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Spring is popping now with a ferocious energy that can only remind the sullenly sequestered masses that life is going on without them. Every living thing is busy making-and-doing out there, except the poor humans, idled without work or purpose. That won’t last long. People don’t submit automatically to zombification when some pissant bureaucrats issue them $1200 checks. They yearn to bust out like everything else on this living planet. And if they can’t do it in a good way, well….
The mega-machine we constructed to drive this society has sucked a valve and thrown a rod. The machine is broken, no matter how much more fuel the mechanics pump in. (One suspects somebody may have topped it off with Karo syrup.) Anyway, the machine got too big and too complex, with too many extraneous bells and whistles, and with way too much computerized cybernetic control built-in, so the mechanics barely noticed it was coming apart (they were too busy partying). That big machine is smoldering in a ditch for the moment. The dazed and bloodied passengers realize that the ride is over, and now they must march on to get somewhere, anywhere, away from this miserable ditch and the wreckage in it. The fine spring weather is their only consolation.
And so here we are at a fraught moment in the convergent crises of corona virus and the foundering economic system that it infected, with all its frightful pre-existing conditions. Of course, it isn’t capitalism, so-called, that is failing, but the perversions of capitalism, starting with the appendage of the troublesome term: ism. It isn’t a religion, or even a pseudo-religion like Zoroastrianism or communism. It’s simply the management system for surplus wealth. In a hyper-complex society, the management of wealth naturally grows hyper-complex, too, with lavish opportunities and temptations for chicanery, cheating, fraud, and swindling (the perversions of capital). It’s in the interest of the managers to cloak all that hyper-complex perversity in opaque language, to make it seem okay.
How many ordinary Americans have a clue what all the Municipal Liquidity Facilities, Primary Dealer Credit Facilities, Primary and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facilities, Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facilities, Main Street New Loan Facilities and Expanded Loan Facilities, Commercial Paper Funding Facilities, currency swap lines, the TALFs TARPs, PPPs, SPVs represent — besides the movement, by keystrokes, of “money” from one netherworld to another (both conveniently located on Wall Street), usually to the loss of non-elite citizens generally and to their offspring’s offspring’s offspring?
Real capital is grounded in the production of real things of real value, of course, and when it’s detached from all that, it’s no longer real capital. Money represents capital, and when the capital isn’t real, the money represents…nothing! And ceases to be real money. Just now, America is producing almost nothing except money, money in quantities that stupefy the imagination — trillions here, there, and everywhere. The trouble is that money is vanishing as fast as it’s being created. That’s because it’s based on promises to be paid back into existence that will never be kept, on top of prior promises to pay back money that were broken or are in the process of breaking. The net result is that money is actually disappearing faster than it can be created, even in vast quantities.
All this sounds like metaphysical bullshit, I suppose, but we are obviously watching money disappear. Your paycheck is gone. That activity you started — a brew-pub, a gym, an ad agency — no longer produces revenue. The HR department at the giant company you work for told you: don’t bother coming into the office tomorrow, or possibly ever again. Your bills are piling up. The numbers in your bank account run to zero. That sure smells like money disappearing. Wait until the pension checks and the SNAP cards mysteriously stop landing in the mailbox.
There’s going to be a lot of trouble. Ordinary Americans are going to get super-pissed if money doesn’t disappear from the stock markets, too. They’ve seen this movie before. They will know for sure that they were played, that the class of people who hold most of the stocks are doing just fine while everybody else stares into that old abyss staring back at them. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the Hamptons on that fateful day.
All this because we just can’t face the task of reorganizing our national home economics to suit new circumstances. So, nature will do it for us. Nature will furnish us with a marvelously efficient black hole where we can conveniently stash our fake money so that we’ll never have to see it again. Nature will bust up our giant institutions, our giant corporations, our giant networks of financial obligations. And after a period of confusion and social disorder, some clever humans will aggregate into smaller networks and re-organize their activities on a smaller scale that actually supports truthful relationships between the production of things deemed to hold value and money that represents those things.
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That “karo syrup” was a nice touch.
The non-elite are walking around with diapers on their faces.
Even the “conservatives” are arguing in favor of “phasing in” restoring freedom because the people won’t be able to handle it, or something.
We are sunk.
I thought personal freedom was important once. Now I realize, as a senior citizen, I am entitled to have working America ruined financially and placed under house arrest, to keep me safe.
Here I’ve been keeping myself safe all this time, doing old-fashioned things like washing my hands.
I should have been listening to the CDC, and their updates on whether wearing a mask on your face works or not.
It changes from day to day, but they know better than I do.
Well bless your heart Beryl. We Gen Xers and our Millennial and Gen Z brothers and sisters are willing to sacrifice mightily to keep you and all Boomers alive well beyond the age of 100. It’s what our Founders would have wanted. Oh yes! It’s twoo!
