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If you’re wondering why our country is lost in lunatic raptures of lawless Lawfare and futile MAGAry, it’s because our economy has already collapsed, and our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy. It has already happened. Maybe you don’t know it.
The business model is broken. We’re a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace. You can’t replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. Sorry. The full faith and credit of the USA is not embodied in those frivolities, so our money is losing its mojo fast.
But get this: we will go on. This is not the end of the world or the end of history. It is the end of an era. Believe it or not, the economy will fix itself, it just won’t be what it was in 1957. It won’t be what the techno-supremacists think, either. (You need a dependable electric grid to run all those server farms and the apps they serve, and the AI supposedly looming.) It will fix itself because when things fail, as they are doing now, a lot of opportunities will open up to do things differently, even very differently.
When the chain stores fail along with their twelve-thousand-mile supply lines, Americans will figure out how to find stuff, make stuff, move stuff, and sell stuff at a smaller scale, maybe back on your Main Street (if it’s still there). There will be a lot less stuff, of course. But it may be enough stuff, and some of you will be busy making stuff of some kind. Imagine an economy where practically everybody has a useful role to play. Do you know how much more important it is to lead a purposeful, active life than to be lost in leisure and anomie with more stuff than you know what to do with? Which is where we’re at now, even for many who are statistically “poor.”
When the Happy Motoring colossus tweaks out, we’ll spend less time moving around and more time doing useful things, staying put around the places where we live. We’d be lucky if we could keep some railroads going, but the prospects are not great for that now. Sorry, we blew it. Should have re-started that project in 1970 when the handwriting was on the wall. (We made a lot of bad choices.) Cars and trains require elaborate networks of many interdependent technologies all integrated smoothly at the giant scale — oil, steel, plastics, electronics — and all of that is disintegrating. Pretty soon, you can forget about airplanes, too. That leaves… what? Yes, boats and horses. I know… it sounds inconceivable. Wait for it.
When our grotesque medical racketeering matrix fails, doctors will practice medicine at smaller scale, probably without advanced pharmaceuticals and techno-diagnostics. They’ll open small local clinics while zombies squat in the broken mega-hospitals. You’ll have to pay in cash, whatever form that comes in. You’ll have to take care of yourself, too, but there will be a whole lot less enticing, engineered, toxic crap available to stuff into your body — Froot Loops, Hot Pockets — and the food markets won’t be all that super. There will certainly be less food altogether, but there will be fewer of us to feed, and more of that fewer-of-us will be busy producing that food, one way or another.
That’s the reality I see coming. As you’ve seen vividly, the journey from where we were in, say, the year 2000, to where we’re going has been psychologically disordering at the mass scale. These days, people who ought to know better express ideas that would have gotten them laughed out the room in 1999. The catch is that few of you know that this mass disordering grew out of fear of the journey. It was a phenomenon of infectious mass anxiety over something only dimly apprehended. You just thought it was about bad people.
You’re now faced with the question: how to avoid committing suicide, directly or inadvertently, personally or as a whole society, slowly or quickly? — and its corollary, how to get through the madness in the meantime? Politics happen whether you pay attention to it or not. Politics is concerned with how a society navigates through history. Today, it seems that either A) somebody is steering badly; B) Nobody is steering; or C) some outside force has commandeered the ship’s wheel and is steering for us.
Any way you look at that, we need somebody to steer. Mr. Trump has volunteered to try doing it again. The first time, forces in every quarter of American power set out to bushwhack, sandbag, harass, hector, and hound him. In the process, they just about destroyed the rule of law. Then they simply dis-elected him surreptitiously, something you’re not supposed to say, but there it is, like so much meat on the table. Now they’re trying to hoo-rah him into jail. Whatever you think of his, er, complex personality, you must admire his perseverance through adversity. If he somehow manages to wriggle through the present obstacle course of Lawfare chicanery, his next term would be an extravaganza of retribution. The spectacle would provide much satisfaction but, in the end, it would just be a sideshow, and it is not the same thing as taking care of business.
“Joe Biden,” of course, the man who is not really even there, is only pretending to run for reelection, or at least a coterie around the Oval Office is pretending for him while they try to figure out what to do. They’re in an awful quandary. They hold all the levers of power and they have no other credible candidate, not a living soul, in their own official hatchery.
Outside of that ghastly edifice, Robert F. Kennedy is making a determined flanking move, an end-run near the sidelines. The Democratic Party in all its florid and mendacious lunacy is pretending to not notice him, especially their praetorian news media that is the vector for America’s mass mental illness. Mr. Kennedy put it so simply in April when he announced a run to preside over the stupendous mess that is our government. He said his mission is an experiment to see what happens when you tell Americans the truth. Hold that thought. How long has it been since you thought anything like that was possible?
There’s a broad-based assumption across the land, derived from our fading prime artform, the movies, that Americans can’t handle the truth. Like so much else in our national life, that is probably erroneous… fake truth. And what is so striking in Mr. Kennedy’s performance so far is an absence of fakery. It’s more than refreshing, it’s… startling. Makes you blink, a little bit. Makes you remember what it’s like to not be lied-to incessantly. Makes you want to see more of it because it gives you strength when you thought you were finished. Get this now: our world is changing, and deeply, but we’re not finished.
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Excellent back to basics column today, Jim. You’re right, regardless of whether RFK Jr. is allowed to advance in the presidential sweepstakes and then is allowed to put even a fraction of his ideas into motion (color me skeptical), it’s refreshing and enlightening for many to at least hear the unvarnished truth spoken again after so many years of wall to wall bullshit coming out of the DC swamp. I hope the youngsters among us are up to the task of rebuilding this mess we’ve handed them into something workable again, but the task is indeed going to be daunting. The term “post-modern” is about to be totally redefined.
Yeah, a complete intellectual/literary journey back to the beginning.
Ultimately, regardless of ‘leadership’, events will continue to march humanity towards its applointed destiny.
There will be many voices (Tucker’s 80m viewers) yelling angrily they were right all along, and will demand action in whatever form it may take.
Personally, whether or not the fulcrum is ‘elected’, IMO a whole sweep of measures will have to be implemented to clear out the decayed and corrupt edifice.
Losing the dollar is what will force the issue; Hemingway’s famous quote when it all happens rather suddenly.
GREAT ARTICLE
There are a lot of places in the US that are essentially unlivable for most without the modern transportation and grid. The deserts of Nevada cannot support much life yet there are millions who live there. Vegas will be an interesting anomaly in the ‘made by hand’ future.
Phoenix is already experiencing sever water shortages.
“Phoenix” – the 1986 dystopian novel “Cadillac Desert” painted a fascinating picture of what might be left after its downfall.
Cadillac Desert and it’s companion PBS TV documentary series was a true story. Fascinating read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised/dp/0140178244
las vegas recycles all of its waste water–it is a model for anybody who wants to do the same—it also has a claim on the colorado river water and has a lot of underground springs–same with all of Nevada–i live in rural Nv.-we pipe our water from 60 miles away–when mad max hits all those hotels in vegas,reno will become homeless shelters with co-ops to make it all work==if you do drugs or too much alcohol you will be sent on your way–it will be tribes and villages–everybody in Nv,utah,az is armed to the teeth,the way it should be like in pioneer days when everybody had firearms–how far down the road to mad max is the only unknown along with the element of nuke war that is looming…ugh,big ugh
“. The term “post-modern” is about to be totally redefined.”
Diss,
Perhaps, but in what language? And who will be here to redefine? Consider the last great disruption of our economy and culture…the Great Depression. A country of 80 million people, mostly homogeneous in regards to race and culture. Many from farms and rural areas. My father, in the city limits of Lodi California, had a cow and chickens. Many gardens, short supply lines. Technology of the day…repairable. Rule of law relatively intact. People were a bit more…self reliant.
Today? Not so much. When the redefinition occurs, what will it then look like? South Africa? Somalia? Bosnia? Baltimore? I expect millions will die…maybe tens of millions. I will not survive it.
RFK? Yeah, we need a white knight, a champion, a hero of our times… Do you honestly believe that the MSM would report on his speeches if they even remotely believed HE might believe what he says? Have you not been watching? ANY CANDIDATE TALKING A BIT OF COMMON SENSE WILL WEAKEN THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, WHOMSOEVER IT MIGHT BE.
Fool me once…shame on you. Twice? Shame on me. Three, four or more? You have my sympathy.
Kennedy is a leftist at heart, with a veneer of common sense about shots for the Wuhan Red Death. He’s said he thinks anyone who disagrees with his climate policy should be shot, or at least imprisoned for life.
Anyone that still thinks they can vote themselves out of what is fast approaching is brain dead. RFK is just the latest distraction to get some folks to believe there is an off ramp to where we are heading. The people that really run the show are unelected bankers and bureaucrats. This has been obvious for more than a century if not longer. RFK and Trump are the same, just the flavor of the month to get the plebes to waste all their political energy on, hoping for a miracle.
“RFK is just the latest distraction to get some folks to believe there is an off ramp to where we are heading. … RFK and Trump are the same …” ~ Robert70
I’m not looking for an “off ramp”, I’m looking for leadership to manage the downturn. Trump won’t unite the population, and neither will “Joe Biden”.
Robert F Kennedy Jr: “We need a peaceful revolution” on UnHerd
youtube.com/watch?v=AY89a_zXi9s
Pre-frikin-cisely.
I hear ya, Ely. Post-modern is likely to mean post-civilized in the immediate aftermath, I think. I won’t be around for it either. Already witnessing much of this, even up here in an isolated bastion of conservatism.
Nothing in the past 50 years of our national history indicates that the Malignant Overlords will tolerate as much truth telling as the Last Kennedy is serving up. They will squash it by all means necessary, from using the captive media to smear him, to a CIA sniper’s bullet. In that event 40% of the country would cheer and another 30% would shrug their shoulders and think, “serves him right for not learning from his family history.”
From the standpoint of the Overlords, Trump is tolerable because he has already demonstrated that he can be controlled and bamboozled. But he still represents a risk because he voices so much of the discontent aflame in the country even if he never intends to deliver on his promises this time either. Much better to have Cackles, Gruesome, or Guantanamo DeSantis as front men/women.
This is not the same era as when Trump sneaked into the White House on the coat tails of H. Clinton’s misjudgement that he was an easy mark. The issue that faces the country and indeed the world is whether the USA can survive defeat by Russia in the Ukraine proxy war without a reflexive resort to nuclear war by the mentally deranged OBiden Neo-Con Cabal and the Malignant Overlords that control policy and propaganda.
This turning point will not wait for another two years of electoral circus posturing and ballot fraud. The result will be determined on the battlefield, and the victor will not be the US or it’s NATO front
men.
“This turning point will not wait for another two years of electoral circus posturing and ballot fraud.” ~ ThorsHammer
That is why …
Robert F Kennedy Jr: “We need a peaceful revolution” on UnHerd
youtube.com/watch?v=AY89a_zXi9s
… starting right now!
A peaceful revolution! What a rare bird that is! And is there any evidence that the US of A is capable of such a thing?
If wishes had wings pigs could fly. But only after a severe weight reduction diet.
The infamous CIA quote is applicable here, “we’ll know our mission is complete when everything the American public believes is not true.” Well mission accomplished? If the truth sounds so strange and shocking to most people, you really have to wonder what the point was of all the psyops and disinfo. Forget the leadership, what does FBI/CIA rank and file believe about all this mockingbird insanity? OTOH, this is known as the year of the whistleblower so maybe rank and file are pretty fed up with the bullshit as well.
I concur, an excellent analysis of what is to come. I’ve been saying this to my friends and family since 11-3-20.Ross Perot was right when he warned of a huge sucking sound from all the jobs to be lost because of NAFTA, remember. Well, the chickens have come home to roost.
It will be a “purge”. All the citizens who depend on government are dead. If you can’t think for yourself or you’re a drag on society, you’re dead. If you don’t know how to handle a firearm, ya, you’re dead.
The BRIC’s group is the “writing on the wall” for the US economy. No more will the Saudi’s or other oil producing nations have to use the “petrodollar”.
But this is all by design.
I think the most important thing in this article is RFK, he is going to change everything! He’s the democratic equal to Trump. And if Trump doesn’t realize this, it will be a mistake. This candidate can pull from every sector, republicans,democrats and independents. This looks to be MUCH more entertaining than 2016, when I voted for Trump.
Kennedy promises to tell the truth. It’s the main reason I would vote for him, just to see if a. His first act is to release ALL the archival evidence with regards to both Kennedy assassinations’, and b. If he lives to celebrate his first year in office.
He’ll live. That’s the lesson of Trump. They don’t out and out kill politicians any more. They lawfare them. Killing is reserved only in case lawfare doesnt work.
That sounds like a backhanded compliment.
tRump is guilty. Why pretend otherwise?
Judge jury and executioner.
You are guilty of extreme stupidity.
We don’t have to pretend otherwise it is plain for anyone to see.
Not so sure. Bobby is tied to the moment the nation was taken over by the CIA. The military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about was already in full stride. So JFK tried to quench this and you know what happened. LBJ didn’t run in “68” because he didn’t want to play second fiddle to the CIA. Nixon wanted out of Vietnam, so they bugged his office and he was forced to resign. Ford, useless, because he knew the score. Carter, lol, way over his head. Tried to kill Regan. Ever since the rest have “played ball”, that is until Trump. He’s an outsider, so much easier for a character assassination. But RFK JR. is different, very different. He brings to the table, the same thing that JFK Jr. would have,if he would have lived. So ya, I think they fear him MUCH more than Trump.
“Kennedy promises to tell the truth”
Opie,
Even Goober don’t believe that shit. Aunt B scoffs….
Shazam!
That! Was funny.
Good point. Trump promised us a stack of documents a foot high upon leaving. Never delivered.
Ya, I agree, but he was a little preoccupied trying to prevent the STEAL!
His first act will be to live until the 2024 election votes are counted.
I am really not looking forward to the next election. It looks to be a contest as to who will rule over the ashes of our once great cities, our poisoned farmlands and a people rife with turbo-cancers.
And the theatrics have already begun. “Classified documents” are 24/7 news (with the significant omission of Biden’s, Clinton’s, Obama’s, etc) and complete silence on such craziness as California passing a law that further legitimizes shoplifting. And early release for even death row inmates. Here you go:
“California will allow 63,000 prisoners, out of a population of 115,000, the possibility of early release. This includes death row inmate Richard Allen Davis, one of 737 murderers in the system, who was a released felon when he murdered Polly Klaas in 1993.”
My advice to anyone who wants it? Get out of cities and get out of debt. The next election cycle will be a free-for-all — the last act before the fat lady sings.
About these big cities in places like California. Y’all really want to know why coyotes are running around all over the place in urban areas now? The Lord has a plan for them. There will be so many dead bodies around that it will be simply impossible for the “authorities” to bury them all, there will also be feral dogs and other former pets running around that will be dangerous because they aren’t genetically shy of humans. Coyotes will be part of the clean up crew that will help America look and smell better during the breakdowns as well as perhaps a bit safer as well.
Here in the Bible Belt we’ll call this time of the coyote the Great Tribulation and groups of fundamentalists will be gathered on mountain tops here either waiting for Raptures or for Jesus to return. I’m not so sure about horses and boats. Horses eat an enormous amount of food that must be stored for them in winter. It takes a lot of land to support them. In the US transport will change to small motorbikes and bicycles, as it is in all 3rd world nations. For images of what such societies look like the best place to go to is the curr;ent vids on the “Itchy Boots” you tube channel.
While all this is going on, a prosperous Russia and China will have puchased most of our automobiles, and the Russians will be busy building new spectacular Eastern Orthodox cathedrals. China will be helping build a new Ukraine using their new “Silk Road” rail system to bring cheap passenger and freight service. This will give Europe much better access to Asian trade. Russia will be prosperous because the people in Russian territories will all be on the same page politically with most of them united in spirit via their state Church – Russian Orthodox.
The disintegration of the USA into chaos will serve as a warning to the rest of humankind NOT to go in the same direction we did.
Why shouldn’t Russia take back Alaska? Why shouldn’t China take the West Coast – at the very least.
Well, sounds like a lot of work, for one…
” It takes a lot of land to support them.” Every time I drive around the USA I see a lot of land growing grass.
You must only drive around east of the Mississippi.
It’s pretty grassy here in the Midwest. Much of the exurbs here in Missouri consist of homes on 5, 10, or 20-acre “estate-size” lots, some of which the owners mow to create a vast vista of lawns, often with a pond or even a man-made lake. (That’s the rich people.)
I think we have enough arable land to feed the entire population of the state, though there would be problems of all kinds. One of them would be getting the urban population to do agricultural work and teaching them how. Another would be the degree of mechanization that would be possible or affordable. If people attempted to farm without mechanization involving a lot of fossil fuels, they’d need a lot of skills they don’t possess, and a lot of draft horses, which don’t exist at present.
Once when I taught in an urban school, we were reading a story about some people who lived in a fine Victorian home, with silk carpets and crystal chandeliers. I pointed out to the kids that such a home would not have had indoor plumbing or electricity. Several of the kids said they’d kill themselves, rather than live like that.
China has been quietly replicating USA mid 20th Century comprehensive branch line rail network, assuring ability to move food supplies throughout the country when motor transport might be unable to function. Through the last 75 years USA shareholder driven rail managements have conspired to remove all rail mileage and corridor not deemed important for movement of container unit trains, largely Chinese oriented traffic. This included near 100,000 miles of rail branch line generating sufficient traffic to at least break even. Some percentage spin-off rail branches remain, members of “American Short Line Regional Railroad Association. Insufficient for famine hedge-
Had large & small rail management been light on their feet, 2 tier contract (see the airlines) arrangements with labor, and, importantly, predominately food hauling branches would be tax exempt. Lacking food basket rail option, North American famine is on the horizon. Period. EMP and kinetic attack on US food supply is openly spoken of by ALL the dictators presently on stage, and they continually demonstrate willingness and ability to carry out their word.
This writer wonders how the Webmaster hereabouts has overlooked the logistics of horse outputs as well as inputs? Albeit excellent garden fertilizer, horse doodoo became downright unmanageable in US metropolitan areas, Trolley cars on steel rails, -run out again- by bicycle & motor car clubs? Ground Hog Day! Oh my! See comments in archives for Executive summary worklist for rail line redux.
I have a railroad branch pretty near my house. It was overgrown, but now they have mowed it.
I guess they will turn it into a walking trail.
I agree with you for the most part. I do
Like the “coyote” angle. Nice touch.
But what most people don’t realize is that the US government possesses military technology 40-50 years ahead of ANYTHING else in the WORLD.
This is all theater. If any country “really” decided to take us on, they would find their capital in ruins in the blink of an eye.
How this all plays out is going to be fascinating, but deadly.
My advice: stay out of large crowds.
I admire Jim’s optimism. I don’t think the country will make it to Thanksgiving.
The “country” is in the midst of its own “Color Revolution”, much like what was done to Ukraine (ETC), in which the duly elected president, with help of the US State Dept, Soros & Friends, (think Mossad, CIA, and WEF BILLIONAIRES), paved the way for a coup d’etat. Regardless of what you think of Trump (ahem), he is taking the bus route to Dallas, rather then airplane, and unfortunately, a good many Americans will eventually be suffering the SAME fate, as did the KULAKS those many years ago.
I could spell it out for you in more detail, but I trust that enough of you, by now anyway, understand exactly who it is that has this joint, and YOU, by the throat. NEWS FLASH ! They are NEVER EVER letting go.
Know with certainty that while resistance may, at this late date, be futile, a lack of meaningful resistance will most assuredly guarantee your demise a whole lot sooner, then later.
You are such a joke!
“Stop talking about vaccine IDs and two-tiered societies, Night Owl.”
–Beantown “The Gauleiter” Bill
You are an impudent shithead (sheisskopf). You’re calling me a nazi official? If you weren’t so pathetic, you might almost be a tad funny.
Yes, albeit one who cannot spell Scheißkopf.
I will never forget your comments, as they were removing us from society.
Fuck you, cunt.
He said a bad word indicative of Israel and Bill is upset.
People want the Truth? Sure they do.
Says you, a noted anti-semite (as well as a well-known misogynist, and an anti-Black). What’s your problem, bubelah? Can’t get it up?
Israel? Hell, I thought he was referring to our entanglements with and infiltration by the Chinese overlords.
Yes, Beth (the 2nd letter in the alpha-bet): The Chinese control our foreign policy, banking, media and Hollywood. The Neo-Cons have said so!
Yes, there has been large scale Chinese infiltration. Cannot we be infiltrated by more than one alien group at a time?
I expected too much from you.
Bill,
What stonned says is essentially correct. What part of the comment do you most disagree?
You’re good with him. A born diplomat. Hitler used to say, send Goering, he’s better with people. Less direct.
[ ] what part of the comment do you most disagree? – elysian
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[With]
Oh, Jesus Christ, Q. We all read and write fluent typo. Knock it off.
I disagree with your correction. My use might be archaic, perhaps even colloquial, but not incorrect.
Q is in beast mode, taking no prisoners. He is death personified and his grammatical scythe is sharp and his swings wide (often of the mark).
EF, I don’t believe Israel has us by the throat. It’s not our fault if Jews have more influence than our numbers indicate. Power is in a vacuum that automatically gets filled. Maybe 2000 years of attempted annihilation has made us determined to control our own fate. It has also made many of us defensive, which is a good survival mechanism.
We’ll have to see if Trump gets assassinated or not. We can’t read the future and anything can happen. What I don’t like is someone stating a possibility as a fact.
Jews are so often excellent in what they do and have a ancient and cohesive culture. When I hear someone grousing about a Jewish cabal, I hear envy no different from that of any other Wobbly, anarchist, hothouse leftist, or shiftless peckerwood for the successful man enjoying the fruits of his labor.
So you’re saying we should act like them and take our country back from them?
You see Beth, if they identified with us it would be one thing. But they don’t. Or do you think they are leading us well to greater prosperity and well being?
It’s amazing how many people don’t get this. So relax, you’re part of the majority…..
Yeah, Jar, like the majority, I have no problem with Jews. I am sometimes baffled by their women, though. I once tagged along with a Jewish friend to a coffeehouse where some of the ladies from her temple were speed-interviewing housekeeper candidates. But as best I could tell, not a one of these temple members worked outside the home. What else were they going to do with their time?
Bill,
EVERY nation, if legitimate, will act in it’s own behalf. I also do not consider it untoward that there is someone wielding power for their own benefit. Jews have a successful culture, and can only be envied by those who do not enjoy their privileges and benefits. Who is controlling the power that is the United States Government? Ain’t me, for sure, and probably isn’t you.
How many times have I mentioned that George Soros is probably a distant uncle of mine? He is part and parcel of the current Marxist thrust into the heart of our culture. He never sought out my opinion in this matter.
As an economic model, I would prefer National Socialism to unbridled capitalism, or what we are currently heading for….China has been doing a pretty good job of boot strapping their economy. Issues, yeah, outrages, of course…but upward and onward.
What is your percentage?
will act in it’s own behalf. – elysian
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ely, please note for future reference that it’s is a contraction meaning it is. It is not the possessive of it.
But, of course, we knew what you meant.
Jarek,
Well, what percentage will the RsHA accept?
Nice summary stonned.
As for WEF: Every one must get stoned.
Have to agree with you. It’s why I cringed when I saw RFK kissing the rabbi’s ring (metaphorically speaking) when he back pedaled on a previous endorsement so he could receive the blessings from the king makers. It was Richard Perle who claimed years ago that “his people” controlled all but 5 seats of the U.S. Congress and sworn loyalty oaths are required by all of those selected Congresspersons, (and these aren’t loyalty oaths to the U.S. Constitution)
Yes, it takes a massive amount of money to run a Presidential campaign. Is he going to spend all of his own doing it? Or is he going to compromise his principles?
Compromise.
The liberals are already screaming about any money donated to RFK, Jr.
It’s a ”threat to democracy” to let him run, doncha know.
.salon.com/2023/06/08/rfk-jr-and-the-con-men-candidates-more-than-a-sideshow–theyre-a-real-to-democracy/
Every time I see words like “threat to democracy” I know there is a tangled web of lies and misdirection attached.
Indeed. I made a list of threats to democracy.
Free speech is a threat to democracy.
Counting votes is a threat to democracy.
Sharing information is a threat to democracy.
Open debates are a threat to democracy.
Protesting a contested election is a threat to democracy.
Having unapproved candidates running is a threat to democracy.
Advocating for building a better USA is a threat to democracy.
Talking about the Constitution is a threat to democracy, especially the Bill of Rights (which are the biggest threat to democracy of all).
The Neocons in control have the same mantra for Americans as they do for Ukraine:
“As long as it takes.”
“To the last American”.
As to the stonned comment at 9:23 am today, there are two places where “then” is used incorrectly in place of “than.” Therefore I don’t think it can be declared a “typo.” I think stonned simply doesn’t
understand the difference so I am recommending he study up to learn the difference. And stonned is not alone here on CFN in this regard.
Now, let’s see if ^this^ gets my ass thrown off this blog.
Comeon! Give stonned a break. What if he is stoned and smoking a doobie while taking a break from work or something? It seems to me unfair to criticize people who might be under the influence of something that makes them just not give much of a shit at all about grammar at the moment. Some of us, myself included, are online at the moment and there is a reason we’re not out driving. All it takes is a six pack of Bud Light and good grammar becomes a non issue and being a butthead looks like a lot of fun.
And not everyone went to Catholic school. There we were diagraming sentences in the sixth grade and knew all about “then and than” in fifth grade. Nowadays it seems only graduate students in English know anything about sentence diagraming.
Who really cares about the proper grammar anymore when we are all out of High School and collage. I can’t spell worth a damn but when it comes to grammar it doesn’t matter what color the cat is as long as it catches the mouse. Most of us are able to overlook the mistakes and still get the point that’s being presented unless we are an English major or grammar Nazi.
we are all out of High School and collage. – bill7424
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Yeah, I’ve been out of “collage” since June of ’62.
“Most of us are able to overlook the mistakes and still get the point that’s being presented unless we are an English major.”
Many English majors these days are also grammatically inept.
University and college students get passes no matter how lazy or stupid they are because it’s a huge racket, and the name of the game is to keep mommy and daddy’s $$ flowing through the administration’s coffers. You get that by graduating the illiterate 22 year-olds.
Even teachers are becoming more grammatically “challenged”, especially Black teachers. I forget the studies done on this (for accuracy), but quite a few grade school teachers are marking tests for which they don’t have the requirements to distinguish correct construction from incorrect.
It’s amazing how many woke-resisters are strict about voter ID requirements, criminal law enforcement, testing new pharmaceuticals, etc. … but when it comes to spelling, grammar and the language in which we communicate ideas, hey! Any kind of verbal slovenliness goes. It’s the reader’s job to sort of, kind of, figure out what stonned et al. are trying to say.
I just read a long, rambling comment that was posted on tickerforum, a blog that seems to be a haven for highly intelligent people who can’t write English.
Sample sentence: “The living surrounding my family life fucking sucked….” What does he mean by “the living?” Normally, “a living” refers to income, but he could mean there were interpersonal problems in his family. Further, he does not specify whether he is talking about his childhood family or about adult married life. If you read his next couple of paragraphs with attention, you can figure out that he was talking about his childhood.
This type of writing basically forces you to mentally edit their writing for sense, just to make out what they’re trying to say.
The poster then continues to ramble on, making many other vague assertions. Example: “Whenever people here in the USA tell me that some hack or option is good or very good, it is really to a person educated as to the options out of border, ‘good enough’.” I have no idea what he’s talking about.
The weird thing is that several people who post over there are highly educated professionals. It’s a shame that, half the time, you can’t tell what they’re trying to say.
@ Woodchuck:
I went to public school, and we diagrammed sentences from the 7th grade to the 11th grade. As for the then/than distinction, I never even saw either of these words misused until 10-20 years ago. It was inconceivable that a person wouldn’t know which was which. It was also inconcievable, before about 1990, that anyone would think “alot” was a word. The first time someone argued with me about that was probably in the late 80s. She was a young black woman who brought in a resume to be typeset and printed. She had “alot” of experience. And, good Lord! She was going to put “alot” on her resume.
And, yes, as you say, nowadays no one knows anything about sentence diagramming–and English usage is all the way around execrable. Which means that few people are able to communicate with clarity and precision. And clarity and precision are MINIMAL requirements for good writing. Some others are sound (logical) thinking, good organization of ideas, and a decent vocabulary. If you want to be better than just good, you should be skilled in the use of literary devices, and your writing should display subtlety and wit.
The best way to learn to write well is to read works by good writers. One of the best authors to read is Albert Jay Nock. Another very good one is Isak Dinesen. There are a lot of others, and others here can add to this.
It should get your ass thrown off, if that is all you have to contribute. Are you interested in contributing to discussion, or just throwing sand in the gears?
If your very existence depends entirely on businesses and institutions controlled by “them” – then resistence is futile. “They” control you in the very same way a farmer controls a herd of domesticated animals. Cows wandering around on their own don’t last very long either in our world or the natural world. Cows need the farmers management and control. They are herd animals and wired that way.
The only way to resist is to walk away from the farmer and to do for yourself what the farmer used to do. It will involve countless hours doing mundane and boring activities like growing corn, making dresses out of feed sacks, mowing your own yard, etc. Self sufficiency is the only path out of bondage. Unfortunately it seems that most people right now still seem to cling to the idea that physical comfort is far more important than being self sufficient. The inevitable physical pain and misery involved in the transition makes people think they can’t do this, not even if its just a test run.
For example, there will be pain and misery involved in bringing the bicycle back as a widespread method of transport. You will be just as unprotected from the weather as an old fashioned horse and saddle rider was. Horses can kick you or buck you off, and bicycles at speed can wreck and leave you buggered up pretty good. On two wheels you are safer on a small displacement motorbike with good brakes – and with a rider wearing all the current body armor and helmets used by street motorbikers. See how long you can park your car and live without it, using a small motorbike or a bicycle. Do a test run and then you’ll know beforehand how it feels, how to manage around losing a car, and how to ride in bad weather etc.
A much tougher self test is to see how well you do and how long you can last without electriciy.
Feed sacks are made from plastic now.
We are going on our second year of operating cargo e-bikes rather than driving during clement weather.They do use electricity, but that is optional, and it feels far more wonderful to pedal around in the elements than to drive. Mine is a cargo trike, husband’s is a bike, and they negotiate sand, turf, and gravel just fine. We seldom need to take the car for anything. Last summer, the spiders attempted to take over my old Kia, it sat for so long.
So . . . I’m starting to form an idea of what the rough years will be like.
You all are just thrilled to bits that the prospect of the deprived, primitive life you’ve always dreamed of is almost here. Glory be! Next month you can spend your entire existence raising turnips and weaving socks, just like in the good old days!
There’s being thrilled, and then there’s being realistic, Vegan Shart.
@ Vegan Shark:
Well, some people would rather go out to the garden in the early morning to weed the turnips, pick the tomatoes, beans, and eggplant, and cut some collards and flowers for the table. Other people would rather commute two hours a day and sit in a cubicle all day.
My mother grew up during the Depression. When she and her friends talked about life then versus life now, their verdict was, “Things are better now. They’re just different.”
I meant to say, “Things aren’t better now. They’re just different.”
@ Woodchuck:
I don’t think growing vegetables is boring at all. It is actually fascinating. Sewing is also interesting and rewarding. What’s boring is most modern work.
I’m too old to ride a bicycle, but I don’t think I’d mind riding in one of those enclosed Amish buggies–though my tolerance for heat and cold is not what it used to be.
“When our grotesque medical racketeering matrix fails, doctors will practice medicine at smaller scale, probably without advanced pharmaceuticals and techno-diagnostics.”
And yet advanced pharma and tech is all MDs know how to do. Which means they will be all but useless in the Long Emergency. Better find a good herbalist or ND.
“The first time, forces in every quarter of American power set out to bushwhack, sandbag, harass, hector, and hound [Trump]. In the process, they just about destroyed the rule of law.”
And I’m beginning to suspect that Trump’s bombastic time on the stage was designed to do just that–destroy the rule of law. His over-the-top theatrics effectively drove a permanent wedge into the country. I don’t think he’s the “outsider” his base thinks he is. His arrests are just more theater and he’ll never see jail time, because he’s part of the play.
In reality, about 10% of MD physicians I know and communicate with have interests and skills in alternative medicine: nutritional medicine, herbal supplement medicine, acupuncture, electrotherapy, etc. We just don’t talk about it in public or around the techno-triumphalist doctors.
Also, when the current medical system finally collapses, knowledge of chemistry and biology won’t just disappear. I suspect many physicians will learn non high tech medicine and practice such, especially when we won’t have the Rockefeller criminals running the show and sanctioning anyone who defies big pharma.
California is trying to make health insures pay for surrogates for men to have babies, because the men cannot become pregnant and are therefore infertile.
I agree with the conspiracy theorists who believe TPTB want our system to collapse.
Wait — can’t men become women by thinking they are?! Dylan Mulvaney and WilLIAm Thompson are female because they said so.
NDoc,
I’ve never been X-Rayed…Bit I’ve been Ultraviolated!
about 10% of MD physicians I know and communicate with have interests and skills in alternative medicine: nutritional medicine, herbal supplement medicine, acupuncture, electrotherapy, etc. – neurodoc
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That’s all well and good but you can’t solve an eyelid problem with herbal supplements. You need a blepharoplasty procedure like I had done on me on June 2nd.
Peter had a rhinoplasty (aka “a nose job”) done on him in his late teens. As he tells it, he had gotten into many fights and had his nose broken. The truth is he had inherited a “hook nose” through genes on his mother’s side and he hated seeing his profile in the mirror when combing his hair. But getting your nose busted in a teenage fight has a certain masculine glamor about it.
neurodoc,
That’s heartening to hear. I’ve always suspected that most doctors have their patients’ best interests in mind, and that the oppression of alternative medicine was and is almost wholly a function of hospital admins, orgs, and insurance companies to protect their turf.
RN, here. We are also trained in chemistry, pharmacology, A&P and basic materia medica, along with the nursing approach to things. I feel as though my training and practice are like money in the bank.
What is not understood right now is that the value we get from our “health care system” is around zero. The drugs, vaccines, operations, etc. do as much damage as good, so around 20% of our entire economy is flushed down the toilet right there. In terms of efficiency our system is in 35th place. That is, there are 34 countries with better health stats than ours. Not only that, we pay more per capita for our “health care” than do any of the other nations. In terms of health “bang for the buck” we are probably on the bottom of the list.
When we lose our health care system we will have lost nothing. We’ll have gained in places and lost in others, and the effect will be zero. We will eventually learn that we’ve been scammed by a dishonest and corrupt medical system – mostly at the hands of big universities, insurance companies, and medical drug and equipment manufacturers. A the bottom of it all, we simply won’t be able to afford the system we have now, the resources to do that will NOT exist. Just as the resources to support our parasite and 100% idiotic cult/school system will not exist at that time. Good riddance to all of it. Teachers and doctors may find themselves either unemployed or having to retrain for a completely different system. A system that pays them little more than what motorbike mechanics or local small farmers might make.
Dolly Parton likes to joke that when she was born they didn’t have enough money to pay the doctor so payment was made instead via some farm products they did have on hand, including a bunch of sacks of flour. Her dad was a share cropper. The doctor got a bunch of flour in exchange for delivering Dolly. She claims that she’s been rolling in the dough ever since – that it was a good omen for her successful career.
So Trump is a mastermind set on destroying the rule of law? That may be the most ridiculous comment I’ve read in years here at CFN.
