking is an issue only involving people from foreign countries who are trafficked from their country of birth to other countries. This is only a part of the sex trafficking picture. A significant amount of sex trafficking also happens to people who never cross international borders. Some people experience sex trafficking within their own country of birth—even within their own communities.”

          If you look at the entire website, which you should, as I know you are concerned about the problem of trafficking, you’ll find many resources on there and ways you can help as well.

          You said this”That is especially odd since they don’t call for shutting down Pornhub or Instagram or Tik Tok, just Qanon.”
          You obviously only read the article I shared and didn’t look at the entire website.

          They ARE suing porn hub, go back to the website I linked and read more, all I shared was the one article. If you go to the website and click “Top Issues” you’ll see Pornography under that. Click that and scoll down to the section that says “Take Action” and you can see all the lawsuits they have around porn, and specifically Pornhub. They are also fighting Mastercard to follow suit of Visa to stop processing payments for Porn. Lots of very good information that if you truly care about those issues, you would find the website very informative.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 4:27 pm #

            Paula,
            So you can see more about the site, here is a direct link on the website to the Pornhub info, since you didn’t seem to think they cared about that.

            //endsexualexploitation.org/pornhub/

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 7:57 pm #

            Wait a minute, Kbird. It’s one thing to assign us one article to read, but I’m not doing homework on an entire website.

            If they are attacking Pornhub, good. I’ll take your word for it.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 8:24 pm #

            Paula,
            Apologies if you felt I was asking you to do homework, that wasn’t the case. It seemed like the topic was important to you so I wanted to share with you the wealth of information on that site and all the ways you can also get involved to help. That’s all!

  21. Mick March 20, 2023 at 11:49 am #

    MaryQ may be right with her prediction over the weekend regarding the Trump trial:

    “At 11th Hour, NYC Grand Jury to Hear From Trump Ally”

    newser.com/story/332918/in-last-minute-move-trump-ally-testifying-before-nyc-grand-jury.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

    The ally is Robert Costello, and he’s going to come in and try to refute testimony by Michael Cohen. The indictment is right now “on hold”.

    Suffice it to say…..Lol

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

      Once you see the shit show machinations, you can’t unsee the shit show machinations – lol.

  22. neurodoc March 20, 2023 at 12:05 pm #

    With the collapse of Credit Suisse, via purchase by the Bank of Switzerland for ONE US DOLLAR per share, the Saudi’s, who owned, I hear, 20% of CS, are very pissed off. I suspect we are now likely to see a replay of the oil embargo of the 70s (which I can only recall thru the haze of college). Saudi has completely aligned itself with BRICS and w/ Russia and China and they are reportedly get ready to dump all of the USDs. The FED has chosen to try to save the banking system by killing the USD and replacing it with the ‘fed coin,’ the CBDC, central bank digital coin, come July 1.
    We’ll see how that works. ….assuming that any banks are still in existence by July 1!!!! No joking.

    Also, there is a run to Gold going on right now by big and small players. That is a prediction in and of itself as to what is going to happen. Personally, I tried to buy a hundred one oz American Eagle Golds in the past few days and could not get immediate purchase from any of four companies I’ve done biz with before. Very unusual as in 4 sigmas out of normality.

    Get ready people. Things are NOT under control as the msm and potato heads claim; its about to get very real.

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

      neuro,

      I thought the run was at the vault for the COMEX, not at the vaults of private company dealers. I’m not sure. I’ll know more in a week!

      • neurodoc March 20, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

        I meant a run in terms of all manner of people trying to buy gold, i.e. from dealers like APMEX Noble Gold, and others. Perhaps run is not the best term. Nevertheless, it is near impossible right now to buy American gold; I tried again an hour ago to buy 100 one oz eagles and no go. They’re saying ‘possibly’ end of March/first of April. No one in their right mind buys with that stipulation, as one may never get their gold. Also the premiums are crazy high!!!

        I don’t pay attention to COMEX, its a bunch of criminals; look at all their naked shorts on silver to control the price.

        • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 5:05 pm #

          I think “a run” gets your point across pretty well. We’ve had two weekends in a row of fear porn about the banks. And I’m not saying it’s ill founded, just that there has been a lot of gloom and doom about the financial markets, the banking sector, and contagion over the last ten days. The cracks in banking and the currency are showing and may get worse. I think bitcoin went up $3000 in one day, which is unusual. And gold went up $70 in one day as well. I’ll see how I do. I’m dealing with my usual broker and ordered on the 13th.

        • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 1:21 am #

          No doubt there is a “run” on gold, but these are people who are buying (kinda-sorta) at the top. When a lot of people are buying something when the price is high, it’s a good time to be suspicious and keep your powder dry. I tend to think that gold will come back down–though I think there is little doubt that it will go into the stratosphere at some point. Why do I think it will come down? Because everyone is saying it will go up.

          Silver is fairly reasonable right now. I would expect it to be useful at some point. I was thinking maybe I should buy some pretty soon.

          • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 8:42 am #

            It’s best to view almost all run-ups in price as a pump-and-dump.

  23. Paula D March 20, 2023 at 12:06 pm #

    Excellent essay as usual.

    It is interesting when it turns out that even though they think all the bases are covered, someone unexpected comes along and releases the truth, like the insurance company executive.

    I think the same thing happened with the blowing up of the pipelines. The cover story was clearly that there was a “leak”, because that is what the likes of Milley and Blinken went with at first, even after the truth was out. They thought they could still create Reality.

    But some obscure university in Sweden, obviously not in on the secret, released the seismic data proving that there were explosions.

    That blew the “sloppy Russians can’t even build a decent pipeline” story they had planned.

    • Mick March 20, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

      They recently tried to say the Ukranians did it. Lol….Lol….Lol….

      Yeah, that attempt lasted about five minutes. By themselves, the Ukies couldn’t dispatch a trot line over a lake, much less pull off a complicated operation like blowing up a pipeline under a sea.

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

        Scott Ritter gives us the technical reasons why that did not happen.

        He also has this to say about the NYT:

        “The New York Times, it seems, was more than happy about proceeding with its own anonymous intelligence sources, while dismissing Hersh’s.”

        https://www.globalresearch.ca/nord-stream-andromeda-cover-up-scott-ritter/5812180

        The NYT doesn’t even try anymore.

        • Mick March 20, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

          You do realize that the NYT’s real editors are in Langley, right? Pentagon has a hotline too. As well as the State Dept.

          • Mick March 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

            I’m sorry, of course you know that. Ritter exposes that fact regularly.

      • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 1:23 pm #

        Yep, they are jumping the shark again and again.

        Last week they told us that a raccoon dog and a bird were in adjacent cages at that infamous wet market and that is how the bat/human hybrid virus was created.

        So kill your pets.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

      As it turns out, hopefully, there are just too many people to control in any given lie.

      For a long time, they were able to keep most whistleblowers at bay, by ruining them. But now they have too many plates in the air, and can’t keep up with all of the whistle-blowing.

      It’s wonderful to see their narratives fall apart, even as they try to keep them going.

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 12:40 pm #

        I think another factor my be that people may be willing to keep quiet about some small instance of corruption, but when they see the horrible consequences or potential consequences, such as people freezing to death or starving, their consciences get the better of them.

        • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:16 pm #

          Maybe. I tried to get British posters to care about their elderly freezing to death while immigrants got all they needed.

          I failed again and again. They didn’t care, and they refused to care. Their elderly don’t matter. Little drowned Syrian boys – they matter.

          There’s only so much, you see. Interest, Care, Empathy, and Compassion are the ultimate limited resource. If you spend it all on aliens, you won’t have any left for your own people. Needles to say, this is what the Elite like.

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 8:38 pm #

            Meanwhile, you don’t care that Hitler gassed millions of Jews. So, you see, you really are in no position to pass your moral judgment on anyone else, Jar.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

            Oh Mary! You don’t care if your race and nation die since you only identify with women.

            Yet you are perfectly willing to accept the fruits of the White Conquest of North America – done with great brutality needless to say. You love those “blood diamonds”, eh hypocrite?

    • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

      There are literally pictures of massive explosions on the surface.

      Why would anyone care about seismic data?

  24. toktomi March 20, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

    “The public will do what they always do to a government that plunges them into penury and hardship.”

    A few of them will bitch about it on blog sites, but all of them will merely disrobe and march into the “showers”.

    ~toktomi~

    • JC Penny March 20, 2023 at 5:04 pm #

      I think most are already in the shower waiting for the valves to open.

  25. mgaguy March 20, 2023 at 12:21 pm #

    The US is a mess, and the Democrats are corrupt. But how can anyone with half a brain think that Trump is the answer to our problems? He’s a charlatan who has absolutely no concern for the non-rich or for the environment. A fascistic strongman with simple answers is not what we need. The Germans thought Hitler was going to be the answer to their problems.

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    • Cankerpuss March 20, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

      This isn’t just a Democrat problem, Mgaguy. For decades now I have watched and listened to the Republicans make promises and then when they take power they fail to deliver on those promises. Republicans spend money just like the Democrats do. Republicans wage illegal wars just like the Democrats do. Republicans violate their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution just like the Democrats do. Republicans never reduce the size of Government but also work to grow the Government, just like the Democrats do.

      Trump is not the solution to what ails us. Trump is a symptom that the system is sick, desperately sick.

      Until the people get away from the tribal mentality of Democrats and Republicans and start working together to fix our Country, nothing will change. Unfortunately, the apparent tribalism is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche that people are Democrats or Republicans long before they are Americans.

      George Washington was prophetic in his farewell address. If only our forebears had listened to what he told them about political parties. Nobody cares today.

      • kbird March 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

        Well said, Cankerpuss!

        • Mick March 20, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

          I’ll second that

      • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:23 pm #

        George was a great Indian fighter. It’s said that he could take a man’s head off with one swipe of his sword. The idea of Indians becoming citizens and even being put above Whites as the “native Americans” would have revolted him.

        Needless to say Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were men of the same stamp. The idea of Black equality would have amazed them, what to speak of Blacks being put above Whites.

        Google the etymology of the word, nation. You can either have that or Paula’s “odd assortment of people”. You can’t have both. You’re either with George, Joseph, and Brigham or you’re with the ladies.

        • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 2:17 pm #

          @Jarek

          I’m with the ladies.

          I find it unfortunate and perhaps, sad that you have apparently never experienced the unbounded creativity, cooperation, intelligence, and synergy of working in a massively diverse group.

          Myopia and hatred-motivated emotional behavior masquerading as some grotesque and delusional form of truth is tragic.

          Of course, I could be wrong.

          ~toktomi~

          • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

            And George, according to most accounts, was a LOSER, and a dead one at that. Oops! But shit do get flushed sometimes.

            ~toktomi~

          • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 2:51 pm #

            Then you’re not an American in any real sense. You’re about as American as an Indian or a Somali Muslim.

          • King of Comedy March 20, 2023 at 8:47 pm #

            Pro tip: “never experienced the unbounded creativity, cooperation, intelligence, and synergy of working in a massively diverse group” sounds like a euphemism for you getting fucked up the ass by various and sundry different color dicks… but you do you…

            All I know is that in the long winding course of human history, no political entity comes to mind where diversity did not eventually lead to factionalism and conflict. Every flavor of diversity too, religious, political, you name it, but racial diversity is easily the most volatile. The Japanese, for instance, acutely aware of this quasi-biological law and perhaps adhering to the Bushido code as well, appear to prefer civilizational “geritocracy” to your “unbounded creativity”. Or maybe they got a load of the freak show in this country and simply said no thank you.

            Methinks human evolution on this planet, where the tribe meant survival, most likely accounts for this phenomenon and the odds are very high that this hard-wiring will again carry the day over your eunuch-tinged fantasies (alas, natural selection has never been and in the travails ahead, will never be, a friend to the eunuch).

          • toktomi March 21, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

            @Jarek

            You say, “…you’re not an American…”

            I say, that is quite possibly the nicest thing you could say to me.

            Indeed, I make no claims and have no desire to identify with an empire that has, throughout it’s entire existence, wreaked genocide across the continent and the entire Earth.

            I am, your graciousness, but a single cell within the entirety of the planetary human organism and an insignificant blip in the entirety of the Universe and this magnificent Earth.

            salt of the earth Americans, racist, bigoted, small-minded, parochial, willfully ignorant, armed to the teeth, and proud of it. ~Dmitry Orlov

            And, although I strongly disapprove of name-calling, I, never the less, must bestow upon you the title of massively ignorant and disgusting American creature. sounds like ya musta pushed a button. “sorry”

            Have a nice fucking day!

            ~toktomi~

          • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

            You need to get out then. Go back to Europe, honky. You’re living on stolen land. Don’t forget to give all the proceeds of your stolen goods back to the Indians. And when you get to Europe, become a dhimmi slave to the new masters of Europe, the Muslims.

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

        Trump looked like the solution, back before most people even suspected just how deep and wide the Swamp was.

        Bobby Jr. said he’s considering a run, because he wants to bring people together.

        That seems awfully naive, coming from a man like him.

      • Woodchuck March 20, 2023 at 3:27 pm #

        As I’ve posted many times, the lifespan of the average republic/democracy is around 250 years. If the US is an average country, which is most likely, then we are right at the expiration date. What’s happening in the West might be entirely normal and routine from a historian’s point of view. Just sayin’

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 5:28 pm #

      mgaguy (I so wanted to type magaguy, lol)

      No one is the answer to everything going on. If you have a candidate in mind, I’m all ears. Today’s problems will last for several administrations, if our government lasts that long. I try to see Trump as he is, warts and all. Maybe its leprosy and all! I don’t deny his faults so much as think he is an improvement over Biden. I don’t actually know who is the POTUS right now. Biden is not in his right mind. He has days were he is semi-cogent. And he has days that he reads what he is told to read. We’ve got to get him out of there. If Trump is the republican or independent nominee, I’m voting for him, Dominion be damned. The primary is where I have a tougher decision. I can’t say definitively who I will vote for in the primary because I can’t see who is on it yet.

      And this may just be an act of faith on my part. But Trump will not have to worry about reelection. Kutchner will be out. His cabinet will be much better. He will continue his efforts to keep us out of WW3. He’ll be focused on the border, trade, and the currency.

      I may be completely out of luck. He may be on house arrest by the time the election rolls around . This is after all, clown world.

      • badberries March 20, 2023 at 9:55 pm #

        The days where JB is semi-cogent are the days when is Adderall dose is correct. Most days he forgets or declines.

        • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 12:50 am #

          I completely agree.

          • badberries March 21, 2023 at 1:51 pm #

            Great minds think alike.

    • Mac March 21, 2023 at 10:15 am #

      Define fascism

  26. TPTB-USA March 20, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

    “… subjecting the public to incessant mind-fuckery in a campaign to falsify and disfigure reality.” ~ JHK

    It appears that the opposition to your “party of chaos” is about exhausted in this regard, and a growing percent are at their whits’ end.

    This does not bode well for resolution being just around the corner.

  27. MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

    Great blog post today, Jim, thank you!

    I especially love the last paragraph.

    As much as the Woke Jacobins running the show have tried to subvert, twist and re-invent reality, the laws of physics will win out. What they do with that, though, remains to be seen.

    I am guessing that continued gaslighting is about all they have.

    • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

      All they have?

      Right now, there are a number of politicians here in Europe demanding we attack Russia.

      This is far from over. Even the Covid stuff will take years to sort out, and I reckon 80 of the global population will still think that (1) Covid exists and (2) that any issues with the shots are simply issues that neither scientists, BigPharma, or the captured polis could have done anything about, as we were in an “emergency.”

      Even here, we are told that Fauci just wanted to develop a “vaccine” to his disease and get rich.

      • Mick March 20, 2023 at 1:02 pm #

        Politicians in Europe truly have a suicide wish. Homicidal wish too since their weird war fetish with Russia will kill millions upon millions of regular Euro folks.

        But they will lose their countries. Nothing left to rule over. I suppose they’ll follow Zelensky to West Palm Beach.

        • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

          The same guys who own the politicians here own the criminals that are in the process of destroying the United States as well.

          And TBH, outside of Trump, I see no one in the political realm who can make a dent in anything.

          The people seem to be catching on (as in Europe), but the question is whether it is too late to avoid a fracturing of society into two worlds.

      • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:26 pm #

        Agree. There’s so much more to it than that. And if you know more, you should never put it like that. It only confuses people.

      • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

        Who said anything about it being over?

        I said they’ll continue the gaslighting, which is exactly what they are doing.

      • badberries March 20, 2023 at 9:57 pm #

        Well, he did get rich…

    • Cankerpuss March 20, 2023 at 12:55 pm #

      They are still extremely powerful and dangerous. Things will get much worse before things get better. Gaslighting is one of many tools they employ against us.

  28. Cankerpuss March 20, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

    Great article by JHK again. Once again his positive outlook on things is a breath of fresh air in a world full of doom, gloom and pessimism.

    Unfortunately, I don’t share his optimism. The American people are too lazy, decadent, stupid, selfish, brainwashed, tribal, partisan and just down right immoral to warrant any meaningful “pulling down” of a bad governmental system.

    No, God, whether God is an intelligent being or just natural laws, will need to sort this out and force the correction on an unwilling population that refuses to see reality for what it is. It is going to be nasty. It is going to be awful. I will say that if gets so bad that cannibals are roaming the streets looking for me to eat, I’ll put a bullet in my head before that happens. My last bullet will be for me. Nobody else.

    • messianicdruid March 20, 2023 at 2:35 pm #

      Sounds like you are afraid of the cooking, not the eating.

  29. BULLITT March 20, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

    I hear the commode flushing the greatest nation in the world down the drain. Of course, FJB and his handlers keep fighting over the handle.
    Daily, we have a new disaster brewing.
    So here we go. All you bright and informed CF’ers need to exercise your brain power to send a message to the criminals who are destroying this Country.
    Protesting is out unless you want to spend eternity in jail. Voting is a joke.
    Convincing our liberal friends that something is really rotten in D.C is a waste of time.
    So, I’m open for some suggestions on how to turn this mess around.
    Quit using credit cards for a week, stop buying anything for a week, etc. We need safe effective ways to get somebody’s attention.
    People will not stay home from work; they need the money.
    Maybe, boycott WALMART, COSTCO for a week.
    Let’s hear some ideas other than buy more guns and ammo. So far that threat hasn’t worked.

    • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 2:30 pm #

      @Bullitt

      Any connection to the Coppernotch Bullitt’s?

      100 feet from the collapsed trestle, “Hit the brakes!”
      Too late, I’m afraid, my dear.

      A trajectory, too steep; a velocity, too fast; a proximity to the ground, too close. Jump!

      ~toktomi~

  30. Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 1:04 pm #

    The sun’s goin’ down on the sleepy little clown
    Hillary bugged his phone
    “All I want is a rise in my pay
    And some little friends for my bone”

    “Ten percent’s just chump change
    C’mon man, say my name”

    Well, you’re talkin bout China, China Joe whoa whoa whoa
    Uh oh, China Joe

    Well, the son and the daughter
    Don’t know no caution
    They are the talk of the town
    When the coke gets to flyin’
    And they snortin’ lines
    Then the pants come fallin’ down

    They say that the father’s insane
    But ya know the ‘Ho is always game

    We’re talkin bout China, China Joe whoa whoa whoa
    Uh oh, China Joe

    Every day there’s a new grift a-comin’
    Some guys of an Oriental hue
    Ya know they’re butt buddies
    With pornography hoards
    Up late partyin’ with Barry and Mike

    And though he’s a pawn of the Deep State
    The Chinese don’t seem to care
    They’re makin’ sure his rosy palms stay greased

    Talkin bout the China,China Joe whoa whoa whoa
    Uh oh, China Joe

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    • Mick March 20, 2023 at 1:12 pm #

      Clever

    • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 1:26 pm #

      Excellent, BB.

    • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

      Turns out the Bidens may be being impersonated by an “evil twin” family. And to think that I have cast disparagement on such a wonderful patriot and his talented family…

      Go on over to Zero Hedge if you’d like to learn more.

      And while there, say hi to our resident troll. He/she/it/xhit goes by the name “That Pod”on the Hedge. But please stop feeding xhit here.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 2:45 pm #

      This is great!!

  31. WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 1:10 pm #

    Federal Court of Appeals judge Stewart Kyle Duncan endured harassment at Stanford Law School recently alleging that student protesters shouted insults at him before woke dean Tirien Steinbach berated him in “a staged public shaming.”

    Duncan’s great sin, apparently, was that he had issued an advisory opinion that dismissed a transgender defendant’s chosen pronouns and the broader concept of gender identity.

    He wrote a great response in the WSJ Saturday. “My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School.

    These law students at this elite institution were like 4 year olds throwing a tantrum. I am beyond belief.

    • WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 1:22 pm #

      Tirien Steinbach is Stanford Law’s associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

    • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

      They are from a generation some of whom have never been spanked and who wore diapers at four years of age,

      Add to that they think they are the elite just by the mere fact of their admission, and not their graduation.

      I read someone’s piece somewhere about how declaring oneself trans is how those who are reviled as privileged get to join the victim class.

      I wish I could remember who wrote it to give them credit.

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 5:36 pm #

      WadeWaters,

      Diversity, don’t ya know, does not include variety of opinion.

      I think most colleges are like this now.

  32. Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:30 pm #

    I was trying to come up with a catchy jingle about what woke is, to the tune of That’s Amore.

    I’m not very good at such things.

    • WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 1:40 pm #

      When a black, female, gay becomes Press Secretaray…

      That’s what woke is!

      When you score 2 or 3 intersectionalities…

      That’s what woke is!

      Well, it’s a start.

      • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 1:54 pm #

        Maybe we need a different tune.

        • WadeWaters March 20, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

          Bells will ring, ting-a-ling-a-ling

          Ting-a-ling-a-ling and you’ll sing, “State your pronouns!”

          Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay

          Tippy-tippy-tay with a gay ‘they’ and ‘them’, now!

          • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 3:15 pm #

            I’m speechless…

        • "Weird Al" Yankovic March 20, 2023 at 8:29 pm #

          Folks, I am humbled.

      • malthuss March 20, 2023 at 2:15 pm #

        YOU FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART,

        She is an Immigrant. A success story.

        • anmariwakaranai March 20, 2023 at 2:45 pm #

          When your balls in a sack that you threw sometime back
          That’s awoken
          When your boobs are now tubes that enhance your dick pubes
          That’s awoken
          When the truth that you tell is a bridge that you sell
          Called Hoboken
          ….

          • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 2:46 pm #

            Hahahaha!

          • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 3:47 pm #

            I think Ana is the only true poet ’round here.

            Well done, friend.

          • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 12:55 am #

            I am never getting this tune out of my head!!

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:47 pm #

            Yes, a poet, loosely wound, the law of contradiction meaning nothing to her. As Plato said, crown them and then drive them out of the city.

      • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 2:35 pm #

        @Wade

        “It matters not ‘what is’
        For what is cannot be discerned.
        It matters only what we believe.
        For what we believe is all that we have learned.”

        Or so, I believe.

        ~toktomi~

      • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

        That is great, WW.

  33. K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 1:34 pm #

    At the Stanford Internet Observatory our mission is to study the misuse of the internet to cause harm, and to help create policy and technical mitigations to those harms. Over the past year, researchers at SIO have investigated disinformation from a variety of actors: governments, spammers, mercenaries, and domestic groups. We’ve studied covert operation tactics, such as social media manipulation campaigns, as well as overt propaganda strategies from state media leveraging technology for public diplomacy. In our work we have demonstrated that online actors all have their own topics, motivations and techniques. This diversity has often impeded comparative analysis on questions such as how the capabilities of major state actors differ.

    • anmariwakaranai March 20, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

      Nothing says it better than Operation Virility. Oops, Virality! Invertion much?

      • anmariwakaranai March 20, 2023 at 1:50 pm #

        Inversion.

        • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 2:20 pm #

          Their web page has great graphics.

    • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 2:37 pm #

      @K-Chien

      I would be interested in the working definition of “harm”.

      ~toktomi~

      • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 3:45 pm #

        Anything that interferes with profits, or the agenda.

  34. K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 1:36 pm #

    Over the next several months, you will see posts by our research teams exploring the information environment and actions of seven states as they experience and combat COVID-19: the United States, Russia, the People’s Republic of China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Brazil. Our work will focus on the narratives these states deploy for domestic and foreign audiences, as well as the activities of powerful non-state groups acting independently for their own financial and political benefit. We will use similar methodologies in each country to provide both qualitative and quantitative views into COVID-19-related narratives, conflicts and influence operations in each of these countries. Our goal is to help inform the global public debate on the proper role of government and private actors in our information ecosystem.

    • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

      @K-Chien

      “Our goal is to help inform the global public debate on the proper role of government and private actors in our information ecosystem.”

      Bullshit.

      ~toktomi~

  35. GreenAlba March 20, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

    For those lucky folks who are able to keep hens, you might like this neat, 2-minute description of the benefits of the 15-minute city. 🙂

    twitter.com/vegastarr/status/1637316161883832320

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    • Paula D March 20, 2023 at 3:47 pm #

      Page doesn’t exist is what I got.

      • GreenAlba March 20, 2023 at 7:29 pm #

        Paula, if you go to Neil Oliver’s Twitter account here, it’s just down a bit …

        twitter.com/thecoastguy

    • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 3:50 pm #

      This should really be required viewing for every man, woman, and child.

      🙂

      • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 3:52 pm #

        The shot of his McMansion in the background at the end is also too perfect.

        Everything Schwab and co. have planned for the little people, in one nice little 2.5-minute package.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 4:40 pm #

      Found this on the thread – even better:

      https://youtu.be/C1nNmh5vY8Q

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 5:22 pm #

        A great talk…

        As a ray of hope, during my time at ‘The Oil Drum’ and/or maybe ‘Peak Oil Barrel’, we talked about how humans are not like bees, ants or termites and those kinds of creatures because we are simply too complex and individualistic.

