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     What’s most appalling about the Twitter revelations of the Intel Community’s years-long strangle-hold on social media is not just the evil fuckery itself of the FBI, CIA, and others colluding to gaslight the US electorate, but the fact that there is no institution in the land that can intervene to adjudicate or discipline these rogue agencies. Nobody expects the FBI’s parent, the Department of Justice, to look into any of this.

     Not so many years ago, the force counter-balancing criminal misconduct in the government was the news media, even if the reporters and editors claimed to be on the political Left. Or, shall we say, especially if they were on the Left, because the Left in those days fervently championed free speech. Reporters of that long-ago day (Seymour Hersh, John Sack, and Michael Herr) would be out digging up the true facts of a big event — say, the US Military’s deadly blunders and scams in Vietnam — and editors would plaster screaming headlines about it on the front page: GENERAL SAYS “WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE TO SAVE IT!” When the venerable news-spieler Walter Cronkite of CBS began to hint that the war was a fiasco, public opinion across the country shifted decisively against it.

     Of course, those crimes and sins were committed against people in distant lands. Now, the administrative weight of the US is rolling over its own citizens, and over the Constitution — and the news media is uniformly and enthusiastically in favor of suppressing the news about it. How that happened is one of several cosmic mysteries of our time, along with who exactly runs “Joe Biden,” and how did the many nations of Western Civ adopt in lock-step Covid-19 policies aimed at harming their own people?

      No reporter even of the alt.news division tried to get inside the head of New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet during the years of RussiaGate. Did he believe all that crap his paper was putting out? Now, you realize, it’s established fact (in the federal court record) that the Steele Dossier and everything spun off of it was a flim-flam confected by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But even at the time, say 2017 to 2019, independent journalists were reporting the truth about it — for example, the FBI’s long-running fraud in the FISA Court — while The New York Times ardently inveighed against any emerging fact-pattern that broke through its wall of propaganda. The Times was showered with awards for that, including the Pulitzer Prize for its completely fallacious RussiaGate coverage.

      One easy answer is that The Times and many of its “legacy” cohorts — The WashPo, CBS, NBC, and ABC — have volunteered to be the public relations office of the Democratic Party, covering-up anything and everything the Party does against the public interest. And while that appears to be the case, it still doesn’t explain how these outfits became the enemies of truth itself, and by extension, enemies of reality.

     The easy answer to that is the psychological derangement provoked by Donald Trump when he entered politics, and the absolute fugue state of deranged fury that blossomed among the “elite” when Mr. Trump had the temerity to actually win a national election — since he was perceived to be the avatar of all the sub-human boobs dwelling in the Great Darkness between New York and Los Angeles.

     But that explanation has an odor of contrivance. Those benighted boobs were the very people who most deserved the Democratic Party’s sympathy, the folks who had toiled in the great factories, now shuttered and off-shored, who volunteered for America’s wars without complaint, who were suffering now in idleness and poverty. The party of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman suddenly wanted to crush these “deplorable” people. Huh…?

      Could it be that the educated and creatives of the coastal cities — the thinking class, the politically active on the Left — had become so callous and arrogant as to dismiss the suffering “little people” they once worked to protect and defend — or had that also been an act? One thing for sure: the Democratic Party lost this group as core constituents and they had to search elsewhere for a voter base.

     Another thing had changed along the way: the Democratic Party became dominated by activist women, who exhibited two outstanding behavioral tendencies: they tended to make decisions on the basis of emotion… their feelings about this-and-that; and they were much more ruthless in political battle than men — their emotions eclipsed age-old principles, such as the idea of fair play. In short, they resorted almost automatically to dirty fighting.

     That is probably at the heart of what is most confounding and vexing about the great political division in America these days. We are under a vile spell of pervasive dirty fighting. Dirty fighters have no respect for reality or for principle; they do whatever they can do to win the fight. Bad faith is the order of the day. Hence, the battle over how elections will be conducted and who gets to vote. You can read about it in Monday’s (Dec 26th) New York Times, an above-the-fold story titled: Democrats, Feeling New Strength, Plan to Go on Offense on Voting Rights. (As long as it stays up.) The story says:

     Now it is Democrats, who retained all but one of the governor’s offices they hold and won control of state legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, who are ready to go on offense in 2023. They are putting forward a long list of proposals that include creating automatic voter registration systems, preregistering teenagers to vote before they turn 18, returning the franchise to felons released from prison and criminalizing election misinformation.”

    Note the last three words. The Times boldly announces that opinion about elections should now be subject to criminal prosecution if it deviates from whatever the official story is — as determined by whom? Well, that would be a juridical apparatus controlled by the Democratic Party. Who else might it be? The Times doesn’t venture to say. You can also see that the Party doesn’t believe in any principle that states who or why somebody should be qualified to vote. Sign up people who manage to get a driver’s license, whether they are citizens or not. Sign up the convicted criminals and the children. Dirty fighting = dirty elections.

     This is the direction our country has been going in. I can offer only one note of consolation about what looks like a pretty demoralizing predicament: what you’re seeing is the end product of the late-stage in the life of a society. Obviously, it is ending badly. The catch is we are entering a new era of American life, an era of deep economic disorder, especially, that will go very hard on the nation, that will rearrange many of the social categories we now take for granted, that will compel people of all classes to pay attention to reality, to what actually works and who actually knows how to work what works. In that disposition of things, dirty fighting will be recognized for what it is.

    Perhaps the biggest part of that unspooling event will be the bankruptcy and the failure of the government in Washington, its consequent loss of legitimacy, and the end of its ability to control and harass the people who live under it. Think I’m kidding? Stand by now and wait for it.


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1,047 Responses to “What It’s Really About”

  1. Walter B December 26, 2022 at 9:53 am #

    Yes Jim, conspiracy IS the theory, the theory that our degenerate government and its insidious agencies of lies, deceit, and death utilize to assure that there is more for them and less for us. There is a short video on the Redacted introduction where Mike Pompeo States that while he was a cadet at West Point he lived under the Honor Code of “A cadet shall not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do”, and goes on to say that as director of the CIA he not lied, cheated and stole and even gave many classes on doing so, and then he chuckles about it.

    They sell out for wealth and have replaced God with money. I’ll bet they all erect Cashmas Trees in the living rooms every year. Damn their eyes!.

    • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 9:54 am #

      Not only.

    • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:08 am #

      I think they really have to come up with a new debunking line because conspiracy theory really doesn’t cut it anymore.

      Perhaps something in the line of “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”, or better yet, “Shut up and PAY!” Yeah, either of those might be more effective, or not. I think an awful lot of people know what is being done to them, they just know they cannot do anything about it, or they simply don’t give a fuck.

      Time to thin the herd.

      • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

        The FBI needs no help from conspiracy theorists in being discredited, despised, and reviled. They’ve managed that flawlessly all by themselves.

    • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:22 am #

      If too many women that have risen to positions of power in government, society and the American families are creating havoc following deceptive emotions, men have failed this nation miserably as well by not being men anymore. And I am not talking about toxic masculinity, but the strength to stand up for what is clearly right, moral and legal and instead, concentrating on the sexual baggage as either male, female or whatever it is they choose to pretend to be (Rachael Levine as a poster person, perhaps).

      The blame falls squarely on all of us, even if our host and many of us here appear to see through the magician’s trick. It falls on America and our demented society.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 10:29 am #

        A friend of mine, a very masculine person, was disgusted with so many of his otherwise very masculine friends when they told him how good they thought Caitlyn (fka Bruce) Jenner looked on that Vanity Fair cover.

        As if it was upping their social credit score or something, back when nobody even knew there was going to be such a thing.

        Ten year old boys like to agree with the mainstream opinion, hoping to appear smart to adults.

        I don’t know why so many adults do this now. Maybe they always did, and I just nevver noticed.

        • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:39 am #

          Far too many men are nothing more than life support systems for their penises, and will stick their dicks into anything that moves, and sometimes, things that don’t. Hugh Hefner realized this and profited greatly from it. He was arguably the father of the American sexual downfall.

          If he realized where it would lead, he probably would have joined a monastery and abandoned Playboy Mansion.

          Then again, probably not.

          • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

            And what a creep Hefner turned out to be. We don’t find out until after he’s dead.

          • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

            Playboy appeared to have started out putting beautiful picture out of beautiful women, but anyone who made the mistake of reading any of the horse shit that the articles contained as I did, dumped their deviant crap immediately. That rag may have been the originator of the “anything goes, nothing really matters, and no one really cares” mantra. It was all downhill from there. Didn’t they recently put a “questionable” individual on the cover and as a Plaything of the Year as well?

          • CrusherMuldoon December 26, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

            No, apparently most Amerio can men are content to stick their penii in their hands and concentrate on their computer screen

          • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

            Well Crusher, with the pitfall’s “hidden” dangers out there these days, that might be the wise, and certainly safer option.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

            Yes, true – and everyone knows it. So instead of this, are you saying men should be in control of themselves, and thus be able to keep women under control?

            Or are you just repeating a truism to avoid the very politically incorrect point? Using the truth to hide a more controversial truth – the one Mr Kunstler brought up?

            Well you will certainly win points with the ladies for doing so. Why that matters is another question – especially when our country hangs int he balance.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 5:25 pm #

            Walter B:

            Men frailed both women and the country during the infantile “sexual revolution” of the sixties and seventies.

            They wanted and went crazy in a sexual free-for-all, instead of curbing their appetites and getting down the business of making commitments to being *loyal* mates to decent women and founding families.

            Basically millions of girls and young women were along for the ride, getting their emotions repeatedly smashed up along the way.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

            correction: failed.

        • Rowdypiglet December 26, 2022 at 11:03 am #

          “Ten year old boys like to agree with the mainstream opinion, hoping to appear smart to adults.

          I don’t know why so many adults do this now. Maybe they always did, and I just nevver noticed.”

          Beryl, you may not have noticed because up until recently the mainstream opinion with which they agreed was largely sane. It’s now so bizarrely divorced from reality that it’s impossible not to notice. And I think they’re no longer trying to appear smart, but simply trying to say, in effect, “I’ll say anything you tell me to say, tell any lie, no matter how at odds with reality. Please, just don’t hurt me.”

          • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 11:10 am #

            You are rowdy alright, and intelligent too.

          • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:39 am #

            Rowdy

            If you compared the common sense intelligence of Joe Everyman today to fifty years ago, what would you get?

            IMHO, the “smarts” of the average American started down when the government took over education with the Department of Education.

            Add on the millions of “new Americans” at the border. What do you think the intelligence level is of these folks? Intelligence dilution.

            Just what the WEF, AKA the US government wants on both counts.

            Serfs!

          • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

            Video killed the radio star.

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

            Rowdy, my husband is watching The Caine Mutiny right now.

            I’m half listening and the plot is that the captain is crazy, but the brass covers up for him until he testifies for himself, and it is obvious he is nuts, so the brass admits it.

            That would never happen today. The entire media and brass all pretends that Joe Biden is completely competent and in charge, even though normal people can see for themselves he is not.

            I just looked it up. The Caine Mutiny was made in 1954, 68 years ago.
            It’s been a long slide down.

          • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

            Paula, it’s even worse. Most of Congress is nuts. They’ve given over 100 billion dollars (with no end in sight) to a little con man in a camo T-shirt, whom they compare to Churchill. Insanity!

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

            It seems to be a job requirement now.

            The media stars are also bonkers, as well as stupid.

            The clowns are running this circus.

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

            Or, Mary’s term is better – the squawking heads.

          • pyrrhus December 26, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

            In my experience, ten year old boys are more likely to question the narrative than adults….

        • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

          Beryl, you made me think of a curious fact of American life. Federal law and 40 state laws prohibit the Islamic surgical procedure known as “female circumcision” for anyone under age 18, recognizing that children can be pressured by parents into consent. And rightly so.

          Yet, if a 10 year old boy says he wants to be a girl, the response is “quick, haul out the hedge clippers before he changes his mind.” Anyone advocating a wait and see attitude is reviled as a bigot. Insanity!

          I would point out
          1) children have been known to change their minds.
          2) a child doesn’t understand what future sexual pleasure (gay or otherwise) he’s forfeiting by giving up his original equipment.
          3) is anything lost by waiting at least until age 18?

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

            I think that the brain isn’t capable of making such a decision until at least age 25.

            And really, if there were such a thing as “medical ethics” (which covid proved there isn’t), there would not be such a thing as “changing sex” promoted, since it is impossible to actually change sex, no matter how many parts are lopped off, or inserted, or how many drugs and hormones ingested.

            Nope, you’re still whatever sex you were when your daddy’s sperm hit your mommy’s egg, back then when they were still getting along.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

            The boys don’t give up the equipment like they used to.

            As far as the reasons for not waiting, Dr. Oz explains:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Si8zEkyjY

            I remember San Franciso tried to ban circumcision of male infants, but a court stopped them.

          • Alfred December 26, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

            It is really, really sad that many people like yourself spread such trash about Islam.

            Female circumcision is NOT a component of the Islamic faith. It is a cultural phenomenon rooted in superstition.

            Now that you know the truth, please stop spreading this lie.

          • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

            Alfred, I realize female circumcision is not a requirement of the Koran. Many aspects of Christianity are not mandated in the Bible.

            But as cultures develop, certain customs and beliefs are added. Some but not all Islamic parents want their daughters “altered” in a way which will deny them sexual pleasure – which no decent woman would want. Sexual pleasure is for men.

            Since you’re an expert on the issue, Alfred, what percentage of Islamic girls would you say undergo the procedure? I wouldn’t want to guess and be labeled “a liar” yet again.

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

            Wikipedia gives numbers, but I don’t know the percentage.
            ”Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision,[a] is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is found in some countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities abroad from countries in which FGM is common. UNICEF estimated, in 2016, that 200 million women in 30 countries—Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen, and 27 African countries including Egypt—had been subjected to one or more types of FGM.[3]”

            And slicing off newborn boy’s penises is equally barbaric, of course.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 5:43 pm #

            Hmuller:

            I was thinking about this myself.

            Genital mutilation of women in Third World countries (and among immigrant communities elsewhere) is decried as an abomination. And it is. There has been a lot of activism among mainly feminists to outlaw these practices.

            So whot hoppened????

            Where are the foes of genital mutilation that is taking place in established medical institutions and clinics on the territory of the USA? What about the disgusting practice of circumcision in both hospitals and Jewish synagogues, etc.? That this is still accepted both shows the power of a minority in this country and paves the way for expanded acceptability of more types of genital mutilation.

            Plus of course mutilation of the whole physical system via hormones. Let’s not even talk about the brain-fuckery that makes this all look acceptable and even desirable.

            Wilful wrecking of machinery that ain’t broke is not “therapy.” It is mutilation.

            Mutilation is mutilation, no ifs, ands, nor buts.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

            This is why the mark of Shechem is done: it works. It breaks minds and breaks society.

            Nits in America point to some quack in the 1880s who had personal issues.

            They cannot explain how a nonmedical foreign practice became routine in American hospitals after WWll, paid for by insurance.

            The hallmark of GM societies is that they are hysterical. Our men are emasculated, our women hostile.
            In the MENA, Submission reigns.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

            We are supposed to learn morality from people who torture babies.

            In Islam, the boys get the full experience when they are 7.
            Girls, at whim.

            Now, free, nonbankrupt Iceland finally allowed its first rabbi. His crusade? Making circumcision legal.

            The result? Within the year, tiny Iceland had its first boatloads of Syrian immigrants.

          • Alfred December 27, 2022 at 9:01 am #

            I claim no expertise in any aspect of my life, so you can keep your facts and figures and the inferences you draw from them.

            A wise man once said to me, don’t judge Islam by the behavior of Muslims. Judge the behavior of Muslims by Islam.

            I would invite you to do the same.

          • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 11:27 am #

            Circumcision in the US has nothing to do with religion.

            It was sold to parents as a way to stop masturbation by removing the sensitive tip of the penis. They thought that the lack of feeling would dissuade hairy palms.

            That became obviously untrue, proven by millions of boys, so then they switched to ‘it keeps the penis clean’.

            Now it’s just habit. People do it without knowing why they do it, they just assume it’s necessary. And they are accustomed to the look of butchered penises, so they prefer that look.
            It’s custom.

          • SpeedyBB December 27, 2022 at 9:49 pm #

            Don’t forget the couple of hundred bucks tagged onto the tab by the enterprising hospital for genital mutilation, Paula. “We do it to ALL the male infants, as a matter of hygiene!” clucks Nurse righteously.

            In my family (good ole Texas boys) only my younger brother got cut, and I never learned why.

            The rest of us got off without it, and without realizing our narrow escape.

            A very close friend from college daze (University of Texas at Austin, early- and mid-1960s), had divorced and was intent on remarrying in his 50s. The new bride (also high-mileage) took one look and shrieked “If you don’t cut that thing it’s never going inside me”.

            Suppressing my anger at hearing this, I asked politely “I presume that she got into the spirit and got herself carved up as well.”

            Crickets, obviously. And this from a guy who prides himself on being a “skeptic”.

            Just want to note here that circumcision in an adult male is an extremely painful, slow-healing and often-subject-to-infection operation. My expat colleagues and friends here in mostly-Muslim Indonesia have told the tale.

            One fart smeller was stunned when a prospective father-in-law said “You marry my daughter, you become Muslim.”

            Sure, fine, whatever. [Clearly not concerned about branding.]

            “And you have to get yourself purified, through circumcision.”

            Whoa.

            Fella thought a bit, closed the door, pulled the skin back, wrapped Willie up tight in a bandage and soaked it in chicken blood.

            “Here you go. I’ve done it” he grumbled to new father-in-law, thrusting the grisly object in the old man’s face.

            “Yes, fine, get that outta here” the old man squeaked, backing off.

            Case closed. The woman? Local women are so ignorant about sex they’d never tell the difference.

            Long-time Jewish pal: “The only way to lose a foreskin is to wear it off”.

          • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 10:45 am #

            Wow, Speedy, I can’t believe your friend would go through such a thing for a dumb ignorant girlfriend.
            Lucky you, for escaping it.
            I would say that although newborns may have a low rate of infection (it does happen though), it is also very painful for them. It’s just that they can’t talk and tell anyone. You can hear them screaming though, as it’s done, and then every time they urinate when it is still raw.

            I used to work with a doctor who was a conscientious objector, but sometimes the parents would insist on mutilating their baby.
            What he did was agree to do it as long as the father watched.
            Only one father watched the procedure to completion (probably an asshole in many ways).
            The rest stopped him as the preparations commenced, which involves strapping the naked infant to a plastic device that includes tying down their arms and legs. This alone freaks them out. After all, they have been in a fetal position for months. Having their arms and legs stretched and restrained is painful and scary.
            Plus, it looks a lot like a crucifixion. What normal man would want to crucify his newborn son?

      • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 11:42 am #

        Agreed, Walter. Most modern men are pathetic. And no amount of rugged facial hair and tattoos can hide the fact.

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

          And what about modern women?

          • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

            Most of them are pretty pathetic too.

          • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

            What about modern women? They would rather have multi-colored 3″ nails, emulate Kim Kardashian and Beyonce, stay on Facebook and Tik Tok 12 hours a day than learn to spell, speak and attain a work ethic that we regarded as necessity. They regard it as inconvenience and distraction from the hedonism Hollywood has heaped on them.
            HOW can we possibly expect them to produce better people than themselves?

        • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 6:43 pm #

          In my day, they called it ‘pussy whipped’ and it’s incredibly worse now. Young men have become sociological whipping boys for the the college knighted idiotic young women who consider themselves socialist Joans of Arc. Kunstler mentions women in the article as the defining force of divisive politics. He’s RIGHT!. These so-called educated pied pipers of the frustrated jealous professors in higher education roles, have corrupted young womens minds (and morals)

      • niner December 26, 2022 at 12:04 pm #

        i think the birth control pill combined with the TV screens in every home were the 2 fateful technologies which formed the big switch. an actual cultural switch on/off.

        we did not know what was being switched on at the time, we just celebrated what was being switched off.

        pregnancy. which affected men almost as much as women. there were forced marriages in my own family. actually, i was the object of one such. as i was conceived before the pill.

        and my father had the worse of it.

        i don’t know what we can do about either the digital-image switch or the pregnancy switch.

        if Mr. Kunstler would offer some suggestions, he could be very helpful.

        without babies to tie us down, or even the threat of babies, however wonderful, our other nature escaped.

        and if birth control methods didn’t occasionally fail, (ahem), there would be even fewer babies.

        i don’t know what to do about this. maybe the best we can hope is a failure of tech, because it is western tech which has done this to us.

        either that or a conquest by the mohammedans, of greatest dread.

        we would all have to give up our minds in order to have babies again.

        i’d rather give up tech.

        • Rowdypiglet December 26, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

          The secondary benefit of having children, whether wanted or otherwise, is that you became someone’s parent and, for most, that meant you rose to a minimal level of adulthood. At least, you had the responsibilities of an adult and there was societal disapproval to face if you refused to rise to the occasion.

          Also – there were rewards of a kind that many people can’t even imagine now. I can’t help recalling the scene described to me by my grandfather, of the family gathered together at the bedside of my dying g-grandfather. Everyone there had profound love, respect, and gratitude for the old man and could barely imagine life without him. His was a hard life well and honorably spent, surrounded by those who loved him.

          Since then, it has become an admired goal not to become an adult but to remain a permanent adolescent – with all the irresponsibility and puerility that implies. There are no rites of passage because that would imply increasing levels of accomplishment and growth rather than what we now have: a long and pointless slide down to an undignified and ludicrous end. What could be sadder than the embarrassingly indulgent plastic surgeries of aging “celebrities” that reek of desperation and refusal to face reality?

          • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 6:49 pm #

            You pen………it has become an admired goal not to become an adult but to remain a permanent adolescent….
            Watch out when the emotional bill has to be paid. Most under 40’s have not a clue about maturation, responsibility and/or moral balance. Hedonism rules America thanks to Hollywood, lazy parents and politicians that are the biggest whores in the history of civilization

          • TPTB-USA December 26, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

            Stepping into the adult world seems to be a major obstacle at this point in time.

            Do you think it is a result of the game being played-out, a modified format for life, the players gaming the system, a lifetime of conditioning, and more players than opportunity?

            Might as well throw in disparity, where the new players will never be able to catch the old money without generational help?

          • Anthea December 27, 2022 at 9:00 am #

            @ Rowdypiglet:

            Families are little communities and the basis of larger communities. If they are healthy families, they are little communities of people who value each other and care for each other. They are people who understand you at a deep level and who have got your back. (Unhealthy families–not so much.)

            Finding ones place in the community provides a sense of self. “Finding yourself” as a young adult is mostly a matter of finding a role of importance in relation to other people.

            Having children, and thus starting your own family, is a way of creating your own community and a set of close personal relationships.

            This is actually the main thing that matters in life.

            Most friendships, especially when there is a group of several friends, recreate family relationships and operate as surrogate families. At least that has been my experience. (Often, in groups of friends, you can identify who is the mom, who is the big sister, who is the little brother, etc.)

            That’s why people have friends: to create community and quasi-family relationships.

            One of my gay male friends once told me that if you’re a woman, you can have a baby and “You’re not alone any more.” This option isn’t available to men.

            We all spend much of our lives on a quest not to be alone any more.

          • Anthea December 27, 2022 at 9:55 am #

            @ TPTB-USA:

            One of the main things prolonging adolescence is the public school system and the colleges. What they basically do is chain children and young people to chairs to keep them from engaging with the real world and developing real-world skills and real-world relationships. For the most part, the kids are just warehoused with peers of the same age, with a few adults who act primarily as prison guards. The main effect of this arrangement seems to be to inspire them to engage in various types of petty rebellion against “the guards” and in social-dominance behaviors among themselves. They are apt to spend their days defacing desks and materials, throwing spitballs, having food fights, and bullying their peers–and seeking social status by mimicking celebrities and owning some “bling.” So you get pretty much the opposite of good socialization.

            Adulthood is a state of life in which a person is useful and valuable to other people and takes responsibility for other people and for meeting the needs of other people. School delays this process by decades, and often permanently.

            Kids should be given responsibilities in their families as soon as they can walk. Kids love to help and will absolutely bloom when they are allowed to do so.

            Once when a family of friends was staying with me, I asked the 5-year-old to help me dig sweet potatoes. Every time she found one, she displayed it proudly. We also picked berries. Once when I was loading up at the end of the day at the farmers’ market, the five-year-old girl in the next booth insisted on helping me put things away in boxes. She was so proud to be helping!

            One of my daughters once said that when you don’t let kids help with chores, the message you are sending them is, “You don’t need me. I am not important. You don’t trust me.”

          • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 11:37 am #

            Three of my friends in high school “had to get married” when they were 16.
            This expression is no longer used, but it referred to when a boy knocked up a girl and their parents forced them to get married. They both dropped out of school (no pregnant girls allowed) and the boy got a job to support them all.

            This is no longer possible. There are no jobs that a high school drop-out can get that will support a family.
            Hence, the much lamented ”drop in morals”.

            But which came first, the drop in wages or the drop in morals? I think it was the drop in wages, as well as the outsourcing of jobs that paid well for high school dropouts, or even high school graduates. No parents of today would expect a 16 y.o. boy to support a family.
            The young people of today are told that if they don’t have a college education they do not deserve a living wage.
            Hence, colleges full of unqualified children busily racking up lifelong debt to the bankers, and no young marriages.

          • TPTB-USA December 27, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

            @ Anthea:

            [[Kids should be given responsibilities in their families as soon as they can walk. Kids love to help and will absolutely bloom when they are allowed to do so.

            Once when a family of friends was staying with me, I asked the 5-year-old to help me dig sweet potatoes. Every time she found one, she displayed it proudly. We also picked berries. Once when I was loading up at the end of the day at the farmers’ market, the five-year-old girl in the next booth insisted on helping me put things away in boxes. She was so proud to be helping!

            One of my daughters once said that when you don’t let kids help with chores, the message you are sending them is, “You don’t need me. I am not important. You don’t trust me.”]]

            This struck a nerve. When my wife was 5 years old, she would go to work with her mom at a high end restaurant where she was a waitress, and my wife’s job was to go around and fill the customer water glasses. She became a top notch waitress, and was quickly promoted to head waitress wherever she chose to work.

            In regard to this discussion, as Paula D implied, I don’t think the opportunities are prevalent and present themselves as they had in the past. Thus the importance of finding, and establishing oneself in a community of moral productive people.

        • SpeedyBB December 27, 2022 at 9:57 pm #

          Niner, I can never peel a roll of Saran-wrap without musing on how desperate horny young fellows used to resort to it as a condom when no pharmacy would sell them one.

          Not that long ago either. And not a very sure-fire solution to wriggly Sparky Spermcell finding its devious way into the fertile nether regions.

          Who would have imagined back in those righteous, sanctified days of the 1950s that pregnant 13-year-olds in Junior High School would become a common sight? (Never heard of any of their [mostly-dusky] sperm donors ever being prosecuted for ‘child abuse’ either, as a matter of fact).

          That ancient American morality so longed-for by so many of our fellow mummies here on CFN had its dark side, as well.

      • redrock December 26, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

        Rachael Levine yes, an admiral. Time was when an admiral was a short guy in khakis chomping a cigar, had an armada and spent his time deciding who or what to destroy first. His first name was BULL and when he stepped aboard ship it shook and so did every sailor on board. Now to see the pathetic semblance of a human being Rachael with that esteemed rank you know the game is over and we have succumbed to the ignorance that prevails. To gaze upon Rachael is to see the mental illness that pervades our society. I give up.

        • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

          Can we not play their game? His name is Richard Levine.

        • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

          At least they fired Brinson. Though not for his sexual pecadillos, but for being a common luggage thief. Some administration?!

          • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

            ‘Administration’ posits administering. Bidens cabal of gays, trannies, Blacks, cacklers, obfuscaters, touchy feely virtuosos ADMINISTER jack ***t.
            In baseball parlance, I am rounding 3rd base and ‘heading home’ , watching the politics of the USA since Eisenhower and have never witnessed a more inept anti-American immoral bunch of traitors in all my years.

        • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 6:53 pm #

          And the pussified media, college professors and woke White women extol the abberation that we, all relatively normal human beings, know is biologically, morally and physically reprehensible. It may be the 2nd biggest scam/hoax perpetrated on the American public since Global warming/cooling/changing/masturbation.

      • redrock December 26, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

        My reply is way down below Walter

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

        Well said, I agree.

      • Kay December 26, 2022 at 6:33 pm #

        What do we expect when 30-year-old men have the testosterone levels of an 85-year-old male? The attack on men is also physical, mental, and emotional. They are fighting and doing it with severe physical handicaps.

        Most American women are lost. They are so marinated in toxic doctrines that it makes them bind. American men must cut the bad ones out and find new partners with foreign ladies that haven’t been tainted. In the UK, the marinated feminists go to Thailand and pay for a young Thai man’s company. They refused to get married and have kids. The only thing they have going for them is poor, young Thai males with whom they must pay for relationships. Americans must find a better way to raise daughters. We are doing them a great dis-service with the current trends. We need to do a better job.

      • EdD December 27, 2022 at 11:33 am #

        “The blame falls squarely on all of us, even if our host and many of us here appear to see through the magician’s trick. It falls on America and our demented society.”

        Blame yourself, but leave others out of it. I don’t accept the blame you’re placing on everyone. Only a TV addicted dolt would assume that everyone is guilty of studiously ignoring evidence that the media is lying about everything, just because the media says so.

        This shit was done TO us, not BY us.

        Go stand in front of the mirror and practice blackpilling your fellow man. You obviously need more practice.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 8:07 am #

        The men have largely been pussyfied by divorced single mom’s who ran off the male father figure in the home. Then the witches of the communist teacher’s unions get ahold of the young boys and pump them full of Ritalin and continue the pussyfication process. Finally, female bosses and HR crones pussyfy men in the workplace and the entertainment industry depicts men as bumbling idiots and women as super-females who are all-knowing, and all-powerful and who can whip Arnold Schwartzeneggar with their little pinkies.

        Is it any wonder that this country is failing to produce men who cannot stand up to the harpy hordes anymore? Those testosterone levels aren’t plummeting in our society for no reason. Environmental factors also in play with food, drugs, toiletries, etc, as well decreasing male testosterone.

        Add the oppression of .gov – now filled with deranged females in the Deep State and in elective offices and it’s nigh well hopeless.

        The only MEN I blame for this current mess are the confident bastards a century ago who mistakenly thought they could give the little ladies the vote and that it would be of small consequence. Boy were THEY mistaken.

  2. happiface December 26, 2022 at 9:56 am #

    ww 3 soon so none of this will matter..usa/nato are insane

    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 10:30 am #

      That’s why they want it so bad. The ultimate cover.

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 11:01 am #

        War as a way to wipe out debt.

        Only when the winning country controls the banks, though.

        Russia and the UK just recently paid off their WW2 debts to the US, and they were on the same side!

        I think the bigger reason they are pushing nuclear war is that they want Russia’s resources.

        Will Kill For Oil, as they say.

        • Rowdypiglet December 26, 2022 at 11:08 am #

          I’m surprised at how many people really think we can beat Russia. Apparently they don’t remember WW2. Russia has everything with which to beat us into submission, and the only reason they haven’t yet done so is that Putin is showing a reasonable, adult desire not to wreck the world. They have resources, they have allies, and most of all they have a population that isn’t weak, corrupt, and degraded. How can we be this stupid?

          • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 11:35 am #

            Napoleon was unfortunate in having to learn the “do not invade Russia” lesson the hard way, and it destroyed him. Hitler was either insane or simply stupid in not learning that same lesson, and it destroyed him and the German nation as well.

            Joe Biden is clearly brain dead, so he has an excuse, but the Nazi’s that own him should know better. It appears that they are attempting to utilize patsies instead of their own to test the theory. I have come to believe that those Brownshirts that America assimilated in Operation Paperclip are hell bent on revenge of the WWII loss to the Soviets, and that they appear to be willing to sacrifice everything in their blind lust for revenge.

            Money may be the motivator to keep the American sellouts onboard, but clearly there is far more evil at the heart of this insanity.

          • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:51 am #

            Walter B

            What is it called when you try the same thing, over and over and expect to get a different result?

            Insanity!!!

            An adder, think about the Trump campaign and WH days as just another Avenue by the Deep State, esp. MIC, to attack Russia. Russia gate, BS. , Ukraine impeachment, BS. First impeachment centered on Russia, BS. Bill Barr, BS.

            Russia is not an innocent angel, but we have surpassed them in evil. Hitler fought a proxy war in Spain to test out his weapons, is there any difference with Ukraine?

          • niner December 26, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

            i believe the true object of this game, is to destroy the USA.

            russia and china are objects of material desire–all those resources and slaves.

            but until we are destroyed — the new world order, the great reset, the global corporate feudal empire — is at risk.

            we are the lever. we are the only remaining force which can take them down, or at least stalemate them.

            we are the 300, and if we can’t do it, no one can.

          • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

            Hitler needed the oil.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

            The Russians were massing on the border of German controlled Poland. The Plan was always for the Americans and British to attack from the West and the Russian Communists to attack from the East. So you think Hitler should have just waited around for this to happen? Fight on German soil if he didn’t have to? One can criticize his tactics, but not his strategy of course.

            Against the dark forces of Capitalist/Communist materialism, Germany never stood a chance – unless they had the time to develop ultimate weapons. Wisely from their pov, they didn’t give him the time. Also given the economic miracle he had pulled off, they had to take him down before other peoples adopted National Socialism of their own accord.

          • redrock December 26, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

            Think about a well oiled Hitler. K-Chien

          • workingclasshero December 26, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

            I think the U.S. and 1/2 of NATO could clean up the western 1/3 of The Russian Federation within about 6 months and have allot of support from turncoat neo-liberal Russians in that military/political process. I hope I’m wrong but people way overestimate Russia and China’s abilities against the military, economic and soft power capacities of the U.S. led West.

          • SW December 26, 2022 at 3:39 pm #

            @ niner — The plan is the destruction of the US and the pieces were all put in place by Clinton. NAFTA did in fact create a “sucking sound” as jobs left, the groundwork for the destruction of the financial system was put in place by his financial elves (Greenspan, Larry Sommers and Rubin) and there hasn’t been a murmur of reinstating the Glass-Steagel wall, and Bill posing as Everyman from Arkansas, feeling all of our pain, duped many a trusting and honest soul into keeping him in office for 8 years. The effects of what he had actually done to pave the way for our impoverished didn’t hit until years later.

            @ Walter — A fool never learns. The Russians have no intention of being invaded and have stated quite clearly they plan on defending their homeland. Napoleon and HItler should give NATO pause on that score but for some reason, they think history won’t repeat itself.

          • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

            Workingclasshero,

            It remains to be seen how effective the woke, transvestites of NATO can be when angered by the catcalls of Russian men.

            But please don’t refer to the devastation of war as “cleaning up an area”. It demeans our humanity to say: ‘”Oh boy, did we clean up Dresden, and Hiroshima positively glowed with good sanitation.”

            “Ethnic cleansing” is another odious term.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 8:07 pm #

            I have to say Walter B startled me with the Paperclip Nazis idea.
            I hadn’t thought of that aspect before.

        • Socrates-Detroit December 26, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

          workingclasshero

          Are you an Army of Marine vet perhaps?

          I don’t think the US can win this war, any more than it could win Vietnam.

          In Vietnam, the US instigated the war, then prolonged it. The US government ensured the pointless death of 59,000 Americans, the mental and/or physical maiming of hundreds of thousands of GIs, and even worse, the death of millions of Vietnamese.

          The US govt instigated this war, and is prolonging it. It won’t win. Here is just one report I place great stock in, for my fellow CFNers who are interested, from Col Douglas McGregor

          UxFz%2T3QKa$vs7K4umG1N%*

          • Anon1970 December 26, 2022 at 8:47 pm #

            Your link does not open. Check your typing.

          • hmuller December 26, 2022 at 11:03 pm #

            And yet, no lessons were learned from Vietnam. Later, there were the useless and disastrous middle east interventions which clearly left the people there worse off. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, (now Ukraine.)

            Meanwhile, America was drained of some blood and much treasure. As the saying goes “it was too stupid to be stupid”. It was part of the deliberate destruction of American power – deliberately drained into quagmires.

            Notice how the American upper classes and thinking elite have no interest in opposing war. With no draft it’s the poor who enlist to be chewed up in these globalist-banker conflicts.

            And somebody needs to bitch slap little Lindsey Graham if he starts fuming again about killing Putin with his flying fists of fury.

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

          Dang. There I was, on the street corner, with a cardboard sign that said Will Golf For Food.

      • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 11:43 am #

        Exactly. Lots more truth will emerge in 2023 about the death shot and other DS activities. But it will be overshadowed – literally – by mushroom shaped clouds, unless there are some sane minds in the Pentagon.

        • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:55 am #

          Just a comment.

          If you conduct a proxy war that demonstrates that “boots on the ground” no longer works, what do you do?

          Duck and cover.

        • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

          From friends in the military, the sane officers were cashiered by Obama for not meeting his standards of inclusivity. That’s why so many flag officers made a big stink about Trump: he wanted to restore traditional military elan, and they would have none of it because their careers would end. Because “Biden” “won,” their careers were saved, ti the detriment of the country.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

            That’s what someone told me was one of Trump’s major mistakes- trusting that he would have support from the generals because of his support for the military, and perhaps because of his patriotism as well.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 8:19 pm #

            Over at the Conservative Treehouse, Sundsnce observes that Obama’ / Hillary’s Egyptian Arab Spring was a beta test of the BLM insurrection.

            He points out that 2020 is not only a carbon copy of 2011, but that it was run by literally the same people.

            httpx://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605652555547217920.html

            The beta test showed that the military could foil Intel’s color revolution, as they’ve done in Egypt, Brazil, and Peru.

            So, they took two election cycles to overturn the command brass with sycophants.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

            At Treehouse, part one:

            httpx://theconservativetreehouse (dot)com/blog/2022/12/20/twitter-file-release-8-evidence-showing-pentagon-state-dept-using-twitter-for-propaganda-release-curated-to-protect-barack-obama/

            Part two:
            httpx://theconservativetreehouse(dot)com/blog/2022/12/21/part-2-why-curation-of-twitter-file-release-8-was-so-important-the-2011-beta-test-went-live-in-2020/

          • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 11:51 am #

            Before Jan. 6th, the squawking heads and the democrats constantly talked about Charlottesville, where a girl was killed by a man in a car who drove like a professional driver and backed out of there like he was in the Indy 500.
            They then blamed a bespectacled autistic boy for the hit and run and spent the next four years screaming about white supremacist domestic terrorists, and how Trump said they were good people.

            As it happens, a video was taken of the scene and the first interviews were given by a man who had worked for the Clinton State Dept on the Kony 2012 psy ops, in which they had put out a viral video (because they can make videos go viral) blaming the deaths and destruction of the Congo war (otherwise completely ignored by the media) on one man. Said man had already moved on, but facts don’t matter in psy ops.
            This was then used to get US troops into the Congo and surrounding countries. You know, to “protect” the natives (from the country which had started and armed the war in the first place. Cobalt, don’t you know.)

            What are the odds that that same man would be at that particular rally (which was organized, IIRC, by a former Democrat)?
            And what are the odds that he would be filming on a side street as someone drove a car into the crowd?
            And what are the odds that he would give the official story so quickly and efficiently?

            I’d say the odds were pretty, pretty good.

  3. chopper December 26, 2022 at 10:01 am #

    We will not need to wait long. Once the checks stop chaos will overtake all control presently exercised by governments large and small
    Don’t weep for me USA.

  4. Ishabaka December 26, 2022 at 10:04 am #

    “Another thing had changed along the way: the Democratic Party became dominated by activist women” – I’ve been saying for a while now that since the turn of the millennium the USA has become Estrogen Nation. “Safety first”, “Feels over reals”, Neurosis Nation, as national testosterone levels circle the drain. And speaking of neurosis, half the population seems to have come down with a bad case of PTSD – Post Trump Stress Disorder – which seems to be permanent.

    • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 10:51 am #

      Estrogen nation

      Please Google Estrogen Dominance to get the story. Another substance of the nutrition poisoning in the world.

      Two theorized symptoms+ one maybe

      Beta males with low sperm counts.

      Low sperm counts

      Potential LBGTQ.

      • Islander December 26, 2022 at 6:08 pm #

        Soy is an estrogen mimic.

    • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

      Yes, free speech is a masculine virtue. Women always want to feel comfortable – and thus hate being challenged. If they can silence the challenger, they will – by means howsoever foul.

      • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

        So how do you explain that just as many women have spoken out against the Covid evil as men? For every Robert Malone there is a Simone Gold. You need to get out and meet women, Jarek, so you have an idea of what you are thinking about.

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

          Those restraining orders make it difficult for him.

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

          Jarek hates just about everyone, so all his views stem from there.

          • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 3:37 pm #

            Ignore it and it will cease to exist.

          • SW December 26, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

            Is Fauci a female? Or maybe he wasn’t to blame at all for the horrible mess he created and was actually taking orders from his wife.