Keep us alive as long as possible in order to maximize our suffering for the Boomers have earned. I’m a tail end Boomer myself but was fortunate enough to not be raised to sellout but instead to be able to live a simple life as a responsible steward of what we have been blessed with. Far too many Boomers cannot say that and our generation has led the way to excess, waste, and enough greed to collapse it all. It is the beginning of the end of the American financial system.
My auditor tells me tales of East Jersey towns that will soon be losing billions and billions of tax ratables from malls, hotels, and every other form of large business that has the wherewithal to succeed in tax court. We shall soon see those entities getting their taxes cut by 1/3 and there will only be one place else for the bloated municipal governments to turn to try to make up the shortfall – homeowners. Next year at this time (if there IS a next year at this time) it is going to be bad, really really bad, so enjoy the decline before it hits bottom, because it will.
Yep.
I’m a front end Gen Xer. You being a tail end Boomer probably means that you were born in the early 60s. I have long felt that those of us born in the 60s are our own sub-generation. We were all kids together in the 70s, and for the most part became teens and young adults together in the 80s. Even though people born in the mid to late 70s are Gen Xers I don’t really feel that I have as much in common with them as I do with those born in the very early 60s, even though they are technically Boomers.
I was born in 1954 but was raised just as my grandparents raised my parents. I was blessed to believe that we are not owners, but stewards of this place and that even though so many cause so much trouble, in the end everything runs best if we work together and if we leave it as we found it.
Walter, if you were born in 1954, you are a middle of the road boomer, I think it goes from 1946 to 1964.
Now I really feel dirty.
Screw the genxers and the millennials, each generation feels they are so superior to the one before it. They will get theirs from the generations that come later.
Well rexl, as for me I certainly don’t feel “superior” to the Boomers. Sure that generation has it faults, but it was and is a very talented generation. I’m certainly mindful of all the great musicians and other artists within it. In reality I get tired of people of any generation getting painted with a wide brush with regards to its general faults. With each passing year I find myself more impressed with a lot of Millennials for example, after years of getting a pretty bad wrap as a group.
Greetings:
I agree, I too born early 60’s. I read an article that said we were called wedgers, part of neither, but are own part. Anyway reading, watching syfy disaster movies, walking dead, I now have no desire for them. My post industrial city has a grocery store and a hospital system/university are our 2 biggest employers, the hospital system is going to layoff 20 to 25% of our work force. The current virus is not the only thing to worry about. Good times, good times ahead. Hmm, how to plant a potato?
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”
Another fascinating post, CC.
Please revel us in how you arrange your Gen X sock drawer.
Hey Walter, hows that massive new mall outside Newark doing? I think it opened late last year, biggest mall in America, took about 15 years to build. You know the one.
Brh
The last time I went past it was when I dropped off my wife and daughter and then picked them up after a Taylor Swift concert at Giants Stadium in July of 2018. The Joke Mall in question was still dead in the water. It is claimed on Wikipedia that:
“The first and second of four opening stages occurred on October 25, 2019, and on December 5, 2019.[4][5] The remaining opening stages were scheduled to begin on March 19, 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the opening of the final stages was delayed once more until further notice.”
Personally I spent enough of my life commuting to Carlstadt and Hackensack for work when I was young to never need drive that fart East again. Good luck to them all is all I can say.
Nice report Walter.
Thanks for the response, my friend.
So what do you suggest ? Us Baby Boomers who have worked just as hard as any generation ? Commit Ritual Group Suicide to make the Millennials and the Slacker generations happier.
Maybe spend some time learning grammar?
“WE Baby Boomers who have worked..”
Colloquialisms are perfectly acceptable English. Ain’t that right?
was Obama a genxer? has there ever been a president that was? did the democrats elect one? well, I guess that tells us something.
What’s the difference we haven’t had a president since JFK that gave a rats ass about the country or the people,endless wars were our game then we found out we weren’t so good at that, as we couldn’t win any. and that speaks volume’s for the home team.!!
Yeah, I used to think JFK had it going on until I found out he chased every rat’s ass and all the other ass until it finally got his head blown off. Screw him, too. Truman and Johnson were right.
I agree with you bluedog, and to those that can only point out Jack’s out of control penis I would say that every damned penis ever created was out of control. If we men are judged by what we do with our dicks then we are shit. If what we do otherwise with our lives can count for something then perhaps we have value. In any case, I do not believe that Jack Kennedy ever had to talk anyone into the sack with him as they were probably more than willing participants.
Jimmy Carter was both honest & ethical, a man of probity.
Not much of that around in this current drear daze.
Couldn’t is the wrong term wouldn’t is more apt.
No other countries military ties its hands with rules of engagement like we do.
The worst part our enemies know this and use it against us all the time.
Obama was a true late Boomer, born in 1961.