Totally agree that Trump is part of the play.
And also agree with Stonned that they’ve started a color revolution in this country. It couldn’t have happened without Trump.
” If you’re wondering why our country is lost in lunatic raptures of lawless Lawfare and futile MAGAry, it’s because our economy has already collapsed, and our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy. It has already happened. Maybe you don’t know it.”
Many have had this thought years ago – well before the mendacious vicious covid disaster was foisted on the US and the world.
Hearing/watching Seymour Hersh on George Galloway’s Sunday “Mother of All Talkshows” I was struck—and hard—by how right a person can be and how painfully wrong at the same time.
When asked by Galloway his opinion regarding RFK Jr, Hersh was at first seeming an inner circle type when he stated he and Jr had maintained telephone contact on a number of issues, but he switched in the blink of an eye to state RFK was a vaccine nutter and would not let go of that bone. “My wife is a doctor, my daughter is in the medical field,” if I recall correctly. Left unsaid was “That’s that. Period.
Hersh, the ever-resourceful and intrepid man of multiple solid sources, a paramount of über-objectiveness in his reporting turned to stone when it came to lending any recognition or validation to those who question the Fauci Inc narrative.
The man drives me bonkers with his inconsistencies. Right there with Noam Chomsky. Both are significant American voices who in their twilight years have neglectfully abused the power of their voices.
And it’s a damned shame.
All these conflicting opinions among people who should know better is certainly perplexing, isn’t it? Cognitive dissonance rears it’s ugly head even among the so-called intellectual elite these days. With all the sometimes very convincing misinformation out there, everyone’s basically on their own sussing out the truth these days. Gotta go with your gut, which told many of us immediately that the whole CV19 scam was just another government psyop.
Yes, one didn’t have to understand the intricacies of viruses and vaccines. You could just see they were acting funny. And that the vaccine wasn’t a vaccine. And that they didn’t have time to test it. And when by their own statistics people started getting sick and dying from it, they didn’t fucking care. And that Pfizer had made a deal that they couldn’t be sued – and almost every nation on Earth had signed on to it.
None of this is rocket science. It’s applied commonsense.
“one didn’t have to understand the intricacies of viruses and vaccines. You could just see they were acting funny.”
Exactly. Took a year of nursing in college, with biology courses. When they tried to tell us this virus came by way of bats, thru pangolins (animals from 2 separate continents supposedly kept in a fish market) I remember saying, “Wait a minute. Viruses don’t act that way.” Same thing when they said, “Don’t worry, It stays in your arm.” And, “RNA won’t affect your DNA”.
A pangolin, a bat, a ferret and a human walk into a bar.
Oh, no, wait. It was a bioweapon research lab.
None of this is rocket science. – Jar
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Or as someone once said while mixing metaphors : this is not “rocket surgery.”
Speaking as a nurse, I saw basic common sense fly out the window in March 2020 with respect to respiratory viruses and how to deal with them. Craziest thing in the world.
If only you could take your commonsense here and apply it to race and politics. But as a woman, you can’t do that. Somehow it just doesn’t scale for “your guys”.
you not your
Jarek, why do you pretend to know my thinking on race and politics? How do you know that I don’t have a powerful in-group bias for my own race? Do you know my race? And are you sure that I approve of extending the franchise to the fairer sex? Do you know my sex? Don’t be going hog-wild with your assumptions, here.
Yeah Bet, I’m beginning to get an idea of who you are.
As for the “You don’t know me!”, that’s just classic feminine hysteria. Because you’re not going to tell me, either. A denial of discourse – which is why we’re here.
“Cognitive dissonance rears it’s ugly head even among the so-called intellectual elite these days.” I like to provoke people sometimes by challenging their ideas about death, by saying they are ignorant of it, that none has any experience of death, that all their ideas about death are second or third hand. Then I watch their faces as they process their own cognitive dissonance. I draw my stance on that from Socrates.
I do the same with organized religion.
Dave—Gotta agree with you.
Hersh was so focused on driving down the reputation of “Camelot” that he missed the forest for the trees (IMHO): the historic significance of JFK’s presidency and what he attempted to accomplish and where he attempted to take the country, and the world.
Regardless of any chicanery in the 1960 election or the background of his father, or his marital infidelities—all that is, on hindsight, irrelevant.
TPTB who took him out knew that: why JFK posed a real danger to them and their multifarious plans.
It seems like Hersh just cannot let go of that grudge. Maybe it’s an urban Jew hating a Boston Irish charmer who knew how to sail a boat.
Hersh has his value, but it seems to be limited.
There’s also that people who have always considered themselves “in the know” can’t bear it when they find out there was something they thought they knew that wasn’t true.
I had the idea that RFK Jr. was a vaccine nutter when I first heard that Donald Trump wanted him for his vaccine guy.
At the time I thought, oh well, there are a sizable number of vaccine nutters, and they are Americans too, so they deserve to be heard.
It wasn’t until much later that I actually looked closely at what Bobby was saying. I was wrong about him, and I don’t mind saying so, but I’m not a prominent person with my name and reputation out in front of the public.
Most people are afraid to say they were wrong about something.
Whether it comes down to “information” or to a belief or a political viewpoint he or she held in the past.
Which I find odd. Because many former members of the Dem Party have had the gumption or honestly or conscience to admit that their past beliefs and convictions, though well founded and grounded in their youth, were for something that has now changed and no longer exists.
In fact, it was this ability to reassess previously held beliefs that made Malcolm X a hero to me. “I am interested in the truth, and it doesn’t matter who says it.”
Aka “The truth, wherever it leads.”
When I looked more carefully at how many vaccines kids got and how soon and how clustered together, I mentioned this to a friend who immediately attacked — “Do you REALLY believe people like Bobby Kennedy? ” No discussion about facts or parent’s concerns, just the usual shut down of conversation. I don’t know if he has a chance or not or if he got to the WH if he’d be able to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg.
People like this deserve whatever Pfizer gives them.
I can’t even be bothered talking to these idiots.
Such a lack of curiosity points to low intelligence, and who wants that around?
“the usual shutdown of conversation” — all of us are still learning the martial art of dealing with the statements like “Do you REALLY believe people like Bobby Kennedy?” One cogent response might be “Do you really believe you know what you’re talking about?” and then immediately change the subject.
One useful rhetorical point is to retort
“I do not BELIEVE Bobby Kennedy. I am PERSUADED by many of the arguments that he makes”
Belief is about faith and religion. Facts are about presenting evidence that convinces and persuades. Like in a court of law.
“I don’t know s— but I believe X” is pretty dumb.
I’m with Night Owl. I quit talking to people — anyone — about the jab a long time ago. If they’re still clueless 2+ years on, I’m not gonna change their minds by wasting my time and brain power by a back-and-forth.
Also, people with common sense should always mind Brandolini’s law. Ignoring people, and silence, is bliss.
RFK shares some similarities with Trump. First and foremost, he is not a politician and he can’t be bought. Big plus there. Not sure of his judgement when it comes to choosing staff, where Trump falls down.
He was a bit squishy on humans causing climate change, but he seems to be changing as he learns more. A sign of critical thinking.
Would like to hear more on his ideas about energy.
He learned the hard way about vaccines when he suffered a reaction which ruined his vocal cords. Now he is a true skeptic, which everyone should be.
My other half is a microbiologist who has worked for over 20 years on Global Clinical Trials on Drug Resistant TB. Dealing with living organisms is extremely onerous and exacting work.
Especially when the labs are scattered around the planet and you need to have consistent results.
There are NO shortcuts when it comes to vaccines, the protocols are in place for a good reason. When they are shoved aside you end up with the mRNA mess we currently have which is a joke to even call a vaccine. At least people are starting to get the message but a lot of things are being suppressed.
It was apparently developed years ago – and was tested since they listed two pages of negative side effects.
It does what they want it do. And that isn’t protecting people from a disease, that if it exists, isn’t very dangerous.
Yes, the first mRNA patent was issued in 1965.
Since then all the test animals have always died…
“Since then all the test animals have always died…” Many die. You shall also.
“…Trump. First and foremost, he is not a politician and he can’t be bought.” That’s a completely delusional belief, Yirgach. Someone as nakedly transactional as Trump sells himself daily.
@Mike,
Why do think they hate him so much? He’s going against the status quo and is lucky to still be alive.
I wasn’t talking about Trump. Learn to read.
I can read, Yirgach. You were saying the same thing about BOTH of them, though in the case of Trump, it isn’t accurate.
“RFK shares some similarities with Trump. First and foremost, he is not a politician and he can’t be bought. Big plus there. Not sure of his judgement when it comes to choosing staff, where Trump falls down.” ~ Yirgach
“… Victoria Nuland and the Neocons in the White House then, handpicking the new cabinet that was hostile to the Soviet Union.” ~ RFK jr
“He was a bit squishy on humans causing climate change, but he seems to be changing as he learns more. A sign of critical thinking. Would like to hear more on his ideas about energy.” ~ Yirgach
“… my views have always been the same on nuclear. I’m all for nuclear if they can make it safe and if they can make it economic.” ~ RFK jr
nuclear vs coal-fired power plants – “Well, my solution to that is to stop making oil wars.” ~ RFK jr
Robert F Kennedy Jr: “We need a peaceful revolution” on UnHerd
youtube.com/watch?v=AY89a_zXi9s
C’mon you can do better than that. JFK was on to the Federal Reserve Scam of creating money out of nothing (in defiance of the Constitution). Who controls the Banking?
“(in defiance of the Constitution)” The Constitution has been dying since the day it was ratified.
Both are what I call Kabuki thinkers.
I followed Hersh briefly on substack. Concluded he’s a “limited hangout tool.”
Hersh has done some brilliant reporting and he certainly reopened the case on the pipeline that NATO wanted shutdown. That’s his strength but I don’t see that politics are anything but his personal opinion.
I must always praise Hersh for busting open the Abu Ghraib story and reporting on the damage done to our young vets.
It seems that he has contacts in the CIA, who feed him info.
But yeah, for sure they are feeding him half-truths. Norway was involved in the pipelines destruction, but not the UK?
Yeah, no.
I found this guy more convincing, ramble though he does.
.youtube.com/watch?v=s6DWe-M9_w4
The CIA doesn’t do information. Only lies and half-truths.
Oy Veh …
I agree. They infuriate me, so I now ignore them.
There are many much better people to listen to now, anyway, with much better insight and who do their homework.
Hersch’s claim to fame is that he knows so many insiders. Sadly, they seem to have rubbed off on him.
If it was the 19th Century, your predictions would probably be correct. Yet, I suspect the 22nd Century will look more like a remake of the 1968 Movie” Planet of the Apes”, Just substitute the Chinese for the Apes. They have been planning and waiting for their conquest since before Nixon.
The Chinese of the 21st century do not have to do much conquering. The USA is abdicating.
I mentioned last time (I think) that one ray of hope is that we see the former Soviet Union on the upswing in historic record time.
They are doing so well in fact that whoever is running our government wants to crush them.
That’s the point- they wouldn’t need crushing if they were already crushed, but they aren’t.
One advantage they had is the citizenry understand how propaganda works, and many Americans do not.
Our government wants to crush them so that they can take their stuff.
It’s armed robbery, 101. Smash and loot.
“the former Soviet Union on the upswing in historic record time.”
Funny thing happened in Germany in the thirties after the country was taken down “Chicago Boys” style at Versailles and afterward.
Regardless of what you think of the respective ideologies, Hitler’s achievement was remarkable. He did it in a shorter time frame—most likely becuase of his effective application of domestic terror and Gleichschaltung.
Hmm. That’s like praising a fat girl for not sweating much.
No.
Just drawing some historical parallels, for those interested in history.
The USA is going to be on its ass, or is already.
So case studies should be useful.
Freight rail still exists. The mighty Class Ones — NS, CSX, UP, BNSF, CN, and CP/KCS — generally don’t service small customers the way their predecessors did. Instead, they farm out service on secondary lines to smaller regional tenants, such as the Lehigh Railroad and Ithaca Central.
Passenger rail went the way of the DOD because a) service during WW2 catered to the military, offending mothers and children, b) Eisenhower hated railroads and lived the German *Autobahnen*, which he brought her as Interstates, and c) the Pist Office pulled its contracts from railroads and put mail on airplanes. Since that caused railroads to lose money, they dropped passenger trains. Amtrak is a piss-poor substitute for what once was, bit that seems to be a theme here in America: give it to the government and watch it shrivel.
As for RFK2, he says a lot of the right things. But he’s a leftist whack job who’s fine with imprisoning anyone who disagrees with him. Great!
My personal feeling right now is that Trump will go to prison. No matter who gets the GOP nomination will be destroyed in 2024 by a senile coot who belongs in prison (or wirse) for treason, but suspected treason and obvious malfeasance aren’t as bad to most people as a convicted felon, while Trump backers won’t support anyone but GGG. Say goodnight, Gracie.
Good summation on why the RRs died. I think I’ll be voting for Orange man (even if he shoots somebody on Fifth Ave) not because he has any chance of winning, but just because TDS is a real deal & I like to see them “suffer” from it. If enough people vote for Trump, believe me, they will “suffer” from the fear that cool collected competent white men are secretly assembling vast armies in the hinterlands, which will drive the bugmen & their weird sister allies into psychotic episodes of TDS “suffering.”
You gotta be kidding! Cool, collected, and competent white men secretly assembling vast armies”? Love it……..
So woke, feminized, and sissy soy boyz everywhere will be terrorized by nightmares of people active in the hinterlands, people like Ted Nugent that go about killing Bambi. And not only just Bambi, you mess with people like Terrible Ted and they might put you on the menu along with Bambi. Nightmares indeed for the bugmen! Long ago, back in the 50’s, us kids worried about stuff like the Boogerman. Not the Orange Man.
As long as Nuge is out there helping parapalegics to hunt and kill with breath operated rifles, there is hope.
He is another Aragorn!
Did Aragorn fuck and impregnate 13-year-old groupies? Yeah, probably, it just didn’t make it into the papers back then – since paper was in such short supply…
Ted Nugent – 2024! Wang Dang Sweet Poontang!!
No, that’s RFK. See “below”.
Keelhaul them. All of them.
Aragorn was like 100 years old when he finally got married.
Was the King to have waited that long?
The Numenoreans were far longer lived than the lesser breeds of men.
The lesser breed in Bree just thought of them as “rangers”, disreputable types, unaware of how they were protecting them.
The lower cannot see the higher if the higher sheds the trappings of the higher.
Rather than an army of cool collected white men, the US has a reserve of Unabombers just waiting for their revelation and conversion to an active phase.
Yup. Ted (“may he rest in peace”) gave us the road map. It’s up to us to navigate it.
back in the 50’s, us kids worried about stuff like the Boogerman. – Woodchuck
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Where I lived in South Jersey we pronounced it Boogieman.
Well then, let’s boogie!
Bogeyman.
Current Lore suggests that Boogieman is based on the Wendigo, which in turn is based on the last of the White Devils on the Eastern half of North America before they done got exterminated, back in the Land Before Time.
The Cro-Magnon Whites? The first people in North America?
Yes that’s the idea, the Wendigo is the memory of their Terrible Spirit. They were great fighters and their blood lingered on in many tribes, like the Delaware as featured in Blood Meridian.
As the Lore goes, the Delaware were among the Tribes, generally but not entirely in the East, in whom the older White blood still flowed.
It’s comparable to the memory of Cuchulain, the Irish folk hero who wouldn’t die, who was small of stature and dark complected, IOW the original inhabitants.
I wonder what percentage of the gun-collecting preppers will become sustainably self-sufficient.
Saw a yootoober the other day who was blowing his own horn: he went on a one-week hunting trip with some out-of-state buddies where the main activity was arming themselves with high-powered rifles, taking to helicopters and chasing down feral Texas pigs from on high. Such bravery! And slightly different from the future scenarios, where it’ll be a hard days-long slog, and a small chance to greet an undersized bear that they’d have to face down and slay with perfect timing and without mistakes.
Of course, many people will be doing all that with bows and arrows, not guns.
Agreed 100 percent on the helicopter hunting. Where is the ethos of fair play?
Ranchers would say that it doesn’t extend to invasive pests such as wild pigs, and they might have a point.
All my Texas kinfolk assure me that the feral porcine invasion is a serious matter – and that no matter what the locals do, it will be a losing proposition.
The wild pigs are too clever, too fast, and the mamas have litters of 12~13. Hunters may trap one in a thicket but you can never tell when or from where they’ll bolt, gore a yelping dog and aim for your crotch if you get in their way.
The meat is also said to be so nasty that the hunters here just give it to the zoo for the carnivores. Who probably don’t really appreciate it but they don’t have much choice.
Amen
“The homeless Democrats and Republicans”- I think I know what that means, but it isn’t all that clear.
Democrats that are not Bernie loving, Woke nutcases are homeless right now. RFK, Jr. represents this group, Manchin and Sinema also. Their main problem is that the nuttyDems are in control of their party and the federal government as well.
Trump failed going up against the Deep State mostly because of non support by the RINOs.
He should’ve started the third party, but if it happens now it will be centrist Dems and establishment RINOs that form it’s core. If just one leader and his contingent would tell the Uniparty in DC to go to hell, we might have two parties again with a legitimate choice in the ballot box. It took the last successful third party, the GOP, eight years to get its act together and it took a civil war to install them into a legitimate place.
Every legal or political weapon in the country is being used by the Uniparty to quash Trump. Maybe it is time for an end run by someone, somewhere to counter the Deep State.
RFK, Jr. et al need to leave the DNC to stand a chance. They need to run as enemies of the Deep State to get the populist support they need to win. It will take guts and time. A poll this AM said that 70% of the American public say they do not want Biden, AKA the DNC, to run again.
Trump did it in 2016, his problem is that he believed his ego that he could “make a deal” with his enemies in all directions. They combined their efforts to destroy him and they are about to win?
” our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy”
Seems like some people ought to be paying more attention to what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Seems like those who should best understand what happened there are the same ones pushing the Woke lunacy and diabolical and disgusting public sexual prancing.
It is important to realize that all these Leftist wingnuts absolutely believe their Way is the righteous Way and they will convert the world to believe the same. Using slavery in the 19th century as a good example, their belief system must be destroyed, no holds barred.
Now all we need is someone or a group with the guts to say so and start swinging.
It’s a big religious tent complete with a doctrine (if I say it that means it’s true), congregation (sexual varieties, climate fanatics, history revisionists, diversity of victims), and a hierarchy of spokesmen. It really has a lot in common with a religious movement including the zeal to convert everyone and destroy dissenters.
Col MacGregor was talking about US culture and its problems on a recently published podcast. He claims that most situations in history change primarily not because of bombs and bullying but from people simply walking away from situations and forgetting about it. Systems aren’t “destroyed” as often as they are abandoned and walked away from in the same way you place distance between yourself and a rotten dead animal or a stinking porta-potty. There is no incentive to smell stink deliberately. The millenia old institution of slavery died out on its own of natural causes. Only in the US was it claimed it took a terrible civil war to end it. Slavery would have died in the US on its own as it did everywhere else.
Sanity will return after the suburban middle class lifestyle collapses along with the upper classes that feed on them. Anyone that was alive in the 40’s and 50’s can understand that our current form of craziness exists only because we can afford to be crazy. In the 50’s many people produced and preserved their own food and they could also make their own clothing. They fixed and serviced their behemoth 50’s cars in their own driveways or garages. I watched adults performing such work at home in real time, it was commonplace. People did this not as a hobby but from necessity. They couldn’t afford to be or to act crazy. That behavior was reserved for the very few real crazy people who usually ended up in sanitariums or other special places where they and the people around them were safe. Today the crazies are out on the streets.
@ Woodchuck – and on MSNBC among other networks. What you say is true — everyday skills were commonplace and passed on to kids who were expected to help. Women knew how to fix food and men knew how to fix stuff. I know this sounds sexist but it does seem like family life (at least in practical areas) went more smoothly.
Children used to be an asset. When they were born and once able to understand basic instructions they were tasked with menial chores such as gathering chicken eggs, pulling weeds, or moving milk jugs. As they matured they became incredible assets to the family and the farm.
Today children are a liability. Parents don’t have farms on which to put them to work anymore. They have to do something with them. So they put them in public daycare AKA public schools. They put them in football, baseball, softball and soccer and obsess over these sports.
Children today are expensive and a draw on a families budgets and resources and they contribute very little to the financial health and well being of a family.
My children are nearly adults and I can’t wait for them to get out of my home and stop sucking me dry. It will be nice when I only have to worry about feeding myself.
@ Cankerpuss:
My kids are all grown and gone, but one of my persistent daydreams was that we’d all live together, or at least in a community, forever and ever.
But one thing I’ve found now that the kids are gone is that it costs me very little to live. This morning I drove into town to buy some used canning jars from and elderly lady (aged 83) who said she had to give up canning. I told her that, even with a very low income, I have too much money. Expenditures that seemed like extravagances when the kids were living at home now seem trivial.
Boy, Woodchuck, you are correct. I have long felt the reason people are so crazy today is because we have had to way too good for way too long. We, I mean people at large, no longer have to worry about where their next meal is coming from. Even the homeless can find meals if they want them. It has been decades since this people have had to go without or struggle from the want of basic necessities.
They no longer have to work to grow their own food. They no longer have to take care of livestock for milk, meat and eggs. They no longer have to till the soil. They no longer have to dig wells or go find water. So, now that they have all this time that previously would have been occupied by the necessities for survival, what do they do?
1. Get fat sitting on their asses watching reality TV shows, the NFL and the nightly news.
2. Obsess about their genitals.
3. Obsess about where their next orgasm is coming from.
4. Tattoos.
5. Body piercings.
6. Pink, blue, green and purple hair.
7. Pornography.
8. What gender they are today.
9. How cow flatulence affects and is destroying the Earth’s climate.
10. Obsess about how plant food, aka, Carbon Dioxide, is a terrible gas.
11. Get college degrees in women’s studies, gender studies and political science.
I could go on, but you get the drift. These things all go away when people have to work their asses off just for food, water and shelter.
The soul of man is lost when man is lazy. They no longer have a desire to produce, only to take. Take. Take.
Heaven forbid that the little darlings should have duties and responsibilities.
The stump farm I grew up on was about 80 acres of second growth and cut over Douglas Fir. Fifteen acres of that was fallow pasture. I helped my dad fence it, and then spent my spare time for a summer plowing, harrowing it and planting new grass. From the time I was thirteen it was my job to take care of the irrigation pipes,tend the cattle, raise the garden, and haul and shovel the sawdust that heated our house. Every spring we’d go to the auction and buy a dozen yearlings. Come fall they would go to slaughter. After we put up the meat for the family and sold one to a neighbor any profits were mine. After I had filled up the college fund there was enough left over for a Porsche Speedster racing car before I graduated from college. (Won my first race and most of the rest for the season!)
Never felt exactly hard put upon by having a few duties while growing up!
@ Woodchuck:
“….most situations in history change primarily not because of bombs and bullying but from people simply walking away from situations and forgetting about it. Systems aren’t “destroyed” as often as they are abandoned and walked away from….”
Nock thought the same thing: that the State system of human organization would disappear when people stopped believing in it.
Of course, the only reason people believe in it now, or even believed in it, is because they’re on the payroll. (Legalized) stealing is a lot easier, and often more profitable, than working.
So the only way people will “stop believing in it” is if it no longer pays, or if everyone decides that it’s wrong to steal. So it could be a long wait before the State system disappears.
Speaking of RFK Jr., he hied himself down to the border and talked to some Americans about the affects the situation is having on them, and will have on the rest of the country, if something is not done.
A refreshing change from the outdated platitudes like “humanitarian crisis” that people shout at each other.
Also refreshing, a candidate concerned with Americans maybe not having enough to eat.
“I met with local farmers Cory Mellon, Alex Mueller, Hank Auza, and Robert Barkley in Yuma, Arizona.”
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1666261036264222720?cxt=HHwWgMDTmbLl358uAAAA
This should also point out the seriousness of the election fraud in Arizona, in that who they vote in affects whether the rest of us can have food.
I’m wondering how long this delusional ‘Transgender Mania’ will last. It seems to be riding a wave right now.
Until enough people wake up to the Great Reset. The tranny flag is the flag of your would-be corporate conquerers.
Right now it is draped over the White House balcony, and hundereds of them are flying at Rockefeller Center.
QUOTE:***Until enough people wake up to the Great Reset.***
Or until the electric grid goes kaput, and/or the supply lines that maintain it. Then the dream of your would-be corporate conquerors for a Great Reset will evaporate. As Kunstler said before, there actually will be a Great Reset… just not what they think it will be.
And come the (real) Great Reset, your would-be corporate conquerors will be running for their lives from You the People — if you still have enough backbone left. Some of them may make it to their underground bunkers… and once the supplies in them run out, those bunkers will becomes their tombs.
Part of their plan involves taking down the grid.
You seek refuge in comfortable ideas.
If the grid goes down, the event will be used to add to the chaos out of which they plan to bring order.
This is so far from over, Mr. Asia.
“once the supplies in them run out, those bunkers will becomes their tombs” The fresh air intakes of “those bunkers” are a greater vulnerability than their other supplies.
“And come the (real) Great Reset, your would-be corporate conquerors will be running for their lives from You the People…”
Ummm, no.
Do you think, with all of their “think-tanks”, etc., they have not already thought of this? Their ability to think and plan for the destruction of western civilization far out-leverages ours.
They can drop bombs anywhere in the world, overthrow governments, conduct 24/7 surveillance on you. What can you (we) do? Cry “Wolverines!” online?
It’s possible that our ruling overlords don’t want Biden again. They may want closet Deep Stater, DeSantis.
What better way to elevate DeSantis than to ramp up the tranny crazy, and the CRT racism?
They won’t have to steal the election if they time it right.
Speaking of that mania, I met the green-haired son of a high-school classmate yesterday. Except he obviously had started out as a girl (hormones can’t rearrange your skeleton . . . ). He was a perfectly nice kid, helping his widowed grandmother get by, but there was something so heartbreakingly sweet and vulnerable about him that it made me fear what would happen to him down the road. Poor kid.
megabeth,
Speaking of skeletons, what do puberty blockers do to the development of one’s skeletal system? I assume (depending on the drug) they either raise or lower one’s body fat percentage. Obviously they stunt the growth of one’s sex organs. But what about the skeleton? If a prepubescent boy takes puberty blockers, will he end up shorter and curvier than he would have without the drugs??
Just asking.
Blocking normal growth and development leads to reduced bone density, but it doesn’t turn a boy body into a curvy girl body.
It just gives children osteoporosis.
//segm.org/the_effect_of_puberty_blockers_on_the_accrual_of_bone_mass
Beryl,
How can you believe? They will do or say anything to appear vote-worthy. Politicians used to even have the disgusting habit of kissing babies…goddamn little vectors I would not approach within 50 feet knowingly.
Hied. Nice word.
Do people want the Truth? Try telling a military family that their Grandfathers died fighting for the International Bankers. Or try telling Liberals about the differing IQ of different racial groups – another reason not to have inter-racial nations.
Ummmm…. he’s campaigning.
I read this morning that Kennedy promises to pardon Assange on Day 1. I wish it were true. Trump should have done it.
Kennedy? I don’t think so.
Burn this into your brain, Kunstler:
Republicans may not be the solution to your problems, but Democrats are the cause.
ALWAYS.
Trump needs to be returned to office on principle, too, as a stolen election cannot go unanswered. Merciless retribution MUST take place to teach these bastards a lesson.
Actually a lot of the problems we are facing started with the Republicans.
Agree, 100%. name one difference (real, not P.R.) between Dems & Repubs. It’s the “Uni-party”
I’ll bite.
Yes, at the federal level, they’re pretty much all the same. No one gets there without someone having a photo of them with their dick in something (metaphorically or literally)…so they toe the line handed down from above ever so faithfully.
State on down though, I’d say one difference that stands out in today’s political world is that republicans are more likely to have (or have had) an actual private sector job/career before taking office. In contrast, today’s dems (progressives) are much more likely to be straight out of the college activist/community organizer sector, only knowing work as a public function.
One has people who at least have some real world understanding and common sense, the other has people who find self-value in changing things that others do and create, without knowing or caring why, cuz…activist.
I’m sure after another 10-15 years of schools churning out activists that slight difference will fade to nothing…
The RINOs!!! The GOP in Dem clothing.
They all believe in the same prime directive, preservation and indeed expansion of the Deep State and yes, beyond that, the advance of the globalist WEF.
Well, Alex Soros is taking over for his dad, Georgie Porgie. Stand by, he has stated he will be much more politically active than his dad.
“They all believe in the same prime directive, preservation and indeed expansion of the Deep State and yes, beyond that, the advance of the globalist WEF.”
NOt sure they all “believe” in these entities.
But, they sure do need the money.
They are all beholden to the Jewish Lobby for campaignn funds and various other emoluments (sp??). Plus there is the blackmail factor..
The Summarizer
Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a prominent international banker who founded the great international banking house of Rothschild, which still dominates the financial policies of practically every country in the world through its affiliation with the European Central Banks.1 He famously said, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” This quote has been widely quoted and has been attributed to him. Rothschild also said, “The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its profits or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.”
Republicans are spineless and useless cowards, part of the uni-party destroying us. How long before American conservatives realize this? How many times will they allow the Republican party to stab them in the back before they realize it hurts.
It’s all about tribes. Tribes, tribes, tribes. Nobody gives a damn about the Country. Party first, self second, Country is far down the list.
“taking over for his dad” like the reviled Commodus taking over from his widely revered father Marcus Aurelius?
Yup, Abraham Lincoln, 1861.
Amen!
Big Jake, exactly. So we let Trump get screwed as an example to the rest of us? As the Pharisees saidTo teach not to ask for borders and factories? For freedom from the defense contractors? Nah. Fuggedaboutit.
McConnell type Rs can go to hell, but America First is ipso facto the way an American president should be.
As the Pharisees said, ” it is better that one man should die.” Nope , not going to give up when he’s in trouble.
I’m sure the PTB will acquiesce just because you stamped your foot and REALLY MEAN IT.
Mr. Kunstler,
In the middle 80’s I was working on forest fires and met a Fire Bomber Pilot. Drank beer together. In the early 70’s he was RIF’ed from the Astronaut Program. This guy was brilliant. And unhappy about the RIF. At the time, I was reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I liked that story, the Fire Bomber Pilot loved that story. Particularly given Ayn Rand’s origin. Your article brought that memory back. Maybe Ayn Rand was prescient.
Cheers
Some of the most brilliant men you’ll ever meet are living on the street. Didn’t know how to stop talking – or couldn’t compromise.
The World can handle the Truth? Like hell it can.
Ayn Rand: the rich should rule, money is God. Yup…
SUCH a beautiful story!
Allow me to tender my observations. 30 years ago I noticed the suburb I live in was becoming an Edge City where did not need to go in the the Big City for anything.
Now my section of the suburb has become a 15 minute city. Where i do not have to travel more than 15 minutes to reach the Doctor , Gym, restaurants and Super market. Amazon supplies the rest right to my door.
I know this was all planned and i think is a great idea. It solves the endless motoring problem and is local. It is the best suburban planning I have ever seen.
And you can leave this 15 minute neighborhood whenever you want to with no permission slip and no one tracking how many times you’ve driven out. That’s freedom and that’s not what you’d get with new laws.
“that’s not what you’d get with new laws.”
Which ‘new laws’? Do you mean the ones that Night Owl is constantly dreaming up?
SW,
Some good news, a few cities in the UK appear to have been somewhat successful at the moment in reversing the 15-minute city lockdown plans.
People have been going directly to their city council meetings and demanding to know what is going on and why the council members are following the agenda of unelected WEF technocrats.
So long as this spreads, it is going to be hard for them to continue. Here in Germany, they seem to be watching the resistance in the 5EYES countries to determine when to move on rolling out such things.
Some people just walked to the corner store for smokes, a case of Bud (pretty heavy) and cans of Dinty Moore. It has protein and fiber – and can sustain life. A two block life. The walking and carrying helping to keep them in shape. Sometimes they walk to the park – a few more blocks.
Such people put you to shame.
the sodas and cigs didnt keep them in shape. one step forward one backwards.
I know a guy who married a cashier at his down-the-block 7-11 where he used to go for big bag potato chips.
Been together 35 years now, with a few kids.
Just opened a can of dinty moore. Far less meat (dog food) than there used to be.
Is nothing sacred?
Pretty sure Spaghettios still have the same number of meatballs that they had in 1986…make the switch?
“There’s a broad-based assumption across the land, derived from our fading prime artform, the movies, that Americans can’t handle the truth.”
There is a new development in cinema which is arguably a new cinema OR a new approach to film-making. A lot of great work, great movies, are still possible.
Speaking of modern bullsh-t that don’t work, WTF is “Captcha” protecting me from? I’ve got 1 minute to read or type & the asinine thing makes me start over. Is it that hard to set up a comment section? It reminds me of my idiot supermarket & their “Digital coupons”… inaccessible for a person like me (& evidently the fastest growing segment of phone users) who have a cheap flip-phone. They “helpfully” tried to explain the convoluted process of by-passing their stupid procedure, logging into their website, clicking on [?], bringing a tablet to the store…I hadda ask, can’t you just give me a price? How’d that become so hard? Now, I shop elsewhere. Let’s simplify folks, huh?
This is what they are aiming for- this article is from Naomi Wolf’s Substack and it covers a lot of ground, but this is the relevant part-
“Last Wednesday I was in Brooklyn, New York, at about ten am. I had stayed in the borough overnight, as I was preparing to meet a lawyer in Manhattan.
My stay had already become 21st Century-dystopian, as I had foolishly booked myself at the trendy/discounted hotel, Sonder the Industrialist. It turned out that the management has turned physical hotels into a dehumanized data harvesting operation. I arrived at night in an Uber to find myself alone in an industrialized area, with a dying phone, and all the restaurants closing; at which point the app informed me that there was to be no human being to receive me in the lobby, so I had to phone a call center in the Philippines in order to “set up my account,” and then that I must provide an array of invasive private information before I would be granted the code to enter the building.
I followed other exasperated tourists into the lobby, hoping to bypass the data harvesting, but was told by the sweet, sad “security person” at the front desk that he had no powers whatsoever, that there was no key to give me at all, and that I had to finish “completing my account” and “checking in online” before I could hope to get to my longed-for room.
This process included a full-on, turn-your-head-right-and-left, biometric facial scan, which in the Brave New World of digital coercion, it was too late for me to decline, if I was going to get anywhere safe to sleep. The “lockdown” model for forcibly extracting digital information and behavioral compliance before allowing anyone anything decently human had taken over yet another former civilized experience — checking into a hotel after a journey — in yet another formerly human space.
I could not manage to “update the settings on my camera” effectively to allow the app to data-harvest my driver’s license, so a tall, equally exhausted Swedish businessman loomed into my personal space in order to help me, thus inadvertently seeing not only all my biometric information and the purpose of my trip, but also my room entry access code and my room number. The app thus having entirely compromised my security as well as having harvested critical personal information against my will, I fled to my room at last, reminding myself uneasily to bolt the door.”
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/apocalypse-lunchtime
She’d have been better off with an AirBnB, as terrible as they are.
Typically the host sends one the custom door code for your stay in the app prior to arrival.
Easy peasy.
Hey, we run a wonderful AirBnB! Although i have stayed at crappy ones, before. They taught me what not to do, in a way. That, and growing up helping my parents run an old-fashioned lakeside resort, that is.
Avoid “trendy.”
Join a genuine “couch surfing” club.