            Is Sam Bankman-Freid a female? Or maybe he was taking orders from his odd-looking girl friend who only pretended to like him to steal all the money.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

            More vicious hatred from Walter. He doesn’t like being questioned. Not very masculine.

          • Anthea December 27, 2022 at 10:47 am #

            @ Jarek:

            You are so timid that you can’t bear to engage with other humans at all, whether male or female, and too fearful of people to even have a job.

          • benr December 27, 2022 at 11:52 am #

            @jarek

            Not trying to pile on here but Walter is anything but vicious.

            Sack up a little grow some spine just because no one agrees with your constant racial or gender disparaging posts does not mean you are being attacked.
            The word is challenged.

          • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

            ben: The Founters “agreed with me” on race. And Mr Kunstler agrees with me and I with him on gender. And other posters agree with me on race and us on gender.

            So?

            So you’re wrong.

            And Walter referred to me as “it”. He hates being challenged because he knows he can’t win a debate with me. And if he loses, it means he’s wrong.

          • benr December 29, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

            ben: The Founters “agreed with me” on race. And Mr Kunstler agrees with me and I with him on gender. And other posters agree with me on race and us on gender. -jarek

            So, the founders were right about everything?
            So how did they not see the absolute shit show a two-party system would eventually cause?
            Did they know about genetics or was their knowledge based on what they saw and the culture of Africans and what they brought with them.
            It’s not as if properly educated and acclimatized blacks can’t fit into Americas culture, I know many that choose to do so.
            It would be pretty easy to turn white people into absolute savages just look at when they have nothing but current black culture as a guide and they fall into al the traps as well. It is not just genetic you dolt.

            So?

            So you’re wrong. -jarek

            Nope your blind to reality!

            And Walter referred to me as “it”. He hates being challenged because he knows he can’t win a debate with me. And if he loses, it means he’s wrong. -Jarek

            I can’t speak for walter but I can say you can be a real asshole and maybe he just feels like engaging with you is an absolute waste of time.
            The it he was referring to is your posts.
            You bring a lot to the message board, but you also bring a lot of useless baggage that in the end is why you are nothing, but a dinosaur just like me. I at least know this do you?
            As far as being right you think you are but in the end you are not.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 8:25 am #

          There is always a White Knight in every crowd – paving the way for the shrieking army of hysterical fembots.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 8:24 am #

        That’s been my personal experience in every argument (it can never be a civilized debate) with one.

        Their mantra is always “Don’t confuse me with facts and logic, I already know how I FEEL about the subject!”

    • Mick December 26, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

      Activist women wreaking havoc in the US is not new. Why did we have an amendment creating Prohibition n the 1920s? The Suffragette anti-alcohol women lobbied and demonstrated for it from about the end of the Civil War until they got their way in the early 1920s. It’s no coincidence that the amendment giving the women the vote happened at the same time.

      How did Prohibition work out? Far more lives were destroyed than alcohol along destroyed prior to 1920. It led to the rapid rise and empowerment of the mob. It also led to the rapid rise and empowerment of the FBI. An unconstitutional, IMO, federal police agency.

      Prohibition went away after a decade or so of harm. We still have the FBI, who then got FDR to criminalize marijuana and hemp in order to give them something to do until Hoover figured out other ways to trample on the Bill of Rights.

      And, ever since women got the vote the US has been on a downward slide towards nanny
      statism ever since. FDR would not have had four terms if women didn’t overwhelmingly vote for him, for starters. And he certainly started the slide to nanny statism.

      • CrusherMuldoon December 26, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        Far more lives were destroyed than alcohol along destroyed prior to 1920
        If you didn’t pull that statement out of your ass, how about backing it up with FACTS

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

          Fix your post. It doesn’t make any sense as written. Whether it makes sense then remains to be seen.

        • Mick December 26, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

          You can’t handle the facts, I suspect.

          But, I will cede that what I typed made it sound like the prohibition during the twenties killed more people than alcohol ever did prior to that decade.

          That is hyperbole for sure. What I meant was that prohibition killed more people in the 20s than just alcohol alone would’ve killed. Of course, it is a known fact that alcohol consumption did NOT stop during the 20s. In fact, lots of dangerous alcohol made in stills or bathtubs was consumed to make up for the loss of the safer legal stuff. The wealthier people had access to the safer legal stuff smuggled in from Canada, Ireland, and Scotland. By the underworld elements.

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

          Heaven forfend, Crusher, that we return to the godless heathenism before 1919 or 1937.

      • Islander December 26, 2022 at 6:11 pm #

        Mick, what would have been your response to help women and children whose husbands/fathers were drinking the whole paycheck?

        • Mick December 26, 2022 at 6:37 pm #

          Well, that’s a problem that still happens today. Although we have many other drugs now too. Prohibition did not work. If anyone thinks it did, then that’s just delusional thinking. It made things worse during that decade, which is why it was repealed.

          Like I said above in another reply, consumption of more dangerous illegal alcohol increased. So many men lost their eyesight or lives drinking unsafe product from backwoods stills or bathtubs. (Bathtub gin anyone?)

          It’s a sad fact of humanity that alcohol abuse is a reality. These days what many women do is leave a lousy husband who “drinks the paycheck away”. Of course, these days, many women have kids from guys who that aren’t even married to. Or multiple guys.

          They’ve come a long way baby.

          Oh, back in those days churches helped women and children with alcoholic husbands/fathers. But what the suffragettes wanted was for Big Daddy Government to take over that role.

          And just look how well that has worked!

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 10:40 pm #

            “Prohibition did not work. If anyone thinks it did, then that’s just delusional thinking.”

            The point, or my current point, is not whether prohbition worked or not. On hindsight we know that it didn’t “work” s we wish it had. But I wonder wehther there are any solid data to show whether or not it “worked” for the types of families in which wives and mothers campaigned for it. Mainly, to stop workingmen from drinking up the paycheck. .

            Women who campaigned for it are vilified as if they knew in advance that it wouldn’t “work” to solve the huge genuine problem that existed for working-class and lower-class women that they did have to deal with. How could those women have known that mobsters would use Prohibition to make piles of money off bootleg likker and encourage the expansion of organized crime in the USA?
            This is really more blame the victim.

            I think it is perfectly fair to ask: What solution would you have offered? In the past. What would have been your better, more effective response?

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 10:49 pm #

            “But what the suffragettes wanted was for Big Daddy Government to take over that role. ”

            With all due respect, What are you talking about? You seem to be mixing up different eras.

            Regarding churches helping out the families of men who drank the paycheck, can you provide any data on the extent of such help? Did it replace the paycheck?

          • Alzaebo December 27, 2022 at 1:42 am #

            Was it that bad, Islander?
            Or was that political marketing to grievances?

            A Cause they could ride, with women as the horse.

            As Mary says below, it’s the manipulation at the heart of it that is most galling.

            Malevolent manipulation, false marketing, shaped to the hearer.

            In your specific case, that’s where the women’s wiles go to work. The wife tells the boss’s wife about the boozing at church or the fish market; the boss tells his worker that he’s not paying him good money to be a bad man. The worker is brought into the larger whole, completed by role and standing, if it works.

            I was raised on such stories of that time. Families were as dysfunctional as they are today, but didn’t have as much room to move.

            My scenario presupposes small, self-sufficient, intact communities; the “city dads” constantly oversaw such problems. This, in a time when people dropped off their children on the church steps.

            The sturdy three-legged stool of home-school-church was their successful framework, as Father Coughlin showed with the broken Irish diaspora in Boston in the 1800’s

            Personal problems demand local solutions..That’s what churches were for, not empty evangelizing.

            Women, powerless, bore the brunt, sadly true; but common foibles never undermined a civilization. The pied pipers did, and do, turning sins into a Cause for themselves.

          • Anthea December 27, 2022 at 11:29 am #

            @ Alzaebo:

            The social problems created by alcoholism were indeed very bad, and these problems continued to be severe even after the repeal of Prohibition and continue to this day. I’ve personally known of quite a few cases, some of which involved extreme domestic violence.

            One of my closest friends was a member of Al-Anon for many years (seems like it was a decade or so) back in the 1970s, most of which he spent as a group leader. Alcoholism does affect just poor and working-class families (though it’s more likely to devour the whole paycheck if you’re poor), but cuts across all social classes and income levels.

            In many cases, a family member’s alcoholism is kept quiet or downplayed. He may hold a good job and never miss a day’s work, though his employer probably knows that he’s drunk on the job every day. But even in these cases, there is a seriously damaging effect on family life: Dad’s shit-faced in front of the kids all the time and emotionally unavailable–so the kids are effectively growing up fatherless.

            The reason rural churches are so often so strongly opposed to drinking is because of the devastating effects of alcoholism on rural communities. (It’s just as bad in urban areas, but in urban areas, the community doesn’t have the social power–which would mainly come from the churches–to be effective.)

            Thing is, the solution, or at least much of the solution, to the problem of alcoholism was for divorce to become socially acceptable. You have probably noticed that there is currently no Prohibition movement promoted by the ladies.

          • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 11:57 am #

            I’m a fan of old time blues and country music.

            Many of the songs bear witness to the fact that some men did indeed head down to the bar on payday, and sometimes never made it home.

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 6:19 am #

            @ Paula D:

            Ah, yes. Tammy Wynette offers a fine selection of reasons why women embraced feminism. But there were quite a few other recording artists that offer that same insight. One that I remember is “Honky-Tonk Man.”

            I’m a honky-tonk man
            And I can’t seem to stop.
            I love to give the girls a thrill
            To the music of an old juke box.
            But when my money’s all gone
            I’m on the telephone
            Hollerin’, “Hey hey, mama
            Can your daddy come home?”

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:26 pm #

          Not the federal government’s job.

          A tough question for sure, but our women were played. It is an honest attempt at, “if only women ran things,” but democracy demands that the franchise keep being expanded, given out beyond workable limits.

          It was a false promise. Our ladies didn’t get a social safety net or gyno / midwife care, they got Sex In The City.

          The gangster culture that played women’s and pastors’ ambitions got what it wanted, enough money to buy off the politicians. Note they didn’t build schools and hospitals as the Italians did.

          As soon as the Prohibition money was Constitutionally cut off, corrupt Congressmen edicted illegal ‘drug laws’ to keep the under-the-table money flowing.

        • Alzaebo December 27, 2022 at 1:54 am #

          Drat. Islander’s good rejoinder- the women didn’t know it would turn out as it did.

          The onus, really, was on the sellers. The barkeep, if he didn’t want bad reputation, should’ve cut off the drunk after his limit.

          Instead, what we got was, the barkeep’s suppliers got a %1000 boost in profits.

          • Islander December 27, 2022 at 6:55 am #

            Even a cursory look at the historical record undermines most of the —well, I just have to call it bitching about women and Prohibition! The movement to outlaw alcohol did not start with women.
            However, in urban settings the social, physical, and economic ills deriving from unbridled alcohol consumption (and that is what we are talking about) were obvious and were also documented and data-driven.

            A Wiki summary:

            “Some research indicates that alcohol consumption declined substantially due to Prohibition.[4][5] Rates of liver cirrhosis, alcoholic psychosis, and infant mortality also declined.[4][6][7] Other research indicates that Prohibition did not reduce alcohol consumption in the long-term.[8][9][10] Prohibition’s effect on rates of crime and violence is disputed.[10][11][12] Prohibition lost supporters every year it was in action, and lowered government tax revenues at a critical time before and during the Great Depression.[13].”

            There is a lot of shooting from the hip on this.
            The reappearance here of primitive misogyny looking for hooks in every single context like crabgrass in a lawn is kind of obnoxious, and pathetic.

          • Islander December 27, 2022 at 8:08 am #

            I just read the whole Wiki entry on Prohibition. It is actually pretty interesting, covering a lot of unexpected angles. The jury seems to be out on a lot of the received wisdom re the pros and cons of Prohibition, including its actual role in increasing crime rates.

            Regarding the health impacts:
            “Research indicates that rates of cirrhosis of the liver declined significantly during Prohibition and increased after Prohibition’s repeal.[4][6] According to the historian Jack S. Blocker, Jr., “death rates from cirrhosis and alcoholism, alcoholic psychosis hospital admissions, and drunkenness arrests all declined steeply during the latter years of the 1910s, when both the cultural and the legal climate were increasingly inhospitable to drink, and in the early years after National Prohibition went into effect.”[20] Studies examining the rates of cirrhosis deaths as a proxy for alcohol consumption estimated a decrease in consumption of 10–20%.[137][138][139] National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism studies show clear epidemiological evidence that “overall cirrhosis mortality rates declined precipitously with the introduction of Prohibition,” despite widespread flouting of the law.[140]

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            Indeed! If only women rang things we wouldn’t have any of these problems. We’d still be living in grass huts with life nasty, brutish, and short.

            Note Anthea’s obscene chuckle about divorce ending the call for Prohibition. Yeah it will end marriage as we know it too, you hag.

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 6:08 am #

            @ Jarek:

            As I have mentioned before, I am pretty competent in the building trades. I also previously inquired as to your experience in this field. I.e., have you run gas line, replaced a breaker box, wired in electrical circuits, framed in windows, hung doors, laid floor-covering, re-plumbed an entire house, etc.? I have.

            I seriously doubt that Jarek could build a grass hut.

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 10:04 am #

            @ Jarek:

            Divorce is largely a matter of freedom of association; one is not obligated to continue an association with abusive, destructive, or immoral people. Where there are children involved, there is an obligation to remove such people from their lives.

          • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

            Ant: The last King of France was obsessed with fixing clocks. Did he have any business being king? No more than you had any business being married. You like to lay gas lines!

            Was your work up to code – or do you not deem that important? I assume (as you said) that you had help – a man – hopefully one who knew what he was doing.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 8:26 am #

        Correct on all counts.

    • Kay December 26, 2022 at 6:44 pm #

      I don’t think it is only in government. Churches are confusing femininity with holiness. The Pastors are soy boys appealing to the feminine side of things. Services are like a girl’s night out or a daughter’s slumber party.

      My ladies’ Bible study group can’t handle the books of the prophets. It is heavy-handed stuff, and they are offended by a God who wants to be loving and holy and perform needed justice to evil-doers. Our ladies’ Bible study is dwindling until all the agape love shows up. Women in America want to do whatever they want with no consequences. Who taught them this garbage? Give them that hyper-grace, and they lap it up!!

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:51 pm #

        Who taught them this garbage? College educated public school teachers. Well, many if not most PS teachers have degrees in “Education”. Lol…

        Then of course the overall entertainment industry led culture taught, or indoctrinated them too.

      • Anthea December 27, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

        Protestant churches in particular have always been very light on theology and disinclined to disclose the particular beliefs of their particular denomination.

        The main reason for this is because if a pastor were ever perfectly clear on this stuff, half the congregation would get up and walk out. Protestant churches easily become divided and will split into two factions over their pastor’s position on lipstick and whether dogs have souls.

        • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 10:53 am #

          I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said “Stop! don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said. I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!” He said, “Like what?” I said, “Well…are you religious or atheist?” He said, “Religious.” I said, “Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?” He said, “Christian.” I said, “Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?” He said, “Baptist!” I said,”Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?” He said, “Baptist church of god!” I said, “Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?” He said,”Reformed Baptist church of god!” I said, “Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?” He said, “Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!” I said,

          “Die, heretic scum”, and pushed him off. — Emo Phillips

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

            LOL

          • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

            Old Polish joke or was it Czech?

            A man was hurrying home to make the 12 am curfew. It was 11:55. The Russian soldier shot him the back. His comrade exclaimed, It’s not 12 yet! He replied, I know where he lived. He wasn’t going to make it.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

        The ladies hate Moses and love Jesus. Moses held fornicatin’ MOFO’s accountable. Jesus forgives all…..no matter how big of a whore and freak you were with 50+ dudes in your salad days.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 8:21 am #

      BINGO! You move to the head of the class.

  5. MontanaMan December 26, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    Anoq Absolutely outstanding article by Jim Kunstler. This reminds me of an article by Johnathan Turley’s latest article titled, “When the FBI Attacks Critics as “Conspiracy Theorists,” It’s Time to Reform the Bureau.”

    (I subscribe to Turley along with Jim Kunstler. And neither have ever let me down. )

    I have a gut feeling that if Jim read the article by Turley who also appeared on Tucker Carlson again, last Wednesday about the disgusting / despicable ‘ untrustworthy whatsoever, The FBI, Jim would agree with Turley’s article. Both men raked over the hot coals certain named men at certain high levels of the FBI.

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    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 10:31 am #

      Yes, the article is magnificent; superb.

      I was not prepared, he has jumped right in with both feet.

      • niner December 26, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

        yes, Mr. Kunstler is courageous man.

        moral courage is the most difficult courage.

        but he’s had a lot of practice.

        • SW December 26, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

          This is a great article and a grim reminder of what’s to come. Rule of Law is now about the further empowering of the already powerful and criminalization of criticism. To even question election results or processes could land a journalist in prison and the endless televising of Jan 6th hearings are to hammer it home that private citizens can not hope to fight the system.

          I read a headline the other day that said “January 6th rioters were armed to the teeth.”
          No evidence given and the one person dead was an unarmed veteran shot by a Capital policeman who had been disciplined for anger management issues.

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 6:11 pm #

            That is interesting, SW. As far as I know, that claim was not made before.
            I guess when they get away with their bullshit they up the ante, just like in so many other cases.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 3:45 pm #

            Private citizens were not even attempting to do what the J6 Jokers accused them of.

            If patriots had been inclined to stage a true insurrection or revolution MILLIONS of armed citizens would have marched on Washington and the jig would have been up,

            All they did was hold a big, loud rally….followed by a large riot at the Capitol.

            I didn’t agree with the riot, but all anyone should have been charged with WAS rioting….period….with punishments that fit the offense….not this endless DC gulag and kangaroo court proceedings.

            The USA is now no better than the old USSR was. Show trials and fake elections. The federal government no longer has the legitimacy it once had.

  6. steppingup December 26, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    So far, according to our own govt. we are missing somewhere north of forty trillion bucks. Over twenty trillion announced on the day before 911, and over 20 more a couple of years ago. How many people do you think that will buy. As long as your pay depends on believing this or not believing that, there you go. Follow the money. You can buy a lot of integrity for 40 trillion bucks. I wonder how much you can buy with an unlimited amount?

    • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:12 am #

      In a place where everything is for sale, eventually everything gets sold and, in the end, to the highest bidder. Easy to be the highest bidder when you can simply print up pieces of paper or add 0’s to a bank account that everyone will sell their souls to collect.

    • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

      They keep two sets of books. The public one for sheep food. The off-books set, perfectly legal btw, for actual accounting purposes.

      Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) Standard 56: there is a secret group of people using a secret process, which allows them to take a portion of the financial statements on the books and make them secret. You cannot know what a secret is and what is not.  So, when you look at financial statements at, for instance, the Department of Defense, they are meaningless because you only know what was left in for public consumption, not what has been cut out.

      It’s all out there in plain sight (well, the accounting rules are, just not the $$$ they want to hide). The new standard is from 2019. Simply search Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) Standard 56.

      • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

        They create money out of nothing. The First Crime. The “lend” it to the public – at interest. We have to pay to use our own money. The Second Crime.

        Tis but a scratch but it will suffice. Tomorrow we shall be grave men.

        We cannot pay our national debt because we’d have to print more money to do so. And pay for it. The debt will always be greater than the money in existence. And with this fake money, they get real resources: labor, capital, and land.

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:34 pm #

          The Federal Reserve / Treasury bond system is confusing, until one finds out the eight families that own the Fed Res actually *own* the money, and lend it to the Treasury.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 11:10 pm #

            I bought a book about the JFK assassination. In it I found one of the debt free dollar bills that he had printed. Some say this is why both he and Lincoln (who did the same) were assassinated.

          • Alzaebo December 27, 2022 at 1:59 am #

            Lincoln himself said the bankers behind him were the more dangerous. And Kennedy tried his own version of the greenback.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

            Yes, Jarek. Those were “United States Notes” (USN) printed by the U.S. Treasury. They have red seals on them instead of the green federal reserve note (FRN) seals.

            Lot’s of folks used to save examples of the old $2 bills printed in 1963 as the last circulating examples of this type of US currency. I don’t think it is an accident that no more USN’s circulated after the usual suspects made a red seal outta Kennedy’s cranium. I reckon they wanted to send a message to the rest of the pols in Washington.

            Well, it worked. Soon thereafter the blue seal Silver Certificates also disappeared from circulation and we’ve had nothing but FRN’s circulating ever since.

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        I remember Catherine Austin Fitts pointing this out, but forgot.

        Thanks for the memory.

        • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 8:03 pm #

          Welcome!

          • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

            It’s all in the interest of ‘national security’. The way I see it, ‘national security’ is the cover-up supreme for anything covert and likely not specifically authorized by “We the People”. 3-letter agencies are fond of ‘national security’.

    • Kay December 26, 2022 at 6:49 pm #

      There is no equal playing field today. In the old days, the government had guns, and we had guns. They had a cannon, and we had a cannon. Today we have a gun, and they have nuclear bombs. God knows what other technology they have. The odds have tilted in the Governments favor and they grin at us like, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

  7. Nigel Tufnel December 26, 2022 at 10:15 am #

    Weather warfare: 10 below zero here in Tn a couple of days ago. Windchill brought it down to minus 20º.
    This massive push of frigid polar air down into the US had the effect of pulling warm air up into eastern europe and Ukraine. This means mud instead of hard frozen ground, bad for Russia’s military operation. It won’t change the outcome, Russia will still ‘win’, but this will drag it out a bit longer so that the the neo-con warmongers of the west can milk their taxpayers for a few more billion into the Ukraine Laundromat and the pockets of our reps in DC.
    Happy new year to all, and don’t forget to feed the birds.

    • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:24 am #

      Weather as a Force Multiplier:
      Owning the Weather in 2025

      check it out.

      • Nigel Tufnel December 26, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

        Yes! exactly. The West is in its death throes, desperate, and will do anything to maintain its power. It is the shark that must keep swimming and consuming all in its path in order to survive…. including weather warfare, biologic warfare, mind control, surveillance, ….
        And all those tax dollars we sent in all these years went – not for infrastructure or medical care or schools, but for feeding the Beast. I was a young craftsman, struggling to survive off grid as best I could, still forced to come up with tax payments. It was always a scramble.

        • SW December 26, 2022 at 4:04 pm #

          Say hello to the 87,000 new tax collectors. You’re exactly the person they’re looking for — perhaps you own a car, a piece of land, dining room set.

          They weren’t kidding when they said “You will own nothing and be happy” but that was a typo — “You will own nothing and then WE’LL be happy” was what they meant to say.

    • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 10:34 am #

      Both Political Partys have gone balls-in for ‘Victory over Russia’, spending $150 billion, so far. One wonders, is there a limit to US largesse for Ukraine? And when Ukraine is thoroughly crushed, its army pounded into fine dust, and all resistance ceases, what then? Just forget about it, like the debacle in Afghanistan was forgotten about? $150+ billion poured down a rathole with nothing to show for it except for American weapons and ordnance systems in the hands of terror cells & criminal gangs spread out all over the globe.

      • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:44 am #

        Poland is eager to regain some of the landmass that they lost to the Ukraine and NATO will probably dupe them in assuming the role as their next patsy once Ukraine is lost. Then we will pump gazillions into them and launder it back to the DNC and the MIC.

        Not until America is crushed or simply collapses on its own will this madness end and I do not look forward to either possibility. t am simply a spectator at this point in my life..

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

          From MoA:
          “The map of a “dismembered” Russia in the office of the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense was shown by Ukrainian propagandists
          ??Russia is divided there into territories “given” to Ukraine, a certain CAR (apparently “Central Asian Republic”), a number of territories near China are marked with a red “K”, the Kuril Islands are given to Japan, Kaliningrad to Germany, and the northern territories to Finland.

          ??Kiev reporters noted the Kursk and Belgorod oblasts, as well as parts of the Kuban, that were assigned to Ukraine and asked Budanov whether this was “the next stage after the 1991 borders,” to which he responded evasively that anything was possible.”

          • niner December 26, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

            too much cocaine.

            and no Disneyland.

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:37 pm #

          Yes, the Ukraine is being carved up.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

            Pardon, carved up and offered out, piece by piece.

            The buyers will be the next target, good call Walt, great details Paula.
            Thus the Empire expands.

      • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 10:45 am #

        I’m not counting on it ending there. When Ukraine gets crushed, Poland – among others – has already demonstrated the willingness to be next in line. At some point Putin will get tired of their shit and start attacking the root causes, the malignant US nodes sprinkled throughout Europe. The cancer will need to be excised completely to prevent it coming back and Russia’s moment on stage has finally arrived to do just that. The US military and their NATO poodles are paper tigers. They’ll fold pretty quickly when the gloves finally come off. Expect China to move on Taiwan at the same time to provide the knockout blow. Then we’ll see just how crazy the neo-cons in DC are if they reach for the nukes. This day was always coming, so we might just as well get on with it.

        • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

          Good post, Dis.

          Yeah, assume Putin will eventually tire of the US shenanigans in Ukraine and does not want to chance nukes.

          Take out the American influence in Europe, bit by bit. Dissolve the influence of NATO. Freeze Europe. It will not take long.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

            “Take out the American influence in Europe, bit by bit. ”

            I don’t think “bit by bit” will be the plan/

            I think it will be main organs (brain, lungs, heart) all at once:

            London Paris Berlin.

            Rome, Vienna, and Madrid will be spared. .

        • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

          DA, obviously you haven’t heard the news.

          In the Marine Corps, women & men are training together in boot camp.

          Hundreds of DOD personnel are transitioning from men to woman, paid for by the US government.

          The Navy is actively recruiting homosexuals.

          Young White Men un the ranks are being scrutinized for any ‘White Supremacist’ tendencies, then purged.

          125 year old Confederate iconography is being removed at West Point, per order of the African Commandant.

          Gen. Milley & Sec. Austin assure us that building a more inclusive force is beneficial because “Diversity is our strength’.

          Who says the US & NATO are paper tigers?

          • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

            And this directly from an active Army CID officer: The US Army is actively recruiting those who wish to transgender and will pay the two year, $2M price tag.

            Best part, once the process is begun the patient is put on anti-psychotic drug treatment that last through the two-year process. During the time that they are on these chemicals, they are NOT allowed to handle weapons of any kind, which does make sense from a safety standpoint, but sorta does mean that they may be able to cook and clean and do pushups, but fighting is certainly out of the question.

            An army whose soldiers cannot fight by law? Wow no chance of that becoming a problem.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            Well it’s logical: If men can no longer meet masculine standards, just become women to meet the lower standards that were given to women.

            The Special Forces made a huge mistake in going public. Women immediately insisted on joining and of course got their way.

            Society will continue to corrode until men learn the art of saying no to women.

          • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

            On the broader front, things are terrible as well. The whole US surface fleet is now obsolete thanks to hypersonic missiles. While the US was developing garbage like the F35 and even more “carrier groups” the Russians, Chinese and Iranians were working on hypersonics and drones. If China takes Taiwan, there is nothing, short of nukes, that the US can do about it.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:53 pm #

            Someone noted that those violent foreign males in Europe are sporting an awful lot of military haircuts, new clothes, and new cell phones.

            They are Sardaukar, given privileges, immunity, and luxury housing above the local heritage population.

            How many of these disguised mercenaries are poring in across our border, since the illegals are “from all over the world”?

        • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 10:51 am #

          @ Disaffected:

          That’s what I’ve been wondering: Where does it all end? If Russia were to annex the whole of Ukraine, they’d still have NATO on their border with Poland and elsewhere, and probably continuing to attack–at the same time that Russia would be trying to rebuild.

          I can’t see how this ends, other than through the inability of the US to continue to fund the war and provide war materials and manpower.

          What then?

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        The US won’t stop. Russia has oil and gas and the neocons want it.

        They know no other way than killing and looting. That is how they do.

        This will proceed until one or the other launches the first nuclear weapon. And then it will stop.

        And WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

        • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 11:15 am #

          @ Paula D:

          It’s hard to see any advantage to the US from a nuclear exchange. It’s beyond the powers of my imagination to even conjecture how this would play out, but it does seem to me that even if the US “won,” its ability to take control of Russia and its resources in the aftermath would be completely crippled.

          As Alzaebo mentioned, there are a lot of “violent foreign males” in Europe to (perhaps) man a subsequent invasion of Russia. But someone would have to pay them and arm them, and they might find it far more attractive to take control of the countries in which they are currently guests.

          Nuclear war seems to me to be a pure “Samson” option.

          • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

            I agree, Anthea, but then, we are sane people and our ruling overlords are batshit crazy.

            The MAD doctrine was based on the assumption that both sides were unwilling to go through nuclear war.

            I think that our current neocons are relying on their belief that nothing will provoke Russia into nuclear war. So they feel confident that they can provoke to the max.

            So far, so good. I actually thought that Russia would be provoked in the last years of Obama, when ambassadors were dropping dead and false accusations were flung and planes were shot from the sky.
            But Russia refused to take the bait, thus giving humanity an extra 8 years of life.
            I’m not as sure as our crazy-ass owners that Russia will continue to abstain though.

      • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 11:48 am #

        I think the stakes are much higher for the Deep State concerning Ukraine than they were for Afghanistan. Sure, Afghan was a gigantic humiliation, but it was a reasonably ring-fenced conflict. The one in Ukraine covers all the bases: an enemy who is defying US hegemony/the globalist agenda; an enemy who has evidence of vast corrupt doings by the DS; an enemy who has vast natural resources that we want to steal. That is why they won’t just walk away and change the topic when the Russians win. The only way this is stopped is if the current neocon maniacs in the US and Europe are kicked out and replaced by sane ones.

        • Islander December 26, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

          I just wrote somewhere that we need a coo (new spelling) in Ukraine to make a separate peace with Russia.

          Of course where we really need a coo of some kind is in DC.

      • Nigel Tufnel December 26, 2022 at 11:58 am #

        The real motive is to “weaken and fragment” Russia into small pieces that will be more easily plundered for resources.
        Unlike the US, Russia has not squandered all of its natural resources. If the US ‘elites’ can get their hands on these, they can keep spinning their “infinite growth on a finite planet” plate for a bit longer. One huge difference between Russia and the West is that Russia takes a long range view, the West can only see through next quarter profits.

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

          Agree. See the map of dismembered Russia I posted about, above.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 9:57 pm #

            Strongly agree. If we can grab some more of somebody else’s cash flows, we can float another loan.

      • CrusherMuldoon December 26, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

        I have a better question, Marlin. Just how long is Putin willing to suffer Russian casualties from that 150 billion without generating a little payback toward the gifter?

      • ozarks December 26, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

        What then, when Ukraine is crushed or not? No doubt we, the USA will then need to supply $$ and manpower to rebuild that little hell hole and again, our Congress will stand and cheer…….espec. if Mr. Z shows up in person to demand such. Congress makes me sick.

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 4:02 pm #

          Name a country since Germany that the US has destroyed and then rebuilt.

          That doesn’t happen. Ukraine will be left like every other country the US bombed into the middle ages.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 6:54 pm #

            Only Russia has, actually, ever cared about the Ukraine.

            Russia offered the Ukraine/Yanukovich a much better economic development deal than the hyenas of the USA/EU/IMF.

            He was inclined to accept that deal until he was driven from office in what Wiki calls “the Revolution of Dignity.” (Orwell is cackling in his grave.)

      • abbybwood December 26, 2022 at 3:04 pm #

        Maybe that was the goal of their grift all along?

        Send all the weapons to Kiev with no accounting then let the corrupt, coke-snorting Zelenskyy sell them to terrorists hither and yon.

        I see where the US is busy bombing “ISIS” again in Syria.

        $100 billion (plus the millions SBF contributed) can create LOTS of terrorists.

        And isn’t it convenient how corrupt US proxy Ukraine bombed the shit out of its own citizens in Donbass just for the crime of speaking Russian? 15,000 civilians snuffed out.

        Then Putin created his SMO to “de-Nazify and de-militarize Kiev”. No MSM dare mention the Bandera Nazis in control of Zelenskyy. Never mind those tattoos!

        Turns out Merkel just admitted in an interview that the Minsk accords were never meant to stop Kiev from bombing The Donbas region. Only backed by Germany and France to give the most corrupt country in Europe time to build up its military.

        Which is a big reason Putin recently said, “The US and EU cannot be trusted.”

        Of course if you ask 100 Americans at the DMV about any of this 99% wouldn’t know what you were talking about because the MSM Mockingbird media are 100% compromised and have been since JFK’s brain was blown out in Dallas in broad daylight.

        • SW December 26, 2022 at 4:24 pm #

          Make that 1% of 324 million and you’ll be closer to reality. Putin stated too he was genuinely surprised by Merkel’s admission b/c he believed the agreement was done in good faith. I can’t imagine how this is going to end when one side has demonstrated that peace agreements are (to them) stalling tactics to build up the army.

          I didn’t see Zelensky in his greatest role as Rambo the Ukranian Warrior/statesman/weight-lifter icon but his rather ferret face with the expression sullen discontent would give Pelosi a run for her money. Zelensky will be the first rat off the ship of state when it really hits the fan.

        • Islander December 26, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

          Re “Turns out Merkel just admitted in an interview that the Minsk accords were never meant to stop Kiev from bombing The Donbas region. Only backed by Germany and France to give the most corrupt country in Europe time to build up its military.”

          Basically, there are “Neocon” types in Russia, too.

          Martin Armstrong has this to say:

          httpX://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/will-putin-step-down-in-2023/

          “We have a very serious problem. Former Chancellor Merkel has openly stated that there was NEVER any intention to carry out the Minsk Agreement and that not only condemned the people of the Donbas to war, loss of their religion, and the tyranny of Kiev, but they were using them for bait to deliberately force Putin to invade to start a war with Russia. Congressman Adam Kinzinger just came out and said that NATO could destroy Russia in three days. The real danger here is that Merkel, and also the former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, have both publicly stated that they played Putin for a fool. In 2023, we are entering a very critical time period where Putin may step down during January, or April/May 2023 and then the Neocons will take the reigns of power and they will not be so soft.

          What is so dangerous is that this not only demonstrates to China that the West cannot be trusted in making any agreements whatsoever, but that the Russian neocons have been put on notice that the intention of NATO is to wipe Russia off the face of the earth. They DELIBERATELY blew up the Nordstream pipeline showing that this is a long-term objective to crush the Russian economy. Our world leaders WANT WAR and they are the aggressor – not Russia. They deliberately had the Vice President at the Munich Conference state that Ukraine should join NATO. Then on February 23rd, 2022, one day before Putin made his move, Zelensky came out and said Ukraine wanted to rearm itself with nuclear weapons.

          Anyone who cannot see what is taking place here is blind. The West NEEDS war to terminate the monetary system as it stands today. They are looking for a war with Russia and China so they can call Bretton Woods II and craft their digital currency managed by the IMF and install their one-world government administered by the United Nations. We will completely lose all freedom and any right to vote whatsoever. Keep in mind that in ALL parliamentary systems, the people never vote for who shall be the head of state. That is unique to the United States. They want to eliminate that ability, Our computer has been warning that we will soon end the right of Americans to vote for a President.

          In June 2022, former president Petro Poroshenko said in an interview with several Western media outlets, including Deutsche Welle, publicly admitted that there had never been any question of implementing the Minsk agreements and that they had only been intended to give Ukraine time. He said:

          “We got what we wanted. We did not believe Putin, just as we do not believe him now. Our task was, first of all, to remove the threat, or at least to delay the war. We gave ourselves eight years to restore economic growth and build up the strength of the armed forces. That was the first task – and it was accomplished […]. Despite the fact that the war lasted eight years – as far as a large-scale military operation is concerned, I think the Minsk agreements have fulfilled their role.”

          Interestingly, the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said exactly the same thing, on December 7th, 2022, curiously, the very anniversary of Pearl Harbor – Sunday, December 7, 1941. The real question here is that it certainly appears that they negotiated in bad faith and played Putin for a fool. That is highly dangerous now In her interview with the Zeit

          Angela Merkel – Accords de Minsk

          Merkel stated very clearly: “I considered the 2008 discussion on the membership of Ukraine and Georgia in NATO to be a mistake. These countries did not have the necessary conditions for it, and the consequences of such a decision had not been fully considered, both in terms of Russia’s actions against Georgia and Ukraine and for NATO and its rules of assistance. And the 2014 Minsk agreements were an attempt to give Ukraine time.”

          She continued, saying: “We all knew that this was a frozen conflict, that the problem was not solved, but this is precisely what gave Ukraine precious time.”
          ++++++++++++++++

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

            Egads. My oldest sister and brother were in grade school during WWll’s ration card regime.

            That’s what the digital currency / carbon credts are.
            Ration cards.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 10:40 am #

      “Perhaps the biggest part of that unspooling event will be the bankruptcy and the failure of the government in Washington, its consequent loss of legitimacy, and the end of its ability to control and harass the people who live under it. Think I’m kidding? Stand by now and wait for it.”

      Harassment is such an apt term for the least of what they do to us.

      We have a madwoman in New York, ranting about heat pumps and such, as if she knows a thing about them or any other appliance.

      The woman is from Buffalo, for crying out loud. Anyone from Buffalo who claims to know a thing about heating your home should know that a damn heat pump just won’t cut it, let alone solar.

      Real scientists by now have disproved that foolish global warming or whatever they call it now.

      The mere fact that every time their predictions failed epically, they repackaged their scheme with a new label, should have awakened anyone with a functional brain, but nooooo.

      Most of us new from the start that peope like Al Gore starting to talk about “carbon credits” was looking for yet another scam to make money from nothing.

      Yes, they have us all accusing each other of various forms of harassme

      • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 10:51 am #

        She’s banned woodstoves, natgas hookups, and new pipelines. The nuclear power plant north of NYC was decommissioned. Legacy power plants across NY State are slated for closure, with the belief that NYC can be powered up by offshore windturbines in the Allantic off Red Hook. I don’t think Hoschul has much of an engineering background or has even heard about the laws of thermodynamics; she must have advisors telling her that such a thing is possible.

        • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 11:10 am #

          This is what happens when your corrupt, ass-grabbing governor picks a county clerk from Buffalo (who stumbled into less than a year in the US House of Representatives due to — shockingly — a corrupt Congressman being prosecuted) to provide “gender and geographic balance,” and then is forced from office for grabbing too many asses. She’s almost universally hated by State employees for her stupidity and incompetence, but most probably voted for her anyway because “Democrats are the friends of average people.”

          Anyway, there are scads of coal power plants sitting idle all across New York State, and the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant was such a wonderful thing that John Sterling cut an ad for comes that ran on Yankees broadcasts. Have fun listening to the Bombers on your radios when you don’t have enough electricity to power your radios!

        • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 11:49 am #

          And yet NYers voter her back in.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

            Republicans facilitated that. One was was people like Mitch talking about a federal law to ban abortion or some such idiocy, right after the SC had claimed it was up to the states.

            Anybody remember Lee Zeldin calling for Andrew Cuomo to be president?

          • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

            httpx://www.afcd.org/

            Nobody wants to deal with energy issues or dividends would be a reality.

          • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

            Beryl, it was Lindsay Grahamnesty who introduced a bill to ban abortion in violation of the Tenth Amendment, which was the basis for the Supreme Court’s ruling. I’m sure it was at the behest of The Turtle, most likely to fuck over conservative candidates who might’ve gotten in the way of the Donkephants.

          • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

            Hereward, it was New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and Ithaca that elected that short, stupid, fugly whore; the rest of the state went for Zeldin. She can complete the job of turning New York into Venezuela whole berating anyone who disagrees with the plan.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

            Liberal women and their pet males in other words.

            We must make the same mistake in the Next America. No female voting! And only qualified men.

          • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

            “Nobody wants to deal with energy issues or dividends would be a reality”

            Two years ago it was “Covid”

            And now the truth is being exposed. Only a matter of time until your next hoax comes undone, K-Mao.

      • abbybwood December 26, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

        Climate change.

    • thirdcoastlegend December 26, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      The timing of this arctic blast over the entire US to ruin Christmas and save the Ukraine from the upcoming Russian offensive is so perfect that one has to wonder if it is intentional.

      • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        God used drought, disease and floods to control the empires of the Middle East for millennia.

        Could it be in this evil country?

        • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

          Or, at least to warn us to stop our insanity and return to at least trying to do His will.

        • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

          HAARP. Weaponized weather.

          The military (a.k.a The Government) says it took down the capability.

          Would you like to buy a bridge? I have one for sale.

          It’ll look great in the desert.

        • thirdcoastlegend December 26, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

          JAZ-

          As someone foolish enough to spend several hours driving through the mess to visit my folks for Christmas, I frequently entertained the thought this is God’s judgment upon our wicked and degenerate nation.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

        Dane Wigington explains that it is.

  8. mrs_saj December 26, 2022 at 10:17 am #

    Nice post today, Jim. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas celebration.

    One other contributing factor compelling people of all classes to pay attention to reality will be the outsize number of deaths and disabilities of people they know and perhaps their own disability as well. The full health impact of the clot shots is still unknown but will become clearer over time. Numerous people who worshipped at the feet of the so called experts and hysterically bought in to experimental vaxxes and boosters will no longer create the noise they once did in the public arena. This will allow for more clarity and rational notice of what is happening to this country’s (and all country’s) economy and institutions.