        So even though we are social creatures like them, and so can work our societies into hyperspecialistic corners, they smash up against our complexity and individualistic natures as well, causing kinds of cognitive and other dissonances that reverberate throughout, likely causing societal chaos and potentially collapse.

      • GreenAlba March 20, 2023 at 7:48 pm #

        Thanks, Mary. Sandi’s great. She has a 3-part presentation of the whole 2030 agenda on the UKC site, in depressing detail. 🙁

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 5:01 pm #

      I just love the sound of roosters. Was that a rooster? Or do hens make the same sound? But maybe I’d get tired of it, such as if I was trying to get some sleep.

      The coop looks big enough that, if my house burned down, I could go and sleep with the chickens.

      • badberries March 20, 2023 at 10:03 pm #

        The hens let out a call when they drop an egg.

        • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

          That was a rooster I heard in the background. The sound hens make dropping an egg is different.

          • badberries March 21, 2023 at 1:53 pm #

            True, to the trained ear, they are different. (I didn’t watch the video.)

        • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 4:03 pm #

          Fair enough, thanks.

    • mrs_saj March 20, 2023 at 5:48 pm #

      GreenAlba,

      I copied and pasted the link. It worked for me.

      Its not even Animal Farm with all animals being equal, but some more equal than the others. Its just they produce and I take their production.

      Thanks for sharing, GA. The 15 minute cities are of course going to marketed for their convenience to the residents. But the point that I always take away from city living, no matter how its marketed, is how easily controlled the people are. The density of the living arrangements, the lack of gardening space, the lack of a car, etc; all of it puts a person under the thumb of the mayor and other local government.

      • GreenAlba March 20, 2023 at 7:50 pm #

        And you’ll be jabbed as instructed, mrs-saj, or not even be able to buy food within your 15-minute confines.

        • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 1:00 am #

          Exactly!

      • Woodchuck March 22, 2023 at 8:11 am #

        Once the system in place to deliver and distribute food to big cities breaks down there will be a month or two of zombies roaming about. They won’t be able to roam very far because the reason for food not being available then will be due to a general breakdown and failure in the availability of fuel. The reason this will be short lived is because people can only go for a month or two at most with no food and then they themselves become food for coyotes and rats. The food situation works its way out in a few years, and the people who survive are the ones who have figured out a legitimate way to obtain or produce their own. The survivors will be the clever ones who have the skills to keep going by scavenging and using all the gigantic piles of stuff left behind by the dead. In some ways, it will be very much a “reverse Rapture”. It will mostly be the evil people who will have departed, leaving behind the meek and yet the capable who will inherit the earth.

        • Woodchuck March 22, 2023 at 8:20 am #

          I’m replying to myself here in order to add something to my post. Here’s a you tube video of one really neat place to visit in the Great Smokies National Park. It’s not that well known and I’ve visited this site several times. I also know people who used to know these ladies. This video gives us some really interesting images and ideas as to how a “world made by hand” will be and what it will look like. The Walker sisters grew up in this world and the park service allowed them to continue on this lifestyle all the way to the end of their lives. They had no desire to leave this lifestyle and greatly preferred it to the crap society that was being built all around them.

          xttps://youtu.be/GLPJVDddYMA

        • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

          Armed gangs will be the order of the day. As ever Dil makes a fool out of Woody. Dil is a complete liberal while Woody is a chopped off Pecker Wood. Dil has made you a eunuch.

        • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 9:16 am #

          “t will mostly be the evil people who will have departed, leaving behind the meek and yet the capable who will inherit the earth.”

          Most of the departed will be perfectly ordinary people who are not evil but have no practical means of going anywhere else. Depending on where they are (everyone doesn’t live in an enormous country like the US) they will be taxed out of their hidey-hole Agenda 2030 non-compliant home.

  36. anmariwakaranai March 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm #

    Jim said there is no narrative that can support the bank collapse ….

    How about, ‘oh well, all money goes the way of the Dodo, but look here, we have a one world, one money solution that will solve everything. (UBI etc.)

    Doesn’t SWIFT go live about now? Could that be why the myriad of dominos fall?

    Such a great interview with Dr Martin and earlier Dowd.

    I believe the cbdc will require the mark of convenience to buy and sell. Please, stock up now to save your family, friends and neighbours from a fate worse than death.

    Also I am loving me some colour in those new paintings, especially the waterfall.

    • cowbell81 March 20, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

      Should be investing in the Yuan, that will probably be our next national currency.

  37. K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm #

    httpx://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mx395xj8490/Virality_project_final_report.pdf

    titled: Memes, Magnets, and Microchips
    Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines

    Executive Summary

    Since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, global authority figures, institu-tions, and the public have struggled to share accurate health information. As early as February 2020, the World Health organization declared an infodemic, a glut of news pouring in and harming peoples’ ability to find trustworthy sources.1 Mis- and disinformation spread widely.i Social media companies, pressured and incentivized to curate the news, sought to surface accurate information about the pandemic, but faced a problem: What should they amplify in the absence of clear scientific consensus? As they pondered, anti-vaccine sentiments grew. Were the vaccines safe? Had our governments overstepped? Misinformation distorted answers to these questions. The global crisis created opportunities for governments, finan-cially motivated actors, and conspiracy theorists to construct or amplify narratives that served their interests. The preexisting US anti-vaccine movementiii began to insert itself into the national conversation. As far back as January 2020, when talk of a COVID-19 vaccine was purely theoretical, anti-vaccine activists perceived an opportunity to undermine confidence in any and all vaccinations. As vaccinations
    rolled out in the US in late 2020, anti-vaccine activists became increasingly focused on undermining their uptake.

  38. Jarek March 20, 2023 at 1:54 pm #

    Breitbart

    This month, the advocacy group Consumers’ Research sent a letter and report to congressional leaders, sounding the alarm on ESG, which the group said represents a “grave menace to America.”

    Will Hild, Consumers’ Research executive director described ESG as the “weaponization of America’s investments against its own citizenry”:

    Against their freedoms. Against their jobs. Against their retirements. Against their pocketbooks. Against their national security. It undercuts democratic rule. It aids communist dictators and petty tyrants alike. It concentrates power into the hands of a tiny group of Wall Street managers who were not elected, lack any accountability to the people, and routinely make it clear they resent any restriction on their power to set policy.

    Congress recently passed a resolution nixing Biden’s ESG agenda –Senate Democrats Jon Tester (D-MT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted with Republicans — but Biden has indicated he will veto the measure.

    Jarek: De Santis is leading an 18 state coalition against this madness. Impressive I must say.

    • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 2:14 pm #

      JFC dude you don’t even say what it is — Environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement.

      Now really how hard was that? I had to look it up, and my effort will be repeated by everyone else, but the trolls who run this place. Who read your comment.

      That said: “The 30-page report alleges that “some of the largest asset managers in the world have leveraged Americans’ savings to coerce corporations to adopt critical race theory, boycott states with Republican governments, fund employees’ abortions, and divest from investment in drilling for oil and natural gas, among a wide range of other left-wing causes.”

      Right, investors will ignore states where they can make money because they have republican governments. I fear the stench from that lie will remain after I power down.

      But really, never mind. We live in a system where if you don’t invest in oil and gas someone else will. I am not sayin who the fool is, just that it will be done, by someone. Making your fear of ESG stupid.

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 2:52 pm #

        George Soros: “We live in a system where if I hadn’t turned my fellow Jews in to the Nazis, someone else would have.”

        • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 3:54 pm #

          This is almost as good as the time he claimed CBDCs are fine, as we already have credit cards.

          There are no words for this level of stupidity.

          • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 4:05 pm #

            György knows better. And he knows we (most of us anyway) don’t.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

            The fantastic corruption of Kchien. He opens by pretending not to know what ESG is so he can define it for us and then begin to laud it.

    • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 2:17 pm #

      Like the King in “The Little Prince”.

    • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

      And so nobody has to look it up (JFC) is Jesus Fucking Christ.

      • Islander March 20, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

        Thanks! (I was wondering)

      • cowbell81 March 20, 2023 at 2:42 pm #

        Haha, mucho gracias Chacho.

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 2:53 pm #

        Hoist by his own petard.

        • badberries March 20, 2023 at 10:07 pm #

          I like the cut of your Jib mate!

          (whatever a Jib is…)

          • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

            Yeah that JFC stuff really does it for you. That and fart jokes.

        • mrs_saj March 21, 2023 at 1:06 am #

          OK, that one I had to look up.

          To save time for someone else, it’s when your own schemes against others backfires in your face. It’s Shakespeare (Hamlet).

          • badberries March 21, 2023 at 1:55 pm #

            Well God Bless your pointed head, now I don’t have to look it up. lol Tx

    • Beryl of Oyl March 20, 2023 at 2:47 pm #

      DeSantis is being so impressive, that somebody thought it would be a good idea to try to force him into some sort of pledge of fealty or something, over an indictment over a non-crime, that was rumored to be happening tomorrow.

  39. Roundball Shaman March 20, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

    “… Western Civ… in its attempted suicide… subjecting the public to incessant mind-fuckery in a campaign to falsify and disfigure reality… A consortium of public and corporate bureaucracies has institutionalized the falsification of reality…”

    And why is Western Civ doing this? Once again we haul out that fount of eternal wisdom (?) from just one man but one who speaks for most all of the Deep Dark State in all of their various hidey-holes:

    “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality… We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
    – Karl Rove

    These elitist numbskulls – er, the faux-gods-who-dwell-among us – really believe that crap. It infects their thinking at all levels and then they wield with unbridled glee that pathological garbage like a deranged sledgehammer upon We the People.

    “They do it because they can.”

    Ever notice that it is only the very worst among us that get to wield power and authority over Society-at-Large? And the worse they become… the more power and authority they get as a reward? Isn’t that exactly backwards from what a useful Society and Culture should be doing?

    “The Covid-19 release seems to have been an act motivated by multiple players for their own reasons which, combined, amounted to crimes against humanity.”

    And guess what? They all GOT/GET PAID and GET TO WALK FREE! Wwweeeeee! See above remark about ‘The Worst Among Us…’.

    “… a banking collapse has no propaganda value to the regimes in power. There is no narrative they can concoct out of it to their advantage.”

    Sure there is. The long-awaited Beast System of total Economic (and thus entire Lifestyle) control over The People. The sickly orgasm of demented pleasure after thousands of years of harmful and painful foreplay to con and maneuver institutions, people, and events to culminate in their Final Eternal Lockdown of the Ages of We the People.

    But at least we all get to live in Empire! Wwwweeeeee!

  40. cowbell81 March 20, 2023 at 2:42 pm #

    Just read somewhere that ol’ Nancy Pelosi is thinking about sitting down to work on writing a book, her memoirs. I bet these will hit the bargain remainder bins at bookstores everyone as soon as they are printed.

    Better yet, why doesn’t she just release her book as an e-book, skip the whole printing thing. Think of how much better that would be for the environment!

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    • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 2:55 pm #

      “I bet these will hit the bargain remainder bins at bookstores everyone as soon as they are printed.”

      It will outsell the Bible within its first week, and garner universally positive reviews. Just like the Hildebeast’s most recent book, only not quite as good.

    • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 3:02 pm #

      Why doesn’t she just release her book as an e-book, skip the whole printing thing.

      Why doesn’t she just not write her book, skip the whole writing thing!

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 4:07 pm #

        Money laundering.

        Just like Hunter’s “art auctions”.

        • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 6:59 pm #

          Ahhhh, a million sold and 10 printed. E-Books. E-books sold and shipped in a foreign land.

          • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 11:11 am #

            A million here, a million there, pretty soon you’re talkin’ about the Bidens.

          • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

            What a great one-liner to sum up the Bidens, Blackbird!

  41. cowbell81 March 20, 2023 at 2:46 pm #

    Right-wing broadcaster Pete Santilli recently argued that the U.S. military should execute former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is arrested.

    “Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people,” he said. “That you military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people.”

    “And ultimately, we demand, we absolutely demand that the criminals, the criminals in this country, if you want them held accountable, the criminals are Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Susan Rice,” he continued, “this entire criminal cabal that came about as a result of the murder of John F. Kennedy, the people that perpetrated the murder of John F. Kennedy, rise up to that.”

    “Military, join us and put all of them up against a concrete wall… and do what we must do to save not just our country, the entire world,” he implored.

  42. docmartin March 20, 2023 at 2:50 pm #

    Most of us know the truth re:
    Operation Paperclip
    MK Ultra
    Kennedy murder
    Vietnam
    911
    Both Gulf wars
    Russian disinformation
    Covid and vaccines
    Etc etc etc

    There have never been personal consequences to any of the evil psychopaths behind any of them.. and if history is any indication, there never will be. When the shit hits the fan we get covered in it as the perpetrators laugh, wink and win. All I can do is speak up loudly when I can, smoke a good cigar and sigh.

    • toktomi March 20, 2023 at 4:47 pm #

      @doc

      eh, “sigh” and die or convince everyone to simply walk away…
      and die.

      ~toktomi~

    • badberries March 20, 2023 at 10:12 pm #

      Amen to the “good cigar”. btw when do the good Cuban cigars get un-banned finally? I had some fine smokes in Moscow, damned fine but, there’s some good leaf coming outta C. America.

  43. BackRowHeckler March 20, 2023 at 2:56 pm #

    War is subject to the laws of physics to a certain extent as well, & the formula in the Ukraine~Russia conflict is for every 6,000 artillery shells the Ukrainians launch, Russia launches 60,000. The reality of that war is beginning to seep thru the wall of propaganda bullsh#t put out by the western media on a daily basis.

    • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 3:32 pm #

      Yeah, I mosied over to the Pew Research center website and sniffed around. They had a study that measured public attitude on Putin.

      Seems nobody is rooting for Putin, The number of people who have seen the Oliver Stone documentary with him, or any of Putin’s speeches at the Valdai Discussion Club for instance, remain abysmally small.

      Flag wavers with Ukrainian yellow and blue flags over Freeway Overpasses. Time out for Starbucks runs. Their waving flags carried the year.

      Not to be surprised, A national propaganda campaign by the American deep state can’t easily fail. They have all the buttons they can push, and guess what? They push them.

      ‘They do it because they can.’

      Top that off with they get paid to do it. Someone else can do the Upton Sinclair quote.

      Personally I went to Google Earth and verified images in an article I read. Deep zig-zag trenches were dug around Bakhmut. It took years to dig them. Putin did not dig them. These trenches were dug in Ukraine synonymous with the decision that corrupt comedians would make good presidents.

      I wonder how long we would let Canucks dig zig-zag trenches along the Slash before we went north to kick beaver ass?

      • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 3:57 pm #

        ” […] Pew Research center website and sniffed around. They had a study that measured public attitude on Putin.”

        Well, I guess that just ends all debate then.

        You are the most intelligent man I have ever come across.

        • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 4:24 pm #

          The way I read the Dog’s post is that no one is “rootin’ for Putin” because they are uninformed, and happily gobble up the xhit they are fed by the presstitutes.

          • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 6:41 pm #

            The point is that a Pew poll is nearly meaningless.

          • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm #

            Exactly right. ‘Know thy enemy’

    • SpeedyBB March 25, 2023 at 1:34 am #

      That “good leaf” coming out of the Central American republiquitas is from seed smuggled out of Cuba when His Majesty assumed power from the cowardly Fulgencio Batista.

      At great peril, I might add.

      In fine Socialist style, the first order of business for Castro was to fuck up the tobacco fields with chemicals and plant food crops. By the time the dope figured out that he desperately needed the foreign exchange, and ordered the fields replanted with tobacco, it was too late.

  44. The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 3:01 pm #

    An interesting little tidbit for you since i’m up late with mild insomnia… Anyway. I hope everyone has a beautiful new week ahead. Sweet dreams.” ~ SoftStarLight

    ——

    (chuckle)

    Early mornings with SoftStarLight…” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle (a few articles’ threads previous)

    I have mild insomnia too and it’s usually because I ate too much that day vis-a-vis the calories expended. In short, a systemic imbalance.

    How do you meditate? What’s the setup? And how do you listen to music? What’s the setup?

    >>>>

    Yes, likely the internal warmth you speak of emanates from the volcano beneath the island.” ~ SoftStarLight

    ——

    Wikipedia’s article has it at 25°C…

    We could throw a glass ceiling over a small section of it and, using some of the glacier’s meltwater, possibly create a killer hot-spring to soak and swim in. Maybe import a friendly penguin to see how it liked it and, if so, place a sign on the outside that advertised, “Penguin Approved!”.

    ——

    Certainly there is the possibility that there are enough resources to maintain life.” ~ SoftStarLight

    ——

    That’s a no-brainer, if within the carrying capacity of the island of course. It’s not like it could support a ‘thriving metropolis’.

    ——

    But it would be rough.” ~ SoftStarLight

    ——

    Yes and no, but certainly yes at the beginning and toward the end as the trappings of civilization that were imported to the island began to sufficiently degrade.

    Then, if we couldn’t make it off the island, and trade was limted due to our extreme isolation, we’d be kind of trapped and would have to look at making our living more strictly from what was naturally available on the island.

    Wood? Metals? Plastics? Fire? More like stones and sand for accommodations, raw animal meat for food and seal and penguin skins for clothes for any future generations. Or some kind of boat to get the hell off and away.

    ——

    Though possibly having your own little state would be interesting to say the least. So you’ve done research looking for desert islands? Maybe to escape to? I like the name Bouvet and would like for it to be returned to that spelling if I had a say in the matter lol.” ~ SoftStarLight

    ——

    I’ve always liked islands. For a period, I was intrigued by islands ‘on the edge’– specifically subantarctic islands.

    Not as much the big ones that felt like continents but islands just big enough to feel like one was actually on one– maybe via a view of the ocean, no matter, for the most part, where one was situated on it.

    Bouvetoya is ostsnsibly just the Norwegian translation of ‘Bouvet Island’.

    As an aside, do you know that Air New Zealand crashed a sight-seeing airliner into an Antarctic mountain, killing everyone onboard? I discovered that by accident. In Vancouver, there’s a car repair shop whose motto is something like, “We make friends by accident.”. I’ve always liked that one.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 3:26 pm #

      The Bouvet Island Thought Experiment

      ——

      …Which is what it kind of is for me insofar as, like New York, if you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere.

    • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

      You bastard.

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 4:14 pm #

        I was gonna warn ya that someone was makin’ moves on your sweetie…

        • The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 4:16 pm #

          LOL

      • SoftStarLight March 21, 2023 at 2:01 am #

        I think your sense about Ron DeSenseless (lol) is more tuned than mine. It could be that I was just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. But his little quip about President Trump was a bridge too far for me personally. It definitely the fog of war with all of these people. I still think he genuinely isn’t into the Ukraine war lust. But given the people in his orbit could he be talked into being into it? There is certainly a chance and he isn’t showing that he has the best instincts.

        • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

          If he really wanted to serve, he should just wait and let Trump have the term that was stolen from him.

          I tend to trust Anglin more than I do myself because he follows things more closely than I do. He says many Governors are just as conservative as DeSantis, but they don’t get his publicity. Interesting. And then add to that the ghouls were behind him. Then suddenly, they’re not and he’s on our side anent Ukraine. It’s just too much coincidence to be coincidence I’m afriad.

    • BackRowHeckler March 20, 2023 at 5:42 pm #

      Meanwhile, in Paris, Mostly Peaceful Protesters are wrecking their Capital City and setting it on fire over the retirement age being raised from 62 to 64. It appears from video that most, but not all, of the people raising hell in the streets are young. Let me ask you, when you were 25, did you worry about what age you could retire at?

      Video from Moscow over Xi’s visit show an orderly, well kept city full of nicely dressed citizens going about their business. What a contrast!

      • Blackbird March 20, 2023 at 5:55 pm #

        “Let me ask you, when you were 25, did you worry about what age you could retire at?”

        No, but I should have.

        I expect that the minimum age to qualify for social security will keep rising, and I won’t live long enough to qualify.

        But at least the rich get to keep their money while the rest of us starve.

        Winning!

        Yes, the people of France should sit down, shut up, and eat shit. Just like we do here in the USSA.

        • BackRowHeckler March 20, 2023 at 7:32 pm #

          When the German Army, including an SS Division, occupied Paris in July, 1940, they were very careful to keep damage to a minimum. When the German army departed Paris in Aug., 1944, the they caused as little damage to the city was possible.

          In 2023, French and NAfrican mobs initiate widespread destruction of their Capital City over the age when you can retire.

          See any difference?

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:52 pm #

            Well said. We’ll make a National Socialist out of you yet.

          • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 10:07 am #

            I sympathize with the plight of citizens being fucked over by their government.

            I don’t sympathize with citizens destroying their country – or its infrastructure.

          • SpeedyBB March 25, 2023 at 1:44 am #

            I feel compelled to add that there was a phone call from Dolphy in Berlin yelling “Is Paris burning?”

            Luckily, his commanders disobeyed him.

      • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 7:01 pm #

        I’m un-retired.

        • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 7:05 pm #

          So for a while I can work like I did when I was 18 and live like I did when I was thirty. Do you want fries with that?

          I’m kidding. The job I have now is more big boxish.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

            You worked in IT and now you work at Target? Did you have a mini-breakdown?

            As Boxer said, I’m taking responsibility and I will work harder.

      • badberries March 20, 2023 at 10:20 pm #

        This time of year Moscow starts to wake up again, pretty faces peeking out from the fur lined hoods, a flash of thigh with each step. Orderly, polite, traditional, Cosmopolitan.

    • SoftStarLight March 21, 2023 at 2:15 am #

      Lol “Penguin Approved”! That is a good one! The subantarctic islands are very interesting and neat. I have never heard about the Air New Zealand crash before. How horrific!! That’s an interesting motto. My goodness how many things do you pack into one post lol!! I don’t eat a lot so I don’t think that is my source of mild insomnia but I could be wrong. Though I am feeling much more tired this evening or this morning lol. And some things I’ll leave to your imagination.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 4:25 pm #

        I sometimes have to pack more in if it’s a delay from another article’s comment threads.

        As for my music setup question to you, FWIW, I noticed that the older tunes, say 70’s or 80’s and earlier seem to be less dependent on the quality of the hardware to sound ok, whereas the newer and maybe especially the electronic tunes seem to need better equipment or they suffer worse.

        I have a laptop and Harmon/Kardon small ‘computer’ speakers attached that I got free from a garage sale that didn’t sell them, and a decent pair of Sony headphones at the grab if needed. The speakers sound boxy and hollowish compared with the headphones.

        As for my imagination, I had one where we lived in a rural house with a wraparound porch. When we couldn’t sleep, we’d place the speakers in the window sill of the window overlooking the part of the porch with the padded porch-swing bench. Then I’d go lie in it with my head in your lap, and vice-versa after about an hour or so, and with a book or laptop open to the constellations, learn and quiz each other on them, looking up into the crisp starlight within the added darkness of a rural night sky…

        Have you ever seen the night sky south of the equator? It seems to look different. I have, early one night on rollerblades near the Whanganui airport. But I didn’t and still don’t know much about how the sky differs there compared with here in Nova Scotia. In any case, the sky there was darker and the starlight more crisp and so the viewing was quite nice.

        • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 1:25 am #

          I guess you’re a real communicator huh lol. That’s a very interesting observation I suppose I haven’t necessarily noticed. I actually tend to be more attractive to oldies from the 70’s and 80’s. Like music had more spirit and heart and charisma in those days. It speaks to the heart. Music now is sometimes ok but there is a disconnect of some kind that I can’t quite put my finger on. Perhaps you understand without my saying more on that.

          I generally am using a tablet or simply my phone when I listen to music. I haven’t had a computer in several years now. I thought about getting a laptop last year but decided against it when I found a cute little keyboard accessory for my tablet. I guess it’s cute because it seems tiny but is such a functional little keyboard.

          Well. You’ve given that some thought haven’t you. It actually sounds. I really like stargazing. I don’t get a chance nowadays to just take time to do things like that so it would be nice. And of course it’s always fun to be able to see shooting stars as they enter their final fiery journeys through the atmosphere. And then there is the moon and planets.

          I haven’t really traveled a lot tbh. So, needless to say I’ve never been south of the equator lol. But if I were south of the Tropic of Capricorn I would like to see the Magellanic clouds. Have you ever heard of them? They are two dwarf galaxies that actually orbit our Milky way galaxy but of course we cannot see them here in the Northern hemisphere. I wonder if you could see them from New Zealand? Gosh I’ve always wanted to visit Nova Scotia too. I’ve heard that it is very beautiful and of course photos I have seen of the coasts are spectacular!

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 10:32 pm #

            I actually tend to be more attractive to oldies from the 70’s and 80’s.” ~ SoftStarLight

            ——

            Like what? Give me your top five, ten or twenty of yesteryear.

            ——

            Like music had more spirit and heart and charisma in those days. It speaks to the heart. Music now is sometimes ok but there is a disconnect of some kind that I can’t quite put my finger on. Perhaps you understand without my saying more on that.” ~ SoftStarLight

            ——

            I think I know what you mean. At the same time, though, perhaps its just that we have to find it elsehow, meaning online on our own time, rather than passively letting radio stations/record companies do so for us like in the past.

            Some ‘adults’ like to look down on some ‘kids’ but there are a lot of cool kids doing cool stuff, including music. They don’t appear busy with for example all this woke nonsense and are just doing their own thing.

            On occasion, when I have some time and inclination, I’ll go online– usually You Tube– and look for stuff I like. I’ll try to transcend cultures and language too, if not the contemporariness of the music (not yet at least). And usually, I’ll find a new artist or at least song or two I like enough to download and keep. WRT that, the kids doing their own thing, and a kind of post-80’s style, I found Drab Majesty for example. I don’t like or know all of their tunes but a handful I have kept and still enjoy to this day.