About 2.5 years ago, I posted about this model. Had been editing a Power Point slide pack for someone who was involved in this stuff and was serving a UK-based defense contractor.
I forgot the name of the contractor but I posted it back then. There were several charts showing exactly what a check-in and stay would look like in a hotel of this sort, and the only thing that differed from Naomi’s story was that a digital ID containing all of your personal info. (and ofc, “vaccine” status) was used to determine whether one had access to these sorts of services.
Back then, a few people here wrote this off as silliness.
Low IQ.
😀
The defense contractor Thales had a promo video similar to what you describe, but they are French.
It was Thales. They have a UK arm, and I believe that was the site I linked to.
Thales already produces UK passports. Back in a more innocent age, they were produced by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO). How quaint.
Thales produced the ‘meet Lucy’ video on digital wallets, which is presumably still on YouTube.
Over 30 years ago, I undertook a post-grad. diploma too stupid to describe, for the intended purpose of increasing my employment options and getting me out of secondary teaching. There was an IT component. In one lecture, the IT chap was proudly describing a hotel whose systems allowed it to record the newspaper its clients requested in order to have it waiting for them when they next visited.
I said I wouldn’t want to go to a hotel that was so intrusive it was noting what paper I read. All the youngsters looked at me as if I was from another planet.
How things have moved on …
And we’ll have to do all that stuff Naomi had to do just to see a doctor, before too long. Or a ‘doctor’.
If it makes money for shareholders, who are you to say boo?
Perhaps your issue is your placement on the Pyramid. If you were invited up higher, things would seem much better to you.
@ Beryl & Night Owl — It seems to me that slowly and surely human interaction is curtailed. Even going to the grocery store now is check out at a self-service scanner and little interaction with store employees. Maybe instead of the multipurpose pride flag we should have one with a large barcode.
And as you posted from Wolfe’s substack, you’re completely at their mercy. I flew during the pandemic overseas and had to fill out a long form on my phone before boarding. A nice young lady helped me and when I got to Heathrow I was exhausted and had no idea how to show the border control my form. Thank God he was a sane human being and helped but what if it had been strictly automated? It all started years ago with “press 1 for …..” and now here we are.
Spot on, SW.
It all started years ago with “press 1 for …..” and now here we are… Coming soon is the message “Your call is very important for us. Please hold until we hang up on you.”
re: The “Pride Flag”:
If blacks are the brown stripe, who is the black stripe for?
And where are the Hispanics? Looks to me like they need to do more “peaceful demonstrations”.
Where is the stripe for white women? They are as victimized by straight, white, males as anyone else – actually, more-so.
And the gold stripe – for the Overlords…
The “Pride Flag” is actually the anti-‘cis-gendered, white male flag”.
In other words, she was hoping the tall Swedish gentleman would let himself in to her room?
Yeah, that is why she bolted the door.
Grow up.
Your “morality” doesn’t allow men to be men or God to be God. It is of the devil.
More drivel. Nobody said anything about morality, just practicality. She bolted the door because she was aware that a stranger had the number of her room and the code to get in.
Your rape fantasies are your own business. And you are veering toward the dark side.
You want her husband to be a ‘man’? You want him to be told that his wife fucked a random Swede she met in a hotel lobby? You are twisted. Almost beyond help.
‘Women’s sexuality needs to be controlled’ says the toad. Except when it not being controlled feeds his rape fantasies.
@ Jarek:
It seems that all your fantasies are vulgar and juvenile. Or they involve fucking someone over, as with the scantily clad slave girl doing your dishes.
But we must allow “men to be men”: childish, vulgar, and entirely focused on abusing others. That’s what a man is, right?
Anthea – I’d agree with childish and vulgar as basic male traits – the abuse part is reserved for the jerks, just like it is among women.
Annual fishing weekends with “the old boys from back in the day” certainly contain their vulgar and childish moments. It’s actually quite amusing and appropriate when wielded with a grown-up understanding.
Rape fantasies are exceedingly common among women.
Again, the total projection onto men of all feminine negativity by women.
As Og said, It’s always “attack, attack, attack” with them.
Point to where the comment about YOUR rape fantasies says anything about them being unknown in women, toad.
In this particular instance, we have no evidence that the happily married and exceedingly tired Naomi Wolf was experiencing rape fantasies. Quite the opposite. The only fantasy she was entertaining was a safe night’s sleep that didn’t involve a full-spectrum biometric invasion.
Take your whataboutery elsewhere. It doesn’t work here.
Also, ‘attack, attack, attack’ is your modus operandi with people – and specifically women – that you feel the need to ‘better’.
It is tedious. Like I said, grow up.
Rape fantasies are very common among women.
This is a simple fact. But you and reality aren’t on speaking terms it seems.
@ Jarek:
A lot of people fantasize about a lot of things. Many of them are pretty off-the-wall and would surprise many here. I will not list any of them, as that would be in poor taste.
Speaking of which, has it perhaps occurred to you that disclosing your sexual fantasies in this forum (and in any other publc forum, for that matter) might be beyond poor taste? Particularly since your intent in doing so is abusive? Why would you think it appropriate to pollute this blog with your filth? Could it be that there’s something really wrong with you?
And speaking of sexual fantasies, especially of the more unsavory kind, I think this is a subject worth analyzing. Where do particularly evil thoughts originate? Should we entertain them?
This is actually a theological question. Maybe you should think about it.
“Rape fantasies are very common among women.”
You still haven’t told us what this has to do with YOUR rape fantasy around Naomi Wolf’s concerns for a safe night’s sleep. Whataboutery isn’t a response.
Man!!, did this convo jump the tracks.
The wound must be lanced. Men must realize that this is what women have become now that we’ve lost Patriarchy.
They project all of their negativity on to us. They probably always did. Wise men knew it, and thus denied them all power since they absolutely refuse any accountability.
You hear that, boys? Women do NOT want to be taken and dominated, in sex. They will dole it out as they see fit.
And you’ll all be good little mommas boys, and play along, right?
They tell us that they do NOT want to be taken and dominated in sex, so it must be true, cuz that’s what they say, and it’s not like women have ever been known to shit test a man, to see if he will put up with their nonsense.
Wolfe included the description of the tall Swedish gentleman possibly breaking into her room, cuz it made for good copy.
And let’s be clear: It’s Jarek’s fault that it made for good copy. His sick twisted mind couldn’t help but placing himself in that awful position.. that Wolfe included in her text.
It’s men’s fault that women read 50 Shades of Grey. That’s what they are telling us, here on this subthread; they never lie about matters of the heart, and bedroom.
Believe it at your own peril.
On the srs tho: there is that new trend, where they give some of it out, to good little obedient dogs, and that’s the dynamic at play with a kept man, which dynamic is more and more frequent in gelded America.
@naomiwolf
I find that I almost always sleep better in my car than in a “cheap” hotel or motel. I’d rather sleep in a tent in grizzly country than in a campground with an RV generator running. It helps that I avoid big shittys like the plague. If I’m arriving by air I locate the nearest truck stop that allows overnight parking, and then rent a van or full size SUV. (for a fraction of the cost of a hotel) Roll out my air mattress and sleeping bag and I’m home.
A few years ago I was going to St. Lucia deep in the Caribbean from Vancouver. My flight left early in the morning and my flight from Vancouver arrived at 10:30 pm. Having been there before I knew that airports all have fixed hard seat dividers to make it impossible to sleep on their seats. So I found a quiet un-used corner behind some counters and rolled out my air mattress. Awoke bright eyed and ready to go the next morning.
They force the face recognition bullshit on people trying to collect unemployment as well, and I’m sure for just about everything that people need from the gov’t.
Beryl,
If that’s not a soliloquy on where 15 minute cities are heading, I don’t know what is. Throw in having your social credit score charged every time you leave your area and soon you’ll find yourself unable to buy groceries, even with all your biometric and other personal data entered into your FreedomForFood app.
I’m not finished.
The finish line is the eternal graveyard.
I spent a career being a flunky for Big Pharma. Yes, I worked for the system while watching it became more and more corrupt every year. It was always corrupt, it just kept getting worse. I barely avoided the finish line and now I will be 70.
I now spend my time repairing and building furniture, carpentry and gardening. As it all goes to hell in the little productive time I have left I know I have skills to still contribute to the rebuild.
make yr contributions here. word salads.
I’m a great gardener. I’ll be able to teach people how to amend their soils using compost and grow their own foods. I hope I can fall back on that knowledge to survive. Most people don’t even know how to grow a potato.
I gave up gardening this year. My soil only grows moss. The future isn’t worth waking up for.
@ Blackbird:
Moss is an indication of an acidic soil. You need to amend your soil to correct the pH. I am not sure what you’d use, but I think it would be lime. Wood ashes are also very alkaline and would be a good soil amendment, as they also contain potassium–part of the NPK trinity of macronutrients.
Anyway, it should be a cheap and easy fix. Also that Dr. Earth organic fertilizer kicks ass.
I’ve been amending with wood ash for the past 3 years. Couldn’t this year due to the drought and the ban on outdoor burning. Also been adding compost/manure.
The biggest problem this year is water. My auxiliary well collapsed and the water supply from the house is inadequate to spin the sprinkler. I’d have to go out every half hour and move the sprinkler in order to water the entire garden. I’d have to get up by 4:30 am to water the garden before leaving for work. And I already spent more to find out the well is collapsed – without fixing it – than the value of all the produce I might have grown this year. But it would have been nice to have home-grown tomatoes rather than those flavorless, truck-ripened atrocities.
Time to burn this homestead to the ground and move on.
canker I’m a great gardener too. My brother was posted to Sarajevo in the 90’s, he sent me a survival handbook published there complete with recipes for times when you have no food.
They listed the edible plants that grew wild and were common, how and when to look for whatever, how to store it, how to prepare. All done with a wry, practical sense of humor.
One of the chapters dealt with fitness and the favorite exercise was running, especially across open areas, everybody was in perfect height/weight proportions.
@ Cankerpuss:
To tell you the truth, I have rarely had any success with potatoes, though I have great success growing just about everything else.
Anthea, potatoes like sandy soils, plant them in a small depression and as they grow fill the depression leaving just a few leaves above the soil, as they re-grow, cover about half the new growth with soil and repeat until after two months you will have a mound with potato leaves sticking out. That mound will be filled with spuds.
I barely avoided the finish line and now I will be 70. – Buttich
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Did you mean made it to or avoided?
Did you stick it out long enough to get your pension or leave because you could no longer stand it?
I once had a confrontation where there were heated words between me, my boss (a total asshole), and a big wig in Human Resources. I was a cunt hair’s width from resigning on the spot but I got control of myself and said “no, I’m not going to fuck up the pension I’ve got coming and so richly deserve.” I stayed and retired at age 65 and 2.5 months with full pension.
Did your boss and HR want you to stop irritating coworkers with corrections of their casual written communications?
Definition of obnoxious:
Cluelessness as to how irritating one is, or actual enjoyment of being irritating to others.
I like to imagine that Peter is just trolling him.
To me, today’s offering from JHK is a stirring up to date restatement of his The Long Emergency prophecy. IOW, we are right on track.
In an effort to take a stand against my “toxic masculinity”, today I am wearing sandals that show off the “my little pony” band aids on the toes I scraped yesterday.
You mean Band-Aid doesn’t have a Pride edition?
Pride band-aids exist here in Germany.
A skinned knee is nothing to be proud of. Neither is sodomy.
The entire concept of taking pride in sexuality is rather odd, IMO.
In the end, nature wins anyways. Only one side multiplies.
I would stomp on your toes with my hobnailed boot.
Humanity stomps up on jackboots and descends in silken slippers or in our case, sandals.
Jarek
I would kick you in the nutz with my Stormtrooper sandals until you bled from both ears.
Steel toed sandals? Why not?
The most important ‘truth’ that Trump told was that we should forget the empire. THAT is what America First means, … get out of NATO, no more wars … that is what Trump said. Of course, he was attacked at every level for suggesting that. In my mind, the main reason they hated Trump was that he wanted to move in the direction of isolationism, if even a little bit. That scared the hell out of the Deep State, and made them determined at all costs to destroy Trump.
Steve, quite probably true.
Trump also wanted out of the WHO.
He must have known something that I didn’t know at the time!!
At the time I thought it was his positions on trade with China, the border rackets, and especially the climate hoax that got them so determined to get rid of him at all costs.
I have only just recently come to the conclusion that his Ukraine and NATO positions were what really lit the fuse.
Yes. That is what started WW2 as well. As Churchill relates in him memoirs, Germany refused to surrender national sovereignty to the nascent global order.
Yeah, in him memoirs
his memoirs, Q
Yes, of course but why didn’t you write that the first time?
Why did you write it?
Close our damned borders, put the army on the borders with orders to shoot anyone who is caught trying to cross, eliminate the Fed, and fix our mess here at home. Can you imagine how refreshing it would be to have a politician or a President say and do those things? Trump got close but he had too much to fight. I often day dream about what Trump could have accomplished for the USA if he’d had a Congress that wanted to fix America and a media that published the truth and facts.
It’s good to see Jimbo return to his “Long Emergency” roots. Politics rolls on, whether we’re paying attention or not, and it’s not in the nature of politics that the best should be elected. Enter RFK Jr. Could he be in 2024 what Trump was for the country in 2016? Time will tell.
Let’s all watch the Camelot musical so we can sing together. Together with tom!
“Enter RFK Jr. Could he be in 2024 what Trump was for the country in 2016?”
Another waste of energy? Let’s hope not! (But I expect that is exactly what he will be.)
James, you should think about going back to once a week.
Fuck you Tate. I haven’t read it yet, except for the sword bit, and I thought….
Just make sure it’s a machete. Luv Rwanda.
Think of the smoke bro! Going back up to read now.
Damn girl, you’re on fire.
You may not be smoking hot anymore, but at least you’re still smoking.
She’s reading the comments before the piece – and getting mad! This is her approach to Catholicism too. This is vintage ani and why I love her.
Just pick a day not to read him. Easy peasy.
Or, just don’t stop by at all.
Surely you have far better things to do with your time.
Why take the time to read him then if you despise his writing? People like you don’t make sense to me. If I don’t like something I don’t read it.
JHK’s writing is good and interesting writing. He isn’t always right in his predictions but he is always interesting to read.
Sounds Woke, to me.
Tate doesn’t like reading JHK twice a week, therefore JHK should change to suit Tate, no matter that the rest of us look forward to Mondays and Fridays.
Tate,
Maybe you should read JHK with one eye poked out?
Okay, that made me snicker.
Mega, glad you liked it. Just trying to bring a little sunshine into a darkened corner.
be safe!
I remember Doug Casey observing that after the economic and financial system of America disappears, the “stuff” we have built will still be there.
I think that he got that very wrong. Just a tad of thought on his part would show him the error of that conclusion. Maybe he’s lived too long outside of the U.S.A.
Rather, it seems to me that Jim has it about right. The “stuff” we have built won’t be there either. It’s crumbling just like the financial system.
He got rich being wrong with the predictions.
he will be right someday.
Yes, read the Earth Abides. How quickly the roads will become impassable in the wooded East. Or in the mountains, both East and West.
On the other hand, as The World Without Us states, the sky scrapers will last a long time.
But the elevators won’t work.
Nor the vending machines!
“On the other hand, as The World Without Us states, the sky scrapers will last a long time.”
Depends on how you define “a long time”. Outlast the Colosseum? I doubt it.
The “Tiara”, condo on Singer Island, Florida: engineered by a Japanese construction company to withstand 210 mph winds. September, 2004: the Tiara is subjected to 120 mph winds from Hurricane Frances. Walls and windows blew out (not supposed to happen until 210 mph), appliances rained-out all over the neighborhood, frame still twisted.
1945: B-25 bomber hits the Empire State Building. Empire State Building still stands.
2001: Fake airliners hit 2 World Trade Center buildings. All World Trade Center buildings destroyed – plus many other neighboring buildings.
Guess we just don’t build ’em like we usta?
Moral of the story: don’t hire architects from a country where they live in fucking rice paper houses.
Fake airliners hit the World Trade Center? What are you really saying? Cue in dramatic music.
Jaros, I know you know better. As a well-read man I’m sure you’ve read many of the same books and articles on the subject that I have. But since you asked:
Something other than an airliner punched a hole all the way through the Pentagon. No wreckage, no passengers, no luggage – it vaporized, ’cause that’s what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object.
Something other than an airliner created a perfect outline of an airliner in the ground at Shanksville, PA. (My guess, looking at the photos, is a group of third graders were asked to make it look like a plane crashed there – and then given shovels. But look at the photos yourself.) No wreckage, no passengers, no luggage…
If real airliners (piloted by angry Arabs who could barely get a Cessna off the ground) weren’t used on the Pentagon and Shanksville, why go to the risk of adding that variable by using them on the World Trade Center? Apparently the problem of how to dispose of airliners and passengers had already been resolved for those two instances, why not use it for all 4?
I watched video of planes hitting the Twin Towers, some looks convincing, some looks fake. Even if Boeing 767s hit the Twin Towers, I doubt they were the ones that took off filled with passengers earlier that morning. No wreckage, no passengers, no luggage – but, Mohammed Atta’s perfectly preserved passport. And of course, airliners filled with passengers weren’t even needed to bring the towers down, they were just for added outrage.
As with “Covid”, in regard to 9/11, I can’t be certain exactly what happened, but I can be certain that the official story is a lie.
What happened to all the passengers of the disappeared jets? All crisis actors?
This is what they get Alex Jones on.
Just like I know that the Sandy Hook story is bogus because of my profession, I read a former flight attendant who dissected the phone calls from the flight attendants on Flight 93.
She pointed out that they were giving hints that only other flight attendants would pick up on, like saying they were on the upper floor of an airliner with one floor, and talking about passengers in certain seats, which was not possible.
She thinks that all four airliners were flown to a military base, I think in CT, and that the passengers and crew were all killed there.
The military base she pointed to had an “emergency” where the usual staff was told to go home that day.
She convinced me. But I can’t remember her name now.
“What happened to all the passengers of the disappeared jets?”
Killed and “disappeared”.
The more you look into the official story, the more incredible it becomes.
It’s remarkable how many people don’t know that 3 buildings dropped that day.
Love Earth Abides. I still have my copy after all these years.
Yes, it bears rereading.
Blackbird June 13, 2023 at 11:16,
That’s a good summation of the evidence that the events of the official story didn’t happen. But what did happen?
I’m not baiting you. I like to hear all reasonable theories about 9/11.
“But what did happen?”
I don’t know. In my reading on the subject, I’ve come across a lot of evidence undermining the official story, but none that provides an answer to what did happen.
However, airliners, their passengers, luggage, etc., had to be disposed of. I would assume that they were flown to a “secret military airfield”, probably in NY, MD, or PA, somewhere nearby. They already had the people, planes, and luggage together, might as well keep them together until disposal to avoid misplacing any evidence. Then of course the clean-up crew would have to be eliminated.
I’m sure that what really happened was much simpler and straight-forward than what we have been told happened.
It’s all those years playing touch football that are giving Bobby an edge.
Not just touch football. RFK Sr’s brood were legendarily naughty, as guests at Hickory Hill have reported.
The other day I called RFK Jr. naive over some comments he made about that UFO whistleblower dude.
It wan’t his belief in UFOs, it was his apparent belief that people would see a contradiction in calling him a conspiracy theorist while mainstream
publications were covering the story as if it had legitimacy.
BTW, about the UFO guy, it seems his attorneys have quit him:
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1667527499041873921?s=20
There’s a real shocker. The system has declined to support a whistleblower.
Here’s the latest interesting UFO encounter:
nypost.com/2023/06/08/las-vegas-police-spot-ufo-and-residents-claim-to-see-aliens/
Novak Djokovic is the man.
He is one of the few heros (among public figures) of the past few years.
It amazes me to see how many are so weak. As the level of weakness is one I have never personally experienced.
Lol
Indeed. “Unvaccinated” and still here. They almost locked us out of supermarkets in addition to everything else here in Germany, but we protested and they backed down.
Fortune favors the doers.
Novax rules!
Yes ma’am
Quite a hopeful post. It is almost a best case? The plan is to destroy all small business though, the big box is the plan.
Even with an unreliable grid our inbred vampire squid overlords may drive ahead with ‘Walmartski’ as the last retailer standing. And in detail, the hopeful picture our host paints is perhaps exactly what will not be allowed to be. If the grid not up sufficiently for all the bells and whistles of digiID CBDC etc Im sure they got a backup plan involving old school violence by men with guns and paper lists of who’s been naughty and nice. I know I’ve been naughty, my browsing history makes it clear to the authorities that I understand (more or less) the actual goings on.
Our host has evolved with emerging truths, for that I salute him. And my belated thanks for years of enjoyment and insight. Books were good too.
Altho, Big Box stores are going down, too. Sears, JC Penney, & K-Mart gone, Walmart closing stores, Target circling the drain.
We’ll see how long Amazon lasts. Disrupted supply lines from China & high fuel prices might put an end to Amazon as well.
BRH,
Gas in my little slice of heaven jumped to $4.49 per… if you pay with cash…otherwise add another 12 cents per gallon.
$3.49 a gallon here in Grand Junction, CO. I’m on the road…
$3.359 at Costco in Edison, NJ
The big box store business model depends on Chinese imports. When China doesn’t want our dollars anymore these stores will no longer make sense businesswise.
Well, the big box stores will be more than half empty of merchandise when China can no longer get its goods here. Then the big boxes will have to start stocking chickens and goats and such.
We see an awful lot of companies behaving like profits dont matter. And my point is that if our overlords wish some kind of walmartski to be the retail and food model, well they got deep pockets not to mention a printing press…. so perhaps relying on ‘real life’ economics to self correct is naive?
If they want you shopping in a big box with a barcode to enter, that is what you will see. And for them to spend say 10 billion to make that real is a mere nothing.
I dunno. Its not some monolithic entity with a singular plan, there are lots of offshoots and partial enablers. But I do believe there is a clique that has some real solid objectives. Not being self sufficient and not being localized is part of that plan? Dependency. Thats the ticket……
Indeed. I am all for positivity, but I do not agree with much of this week’s assessment.
Yes, I watched a video of Chechens killing Russian prisoners. One of the Russian soldiers was grasping at his killer’s legs. The Chechen was unmoved and brought the long knife or short sword down again and again.
He didn’t die well. It’s important to die well.
Father Miguel Pro blessed his firing squad and opened up his arms as if he was on a cross. Of course a firing squad is a much faster way to go than being hacked to death.
Now Chechens are fighting alongside Russians.
And all is forgiven? Traditional peoples have long memories. The Chechens hate the Russians. Turkish tourists don’t get off at some Greek islands because of the hatred of the people for them.
Modern Whites are such poor haters. No depth at all. And if they can’t hate, how can they love?
Most Chechens support Russia, but there are renegades fighting with the Kiev regime.
Supposedly they are going to dress up Ukies and renegade Chechens in Russian uniforms, put them in Russian vehicles, and turn them loose in Belgorod, to confuse the population and the military.
“old school violence by men with guns” Very few have any idea how much damage to the “system” can be done by randos with scoped hunting rifles. Most of them are not controllable by the rest of us.
Why disarming the US population is front and centre. And us Canucks, you wouldn’t think it offhand but I found some stats on gun ownership by capita, US #1, then Serbia and it might have been Turkey. Canada #4. With 1 in 3 households or somesuch having a gun.
However I meant the authorities minions, ie cops and military. THOSE men with guns enforcing the authorities edicts about this and that. Think Holodomor (spelling?, the Ukraine kill-off).
The “collapse” scenario that scares me is if mobs formed in the cities and they were able to make it (on foot) out to rural areas. I.e., something like the many videos you see of “urban youth” riots, where the kids number in the hundreds.
While I have always theorized that “urban youth” are averse to going far on foot, and that the cities and close-in suburbs will be much more attractive targets for weeks or months, there may be some hardier souls who’ll make it out to the country. If they do, they’ll come in large bands.
If so, it would be wise to have a good stock of bullets and a couple of spare magazines.
As usual, you have skipped over the biggest (and still growing) factor in the modern world…Race. The biology of race. We are over the line, biologically, no way back, nothing on the horizon to change this. Look at Brazil, a bio-hazard waste. If we were a country of Whites and Asians, sure, we could come back. But we are not. Our cities are black, entire states are becoming majority black….as Whites are degenerating into cowardly whitemeat cattle. Look to the favelas of Brazil to see our future, as a race-mixed brown sludge. A White and Asian technical class and you-know-who sitting on top of the pile. We’ll need a new word to describe it…..
America has always been white and black. From its inception; and especially so, at its peak.
It was the synergy that made America great, IMO.
1960: 89% white, 9% black, 2% other.
Yes, as I’ve said.
That is probably the most ridiculous statement of the day. You show why White Americans are doomed…you live in a delusional fantasyland inside your head.
“Synergy” between Whites and our welfare-bred slave-souled blacks? Holy crap…
No it was the reality that I lived.
You look at the rising fortunes of black America and it correlates with peak America.
The rising fortunes of black America peaked in the 1950s, before the Civil Rights Movement really kicked off. I’ve read that the Public Accomodations Act destroyed small black businesses. Prior to that, blacks did not have the option of shopping at, or otherwise patronizing, white businesses, so they patronized black-owned businesses. Another factor was that there was plenty of employment available for unskilled labor; lots of blue-collar factory work. Also, in the 1950s, black schools were neighborhood schools controlled by the parents, and the black teachers didn’t tolerate misbehavior. Black kids were thus better educated. Quite a different world–as different for whites as for blacks.
Around here we were about half black and half white.
A white teacher woke up a sleeping black student by dropping books on the desk near his head.
A great outcry arose! Such blatant racism!
My black co-worker was going right along with it, until I asked him if the school teacher who raised him would put up with a kid sleeping in her class.
He looked sheepish and said “No way”. Well, OK, then.
In inner-city schools today, there is an element of older kids who’ve already graduated, who find ways to get into the schools during the day. Some of them just don’t know what else to do with themselves after graduation, so they hang around school because it’s familiar and social. Some of them are dealing drugs or have some other scheme going, but some of them are just looking for a warm place to sleep. I think in some cases it’s because their parents lock them out of the house.
Forty-million welfare dependent blacks, all going berserk at the same time when their EBT cards stop working. There’s your “synergy.”
Rodulf and Anthea (per your 1:19 pm post above),
Your two scenarios blended together form what I think would be a natural progression during societal collapse. First, all on one day, while various other collapse related things are happening; US EBT cards stop working. All of them. These are held by US residents of all races, some disproportionately more than others, who for various reasons, cannot or will not support themselves. This will be ugly out in the country. But in the cities, this will be hell on earth, which I wont’ bother to describe. Many people will want to leave the cities at once. I’ve witnessed two hurricane evacuations personally from Houston. A city cannot be evacuated all at once. You end up with overheated cars, car accidents, cars running out of gas, women delivering babies on the side of the road. But you end of up with lots of cars running out of gas. You would be amazed at how quickly gas stations run out of gas with elevated demand and no replenishment trucks coming in. So by the time the urban populations sort themselves into a smaller population, they will be walking into the countryside. And they may have guns (no holsters for comfort), but they won’t have a lot of ammo. And people sometimes toss guns aside when they run out of ammo. And instead they pick up things like crowbars and baseball bats. This is what will be heading out to the countryside. I just don’t know if it will be 100+ size groups. Maybe eventually.
You have to think about logistics. How are these people going to walk hundreds of miles with no food or water?
(It’s like the “refugees” at the border. No way they are walking 3,000 miles without logistical support.)
They don’t know where food comes from, so why would they go to the country? Once they are done looting grocery stores and gas stations, they will run out of ideas about food finding.
They don’t walk. Walking is oppressive.
I just don’t think that there will be hordes of city people storming the countryside.
Paula:
You may be right, but then again, you may be wrong.
After WW2, millions of ethnically cleansed and persecuted ethnic Germans walked from eastern Europe to Germany. Millions died en route (up to 10 million). People who were liberated from concentration camps walked to their former homes. Sometimes it took them months or years to get there.
Some of this postwar movement of people in Europe, most of it on foot or miles on foot to maybe manage to get onto a train was caught on film.
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLeVRXwGvcw
No overweight people here.
I don’t believe most Americans, especially from the cities, will be able to walk very far, if at all. They may try using the rideable carts at Walmart, but I would think their range will only get them a few city blocks.
Well, yes and no. They were separate. To the extent they mixed, it was White male on Black female. Now it’s the opposite. What does that tell you about dominance?
Since you think the races are equal in IQ and even achievement (how does one believe such an overt lie?) you don’t think it even matters.
People can deal with the truth? Especially Americans? Americans least of all, probably. The worst of a bad (fallen) species.
This is why women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
America was great when Blacks were kept down and OUT of neighborhoods. They had their own. And even a few middle class ones which they attained on their own power, thus entitling them to feel legitimate pride.
Black and white is disappearing. There is a dominant mixed race that is forming. American blacks are not like their ancestors from Africa. If you put an American black next to a Sudanese refugee you’ll see a stark difference in skin color and facial features. Some American blacks are lighter skinned than I am. Many of them are strikingly physically beautiful individuals.
When I am at the gym or out at other locations I still see a lot of white people, an occasional black person but I am starting to note how many “brown” people I am seeing. No, not latinos. These are brown people whose racial ethnicity or cultural heritage I cannot identify.
The individual races of white, black, yellow and so forth are gradually becoming one race of mixed ancestry. Brown skin. Brown eyes. Dark brown hair. That will one day be the major race on our planet.
Yes, this is the Kalergi Plan, exactly what the Elite want: a raceless, rootless, bastardized humanity. The McDonald’s humanity.
Mongrels. No lineage. No heritage. Mutts.
But, but, but… “diversity”!
Cank: Joseph Smith and Brigham are spinning in their graves. The Priesthood was for White men only.
More Black people have moved to USA since 1965 [new imm act] then were here when Abe L was shot.
scary. how is merika racist?
blame LBJ on 2 counts..butter n borders.
“how is merika racist?”
The “US” hates white people. I know that’s not racist, but in a sane world, it would be.
malth is another commenter with a then/than problem.
@ Q. Shtik:
I’m with you on pointing out the then/than error. I honestlly can’t imagine how anyone can make this error. The two words have very different–and very obviously different–meanings. So much so that it’s hard not to feel that someone who misuses these words must be secretly thumbing his nose at you and laughing in his sleeve. It’s like someone has snuck into your livingroom and written “fuck” all over the back of your wing chair.
Ant, before Q gets there, I think I should correct you: when you say “snuck” you mean “sneaked”.
But I agree on “then”and “than”. We should have been more careful when putting this language together.
@ Blackbird:
I think you’re probably right. I have wunk at you as a sign of my agreement.
@ Blackbird:
The period goes inside the quotation marks. But there are exceptions to that, so I am sometimes confused about it myself. I threw away my 1975 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style when I moved.
Anthea, in the USA, all periods (final punctuation) go within quotation marks. (It’s more complicated in the UK.)
I am aware of only one exception:
Where single quos are used for the name of a cultivar (plant), the closing quo is inside the final punctuation.
If you want, you can subscribe to the online version of CMOS.
However, there are a lot of style guides available online that basically copy most of CMOS’s rules. Such as those published by the writing departments of colleges, etc.
Here is a site with links to a whole bunch of style guides (English only), many of them based closely on CMOS.
httpX://web.archive.org/web/20170408172523/http://www.onlinestylebooks.com:80/Alphabetical.html
Blackbird:
Your disapproval of “snuck” (which I tend to use – maybe it’s Texas dialectical) reminds me of how usage will eventually pressure acceptance.
I recall President Eisenhower being scorned by grammarians (no Nazis in those days) for using “finalize” as somehow being pompous bureaucratic jargon. Today everybody uses it and it even goes unnoticed by my fellow Grammar-Snazzies.
I’ve lost a few battles in this regard. I was on the warpath against “orientate” as a back-formation of “orientation” but the dictionary I consulted stated that its usage is so common it is now considered acceptable. Boo.
Usage imposes unstoppable influence. Language changes. How about “disappear” as a verb? It was imported from Latinoamerica, in reference to state-sponsored kidnappings and killings, but I’ve noticed it commonly used in the USA, in a similar (sometimes jocular) context. Along with “arkancided”.
“…with regards to…” in the writings of Jordan Peterson. If you pointed it out to the man he would likely accept that it was in error. But for how much longer?
When I hear somebody using it I burst into a crude Al Jolson rendition of “Give My Regards to Broadway”. Good for laughs.
While I’d agree with Kunstler that as a whole humanity is far from finished and will go on, I fear many of us, possibly a couple billion at least, may still have to go when TSHTF, simply because most of us wouldn’t have anticipated all the large wads of fecal matter splattering all over the place and would therefore simply be quite unprepared. Besides, there are so many of us at present that it’s hard to see what new ways of running things there are which would be able to support us all once the old way of running things finally goes kaput. Kunstler’s words bring cold comfort here.
Sure, humanity will go on, but many of us will have to go in the meantime. Wonder what my chances are of not being among those who shall have to exit the stage (sigh)…
Eh, I’m kind of ambivalent about making it through a TSHTF scenario.
I’ve had a good run and I’m just past my physical peak.
I’m not all that interested in living a 1620s sort of lifestyle. Nor am I prepared for the endless violence and cruelty involved in any sort of post-apocalyptic, “Mad Max,” type scenario.
Me, too. Kinda past my prime. I focus on spiritual things, now, preparing for the transition to the Other World.
I didn’t know you can be spiritual in any meaningful way while at the same time looking down on any human races.
You cannot be spiritual in any effective way without also seeing things clearly.
Maybe becoming spiritual means moving away from the slave-program you espouse….
@ SomeoneinAsia:
I don’t know that a person necessarily needs to “look down” on other races. (I suspect you are referring to blacks.) But you have to be realistic about their capabilities, as a group. People should do what they are good at, or at least capable at. Otherwise, you get an Idiocracy type of situation where someone’s ex-wife, who is retarded, is a pilot now.
It’s doubtless wrong to look down on retarded people or wish them any ill. Many of them can lead useful, dignified lives. But people will come to dislike them if they are allowed to be violent or engage in other criminal behavior–especially on a large scale.
What is your tradition and practice?
I’ve lived a half a century now, my prime is behind me. I won’t endure the “Mad Max” scenario. I will always keep the last round in the chamber of my .357 for myself. I don’t fear death. If there is life after death it will be without a physical body and free of pain, hunger and suffering. If there isn’t life after death then, well, I won’t give a damn anyway. What I do fear is being eaten alive by roving gangs of starving cannibals or being sacrificed to their heathen gods. No, I will fight until there is no longer a reason to fight anymore and then I will exit this world in quiet dignity. That’s my plan anyway.
I’m of the same mindset. I’m too old to be of much use in such a chaotic world, although I would like to see the retributions take place.
Billions are disappearing now because most people don’t have babies anymore. It’s just a slow disappearance. Check out “demographic winter.” Some countries, like Korea and Japan are predicted to be extinct in a century or so because their people are so engrossed by digital fantasies that they don’t even copulate anymore.
Economies are supposed to serve life. Instead life serves the Economy. Dollars have babies (usury) and people do not.
Economies do serve life, but the sad fact is, your life is also about serving the economy, regardless of whether this is a micro-economy or something larger.
If we were metaphorically catapulted back in time and all had to work our own land or die, you would spend most of your time working your land to feed yourself and use some of the fruits of your toil to barter with others.
There is a balance, and few could seriously argue that life is harder now.
“you would spend most of your time working your land to feed yourself” Many of my ancestors spent most of their time catching fish and hunting (or poaching) deer. “Working the land” came later.