    • Walter B December 26, 2022 at 10:31 am #

      And isn’t it rather disturbing that the MSN Outlook home page posts numerous articles every day about children, teens, 20-, 30-, and 40-year old’s who died suddenly and unexpectantly of heart attacks, none of whom had any prior health issues and whose deaths are never explained other than Sudden Adult Death Syndrome?

      I don’t think it going to take too much longer before enough people start getting scared and then maybe pissed, and that will be when the government thugs really lay the hammer down.

      Are they vaxxing those walking across the border every day? I don’t think so. Perhaps they are replacements for the casualties.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 10:47 am #

        I see that Alex Berenson, who was nothing if not meticulous in his analysis of the vaccine data, never letting the slightest bit of unfounded alarmism slip through, as that would be seized upon to discredit his whole body of work, is now posting those sudden death anecdotes, and being criticized for it.

        He is doing so, because he is trying to make sure nobody takes the shots, and will do whatever works:

        “Right now, when I think about the mRNA shots, all I care about is ensuring we end their use, especially for people under 50, as soon as possible. They are ~worthless against Omicron, and their risks rise with each dose.

        And if that means highlighting odd sudden deaths, so be it.”

        https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1607158463356076032?s=20&t=RjmWVLjqFtFmNzlcoBYgCA

        “They aren’t helpful as proof of mRNA vaccine risk.

        But they are – sadly – far more helpful in getting people to consider the possibility of risk than a thousand tweets about autoimmune disorders or excess mortality (which unfortunately is NOT coming down as I’d hoped).”

        https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1607156872230096897?s=20&t=RjmWVLjqFtFmNzlcoBYgCA

      • malthuss December 26, 2022 at 10:53 am #

        Two professional footballers in Switzerland just dropped dead.
        Two more World Cup journos also collapsed and died after Grant Wahl.
        All with heart issue
        Celine Dion has “stiff body syndrome”.

        also a 30 something TV celeb just died.

        ABC News producer Dax Tejera dead at age 37 | Fox News
        1 day agoABC News producer Dax Tejera died of a heart attack Friday evening at the age of just 37. The executive producer of ABC’s Sunday show “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Tejera had already…

        • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 11:33 am #

          Celine was too much a symbol of the Before Times in Canada. So she is no big loss the the conquerors.

          Nationalism is bad.

      • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 11:16 am #

        Crazy that all the weeping over Mike Leach, Mississippi State’s head football coach and amateur historian and comedian, hasn’t mentioned the clot shot possibly causing his heart attack. Or the PTB and their media allies are trying to suppress that possibility so the 100 people in America who give a shit won’t make it into A Thing.

        • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 11:27 am #

          Leach was a genuinely good guy. A football coach who didn’t define himself by being a football coach. Shame to see him pass.

          • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

            Agreed. Saban, Smart, and coaches at other hugely successful SEC programs get the ink, but as a UGA Dawg (fan and former student, not player), I have to say Leach was the kind of coach every player should want to play for. Hail State!

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

            People used to be better at being complete human beings. The old ballplayers were prouder of their service in WW2 than being ballplayers. That’s kids stuff after all.

            Just read last night: Jimmy Stewart was not only an air force pilot who flew many missions, but rose up in the ranks to retire as a Brigadier General. In comparison, the current crop of stars are pygmies.

        • Mick December 26, 2022 at 1:23 pm #

          Yes I immediately suspected the clot shot with Mike Leach. MSU required all staff to vaxx up. From what I hear, he didn’t fight it. In fact he was in favor of the jab. So, my bet is that he not only got the first two, the third last winter, he most likely also in the early fall got the new fourth ‘bi-valent’ booster.

          I really liked Mike Leach. Being in Texas I enjoyed his decade with Texas Tech. He made the Big 12 conference a lot more interesting and fun. I recently read his book that he co-wrote about Geronimo. A very good historical read. Highly recommend it.

          It’s very sad that Leach is probably yet another person cut down early by “the science”. He could’ve and probably would’ve coached another ten years at least. And I bet another book was in him. Probably one on Blackbeard.

      • mrs_saj December 26, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

        Its weird, Walter. How many acquaintances does one have to know who have dies unexpectedly before becoming suspicious?

        I think there is a massive, real time test going on right now to answer that question

  9. Uncle.Al December 26, 2022 at 10:23 am #

    What does a woman want? More.
    Try filling a (Pythagorean) Greedy Cup.

    • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 10:34 am #

      Right. Though, since 1946 that’s what all Americans have been conditioned to want and expect. The rise of “limited edition” products and internet “deals” over the last 20-25 years just adds to the “need” to buy things right now right now RIGHT NOW!!! And the same with our politics, as Robert Epstein has discussed ad nauseam for several years: control the search engines, and you control the elections.

  10. Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 10:32 am #

    We’re following the same path as the USSR before us. Their motto at the time was “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.” While that same motto still holds true for a large swath of our society considering that whatever they manage to make in the global economy it gets inflated or taxed away, our boy/girl geniuses in DC have added a new twist to demonstrate their utter depravity: “they pretend to tell us the truth and we pretend to believe them.” In the end, the co-called “legitimacy” of their rule will come down to what it always does: the point of a gun and which side has the most of them. Bloody insurrections or a bloody crackdown is where we’re headed, no two ways about it. This can end no other way.

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    • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 10:54 am #

      Funny thing about that line we were all told repeatedly.

      It is proven false every day in Ukraine, where we are told it’s really difficult to destroy Soviet-era infrastructure, electricity production and distribution, dams, subways, railroads, etc., because they were built to withstand nuclear bombs.
      And it’s really difficult to kill Nazis, because they hole up in Soviet-era bomb shelters, which were built under the factories and the apartment buildings.
      And the Soviet air defense missiles work, unlike the US Patriot missiles.

      So, the US never bothered to build bomb shelters for the population, or air defense that works. Instead they told us to climb under our desks.

      It’s almost as if both countries knew which country was more likely to launch nuclear war, isn’t it?

      And apparently Ukraine hasn’t built anything of value since the USSR was destroyed 31 years ago.

      Personally, I think you should drop old propaganda lines when they have been proven to be total bullshit.

      • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        Listen to you and your “Nazis”. Then you tell other people to drop the old propaganda lines.

    • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

      Funny how people keep showing up to work in failing states even when they stop getting paid. That would never happen here. People stop getting paid in America and the building will be empty by end of day.

      • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

        One would hope. Employment is a contract, after all. No work, no pay; no pay, no work.

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

          The Russians did show up, though, and kept things going.

          Same as the Iraqis in the 90s. You have to admire the men who kept the water and electricity flowing even though the US had horrible sanctions on them that stopped all repair parts from getting through.

          Somehow they jerryrigged them and kept them going.

          And then when the US invaded and destroyed them in 2003 they put in bids to repair them, but the US gave the bids to Halliburtion, at 10 times to cost of their bids.

          Corruption R US.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 10:30 pm #

            They offshored Iraq!

            I saw a documentary about Afghanistan. Those evil Russkies built thousands of facilities, buildings, infrastructure for power, water, sewage, stuff up the wazoo. So sturdy they are using many of them today.

            Those evil Russkies were teaching the women to read! Again, as they used to in the 70s!

            We taught ’em about gender cosplay, though. Definitely superior.

          • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

            That made me laugh out loud, Alzaebo.

  11. perla December 26, 2022 at 10:36 am #

    And have we no Eye of Providence?

  12. Amman December 26, 2022 at 10:38 am #

    I have a picture of a man who has been taking a beating for a long time from 3 punks called Government agency, mainstream Media and Greedy Corporations. He’s fallen on the ground and is on his back taking fist blows to the chin and face. He is tired. So tired he cannot to get up or defend himself, his family or his people anymore.

    Is that a true and accurate picture of America today?

    • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 11:16 am #

      Yes.

      • Amman December 28, 2022 at 5:05 pm #

        Prove it.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 28, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

          Well, 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck as of this year. I’d say that’s a good indicator to start with.

          Granted, many just way overextended (which is on them), many aren’t trying anymore and they take the govt handouts to not work and stay poor but have cable and order Chipotle burritos from the couch (also on them).

          But many are busting their asses to keep their families somewhat comfortable so their kids don’t have to know they are one month away from dad and mom having to admit how truly screwed they are. The hard part is they know the odds of getting out of that with any kind of retirement are very slim…

  13. Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 10:39 am #

    The crackdown will defeat the revolutionaries because the government has control of the mass media; most people will buy the bullshit about who’s destroying the society, just as they’ve bought most all the bullshit since 1900 about who’s good and who’s wicked.

    • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      Could very well be. It’ll be an uphill battle, for sure.

    • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

      Yeah, what if any such Revolutionaries hit the power just as the game was about to come on? They would be hated forever.

      The game and cold beer trumps everything. It’s the only thing that keeps America going since people hate their jobs.

      Normal Americans are terrible human beings for the most part. The Ukies are fools but brave and patriotic.

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

        From what I’ve read many Ukie men have fled in order to get out of fighting. The ones left are brave, yes. And many of them are now dead. More will be dead with each passing weak.

        The Ukraine is done. Stick a fork in it. But, we US taxpayers will keep paying for it. Or, the Fed debt producing machine, that is.

        Oh, and it is The Ukraine. (This part of the comment is for general audience), Not Ukraine.

        The Ukraine means ‘The Borderland’. Of what? Russia.

        Putin is right, it’s not a real historical country.

        And Kiev is properly pronounced Kee Ev. Not Keev. Keev new pronunciation is Zelensky bullshit propaganda to diss the Russian heritage of that city.

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 10:36 pm #

          Keev is where Swedish Vikings settled along the river Rus 1400 years ago, so the Ukrainian told me.

  14. MiTurn December 26, 2022 at 10:41 am #

    “Democratic Party became dominated by activist women, who exhibited two outstanding tendencies of behavior: they tended to make decisions on the basis of emotion… their feelings about this-and-that; and they were much more ruthless in political battle than men.”

    Sign of the times and maybe a future one too. I can’t help but recalling the words of the prophet Isaiah (3:12) in the OT about the future:

    “Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.”

    Sounds about right.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 10:57 am #

      People seem not to remember that Hillary needed Barack Obama’s permission to run in 2016; that he kept threatening to replace her with Joe Biden, as if it were up to him, because it was; and that the first thing Hillary did, once it became clear that they didn’t cheat enough and that Donald Trump actually won, was to call Barack and apologize.

      That is not “dominated by women”, in my book.

      We don’t know who exactly gave the word that Barack would be the MAN who headed the Democrat ticket in ’08, and not Hillary; but we do know that the MSM turned against her, in unison.

      I the MSM dominated by women? Are our major global corporations dominated by women?

      How many female presidents have we had?

      The first female VP is a whore. Does that look like dominance to anyone?

      • Rowdypiglet December 26, 2022 at 11:35 am #

        Beryl, I think the dominance of women is at the level of ordinary life. As an example, the CEO of the corporation may be a man, but the experience of working there is completely controlled by women, usually the HR departments (you’ll rarely if ever find a man there) and their female toadies who report back to them and are ever on the lookout for microagressions or anything they can punish. They bring in the (usually female) diversity trainers who humiliate men, people with normal sexuality, white people. DEI departments everywhere are dominated by zealous women. School boards, regulatory bodies . . . women.

        I agree that at the higher levels where real decisions are made, there are noticeably more men. But the women in question eagerly go along with the agendas from above. If it weren’t for these eager foot soldiers, the war wouldn’t even begin. Somebody planned it, and they are happily putting the plan in motion and making it a reality.

        I don’t have the expertise to speculate on what drives these women, other than resentment and out of control emotions. If they “feel” that your facial expression was aggressive, it was, and it actually harmed them physically! There is no defense for this kind of thing. Unravelling the root cause would take someone like Christopher Lasch and, sadly, he’s gone. But his observations at the beginning of the Age of Narcissism were prophetic. Social trends affect the behavior of men and women differently, and this one has been entirely toxic to both.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

          The women who owe their positions to the men in power were hired specifically because they agree with that agenda.

          You can’t use a selct group to prove anything about the majority of humans who are female.

          Again, hired by men to carry out an agenda developed by men.

          • Rowdypiglet December 26, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

            I agree, Beryl, it proves nothing about the majority of human females. But I’ll repeat what I said before: the specific group of women I’m speaking about, who now infest bureaucracies, academia, HR departments, DEI, are keen to carry out the agenda of those who hired them. They, in turn, hire others of their kind, who are equally zealous. They’re not the general who decides where to send the troops next, but they ARE the troops. Without them, the agenda is just a daydream; their actions make it a reality, so I don’t see how they’re not culpable.

            As for the men at the top, they effectively live in another world that’s inaccessible to us. In many instances, we don’t even know who they are, and have no means of finding out. But the women collaborators are among us, so (presumably) they’re not beyond accountability or influence.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

            Given women’s enthusiastic endorsement of this evil system and the desire of young women to join the ranks described above, I think it says much about women as a group.

            My first disagreement with Rowdy.

            The minority of good women always support men over their sisters. Rowdy is choosing wrongly here since Beryl is a feminist.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

            I don’t endorse it, Jarek.

            Ain’t I a woman?

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:22 pm #

            You deny women all culpability. This is Feminism 101. Only men are to blame – for everything!

            Shame on you.

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            @ Rowdypiglet:

            Sure, these women “who now infest bureaucracies, academia, HR departments, DEI, are keen to carry out the agenda of those who hired them,” and of course, they are culpable.

            But these same people hired Fauci and hundreds or thousands of men. They installed Biden. They placed men in positions in the medical establishment to carry out the covid agenda.

            It is not men or women as a group who are culpable; it’s the individual people who did the deed–and continue to do the deed.

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

          I could hear a woman’s voice in my husband’s work-from-home office, so I went and asked him about it.

          He said “I am taking a mandatory sexual harassment class”. and both of us made the same joke at the same time.

          Another good reason to work from home, added to the saving of gas, time and risk of car crashes, is that no one can accuse him of sexual harassment.

        • Islander December 26, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

          “I agree that at the higher levels where real decisions are made, there are noticeably more men. But the women in question eagerly go along with the agendas from above. ”

          It’s called the authoritarian personality.

          Such people toady to those who have power over them and crack the whip over those over whom they have authority.

          AKA, Shit rolls downhill.

          IMO the buck stops with those at the top of the pyramid of power, not those in the middle or at the bottom.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:51 am #

        James and many commenters up here seem to gloss over the fact that everything that is fucked up in our society now is because it’s been 100% manipulated, including women.

        Paula has explained it incredibly well, ad nauseam. But still, the “it’s women’s fault” bullshit continues.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

          Oh those women…

        • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

          Because clearly women have no influence over men. Or are you saying Jezebel, Hilliary the Shrieker, and Jill Biden were/are helpless waifs who were/are manipulated by their awful bastard husbands into doing bad things? While you may be rightly sick of men being meanies, some men are sick of being henpecked and manipulated by women who bitch, throw tantrums, and cry to get their way, and demand that they be allowed to sacrifice their children to Molech because otherwise they’re bereft of rights.

          • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

            You are mixing up personal relationships with wealth and power relationships.

            Those who have the power make the rules.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

            Yes, and they have put women over men as per the divorce courts especially.

            Your Engels (an ardent male feminist) is now quite out of date.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

            What an odd comment.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:59 pm #

            Mary, half the time I have no idea what Jarek is talking about.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:24 pm #

            That’s only to be expected, girls. I’m far more educated then you two are.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

            That’s sad, Jarek.

            So educated, yet no clue about how the real world works.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 7:15 pm #

            ” demand that they be allowed to sacrifice their children to Molech because otherwise they’re bereft of rights.”

            Huh?

            Clear as mud. The male brain . . .

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 12:35 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            “I’m far more educated then you two are.”

            The certainty with which you state this makes one suspect that you have a PhD in something-or-other, which is normally an indication that Daddy had enough money to allow you to be a professional student. Bet you have a couple of Master’s degrees that you embarked on before the PhD, the better to waste Daddy’s money and provide an excuse for not getting a job.

            Most of us here are probably familiar with your type, whose usual objective is to stay in college until Daddy croaks and you inherit. Failing this, another favorite means for continuing to milk Daddy is to start a business that will require capitalization and an allowance for a few years, until the business becomes profitable. Said business is usually something along the lines of a macrobiotic restaurant that is open two nights a week.

            I even knew one guy who convinced Daddy that he’d figured out how to beat the Blackjack tables in Vegas–and Daddy was dumb enough to stake him. (The losses were very substantial.)

            But by all means post your resume. And tell us about your European tour–the Grand Tour being essential to round out ones education. And surely you are fluent in several languages, including Latin. Favor us with some quotes from Marcus Aurelius and Madame de Sevigne.

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

          Since women have zero culpability, they have zero accountability. Nothing is their fault or ever will be, so they can do as much damage as possible to get even with men. For what? For being born female.

          • Rowdypiglet December 26, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

            “Given women’s enthusiastic endorsement of this evil system and the desire of young women to join the ranks described above, I think it says much about women as a group.”

            Jarek, I don’t really know how enthusiastic the average young woman is to join in. I have lots of personal experience with the infestations of female zealots that I’ve spoken about – considerably less with young women in general.

            The young women I know well have a strong but, I think, displaced sense of grievance. They believe they’ve been victimized and must aggressively assert themselves – which they do in every area of their lives. It’s very offputting. I don’t have a huge sample, but those I know have had every material and educational advantage, but think of themselves as oppressed. My guess (and I pointedly characterize it as such) is that they resent their own indoctrination but can’t think their way out of it.

            I regret having to say that most women I know are easily swayed by their emotions and invariably support absurdities like giving prizes for attendance rather than performance. As a woman, I’m embarrassed to say that – but we have our strengths, as men do, and they’re meant to be complementary.

            I think if we stopped trying to indoctrinate the young and allowed them to indulge their natural inclinations, most women would be raising their children at home and most men would be out doing what men do. There would still be plenty of women in the working world, but no one would be trying to create the delusional level playing field.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

            Thank you, Rowdy. Agree 100%. The war between the sexes is natural – which is natural for fallen or merely natural (as opposed to supernatural) man.

            Feminine grievance? Natural given the natural dominance of men. It served a purpose: If a man started throwing his weight around, women would come to the victim’s defense in a multitude of ways. In a really bad culture, it might not work. But in many, it would. Some of the woman might have the ear of the chief or his wife after all.

            So we create a culture of equality and they expected this feature of feminine nature to disappear? Nope! Women still gang up on men – innocent ones now. And with the full approval of the State.

            Women are being used to keep men down. And Blacks to keep Whites down – including Black women to police White women. Gays keep Blacks in line, etc. The War of all against all to use Michael Harrington’s (socialist) line.

          • Hereward the Woke December 27, 2022 at 6:11 am #

            Jarek: a bundle of hatreds in human form

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 11:59 am #

            So you think women should have power without accountability, wokey? And because I disagree, I’m “hate”?

            If you don’t hate the current situation, there’s something wrong with you. Hate has a very important place in human life after all.

      • MiTurn December 26, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

        B of O,

        “the first thing Hillary did, once it became clear that they didn’t cheat enough and that Donald Trump actually won, was to call Barack and apologize.”

        That’s funny! I don’t know where you get your information, but psychopaths don’t apologize — they point fingers, blame others, most often their victims.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

          My bad, BO called her after she conceded, and she apologized at that time.

          • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

            After getting hammered and destroying a bunch of stuff, including a giant tv that some Saudi royal had given to her.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

            She once tried to brain one of her security guards with a Bible. Such utter trash.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

            Apologize for what?

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

          But what happens when psychopaths collide?

  15. Paula D December 26, 2022 at 10:48 am #

    I love that JHK can find a silver lining in the dark cloud of bankruptcy and destitution. I agree, that will bring people back to reality. Or, at least, it should.

    Reminds me of the Monty Python movie Life Of Brian, where men nailed to crosses whistle a happy tune and sing ‘Always look on the bright side of life”.

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    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:48 am #

      “Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it.”

      LOL.

  16. malthuss December 26, 2022 at 10:49 am #

    are these nations near starvation?

    CUBA
    VENEZUELA
    BRAZIL
    COLUMBIA

    SRI LANKA
    EGYPT
    SYRIA

    GREECE

    • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 10:53 am #

      You left out Lebanon, the worst of the lot.

      • malthuss December 26, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        not much in the news, and i mean Drudge, Breitbart.

    • Islander December 26, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

      Colombia

  17. thirdcoastlegend December 26, 2022 at 10:49 am #

    Anyone else catch the citywide looting in Buffalo yesterday?

    One has to wonder if this morning’s driving bans in Buffalo are an attempt to suppress the five-finger discounts.

    • malthuss December 26, 2022 at 10:55 am #

      black unrest?

      • elysianfield December 26, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

        black unrest?

        Malthuss

        Not at all, just a down payment on anticipated reparations.

        • thirdcoastlegend December 26, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

          California will write reparations into their tax code soon, followed by New York and the rest of the states will fall in line.

      • gilbert December 29, 2022 at 7:15 am #

        “Black Unrest”
        So happy to be removed from all that. Pity those that have to live it.

    • badberries December 26, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

      If I were to go stark, raging lunatic, I’d probably loot someplace other than Dollar General.

      • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

        You mean you prefer Dollar Tree?

    • Mick December 26, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

      How can they loot in multiple feet of snow?

      That’s dedication!

      • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

        Welcome to the Black race. You thought they were something different?

      • Ishabaka January 1, 2023 at 8:17 am #

        And yet, our Woke priests assure us they are incapable of obtaining an ID card.

  18. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 11:00 am #

    So much to do. As I said above, I was not prepared, I was expecting a more relaxed second day of Christmas.

    I do have a little Christmas treat in store, I will get to it.

  19. getsome December 26, 2022 at 11:06 am #

    James Howard: Superb analysis of the current political situation, with clear, insightful projection on probable future machinations of the left. The absolute GEM is the paragraph “the catch is…..”.
    All the cheating/conniving of the left will result in an outcome very similar the Titanic. Imagine a sham vote as to who was allowed to win at musical chairs, all as the vessel sank. These clowns are positioning to steal elective office on a rapidly “sinking “ now ideologically fractured entity, formerly known as the USA. The aggrieved personages, utilizing search engines, will be capable of pinpoint locating data for “airing out grievances” on those in positions of responsibility. Instead of “sucks to be them”, try “looks to be a sucking chest wound to them”. Nuff Said.

  20. JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:09 am #

    Good blog.

    Everything is symptoms of Uniparty control. The Constitution requires opposing viewpoints to operate its balance of powers.

    Those days are gone, as lastly evidenced by the $17,000,000,000,000 fiasco Omnibus 2023 budget. Any semblance of fiscal integrity just disappeared. BTW, folks who champion the idea that the national debt can be reduced by high inflation forget one thing, inflation and higher interests rates create more deficits not less.

    We know that Liberal Dems are slowly destroying the representative integrity of this country in all ways. The addition of the RINOS to the Deep State makes the Uniparty locked in. The House already is showing the Liberal bias with its reaction to McCarthy as Speaker. The Senate, well it is a given where those Progressive GOP players sit.

    Next will be the deepening of the power of the presidency. The excuse will be to get things done.

    People advocating this shift in power forget that America is forged by the ideal that autocratic control is the enemy to be fought at all costs. Small group control in socialist domains destroy the freedoms that make this country work efficiently.

    Now, notice that Trump drove us towards autocracy, to get things done. What a mess, the Deep State trying to reduce the power of Trump so they could continue their drive toward autocratic socialism.

    Who loses to these Bozos?

    Us!

    Why? Us!

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    • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:16 am #

      The FBI is just one part of the government that has no superior oversight control to its operations.

      Add on

      CIA, DOJ, MIC, judicial, SEC, CDC, FDA, IRS, just a few of agencies that have no oversight and operate open loop.

      Another symptom of Uniparty.

      The Congress just spent six years of its oversight responsibility investigating one man. One bad thing about Trump was the hidden consolidation of power acquired by the Fed agencies during this six years.

    • Woodchuck December 26, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

      Everyone is looking at this situation as being something abnormal, or something that unexpectedly came out of nowhere. Republics have an average lifespan of 250 years. The odds are good that we are an average republic, not a particularly exceptional one. The USA was successful for a long time mostly because of easy to obtain natural resources. Now that’s no longer the case, and the USA is failing. It’s entirely normal for republics to fail eventually, it happened to all of the others. Why do people think we are somehow immune to the laws of nature?

      • Blackbird December 27, 2022 at 11:36 am #

        We lost our republic when it became an empire.

      • SpeedyBB December 29, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

        “The USA was successful for a long time mostly because of easy to obtain natural resources.” Also maybe because of geography: sea-to-shining-sea meant a natural barrier to any invasion from a potential enemy.

        Of course that all changes when you open the borders up, particularly to those unhappy citizens of nations you’ve abused, exploited, undermined and kept poor.

  21. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 11:10 am #

    The FBI wishes us all a “safe” and happy holiday season. We need them to stay safe. Get it?

    https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1606998509005295616?s=20&t=QbmNwZayAoR7SnRW_6GKKQ

    BTW, this “holiday season” starts November first and runs through January first. The Christmas season starts with advent, which roughly coincides with the day after Thanksgiving, but it runs through January 6 or 7.

    People sing that annoying song about the twelve days of Christmas, but they have absolutely no idea what it means.

    This year, I have heard anecdotal evidence of supermarkets that used to sell Christmas trees discontinuing the practice, and I have witnessed it myself, although that could be some kind of supply chain issue.

    I do know that the major chains are totally on board with the globalist plans for what markets shall be in the future.

    QR CODES – This is Whole Foods in the USA.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0CUFVFKiN4

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:40 am #

      Ugh that Whole Foods bullshit is nauseating.

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:45 am #

      Owned by Bezos, the other billionaire transhumanist asshole.

      • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

        A man. Men dominate at the top, were meritocracy matters, because men are more brilliant and creative by and large.

        I don’t say automatically good. He’s isn’t by any means.

    • DaveO907 December 26, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

      Would you look at that: the h.t.t.p.s sailed right past whatever impediment usually leaves a comment hanging in limbo.

    • niner December 26, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

      here’s the supply chain we have imposed on Donbass by funding Zelensky —

      httxx://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxPUjc-C9o ;

      The Lost Children Of The Ukraine War (Christmas Special)
      Patrick Lancaster
      533K subscribers

    • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:28 pm #

      Now imagine what is going to happen when CBDCs roll out, and you need a digital ID and a good social credit score to enter.

      Predicted 3 years ago.

      How can this be?

  22. MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:10 am #

    Looks like Sam Bankman-Fried got away with his scam.

    There is absolutely no rule of law for the deep state members, which appear to be the apparatus in charge of the country. No doubt either directed by or in control of the Obama-Clinton-Biden-Bush etc. cabal. Their laundering schemes are way out of control, and at some point something has got to give.

    Catherine Austin-Fitts made a good observation in an interview I saw the other day. She said if all of us understood that covid19 was a hoax and that the vaxxes were designed to harm people, then Trump most certainly did. So I would add him to the cabal as well. For this, as well as many other (obvious) reasons that his supporters like to ignore.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 11:17 am #

      Mary, some of his most ardent supporters are trying desperately to get him away from the people advising him now.

      There are millions of people who should know better, who still do not understand that fact about covid and the shots, people with the credentials who ought to know better. It’s not just Trump.

      In any case, the fight to bring the people who committed these crimes against humanity to justice does not include him.

      He’s not an impediment really, he’s just irrelevant at this point.

      • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:30 am #

        COVID’s continuance in the public is total evidence of the control of the Uniparty.

        Saw a disgusting TV ad promoting the Covid vaxxes.

        Sponsor? Pfizer of course.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:44 am #

        So, I’m smarter than Trump, then? And better informed?

        I don’t buy it, sorry. And he never stopped pushing the vaxxes, so he is a proponent of big pharma.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

          He believed he was well informed. He was surrounded by highly credentialed “experts”, and had no reason to believe they were lying.

          Dr. Assem Malhotra, you will recall, was originally a major proponent of the jab. It was a personal tragedy that led him to look deeper into the data.

          President Trump didn’t have anyone doing that.

          It’s not as if he can read and interpret that stuff for himself, and it is not a president’s job to do that.

          Of course, it isn’t a president’s job to convene a task force to fight a virus with voodoo either.

          When Adams started blithering about hankies and rubber bands, he should have been excuseed.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

            So Trump was easily duped and less informed than the average person?

            He should have never been anywhere near the oval office then.

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

          To Mary’s point: In the early days, he was retweeting covid skeptics. One time, absurdly, saying in a speech that if we just ignored it, it would all go away. He knew and tried to warn us, but in a cowardly way.

          Absurd because he didn’t come out and say that the disease was no big deal. But he obviously knew it was. And of course he got panned for it. So since he didn’t have the courage to really oppose them, he had to join them. In for a penny, in for a pound.

          And he once stood at the podium with General Gus Purna (sp?) who had a plan to vaccinate America in a few days – obviously by force. He didn’t go in that direction, but he flirted with it.

          Our choice is between this grotesquely flawed man and DeSantis – who is all for escalation in Ukraine. Thus it’s Trump or WW3.

          • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:48 pm #

            It does not matter. If DeSantis got in, he would be equally flawed, because the entire DS apparatus would be used to hamstring and ultimately destroy him.

            This only stops when people say no, and work together. The solution is not political, because the US government is controlled by the same oligarchs that unleashed the Covid hoax and Great Reset.

            Things are a bit better in other places, but in the US, the only hope comes from within the people and, to some degree, the courts.

          • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 6:10 pm #

            The fine folks at Twitter considered labeling Trump’s tweet not to be afraid as mosinformation:

            hxxps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/26/james-baker-tried-have-donald-trump-post-covid-rec/

            “Be ye not afraid, for THE LORD is with you” would be labeled as misinformation by these people, while “be a coward and hide in your Mommy’s cellar like ‘Joe Biden’ or a Fortnite addict” would be the ultimate truth.

    • JohnAZ December 26, 2022 at 11:27 am #

      Yes, saw it yesterday.

      Was there any doubt, Mary?

      The Deep State protects its own, both Dem and RINO.

      Too many reputations lost is this bums influence on the Deep State was ever allowed near a public court room.

      Your dislike of Trump has been noted. However, like all the other conservative anti Trumpers you have no alternative. He failed in putting his promises into play in DC. He compromised way too much, but the real problem was he was soundly outnumbered politically. A CEO is like the captain of a ship, his word is law. Trump went into the WH with the idea he was the BOSS. He ran up against the Mob wall and in four years got no where in draining the swamp.

      To me, Trump’s losses show that the Uniparty is in control. Even when the top dog is in opposition, the Uniparty Deep State gets its way.

      No balance of power, all power is on the same side,

      Socialism and globalism.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:44 am #

        No there was no doubt for me, actually, as I reported about 3-4 weeks back up here.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 11:50 am #

        That covid task force was an own goal.

        He FAILED to have anyone on his team check out the background of the people he placed there.

        Yes there is plenty of blame to go around, but he was the one who put Pence in charge.

        Why didn’t Trump’s Chief of Staff vet the people who wer going to be working so closely with the president?

        What is a chief of staff FOR?

        Someone online did me the favor, way back when the covid scam started, of reminding me of who Doctor Anthony Fauci was.

        It took me TWO SECONDS to understand that that man had no business being anywhere near that task force.

        Oh my God? People cannot READ?

        As for the people who keep insisting that President Trump could not fire Fauci, he did not have the power- that is COMPLETELY, UTTERLY, FALSE.

        Unless one believes that back during the Carter Administration, Jimmy somehow foresaw the future task forces convened to fight cold viruses, and meant for Dr. Fauci’s postion-for-life at NIAID to include ruling over such task forces, without having put that in writing.

        • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

          There was another guy who was supposed to head the task force, IIRC. Forgot his name, but he was a major skeptic.

          He did an interview months ago saying they called him to DC and then left him hanging for weeks.

          Supposedly the people handling the vetting and coordination were holdovers who were deeply anti-Trump and set him up to fail.

          Need to find the interview again.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

            I have read somewhere that in the early stages of this thing Trump was talking to Robert Kennedy, Jr.

            Very quickly everything about covid-19 became political.

            It is quite possible that Trump couldn’t see this from inside the fish bowl.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

        I don’t like nor dislike Trump.

        I think he’s controlled opposition. I have arrived at this conclusion after years of paying attention and watching his actions.

    • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 11:28 am #

      Trump announced his run after a 90-minute phone call with Bubba Clinton. At best, Trump was conned into running by Bubba because Bubba thought Trump was easy to defeat either at the ballot box or via the Deep State that had saved Bubba multiple times. At.worst, the 2016 election and everything since was a carefully choreographed script to divide the country and get us to give up our actual freedoms and rights in exchange for “safety” and privileges they’re calling rights (e.g., baby slaughtering, the forced sterilization of children, the Green agenda, etc.). Whatever it takes to get everyone to either save his life by bending his knee to the PTB or disobey and die.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:46 am #

        I’m closer to that way of thinking.

        I consider Trump to be controlled opposition.

        • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

          ????? Nothing about Trump is controlled. I get your humor, but be careful. There are morons who consider the man a saint!

          • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

            Uh, all saints ARE sinners, only they’re sinners who’ve come to faith. Otherwise, humanity was irretrievably lost in Eden, and Christ’s birth, life, crucifixion, and resurrection were irrelevant.

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

        The phone call from Slick Willie is true, but I don’t think he had to be “conned” into running. He had already decided to run way back in 2010. (Well, he had wanted to run even before then, but in 2010 he decided that he’d run in either 2012 or 2016).

        This is when he started transitioning himself into a conservative populist Republican after being a NYC Democrat his entire life. He knew that he could not defeat either Barry Soetero or Hillary Clinton in a Dem Primary.

        I suspect the call from Slick Willie had to do with strategery issues in the upcoming election year. He and the Clintons were good friends for years. He gave them a lot of money. I know that’s a fact that doesn’t sit well with some here. But a fact it is.

        • Islander December 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm #

          I agree that the phone call from Bubba doesn’t necessarily mean that Trump was “controlled opposition.” Depends on what each man thought was going on.

          Maybe Trump knew that Bubba wanted Hillary to lose. Who knows???

        • Blackbird December 27, 2022 at 11:30 am #

          During the 2016 “election” I thought that Trump was controlled opposition whose purpose was to scare voters toward Hillary.

          I was surprised that Trump was allowed to win. Maybe he just got too many votes. By my recollection, Hillary made some amazing gains in rural areas of PA, MI, and WI (states where >80% of the vote had been counted) between 1 and 3 am the morning of 11/9, so the cheating machine seemed to be running strong.

          Or maybe Trump was needed to create the polarization that took place during his term, while Hillary will be needed to create the hysteria for war with Russia – and the starvation, freezing, and criminalization of dissent that will accompany it.

          Whatever Trump is or was, I am certain of one thing, he was not, is not, and never will be, “our man”.

    • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 11:54 am #

      I more go with the idea that Trump is a buffoon.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

        Trump was right and smart about so many things, in the beginning.

        Look at the video of the Germans laughing at him when he lays some facts on them.

        Yes, he may have made some mistakes about NATO, Ukraine, and energy policy, but overall I’d say he was the most right of all the world “leaders”.

        He saw right through the climate scam, he saw the porous border for the problem it was, he was right about the jobs going overseas, back when Republicans kept claiming it was our fault because we benefitted from cheap consumer goods, and besides robots.

        I did not understand the facts about coal being essential to manufacture steel, until builder Trump pointed it out.

        I always wondered though, as China bought up all of our scrap metal and steel workers here were laid off, if we were attacked, where would we get the materials we needed for the weaponry to defend ourselves?

        A nation that produces nothing, with no borders, is not a secure nation.

        Trump knew this better than any other elected official of the time.

        • niner December 26, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

          yes, and we had no one else.

          literally, no one else. consider the republican primary.

          jeb bush, chris christie, huckabee, etc.

          although i could have supported Rand Paul, and admire him even more now.

          htt://www.ibtimes.com/republican-presidential-debate-2015-full-list-gop-candidates-participating-cleveland-2041961 ;

          it’s easy to blame Trump now, but we were in a terrible trap. and aside from his successes, that BoO cites, remember that *no one* else could have stood up to the abuse, the battering, the firepower of the combined left.

          Trump was the best choice, at the time.

        • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

          Trump was excellent on foreign policy and issues like energy independence.

          His failure was not understanding that the president does not run the country, and if said president were to try, he will be hamstringed, face charges for phony crimes, and ultimately watch as the US military is called into the nation’s capitol to ensure that a puppet is installed with as little risk as possible.

    • malthuss December 26, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

      if all of us understood that covid19 was a hoax / all did not.

      like chemtrails. she will talk of them but not all will get it.

  23. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 11:27 am #

    Speaking of sins committed against people in distant lands:

    Lord knows I’m not some bleeding hear for grown men who can take care of themselves, and it isn’t the US this time doing most of the sinning, it is China.

    But how many organizations get money from Americans, and how much of the media is run by Americans, and why is this still happening?

    Joe Rogan podcast guest explains ‘heart-wrenching’ source of electric vehicle, iPhone batteries

    https://nypost.com/2022/12/24/joe-rogan-guest-siddharth-kara-reveals-dark-side-of-cobalt/

    The Clinton Global Initiative differed from the Clinton Foundation. Bill said it was not his personal charity like the Foundation.

    The focus was always on Africa. Bill Gates’ focus has been on Africa.

    Africa Africa Africa, and how many BILLIONS?

    This is what we get?

    Maybe some of the NGOs are paying the men from these places who are somehow managing to walk across the Mexican border.

    I can remember when a charity collecting big buck to accomplish a goal came under scrutiny as to what exactly they were doing with their money, when they had nothing to show for it.

    • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

      It is capitalism. Externalities-Not-Us is your corporate model. Love it or leave it.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

        The Chines are commies.

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

          Wrong. They are countless individual millionaires over there now. They embraced Capitalism decades ago, but maintaining State guidance thereof. Wait for it: Fascism. And added to that, they’ve maintained their intense racial pride despite the Marxist/Leninism. Wait for it: Not Fascism (which doesn’t focus on race) but National Socialism.

          Where have you been? How did you get it so wrong – even on the basic economic level? Do you understand the Communism qua Communism doesn’t allow for individuals to become millionaires, much less billionaires? Google Jack Ma – a business genius. Jack could get America up and running again in a day or two.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

            Chinese are Commies in Name Only.

            But they do have the police state down pat. The envy of many western governments.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

            Chinese are Commies in Name Only.

            Totalitarian police state in true form though.

      • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

        You wouldn’t have a pot to piss in, I mean a hydrant to piss on, if it weren’t for capitalism, you ungrateful Marxist mutt.

        • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 11:08 pm #

          There’s a difference between capitalism and Kapitalism.

          Supply and demand versus the voracious accumulation of power.

          One is savings.
          The other is leverage.

      • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:55 pm #

        It is inverted totalitarianism.

        Not covered in your marxist literature.

  24. docmartin December 26, 2022 at 11:31 am #

    Even RFK Jr said it’s been a coup since they blew his uncle’s brains out in 1963. The only difference now is that they are blatant about it. They are beyond arrogant as the cancer has spread so wide and deep.I’ve noticed the blog and comments have been going around in a circle ever since Biden’s fraudulent election.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

      RFK Jr. tried so hard to warn people who this Fauci character is.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

        If only Trump had hired him as an advisor when he had the chance. Whoops.

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

          Jared told him not to but to hire Fauci instead. Imagine listening to dark shadowy people like Jared Kushner.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 6:53 pm #

            I will even say that Trump would’ve been better served to listen to Jarek rather than Jared.

      • mrs_saj December 26, 2022 at 4:01 pm #

        His book The Real Anthony Fauci was phenomenal.

        I gave ONE person a verbal 15 minute book report on it. A person with more than enough background to understand what I was talking about. Her father-in-law died four months later at the hands of the hospital staff who murdered him by following federal protocols for Covid. I even warned her again while he was in the hospital for two and a half weeks that the hospital was still trying to kill him in a slower fashion than was customary because she at least had dodged the remdesivir bullet at my insistence. The hospital put him on a ventilator at 3 am, whien no family was there to object. And taking someone off a ventilator is not as simple as pulling the intubation tube out of their throat. They need to be weaned off the meds that allow the tube to be put in in the first place, and that takes time. Especially if you are a hospital that is stalling to ensure the patient continues to weaken while on the ventilator.

        It’s very discouraging. I still recommend his book, of course. But I do not give book reviews on it to normal people. It is not a good use of my time.

    • Amman December 26, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

      Yes, a circle. Or like that circular logo used by the Facebook/META corporation.

      This loop-wise movement will crack soon enough and History will return to the streets.

    • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 7:09 pm #

      Correct-O-Mundo!
      Watch the 1991 movie Awakenings with DeNiro and Robin Williams. It is like watching a Biden cabinet meeting.