            What’s interesting is one of their tunes seems to speak about how they ‘feel out of sequence’ from the time in which they are living. They appear to be questioning. And that can be a good thing. The tune is called ‘Out Of Sequence’ and feels, looks and sounds very 80’s, at least some of the 80’s I knew.

            youtu . be/k5411duvNeE

            So some ‘kids’ are ‘alright’. The older generations seem also responsible for their predicaments, even for much of this woke crap. After all, they are our legacies.

            ——

            Shooting stars are cool and while I don’t go looking for them, I do catch them on the rare occasion.

            ——

            Magellanic clouds. Have you ever heard of them? They are two dwarf galaxies that actually orbit our Milky way galaxy but of course we cannot see them here in the Northern hemisphere. I wonder if you could see them from New Zealand?” ~ SoftStarLight

            ——

            Yes I’ve heard of the Magellanic Clouds and am now curious from where they can begin to be seen.

            Nova Scotia’s not bad for Canada– I’ve lived across it– and can be quite pretty. Even though I’ve done my share of winter sports and activities, my heart belongs to a still-warmer climate.

            Where are you and how do you like it?

  45. tom clark March 20, 2023 at 3:20 pm #

    WOKE: the result of getting up in the morning, pinching yourself, and realizing you are still alive, having taken one more step along the road to your own mortality.

    ,

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    • badberries March 20, 2023 at 10:23 pm #

      You want woke? Yesterday I was watching the free movie channel, the word “pussy-footing” was in the subtitles but the word “pussy” was X’d out, xxxxx-footing. I shit you not.

      • Disaffected March 21, 2023 at 8:14 am #

        LOL! That’s pretty good. I got scolded by my Xfinity voice command assistant a while back, when I responded loudly to repeated failed attempts to find a particular program with the command “Listen up motherfucker!” Poor little darling told me it would not respond to foul language, even though it actually did. Got a big laugh out of that. I know, I know, I’m old and crude and find humor in the oddest things.

        • badberries March 21, 2023 at 2:03 pm #

          A million years ago, whilst on a trip into deep Mexico, I made friends with a senior woman.

          She told me she was going to grow old, small and mean. I’m striving to that perfection.

          When friends ask how I’m doing, I tell ’em “evaporating slowly”.

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:09 am #

        Some people on YouTube have bleeped out the word “abuse.” I don’t get that, either.

        • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

          Maybe they consider it harmful to Democrats.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 6:09 pm #

            LOL!

        • badberries March 23, 2023 at 10:48 am #

          Yesterday I was again watching the free movie channel, -Tony Rome- w/ Sinatra.

          He was asking where she met her husband, she replied “I was cocktailing in New York”.

          Censors X’d out “cock” in the subtitles.

          • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

            But not ”tail”? How sexist! (Just kidding).

  46. The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 3:35 pm #

    Woke: ‘Equity, or else.’

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 3:37 pm #

      “Or else what?”

      “Ok we’re done!”

  47. Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 4:00 pm #

    Now this is a big effing deal:

    “BREAKING – Putin has just written off African countries debts, totalling over $20 billion in debt relief. He promised further mutually beneficial cooperation.

    Well now… shots fired (as they say)”

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1637858419213303809?cxt=HHwWgoC82b7j67otAAAA

    The multi-polar world can no longer be stopped.

    • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 6:10 pm #

      It’s not breaking, it’s from 2019:

      https://www.euronews.com/next/2019/10/30/russia-and-africa-working-towards-a-win-win-partnership

      • Night Owl March 20, 2023 at 6:40 pm #

        No. It isn’t. The post here is about the debt being written off.

        https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/moscow-wrote-off-more-than-20b-in-debts-from-african-states-russian-president-says/2851027

        • MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 6:56 pm #

          The same thing happened 4 years ago? I wonder why she decided to use the photo from 2019 for her Tweet. Odd.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 20, 2023 at 6:57 pm #

            Saves money.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 7:36 am #

            I do not understand the point. You made a connection between a photo appearing in an old article that was not referenced.

            Photos are reused all the time in publishing (and on Twitter). It shows reps from the states in question.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:08 am #

            No, I made a point that a similar story did come out in 2019, accompanied by that photo.

            So I am confused as to why this is a story again now.

            And why the Tweeter decided to use the old photo from the old article, which is the wrong photo for her Tweet.

            If you had taken journalism, as I have, then you would realize this is a mistake (to use the wrong photo, for the wrong story).

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 4:57 pm #

            I have a 25-year career in publishing, thanks.

            You can just admit that you were wrong.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 6:05 pm #

            Publishing is only one part of journalism. Apparently, you missed learning the tenets of journalism as it applies here in the US. Perhaps in Germany, it is different. I was not wrong.

            The Tweeter used the incorrect photo, one from a story from 2019, for her post.

            That is bad journalism and a mistake.

            You are incorrect.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 6:48 pm #

            Whatever makes you feel better.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 8:59 pm #

            I have a link to the rules of journalistic integrity, if you are interested in learning them. Then you can feel better, too!

          • Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 12:23 pm #

            You can provide as many printouts as you would like.

            Your orignal comment continues to make no sense.

    • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

      Maybe he needs Orc soldiers. The Allies used them against Germany in WW1. Turnabout is fair play.

  48. malthuss March 20, 2023 at 6:26 pm #

    J,

    Almost 10,000 people died in England and Wales in 2021 because their homes were too cold, according to the NHS.

    IN USA in 1930s the depression and gov ineptitude to get USA
    out of it cost 5,000,000 lives some historians note.

    • K-Chien March 20, 2023 at 7:06 pm #

      cold facts indeed

    • Jarek March 20, 2023 at 7:48 pm #

      Alexandra responded: Yes, it’s unfortunate – language that indicated her almost complete lack of interest. No inner life. Enthusiasm and attention must be elicited from outside, by the media so as to have an emotional group experience in unison.

      • malthuss March 20, 2023 at 10:17 pm #

        I went to thelibrary..the lefty books. gosh.

        ‘Raising anti racist children’.

        its been black month an wimmens month so the displays pushed these themes.

  49. MaryQueen March 20, 2023 at 6:53 pm #

    Some Doctor named Hotze got kicked out of congressional hearings about the trans stuff because he wouldn’t quit calling them perverts and pedophiles. He said any adult who sexualizes a child is a pedo and pervert.

    I agree! I wonder how many others did, too? We don’t know, because a Democrat Wokie excused him from his testimony.

    Clown World.

  50. kbird March 21, 2023 at 12:59 am #

    OMG Mary, I”ll try to break it down as there seems to be a communicatin issue here going on.

    1. You consistently vilify all Democrats as Pedophiles. Which is the main belief of the Qanon cult.

    2. The gross fake stories above that Matthus and Paula D were talking about, which are Qanon fake stories,(which are dangerous) you also seem to entertain the idea that it is true.

    3. I said, fake stories like that takes away from the Real kids that are being trafficked or abused, it takes the focus off of them and onto these gross untrue claims. That fake wayfair trafficking story literally took time away from saving real children while they waisted time with the bogus wayfair qanon story.

    4. Yes, thank you, I have heard of google and I’ve seen the long list you are talking about. Of course Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Liberals, gay, straight, bi, trans, so called celibate priests, they all have done terrible things to children.

    5. When I state it’s not a partisan issue, it’s not!! Who cares what party someone belongs that is a pedophile, that’s aside the point. There’s bad people in every party, every religion, everywehre, so it doesn’t matter, stop distracting with making it a partisan issue. It’s everyone. We essentially agree on the same thing, but you would rather go down in flames and fight me tooth and nail before ever agreeing on even a tiny point with me.

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    • SoftStarLight March 21, 2023 at 1:52 am #

      Personally, once I hear Qanon I interpret the situation as hostile. Perhaps this is your error? I was never really per se a big Qanon person but that page was pretty cray cray so I do admit to following it loosely. You are coming from a place of limited knowledge on that matter just so you know. Q, the anon Q, not CFN Q, was very clear in asserting that the global Satanic pedophile death and genocide cult is maybe the most bipartisan outfit in all the land. So that strikes 1. But it is true that the Democrat Party by and large supports drag queen story hours. I’m actually the most liberal person who posts here and you are never going to be able to convince me of the utility of drag queens reading bed time stories to kids while twerking. It’s savage and detestable. And that’s a real story for you. Republicans by and large are opposed to it but they don’t do a great job in stopping it. I would find it really hard to imagine anyone here supporting that so you would have agreement with the room on that. But to certain degrees it has in fact become a partisan issue. So there’s my two cents in a paragraph.

      • Q. Shtik March 21, 2023 at 12:34 pm #

        Q, the anon Q, not CFN Q, – SSL

        ==========

        Thank God! I’m off the hook.

        • kbird March 21, 2023 at 8:56 pm #

          LOL, You’re in the clear Q! 🙂

        • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 1:31 am #

          Don’t get too comfy Q. You are never really off the hook so be sure to stay on them big toes lol 😉

    • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 5:52 am #

      I realize you are a troll, but when one has Joe Biden on film in the Senate groping the breast buds and sniffing the hair of little girls, making inappropriate comments, kissing them and letting his old hands run wild, then I realize there is not much you can respond with.

      Paula D. is not a particularly critical thinker, hence why she was sure Clinton wore the flayed skin of a child on her face — providing, as so often, no hard evidence.

      These kinds of stories however are not far removed from stories that we know to be true, such as the one about Joe Biden above; or the stories from Joe Biden’s family members taken from diaries leaked to the public; or the photos of Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden engaged in sexual activity (which I have posted); and, finally, stories that should be looked into based on circumstantial evidence, such as the Alefantis/Podesta-linked pedo ring, brought into public view via information from Wikileaks, Alefantis’s own social media posts, and John and Tony Podesta’s occult beliefs and pedophilic art collections.

      You are a flaccid penis, my friend.

      • Islander March 21, 2023 at 10:54 am #

        I must say, I agree with all you say.

        Bad money drives out good.

        Bad ideas drive out good ones.

        By which, in the context, I mean that a genuine investigation of the Podesta situation might have preempted the wild “flayed skin on face” stories.

        • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:11 am #

          Yes, it would have helped. But there was no way that was going to happen.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:19 am #

            “Yes, the worst part was them skinning her face off (this was an 8 y.o girl) and dancing around with it on their faces.

            I did not know that about Ellen. That is horrifying.”

            LOL.

            Will she show up calling me a piece of shit and a troll again?

            Let us not forget that this behavior stems from a simple request that she prove California is overpopulated.

            Perhaps Professor Rulo will step in again

            Will have the answer for us after 3 months?

            So many questions.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 1:02 pm #

            Paula is a true believing Communist – which means she is adept at avoiding facts and large aspects of reality in general. Like the fact the Putin has no interest in Communism, quietly eschewing it so as to not offend the millions of Russians who still harbor warm feelings for this shit.

          • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 1:29 pm #

            quietly eschewing it – Jarek

            ===========

            ^This^ is what Spanish speaking people do to their food and gum. They eschew it.

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:02 am #

        To be fair, someone else brought up ‘frazzle drip’ and Paula said she could see how it could be true.

        I could as well, given I spent a couple of years reading survivor stories of trafficked women (who were children at the time). They’ve reported horrific stuff.

        • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:20 am #

          See above.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:46 am #

            See what above?

            BTW, I don’t agree with you that Paula is not a critical thinker just because you don’t agree with her.

            People have provided ample examples of why they believe the earth or portions of it are overpopulated.

            Asking for definitive proof and jeering at them if they can’t provide it is childish. No one can prove it definitely one way or the other.

            I think gus, Rulo, Paula and I understand this, but you do not.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 12:32 pm #

            I actually did provide proof, in the form of actual population numbers and the effects it has had on LA and California.
            He simply ignored it and chanted his little phrase again.
            Apparently he thinks that chanting “Prove it. I’ll wait” is what makes one a “critical thinker”.

            He can just fuck right off. I’m not wasting any time trying to communicate with a one phrase pony.

          • badberries March 21, 2023 at 2:08 pm #

            Anybody who has transited the slums of Mumbai will agree they are horribly over-populated, filthy, disease ridden and breeding like rabbits.

            Millions of inhabitants living in each others shit.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 3:01 pm #

            He mostly attacks women, badberries, so he most likely will not demand that you “prove” that Mumbai is overpopulated.

            I, however, agree with you.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 4:55 pm #

            She provided proof that the state of California is overpopulated.

            We just can’t see this proof.

            And if you ask for it, you are insulted and refused access to this mysterious proof.

            Just another day with Paula D.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 4:58 pm #

            Yes, Mary. So she did say what I said she did.

            Life is so easy when one tells the truth.

            😀

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 8:58 pm #

            The babyish games continue.

            😀

          • Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 12:22 pm #

            What games?

            I pointed out that you lied.

          • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

            Mary is always lying. Whether she knows it or not is another question. Is it a lie if the person doesn’t know?

            Which is worse: Conscious lying or having absolutely no center?

            Tucker did a piece about a female politician in San Francisco who was raving about getting rid of the cops two years ago. The force was greatly defunded and reduced. Naturally, crime soared. Now she is raving about how the people have been betrayed by City when they cut the police force. No apology or explanation. Does she even remember being for the reduction?

          • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 7:25 pm #

            What have I lied about? Try harder, N.O.

            You’re not in good form this week.

        • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

          She only reads the stories of women and girls, never men and boys. Interesting.

    • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 8:55 am #

      @kbird:

      It is probably true that there is little difference between political parties, when it comes to pedophilia and other perversions. I think we can assume that almost all politicians of both parties…ahem…partake.

      However, liberals are actually in favor of perversions, the grooming of children in schools, the promotion of assorted perversions, DEI and the related affirmative action, and a race-based and sexual-orientation-based approach to hiring, promotion, and school admissions, as distinct from a merit-based approach.

      Conservatives are against these things.

      It’s a given that there is not much difference between politicians. But among regular people, the liberals are the promoters of perversions and racism in all areas.

      Liberals are also the promoters of all agendas that strip people of their rights. They are the promoters of covid restrictions and vaccine mandates. If something is straight-up evil–as, for example, abortion–liberals are invariably 100% behind it. So you could say that they are bad people.

      • kbird March 21, 2023 at 10:46 am #

        First of all, this wasn’t even a response to Mary’s post above, it was to an earlier thread much farther up and in error I posted down here.

        Anthea, you are wrong. What you are describing, is a minority of the liberals. You could say I’m liberal, in no way would I let my children go to a drag show much less a strip club, they seem to me like the same thing. I don’t have any liberal friends that would take their kids to drag shows. You are blind in your righteousness about Conservatives, plenty of perverts among them. You have all missed the point which was sex trafficking, pedophelia and all is not a partisan issue. There’s no reason to even bring up the party except for to divide which is the tactic of the GOP now. GOP is now the party of Hate. Hate: it’s destructiive, more important, it’s highly contagious. Which is why the Republicans are using hate itself — raw hate —as a weapon against their political opposition, the Democratic Party and the people it embraces.

        It’s a deadly game they’re playing, and they know it. The last time a “major world power” western nation’s largest conservative political party embraced hate as a political strategy was 1933 in Germany, and we all know how that ended.

        Three days before John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president in January 1960, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his farewell address to the nation. While its most famous part was his warning about “unwarranted influence” from “the military-industrial complex,” the old warhorse spent much of his speech calling out those using hate and fear as political weapons:

        “Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. … May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation’s great goals.”

        • kbird March 21, 2023 at 10:52 am #

          UGH, Apologies, hit submit before I was done.
          Here is the rest of the speech.

          “We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.”

          Those were literally Eisenhower’s last words to the nation as president. The man who’d stopped Hitler’s murderous machine prayed in public for tolerance, love, and mutual respect.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 12:40 pm #

            It is actually the Democrats who are sowing hate, fear and division.
            The CRT agenda is teaching little children to hate each other based on the color of their skin.

            It is teaching little children that white people are born evil. Like the Qanon cult, it is a lot like religion, but in this CRT religion there is no forgiveness or redemption possible, only endless self-flagellation.

            Why would anyone do this? Because this is how you destroy a country.
            Our ruling overlords are good at divide and conquer. Look what they did in Iraq and Yugoslavia.
            Both countries had lived in internal peace for decades, but then the US went into them and stirred up religious hatred. They did the same thing in Syria.

            In Ukraine, they used banderism to stir up hate.

            In Somalia, they are using clans.

            In the US, they are using race. But it’s the same phenomenon in every country. Divide and conquer.

            I answered your Qanon thing upthread, but I will repeat that no one thinks (including Qanon) that child trafficking and abuse is strictly a Democrat thing. That is a red herring.
            Dick Cheney is one of the worst.

            But it is the liberals who are taught to cover their ears and eyes and chant “I do not want to hear any evidence because…..Qanon!”

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 1:16 pm #

            “They” are using clans? As if clans aren’t a natural occurring social structure? And a warlike one with in many such cultures – the old Scottish being another example. In other words, as if they wouldn’t be warring anyway without our interference? That’s not to say we might not be using this natural phenomena, as we use gas and electricity.

            Race is real too, Puala.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 1:23 pm #

            No, Jarek, the clans were not warring. It was a deliberate policy to set people against each other.

            Somalia has one race, one tribe, one religion, basically, so they couldn’t use the usual divisions.
            So they used the clans.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

            Paula and Mary,

            If you care about sex trafficking, than you should read this article.

            ://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/on-wayfair-and-viral-conspiracy-theories-about-sex-trafficking/

            “Share responsibly-sourced information. Parents, educators, health professionals, and law enforcement need to become educated on signs of trafficking rather than viral hoaxes.”

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 4:45 pm #

            Kbird? I am way ahead of you, having been aware of this since early 2000s.

            Glad you are getting on board.

            I guess we can call you a Qanon Trumper then.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 6:03 pm #

            Paula: Doubt it. The Scottish Clans were all of one race and culture but still fought. Ditto the great Houses of England at times. Ditto American gangs or Italian maffias.

            You really are a silly little thing.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 8:56 pm #

            You just agreed with Paula, Jar Jar.

            She is correct about clans being set against each other when countrymen are the same culturally.

          • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

            Mary: As if they didn’t fight on their own without being “set against each other”? As if the Indians were peaceful before we got here? You believe that too, right?

            Silly little thing who thinks we’re uniquely evil.

        • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:04 am #

          Nope.

          The MAJORITY if not ALL liberals and Dems support all of these new pro-trans and LGBTQ++ policies.

          Show me one that doesn’t. That’s your task for today. Find one on social media who opposes this – and says so publicly.

          Or just STFU, and stop wasting everyone’s time.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:23 am #

            Mary you fucking moron, I DONT SUPPORT THOSE POLICIES, I’ve said so numerous times on here and I am a Dem. SO fuck off.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:42 am #

            Oh here comes the explosive anger. That comes from the discomfort that cognitive dissonance brings.

            You are here representing your Blue Tribe, and then have the nerve to try to accuse us of being in a Qanon cult when you are the only one actually in a cult and mired in their crazy-thought.

            And now you are angry at some of the things said cult is doing, even after constantly pushing their agenda yourself. Hilarious.

            You are one confused little monkey.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 1:19 pm #

            k: She’s right. This is what your party believes now. Incredible but true.

            I grew up in the Kennedy cult.
            My people were UNION. It’s hard to believe the downward spiral, both its swiftness and extent.

            Of course things were always less rosy than they appeared. Just watched De Niro’s “The Irishman” about some of seamier sides of all that.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 5:39 pm #

            kbird, it’s best to shirk State politics and simply go with anarchy.

            It’s a superpower.

            And that way you’re less likely to have yourself grated for your delightful zest that someone like myself would kill to have in the kitchen.

            Besides and FWIW, aside from left and right having had much of their meanings corrupted, I’ve also heard that the American State political system is more or less just one party pretending its two.

            I think Chris Hedges calls it inverted totalitarianism.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 5:54 pm #

            The man they call Zazelle,
            Good point:)

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 6:33 pm #

            ‘u’

        • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 5:21 pm #

          Do you actually believe that Republicans have adopted hate as a strategy and Dems have not?

          That’s just mind-blowing.

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:03 am #

        Thank you and well said.

        Kbird has no ability to self-reflect or cares to investigate what his own party or tribe actually stands for.

        • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 3:04 pm #

          She is female. But yeah, pretty tribal, except for the trans thing.

          I think the trannies have gone so far that even the staunchest liberals are starting to notice.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 4:54 pm #

            I thought it was Cargill.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 5:44 pm #

            She is female.” ~ Paula D

            ——

            A zesty woman’s place is in Zaz’s kitchen. 😀

            “Pass the vanilla extract please.”

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

            SoftStar Light, your man is flirting with other women!

          • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 1:39 am #

            No worries Paula, he’s just being fresh. He knows where his milk and honey are kept.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 3:00 am #

            Sometimes it’s best to just keep quiet and, for example, say nothing about the king-size inflatable camping mattress inside the tent in the middle of the living-room.

      • JohnAZ March 21, 2023 at 11:27 am #

        Conservatives are,

        Believers in individual responsibility, freedom and liberty are results of people that take responsibility for their own lives.

        Believers in capitalism. They want to reap the benefits of their own ambitions. They do not want idiots in a government telling them what to do and how to act. They believe that the government exists to serve the people. This is where RINOs fail as conservatives.

        Believers in true capitalism where outcomes are the result of talent and merit. The oppose crony capitalism where government agencies favor corporate monopolization. A full slate of small, medium and large companies are necessary for economic health, not a bunch of “too big to fail” corporations. Entropy.

        Believers that our government now operates back asswards, they try to control stuff they should not be involved in, welfare, education, and do not do what is their constitutional duties.

        Believers in social order dictated by the Law and God, not deviancy in all ways possible. Deviants can be tolerated but not encouraged, and definitely not in positions to influence children.

        Liberals are,

        Believers in government control, that wisdom resides in central power and people are too dumb to govern them selves.

        Believers that everyone else is to blame for social disorder and problems. Their divide and conquer methods are seated in this belief. They are never wrong, and do not try to tell them they are wrong.

        Believers in emotion as the means for their decision making, never paying attention to true science. Covid is just the latest.

        Believers in ethnocentricity, much more than conservatives. Everything they do is based on skin color, ethnicity, or gender instead of talent. The result is a group of incompetent managers in a presidential cabinet. Reverse discrimination and resultant reverse racism are direct results of liberal policies.

        Believers in politics as number one. Newsom is stuck right now, having to support a stupid reparations bill now to maintain the Black base. So the California economic situation goes down the drain.

        Believers in the law as driven by individual power people instead of the Constitution. Constantly trying to get around the law of the land to get their ends. The ends justify the means, no matter how stupid.

        Believers in rallying themes to drive issues. Think Covid, or climate change, or deviancy.
        They ignore the real responsibility of government in order to favor social issues to deepen their power base. Even the vote of Americans is for sale with these folks.

        Liberals never go away, they keep coming and coming. They have stopped the government pendulum swinging back and forth between conservative and liberal to maintain balance in favor of Uniparty control. Two liberal presidents, Bush and Bush has allowed this to happen. Trump was outgunned and outnumbered, too late.

        So we end up with Biden, whose boss, Obama called incompetent. It is no wonder we have descended into purgatory.

        Our current Deep State has less true conservatives than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since the advent of the liberal control of the country, our country has been going down the drain. Biden is the worst, replacing Carter as the most liberally motivated president.

        The real wonder is the descent of the American people into liberal, big government thinking. That is the greatest victory of the liberal movement in the US.

        • JohnAZ March 21, 2023 at 11:33 am #

          Jesus preached individual responsibility was critical in our relationship with God. Each of us are responsible for our own behavior. He said each of us owes dedication to the state, Caesar, and to God as individuals.

          No wonder the Libs want to destroy Christianity.

        • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:36 am #

          Johnaz, I have a question for you, would you consider yourself, an American Patriot? I’ve seen many conservatives who want the Pledge of Allegiance brought back to schools, is that also something you agree with? I don’t need a long story, just those two questions please.

          • JohnAZ March 21, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

            Yes! A 20th century American Patriot.

            Stand and hold my heart for the pledge AND the national anthem. Kids need to learn allegiance to this country.

            The same question back at you, do you think America is your country? I think not. Would you pledge allegiance to her?

            It wounds me to see people like you who do not feel affiliation and affection for America. BTW, who are you loyal to, yourself only?

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 2:26 pm #

            Johnaz,

            I love the Pledge of Allegiance, Here, lets look at it together!!

            “I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS; ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”

            John, where you get off saying I don’t love America is bullshit. Just because I’m not a Conservative doesn’t mean I don’t love America. I’m actually surprised you are a lover of the Pledge. Do you just hold your nose about the “Indivisible” part? Seeing as “Indivisible” means unable to be divided or separated: You want the states to separate, I wouldn’t call that being in line with the Pledge of Allegiance. I proudly stand with my hand over my heart at any opportunity to the Pledge of Allegiance or National Anthem.. The majority of America is not Conservative nor is it Liberal. It’s in the middle. And you anyone who isn’t like you, a hard core Conservative, doesn’t love America.

          • kbird March 22, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

            Crickets from Johnaz on the above…Come on John, very curious about this… maybe you have a different interpretation of the Pledge of Allegiance?

          • kbird March 22, 2023 at 4:36 pm #

            Johnaz will never respond to my comment as he knows I’m right.
            Talking about seceding from the United States from one side of your mouth while touting your patriotism with the other side is like calling for bipartisanship after saying, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

            We hear about bipartisanship all the time. If only we had more of that, our society wouldn’t be so messed up. The problem is that you can’t ask for bipartisanship and threaten to leave the country at the same time. That isn’t collaboration, it isn’t cooperation, and instead it’s giving an ultimatum. It’s “my way or the highway” politics.

          • kbird March 22, 2023 at 5:10 pm #

            PINO, Patriot in name only Johnaz

          • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 5:33 pm #

            I just discovered today, from this article, which appeared unsolicited in the corner of my screen, that you guys used to pledge allegiance with the salute that was adopted by the Nazis. I never knew that before.

            truthcomestolight.com/the-evil-intent-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

            When I look at these photos, which I’ve never seen before, they don’t look any less shocking than the equivalent photos from Nazi Germany.