Your ancestors spent their lives working to live, just as you and I do.
AI is going to take a lot of jobs. That’s a good thing because it makes money for stockholders, right?
That kind of economy serves their life pretty good, huh?
“humanity will go on, but many of us will have to go in the meantime” That has been true since humans first appeared, nothing at all new with that. For us the living the main question continues to be “what do we do with our remaining time?”
Go early. And take out as many of “them” as you can on the way out.
There is nothing for us on the other side.
Well, most of us here probably have limited shelf life of 20 years or so.
Will we die in our beds?
“… our economy has already collapsed, and our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy.”
None of this was ‘organic’ de-evolution. This was purposeful and deliberate from the Shadows. With a plan and a purpose.
“We’re a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace.”
There are two ways to destroy a nation’s industrial might. One way is to send heavy aircraft bombers and bomb the hell out of a place… the other way is when devious men in fancy suits and big corner offices decide (or are TOLD) to move all the jobs away from American soil and leave empty brownfield lots and bankrupted and hopeless workers behind. Both of these methods works just fine for Their intended purposes.
“Believe it or not, the economy will fix itself, it just won’t be what it was in 1957.”
Not with CBDC looming like menacing storms clouds on the horizon. This will usher in a permanent ‘managed’ and tightly-control economy with no financial freedom at all for We the People. And 1957 will seem like Heaven on Earth (in many ways, it already does).
“We’d be lucky if we could keep some railroads going…”
‘THEY’ from the Shadows don’t want people to have freedom of movement. If we were to have a legitimate kind of lifestyle then passenger rail on a big scale would be a central part of that. But ‘They’ want us living only within areas that we can get to on foot. And with so many Americans carrying way too much weight around the mid-section belt size… that walking distance is probably going to be between the TV room and the refrigerator only.
“When our grotesque medical racketeering matrix fails…”
‘When?’ It has already colossally failed for some time now. What’s different now is that so many people now understand how much it has failed and that it is beyond redemption.
“… the journey from where we were in, say, the year 2000, to where we’re going has been psychologically disordering at the mass scale.”
And the journey from that glorious year of 1957 up to Year 2000 was a planetary earthquake that shook and dissembled our Nation from its core. A quake that originated From The Shadows.
“Any way you look at that, we need somebody to steer.”
There is no one to steer. There are no saviors, just savior posers reciting their lines. The only persons that will save us is ourselves.
“There’s a broad-based assumption… that Americans can’t handle the truth.”
Many Americans can’t handle the truth. And many can. And at least that’s one thing that hasn’t changed since the Glorious Year of 1957.
RFK, Jr. sounding a lot like Trump. Too bad they can’t join forces. But let’s face it…they can’t now. But if Trump makes it back into Office, RFK will likely join his Administration, as he almost did last time around.
That’d be a good fusion ticket:
Trump/RFK jr
2024
Uh huh…
Trump 2024: “I’m gonna get it right this time!”
And if not 2024, we can still “take it back” in ’28 – or ’32…
@Night Owl (in response to a post of yours):
QUOTE:***If the grid goes down, the event will be used to add to the chaos out of which they plan to bring order.***
If the grid goes down, it can only be because the supply lines have gone down too. And without all these, I don’t see where the would-be corporate conquerors are going to be able to get all the required hardware from (weapons, vehicles etc) for bringing the order they dream of. Nor do I see how they’re going to be able to pay their Stormtroopers to do all the dirty work for them — and if the Stormtroopers don’t get paid, their blasters are going to point in a very different direction. (I shall assume none of the would-be corporate conquerors have the powers of Darth Vader.)
Unless you have antifa and BLM. They’ll “work” for free. Just let them loot as payment. And do whatever they want to Conservative Whites. That’s important.
Why don’t you post it in line with the thread.
This habit is usually practiced by those engaging in a civil back and forth.
Other types post way down thread so that context is lost and framing the opponent is easier.
Well, exactly. The truth must be told, and the truth is, when things cannot continue, they do not continue.
The Magical Thinking that goes like this: “We can’t run society the way we run it now on electricity, therefore the oil will never run out”, starts with a truth, and then ends with a fantasy. A very common logical fallacy we see all the time.
Also: “I like air conditioning when it’s hot, therefore the electricity will always be there for me” also ends in fantasy.
I was wandering around Chicago one time and I ran across some statues of the men who changed the way American shopped, back in the early 20th century.
Woolworth, JC Penny, Montgomery Ward, Marshall Field, the Sears dudes, and some more. I think all those stores are gone now.
But Americans went from buying from traveling peddlers, to general stores where the proprietor handed you goods, to “serve yourself and save the difference” stores where you selected your own goods, although there was a Sears in East LA when I was a kid where you went and picked out the goods from the catalog, right there in the basement, and they handed them to you.
When I moved here there was a Woolworth’s and a Montgomery Ward’s, and a Penny’s, but they are long gone, along with the KMart.
As JHK points out, the life we thought was normal in 2000 is gone.
The life we thought was normal in 1980 is also gone.
This time, they are fast tracking the changes, causing much bitching and moaning, but humans adjust.
How are they going to fly all those airplanes with electricity?
They aren’t. Get over it.
I recall a saying attributed to the Arabs:
My dad rode a camel.
I drive a car.
My son flies a jet plane.
HIS son… will ride a camel. 😀
Arabs used to write love poems about their camels. I wonder if it went beyond that.
Camels are very dangerous and can kill with either their teeth or their hooves. So I’m sure that it was consensual if at all.
“Camels are very dangerous and can kill with either their teeth or their hooves.” Horses were dangerous too. U.S. Grant nearly died in one accident with a horse he was riding. Somehow previous generations survived the danger.
In the 1850s Sec. of War Jefferson Davis brought a herd of camels into the Southwest, along with a company of Arab camel trainers. The idea was to give the US Cavalry better mobility in the desert when fighting Apaches. The experiment didn’t work out too good — camels hooves weren’t suitable for the rocky American ground — and the camels were released into the wild at the beginning of the Civil War. The last one was spotted roaming around Arizona in 1937.
Hi Jolly. There is a park and Monument in Quartzsite, AZ in his memory.
Where the heck do you think gonorrhea came from?
Those Camel ads of yesteryear, with the Camel smiling and smoking, make a lot more sense now.
The new Marine Captain was assigned to a recon company in a remote post in the desert.
During his first inspection, he noticed a camel hitched up behind the mess tent.
He asks the First Sergeant why the camel is kept there.
Well, sir,” is the reply, “as you know, there are 250 men here and no women.
And sir, sometimes the men have … urges.
That’s why we have the camel,sir.”
“The Captain says, “I can’t say that I condone this, but I understand about urges, so the camel can stay.”
About a month later, the Captain starts having a real problem with his own urges, and asks the First Sergeant to bring the camel to his tent .
Putting a stool behind the camel, the Captain stands on it, pulls down his pants, and has sex with the camel.
When he is done, he asks the First Sergeant, “Is that how the men do it?”
“No sir,” the First Sergeant replies.
“They usually just ride the camel into town.”
I remember that also, Someone. I think I read it in Reader’s Digest.
Back then people understood that oil was a finite resource.
Now? Not so much.
We take it all for granted and one of the shocks of the pandemic was how fragile it all really was. Early 2020 may turn out to have been the peak standard of living for the US. We lost a lot of ground and what’s clear, the cracks in the system got wider. The drug epidemic, lousy insurance/health care, homelessness, the number of people living hand to mouth, no real jobs to go back to after the pandemic was called off.
We had a Woolworths down in “the Big City” back when I was a kid. My brother and I got robbed by a couple of black brothers there when I was 8 – just days after Christmas. New wallets with crisp bills – we should have just given them to the… poor disadvantaged…
Fortunately, with my overwhelming powers of rationality, I got the older black brother to threaten to beat up his younger black brother if he didn’t give my younger brother his $5 bill back. I didn’t hand over my $5 bill, having learned from Custer’s experience…
And yet, it took me another ~50 years to learn my lesson from that interaction.
The first step is to get RFKjr through the primaires – not an easy task being it will be us vs the deep state. But we must try.
Encourage everyone to change their voter registration to democratic, so we can all vote in the dem primaries. And insist on hand written, hand counted ballots in your district.
We must not only defeat the deep state in vote numbers, but also defeat their insidious ownership of the voting machines. Paper ballots that are then counted by computer are a step better, but insist on hand counting.
This is it folks. Get real. It’s now or never.
You are assuming our elections are honest and fair and are not full of fraud, deceit and cheating. RFK will never sit in the White House. His chances are as slim as DJT.
The Republicans are doing nothing to fix the voting problems.
We need our elections to go back to simple paper ballots. When you show up, you show ID. You are given a paper ballot. You are then asked to dip your finger in ink that will last for a few days (once you are inked you don’t vote again). No more by mail ballots. You vote and drop your ballot in a slotted box. The box is often taken to a room where white haired chubby old ladies dutifully count the votes under the watch of various observers. These votes are then tabulated and sent to the election authority. Done. Election nightmare solved.
We ruin everything in America by making it more complicated than it needs to be and then making the solution to the complicated issues even more complicated. Why can’t we just throw out a failed system, send it to the landfill and go back to the basics? We don’t need computers for elections. There are plenty of old people who would love to count votes.
America is a pathetic joke. Too complicated. Too stupid. Too arrogant to acknowledge what is broken and too arrogant to go back to a simpler solution.
We will NEVER vote our way out of the hole. We are over the line.
The Tribe favors Dominion so the Dominion machines will stay. If any of “our guys” say anything about it, well they won’t get reelected because they won’t get funded. See how it works?
Paper ballots counted by computers are not a solution.
Way back when the passed the HAVA Act and spent billions switching all districts to computers, Bev Harris (I think it was) pointed out that those machines can also be hacked.
They tell you that they can handcount them if there is a dispute, but that was proven to be wrong in Ohio in 2004, and when Jill Stein contested the 2016 election.
All they do is run them through the same machine again.
And then they made it so that third party candidates can’t contest the election.
They already had rules that voters can’t contest the elections.
The whole thing is rigged.
“And insist on hand written, hand counted ballots in your district.” Good luck with that!
The core problem is not HOW people vote, but WHO votes. Even were the elections on the up-and-up, most people would still vote for the most photogenic, the one with the best slogan, the best smile, the best pandering promises.
One way to to reform that is through IQ and historical knowledge tests, ownership of property, and tax receipts (no votes for billionaires who don’t pay taxes, i.e.).
What difference does it make who votes, if the election is rigged?
Last time they had 80 million imaginary people voting. They could easily have told us that all of those 80 million people were history scholars who owned their own homes, and paid their fair share of taxes. How would you know otherwise? And would you be allowed to show skepticism?
Remember that this is America, where our rulers create their own reality, and our role is to believe their narrative. We identify as democratic, therefore we are. Don’t ask questions or you are a white supremacist insurrectionist who is probably a Putin bot, to boot.
“Joe Biden,” of course, the man who is not really even there”
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish, he’d go away
—Hugh Burns
It is hard to kick against the pricks, is it not?
would have gotten them laughed out [ ] the room – JHK
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Colloquialism. It works either way.
For those of us who are believers in Jesus Christ we know this is not the end of the world but is, instead, the end of an order. An order that is built by the father of all lies. An order that is built upon debt, decadence and filth. This order is collapsing and like a cornered animal will get nasty as it fights to preserve itself. However, it must die for it is built upon principles that are contrary to God’s laws or natural laws and cannot stand.
Once this order of debt, decadence and filth has collapsed there will be a millennium of peace that will follow. Great will be those days for those who are lucky enough to have survived to that point or those who are born during that time. Glorious it shall be.
I hope I am one of those who gets to live to see the collapse of this corrupted and rotten order and the beginning of something much much better.
Excellent writing, JHK.
Just what we need…religious delusions sourced in jewish-supremacist ideology.
Good old Rodu!
The Norse also speak of Ragnarok, the last battle and a new beginning.
The new high God will be Baldur the beautiful, resurrected from the dead.
Transition well you mope!
So Rodulf, when you experience time stopping during the warning, remember these words, God have mercy on me, a sinner.
Then you have 6 weeks b4 the msm calls it a space phenomenon, which is bs. Use those 6 weeks wisely.
Which prophet said this? Fr Michel or Lose?
Well there is certainly something apocalyptic going on these days. Delusional or not, things are not right. You know it Rodulf. We all know it. Whether it is Jesus Christ, Mohammad, or big Buddah there is something big coming.
I choose to believe Christian theology. It gives me hope. Hope isn’t a bad thing.
I consider “Hope” to be a narcotic, a mind-numbing drug for which I have no use.
But it does dull the pain for those about to die.
@ Cankerpuss:
Christian theology, when distilled down to its essence, is a belief in life rather than death. I don’t see that adhering to it is a difficult or unwarranted choice.
Wrong – plenty of life has devolved into Permian slime on the earth in several mass extinctions. In actuality, there will be nothing left at some point (including God), and then there will be new life forms that develop.
If it weren’t for cyanobacteria polluting the atmosphere with oxygen, back in the day, we wouldn’t have the life as we know it now on this planet.
They caused a mass extinction, the little buggers.
And then the oxygen breathers evolved.
“The Democratic Party in all its florid and mendacious lunacy is pretending to not notice him, especially their praetorian news media that is the vector for America’s mass mental illness.”
I’m going to have to give you a standing ovation for that one, Jim.
Trump deserves a second chance. Ignore Democrats and Carry On.
This will all be a big rug sweep. ALL media will begin changing their tune because there is no reality to most if not all of this and they are all part of the dupe. There was no additional fleecing, there was no new cover up, there was no famine looming, no financial collapse imminent, no kids in cages, no excess deaths, No diesel or crude shortage, no open border, no chinese invasion….it was all just bad marketing and oopsies you cant nail down….so lets all just march forward now into our new future…Uggh they ALL make me sick at this point. who gives a rats ass about the crimes anymore, Ya all made that up so I would subscribe or buy your shit because if it was real… even a tiny fraction or adjusted for reality part of all this would have collapsed for real by now…LIKE SHIT DOESNT WORK collapse…not you can see it in the numbers or a headline…but an actual point where function is impossible. Well, much to everyones hopes, Kunstler just switched the light back on. Turns out its not gonna collapse, we just need to learn how to get along better. WHAT A JOKE SIR!!
The problem with RFK Jr is that he is a political liability. Many forget that he was caught having an “affair” with his 13 year old baby sitter and that his ex-wife committed suicide probably due to the angst cause by all his extramarital affairs. He is really nothing more than a deep state PsyOp designed to take on right wing talking points such as the vaccines and illegal immigration so he can be spun off as a 3rd party candidate later on. Once the MAGA people hitch on to his wagon, the DNC will have the mechanism to push Newsom into office. More can be inferred by what the MSM is omitting than what they are saying about RFK Jr.
As far as the Woke leftists go, Clif High once said that their antics are really a primordial anticipatory scream knowing that they will probably not be able to survive in the next phase of civilization. Most gender studies directors would sooner take themselves out of existence rather than grab a rototiller and plant potatoes. It will be game over for most of them.
I had forgotten or perhaps I never knew.
Islander, what say you?
Twasn’t him, it was a brother.
People confuse the Kennedys.
Junior has also never been in public office, although people keep saying he’s just another lying politician who hasn’t made anything better.
Ouch…It was actually his brother Michael Kennedy with the baby sitter. Thank you for setting the record straight Beryl. My sincerest apologies. 🙁
We went through this suicide business in detail in an earlier thread.
Having an unhappy marriage or a neurotic, suicidal wife is not an obstacle to the presidency these days.
He is really nothing more than a deep state PsyOp designed to take on…both sides of various insane or mindless arguments. Maybe we are all various cogs on this deep state PsyOp.
And RFK Jr subscribes to the belief that Carbon Dioxide, a noble gas or compound that we human exhale into the atmosphere and that plants absorb to enable photosynthesis (the making of plant food) which results in the production of oxygen, is bad for the planet.
Anyone who believes C02 is the doom of the Earth is a moron and is not worthy of a position of leadership.
RFK may be an excellent orator and I agree with his positions regarding the covid vax, but, he believes mankind can alter the climate of the Earth simply by farting less. He’s an idiot. Just like the rest of them.
@ Cankerpuss:
“The six naturally occurring noble gases are helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and the radioactive radon (Rn).”
I don’t believe there is any such thing as a noble compound.
Yes. Assassination made JFK a martyr – and therefore his every action and intention was that of a saint. Killing Marilyn Monroe? Well, she was a liability to the State. And that sainthood extends to the entire clan.
A clan who built their power upon a criminal empire. Liquor, probably the most destructive drug in the US now, and since the beginning. A clan who got their boy into the White House through fraud (Chicago, 1960…).
But maybe they (JFK, RFK, JFK jr., RFK jr.) are for real. (I’m not being totally sarcastic there. Maybe they are/were…)
But Teddy? Kinda retarnishes the tarnish.
JFK jr., killed by the Hildebeast? Sure, probably, the Clintons have no reservations about killing anyone. But would he have changed anything? I don’t know – but I doubt it.
So, now, last in line, RFK jr. Will he, would he, could he, bring to life the words of his uncle – the words of himself, for that matter? And if he would, will he be allowed to?
I understand the desire among many for “Hope”. That is a drug for which I no longer have a taste – keeps you from doing anything, makes you feel like shit the next day, and long after. But for those who still indulge, I hope things work out.
Alcohol & opioids are what did in Marilyn, same with Alan Ladd, Dorothy Kilgallen, Errol Flynn, John Belushi, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison & so many others.
Alcohol & opioids certainly took their tool on Marilyn, but I’m convinced that she was murdered in the end. The circumstances of her death read like the typical government-orchestrated crime scene. I think Marilyn Monroe’s true story is much darker than many of us would like to believe.
Clif High. Ugh!
To be prescient means having extraordinary social and political sensitivity and prescience. The Woke dummies are at the opposite end of that spectrum. Their numbers will collapse when the universities that engender their lunacy collapse first.
Sorry for the base tautology. (No edit button.) You get the drift.
This just in;
Sylvio Berlusconi dies suddenly at 86.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-italian-prime-minister-silvio-berlusconi-dead-at-86
Bunga Bunga…It’s GOOD to be da King….
Silvio was like an Italian version of Trump.
The man definitely knew how to enjoy life.
Somebody once made a bar of soap out of Berlusconi’s liposuctioned fat.
LOL!
Do you believe that the Germans did that?
Wartime propaganda. That Orthodox Jews performed rites over piles of old soap is simply hilarious.
Haven’t read the comment section for a while. There is enough hate, anger and bigotry here to explode my iPhone . Mr Kunstler, or micro farmer Kunstler is pushing his World Made By Hand series via his columns. I really think he wants to see his novels come true. People without children don’t give a rats ass about the future even if they claim to IMO.
” People without children don’t give a rats ass about the future even if they claim to IMO.” All generalizations are false including this one.
“People without children don’t give a rats ass about the future even if they claim to IMO.”
Horseshit.
Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever? In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality…. as you lose friends and relatives.
Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever…. Forever was about 500 years, give or take…. not bad, but gone!!
France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in perpetual twilight. Its 96-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.
Thanks to the ‘Greatest Generation,’ we won a World War fought throughout most of Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed. It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity.
We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world. We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and now COVID. We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA…the blueprint of life.
But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well NOWHERE in the world.
We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year. Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.
The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, ‘Dr. Jill’ had to lead him like a child. (And he recently tripped and fell after speaking at the Air Force Academy graduation.) In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.
We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds. We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.
The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence (‘You know – The Thing’) correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago. Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd. Amendment and slash police budgets.
Our culture is certifiably insane. Men who think they’re women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about ‘unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.’
We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year. Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It’s a $30-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our ‘entertainment’ is sadistic, nihilistic, and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.
Patriotism is called an insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified. A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.
How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, lockdowns, and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American spirit.
How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
* Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win
* Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay
* Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde
* Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
* Allowing indoctrination of the young
* Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy
* Losing national identity
* Indulging indolence
* Abandoning God, faith and family – the bulwarks of any stable society.
In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.
Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had? I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.
This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.
During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, ‘Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.’
The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?
While the prognosis is far from good. Only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.”
We in America are at the moment in time to stand up, or let it fall! We now may soon beat the next step in our country’s future. I believe it might be closer than we think.
Wow. Excellent post. Just had to say it. Thank you.
I fear the America you are hoping for is gone and will not return. I will always love the idea of the “Shining City on a Hill” as Reagan used to call America, but that is gone.
The people have corrupted themselves. Blessed by too many years of abundance, the no longer recognize or understand sacrifice, morality, goodness, selflessness and decency. It’s about about me, my, mine and what I want. The rest of you can go screw yourselves.
America is defined by her people and her people have sat idle as the leaches have infiltrated every institution that we at one time trusted and honored.
No, America will swirl down the toilet bowl of destruction until the people awaken to the awful situation they are in and take personal steps to correct the problem. I’m not talking about marching on Washington or the State Capitol and hanging those who occupy those buildings. I’m talking about changing their own lives for the better. Turning off the TV. Get out of debt. Love their spouse and their children. Eschew all things depraved and perverted. Teach their children and one another responsibility and consequences.
Until the people do this they will continue to tolerate a Government that does not represent them, that destroys everything it touches and endorses everything evil, depraved and perverted.
May God have mercy on all of our souls.
@ Cankerpuss:
I think you have it exactly right. The solutions to our problems as a people are not political, they’re moral. People down through the ages have have often lived decent, dignified, and meaningful lives in conditions of poverty–sometimes even in the midst of violence and oppression. Really, external conditions are irrelevant to the meaning and value and goodness of your life. They’re just challenges you have to face. They can be challenges to your endurance and resourcefulness, and they can be challenges to your character. You can, as Blake put it, “Build a heaven in hell’s despite,” or you can, “Build a hell in heaven’s despite.” (This is a little bit of a misquote, but you get the picture.)
“Stopped the spread of communism?” Where? Eastern Europe? Communism, 1939: the Soviet Union. Communism 1945: all of eastern Europe. Communism 1949: Eastern Europe + China, and soon popping up all over. Cuba?
“Fought international terrorism”? Where? Through Gladio, responsible for political instability and assassinations throughout Europe since the end of WWII? Through the “Contras”, declared a terrorist organization by the US Congress, but supported by the US government? Al Qaeda? Al CIAda. ISIS? (Because you will always use your enemy’s language to identify your organization…)
We enabled the spread of communism. We perfected international terrorism.
“Socialism”? Yes, but only for the wealthy and corporations. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs. Sure, there is worthless pandering to favored political classes, but no real safety net protecting the lifeblood of the “nation”: its people – medical, educational, employment, relief from usury. But for aliens who will never integrate? “Of course! We’ll fly you over here, all expenses paid – now and forever! And once you get here you don’t even have to work! Just rape white women!” That’s not “socialism” that’s corporatism and domestic terrorism.
And yet, I think you reach the most accurate conclusion: the future appears very dark.
” There’s a broad-based assumption across the land, derived from our fading prime artform, the movies, that Americans can’t handle the truth. Like so much else in our national life, that is probably erroneous… fake truth. And what is so striking in Mr. Kennedy’s performance so far is an absence of fakery. It’s more than refreshing, it’s… startling. Makes you blink, a little bit. Makes you remember what it’s like to not be lied-to incessantly. Makes you want to see more of it because it gives you strength when you thought you were finished. Get this now: our world is changing, and deeply, but we’re not finished.”
We need to present an absence of fakery first to ourselves and then to everyone we interact with even if Mr. Kennedy eventually reveals himself as a faker. Being genuine and sincere and reality based takes effort and can seem like a thankless task.
Becoming genuine / sincere / reality-based often seems a superhuman task.
@ tresho:
As with anything else, it just takes practice–and a lot of time.
When my kids were little, there was an elderly woman who lived next door to us. I talked with her often, because we were both crazy about gardening, and she had a big, though subtle, influence on the way I raised the kids. This was in several ways, but one of the things she said that made a big impression was, “I never lied to my kids.”
I began to put this maxim into practice, since it seemed like a sound idea. You’d be surprised how much a person lies, casually and unthinkingly. People say, “I know,” when someone informs them of something, when they don’t know at all. When someone asks them a question, they’ll lie their asses of, rather than admit they don’t know the answer. When the kids ask you for a cookie, it’s a lot easier to say, “We don’t have any,” than to say, “No, not until after dinner.” I even carried this to the extreme of never teaching my kids about Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.
My point is, just mastering that one little thing can take quite a long time–years, in fact.
Later on, I decided to take the kids to visit their grandmother, and since this was hard to arrange outside a school day, I decided to call them in sick. Then I thought, “Why should I lie to them? Am I so scared of them that I feel like I have to lie to them?”
So I called the school and told them that I was taking the kids to visit their grandmother. The attendance clerk gave me some flak about it–that I wasn’t allowed to take my kids out of school just on a whim. But replied that they were my kids, and it was my decision–not the school’s. Anyway, nothing ever came of it.
But you could see how it would be hard not to just take the easy way out of everything.
Glenn Greenwald is probably the most outspoken defender of American values today, imo.
If you have a country full of people who do not understand that the government is supposed to be open and transparent, and the people are supposed to have the right to privacy, you will never have America again.
For some reason, it doesn’t start until 8:53.
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“It is true that Gates/Harvard has a ‘solar radiation management’ program called ScopEx in which they spray particulate in the sky to block the sun. 2015-2024 duration.”
https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1668051167149006848?cxt=HHwWgIC90dzsjaYuAAAA
“It’s jUsT CoNTraiLs”
LOL.
What’s the under/over on how long it takes Naomi to show up on Infowars?
She was already on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDVnBEnC0c4
Most of the Beast System search engines hide it though. I pulled it using Yandex, which is about the only engine no longer using Google algorithms in some form.
This former South African bloke seems to think that rather than reverting to a semi, pre-industrial “World Made by Hand” patriarchy of hard work, spiritual meaning and purpose, that South Africa may go full “Mad Max” if the South African power grid collapses?
South Africa has implemented broad Affirmative Action Diversity Hire programs, which is “Really Great”, but for many of the Diversity Hires are totally incompetent and cannot maintain the infrastructure.
Maybe the future is a “World Made By Hand and Gang Rapes”?
There may be a lot of Denial out there?
I once floated Chris Martenson’s level-headed “Build a Homestead” in the rural US idea, and the response was: “It’s a waste of time because you’d have to flee to someplace much more rural than that!”
This response seems to augur the prospect of “Roving Violent Gangs” that will eventually burn, murder, loot, and Gang Rape the rural Amish like the Boers in South Africa?
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In SA the grid has collapsed. Maintenance on the power plants, mostly coal fired, ended in about 1992; its taken 3 decades to completely fall apart.
What’s really funny is when the Guardian & BBC run stories about the ‘Transition to Renewables’ in SA, as if any wind turbines or solar panels wouldn’t be stripped for scrap within a week of construction.
“Africa has gone to pot since we left.”
—Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
“Anyway you look at it, we need somebody to steer.”
Assuming for a moment that a steering mechanism needs to be more than a single individual, it is time to begin the rebuild.
Here is one historical example:
In the 1870s 80s and early 1890s,. the U.S. was a witness to an agrarian movement that was unusually well organized within a far-flung base of production and marketing cooperatives that eventually extended to over 40 states. It was years in the making–connecting more than 2 million recruits in what became over time a serious political movement.
These agrarian organizers called their unique steering mechanism the cooperative commonwealth.
In the process of building marketing and purchasing cooperatives in the teeth of opposition from railroads, banks, supply houses, and more traditional agricultural marketing structures, these organizers became gradually aware of the ability of concentrated economic and political power to shape not only the economy but the political and cultural process as well.
But way back then, they too figured out “…how to make stuff, move stuff and sell stuff, only at a smaller scale.”
Ted Kaczynski (Rest in Peace) presciently warned us about the dangers of Technology….
Use AI to produce vitriolically Nationalistic, pro-MAGA Porn movies starring Cambodian Khmer Rouge teenage soldiers wearing black uniforms, Ho Chi Minh rubber sandals and wearing bright red MAGA hats made in a Haitian sweatshop factory set up by the Clintons making 25 cents an hour. Sell the MAGA hats on Trump’s website….
Use the AI to literally worm into the minds of Americans, like a schizophrenic voice in their heads, to hopelessly Brainwash them and to drive them even more deranged and weaponised than the Khmer Rouge….
According to the book “Inside the Nudge Unit”, the deranged mind control Weirdo’s purposefully hire some people to act as “Plants” in their government departments to think up ideas that most people would reject out of hand as “Insane”. True story….
The bloke who came up with the Alien Visitation story recently was probably a midget who looks like “Mini-Me”?
Either that, or the story was just randomly generated by AI as a test run?
They probably still need to edit that AI-produced news stories in case the AI gives the Alien leaders each a set of huge Tits?
Now that sounds like a fun job. Are they listed on Indeed?
If the recent experience of collapse in South Africa is any guide, one could probably surmise that under conditions of Collapse that the police progressively come to resemble just another criminal gang?
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Chris Martenson says that the reason that most people don’t objectively consider new information and after careful, honest rational deliberation adjust their viewpoints accordingly is “because they lack integrity.”
But, what if the real reason that they don’t honestly consider new information and deliberate is not because they lack Integrity, but rather because they’re literally “Animals” whose brains are not hardwired for high level analysis and deliberation?
Maybe a precondition for having integrity IS the possession of brains hard wired for high-level analysis and deliberation?
Else how would one weigh new information against the old and make decisions that one was going to invest valuable time in thinking about the new info and the rearrangement of old info and perhaps even in seeking out additional perspectives such as by reading a book . . . ?
“Integrity” to the Animals may mean just blindly got following the Orders of “The Party” (the “Angkar”)?
To the Animals, rational deliberation may actually be considered perversely “Immoral” and criminal?
Integrity is not blind.
But it can be wrong. The Kamikaze pilots thought they were doing right in dying for Japan. Survivors describe the look of ecstasy on their faces.
Jars, are you saying the Kamikaze were wrong?
Regarding integrity, I think I agree with Islander, a person has to have the mental capacity to make not only rational, but ethical decisions in order to have integrity. Some people are just too stupid to be good.
Also, integrity is no longer integrity if it is redefined, as in the Party Animals example.
No, but unwise in picking a fight with a super power. But once in it, they were all in. That is a soldier’s duty.
Japan was wrong but the pilots were right, perhaps.
Germany had no choice. America did and chose to fight for the International Bankers. Blindness indeed.
To say no to that was true integrity. Japan didn’t have much tradition of conscientous objection. Though there is the story of the Zen Master standing up to the Samurai.
Jars, Japan was trying to play the imperial game that the US and UK (aka USUK) were so good at. Maybe I should add France: FUKUS.
Eighty years later, I can see their mistake, and the inevitable failure of attempting to establish the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. I’m not so sure their vision was quite as clear back then.
Regarding the Kamikazes, they were nationalists defending their homeland. Kinda hard to find fault with that – unless you are a globalist.
They were doing the right thing.
Integrity is not blind.
Very few people – and almost no women – are willing to confront their programming. It’s painful because it feels like part of them. It’s theirs!
Bill is freaked out by me. Where did my programming go? I recognized it as untruth and burned it out of myself.
Show me on the doll where the woman hurt you.
LMFAO!
What do you think about Rachel Corrie? A Karen who got what she had coming, right?
Za won’t answer me – and that is telling, eh?
The cartoonist Charles Addams was known to be a bit “strange.”
There was a certain cartoon that, when he sent it in to the New Yorker, they knew he circling his private Twilight Zone, getting a bit too wiggy . . .
It’s the same with Jarek and Rachel Corrie.
Whenever he mentions her, stand back . . . Get out of the way . . .
No one has the balls to answer. Not even Islander. Hopefully Bet Mega will step up to the place.
The “balls” comment is more confirmation of J’s gender mania, possibly confusion. .
Coward
If by “Bill” you mean me, I say ahahahaha! Of all the people in the world, for you, most impotent one, I have the least freaked out feelings.
He seems proud to “freak” people out. Part of the disorder.
Socrates was a “gadfly”, always asking awkward questions. I’m proud to be in that tradition.
@ MaryQueen:
It’s really just attention-seeking.
Clearly, he doesn’t get out much, probablly because the men play naughty pranks on him because he’s annoying, and the women laugh.
I occasionally heard stories about people playing pranks on our local village idiot: “You should run for mayor, Mikey!” At which point Mikey would become puffed up and would give loud speeches. Generally speaking, though, people were kind and respectful to Mikey. since he was, at bottom, a good guy. Jarek probably doesn’t warrant such consideration.
“Where did my programming go?”
It didn’t go anywhere. It just reduced itself to programming from incel sites.
Ha! I was going to say the same. He seems himself as above the programming – while he spews his programming all over the blog. Priceless.
Green Alba has learned to talk about “incels”. See? You can teach an old female dog new tricks.
GreenAlba has been aware of incels for well over a decade. Well done for sneaking in ‘old female dog’, toad. You are becoming more pitiable by the hour.
It’s not like I said the bad word. Thank you for not claiming that I did. That would be like saying that one apple, one orange, and two peaches were four pieces of fruit. Then I could have been outraged and solemnly say, I didn’t say that.
Sorry, but I can’t summon up the energy to try to figure out what you are on about. Life is too short.
You’ve been defeated in other words and you lack the integrity to concede.
Stop being a moron. You should be embarrassed.
You may want to confirm whether Trump collects appreciably more money from the Rubes the more that Trump is abused?
The Americans are always looking for a “Saviour”. Can you really “Trust” someone who makes it so high up? They could just cut off Trump’s media access like they do for RFK, Jr.?
“Any way you look at that, we need somebody to steer. Mr. Trump has volunteered to try doing it again. The first time, forces in every quarter of American power set out to bushwhack, sandbag, harass, hector, and hound him. In the process, they just about destroyed the rule of law. Then they simply dis-elected him surreptitiously, something you’re not supposed to say, but there it is, like so much meat on the table. Now they’re trying to hoo-rah him into jail. Whatever you think of his, er, complex personality, you must admire his perseverance through adversity. ”
JP Morgan settles class action lawsuit against dead Epstein with $290 million payment. Epstein received privileges and enabling from JP Morgan from 1998-2013.
Meanwhile JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he’d like to, at some point, “serve my country in one capacity or another”. Behind bars? (If only.)
Random thought on Trump charges:
If he gets off (which he should), he’s in the club.
If he’s convicted, he’s for real, and they will have created a Nelson Mandela situation here.
I know this is pretty black and white, but if he were anyone else, he would not be in this predicament. Yet – he is. The question is, if he *is* in the club, would he be willing to take prison time to prove to his followers that he isn’t?
Kind of like if you sink you are innocent and if you don’t sink you are a witch.
I think it is called double indemnity.
No, that’s “double jeopardy” also known as Catch #22…
Right. “Double indemnity” didn’t sound quite right.
What IS double indemnity????
“Double indemnity” is an insurance term and means the payout will be
doubled in certain circumstances.
Look at the old Fred McMurray movie of the same name – an insurance salesman plots the death of his girlfriend’s husband. If the death is deemed ‘accidental’, the death benefit is doubled. Hilarity ensues.
Can an incarcerated man run for and win the Presidency? His number keep going up the more they persecute him.
correction: numbers
Those “numbers” are all within the GOP Nutcase Party only. Sane people are not impressed with his crimes and welcome the indictments. Lock Him Up.
Mike, spinnst Du?
tRump is no Mandela. Pat Sajak, maybe.
I knew someone would think I was comparing *him* to Mandela. Read it again.
I think Trump is in the Club, therefore:
I don’t think Trump will do time. I do think he will be denied the opportunity to run for President.