  25. Miss Demeanor December 26, 2022 at 11:51 am #

    The blatant larceny of the corporate US has been elevated to a level of pageantry equaled only by the Olympics or the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade with the recent Media celebration of handing Billions of dollars we don’t have to a Castro clone in the Hollowed Halls of Congress.(pun intended)
    This twisted example of leadership promotes an accepted method of how to get ahead in the world. I’m thinking we will see similar disregard for rule of law and any fiscal common sense in all levels of society.

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    • badberries December 26, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

      We are already seeing it, case in point, Buffalo NY last night. They ‘sacked’ Dollar General?

      Even the liquor store owner that was also ‘sacked’ said they had shitty taste in liquor, taking only the cheapest, bottom shelf crap.

      • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 2:39 pm #

        I was quite surprised at the looting in Buffalo. Usually looting is a warm weather activity, best done in the summer months.

      • Woodchuck December 26, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

        The looting, riots, and shoplifting will continue untill businesses everywhere simply pull out of certain areas which are no longer profitable. Then those areas will have nothing, and the gov’t will be forced to either take care of everyone in those places directly or the people will no longer be able to live in them. When they leave and go to the wrong places for more looting an mayhem, many of them will be killed by armed citizens.

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

          And then the citizens will be prosecuted. We saw that in the 2020 riots.

          • neurodoc December 26, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

            NOT if they’re smart and use cover and concealment and use weapons and bullets that cannot be traced to them via common sense methods.

  26. K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 11:55 am #

    American politicians don’t want to play fair, but in 10,000 years will any of this matter? I think not!

    What will it be like? My idea is things will be so different the world will be like we never were. Writing the story I just punished on my website makes me think that way. (click the green K-Chien).

    • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 11:59 am #

      (published) LOL, I hope the short story does not ‘punish.’

    • Nigel Tufnel December 26, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

      Hey K-chien – Cool site, lots of fun stuff : R&B hits, Stoic philosophy, and tap and die info?! Your story was good too. Thanks for sharing.

  27. Mick December 26, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

    With regards to the NY Times quoted piece…

    “They are putting forward a long list of proposals that include creating automatic voter registration systems, preregistering teenagers to vote before they turn 18, returning the franchise to felons released from prison and criminalizing election misinformation.”

    Just keep in mind that federally they cannot make all states do automatic voter registration systems or return the franchise to felons. The Constitution does not regulate how states conduct their voting requirements on the whole. This is why it took a constitutional amendment to give the franchise to women, and a major piece of legislation passed by both houses and signed into law by a president in 1965 to lift southern state’s restrictions on black’s voting.

    A constitutional amendment to ensure that felons can vote in all fifty state’s ain’t happening. Nor will one be possible to do automatic registration. So, they’ll have to go the major piece of legislation route. That ain’t happening either. Not anytime soon. All the fascist left can do is put these smelly programs in place in the states they control.

    As far as criminalizing election misinformation goes? The current Supreme Court will smack that down faster than it takes shit to go through a goose. They can hope for a federal law to restrict free speech in this manner, but it will only be hope. We can thank the ghost of Ruth Bader the Ginsberg for being narcissistic and stubborn enough to be carried out of the court in a body bag. (Metaphorically speaking) The old bag who ended up in a bag thought Hillary would fill her seat. Lol… Gotta love delusional leftys.

    • White German Shepherd December 26, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

      Constitution? Bwahahaha

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

        I share your laughter overall, but the fact is that six current Supreme court justices will not let any of the items on the leftist’s wish list as outlined in the NYT article stand.

        In a few decades? Perhaps. Not now.

        • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

          If they could smother Scalia with a pillow, incinerate major American cities, and illegally alter state election laws, all with impunity, what makes you think they won’t be able to get their agenda through the USSC — especially with Roberts as Chief Justice?

          Their immediate goal is to make things as awful as possible, for as many people as possible, that most Americans will beg to have their freedom taken away so they can feel safe. We are A LOT closer to that point than you think, as witnessed by the number of people who believed agitprop last month and voted for Democrats. If another couple halfwits decide to take out their frustrations with the world by shooting up churches, grocery stores, or schools, you’ll see how fast people beg to be disarmed to “make the children safe.” Without guns, there’ll be nothing to stop criminals or the Deep.State, and the Constitution will be a meaningless scrap of parchment.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 6:56 pm #

            Roberts, even though the chief justice, is only one vote on the court. Even if he goes along with the left, there are five more who won’t. 5 to 4 is still a majority to stop the nonsense.

            Now, if justices start suspiciously dropping dead then that will be a dramatic turn for sure.

            We’ll see.

        • neurodoc December 26, 2022 at 7:34 pm #

          amerika will not be here in a few decades. Instead, there will be multiple small countries with various alliances and trade agreements.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

            Probably so.

  28. badberries December 26, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

    I’m reminded of the Film “as good as it gets”. When Jack Nicholson’s character is asked how he writes women so well, he responds;

    “I think of a man, then I remove Reason and Accountability”.

    • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

      And there she is, Miss America!

      Call her Mary…..

  29. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

    The Ticker Guy is optimistic about seeing punishment for crimes against humanity related to the vaxx.

    “Punishment will occur. That is certain. It is not a matter of debate as this was no accident or act of God. It was and remains deliberate acts of man, and the false statements were made by governments and commercial actors all over the world. They are all both culpable and shall be punished.

    Crimes against humanity such as this are not excused with “but I was following orders.” It didn’t work for the former Nazis and it will not work here.”

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247693

    • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      I was quite surprised by Market Ticker in that article. He’s usually very pessimistic. Let’s hope he is right. It is strange that Fauci is retiring with so little fuss and fanfare. If he were the hero the MSM says he is, he would be touring the country and getting ticker tape parades. Maybe he’s going to be Epsteined.

      • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

        It’s usually a slow moving system in the courts. Getting the Florida court to look at pharma with a grand jury is a big deal. Fraud indictments coming back from their proceedings would be huge.

  30. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

    Here is another notable take by the Ticker Guy, in which he lays out undeniably truths:

    To All The Green Energy Screamers….

    “If you wish to impose on yourself and your family the fruits of being stupid have at it.

    If you demand it of others that is unacceptable, it should not be tolerated, and the first time it gets cold and people can’t heat their homes with your mandated “answer” your home should be sawz-alled to gain the firewood (and your clothing burned too) necessary for your neighbors to keep warm while you and your family get to live outdoors in your underwear with it being -10F out for as long as you might last.”

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker-Nad

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    • Hereward the Woke December 26, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

      I have a feeling that 2023 will be a year of reckoning for the eco-fascists. Unless Ukraine blows over and we can restore energy relations with Russia, we are going to realize the hard way that “alternative energies” are garbage.

      • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

        Carbon dividends are the way to go.

        • mrs_saj December 26, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

          I don’t trust my government enough to administer this. The exemptions will include: private jets, heating/cooking bills for homes larger than 7500 square feet, yachts, etc, etc, etc.

          The net result is that the little guy and the little gal will get crushed and be eating bugs by their campfire.

          • thirdcoastlegend December 26, 2022 at 4:48 pm #

            mrs_saj-

            I’m pretty sure the EU has already exempted private jets so our betters can fly hundreds to the next climate conference and give speeches telling us all how we need to start riding bikes.

          • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

            A key to making the plan work is to collect the money at the source. That prevents exceptions. Distribution is not a problem. The social security administration knows how to do that so nobody gets screwed.

            The rate needs to be set by a citizens assembly. Something that represents everyone.

            To the little guy carbon dividends are a windfall. The rich wind up paying more.

        • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

          That’s part of the Globalist platform. You have outed yourself.

          • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 5:21 pm #

            Carbon dividends is the bipartisan solution we need to cut emissions in half by 2035, protect family budgets, and create good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs.

            You are the globalist. You want Potsdam Giants ruling the world.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:36 pm #

            The Plan is to kill most of humanity. Get down to 500 hundred million or less. They admit it. Some have even admitted how it would be done too – what we are seeing now.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

            “Carbon dividends is the bipartisan solution we need to cut emissions in half by 2035, protect family budgets, and create good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs.”

            Um, are you a robot?

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 11:20 pm #

            Why do we “need to cut emissions in half by 2035”?

          • K-Chien December 28, 2022 at 3:04 am #

            Alzaebo

            You cut the emissions so when the shit is absolutely gone you don’t starve to death.

            And I know that is not the answer you expected from me.

        • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

          Ignoring your various hoaxes is the way to go.

          • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 5:22 pm #

            You are the hoax, I have a real identity, you don’t.

          • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

            So do I, but I am not stupid enough to broadcast it all over the web.

          • K-Chien December 28, 2022 at 3:05 am #

            No, you are far to paranoid for that.

          • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 5:31 am #

            My views could get me in trouble with the technofascist neo-marxist state.

            Yours are in line with theirs.

            K-Mao.

          • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 6:30 pm #

            “My views could get me in trouble with the technofascist neo-marxist state.” ~ Night Owl

            Sweetie, last spring, I seem to recall you kind of trashing your own brother on here, never mind the ‘technofascist neo-marxist state’ or whatever.

            In any case, there are a lot of above-board critics of that sort of thing doing fine. Kunstler somewhat, but he still seems, ironically in some regards, committed to some sorts of parasitic and/or authoritarian political setups/actions. At his age.

            K-Chien, ostensibly, we talked briefly some months ago in the comments on The Seneca Effect about Kunstler’s apparently-hypocrticial ‘transgressions’ where his comments and apparent comment-edits regarding some comments were concerned.

            Small world, strange bedfellows we all appear ay?

    • Blackbird December 27, 2022 at 10:55 am #

      Mr. Denninger seems to understand the Green New Deal’s attempt to violate the Laws of Thermodynamics, but he don’t seem to know his way around a toolshed.

      A reciprocating saw is the wrong tool for dismantling a house as well as for cutting firewood. For all the blades you’d break – not to mention the aggravation – you might as well have bought your firewood.

      • gilbert December 29, 2022 at 8:33 am #

        As you said, a reciprocating saw is the wrong tool to dismantle a house. On the other hand, a chain saw in the hands of someone adept in its use and familiar with house construction would be perfect.
        Usually one who does not volunteer, in this case I’m your man.

  31. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

    “Nobody expects the FBI’s parent, the Department of Justice, to look into any of this.”

    I was trying to make a point about relationships between these agencies the other day, in regards to Rudy and Hunter’s laptop.

    My point is that if Rudy possessed the laptop and was vouching for its authenticity, the FBI knew damn well it was authenticate; they also had no methods of verifying its authenticity that Rudy was not aware of himself.

    This is from Wikipedia:

    The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties: New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan. Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, the office represents the United States government in criminal and civil cases across the country. The SDNY handles a broad array of cases, including but not limited to those involving white collar crime, domestic terrorism, cybercrime, public corruption, organized crime, as well as civil rights disputes.

    The Southern District is known for being highly independent and nonpartisan, earning itself the moniker the “Sovereign District of New York”.[1][2] Its resources, culture, and accompanying FBI field office have given the SDNY a reputation for being exceptionally aggressive in its pursuit of criminals.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York

    This is also from Wikipedia:

    “In 1983, Giuliani was appointed to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which was technically a demotion but was sought by Giuliani because of his desire to personally litigate cases and because the SDNY is considered the highest-profile United States Attorney’s Office in the country and as such is often used by those who have held the position as a springboard for running for public office.”

    This is my point. Rudy was not some ass clown Avenatti character. He was basically one of their own.

    That does not stop the feds from going after him now, though. Anyone who supported Orange Man must be destroyed.

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 2:06 pm #

      Why hasn’t Rudy made a thousand copies of it and sent it out everywhere?

      Seems to me that wasn’t so hard to do.

      • mrs_saj December 26, 2022 at 4:19 pm #

        Agreed! That computer shop owner was smart enough to know he had to pass off a copy to somebody so he didn’t get Arkancided. I can’t believe Arkancided shows up as mis-spelled. These software developers are f***** libs. Rudy should have been able to decide the same in a nanosecond. I know Rudy is not perfect. Far from it. But he is not dumb. Handing a copy out of that laptop drive like candy, would have saved Rudy a lot of trouble.

        Elon understands this. That’s why he has done 8 data dumps of what he has found a twitter. Is he perfect? Hell no. But he understands that the deep state loses some of its power over him, if he is releasing private email records left and right. Let the people read it and decide what they think of how twitter was being run.

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:26 pm #

          Well no one can kill you for something that everyone has. Right? I mean, what’s keeping Rudy from putting it all out there?

          I don’t get it.

      • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 4:48 pm #

        Didn’t Gaetz enter it into the Congressional Record a few months back? I recall him with a hard drive copy waving it around. Could be lots of copies, stranger things… I also recall something about the computer store guy making a backup before handing it over, which is where I think Rudy also got his. Hard drives at wholesale prices are rather inexpensive.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

        He made 8. What wouls be the sense of sending it out to more media outlets owned by the same entity?

        Look what Twitter did to the NY Post for reporting on it.

        • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

          8… I didn’t now how many, thanks it would have been much more surprising if he only made 1

          now it’s 8 x X = ?? has to be lots of copies

      • Amman December 27, 2022 at 4:20 am #

        What would that accomplish? What would that lead anyone to do? Speak up bravely? File a lawsuit?

    • sonnyL December 26, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

      You made a modicum of sense until your last inane sentence. (unless it was jesting) If not, TDS has shrunk the minds of many a man. Too bad you don’t qualify as one. If a woman….well then, I understand..

  32. megabeth December 26, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

    I can not WAIT to repudiate the authority of those cheating bastards. Turn our collective, local backs to them. Bring it on.

  33. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

    Who wants to see President Zelensky talking with President Trump at Christmastime?

    I know I did.

    There are people who know how to make short clips from longer videos, but I’m not one of them.

    Go to maybe the 16:13 mark. I didn’t have time to get it translated.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlU3jU6rA7M

  34. Paula D December 26, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

    So “Ukraine” (NATO) has sent another drone hundreds of miles into Russia, trying to attack their nuclear bombers.
    They killed another 3 Russian soldiers while they were at it.

    The last time they did that, a couple of weeks ago, much of Ukraine had its electricity interrupted.

    What will happen this time?

    If anything shows us that the neocons are stark raving mad (and not in the good, stop-nuclear-war MAD way), it is them provoking Russia by killing civilians and soldiers on Russian land.

    Personally, if Russia wipes out London, Brussels and Washington, DC, I doubt that the citizens of the UK, Belgium (remember Marc Dutrox), and the USA would mourn very much.

    • K-Chien December 26, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

      If DC is wiped out, perhaps the national capital can move to the Magic Kingdom in Florida?

    • Mick December 26, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

      I think the citizens of the UK would very much care about London going “bye bye”, since a very sizeable percentage of UK subjects, yeah subjects, live in the greater London area. The bomb Putin has said he would use on it is huge. One of the largest in Russia’s arsenal. It won’t be a little bomb like Hiroshima.

      Brussels being nuked would essentially end Belgium, so no cheering from Belgians either. Rest of Europe? Yeah. Or, hell yeah.

      DC getting wiped out? Now I could definitely see some widespread cheering over that event. Throughout the fruited plain of America, and worldwide.

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

        So, all things considered, a net positive.

      • Amman December 27, 2022 at 5:26 am #

        You don’t want a deterrence weapon being exercised. Period. Full stop.

        • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 9:35 am #

          It really doesn’t matter what any of us want.

          • Amman December 28, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

            If you say so. Anyway, I still want to stay unvaxxed. I assure you that.

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:41 pm #

            We may not have a choice in that matter in the future, either.

          • Amman December 28, 2022 at 5:02 pm #

            Abandon Ship if you definitely see that coming.

    • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 4:52 pm #

      There are a number of photos with various explosions in Russia attributed to sabotage, likely proxies for plausible 3-letter agency denial going around. I expect the reception of such activity to result in blowback of some sort.

  35. Roundball Shaman December 26, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

    “It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.” —FBI Press release in response to the Twitter files.

    Let Us Fix This For You…

    “It is unfortunate that we in the FBI are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit those traitorous people in our Nation who seek the real truth.”

    “… there is no institution in the land that can intervene to adjudicate or discipline these rogue agencies. Nobody expects the FBI’s parent, the Department of Justice, to look into any of this.”

    Yes, but nobody expected ‘The Spanish Inquisition!’, either. So don’t lose hope. Keep an eye on the door.

    “… The Times and many of its ‘legacy’ cohorts — The WashPo, CBS, NBC, and ABC — have volunteered to be the public relations office of the Democratic Party… these outfits became the enemies of truth itself, and by extension, enemies of reality.”

    Standing firm and staying true to the Righteous Course takes effort and does not usually result in great financial gain and riches. But when you sell your soul to the Devil… this is easy to do and you get fat, happy, and rich. It seems to be much easier to have no morals and ethics that it does to have and keep them.

    “… in America these days. We are under a vile spell of pervasive dirty fighting.”

    See above answer.

    “… we are entering a new era of American life, an era of deep economic disorder, especially, that will go very hard on the nation, that will rearrange many of the social categories we now take for granted, that will compel people of all classes to pay attention to reality…”

    When one has lost the tether to and reach upon Reality… it does not magically come back. Like a muscle that has atrophied from disuse, it just doesn’t work any more. Yes, there will be some remnant that has the veil lifted from their eyes and sees clearly once again. But the large Deluded Class will just retreat further into unreality, uncivility, and denial.

    No matter what happens… ‘it’ will always be Trump’s fault or the Deplorables fault or The Boogie Man’s fault. No matter what ‘It’ is. Fill in the blank and relish in your cowardly deflection.

    And as The Spiritual anong us teach… the Greatest Sin is when you believe that YOU cannot sin.

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    • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

      In Paris, mobs of Kurds go berserk, smash up the place. Check out the video the destruction is unbelievable.

      Kurds in Paris, Albanians & Africans in London, it’s hard to believe the French fought so hard to keep the Germans out 1914-1918, and the British triumphed in the Battle of Britain 1940 with the same goal, only to allow their Capitol Cities — really the twin Capitols of the western world — to be overrun decades later by 3rd world rabble, crushed without even firing a shot.

      • malthuss December 26, 2022 at 2:51 pm #

        the lies of equality, liberalism and add in tolerance.

      • malthuss December 26, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

        maybe they shouldnt have fought the germans? what good did it do?

      • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:06 pm #

        Lindbergh wanted an alliance across the White world to protect our Civilization. He greatly admired National Socialist Germany because they believed the same thing.

        You people condemned him. Now you realize your error – but too late!

        • BackRowHeckler December 26, 2022 at 5:28 pm #

          It was the German government that transported Lenin from Switzerland to Leningrad in 1917, providing a specially appointed train & $70 million marks. Did you forget about that?

          Speaking of Lindbergh I actually met his biographer, A. Scott Berg, one time. Our librarian was the sister of a famous actress, and she used her influence to get popular and scholarly authors to visit and give a talk. And what a distinguished author he was.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:41 pm #

            1917? That was before the National Socialists took power. They fought the Communists. Your side fought with the Communists, remember?

            Pretty fucked up, right? I assume you realize that your people fought for the wrong side at this point. How could you not?

            If you like Lindy, then you should like National Socialist Germany which bestowed on him the Iron ?Cross, if memory serves.

            You’re always complaining about minorities. He would have sympathized. One of the last men of such prominence to be willing to do so publicly. Truman hated the Blacks but wouldn’t say so until he was back in Missouri.

        • Hereward the Woke December 27, 2022 at 6:03 am #

          Yawn.

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

            And Beelzebub flies right in to your gaping pie hole, loser.

      • Islander December 26, 2022 at 9:01 pm #

        The Kurdish rioters all look to me like youngish men.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

        I have seen the videos, and still don’t know why they did smash up the place.

        In any case, the damage is unbelievable, has to be in the hundreds of thousands.

    • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

      As modern women seem to think.

      The NY Times supported the Russian Revolution. They’ve always been out in left field, yet somehow they were supposed to be mainstream and America’s newspaper of record. Why? Because they told us that?

      With the Establishment so bemused and conflicted even at the highest level from the early part of the 20th Century, no wonder America came crashing down.

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

        The US and Britain invaded Russia after their revolution, along with a bunch of other countries.

        ” All operations in Russia conducted by the Allies were of an international character. Soldiers from different Allied countries were sent to aid the expedition or were already in Russia as part of the Entente war effort against Germany and Austro-Hungary. These included French, Belgian, Romanian, Greek, Polish, Canadian, Italian, Japanese, Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, and Australian soldiers.”

        .warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/the-day-that-the-usa-invaded-russia-and-fought-with-the-red-army-x.html?chrome=1

  36. MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

    Really excellent analysis about China’s part in the covid hoax/fiasco:

    Russell chats to Michael P Senger, lawyer and author of ‘Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down The World’.

    https://rumble.com/v21wdv0-how-the-us-and-china-colluded-on-covid-with-michael-p-senger-052-stay-free-.html

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

      Eyeroll

      • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 5:08 pm #

        Mary thought Paula was so effing cool when she did that – so she started doing it too. Now you’re doing it.

        This is how women roll. Whole groups of female friends transition together to become men!

        • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

          One more time, Jarek, women cannot become men. That is not possible.

          And men cannot become women, even if they put on lipstick.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

            It’s rather ironic that he brags about how educated he is on this thread, but doesn’t understand basic biology.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 7:57 pm #

            I was being facetious, you two dummies.

            Eye rolling in synch. Teenagers forever!

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

            Oh were we not being facetious as well?

            For shame, Jarek.

            So naive.

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

            Repeating my words now like a parrot?

            Sad!

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

      The first 10 minutes and I lost 50 iq points.

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 4:20 pm #

        Oooh, that’s gotta hurt, considering what you started with.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

          Ha!Good one.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 4:45 pm #

        I’m guessing that happens to you a lot.

      • neurodoc December 26, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

        riverrunner

        Possibly, if you’re lucky, with that loss of 50 IQ points (3.3 SDs), you might be able to get social security disability benefits for those with IQs under 60. Who knows? Get it where you can.
        🙂

    • thirdcoastlegend December 26, 2022 at 4:55 pm #

      I have to wonder if the Chicoms paid off the YouTubers serpent_za and laowhy86, who were instrumental in hyping the fear on social media in late 2019 and early 2020.

      They shilled especially hard for the now laughable drop dead videos that seem to have been the key in triggering mass formation psychosis in the West.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

        If you listen to the entire thing, he mentions the online troll factories China has which are well documented.

        • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:19 pm #

          A river runs through those trolls

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:35 pm #

            River Rube is Sharerblue through and through.

            He has a long history of getting knocked around, banned, and returning.

            A trail of tears.

    • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

      He lost me when it devolved into an anti-China diatribe. Is the US that stupid? Yes, of course, but the Chinese ain’t that smart either. It becomes just another case of looking for a foreign boogeyman under the bed to blame. As to the “bogus” social media videos, the Five Eyes Agencies all have operatives within China capable of staging those. Could it possibly be that Xi was just smart enough to let them run with it, knowing full well that the US was looking for just such a false flag scenario to crash the world economy and launch the CV19 scamdemic on its own citizens? I think that’s at least as likely as any scenario he paints here. Follow the money. The scamdemic was primarily a western operation, no doubt about it.

      • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

        Why would anyone have believed that those videos came from China?

        They were completely fake. Who excels at fakery? Who benefited from mass panic?

        I assumed from the beginning that those videos were US made.

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:06 pm #

          No one except the US makes fake propaganda videos? That’s a stretch.

          • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 8:17 pm #

            No, but the US makes the most and no doubt the best (for once!), and then turns around and blames it on their targets. Counter-counter intelligence, or something like that.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 8:38 pm #

            Why would the US want to do that, given they are in bed with China?

            They own our ass.

          • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

            No one but the US can make videos go viral worldwide.

            Do you really think that China has that power?

            The Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda is controlled by the US, period.

            If you see a video go viral (other than a cute cat) it is because the US Deep State made it happen.

            And the videos of the people dropping dead on the street were completely unbelievable, as in no one should have believed them.

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:09 pm #

          They did weld people shut in their apartments, but I know a lot of people are in denial about it, because the MSM covered it. So that means immediately that it didn’t happen.

          • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 8:20 pm #

            I’m not sure of anything at all reported in the US media about China these days. I mostly just disregard it all as unreliable, if not obvious propaganda.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

            I don’t think anyone here is or can be sure of anything—except MaryQueen, that is! She is sure of everything!

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

            Another day, another Islander meltdown out of nowhere.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

            Like it or not, sometimes the MSM reports actual stuff, esp. the local stations.

            However, that’s not where I found my information on China’s treatment of its citizens. I find it on independent media, just as I find most of my other news.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 11:34 pm #

            Hey, MQ, can’t you laugh at yourself?

          • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 9:33 am #

            Hey, Islander, can’t you?

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:07 pm #

        I couldn’t disagree with anything he said.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

      He’s another one doing fine work on the covid hoax.

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:14 pm #

      Also: https://dossier.substack.com/p/world-economic-forum-cancels-twitter

  37. Why_weren't_we_asked_about_Degrowth December 26, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

    Great Column Jim, What’s it really about? I still think we can tie the beginning of the betrayal back to 9/11. Whoever decided to jump the shark and pull that off under estimated the blow back or maybe that was part of the attraction. For the people aware of what was done, this set off the end of any shred of morality; the bankers, the corporate boards, the media, the politicians, … It’s not far from there to believe that the country has orchestrated a global pandemic with a power over reach never witnessed before

  38. neurodoc December 26, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

    ‘…..the educated and creatives of the coastal cities..’

    After having taught medical residents from all over the country over the past 30 or so years (in major state and private university med ctrs), it is clear to me that those physicians most lacking in common sense are those from the Northeastern and West Coast cities. Schooled but poorly educated, they can quote facts but can’t apply them well to clinical situations, and are particularly confused w/ complex cases. CREATIVITY! They have none!!!! And the worst I’ve seen have been from so called ‘major ivy league med schools in the Northeast: automatons who can recite textbooks but can’t practice medicine worth a tinkers damn. And most hate their patients, especially those from ‘lower economic’ backgrounds. Zero compassion, zero empathy. I suspect this observation applies to other professions as well. Attorneys I know tell me the same scenario.

    2nd issue: the last paragraph refers to the end of the ability to control and harass: I suspect this leads to the splitting of the former US Corporation. I live in a southeastern midwest city of ~120,000 surrounded by farm land. I talk with people (inc but not limited to patients and their families) everyday who are seething in anger at DC and the communists on the left and right coasts. They are all heavily armed (many are vets), well trained in use of arms from a young age, and ready to explode. I don’t know what it will take to set this CW2 ablaze but I’d guess that the SCOTUS decision on Jan 6 might be a good candidate if it goes in the direction of ignoring the US Constitution. 90% of people I talk to are watching this.

    • mrs_saj December 26, 2022 at 4:35 pm #

      Thanks, neurodoc, for the summary of your observations. I need to read those diplomas hanging on the wall more carefully and see where the doctor was educated!

      My husband and I visited with another couple last night because we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. Anyway, the gentleman is an airline pilot. And I told him the day was coming (due to ESG, DEI, and other airline programs – Environmental, Social, Government & Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity) that I would get on a plane, take one look into the cockpit and decide that I was not going to stay on that plane. He laughed. He is one of the rare pilots who got a religious exemption re the vaxxes. And he asked my criterion for making this impromptu traveling decision. I look at age mostly. I don’t want two 30something pilots because they have been indoctrinated. I’ve had two female pilots. I don’t care about that because they were the right age and one was clearly a military pilot. But I won’t fly with a transgender pilot, period. Its an affirmative action hire. A 60+ year old black pilot, I will fly with all day long. He came up the hard way and had to prove himself. I don’t fly frequently, but its at least two flights a year. But the day is coming.

      The pilot, who is probably in his late 50s, did not agree with my age criteria. He says he knows great young pilots and awful old ones. But I don’t know how else to evaluate it.

      • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

        My criteria is no more airplanes. Period, end of story. Never liked or trusted the damn things anyway.

        • SpeedyBB December 30, 2022 at 8:00 am #

          My second cousin is a USAF career officer (retired) and has a private pilot’s license as well. He also says he will never, never fly commercial again.

          Interesting.

          Many of us in the real world of donkey work have no choice in the matter.

      • elysianfield December 26, 2022 at 5:37 pm #

        “But I don’t know how else to evaluate it.”

        Mrs saj

        The obvious answer is not to be judgmental.

      • gilbert December 29, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

        Two years ago was the first time since my military service ended fifty years ago, to board commercial aircraft. It was a shock witnessing the degradation in service and the overall condition of the planes. Hopefully I will never be required to repeat the experience.

  39. riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 3:41 pm #

    Same ol, same ol from the James the Grifter. No solutions…just ‘media, blah, blah, Russiagate, gurgle, gurgle, media, Russiagate, blah, NYT, NPR, orange dude, party of chaos…..”

    Yo, Jim, you ever watch the Turning Points circuses? Ya know, the cartoonish, absurd pyro spectacles that get the rubes with an IQ of 50 all riled up? The ones where the most dangerous people in the country get up and spew lies, stupidity and incoherence. Where the clairvoyant Tangerine Twatwaffle is still revered and some moron from AZ is allowed to claim her election was stolen. Ya know….the real ‘party of chaos’ that offers up grievance after grievance with no solutions that will make life better. What’s that? You don’t? Maybe you should, because that side of religious fanatics coupled with grifters(what else is there?), kkk members, and folks that seem to inhabit a space detached from reality, is truly the most deranged thing going in ‘merica right now. You appear to be well-read and historically informed which raises the question as to how you’ve ended up so far down a batshit crazy rabbit hole.

    BTW, I despise the CIA myself. CHeerio.

    • Woodchuck December 26, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

      Right. Here in the USA it’s gonna be strawberry fields and techno utopia for us all forever! We just need to wish on a star and it will happen!

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

        Uh, what? Christmas hangover Woodchuck?

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 5:25 pm #

      Sounds like someone has a crisp chardonnay xmas hangover.

    • elysianfield December 26, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

      “No solutions…”

      Runner,
      You think that there are viable solutions? What? No more wars? Love one another? What if they gave a War and no one came?

      …Kumbaya, m’Lord, Kumbaya….

      PS…I don’t despise the CIA….

    • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:41 pm #

      Now I am most convinced that riverrunner is just 12 years old.

  40. riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 3:47 pm #

    Also, well-played Jim, well-played as it appears you’ve noticed the rampant misogyny that has unveiled itself here at CFN by playing the ‘women, bad, cuz, uh emotions!’ card. What’s next? I’ll scan the comments for your next tired trope that you insert in your weekly keyboard warrior diatribes.

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    • Uncle Bob December 26, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

      A person might wonder why you’d bother reading something that’s so “wrong,” in your not-so-humble opinion. Especially when you fuckers go around saying there’s no such thing as objective right or wrong, or good or evil.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:19 pm #

        He’s a brainless troll, it’s what they do.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

          Cmon now Maryqanon…educated people make sure to know what the other side is ‘thinking’ and I use that term lightly.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

            I see you love you some Chris Hedges. Does that include his recent show on RT? You know, Putin’s network?

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:34 pm #

            Ya know, he denounced Putin’s invasion and his tenure at RT was quite consistent. The situation there was more nuanced than just “Putin’s network.” I know nuance is difficult for child-like minds.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 8:38 pm #

            He works for RT.

        • Hereward the Woke December 27, 2022 at 5:58 am #

          Don’t feed him, them, Mary!

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:27 pm #

        Hey Uncle Bob…back to playing the crazy uncle role furiously smashing the keyboard. Who is this ‘you’ you refer to? Projection much?

  41. Paula D December 26, 2022 at 4:32 pm #

    Here is another illustration of the power of propaganda. If a tree falls in a forest and the Mighty Wurlitzer doesn’t cover it 24/7, did it happen?

    According to Dr. John Campbell, covid is spreading through China right now like wildfire. Hundreds of millions of people are getting sick with it. The R-0 value is 18-20, unlike the original SARS 2 virus, which had a R-0 of 2.
    The IFR is very low, so not many people are dying, but that didn’t mean anything for the last 3 years of propaganda, did it?

    So if the Mighty Wurlitzer wanted to, they could whip up a panicky hysteria among the masses over this China epidemic.
    But they aren’t. So that means that their is no value to them to whip up hysteria about this.

    I find that interesting.

    • Paula D December 26, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

      “there” is no value to them in whipping up hysteria.

      I wonder why?

    • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 5:21 pm #

      I’m skeptical about all such statistics, just as I am about Covid itself.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:01 pm #

        Same.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

          So brave!

    • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

      Because “Covid” is done in the West. Many will never realize it was a hoax, but that is not important. What is important is that it is more or less done.

      What is not done is the Davos agenda. If the WHO pandemic treaty goes through, they will drop the next fake pandemic. They just wargamed the second one about a week ago. Same players, same game.

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

        Tell us NO, what was so ‘hoaxy’ about it? Let me ask my aunt….oh snap, she’s dead from the hoaxy covid.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

          Or let me ask my ICU nurse friends who had to divert flights to other hospitals because they were packed w severe Covid cases. Perhaps my doctor friend who quit because he was overwhelmed. My brother w long covid who refused to get vaxxed. Shall I go on?

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:02 pm #

            Have some more crisp Chardonnay, Take-a-Poo. No one cares about your virtue signaling.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 11:45 pm #

            Half your family died in the Terrible Event, yeah sure. A Covid Survivor.

          • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 10:04 pm #

            @ riverrunner:

            I understand your frustration. All this angst and tragedy could have been avoided by providing patients with several known, effective treatments.

        • Kay December 26, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

          A hoax could mean that the mainstream story we were fed is untrue, not that there was some illness killing folks. I tend to think most hospital deaths were due to Remdesiver and mismanaging treatments. It concerns me that Gov. DeSantis has given Florida hospitals immunity.

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 7:46 pm #

            And your qualifications are….?

          • JohnAZ December 27, 2022 at 10:30 am #

            Runner

            And YOUR qualifications are?

            The skills you learned to contribute to the blog, you learned in grade school

            Sticks and stones!

        • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 3:32 am #

          Show us the isolate.

          Show us how the PCR test works.

          In your own time, River Rube.

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

            Show me the human body isolate – in the vacuum of space.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

            Look at your body.

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

        Ooh,,’wargamed,’ sounds sexy and mysterious. Reputable source on that one?

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:03 pm #

          It’s well documented. But you won’t read it, so why would we bother?

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

            Translation…..I have no idea what I’m talking about.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

            I am guessing you won’t accept it, even from the source, being the imbecile you are, but here you go:

            https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/2022-catastrophic-contagion/

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:50 pm #

            Oh noes, govt officials running hypotheticals…..sounds scary. How dare these individuals try to do their jobs? My gawd, you’re an idiot.

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:57 pm #

            And you still have no idea what you are talking about.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

            Drunk on crisp chardonnay is no way to go through life, son.

          • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 11:57 pm #

            Fed! Fed! Runnybottoms is just stirring shit to stir shit. It must come cheap.

          • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 11:33 am #

            Brazil, 2025, get ready: It’s Starting, Bill Gates Announces The Next Plandemic Date And Outbreak Location

            https://rumble.com/v22h6gg-its-starting-bill-gates-announces-the-next-plandemic-date-and-outbreak-loca.html

            The new plandemic will be SEERS. And it attacks children.

      • Amman December 27, 2022 at 6:19 am #

        Not really the same game. I understand it will be spun as something that “target’s the young.”

        • GreenAlba December 27, 2022 at 11:54 am #

          Indeed, Alzaebo.

          All the better to coerce you with, said the wolf …

          • Amman December 28, 2022 at 3:24 pm #

            It might work if you’re putty.

          • GreenAlba December 28, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

            Sorry, Amman, I only just noticed I replied to Alzaebo when it should have been you.

          • Amman December 29, 2022 at 10:27 am #

            Same playbook, different result. Preferably Visceral.

    • Alzaebo December 26, 2022 at 11:51 pm #

      So Paula, did Xi get played?

      The video makers promised him expansion for China if he cooperated.. He took the bait and was set up; now a different type of war is being waged to break China, just as a war is being waged against Russia.

      • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

        I always assumed that those videos were not made in China, as I said.
        I can recognize a propaganda campaign when I see one.

        I can’t believe that people can live in the USA their entire lives and still be unable to recognize a psy ops when it is rolled out.

        Especially one that was publicly rehearsed the month before it stared.

        As far as Xi and China go, I have no idea how much they are cooperating with the US.
        I know that they provided cheap labor for US corporations that moved production to China. I know that Chinese workers are oppressed. I know that there are billionaires in China profiting from their cheap labor as much as US billionaires are. I know that they are putting a lot of their profits into buying US real estate, since the whole Treasury bonds thing didn’t work out so well for them.

        I’m not a big fan of China, but I don’t believe that they put out videos to scare the West into complying with the WEF agenda.
        That is on the US Deep State, imo.

      • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 1:06 am #

        Soros and others expressed disdain for China – but perhaps it’s a feint to hide their deep cooperation.

  42. acerSaccharum December 26, 2022 at 4:32 pm #

    This is what happens when a country loses the Rule of Law. And it won’t end with these crimes because lawlessness begets more lawlessness

    • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 5:01 pm #

      WROL is the acronym. I’ve started some reading/research on Missouri and Kansas/Missouri in the late 1850’s through the 1860’s. The point is to look at a time and place WROL which devolved into multiple waring factions.

      • Paula D December 27, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

        Hey, Not George, did you ever run across this one? It is a history of Dodge City written by a man who was there and helped organize some law.
        This was written in 1913. I think it’s interesting.

        .legendsofamerica.com/ks-boothill/

        • Not_GeorgeT December 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

          Thank you! I’m planning to look after I scroll thru here.

          • Not_GeorgeT December 28, 2022 at 4:58 pm #

            Lots of interesting material on the site.

      • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

        Daniel Woodrell wrote several books about the Civil War in Missouri. I read a couple of them, though it’s been years ago.

        Woodrell is best known for Winter’s Bone, which was made into an excellent movie. Highly recommended.

        There’s another book about the Civil War in Missouri (and maybe Kansas too), called Black Flag. It came highly recommended, but I haven’t cracked it yet.

  43. Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

    Thought I’d stop back to make a reference to an article of Karl Denninger’s that he put out this afternoon.

    This stuff gets worse and worse, and somebody is going to have to pay a price.

    No wonder they wish for WW3.

    “We may now have created a couple hundred million people in the US alone who have coded their immune systems to tolerate certain proteins that are common across all manner of respiratory viruses and worse, if its not local to viruses to be more-susceptible to cancer and other immune-sensitive problems with no way to reverse the effects!

    If you recall I pointed out very early on in this thing that jabbing people with a non-sterilizing immune product, which these jabs all are, was wildly irresponsible because at minimum it would likely cause a decrease in symptoms and thus make it more likely rather than less that you’d go out and infect other people unknowingly. That was and remains correct however what nobody knew because we didn’t look is that said non-sterilizing jabs had an even worse outcome in that they shift your immune response from elimination to tolerance so now, particularly after the third, you are likely to carry and not eliminate covid which makes you a literal Typhoid Mary, and if that’s not enough we have no idea if this effect is local to Covid itself (which, in the world of Omicron isn’t so awful as Omicron doesn’t seem to be killing many people) but it may extend to influenza and even RSV, and is even more-likely to extend to the other two common beta coronaviruses OC43 and HKU1.

    And finally, this may be permanent in those people who took the jabs. We don’t know.

    But what we do know, factually, is that when you get infected with Covid post Jab #3 your neutralizing antibody product is a statistical zero while your “tolerance” antibody production shoots the moon. This is exactly backward from what you want to happen and we are now left trying to figure out exactly how badly you screwed both yourself and others.”

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247709

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

      Ol’ Karl….founder of the Tea Party. Please.

    • messianicdruid December 26, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

      A second witness:

      rintrah.nl/the-trainwreck-of-all-trainwrecks-billions-of-people-stuck-with-a-broken-immune-response/

      Hey riverrunner – try to wait long enough to read this [ excellent comments ] before you “call bullsh!t”.

      • Islander December 26, 2022 at 11:07 pm #

        The actual rintrah post was difficult for me to follow, but some of the comments summed up the implied conclusions.

        Not good.

        Per new research and I guess testing, the jabbed are on track to become petri dishes or cesspools (pick your metaphor) of viruses that slowly wear down the jabbed’s immune systems and they also transmit viruses of all kinds to the unjabbed: “normal” viruses already circulating and mutated viruses.

        The level of risk in this scenario to the unjabbed still seems to be unclear to some commenters (as it is to me).

      • Alzaebo December 27, 2022 at 2:10 am #

        Ah, shoot, druid; they want worse so they can escalate to far worse still.

        A Worser Spiral.

        The worse, the better.

        • messianicdruid December 27, 2022 at 6:34 am #

          We need a large tree across the tracks; might be a chance to jump off.

    • Hereward the Woke December 27, 2022 at 5:56 am #

      That KD article was scary, Beryl. 2023 is going to be interesting. Maybe Fauci will hang yet.

  44. Mick December 26, 2022 at 6:21 pm #

    Chris Hedges’ latest….