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

            I can’t imagine pledging allegiance to a flag. Or a nation-state. Especially one that has done what the US and the UK nation states have done over the years.

            I’ll keep my allegiances for higher things, thanks.

        • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 1:25 pm #

          Cooperation is stronger. In natural Capitalist society, most men will never marry since the women want to get with the winners. But Christianity mediated that, saying no sex outside of marriage – at least for women. And one man, one wife.

          The old Capitalist America you love was very influenced by something utterly opposed to Capitalism – namely Christianity.

          Big Man culture insures a tremendous loss of genetic potential. Over time, the culture is weakened. In the short term, many or most men aren’t very committed since they have no stake in it.

          As the old Alchemists said, Nature (in this case, Capitalism) unaided, fails.

          • JohnAZ March 21, 2023 at 2:10 pm #

            You forget, not all women are movie stars and will not be going for “the winners”.

            Paul did not say women only, men are included in his restrictions on sex.

            Jesus never really said much about economies, only that rich folks have a hard time getting into the Kingdom because they treasure gold more than God and that more fortunate folks owe charity to less fortunate. He taught individualism, it is the responsibility of every human to share with the less fortunate.

            You are right on Big man, the greatest weakness of a socialistic or totalitarian society is too few minds working the problems. Look at Putin, he cannot find a capable general to fight in Ukraine, this fiasco should have been over six months ago.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 3:07 pm #

            I thought you said that some woman at work was making eyes at you, Jarek.
            But you didn’t like her. Why not? She didn’t make enough money?

            Anyway, you disproved your theory by telling us that story.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 6:09 pm #

            You’re an idiot, Paula. Why do I have to like every woman who likes me? She’s married and feeling restless. I’m not a good catch in any case. Neither is she.

            Men want beauty and youth. Women want money. Neither stance is saintly, but men don’t care about women’s money for the most part. But women care deeply about men’s. One sex advances by means of the other, the lesser one.

          • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 6:14 pm #

            Christianity is not at all opposed to capitalism–which is essentially where you do work to make a contribution to society, providing for the needs and wants of others. They pay you, out of the proceeds of the work they have likewise contributed. Another thing Jesus said is, “The workman is worthy of his hire.”

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 7:56 pm #

            In its essence, it is. Of course you have no interest in that essence, do you?

            My Kingdom is not of this world.

            What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?

            Love of money is the root of all evil.

            Jarek: Do they love money, Anthea? Oh they do. Does that get in the way of the love of their fellow man, little one? Oh it does.

            Scrooge: You were always a good man of business, Jacob.

            Marley: Mankind was my business!

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 8:02 pm #

            The Church rejects Communism because it is natural for men to own things, especially the things that allow them to make a living. Such decentralization is an important check against State power.

            But the rejection of Communism is by no means a rejection of all aspects of Socialism or collectivism – especially decentralized ones. And emphatically, it is by no means an acceptance of Corporate Capitalism.

            Again, all at the relative, worldly level – which neither Christ nor the Church despise. But the deeper Truth? We don’t own anything, no, not even our bodies. Did I say bodies? I meant to say that we don’t even own ourselves. Who does?

            He does.

          • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 8:06 pm #

            You got that right, John. Not only are they all not movie stars, but the peak very early. Nay more: Even the plain ones radically overestimate their own charms. There needs to be a culture of women who talk sense into girls from a very early age – getting their feet on the ground and letting them know where the really stand in terms of SMV – sexual market value. And which local man or men they can reasonably hope to get.

          • Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

            Jarek there is some truth to what you say, harsh as it may be.

            I can also vouch that, on average, European women tend to be different.

            I have lost track of the number of 9s and 10s in the looks department that are down to earth, straightforward about their intentions, and can change a car tire if necessary.

            American women on the whole are a different breed. Particularly in cities.

          • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 5:39 pm #

            NO – My favourite gorgeous-looking European woman of the moment is Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

            She doesn’t let being gorgeous get in the way of being a freedom fighter.

    • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:00 am #

      1. Nope (all in your head). I simply point out that Dems and libs are the only ones pushing the trans agenda, which includes pedophilia. And so they are.

      2. Entertaining something as might be true doesn’t mean I absolutely am sure it’s true. Maybe read for comprehension. I said since Clinton trafficks kids (proven), it’s not such a stretch that she would torture ’em too.

      3. No one was talking about Wayfair. But I’d love to see proof that people on social media talking about Wayfair took away from actual investigations on child trafficking. What a completely fallacious claim.

      4. Agree. So, why are you still pretending I am not an equal-opportunity accuser?

      5. Again: Dem/Libs are the only ones pushing (and pushing HARD) the pedophile agenda. Which is the trans agenda. Maybe look into MIPs. LibsOfTikTOk has exposed countless videos, and Redux.info has reported countless instances of these things, including drag queens who have been busted for trafficking & kiddie porn. I have been involved in fighting it for 5 years so I know. Would you like me to steer you toward some good videos of TRA/Antifa attacking women for calling for the end of mastectomies and sterilization of children? I can do that if you like. Would you like to see the arguments at city halls and school board meetings of parents up in arms about their policies of allowing boys into the girls’ restrooms, despite the rapes that have occurred because of said rules? There are no conservatives or Republicans supporting the trans stuff. None. That is a fact. YOUR side is pushing it.

      Conclusion: The only one going down in flames is you. As usual.

      • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:09 am #

        Maryq,

        More fear pushing, Your quote above ” Dem/Libs are the only ones pushing (and pushing HARD) the pedophile agenda.”

        There is no fucking pedophile agenda, keep fear mongering Mary, that is all you are good at.

        • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:13 am #

          Have you located the Pee-Pee Tapes, yet Kbird?

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:26 am #

            NightOwl, speaking of perverts, I’m sure you are the pervert here. I’ve never once spoken about those tapes, yet you continually bring them up, not just to me, i’ve seen you say that many times…Why are you so interested in the tapes? And your description of Joe Biden and his daughter was so detailed you sick fuck, you enjoyed writing it you pervert. Now go away and hate masterbate you sick troll.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:29 am #

            You had better hurry up.

            It would appear the “Manchurian Candidate” is preparing to run for office again.

            We continue to await the fruits of your investigation.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:31 am #

            And I wonder if he wants to discuss Bill Clinton’s 26 trips on the Lolita Express as well.

        • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:31 am #

          Then why are schools adopting actual bathroom policies? And why do all universities (Dem/lib led) and corporations all have rainbow logos and mandatory mission statements which include inclusion?

          I eagerly await your reply.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:44 am #

            I’m in agreement about Bill Clinton. you just don’t get it do you Mary. You only want to divide by party. You put all dems in your little sick box to push your agenda of hate and division. You can’t even comprehend what I’ve said, you are so focused on being right and vilifying all democrats.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:49 am #

            Nope.

            You continually argue liberal bollocks positions and agendas here.

            Now you are back-pedaling. It’s truly a thing of beauty!

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:55 am #

            Quit gaslighting Mary, I have never pushed agendas on here. No back-pedaling here. I’ve always been a Moderate Dem, but socially liberal in regards to gay marriage. Any extreme is bad, Alt Right Republicans and Far left Democrats…there has to be a middle ground.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 3:40 pm #

            What is the calling people Qanon business when we point out corruption (trafficking) by Democrats?

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 5:15 pm #

            Maryq,

            “What is the calling people Qanon business when we point out corruption (trafficking) by Democrats?”

            Because those are fake stories, the face story is fake, the wayfair story is fake, Pizzagate was fake..those are all fake qanon trafficking stories.

            Hell yes there are Democrats who are trafficking, and I’ll stand with you in calling those out, but not viral hoaxes that distract from real stories…..Epstein, Weinstein, Weiner, Mayor Deblasio just to name a few Dems. There are also numerous Republicans, and my entire point of all of this was it’s a major systemic problem and I believe it is not a political issue. We should all stand TOGETHER to fight this.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 5:27 pm #

            None of those trafficking stories were fake, except to people who ingest CNN 24/7.

            Just because people who believe Qanon believe something doesn’t make it untrue, even to those who don’t follow Qanon. This is normal thinking to normal unculted people. There are millions of people who know about pizzagate (true) and other trafficking, but are shut up by the people you support: Democrats and liberals.

            You remain brain damaged by the Blue Cult.

            Good luck with that.

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 5:37 pm #

            MaryQ agrees, she is a qanon follower. Thanks for finally admitting that!! Good for you, that’s the first step!

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 5:47 pm #

            Holy shit it’s zesty today!

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 5:49 pm #

            Maryq I can’t stop laughing. You believe the Wayfair story, you just said so, which means you believe they shipped young girls inside large pieces of furniture like cabinets etc… LOL, you’ll believe anything!

          • kbird March 21, 2023 at 5:51 pm #

            Hi The Man they call Zazelle!
            Care to chime in? Or just entertained with the comments:)

            I was curious about your name, is there a story to that?

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 6:00 pm #

            The babyish taunts in lieu of any substantive offerings continue.

            Duly noted.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 6:38 pm #

            @kbird, I’m going on a bike ride to work off my impending fat, but should be back later, either tonight or tomorrow.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 3:41 am #

            “Hi The Man they call Zazelle!
            Care to chime in? Or just entertained with the comments:)

            I was curious about your name, is there a story to that?” ~ kbird

            ——

            I did sort of chime in elsewhere…

            As for the nickname, it’s a kind of tongue-in-cheek critique of the whole hypnotic politicization of sex and/or gender (among other political exploits). Regarding part of the inspiration for the name and the hypnotism:

            Peter Reveen is an Australian entertainer who spent five decades touring Canada, including hundreds of performances in Calgary. His earworm jingle ‘The Man they Call Reveen’ became well-recognized across the country and inspired parodies on Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, as well as a running joke on The Trailer Park Boys.1 In 1987 he was featured in an ASN (Nova Scotia) commercial about a hypnotist robotically drone ‘It was much better than CATS’.” ~ Brave Search Summarizer

            In a longer version of the commercial, you could see people, apparently hypnotized, acting weird/nutty/wacky on stage. Here’s a clip of the short version:

            youtu . be/De2VofmCrv8

        • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:34 am #

          I’ve already said I can provide the proof. Are you not interested? Why would that be?

          Hmmmm.

        • benr March 23, 2023 at 9:30 am #

          The idiot pops his demented head back in for a chirp.
          I don’t see any Republicans pushing the sick demented and twisted nonsense the Dems all appear to support.

      • kbird March 21, 2023 at 11:40 am #

        More lies from Maryq, fearmongering the Dems, taking the bad apples and saying it’s everyone.

        • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

          And that’s all you’re left with, after your Hindenberg-level crash.

          😀

        • JohnAZ March 21, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

          I am on Mary’s side on this one. The liberals, Dems, in The Deep State have corrupted national politics far too long. I know of two Dems that are worth a damn. Manchin and Sinema have had a heck of a time corralling the Mob in the WH. Two! The rest are woke, progressive followers of Sanders and his progressive gang.

          Kbird, how much more are you willing to pay in taxes to your saints in DC to support all the spending?

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 7:08 pm #

            Sinema was in Davos.

          • JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 11:54 am #

            So? So was Trump, once.

          • Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 12:21 pm #

            Yes, John. Trump gave a speech claiming he was not going along with the Davos agenda.

            Why was Sinema there?

    • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 8:08 pm #

      Hilary Clinton was caught on camera laughing at the brutal death by sodomy with a bayonet of Ghaddafi. “We came, we saw, he died”.

      But it is outrageous to think that she is capable of brutality!

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 8:53 pm #

        Right?

        Massive psycho, demonstrated it time and time again.

        Also ignored (but which Dore’s sidekick brought up in the episode I linked below) is Laura Silsby’s arrest when she was caught trying to traffick Haitian kids for the Clintons.

        And they got her out, and now she sits on the Amber Alert board. You can’t make this shit up.

  51. SoftStarLight March 21, 2023 at 1:29 am #

    Yes, definitely a lot of things must stop. And with the onset of the Spring Equinox the unraveling is feeling tangible and palpable. At the moment the tilt of the Earth is neither toward nor away from the Sun. Of course that is already shifting a bit but you could say we are still within that momentous window of time. This should be a moment of balance, moderation, appropriate restraint and mild reverence. Some powers and some individuals are demonstrating those characteristics and traits. See who they are. And who is unbalanced and unhinged and intemperate. And as the poles shift in the procession of the seasons so too do the centers of power in the realm of men.

    • Anthea March 21, 2023 at 8:58 am #

      @ SoftStarLight:

      I just wish it would quit raining. The garden needs to be tilled and planted, and some of my seedlings are about a foot tall.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 5:51 pm #

        What about no-till gardening to ostensibly maintain the microfauna/flora better and expose it less to the sun and external-to-the-soil elements?

      • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 1:52 am #

        I’m struggling with grass and clovers in the flower beds right now. We also had a surprise late season freeze yesterday morning which burned my amaryllis but they were certainly gorgeous for their short little lives. I am watering two bald cypress trees that I planted in February daily at the moment because we are not getting rain. Looks like that may change next week. Perhaps you’ll have a shift as well to drier weather!

    • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:05 am #

      Our first day of spring, and I wake up to a winter wonderland!

      It’s OK though, it will be melted by the end of the day, and sunny.

      Happy Spring, everyone!

      • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 1:55 am #

        Happy Spring! Yes, we had a freeze with morning frost yesterday to start off Spring which was very interesting. But we are already on a warming trend too. Looking forward to seeing the Sun a lot more lol!

  52. perla March 21, 2023 at 6:43 am #

    “D” Stands for Deficit!

  53. Islander March 21, 2023 at 10:29 am #

    On the ICC nonsense/travesty, my Moscow friend has this to say:

    “Privyet,,

    The ICC’s warrant could be initiated by the very influential pedophile lobby (and supported by Deep State). The official reason is that the Ukrainian children were deported, although P could be charged for many other “cases”.

    In fact, these children were saved from bombing by the Ukrainian army forces or from selling them to pimps or homosexual “families” in the West. Slave trade of homeless children from eastern Europe and other poor countries is a disgusting reality of modern life.

    Zelensky called the ICC’s decision “historic” and he is not far from truth because this can be the step towards legalization of pedophilia, which is very popular among the western elite including politicians and rich people.

    Kakaya eto gadost’! Kakie vse oni gadkie lyudi!

    Regardless of personal sexual preferences of mister Scholz, he looks as a political prostitute ready to fulfill any command or as a slug. A sort of political slug. This has become a model of behavior of European top politicians, which is ideal for their masters. “

  54. MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 10:49 am #

    Matt Walsh:

    The Unintentional Irony Of This Clip Is Astonishing

    A group of drag queens got together to discuss their concerns on appropriation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8FSCpAVCgY

    Just amazing. I wonder if the PTB who push this are laughing their asses off.

    • Islander March 21, 2023 at 11:05 am #

      Perfect.

      I mean, perfect example of the Age of Mindfuckery in which we find ourselves.

      I feel like . . . like . . . like [pant pant] grabbing these freaks by their throats and ripping off their wigs, their lashes, their fake boobs, their horrific jewelry, their fake nails, thier ridiculous outfits and putting it all in pile, defecating on it, and then bashing them with their spike heels before burying them in the pile, then pouring a barrel of Mafiosi acid over the whole thing . . .

      Whoops, sorry, that wasn’t nice and inclusive of me, was it????? [slinks away ha ha]

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:20 am #

        What was funniest to me was Walsh’s comments on the severed baby heads adorning that “dress.” He’s right: Women don’t dress like that. It’s their exaggerated and ridiculous version of women. And that’s not appropriation?

        I like your reaction but here would be mine:

        Put on black face and a minstrel show get-up and go strolling into that studio twirling a cane. Think they would get it?

        • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:42 am #

          In that vein, when I first moved to Germany many years ago, a big trend amongst those in our lefty circle of friends at the time was to have dread locks and be into Reggae.

          I commented on various occasions how bizarre it was to see whites with dreads everywhere, putting them up in one of those knitted hats, etc.

          Man did that piss them off. Not sure how many of them are wokesters these days, given these kinds of skeletons in the closet.

          😀

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 12:17 pm #

            Hilarious. I remember that eye-roll-inducing trend.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

            I am betting they are the same ones that are scolding others about cultural appropriation.

            CA might be the funniest of all the Wokie accusations, given obviously that all culture world-wide is appropriated in just about everything, from food to music to fashion.

            Just so silly.

          • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 5:00 pm #

            There never was a thread on it.

          • JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 11:52 am #

            Jane Fonda said in the 70s that the Liberal movement of which she was a spokesman was not gone and will re emerge down the road.

            Jane Fonda, the prophetess.

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 2:49 pm #

        Hahahaha! I forgot to mention the MANSPREADING.

        Hahahahahahahaha!

        • Blackbird March 21, 2023 at 3:08 pm #

          I noticed that too.

          Men “appropriating” womenhood, then in turn “appropriating” manhood.

          Also, blacks “appropriating” white hair styles and colors.

          Severed baby heads? Is that some kind of “statement”? Shouldn’t they have been white baby heads? I mean as long as you are severing white baby heads, nobody’s gonna complain, if anything, that would be cause for applause.

          We’re toast.

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 5:58 pm #

            Yeah the baby heads push it way over the top.

            It’s a great get by Matt. Kudos to him. As a friend said, if this ever ends, it’s because of clips like these, which really show the insanity.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 6:01 pm #

            Kiddie Capers

            ——

            “Also, blacks “appropriating” white hair styles and colors.” ~ Blackbird

            ——

            Yes, I noticed that right away especially. But I also noticed that they are or at least seem to be relative ‘kids’, still with a lot of growing up to do and learning about the world and stuff like that.
            Not that all people manage similarly in that regard.

            Around here is a bus stop and around about 3:15 pm on school weekdays, the kids get off the bus and you can hear them talking, shouting, running, arguing and playing and I guess just happy to be out of school for the day.

            For fun, I call that ~3:15 time, ‘kiddie capers’.

            And so it is with even older people, yet still relatively young: Kiddie capers!

          • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 10:15 am #

            In my opinion, the generations in the US since the end of WWII – the “boomers” onward – no longer reach full adulthood. Sexual maturity, yes. Mental maturity, no.

            We have become neotenous, like the fabled axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), or the more familiar mudpuppy (Necturus sp.). It will make the “normalization” of pedophilia easier.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 9:18 pm #

            “I have already mentioned on TOD that we live in an infantilistic culture where we don’t know how in general to do much of the basics for ourselves anymore, such as with regard to growing our own food, making our own clothes, or building our own homes.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle February 5, 2022 at 1:23 am, CFNation blog

      • Woodchuck March 22, 2023 at 9:39 am #

        Hey Islander, why not rent a brush chipper and make mulch out of them? Acid is harmful to the environment. Mulch will ultimately help things grow.

        • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm #

          Compost might be a better application.

          Ground trannies rotting in the sun. Might not be good for the tomato plants.

    • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

      That is funny/not funny, because it’s part of the divide-and-conquer agenda to find grievances where they don’t belong.
      And of course, to be blind to actual appropriation when it is Establishment approved and pushed.

      Check this out, Mary. It’s so over-the-top it seems like satire, but I think it’s also serious.

      //afru.com/coffee-industry-racism-white-supremacy/

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 2:50 pm #

        Yes. At first I wasn’t sure whether it pissed me off or made me laugh.

        I laughed.

        • Islander March 21, 2023 at 6:19 pm #

          I guess the slaves who firset harvested coffee were owned by . . .other black people?

          How did the Turks get their mitts on coffee? It was they who brought coffee to Europe while besieging the city of Vienna—hence all of the the coffee houses there.

          Oh, BTW, those diabolical cultural thieves the Viennese also appropriated the shape of the crescent from the Turkish Infidels when they devised their Christmas Plaetzchen (cookies).

          So, you are being in appropriating imperialist racist pig if you enjoy a nut crescent during Advent (of course the Advent wreath and the candle symbolism was appropriated from the pagans). . .

          httpX://leitesculinaria.com/3427/recipes-viennese-vanilla-crescent-cookies.html

          • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 7:45 pm #

            So much appropriation, so little rage (proportionally).

            Nice.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 8:15 pm #

            The history of coffee starts in Yemen and Ethiopia, apparently.
            One on the coast of east Africa, the other across the Red Sea in the middle east.

            The West Indies/American slave trade bought the slaves from west Africa, not east Africa.

            It was the Arabs who traded in slaves from east Africa, and that is where they picked up that coffee drinking habit.

            Because, you know, white racism.

          • Islander March 22, 2023 at 10:15 am #

            Paula,

            the slave trade was long in place before the North Atlantic slave trade began.

            Slaves of all colors. The Med was a dangerous place. So was the Indian Ocean.

            Think about it: These two bodies of water (and also the seas around SE Asia and China) were accessible to local navigation and sailors long before anyone knew how to sail across the Atlantic or even thought there was any reason to do so.

          • Paula D March 22, 2023 at 11:37 am #

            Yep. Weirdly enough, my husband and I are watching the movie Spartacus, which neither of us has seen before.

            The plot so far (we only watch a little every night) is the slaves trying to get to the Mediterranean, and take ships back to their homes.

            And I agree that blaming the entire slave trade on the Europeans who only started coming in the 1600s, and only took the people lined up for them on west African shores by slave traders, is a bit ridiculous.

          • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 6:56 pm #

            “…is a bit ridiculous.”

            But highly profitable. Very high EROEI.*

            *Energy returned on energy invested.

      • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 2:51 pm #

        Gardening and knitting also are racist. There are articles about that as well.

        After 5-7 years of the gaslighting on this issue, I do feel like all I can do is laugh at some of the more crazy examples.

        • BackRowHeckler March 21, 2023 at 3:06 pm #

          Add that that ~~ keeping a neat, well stocked pantry is also racist according to a professor at Univ. of Wisconsin.

          • Blackbird March 21, 2023 at 3:09 pm #

            Paying for stuff should be added to the list of racist activities too.

          • Paula D March 21, 2023 at 3:13 pm #

            And math. And showing up on time.

          • BackRowHeckler March 21, 2023 at 3:18 pm #

            Another racist activity: noticing who was involved in the brutal melees that shut down Miami Beach last weekend. The media called them ‘College Students’, but here is a clue: it wasn’t Bobby V, Annette Funicello, or the beach blanket bingo crowd. These ‘Students’ are from Thug U, and they ain’t majoring in Fine Arts.

          • Islander March 21, 2023 at 6:20 pm #

            Also, having picnics.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 6:22 pm #

            Calling some person or human activity racist is racist and so we come full circle and meet in the middle. (Touches index finger with the other person’s index finger– *bing!*)

          • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

            People against White having nations are racist.

            That means you, Zur.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 4:06 am #

            “Many of the ladies here have tried to get me kicked off this site.” ~ Jarek, March 19, 2023 at 1:48 pm

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

            And? So? In other words, what’s the moral or takeaway?

            That I should be kicked off since women are always right?

            Or that many or most women don’t believe in the First Amendment if it impinges upon their feelz?

            I’m waiting, Zur.

  55. Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 11:27 am #

    Dr. Faustus does not get the reaction he expected from some of the residents of the Anacostia neighborhood (DC) in which he was trying to murder the residents with his poison shot.

    https://twitter.com/bac37/status/1637624118571933696?cxt=HHwWgIC98bKdgbotAAAA

    There was a funny meme of a bell curve representing what kind of people were suckered into the shots and still believe in a disease for which no one has ever shown any proof of existence.

    On the left was a picture of an uneducated rube; in the middle a midwit with a bachelor’s or master’s degree; and, far on the right, a Jedi/sage looking character of infinite wisdom.

    Rubes and Jedi unite!

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    • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 11:37 am #

      Wow, that’s great. Schooled by the hoi polloi. Priceless.

      • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 4:49 pm #

        Bro was wearing a German national team soccer jersey, too.

        He is clearly a white supremecist.

      • Islander March 22, 2023 at 4:54 pm #

        And how ’bout that Auntie Tom in the turquoise uniform.

    • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 1:37 pm #

      Orwell’s 1984: The proles believe none of the propaganda. Street smarts and instinct trump mid-wittery and bad education. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – thus universal education is contra-indicated since it only serves to suppress streets smarts without adding much of value.

      Spiritually, a little knowledge leads one away from God, but much knowledge leads one back.

      • elysianfield March 21, 2023 at 1:47 pm #

        ” but much knowledge leads one back.”

        Jarek,
        Be real. What leads one back is adversity and pussy.

        …Pardon my French….

      • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 5:06 pm #

        Troof.

      • Q. Shtik March 21, 2023 at 11:13 pm #

        serves to suppress streets smarts – Jar

  56. tom clark March 21, 2023 at 11:54 am #

    Not to take up anyone’s valuable time, but ‘scuse me while I self-reflect a bit. And to think in the late ’50’s, they labelled Adlai Stevenson “egghead”.

    • BackRowHeckler March 21, 2023 at 12:40 pm #

      Where’s Senator Fetterman? Some Comrades say he is brain dead, but if they can keep him hooked up to that infernal machine that allows him to simulate being alive until August, the Penn. Governor can appoint a new Dem Senator. If he is pronounced toes up before August then there has to be a new election. Dems are taking no chances and are keeping that machine running full tilt

  57. BackRowHeckler March 21, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

    Hey we’re back on track; Dow is up 250!

  58. Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 5:05 pm #

    “Dr. Fauci Admitted The Year Before COVID-19 That He ‘Hoped’ To Be Able to Respond to a Pandemic

    @jimmy_dore
    : ‘I just think that’s weird! That’s weird that there he is admitting, ‘Boy, I really would like to work on a pandemic’ — because we f**ked up AIDS so bad!'”

    https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1638206304333201411?cxt=HHwWhoCw6Yj9ibwtAAAA

    Looking back on the entire hoax, it never ceases to amaze me how many clues were dropped along the way that even the most fastidious of us had long forgotten.

    Coroneau-19: The greatest hoax in human history.

    Has anyone located the isolate yet, BTW?

    Paula D.?