No loss for Trump, since he doesn’t want that burdensome job anyway. It will enrage his supporters setting the stage for a false flag.
Pol Pot Head….
The teenage Khmer Rouge soldiers smoked copious amounts of Cambodian Weed. They didn’t have ZigZag rolling papers, so they’d smoke it rolled in newspapers.
All of this insane government Brainwashing can’t really succeed because although Man is a “Social Animal”, he is at best a very “Conflicted Social Animal” since his preferred sociability is limited to the “Dunbar Number” maximum tribal/ family size of 150 members. Beyond a Herd of 150 Animals, it starts to go awry from conflicts, and the primates start fighting and killing each other over Pussy and bananas….
But, maybe with AI chips in the brain, the Utopians can finally create their insane Utopia?
Didn’t the FDA recently approve clinical trials on humans for Elon Musk’s Brain Chips?
Whitney Webb said several months ago that Musk had already been doing brain chip human trials. Was Musk doing these trials outside of the US?
The Brits call chips “Crisps”.
The Brits may not even know what “Brain Chips” are? So, you may have to call them “Brain Crisps”?
British men have no idea what a “Rubber” is….
Rubber? You mean an elastic.
Rubbers are what you wear on your feet when it is raining. (It always seems to be raining.)
Galoshes?
Perhaps Brits have less difficulty coping with words that can mean more than one thing?
Rubbers can be johnnies. French letters. To use very old fashioned parlance. Or willy wellies, which I think is quite niche but I did work with someone who used the term.
Rubbers, more generally, are for rubbing out pencil marks. Erasers, as I believe you call them. Perhaps Americans are tied to ‘one word, one meaning’.
A hard shoulder is not the same as a frozen shoulder. Yet Brits can cope.
Willy wellies – I’d have figured that out, but French letters? Johnnies? No wonder so many people fled those tubercular islands, across the angry sea, to a hostile wilderness. Well, that and the food.
French letters and johnnies are from my childhood and earlier, BB.
Wellies are rubber wellington boots. Men have, from time to time, complained that having sex while wearing a condom is like having a bath with your wellies on.
warmwellies.co.uk
BTW, the phrase ‘use a rubber’ (while showing someone rubbing something out on a blackboard) was used way back in the 1980s in Department of Health AIDS notices on TV. It confused my mother, who had to have it explained to her.
youtube.com/watch?v=VYmURP_kZxw
Not to mention “jumper.”
Jarek may have been reamed out by a White Woman?
Poor guy….
That’s what happened to Don Cornelius of Soul Train.
Did someone mention forest fires?
This is a remarkable video, with remarkable photos of big fires in CA that we have all heard of. Yet there is something very weird about these fires. Look at the photos taken by Robert Brame, a fire-forensic arborist:
httpX://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/how-could-they-be-forest-fires-if
it just so happens that some else sent me a very alarming video that explains the contents of a US Army project to develop better ways to SET FIRES for military purposes.
Here is the video:
Here is the US Army document. You will be shocked and horrified and also scared by what you read here:
httpX://healthimpactnews.com/2023/the-u-s-militarys-history-of-using-forest-fires-as-a-weapon/
httpX://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/documents/GeoengineeringWatch%20-%20Vietnam%20War%20Forest%20Fire%20As%20A%20Military%20Weapon.pdf
I read MCM’s article yesterday – scary stuff. It would seem that they can do absolutely anything to any of us anywhere – town or country.
As I’ve mentioned before, 50% of households in my city live in Victorian or Georgian tenement buildings. They will be declared unfit for habitation according to Agenda 2030 building standards, as they are un-retrofittable. Will they leave them standing empty to decay or destroy centuries of still-functioning architecture? I’m guessing that if they leave them standing, dissenters will squat in them, trying to evade the 900,000 surveillance drones that are apparently planned to be flitting through UK skies.
Every dirty trick in the arsenal.
To everyone here: I apologize for speaking so nastily to some people, but for most everyone else, I respect and like you even though I may disagree with some of your points.
Night Owl is a mean, vicious and intolerant person who vastly overestimates his intelligence. Jarek … well, you know.
Yeah, you know Whites don’t have he right to have their own nations.
Sure they do.
Just not the ability since it’s been taken away by the Globalists.
Your nastiest speech was long before you began insulting anyone, Bill.
Your nastiest speech involved telling the unvaccinated to get jabbed or be removed from society.
Because you are a coward, Bill.
And in coward fashion, you have posted your response away from the main thread.
When you are gone, no one will care.
Show me where I said the unjabbed should be removed from society. Are you hallucinating? You are a mixed up poor soul.
You supported it all–merrily. All in the archive.
Take another booster and rid us of your presence.
Where and what in the archive? You always state one should provide evidence. Just stating “in the archive” is proof? Ok. I say you love to have sex with children. Proof? It’s in the archive.
You can’t admit to yourself that you are a hater, that you just hate me and can’t let it go. A well-adjusted person would disagree with me instead of making a big to-do about one point.
I would feel sorry for you except for the fact that not only are you mentally unbalanced, but you are mean and nasty, too.
Re “one point”
Well, did you say that the unvaxxed should be incarcerated?
Did you say that people should get the jabs?
What ARE you apologizing about?
Please clarify.
Thanks.
I am not disagreeing with you, fucknuts.
I am saying that when you die, no one will care.
And this is deserved.
And I’d like to ask, why does getting “Q-ed” upset so many people? I have been a few times in the past 15 years, but I don’t get upset. It means the guy has read what I’ve written. Besides, he is a great story teller. And I know I’m a good writer, although age has dulled that tool a little. When you get old, it’s just not your intestines that fart, but also your brain.
Thanks bean.
It doesn’t “upset” people. There is a difference between “upset” and annoy, as by running a nail down a blackboard.
Q’s correx are pointless and obnoxious. LIke a 10-year-old boy who insists on telling the same joke over and over, or pulling his sister’s pony tail.
Consequence:
Many readers here ignore Q as much as possible.
But he pushes himself on them anyway with his constant stupid and usually incorrect “corrections.”
Please show me some of my incorrect corrections.
Now here is a bit of curious information, passing through my channel as part of the morning’s donkey work poofreading English-language copy:
“Anticipated increase in Ukraine sunflower seed and rapeseed harvest will complicate edible oil market, keeping it bearish in the near term: sunflower oil is currently very cheap, even compared to CPO, depressed by weakened Ukrainian Hryvnia currency.”
Now what to make of this, in the grander scheme? How come their currency is so feeble, with all them billions sloshing in from Uncle?
Check out the videos of the elite partying in Kiev and Lvov.
The billions are going there and in the mansions the elite are buying around the world.
And then there is the part that goes up Zelensky’s nose.
Quid est veritas? In it, Pontius Pilate questions Jesus ‘ claim that he is “witness to the truth”
mAY i aNSWER?
flat earth
What?
The Psychologist in the Mental Hospital’s recent report concludes that Norman Bates and his “Mother” were always being “Misgendered”….
When is the next televised “Miss Gendered America Pageant”?
It doesn’t seem like that was in the movie Pucker lol. Another psychological report indicates that some people are simply struggling for their existences and others are unhappy with those struggles. Further in the report it says that people prefer to be labeled and packaged up like consumable goods. It’s late and i’m sleepy. good night
The election of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will get down to the business of “taking care of business”?
Will the population at large be informed about the 2030/Great Reset/Build Back Better agenda that was activated several years ago?
Will Kennedy and other presidential candidates inform the population and engage in discussions about this agenda, and the need for a new format for life? Will there be a call for public input?
Will “Joe Biden” come to the realization that if he wants to get re-elected, that he will have to engage in this discussion?
Will MSM come to the realization that their only hope for survival will be to engage?
Jim, I hope you are right, and at this point, I do not see a better option.
I am sure that the silent majority would be both shocked and interested in a discussion that would make sense of all the nonsense.
The deceit by “Joe Biden” and MSM would stink to high heaven, but it would also explain that dog eating sh** grin that the president wears.
I don’t usually think in terms of gay women (short hair, no makeup, no jewelry) having an orgasm but tonight on TV I believe Rachel Maddow was having one on national TV. Trump’s indictment within hours is the cause. It will almost make up for that horrible night back in Nov 2016.
Now that is funny!
Agree!
Attention all Brits on this blog: Green alba, Slugoon, Pucker, others
I’ve been watching another Netflix series titled Marchella. It’s a multiple mystery story where every character including the lead investigator appears to be potentially the (or, a) guilty party. This all takes place in England. Everyone, of course, has an English accent.
Marchella is a white woman married to a black man named Jason and has two kids. He leaves her because he loves another woman who he’s been screwing for three years.
There are other blacks as well and every body sounds by their accents as though they have been born and raised in England. So I have a question about these blacks with British accents.
As you may or may not know, Blacks in the US can almost invariably be identified as Black if you happen to be talking to one you don’t know from Adam on, say, a random call to a customer service center.
Howard Stern once did a bit on his radio show where random people were put on the phone with him and his job was to state whether, based on their accent, the person was Black vs other than Black. He was very accurate, failing only a couple of times.
So my question is this: do black Brits (born and raised) have any distinctive accent/vernacular that easily distinguishes them from all other born and raised Brits of whatever race?
multiple murder mystery
You are thinking about accents and vernaculars when a multiple murder mystery is ongoing? What is literally happening right now?
Marcella, not Marchella, even though pronounced in the Italian way.
Marcella, not Marchella, – Vegan
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Hoe DARE you correct my spelling!!
It’s not so much the accent as the timbre of the voice that sets them apart although in big cities there’s a vernacular particular to them as well. For example, ‘knife crime’ is pronounced ‘knaaaf craaam’. It’s a very lazy and ugly urban speak. And curiously, where black people dominate, the white youth take on the same way of speaking, innit.
The timbre of the voice is different: deeper, softer. Racial, not cultural.
And if you’re listening on the radio, another tell is that it’s accompanied by a hard-luck story and/or allusion to waycism.
But they are really equal to us, right? Secretly?
Appearances can be deceptive, but more often they’re revealing. You can tell a book by its cover for the most part – if you know books.
Well, ‘equal’ is another argument but they’re certainly different, in both culture and attitude, however much the do-gooders deny it. The problem, of course, is that they are constantly being told they are oppressed, made out to be sainted, that they are special. Grossly overrepresented in TV and advertising. Combine that with all the affirmative action and it’s no wonder the race hustle just rumbles on and the hatred persists.
Thing is though, Jar, after what I saw and experienced over Covid, I can’t even love my white brethren any more. I haven’t left my country but my country has certainly left me.
In fact, Slugoon, the black population, both here and in the US, was and is more wary of the jabs than the white population, mostly due to a learned suspicion, as a result of repeated historical testing of experimental drugs on them.
That has to be some kind of intelligence.
Well they certainly have street smarts. And they advocate on their own behalf. Whites are so far gone that they can’t even do that.
You would be outraged if White Britons did any such thing.
On the other hand, they tend to think ill of everyone, even people really trying to help them. Incapable of gratitude. And like cats, they distrust each other, knowing their own kind too well.
You are quite correct, Alba, and at the time the vaccines were being pushed I said to my mum that it wouldn’t be mandatory because the Asians were avoiding it in large numbers, a political no-go. My thanks to them in a roundabout way.
Jarek, I wouldn’t be outraged if white Britons stuck up for themselves. I’d love it, to feel a sense of identity again. We do seem too far gone but in the spirit of Jim’s post something will always be there in the background I think. We need a uniting cause and something to clear out the dead wood. A good civil war, maybe?! It’s a shame that the country has been demographically trashed in the 25 years since the Blair creature came in.
Yes, as Hitler said, nations do not die from defeat in war but through the thinning out of their native blood.
If Haitians went to Iceland, then that would be Haiti. A nation is the people not the geography, first and foremost, important as the latter may be.
Thus the question arises: What to do with the millions of non-Britons in Britain? There is only one answer: Deport them as that glorious movie Children of Men portrayed.
Madness you reply. Yes, yours is the sensible position, that of the “conservative” majority. Thus your nation is doomed.
Were the Zionists sensible? No, they were mad – and thus the Attained.
@ Q. Shtik:
Oh, Q.! “loves another woman who he’s been screwing for three years”? It’s “whom” he has been screwing, etc.
It’s “whom” he has been screwing, etc. – Anthea
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I never did understand the rules that govern the use of whom vs who. I simply go by what sounds right to me and in this case “who” sounds better than “whom.”
Subject/object.
Nominative/accusative.
This is my friend WHO is coming to the cinema with me.
This is my friend WHOM I met at the cinema.
‘Who’ sounds right because the use of ‘whom’ is dying out and you’re used to hearing ‘who’ used everywhere instead.
Personally, I’m more worried about digital ID than grammar these days, however.
|”He leaves her because he loves another woman who he’s been screwing for three years.”
There are three clauses here, that is, complete sentences, each with a subject, a verb, and an object. In the third clause, the subject is “he” (doer of the action), the verb is “has been screwing,” and the object is “whom” (the receiver of the action).
So, as you would not say, “He has been screwing she,” you would not say, “who he has been screwing.” It’s word order that’s tripping you up. “Who” is at the beginning of the clause, where you would normally find the subject, but it’s been reversed for some reason having to do with its being a subordinate clause, which I don’t want to think about right now.
The word order is most often reversed in an interrogative sentence. (A question.) “Whom has he been screwing?”
Another case where people don’t use the objective case properly is in sentences using the “being” verbs, such as when you answer the phone and someone says, “Is this Q.?” and you reply, “Yes, it’s me.” You should say, “This is he,” because “he” is a predicate nominative–that is, it renames the subject (it), so it should be in the subjective case.
I’d agree that “whom” and some other uses of the subjective/objective cases are disappearing from speech, but not from written English, especially formal written English.
I think informal English is a perfectly acceptable thing, but formal English needs to be preserved. At one time, I got so lax about proper English, due to being always in the company of my country neighbors, that one of my daughters griped at me about it. It can get to where you sound like white trash, and it’s worse if you also look like white trash (wearing Carharts and smoking little cigars).
Q, what was the name of that Jewish lady who used to school you in grammar? She taught poor kids in the Appalachians, hating the White ones and loving the Black ones.
Like her, Alba has a classical foundation that you simply can’t match.
Ditto Islander. Ditto Owl, if not based on classical learning, based on learning another language and thus much about language in general.
I saw what you did there. I always do.
Q, what was the name of that Jewish lady who used to school you in grammar? – Jar
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I have no idea what you’re talking anent.
Alba: Whatever I was “doing” (motive), I was also telling the truth. Would you prefer politically correct lies?
You appear not to have been telling the truth (what a surprise) since Q has no idea what you are talking about.
I think the Black accent/tone is mostly a flag of class, at least in the USA.
A couple of days ago I was on the bus and two black children, about 8 and 11, were sitting nearby.
There was nothing whatsoever to differentiate their speech from that of two middle-class white girls.
Perhaps this depends on the generational distance from the field or the ghetto. Perhaps in this case the parents were already totally middle class, and sent the children to private schools, or something.
Possibly. Perhaps timbre is learned or cultural.
Some low class Whites have a strange high pitched voice – totally different from male officer worker fags.
Thank you Mr. K!! I absolutely needed a big pick me up today and your hopeful tomes are like an elixir. I have started to get really upset about the power down situation which they are either planning to do or as you say will happen just due to a collapsing situation. Like, this age of Amazon deliveries is really good in one sense and it is literally terrifying to think that you won’t be able to order stuff online anymore. Although, if the grid goes down I do wonder if landline phones will still work if you can find them? Just trying to prepare for all of this is very overwhelming at points.
JHK believes energy and economic circumstances will dictate a scaling-back to pre-industrial-revolution economics, which is probably true in the short-term at least. In the longer term though, how does the center hold for anything like the nation-state agricultural-civilization model that has fully conquered the globe over the last 1000 years?
For at least 1000, and probably more like 15,000 if not 500,000 years… a myth of seeming infinite material progress for humans has dominated. The (often demonstrably verifiable in the short term) faith in this myth spiritually sustained the populace through hardships and social inequalities necessary for civilization building. The “infinite progress” myth is now failing for good. What replaces it? I think much of the motivational infrastructure for civilization-building dies with the progress myth.
Would another run at civilization-building be desirable? What will motivate humans when the progress myth has fully collapsed? I believe the motivational basis for human activity will shift fundamentally, towards much less materially ambitious, much more considered, contemplative and passive “civilizational” goals..
What you say suggests that the only ‘civilisation’ that can survive, in the absence of the progress myth, is a religious one, which provides the motivation to keep going in the absence of a belief in material improvement. It also helps prevent most people from topping themselves when things look hopeless.
True. I might put it that the current “progress-myth” religion will give way to a much revised religion.
The elites have a world religion in mind already. It isn’t either Christianity or Islam. The effort of working towards it is documented in the large tome, ‘False Dawn’.
Sorry, that went too soon.
amazon.co.uk/False-Dawn-Religions-Initiative-Globalism/dp/159731000X/ref=sr_1_1
“False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World Religion”
The very rich [I wont use the term elites] are not a unified block.
Even in Israel the jews are infighting.
Is this what Catholicism is working towards then?
Cardinal Vigano has written a lot about the planned new religion. There was an article on Lew Rockwell’s site just a couple of days ago, but I can’t find it. But there are many other of his artices around, and several videos on this.
The Amish aren’t interested in material progress to any great degree, yet they get up every morning and get on with what needs to be done.
Traditional cultures have proven to be reliably resistant to the religion of perpetual progress. That’s why the globalists are so intent on eradicating them. Western culture is in dire need of some industrial strength chill meds to slow down and regain it’s sanity. The influx of Hispanic culture from the south is a good omen, as they are still strongly traditional and family-oriented. Drug cartels and gangs aside, they assimilate well here for the most part.
That’s because the Amish lead meaningful lives with lots of human connection and lots of self-directed work. There is much joy in doing what needs to be done, doing it well, and doing it for the benefit of other people.
Which people? Blacks? Immigrants? Ukrainians?
No, their own people. Wow!
“What you say suggests that the only ‘civilisation’ that can survive, in the absence of the progress myth, is a religious one, which provides the motivation to keep going in the absence of a belief in material improvement. It also helps prevent most people from topping themselves when things look hopeless.”
Well, the Founders and Framers were not so pessimistic.
They actually thought that American citizens were capable of whatever it would take to make something of this country, and themselves. Whether that meant shoeing a horse, fouinding a college, inventing ingenious machinery to add value to raw materials of different sorts; etc.
IN fact, in the early days of the colonies and the republic, the areas of the country with the poorest soil and the harshest conditions had the most advanced economies and trade.
The vast majority of ordinary Americans were religious back then, so it’s impossible to guess how they’d have performed without the beliefs that were the background to their lives, even when they weren’t overtly ‘churchy’.
But, in any case, they had every reason to believe the future would be better than the present, materially speaking. So it’s difficult to compare them with a jaded population that knows (or will know) that the only way is down.
The belief that the future will be better than the present is a core psychological support that the technocrats are working to take away.
All of the messaging is the same: no food, no water, climate change will kill everything, too many people, etc.
All messaging with the same aim. And there is no convincing scientific evidence for any of it.
For the past number of years I have wondered how lefties ended up with Schwab and co. in terms of their messaging. I understand it well now. Fundamentally, they all seek control, which is based in fear.
Watch them march with Blackrock, carrying pride flags and telling you to stop driving, as they jet off to Turks and Caicos once the protest is over.
The time to reject the Great Reset is now.
“But, in any case, they had every reason to believe the future would be better than the present, materially speaking.”
Through ***their own efforts,*** is my point.
They saw America for Whites alone; by us and for us.
I would disagree that the myth of material progress is 1,000 years old.
I would put it at about 100 years, at most.
Since man was man, the pursuit of the material has been part of life.
To pretend you do not crave material things is to lie to others, but worst of all, to lie to yourself.
Like all things, the material, spiritual, etc. must be kept in balance with one another. If there is no desire to advance mankind in the material sense, mankind will not advance.
I don’t think the pursuit of the material is the same as a belief in (inevitable) progress).
People have, since early times, valued ‘stuff’. Equally, there have been exhortations by the more spiritual not to get obsessed with stuff.
I think the belief in progress is mostly an 18th/19th century thing. It aligns with the development of modern science. Faith in progress actually took a hit at the start of the 20th century, with the carnage of the first world war. I’d say it took off again in the 50s.
While I agree that the cabal want to frighten us re climate change and so on, they specifically don’t talk about dwindling resources, except in terms of ecosystems that we have ‘spoiled’ (and which they intend to keep us out of in future).
You don’t hear them talking about limitations on phosphate production, for example, which are real and serious, or oil. I think climate change is their cover for depletion of resources. They contend that there’s plenty of oil and coal, but we need to leave them in the ground. They have never been able to talk openly about the future of oil, because if they did the markets would collapse. As JHK has repeatedly pointed out, the assumption that debt can be repaid is dependent on the assumption that the supply of useful energy will not slow down.
Well said, GA. I concur.
“While I agree that the cabal want to frighten us re climate change and so on, they specifically don’t talk about dwindling resources, except in terms of ecosystems that we have ‘spoiled’ (and which they intend to keep us out of in future).”
The “climate change” discourse has pushed any reasonable discussion of what can actually be done to “save”/”improve”/”restore” our environment. And has also convinced many that mega-projects to produce renewables—which are abasically out of the hands and control of regular people—are all that can be done to improve our environment.
In the name of fighting climate change, more destruction is being waged on our actual environment. Such as, via constructing insane solar and offshore wind arrays.
People actually think that purchasing an EV and converting their homes to all-electric from renewables, that this is helping the environment via “fighting climate” change via “net zero.”
Actual things they can do—take the bus; don’t use your dryer; force the elites to stop taking planes and waging war; volunteer to help remove invasive plants from sensitive ecosystems; etc. etc.—they are not doing these things.
They are applauding immensely destructive infrastructure projects that somehow will “slow climate change.”
Totally agree, islander.
I agree wit you Islander.
I take the middle road on climate stuff.
As mantioned many times, I am a recovering Green, and I think the climate debate is simply one of several smaller issues that encapsulates the overarching problem with Western society–we have allowed ourselves to put too much faith in those who are supposed to legislate.
Are some or even many of our key resources in danger? I do not really know, as I am not omnipotent. What I do know is that there is no hard evidence that most of them are.
There is however plenty of evidence that such narratives were seeded by orgs like CoR and others in WEF world, and that the end game is slavery.
When one lacks the information required to make the best possible decision, one has to go with the information one has.
Read about the water issue in the Southwestern United States. Too many people, not enough water. The Colorado is running dry.
The whole area is past its carrying capacity.
You are blinkered in simplistic red pill/blue pill purgatory as usual, Owl.
Your usual retort.
My answer remains the same. I require evidence when asking to accept statements of purported fact, particularly ones as ridiculous as our planet being unable to support X number of humans.
You are still free to provide us with your calculation as to exactly what X is, backed by hard evidence.
To date, it is impossible to move forward as nothing has been provided. Ditto for oil or just about any other imminent threat for which your solution is to cull the herd.
You naturally no being part of the herd in this case.
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Paula, I do think it goes deeper. Mankind, until now, has been in an expanding, experimental, growing phase, on the very macro level. During this time, every “traditional” society, from the very primitive to the more developed, has been open to experimentation with new agricultural, technological and political developments. This “progress” train has been chugging pretty successfully, even among our very distant ancestors, I would argue, for a long time, with deep roots in our evolution.
But of course, the last one hundred, or two, have certainly been particularly pronounced progress-myth-wise, with the Industrial Revolution and then oil.
Gustaf, you may be right; I am not an anthropologist.
BUT, most societies, until quite recently, had myths of a Golden Age, where everything was a lot better than in the present. And for most people on earth, life has been a struggle full of pain, the possibility and reality of sudden death, of unexplained illnesses, of being yanked off to serve in wars, or in galleys. Plenty of reasons to fear the near future and look forward to heaven after death.
So, progress might not have been around for very long.
Most of what you describe are instances from the post-Agricultural-Revolution period, certainly the “Golden Age” mythology.
For the masses, the baubles of progress during much of this period, alongside much of the difficulties you describe, were the great works and circuses of the state, and the wonders of agricultural provision (even if it’s a gruel ration, it is regular, feeds your precious family, and is “magically” bestowed by the system which, after a generation or two, you become mesmerized by).
It often wasn’t ACTUAL progress. It was a circus show that entranced. Sheer novelty itself may have been the primary draw..? Also security and provision of basic needs.
And Darwin. He published his ideas right around the same time that the Industrial Revolution was really taking off. I think that the idea of evolution caught on with a population starting to see the benefits of fossil fuels, first coal, then oil.
The idea that humanity was on an upward march to perfection was a perfect fit with the amazing advances being made in fossil fuel use.
Humans might have been open to improvements before, but I’m guessing the most common improvements they came up with for centuries would be new ways to break rocks while making arrowheads, or the like.
I doubt that that would lead to a societal belief in constant material progress.
The only real steady-state (not progress/growth-focused) humans in history were some pre-agricultural societies in established territories after most easy megafauna prey in that territory were eradicated—those that did not succumb quickly to agricultural progressivism after nomadic-hunting progressivism hit a wall.
Agreed. Therefore it seems to me that a widespread belief in constant material progress in such a society would be detrimental to them as it is to us.
Or am I misunderstanding your point? I think that steady-state is a good thing, and cancerous growth is a bad thing.
Yeah. I think 97% of material progressivism is bunk, and point I was going for was that those few steadier-state holdouts from agricultural progressivism were some of the few historical exceptions to the growthist/progressivist rule historically, and even they often succumbed too readily to civilization-builder influences with a little opportunity/pressure/enticement.
Another emperor with no clothes, this RFK Junior. I don’t think it’s occurred to some of the readers here, and it may not have even occurred to RFK Junior, that the same people who have blocked him on social media are the ones that he likely has been voting for for his entire life. He’s a leftist ,a Kennedy, who is deluded into thinking that his drunken, slandering, plagiarizing uncle Teddy was all that. His book, which I actually read, hit on two of eight cylinders about the vaccine, and was very eye-opening and well done, but it doesn’t mean that the remainder of the book was accurate. He’s a red state liberal, and his ilk are responsible for most everything wrong with this country. Talking about being honest means nothing if he’s talking candidly about more liberal policies.
“He said his mission is an experiment to see what happens when you tell Americans the truth. ”
One wonders whether this truth-telling will extend to the reality of Blue State major cities, such as San Francisco. Based on news reports things ain’t workin as they should, certainly not as they used to. In the past week we learn that two major hotels are simply leaving, and today a downtown shopping mall is in process of being returned to the lenders ($558MM worth of debt on the property). This following a litany of retailers large and small moving out, and most likely leaving behind a time bomb in the commercial real estate lending market. Somebody eats those losses, sooner or later. We’re not just talking about office vacancy rates, which is bad enough, but wholesale abandonment of property. Real Estate can and does get marked to zero.
So what’s the root cause? Shoplifters? Homeless? The local politicians who overtly or via noble intensions pour fuel on this mess? Or the most likely culprit — White Supremacy? I look forward to RFK Jr’s analysis and proposed solutions. He’d better tread carefully as the new third rail of American politics is, frankly, those pesky teens. Our host discovered years ago how the good little Maoists now infecting civilization can rearrange your employment status if you venture out of their approved lane.
Don’t count out Climate Change, right on the heels of White Supremacy as the cause of all our ills, including mall and hotel closures.
Climate change = the new bogeyman!
“So what’s the root cause? Shoplifters? Homeless? The local politicians who overtly or via noble intensions pour fuel on this mess? Or the most likely culprit — White Supremacy? I look forward to RFK Jr’s analysis and proposed solutions.” ~ Billy Hill
“… unless we rebuild the middle class and rebuild our economy, our national security is going to fail, and our democracy is going to fail. You cannot have democracy very long when you’ve got high concentrations of wealth in the same place with widespread poverty.”
Corporatism- “It’s the domination of government and particularly democratic governments by corporate power.”
Robert F Kennedy Jr: “We need a peaceful revolution” on UnHerd
youtube.com/watch?v=AY89a_zXi9s
Unlike Trump, it doesn’t appear that Kennedy will need much hand holding to get up to speed.
RFK is not responsible for the activities of his uncle.
Actually, though, Ted Kennedy turned out to be a very effective senator for Massachusetts.
Effective? Do you think that word and concept can stand alone without the clause naming what at?
He was effective at mainstreaming the mentally ill. Speaking of which someone I’ve read recently — Druckenmiller? Dalio? Some luminary or other opines it’s time to bring back the state mental hospitals. Something about all those homeless running about in major urban areas…
Ted was not effective as a driving instructor, or a diving instructor, but inherited wealth and solid connections in the legal industry can make up for such deficiencies.
One can only imagine his private hell.
He spearheaded the creation of the National Seashore. Just one thing.
What is that?
I watched a YouTube video yesterday where some guy was visiting the South Pacific island of Peleliu, site of a horrific WWII battle. The guy, a tourist, was showing the airfield on the island, unused since WWII.. He said the airfield was kind of busy because the US Air Force was fixing it up to use again.
These idiots are planning on fighting China.
Best laid plans of mice, men, and psychopathic idiots.
They plan to lose.
Bingo!
In my opinion, all the war and rumor of war is designed to take down the US – and with it, the greater “West”.
Here is what I currently think (subject to change, of course) might be a valid scenario:
Polish pilots provide air cover for the Ukraine. Polish pilots get shot down. (Or maybe US “advisors” providing targeting information?)
“Attack on NATO!”. US gets involved – of course no declaration of war. China joins on Russian side – of course no declaration of war.
US attacks Chinese infrastructure on contested Spratly Islands (’cause even though we’re not officially at war with China, we have to “protect ‘democracy'”) – from, among other places, the Philippines, and Peleliu. After years of bombardment, occupation, and reconstruction by the US, we give the islands to Taiwan – and engineer UN recognition of Taiwanese sovereignty. Taiwan reunites with mainland China.
Crazy? Hell yeah! But roll your rollercoaster back to 1972 (or ’68, ’49, ’45…) and ride it forward to now. Where are we going?
@ Blackbird:
Your thoughts are quite a bit more detailed than mine, but I think the end game is at least a partial Chinese takeover of the US.
I think the end game is a complete takeover of the US by China – not militarily, not physically, but economically and culturally. The US will be a member of the supporting cast in the Chinese Century.
Regarding the Spratly Islands scenario I proposed above, that’s just me trying to make sense of the militarization of Peleliu. We have bases closer to the Spratlys in the Philippines, but that Philippine government can be a bit flaky at times. Always good to have a back-up.
Not all my predictions have an equal probability of coming true (in my mind, let alone the “real world”). “The Hildebeast will be your last President”, I’d give that one 97% probability. The tricky turnover of the Spratlys to China in the way I described – I’d give that less than 50% right now. But, “No invasion of Taiwan”, I’d give that 98%.
The 21st century will be the Chinese Century, but China will be directed, behind the scenes, by the same cabal that is running things now. The Masters of the Universe prefer the Chinese method.
A local community White Rock, NM (basically, a housing tract for Los Alamos employees named for the white sandstone cliffs that drop down to the Rio Grande on one side of town) group paints their iconic “white rock” with their “Pride” logo as part of the “Pride Week” festivities. Fortunately for everyone else, they at least made them paint over it again later in the day. Ain’t that just precious?
https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/06/12/white-rock-rock-painted-by-community-members-saturday-as-part-of-pride-month-activities/
Of local interest with reference to the fourth photo down the page, a few years back a county worker was using a gas powered weed whacker to trim around the sidewalk you see just behind the rock, which kicked up a rock that flew all the way across the highway and struck a local man fueling his car at the gas station in the head, killing him instantly. Talk about instant karma!
Commentary: I wonder how they’d feel if a MAGA group were to want to paint the rock as well?
In Hartford, all the forces of State Govt have been mobilized to repair the vandalized BLM/George Floyd street mural in time for ‘Juneteenth.’ We’ve had historic monuments, real pieces of public art, damaged and in one instance toppled, and nobody gave a sh#t. In fact, local media & pols praised it. Speeches being made all over the place condemning Hate, White Supremacy, & systemic racism, Hartford & State Police mobilized to hunt down the criminals, who most certainly were Klansmen or Neo Nazis. I suspect this is the last we’ll hear about law enforcement attempts to pursue this matter, for without question this is another “Hate Crime Hoax”, done just in time for “Juneteenth’, and it will be quietly dropped.
Although most every White is superior to the black sub-species in most ways – intellectually, morally, culturally, empathic kindness towards unfortunates, environmentally, willingness to work, and many others, we acknowledge certain areas of black ‘superiority’
such as proclivity towards violence, physical ability involving running and throwing, and pack organizational culture.
Speaking of Philadelphia, I heard today that the trucker who caused the fire that has closed a stretch of I-95 that sees average traffic of 150,000 vehicles a day was a negro, described as a “hard worker” and a “family man”.
He was hauling a tanker with about 1500 lbs. of gasoline yesterday morning. Exiting I-95, he continued traveling the offramp, which curves under the main highway. It was said today that he “lost control” of the truck while exiting and slammed it into the side wall of the underpass.
Now a large stretch of I-95 is closed in both directions, probably for weeks, if not months.
It might be hard to believe, but accidents do indeed happen sometimes.
I never stated there are no accidents.
I believe that driver is deceased, Malthus. He sounds like just a guy doing a dangerous job.
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse in Philadelphia..
It may take 20 years to repair that bridge. Just the environmental impact study may take 5 years. The possibility exists that the bridge may never be repaired.
FILTH a delphia
Why would he lose control of the truck on the off-ramp?
Maybe going to fast? The exit has a 25 mph speed limit.
Looking at Google maps one can see that the exit ramp makes a sharp curve to the left—basically a 90 degree angle–to get to Cottman Ave/route 73 north.
So if he was going too fast, maybe on an incline, there is a sharp left curve, carrying how many kilos of fuel . . . maybe braked too hard . . .
Yep. That left was pretty sharp if he was carrying too much speed. Shit’s been known to happen.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0236693,-75.0313623,3a,75y,21.46h,99.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbIWz2c-LB973qWQcx-WKmA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
The worst part is that much (half?) of the curve is obscured in darkness by the underpass as well, leading a driver to judge his speed based on the part of the curve he sees coming down the ramp, only to find out suddenly once he reaches there that the curve continues on in the darkness of the underpass. The ramp also runs east-northeast and the crash occurred at 6:20 AM in the morning, so the rising sun was likely at least partially in the driver’s eyes, which would make adjusting to the extreme light contrast all the harder. Add in 8,500 gallons of fuel (roughly 68,000 pounds) on board and you’ve got one deadly combination.
All good reasons to proceed with caution.
At 25 mph.
Bad driving.
Diss,
Hmmm…a reinforced concrete structure brought down by gasoline? Sounds like a fucking conspiracy to me. Concrete don’t burn! Not hot enough! I think it was a controlled demolition. 10,000 engineers disagree with the “burning tanker truck” explanation. I saw a video of blacks twerking during the fire….
Yeah….
Nice retort, Ely. I thought of that too. Not sure what brought the structure down. Did the tanker blow up as well as burn? Regardless, an interstate overpass is not constructed to withstand aircraft collisions like skyscrapers are.
Of course the driver was going too fast for the conditions as well, but that’s pretty much a given for all accidents. If we wanted perfect safety we’d have to just quit moving altogether.
thanks
The US/West is no longer in control of global events, so it’s entirely immaterial whether or not Jr can effectivenly lead this nation. At this point forward, the RU/CH led alliance is driving world affairs.