    ‘The Democrats are Now the War Party’

    “The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with with nuclear war….

    ….The Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America but for the weapons manufacturers and the Pentagon. No weapons system is too costly. No war, no matter how disastrous, goes unfunded. No military budget is too big, including the $858 billion in military spending allocated for the current fiscal year, an increase of $45 billion above what the Biden administration requested….”

    chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-democrats-are-now-the-war-party?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:30 pm #

      Holy muthafuckin shit….someone finally posts a reputable source in Hedges.

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

        My point is that even Chris Hedges can see the corruption in the Democrat party. I do respect Chris because he is a man of integrity. I wouldn’t want him making key economic decisions though. I agree with him with respects to disastrous US foreign policy, and that war is horrible.

        • Islander December 26, 2022 at 11:09 pm #

          My view exactly of Hedges.

          I think his innate decency has made him slow to grasp the depth of depravity and mendacity that now grips the USA.

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

      Probably one of the few things Hedges is right about these days. Thanks.

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:45 pm #

        Ooh, tell us what he’s wrong about. Can’t wait.

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

          Well, he’s a plagiarizer, for one thing, so who knows how much of his opinions are actually his.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 7:23 pm #

            I think you may be confusing Hedges with someone else. I doubt that he has ever plagiarized anyone. He doesn’t have to.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

            I didn’t want to believe it, either, Mick, but he did. There was a huge kerfuffle some years back, and I was a big fan of Hedges, but could not argue with the evidence.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 11:10 pm #

            What is the evidence?

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 3:38 am #

            I recall that, but also recall the evidence being rather flimsy. Too lazy to look it up again.

            Hedges lost me during the Covid hoax. Same with Abby Martin and a few others.

            Ideology can blind otherwise good people.

          • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 4:36 pm #

            I thought it was flimsy as well, until I read Hedges rebuttal, which was not even close to adequate.

            I concluded that yeah, he did do some plagerizing.

            Then came him handing Bellingcat an award, after preaching to us for years to stand up to the system. After that, I was pretty much done with him.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:48 pm #

            Hm. I never read that.

            I am curious now.

  45. Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

    “#Drosten behauptet heute ein Ende der Pandemie. Neue Zahlen der “Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes” belegen aber, dass es 2020/21 keine Pandemie gab.

    Jedenfalls nicht auf den Friedhöfen. Nur in den Laboren surrten die PCR-Maschinen unentwegt.”

    “[Christian] Drosten claims the pandemic is over. New stats from the Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes show that there was no pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

    At least not based on what we saw in cemetaries (burials). PCR machines where whirring away in the laboratories, however.”

    https://twitter.com/SHomburg/status/1607436416727896069?cxt=HHwWisC-ofG54c4sAAAA

    Yet more data backing what looks to be the greatest hoax in human history. And those caught up in it will be lucky to live five years.

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    • Night Owl December 26, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

      “teries”

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 6:46 pm #

      And those of us who not only predicted it but have been calling “fraud” for 2.5 years are STILL called tinfoil hat.

      Insane.

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 6:49 pm #

        Fraud. Keep your tinfoil hat on.

      • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

        Tinfoil has been pretty protective these last three years.

        No spike proteins in the body.

        And the dozens of ambulances rolling by our door don’t have any of my family members in them.

        Tinfoil for the win.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:05 pm #

          LOL!!

  46. MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

    Did “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” happen before 2021?

    I think not.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/british-olympian-tom-daleys-31-year-old-diving-coach-dies-suddenly-sudden-adult-death-syndrome/

    • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

      Here are those “baffled” journalists, specialists, etc.

      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/what-is-sads-healthy-young-people-dying-from-sudden-adult-death-syndrome/TIOAK4SYPF5LFSKP5QZCVG23IM/

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 7:35 pm #

        Did you even read the NZ article?

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

          Stop clogging up the thread with bullshit and keep your hat on.

          • Jarek December 26, 2022 at 8:02 pm #

            I agree with your message to yourself, gollum.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

            Do you have the SADs?

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

          You didn’t get it? The baffled people not making the connection?

          LOL!

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:46 pm #

            I got it….it’s your overreach that’s laughable and citing a tabloid called vaccineimpact that has articles about satanic jewish plots. LOL!

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

            You have one job here, and you are failing miserably at it.

            As your tribe likes to say, “do better.”

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 10:00 pm #

            you can’t even post a decent source to back up your maniacal ravings.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 26, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

        From Alex Berenson:

        “Looks like there might be a teeny tiny lil itty-bitty problem with multiple mRNA shots. Nothing to worry about, just a near-total rewiring of the standard human antibody response. I’m sure it’ll be fine.

        Full story coming.”

        https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1607227273987645442?s=20&t=PQkEVbgu6eS4iTyaOV5UXg

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:38 pm #

          Berenson…The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

            Not a pandemic when deaths are only 0.27.

            Sorry, noodge.

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

            And he’s still a buffoon peddling lies to his followers. Kinda like Jim does here.

          • Alzaebo December 27, 2022 at 2:15 am #

            Runnybottoms : shut up, stupid.

  47. Jarek December 26, 2022 at 8:06 pm #

    The illegals are freezing on the streets of America and we are supposed to feel bad for them – and not our own people who face the same?

    This is what the mainstream media is pushing. It’s our fault that they are freezing. Not them for breaking our laws. Us.

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:36 pm #

      I think most moral and sane people can feel bad for both grumpy old man.

  48. Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

    I made the mistake of going into a Walmart today, on the day after Christmas. I knew it would be crowded, but I only wanted to get two items. I figured that I would be able to breeze through the self checkout.

    Wrong.

    But the biggest part of the experience was that I thought of Jarek while there. Why? I couldn’t help but feeling that I was in a third world country. I mean……..I’m talking at least 90% not white, and not from here. Even the store’s sound system was playing a spanish language pop song!

    I didn’t get the two items. I couldn’t take it. It was really uncomfortably bad.

    Oh, and last week I went into the same Walmart to get a few camp stove size propane canisters. I couldn’t find them so I asked this black teenaged or early twenties male employee. I was met with an open yet just enough understated hostility to keep the situation from getting ugly. I was expecting him to say, “Man get outta my fuckin’ face cracker! Fuck you and your propane cannisters!” He had that kind of attitude.

    I thought of Jarek that time too.

    WASF.

    • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

      Amazon is my only friend these days.

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:33 pm #

        Ha… Yeah I very, very rarely ever go inside a Walmart. Yet this past week or so I did twice because I needed a few things spur of the moment.

        I’m going from very rarely to never again.

      • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:26 pm #

        Never use it, never will. Bezos owned, this is the technofeudal future, and guiding us into it.

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

      Oh noes….brown people. Gasp!

      • Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

        I’ve been in crowds before with mostly brown people and felt just fine. I grew up with quite a few of them. Have direct neighbors who are brown and we get along just fine.

        Today was different in that Walmart because most of them weren’t from here and it was a creepy foreign atmosphere. I know you don’t care or get it because you are 12, and a fool.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

          Uh no Mick. I’ve been fortunate to have a passport since I was 12 and have been to many countries where people don’t look like me. Just stay home hiding under your table, cowering in fear.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:58 pm #

            Going to another country is not the same experience. You arrogant shithead.

            Fuck you. You don’t know me. I don’t stay home and cower in fear.

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

            Uh-oh…triggered. And probably a gun-humper too.

    • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 3:25 am #

      I made the mistake of going into a Walmart today,

      This is totally the wrong attitude.

      Walmart was a latecomer to Puget Sound. I remember when they were not here at all. I discovered the flavor of the demographic you describe pretty quick after they opened.

      I quickly realized this is great.

      I get to have the experience of going to a foreign land for a couple bucks in gas. Lets say what Walmart really is. A free trip to a foreign land! There is nothing to complain about. It is a total free-be.

      What? You would rather fly over an ocean in an aluminum can seven miles high and then have to go through customs? You can get the same thing driving to Walmart in twenty minutes. And you don’t need a passport.

      The obstacle becomes the way. It is a no-brainer.

      • Mick December 27, 2022 at 5:45 pm #

        You are such a pompous twit.

    • Blackbird December 27, 2022 at 10:08 am #

      I’ve been inside a Walmart 5 times. Walked out empty-handed every time, thinking to myself, “When are you going to learn?”. They never had what I was looking for, and my needs were so simple.

      It’s incongruous improbabilities like that, that cause me to lean a bit in the direction of “it’s all an illusion”.

      Not a lot of ethnic diversity in the Walmarts up my way. Walmart shoppers up here tend to look like they wandered away from a human CAFO. It’s enough to convince you that we do live in a simulation, one created by Robert Crumb.

      • Anthea December 28, 2022 at 11:00 pm #

        Our local Walmart is almost lily white, though you occasionally see blacks or Hispanics. I was there today, and the only black person I saw was one of the checkers. I also saw one Asian woman.

        A few months ago, there was a brief period where I saw a lot of blacks there–as in, maybe one in 20-30 shoppers were black. There were also several black stockers at work, and they were all very polite. They disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared. Makes you go “hmmm….” Maybe there was a brief fad in the hood for driving out to BFE for the Walmart experience.

        There was also a brief period where Walmart’s PA system was playing what sounded like other shoppers conversing (loudly), with much shuckin’ and jivin’. It was as if Walmart decided we needed our lives enlivened–and then changed their minds.

        Rural Walmarts are entirely different from urban or suburban ones. Everyone shops at Walmart, mainly because there isn’t any other place to shop, unless you want to drive 30 miles.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

      Wise As Fuck

  49. themetalmystic December 26, 2022 at 8:26 pm #

    The media never followed up on the 1964 Immigration Act where the signers promised that it would not change the demographic makeup of the American nation. At that time, white Europeans were 90% of the population. Now, we are at 57%. Children entering kindergarten are 45%.

    That was before Bidens 3 million illegals per year, (likely at least double those official figures), for the next four years. At 12 – 25 million plus their family members soon to follow, so multiply the initial number by 4 to yeild 48 – 100 million, and look at what you get. I never knew about this crime against our people until a few months ago. I said, “What is this Great Replacement conspiracy. The media says it is a conspiracy theory. Is it?”

    I found out it is real. The news media never went into outrage in the 90s when Noel Saul Ignatiev was openly advocating for abolishing “whiteness.” They don’t publicize American Psychiatric Association president Don Moss carrying on Ignatiev’s work and calling for the elimination of white identity. They never published Barbara Spectre’s announcements that Europe is too ethnically homogenous and that it must change, and the activities of her foundation to import huge numbers of Muslims and Africans into Europe.

    The Great Replacement has been a project announced by the Frankfurt School in the 40s. I never heard of it until some crazed gunman a few months ago and it was denied as conspiracy.

    No, the news media has been derelict in its duty for a long, long time. When I quote these figures to my friends and family who pay attention and are open to information they are, like I was, shocked. They had no idea it was this bad.

    We may be about to go through significant economic dislocation, but it will happen as the ingenious ruling regime has created the conditions for massive ethnic and racial strife by radically altering the demographics of the country. As more gasoline the fossil fuel haters have poured huge amounts of gasoline by openly demonizing the heritage population, making its claims to the nation illegitimate and legitimizing their dispossession.

    The new appropriations bill pays a lot of money to protect Ukraine’s border. It explicitly forbids using money to finish building our border wall. It also appropriates millions to Israel to help them deport some of their unwanted and incompatible populations – likely to Europe or America. If they can have a wall, defend it with violence (as they are right to), and deport their albatross populations, using our money, why can’t we?

    Not a peep from the media about that. Things are far worse and far more corrupt than you can possibly have imagined.

    • Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:30 pm #

      Add the untold number of whites dying from the mRNA jabs and the replacement efforts are picking up speed.

      ‘Untold number’ is a euphemism for lots and lots. And I doubt we’ve seen the peak yet.

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

        Liar.

        • Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

          fag

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

            Thank you for disclosing your complete stupidity.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 8:55 pm #

            And just calling me a “liar” is intelligent? No effort to show how I am lying? Because you don’t have the IQ to even attempt it.

            I was stooping to your 12 year old level.

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

            It’s easy big boy…there aren’t ‘untold numbers of whites dying from the jabs.’ So….you’re a liar.

          • Mick December 26, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

            You don’t know that. You can’t prove it. So I could just answer “liar” as well.

            And expressing an opinion, even if it turns out to be wrong, is not the same as lying. If you were in my presence I’d break your fucking jaw for calling me a liar.

            Well, you folks enjoy riverrunner. It appears that Mr. K does not really moderate the comments section anymore. RR is a true definition of a troll. I don’t say this because I disagree with him often. It’s that he’s disagreeable just to be disagreeable. And in a 12 year old, at best, manner.

            I

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

            I had high hopes for you Mick when you posted the Hedges article but that quickly faded…alas…..

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:10 pm #

            I doubt you’d break my jaw. At 6’4″ you couldn’t reach it you mental midget.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

            Tsk, tsk, RiverDiarrhea, your cult does NOT approve of ablelist/bigoted talk such as calling someone a midget, let alone a mental midget.

            Better beg your boss David Brock for forgiveness and prostrate yourself before him.

          • Islander December 26, 2022 at 11:26 pm #

            RR is a troll.

            Best to ignore.

          • Mick December 27, 2022 at 11:27 am #

            Yeah you got me rr. I would not actually break your jaw.

            I’ve never done such a thing, and I doubt I ever will. But I highly doubt you are 6’4″. There are some unusually tall kids at age 12 in the world, but not that tall.

            Now, I am truly a ‘mental midget’ in comparison to people who are far superior over me in mental capacity and ability.

            But to you? Lol… That’s funny.

            I think you are a mental midget in comparison to every single participant on this blog.

            That is all. I will do what I should’ve done in the first place, and that is to just completely ignore you.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

          And Micky, I’m disagreeable because Kunstler’s repetitive diatribes and his troglodyte followers needed a good strong shove in the other direction. Not that it makes a difference but it’s fun!

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:14 pm #

            And Micky, yes, we do know that.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

            Well, if anything, you’re pushing people even harder in Kunstler’s direction, given the imbecilic alternative twaddle you offer.

            So, there’s that.

            Not even an effective troll.

            Derp.

        • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

          See Michelle Goldberg NYT’s article, “We Can Replace Them”.

      • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

        Who is Brock and what is this cult you speak of?

    • Disaffected December 26, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

      Oh, I think most here have imagined it, all right.

    • Not_GeorgeT December 26, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

      Quietly, at home, I repeatedly say things such as ‘we haven’t reached the beginning yet’.

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 8:44 pm #

      I know math is hard but claiming that 6 million are illegally crossing is pure fiction.

      • Cavepainter December 26, 2022 at 9:11 pm #

        Please folks, riverrunner is tagging you, hence diverting this thread away from reasoned, civil discussion.

        • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

          “reasoned?” Good one…

        • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

          I think he’s a tweaker.

          • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:56 pm #

            Now Mary your tired ‘chardonnay’ jabs tell the discerning reader of your troubles with alcohol. No shame in disclosing your difficulties. As for the troll bit,I appear to be pretty effective.

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

            We know who you are, Take-a-Poo.

            The crisp chardonnay drinker. Looks like you’ve gone off the deep-end.

            Might want to try rehab instead of pestering people.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 1:00 am #

            No, ya don’t know me MaryQ.

        • Islander December 26, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

          Cavepainter.

          Right. Effin’ obvious.

          Why do putative grown-ups continue to respond to and encourage obvious trolls?

          • MaryQueen December 26, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

            Why do you continue to do drive-by attacks on comments threads which have nothing to do with you?

            Mysteries abound.

          • Islander December 27, 2022 at 7:08 am #

            “driveby commenting” = Good one, coming from MQ!

            I guess you enjoy engaging with and raging at trolls and creating dumb “threads” with them.

            Thereby encouraging them to infest this place.

            I guess if they weren’t there you would have to invent them! (;-)

          • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 9:17 am #

            Blaming me for trolls, a new low.

          • Mick December 27, 2022 at 10:29 am #

            ‘Putative’. Now that’s a nice word that isn’t used enough these days.

          • Islander December 27, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

            And BTW, MQ, I was responding to Cavepainter, not you. Me not drive-by you drive-by. Signed, Tonto.

          • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 4:31 pm #

            The initial one yes, not the subsequent one.

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

      “The heritage population.” Is that Tuck’ems new catchphrase? LMAO. Gawd, and you wonder why I hang out here…it’s to needle you morons in this echo chamber.

      • JohnAZ December 27, 2022 at 9:28 am #

        Well, it certainly is not offering anything of substance to the discussions.

        • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

          But it is worth mocking you.

    • riverrunner December 26, 2022 at 9:03 pm #

      Metalmystic…quit trying to sound smart and just go to bed. What a word salad…

  50. SoftStarLight December 26, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

    I hope you had a nice Christmas Mr. K. You know I hate to be a contrarian but it seems like dirty fighting has been happening forever and a day. I wouldn’t expect that to end anytime soon if people are around. It’s too bad the good are so good sometimes maybe? In any case, the collapse of the imperial system is a good thing. Though it does truly seem that eventually every civilization evolves/devolves? into an imperial system. So maybe civilization is somewhat overrated?

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    • JohnAZ December 27, 2022 at 9:27 am #

      The collapse of the imperial system is a good thing?

      To be replaced by what?

      Frying pans and fire scare me.

      Most folks think the result of everything is a feudal society where 90% of the folks work for the other 10% in agriculture.

      Is that better than imperial? Is your definition of imperial what is happening right now where we still have some middle class? If so, much better than what could be coming down the pike.

      • Jimpa December 27, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

        I agree, while I “wait for it”, I certainly don’t want it. Life is good, you have to be nuts to want unending hardship, though it appears that some do.

        • Jimpa December 27, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

          Federal collapse now though, might be better than the WEF utopia, although they are not mutually exclusive. Living in an age of decadence is not so bad, but living in age of collapse is probably not so great.

          • Jimpa December 27, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

            Living in a totalitarian AI controlled nightmare would be even worse than collapse me thinks.

          • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

            Maybe you’re right. Maybe I am crazy. Or maybe your normalcy bias is preventing you from imagining that things could be different. Though it would seem like there is often hardship when there are massive social and historical changes. That is why the normalcy bias makes so much sense and happens to us all. Not that we will have much of a choice when the time arrives. But I do agree with you that an ai controlled “metaverse” would likely be a complete nightmare. But that too seems to be where the current system would like to take us if it could.

          • SpeedyBB December 31, 2022 at 5:38 am #

            Excess population, made unemployable by market conditions, lack of training, easy availability of inhibition-lowering drugs, a culture of violence and lack of impulse control, will inevitably lead to some configuration of police state.

            In the case of ostensibly “free” Norteamerica, the cyber-dictatorship will be coated with candy and tied up with a shiny ribbon and a bow. Grateful citizens will reach out and proffer heartfelt thanks for the oppression at gunpoint, and permission to survive.

            People want stability and continuity of essentials above all else, when raw reality is reached. As mentioned in repeated comments above, by inspiring instability and an attitude of entitled victimhood, TPTB are creating quite a force for social upheaval.

            I contrast that with the deeply religious and conservative Southeast Asian cultures. When instability threatens, the military steps in with government-by-junta;

      • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        Well i’m sorry John but you’re in the kitchen. It seems like feudalism or something similar to it is the typical social state of humans. And now that we see that society is truly run by billionaire oligarchs it truly appears that our current system is feudalistic but with perhaps trappings of other things that make it appear somewhat “democratic” or representative. Imperial because it has such a wide reach and the power is heavily centralized and weaponized. The imperial system is what is extinguishing the middle class imo

        • messianicdruid December 27, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

          “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”

          If “imperial system” includes usury, I agree.

          • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

            Usury sounds imperial. It requires a complex system of keeping up with who loaned who how much and who paid who how much and for how long. Sounds like a lot of work. So it’s imperial. See how simple the world can be!

  51. SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 12:09 am #

    It seems very unrealistic that Kamala ever truly celebrated Kwanzaa. It’s not even good quality parody level so that adds to the exhausting nature of the machine.

    • malthuss December 27, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

      she is half hindu, anyway.

      • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

        si

  52. K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 3:33 am #

    Anonymous people calling other anonymous people trolls. Fighting. A day after Christmas, and people shouting in the void are already off their meds.

    Does not look like a happy new year is coming here. I expect one of them to insult me now.

    • JohnAZ December 27, 2022 at 10:17 am #

      Believe me, the blog is the least of our worries in 2023.

    • Mick December 27, 2022 at 10:31 am #

      You just caused me to remember the great “Triumph the Insult Dog”. Very funny character.

      Anyway, I don’t think anyone will insult you now. You’ve been a good dog.

    • Woodchuck December 27, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

      Riverrat claims there are cranky old men in here. Partly true I reckon. Only retired or unemployed people have the time to post in places like this on a regular basis. But then Rr might be getting paid for his trolling, who knows? But his comment inspired me to go watch “Grumpy Old Men” one more time. Mathau and Lemon were perfect in their roles, and the winter weather in the movie and the ice fishing scene makes it a perfect movie for right now. I’d bet there are real life grumpy old retired men in here. I might even qualify for that myself.

    • SpeedyBB December 31, 2022 at 6:50 am #

      How much is that doggy in the window?

  53. Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 3:43 am #

    “In this revealing and insightful interview of ??ICIC, former UN Executive Director C?lin Georgescu describes the process of infiltration and global takeover of the United Nations by oligarchs, particularly Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF).”

    https://icic.law/en/

    Good interview over at Rainer Fuellmich’s new organization. This ex UNer breaks down the infiltration and massive levels of corruption in the UN via WEF and co.

    • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:38 am #

      Nice little section on the manipulation of the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth report as well (climate change fraud).

      The interviewee was also a European head for COR.

      • Islander December 27, 2022 at 8:10 am #

        Here is the URL of the video:

        httpX://video.icic-net.com/w/wqc3AJJbm2Gn3HroLxUWdp

        • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 10:05 am #

          Thanks!

      • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

        That is a nice interview. It is long but I saw a good part of it. It helps to push the speed up.

        The concept is ‘cultural hegemony’. Money expresses itself through those who are slaves to large piles of it. Call them oligarchs or what you will, money infects through greed. We all want to be on the winning team and weak is the man who does not know he is weak.

        The thesis is that oligarchs push an agenda. If you don’t like oligarchs then everything you don’t like becomes part of the oligarch agenda. You choose a team. You become one of the oligarch haters. By doing so you become no better. The only thing different is your social religion and you most certainly have one. You may as well dig two graves.

        But the truth of the matter is, blaming your troubles on nameless oligarchs is lazy. And no need for graves because all lazy people do is talk.

        The Earth is not dying. It is being killed.

        And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

        Billions of names and addresses.

        The green eyed monster is part of it. That is understandable, there is a rich agenda, and the rich have undeserved power.

        But:

        All the world’s a stage,
        And all the men and women merely players.
        They have their exits and their entrances.
        And one man in his time plays many parts.

        Everybody has an agenda. Most reflect one that fits them well. Like a nice jacket.

        • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

          No one in that interview agrees with you on anything.

          You should watch it.

    • John001 December 27, 2022 at 9:54 am #

      Did anyone ever work out what really happened to the Corona Investigative Committee, of which Fuellmich was only part?

      Dr Wolfgang Wodarg was the one I particularly trusted. He and the late Paul Flynn (Labour MP) helped to take apart the 2009 H1N1/WHO/Pandremix scandal. Both of these individuals had in my view total integrity, well, Wodarg still does. Flynn sadly died several years ago.

      • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 10:08 am #

        There was an internal scuffle between Viviane Fisher and Reiner Fuellmich. She accused him of embezzling money, and he says that’s ridiculous. So he just went his own way and started a new program. I watched a long explanation by Reiner of the situation, and it sounds like an attack out of nowhere. I haven’t heard Viviane’s side from her, however, she didn’t handle it well, so it seemed (to me) to be more vindictive.

        • Islander December 27, 2022 at 6:11 pm #

          “She accused him of embezzling money, ”

          I find that very hard to believe.

          Regarding Wodarg, I do think he has great integrity, and knowledge, but I also think he was not always a positive presence during interviews

          He kind of attacked Dr. Zev Zelenko—interrupted him and questioned him in an aggressive fashion that came off as hostile. Zelenko kind of shut him up.

          I noticed this kind of reaction in Wodarg a couple of times. Wodarg’s cred is unimpeachable, but sometimes his presence was disruptive or just didn’t help. I wonder whether this had anything to do with Fuellmich’s going off on his own. The latter seems to be more of a natural for the video medium. And of course his English is very good.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:09 pm #

          I’m going by what Reiner said that Viviane accused him. I would think that it would not make sense for Reiner to do that if she hadn’t actually accused him.

      • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 10:58 am #

        There were rifts before the kerfluffle in the committee. We are members of the affiliated Basis party here in Germany, and there was talk of it having been infiltrated by unscrupulous individuals as far back as two years ago.

        In terms of what happened in the CA/CIC, no charges were ever pressed, and no evidence of anything was ever presented publicly.

        I was always more partial to Fuellmich, as he started the operation and was largely responsible for their the impact they achived. He now seems set to have far greater impact.

        • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 11:27 am #

          Same, and I have to wonder if Viviane was gotten to, or was a plant to begin with. I am disappointed that Woldarg seemed to be on her side.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:58 pm #

            Neither Wodarg or Fischer understand how media works. A common problem in Germany.

            Wodarg couldn’t even bother to get regular haircuts.

          • Islander December 27, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

            “Neither Wodarg or Fischer understand how media works. A common problem in Germany.

            Wodarg couldn’t even bother to get regular haircuts.”

            Yes.
            Summary of what I was trying to say, above.

            Also, Viviane needed to get a sensible hairdo, wash her hair, powder her nose, and change her blouse occasionally. These image issues seem petty but in the end they are distracting.

  54. lizharmon December 27, 2022 at 6:12 am #

    Thanks for the last paragraph, Jim. When the history books are written, the biggest mistake made by the Dems will be sanctioning their enemies. They’ve pushed Putin into Xi’s arms and along with him, India, Brazil, South Africa and Saudi. That last one is especially funny, because it spells the end of the petrodollar and along with it, US dominance. A large swath of the world has already moved on from us and it will only accelerate from here. The good news is that most of these people want nothing to do with North America. We’ll recalibrate and figure out that pushing Mexico and Canada around (and let’s face it, any people who elect a soy boy like Justin Trudeau deserve to be pushed around) will have to be good enough.

    • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

      Dmitry Medvedev posted an interesting thread of predictions for 2023 on twitter yesterday. Most people seemed to dismiss it. I dunno, personally i didn’t see what was so strange about many of the predictions. The end of the petrodollar was one of them.

      • Not_GeorgeT December 28, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

        I thought it was a good list, saw screen shots of it, being screen shots there were a few but followed the numerical order.

  55. Jimpa December 27, 2022 at 10:17 am #

    Wait for it? Most on this board have been doing so for over twenty, thirty, years. The Feds collapsing is now the optimistic scenario. We now have the WHOers, the WEFers, and their ilk to deal with. Let’s hope they lose control before AI becomes ubiquitous, or we may be really cooked. Time seems short to me, before the demonic has world control. Even so there will be pockets of goodness and Godliness me thinks. Perhaps the waiting really will be over soon.

    The pocket I live in, rural coastal plain NC, is good for now, although it’s been damn cold. Up into the seventies for most of next week, Yippee!

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    • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 11:01 am #

      Things are about to ramp up again, so buckle up. They are aiming for a new pandemic hoax to coincide with digitization of supermarkets and just about everything you need. The infrastructure is going live very soon.

      CBDCs will complete things.

      Just say no. No politician is going to save any of us.

      • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 11:45 am #

        Also posted above:

        It’s Starting, Bill Gates Announces The Next Plandemic Date And Outbreak Location

        https://rumble.com/v22h6gg-its-starting-bill-gates-announces-the-next-plandemic-date-and-outbreak-loca.html

        • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 12:35 pm #

          Good morning CF’ers….off to a running start this morning…looks like MaryQ is back on the bottle at an early hour posting more dubious links and criticizing folks doing ‘drive-bys.’ The irony. Jarek showing up with the de rigeur racism and Mick slinking off.

          We just need our glorious host to show up and discuss the gaslighting by a weirdo named Santos, ya know, the guy that belongs to the real Party of Chaos. Santos, who claims to be not a Jew, but Jew-ish…get it? The party of law, order and family values rears its ugly head again.

        • thirdcoastlegend December 27, 2022 at 5:02 pm #

          MQ-

          Looks like they’ve realized they need a couple years to lull the sheep back to sleep.

          Watch for them to furiously double and triple-down on their efforts to, “rebuild trust.”

          Taken as a whole, the human species is so embarrassingly dumb it will probably work like a charm.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:15 pm #

            But tell us about your background and expertise in infectious diseases thirdcoast.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:10 pm #

            It’s called “squeeze and release.” They have to push us to the brink, then scale back a bit and ease up for awhile, then close the vise grip again.

        • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

          “It’s starting!” squeals Mary. What’s starting? Yeah, Mary, there’s this little thing called the Amazon that might be worthy of study for zoonotic diseases that we just might want to know about and be prepared for.

      • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

        Supermarkets already are digitized. Or do you call bar codes a hoax? How do you load and unload a semi truck without bar codes and scanning guns?

        Supermarkets are outlets of large corporations that can have dozens to hundreds to thousands of other outlets. Target sells groceries, how many target stores are there? You make up an infrastructure that already exists. That is strange. Imagining things that don’t exist and denying things that do. You are not being clear.

        • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

          I don’t need to scan an ID, QR code, or my face to enter or pay.

          Nor do I have anyone tracking my purchases in cash.

          You useless fucking fascist.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:11 pm #

            Oh poor night owl…so easily triggered…such a snowflake.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:47 pm #

            Explaining the world to Maoists.

            The River Rube hates those more successful than himself.

            Boxed wine. Low-rise apartment. Maoism.

            LOL.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

            You seem a bit confused by your -isms…

          • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 5:29 am #

            Returning to a place where you hate most of the posters and fro which you were banned multiple times.

            River Rubism.

            LOL.

        • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

          Wow this is super clueless.

          They aren’t tracking your every purchase and deciding whether or not you can buy something. Do you even know what CBDC is??

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

            He says shit like this all the time.

            Not long ago, the claim was that CBDCs are cool because we already have credit cards.

            Be sure to visit his blog, as he regularly reminds Kunstler readers.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

            His blog has some impressive displays of his programming ability, but from a UX designer perspective, it’s a hot mess.

    • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

      I know i’m excited about the warm up too lol! I agree, there are a lot of bad things and there are demons everywhere. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t good things or that God is not also there.

  56. BackRowHeckler December 27, 2022 at 10:56 am #

    Apparently the looting in Buffalo was pretty widespread. We usually think of looting as a warm weather activity but this time it was in the wake of a ferocious blizzard. The thinking seems to be, summer or winter, when an opportunity presents itself, why not go for it?

    Video shows very little police interference with the festive ransacking activities. People are seen running from Walmart with arms full of goods and stuffing it all into the trunks of their cars. It was the usual suspects engaged in a little post holiday shopping, that’s all. No big deal, the stores have insurance.

    • Woodchuck December 27, 2022 at 11:37 am #

      Here’s how this is going to end. And people living in places like Cleveland, Chicago, or Detroit are more aware of this. Employees don’t like working for minimum wage and having to endure working conditions that include being hurt or killed by customers. Business owners and CEO’s will look at their books and conclude they cannot afford to keep stores open in various places all over the country. So those “places” find themselves with NO Walmarts or Dollar Stores. They’ll find themselves having to travel many miles just to get to a store. Once fuel becomes scarce, too expensive,or rationed, people will find themselves without access to basic needs for living. The governments will then be forced to step in and create a new slave plantation system. Just as a southern plantation owner was directly and personally supplying food, shelter, clothing etc. for his slaves, governments will be forced to truck supplies into those areas to avoid a horrifying humanitarian and social crisis. My guess is they won’t find private contractors willing to do the trucking and running distribution centers, so this will be accomplished by military and national guard troops.

      My guess is that supplies will continue to arrive in those areas until it becomes obvious the residents there have abandoned the Democrat Party. Then the Democrats will abandon them.

      One thing that I’ve never ever understood about US Civil War version one. The sad truth about the situation is that it was a war between the newly created Republican Party and the older and more hide bound Democrat Party. Instead of simply stating the truth that the two parties were at war with each other, historians have presented us with the story that the conflict occured instead over the issue of slavery and racism. Had they told us the truth, we might have come to the conclusion that BOTH parties were utterly fulla shit and needed to be disbanded immediately after war’s end. That up to 600,000 lives had been squandered over what was essentially a needless deadly squabble among the elites of that time. People acting like small children and unable to talk to each other anymore. Elites that were just as unable to speak truthfully in the 1860’s as our elites in the Congress of today are unable to tell the truth about anything.

      Crazy ideas like these arrive in one’s head when reading authors like Tom DiLorenzo. He’s done a lot of great research and writing about the Lincoln mythology. Most academic historians won’t go near this guy because they are too chickenshit and value their jobs and paychecks far more than they value the truth.

      • BackRowHeckler December 27, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

        In Hartford, during the riots of ’68, every grocery store in the city was not only looted, but burned out. And that was it, none of them ever reopened. For decades, in a city of 100,000, there was not one modern, fully stocked grocer. It became a political issue, with the term ‘Food Desert’ trotted out every 4 years at election time.

        • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 12:22 pm #

          How do you like it now? The sweet fruits of supposed victory?

          America was on the losing side in WW2 – the real America that is. White America.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

            Spoken like a cranky old man.

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

            Yeah and I even think that 1+1=2 and a+b=b+a. All that White shit. And If I believe it, it must be wrong, right?

            Reductio ad Jerekem.

        • malthuss December 27, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

          the food deserts in detroit, and other areas where
          white america wont reach out.

          WHITE AMERICA SHAME ON U.

      • TPTB-USA December 27, 2022 at 4:03 pm #

        “Business owners and CEO’s will look at their books and conclude they cannot afford to keep stores open in various places all over the country.”

        Don’t you think we are already being conditioned for the new format, where you place an order online, and then drive-up and they bring it out to your car?

        The store of the future will be like a garrison, where a robot will deliver your order and plunk it in the trunk (6′ social distancing required, or else …). And, just like immunity for drug manufacturers, you will have to agree to hold harmless in the event that there is a glitch with the robot and it damages your vehicle (or goes berserk).

        • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 4:27 pm #

          That’s right; and if you don’t behave then there is no delivery for you.

          • TPTB-USA December 27, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

            And a thousand years from now, politicians will be agonizing over a reparations package to compensate their futuristic evolution’s for the abuse their ancestor AI slaves suffered.

      • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

        Buffalo is nothing. Wait until they get really hungry and there are no more stores to loot. What happens then? I think you know.

        There is one answer: Eternal separation as Jefferson said.

    • CrusherMuldoon December 27, 2022 at 12:04 pm #

      B-b-b-b-u-t I thought they were just picking up layaway items

      • malthuss December 27, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

        pre reparation bling.

        • Mick December 27, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

          Lol…. Now that shit’s funny. I don’t care who you are.

          • malthuss December 27, 2022 at 2:06 pm #

            newsome or newsom wants huge reps for black californians.

          • Mick December 27, 2022 at 2:22 pm #

            I know. I was doing my impression of ‘Larry the Cable Guy’. Works better IRL of course.

            Actually, I should’ve said,
            “That shit’s funny right there…I don’t care who you are”.

          • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 11:08 am #

            “Now that there is funny, I don’t care who you are”.

            I watched him on TV back before you could say ”shit”.

    • malthuss December 27, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

      blacks riot and loot. end of discussion.

    • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

      Backrow,

      Simple question. How can looting be widespread when snowdrifts are six feet high?

      • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

        The roads are plowed in Upstate NY.

        This is how things work in places where Maoists are not in charge.

        • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

          And you know that in Germany how? I don’t agree. I was in upstate NY 5 years ago. I know that is not possible. News reports also say otherwise.

          Dude, you are a total troll.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:26 pm #

            I am from Upstate NY, which I have mentioned several times.

            Eat shit, Neo-Maoist.

        • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:05 pm #

          Do you even know what a Maoist is?

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:45 pm #

            Still drinking boxed wine in your low-rise apartment?

            David doesn’t pay so well.

            LOL.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:03 pm #

            Not quite..enjoying a hazy ipa in front of the fire with snow falling. Pretty ideal but go on….

          • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 5:27 am #

            You can afford a craft beer now?

            Look at you moving up in the world.

  57. malthuss December 27, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

    The new plandemic will be SEERS. And it attacks children.

    / well thats how to depopulate. Oxygen deprived, retarded, autistic [from vaxes] last generation.

    SEERS SARS whatever,

    • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

      Autistic from vaxxes? My gawd….the stupidity….c’mon man.

      • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

        vaxes also kill

        • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

          Indeed they do. Our doctor here in Germany gave us quite a few warnings when it was time to consider vaccinating our kid.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

            Stop lying….

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

            Your dr is guilty of malpractice and must be a real peach. Prob a homeopath.

          • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 5:42 pm #

            Very common here in Germany. Serious medical professionals understand the risks.

          • Islander December 27, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

            Glad you had a doctor with integrity.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

            Yeah those ‘serious medical professionals’ (LMAO) are putting a real dent in that 98% vax rate.

          • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 8:51 pm #

            Are we talking covid vax or other “routine” vaccinations or both?

          • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 5:26 am #

            The rate is not 98%. And those that took it will continue to suffer.

            Not my concern. I am MRNA free.

      • Amman December 28, 2022 at 6:15 am #

        Has someone ever swung an axe at your neck and shoulder area?

  58. malthuss December 27, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

    Beryl, what is a before canada Celine?

    white?
    classy?

    • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

      MSN’s fact check says that Celine Dion’s stiff person syndrome diagnosis is not due to covid 19 vaccination

      • stelmosfire December 27, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

        Not that anyone cares but I’ve had SPS more often than I’d like to admit.

        • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

          Oh yeah? Tell me more

          • stelmosfire December 27, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

            I would SSL but I can’t remember half of it!

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:48 pm #

            Being stiff in the morning is a sign of masculine health. You’ve had a good night’s sleep and experience fullness of chi, ready to meet the day both well rested and energetic.

          • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

            Ok, well that’s an interesting little factoid lol

          • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 10:07 pm #

            vicious!

          • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 12:57 am #

            Lol 😉

  59. elysianfield December 27, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    The New American (motto: We got no reason to lie*) this AM reports;

    A portrait and stone bust of General Robert E. Lee — in place since the 1950s — will be removed from Reconciliation Plaza of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

    Lieutenant General Steven Gilland, the 61st superintendent at West Point, announced the removal of Lee’s portrait and bust this week — ironic, as Lee himself was a superintendent at the academy.

    A note to Walter…this should be of little concern, as Jamal be crushin’ it on the gridiron…

    *Maybe…who knows….

    • BackRowHeckler December 27, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

      Not just Lee, but all Confederate iconography and symbols are being removed from West Point. Busts of Jackson, Longstreet, AP Hill etc.are being removed as well. As you point out Lee spent a term as Superintendent at West Point, but also, Douglas Southall Freeman’s bio on Lee, plus his 3 volume series, ‘Lee’s Lieutenants’ was part of the West Point curricula.

      The new Superintendent is African, and this apparently is his way of getting even.

      • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 3:11 pm #

        ‘The new Superintendent is African’

        How does someone who is not American become in charge of West Point?

        • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

          General Lloyd Austin is also African.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

            How douchey can you be? And Gilland was born in Illinois but keep putting bullshit out there.

          • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 5:16 pm #

            And you are what….neandertal?

        • stelmosfire December 27, 2022 at 5:16 pm #

          “How does someone who is not American become in charge of West Point?”

          Excellent question Dog. Riddle me this. How does a 54 year old man with two adult children become female and a 4-star Admiral? As Satchmo says, “What a Wonderful World.”

    • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

      They can erect one of Rachel Levine in its place!

      “Muh diversity!”

      • Mick December 27, 2022 at 5:39 pm #

        Lol…

      • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

        Sorry… ADMIRAL Rachel Levine.

        • elysianfield December 28, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

          Mary,
          Perhaps an ADMIRAL, but hardly ADMIRABLE….

  60. K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

    “Carbon dividends is the bipartisan solution we need to cut emissions in half by 2035, protect family budgets, and create good-paying clean energy and manufacturing jobs.”

    Um, are you a robot?

    httpX://www.afcd.org/

    Quoting a website does not make me a robot. Thank you for accusing me of one so I can further fight your ignorance.

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    • K-Chien December 27, 2022 at 4:18 pm #

      * being one

    • Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:30 pm #

      The Neo-Maoist supports the WEF agenda.

      Imagine our shock.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:36 pm #

      Yeah but is that you talking or the nano-bots inside you making you say this nonsense?

  61. Night Owl December 27, 2022 at 4:25 pm #

    “George Soros says there is a clause that exempts social media platforms from posting falsehoods when it comes to elections… thanks to Elon Musk’s twitter dump, we all know this was used to elect Joe Biden”

    https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1607840151815991297?cxt=HHwWgsDRia6GmdAsAAAA

    LOL.