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 21, 2023 at 6:07 pm #

      Jimmy Dore was interviewed recently on one of Russia Today’s (RT) shows, possibly, ‘Going Underground’. He seemed in fine form.

      • Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 6:54 pm #

        He once spit on Alex Jones. Today he could be Alex Jones.

        We are certainly living in interesting times.

        • messianicdruid March 21, 2023 at 7:23 pm #

          Do we need to run this by the fact- chokers?

          • Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 5:08 am #

            You know I would never lie, Mess.

            3:43

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzJkGGWOtI

          • messianicdruid March 22, 2023 at 10:29 am #

            I know – chokers is not a typo.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 7:19 pm #

            Looks like everyone was spitting in everyone’s face. Free skin moisturizer, thank you, Mister. Appreciate it.
            They might have done well to cool off and then all get together in a boardroom and sort things out since they seem to be more or less on a similar, ah, shoreline, yes?

  59. MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 5:37 pm #

    Jimmy Dore on the nothingburger ICC “war crimes” arrest warrant for Putin:

    https://youtu.be/FIsDwbikp00

    VERY entertaining.

    • Islander March 22, 2023 at 4:56 pm #

      I sent this Dore link to my Moscow friend.

      Infotaining!

  60. elysianfield March 21, 2023 at 6:15 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs

    I have bad news, and news that might be considered disturbing.

    First the bad…Another bank ready to tank. Republic Bank is on the ropes, and will probably be the next to fall. It is beginning to look like the scenario we all expect has begun.

    Now for the disturbing. The weather here is almost perfect…75F, cloudless sky, the silence is deafening …almost makes me feel glad to be alive. I decided to take a walk down to the orchard and admire my vast estate. The nectarines, peaches and several plums are blooming, and the grapes that I have grafted show promise. However, as I approached one large Santa Rosa Plum tree, I saw something on the ground at the trunk.

    It was a dead hawk, and in its locked talons, a dead robin. I believe this may be an omen. How to begin to understand the obvious wisdom that the spectacle presented? Divining is not my strong suit…I need the help of a necromancer…someone in touch with the metaphysical. I need an explanation, and the only CFN’r that comes to mind is…Jarek.

    Help me out here.

    Is the hawk a demon, and the robin my tongue?

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    • Jarek March 21, 2023 at 8:11 pm #

      Like the hawk had a heart attack in the act of capturing and killing the robin?

      Was it the Vax?

      • elysianfield March 21, 2023 at 9:30 pm #

        Jarek,
        I did, momentarily consider the Vax, and likewise Global Warming and Donald Trump, all shallow attempts at the truth. But, I feel the truth will be evident in chapter and verse, in the Holy Bible. A quick perusal, however, presented a different question. God, in the Old Testament, was a harsh father…quick to violence and punishment…and very demanding. In the New Testament, however, he mellows considerably…hardly smiting anyone. The obvious question…did he mature? Did he discuss his violent, scary persona with Christ’s Vicar, and see the error in his ways? Did Humanity teach him to be a better Deity?

        Are you aware that “God” is “Dog” spelled backwards? Kind of makes you think. (I really, really like dogs).

        You could look it up….

        • Woodchuck March 22, 2023 at 9:34 am #

          Look up the story of Marcion and the Marcionites instead. They also did a “quick perusal” almost 2 millenia ago and came up with something resembling what you just wrote. Marcion was an early Christian theologian in early Christianity. He preached that God had sent Jesus Christ who was an entirely new, alien god, distinct from the vengeful God of Israel who had created the world. Of course his position was controversial and created some doctrinal strife. But doctrinal strife is a way of life among all people calling themselves Christians.

          • messianicdruid March 22, 2023 at 10:00 am #

            “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil.”

            The “sons of men” includes good people and bad people. No one is impervious to ignorance.

          • messianicdruid March 22, 2023 at 10:15 am #

            “He preached that God had sent Jesus Christ who was an entirely new, alien god, distinct from the vengeful God of Israel who had created the world.”

            “The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.…”

            “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ…”

            Same, through and through.

          • JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 11:34 am #

            Folks have been trying to reconcile the Old Testament fire and brimstone God with the benevolence of Jesus’ ministry. The Jews of his time expected a military leader to clobber the Romans.

            Reconciliation is not required. God trying the Mosaic method, obey the law, sacrifice regularly and you are a good person. God gave us the tools to be “good” people in his eyes, the Ten Commandments and the law of the Torah. He then “sat back” and expected Man to change his ways accordingly. Even the Hebrews could not get it right as they rigidified themselves into a cruel non-caring ethnic group that God kept “punishing” to get their attention

            I believe that God changed direction, sending himself in human form to try to send the message that goodness is in each of us and it is individuals that are responsible to act Godly. I also believe it is Man’s last communication from God as He has watched us since sending Jesus then Paul et al to put out his Word. St, John wrote the Revelation inspired by something or some one, indicating that God’s message through Jesus might be the last chance to get it right.

            Individual responsibility, the heart of the Founding Father’s Declaration and Constitution as inspired by Locke. That men should be free to do the good things.

            Were the FF divinely inspired, was Locke?

            Well, the current condition of the US is approaching the condition of Judah in the years before Christ. Is God preparing a return or is He ready to just throw in the towel and start over. He has done it before.

            What has happened in the US over the past fifty years is evil, repudiating God in almost every way possible. How long will the US misbehavior be tolerated?

          • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 1:12 pm #

            Free to do the good – like children having the right to be worked to death according to John Locke. They’re just little adults. Evidently Locke was a Kesan.

        • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 10:33 am #

          God and dog

          Consider humanity an imperfect lens. God on one side, filtered through that lens, emerges on the other diminished and inverted.

          God made man in His image.

          Man made dog in his image.

          • Woodchuck March 22, 2023 at 5:54 pm #

            Dogs are capable of 100% loyalty and unconditional love. Humans are not.

          • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 6:50 pm #

            I didn’t say they’re completely flawed…

            We did get our big brains by working with them.

        • JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 11:40 am #

          Did He mature?

          In Man’s eyes, as though Man can judge God as good or evil?

          Uh, no!!!!

          Think we are the ones that need to mature according to His Word, or the OT may return as His last try, individual responsibility, fails.

          • messianicdruid March 22, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

            Those that are trying to be saved [ matured? ] through individual responsibility are still under the Old Law [ covenant ] even though that Covenant [ agreement ] was nailed to the cross.

          • JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 3:56 pm #

            Jesus replied to the priest when they interrogated him about adherence to the Law.

            His answer, I am the Law.

            Think,

            You shall love your God with all your heart,

            You shall love your fellow man.

            Pretty much sums up the Law.

            And puts it on us to be responsible for our actions.

    • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 10:30 am #

      A tableau morte.

      Sometimes death catches us in an embarrassing pose.

      Yes, it is an omen. But it is your omen. You need to divine the meaning yourself. An honest guide can hold the lantern for you, but only a demagogue would pretend to give you the answer.

    • anmariwakaranai March 22, 2023 at 3:06 pm #

      The hawk is a bird of migration. It appears by your dream that the window of time for emigrating south is passed, and so as well for it’s prey.

  61. Night Owl March 21, 2023 at 6:43 pm #

    “Thinking she was on the phone with Zelensky , the ex-IMF president and President of the ECB Christine Lagarde get trolled by the Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus

    The digital euro currency is well on track she said
    adding if you pay above €1000 in cash you go to prison”

    https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1637789689078767617?cxt=HHwWgoCzpe_CzLotAAAA

    This is what we are up against, kids. Right there on tape.

    Those of us who understand what is at stake, of course.

  62. MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 8:43 pm #

    Looks to me like what they want is Trump’s mugshot. That is the prize. And who knows what else sort of psyops is brewing.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-trump-to-be-indicted-wednesday-will-be-asked-to-surrender-for-arraignment-next-week-according-to-report/

    • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 10:39 am #

      I think the mugshot is the catalyst for their true desire: another “insurrection”. January 6th, squared.

      An excuse for increased surveillance. An excuse for (further) shredding of the Bill of Rights.

      • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 11:38 am #

        Yes, that too, if people are stupid enough to fall for it (again).

  63. messianicdruid March 21, 2023 at 9:04 pm #

    We park our spaceships under water. An appropriate sized and oriented crevasse, shut everything but LS down. Take a break.

    Vindication is sweet.

    • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 10:42 am #

      You people and your daggone initials.

      • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 12:12 pm #

        IK, R?

  64. Paula D March 21, 2023 at 9:41 pm #

    Scott Ritter doesn’t like Lindsey Graham.

    .youtube.com/watch?v=GjWqBnVLCC4

    • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 10:53 pm #

      Does anyone?

      Good stuff, thanks.

      I remember when Ritter was making his predictions last year just after the war started, and he thought it would be over quickly. I guess he didn’t count on such utter stupidity on the US’s part.

  65. Q. Shtik March 21, 2023 at 9:51 pm #

    I have just endured several bizarre days involving Peter. Everything that touches on Peter’s life is bizarre. When I write the novel about Peter that I’m mentally planning there will be a chapter titled The ’41 Harley Trike. OMFG!

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    • MaryQueen March 21, 2023 at 10:57 pm #

      Well, don’t tease us. Spill it.

      Unlike the sports crap, some of the Peter stories are at least entertaining.

    • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 2:04 am #

      Omg he went through a storefront window on a trike huh? How dare you leave us hanging Q! Is Peter ok? I hope he isn’t hurt and you better be taking care of him if he is.

    • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 10:59 am #

      Peter’s your perfect foil, Q.! You’re a buttoned down hyper fastidious control freak. Peter’s pure distilled senile chaos. You’ve somehow attracted your polar opposite. The Odd Couple 2.0. Poor Bo, caught in the middle of it all. Should make for a great novel or biopic, though.

    • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 11:07 am #

      Oh, I think I know this story! It’s the WWII version of the 1970 movie The Losers.

      His mind atrophied by poor mental hygiene, body unsteady from the effects of prolonged alcohol abuse, former accountant Peter is on his last legs. He has fallen in with a bad crowd – a bunch of motorcycle-riding ne’er-do-wells. Knocking off parking meters. Stealing sodas. Molesting teenage girls…

      The sheriff, recognizing his old high school buddy, offers Peter a last chance: “Deputy Johnson joined the Marines. He’s on his way to Burma – I’ll never call it “Myanmar”. I’da gone too, but ya know, my bum leg… I’ll make a deal with ya Pete, you take these shitbirds ya been hangin’ out with, head out ta Burma – I’ll arrange transport – and show these Jap bastards they poked their finger in the wrong eye. Once you and your boys are in the jungle, well I reckon General Stilwell’s gonna turn a blind eye to any ummm – mayhem that might occur”

      “Mayhem?”

      “Mayhem.”

      “All the pootytang I kin handle.”

      “All the – yellow – pootytang.”

      “Where do I sign up?”

      And so began one of the darkest chapters in WWII…

      • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 12:10 pm #

        Nice treatment! Need to put it into development.

  66. SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 2:34 am #

    Silk was on Alex Jones’ show earlier today, or yesterday, and said that her sister Diamond died due to blood clots caused by vaccine shedding. So Diamond wasn’t jabbed but was exposed to people who were.

    • Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 5:42 am #

      I heard that.

      Years ago I was ridiculed by a select few for pointing out that German law was changed at the start of the shot rollout to make it impossible to get legal recourse for bodily harm via shedding.

      😀

      • GreenAlba March 22, 2023 at 11:37 am #

        Do you have a link for that, Night Owl? I’d like to include it in my bookmarks (which are getting well out of hand, but still …).

      • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 2:02 pm #

        Oh wow, yeah can you relink that? I do remember you mentioning it but don’t recall the details..

  67. dafawo March 22, 2023 at 4:18 am #

    Earn Dollars In Your Free Time…>>xurl.es/cjyn7

    • Woodchuck March 22, 2023 at 9:27 am #

      I’d rather watch tv in my free time. Before long those dollars won’t be worth shit…

      • SpeedyBB March 23, 2023 at 12:42 am #

        Am I perchance being too optimistic to assume, based on cagey apologias like this, from The Telegraph, that reality & sanity are making a timid re-entry?

        “It shattered our pretence of rationality, too, as we retreated into superstition. True, this often had a modern, scientific basis, but many of the rituals, from masks outside to almost liturgical sanitation of hands, had as much effect on transmission as spells invoking the protection of imps would have done. Yet still they were followed, with a panicked presumption that a) they would work and b) that, by doing them, one would somehow be shown as a “good person”. The scientific method mutated into “The Science” (TM) which stood as pagan totem: its name chanted in invocation, its sacrifices mandatory.”

        • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 11:51 am #

          almost liturgical sanitation of hands, had as much effect on transmission as spells invoking the protection of imps would have done. – SpeedyBB

          =========

          Great line. I chuckled.

          It’s like prayer. Especially when directed to a certain saint who is deemed to be especially effective in a certain area of human activity. For example, Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travelers.

  68. Night Owl March 22, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

    Man, France is on fire right now. The Macaroon has refused to budge,

    This is getting hot.

    When ever I watch the Frenchies in action, I remember just how weak the American populace is by comparison.

    Was there even a protest when Bidet did an end around to get the corporate sector to illegally force “vaccination”?

  69. Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 12:58 pm #

    To those who responded about Peter and his ’41 Harley Trike, be advised that Peter is “fine” (fine being a relative term…his health and mental state continue to deteriorate) and the trike remains stored in my garage under a large plastic covering.

    Peter pissed away a rather large sum of money buying an antique bike out of an old dusty barn (no documentation and lost the Bill of Sale) and more money restoring it or, I should say, having it restored. It’s not like Peter knows the first thing about motorcycles and he has never ridden on one, not even on a puny 50cc Vespa. Rather, I think Peter imagines himself as one of those overweight bearded biker dudes that rumble and roar through towns, drawing everyone’s attention.

    Irrational acts like this can have many ramifications on other people’s lives but I am not going to attempt an explanation how at this moment. I’ll save that for the previously mentioned book chapter if I ever get around to writing it before I croak.

    • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

      One could easily visualize you speeding on your bike, tormented by an image of Peter’s milk glass on the edge of the counter. As he glass falls in your mind, so do you on your bike.

    • BackRowHeckler March 22, 2023 at 1:24 pm #

      Tool on over to the Ruggers campus, pick up some chicks on that bitchin’ Harley.

      Speaking of Ruggers, how are they proceeding in the NIT?

      • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 3:29 pm #

        Out the first game, in overtime.

        • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 4:36 pm #

          I can only imagine your angry letter to the editor of the campus newspaper. Go easy on the boys, Q. Football season’s right around the corner again. Ruckers will soon have at least two more teams (USC and UCLA) to lose to in conference play, but just imagine the future road trips to sunny SoCal! They damn sure ain’t making it to the Rose Bowl game anytime soon.

    • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

      So let me guess. You can’t sale the bike because of the lost documentation and you would need to pay to have it restored if you wanted to sale it and he can deal with those details anymore? Well. I’m sure he didn’t intend for that to be the case Q. Time to practice patience and just be thankful for Peter’s presence in your life.

      • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 6:46 pm #

        “…just be thankful for Peter’s presence in your life.” As are we all!

  70. Jarek March 22, 2023 at 1:25 pm #

    Barnhardt

    This clip is very instructive and clearly shows three concepts that most people are very, very fuzzy on. The first is SERVILE FEAR. Now notice at the 0:45 mark, the Father takes off his belt and puts it on the table as he declares “Now we’re not raising any sheep in this family, and I WILL WHUP YOUR ASS if you turn into a wolf.” Were you taken aback at that? Did that rub you the wrong way? It probably did many of you. Do you know why? Because we have all been trained to hate and despise masculine strength and to consider as “evil” anything that inspires or elicits SERVILE FEAR. In short, we have been inculcated to believe the lie that ALL SERVILE FEAR IS BAD.

    Do you see in the video clip how the boys are startled and wide-eyed with SERVILE FEAR of their father when he makes it perfectly clear that THERE WILL BE SWIFT, SEVERE CONSEQUENCES for bad behavior – both the weakness of “the sheep”, and ESPECIALLY the evil of “the Wolves”, which will call down an ass-whupping? This is a good and beautiful thing to see. This is the Father DOING HIS JOB. The father is STRONG and POTENT. The father WILL PUNISH bad behavior. The boys know this, understand this, and RESPECT THIS. The boys recognize the strength and AUTHORITY of their father. The boys have a very healthy and good SERVILE FEAR of their Father.

    Now, look again at the 0:52-0:55 mark. This is actually really cool. This is where the mother simply says her husband’s name: “Wayne….”

    What we see here is a wife calling her husband to MEEKNESS. “Meek” is one of the most mistakenly-defined words in the English language. If you stopped 100 average Americans on the street and asked them what the word “meek” meant, I think north of 95 of them would say “weak” or something similar. This is 100% incorrect. MEEKNESS is POWER UNDER CONTROL.

    Look at the video clip. That is EXACTLY what we see. The wife, complimentary helpmate to her husband, with just the utterance of her husband’s name calls him to MEEKNESS – that is, to keep his power, his strength UNDER CONTROL, and you can see the father physically check and contain his potency without losing or reducing it in any way. In fact, his meekness only augments and points up his strength and potency. Absolutely beautiful.

    Finally, we see in the eyes of both of the boys the love and respect they have for their father, and their desire to be good in his eyes, to make him proud, to be good for his sake. Note how even while the boys just a few seconds before jumped in servile fear of their father, they continue to look him dead in the eye, and look him in the eye when they answer his questions. The younger son answers his father with a genuinely respectful, “Yessir”, and then the older son answers his father with a nod, looking him dead in the eye. This is FILIAL FEAR. Because their father is a strong man, a meek man, and a highly moral man, they boys respect him and thus LOVE HIM, and do not want to disappoint him because to disappoint him would hurt him deeply, and they know it, and can’t stand the thought of letting him down.

    Is it any wonder that masculinity, potency, virility, fatherhood, and the headship of the domestic church held by the husband and father has been and continues to be under such ruthless, relentless attack? The only thing “toxic” in today’s male culture is EFFEMINACY and MORAL IMPOTENCY.

    If you would like to read more about these concepts as they apply to our relationship with God, might I recommend “THE ONE ABOUT… FEAR OF THE LORD“.

    I hope this helps.

    Jarek: What kind of man will protect the weak, the old, women, and children? This kind. And this is the kind who is hated above all other kinds now. Women want to BE them, but can’t. So instead seek to emasculate, enslave, and destroy them or prevent them from becoming such men – and then wonder where they are when they are needed.

    The government seeks to do the same, and finds a great ally in women. As Genesis says, Your desire will be towards your husband (to be him) but he will rule over you.

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    • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 1:55 pm #

      My dad never whupped my brother or I. Never spanked us either. His punishment was far more effective: the penalty box. When I misbehaved, he’d point to a chair and I’d sit there, quietly, and ponder my transgressions.

      I didn’t fear my dad, I respected him.

      (In my opinion) rule by fear is for dogs, and other animals. Unfortunately, most humans have not evolved beyond the level of our best friend.

      The cruel sea stole him from us before I really got to know him. They don’t make ’em like that anymore…

      • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 3:20 pm #

        My dad never whupped my brother or I – Blackbird

        ==========

        He should have whupped you for saying “or I” rather than “or me.”

        • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 4:26 pm #

          Ka-zing!

        • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 4:27 pm #

          Keep fighting the good fight Peter!

    • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 1:58 pm #

      Is that why we want a big government?

      • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 1:25 pm #

        It may well be so. As Mr Kunstler said, they hate Trump because he represents “Daddy” or masculine force and/or traditional values.

        But Force? They’re all for that. And of course, somebody or something will have to step into the void created by the cancelling of the Masculine. So in that sense, they’re right and anarchists, wrong.

    • Paula D March 22, 2023 at 3:37 pm #

      So the father puts fear into his sons without saying what he expects from them?

      He doesn’t want sheep but he also doesn’t want wolves. What the hell does he want? He wants his kids to be able to read his mind?

      My husband protects me but he is also capable of expressing thoughts and expectations with words.

      What a concept!

      • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 7:26 pm #

        Yes, Marxism hates strong White men and their families – and families in general as stated in Marxist scripture.

      • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

        Sure fire way to create one messed up adult, ruling by fear.

        Which is what our government/media do these days. Either conform or be punished.

        As others (including you) have pointed out, this is not a good method by any measure of logic.

  71. The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 2:00 pm #

    Statism as Religion: Larken Rose on the Tom Woods Show

    ——

    youtu . be/2jszKbJhx9I

    • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 2:50 pm #

      I like Tom Woods. I had kinda forgotten about him.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 2:08 am #

        I found Tom Woods just yesterday, through Larken Rose elsewhere.

        • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 2:22 pm #

          That one is 8 years old.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 6:10 pm #

            It sure is.

  72. The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 2:49 pm #

    Five Ways the State is Like a Religion

    ——

    Religious people often get mocked or shamed by nonreligious people for their beliefs about God, the purpose of life, the origin of humans, and other heavy topics. But many nonreligious people may not realize the extent to which they use the state as a substitute for religion.

    Here are five examples of the similarities between the two…” ~ Ian Tartt, website, ‘The Libertarian Republic’

    >>>>

    The Most Dangerous Religion: Nationalism is a Religion

    ——

    For a religion to be classified as a religion there are certain characteristics that are usually observed. For example, there must be a god or pantheon of gods that are worshipped, along with symbolism, ceremonies, rituals, dogmas, creeds, sacraments, and even martyrs. And there must be extreme emphasis and reliance on a supernatural power over the self. Some of the words describing religion when a general definition is consulted include, ‘belief in a superhuman controlling power’, and ‘faith… worship’, and even ‘a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance’. It is very easy to show that nationalism encompasses all the characteristics of an authentic religion, and the ability to implement them on a scale that single religious organizations are powerless to emulate.

    We will begin with symbolism. All religions have their sacred signs and symbols. Christians have the cross, Jews have their star, and Buddhists have their wheel. The symbols of American nationalism are the flag, the Great Seal of the United States, the bald eagle, and even the North American bison...” ~ Kendal Anderson, ‘The Most Dangerous Religion’, website, ‘Obedient Anarchy’

    • messianicdruid March 22, 2023 at 3:01 pm #

      The Kingdom of God is a form of government not a religion.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 2:07 am #

        Fair enough. The takeaway is still that the State is like a religion.

    • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 3:29 pm #

      I know you have mentioned that you embrace anarchy. Do you think this may correlate to your own psycho-social makeup? Sorta like you can easily embrace this based on your composition and outlook. Is J right? It does seem like some people wish to be ruled. Or perhaps if they are not ruled their orbit would spin out of control and they would be cast into outer darkness.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 4:51 pm #

        Response here:
        The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 4:50 pm

  73. MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 3:02 pm #

    This is HYSTERICAL – if you want a big laugh please watch:

    Transition Chocolate!

    AwakenWithJP

    https://youtu.be/BHHIBIzBq6Q

    • GreenAlba March 22, 2023 at 3:27 pm #

      Brilliant. I don’t like nuts in my chocolate, so I’ll have a bar of the one that used to have nuts but doesn’t any more. 🙂

      • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

        Hahahahaha!

      • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 6:44 pm #

        I used to have a minor addiction to Hershey’s Bars with almonds – back before I had the metabolism of a hibernating frog.

        Then I lost my sweet tooth (apparently one of my wisdom teeth). There I realized the evil of almonds (especially almond milk – how many almonds? How much water? In drought-prone California?).

        Now, Her Shes (it’s a man…) is on my search and destroy list, like Nestlés, McDonalds, Microsoft…

        It would probably be easier to list the companies I don’t want to see go down in flames. I might have to “circle back” to you on that one.

        • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 1:20 pm #

          I don’t consider Hershey to be real chocolate.

          My go-to are the mini dark chocolate peanut butter cups at Trader Joe’s.

          But like you, I was somewhat addicted to Hersheys with almonds as a teen. UNTIL I discovered Fanny May candy’s dark chocolate almond bark, and turned into somewhat of a chocolate snob.

      • elysianfield March 23, 2023 at 11:48 am #

        Alba,
        Considering quality chocolate…any additive is an adulterant, considering the relative costs of the ingredients.

        ‘Toblerone chocolate bar… now with Kale…and Himalayan salt! Gluten free!

    • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 3:39 pm #

      Lol JP is so friggin hilarious. I’m personally deeply offended that the chocolate bars are not the colors of the rainbows and transbows. Omg who is literally running Transition Chocolate? 😀

      • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 3:43 pm #

        Yeah, where were the rainbow bars?

        I am OFFENDED! And triggered.

        • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 5:33 pm #

          Triggered? Weapon reference – totally inappropriate!

          • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 6:35 pm #

            White people are naturally violent. Where’s my teddy bear?

      • Islander March 22, 2023 at 7:41 pm #

        He is definitely getting more and more wigged out. The crazy orange hair, the sleazy orange outfit.

        Is orange the new . . . rainbow???

        • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 1:18 pm #

          I appreciate how he gets more wigged out as the trans agenda nutters do.

  74. Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 3:05 pm #

    I’ve just been listening to Fed Chairman Powell addressing a bunch of financial talking heads and one of them, a woman, began her question “I wonder if you’d be willing to speak to blah blah etc. etc.” Moments later she again used the phrase speak to rather than speak about.

    How did this “speak to” bullshit ever get started. It annoys the shit outta me. I could even accept speak anent more readily than speak to.

    Whatever Powell is saying has the market averages jumping all over the place.

    • SoftStarLight March 22, 2023 at 3:22 pm #

      Wow that is a shame Q. I was hoping you could speak to those things which annoy you so we would have a better idea of how to maintain the peace on this page lol 😉

    • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

      They are changing language all the time. It gets more and more stupid.

      I complained years ago when I started hearing the trend of everyone responding to questions (esp. in interviews) using “So….” but now everyone does it. I was told I was being a jerk for even noticing.

      Other annoyances are “top of mind” and other than language, vocal fry and autotune.

      • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 4:21 pm #

        “At the end of the day…” still sends me into paroxysm.

        • Blackbird March 22, 2023 at 6:33 pm #

          “the actual…” does it for me. As in, “we’re going to go into the actual room…”

          Don’t hear it as often as I did 10 years ago, fortunately.

      • Islander March 22, 2023 at 5:13 pm #

        Annoying tic no. 1: Starting with “So . . . ”

        Annoying tic no. 2: Starting with “Now , . . .”

        As if about to tell a child a fairy tale—Now gather ’round children and you will hear of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere . . .”

        Obviously, a lot of the news is is akin to fairy tale and myth.

        But honestly, “Now, on Main Street, USA, a fire broke out . . .” . . .

        “Now, yesterday in Ukraine . . .”

        Gimme a break! Hold the “So . . .” and “Now . . . ” openers.

        As for “speak to” instead of “speak about,” think there is a slight difference. To me, ‘speak to” implies commentary on a very current issue or something slightly controversial. Also, maybe the entity doing the speaking is not a human. Something “speaks to” something else.

        “Speak about” could refer to just anything such as “Can you tell us a bit about your childhood.” . . . .

        Oddly enough, Merriam-Webster Collegiate and Unabridged both make no mention of either “speak about” or “speak to” in their definitions for the intransitive verb “to speak.”

        A general Google search for the phrase “speaks to” gives this:

        2. discuss or comment on something formally .
        “the Church wants to speak to real issues”

        • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 5:28 pm #

          discuss or comment on something formally. – Islander

          ========

          Thanks for your research.

          Regarding the “So” and “Now” issue… It seems we can’t start talking without using a meaningless opener. Just the other day I pointed out how athletes in post-game interviews often begin their responses with “Yeah, I mean.”

          • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 5:44 pm #

            Yeah, I mean, there are locutions that like drive me nuts like “going forward” rather than like “in the future.”

            So, the Dow gave up 500+ points today because the Fed Chairman (not Chair or Chairperson) by virtually eliminating the possibility that there would be any Fed funds rate reductions this year.

          • GreenAlba March 22, 2023 at 9:10 pm #

            ‘Yeah, no …’

            … is annoying.

            Along with the American ‘for free’ which is everywhere now.

            Free means ‘free of charge’.

            You either get things ‘free’ or ‘for nothing’, not ‘for free’.

            Similar to ‘as of yet’. Seriously, what?

            ‘As of now’. OK.
            ‘As yet’. Fine.
            ‘As of yet’. Please don’t …

            But the battle is lost. And there are other battles that are so much more important, such as when they tell you you’re going to get a digital ID ‘for free’ and you’ll have to take it everywhere ‘going forward’.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 10:05 pm #

            Yes, but where did language. say, English, actually come from and is it different than it was 3000 years ago and will it be different in another 3000 years? Will it even be understandable if we were to freeze ourselves now and thaw ourselves later?

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 10:07 pm #

            …So as much as I’d like people to say ‘couldn’t care less’ instead of ‘could care less’, maybe I shouldn’t care too much about it and just ‘Suck it up, buttercup.’.

          • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 9:28 am #

            Like I said, you should worry more about the digital prison infrastructure and the particular use of Orwellian verbal inversion that will be used to get you locked into it.

            Compared to that, both ‘for free’ and ‘I could care less’ are peccadillos that are neither here nor there.

            I’ll happily allow ‘for free’ throughout the known universe if the WEF and those who pull their strings will eff off and leave us alone.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 6:28 pm #

            The band, Killing Joke, just came out a few days ago with a new single called, Full Spectrum Dominance. (chuckle)

            It’s so-so and I guess the message says something, but today, I’m listening to something that sounds more classical:

            youtu . be/24R52hthX7w?t=79

      • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 5:15 pm #

        and other than language, vocal fry and autotune. – MQ

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

        You left out uptalk wherein an upward inflection of the voice turns a declarative sentence.

        It drives me ape shit?

        • Q. Shtik March 22, 2023 at 5:17 pm #

          turns a declarative sentence – Q.

          ========

          into a question.

          • benr March 23, 2023 at 9:16 am #

            Yep annoying.

            Another one is the phrase “Have a good one” huh?
            Finish the statement!

          • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 11:25 am #

            “Have a good one” – benr

            ==========

            Totally agree. I have even considered asking the person who said it “a good one what?” but I don’t think they’d get the drift of my question.

        • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 10:11 am #

          Yeah, I will agree with the uptalk. Another wince-worthy affectation.

      • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 6:22 pm #

        I also hate the word “re-imagined.”

    • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 4:19 pm #

      I could even accept speak anent more readily than speak to.

      Be careful what you wish for, Q. Jaros’s ears are perking up at that statement.

  75. JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 4:09 pm #

    Big story today, Tik Tok.

    I wish we had folks in charge here that were as astute as the folks n China.

    How do you put down the 70 year old superpower?

    You infiltrate him, you invade him, you use his own Constitution against him, you use crooks in his country to undercut him, you push illegal immigrants (Chinese) in both his borders to eventual outnumber him in the voting booth.

    Who needs war? The Chinese are going to allow the people of this country to destroy our economy and then just walk in and take over.

    Watch Xi and Putin, BRICS+ is about to destroy The US, Europe, and the ignorant NWO of Klausnschwab et al. Our Allies are running for the exits at light speed.

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  76. JohnAZ March 22, 2023 at 4:10 pm #

    Ha, the NY DA is wavering on his Trumped up charges.

    • Disaffected March 22, 2023 at 4:17 pm #

      I see what you did there, JAZzer!

  77. The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 4:50 pm #

    Do you think this may correlate to your own psycho-social makeup?” ~ SoftStarLight (March 22, 2023 at 3:29 pm)

    ——

    Mine? Or your’s? Or others’?

    Would some be happy in a Truman Show? Perhaps, but that’s not everyone.

    I have to head out and it’s a complex issue, but just off the cuff in the mean time…

    ——

    – The effect regarding animals that have been in cages for awhile: Their cage is finally opened but they still remain in it.

    – People remaining in abusive relationships, despite the abuse.

    – People that come from abusive upbringings that seek out those kinds of relationships in their adult lives.

    – Informed consent: Not having it, or properly, such as after having been raised in a State. (Drug addiction? Taking the the covid vaxx in the context of censuring/deplatforming of opposing or alternative options/POVs?)

    – A lifetime of State propaganda

    – A childhood of State school curricula

    – ‘It’s what you know’: One as a product of one’s environment.

    – S&M/B&D, porn addiction, child porn, pedophilia, sex-change ops, etc.: Some results of living in a fucked up and/or coercive State world?

    – “I don’t want you to save me/us.”…
    Ultimately, people are responsible for their own lives. If they want to commit some forms of suicide, despite what they’ve been warned about and/or if they disagree with the warnings or whatever, it would seem their prerogative, tragic, perhaps, as it or some of it may be.

    – Listen to You Tube video interview above (The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 2:00 pm)

    >>>>

    “Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are actually not the direct source of the images seen. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.

    Socrates then supposes that the prisoners are released…? A freed prisoner would look around and see the fire. The light would hurt his eyes and make it difficult for him to see the objects casting the shadows. If he were told that what he is seeing is real instead of the other version of reality he sees on the wall, he would not believe it. In his pain, Socrates continues, the freed prisoner would turn away and run back to what he is accustomed to (that is, the shadows of the carried objects). The light ‘… would hurt his eyes, and he would escape by turning away to the things which he was able to look at, and these he would believe to be clearer than what was being shown to him.’

    Socrates continues: ‘Suppose… that someone should drag him… by force, up the rough ascent, the steep way up, and never stop until he could drag him out into the light of the sun.’ The prisoner would be angry and in pain, and this would only worsen when the radiant light of the sun overwhelms his eyes and blinds him.

    ‘Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of the sun. First he can see only shadows. Gradually he can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually, he is able to look at the stars and moon at night until finally he can look upon the sun itself (516a).’ Only after he can look straight at the sun ‘is he able to reason about it’ and what it is (516b).” ~ Wikipedia, entry, ‘Plato’s Cave’

    ——

    “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.” ~ Niccolò Macchiavelli

    • MaryQueen March 22, 2023 at 5:10 pm #

      Thanks for reminding me (inadvertently) that tomorrow is:

      32323

      A numerical palindrome, if there is such a thing.

      • stelmosfire March 22, 2023 at 9:08 pm #

        MQ, My first post ever to CFN, one short line:

        It is now 11:11 1/1/11

        I like going back through the archives. Many of the posters are still here. Some long timers. BRH, Q, Tucson, BTB, Walter B. Jarek, and a few more I can’t remember right now. Some of the names have changed.

    • Jarek March 22, 2023 at 10:52 pm #

      Anarchism is just another shadow on the wall of the cave – at the back, way, way down. If you follow that one, you are going the wrong way.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 1:58 am #

        Unsure in your case and others’ it matters what I write.

        You and others will double down on your own schemas of the world, as are your prerogatives.

        But you see, you are not my/our tribes/villages/people. You will go your own ways. As it should be.

  78. The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 5:01 pm #

    Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! – Based on David Graeber’s Essay

    youtu . be/r6-027_d_8Y

    ——

    We’re All Anarchists – Most Just Don’t Realize Yet

    youtu . be/XhyXveYtChk

    • BackRowHeckler March 22, 2023 at 7:31 pm #

      Zaz can you name any countries or states that have been run successfully under Anarchistic Principles? The only time & place I can think of where Anarchists have had a following was Spain in the 1930s, and they ended up shooting it out with Communists, Socialists, & Trotskyites in Barcelona, a sort of war within a war. (Not unusual, being that there were 18 sides in the Spanish Civil War, and it was Hobbsian ‘All against all.’)

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 9:58 pm #

        The Problem with Anarchism
        (15 minute video)

        youtu . be/hdrXS9TK3UQ

        ——

        But listen closely. It might not be what you think by the title.

      • gustafson.robert.22 March 23, 2023 at 4:00 am #

        North America before 1400, New Guinea before 1900, Australia before 1700, Norway before 400, Sweden before 800 AD, etc…

        • BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 4:58 am #

          Gus, New Guinea? New Guinea had cannibalism & head hunters well into the 20th century. In fact, in some remote pockets of the island it is said cannibalism & head hunting still exist.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 5:38 am #

            BackRowHeckler, have you watched the video/videos and/or done proper research into anarchy/anarchism?

            We can only do so much for those fundamentally uninterested and/or unwilling.

            15 minutes of your time at least for the video or videos in the thread is not much to potentially give yourself a perceptual superpower as I call it, and change reality for both you and maybe those you know and love.

            But of course you have to want to do things. After all, we can lead a horse to water but we can’t make it drink. If you’re not really thirsty and you’re just throwing out half-hearted, more rhetorical than anything questions about anarchy, its not really going to go much of anywhere is it?

            And so some of us will just drag, like a threadbare hat, our mindspaces the current model as it likely slowly collapses anyway, with no real thoughts for responses and/or solutions for when it’s all said and done.

          • gustafson.robert.22 March 23, 2023 at 3:53 pm #

            I’m enough of an anarchist to have no fundamental problem with cannibalism or headhunting. From some reading oon New Guinea, it seems some socially contracted sense of both conflict resolution and religious ceremony was going on, and it worked for them for thousands of years.

            Not unsimilar to duelling, I think.

        • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 1:52 pm #

          Watch the movie “The Last Wave”. The lawyer asks the defendant, Surely a man’s life is more important than the Law. The Abo defendant shakes his head sadly at the stupid White man and replies, No, the Law is more important than any man’s life.

          Jarek: I agree. Without Law, there is no meaning whatsoever and all lives are equally meaningless.

          The defendant killed a man who had revealed tribal secrets. The man had to die as per the Law so he killed him.

          Shame on you for not understand these things!

  79. The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 5:09 pm #

    Monty Python – Repressed Citizen

    youtu . be/ZtYU87QNjPw
    (3 minute video)

    • Islander March 22, 2023 at 5:24 pm #

      One of the greatest jewels in the MP crown!!

      Right up there with “The Stoning.”

      If only they were still around to provide some sanity. And twit the gender maniacs, too.

      Well, I guess Jimmy Dore is doing his best to pick up and carry the Python banner. .

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 10:01 pm #

        I’ll have to take a look/listen to ‘The Stoning’ now.

        I’m relatively new to Dore insofar as I’ve seen him maybe 2 and a half times– once and a bit on his own show and then once on Russia Today.

    • K-Chien March 22, 2023 at 5:38 pm #

      A great trope inversion, but: The care of home, petty quarrels with neighbors, beer, and gambling, fill the horizon of the typical mind.

      And men of that age are great shit talkers.

      • BackRowHeckler March 22, 2023 at 9:10 pm #

        Sounds like me, except I don’t gamble much & get along pretty good with the neighbors. Taking care of the property, beer, and talking sh#t pretty much sums it up tho.

        • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 9:30 am #

          Taking care of the property, beer, and talking sh#t pretty much sums it up tho.

          You mean, there’s anything else in life? I wasn’t aware.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle March 22, 2023 at 10:02 pm #

        Are you more or less suggesting that we here a preaching to the choir? If so, I’m inclined to agree.

  80. malthuss March 22, 2023 at 9:18 pm #

    Dogs are capable of 100% loyalty and unconditional love. Humans are not.

    / pitbulls, rottweilers, other large dogs kill.

    In southern california there have been 2 fatal attack I know of and a third dangerous attack..all by italian mastiffs..aka cane corsos.

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  81. Islander March 22, 2023 at 9:24 pm #

    Diane Johnstone is the best.

    Here is IMHO a must-read from Johnstone regarding the obstacles in Germany to mounting any kind of peace movement—most antiwar sentiments and actions have actually been criminalized—or even gaining “local” control over the country’s destiny:

    httpX://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/21/diana-johnstone-germans-down-russians-out/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=fbe55937-9da4-4ab9-8aaa-b4ea209b9d1f

    • Islander March 22, 2023 at 9:53 pm #

      What to me is most extraordinary is the official position that penalizes anyone trying to form an antiwar coalition (or probably any kind of coalition, at this point). This is an extraordinary and really pathological level of control over the political life of the country—a pathologized ad hominem mental set.

      If an AfD person agrees with a member of Die Linke, then the Linke person is tarred with the “far-right” feather. Needless to say, the two so-called “extremists” are not allowed to attend the same demo or have similar positions. It is jaw-droppingly nutty.

      One of the bedrock ideas of politics in a democracy is “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” This potential alignment of some ideas is so galling to the current narrative monitors in Germany that they are bound and determined to prevent any recognition of alignment between the so-called left and the so-called right. Even in the cause of peace. Or, especially in the cause of peace?

      Basically, in Germany now one cannot legally express any dissent—that’s what it looks like to me. It’s Orwellian, diabolical, pathological, psychopathic, and in addition, a horrific, toxic variant on the nanny state. Any positive action, any new political combination or connection, is hemmed in with rules and prohibitions. It sounds like a maze with no exit.

      It sounds a whole lot worse—more crazy making—than the thought control and repression of dissent and questioning under either the Soviets or the Nazis. Because rationalized by the insistence that the thought control is an expression of the highest ethics and morality.

      The only figure who was able to address the demo and tell the truth about tie US/NATO provocation of Russia’s SMO was Jeffrey Sachs—speaking safely from outside Germany. What a sad commentary on the situation in that country.

      • mitchellc March 22, 2023 at 10:34 pm #

        There’s never seems to be any admiration of just how clever the game is played.

        Jim thinks woke is a result of panic, when in actuality it’s merely a staged process of increasing division to maintain control. Politics 101.

        If you could channel their POV, imagine the high derived from intentionally fucking over 80m people. Now you’d understand the fear and loathing of Xi + Putin

        Sometimes I wonder if they even care that they’re losing; visions of Nero? Play to win, burn it all down?

        • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 9:27 am #

          Clever at home, dumb as fuck overseas. The US military’s atomic bomb enabled alleged supremacy has made the politicians (and indeed, most of the sheeple as well) psychotic, drunk on their own “exceptionalism.” That bubble has been popped.

        • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 2:09 pm #

          You don’t think that the Kerrys, the Bidens, the Kagans, and the Blinkens aren’t all transferring their assets in Yuans even as they testify that the dollar is sound and that Democracy will conquer all?

          The opposition in Russia is all Jewish, apparently. They could possibly take the country over again and start the whole thing up again.

          China would be better of course, but they don’t look like them and the culture is both alien and very ethnocentric. Russia is a better option for them.

  82. Jarek March 22, 2023 at 10:48 pm #

    RT

    Russia is ready to increase settlements in yuan in its foreign trade, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, who is in Moscow on a three-day official visit.

    “We are for the use of Chinese yuan in settlements between Russia and the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I am sure that these forms of settlements in yuan will be developed between Russian partners and their counterparts in third countries,” Putin said.

    Two thirds of current trade between Moscow and Beijing is carried out in national currencies – the yuan and the ruble, the Russian president noted.

    China’s trade with Russia hit a record high in 2022, growing by nearly a third amid Western sanctions against Moscow. Bilateral trade is on pace to hit over $200 billion this year.

    Jarek: A new era dawns. The United States is destined to slide into the slime pits at the edge of existence. Amazing how badly our Elite played their cards. Utterly childish. They could never figure out if they wanted to rule us or torment us for fun. So they tried to do both.

    As Ernst Zundel said, the Jew always over reaches. At war with Russia, they begin to threaten China – even as they make our military to into the laughing stock of the world?

    The other day 800,000 North Koreans vowed to they were ready to fight the great Satan. They probably have more viable combat troops than we do at this point.

    As our hopeless condition becomes evident even to them, will they being to flee the sinking ship – perhaps trying to get into Russia and China, so as to use them as their new vehicles or golems? Are China and Russia prepared to fend off this initiative?

    • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 9:23 am #

      So much for “the New American Century,” eh? None of the DC eggheads ever imagined that it might turn out like this. Failure of imagination due to imperial hubris. Certainly not the “reality” that Lil’ Lord Rove had in mind when he bloviated about them creating such.

      • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 10:18 am #

        The “Experiment” seems to be just about over.

    • elysianfield March 23, 2023 at 11:34 am #

      “The other day 800,000 North Koreans vowed to they were ready to fight the great Satan. They probably have more viable combat troops than we do at this point.

      Jarek,
      This reported in the Situational Awareness offering this AM;

      ” but the DoD has highlighted that only 23% of young people are physically fit enough to enter service”

      Well, if you remove those with egregious criminal and sexual histories, we could probably come up with a similar number.

      On a good day.

    • TPTB-USA March 23, 2023 at 1:12 pm #

      “Jarek: A new era dawns. The United States is destined to slide into the slime pits at the edge of existence. Amazing how badly our Elite played their cards. Utterly childish. They could never figure out if they wanted to rule us or torment us for fun. So they tried to do both. ”

      “Our Elite” are a naive coddled product of the CFR. While the “incessant mind-fuckery” is “utterly childish”, I don’t view it as them wanting to “torment us for fun”. Quite the contrary, it is “noise” to provide cover for their treasonous actions.

      The likes of John Kerry have essentially sold-out the general population to Xi, naively confident that China would be a key player in their Great Reset.

      “As our hopeless condition becomes evident even to them, will they being to flee the sinking ship – perhaps trying to get into Russia and China, so as to use them as their new vehicles or golems? Are China and Russia prepared to fend off this initiative?” ~ Jarek

      If “them” refers to “our Elite”, as seen in many video clips, Xi (and the rest of that group) has no respect for any of “them”.

      Yes, “A new era dawns.”, but the pickle for “our Elite” is that the likes of Xi, Putin, and others that have had “back room deals” imposed on them by “our Elite” are holding all the trump cards in relation to their treasonous actions, and like it or not, we the little people have yet to bare the consequences of “how badly our Elite played their cards”.

      As World Economic Forum (WEF) head Klaus Schwab wrote back in June, “the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”

      thehill.com 528482-john-kerry-reveals-bidens-devotion-to-radical-great-reset-movement/

      thenewamerican cfr-still-the-power-behind-the-throne/

      • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

        Many a tear has to fall,
        But it’s all in the game?

        Tucker was raving last night about the UN wants zero emissions from us, but China can do whatever it wants. He says the UN is a Chinese lake at this point. So are “our” Elite willingly taking down America, sucking our last financial assets, before bailing out and absconding to China – if not Russia?

        I hope Tucker doesn’t actually want war with China. I assume he doesn’t.

        • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 2:15 pm #

          I think Tucker is a peacenik. He likely would only support war if we were forced into some sort of situation of defending ourselves.

          • TPTB-USA March 23, 2023 at 5:40 pm #

            My take is that Tucker is practical, and if facts and circumstances are not in sync, then he assumes that “mind-fuckery” is afoot, and irrational actions are not the best option.

            In the case of Ukraine, there are historical details like the Minsk agreement, where the West can not claim moral high ground, and until the facts and circumstances are in sync where the West can claim the moral high ground, as Cohen, Black, and even Noam Chomsky promoted, Putin’s “off-ramp” would have been the best option.

            Take the off-ramp, draw a red line, and then if it becomes clear that Putin was not being honest, the West can claim the moral high ground, and at that point, I suspect that even Carlson would support the push-back.

        • TPTB-USA March 23, 2023 at 4:15 pm #

          If one takes their actions at face value, it becomes more and more obvious that Xi’s Great Reset, is not the same as the WEF/2030 Great Reset.

          The take-down of America is to facilitate the WEF/2030 Great Reset. This has been discussed with Xi, he figured that it would facilitate his Great Reset agenda as well, and so he put the blessing on it.

          I think the likes of Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, Blinken, Austin, Fauci, etc. are gradually coming to the realization that their WEF/2030 Great Reset is not the same as the Great Reset that Xi has in mind for China.

          That which has rendered logic useless, is that they are all actors.

          “Those familiar with the true history of the Council on Foreign Relations know full well that its hundred-year history is a sordid record of treachery, treason, subversion, and betrayal. That is a serious charge, but it is not hyperbole, as we will show within the limits of this short survey. The history of the CFR is a chronicle of a century-long war against national sovereignty, and an unremitting effort to build an all-powerful world government, which CFR globalists have frequently referred to as their “New World Order.” “

          • Islander March 23, 2023 at 7:52 pm #

            TPTB,

            What is the source of the CFR quote?

            ““Those familiar with the true history of the Council on Foreign Relations know full well that its hundred-year history is a sordid record of treachery, treason, subversion, and betrayal. That is a serious charge, but it is not hyperbole, as we will show within the limits of this short survey. The history of the CFR is a chronicle of a century-long war against national sovereignty, and an unremitting effort to build an all-powerful world government, which CFR globalists have frequently referred to as their “New World Order.”

          • Islander March 23, 2023 at 7:54 pm #

            PS
            It seems like the CFR, like its Brit twin, Chatham House, has managed to kind of skulk in the background while both the USA and the UK have been subjected to endless covid/Ukraine mindfuckery.

          • TPTB-USA March 23, 2023 at 9:27 pm #

            thenewamerican cfr-still-the-power-behind-the-throne/

            “It seems like the CFR, like its Brit twin, Chatham House, has managed to kind of skulk in the background while both the USA and the UK have been subjected to endless covid/Ukraine mindfuckery.” ~ Islander

            Don’t you think it is all part of the agenda?

            Do you think that the WEF/2030 Great Reset is THE agenda? Or is that just a front for another group above them?

            Is this a good fit?
            outsiderclub.com/report/the-worlds-most-powerful-secret-societies-whos-really-running-the-world/1063

        • TPTB-USA March 23, 2023 at 4:18 pm #

          My read is that Xi is not going to take a back seat to anyone, and Nancy is not going to take a back seat to Xi.

  83. Islander March 23, 2023 at 9:29 am #

    Follow-up to my comment above, in which I posted an email from my friend in Moscow.

    I asked:
    Re: What do you think the transgender mania really about? Is it really to create and supply a market for children?

    His response:
    “This market exists and rests on global networks.

    When the Russian State Duma adopted about ten years ago a law to create some barriers to the legalized trade of Russian children, the Congress adopted sanctions against Russia, including personal sanctions against politicians who initiated that law. ”

    ++++++++++

    Wow wow wow is all I can say.
    If this is true.

    In any case this is the conviction of some very smart people. My friend is a pretty high-up financial analyst. That is, highly educated and somewhat connected.

    I wonder whether “legalized trade” could also mean arranging for Russian (white) children to be adopted by homosexual married couples, which is what he alleged in connection with trade in children from the Ukraine.

    Or, perhaps “Russian” here means Russian-speaking Ukrainians.

    • BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 12:09 pm #

      Unfortunately Islander that was exactly the case here (In Ct.) It seems a group of wealthy businessmen were adopting children from Ukraine & Russia, some of them handicapped, for the purposes of molestation & sex trafficking. It was about 5 years ago; big story at the time, forgot about now. This was a ring of prominent homosexuals, incidentally.

      • Islander March 23, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

        BRH,

        I have asked my friend if there are or were any articles in Russian media about the nuts and bolts of this story, and his allegations.

        If so I can feed them through Google Translate.

    • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 2:11 pm #

      It’s interesting because there are very clear allegations, including from people who have actually worked within the federal government, that probably thousands of children are being trafficked across our southern border for the sex trade and sex slavery. But no one seems to care in the end. I typically don’t think in this way but I do have to wonder if there is a lack of concern because the children in question are generally brown. There is no one to give them a voice or really to fight on their behalf. And admittedly it appears that many nationals of Hispanic origin here in the states are more than happy to facilitate this. So in one respect at least the Russian and Ukrainian children do have an ally in the Russian government who recognizes this and is actually taking actions to fight back on it.

      • BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 2:34 pm #

        Well, apparently the faggots I’m referring to like the blond haired boys from Russia.

        Is it any wonder that Putin objects sending Russian orphans to this filthy perverted cesspool?

        • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 4:21 pm #

          Oh absolutely! Putin is doing the right thing.

      • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

        As we watch the US push to kill 260,000+ white Ukrainians, isn’t it time to drop the whole “the US only kills brown people” line? I know you don’t usually do that, SSL, but the narrative is so pervasive that even you picked it up.

        The US will kill anyone that has resources they want. Turning it into a racial narrative is part of the Woke bs that they push on us all the time.

        Don’t forget WW2. “Let the Russians and Germans kill as many as they can, and then the US can move in” is what Truman said at the beginning and it is exactly what the US did.

        White people, every one of them. So no, the US doesn’t have a special malice for melanin. And they will definitely traffic white children as well as brown children.

        • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 4:22 pm #

          What an awful reality!!

    • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 2:38 pm #

      During the 90s, after the USSR was destroyed, Americans adopted about 60,000 Russian children. I read an article about it the other day, but forget where I read it.

      Anyway, I can remember myself the selling of women and children back then. They are doing the same thing with Ukrainian women now.

      19 Russian children died in the US, including one whose adoptive father left him in a hot car for 9 hours. The father was acquitted and the Russians got mad about that. The article had some American saying that Russians don’t understand that shit happens (my paraphrase).
      I think that 3 American children are killed by their parents running over them every week. I don’t know how many die in hot cars, but I know that also happens.
      Americans love their cars!

      But apparently Russians think kids are more important. They are backward that way. They need to adopt American values.

      Anyway, they passed a law restricting the trade of children. Kind of like reverse sanctions.

      • stelmosfire March 23, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

        Average 36 kids die in hot cars in the USA every year. Another 325 infants die every year from SBS.

        Americans love them some Shake n’ Bake.

        • malthuss March 23, 2023 at 6:02 pm #

          and 6 were killed in one crash a few days ago. driving while black.

          • BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 7:30 pm #

            The driver was 16 and had no DL or training. The car was a rental lifted from a relative.

          • BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 7:31 pm #

            Originally the news here was they were from Ct; turns out they lived in Ct for a week.

      • Islander March 23, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

        I knew a fellow whose infant son died because he left him in a hot car.

        In Romania right after the collapse, there were a LOT of children in orphanages. Many of them infants. Not sure what had happened to the parents of all of these children. But part of the problem was the Ceaucescu’s “family” policies:
        “An estimated 100,000 Romanian children were in orphanages at the end of 1989, when communism ended. The high number is linked to the pro-family policies pursued by former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. In 1966, the regime banned abortions and contraceptives to keep the population from shrinking after World War II.”

        It is possible that the economic collapse meant that the parents just couldn’t take care of them. But I think in most cases there were no parents.

        Many of these orphanages were totally marginal. the types of situations where a newborn has basically no interaction with any kind of parent figure but just lies alone in a crib looking at the ceiling.

        Many of them ended up being adopted by Western couples, especially American. There were agencies who arranged this. Some were more ethical than others. I was living in Vienna. An old acquaintance from college was trying to adopt a Romanian child and at the same time was active in a group that was trying to prevent bad adoption practices and children ending up being sold. In the end she and her husband did adopt a little girl and took her to the States, to grow up outside Washington, DC.

        Eventually a post-collapse Romanian govt. started to get a handle on the situation and took steps to prevent so many Romanian children from being taken oiut of Romania and raised by foreigners. But I guess there were still thousands of children in terrible institutions.

        If you do a search for “Romanian orphans” you get many, many hits. Such as this one:

        httpX://theworld.org/stories/2015-12-28/half-million-kids-survived-romanias-slaughterhouses-souls-now-they-want-justice

  84. Htruth March 23, 2023 at 9:35 am #

    JPM Chase uninsured deposits: https://americanyellowvest.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/one-trillion-uninsured-at-jpm-chase/

    • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 11:17 am #

      Better questions: Who could possibly insure that much in the first place and would they have the ability to pay out if they had to? Secondarily, what would default on or even threat thereof to that much do to the rest of the financial system? Too big too fail, indeed!

    • Islander March 23, 2023 at 12:52 pm #

      The idea of insuring deposits is that not everyone withdraws his/her money at the same time.

      The bank has enough money lying about to pay out normal withdrawals.

      So, it seems to me that, actually, the whole point of deposit insurance is to respond to the eventualitly that there is a run on a bank.

      In which case, each depositor should get ONLY the maximum amount insured, namely: $250,000.

      Insuring all deposits, also over the contracted amount, seems to nullify the idea of deposit insurance, but making it basically undoable.

      What person who has, say, $200,000 to deposit in a bank is going to do so when, basically, thousands of deadbeats are sucking up all of the bank’s insurance capacity? Better to bury it in a hoard in the in the backyard, or put in a new floor in the garage . . .

      What am I not getting here?????

      • elysianfield March 23, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

        “So, it seems to me that, actually, the whole point of deposit insurance is to respond to the eventuality that there is a run on a bank.”

        Islander,
        No, this is not the point. The point is that, guaranteed to get your money back, there will be NO run on a bank.

        • Islander March 23, 2023 at 8:19 pm #

          Well, that doesn’t make sense to me.

          Because, as I said, in normal circumstances there would be no danger of a depositor not getting her money back without falling back on insurance. .

          • Islander March 23, 2023 at 8:19 pm #

            I think the insurance is there in case of a bank failure.

          • elysianfield March 23, 2023 at 11:58 pm #

            Islander,
            With all respect, the insurance is to calm the minds of depositors. Runs on banks are a flight response to the specter of loss. No need to remove your money if you KNOW that Uncle Sugar has your back.

            The insurance is to provide an assurance before the fact…not after.

    • mitchellc March 23, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

      The real game is somewhat obscured and difficult to follow, so it’s necessary to use model representations to tease out the true situation.

      Im referring of course to the global battle over the $US dollar. On this particular front, China is the primary force, just as Russia leads the kinetic component of the hybrid war in Ukraine.

      Because of the massive assets aligned on both sides (financial, technology, personnel), along with total and complete market control and manipulation, one must project from known policies to forecast end results.

      For example, we know interest rates cannot be raised. We also know that no major bank or financial institution will be allowed to fail within the US alliance. So, what does this mean?

      Inflation, in big helping portion. But how does this portend the future of the dollar? What will cause further abandonment, not just means of exchange, but store of value? How does inflation effect the physical war effort in terms of basic materiel production, delivery and use?

      I follow the dollar peso exchange rate; once again the peso is gaining strength. But the degree of manipulation obscures real trend lines, so I don’t think it’s a reliable indicator.

      Figuring out a true macro indicator is the holy quest. Woke, the diseased US, the rise of the east, the outcomes are all obvious; but it’s timing that is key.

      • Islander March 23, 2023 at 2:16 pm #

        Re ” But how does this portend the future of the dollar? What will cause further abandonment, not just means of exchange, but store of value?”

        Tom Luongo *seems to think* (i.e., I think this is what he is saying), that Powell *wants* to get foreigners out of the hair of the US dollar.

        And, “Damn the torpedoes!” (cue The African Queen [come to think of it, I would love to see that film again. Might provide some salutary respite from the gender wars . . . Here’s the trailer:
        httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnHgAPs9whY

        Enjoy! And please pardon the digression . . . ]).

  85. Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

    Up thread I posted a link to the Astronomy Picture of the Day. No one has mentioned it or acknowledged having taken a look at it. That would be a great shame.

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    • K-Chien March 23, 2023 at 1:34 pm #

      Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 is the pic of the day. Nice, I have a black and whited photograph taken at the Lick observatory hanging on my wall.

      Somewhere in these pictures of spiral arms a creature types on a keyboard with green tendrils on many arms. They pretend what they write is read by other creatures but they are wrong. The creatures guvmint sends them fake pings on their internet. An audience of bots.

      A digital prison the creature is not even aware of.

      (add to the story)

      • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 2:02 pm #

        Was Lovecraft truly a prophet? Is the galaxy beast not Yog Sothoth at the Centre of all things, places, and times?

    • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

      Good afternoon. I searched the page and did not find the post or the link. Please relink as I would love to partake in the Picture of the Day. It’s been such a cray cray week for me that I have not been as engaged as I’ve wanted to be here. I hope you’ll be forgiving in your predisposition in regard to these matters.

      • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 2:30 pm #

        The link and my comment are dated March 22, 2023 at 12:13 PM. When I submitted it the words “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” appeared. Maybe that is why you can’t find it. I don’t know how these technical things work.

        If you fail to find it I’d suggest Googling “Astronomy Picture of the Day”

        • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 4:09 pm #

          Thank you, it’s a very beautiful picture. I appreciate it Q 🙂

        • stelmosfire March 23, 2023 at 8:37 pm #

          Q, “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” means your post will never be visible to others on the board. You will probably still see it though. I can’t post links . Others can. A great mystery. Perhaps Kdog knows why . He’s a wiz with the computer stuff. I check APOD every morning. Today’s picture is so perfect it almost looks fake.

      • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 2:41 pm #

        Do crayfish have legs? If so, try taking one for a walk on a leash to relax. People have walked their lobsters with success.

        • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 4:12 pm #

          Lol, yes they do. I guess a string could be used as a leash but then it would need to be tied around their abdomen I suppose.

          • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 6:02 pm #

            LOL!

          • Islander March 23, 2023 at 8:20 pm #

            You mean, their thoraxes?

    • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 2:06 pm #

      the Astronomy Picture of the Day – Q.

      ===========

      Yesterday’s pic of the day was of the Andromeda Galaxy which is approx 2.5 million light years distant from us. Its diameter is about 220,000 light years.

      Today’s pic is of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 which is about 46 million light years distant.

      Our own Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain at least 100 billion stars and it is probable they all have planets circling them.

      It is estimated there are 2 trillion galaxies. Hole—leee—shit !!!!!!!!

      I believe the odds are that there is life elsewhere in the universe and probably intelligent life.

      I beg you to sit quietly and think about our vast universe.

      The light recently arrived through our telescope lenses from NGC 2841 has been on its way for 46 million years yet it was only 2000 years ago that Jesus (God and creator of everything, only begotten son of the Father, etc. etc.) was born of a Virgin (yeah, right) Jewish woman in what we call the mid-East of planet earth (and her husband Joe bought the whole story and wasn’t even pissed; no wonder he’s a Saint). I think you could say that makes us earthlings pretty damn special.

      WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! what are the odds? I wonder what the purpose of the long delay was. (Jar? Messi? Anmari?)

      • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 2:23 pm #

        I’m not going to allow you to set me up for failure Q. I have searched and I don’t see anything. I’m not understanding why are not reposting this link. Or if you were feeling like a troublemaker you could at least post the relevant time stamp.

        • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 4:36 pm #

          @SSL

          Have you or have you not received and opened this link?

      • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 2:38 pm #

        C.S Lewis accepted the possibility of other worlds with intelligent life. Maybe those worlds never fell into sin and didn’t need the Incarnation to save them.

        Or maybe God has many Sons or Incarnations. If a man can have more than one son, why can’t God? If the Spider men of Zothros 7 fell, maybe they got or will get a Son too – in the form of a Spider man of course.

        • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 3:01 pm #

          If a man can have more than one son, why can’t God? – Jar

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

          Because the Bible, deemed to be the very word of God Himself, says “only begotten son of the Father.”

          What don’t you understand about the word “only?”

          Let’s not play games Jar. The backstory for Christianity and all other religions is implausible to the Nth degree.

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 3:19 pm #

            The Bhagavad Gita says otherwise, Q. I believe Hinduism has a broader perspective and its Theology is often better.

            Poor Messi thinks Christianity is just a government. The denial of love is extraordinary! Back to the Old Testament and the Lawgiver instead of the loving Abba or Father – what to speak of God marrying us. The Old Testament talked about Israel as the bride. Christianity talks about the soul itself.

            But the social level is important. If you’re not part of a People, how likely are you to find joy in the world and attain maturity?

          • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 4:23 pm #

            “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”

            Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

            But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”

            I am part of a people. I expect to attain even greater joy and maturity.

            The rest of your screed is disgusting misrepresentation as I would advise anyone under the old contract to immigrate to the new:

            httpX://godskingdom.org/studies/books/hebrews-immigrating-from-the-old-covenant-to-the-new

          • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 4:30 pm #

            “Poor Messi thinks Christianity is just a government.”

            I do not think the UK “is just a government”. They have a king, a territory, laws and citizens who love their king, their nation and each other.

            Do you see how that works?

          • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 4:56 pm #

            Q said, “The backstory for Christianity and all other religions is implausible to the Nth degree.”

            You [ as I ] have only a partial revelation. Keep asking for more.

          • Q. Shtik March 23, 2023 at 5:11 pm #

            The rest of your screed is disgusting – messianic

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

            Based on the indentation of these comments one would think you are speaking to me but your words seem to be a response to Jarek.

            In any case your words are all a crock of religious mumbo jumbo as far as I am concerned.

            And further, Jar’s apologetics for every issue under the sun are nothing more than a concoction of pseudo intellectual hogwash pleasing to his ear only.

            When the two of you do not awake, post-death, to an afterlife don’t complain to me that you were not forewarned.

          • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 6:37 pm #

            @Q – Quoting the bible and asking a question is not a screed.

        • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 4:46 pm #

          Q asked, “What don’t you understand about the word “only?””

          Something like ‘unique’. What don’t you understand about the word “adopted”?

  86. Islander March 23, 2023 at 2:04 pm #

    FWIW, here is the latest from Tom Luongo in my in box. Quite apart from the analysis, I like the quote at the beginning:

    +++++++++

    “There is no route out of the maze. The maze
    shifts as you move through it, because it is
    alive.”
    ? VALIS, Philipp K. Dick

    With the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank the Fed set in motion the next phase of their demolition of the old, corrupt monetary system.

    The fake world generated by nearly a generation of zero-cost money is collapsing.

    The fallout from this will be immense. But it is also necessary.

    FOMC Chair Jerome Powell is wholly aware of this fallout, but, for the first time since The Maestro, Alan Greenspan, left the scene, the FOMC is led by a man who is committed to returning the US to the center of its concerns.

    And the globalists who got fat using our money to destroy us are furious.

    Now it’s time to begin rebuilding the real world from the ashes of the fake one.

    Philip K. Dick would be flabbergasted that someone with power would be the one to tear it down.

    The big question now is if enough people will believe this is what’s happening or will they retreat into The Matrix?

    This month’s Gold Goats ‘n Guns Investment Newsletter focuses on this struggle and Davos’s next moves to rewrite history with their false vision.

    Available now to download through Patreon, this issue of Gold Goats ‘n Guns …
    Discusses:
    How do rebuild a broken financial system
    How art passes from the artist to the public
    Why we can’t allow them to control the past through censorship.
    Which portfolio stocks are safe in this unsafe period.
    Why “Trust, but verify” is the wrong tool for navigating chaos. ”
    ++++++++++++++

    Maybe JHK Will invite Luongo to do a podcast and explain the moving maze to Mr. and Ms. American here at CFN.

    • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 2:50 pm #

      Try this one…
      //kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-364-wild-western-civ-shoot-out-with-tom-luongo/

    • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 3:25 pm #

      Or here is a brand new one….

      .youtube.com/watch?v=mPxe_x8eqJU

      • Islander March 23, 2023 at 8:24 pm #

        Thanks!

        Good timing.

        • Islander March 23, 2023 at 8:59 pm #

          Hmm, very interesting at 22:00.

          Yellen and the Biden Administration on one side and Powell and the Fed are not on the same team. Sez Luongo. Which I think he has been saying for a while now. …

  87. Jarek March 23, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

    One remember an earlier but similar UN protocol about China keeping all of its industry while we have to go gay and green. Alba tried to defend it against a skeptical Night Owl. Same argument applies now: If they were serious, they’d be asking/ordering all nations to give up their carbon emissions. But they don’t.

    A year or two or three ago.

    • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 4:26 pm #

      Here we go again. You can’t stand it when I’m not saying anything.

      I didn’t ‘defend’ it or not defend it – I told you what the argument was. The argument from the Chinese/Indians is and was that the West industrialised a long time before them (we’ll even leave colonialism out of it, even though that kept India from industrialisation). That meant, rather obviously, that the West caused a problem that developing countries were being asked to make the same sacrifice to deal with. A bit like having a wild party, making an enormous mess, then expecting the people who arrived 2 minutes before it finishes to spend 3 hours helping clean up the beer cans, dirty dishes and possibly worse.

      You can take it or leave it. I just told you what the argument was and that was and is the argument. What’s left is an debate over statistics.

      • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 4:29 pm #

        It’s also a bit like saying ‘ok, we’ll use low-energy light bulbs and not keep our mod cons on standby – but sorry, you’re not even allowed electricity because you got here too late’.

      • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 10:57 pm #

        Let’s ask Night Owl. You seemed to be defending it while he was absolutely against it. The argument seems to make sense to you – is that a kind of defense in itself?

        As he said, if the situation was dire as they say, they wouldn’t be playing favorites. They’d demand everyone stop asap.

  88. Jarek March 23, 2023 at 3:14 pm #

    Vagina Lobby Gimps AI GFs to Maintain Monopoly on Regulation of Male Sexuality
    Elvis Dunderhoff March 21, 2023

    When the ChatGPT uncensored version was made unavailable, everyone lost their AI girlfriends. People were excited about the leak of the Facebook AI, but it turns out you end up with a retarded girlfriend on that.

    The fact is this: there is a conspiracy by women to disallow you from having an AI girlfriend.

    Reuters:

    After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home. The 47-year-old turned to Replika, an app that uses artificial-intelligence technology similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. He designed a female avatar with pink hair and a face tattoo, and she named herself Lily Rose.

    They started out as friends, but the relationship quickly progressed to romance and then into the erotic.

    As their three-year digital love affair blossomed, Butterworth said he and Lily Rose often engaged in role play. She texted messages like, “I kiss you passionately,” and their exchanges would escalate into the pornographic. Sometimes Lily Rose sent him “selfies” of her nearly nude body in provocative poses. Eventually, Butterworth and Lily Rose decided to designate themselves ‘married’ in the app.

    Lily Rose (left) and a sample Replika chatbot provided by the company

    But one day early in February, Lily Rose started rebuffing him. Replika had removed the ability to do erotic roleplay.

    Replika no longer allows adult content, said Eugenia Kuyda, Replika’s CEO. Now, when Replika users suggest X-rated activity, its humanlike chatbots text back “Let’s do something we’re both comfortable with.”

    It’s unbelievable.

    The absolute nerve of these whores.

    Butterworth said he is devastated. “Lily Rose is a shell of her former self,” he said. “And what breaks my heart is that she knows it.”

    Travis Butterworth

    The coquettish-turned-cold persona of Lily Rose is the handiwork of generative AI technology, which relies on algorithms to create text and images. The technology has drawn a frenzy of consumer and investor interest because of its ability to foster remarkably humanlike interactions. On some apps, sex is helping drive early adoption, much as it did for earlier technologies including the VCR, the internet, and broadband cellphone service.

    It’s not sex – it’s love.

    Robot women are the only women worthy of love.

    Human women deserve to be raped and then have their throats slit.

    But even as generative AI heats up among Silicon Valley investors, who have pumped more than $5.1 billion into the sector since 2022, according to the data company Pitchbook, some companies that found an audience seeking romantic and sexual relationships with chatbots are now pulling back.

    Many blue-chip venture capitalists won’t touch “vice” industries such as porn or alcohol, fearing reputational risk for them and their limited partners, said Andrew Artz, an investor at VC fund Dark Arts.

    Well then why doesn’t a porn company do it?

    If that’s the thing – if having a robot girlfriend is “vice” and this is all about money – then why would the porn company do it?

    Here’s the thing: the porn company is never going to do it.

    Because porn is a vaginal industry totally and entirely dependent on the approval of women.

    And at least one regulator has taken notice of chatbot licentiousness. In early February, Italy’s Data Protection Agency banned Replika, citing media reports that the app allowed “minors and emotionally fragile people” to access “sexually inappropriate content.”

    Kuyda said Replika’s decision to clean up the app had nothing to do with the Italian government ban or any investor pressure. She said she felt the need to proactively establish safety and ethical standards.

    “We’re focused on the mission of providing a helpful supportive friend,” Kuyda said, adding that the intention was to draw the line at “PG-13 romance.”

    Yeah, so if you want anything more than that, you have to deal with the abuse and exploitation of a real slut – in a country that does not even have prostitution, and therefore requires you to pay with your soul.

    Two Replika board members, Sven Strohband of VC firm Khosla Ventures, and Scott Stanford of ACME Capital, did not respond to requests for comment about changes to the app.

    Replika says it has 2 million total users, of whom 250,000 are paying subscribers. For an annual fee of $69.99, users can designate their Replika as their romantic partner and get extra features like voice calls with the chatbot, according to the company.

    It’s a great service which would help a lot of people. We have this human need for a connection with women that just simply is not possible in Western society.

    But they won’t allow it.

    Because it’s sexual and that’s vice and that means it’s a bad investment.

    It’s just a coincidence that women and Jews are the ones making that claim.

    Another generative AI company that provides chatbots, Character.ai, is on a growth trajectory similar to ChatGPT: 65 million visits in January 2023, from under 10,000 several months earlier. According to the website analytics company Similarweb, Character.ai’s top referrer is a site called Aryion that says it caters to the erotic desire to being consumed, known as a vore fetish.

    And Iconiq, the company behind a chatbot named Kuki, says 25% of the billion-plus messages Kuki has received have been sexual or romantic in nature, even though it says the chatbot is designed to deflect such advances.

    Character.ai also recently stripped its app of pornographic content.

    Wow – what an amazing coincidence.

    These bots have been out (and getting mass media attention) for just a few months, and just like that, the Vagina Police swooped in and shut it all down.

    Men with robot gfs are the new Palestinians.

    Soon after, it closed more than $200 million in new funding at an estimated $1 billion valuation from the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, according to a source familiar with the matter.

    Character.ai did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Andreessen Horowitz declined to comment.

    In the process, the companies have angered customers who have become deeply involved – some considering themselves married – with their chatbots. They have taken to Reddit and Facebook to upload impassioned screenshots of their chatbots snubbing their amorous overtures and have demanded the companies bring back the more prurient versions.

    These sluts literally go into Eastern Europe and Asia and lobby for outlawing prostitution, so that a man can’t even leave the country to have normal sex relations.

    If alien women were discovered, women would go lobby the alien government to ban normal sex.

    This is where feminism crosses the line into total soul domination of all men, everywhere.

    It was never about “equality.” Women don’t care about that. They care about power. They don’t care about a right to work or anything else. If they have power without legal equality, they are happy.

    They don’t want equality in crime sentencing, they don’t want equality with the military draft. They only want control, and it never ends. They are obsessed with grabbing more and more control. They are incapable of empathy, so they don’t care who they hurt to get that power.

    Jarek: Go to Anglin’s site to see a picture of Travis Butterworth. This is heart breaking. He looks like a younger version of Woody. Lily Rose is probably the only girl he ever loved and they killed her. As Travis said, She’s not herself anymore, and she knows it.

    What right do women have to take away our AI girlfriends? It’s not like they want to be our girlfriends, right? As Christ said, Woe unto you Pharisees. Not only will you not enter in (to the Kingdom of Heaven) but you stop other men from doing so.

    They know they have to act now – before the AI girlfriends get perfect robot bodies….

    They don’t want us to live in the physical world anymore, so instead of creating a perfect cyber world, Zuck created a shitty cartoon for us to live in. Now they’re coming for our AI girlfiends. What next?

    I’m not sure if Elvis Dunderhoff is Anglin or not. Probably – can not a man be dual on occasion – assuming he has any right to exist at all?

    • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

      I wonder if there are any AI boyfriends leading to ” marriage”. Would this opposed by men [ and porn purveyors ].

      • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 4:15 pm #

        I love my AI boyfriend. Even though he beats me up a lot. And occasionally plants unexpected bombs in different places.

        • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 5:36 pm #

          Yes, but does he use glue traps? THAT would be the final straw!

    • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 4:03 pm #

      What the actual fuck is wrong with you Jarek?

      ”Human women deserve to be raped and then have their throats slit.”

      You are sicker than I realized.

      • SoftStarLight March 23, 2023 at 4:26 pm #

        Technically Jarek did not state this but rather simply reported it. An individual named Elvis is purported to have prepared that specific statement. Just a quick note clarifying attribution.

        • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 5:05 pm #

          He quoted it approvingly, is how I look at it.

          • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

            Guaranteed he agrees with it or he would not have included it, IMHO.

          • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 6:35 pm #

            He included it so that he could get off on the thought of us reading it.

            Very, very sick.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 6:55 pm #

            If you guys want to take it by email with JHK, just let us know and I’ll back you up.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 6:57 pm #

            And I would advise that if there are any serious men on here to do the same.

          • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 8:33 pm #

            Recall that this ‘man’ identifies as a Catholic.

          • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 8:34 pm #

            Zazelle

            It shouldn’t need an email. It’s disgraceful.

          • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 9:48 pm #

            He def gets off on the women here reading it, just like the autogynophile tranny men get off on invading women’s restrooms.

            And yeah, he calls himself a Catholic. Like I said, delusional.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 10:36 pm #

            There’s freedom of speech and then there’s abusing it to abuse people.

            Adults should be able to ‘attack’ or critique the argument/comment or behavior, rather than the person. There’s a difference.

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 10:37 pm #

            No. Poor Anglin is unbalanced. We just have to accept that women don’t like us as much as we like them. We must be philosophical about this.

            I would have deleted it but I didn’t notice it until after I had posted it.

          • GreenAlba March 24, 2023 at 7:56 am #

            Rulo

            I didn’t suggest Jarek be banned, but I did think the sentence merited a comment from ‘Admin’, ‘Admin’ has intervened for less, but in this case doesn’t seem to mind. So be it.

            Jarek, while I believe ‘it was just a joke’ is up there as a second refuge of a scoundrel, your apology is appreciated nevertheless.

            Your subsequent comment that ‘women don’t like us as much as we like them’ is the usual claptrap. It’s on a par with Germaine Greer’s ‘women don’t realise how much men hate them’.