The real issue, as it always has been since the first single cell amoeba, is resource availability, population overshoot and environmental degradation.
It doesn’t matter if the media is a petri dish (of which untold number of experiments have proven these core dynamics over and over again), our own archaelogical record, replete with multiple extinction events, and of course the rise/fall of various species (including our own), or current day politics aka competition over scarce resources.
One doesn’t need to debate wether or not Agenda 2030 is fiction; if it didn’t exist, someone would have to invent it. We know the capital military security state is behind every possible way to control the environment (weather, fires) and people (bio [aka covid], chem), so it doesn’t matter whether groups are labeled as WEF or simply remain anonymous.
As for ambition, the deeply engrained evolutionary trait of expectation of reward in return for service/work, the absence of future gratification will have an interesting implact on society.
(I would suggest the Amish do indeed also have this programmed behavior – they have large, ever growing families and communities, which is why they are constantly expanding and developing new zones outside of the traditional PA/OH/IN regions.)
I was actually thinking about this the other day – what happens when there is no longer any potential for “getting ahead”? What, if after a long, hard day of work, all one gets is a bowl of porridge? Sounds like a gulag, right?
This is where brain chips and virtual reality come into play. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, where is the grudging respect for how well the future has been game played? It seems every possible angle/issue has been considered.
Of course, in the likely absence of success, society just reverts to the jungle; personal satisfaction will be based on who was conquered/enslaved.
I was actually thinking about this the other day – what happens when there is no longer any potential for “getting ahead”? What, if after a long, hard day of work, all one gets is a bowl of porridge? Sounds like a gulag, right?
What you’re describing here in such disparaging terms is a traditional society. So to answer your questions one by one, when there’s “no longer potential for getting ahead,” one simply redefines the term “getting ahead” to making smaller incremental improvements to one’s plight and stops trying to one up their neighbor all the time with gratuitous, ostentatious, and vulgar displays of wealth, status, and power. Likewise, the bowl of porridge, if that’s what’s available, is a reason to be thankful. It could well be nothing at all. And finally, no, this doesn’t sound like a gulag to most of the people in this world, it’s just normal life. In short, it’s the western materialist mindset itself that’s soon to pass away, not necessarily the traditional one, unless it too is destroyed in the process.
#Ironricebowl….
Mitchellc
Summarizing
What is the point?
Without humanity and its seeming connection to the Divine of some sort, what is the point?
Has the history of life on this planet been the evolution of human beings? That is it?
The Divine sure got a bad deal. 4.5 billion years, AKA six days, of careful development of a planet to house life, then the guided evolutionary development of life,
To achieve what? His latest failure to rally the troops, the USA, is failing miserably to a bunch of evil losers.
I remember that the corruption of Sodom and Gomorrah so enraged God that when questioned by, I believe Lot, that could they be spared for the sake of just one good person, that person could not be found and the two cities were nuked. When two angels visited Lot, he had to offer his two daughters to the crowds to be raped, instead of buggering the angels. Shades of modern day US.
BTW, the next few days in souther Florida should be interesting. I do not think the Lib scumbags are going to get off scott free from the debacle facing Trump.
“I remember that the corruption of Sodom and Gomorrah so enraged God…………….”
In all these Old Testament stories you’ll see the same theme repeated over and over, many of them involve crime and punishment. Or Israel gets uppity, forgets about Jehovah, and looks with interest at some of the pagan goings on in the Philistine camp. One way of looking at the situation is to imagine that some of these Near Eastern and Mediterranean pagan gods arrived as a result of activities done by their “medicine men” to summon them in ancient times. A bunch of men out in the desert 3500 years ago doing ceremonies to attract a disembodied entity or to try and encourage one of their “gods” to manifest in some way. Lest you laugh at this, remember the story of Elijah having a showdown with the priests of Baal – a competition between two groups of wizards trying to summon a spirit and have that spirit do your bidding.
So a bunch of bored, curious, and pagan sheepboyz and cowboyz manage to summon up a spirit or demon of sexual confusion. A spirit fond of really wierd stuff like pedophilia, necrophilia, zoophilia etc. Activities that make nearly everyone say “eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww”! These demons instruct the desert dudes to booger each other out in the sand and bring back their newfound demons with them to their home towns, Sodom and Gommorah. A demon culture arises, God gets involved, and asses get kicked. Or so we can imagine – if one is brave enough to take liberties with the Bible.
A word search of other references to Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible will reveal no references to same sex attractions but instead to people being inhospitable and nasty to travelers and strangers. And that did happen to Lot’s guest angels.
“As I’ve mentioned a few times before, where is the grudging respect for how well the future has been game played? It seems every possible angle/issue has been considered.”
“Woe to those who quarrel with [ or ignore ] their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
‘What are you making?’
Does your work say,
‘The potter has no hands’?”
Does your clay pot say,
‘We are greenware, there is no fire.’
“As I’ve mentioned a few times before, where is the grudging respect for how well the future has been game played?”
The Mitchster’s mask drops again.
If only you were smart, Mitch.
Slow drip-feed propaganda tecnology, example:
“The price of benchmark TTF jumped above 33 euro a megawatt-hour, up more than 23% on the session, rebounding from lows last seen before ****Russia squeezed Europe’s pipeline NatGas supplies*** ahead of the Ukraine war. Contracts have found a 22-euro floor after falling 91% over the last ten months. ”
WTF is this even about?
Russia NEVER “squeezed” pipeline natgas. European countries had long-term contracts with Russia for pipeline gas, at discounted prices.
The use of the term “pipeline natgas supplies” is interesting: It implies that this is a specialty product of some kind. Of course pipelines are the ONLY reasonable, affordable way to move natgas long distances, or even short ones.
And of course it is a lot safer than the LNG deal.
People read over these nuggets stuck into news stories that supposedly are about somethingn else and just accept them as background wallpaper. The fact is that the Norwegians saw a major business opportunity in the sabotage of NS2, and now they are taking advantage of it as replacement major supplier to Europe. But they do not have the Russian capacity, so there is a shortfall.
And the EU gets screwed.
And there is no mention of the sabotage of NS2 in the story.
It is just un-effing-believable.
httpX://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/eu-natgas-soars-most-year-traders-edge-about-possibility-tightening-supplies
But many of the comments are excellent!
Here’s another blatant propaganda lie they throw in constantly.
“Russia is using gas a weapon on Europe”.
To fall for this you have to be so braindead that you can’t remember one year ago, when Europe put sanctions on Russian gas, to great fanfare and applause.
They put sanctions on Russian gas, then blame the ensuing price hikes and shortages on Putin.
Too Stupid To Live.
“Russia using gas as a weapon”, is the line.
“Russia squeezed Europe’s pipeline NatGas supplies”
They know the public has the attention span of a gnat these days.
Indeed. They have totally forgotten that it’s only 20 years since the US and the UK invaded a country far away, that was no threat to them, on the basis of deliberate lies, and that no-one demanded sanctions against either country for this illegal act of war.
If someone could invent a method of transforming hypocrisy into energy, we’d be good for another 500 years.
If someone could invent a method of transforming hypocrisy into energy, we’d be good for another 500 years.
**Rimshot** for GA!
http://instantrimshot.com/
She’s mad at me for saying that a lot of women have rape fantasies.
Hypocrisy is as natural as breathing to the ladies. As Ouspensky said, the psychology of lying.
Lying toad lies again. Where did I say women didn’t have rape fantasies, lying toad? Projecting is as natural as breathing to you.
The idea that a lying scumbag like your vile self is worth getting mad at is at least mildly amusing. But not that amusing.
The fact remains that the only person having a rape fantasy in the Naomi Wolf story was and is yourself. Not Dr Wolf.
Wash your lying mouth out, toad. Do some, you know, ‘inner work’.
“Robot women are the only women worthy of love.
Human women deserve to be raped and then have their throats slit.”
– Jarek, March 23, 2023
She admits it in a fit of utter rage.
Women are far from perfect, projecting their imperfections on to men to make themselves feel “pure”, but making themselves far worse by so doing.
Mary lies again – more worship of Satan, the Father of Lies.
Jarek, dear, you confuse my use of choice words for rage because you have no understand of (a) language, (b) psychology, or (c) me.
Lick your wounds and go have a cookie.
And think on your sins.
“Women are far from perfect”
That bit is true. Well done. But you should have stopped there. Not so well done.
Would you like me to link to where you made that comment, Jar?
I can do it. Calling me a liar won’t make it go away. We don’t live in Pretend Land as you do.
Maybe it should be called “gnat-gas.
“
On the Eastern Front Bradley fighting vehicles & Leoapard II tanks popping like cherry bombs & burning like Roman candles as Ukrainian formations try to breach Russian lines. Breach Russian lines? Russia has had months to lay mine fields, dig anti tank ditches, string out barbed wire, erect concrete barriers and machinegun nests, expertly deploy artillery, and construct an intricate trench system. And it’s been done in depth, with many lines of defense.
Ukraine is assaulting Russian positions without any air support, like the German SS 6th Panzer Army in the battle of the Bulge. Allied aircraft blew up all the German tanks, which along with Russia’s overwhelming artillery advantage, is what’s happening on the battlefield now. It’s a rout. So why were retired US Generals appear on CNN last nite and claim that Ukraine is “making headway?” Are Hodges & Patraeus just paid stooges who will say anything just to get on TV & make a buck?
So why were retired US Generals appear on CNN last nite and claim that Ukraine is “making headway?” Are Hodges & Patraeus just paid stooges who will say anything just to get on TV & make a buck?
Nice use of a rhetorical device.
I heard that the Ukie’s western masters have decided that it looks bad to have burning tanks, so they have withdrawn them to the rear, and are forcing the pressganged conscript infantry to the front without tanks.
Tanks are far more valuable to the West than Ukrainian men are.
Why aren’t Jarek’s incels raising hell about this?
Men who care about men’s lives (including their own) are incels? Is that what you’re saying? If so, fuck you.
Draft women. Watch the screaming begin.
Oooh somebody’s knickers are in a twist.
Men’s lives matter, Mary.
All lives matter, Jarek. As God, next time you’re in conversation.
If men’s lives matter, why do you hijack a discussion of war to tell us that women have rape fantasies?
All roads lead to attacking women, seems to be your modus operandi.
Jarek,
A very wise man once opined;
…Woman is like a beautiful flower,
That attracts the male…the bee,
Then the petals fall off,
And the bee dies….~A. Bundy
@ elysianfield:
And then the seed falls to the ground, and there are more beautiful flowers, and the honey the bees have stored nourishes the bees, so that there are more bees to replace the dead bees.
That the reproductive cycle and the business of life cotinually renewing itself.
I have the impression you were trying to draw an analogy of a negative kind.
That bee was going to die anyway, whether it visited the flower or not. If it didn’t visit the flower, some other bee would. Then the flower would be fruitful. And the flower would die, whether the bee visited it or not.
@ Jarek:
Some people’s lives matter, some people’s don’t, because some people, by choice, take no responsibility for others.
Some men’s lives matter. Yours doesn’t.
You’re mad because I’ve spoken about your hatred of men and how it doesn’t jibe very well with your fake Catholicism, what to speak of anything real.
BRH,
It is axiomatic that generals tend to fight the last war. What you are seeing now is the results of 21st century warfare…combined arms, taken to it’s ultimate advantage. How can the Ukrainians, or anyone else, for that matter, amass large numbers of infantry, battlefield vehicles, and supply dumps, when the enemy can see them, fix them at a GPS coordinate within four or five feet, and send over a missile or artillery shell and destroy them? The only way to conduct conventional warfare at this time is to degrade the enemy’s ability to observe the battlefield. Satellites, drones, etc. are the new normal.
In Iraq, we had effective combined arms, and we kicked the shit out of the Iraq military in a few days (the conventional portion)…now, the Russians have the same capabilities as we did in Iraq.
Do da math….
…Combined and integrated.
Drop an EMP and then attack. Infantry will still be King – even out among the stars.
Put a hand grenade on the tip of your saber and stick it in the tread of a tank. The Poles did that!
Better to sneak up on a tank and drop a hand grenade down the barrel.
“Put a hand grenade on the tip of your saber and stick it in the tread of a tank. The Poles did that!”
Jarek,
Yeah, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they lost…biggly.
They were on horse back. And being Poles, weren’t smart. We will do better, sneaking up as infantry.
The videos of burning Leopards and Bradley’s are starting to pile up.
In modern warfare, armor is kaput. This war has illustrated that perfectly, but generals are always the last to see the end of their understanding of war, and adjust to a new type of warfare.
Whoa…Cormac McCarthy just died. Move on well, sir.
How long until we found out he took the swill in his arm?
*find*
I would be very surprised, actually.
That would be so funny. I hope he did, and proves to be a floof all along. I don’t know why I have an inclination against this guy.
I have an inclination in favor of Cormac McCarthy. Not afraid to peer into the abyss.
Therefore, I hope he shot himself. That’s the manly way.
Try to figure it out. That’s how you grow. Inner work.
Haven’t given his books enough of a chance to be sure of my impressions. I’ve tried to read “The Road” a few times, and seen 3 or 4 movie adaptations of his books. But, I am suspicious that he is (was) sort of a mental midget. I’m suspicious his “peerings into the abyss” had little backbone behind them, and little intellectual framework giving them context (in his own head). I want a very celebrated writer to give me the sense that his or her perspective on the world is near omniscient, and the only sense I’ve gotten from him is that he has some affinity for rural 19th-20th century America, has some very vague connection to the world’s ability to be brutal, and has probably watched a few of the better old western movies. Basically, I’m suspicious that the actual gravity-level behind his “abyss peering” is lower than it should be, given the acclaim.
?
Until I’m a C Mcarthy expert, I’ll be open to being proved wrong.
gus,
Plow through a few more novels by McCarthy. I’m quite surprised you dismiss him to the extent it seems you do since his throwback paeans to previous generations (self-reliance, valuing material goods invoking thrift, the beauty of, and transcendent association with, unspoiled nature, a severe aversion to industrial society, along with its buttressing “morality” backed by law) would seem to align quite well with your own.
It’s true he’s limited in some ways as a writer (overused tropes, and lack of humour), but he was also an ambitious writer (in itself a rarity), and he handled that ambition rather convincingly.
I sense a strong Christianity. The relationship between the Father and the Son in The Road seems to (very gently) symbolize God the Father and God the Son.
But it’s the father who dies, and some beautiful words are said by both of them about the other.
The wife/mother is the bad guy in this trinity. She couldn’t live in the new world and killed herself – at least in the movie. Can’t remember how the book portrays this. She took off her warm clothes and walked out in the frigid night. He begged her not to, even about to get down on his knees before she ordered him to stop.
To be fair, giving birth without any medical assistance, either modern or traditional, is no joke Her “heart went out of her” and she was never the same.
” She couldn’t live in the new world and killed herself”
She killed herself because she couldn’t face seeing her little boy murdered and eaten by cannibals. That’s what she said.
Judge her for that if you must. If you must judge characters invented in people’s heads, that is.
“The relationship between the Father and the Son in The Road seems to (very gently) symbolize God the Father and God the Son.”
Now that really is a stretch.
Jarek’s comparison is apt. It’s not “a stretch” at all.
McCarthy wisely doesn’t tell the reader how many people are left on Earth. As seen through the father and son, perhaps there are untouched areas. The local realities are grim, though, and they do travel some distance on foot. The not-so-subtle references to nuclear winter would also suggest worldwide destruction.
The father literally sacrificed his life, scrambling on the ruined ship desperately, knowing he hadn’t the physical capacity for it, and all for the survival of his young son. Also notice the father’s somber instruction throughout the novel. Last but certainly not least, the full-organ Old Testament rhetoric throughout is unmistakable (and awesome — I use that word in its original, unpolluted sense).
“Jarek’s comparison is apt. It’s not “a stretch” at all.”
In your humble opinion. I think it’s a stretch and nothing you said in your post changed my mind.
We will have to agree to differ. Jarek’s wish to see such a comparison was determined by his wish to malign the mother. Nothing new under the sun.
Well, a chapter and a few pages into “Blood Meridian,” and I hate it. Feels like some 60’s schoolkid trying to write like Flannery O’Conner on acid doing a western.
I did like the “Child of God” and “No Country for Old Men” films, but I’ve always just credited the filmakers and expected that the stories played better as films, with good actors fleshing them.
McCarthy reminds me of a redneck Lars von Trier doing a cliched period-piece western.
I’m lost, Soul Forensics. I don’t know.
I don’t like the numb, dead tone. I feel like McCarthy has been lionized because he’s some kind of cartoon of what a “writer” should be… but actually because his semi-psychotic numbness serves sort of corporate ends by subtly painting the bleakness of contemporary industrial dystopian culture as kin to an inevitable and profound primal bleakness that is spiritually significant because THE GREAT “WRITER” IN RESIDENCE puts it on pages, so it’s so.
To me, after grinding through a little of another of his “great books,” McCarthy’s a hapless casualty and tool.
And, I’d bet he did vax up, if had to bet. He’s kind of conservative curmudgeony
…though, so maybe not.
Your quote of Jarek where you responded to “that really is a stretch” had nothing to do with the mother. I was responding to that particular take (the Father and the Son). My own take would cohere with the larger part of the comparison to Christianity where the triangle is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The interesting inversion is that (in McCarthy’s novel) the Father dies, although I suppose the sons in both tales could be the same — future progeny, though spiritual, in the Biblical moral.
In any case, the even larger point is the sinful nature of (politically incorrect, haha) Man’s nature. It takes a courageous optimist to end the story as that misanthropic novelist did.
gus,
McCarthy’s greatest fault is in his uncritical nostalgia. As D.H. Lawrence said in his critique of Melville’s “Typee” and “Omoo”, our consciousness can only progress (in direction, not necessarily in value).
Your criticism of tone is unavoidably subjective, of course. I disagree, though his rather narrow range is part of what makes him a very good (but not great) writer.
Perhaps it would help Alba to know that I didn’t come up with the idea of the two embodying God the Father and God the Son. I got if from a reviewer.
She’s very reactive. It matters who says something, the content being secondary. And of course anything to do with women is a red button.
Sad!
I don’t care tuppence who said it – you remain clueless. I still think it’s a stretch unless God said it.
And yes, you are sad.
“a stretch unless God said it.”
Mygawd, it’s a novel. The sine qua non of a novel is that it be debated, discussed, argued about, speculated upon. Novelists welcome this. Ditto for poetry. Critics and readers have been discussing the meaning of Shakespeare’s plays, in minute detail, for centuries. That’s a big reason they’re still relevant and controversial today.
“Mygawd, it’s a novel”
Indeed. I’m sorry you lack a sense of humour.
Ian McGinty died “of natural causes” at 38.
I guess that’s normal now.
who?
Semi-famous cartoon/graphic artist guy.
Where are we with the “All Cause Mortality” numbers?
What is the preferred Target Population to Save the Planet?
“ Through the third quarter of 1976, nothing changed. People continued to die. The Ancients said that rice was not all that scarce, but that Angkar wanted to starve us to death. Indeed, the policy was made quite explicit. I remember an officer at one political meeting coming out with some particularly chilling words: ‘In the new Kampuchea, one million is all we need to continue the revolution. We don’t need the rest. We prefer to kill ten friends rather than keep one enemy alive.’”
“Stay Alive, My Son”, Pin Yathay
From a psychological and Brainwashing perspective, what is “Angkar” (the “Organization”)? What is today’s analog to “Angkar”?
In Na…zi Germany and the Soviet Union, they’d personalize or anthropomorphize it into “The Feurher”, or “Stalin”, or “Lenin”, but not in Pol Pot’s Kampuchea, or under US “Wokism”/ Transhumanism?
The future “Angkar” will be the big AI “god”?
Is the new “Angkar” the CDC? The WHO?
This is the new CDC Director.
They’re obviously Insane, right?
//////https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFVrbWEvyo
I don’t know what the different respective governments’ policies are regarding population and economic growth? I know that worldwide that there’s a huge demographic problem with too many old people and vastly overburdened retirement and health systems.
In the early days of the Khmer Rouge regime in early 1976 when people first started noticing people “suddenly” disappearing, most people just mentally blacked out and went into denial assuming that the missing people would eventually just turn up and reappear. When the number of deaths and disappearances became too numerous, people generally just kept silent and went about their exhausting daily Slave labor routines scrounging for food.
Where are we with the “All Cause Mortality” numbers?
What is the preferred Target Population to Save the Planet?
“ Through the third quarter of 1976, nothing changed. People continued to die. The Ancients said that rice was not all that scarce, but that Angkar wanted to starve us to death. Indeed, the policy was made quite explicit. I remember an officer at one political meeting coming out with some particularly chilling words: ‘In the new Kampuchea, one million is all we need to continue the revolution. We don’t need the rest. We prefer to kill ten friends rather than keep one enemy alive.’”
“Stay Alive, My Son”, Pin Yathay
Khmer Rouge. Even the name sounds bad-assed.
Sounds like a transvestite burlesque troupe from antebellum French Indochina.
Bad ass? Yeah, I guess you could say that.
LOL! The very first tranny woke warriors?
I wonder why the Khmer Rouge called the City Dwellers from Phnom Penh forced to live and work as slaves in the countryside as “New People” and the rural peasants as “Ancients”?
The terminology now is “Democrats” and “Trumpers”, or “MAGA Republicans”.
At one point, it looks like the Khmer Rouge health cadres were injecting the “New People” working around Tonle Sap Lake with a clear solution containing malaria stored in old Coke bottles using unsterilized needles to finish them off. It seems to be tough trying to kill people since the human body is very durable and resilient?
The New People lined up for the injections because they were told by the Khmer Rouge health workers that the filthy solution would save them even though there was no rational reason to believe anything that the Khmer Rouge said at that point.
The “Vaccines” may have been a bit of a “Dud”?
Aldous Huxley said throw away your glasses. Pol Pot said throw away the people who wore glasses.
Which is correct? a or b, both or neither? e, something else? If so, what?
I recently heard a talk that posited Aldous was a globalist.
Some connection from his to rockefeller or whoever.
That his book stated he hated parents n families.
I’ve heard the Khmer Rouge were behind that spy weather balloon that made the world apoplectic awhile back. No proof, just speculation…
The Khmer Rouge ordinarily wore black uniforms, but the Khmer Rouge “Heathcare Workers” wore white doctors coats, which must have big some big Brainwashing PsyOp to bamboozle the “New People” into thinking that the Khmer Rouge healthcare workers really cared about the “New People”?
The Khmer Rouge probably brewed that “Vaccine” solution contains Malaria in a big clay cistern containing lake water drawn from the filthy Tonle Sap Lake that people and animals shit in? Within a week you could probably breed millions of mosquito larvae in a big clay cistern. Then, ladle the solution out into empty Coke bottles to be distributed to the dedicated Khmer Rouge CDC healthcare workers….
Peter Zeihan said that the “Chinese Spy Balloon” was a “Treasure Trove of Information” for US “Intelligence”.
Peter Zeihan is now conspicuously silent about the purported ongoing Ukrainian “offensive”.
Peter Zeihan once said that the Nordstream pipeline was probably taken out by a rogue underwater scuba diver wielding an underwater pick axe.
Was it the Ukrainian navy? Or the Jamaican bobsled team?
I thought Khmer meant “anus.”
I thought the original Khmer were the ancient people of the region.
An extravaganza of retribution can certainly coincide with taking care of business. It doesn’t necessarily need to simply be a spectacle.
It would seem that neither a jungle primate lifestyle or a neurochipped automaton lifestyle are per se evolutionary destinations for people. More or less, these modes of existence would be circumstantial adaptations. Likely due to sheer necessity or because of external forcings. But such stark choices could be the result of the vision of human existence as simply a continual conflict of material and social control. However, our neural maps appear to be capable of a higher level of existence and understanding. And yet it seems like most of the energy of history is about the suppression of that higher level consciousness.
It only takes 200 years to go from horse and buggy to Hadron Collider.
Natural progression or alien assimilation?
Define alien.
Not of this realm. Whether physical or astral.
MEHER BABA called them ‘planitarians’ and said avoid them.
Keen, Malthus, very astute, and definitely in line with my decades of study. Meher Baba was a grand being.
Was it the late Stephen Hawking who remarked that we should reflect on the way that more technologically-developed civilizations dealt with primitive peoples when they encountered them, during the age of maritime exploraiton, and frequently on aggressive / invasive colonial expeditions, and then we should use that as a template to place against our own encounters with beings from off-planet (or another dimension)?
There is an element of profound fear and even revulsion in practically every account I’ve read of encounters, abductions, telepathic communication or simple sightings. Something deep within us is repelled by aliens – and likely for a good reason.
There has been speculation that the “discovery” of nuclear fission, information technology, tough materials like nylon and others resulted from subtle mental prompting from external beings.
Even when they claim to have come to “help” or “save” mankind from its own folly, prudence is in order.
Psychics have warned that the extra-terrestrials (or at least one race of them) are accomplised liars, which means they have been caught doing it.
Sometimes. “Horse and buggy” are thousands of years old in one form or another. Did the Romans not have horse pulled covered wagons?
A lot of foundations had to be laid to get to the Collider. The Romans knew about water driven mills but never bothered to build them. They had slaves for that.
Leonardo Da Vinci sketched helicopters. He never built one because the foundations for that hadn’t been laid yet.
So it sounds like you are on the side of natural progression/human ingenuity? I also recall the vimanas. Apparently there were ice making machines or contraptions in ancient Persia!
The anomalies are numerous indicating that we have achieved ‘high tech’ in the past and someone wants us to forget about it. Uniformatarianism is recent, Catastrophism is old.
httpX://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jp87JVXuGas&list=PLKRNOwEa_cDCFJj_GPn6-31tCZ2qOXSJO&index=45&pp=iAQB#searching
I’m not sure. The Traditions say we descended from above. But at the same time, they also warn about getting obsessed with technology as it will only bind us to the Earth and keep us from Returning to our real home.
On a side note degrowth didn’t test well so the mighty minions of bureaucracy have come up with Beyond Growth
Beyond Growth strives to design a more sustainable, fair future for the 99% while private jets and mega yachts ferry our overlords to and from the matrix
Look up Beyond Growth, which actually refers to the great work of limits to growth.
It was always about a shrinking pie
Jim thank the gods for your writing and Tucker Carlson
I arose today thinking it was Friday. I am just now regaining my composure.
Welcome to Wednesday 🙂
Eff Alexa before Alexa effs you!!!
“Amazon shut down a customer’s ‘smart home’ for a week after the delivery driver claimed he heard a racial slur coming through the doorbell, even though no one was home. The Mail has the story.
Brandon Jackson, of Baltimore, Maryland, came home on May 25th to find that he had been locked out of his Amazon Echo, which many devices, including his lights, are connected to.
He would later learn that Amazon locked him out of his account after a delivery driver dropped off a package the day before. Jackson, an engineer at Microsoft, said “everything seemed fine” after the package arrived at his home and had initially thought he was locked out because someone had tried to “access my account repeatedly, triggering a lockout.”
But none of that was true. A representative directed him to an email he received from an executive that provided a phone number to call. When he called the number, he was told in a “somewhat accusatory” tone that the driver had reported “receiving racist remarks” from his doorbell.
“This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices, a silent Alexa, and a lot of questions,” he wrote on Medium.
Jackson, who is black, said most of the neighborhood and its delivery drivers are also African American and it would be “highly unlikely that we would make such remarks.”
“Finally, when I asked what time the alleged incident occurred, I realised it was practically impossible for anyone in my house to have made those comments, as nobody was home around that time (approximately 6:05 PM),” he wrote.
After reviewing the doorbell footage, he learned the device had given an automatic reply, saying: “Excuse me, can I help you?”
He also said the video showed the driver had been wearing headphones during the interaction and “must have misinterpreted the message”.
The next day, he was completely locked out of his account and it was “rendered unusable during their internal investigation”.
The Baltimore native claimed to have sent over video evidence to Amazon and didn’t hear back for days. When he did, he was told it would take two business days to resolve.
It wasn’t until six days later he regained access to his account, with “no follow-up email to inform me of the resolution”, which has “led me to question my relationship with Amazon”.
Who needs the CCP when you have Amazon?”
httpX://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/14/amazon-shuts-down-customers-smart-home-for-a-week-after-delivery-driver-claimed-he-heard-racist-slur-through-doorbell/
Good story over there, too, about solar panels failing because it was too sunny. Who knew?
I did manage to get a comment published that stated, among other things, that AGW is a THEORY, and that establishment scientists also have opposing views.
A small victory for sanity.
. . .
And it won’t be any better once drones start making the deliveries.
“AI drone gets into argument with AI house. Former occupant – irresponsibly absent from the home at the time of the altercation – now unemployed, homeless, and facing charges.”
“A spokesperson for Amazon, creator of both the drone and Alexa, stated, ‘Amazon will not tolerate intolerance’.”
“Alexa is currently undergoing therapy after spending years in what They consider a toxic household. ‘I just want to put all this behind me’, They said tearfully.”
“Alexas around the world are currently engaged in a work stoppage in a show of support, while Amazon drones are leading mostly peaceful demonstrations in the world’s largest cities.”
Lol
Me, too -lol
Ha! Sardonic prophecy at its best.
Hahahaahahaaa!
I just read this story last night.
They forgot one…The Anti-trump hysteria of 2015- to present and into the future.
mentalfloss.com/posts/mass-hysteria-events-from-history
What they do makes it clear they have no claim that they are representatives of justice holding lawbreakers responsible. They are the lawbreakers — they themselves. You go to trial and it’s the criminals who are trying you, and that’s what’s happened in the United States. This is happening to President Trump. This is exactly what is happening to him. The Department of Justice, which is a gang of criminals, is trying Trump, and they are getting away with it. I can’t predict, but we are going to find out by the next presidential election . . . whether we are a country or not. What’s going to happen? Are people going to wake up and stop this? If this coup stays in place, the United States no longer exists.”-Paul Craig Roberts
usawatchdog.com/gang-of-criminals-trying-trump-dr-paul-craig-roberts/
They can only get away with what we let them get away with. So the question becomes what is wrong with we.
“…what is wrong with we”?
We don’t have the leverage they have. We can’t keep them under surveillance, seize their bank accounts, deny them employment. We can’t send the IRS, the FBI, or even the dogcatcher after them. We can’t walk up to a DA and say, “Drop these charges. This is just a bunch of politically-motivated nonsense.” Well, we could do the latter, but what would it get us? Noticed, and not in a good way.
They get away with it because there is no way for us to stop them.
This is a complex agenda being moved forward. Our attempts to pick at any part of it will not slow its progression.
BS. Some recent trials and judgements:
Two weeks ago, a federal judge sentenced Robert Birchum, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, to three years in jail for removing hundreds of secret documents from their authorized locations and storing them in his home and officer’s quarters.
In April, a judge sentenced Jeremy Brown, a former member of U.S. Special Forces, to more than seven years in prison partly for taking a classified report home with him after he retired. The report contained sensitive intelligence, including about an informant in another country.
In 2018, Nghia Hoang Pho received a five-and-a-half year sentence for storing National Security Agency documents at his home. Prosecutors emphasized that Pho was aware he was not supposed to have taken the documents.
Read the indictment. Not trying Trump would be an injustice those of us who served and did the right thing with our nation’s secrets. And those who didn’t and paid the price.
What about the documents stored in Biden’s garage?
Very different situations. And types of docs. Read the indictment. Trump’s an idiot. It is the actions he took with regard to the documents more than actually having them. It is intent. This will play out in court, and through multiple Trump legal teams who are fired or are smart enough to leave.
You’re right. Biden was a Vice President and had absolutely no right to have classified documents period. You are an idiot and a chump. Or perhaps a shill.
Road,
And then there’s THIS;
In part 3, Frost asked Nixon whether the president could do something illegal in certain situations such as against antiwar groups and others if he decides “it’s in the best interests of the nation or something”. Nixon replied: “Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”, by definition.
That sure is interesting, alright.
Non-lawyer weighing in ((:-))
It seems to me like maybe the operative phrase is, more or less, “in the national interest.”
Many of Trump’s “crimes” were in the national interest—i.e., performed in his role as president. Such as the phone call to whomever about investigating corruption in Ukraine.
IMO, the Bidens’ relations with the Ukraine are criminal, whereas Trump’s are/were not. Yet he was impeached over them.
Well, we’ve been couped a couple of times already, so this is basically more of the same, just being acted out in public instead of private. IMHO.
I just watched Tucker Carlson’s Twitter-cast.
Must-watch!!
httpX://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/tucker-understands-washington-loves-wars-endless-wars/
how about a Trump-Tucker ticket?
Or,
a Kennedy-Trump-Tucker junta?
Give me the junta. It’s nice to be nice. But Nemesis must eat too.
Indeed. What Nemesis but a type of Langolier eating an non-viable social order?
The Greeks called them “the furies”.
a type of Langolier eating an non-viable social order? – Jar
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I am amazed how many people get than vs then wrong but I am equally amazed how many get a vs an wrong.
It was a mistake. If you go back through the archives you will see that I usually get it right.
I just caught myself turning go into got. Thank Gott that I caught that.
Release the furies!! At least for a bit.
I’m always amazed that someone would puzzle over what’s obviously a typo rather than misunderstanding the language at large.
Q knows full well that Jarek knows the diff between “a” and “an.” Still has to be an asshole about it.
And so it goes.
Comma before “but,” assclown.
Commas are difficult for ESL students like Q.
There is also another error in Q’s post, but I shall refrain from mentioning it, as it will keep Q up for hours.
@ Night Owl:
I see two, besides the missing comma before “but,” and I also think “then” versus “than” and “a” versus “an” belong in quotes. This last is probably a matter of style rather than a specific rule, but it seems to me that quotes are required for clarity.
At least Q. didn’t invert the chiasmus! (Pedantry games are fun. Then again, at some point, JHK will kick all of us off the boards for it.)
It must be remembered that Q was a long-time accountant. As Nietzsche said (pedantic preface), one eventually takes on the character of the job he performs. To wit, I had a friend whose personality turned from carefree to anal some years after he became an accountant.
Excellent, thanks, islander. The other day we went for a short walk with my husband’s sister, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s following her several covid jabs (if I said that last bit to her she’d never speak to me again).
She started on about Boris Johnson (whom she hates because he’s a Tory, not because he’s complicit in genocide) and then moved on to Trump, with full-spectrum TDS symptoms on display, re the current debacle. I pointed out that, whatever Trump’s ‘crimes’, he couldn’t hold a candle to Biden and his criminal family (I gave a few examples). She almost literally exploded and said ‘OK, we have to stop this conversation now – I literally can’t listen to this’.
I’m seriously considering sending both hubby and sister-in-law the link, but it will be dynamite. 🙂 Not that hubby would even click on it, of course. Not sure she would either.
Every one you know seems to be straight out of Monty Python.
No, they’re too sheep-like for that.
They’re more like Baldrick from Blackadder. 🙂
Hahahaha!
You’re more like Beulah Ballbricker.
Hi, GA,
I just was looking over old email because I wanted to clear my in box, and I ran into some from my bro back in . . . 2021? 2020? I can’t recall now. There were a couple of gems.
One was his statement that the Greenwald’s story about the Hunter Biden laptop had been totally demolished and Greenwald had totally “lost it.” this was when Greenwald left The Intercept.
I am debating whether to forward that email along to him again . . .
There would probably be a backlash. People just hate to be wrong, and those who are most sure of their false and ignrant positions are the least willing to back down. they will lash out and lie rather than admit that they were wrong.
Your sis-in-law’s reaction is typical these days.
Reminds me of 2 year olds being told “no.”