  62. Jarek December 27, 2022 at 4:25 pm #

    Randviscracy – What it is and How it Works

    Randviscracy is a form of government which makes extensive use of randomly selected panels for decision making. The use of randomization in governments is ancient, the Athenians used a device called a kleroterion to randomly select government representatives in a lottery system. Randviscracy takes the process much farther in that for each decision a new panel of randomly selected experts is selected. Selection is based on experience and IQ level to ensure that the panels are composed of smart and knowledgeable people. This gets to the essence of what ideal government representatives would be: intelligent, incorruptible and knowledgeable.

    This book is more than just about Randviscracy itself. It is an analysis of how governments have been exploited and how to prevent it from happening again.

    This government’s purpose would be ensuring the survival of its people and maximizing their prosperity through protection from force, fraud, corruption and ensuring the maximum reduction in transaction costs by protecting the nation’s people and their property-in-toto (in total). As many services as practical would be privatized. There would be exceptions for projects that are too large or have a common benefit to them, such as interstate highway projects, dams and critical infrastructure. These would be voted on and implemented at Federal, State and Local levels, suggested by citizens and groups and approved by randomized panels. New projects would be restrained by a taxation balance system (see taxation section, pg 47). Contract awarding process would also be anonymized and selected by vote from a randomly selected panel.

    The decisions of the government and the courts would be based on randomized selection of experts. For example, if a case involved a topic in the field of computer science, then the randomized selection would be from a pool of candidates who have experience in that field. People could voluntarily sign up to be in the pool of experts. They would have to certify their credentials, their education, their experience and training in the field. In this way people would be selected as advisors/instruments of the government such as jurors, decision makers, etc. This would be on a temporary basis and randomly selected. This would make it nearly impossible for the system to become corrupted, because who do you bribe in a system like this? Perhaps the builders of the selection process itself, but this could also be checked by randomly selected experts.

    It would be important to keep the pool of experts and selected members a secret. In this way, people who wanted to bribe officials in the government would not even know whom to bribe. Again, as extra protection have independent panels to check the selection process on a random basis to verify integrity. These processes will help ensure there is minimal corruption, which is most government’s greatest weakness.

    A protection mechanism would make use of fake candidates or officials who would act as monitors to catch attempts at bribery or subversion. For example, let’s say there is a panel being created to decide on a new law. A monitor is placed into the pool. If there is a corrupt person with access to the list of selected candidates and the monitor receives a contact in an attempt to influence their decision, they could inform on who is attempting the subversion.

    Jarek: Interesting. I just hope it’s not an effort by Rand Paul to take over.

  63. anmariwakaranai December 27, 2022 at 5:31 pm #

    Just got an email from our cfn Regina refugee, “TruVinyl is back with its new product, Time Machine, which is hosted exclusively at BitChute.

    Time Machine is absolutely free. Enjoy!”

    Now that’s what I call a Christmas present, only to be surpassed by a personal performance, hope you all had a ‘Merry little Christmas’. 😉

    ===========

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

      If you had a time machine, you could be your own real prophet instead of relying on these fake ones. To be charitable, maybe they’re psychics with sincere hearts. But prophets? The margin for failure here is zero. Ask the guys Nebuchadnezzar questioned before Daniel.

      • anmariwakaranai December 28, 2022 at 11:24 am #

        Jar, call His name at the Warning. Everything is gonna happen at once, earth changes, seismic inundation, a 6 week window to get right with God, the eye of the storm, and then flat out WWIII, nukes, persecution as never seen before, starvation, camps, plagues.

        When the angel comes in a flame follow it to safe refuge which could be your own home.

        You will be glad of this gift of extra time when it goes down.

        Call on Jesus to survive the warning.

        • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

          Well if we’re going to get angel with the flame, maybe it’s worth the wait.

          Thank you bringing Og back. He is a Warrior Angle.

    • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 10:44 pm #

      A new product? He’s never had any product. Ought to be hilarious. Another fail by the delusional nutjob.

    • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 2:11 am #

      anmari, you are a saint. God bless you!

  64. anmariwakaranai December 27, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

    Nice column rolo!

    • anmariwakaranai December 27, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

      …rulo

  65. MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

    Whatever happened to KesaAnna? I don’t think she’s posted for a couple of weeks at least.

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    • malthuss December 27, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

      I did not notice. Her posts were often too long for me.

    • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:01 pm #

      She probably wanted out of the insane asylum here at cfn.

      • benr December 28, 2022 at 9:03 am #

        Give it a rest the only one that is insane here is you for coming here and posting drive by dung splatter.

  66. tucsonspur December 27, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

    Regarding the Santa and Satan topic, the fact that the majority of the Ukrainian people prefer the EU and the West is irrefutable, except maybe for twist the truth, die-hard Putin lovers. Yes, that information IS all over the web and anywhere else one cares to look.

    Russia’s push into Ukraine was to gain leverage over Kiev and to stop its movement towards the West, defying the will of the Ukrainian people. The goal is to destabilize and create enough chaos so that at least the Eastern regions in Ukraine (with Russians and Russian speaking Ukrainians) can gain political and economic independence.

    Whether there is room for compromise there remains to be seen.

    Kudos to the Ukrainian people. That the fierce fighting continues is testament enough that the Ukrainians don’t want Russian rule.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

      It should have been split up. Putin was willing. Even Zelensky and other European leaders might have been willing. But we were not. We backed the diehards who wanted all of it. We did that not for them but for our own reasons. They will get none of it. And neither will we.

      With what great care the rulers created these false countries – the seeds of future conflict. Imagine giving a Germany city (Danzig) to Poland. But it was done. That helped start WW2.

      • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

        Jarek, your attempt at history and accuracy are laughable. Go to bed.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 7:11 pm #

      You must look inside yourself at the little longhair who hates the Great Man because he is great. He has a lot to work with when it came to Trump. Much less here. Why not tell him to pipe down? Why identify with this subpersonality when it is clearly wrong?

      • riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

        What on earth are you babbling about?

    • Woodchuck December 28, 2022 at 2:13 am #

      Uh, Ukraine isn’t a nation, never has been, never will be. Open a history book sometime, ya might learn something.

      • benr December 28, 2022 at 9:01 am #

        They have their own government and is a country on the current map
        which would suggest they are indeed a nation.

        Nation:a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

        By this definition then one could say the United States is not a nation anymore in fact by this definition there are very few Nations left on this planet.

    • benr December 28, 2022 at 8:59 am #

      Would you?
      It’s not like a Russian ruler did not steal all their food and starve them to death.
      That Soviet Union of course is not the semi modern Russia of today.

  67. riverrunner December 27, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

    Well folks, it’s been fun, yet again, being witness to the insane clown posse that takes up space here at CFN. I’m going to get back to, ya know, reality, with good books, life-affirming work, family and the outdoors. I suggest you all do the same.

    • Islander December 27, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

      Congratulations on the “getting a life” project—after winning a prize for the most comments in a 48-hour period . . .

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 8:36 pm #

      You’re really bad at this. Perhaps the spikes are diminishing your brain functioning?

    • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

      I’m glad you visited! You’ll have to tell us more about the life-affirming work that you do. It sounds very interesting.

    • benr December 28, 2022 at 8:57 am #

      Do try and not be such a douche on your next visit.

  68. Q. Shtik December 27, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

    My Red Ryder BB gun story:

    Back when my brother Armand and I were kids Armand had the hots to own a Red Ryder BB gun. A boy (and maybe a girl, not sure) could earn credits by selling a certain product door to door. I think the product was seeds… flowers? vegetables?, I’m not sure. Armand did this and one day received his Red Ryder.

    We went out in our back yard and set up a Pepsi bottle to shoot at. Armand laid down on the ground and held the gun up with his elbows and sighted with his right eye. I laid down next to him to his right. My cheek was maybe 2-3 inches from the stock of the gun. When he pulled the trigger I could actually see the BB fly out to the bottle 15-20 ft away almost horizontal but declining an inch or two by the time it struck.

    There was a tink sound and almost instantaneously I was struck and stung on my forehead just above my left eye by the returning BB. It left a small red dent in my skin. I don’t recall a Pepsi bottle having any perfectly flat surfaces but it came back at me like a light beam from a mirror.

    I don’t remember Armand shooting his gun any other time although I’m sure he did. Nor do I remember if I ever shot the BB gun although I must have. That very first shot is the only one etched in my memory.

    The bottle did not break nor did it even fall over. I guess the mass of a BB is simply not great enough to do much damage.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 8:38 pm #

      Did you get tested? What is your ethnicity?

      Who are you going to commission to do the Captain Peter painting?

      • Q. Shtik December 27, 2022 at 10:59 pm #

        When you click on the reply button under one of my comments the expectation is that YOUR comment will address something contained in MY content.

        Since yours didn’t meet that expectation I will not be responding to your current questions re an old post of mine.

    • SoftStarLight December 27, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

      Did you take that as a sign Q? That maybe you should be careful because things can easily bounce back onto you? That story came out of nowhere seemingly lol. Was there something somebody wrote that made you think back to that story or is this more of the Armand series? I like these little down to earth tales of the fam back in the day and all. And meanwhile I can talk about all the crazy ideas and stuff lol. Anyway, I hope you had a nice Christmas Q.

      • Q. Shtik December 27, 2022 at 10:51 pm #

        Was there something somebody wrote that made you think back to that story or is this more of the Armand series?

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

        How quickly you forget! Here is a paragraph from JHK’s prior blog essay published last Friday, 12/23:

        And then, of course, the Santa character was retooled and stylized by the big advertising mills of mid-20th century Madison Avenue into the red-suited icon who functioned as a cosmic delivery-man to suburban houses where the little ones dwell, efficiently distributing Red Ryder BB guns and Barbie Dolls from sea to shining sea out of his reindeer-powered express vehicle, circling the entire globe in a single breathless night of glittering snow and shining stars, plangent with countless wishes from little hearts.

        • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 1:04 am #

          My goodness! Forgive me, Q. I suppose I’ve just been saturated with information lately and didn’t immediately make that connection. But I appreciate your meticulous attentiveness to detail.

          • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 9:43 am #

            C’mon now, SSL! This as very nearly a physical acting out of the famous Christmas Story admonition that haunted young boys of the period endlessly, “You’ll shoot your eye out.” I like Q.’s version of the events here better, though. More realism and less hyperbole. I think Q. might have been a writer in another life. He might even still have time in this one to become one.

          • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 12:10 pm #

            Oh ok lol! I didn’t realize that Q was retelling a story with his own version. Gosh, the mysteries just keep getting thicker around here! The thing I remember most from that movie Christmas Story is the leg lamp lol and when the boy’s tongue got frozen to that pole. I don’t remember much else. It seems like it was always on in the background but I never paid much attention.

          • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 3:47 pm #

            Lil’ Ralphie finally gets his prized Red Ryder BB gun from dad, and what’s the first thing he does? Shoots it at the garage or whatever out back and the BB ricochets back and breaks his glasses and leaves a mark on his cheek. He makes up a dumb story about an icicle falling off the roof and hitting him and mom seems to buy it, but I suspect not really. Regardless, she helps him get cleaned up and reassures him about the glasses and all is right with the world again. The scene essentially wraps up one of the main themes of the movie. Ralphie is now a man!

          • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 4:26 pm #

            This as very nearly a physical acting out of the famous Christmas Story admonition that haunted young boys of the period endlessly, “You’ll shoot your eye out.” – Disaff

            =========

            I was oblivious that there was a similar BB gun story already in existence. I never saw Christmas Story.

          • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

            Yes, Q. Sorry if I implied that you were plagiarizing that story, just meant to say that your story was very similar. And it occurred before Christmas Story was even made, so your account would have been first. But “you’ll shoot your eye out” was a rather iconic phrase during that period. I’m pretty sure my own mother said it when I inevitably got around to wanting a BB gun as well.

    • benr December 28, 2022 at 8:56 am #

      Nice.
      I went shooting with my uncle and got hit with a ricochet from the .22 round.
      I remember having to dig out the little chunk of lead with a needle and him telling me not to tell grandma.
      I couldn’t see the round leaving the gun, but it did in fact shatter the bottles and eventually the ancient glass insulators he had thousands of these things from replacing them when they upgraded the power poles.

      • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 11:38 am #

        I remember having to dig out the little chunk of lead with a needle and him telling me not to tell grandma. – benr

        ========

        You have jogged another memory from my youth.

        Armand, me and some neighborhood boys built a “fort” in the woods. Somebody found a large can of tar. The tar in it was mostly a dried out unused portion from a nearby construction project.

        We put the can over a fire to soften up the tar so we could then use it to make our fort more air-tight and waterproof. We would take sticks and scoop out the now-runny tar and smear it into the fort’s cracks.

        It was a messy job. My hands were covered in tar. Someone had a stick with a glob of burning tar on it. He swung it back and forth and a small glob flew off and landed on my dungarees (this is what blue jeans were called back in the day). I smacked this burning glob with my tar covered hands and they caught fire. I screamed in agony. Armand threw me to the ground and covered my hands with a jacket to extinguish the flames. He told me to “stop screaming or Mom’ll hear ya.”

        There were bubbles of cooked skin. My hands were bandaged for a couple of weeks. There are scars on my hands from this incident to this very day. I marvel how any child makes it all the way to adulthood.

        • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

          Top form today, Q! very nice!

        • Paddys Lament December 28, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

          “There were bubbles of cooked skin.”
          Clearly Q. was not “bubble wrapped” like kids today.

    • elysianfield December 28, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

      “I guess the mass of a BB is simply not great enough to do much damage.”

      Q,
      They teach physics at Rutgers?

      • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 4:44 pm #

        Q,
        They teach physics at Rutgers? – elysian

        =========

        Yes. In fact physics is a big field at Ruckers. Both parents of my daughter’s best friend, Talia, are big-time physics profs there. We like to kid around and say that Talia’s mom is all bummed out because she is the only one in her office who has not won a Nobel Prize.

        Further a neighbor who lived directly across the street was also a physics prof at RU but he got lured away to a high level “chair” position at a University in Salt Lake City.

        • Paddys Lament December 28, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

          Reminds me of a scene from the movie ‘Annie Hall’ where Alvy (played by Woody Allen) and his ex-wife Robin are milling around at a dinner party. It goes as such.

          Robin: There’s Henry Drucker. He has a chair at Princeton. Oh, and the short man is Hershel Kaminsky. He has a chair in philosophy at Cornell.

          Alvy: Yeah? Two more chairs they got a dining room set.

          That line always gave me a chuckle.

  69. tucsonspur December 27, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

    How about those Iranians, arresting women for violating their strict ‘moral’ code by being immodest, then raping or otherwise sexually assaulting them?

    Hail Masha Amini, beaten to death by Iranian scumbags over the hijab!

    Yes, the Iranians supply arms to the Russians in their Ukrainian beatdown. What a noble ally, what a proud association!

    Of course, there’s North Korea also giving assistance to the Russians.

    Russia, North Korea and Iran. A trio of tragedians, a triangle of totalitarians, along with death and perverse domination.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 9:30 pm #

      Tusc is on side of Oceania. If you live in the belly of the beast like we do, you have no excuse for not knowing the truth about who the good guys aren’t.

      Britain, also known as Airstrip One and Baby Rape Island, is in the process of replacing its own indigenous White population. Would Iran ever do that to their own people?

      Tusc, what is a frazzle drip?

      • tucsonspur December 28, 2022 at 12:41 am #

        You seem almost as intellectually flatulent here as MaryQuack. Are you losing it, J?

        ‘you have no excuse for not knowing the truth about who the good guys aren’t’

        You’re right, and I know who they are, and who they aren’t. You’re losing focus and clarity. Britain bad doesn’t make Iran good.

        Got your ticket on IranAir yet?

    • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 10:56 pm #

      Why not worry about the incredible number of rapes and assaults on women here in the US?

      You know it happens all the time, right?

      • tucsonspur December 28, 2022 at 12:52 am #

        What a disingenuous question. Don’t address the Iranian situation but rather make it seem like I’m oblivious to the issue domestically, which I’m not.

        You know that I’m right about the Iranians, but since it’s me posting you can find nothing to add on or agree with.

        Take a douche, phony, smelly old hag!

        • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 9:57 am #

          You’ve really turned into a bleeding heart wreck, turd. If you want to fix all these injustices in the world then what in the world are you sitting around over here in your Tucson hacienda for? Get your ass on a plane and get over there! Find a job with a western/US NGO – there’s thousands of them – and do your thing, whatever that is. Then you can quit wasting your time posting insipid comments on blogs like this that you don’t even like and getting more bitter and insufferable by the minute. I think you’ll find that many if not most of those foreigners you’re so damn concerned about don’t want and actually resent American meddling in their affairs, no matter how pure your intentions. Nobody likes or respects patronizing self-righteous assholes, which is the prevailing opinion of meddling Americans overseas.

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:23 am #

            One can clearly see what type of person tucsonslur is by his beyond embarrassing posts.

            Virtue signaling, bad prose, obvious & gratuitous alliteration, shitty “poetry” and x-rated or just vulgar outbursts.

          • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            obvious & gratuitous alliteration, shitty “poetry” – MQ

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

            Sorry, I have to disagree. I like tucson’s alliteration. I didn’t know what alliteration was until my college freshman year class in poetry with Dr. George. He introduced the class to a perfect line of alliteration where a group of people were described thusly:

            “some sat some stood some slowly strayed.”

          • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

            “some sat some stood some slowly strayed.” – Q.

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

            With the aid of Google I found the poem containing ^this^ line. It’s in the last paragraph of The Lady Of The Lake – Canto Third by Sir Walter Scott.

            XXXI.

            A various scene the clansmen made:
            Some sat, some stood, some slowly strayed:
            But most, with mantles folded round,
            Were couched to rest upon the ground,
            Scarce to be known by curious eye
            From the deep heather where they lie,
            So well was matched the tartan screen
            With heath-bell dark and brackens green;
            Unless where, here and there, a blade
            Or lance’s point a glimmer made,
            Like glow-worm twinkling through the shade.
            But when, advancing through the gloom,
            They saw the Chieftain’s eagle plume,
            Their shout of welcome, shrill and wide,
            Shook the steep mountain’s steady side.
            Thrice it arose, and lake and fell
            Three times returned the martial yell;
            It died upon Bochastle’s plain,
            And Silence claimed her evening reign.

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

            Q. Shtik, IMHO, there is a huge difference between alliteration that’s well done and alliteration that is gratuitous. You like it? Good for you.

            Alliteration should not draw attention to itself or be overtly obvious in order to be a clever literary device. I like how James uses it. And your example is also nice.

            That’s not tucsonslur’s style though. His use of literary devices is as contrived and vulgar as his porn-addled descriptives.

          • Night Owl December 29, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

            Alliteration is commonly used by bad writers.

            In fact, all of the worst writers I have edited have been fond of it.

          • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

            Aplomb

            “Like glow-worm[sic] twinkling through the shade.” ~ Q. Shtik

            Or even Whirlwind Worm.

            (…twerking through the shades in the general direction of the neighbors’ windows.

            “Alliteration is commonly used by bad writers.

            In fact, all of the worst writers I have edited have been fond of it.” ~ Night Owl

            That’s cuz ya gotta mix it up (as many of the literary devices as you can). I mean, don’t kitchen-sink it, but you know. Do it with aplomb.

            …Now I’m onto my homemade cider…

    • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 11:25 am #

      There isn’t one piece of propaganda so stupid that spur will not believe and regurgitate it back onto this blog.

      As Kevin Barret pointed out:
      ”On September 15, Iran signed an agreement to become the ninth full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a group of Eurasian nations working together on economic, transit, infrastructure, and energy projects as an end-run around US-controlled institutions. The following day, September 16, protests broke out in several Iranian cities and quickly degenerated into riots. Though the unrest was ostensibly a response to the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who suddenly collapsed in judicial custody in unclear circumstances, the disturbances were almost certainly planned in advance by the CIA and its color revolution squad. ”

      unz.com/kbarrett/terrorists-r-us/

      • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 11:30 am #

        Iran released security footage of when the Kurdish girl fainted.
        She had a history of heart problems. It actually looks a lot like other footage we’ve seen of SADS, but rioting ensued and the Mighty Wurlitzer played its tune.

        I couldn’t find any footage except this one, complete with imperial propaganda, although I know I saw just the footage a couple of months ago. The censorship is real.

        ].youtube.com/watch?v=GiCSejWJMQU

      • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 11:33 am #

        Note that the protests in Iran look a lot like the protests in Paris.

        But which riot is good and which riot is bad?

        Spur can tell us, no doubt. Or maybe the TV hasn’t told him about the Paris riots.

        • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

          Look up what any run-of-the-mill Neocon war criminal is saying and you will know where the Tucson Slur stands.

          I suggest starting with Max Boot. A bonus with Max is that long after you have stopped laughing at the idiocy he regurgitates, you will laugh again at his cosplay-esque profile picture on Twatter.

          All of these Neocon pantywaists are the same.

          • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

            Max Boot – NO

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

            Bo and I have two cats. One is named Kush and the other is Boot. Although we both love both cats dearly as if they were our biological children, Kush is deemed to be Bo’s cat and Boot is mine.

            We dream up other names for them which piggyback off their actual names. Kush is Kushion and Kushtapada, a nonsensical name with no particular meaning.

            Boot is the Bootster and sometimes Bootious Maximus.

  70. Jarek December 27, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

    Whoopi does it again:

    Yahoo

    Goldberg was confronted with the fact Nazis measured the heads and noses of Jewish people to “prove” they were a distinct race.

    “They did that to Black people, too. But it doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That was the point I was making. But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked,” she replied.

    Jarek: Again she tries to grab the magic wand that determines place in the hierarchy. Again she insults Jews by implying that not only have her people suffered more, but the Jews are just another variety of the loathsome Whites who did it to her people. She denies Jews are their own race! I didn’t know that was current party line. Interesting. So the Nazis were right when they said that?

    And she lauds herself in the grossest possible way. An incredibly ugly person, both inside and out. Named Goldberg! I bet that is really annoying the Hollywood Jews at this point. She was funny and charming as a young woman so they let it pass. But now she’s monster.

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    • Q. Shtik December 27, 2022 at 11:43 pm #

      She denies Jews are their own race! – Jar

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

      I deny it too, Jar.

      I will credit the Jews with making a first rate attempt at maintaining racial purity but it’s largely failing. Their are just too many ‘half-Jews’ around. Peter’s wife, Darlene, was a half Jew (Peter’s words). If they had had kids which they didn’t thank god, they would have been quarter Jews.

      I recently finished reading a novel titled The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. This was a first novel by an Indian woman (dot). Published in 1997 when the author was 36 y/o. It won the Booker Prize. People and events were contemporary with the author’s life. So there was television, the influence of American culture etc.

      A whole group of people had, by law, been freed of the yolk of Untouchableness. The reality is quite different. If Whoopi believes the American Black is on the bottom of the totem pole because of their visibility she should read how much worse it is to this very day for India’s ‘former’ Untouchables.

      • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 11:54 pm #

        Outwardly you are correct of course. But inwardly, many or perhaps most feel very different from us and don’t identify with us – or the West, what to speak of America.

        How about you? Where are you in all this (the thrust of my question above, so awkwardly and abruptly posed(:(

        Remember how you used to make your own emojis?

        • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 1:09 am #

          Remember how you used to make your own emojis? – Jar

          ==========

          No, actually I don’t. I never made my own emojis. In the first place I’m not that clever. I think you’ve got me confused with some other commenter. Your memory didn’t yoose to be this bad.

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:25 am #

            Shouldn’t that be “yooosta”?

          • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

            Yes, you did. I can’t remember how exactly you did it, but you used a semicolon.

          • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

            Yes, you did. I can’t remember how exactly you did it, but you used a semicolon. – Jar

            ===========

            I think you are referring to the winking smiley face 😉

            I didn’t invent it, I picked it up from someone else. I’m a copycat.

          • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

            Shouldn’t that be “yooosta”? – MQ

            ========

            How ’bout “yoostuh be”

          • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

            Did I say you invented it or even implied it?

          • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

            ‘Make your own emojis?’

            Like with a router, some chisels and a circular saw?

    • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 7:23 pm #

      Whoopi Cushion

      “Kush is Kushion and Kushtapada, a nonsensical name with no particular meaning.” ~ Q. Shtik

  71. Q. Shtik December 27, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

    A Peter follow-up:

    You may recall that Peter had a shit incident on Thanksgiving Day at my son Thom’s house near Philly. Someone on this blog suggested we get him to wear Depends and I said I would bet my life savings that Peter would never EVER consent to wear a diaper. Well I was wrong. It took a couple more shit incidents (shitting his bed on my third floor) and he finally gave in. Now it is almost routine to find a shitty diaper crammed in his waste basket. The new problem is to get him to properly clean up his shitty ass. We have to beg him to shower. Showering is an activity he finds particularly exhausting.

    Peter’s dementia grows noticeably worse day after day. Current events escape his memory almost instantaneously while he remembers detail from his teen years without problem. If I mention that I watched a Rutgers football game he will tell me the first football game he ever saw was one a neighbor took him to. It was Rutgers vs Princeton. If he has told this to me once he has told me the same thing 50 times.

    If the subject of Ukraine comes up he will tell me he had a number of Ukrainian classmates in high school and they were all BAD… nothing but trouble. I’ve heard this 50 times as well.

    On Christmas Eve Bo and I took Peter with us to visit the home of my son-in-law’s parents (close by, same town). Big crowd of other friends and relatives were there. Peter was careful not to eat too much. In fact he had one can of beer, one shrimp dipped in a red sauce, and one cookie. After an hour or so he tells Bo he doesn’t feel well and wants to go home. Bo asks me for the car keys, says she will take Peter home and come back. I say, “no, hang on for a few minutes while I finish my glass of wine and then we can all go home and call it a night.” So we left and my s-i-l walked arm in arm holding Peter because he is so wobbly. 15 ft from the house on the edge of the driveway Peter stops, leans over the lawn to his left and pukes. Peter has stomach or intestinal tract issues on a near perpetual basis, plus a headache. He is not a complainer. Only if Bo asks “Peter, how do you feel” might he tell of his issues. He prefers to tell us or even his doctor “Oh, I feel fine” which, one look at him and you know it’s bullshit.

    Peter is going down hill.

    • Jarek December 27, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

      Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
      BY JOHN DONNE

      Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
      Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
      For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
      Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
      From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
      Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
      And soonest our best men with thee do go,
      Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
      Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
      And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
      And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
      And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
      One short sleep past, we wake eternally
      And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

      Jarek: One of Kings of England struck his servant in the face when they made a mistake. He was so ashamed that he knelt before the servant and wouldn’t rise until the servant verbally expressed their forgiveness.

      Beg forgiveness from Peter now, soon you won’t be able to.

      • Q. Shtik December 27, 2022 at 11:54 pm #

        He was so ashamed that he knelt before the servant and wouldn’t rise until the servant verbally expressed their forgiveness. – Jar

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

        …and the servant replied “fuck you and the horse you rode in on.”

      • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 12:33 am #

        One short sleep past, we wake eternally – Jarek quoting John Donne

        ==========

        Well now that’s the big question, isn’t it?

        I’m from the one life followed by oblivion school.

    • MaryQueen December 27, 2022 at 10:55 pm #

      That’s so sad.

      Peter’s not a complainer, but he ‘complains’ in his own way, by just letting go.

      My sympathies to all, this is not a positive journey.

      • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 1:44 am #

        My sympathies to all, this is not a positive journey. – MQ

        ===========

        Thank you for ‘getting it’. Mary.

        I suspect there are millions out there in the same boat as Bo, me and Peter. They are experiencing something virtually identical.

        • benr December 28, 2022 at 8:45 am #

          Sorry Q taking care of someone with dementia is an exercise in patience.
          Been there and you have my complete sympathy.
          Look up visiting angels if you need a break.
          There might also be places you can take him that are a form of adult day care if you just need a break.
          We took my mother-in-law to one for a while.
          We both had to work, and we could not leave her home alone or she would wander off, burn down the house or destroy something.

        • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:42 am #

          I worked for a time with Alzheimer’s patients and the elderly, so I do get it. It is very difficult for the caretakers, as it is horrible for the sufferers.

    • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 1:45 am #

      I am sorry to hear that Peter’s health is continuing to decline. How quickly you forget, Q! I was the one who mentioned to you that Peter should wear Depends when you posted about the Thanksgiving Day incident. Try to get him to clean himself with those large flushable wipes. He should have those and garbage bags, paper towels, etc., in his room at all times for when he doesn’t make it to the bathroom. He could have Crohn’s disease? It may be worth checking on given what you have said here. Poor Peter! Peter is lucky that you and Bo are looking out for him. Hopefully those things can help. Otherwise he may begin to need more assistance.

      • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 11:06 am #

        All your suggestions sound very good on paper but alas…………

        • stelmosfire December 28, 2022 at 11:29 am #

          Whatever you do Q, don’t ever let those “flushable” wipes make their way into the toilet. They are not “flushable’ and will jamb up your main soil pipe right quick. Even worse for septic systems.They should never be advertised as flushable. It’s like flushing paper towels. They’re designed NOT to fall apart when wet, unlike regular TP which disintegrates when wet. I’ve had tenants use them . Believe me drain guys and plumbers don’t work cheap. Experiment, put one in a glass of water. It will be the same the next day. Use them but throw them in the trash. Not your concern but many women think they can flush tampons. Never. They are also designed to not fall apart when wet. During the great TP shortage of 2020 people were using paper towels instead of TP. HUGE problem.

        • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 11:58 am #

          Yes, I know what you mean. When you get into the nitty gritty of things words always seem so much easier than actually doing. But you will find that if you can convince him of that then it may make life easier for a time. Plus he will be much cleaner and fresher! And that is why I mentioned the garbage bags too. You have to make sure the dipeys go into that rather than the waste basket.

        • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

          And yes that is true too! The flushable wipes are not really flushable lol. Another reason to have garbage bags handy!

        • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

          Time for institutionalization, Q. You know it’s true and it won’t be selfish on your part.

          • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

            I had an operation once and the next day got up, feeling a fair bit woozy, from my hospital bed and headed to the in-room washroom to take a mean leak.
            I locked the door and the nurse noticed shorly after while I was till draining, and seemed to panick and instructed (almost reprimanded) me once I finished and reopened the door to not lock it again in case ‘anything happened’.
            I even made sure that my hospital gown didn’t show my butt.
            So I can’t imagine being institutionalized. It might happen, but for now, I just can’t imagine it. I guess I have a poor imagination where some things are concerned. There’s no way someone is going to wipe my ass for me.

          • Q. Shtik December 30, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

            Time for institutionalization, Q. – Disaff

            ==========

            Agree 100%. It’s getting Bo to agree that is the problem even though it is she who suffers the brunt of Peter issues.

            Bo once mentioned “Nursing Home” to Peter (perhaps as a threat) and he said “over my dead body” and a thought cloud appeared over my head containing the words “that can be arranged, Peter.”

      • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

        If or when I get to a point like that, I’ll have something for myself not like Depends but more like a gun or poison mushrooms.

  72. SpeedyBB December 27, 2022 at 11:49 pm #

    Well this is certainly newsworthy. And a pithy, zeroed-in commentary:

    htxxs://resistthemainstream.com/queens-former-chaplain-issues-warning-about-king-charles-iii/?utm_source=newsletter1

    [as usual, to escape the dread algore-rhythm, ‘xx’ becomes ‘tp’]

    Reading from the Qur’an at a Christian ceremony for the Royals? That’s a new one on me – sign of surrender to be sure.

    ((I beg your pardon if someone has linked this up above. I haven’t read through 100% of the comments yet this week.))

  73. Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 12:18 am #

    The picture that appears when you click on the above link of former Prince, now King, Charles, is one of a man who has quickly become very comfortable with this whole King – thing.

  74. Johnno December 28, 2022 at 12:24 am #

    I’m reminded of the movie “When a Stranger Calls” In which a baysitter is terrorized by a nuisance caller. After phoning the police to have the call traced, she gets this call back from a sergeant; “Listen to me. We’ve traced the call… it’s coming from inside the house.”

    • Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 1:30 am #

      I’m reminded of the movie “When a Stranger Calls” – Johnno

      ==========

      I scrolled back upward to see whose comment or what comment you were referring to and based on the indentation it would appear you were responding to something I wrote. If so, I don’t get it. Please explain.

  75. SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 1:40 am #

    Hi Proud Mary,

    anmari is correct. I have indeed produced a new TruVinyl product. I call it ‘Time Machine’ as it focuses on the singles released in any given month. I have produced and uploaded 78 videos in these past couple of weeks. I am able to do so as I leverage the TruVinyl database product which I built logging over 7,000 hours circa 2018-2020.

    ‘Time Machine’ is free and available exclusively at BitChute. Enjoy!

    —–

    htxxs://www.bitchute.com/channel/Wl7yJHH0bKJz/

    xx > tp

    [or simply search for ‘truvinyl’ on BitChute]

    —–

    While I assume that most of the 4,898 views (so far) are from people who do not find the product “hilarious,” I think that we can all most assuedly agree that it is, in fact, a product.

    All the Best to you and yours, Mary, as 2022 turns to 2023.

    Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards man.

    Duane

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    • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 2:06 am #

      For those interested, here is a handy-dandy PDF menu to the 78 Time Machine videos:

      htXXs://tinyurl.com/3bz5j95k

      XX > tp

      ——

      This PDF on Dropbox will be updated as I produce.

      • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 2:08 am #

        Here is a quick smattering:

        1970/01 [Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – The Jimi Hendrix Experience]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/LVLBmEZultA8
        1970/02 [Roadhouse Blues – The Doors]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/vFDmUOucsI8A
        1970/03 [Woodstock – Joni Mitchell]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/qLa7suI8OA2h
        1970/04-05 [Gimmie Shelter – Rolling Stones]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/wmaIyJhVLzmh
        1970/06 [Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/99T5rudBEnUL
        1970/07 [American Woman – The Guess Who]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/M4P8styoPkAl
        1970/08 [Crazy Love – Van Morrison]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/edSctpkmIpoa
        1971/01 [Have You Seen The Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/CAFwu5WGLKFf
        1971/02-03 [What Is Life – George Harrison]
        ~ htXXs://www.bitchute.com/video/hn5fNcv7xiWe

        XX > tp

        • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:27 am #

          SPAM.

          • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 8:20 pm #

            There are plenty of people who would like their relatively-new work to be explored and enjoyed.
            While I do enjoy some usually-unknown (to me) or little listened-to older stuff once and awhile, at the same time, I try to expand my experience to the newer stuff.

            That writ, and coincidentally, out of that list, I have that song by Harrison on my laptop…

            …Let’s see, while we’re on about it, what do I actually have that’s older but that I recently downloaded and have… hang on…

            Don’t Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
            Sign of The Gypsy Queen (April Wine)
            My Little Town (Simon & Garfunkel)
            Skin Deep (The Stranglers)
            A Little More Love (Olivia Newton-John)
            Claire (Gilbert O’Sullivan)
            Pilot (Ian Thomas)
            Ride Captain Ride (Blues Image)
            Cats In The Cradle (Harry Chapin)
            Carole King (It’s Too Late)
            Woodstock (Ian Matthews)
            More Than A Feeling (Boston)
            Fly At Night (Chilliwack)
            You Make Loving Fun (Fleetwood Mac)
            Year of The Cat (Al Stewart)

            One great thing about the internet is that you can call pretty much anything up like those and listen to them almost immediately.

        • stelmosfire December 28, 2022 at 11:34 am #

          SaskWatch, I’ve got everyone of those songs except for George Harrison on vinyl LP’s.

        • Woodchuck December 28, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

          That very first listing, Voodoo Child 1970 is probably Jimi’s performance at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4th. Yeah, he played the Star Spangled Banner. A southern boy myself, I was there in a crowd estimated to be up to a half million by Saturday nite when Hendrix was playing. There was a mammoth sound system set up and a light show to go with it. Very likely 99% of the audience was stoned in some way, it was impossible to avoid it. Probably the most “far-out” experience I had during my wasted college days. The peaceful vibe for the entire event was surreal. Heat was in triple digits during the day, and local farmers showed up in big farm trucks bringing in free watermelons. Nobody died, and I think two babies were born – and doubtless some more concieved at the event.

    • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:33 am #

      A relative of mine has a true crime channel where he has amassed 100K followers over a 2-year period, and has sponsors, etc.

      So color me not impressed with 4K views from uploading some songs.

      • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 10:44 am #

        Impressing you is the very last thing on my mind, Proud Mary.

        I never claimed that my 5,030 views is impressive. Obviously it is not. Strawman.

        On the other hand, you did claim that TruVinyl’s ‘Time Machine’ was undoubtedly “hilarious” and not even a product at all sight unseen. Obviously it is neither as it presents these classic rock tunes in vinyl-ripped audio and, uniquely, with their album artwork slideshow.

        Good day.

        • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 10:57 am #

          Vinyl-play recorded in 320kpbs AAC MP4, to be precise.

          That means that these tunes are technically approx. 3x Better than CD-quality … but that’s purely technical and excludes the “warm” feel that makes vinyl so popular.

          • Slugoon December 28, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

            Erm, aren’t CDs something like 1400 kbps and designed around the limits of human hearing with regard to sample rate and bit depth? Any form of compressed audio cannot be ‘3x better’ than CD.

            The analogue warmth of vinyl though, I agree.

          • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

            Hey Slugger,

            You are correct – I did not properly prove my assertion.

            CD-quality is 44kHz sample rate with 16-bit resolution.

            i record my vinyl-plays at 92kHz and 24-bit resolution. Twice the sample rate and 1.5x the precision calcs to 3x CD-quality.

          • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

            Of course Moore’s Law is what allows this to happen. CPU power can blast through decompression at rates today that were unfathomable when CDs rolled out in the mid-1980s.

          • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

            Welcome back. Mary invoked you!

            What about backwards masking? Is it real? Was Obama’s “Yes, we can”, Hail Satan if played backwards?

          • Slugoon December 28, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

            3x CD quality is meaningless. Recording a low fidelity source using hi-res audio is a waste of data. You can’t add what was never there. 44.1/16 would be ample to capture whatever comes off the vinyl. As would 256 kbps AAC. I demand a double-blind listening test!

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

            No, anmari invoked him.

            Which is unfortunate.

        • SoftStarLight December 28, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

          I thought it was a really sweet gesture, Duane. Thank you for sharing this music and your work with us. I hope you had a magical Christmas. Don’t forget me in the new year.

          • SaskWatch December 28, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

            Thank you, SSL. You are such a class act.

            As indicated, I have poured thousands of hours into building the TruVinyl database. It is nice to know that people appreciate these productions.

            All the Best to you in 2023!

  76. avianthro December 28, 2022 at 2:52 am #

    Come on Jim, blaming our corrupted mess on some feminist women? You did hit it right on that the media has been destroyed as a purveyor of truth in opposition to government and corporate-big business lies. That is surely one of the biggest of all the proximate causes in the loss of force-balancing, or let’s say the loss of democracy, what was left of it in terms of force balance between the owner-elites and the worker-sub-elites…the democracy that Jefferson, and other founding fathers, envisioned. The other really big one was the loss of union power, mainly the result of outsourcing (to increase corporate profits by exploiting much cheaper labor and lower regulations). The ultimate cause though, the one that set the others loose, was simply the very natural process of the rich getting richer, the development of an excessive internal power gap, and the overly-powerful (relatively) owner-elite class taking control and then becoming corrupt. Corruption subsumes all of the insanity we see today…what we see playing out now are the fruits of corruption. Quite simply, the USA is following the same rise-and-fall cycle behavior that virtually every social superorganism called a state or nation on the stage of history has followed. Failure to prevent the development of excessive internal power gaps leads to internal and external dysfunctionality, and if coupled with failure as well to maintain an economy in balance with nature, to build an earth-resource sustainable economy instead of an earth-resource depletion economy, inevitably leads to a societal collapse-dissolution.

    • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:35 am #

      I don’t think James sees the manipulation (and destruction) of womens’ movements as something that is just as manipulated as, say, the trans agenda, and critical race theory, and the attack on ‘toxic masculinity.’

      It’s sort of amazing that these smart men imagine it to be the fault of women for somehow masterminding the destruction of western civ.

      • Rowdypiglet December 28, 2022 at 11:00 am #

        Mary, I don’t see anything in JHK’s writing that suggests women are the masterminds behind our troubles. But how can you view the widespread support of women for “transwomen” in women’s sports and women’s locker rooms except as an exercise in eagerly digging their own graves?

        I know I’ve said this before, but let’s just consider women’s sports for a moment. A vanishingly small number of women have opposed the entry of transwomen into women’s sports; most have gone along with it and many have applauded it and attacked the few who have objected. Participation of these actual men in women’s sports means, as we’ve clearly seen, that the (actual) women’s careers are over and they will never win again. Consequently, they have absolutely NOTHING to lose and everything to gain by refusing to participate until fake women are purged from their ranks. Yet – they haven’t done so. Even if a few women didn’t go along with it, if most of the team refuse to play, there’s no game. They can put a stop to this RIGHT NOW and with no risk or even effort on their part.