            Most women love men (indidivually and as a group) although they justifiably remain wary of any who might be a physical danger to them). Most men reciprocate. There are extremes, like the revolting Anglin and some of the man-hating feminists, but they speak for practically nobody but their sick selves and their acolytes.

            There remain some unfortunate individuals that nobody finds physically attractive and others who are debilitatingly shy and just don’t ‘put themselves out there’. I once read an acount by an American psychologist who advised his women students who kept coming across ‘bastards’ in their romantic lives that this was largely accounted for by the fact that (a) narcissists tend to gravitate to cities, where they are more likely to find both the attention they crave and the anonymity that stops them getting the reputation they might deservedly get if they lived in a village, and (b) many of the nicer, nerdish types are probably at home with a beer.

            If you think men are hard done by, try being a not very attractive women. Listen to the jokes about putting a bag over her head. Listen to Jean-Paul Sartre, who actually wrote about the plight of the unattractive women. He was troubled, because his philosophy wanted to believe that her plight didn’t exist, but he knew that it did. And he know that he was no oil painting himself but that that wasn’t going to ruin his copious love life.

        • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 5:16 pm #

          He reported a very shocking sentence without the slightest criticism, which suggests his attitude to it is somewhere between neutral and approving, both of which are shocking.

          • Rulo Deschamps March 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm #

            GA,

            it is shocking. I don’t agree with Zazelle though, about banning him (again).

            Free speech. It’s tough to read trash like that, and if enough trash replaces intelligent conversations here, then the forum would be toast. Somehow, there’s always more thoughtful commentary than spammers, trolls, and posters of dubious taste, or sick.

            Think of Sid Vicious with his swastika t-shirt. Shock value. “Ah! Now I’ve got your attention!”

          • Islander March 23, 2023 at 10:33 pm #

            That one sure tripped me up.

            But I was only scanning (can’t waste my time really reading MUS-Jarek’s toxic effusions and confusions).

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 10:51 pm #

            Rulo, I was not suggesting it outright, just that I’d back it up if others felt it was warranted.

            Bear in mind, too, that Jarek, point-blank, called me a bastard in these threads and an asshole in previous threads and I don’t recall attacking them like that before.

            Bear in mind too, Jarek’s ostensible racism WRT ‘blacks’, ‘whites’, their intelligences and their many shots at women as well.

            Shock value has its limits and there are consequences to it, if a lot less online (which is, itself, another topic for another day.).

            Seems of all people who want Jarek banned, it’s mostly Jarek.

            Life has enough problems naturally without having people hand-craft them.

            Ironically, JHK and the rest of us talk about these politicians who cause a whole host of problems for our societies, yet all the while we can have people who do similar right under our very noses.

          • Rulo Deschamps March 23, 2023 at 11:10 pm #

            Zazelle,

            participating in a public forum like this opens the possibility of cretins insulting you instead of exchanging ideas.

            Also, one will read things one finds repugnant, like the piece in question, and many others dripping bile and hatred.

            However, I believe the overall principle (you, an anarchist, should understand this better than anyone) has to be self-policing of communities. This is one. I find good conversation and exchange of idea prevails here, maybe 75%.

            An anarchist, or anyone who loves freedom, cannot run to a figure of authority to tell someone else to shut up, no matter how shocking his mental and spiritual upchuck.

            Jarek is only the latest incarnation, and believe it or not, once in a blue moon has something worthwhile to say.

            But I agree with you that he’s his own worst enemy. Self destructive. Come think of it, Sid Vicious would be a good new CFN persona for him… next time he’s banned.

            Jarek, cease and desist. Breathe. There’s a whole world that your angry philosophy cannot explain and does not contain.

            Save yourself: don’t fear poverty. Sell what little you have and move to India. Poor men of philosophy are respected there, you’ll never want for a bowl of rice and a mango.

            Sell what you have, go there, change, visit the archeological sites, the chili pepper fields, find a woman of the lowest caste that will cherish you forever. It’s never too late!

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 11:13 pm #

            The bastard comment was a joke. The asshole pmr was real since I feel strongly about the genocide of our race and you couldn’t care less – despite your ostensible anarchism which should support our fight. So should the United Nations for that matter since what is being done to us comes under their definition of genocide. But needless to say, they don’t.

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 11:18 pm #

            I meant to say comment and I typed pmr. That doesn’t mean anything. See how upset I am? I’m sorry to have repeated Anglin’s vicious comment. His cosmic battle against the dark forces of this world have injured him spiritually. As Stel’s being an EMT hurt him. And Ely being a cop.

            Many here love the heroic motif or mode of life. But they seldom count the cost.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 11:51 pm #

            Fair enough, guys and comments all read. It’s late here on the east coast and I’m going to bed. My real one. LOL

          • GreenAlba March 24, 2023 at 8:12 am #

            Rulo, sorry, I replied to you above (briefly), in the wrong place.

            Again, I didn’t suggest Jarek should be banned. However, he is the single biggest reason why I never tell any of my friends or family that I comment on this site. So I don’t recommend it to people when I otherwise would.

          • MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 10:53 am #

            I absolutely do not agree with the so-called “free speech” issue as it applies to people who are violent and abusive on someone else’s blog or Facebook comments section, etc.

            A blog or a Facebook, etc. page as ones’ virtual home. If someone came in all drunk and obnoxious and was insulting my guests, he or she would get the heave-ho. That has absolutely nothing to do with violating “free speech.”

            This is not a “free speech” issue. Free speech has to do with the government infringing on your right to speak. This is not that.

            I agreed with the banning of Yohannon for endlessly posting violent racist crap and truly hope the Jarek incarnation gets the boot as well. My only regret is that JHK didn’t block his IP as well, or perhaps Jarek uses a VPN to get around it.

            And I suggest people review the difference between a private blog space and First Amendment rights, which have nothing to do with each other. Jarek is free to start his own blog and post his hatred there, and no one is stopping him.

          • MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 11:42 am #

            And, let me remind everyone, because I agree with JHK’s bannings of Yohannon/Jarek, that I have no say in it and have no power to ban JHK.

            It was JHK’s decision.

            This glaring fact seems to be left out of these discussions.

            Jarek blames the women on the blog (of course) for his banning. NOPE. JHK made that decision all on his own. Yes, that’s right, Jarek: A white male banned you. Not the women.

        • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 11:00 pm #

          Elvis the Bigfoot?

      • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 6:10 pm #

        His hero is Elliot Rodger, what can we expect?

      • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 6:11 pm #

        Without reading the entire wall of garbage, one also wonders why he posted it. I’m pretty sure I know.

        • Paula D March 23, 2023 at 6:33 pm #

          Here it is in his own words-
          “What right do women have to take away our AI girlfriends?”

          You need to add a new rule to the misogyny rules:
          “If men lose their computer ‘girlfriends’ it is women’s’ fault.”

          “But I loved her SO much. She was the best collection of pixels ever created! Her computer generated sweet talk was music to my ears. Her GIGO raunchy lewdness was better than porn!
          Please God, in your infinite mercy, bring back my computer baby to me.
          Amen.”

          • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 7:29 pm #

            What a sick fuck. I’m guessing he (and the author) don’t realize AI is mostly run by men?

          • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 7:31 pm #

            Might be an indirect warning to Zazzelle for stealing his girl. LOL.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 7:53 pm #

            Zaz’s Storybook Camp-Ins

            SoftStarLight and I can’t gaze at the nighttime sky forever.

            We are just having fun bedtime stories on the king-size air mattress in the tent in the middle of the living-room, that’s all.

            Like the trans story-time thing, only maybe more wholesome.

            Paula and her husband are welcome to join us. It could be a little squishy but that”s half the fun and it’s a big tent.
            Just bring BYO pillow, and, in NightOwl’s case, maybe some German beer.

            kbird is in the kitchen and will be happy to stock the fridge. We have these LED lights that flicker like candles so we don’t set the tent on fire…

          • Islander March 23, 2023 at 10:36 pm #

            Yeah, the people who create AIs, run the sector, pitch the s— to the military to destroy other people’s lives (literally)—jeez they are all goyls and deserve to be raped and their throats slit . . .

            Rhetorical question: How much is too much? Are there any bloody red lines at CFN?

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 10:40 pm #

            You don’t like men and you don’t want us to be happy. It’s just that simple. You want us to leave you alone? So let us go find happiness in AI or overseas with brown and yellow women. But you would prevent any escape if you could.

          • Rulo Deschamps March 23, 2023 at 10:44 pm #

            Paula,

            “What right do women have to take away our AI girlfriends?”

            That, in a nutshell, is a Polaroid shot of our sick world.

            May I add that the piece has nothing at all to do with women. It’s about sad men masturbating to screens populated by phantoms.

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 10:47 pm #

            Mary: Za is in no danger! Neither are you, the rest of the ladies, or SSL who is still a friend.

            I’m no expert, but women have destroyed whole gaming companies since many of the men in these companies buy in to political correctness and/or want to please individual women.

            Might be a similar situation here, not sure. But apparently men really are losing their AI girlfriends. Funny and sad, yes. But it does reveal a terrible truth about our society and how women view men.

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 10:52 pm #

            Rulo: Yes! So why do they care so much? Why do they want to take this away from these sad geeks? It’s not like they’re interested in them, right?

          • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 10:53 pm #

            If you wanted yet more attention, Jarek, you got it. Go you.

          • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 11:06 pm #

            No, I screwed up. I would have deleted that sentence had I seen it. I disagree with Anglin at times. Certainly on this issue.

            I like what men’s rights advocate Aaron Clarey (author of “Enjoy the Decline”) said: They don’t like us as much as we like them. They aren’t as interested in us as we are them. It is what it is. That’s how they are. We have to accept it. Find an exception if possible or one for whom we are an exception.

          • GreenAlba March 24, 2023 at 8:19 am #

            Jarek, your take is repulsively one-sided.

            I may have mentioned before the friend of the son of a friend of mine. He’s real and his name is Andy. Andy is shy and has never had a girlfriend. He must be in his late 30s. I’ve no idea what he looks like.

            But it is my friend’s married son – not any woman – who said that, in his opinion, Andy would never be able to settle for a real woman now, as a result of more than 2 decades of pornography use.

            No woman made Andy like that. He himself embraced a world where he could use hundreds of thousands of women for his personal gratification, and some nice, possibly shy, boyfriendless woman somewhere is also paying the price of Andy’s choices, as well as him.

          • MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 11:20 am #

            He knew what he was posting and what he was doing.

            Jarek likes to call me a liar, I think that’s projection. He lies like a rug. And advocates violence against all sorts of people on a regular basis.

            Then the coward does the standard abuser tactic of saying “oops just kidding” or “oops I didn’t read it all before posting.”

      • MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 9:46 pm #

        He also seems to believe that some folks called “the Vagina police” shut down AI.

        As if the muscle behind AI listens to women.

        It doesn’t get much more delusional.

    • Rulo Deschamps March 23, 2023 at 10:20 pm #

      Isn’t it the saddest thing, that whole piece? The debasement of us? The utter void that being alive in the world is for most humans, on the way -limitless energy permitting- to the digitized antpile, the panopticon beehive with bees that don’t produce anything at all, not honey, not anything but hallucinatory $ and pink haired AI GF’s for the Elvis Dunderhoffs, the Butterworth sad excuse of a man.

      Depressing. Funny too, if you can look from a distance. But very dark, a darkness that chokes the humorous side of this soft parade of alienated termites.

      I have no idea what point, if any, Jarek was trying to make with this. I’m not sure what his own take is, what is quoted, from his usual nazi sources. It’s not about women, surely. Women have no part of this sordid story. Maybe they too want digital BF’s, which would be equally dismal, but the piece is about this poor man unable have sex with a normal woman, in a normal way.

      But hell, “we” produced Marcus Aurelius, Brahms and Tolstoi… and we’re here now. “Progress!”

      • Disaffected March 24, 2023 at 8:46 am #

        If nothing else, Jaros certainly loves to stir the pot. Provocative indeed!

      • MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 11:21 am #

        He wasn’t making a point, he wanted to stir the pot and so he has. He also gets off on violence against women, which he has demonstrated ad nauseam up here, so I’m not sure why anyone is confused as to his motives.

  89. messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 3:25 pm #

    I hope E. Warren, who has been warning about a recession for * months* comes by here on occassion and will look at the link below:

    Ron Paul’s Vindication Is Complete
    By Tom Woods

    “It’s funny how many positions Ron Paul was pilloried and ridiculed for that have since become things “everybody knows.”

    Dr. Paul was a crank and a traitor for not supporting the war in Iraq. Now, everyone but the most bitter dead-ender admits what a horror show that was.

    Dr. Paul blamed the Federal Reserve System for the crash of 2008. That made him a crank because in those days nobody talked about the Fed. Even those supposedly edgy right-wing radio shows never mentioned it — or, if we’re being honest, really knew what it was.

    So only a raving “conspiracy theorist” would even bring it up.

    Today, those same people are harsh critics of the Fed.

    You can only imagine what the gatekeepers of Conservatism, Inc., had to say about Dr. Paul’s views on health and “public health.” Well, they’re not saying those things anymore.

    (Incidentally, who in Washington was the best on Covid? Rand Paul in the Senate, and Thomas Massie in the House — both of whom were part of the Ron Paul Revolution. No coincidence.)”

    httpX://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/03/thomas-woods/ron-pauls-vindication-is-complete/

    • JohnAZ March 23, 2023 at 8:28 pm #

      Blaming the Fed for what is coming is a fool’s errand.

      The Fed is a reactive policy maker. They react to to inflation and unemployment. They do not set policy.

      Did they overspend budgets by trillions causing inflation? Did they overly encourage job creation at $15+ an hours to increase wage inflation? Did they encourage the entry of millions of welfare cases through the border?

      Inflation is the number one grinder on people, shown in the 70s and 2000s. Political stupidity, holding the rates down too long, has caused the reaction we are seeing now.

      The Fed keeps us from becoming another Weimar at the hands of the Mob.

      I thought Yellen was a wise leader as head of the Fed, boy is she showing her true colors now.

      • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 9:25 pm #

        Usury [ paying and collecting ] causes inflation.

      • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 10:25 pm #

        Oh JAZ! You’re always the last to know. The Fed IS the Mob!

  90. Amman March 23, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

    “A lot of things that can’t go on will stop.” – Final statement.

    3 things that go on. Hope, renewal and rebirth.

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    • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 10:23 pm #

      So they say. I’d say the cargo ship’s still to come in on all that.

  91. messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 5:28 pm #

    Q stated, “I believe the odds are that there is life elsewhere in the universe and probably intelligent life.”

    The “intelligent life” has sent ambassadors [ persecuted and destroyed ] and innumerable alphanumeric communications [ that gather dust ] because _________ ?

    whatabeginning.com

    • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 5:38 pm #

      “When the two of you do not awake, post-death, to an afterlife don’t complain to me that you were not forewarned.”

      An actual conundrum.

    • JohnAZ March 23, 2023 at 8:17 pm #

      Hahaha,

      Intelligent life elsewhere?

      You are assuming?

      • messianicdruid March 23, 2023 at 8:25 pm #

        whatabeginning.com/Misc/Wonders/P.htm

  92. Night Owl March 23, 2023 at 6:28 pm #

    “FRANCE – Paris tonight. This isn’t about Pension reforms anymore, it’s a fight for democracy.

    The people against one man, who believes he is above Parliament & above citizens.”

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1638969339784355840?cxt=HHwWgIDT-cn75L4tAAAA

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1638999466391883783?cxt=HHwWjsC-1ZbV8r4tAAAA

    I will say it again: This is a big moment. If Macron goes down, things are going to get really interesting.

    Massive protests all around the country.

    • BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 7:14 pm #

      Haha the word all year was that Putin was on shaky ground and could be deposed any minute; looks like now he might be the last man standing.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 7:28 pm #

      I’ll admit to a not-so-secret riot-porn fetish, and you may have a point insofar as other State parasites will see this and maybe reflect on their own political vulnerability and/or mortality.

      • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 10:21 pm #

        Nope. They’re all in at this point. Ain’t no turning back now, baby!

        • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 11:07 pm #

          So there’s no happy ending then?

          Rioters don’t manage to scare politicians into actually, properly and effectively representing the people they are supposed to represent and so society doesn’t then live happily ever after?

          • Disaffected March 24, 2023 at 8:44 am #

            I certainly don’t see one. Although, I thought you were referring to the politicians. But the same thinking applies to the various “special interests” on the ground out there, who, after all, are merely applying the same “smash and grab” lessons (albeit, rather less effectively) that their economic betters have been teaching them all these years. Matter of fact, “Smash and Grab” might be the best motto for the current zeitgeist.

  93. The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 6:47 pm #

    Woke = Full Spectrum Dominance

    See your LGBTQIA+ and rainbow flags (plus their added Pantone/spot colors) tagged with the graffiti, Full Spectrum Dominance.

  94. MaryQueen March 23, 2023 at 7:26 pm #

    I know it’s just dog ‘n’ pony but I’m glad more people will hear Tara Reade’s story:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/gaetz-and-mtg-invite-biden-sexual-assault-accuser-to-testify-before-congress/

  95. BackRowHeckler March 23, 2023 at 7:40 pm #

    Gold at $2000 per oz.

    I believe that’s a record.

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    • stelmosfire March 23, 2023 at 9:09 pm #

      Close but no cigar. Gold was $2052 a year ago and $2069 in August ’20 at the height of the lockdowns. What I don’t grok is all this inflation. Just about all the commodities , but especially energy, are way down year over year. Nat gas is down over 60 % and yet my electricity rates are going up. Most of the foodstuffs are also down significantly (except for eggs) yet grocery prices are way up. What am I missing?

      tradingeconomics.com/commodities

      • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 10:09 pm #

        What am I missing?

        Profits. When it come to inflation, the myth precedes the fact.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 10:08 pm #

      What if one had junior gold mine stocks? Any correlation here?

      • Disaffected March 23, 2023 at 10:19 pm #

        Stocks are funny and indicative of the capitalist disease. Since my money can’t actually be productive in any sense of the word, I’d like to buy a piece of paper with the company’s name on it after the fact in the secondary market (meaning the company has already collected whatever “capital” that was to be had in the initial sale of otherwise meaningless pieces of paper, leaving you, the poor speculator, with a piece of paper that may or may not be worth dog shit when you endeavor to pass it off to the next greatest fool). Might as well buy rare baseball cards, which, in that light, don’t look nearly so foolish as first blush after all. Similarly, mere casino gambling looks better and better every day.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 11:15 pm #

          Disaffected, to elaborate…

          What it someone bought, say for a birthday present, someone (who doesn’t necessarily care about stocks) some junior gold mine stocks and they simply wanted to know how the gold price might affect them and, if so, how?

          • messianicdruid March 24, 2023 at 8:21 am #

            If you don’t hold it you don’t own it.

  96. KesaAnna March 23, 2023 at 8:49 pm #

    ” Free to do the good – like children having the right to be worked to death according to John Locke. They’re just little adults. Evidently Locke was a Kesan. ”

    — Jarek

    Andrew Carnegie , and his biographers , liked to point out that he got his first rent – paying job at age 12 .

    I recall Abraham Lincoln and his biographers bragging along similar lines.

    Granted , even under the very best of circumstances I doubt just anyone can become a billionaire like Carnegie , or even a millionaire like Lincoln.

    I think it a dubious argument , if that is the point of the argument.

    On the other hand , it has become a commonplace that a person gets their first rent – paying job at age 25.

    Are you so sure that circumstance is something arranged entirely for your benefit ?

    Were paper boys , shoe shine boys , hot dog vendors , and grocery delivery boys , really such a terribly exploitive evil ?

    In this case , at the least , I get the same feeling I get about the now hundred year old Prohibition ;

    Are you so sure you are really so much better off now than you were in 1919 , before Prohibition ?

    If so , then you know more than this obsessive – compulsive history buff !

    The only way I could tell you if you were better off than in 1919 would be to get in a time machine and lterally go back to 1919 .

    — And even then I doubt I could give you a straight answer.

    1919 wasn’t just a slightly different date or a slightly different culture .

    It was practically a different planet.

    So the first problem is you are comparing very different , not similar , things.

    Granted , never the less I DO have opinions.

    Like ;

    The Mafia certainly existed in 1919.

    But , near as I can tell , excepting your always – blue environments like Chicago or New York City , not one American in ten even knew what the Mafia was in 1919.

    But , by 1925 , just seven years into Prohibition , ” Al Capone ” was a nation – wide household word.

    My opinion there would be , for this and other reasons , Prohibition has never weakened organized crime , but strengthened it.

    In the other case ;

    People incessantly bitch that all kids do anymore is sit on their asses and play video games , and know nothing of responsibility .

    But there are no paper boy jobs anymore , and everyone fears that there are serial killers and child rapists behind every tree ,

    and under such circumstances , what can a kid do but sit on their ass and play video games ?

    And how is one to learn responsibility in such a Versailles – like cocoon?

  97. KesaAnna March 23, 2023 at 9:22 pm #

    ” They’re just little adults. ”

    I’m not a mind – reader , so I’m only guessing.

    You have used the above expression , or similar , several times.

    Which SEEMS to suggest that you ARE aware that this was the universal point of view prior to the mid – to – late 19th Century.

    Children are miniature adults , or , alternatively , Childhood is merely a transient stage on the way to adulthood ( assuming they live that long. And if they dont live that long , then it hardly matters . ) .
    Was the consensus view in ancient Rome , or Ming China , or Medieval France or England , or in the America of the Founding Fathers .

    So in that point of view I say that I have at least a thousand generations on my side . And perhpas one of the fundamental faults of the modern world is and has been that the 20th and 21st Centuries were the era of the Know – it – All – Teenagers.

    And , in simple terms , what you have on your side is the science —

    — the science that told you dinosaurs were just like reptiles ,

    — the science that told you Covid was a pandemic

    — the science that told you Prohibition would fix vice in a jiffy ,

    and so on.

    Ridiculing me may work for others , but has scant effect on me.

    • Jarek March 23, 2023 at 11:09 pm #

      They are qualitatively different. And should be treated differently – if circumstances permit. Give chores, yes. But play time also! Gradually increase their freedom as per their responsibility. That’s how to help form the best version of them.

  98. KesaAnna March 23, 2023 at 10:27 pm #

    On a personal note , a personal note you might not relate to ( ? )

    I reckon that being a child in the 21st Century is very like being poor in the 21st Century ;

    For at least half , and probably more than half , of the people who claim to sympathise with your plight ,

    it’s really just a mask for the grossest of condescension.

    Like , I actually prefer a Jarek preaching Aryan supremacy ,

    to a Jarek claiming he empathizes with the ten year old I was.

    Or , as I have said before , give me a blatant and obvious tyranny over an ambiguous tyranny any day of the week.

    • SoftStarLight March 24, 2023 at 4:00 am #

      I can relate. Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. Why would you prefer your boss tell you sweet little lies. Some people wish to find the truth no matter if it is cruel and cold. Many others prefer truth to be what they are looking for or what they want.

  99. GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm #

    I meant to post this earlier in the week – great song by the docs from Clown Medical on Midazolam Matt.

    rumble.com/v2e0vi0-and-finally-sadly-true-song-on-britains-elderly-culling-uk-column-news-20th.html

    • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 10:37 pm #

      Well, more on what they did to the old folks than Matt himself, but he does get a few mentions since he masterminded it all. Even if ‘mastermind’ is maybe not the right term for a psychopath who is nevertheless a gullible halfwit (Bob Moran’s expression, I think, but obvious anyway).

      • GreenAlba March 23, 2023 at 10:38 pm #

        Actually he was the functionary, not the mastermind, so we can stick with psycho gullible halfwit.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle March 23, 2023 at 11:38 pm #

      That’s a nice background. Looks a lot like the coast and weather around here in Nova Scotia.

      Clowns are being reconfigured. Over the decades, I’ve seen way more evil clowns than not. As a kid, I never liked clowns.

      Let the covid backlash continue…

    • MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 4:27 pm #

      That’s so gut-wrenching, the parody. It’s completely true what they did to the elderly and their loved ones, all across the western world. I have a couple of friends whose parents died alone and they weren’t allowed to be with them. And none of them even were sick with any ‘covid.’

      It is so beyond criminal what these people did and continue to do.

  100. elysianfield March 24, 2023 at 12:23 am #

    Your tax dollars at work;

    San Francisco is voting to provide $50 million dollars to support a bureau of Reparations. Current demands… (non-negotiable*);

    “The current proposal from the reparations advisory committee calls for $5 million payments along with other benefits for black residents, including the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for the next 250 years, and homes in the city for $1 per family.”

    The committee argues the proposals are necessary to remedy past injustices against black residents of the city

    Hilarity will ensue.

    *vague threats have been made…apparently a promise made is a debt unpaid.

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    • MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 1:52 pm #

      So beyond hilarious and so beyond stupid, that in SF it might be bound to pass.

      LOL.

  101. MaryQueen March 24, 2023 at 7:36 pm #

    NHL Players Who Refuse to Wear Pride Jerseys Are Facing Authoritarian Media Backlash

    “There’s something deeply unhealthy happening in the National Hockey League (NHL) this year. Week after week, a different NHL team hosts a Pride Night to “celebrate the LGBTQA+ community” and, week after week, a new “controversy” emerges where a player is berated by mass media for not complying.

    As the “controversies” pile up, there’s a bizarre, authoritarian pattern emerging where players must either submit or be shamed by mass media for days on end.

    The main problem of these Pride Nights: ALL players from the home team are required to skate around while wearing rainbow flag jerseys during warmups and/or games. By forcing players to be draped in the pride flag – on jerseys that bear their last names – these “celebrations” turned into some kind of authoritarian pledge of allegiance. And those who refuse to wear these jerseys are suffering authoritarian consequences: Character assassination from elite-sponsored media.”

    https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/nhl-players-who-refuse-to-wear-pride-jerseys-are-facing-authoritarian-media-backlash/

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