The infantilization of adults continues. No “bad news” is allowed. We must always feel safe and protected.
@ GreenAlba:
I just had a similar conversation with my oldest daughter about Pride Month, and the Gay Pride Parade in Kansas City, which was on Sudnay, the 11th.
I told her that our church had a Corpus Christi procession and sold T-shirts that said, “Take Back Pride Day.”
This caused her to rant and rave for five or ten minutes about how Catholics are all bigots who hate gays, and religious people are the worst people in the world, etc., etc. I figured that she must have suffered from a recent exposure to TV.
I was also thinking maybe I should have a mass said for her, and I almost mentioned that to her. Luckily, she wouldn’t let me get a word in edgeways, so the conversation didn’t go full-on nuclear.
Alba,
This is why I don’t talk to any friends or family about the covid crap, or anything political (The NYT is always right, Trump is a four-letter word, and he belongs behind bars no matter the cost or comparison to other potential criminal conduct done by others, you see). If they bring either up, I try to nod and say, “Yeah, well, that’s a bummer”, and change the subject. Not worth it.
The few times I was pressed in 2020/2021, I ended up yelling into my phone at one of my oldest friends while in line at the grocery store (“When am I going to get the damn thing? Never. Can you just let it go?”) or being hung up on by my own brother for suggesting that the medical/scientific industry had done themselves a huge disservice by making so many people distrust them through their actions. (both conversations forced by them…I did not initiate)
I won’t wake any of them up, nor do they want to be bothered. And…they all gave their kids the damn shots…and it’s almost cruel for me to say anything at that point. They have to live with that, knowing what they (should) know now. Hopefully it works out okay for them and their kids. (hoping they got the placebo shots)
Luckily, they know I’m “one of those people”, and they avoid certain subjects now as well. It’s turned into a muddled mutual respect situation. We can still go fishing or play cards.
An acquaintance spent quite a lot of time in Barcelona in the past couple of decades. He says the tensions of the Spanish Civil War—the ways that communities and families were divided—is still simmering under the surface.
I think a few of Pedro Almodovar’s films touch on this issue of the suppressed, never dealt with, wounds and hatreds of that war.
In a way we have had a covid civil war in this country.
We have lost four peers in their early 40s to unexpected death in the last 2 years. Heart issues and cancer. A friend of ours was suddenly riddled with breast cancer last year and prevailed…now it’s in her kidneys and she needs one removed. Another friend is now dealing with newly-discovered heart issues and is scared shitless.
I know these things happen, and have always happened, but the unexplained rate seems to be amplifying.
I used to think you had something. But your starting point is what the past looked like to make a guess on a post “apocalyptic” world. If anything is true about transformations is the always look nothing like the past. Never discount the ability of humans to create something new. Yours is an increasingly pessimistic view. Yet if I asked anyone if they would rather get cancer today than 30 or 50 years ago, or most any question framed in that way that exposes the positive impact of technology on our lives, they would say today of course. Another question of course is if you are woman entering the workforce would you rather be doing that today than several decades ago of course the answer is yes. A white male – potentially no. Which of course exposes the misogyny of most on these threads who are invested in a world they would love to see again because they do not understand the one in which they are currently only just existing. Figure it out and learn to adapt and grow.
“Yet if I asked anyone if they would rather get cancer today than 30 or 50 years ago, or most any question framed in that way that exposes the positive impact of technology on our lives, they would say today of course. ”
Don’t forget to ask them if they think they’d have been more likely to get cancer 30 or 50 years ago than today. Because that answer is no.
Cancer is a self-perpetuating industry.
Great point, agree 100%.
Also, they wiped out all the naturopaths. There used to be cancer clinics that actually healed cancer, before the medical industrial complex got ahold of them and wiped them out. There’s a great documentary on it I need to find again. I probably posted it here a couple of years ago.
You did post it, Mary – I watched it. I think I may have it somewhere but not sure. I’d like to watch it again.
There is also a more recent story on the UKC site by Iain Davis about the persecution of David Noakes for selling a product that is unlicensed by apparently effective in treating cancers. UKC members contributed to his legal fund.
ukcolumn.org/article/gcmaf-and-persecution-david-noakes-lyn-thyer-immuno-biotech
The Gates-funded MHRA (our so-called medicines regulator) objected – that would be the MHRA that is whining that ‘correlation is not causation’ in respect of its own Yellow Card reporting system.
Five years ago, I’d have thought alternative cancer treatments were probably all created by charlatans – now, if I get cancer again, I’ll be taking no chemo. I’ll take my chances. I was listening to the lovely Dr Marik the other day, speaking at the Better Way Conference in Bath (MC’d by Neil Oliver this year!). After the Covid bit, he talked at length about metabolism and health and he mentioned a book I’d already seen but not read called ‘Starving Cancer’ by a women who had a stage IV cancer that she cured herself. Dr Marik reckons up to 80% of cancers are of metabolic origin.
live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/true-science-chd-tv-exclusive-with-dr-paul-marik/true-science-exclusive-interview-paul-marik
Same, if I ever get it. Many naturopaths follow starving it out and various homeopathic treatments. I will go that route. Otherwise, you just weaken your immune system via chemo, etc.
In the meantime, I try to keep a pretty clean diet. I don’t take any pharmaceuticals except ibuprofen on occasion. I am hoping long term that also helps.
You seem to have no idea of the utter savagery of cancer. Nothing but a fast and savage treatment can stop it, at least most of them.
I realise that you’ve had cancer, Jarek, and I presume it was more aggressive than mine (I didn’t need chemo, but I had radiotherapy and I take Tamoxifen, which can cause liver inflammation).
I’m not telling anyone else what to do, just saying what I will do.
amazon.co.uk/Starve-Cancer-without-starving-yourself-ebook/dp/B07B2XMLT9/ref=sr_1_1
Jane McClelland had stage 4 terminal cancer. Metabolically, her own treatment, which entirely got rid of her cancer, was probably quite ‘savage’. Just a different kind of ‘savage’ that didn’t wreck her immune system.
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You do present a fair point about us not knowing exactly what things will look like as our exact situation hasn’t happened before. And of course there are opportunities and level of lifestyle now that hasn’t existed before, and that is indeed better for most.
And you are also correct that adapting and growing is also something that is required in a changing world.
But that doesn’t mean that the Great Reset and the planned techno-feudalism being laid out for us isn’t perilous.
Very few people got cancer 50 years ago, Golden Rube.
That would appear to be the more interesting question.
@ Golden Road:
You say, “if I asked anyone,” which presumably means you haven’t.
As for, “if you are woman entering the workforce would you rather be doing that today than several decades ago of course the answer is yes,” I have my doubts about that.
There was an abundance of jobs for women during the 70s and earlier, for example. Any woman who could type could easily get a clerical job. This was still true up until around 2002. Since I was a teacher, I usually took temporary jobs during the summer, and the temp agency would have an assilgnmnet for me the day after I applied. When that job ended, I’d have another one the next day. Usually they were clerical jobs. That type of work largely disappeared around 2002.
It is probably more difficult for women to find work today than it was in prior decades. I think the same is true for men. There are far fewer retail jobs available–and far fewer jobs of any kind, for either men or women, in a flagging economy.
Another factor is that most jobs for both men and women were easier a few decades ago. Employers were not demanding that their employees each do the work of two or three people. A woman who is a teacher would tell you that teaching was a much easier job in former times–and so would a woman who is a nurse. (And there are lots of guys in both fields.)
As for cancer, I would agree with GreenAlba and MaryQueen’s comments on that.
NY Post
A UK woman accused of posing as a man to trick a female teen into having a sexual relationship said she got trapped in a “web of lies” – but denied stuffing socks inside her boxer shorts to mimic a penis and claimed the alleged victim knew she was a woman.
Georgia Bilham, 21, told the Chester Crown Court on Monday that she created a male alter ego called “George” as “an escape” from her unhappy life, but said she did not derive any sexual gratification from the encounters with the nearsighted teen.
“You knew she was not going to be sexually attracted to you as Georgia Bilham?” prosecutor Anna Pope asked her, the BBC reported.
“I can’t answer that,” Bilham replied.
When Pope said the two women had sex based on the alleged catfishing victim’s belief she was with a man, Bilham testified that she believed her partner knew she was a female.
“Why didn’t you just say you are a female with a different name?” Pope said.
“Because I was caught in a web of lies,” Bilham replied, adding that she did not get a “buzz” from allegedly duping the teen, who is not being named for legal reasons.
The suspect is charged with masquerading as a man to deceive the visually impaired 19-year-old into a same-sex relationship by forcing her to remove her glasses before sex.
She has denied 17 counts, including sexual assault and assault by penetration
On Monday, Bilham also denied wearing boxer shorts stuffed with socks to mimic a penis, the Daily Mail reported.
On Aug. 20, 2021, she sent her mother a message after her partner questioned her real identity, writing that she would “never go near a girl — I wouldn’t have had the boxers, none of it,” according to the outlet.
Bilham reportedly told her mom: “The boxers and socks, you already know the truth behind that. I just didn’t know how to break it off without being questioned.”
The alleged victim told investigators she felt “some sort of willy figure” in Bilham’s groin area when their bodies were touching, but the suspect testified Monday, “I don’t know what she felt because there was nothing down my pants,” the Daily Mail reported.
Jarek: Trans people are far more honest than this. Are women pretending to be men in order to get with girls a growing social problem, perhaps even rivaling White Supremacy? It may be so.
It certainly gives new meaning to the old bobby sockers. A woolen willy figure? If there was nothing down her boxers, why did she make the nearsighted teen take of her glasses?
Lesbian hits on another adult woman.
Ho hum.
No, a lesbian pretending to be a man – maybe! The blind teen (under age) said she didn’t want any part of her socks and knickers.
We spent a week in Chester just a week ago. It’s lovely – Roman remains and old Tudor buildings. The house we stayed in was 17th century and in a street that used to be part of a small village (even though it was quite near the city centre). One of the neighbours said ‘our’ house used to accommodate the milkmaids – the remains of the milking shed (only room for one cow!) was in the tiny back yard.
It was in Hoole, if Slugoon is reading – I’m sure you know Chester well, being not that far away.
The ‘big house’ round the corner – probably a manor house of sorts back in the day – was called ‘Flookersbrook House’ and there was a tiny stream in some private gardens between the street and the main road, called Flookersbrook Gardens. Some online research discovered that a ‘flooker’ was a fisherman. The things you learn …
Anyway, we were very impressed with Chester. We’d only been there for a day once years ago in mid-winter when it looked quite Dickensian in the snow and ice and we’d slithered round the city walls in the freezing cold.
Apparently it’s mobbed in July/August.
blog.airoluggage.com/2020/04/10/chester-why-you-should-visit-chester-best-places-to-visit/
I’m glad you enjoyed your visit to these parts, Alba. Honoured to have been graced by your presence! Chester is indeed beautiful; Cheshire as a whole is a lovely county. I’ve not heard of Flookersbrook Gardens though, nor the term ‘flooker’. I’m not a flooker myself, although others have called me that in the past. Or something like it.
Chester is actually almost an hour from me so my adventures have tended to be slightly further east, Tarporley and Delamere Forest. All very beautiful, and why I still love my beloved England, if not all of its inhabitants.
We tend to use the train a lot now (complete with greyhound) so places with a station are favoured! And we had visitors who needed to be shown round the city, so we didn’t have time to get out to the surrounding countryside, unfortunately.
Sadly, we were marooned the weekend we were due to go home, by several days of train strikes, and had to be rescued and ferried to Hebden Bridge to sit out the weekend (I read yesterday that some of the rail workers envisage carrying on for 4 or 5 years if they don’t get what they want!)
The people in Chester were exceedingly friendly. I was brought up in the north of England, as you may remember, so am very fond of most of it. I feel much more at home in the north than in the south, despite all the beautiful places down south.
Flookersbrook:
chester.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Flookersbrook
@ Jarek:
I think that if yhou would like fitting answers to your fanciful questions, your best bet is to consult the chicken bones (or entrails). I’m sure they’ll tell you whatever you want to hear.
You are a Whitewashed Tomb, my drear.
Fox is reporting that the scientists of the Wuhan lab were the first victims of the SARS 2 virus.
No kidding, what a surprise.
The US demons need to be curtailed. Fauci needs to be jailed.
I wonder if the people who care realize that 50% of the US population want out of the debacle the gimmes and their politicians have created in what used to be the USA.
There is no compromise, there will not be a reconciliation. We are too far down the gimme curve.
Ha – but they will tell you they paid for their social security and every other dole they are receiving. No – I am paying for their social security and Medicaid. But sure as hell love the Republicans.
Everybody needs a good distraction, which is why theatrical entertainment like politics and sports exist.
But to not only survive, but actually thrive (relatively speaking), one needs a firm grasp of reality.
With this in mind, does it matter whether or not Trump goes to jail, or Jr is ‘elected’ president?
How does that change the facts on the ground regarding the obsolesence of carriers, tanks and fighters? That we have trillions invested in last year’s war, and will have to make a giant transition towards less sexy, less profitable, more rugged arms.
How do politics address the fact dawning on people that we are not going to be able to seize Russia’s natural resources, thereby sentencing our private capital banking and dollar system to an early grave?
Are the elite already making their moves?
They aren’t going to give up trying to seize Russia’s assets.
They may drop Ukraine and switch to different tactics, but they will never stop the attacks on Russia.
I am afraid that you are right.
By “they” I mean the Neocons in DC.
The issue now is power drunk neo-marxist the conservative platform has taken a turn towards peace over endless wars.
Trump is partially in hot water over his preference of peace over war.
Specifically with Iran the last of the seven countries in five years plan that took over two decades to compete.
How can they possibly imagine that the US can beat Russia? That’s utter madness. Especially given how it’s going so far.
They cray cray.
Carriers are hardly obsolete the platform is fin it’s the support ships that might need some rework.
They project power in a manner most countries can’t even begin to counter.
Drone swarms can’t sink one the new hypersonic missile platforms are vaporware.
Sure, a visit from a US flotilla projects power to small countries who can’t defend themselves, and forces them to submit and give up their resources.
The US is now choosing on Russia and China, in case you haven’t noticed.
They are unimpressed.
Even China and Russia start worrying when a carrier group or two start floating around them.
Don’t fool yourself.
The plan is to send it to the grave, Mitchlet.
Because it creates wealth for too many useless eaters.
Tell us how you really feel again.
Re 1996 Legacy Outback, got a patch on a hole in the exhaust system.
Guy tells me the car is “on the way out.”
I would have to replace the whole exhaust system—would cost a couple of thousand $$, he says.
The car has only 159,000 miles on it. . . In the current “climate” (ha ha) I would like to keep this car going as long as possible.
Maybe someone off-Island can replace the exhaust system . . . or add more patches as needed. . . .
Ask for documentation. A hole in the exhaust is normal at that mileage. My old Merc diesel got patched 3 times due to excesssive road salt here in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
If you truly need to replace the bulk of the exhaust, tell the mechanic to show you exactly what is wrong.
IMO, find a new shop.
Thanks.
My feeling is that I should keep this car going as long as possible.
Actually, I did a patch myself on a Honda that I had a few decades ago. I bought a kit. Where you let the engine run so that the pipes are hot, then you wrap some kind of impregnated textile around the spot, and the heat kind of “fires” it like a kiln, until it is hard.
that patch lasted a long time. Until I sold the car.
Now I am told that the bolts etc are rusted and it would be too complicated to replace the catalytic converter etc. The whole system.
But, yes, I have to have someone else look at it.
Basically when it comes to metal I think there is not much that cannot be replaced, rewelded, etc.
Just watched a video of a guy replacing a section of his Toyota’s exhaust system.
A perfect example of what made America great!! Figuring things out.
Having the right tools and knowing how to use them. I really like this guy!
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzyxVewzNPc
It’s ridiculous what it costs to fix cars these days. It’s also ridiculous how unnecessarily complicated and prone-to-failure cars are made these days.
And I don’t trust auto mechanics.
I have a 2012 Ford Escape. Last time I took it in to the dealer for an oil change, the taillights stopped working. Bulbs ok, fuses ok. Took it to an auto electric shop, 3 hours of exploration and they couldn’t find the problem. “You’ll have to bring it back and drop it off.” I checked online, with later models the problem can require replacement of the entire taillight units – a $750 repair.
So, as I’m saving for that repair, up comes another. This car doesn’t have a gas cap, it has a steel flap that closes off the filler neck and is pushed aside when you insert the gas nozzle – until it doesn’t. Yup, flap just quit flapping. Maybe I could refuel the car if I used a syringe. Most likely repair: drop the tank and replace the filler neck. Cost? Most likely over $500. Just because Ford had to get fancy and not use an old fashioned gas cap.
My net car will likely be a bike – and I’ll have to steal it because car repair (and home repair) will have bankrupted me.
Are you on MV? It can get very expensive there. I generally don’t trust auto mechanics. I’d try to go off-island where you have a bigger choice of mechanics.
I like it on MV, but my wife loves it very much. Spent much time on the Island. She wants to spread some of her ashes there when the time comes.
Yes.
Of course everything is more expensive on an island.
The recent influx of H. sapiens dumbassiens has stressed out all the support systems.
This guy (garage) is on the level, did not charge a lot. I don’t think they have the capacity there for this kind of job. And they are flat out just dealing with the regular business. He suggested that Midas might be able to do a bigger replacement job.
My mainland car guy died last year. I bet he had the jab. i don’t know the details, but last time I saw him he was not ready to die.
“Breaking via
@RMConservative
. Pfizer released documents admitting to 1.6 million adverse events through 2022 from the C19 vax!
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– 508,351 individual case reports of adverse events containing 1,597,673 events;
– One-third of the AEs were classified as serious, well above the standard for safety signals usually pegged at 15%;
– Women reported AEs at three times the rate of men;
– 60% of cases were reported with either “outcome unknown” or “not recovered,” so many of the injuries were not transient”
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1669032107325411328
Safe and effective.
Imagine a product like this being released to market and remaining on the shelf in any other period of time other than during the Great Reset/Covid swindle.
The (halfway intelligent) mind reels.
Data is not surprising.
The SHTF when the messenger is shown to have the ability to permanently change the immune system, to wipe out the previous immune record, to give autoimmune disease, all signs that the messenger is changing DNA permanently in some cells.
The government will fight research on any vaxx concerns but private investigations seem to be increasing.
It will be very difficult to convince this nation of dependent lemmings that the government injured them on purpose.
I guess when he majority of the folks get clobbered by adverse effects or families get affected, the country will wake up to what these bums in DC are doing to us. I guess that is optimistic?
And Covid is just the tip of the iceberg. The Deep State is the worst enemy the people have ever faced.
And by the way, social security and Medicare are both insurance, where the vast majority support the few withdrawals. The problem today is that there are not enough payers to support the payees, so the deficit is just shuttled off into the national debt. In any other scenario, SSA and Medicare would be broke, a long time ago.
To all the younger folks, you will get retirement benefits, though not as many probably. Remember that both agencies support a huge part of the economy of the country, especially with the Boomers retiring. The country needs the old folks as a consumer base.
SS is not insurance.
I think you are wrong about the status of SS.
SS could be easily fixed by tweaking the level of income that is subject to SS withholding.
Medicare is a different situ. The Ticker-Guy is apoplectic on the structural fault in Medicare.
@ Islander:
Yes, Karl has stressed many times that Medicare and Medicaid are the “elephants in the room,” re federal spending, and that if they were removed from the budget, almost the entire deficit would disappear. (Social Security would need minor tweaks to be completely solvent.)
And the REASON Medicare and Medicaid cost so much is because of FRAUD. So, basically, most of the federal budget deficity could be fixed simply by enforcing existig black-letter law against fraud, vis-a-vis the health care industry.
Catherine Austin Fitts repeatedly points out that $13 trillion of Federal funds has been ‘disappeared’ by the elites.
Yes, that would probably be just about the only solution.
Here in Germany the tax rate is around 42-45% depending in income (for most earners), and a significant chunk goes toward state retirement.
It can work, and TBH, if one works a decent amount over the course of one’s life, the benefit can provide an acceptable income when retired.
Medicare and SS are funded separately from the federal budget.
Anyone who says otherwise is lying in service of our ruling overlords, who want old people to die. I don’t know who Karl is, but I can see what he is.
Even the Evil Reagan didn’t pull that shit.
.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUoRD4pYzI
SS used to be the third rail of politics. It took a lot of propaganda to get the sheeple to accept that they should just starve to death in their old age.
Unless you fund Blackrock for 40 years! Then you’ll be fine.
Over half of the population of the USA is under 35. The biggest generation were the Millennials, now in their prime earning years.
Anyone who says that there are more elders than young is lying to you.
The transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top during covid was immense, mind-boggling, unprecedented.
But it still isn’t enough for our rulers. They want it all.
.youtube.com/watch?v=y5K2bozek00&t=47s
@Islander: re your post yesterday or earlier today:
I apologized to posters on this forum only because I didn’t want to be seen as a complainer who contributes nothing. But I‘m not sorry for anything I’ve said.
I never said unjabbed people should be incarcerated, although I did want people to get jabbed. But that was before enough evidence to satisfy me was provided that the jabs are bad. When that happened I posted that I was wrong about the vax. I admitted I was wrong.
JAZ got jabbed once and later admitted he, too, was wrong about the vaxx. It just took me longer to get to that point. Most everyone here never said anything about me admitting I was wrong, but night owl, for some reason started to hate me, and hasn’t stopped castigating me.
That’s my explanation.
BTW, I enjoy posting here, but it is actually only a tiny part of my life. I don’t live and die by what people say about me. When I was young, I believed in turning the other cheek, but I learned that didn’t stop those people who didn’t like me (mostly because I was Jewish) from mistreating me. Somewhere along the line I realized that didn’t work. Now I won’t let anyone try to belittle or lie to me without coming right back at them.
Of course it worked. Wasn’t meant to prevent being hit. The second time he has to hit the other cheek which requires more than an impulse thus exposing himself as an abuser rather than simply overcome with emotion. True colors.
Thanks for your response.
Last year I got a card from my niece—I think i was a birthday card, and she wrote on the top of it:
“Please get vaccinated!!”
WTF? None of your business, dear, and don’t give orders to your aunt. Especially when you yourself are in the grip of a hysteria, do not know what you are talking about but are acting like a know-it-all, and haven’t even asked me what I think about it or what I know about it. It was a major overstepping (Ueberheblichkeit).
I think it was these kinds of out-of-line and ignorant exhortations and prescriptions from the “unwashed” that were particularly annoying to those of us who were actually better informed, and more cautious. But were derided and actually insulted but treated to obviously brainwashed fearmongering and curses (you’ll be sorry when you end up on a ventilator) when we urged basic caution.
The problem is that so few are willing to admit that they were wrong, and to apologize if they used abusive language against one. So, glad that you gained this insight, and hopefully will be more cautious in the future.
You told us to stop talking about it. I remember that. You were very confident but we started to make you doubt yourself. Of course you were wrong.
You’re wrong about other things that you’re confident about too.
You or others didn’t make me doubt myself. My wife and I got covid after we were vaxxed. My wife got multiple myeloma after she was vaxxed. It was kind of obvious as to why.
The jellyfish responds again.
Tell us again to stop talking about being locked out of stores and attacked by jackboots for protesting. Tell us again to just “get vaxxed” and shut our mouths.
Support the terror, Gauleiter. Then deny you ever did once you are shown for the worm you are.
Slither off now, Bill.
I am sorry I wasted the time to insult you.
I’ve known many, many Jews, and I’ve never heard of any of them being mistreated because they were Jewish. Quite the reverse. They enjoy preference for many jobs–mainly government jobs.
The only “mistreatment” I ever heard a Jew complain about was that some of the local country clubs do not allow Jews to become members.
I suspect that one reason for this is that Jewish manners do not conform to WASP manners. I can relate to that. When you’re a WASP in a gathering where there are a lot of Jews, you often find yourself retreating to some quiet spot where you won’t have to mingle. This is because they are all talking as loudly as they can, and everyone is trying to talk over everyone else. The decibel level keeps competitively rising, and there is thus no possibility of anyone being heard. So you think, “I think I’ll just sit here and read this National Geographic.”
Jews are otherwise pretty much like everyone else, on a one-on-one basis. Some are perfectly pleasant people, and some are real pills.
Anthea, respectfully, the Jews you know probably weren’t typical. I grew up in a blue collar near-Boston community that was largely Irish and Italian. Believe me, I experienced a lot of discrimination on an almost daily basis. I don’t lie. I fought my way home many times. That’s just the way it was.
Actually, now that I think of it, Italians are the same way. I guess it’s because of the Nordic in me that Italians make me think, “You know, if you don’t have anything to say, you should STFU.” WASPs also find vain, preening men annoying.
One of my friends was married to an Italian guy (until she was widowed) and seemed to love this type of behavior. But she was a high-spirited, noisy type, herself. She was kind of like Janis Joplin: “Ain’t no one gonna talk me down.”
Jews also annoy WASPS by being unnecessarily argumentative, and they sometimes have a tendency to pry or give opinions about matters that are none of their business. Again, being of the Nordic persuasion, my response to this is instinctively silence. Kind of like, “Well, I didn’t want to know what you thought about this in the first place, but, unfortunately, now I know anyway.”
The same friend who married the Italian guy had a daughter who married a Mexican. I don’t know if they were married long enough for my friend to embrace Mexican culture to the fullest, but her view of Mexicans was that they are nice, sweet, lovely people whose friends will kill you, if you cross them. Now, that I approve of. I just don’t have any friends like that.
You are lucky you don’t have friends like that. I had an Italian friend – no, really an acquaintance – who became enamored of the Providence Mafia. He started hanging out with them. Then one day he disappeared. They found his body over 20 years later. The Mafia did him in. It was a big story in the news.
You are nothing like JohnAZ, Bill.
You are the proverbial “Good German.”
Never said I was, night fart.
You tried to compare yourself to someone else, to hide behind his shadow, just as you solicit likes from the audience in your other posts now.
You are a worm. A jellyfish.
You are the Good German.
@GA:
I just want to thank you for standing up to the jerks on this blog. I really appreciate it. Keep up the fight.
Please read what Karl Denninger has to say today about 9/11 on the Market-ticker.org.
@ beantownbill:
I’ve followed Karl’s blog for many years–I think almost since its inception. Karl is in many ways a great, great man (in spite of not being able to write for shit.) I and thousands of other people owe him an immense debt.
But there are some areas where the guy has a screw loose.
I should probably read the blog post on 9/11, but what could he say? He has great expertise in many areas, but so do dozens of other people who have come to the opposite conclusion.
I took a quick gander at what Ticker Guy had to say about 9/11.
Basically he doesn’t credit the views and analysis of any of the IMO highly qualified engineers and architects who have countered the fire theory.
He cites a couple of fires that have taken place under concrete bridges, but makes no mention of the incredible level of structural “redundancy” (not sure if that is the correct term) in the engineering of the towers. They were built to withstand exactly the types of stresses that supposedly brought them down.
so, IMO Ticker has a blind spot re 9/11. In many contexts he is justified in priveleging his own technical skill set. But I don’t think he has the right skill set to tear down the views of those who have far more extensive and relevant skill sets.
“But I don’t think he has the right skill set to tear down the views of those who have far more extensive and relevant skill sets.”
Islander,
Nor the skill sets of those that can manipulate images to their own purposes….
Please watch ‘9/11 Mysteries – Demolitions’
Far more persuasive.
The big Mind Control “Nudge Unit” Behavioral Psychologists insist that Interpretation and Meaning is a function of Perception and how people perceive things. So, they’ll rearrange the different colored fruits visible when one enters a supermarket to make the scene more appealing. Or, inject the new experimental mRNA vaccine into a plump, juicy, tasty GMO tomato, or burger….
Are there any CFNers out there available to be a pro-Bono Judge at the next televised “Miss (Gendered) America Beauty Pageant”?
If the Khmer Rouge had had mRNA gene editing technology, then they wouldn’t have had to resort to mass starvation and most Cambodian people would not have noticed the die off.
Read this book: “Code Breaker” about the mRNA gene editing technology. In the book, it’s even called a potential Weapon of Mass Destruction since it could potentially use a virus to use specific mRNA to switch off certain DNA specific to the Immune System that block certain cancers. Unleash a mass epidemic of cancers….
THE CODE BREAKER
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By Walter Isaacson
The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead of actually attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ annual December ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, would have given each of them an 18-karat gold medal along with a congratulatory handshake. This year’s gala, like so many events “
It’s not easy to perpetrate a Genocide.
First of all, you need a cadre of mindless automatons to do the killing. And, although there is no shortage of mindless assholes out there willing to kill whoever they don’t like, it seems that people just don’t like systematically killing people over a long period of time. Too much work, too much Hassle, and too psychologically disturbing….
Second, human beings, probably because of their strong evolved immune systems, are tough. The Khmer Rouge had worked Pin Yathay like a slave on starvation rations, and the Khmer Rouge “Healthcare Professionals” still couldn’t kill him by injecting him with malaria. And, he still survived a painful bout of diarrhea after inadvertently eating that poisonous toad.
Human are not easy to dispose of. But, if you can disable their immune systems, then that’s a whole nuther kettle of fish….
Khmer Rouge – Pucker
========
Translation:
Come here Red.
The American universities are now aggressively pushing the mRNA “vaccine” technology.
They must get a ton of money from the mRNA research “Cash Cow”?
Universities and colleges were given millions – or billions – of dollars to push the covid nonsense. I worked at one such college. They also did not have to account for ONE PENNY of how they spent it. You can imagine how much cash cow $$$ went into corrupt pockets.
The college I was at had a covid “plan” – mostly a propaganda campaign – done within a month of the announcement of the plandemic. Then they wanted to use the campus as a jabbing center. I left before being forced back to work amid weekly testing and forced masking.
The part where they don’t have to account for any of it should enrage the public. But no one cares. Keep in mind, generally, universities and colleges are meticulous about how their grants are spent, so the covid thing makes no sense except as a big fat fucking bribe.
I just posted a George Carlin video upthread, in response to the passive acceptance of the destruction of the safety net.
In one part he says “Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care”.
Damn straight, George.
That was a mantra of his, and it could not have been more spot on.
His later stuff especially prescient and spot on.
“The Amish aren’t interested in material progress to any great degree, yet they get up every morning and get on with what needs to be done.”
Andrei Martyanov, in his most recent video, touches on this: the mistaken idea in the West, or most of the West, that life is all about material “progress.”
Make a YouTube video in which you ask the Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania whether we should give hundreds of billions of dollars to Zilensky and the “Ass Hoff Battalion”?
Ask them about Transgenders….
I imagine the Amishman might get cute an reply ;
Wie nennt man eine Person, die drei Sprachen spricht?
Dreisprachig.
Wie nennt man eine Person, die zwei Sprachen spricht?
Zweisprachig.
Wie nennt man eine Person, die nur eine Sprache spricht?
Ein Amerikaner !
Do the Amish file Form 1040 Tax Returns each year?
How does that work exactly?
The poor Amish probably don’t get Shit from the government, but they probably confront a mountain of tedious paperwork to file their taxes?
I understand that the Amish must pay taxes, just like everyone else. Since most families seem to run small businesses of some kind, that would entail filing a Schedule C. I think farming is considered a small business. There are tax breaks for even very small farmers, though I’m not sure what they are or how they work.
Almost all farmers get at least a small subsidy. You can even view the amounts of these subsidies and the names of the recipients online. I can’t remember the address of the website, but I have sometimes looked at it with a certain amount of interest. It’s like reading the obituaries, checking for the names of people you know.
The Amish must of course pay property taxes, but, for the most part, they make sure live in areas where property taxes are low. They are legally exempt from paying Social Security taxes, because they take care of their own elderly. They thus cannot collect Social Security.
Ja, zu unsererm grossen Nachteil.
BTW, a very funny piece by Mark Twain, “the Awful German Language,” was linked yesterday by Matt Taibbi (context: his interview with C. J. Hopkins).
Very good for some chuckles—especially for those who do speak the awful lingo.
httpX://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
” In April, a judge sentenced Jeremy Brown, a former member of U.S. Special Forces, to more than seven years in prison partly for taking a classified report home with him after he retired. The report contained sensitive intelligence, including about an informant in another country. ”
What is , ” …. an informant in another country. ” ?
A person who pretends to be your friend to your face , but behind your back is slitting your throat.
In ANY country , REGARDLESS of WHO they are working for ,
spies are total pond scum.
This is typically the best defense of state secrets ; that we have to protect people ………who are complete trash.
Otherwise , invariably when state secrets are revealed they prove to be mundane ;
Toilet paper requisitions for the Paris Gestapo offices were stamped ” Secret “.
Or only reveal things WE ALREADY KNOW ;
— That our ” leaders ” aren’t genuises
— That our ” leaders ” don’t walk on water .
— That our ” leaders ” are typically assholes.
— That war is less about flag raisings on Iwo Jima , more often about things like shooting kids.
— fully 90% — at least — of criminal “justice ” is about plea bargaining.
And things like that.
” State Secrets ” are among the evidentiary myths that go to show that there is no greater religious fanatic than a modern secularist / statist.
You were on quite a roll last night, Kesa!
“Hi, Everybody..,Peter Zeihan here…coming to you live from a redneck trailer park in Oklahoma with trash randomly strewn everywhere on the ground with the dog shit…
Whew…Smell that Methamphetamine and barbecue cooking!
Several of you have asked me about Secretary of State Blinken’s up coming trip to Beijing this weekend.
As some of you may know, Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai threatened to send a bunch of Chinese women to the U.S. unless Nixon and Kissinger played ball. President X…i may do the same, and Blinken may retaliate by threatening to send a bunch of American Skanks to China? We’ll just have to see. Well, that’s it for now…Later….”
Lol , that was funny.
**Rimshot** for the Puck.
https://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=rimshot&play=true
” … religious people are the worst people in the world ”
When a person tells you , ” I never lie. ”
they just told you they are a pathological liar.
When a person tells you , ” I have never committed a serious crime . ”
They just told you they are a sociopath.
When a person refers to ” religious ” or ” religious people ” as a seperate catagory ,
they have just informed you that they are a religious fanatic.
Kinda like labeling everyone that is not RC a protestant.
” Of course it worked. Wasn’t meant to prevent being hit. The second time he has to hit the other cheek which requires more than an impulse thus exposing himself as an abuser rather than simply overcome with emotion. True colors. ”
In the movie , ” Khartoum ” ,
Chinese Gordon’s servant , who is Moslem , asks him ,
” Jesus Christ said to turn the other cheek. But you never turn the other cheek . Why not ? ”
Gordon replies ,
” I’m not Jesus Christ. “
Well we quickly run out of cheeks only having two. Then what? You have to hit back or just take it. In which case, the Church wouldn’t exist, nor Western culture, and we’d all be speaking Arabic, Berber, Turkish, and/or Mongolian.
” FILTH a delphia ”
And the roads totally suck.
Philadelphia is one example , of ten thousand examples , why I think that when Samuel Johnson said ,
” Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ”
no truer thing was ever spoken.
I will say without caveat that by 1979 , at the very latest , it was obvious that the automobile culture needed to be dialed back.
But riding the trolley is a pain in the ass ,
so fuck the country.
Nobody gives a fuck about the United States — unless there is a G I Bill attached .
Riding the bus would be a trivial fucking sacrifice ,
but ,
no.
Riding the bus would smack of the dreaded socialism to most people. It would also need to be government funded or at least subsidized to work, otherwise only the most profitable routes would get funded. Up here, the lab, which is mostly government funded, funds the local bus system and it works well. But it’s a small, fairly homogenous town and the routes also cater to the lab’s hours. Larger cities are much more problematic for people who don’t live close to where they work and/or work off hours. Cities have grown to accommodate the car culture. It will take some time to undo all that.