        It may well be true that shadowy male figures whose names we don’t know dreamt this up and are using it to destroy our world. They couldn’t even begin to do it without the cooperation (all too often the eager, zealous cooperation) of those who implement it. In this case, it’s women – and there’s really no denying that. It’s also true that most of the humans proudly and excitedly sharing their joy on social media at seeing their children mutilated are . . . women.

        If we won’t fight back even when it’s perfectly safe and would be very effective to do so, then we are culpable. The culpability of men is a separate thing, and I’m not claiming that men are not responsible for anything that’s happening now or in the past. I’m just pointing out that, in the present crisis, women are playing the part of the foot soldiers without whom the entire thing would be impossible.

        • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

          Well said as usual.

          Mr Kunstler seems to be for a return to Patriarchy – a gentle 19th century form of it. A very long way from the purity police of Iran and Saudi Arabia. I’m with him on this.

          People are reluctant to openly disagree with him, perhaps preferring to pretend that he didn’t say what he just said. Even bizarrely, Walter – who frames himself as a man’s man. I think he is stuck in the role of “White Knight”, or being a champion of women – even when they are wrong. And against men – even when they are right.

          Some say we don’t know what America would be if women didn’t vote. Yes, we do in general: Far more conservative. The same women who said the above then confirmed the viewpoint of their opponents by agreeing with the mass feminist movement for Prohibition. The beginning of Government as the Husband, and not mere men.

        • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:29 pm #

          Women are fighting back. Why don’t you help us, instead of blaming the victims?

          Those girls who don’t stand up to the immense peer pressure of the trans agenda are not anti-woman, they are afraid of being crushed and called transphobes, and having their sports careers ruined. Did you see what happened to the teenage girls who DID stand up to this mess? Apparently not.

          Sad to see you on the side of men who blame women for everything they do. And then further blame us for not fighting back hard enough.

          Do you know what it’s like to be a teenage girl and the peer pressure they have to deal with? I remember it. I don’t know if I would have stood up against this trans garbage, either, if all my friends bought in. You’re asking regular kids to make superhuman efforts while you make none yourself. Sitting on a high horse on CFN attacking other women seems to be more your cup of tea.

          BTW, if you want to see what’s funding and astroturfing the trans scourge, look no farther than Big Pharma. I have posted Jennifer Bilek’s most excellent article (written in 2018) about who the billionaires funding the craze are, how they profit, etc. I’m guessing you’ve ignored that, too.

          • Islander December 29, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

            “Those girls who don’t stand up to the immense peer pressure”‘

            Women who are professional athletes are not “girls.”

            All of those who are involved with girls’/women’s sports should be joining together in a solid front to defend the whole concept of women’s sports against assault by trans-women. It’s taken decades of effort to build up serious girls’ sports programs in schools and colleges, which then become feeder teams for professional athletes—just like for boys/men.

            Players should not be left on their own to defend their turf against fake girls. IF they are in high school I think MQ’s point might hold (although there is no reason whatsoever for her to express herself so harshly toward another commenter): they may be under a lot of peer pressure or also pressure from woke teachers and administrators to accept trans-girls as actual girls.

            But their coaches should stand up for them, as should their parents, and not let their athletic experiences be compromised and complicated by guys in pigtails. We don’t match up a welterweight or middleweight boxer with a heavyweight. It is really the same thing.

            As for professionals or in the arena of international competition such as the Olympics or league sports, the managers and coaches and investors all should get their heads out of their asses before they totally ruin the whole concept of women’s sports—and the business.

            I am not a big sports fan, but I have read somewhere that the market/audience for women’s sports is growing. A question to Google brings this:

            “Women’s sport is on the rise like never before. If we compare the scene now to that of previous decades, we have seen significant increases in the professionalisation of women’s sport, with increases in the levels of commercial interest, viewership and prize money for the athletes.Jul 7, 2022”

            There is no place for trans-women anywhere in women’s sports or anywhere near them (such as locker rooms).

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:21 pm #

            So you’re not aware that the main issue is that BOYS in high schools are taking over GIRLS’ sports, Islander?

            You’re really behind the times.

        • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

          “It may well be true that shadowy male figures whose names we don’t know dreamt this up and are using it to destroy our world.” ~ Rowdypiglet

          I’ve said this time and again that if it wasn’t for certain levels of mass cooperation, the dictators of history couldn’t have gotten anywhere. They’d be yanked out of commission by a non-sheeple public. (I was happy about the trucker protests last winter.)

          Kunstler seems, at least fundamentally, to be for coercive government but, in any case, that sort of morality, thinking and dynamic is what appears to be in large part what is responsible for eating away and decay of societies.

          Oh ya, sports… Well how about a quote… Just a sec…

          “Take the emphasis on professional sports. It sounds harmless but it really isn’t. Professional sports are a way of building up jingoist fanaticism… This idea of cheering for your home team… that’s a way of building into people irrational submissiveness to power [i.e., the nation state]… and I think it’s one of the reasons it gets such a huge play… The indoctrination that’s done by tv and so on, is not trying to pile up evidence and give arguments and so on, it’s to inculcate attitudes… There are a lot of measures of how effective this is…” ~ Noam Chomsky

      • Mick December 28, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

        “Betty Friedan, the “founder of modern feminism” pretended to be a typical 1950’s American housewife who had a “revelation” that women like her were exploited and should seek independence and self-fulfillment in a career.

        Friedan (nee: Betty Naomi Goldstein) didn’t mention that she had been a Communist propagandist since her student days at Smith College (1938-1942) and that the destruction of the family has always been central to the Communist ******* plan for world tyranny. Nor did the Communist *******-controlled mass media point this out.

        Friedan dropped out of grad school to become a reporter for a Communist news service. From 1946 -1952 she worked for the newspaper of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, (UE) “the largest Communist-led institution of any kind in the United States.” In 1947, Congress targeted the UE as a Communist front and its membership began a steady decline.”

        httpXX://www.savethemales.ca/000185.html

        Yeah, there were lots a commie men behind Freidan. Gloria Steinhem too.

        • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

          Yes, a certain ethnic group was the leading inspiration for modern Feminism, not the first Feminism and maybe not so much now. But they set the tone and cast the fatal die. The frizzy haired sweethearts.

          Betty’s husband: I don’t remember her doing much house work…..

        • Mick December 28, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

          ….and just in case anyone will think or say that the website I linked to above is “anti-semitic”, well the writer of the article I quoted and the proprietor of the website is himself a Jew. A Canadian Jew who was born in Zurich. Now a practicing Christian.

          But he’s most definitely anti-Zionist, anti-world government, and anti-Communist.

        • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

          As discussed many times here, Gloria Steinem was a CIA Asset, and has spoken about it publicly.

          • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 4:58 pm #

            And that disproves what we just said – somehow?

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 5:12 pm #

            Nope. Just a reminder of who she works for.

            Hint: It ain’t womenkind.

          • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 7:48 pm #

            Similarly, you allegiance is to womankind – not humanity per se and certainly not the United States.

          • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 8:18 pm #

            I don’t have allegiance to any entities, correct.

          • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

            Only to women….

            I would give you folks a Herland or two if it was up to me. Again, thank you for not voting since you have no allegiance here.

      • Amman December 28, 2022 at 4:38 pm #

        For the USA, it will be the “fault” of the American black community – the woman in particular.

    • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 11:44 am #

      Agreed, avianthro. We are going through the same collapse of empire that other empires have gone through in the past.

      The only difference this time is that our ecosystem has been damaged, perhaps beyond repair.

      And also that this time our ruling overlords are able to take down all humanity with them.

      Other than that, it’s the same.

    • Mick December 28, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

      Paragraphs are a wonderful thing. Use them.

      • Islander December 28, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

        I second the motion.

    • Woodchuck December 28, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

      Uh, yes! You are describing a process that has affected all republics and democracies. It’s a system of government that has an average life span of 250 years. The USA is quite likely an average republic, and the expiration date has arrived. What’s happening is a process of decay and dissolution that is entirely natural and has happened to all other defunct and failed republics. Ben Franklin was aware of this, and that’s why he made the famous comment “A repbublic – if you can keep it”. That’s a big if, and getting iffier all the time.

      • RelativeGuise December 28, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

        Every monarchy is a republic and every republic is a monarchy, every mountain on the horizon is a pimple and every pimple on the horizon is a mountain. Every dollar is burnt, and everything burnt is a dollar. Every metaphor is for real and everything for real is a metaphor. Some stand, some sit, some eat, some get, all get, eat some, not here there, son, but whoever learned sainted the unlearnable stasis in the air, the great celestial orb, white, drawfed, of no care. But whoever built the great buxom apart of mattered truly, left free will to the few ye, I have no art.

        I’m ….(sniffle, sniffle_.. a KEYBOARD WARRIOR – the sprite.

        5’11 and a half. barefooted.

        • Woodchuck December 29, 2022 at 4:12 am #

          One dark night when all was bright
          Two dead guys went out to fight
          Back to back they faced eachother
          Drew their swords and shot eachother
          A deaf policeman heard the noise
          And came to arrest the two dead boys.
          If you don’t think this tale is true
          Ask Bob the blind man, he saw it too.

          • RelativeGuise December 29, 2022 at 9:52 am #

            Q twas a cop, he was all decked in blue
            out came his brother, and I thought it was me
            too late comes the hammer and I couldn’t see
            twas not the Baptist, nor even me

            but when coming to on the very last one
            someone would sing, someone would run
            but what comes first? Twas the last

            All sense was shot, all first is last
            but even shot goes hence, the proper brood
            would love not dense. And no ending in sight
            where nothing brims the overflowing sword

            she told me twice, she told me once, she told me first
            I was arrested for thus.

  77. Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 5:25 am #

    “I don’t think Covid was ever about public health.
    I don’t think the war in Ukraine was about saving democracy.
    I don’t think the climate crisis is about saving the planet.
    The common denominator..is CONTROL”

    https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1607409232844054529?cxt=HHwWgoDTxcmL1c4sAAAA

    Neil Oliver is a wise man.

    • Amman December 28, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

      I would finesse that the common d. is (a mirage of) CONTROL

  78. SpeedyBB December 28, 2022 at 6:21 am #

    My donkey work is proofreading rough translations and editing them into passable English. From today’s bulk:

    “Meanwhile, Professor Tim Spector from Zoe Covid disclosed that 50% of the new flu existing today is part of COVID-19. He also reported a number of symptoms seen in people who had received the booster shot, including runny nose (74%), headache (68%), sore throat (65%), fatigue (64%), sneezing (60%), persistent coughing (42%) and hoarseness (38%).

    “The public should beware of infection risks, despite having completed the vaccination or even the booster. Vaccines can protect infected people from more severe symptoms. However, mild symptoms have made the COVID-19 infection hard to distinguish from the common cold.”

    How can one NOT connect the dots unless willful aversion to mental processes is practiced? It would be ridiculous if it was not so tragic.

    There is absolutely no public discourse about vaccine injuries. Not yet.

    • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 10:30 am #

      Thank you, Speedy.

      Yes, they have muddied the waters to the point where the mainstream media can still get away with ignoring the obvious. It’s quite maddening.

    • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 10:54 am #

      “Vaccines can protect infected people from more severe symptoms”

      There is no evidence for this statement whatsoever.

      • Mick December 28, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

        “Evidence? You desire evidence? That is not required for the new Science. I am the Science”.

        –High Priest and Profit Tony Fauci

  79. TPTB-USA December 28, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

    I have not been convinced that “the party of chaos” (perfect analogy Jim), with Joe Biden at the helm, would be successful in destroying the existing format for life.

    The format for life has been structured in such a fashion that you either play the game, or lose by default.

    The word games and incessant lying that the population has been subjected to over the last few years by various members of the Biden administration, the blatant disregard for the rule of law (in regard to riots, covid, and the way the January 6th guests have been treated, to name just a few), coupled with the revelations in the Twitter files, highlight the current state of moral degradation.

    When morality is no longer the norm, contract law fails (we are seeing more and more examples of this), and in short order a civilization is crippled.

    At this point, I have to concede that Biden has succeeded in destroying the existing format for life.

    From here on out, the majority will lose by default. Living rural can equate to living poor, but from a certain perspective, living poor in the middle of paradise can amount to a rich life. Jim and others came to this conclusion years ago, and on a relative basis, your time is here.

    The question is: Who will get to impose their vision for the new format for life? I suspect it will be Xi, and some aspects of the WEF “Great Reset”; but it will be a bloody mess getting there.

    • Mick December 28, 2022 at 1:59 pm #

      Biden is nothing but a temporary place holder. And he can barely do that.

      Presidents are not the real power behind the agenda. They’re for public consumption and distraction. The real power lies in those we don’t see. At least not very regularly. Their names only mentioned now and then, and usually in passing.

      Of course, to get a bit metaphysical here, the Real Power behind the wicked agenda is………

      Well, I believe the Rolling Stones sang about him in a song on one of their earlier albums.

      • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

        I think he’s a lot more. Bedpan is a key player for the launderers. His brother made millions from the Iraq war. This is the only reason he is where he is. He’s a big insider. Probably has been for decades. There is no other reason that someone who went to Ukraine with his son and bribed officials in the run up to the Ukraine war is not a major player.

        He’s an integral part of the Obama-Clinton-Bush-Biden deep state (etc) cabal. And I can tell the others can’t stand him, which tells me that he knows enough that they can’t really just toss him aside, or they would have.

      • TPTB-USA December 29, 2022 at 11:43 am #

        Biden knows what the agenda is, and he is playing his part.

        FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Launch Build Back Better World (B3W) Partnership

        What we saw from Biden at G-7 was ‘surrender’: Monica Crowley
        youtube Video

  80. tom clark December 28, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

    Lockdowns don’t work, in fact, they seem to make things worse…witness China. I suppose all those Chinese lining hospital hallways on ventilators have common colds…no antibodies…sad.

    Meanwhile, on the trashing of Amerika…power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely. ‘Nuf said.

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    • Paula D December 28, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

      You’ve seen videos of ventilated patients lining Chinese hallways?

      I call bullshit again. Ventilators require electricity and an oxygen source, neither of which are in hospital hallways. Not to mention nurses and respiratory therapists to monitor them. And heart and respiratory monitors, which also require electricity.

      Are they claiming that these are smuggled videos again?

      Don’t you people ever think? Don’t you ever remember how many times you have been lied to? People who can’t learn from the past will be doomed to repeat the past.

      We are doomed.

      • Mick December 28, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

        “We are doomed”.

        Well, we’re in for some dark times, but no needs to be “doomed” in a permanent sense. Unless he or she just chooses that fate.

        On the China ventilator scenes: Yes, I think Hollywood has a China studio somewhere for Covid agenda “smuggled videos”. Lol…

    • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

      Are we feeling better today, lil’ t? You sound kinda touch and go. China’s only a plane ride away. Why not get on one and report back first hand from over there?

  81. JohnAZ December 28, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

    Interesting thought.

    Is the reason why Liberal responses are what they are is they have no rational basis for their ideals and concepts?

    Seriously, their emphasis on emotions and name calling, does it stem from that have nothing better to say?

    A good example is their concept of money, they do not understand what money is and what it represents. To a Liberal, money is a nebulous and endless commodity that is just “there” to be spent and spent unto infinity. A very foreign concept to our Liberal wings is budget, that the economy, thus its lifeblood, money, is a study in scarcity and disbursement of resources. All liberal plans are based on endless availability of everything, especially money.

    Inflation to a liberal is a good thing, hence the continuing encouragement of it. They have no concept of debt, believing no one will ever want or need their money back. Inflation means more dollars, period, no consequences.

    Liberalism is contagious. Human nature favors the Mob gimme state, people are lazy by nature. The Liberal mind wants everyone to be happy and content. Not the pursuit of happiness, but guaranteed happiness, funded by the Federal government, the bottomless pit. This attribute of the Deep State has infected the country and most of the Deep State including half the supposed conservatives. Watching Blue areas expand, like Californication of the West, is proof of the contagion as people leaving Liberal areas carry their credo with them, infecting other states. Contagion!!! Abbott, IMHO, is wrong, Texas will turn blue with continued Blue infection. People are people, Liberal handouts will continue the spread.

    Liberals need growth, as their credo is self limiting. As folks acquire life skills and knowledge, their gullibility regarding liberalism goes away. After a while, people get sick of paying more taxes to an entity that is so wasteful and stupid. So the Liberal contingent has to continuously create new liberals. Hence the desires to educate new Liberals through the education system and the desire to keep the border uncontrolled to allow in the failures from other liberal socialistic countries.

    Historians blame the demise of the Roman Empire on the growth and collapse of the Roman mob, The spread of Classic globalism and its governmental Liberal roots, trying to assuage the . mob.

    Instant replay, the human drama continues.

    • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

      Yes, growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Your Capitalism needs endless growth, thus it is a cancer.

      To have anything real to offer, Conservatism must be decoupled from Capitalism – and I’ve now lost you completely, right?

      You can only deal with two sides: which you call good and bad. And then you tie those two to the two parties. And because of that you can be played endlessly. There are many sides, many points of view – and many relative strengths and weakness, correct views and wrong views.

      It’s no mistake. They intended people to do just what you do.

      • Rowdypiglet December 29, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

        Jarek, I agree about Capitalism, but I don’t know what the other possibilities are. I admit to being ignorant about economics, though I’ve tried to read up on it and still failed to understand. I was interested in Distributism, but it appears to have some of the same problems as Libertarianism. I don’t know what the answer is and suspect other people also see only two possibilities, neither of which they care much for. Maybe that’s why it hasn’t been possible to decouple Conservatism from Capitalism. Lack of an alternative that anyone knows about or prefers?

        • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

          Private ownership is fine of course. But some dream of empire and will not be satisfied with owning a single store, or even a chain, but want to become a power broker controlling whole industries.

          Very well! But that entails much greater responsibility and oversight by people who aren’t driven (as they are) by dreams of profit and power alone. People who have been elected and/or chosen to guide and censor.

          Just letting gifted people run amok is what got us here. You can’t ultimately separate the economic from the political or either from the social.

          Free enterprise is not the same as Corporate Capitalism, but people talk as if it is. So such discussion can go nowhere. I met a person who thought Monsanto was a family farm, cuz their last name was Monsanto…..

          The Capitalists funded Communism. It is their offensive arm to break down traditional economies and the monarchies. Capitalism/Communism defeated the Fascist and National Socialist states – the white blood cells that arose to defend Western Civilization. Now they’re coming for the middle classes of the “republics” (in name only). A mopping up exercise.

    • benr December 29, 2022 at 8:46 am #

      I don’t know John I see plenty of life long liberal idiots that never learn.
      Closing in on 50 years and they still get suckered by the same play book and never grasp they are being conned.

      While on the subject of idiots we could talk about the grand old party and how they promise conservative values and then go along with the progressive scum every chance they get.

      Take the power of the purse in Congress.
      Instead of voting to fund government for a couple of months and then looking at the budget they voted in favor of an awful 1.7 trillion taking away any power they had.
      The Republican party is devoid of actual leadership and at this point I am not sure which party deserves the dust bin of history more.

      • workingclasshero December 30, 2022 at 12:37 am #

        I fear the Conservative movement in the western world has already lost. It is separate from the European New Right which is more ethnically based and is for defending European civilization and fighting uncontrolled immigration but carries within its program the unapologetic use of the state to help fight for the European peoples.

        Most folks know about Julius Evola but should also try out Guillaume Faye among others. Like Jarek, they have a healthy contempt for chamber of commerce big tent conservatives. A just society will compensate honorable labor with a prudently managed welfare state. That IMO isn’t a GIMME STATE.

  82. Q. Shtik December 28, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

    A stock market: tidbit:

    You may have noticed that stocks have been getting hammered lately.

    I once did a study using the DJIA as a proxy for “the market” to discover when during a calendar year does “the DOW” most frequently achieve its highest point. The answer is:

    . in December, and within that month
    . in the last week, and in that week
    . on the last business day of the year

    Well, that is not going to happen in 2022.

    As of early 2022, the Dow’s all-time high at market close stands at 36,799.65 points—reached on Jan. 4, 2022. The index’s highest price, period, was on Jan. 5: At one point, the Dow reached 36,952.65 points. This was an intra-day high.

    Here we are, three days from the year’s final business day and the DOW is hovering around 33,100, some 3850 pts down from the year’s high point.

    What the heck, it’s only money!

    Jarek will be disgusted that I even concern myself with such things when I could have been “saying the beads.”

    • stelmosfire December 28, 2022 at 2:40 pm #

      People I know whine about all the value they’ve lost this year in the market. I can’t fathom what they bitch about. 1/1/20 Dow closed at 28,196. Today 3 years later during a worldwide pandemic and society shut down the Dow has risen to around 33,200. That’s an increase of 17.7 %. that’s a damn good 3 year return as far as I’m concerned. Go back 10 years to 1/1/23 and the Dow was 13,797. It’s up over 140% since then. Investors whining about that are just a bunch of twisted crybabies. Meanwhile my cash is losing 8-10% a year in value.

      • stelmosfire December 28, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

        1/1/13 . You know what I meant

      • benr December 29, 2022 at 8:41 am #

        Fake numbers what you see in the DOW rise is just inflated money being squirreled away nothing more.
        They printed it and handed it out at 0% interest and the big banks had to do something with it, so they dumped it into stocks.

        In all of this they all but destroyed people’s savings.
        Gas prices outstripped returns as has housing and food costs.
        Throw in a massive increase in minimum wage to shrink everyone’s buying power even more and there you have it what was a good wage is now hovering just above minimum wage.
        No company has given their workers a raise to match what the minimum wage earner has been given in the last decade.

        The idea was high school kids and college kids worked the minimum wage jobs and the more experienced or skilled workers got paid a living wage.

        Now I keep hearing about a guaranteed wage for ass on couch watching teevee and voting Democrat.

    • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

      How much of it can you take across the river Styx? Zero as in none of it.

      You need a few coins for the boatman, Charon. Why not be classy, especially in light of inflation, and have silver coins put over you eyes? Or at least old fashioned quarters that were part silver. He’ll appreciate it I’m sure and maybe put in a good word for you on the other side.

      Tell Bo now so and put the coins where she can get them when the time comes.

    • TPTB-USA December 29, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

      Pop quiz: If you invested US$1m in MERVAL at the beginning of November, would you have a gain, or a loss?

      USDARS

      • Rulo Deschamps December 29, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

        TPTB, I’d like to know the answer to the quiz. Maybe a gain in ARS, a loss in USD?

        • TPTB-USA December 30, 2022 at 12:27 am #

          Assumptions:
          MERVAL 11/01/2022 = 153,002 … 12/29/2022 = 199,360 … 30% Appreciation
          USDARS 11/01/2022 = 157 … 12/29/2022 = 177 … 13% Appreciation
          DXY 11/01/2022 = 111.48 / 12/29/2022 = 103.97 … 7% Depreciation
          EURUSD 11/01/2022 = 0.99 … 12/29/2022 = 1.07 … 8% Appreciation

          If one could buy MERVAL with US$ and sell MERVAL for US$ (or at least have no currency conversion impact), one would have a 30% US$ gain.

          How about Japan buying gold in NY and selling it in London to balance their trade deficit with the US?

          It’s this type of monkey business that most gold bugs don’t comprehend (they only see the POG in terms of US$s).

          • TPTB-USA January 8, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

            GOLD 11/01/2022 = 1648 … 12/29/2022 = 1815 … 10% Appreciation

            Convert US$ to Pesos, 11/01/2022 buy MERVAL, 12/29/2022 sell MERVAL, convert Pesos to US$ = 16% US$ gain.

            Convert Pesos to US$, 11/01/2022 buy GOLD, 12/29/2022 sell GOLD, convert US$ to Pesos = 24% gain.

  83. elysianfield December 28, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

    CFN’rs, Suffer Not your better judgment and come close;

    The Situational Awareness, this AM reports;

    CHINA UNVEILS NEW DRONE CARRIER MOTHERSHIP: According to a report from the Warzone Magazine, China has just put into service a new drone carrier mothership. The vessel, which uses a catamaran design, can operate with larger groups of manned surface naval combatants to employ and control drone swarms against shore targets and air defenses. In May of this year, China launched an artificial-intelligence operated drone ship capable of carrying 50 surface, subsurface, and flying drones that can be autonomously launched and recovered. (AC: China’s drone fleet is capable of employing drone swarms as hunter-killers, sensor platforms, and electronic warfare platforms. The swarms can provide an inexpensive way to defeat air and naval defensive systems and conduct maritime surveillance over wide areas in all-weather conditions. – M.M.)

    The “Mothership”, or Death Spar” indicates that the Chinese Generals may not be preparing to fight “the Last War”, as is ofttimes the case with Generals….

    The name of their drone project, or the “Death to the False Hegemon and their Running Dog Lackies Lickspittles and Revanchists” sounds a lot better in Mandarin, I expect*

    Maybe…who knows?

    • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

      Why not 330 million drones, each targeted towards one individual person’s unique genetic structure. if they fail, keep trying until they get us all.

      • K-Chien December 28, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

        Spike protein VD. You have sex with a vaccinated woman and the nano particles are going to cross the juice-skin barrier. The larger your dick the bigger the problem.

        In time some women will be known for the number of dead men they wake up with!

        • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

          So you admit the spike protein is real and it’s dangerous?

          Your sperm is deadly too since you got it.

      • elysianfield December 28, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

        …Don’t give ’em ideas….

    • tucsonspur December 28, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

      Yeah, they use Running Dog a lot. What a line!

    • stelmosfire December 28, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

      If those drones can be disguised as flying monkeys they’ll really be on to something.

  84. tucsonspur December 28, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

    Yes, the evil triangle, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

    How about those Iranians, arresting women for violating their strict ‘moral’ code by being immodest, then raping or otherwise sexually assaulting them?

    Hail Masha Amini, beaten to death by Iranian scumbags over the hijab!

    Yes, the Iranians supply arms to the Russians in their Ukrainian beatdown. What a noble ally, what a proud association!

    Of course, there’s North Korea also giving assistance to the Russians.

    Russia, North Korea and Iran. A trio of tragedians, a triangle of totalitarians, along with death and perverse domination.

    Jarek and his jabberwocky join with MaryQuackery in loving the evil triangle. Jarek loves it even more than the triangle that forests Mons Veneris. Paula the Dingbat sanctifies the atrocities of Putin, visualizes Putin and then bends over, wriggling her butt pretending it’s Ukraine. Ditto MQ. Pisinfected rails against the West as he deifies the satanic Putin.

    Praise God, let Putin meet krav maga and me in the battle of the blades!

    They see their reflection in my shining armor, see themselves as they really are, confused and locked in a moral struggle from which they can’t escape unless they abandon their depraved positions, shed the emblems of the evil triangle.

    Yes, heathens, bring it on, my sword is unsheathed, charge forward and impale your souls upon it!

    • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

      What a delusional perv.

      LOL.

      • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

        Fashions himself as a modern day Don Quixote now in search of a dim-witted Sancho Panza. I think he’s gone around the bend.

      • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 12:04 pm #

        Notice that he can never make it through a comment thread without displaying his anal fetish.
        The part where he fancies himself a swordsman, though, only comes out when he really gets worked up.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:23 pm #

          Hahahahahaha!

    • Woodchuck December 28, 2022 at 3:47 pm #

      Surely you jest! One of the funnier trolling I’ve seen in here lately. Some good aliteration in here. A great name for a band could be “Jarek and the Jabberwockies”. And you are putting us heathens to the sword? You wouldn’t have the kindness to use a fake sword?

      • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

        He’s just a dirty old man who probably flashes kids and women at the park in his spare time.

    • Disaffected December 28, 2022 at 4:02 pm #

      Fertile imagination you’ve got there, turd. Comes from eating a lot of shit.

      • Night Owl December 28, 2022 at 5:13 pm #

        Imagine supporting a puppet Neo-Nazi dwarf who once wore a chestless catsuit and heels and played a piano with his dwarf penis.

        • MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

          Pervs admire other pervs.

    • Jarek December 28, 2022 at 4:26 pm #

      How many disabled veterans did you mock when you were a young anti-war protester? Is this your way of making reparations – to adopt the war hawk stance?

      But yes, I wish Paula would stop stooping to conquer vis a vis Putin. Her butt is not Ukraine! Her coquetteries are getting olde. Indeed they were old when Babylon was young.

      • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

        Oh, Jarek, I may be old, but when I roll my eyes like a teenager, it clearly excites you, especially when Mary joins in. You think of us as two teenaged girls, you announce, and we all know your ephebophilic tendencies.

        I’m going to invite Mary over for a slumber party, and we’ll talk about the guys at CFN and giggle. And then we’ll have a pillow fight!

        Your dreams come true.

        • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

          Invite Alba too. She thinks Mary is the bee’s knees and wants to meet her.

          Old girls acting like teenagers. What’s not to love! Does this make me a pedophile?

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

          LOL!!

    • Islander December 28, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

      Gross.

      Nutso.

  85. JohnAZ December 28, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

    Spur

    Who do you think is the biggest enemy to the American way of life?

    The American Democratic Party.

    The Deep State.

    The World Economic Forum.

    ??

    ??

    I think your feelings are very different from a large contingent of the blog.

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  86. JohnAZ December 28, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

    I will be posting some very vexing questions I came across.

    We do not let athletes bet on games they have the ability to influence. Why do we allow Congress invest in companies they regulate. Take that Peloses!

    Why is it that when archeologists find human remains, they always determine that they either male or female and none of the other hundreds of genders?

    Why is it that so many are more outraged that Brittney Griner was stuck in Russia than they were about Americans stranded in Afghanistan?

    • Islander December 28, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

      John,

      You should pose your questions to ChatGPT.

      See my comment, below, or go here:

      httpX://bracingviews.com/2022/12/26/even-ai-is-suspicious-of-the-military-industrial-complex/

    • malthuss December 29, 2022 at 11:43 am #

      the term is 2 fer

      black and ‘female’ [in “”]

  87. MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 7:59 pm #

    In regards to the Southwest Airlines holiday fiasco:

    Corporate failure. Profits over people 101.

    From a Southwest pilot:

    “I don’t know what to say. Southwest Airlines has imploded. Their antiquated software system has completely fried. Planes are parked. Crews are stranded in the airports with the passengers, volunteering to take the passengers in the parked planes but the software won’t accept it. Phone lines are overwhelmed for both passenger and crews. I personally spent over two hours trying to get ahold of anyone in the company last night after midnight. A Captain and I did manage to get the one flight put together on Christmas night and got people home. Kudos to the ops agent and dispatcher for making it happen. We had to manually input a lot of the data and it took over an hour to coordinate with dispatch going back and forth running numbers.

    We spent hours trying to get the company to answer and get us a hotel when we landed as they’re all sold out. We were only put in a call que for hours before hanging up. I found one hotel with 4 rooms and we bought our own rooms at 2:30am. I even paid for a Flight Attendants room. We literally have crews sleeping on the airport floors all over the country with nowhere to go. Crews have been calling to fly anyone, anywhere, but the company says the system needs a reset. They have effectively shut down the operations for the rest of year, running 1/3 of the flights so that they can let the computer find and locate the crews and aircraft. Gate agents are in tears. They’ve been yelled at, cussed at, slapped and spit on. Flight attendants have been taking a beating. The frontline employees have had little support or communication. Terminals are standing room only with people having been there for days. Pilot lounges are packed with pilots ready to fly and nowhere to go.

    Embarrassing is an understatement. I’m going on my second of three days off, still stuck on the east coast and still expected to show up in the morning with no schedule. And I’m willing to fly all day if needed. Because that’s nothing compared to the passengers needing meds in bags that are lost and mothers traveling with kids, having been stuck for the same amount of days in the terminal. In 24 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. Heads need to roll! Rumors on media are floating that there is a lack of crews and pilots are staging sick calls. Absolutely not true at all. This is a computer system meltdown. Thousands of crew members are sitting in hotels and airports with nowhere to go. This airline has failed miserably.”

    Imagine when the entire populace is living dependent on CBDC and something goes wrong – as it always will.

    • BackRowHeckler December 29, 2022 at 9:48 am #

      This is happening now, MQ? It hasn’t made National News. What caused the breakdown, the winter storm that hit the central states?

      • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 11:03 am #

        As the pilot says, they are trying to massively cover it up (although it’s impossible – but you know if MSM ignore it, then it must not have happened). I had seen Gateway Pundit report it. I also saw the stats on airlines cutting flights because of weather, and none come anywhere close to what Southwest pulled (in the thousands).

        So there has to be something else going on, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s been planned.

        Bedpan Biden did address it too, actually, admonishing Southwest that they need to accommodate their customers or something.

        I think that if this is a huge tech failure, and it’s this calamitous, even on a relatively small scale, imagine what would happen when everyone depends on tech to do everything in their life.

      • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

        It isn’t covered up. My husband reported to me that yesterday’s NPR propaganda focused on Southwest.

        I was immediately skeptical. Southwest? The only airline that is employee owned? (My husband said that he thinks United is, but I didn’t look it up.)

        Southwest is the only airline that resisted the vax mandates, also. And it’s the cheapest airline, so the plebes favor it.

        Sounds like three reasons to take it down.

        So you get a “report” on NPR and an anonymous “pilot” trash talking Southwest. More will probably commence.

        Well, we know that they are going to stop the plebes from traveling by air. Might as well start with the one they favor.

        • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

          Start with a computer attack, of course.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

            This is a good example of why we should not depend on digital anything, especially for crucial services.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

          It’ll be interesting to see if anyone reports on the system going down. It seems that that did happen. That is what the pilot is reporting.

          I wonder why anyone would bother to write that if it wasn’t true? I’ll do more digging and see if anyone else has written a first-hand account.

          I can’t stand Southwest, BTW. I’ve had horrible experiences with them.

      • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

        Yes, it has. Lester was interviewing the CEO who apologized last night. Mayor Pete vowed revenge and retribution.

        One basic point that was revealed: They still use the old model of planes going direct to their destination and returning as opposed to the central hub model. Savings to customers but a nightmare with one plane and crew being stranded and out of action and thus canceling out the next flight they should be taking.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 5:53 pm #

      This one also blames an antiquated system:

      https://www.thestreet.com/travel/southwest-airlines-explains-what-went-wrong-where-blame-lies

  88. Islander December 28, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

    I guess some AI’s are smarter than others.

    Here is a most interesting story at ZeroHedge by a fellow who posed a question to some new AI that is the talk of the talk, called ChatGTO or some such.

    httpX://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/even-ai-suspicious-military-industrial-complex

    “My task to the AI bot: “Write a critical essay on the military-industrial complex.”

    Here’s what it generated:

    The military-industrial complex refers to the relationship between a country’s military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. This relationship has been a source of concern for many people, who argue that it can lead to an unnecessary expansion of military budgets and an over-reliance on military solutions to problems.

    One of the main criticisms of the military-industrial complex is that it can result in the waste of taxpayer money. Military contracts are often given to a select group of companies, which can result in overcharging for goods and services. Additionally, the military often purchases weapons and equipment that are unnecessary or not well-suited for the tasks at hand. This can lead to a tremendous amount of waste and inefficiency, as resources are poured into projects that do not provide much value.

    Another concern is that the military-industrial complex can distort foreign policy decision-making. Countries with a strong military-industrial complex may be more likely to engage in military action, even when diplomatic solutions would be more appropriate. This can lead to an escalation of conflicts and an increased risk of war.

    The military-industrial complex can also have negative impacts on domestic policy. It can divert resources away from other important priorities, such as education and healthcare. Additionally, the influence of the defense industry on policy decisions can lead to the prioritization of the needs of military contractors over the needs of the general public.

    Some have argued that the military-industrial complex represents a threat to democracy, as it can give undue influence to a small group of powerful interests. This can lead to a lack of transparency and accountability in decision-making, as well as a distorted political process.

    In conclusion, the military-industrial complex is a complex and multifaceted issue that has the potential to have negative impacts on both domestic and foreign policy. It is important for citizens to be aware of the potential dangers of this relationship and to hold their elected officials accountable for ensuring that military spending is responsible and transparent.’

    Not bad! Firstly, I’m glad I’m no longer a professor actively teaching and grading papers. Something tells me more than a few students might be reaching for help from the AI bot on their assignments. Often, I was able to catch plagiarism (the giveaway was an essay written too well with too many “big words” used correctly) by searching for certain phrases or sentences that struck me as more than odd or much too advanced, but now with these AI programs I’m guessing it’s going to be a lot harder to ensure students do their own work.

    Anyhow, the AI bot essay on the military-industrial complex makes some good points, don’t you think? Though there’s still room for a human here (at least I hope so).

    So what does this human intelligence (that’s me) have to say? . . .”

    the story continues with some apposite points from the human writer.

    • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

      Computers have always been smarter than humans when it comes to calculations.
      This computer is smarter than most humans when it comes to the MIC.

  89. MaryQueen December 28, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

    Pay with your face, in Moscow:

    https://reclaimthenet.org/russia-expands-invasive-biometric-pay-technology-on-metro/

  90. tom clark December 28, 2022 at 11:08 pm #

    Southwest was the “go to” airlines of the 90’s. I remember that, back when I used to fly.

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  91. SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 3:07 am #

    Slugger:

    “3x CD quality is meaningless. Recording a low fidelity source using hi-res audio is a waste of data. You can’t add what was never there. 44.1/16 would be ample to capture whatever comes off the vinyl. As would 256 kbps AAC. I demand a double-blind listening test!”

    —–

    3x CD quality is not meaningless, Slugger. It was my original point that you disputed and it is, technically, The Truth. Twice the sample rate at 1.5x the resolution.

    1) Quality vinyl on a quality system is not a low fidelity situation. I am recording the analog from Neil Young’s twang in the studio in 1972 through to my digital recording (at, technically, 3x CD-quality). Nothing needs be added as I merely capture what the producer put to his analog master. Many listeners marvel at the fidelity that I have achieved with TruVinyl. TruStory

    As for sound tests – check it out yourself, Slugger. It is absolutely free. Enjoy!

    Time Machine PDF Menu:
    httpX://www.dropbox.com/s/n6zuxfubff3bvs2/TruVinyl_Menu.pdf?dl=0

    —–

    Thanks for the welcome back, Jar. I always enjoy reading your brilliance!

    —–

    Proud Mary, FYI – I would’ve left well enough alone after anmari mentioned TruVinyl on CFN … but then you claimed that I have never made a product (when I have actually produced thousands of products for decades) and calling me a ‘delusional nutjob’ seemingly behind my back, you … person.

    You brought me back, PM, not anmari.

    —–

    Time Machine now has 84 videos and 5,303 views.

    Cheers!

    • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 4:01 am #

      “CD is a 16-bit, 44.1kHz system, what’s needed to improve conformity between the analogue original and the digitised version is a combination of more bits in each samples, and more samples for each second of music: the more bits you use, the more natural the music sounds, and the faster the samples, the wider the frequency range.”

      httpX://www.bowerswilkins.com/en-us/blog/sound-lab/guide-to-24bit-flac

      • Slugoon December 29, 2022 at 4:41 am #

        Total hooey from a company that has a vested interest in marketing and selling you ‘the next big thing’. Red Book 44.1/16 is capable of perfectly reconstructing the waveform of anything within the range of human hearing. That’s why it was chosen. No useful frequencies exist above 22kHz and 16-bits gives more than enough dynamic range to put the noise floor where it can’t be heard. All you’re doing with 24-bits is recording the hiss of vinyl (no matter how quiet it may seem) in more detail.

        The technical specs of the storage medium have little to do with the quality of the output anyway. The weakest links in the chain are the quality of the original recording and mastering, and significantly, the output system, i.e. speakers, placement, room dimensions, acoustics etc.

        • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 5:09 am #

          You are incorrect. CD specs were determined backwards. They had a disc that could hold so many bytes (650Mb). They then should’ve set the time to an existing LP (approx. 40 minutes) but, instead, some scientist with no grasp of billions of existing 40-minute LPs in existence, set the time limit of CDs at 80 minutes to fit an entire Beethoven symphony on the disc.

          They then worked backward and set the unprecise16-bit at 44kHz specs on account of this blunder by people after WAY more money in 1982 than the 24-bit guys in 2001,

          All the wonderful music in the 1980s and 1990s were then mastered (and bastardized with level bumps to make shit specs on shit speakers sound loud) to these awful specs that can most definitely be discerned by many, many ears.

          Listen to Joni doing ‘Woodstock’:

          httpX://www.bitchute.com/video/qLa7suI8OA2h/

          and tell us that that is not Better than CD-quality.

          • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 5:27 am #

            or Willie’s vocals starting at 35:27 of TruVinyl – 1975/08:

            httpX://www.bitchute.com/video/tMLT6kb88e31/

          • Slugoon December 29, 2022 at 5:38 am #

            This is just wrong, OG. It’s basic sampling theory. Any analogue wave up to the Nyqvist frequency can be *perfectly* reproduced by Red Book and that’s why it was chosen. And as for the bit depth, how many do you need? 16-bits gives 96dB. The limiting factors are the audio systems themselves.

            96/24 is good for recording studios since they have more scope for manipulating the data without loss, just as a camera RAW file is better for the same purpose. As a final output/storage format though, 44.1/16 is all a human needs, in the same way an 8-bit JPG is all they need.

            Like I said, mastering is the weak link and here I agree with you 100%. The ‘loudness wars’ have nothing to do with the technical capabilities of the format though.

          • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

            And yet my productions, when I hit the sweet spot (which is not always), are far superior to CD-quality. They are.

            Please listen to the Joni & Willie links that I have provided and be more informed in this discussion.

            Tell me that I have not captured the mastered analog signal off of the analog vinyl better than does a CD. Tell me after you have listened to those 2 songs.

            Plus, I’ll throw in a 3rd song for your considerations:

            httpX://www.bitchute.com/video/m24GtXrQ3GNq/

            9:45 mark

            Behind Blue Eyes – The Who

            I do appreciate your obviously educated opinions very much. Thank you.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 10:59 am #

      I find it very interesting that you say I brought you back. Thus, ascribing the blame for anything you say or do up here to me. Same ol’ stuff as before, everyone else is to blame for what you post.

      It appears that you are using Jim’s forum to distract from interesting conversations just to hawk your wares and promote your business, which usually is frowned upon here, from what I’ve seen in the 2 years I’ve been reading comments & posting.

      Other people have the decency just to link their blog or site to their name, or maybe post a short head’s up, whereas you’re plastering your personal crap all over the place.

      Very rude.

      • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        Mary:
        “No, anmari invoked him.
        Which is unfortunate.”

        I do not “blame” anyone for anything. I was merely correcting you (yet again as you are almost always Wrong),

        Actually, Anmari informed CFN of Time Machine. I merely provided more detail (again correcting your ridiculous assertions that someone that you do not like can actually still achieve things).

        Beyond that, Slugger and I are discussing audio recording specs. If that topic does not interest you, I suggest that you scroll on by. This blog need not be all about you, Proud Mary.

        Have a enlightening day.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

          Stop mentioning me, addressing me, and talking about me, and I will be happy to scroll on by all your distracting garbage.

          • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

            Ditto. I scroll by your corrupt little brain farts constantly.

            Remember, it was you libeling me behind my back and then wrongly asserting that Anmari “invoked” me that started all of your typical nonsense once again, Proud Mary.

            Stay away from me and I will stay away from you. Deal.

            Good day.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 3:49 pm #

            Shut up, drunk.

          • SaskWatch December 30, 2022 at 9:24 am #

            It took you 3h 28m to break our agreement.

            You are not trustworthy, imho.

  92. SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 3:40 am #

    Who do you think is the biggest enemy to the American way of life?

    The enemy lives within me. Or perhaps a more cogent way of putting it is to recall that old cliche’ – you are your greatest enemy –

    It could be that in due time it is clear that apathy and neglect were the biggest enemies to the American way of life. In a past thread he made a reference to the southern border being invaded. And where are the people to defend the border? No American is incited to protect the border? But no matter what one thinks Ukrainians are fighting to defend their border. Those are the distilled principals of the argument as I see them.

    Of course it cannot be understated that the Democrat Party, Deep State, and WEF are forces of corrosion, terror, and ecocide. But to what extent did the apathy and the neglect of the opposing forces allow them to perfect their chokehold on our society? Those who knew that the nation was being murdered.

    • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

      The eastern Ukrainians (now part of Russia) are fighting to protect their border from the invasion of the nazis from Kiev.

      You don’t see Donbass militias going to Kiev, but you sure as hell see Ukie nazis embedded in trenches shelling the city of Donetsk.

      Who invaded who?

      • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

        Your ass in not Ukraine and ipso facto, since a=b, b=a, Ukraine is not your ass. You may wish it Ukraine was part of Russia, but much of it wants nothing to do with Russia.

        Samuel Huntington explained all this long ago. It’s not a viable nation as constructed and it needs to be split up.

        • Islander December 29, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

          “Samuel Huntington explained all this long ago. ”

          Uh-oh.

          Bwa ha ha

          • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

            Google it, Bwahaha.

            If you don’t, the joke’s on you.

            Huntington’s line to be exact.

          • Islander December 29, 2022 at 5:11 pm #

            I’d be interested to know which line from Sam “Clash of Civilizations” Huntington you are referring to.

            A Cliff Notes page no. will do!

      • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

        But yes, indeed: Who invaded who?

        From this I assume you support the Confederate Cause. Don’t disappoint me now.

      • SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        The militias don’t need to go to Kiev. Their missiles are however. And yes, Ukraine continues to shell Donetsk. The Ukraine militias set up shop in Donbass after the Maidan coup, and perhaps for longer. I don’t pretend to know much about the history there. The Russians and Ukrainians are very similar. Honestly they are invading one another.

    • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

      Similarly, no one made parents give their kids Iphones and computers to give them access to porn, general nonsense, and groomers. But the culture told them to do so, the kids echoed it (loudly), and parents capitulated. Most are so far gone they never didn’t even know it was an issue. It’s just what you do.

      • SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

        Yes, the frogs slowly boil principal. They won’t even know what hit them!

  93. SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 4:20 am #

    What if there is no realistic way to hold elected officials accountable? Perhaps there is no clear way to know if an elected official was truly elected in the traditionally understood sense? The essay appears to set the table for additional debate and dialogue for those who can stomach it.

    From a 30 thousand foot view it would appear that the humanization process is fully underway. Day to day it simply becomes familiar and soon enough fixture. How will we really even know. At that point which AI is making your decisions for you. After all, it already writes and talks like me now.

    And that was an interesting point made the other day. They don’t need faces. We do. That is why they will have faces too.

  94. JohnAZ December 29, 2022 at 8:32 am #

    Vexing questions for the day

    How is it that the government cannot control gasoline prices, but the weather is something they can fix?

    We are churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skills, no ambition, no guidance and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work. – Mike Rowe

    If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled be for eye removal and peg leg surgery. – Bill Maher

  95. elysianfield December 29, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

    CFN’rs,

    The Situational Awareness, this AM reports;

    CHINESE INCREASING AND SENDING LARGER INCURSIONS ON TAIWAN: In December, China increased the frequency of large Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) incursions, the size of ADIZ incursions, the largest flotilla near Taiwan, and the frequency of large flotillas. December also saw ADIZ incursions that crossed from the southwest of Taiwan to the southeast. Previously, flights were limited to small crossings north or southwest of the island. Twice this month, China had seven ship flotillas near Taiwan, which is larger than most U.S. Navy carrier strike groups. (AC: December also saw the most days where no incursions of any kind occurred, which is indicative of China’s “squeeze and release” policy to normalize more radical swings in force posture near Taiwan. Large incursions, with 20 or more aircraft and more than four ships, are now occurring at least once a week and are becoming larger. China is likely to continue this rapid squeeze and release policy until they mount a force large enough to blockade the island. – J.V.)

    …China is likely to continue this rapid squeeze and release policy…

    In my youth, this technique was viable.

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  96. tom clark December 29, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

    JAZ…I don’t see what’s so vexing about Mike Rowe’s observation…he nailed it.

  97. Rowdypiglet December 29, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

    MaryQ, replying to your earlier post:

    Mary, there are a lot of assumptions and mischaracterizations in what you’ve said, and I’d like to correct them.

    I’m not on the side of “men who blame women for everything they do.” I’ve acknowledged the role of men, but – in this instance – women are acting as the foot soldiers without which the war can’t be conducted. In the instance I noted, where there is nothing to lose because they cannot compete against men anyway, they’re failing to defend themselves. And I wasn’t speaking of teenage girls, but of grown women. Yes, some women are fighting back. I consider myself among them. They’re actual adults, so they do what they do out of conviction, not in order to be praised by other women; we’re not children or teenage girls to need constant affirmation.

    You’ve accused me of asking “kids to make superhuman efforts while you make none yourself.” Neither you nor anyone else here knows a single thing about my private life, what efforts I have made or not made. You are arguing about a life you’ve invented for me out of whole cloth. I make no assumptions or inventions about your life; please accord me the same courtesy. And I do remember exactly what it is like to be a teenage girl and have worked with many adolescents. I don’t expect them to stand up to peer pressure, but I expect them to be able to do so by the time they enter the adult world.

    I don’t think it helps anyone to pretend that conditions are other than what they are. I see women consistently at the fore in proudly displaying their “support” for their children’s mutilation. I cannot and will not pretend that I don’t see it. Whatever role men have played, no one is forcing these women to sacrifice their children. As for “attacking other women” you’re assuming that I have some kind of tribal loyalty to women that requires me to be silent when I see something wrong. I don’t feel obliged to praise anyone (women or men) when they act against reality. I praise or defend them based on their actions alone, as I expect to be judged myself.

    “Sitting on a high horse on CFN attacking other women seems to be more your cup of tea.” I consider my objections to be an attack on the actions of some people; it’s immaterial to me whether they’re men or women. The actions themselves are wrong. I’ve repeatedly made the point that, while men are manipulating at a higher level, women (in this instance) are taking direction from them without question and without any need to do so. Women not only have not said “no” to the trans agenda, they have supported and implemented it. Of course, it’s not all women. It never is. But the sheer number of women who are keen to transition their kids is undeniable, whereas the number opposing this agenda appears small by comparison.

    Lastly, you repeatedly accuse me or ignoring or not having read articles which I have, in fact, read. It seems you can’t imagine that anyone could read them and come to a different conclusion than your own. I assure you, I have read the article you noted and many others. I’m well aware of the role of Big Pharma and big money. But, to give an example, when the gender clinic was being sold to Vanderbilt University, it was a woman telling the audience how much money could be made from people who had been transitioned and would be patients for the rest of their lives.

    I have no ability whatsoever to affect the activities of Big Pharma (though there are those who do, and are using all the tools at their disposal). But, as your own comments show, women seem to care about the opinion of other women, and we can call out those who go along with the trans agenda and make it possible. And we SHOULD call them out, nor should we exempt them from blame because they’re women and we must be loyal to other women. This is a level at which we can indeed bring about change. These women are not victims by any stretch of the imagination. They are collaborators.

    That being said, I’m not in any way angry with you. I don’t expect or require anyone to agree with me and ask only that assumptions, accusations, and inventions about my personal life be left out of the discussion. We can be civil.

    • SaskWatch December 29, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      Hear! Hear!

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 2:51 pm #

      “You’ve accused me of asking “kids to make superhuman efforts while you make none yourself.” Neither you nor anyone else here knows a single thing about my private life, what efforts I have made or not made. You are arguing about a life you’ve invented for me out of whole cloth. I make no assumptions or inventions about your life; please accord me the same courtesy. And I do remember exactly what it is like to be a teenage girl and have worked with many adolescents. I don’t expect them to stand up to peer pressure, but I expect them to be able to do so by the time they enter the adult world.”

      You did express exasperation that female teens were not standing up against the scourge. Nice try. I don’t know about your private life, but I am willing to bet you haven’t been standing up at school board meetings strongly requesting them to stop allowing boys into girls’ sports. If you have, I apologize, but would find it strange you wouldn’t have added that into your comment. Again, you did say teenaged girls should stand up. Not adults.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

      “Whatever role men have played, no one is forcing these women to sacrifice their children. ”

      No one is forcing the men who do it, either. But they seem to be conspicuously absent from your criticisms.

      • Jarek December 29, 2022 at 3:00 pm #

        So you finally admit that women are to blame too, not just men?

        Good work, Rowdy. And Rowdy does admit a masculine role, not being a fanatic like you tend to be.

        My point at this point: Given the number of single parent households, the vast majority of which are mothers, women are more to blame at this level.

        And of course in liberal marriages, the woman typically wears the pants. If she says little Johnny’s really a girl, the husband better go along with it or face living on the streets.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

      “when the gender clinic was being sold to Vanderbilt University, it was a woman telling the audience how much money could be made from people who had been transitioned and would be patients for the rest of their lives.”

      Oh, a woman fronted for the male-dominated and run Big Pharma, so that shows how much power women have in pushing this agenda. Got it.

      I do definitely make assumptions on peoples’ level of involvement in something I’ve been very active in, based upon their comments, which I did in your case. If you’re gonna blame women and teenage girls for not standing up for themselves (as you clearly did), then of course I’m going to assume you are not really in the fight.

      Are you in the fight? No assumptions here. I’d love to know what you are doing to help stop men from taking over women’s sports.

    • Islander December 29, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

      Well put, Rowdy, and thanks for taking the time to respond in detail.

      It is infuriating to be accused by anyone, man or woman, for “just” standing up for any woman, or any anything.

      The Greeks fired many of the opening shots in the attempt to “disambiguate” the complex relationships between the different types of power that men and women hold in society and in their private relationships.

      Black/white brains such as Jarek’s really add nothing. Too often MQ overreacts in hyper “partisan” defense of all women and in the process pisses on the woman standing next to her. Sooooo . . .People with real relationships, real children, etc. are generally not so quick on the trigger.

      • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

        You either stand up for women or you don’t. Glossing over Rowdy’s obvious claim that it’s the responsibility of teenage girls to stop the trans scourge from invading their sports is bullshit, so I called her out on it. My criticism stands, regardless of virtue signaling from you.

        • Islander December 29, 2022 at 3:33 pm #

          Oh, Shut up, MQ.

          Learn to read.

          • Islander December 29, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

            PS.
            Glad to know that someone here is going to bat for Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power, Victoria Nuland, Nicky Haley, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Deborah Birx, Kathy Hochul, et cetera.

            The faulty logic is that these people are not to be held to standards to which we hold men.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

            Except I’m not.

            Talk about a knee-jerker who can’t read. That ain’t me, sister.

          • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 6:44 pm #

            Maybe I could get in-between both of you if you’re going to be like that and squeeze your asses.

        • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

          Oh ya, that apparent trans scourge I’ve heard about… Nothing like government pitting all kinds of people against each other, ay?

          Has anyone ever thought of a trans sport teams? But that would seem eliminate the above mentioned divide and conquer sort of thing, yes?

          Incidentally, for those who like authors’ visualizations, I’m sipping a weird milkshake-like, if not foamy/aiiry like milkshakes can be, concoction of premium ice cream mixed with a cold-milk-brewed black/twig/o.pekoe-combo tea with white rum in a long and slender champagne glass while listening to an unknown Portishead album on You Tube.

        • Rowdypiglet December 30, 2022 at 10:28 am #

          I’ll just point out that you quoted me when I said that I don’t expect teenage girls to oppose their peers, but I expect them to do so when they enter the adult world. Yet you persist in claiming that I said “it’s the responsibility of teenage girls to stop the trans scourge from invading their sports.” I object to your insistent belief that you know what I think and what I believe better than I do and contrary to what I have clearly stated. Please stop, and make reasonable arguments. I’ll repeat: teenagers are children and we can’t expect much if anything in the way of pushing back. That’s my position and I can’t make it clearer.

  98. Tate December 29, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

    @ Q-tip.

    So you once did a “study” that shows the stock market historically peaks in the last week in December. That’s such a trite observation, it has a name: the “Santa rally.” (Santa has noticed a lot of bad little boys & girls this year it appears.) Was that “study” the same one you promised me you were working on a year ago to prove that prices weren’t at insane levels? I think it was Alfred who called you to account.

    I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again. Prices are still at insane levels from a value perspective. But prices may continue at insane levels for a long way from here, maybe well into 2023. How prices will react as the Ukraine fiasco is gradually revealed to the general public is anyone’s guess.

    • Disaffected December 29, 2022 at 6:02 pm #

      As the old saw goes: “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Trading speculative pieces of paper with no intrinsic value on secondary markets has never seemed very rational to me, but I’m poor too, so there ya go. I came by it honestly at least. “Can’t take it with ya when ya go,” either. I guess that’s the consolation prize for the rest of us.

      • Tate December 29, 2022 at 6:51 pm #

        Oh, but you can take it with ya when ya go, or at least you can refuse to go. If you’re a corporation, that is.

        A more fiendish creation was never conceived by the mind of man than the public stock corporation. How on earth can a thing like a corporate chain of retail stores such as Walmart be justified? I can see a railroad or a utility, but a chain of retail stores? No way. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was a Jewish plot to take over the world. But it was actually invented by the Dutch, another mercantile people.

  99. Paula D December 29, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

    Head of US mercenary group in Ukraine gets drunk, tells the truth.

    Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal talk about it….

    .youtube.com/watch?v=7xBrSWASV98

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

      Whoa!

  100. Night Owl December 29, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

    “The idea of setting up a new global institution comprising both developed and emerging economies was born in Davos in 1998. The group, which met for the first time in June of that year, became known as the G20″ (from: WEF website).
    The G20 is a World Economic Forum abomination.”

    https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1608088802295250946?cxt=HHwWhIC8wdyPitEsAAAA

    Robert Malone’s Twitter account is getting spicy.

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  101. tucsonspur December 29, 2022 at 3:40 pm #

    I’ve read that the two-state solution for the middle East is just about dead. Four of the five incoming party leaders in Israel have either been indicted, arrested, convicted or served prison time on charges of corruption or incitement to racism. These are; Netanyahu, Aryeh Deri, Bezalel Smotrich, and Itamar Ben-Gvir.

    Appointment by Netanyahu of the ultranationalist, anti-Arab, Ben-Givr to the post of minister of national security doesn’t bode well for the Palestinians. Neither does the appointment of Smotrich to head the Civil Administration, since it has the power to restrict the lives of Palestinians and to expand Jewish settlements.

    There’s friction on a daily basis between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians, and Palestinian youth have become much more radicalized and no longer believe in the PA, think that the Israelis only understand force.

    Netanyahu says that ” the traditional US alliance with Saudi Arabia has to be reaffirmed because I think that the alliance is the anchor of stability in our region.” Saudi Arabia has been in favor of a two-state solution and I believe that the US has been Saudi Arabia’s most important ally, so why a two-state solution can’t be reached is beyond me. Is the US itself not willing to exert enough pressure to make it happen? MIC considerations, the mighty Jewish lobby?

    The ultranationalist Jews simply don’t want an independent Palestinian state, will crush Palestinians if necessary. Putin doesn’t want an independent Ukraine, will crush Ukrainians likewise.

    Putin does to Ukraine what the Israelis do to the Palestinians only with much more militancy. Stop spinning your slippery wheels of denial. To a large extent, the comparison is valid.

    The moral low ground of pathetic Putin lovers is indefensible. Scurry now in retreat or face certain death.

    • Disaffected December 29, 2022 at 4:27 pm #

      Yawn. Did somebody say something?

      • Night Owl December 29, 2022 at 4:55 pm #

        Ask him if one prediction he has made has ever actually come true.

        *Popcorn*

    • SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 7:07 pm #

      Slippery wheels you say? Well, I guess if you really start to think about it deeply enough you will realize that we are not independent either. The country that I live in is an occupied country and is not allowed independence in anything. In addition to that there is a literal invasion of its borders at the time of this posting. So pardon me for being ambivalent at best about what is happening thousands of miles away from here. And now that BlackRock is funding Ukraine it would seem all the cards are on the table as to who is doing what. So what exactly is there to fight for in that case? Corporate oligarch tyranny? The Palestinians hate as the Israelis hate you. So eff em. I love your zeal Sigma. I just don’t understand it.

      • SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

        The Palestinians hate you as the Israelis hate you. That is what I meant to say. You probably already got it but to be clear. I hope you are having a nice evening.

        • Disaffected December 29, 2022 at 10:52 pm #

          The turd’s fair Dulcinea is evidently Ukrainian. They do have some pretty fair maidens over there, or so I’ve heard. Although, most of their windmills – like everywhere else these days – have been converted to wind turbines, so if he’s got any sense remaining at all he won’t go tilting at those. But turd being turd… ya never know.

  102. MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

    We’ve Reached Peak Zelensky. Now What?

    After the farcical, almost psychotic over-promotion, Robert Freeman says the only place for the Ukrainian president to go from here is down. And, that is surely coming. Soon.

    “When the president of the poorest, most corrupt nation in Europe is feted with multiple standing ovations by the combined Houses of Congress, and his name invoked in the same breath as Winston Churchill, you know we’ve reached Peak Zelensky.

    It’s a farcical, almost psychotic over-promotion, probably surpassed only by the media’s shameful, hyperbolic railroading of the country into war with Iraq, in 2003. Paraphrasing Gertrude from Hamlet, “Methinks the media doth hype too much.”

    Let’s remember that before ascending to his country’s presidency, Volodymyr Zelensky’s greatest claim to fame was that he could play the piano with his penis. I’m not joking. And he ran on a platform to unite his country for peace, and for making amends with Russia. Again, I’m not joking.”

    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/weve-reached-peak-zelensky-now-what/

    • Night Owl December 29, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

      That’s Zelenskyyyyyy.

      Here in Germany, they are now stuffing a “j” in at the end to keep up interest among the cud-chewers.

      The psychological games rolled out even at the lowest level are hilarious.

  103. anmariwakaranai December 29, 2022 at 4:18 pm #

    ZOLTANS YEAR END,…. ://thedeepdive.ca/zoltan-pozsar-g7-investors-should-worry-about-gold-backed-renminbi-eclipsing-dollars-commodity-encumbrance/

  104. MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

    I find James Lindsay to be an amazing resource for understanding everything Woke:

    Dialectical Inversion

    “Understanding Woke Marxism means more than just understanding their Theory. It also requires understanding their activity, which also helps you counter it. One of the most pervasive techniques used by Woke Marxism is “dialectical inversion.”

    In dialectical inversion, the authority in a situation is inverted by applying the dialectical trick of seeing two things that are opposed to one another as parts of the same whole. Then the good thing is diminished, allowing the Woke incursion to look better by default.

    The usual trick is to say “everything is political,” from which follows “the way you do what you do is political.” From that dialectical point of false equality, the inversion is a simple matter of shaming through rhetorical judo. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down the technique of dialectical inversion and gives several clear examples. Join him and learn how to fight back!”

    https://newdiscourses.com/2022/12/dialectical-inversion/

    • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 6:40 pm #

      This pisses real Marxists off. James Lindsay is a POS. His misrepresentation of dialectics is criminally satanic. Wokism has nothing to do with Marxism and James Linsay is the same passive aggressive kind of critter as a Woke. He usurps concepts he does not understand the same way the Woke do, A total sophist.

      • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:46 pm #

        Oooooh he touched a chord I see.

      • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 6:46 pm #

        He explains in great detail in many of his presentations the basis for his theory on that. What parts do you disagree with?

        • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

          To begin with, anybody who screams Woke Marxism does not understand Marxism.

          Marxists, real ones do not tolerate oppression. The old American tradition of live and let live describes their attitude well. The reason for this is because the working class transcends superficial differences. Men and women are considered equals. Sexual minorities became attracted to Marxism because they exploited the tolerance.

          Right wing assholes decided it would be a good idea to equate the two. The end result being anybody with a socialist bone becomes a faggot.

          Dialectics in the Marxist Tradition comes from Dialectical Materialism. Marx saw the dialectics in human history as a struggle between different social classes. Different ideas existing together is the dialectical tradition going back to ancient Greece. Marx saw the dialectics of history as expressions of material differences.

          A mark of a charlatan is to usurp the ideas of others pretending a knowledge they do not have. Using Woke and Marxism in the same sentence shows only idiocy. Adding dialectics to the mix shows a cold and calculated brutality. Satanic.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 8:03 pm #

            The end result of Marxism seems to be what Woodchuck says below. They are all for getting rid of the oligarchs, and then they come into power and have the same hierarchy anyway.

          • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 8:13 pm #

            How about we review it in practice?

            Who is using your brand of Marxism successfully? Seems to me it’s all the followers of Marxism creating all the havoc in society.

      • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

        A superficial manipulator of rhetoric and dialectic.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 7:11 pm #

          Can you give an example?

      • BackRowHeckler December 29, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

        I have to say, historically speaking, I doubt if hard core Marxist/Leninists, Bolsheviks, Revolutionists down for the struggle, or blood soaked Stalinists, would have much regard for modern day so called ‘Woke’ leftists — Antifa pissants, self entitled Blacks with a chip on their shoulders, or grown men dressing like woman and wearing makeup. Imagine Antifa thugs showing up in Red Square, Moscow in 1936, smashing windows and setting cars on fire, or a bunch of Trannys appearing at the Kirov Public School #18, in Petrograd, to read books to little kids? Some might make it to Kolyma or Vorkuta gulags, most would immediately be dragged to the execution pits at the edge of town. And that would be the end of the Woke Revolution in a Communist country.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

          This ain’t your grampaw’s Marxism!

        • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

          Ya Think!

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

          Actually, I recently saw a comparison to how China was during their move into communism, and they used similar tactics as the trans agenda and woke nonsense. It’s all indoctrination.

      • Tate December 29, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

        He draws out the connections between Marxism & Wokism in great detail, going all the way back to Hegel. Do you have a PhD in mathematics? I suppose he doesn’t have the intellectual chops you do to understand the concepts.

        • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 7:42 pm #

          And the same kind of analysis now gives Ukraine a history they never really had. Just saying dots connect does not connect them.

          • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

            Oh, and Tate. I forgot. Go fuck yourself.

          • Tate December 29, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

            Your words. I didn’t say anything about dots. You did. Lindsey made some meaningful connections. And how does it have anything to do with giving the “Ukraine a history it never really had?” Quite baffling, Keith.

        • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

          “According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimate determining element in history is the production and reproduction of life. More than this neither Marx nor myself have asserted. Hence, if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the only determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract and senseless phrase.”

          • K-Chien December 29, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

            by Engels

        • BackRowHeckler December 29, 2022 at 8:51 pm #

          I need to read more about “The Great Helmsman” (Chairman Mao) & the Revolution in China. China really hasn’t had its Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Aurther Koestler or Robert Conquest.

        • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

          Hegel? The Hegel who Marx wrote an entire takedown over?

          There was Hegel’s bullshit proclamation that idealism ruled humanity, that “I think therefore I am”, which the trannies use today to proclaim that if they think they are women, then they are women.
          Marx preferred material reality, the way that TERFs do today.

          If you have a biological body that is male, you are male. You can’t think your way into womanhood.

      • benr December 29, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

        Real Marxists?

        Is there only one kind?

        BLM founders claim to be Marxists are you saying they are not?

        Do you even understand what you post?

        • Blackbird December 29, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

          I wouldn’t be surprised if Burn, Loot ‘n’ Murder’s founders couldn’t give you even the CliffsNotes version of Marxism.

          They are just oversized babies throwing a tantrum. They claim to be “Marxist” in a lame attempt to graft themselves to a big tree.

          And they are too stupid to explain what they are all about. “Reed dat commie book. Dat shit wut we bout.”

          And yeah, they’ll rob and kill your white ass if they get a chance – at least toss you into the gulag – but that don’t make ’em commies.

          • Islander December 29, 2022 at 9:57 pm #

            Marxist and Fascist are both words that get slung around a lot–mainly it seems to me, used as weapons to discredit adversaries.

            The word slingers generally do not define these terms.

    • Woodchuck December 29, 2022 at 7:03 pm #

      In a republic or a democracy not everything but still way too many things are political. In a monarchy with someone like Ghengis Khan, Frederick Barbarossa, Louis 14th etc. at the helm, politics is rather irrelevant. There’s nobody running for office and nobody is voting. There are no political parties wasting time and telling lies. The monarch and his ministers make the top decisions. If you played political games in the court of Louis 14th you’d be playing games with other conniving blue bloods maybe jockeying for positions involving being closer to the center of the hive. There would be a queen bee in the palace, and she was protected at all costs. She’s like the queen on a chessboard, if a chess king is defeated to the point that his queen is captured, he’s in real trouble. A queen’s surroundings and lifestyle was to be as rich and comfortable as possible, with servant worker bees attending to her every need. Her job was to give birth to princes that would inherit and rule the kingdom someday. It’s a system of rule closed off to the people with no surnames, to the peasants and tradesmen. The energy of the managerial class in a monarchy isn’t spent uselessly in political battles focused on someone getting elected over someone else. During the Middle Ages onward the only psychological games or dialectical tricks being played on the public was coming from various corrupt authorities in the Church.

      If you have a republic, then you’ve got not only fake preachers speaking in public but also quack politicians out there peddling bullshit and lying just like the fake tv preachers do. The Marxists don’t like the Church or any notions of the divine right of kings. There are to be no hereditary ruling families. And then the Commies go right about to set up a new aristocracy and ruling class. They were jealous of the old aristocrats and felt that because they’d been hanging around in universities for years studying philosophy that it was their right and responsibility to overturn all the established order and put themselves in power. They’re the new aristocracy. Instead of the Church, humanist Jacobinism was to be the new faith.

      • Tate December 29, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

        There is an advantage to a monarchy in that respect. The key question has always been, ‘By what authority?’ The monarchies win hands down there, with the writ of tradition behind them. With our form of mass democracy, we’ve reached the absurdity of Joe Biden. That could & did happen in monarchies, winding up with an incompetent in charge, but it was never supposed to happen in a republic. The problem is still one of legitimacy though, so we’re treading on dangerous ground with somebody like Joe Biden ostensibly at the helm. Last I checked, the Bidens don’t have papers.

        • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

          Seems to me, there is no way out of a monarchy. Whether a royal family or just a rich, appointed one (bush, clinton, etc).

        • Woodchuck December 29, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

          Incompetent monarchs in charge…….

          Kings could be kicked out of office by their own families and ministers. Consider what happened to Bavarian kings Ludwig I and Ludwig II. Ludwig I got his family and much of the rest of Bavaria upset about his girlfriend, Lola Montez. The Bavarians were ok with all the other mistresses, but Lola was acting like she was Hillary Clinton and was directly interferring in governmental affairs and creating confusion and public anger. There was talk of revolution in the air and riots happening at the Munich universities because of Lola persuading the king to close them for a while. When he gave Lola a title and made her a baroness, that was one of the last straws. The House of Wittelsbach booted him from the throne and his uncle Maximilian became King instead.

          The next regent, Ludwig II, also got in trouble with his extended family and ministers because of all the obsessive and very expensive castle building. His wierd behavior and refusal to marry didn’t help things either. Fearing bankruptcy, they had him declared legally insane and arrested him, ending his rule. He couldn’t just do anything he liked just because he was king of Bavaria. In monarchies the way things usually work is there will be lots of people watching you, in particular close relatives. It’s not too unusual for a royal family member to experience an “intervention” and be informed that someone else will be taking their place. Real trouble and civil wars can start when things go bad in the game of thrones and people fight to keep their positions. Or somebody like Henry the 8th shows up and refuses to be disciplined by anyone, including the pope.

  105. Paula D December 29, 2022 at 4:31 pm #

    For all the men here who sympathize with the men wearing womenface because what if they accidentally got a female brain? Shit happens!

    Or who posit that it must be the estrogen in the water or the chemtrails in the air that makes men have this particular fetish.

    Watch this video of what real men in womenface posted and tell me that you think that it is a women’s brain or estrogen that motivates them…

    //odysee.com/@Skirt_Go_Spinny:7/Wrong-Ans-Only-1:b

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    • Islander December 29, 2022 at 5:27 pm #

      Lock ’em up!!!

      • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 9:45 pm #

        They put them into women’s prisons.

        This is a topdown agenda.

        • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 10:20 pm #

          As a continuation of what I just wrote in these threads elsewhere, I caught a prisoner– a self-described trans if I recall– who had shared a cell with another guy who had committed arson.

          At one point, the trans guy took the motor from a fan that was in the cell and murdered the guy by smashing him with it.

          He is looking for a pen-pal.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

      She did a great job on that piece (Skirt go spinny). Thanks for posting.

    • Tate December 29, 2022 at 7:07 pm #

      The preterite form of the verb ‘posit’ is actually regular, thus ‘posited.’ The language is being corrupted on the other hand by regularizing a lot of irregular verbs that have the same past & present tense. The past tense of forecast is forecast, for example, not forecasted. This sounds awkward to say “forecasted.” It’s probably the result of a lot of vibrant enrichers coming here against the wishes of a majority of the populace, polluting our tongue with their ignorance.

      • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

        Pretty sure “posit” is correct. I believe she’s using it as an ongoing thing, not in the past.

      • Paula D December 29, 2022 at 9:46 pm #

        That is all you got out of the documentary?

        Jeez, dude. That is pathetic.

        • Tate December 29, 2022 at 11:55 pm #

          I didn’t watch the documentary. Now that I started watching it, I’m not sure whether it’s some kind of sick joke, or what. They say they hate women. I would take them at their word. There’s been a lot of speculation as to what lunacy the clownocrats will cook up next. But it could be a broad-based assault on everything at once. Once womanhood is successfully stormed, everything is up for grabs.

    • Blackbird December 29, 2022 at 9:20 pm #

      No wonder white people are going extinct…

      I briefly worked with a girl who was trying to become a guy. She had no idea what a guy is, but she thought she was one.

      These guys don’t have any idea what a woman is.

      • Night Owl December 30, 2022 at 8:20 am #

        Underrated post.

        Men and women transitioning into something they simultaneously claim does not exist.

        K-Mao reasoning.

    • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 9:51 pm #

      I felt the need to stop it at 2:11.

      Paula, kindly hold my hand and tell me what you want me to make of this, like in different words.

      Here’s a true story and quite recent– actually ongoing:

      I was thinking of placing a profile on one of those dating sites– OKCupid I think– but what they wanted me to do to prove it was me was to take a picture of myself with my hand on my head or something kind of stupid like that.

      So I balked, but my online foray in this regard introduced me to the world of women prisoner dating sites.

      To make short story shorter, I got seriously sidetracked and started doing research on the women on those sites, if they were real and how, and trying to find out about what they were in for and often finding more than expected, including seeing some of their mugshots.

      What I found in part interesting, even kind of trippy, was how much many of them in those shots, and without ‘womanface’, looked pretty much like young men, gay men or boys and especially when compared with their ‘womanface’ pics on their dating profiles. But I mean, these women look in their dating profiles like any other woman one might see in real life or on other normal dating sites.

      As an aside, I’ve also been struck at how much many African women I’ve seen look like men.

      Maybe, as a theory, that’s why many women can’t seem to dispense with makeup (AKA womanface).

      So, ya, what the hell is a woman anyway? LOL

      Well, maybe, to quote one fine-looking woman on one of those prison sites, many are “A lady in the streets and a freak in the sheets.”

      • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

        BTW, in case anyone was wondering, I’m attached again, no thanks to any dating site, but still maintain a periodic interest in these prison women. (And no, she doesn’t know.)

        While some people might watch CSI or some shows like that, I guess this is my real CSI. Some stories are heartbreaking.

        A thought I had about the ‘freak in the sheets’ incidentally is, if she is in prison, perhaps she is both a freak in she sheets and in the streets.

        Paradoxically, some of the most free of spirits may be found in prison.

      • Blackbird December 29, 2022 at 10:35 pm #

        So you prefer your women caged? Yeah, there’s something to be said for that…

        Anyway, let’s say you find an inmate attractive. Can you chat online with her while she is in prison? If you really hit it off, will the prison let you in for a conjugal visit? Or do you have to wait for her to get out? Or do you have to get busted and then pretend to be female and hope to get locked up in the right prison?

        Asking for a friend, of course…

        • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 11:24 pm #

          I don’t find caged women any more or less attractive than uncaged (assuming we’re talking het or bi) and these prison dating sites simply came about from doing a search for dating sites.

          …Well, WRT general attractiveness there are some exceptions, like where some women seem to have had a hard life, which might show in their faces and where they sometimes admit in their profiles.

          Each site has different details but often they include the dates when they get out and the crimes they allegedly committed. Using their codes, you can also try to look up their cases online for more detail if you’re so motivated.

          What is especially heartbreaking are the rare ones in for life without parole for murder and other things along those lines too.
          One woman mentioned it being in defense of her child which makes it all the more heartbreaking.

          The confusion, loneliness, emptiness and/or whatever else in their profiles seem palpable even if their words might try to hide them. Assuming they were actually guilty, it’s just a tragic waste of lives.

          A common theme seems to be loneliness. What concerns me too is how the government can create the social conditions whereby some people, perhaps especially those already at the margins, often thanks to government, can inevitably end up in their prisons.

        • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 11:54 pm #

          Oh ya, sorry, I got sidetracked and forgot maybe your main question:

          To communicate, it seems to depend on the inmate, what they did, what’s the security of their situation (max, min, med?) their specific prison and State rules and similar/related factors like those.

          So, sometimes you can only use snail-mail for communication with maybe phone calls. Some do have email privileges, either one-way or perhaps two-way and many, if not most, may have personal visitation privileges as well, although I have no idea in what capacity, like if it’s behind plexiglass on a phone or something else.

          Their profiles will usually give the rules of contact and/or links to them.

          For anyone interested in actually making contact (I never have), I would humbly ask that you treat them with the utmost respect, delicateness, diplomacy, good faith and transparency, etcertera.

          Even though they are supposedly the ‘baddies’ of a dubious society, many seem to have already been through enough wringers for one life.

          Lift them up and try to keep them there.

          If you feel you’re not up to the task, be honest with yourself about that and act accordingly and responsibly.

        • Woodchuck December 30, 2022 at 8:00 am #

          I’ve seen women in cages before, literally. They were inside elevated cages set in a way to encourage the patron to look up at at them – dancing in a night club. They were part of a barrage sound and visual spectacle that encouraged the “patrons” to get up and boogie and buy some drinks. In the 70’s back during the time when disco was all the rage and Studio 54 was at its peak. I’d guess the only places to find dancing women in cages today would be in strip joints? It was a half century ago I that I last entered a place to watch dancing naked women. Has feminism and political correctness also discouraged cage dancing? Asking for a friend, of course.

          The pole dancing is still being done and it’s a bit of irresistable eye candy video you can’t help but watch for a few minutes, including the silly vids with gals pole dancing at home or somewhere the pole detaches from the ceiling and they go flying.

          I don’t see the point in attempting to have a “relationship” with a person in prison. That sounds to me like trying to have a relationship with somebody that lives a thousand miles away and will only be intimate with you in videochat but never in reality. Being a friend and helping someone in prison to feel more in touch with the outside world is a different matter. Acts of kindness have a way of coming back to you in return. The New Testament recommends giving assistance to people in prison.

  106. messianicdruid December 29, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

    “For the first time in history, the blame for a treatment that does not work (at least not in the way we were promised) has been placed on those who do not use it.”

    A pretty good assessment:

    [ h ]
    ttps://thephilosophicalsalon.com/red-pill-or-blue-pill-variants-inflation-and-the-controlled-demolition-of-society/

    • SoftStarLight December 29, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

      It is good. Thanks for sharing! It makes sense now why there were those covid test kits from 2017 if his theory is correct. Also too why they now are so openly anti-democratic. The real emergency is that they must save their system and preserve their power. I don’t wish them well in their endeavors.

    • Whirlwind Worm December 29, 2022 at 10:24 pm #

      Just to keep in mind, FWIW, that that article is about a year old.

      • messianicdruid December 29, 2022 at 11:28 pm #

        Yes, everything is on schedule. I hope to find some of his later work.

      • K-Chien December 30, 2022 at 2:26 am #

        Satisfying your earlier speculation, yes. The world is so small I actually know Ugo through a friend in Alaska. We have skyped. I have had respect for the club of Rome report since day one.

        • Night Owl December 30, 2022 at 8:21 am #

          Club of Rome. WEF.

          K-Mao.

  107. tucsonspur December 30, 2022 at 4:01 am #

    SSL, thanks for your response above. The times are certainly difficult and confusing. The elites and the Davos men are certainly in command, and it’s questionable, to say the least, about where they are taking us.

    I guess I’m able to separate the two. Things are bad here, border, etc., but they are a lot worse in other places. I can also see the dangers abroad, particularly with Ukraine and the nuclear threat from Russia growing greater as the West continues its aid. Who the hell knows where all of this goes.

    What it boils down to is this. I’m for the West first and foremost, and Ukrainians want the West. Just because Biden and Blackrock are supporting Ukraine, I can’t alter that position. It stinks I know, but as Mel Brooks said, ‘Life Stinks’.

    People here want to support Russia, China, or Iran, well that’s too bad. Not only is it geopolitical suicide, it’s also morally reprehensible.

    Again, I’m with the West and the Ukrainian people, but I’m certainly not for Joe Biden, and of course I’m certainly with you on what’s happened to our country.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

      So, you’re confused and don’t really know what you’re talking about. Does that about sum it up?

  108. Wizard of the Saddle December 30, 2022 at 7:57 am #

    If you digest this entire piece you are forced to conclude that the indispensable cog in the engine of madness currently driving our politics is the emotional derangement of 2/3’s of the females who vote in our elections.

    TDS might still have happened, but in a country where only men had the vote the damage would have been limited and the country wouldn’t have sailed off the rails as it did.

    But, sadly, the 19th Amendment happened a century ago – putting our nation on a course headed straight for that massive iceberg – which we finally struck in 2016.

    We’ve been sinking ever since and there aren’t enough lifeboats to go around to save us all.

    • SaskWatch December 30, 2022 at 11:31 am #

      “Women and children first!”

      Of course.

  109. MaryQueen December 30, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

    For a laugh, Tulsi Gabbard eviscerates George Santos’ lies.

    https://youtu.be/NsVgTbP5pPs

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