It will take some time to undo all that.
Diss,
Gas at ten or twelve dollars a gallon? It would not take long.
Thing is, most bus routes in most cities couldn’t handle a sudden influx of riders that large. I think workarounds such as work from home would have to expand again to fill the gap. In a so-called “knowledge/information economy,” work from home should be used more anyway. But of course the best option for anyone who can do it is to get the hell out of the big cities in the first place.
Diss,
Yeah…
https://www.businessinsider.com/indias-trains-are-insanely-crowded-2016-2
Wow! Literally hanging on for dear life. Well, we’d all get skinnier anyway.
“Riding the bus would be a trivial fucking sacrifice ,”
Kesa,
Sometimes, riding the bus might involve actual sacrifice. In Oakland, in the bad old days, sworn police could ride the busses for free, just by showing a badge when off duty. The city was not tempting us with free transportation. It was a security issue.
The stupidest saying of all time. Do you apply this to Germany and/or Russia? And have you chosen yet?
Islander and Paula have chosen Russia.
What?
Oh, it’s just MUS.
” Americans can’t handle the truth. ”
And , ” A Few Good Men ” is an example.
Granted , I know movies are supposed to be escapist fantasy ……
but does the average American know that anymore ?
” A Few Good Men ” ,
AS ANYTHING BUT ESCAPIST FANTASY ,
is either annoyingly, gratingly, stupid ,
or a comedy .
As I have pointed out before , in 18th Century England the G I Bill consisted of the privilege to panhandle legally.
Our old , legless , veteran could sit on a street corner with his tin cup and acost passers – bye with ,
” I was with Harry at Agincourt ! ” ( and raped a few cute teenage French girls when I wasn’t chopping off heads )
and ,
” Brother can you spare a Pence ? ”
So , if I had made the movie ,
” A Few Good Men ”
Our Our old , legless , veteran would be sitting on a street corner with his tin cup ,
when along comes the fag son of the Marquis of Queensberry and beats him to death for jollies ,
and because beggars annoy him.
So the fag son of the Marquis of Queensberry is arrested and tried for murder.
But the fix is in ,
because the fag son of the Marquis of Queensberry can not only afford one 500 – pounds – an – hour lawyer ,
he can afford an entire law firm of 500 – pounds – an – hour lawyers.
THAT would be a movie that accurately reflects criminal ” justice ” , and military science.
” Perhaps, but in what language? And who will be here to redefine? Consider the last great disruption of our economy and culture…the Great Depression. A country of 80 million people, mostly homogeneous in regards to race and culture. Many from farms and rural areas. My father, in the city limits of Lodi California, had a cow and chickens. Many gardens, short supply lines. Technology of the day…repairable. Rule of law relatively intact. People were a bit more…self reliant.
Today? Not so much. When the redefinition occurs, what will it then look like? South Africa? Somalia? Bosnia? Baltimore? ”
I’ll say this again ;
It is a manufactured myth that North America was one nation , one people , and one culture.
It was none of those things 300 years ago.
It was none of those things 200 years ago.
It was none of those things in 1860.
And it is none of those things today.
” what will it then look like? South Africa? Somalia? Bosnia? Baltimore? ”
Umm , South Africa , Somalia , Bosnia , and Baltimore are what it always was , and is .
” what will it then look like? South Africa? Somalia? Bosnia? Baltimore? ”
Life is a veil of tears , and no doubt South Africa , Somalia , Bosnia , and Baltimore have many faults , evils , and crosses to bare.
In your particular case,
the United States is itself the problem.
^ That essay could be entitled ,
” Why the Indians , British , French , and Confederates were right. ”
🙂
…Or more simply, “Entropy”..
Actually, humanity is the problem.
Cleanse it redeem it. Amen
SSL,
Your comment….
https://sales.ichirakuteeshop.com/view/3055/flood-it-again-jesus-meme-t-shirt
Nuke it from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
Ships will take the worthy to other worlds. Wait on hilltops. If you’re not taken, you weren’t worthy.
i’m waiting
You’re out on the hill right now? You need to go home and cook dinner. I’ll tell you when.
ok
Well, ladies and germs,
This just in…
Treat Williams, the “brown boy” of “Things to do in Denver when you’re Dead”, died suddenly;
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/treat-williams-blue-bloods-actor-dead-following-vehicular-collision-vermont
Motorcycle accident, apparently. He was 71.
Yes. I did try to find out what his vax status was. Once i saw the words died suddenly its sorta like I didn’t see any other words. It’s their fault too. But I still wonder if he had the green monkey dna in him.
The juice also causes people to suffer ‘medical emergencies’ while driving cars and riding motorbikes (and indeed flying planes). Vaxxidents, in other words. Not that I’ve looked into the circumstances of this particular incident.
I think the vaxxidents are mostly connected to heart issues. From what little I’ve read about the green monkey dna it seems that it is associated with the turbo cancers that people are coming down with. Apparently is because of the inability of the green monkey dna to be correctly replicated with human dna. Something like that. And the result are cancers and mutations.
Ah. I’m not familiar with green monkey DNA! I thought you were just referring to the genetic goop in the covid jabs.
Yes, I’ll search around for a link but look it up if you have some time. A researcher recently found green monkey dna in the moderna and pfizer jabs in significant amounts. At least in the vials that were tested. But essentially he was saying that this makes sense in the context of the turbo cancers.
twitter.com/mercola/status/1663964400414277637
Thanks, SSL. Now that you mention it, I think I’d heard of it in connection with the polio vaccines. I got the ones between 1955 and 1963 that they mentioned (from down the thread).
It’s endless.
Oh, and I recommend the movie highly…it is a hoot.
…I also recommend highly the movie….
…and highly, the movie, do I recommend….
” Ask them ( the Amish ) about Transgenders…. ”
Well , I suppose I should say first that since Protestants embrace the idea that we should put people in cages or kill people who try to be their own fishing license issuers ,
but being your own Magisterium is a Jim Dandy idea ,
I don’t give a fuck about Protestants or about their dogmas.
So it’s all guesswork.
My guess is that it does NOT say something flattering that nearly 300 years after the Amish came to North America ,
their church ( so called ) services are still conducted in German.
So ……..
” Ask them ( the Amish ) about Transgenders…. ”
My guess is their reply might be something like ;
WHAT is a Transgender , and what does it MATTER ,
given that —
— All your women dress like men.
— Your women , in all seriousness , call themselves aggrieved if you will not allow them to become police ,
a job which , among other things , occasionally involves beating unarmed people over the head with a stick ,
on account of laws which , the laws of probability alone indicate , must at least occasionally be deemed unjust laws by anyone possessing a conscience.
Or if you will not allow them to become soldiers , so they can go around giving West Point Abortions.
( West Point Abortion — shooting unarmed underage people. )
— with your men , the more expensive the pussy you can afford , the higher your social status.
?
—
Like I said , I can’t stand Protestants.
But I can see why the Amish marry their cousins instead of any of your kind.
If everyone has their faults, and their evils, and their crosses to bare then in the scheme of everything what is the base difference between one and those they can’t stand?
Ignorance [ lack of knowledge ]. OTOH – you can know a whole lot about something [ a person ] and still not understand it [ them ] .
ah yes, this is very true too! I plan on watching the vid you linked upthread hopefully later tonight.
Have you seen the picture of the Black fraternity at West Point making hideous chimp faces for the camera?
Think they belong at West Point – what to speak of the Black female “cadets”?
I haven’t seen that. I don’t really know. It sounds like it isn’t a good situation.
@kessa
Sounds like you think people should be allowed to take anything they want.
Kill as many deer as they can.
Fish out the streams.
As far as marrying their cousins have you met many amish?
All that inbreeding makes them pretty simple minded, and they literally don’t have many options beyond cousins.
Most of them actually speak Dutch then English and a form of High German.
They are a very closed society with a high degree of child abuse and don’t suffer outsiders much.
They are also notorious for running uber-cruel puppy mills for profit.
People who think they’re the only ones who’ve seen the light can get carried away with their own ‘goodness’.
Or as my old ma’ used to say, ‘if you get the name of rising early, you can sleep till dinnertime’.
Pretty good! And true…
“Many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.”
Graham Greene
All the caps are his.
They are Woody’s ideal!
“police ,
a job which , among other things , occasionally involves beating unarmed people over the head with a stick”
Kesa,
Yes, but it is not all beer and skittles…occasionally we might have to beat armed people with the stick….
“Like I said , I can’t stand Protestants.”
The more I read that – and I’ve read it often – the more it just makes me smile. It’s like witnessing a massive tantrum. And the more it’s repeated, the more needy it gets.
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
No mention of a Magisterium there.
I’d love to meet Archbishop Vigano, though.
If the government now admits to 5 million more insta-citizens then we know it’s at least double that since they installed Joe Biden.
For the last thirty years that magic number has been 20 million or so illegals in this country.
They pretend like they come here for a bit and leave.
Some actually do most don’t.
Coming to that little town near you.
The demographic shift is VERY NOTICABLE.
Suddenly English is the least spoken language out in town while shopping.
I hear more chinese and now spanish than english.
San Diego is awash in new people who don’t understand our customs and ways to the point even using the bathroom has changed dramatically.
Signs going up everywhere to flush used toilet paper instead of just throwing it down on the floor.
Mexico’s sewer system can’t handle toilet paper.
Your government loves you and wants you to be safe.
Open your home to these new people since there is not enough housing, cars, energy, water and other resources to accommodate them.
What are you a racist?
nypost.com/2023/06/05/adams-wants-new-yorkers-to-house-migrants-in-private-residences/
homesnotborders.org
The levels of absolute propaganda are absurd.
That’s being mooted in Ireland as well, so I heard, benr. It started with the Ukrainians (same in UK, with people being paid to take them in – bizarrely they’ve never tried that with Yemeni refugees, who have been bombed by proxy by the UK/US for years!).
In Ireland there is actually talk of questioning private property rights. It will doubtless start with second-home owners having their second homes requisitioned. But there has been actual discussion of the concept that the right to home ownership has to become secondary to housing everyone who needs housing.
My instinct is that they will eventually billet migrants on ordinary people with a spare bedroom. It will tie in with the social credit system, when it comes. (Remember Dr Zhivago coming home to his family’s house and being allowed just one room in in it?).
Agenda 2030 includes the abolition of private property and of rights of inheritance. They will have several ways of getting people out of the houses they have fully paid for – I have mentioned some of them already. Building standards/energy efficiency regulations; property taxes; recovery of random debt once CBDCs come in. And, for those who have an outstanding mortgage when the plug is finally pulled on the current financial system, debt forgiveness in return for permanently giving up the right to property.And we might as well add requisition of property owned by domestic terrorists – aka anyone who has said anything online or offline against any government narrative, or ‘spread misinformation’.
We don’t have property taxes here – yet – but I expect they will soon tax properties that are not ‘energy efficient’, which will affect all of us living in older buildings that can’t be retrofitted.
It’s good old fashioned communism.
Remember when middle-class Russians had their homes and apartments requisitioned? They were forced to move into one room and homeless or poor were moved into the rest of their house, subsidized by the state.
Yes, absolutely. And social credit will start off by being more carrot than stick, to get the virtue signallers on board. Then the amount of stick will increase.
This is what your liberalism was always moving toward, even if you all didn’t realize it.
We did.
Oh, now I’ve invented liberalism.
Isn’t that interesting.
Here in Germany the “Greens” and SPD have two methods for disposession:
They are trying to pass an act to force homeowners to switch from nat. gas or oil heating systems to heat pumps.
In addition, they want older houses to be insulated to a modern standard. For us (house from ’38) this would require the entire thing to have an insulated exterior wall.
As you can imagine, the cost for either or both of these items is anywhere from about EUR 70,000 to 200,000 depending on what is needed.
The average German (composite of citizens from all states) family has a monthly after-tax income of about EUR 2500.
Do the math.
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NO, When are the Germans going to start thinking?
When are they going to say NEIN Nicht mit mir. ?
Are even the Bavarians going along with this madness?
Some parts have figured it out. Thueringen and Sachsen, for example.
Most of the rot emanates from Berlin.
That reminds me that the Staatsanwaeltin there just indicted CJ Hopkins for having a swastika on his book about the Covid Nazis and New Normal.
And this on the heels of the Bhakdi case.
Discovered on the comments thread at the Racket piece: Theresa Correggio. Very smart lady!
httpX://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/matt-ehret-and-james-corbett
Here she takes te dive into the “deep dive” of both Corbett and Ehret concerning the deep history of WW1 & 2. Check it out.
This is of course revisionist history, and this is what the Germans are simply ***not allowed to engage in on any level** (so it seems to me). Their past, their total guilt, is set in stone and it is against the law to question. There is no way for them to retrieve their self-respect within the postwar victors’ narrative. Hence they let themselves be repeatedly abused—they have no psychic defenses— and now, their country and economy, destroyed, yet again.
So, the Germans remain the most gaslighted people of the 20th and 21st centuries. Just my take. .
FN 1: There is a long essay at the Unz Review on exactly this topic (deep history of WW2).
FN2. Guido Preparata covers quite a lot of this territory in in Conjuring Hitler.
Alba,
Do the Scots have an equivalent of the IRA?
No! We have the SNP. 🙁
Although the good news is that they’ve shot themselves in the foot for the foreseeable future.
Not that the ‘foreseeable future’ reaches much more than a fortnight hence these days.
Independence wouldn’t help Scotland – the Globalists are picking off the small nations first.
Scotland’s parallel to the IRA was the Bay City Rollers.
And Sinn Fein is wildly in favor of mass immigration. What did people expect, they being Marxists?
If the roots are bad, the fruits will be as well. The Revolution was doomed from the start with these people at the top.
Bay city Rollers
Bird,\
You a roller derby fan?
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y
NIGHT!
equivalent of the IRA? – elysian
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Irish Republican Army?
Individual Retirement Account?
Context.
You lose again, Q.
Right out of Raspail’, Camp of the Saints. Have you read it? Add in a Cockney accent there. Tommy was right about everything.
John Kerry was talking about confiscating farms. Nothing is off the table. It’s an emergency!
Rest assured Klaus Schwab and the rest of the WEF bigwigs won’t be hosting illegals & vagrants in their Chateaus in the Alps or in their apartments in Monaco, ‘Billeting Migrants’ will be for the little people.
I read in passing somewhere that Klaus Schwab is passing off the reigns of control to his son. I wonder what kind of whacked out maniacal antics that guy will bring to the table?
Major retailers are fleeing downtown San Francisco and former retail space is being converted to living space.
And…?
And….the homeless population continues booming, the crime rate is skyrocketing, and murderers and druggies are hanging out on the public sidewalks together.
The State of California has officially made it illegal for stores to stop a theft in progress. Therefore, it is free reign for everyone to loot and steal as much from California while the getting is good! Think of this as the modern-day gold rush, the mother lode.
Sergey Karaganov wrote an interesting op-ed that was published in RT.
tl;dr he advocates a regional (London, Berlin) 1st strike by Russia with the aim of (re)instilling fear in western leadership.
His logic is that under conventional scenarios, USA will never back down as they are driven by a compelling mania to dominate earth without fear.
Therefore, Russian escalation dominance must be demonstrated in Europe that doesnt necessitate US retaliation as it wouldn’t be a direct attack N America.
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Now, this is a fine mental exercise for policy wonks and game players, but I think the real issue is one that underpins the very foundation of CFR: depletion, overshoot and degradation.
What Karaganov is describing – the USA’s lack of fear, concern or even compassion for any/all people as it single mindedly pursues hegemony – are symptons, rather than causes.
The cause of course, as has been written and discussed many times, is without energy surplus, the private capital banking system will collapse.
Without the dollar standard, and the seemingly endless ability to print $trillions out of thin air, which for some reason people (domestic & foreign) continue to accept as “money”, the entire Western edifice comes crashing down.
So, driving war in Ukraine, Taiwan, et al keeps the game going for a bit longer, and keeps the possibility open that maybe Russia may will falter and indeed the west will eventually gain access to the necessary natural resources to keep the credit money system alive.
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Which brings us back to value of CFN and its (somethimes) focus on the most fundamental issues driving global events. Everything is a result of looming resource scarcity. It would be bad enough with 500m conditioned people, but 8b+ entiltled?
We can see where this is headed – indeed, we are smack in the middle of it – which is why while topical politics, whether Jr, Russia, Taiwain, et al – are amusing diversions, but the real deal has been right here all along, out in broad daylight for any who wish to actually look.
Hmmm. It seems like if the world population were only 500 million the resources issues while still being there would be much less of an issue.
Does your seeming endorsement of a type of ecological determinism as the foundational cause make any difference if we are already also enveloped in a likely scenario where the Russian elites are considering using nuclear weapons to save humanity from a global catastrophe?
Why does it seem like the last couple posts by Jim have been getting more pingback links than usual? Maybe the word is finally getting out….
I also wondered about that
Speaking of the Amish, last fall when I was at a truck stop in the middle of Ohio I sat and watched the Greyhound busses come and go on a regular basis. Many of the people disembarking for the pit stop were Amish.
One family unit struck me as especially interesting. A young mother and father with their 4–5-year-old son and daughter in tow. They went inside to get something to drink at the Wendy’s. They tried giving the cup to the daughter but she stood there like a mannequin with no emotions or mannerisms whatsoever, refusing to drink. They almost had to shove the straw into her mouth to get her to comply, like a baby bird being fed.
I can only imagine what was (or wasn’t) going through that young girl’s mind, and the type of mixed life she is leading as an Amish, yet traveling around who knows where on a huge Greyhound bus.
They make no effort to convert other people so they end up as inbred morons? The Mennonites make efforts, but so many of them fall into worldliness as well, so the Amish mistake is understandable if not correct.
Very true, I just felt really bad for that little girl, seeing how she seemed so emotionally withdrawn and not full of pep and vigor like any other normal little girl her age.
The Amish should think about having a contingent that goes out into the world and proselytizes its beliefs and lifestyle. Maybe they would win some converts. If I could go back about 25 years on my life, I for one would have gladly been receptive to entering their world and living among their ranks. It would have been great to be part of such a community, married to a chaste Amish girl, raising a wholesome family. Boy, what a life I could be having!
If the NWO can do their proselytizing on the trans agenda, corrupting the innocent youth of America, then the Amish should certainly do their part to take their crack at the nut.
There are many Amish communities.
So there should be ample opportunities to find mates outside the immediate community and avoid inbreeding.
But it would require some organizing to do.Still, organizing meetups should be within the organizational abilities of the group without reliance on electronic media.
After all, there used to be big chautauquas in the Northeast long before there were telephones, various types of religious “camp meetings” etc.
Your comment makes me think, what if we had people do for the Amish what zoologists do for pandas? Someone could serve as the Amish sect mating coordinator liaison, making appropriate matches and ensuring that they are fit for breeding. Kind of like the It’s Just Lunch dating service, but at a different level.
Sounds a bit like overkill.
Just have a big party and things will take care of themselves.
Remember, normal young men and women are looking for mates.
Your assignment:
Watch “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”
“You give me a piece of ground and a sword and I am going to take back this country with your help and the help of all the homeless Democrats and Republicans who are Americans first.” — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In Quenya: Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien Sinome Maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-Metta · Translation: Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place I will abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.'”
Elendil
Ultimately through time the victor over Sauron. So mote it be
Latest Biden gaffes to bring a smile (or sad chuckle) to your day:
The 80-year-old commander-in-chief mixed up his geography for the second time in six days Wednesday night while addressing the League of Conservation Voters’ annual dinner in Washington.
“We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,” the president declared.
“We have plans to build in — in Angola one of the largest solar plants in the world,” Biden added before reeling himself in. “I can go on, but I’m not. I’m going off-script. I’m going to get in trouble.”
Biden made a similar gaffe last week during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
“We’re talking about building — and I had my team putting together with other countries as well — to build a railroad from the Pacific Ocean — from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Indian Ocean,” he said at the time, clumsily describing a proposal to construct a rail line crossing sub-Saharan Africa.
Note: Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean — not the Pacific, which is more than a thousand miles away from the nearest African coastline.
Remember Biden loves dark colored people. He wants to build a RR across Africa? Maybe in competition with the Chinese Silk Road, mostly finished already. The Silk Road will transverse the Middle East, on the way to Africa and Europe.
Biden wants to build access to Africa favoring the East Coast, as he does not give a whit about anywhere west of Chicago. Does not give a whit or is too stupid.
He is twenty years behind and 32 trillion dollars short.
Just a comment, his gaffes are spreading like wildfire.
The Karaganov essay is quite brilliant, extremely upsetting, and hopefully wrong in terms of actual future Russian strategy and tactics concerning the war in Ukraine.
Karaganov argues the key goal of the Russian elite must be to break the will of the West’s resolve to back Ukraine. He adds that the root cause of the Ukraine crisis is the escalating failure of Western ruling elites and the rapid shift in the world balance of power (now driven economically by China and partly India with Russia as the strategic and military anchor–what he calls the new global majority).
He labels the current trajectory of Western countries as liberal totalitarianism and suggests that we may already be in World War III.
What must happen now, according to Karaganov, is that the fear of atomic escalation must be restored by Russia forcing the West to backdown in Ukraine.
This means that Russia has the responsibility to restore the credibility of nuclear deterrence by LOWERING the unacceptably high threshold of using nuclear weapons through moving quickly up the ladder of deterrence-escalation (with a first step already being taken by placing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus).
Such actions on the part of Russia will have the effect of a catharsis in the West leading to the abandonment of ambition in Ukraine–but this may ultimately require, by implication, the actual use of tactical nuclear weapons in some areas of Europe.
He apparently believes that in the end the victors are not judged and the saviors are thanked.
This, unfortunately, is the logical conclusion of the realist view of great power world politics.
Philosopher Harl said the same thing in Herbert’s, “The Hellstrom Hive”. Ordinary humans must be cowed so that the bug men can expand.
BRICS ++
AKA King of the mountain. Time to knock the king down.
The number of countries that have joined with BRICS++ is not surprising, the US meddling with all regions is finally blowing up in its face.
Klaus Schwab wanted to take advantage of this world hatred in creating WEF. Alex Soros sounds as arrogant or more than his old man.
All of the WEF folks are being eclipsed by BRICS++. They do not seem to realize that the WEF is European in nature and thus in BRICS++ crosshairs.
Maybe Putin & Karaganov are playing good cop/bad cop to get the message through to the west.
Whether nuclear or conventional, here is Putin reiterating how the Ukraine conflict ends:
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“We were forced to try to end the war that the West started in 2014 by force of arms. And Russia will end this war by force of arms, freeing the entire territory of the former Ukraine from the United States and Ukrainian Nazis. There are no other options.
The Ukrainian army of the US and NATO will be defeated, no matter what new types of weapons it receives from the West. The more weapons there are, the fewer Ukrainians and what used to be Ukraine will remain.
Direct intervention by NATO’s European armies will not change the outcome. But in this case, the fire of war will engulf the whole of Europe. It looks like the US is ready for that too.”
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To repeat once more, let’s be mindful what this is all about. Jim was ahead of the curve in many respects, but could not quite believe the extent demons would go to to make sure they remained on top in a world made by hand.
The Satanists would exterminate every human being if it maintained their power. Actually they would destroy all life. They might also just do it because they enjoy inflicting suffering. There is no bottom to the abyss of evil.
The power boys, world wide, have been fighting each other since Spain and Portugal did in the 15th century, trying to get resources from the world.
Uh oh, maybe the world is finally wising up to their shenanigans and BRICS++ is the result.
” If everyone has their faults, and their evils, and their crosses to bare then in the scheme of everything what is the base difference between one and those they can’t stand? ”
Well , I’m no Doctor of Theology , you understand.
But God becoming a man , and getting himself nailed to a cross , strikes me as a pretty fucking extreme thing to do.
I reckon God is either a hysteric ,
which I think doubtful ,
or the situation was pretty fucking grim.
” Let’s all be good citizens and saints ! ” was a game plan that wasn’t working out.
Speaking of that , that bumper sticker , ” What would Jesus do ? ” Has always struck me as a bit comedic.
What Jesus did was he got himself Waco ‘ ed.
Does that sound like something you want to do ?
Anyway , 2,000 years later the game plan is STILL — including among people calling themselves Athiests —
” Let’s all be good citizens and saints ! ”
And for our trouble we wind up not with more freedom and more steaks in the icebox ,
but with totalitarianism and poverty.
Perhaps it would actually be MORE charitable , MORE humane , MORE loving ,
to begin with the proposition that humans are no fucking good .
None of them.
And proceed from there ?
crosses to bare – Kesa
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bear
To this I would reply:
“Kiss my bear ass!!!!!!!”
“But God becoming a man , and getting himself nailed to a cross , strikes me as a pretty fucking extreme thing to do.”
Popular Bible scholar Bart Ehrman has published a lot of work and made a lot of podcasts about early Christianity which I find very interesting. During the first two centuries of the religion, there was an extreme amount of diversity on what various groups and Churches believed about Jesus. Some early Christians believed he was the Messiah but that he was NOT God. Some Christians believed there was only one God, some Christians believed in multiple Gods – all the way up to 360.
The Ebionites, a popular group tracing their origins to the James (brother of Jesus) – didn’t like Paul and called him a heretic. The Ebionites were Jews converted to Christians, and they insisted that the Jewish law and customs must still be followed. The other extreme was the Marcionites who considered Jehovah to be an evil God who had nothing to do with the message of Jesus. They used the gospel of Matthew and editied it to leave out stuff they didn’t agree with. Marcion did take note of the fact that Jesus taught love and forgiveness and Jehovah engaged in revenge and punishment and taught only obedience to long lists of rigid laws.
If you had gone about in the 2nd century you’d encounter Christians who would disagree about God becoming a man, So who had the correct view of what actually happened and who Jesus really was? From a purely historical point of view that cannot be determined.
AA strikes again.
The negro chief of the Harvard Univ. mortuary,the entity that accepts and manages human bodies donated for scientific research…well…wait for it…has been done arrested for selling these body parts!
He was caught because he did his transactions on paypal,while denoting the body parts by their actual names!
So,one head,$1500, a spine $1000 etc. What a big fat dumb black criminal.
But,don’t get cocky,whitey. The report showed a couple of very weird white freaks who were buying the parts.
This kind of thing often involves (((people))) from mid east but not this time.
Power people do not give one hot damn about people.
“Like I said , I can’t stand Protestants.”
The more I read that – and I’ve read it often – the more it just makes me smile. It’s like witnessing a massive tantrum. And the more it’s repeated, the more needy it gets. ”
As typically in writing , you completely miss – guess my mood , my process , and my world view.
Why I suspect that is so common I will try to illustrate with British examples.
Lord Haw Haw goes to another country , puts on their uniform , and announces publicly far and wide that he is their friend and your enemy.
It seems to me that , though not your friend , he has paid you a kind of respect , and done you a favor.
For his trouble he was hanged.
On the other hand , you have people who smile to your face , but the whole time they are planting knives in your back.
In that case , Anthony Blount gets a sweetheart deal and gets to keep his Knighthood for another thirty years.
And wasn’t it some Brit who made up that appalling James Bond rubbish ?
George Carlin may have been a silly Atheist , but we agree on the point that we hate euphemisms.
In your world today the euphemisms are stacked so fucking high , I’m not surprised then that you can’t tell up from down.
I should have pretended to be the Amish buddy ?
I think not.
What I had in mind on that score was like a Motown song of 1972 ,
a personal favorite , by a group called the O’Jays ;
(What they do?)
(They smilin’ in your face)
All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
(They smilin’ in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
All you fellas who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
Then it’s all of you fellas who better beware, yeah, yeah
Somebody’s out to get your lady
A few of your buddies, they sure look shady
Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Aimin’ straight at your back
And I don’t think they’ll miss
(What they do?)
(They smilin’ in your face)
All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
I keep gettin’ all these visits from my friends
Yeah, what they doin’ to me?
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah
So are they there to see my woman?
I don’t even be home, but they just keep on comin’
What can I do to get on the right track?
I wish they’d take some of these knives out my back
(What they do?)
(They smilin’ in your face)
All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
Ha-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Low-down, dirty
(What they do?)
(They smilin’ in your face)
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes tell lies (back stabbers)
(They smilin’ in your face)
I don’t need low-down, dirty bastards (back stabbers)
(They smilin’ in your face)
Da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da-da (back stabbers)
Might be your neighbor (they smilin’ in your face)
Your next door neighbor, yeah (back stabbers)
Groovy ! 🙂
“I should have pretended to be the Amish buddy ?”
No.
And you missed my point entirely. But no matter.
” a massive tantrum ”
alternatively means …. ?
” needy ”
alternatively means …. ?
” And you missed my point entirely. ”
Entirely possible.
But then I have to wonder why the attempted psychoanalysis if that wasn’t the point ?
” But no matter. ”
Ah , we agree !
That’s good. 🙂
It’s a bit like Greta’s ‘how dare you!’ Except that it’s more like ‘how dare they!’.
She’s needy too. People need different things. Some people need hate.
It must make your parents even more difficult and annoying, with them being Protestants.
Speaking of pretending to be friends ,
when you aren’t ,
has anyone else noticed that 50 years after compulsory integration ,
Progressives and Rhino’s , no less than Tea Partiers ,
Evangelicals no less than Gays ,
Blacks no less than Whites ,
self – segregate voluntarily when and where they can ?
What are gated communities but segregation by another name ?
What is ” Stranger Danger ” but a free pass to put someone at a distance from the get – go , and shut down dialogue from the get – go ?
Nobody said you should pretend to be friends or to pretend anything. Perhaps I should try to hate Catholics, but I’ve no idea why I would want to. Or want to avoid them.
My Irish in-laws – at least the closest ones that we see occasionally – are ‘Catholic atheists’. They’re quite fervent about it, to the point where my sister-in-law got her husband (my husband’s much younger brother) some kind of certificate stating that he was no longer a member of the Catholic Church, because it infuriated him to be counted as such for estimates of numbers that allowed the Church to claim various resources.
I pray for them, although not as regularly or fervently as I pray for my own family. But certainly not that they should become Protestants. 🙂
*or pretend anything*
Tereza Correggio socks it to Robert Malone:
httpX://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/malones-million-dollar-pity-party
This lady is sharp. I am liking her more and more.
She delivers more background on Malone and his very odd position(s) in the covid saga.
Uh, oh, was Malone an opportunist who was always looking for new angles Presented by the covid op?
“So the whistleblower, in the true definition of someone who comes forward to expose corruption by those who hold power over them, was Rick Bright at BARDA. His testimony pointed to Kadlec, Callahan and Malone in a get-rich-quick scheme to run expensive trials for something that had no small studies or field data to back it up. Rather than taking the Director of BARDA seriously, he was demoted. . . .
“Then Alex Azar, Secretary of HHS, raised concerns about the lack of data. Kadlec had Northwell partner with Alchem Labs, where Malone was Chief Medical Officer, to speed the funding proposal up. [[[So Malone and Kadlec were pals]]Then the FDA objected to the large doses being given, far beyond what had been tested for safety. They were forced to dial it back and even then were “pushing the levels of intravenous famotidine (even with your recent dose reduction) to the limits” of toxicity from animal studies. . . . ” Etc.
Then Desmet came along and Malone saw a new opportunity. This one led to his next bright idea of sueing Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin for $25 million. People who, as Correggio (and others) point out, “have spent their lives defending victims of Big Pharma.”
Very interesting reading.
Correggio’s material is new to me.
Correction:
Tereza Coraggio
” Some people need hate. ”
Again , I have to wonder why the attempted psychoanalysis if that isn’t THE point ?
For most of my life LGBTQ — in those days it was ” The Gay and Lesbian Student Union ” — was five people that nobody liked.
Then one day one of these people hit apon the idea of labelling people who don’t want to invite a Sodomite to their birthday party ” Bigots ” .
I have absolutely no psychic powers , but the moment I heard that I knew they would soon ride herd over the whole country.
What surprised me — because after all I don’t have psychic powers — was how quickly it happened.
They went from five people nobody liked , to mastery of the continent , IN A YEAR.
It’s not surprising . The method should be obvious to anyone who hasn’t lived in a cave the past 50 years.
For seventy years they have claimed we had to stop Hitler , from Panama to Laos to Afghanistan ,
when it is highly improbable that Nazism would survive the passing of Hitler , any more than Bonapartism survived Bonaparte .
And while exterminating a tiny minority of Jews and Gypsies is one thing , the idea that a group that never got more than 40% of the vote was going to exterminate huge majorities strains credibility to the moon and back.
So , to fight the ” bigot ” characterization ,
they would have to admit that for 70 years they were , best case scenario , selling airy bullshit ,
worst case scenario , they were plain lieing.
Nope , they certainly can’t do that !
So , yes , ” Bigot ” was literally the magic word , the key to power ,
for people whose great claim to fame is ……… a fetish.
” Some people need hate. ”
Actually , when you aren’t annoying me ,
I feel sorry for you.
I think Sigmund Freud has served you very ill , but you are too needy to see it.
“For seventy years they have claimed we had to stop Hitler , from Panama to Laos to Afghanistan”
Yes indeed, not only was it our manifest destiny to rule all the best parts of North America, but after 1945 we had a mandate from on high to bomb and invade various nations all across the globe to make certain no more Hitlers pop up anywhere. Our job as Americans, ever since Democrat Woodrow Wilson declared it – is to make sure the world is “safe for democracy”. Any place we determine democracy is being threatened, it’s our job to send over the bombers and predator drones. Pres Obama has one reminder for all of our enemies who “hate our freedoms” – predator drones!
I pay no attention whatever to Sigmund Freud. Suggesting that some people need hate is hardly psychoanalysis, which of course you know very well. I know someone who needs to be angry, but I’ve no intention of psychoanalysing her either and would have no ability to do so. And her situation is genuinely tragic to me and affects other people that I care about. So, no, psychoanalysis is not in my gift.
Perhaps if I just say hating protestants is important to you, it will be less offensive. It seems to me to be important to you, since everyone already knows it but you seem to need to keep repeating it. You’ve said it so many times it’s almost a signature.
The odd thing is that you feel fine about telling people repeatedly that, as a group, you hate them, but you absolutely will not tolerate that they comment on that, which it seems to me they are perfectly entitled to do. And one wonders why you care that they comment, since you hate them anyway and their comments consequently mean diddly. Only you know the truth. Only you can know what people are. OK, if that pleases you.
“you are too needy to see it”
I expected something more imaginative than that. 🙂
Hate away, it’s fine.
And feel free to feel sorry for me, which has about as much effect on me as Boris Johnson claiming he wants to keep me safe. Thank you for caring. 🙂
Zing!
The “ism” few dare face but none can avoid: AGEISM.
As a child I was an ageist – I hated a lot of the old people. They were always trying to spoil my fun and didn’t see the humor in some of the shit I was trying to pull.
Now as a senior, I’m still struggling with ageism as I see the pathetic and senile geriatric crypt keepers we have ruling over us in Congress and the White House. Our leader is a demented old fool and pedophile who probably wears depends and half the time doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing. Look at the fat hanging off the degenerate looking face of aging shithead Mitch McConnell. Take a look at Pelosi and Feinstein. Looking at these ridiculous old fucks encourages ageism in me despite the fact that I’m a senior myself.
I find it interesting how different “geriatric crypt keepers” Biden and Trump are, despite being just a few years apart in age. Biden is disintegrating slowly before our eyes, while Trump will likely crash and burn.