Is it possible, maybe even desirable, to assess the actions of a president (or any leader) without reference to their sex lives. It seems that any president after him, isn’t fit to kiss Kennedy’s shoe.
Yes shotho it is possible. As you’ll note in my posts so far, I have not one time assessed the actions of a president’s sex life.
Yes, even America is opening, some bizarre chains are now insisting that their customers all wear masks. Boycott.
The perfect citizen wear their mask at home while watching TV or perhaps even to bed.
So why exactly do you think people should boycott stores that want to keep their staff and customers from being infected with the coronavirus? Is that part of Americans’ much-vaunted “freedoms”? Well Americans have the freedom to have no healthcare, freedom to eat from food banks, freedom to have a trillion dollar war machine, but take away the freedom to not wear a mask while shopping and boo hoo.
Karen! How are you?
SO EDGY.
Statistical analysis has proven absolutely that “Janos Skorenzy” is a complete and utter fucking right-wing racist nutter. Please avoid anything they say!
“The perfect citizen wear their mask at home while watching TV or perhaps even to bed.”
How’s the straw man business going? Must be doing fine as they seem to be everywhere. I guess that makes you a Janis.
I had to look up ‘Karen’. Apparently it means a middle-aged, entitled white woman of the type who frequently demands to ‘see the manager’ because she’s never happy with goods and services provided to her.
Mission creep seems to be everywhere, even among ‘Karens’.
Helen Highwater doesn’t strike me as the ‘I want to speak to the manager’ type of person at all.
The sort of person who goes to bed in underwear beneath their pyjamas.
A wonderful read as always… Having owned a 1975 Vega which actually DID throw a rod while doing 70mph one sunny morning in the mid ’80s on the Seaford Oyster Bay Expy, I love the imagery. The rod actually went clear through the aluminum engine block, the plume of blue smoke was incredible as I glided to a halt…
One quibble – Zoroastrianism is far from a “pseudo-religion”… it arguably provided a good deal of the bedrock for Judaism and Christianity. It’s quite unfortunate that the sophisticated Persians of old had their original faith almost entirely eradicated by the islam of their Arabic conquerors.
Isn’t the Vega the one that rusted on the assembly line?
Zoroastrianism is what Freddie Mercury was raised in. You probably knew that.
#1 – yes, mine was a bit of a rustbucket, too…
#2 – He was a “Parsee”, still a sizeable group in India descended from the refugees al those centuries ago.
one problem for the Zoroastrians’ survival is their strict endogamy and reluctance to proselytize. There’s still a core of them in Iran, they’re a somewhat protected community along with the few Jews and Christians there. I think each group even gets a seat in their parliament.
one problem for the Zoroastrians’ survival is their strict endogamy – bluekayak
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…such as having children born with flipper arms and/or two heads 🙂
In Iran, they’re not allowed to and in India, they promised the local King they wouldn’t since India had enough religions already. So now they die. Freddy could have proselytized but he was already proselytizing for another religion, that of Homosexuality. I had never heard about him being one before. What was his real name? No doubt they want to keep that quiet…..
Q, where is the paen you promised me in regards to my metaphor of scrimmage?
“What was his real name? No doubt they want to keep that quiet…..”
Farrokh Bulsara. Who is ‘they’ that failed so spectacularly in their aim to keep that quiet and what was their motivation? Record producers? Gays? The other band members? The illuminati?
Seriously, what is it that makes you say things like that constantly, without the slightest evidence, when any dumbo can go on to Wikipedia and find out his real name? Is it your strategy of keeping everyone terrified of all the iterations of ‘them’?
Q, where is the paen you promised me in regards to my metaphor of scrimmage? – Janos
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Don’t know what you are referring to, Janos. Give me a date and time.
Well I never heard about it before today? Did you? I don’t believe he was a practicing Zoroastrian, and I doubt if they claimed him either.
Statistical analysis has proven absolutely that “Janos Skorenzy” is a complete and utter fucking right-wing racist nutter. Please avoid anything they say!
The Vega. Made to fail by 60,000 miles. Dad’s Studebaker went from new to rust-bucket in two years. And the rocket fins on them 1950’s behemoths would catch all the salty-slush thrown up by the rear wheels, and they’d rust through and fall off even faster. Lol.
Hey Bluekayak, I bet you wish you still had that Vega, eh? Gotta love those aluminum blocks with no cylinder liners.
Here’s a survivor just out of storage.Looks like it kept up with inflation.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1972-chevrolet-vega-2/
Oil burning and rust issues aside, that little car was pretty zippy with the three-speed manual and 2.3 liter 4-banger. That green one is well-kept!
My mega-idiot boyfriend talked me into buying one for $500 in the early 80s. A total POS, both the car and the BF. I can’t remember if it started on fire before I even drove it or right after. My neighbor had a Pacer. My friend drove a Gremlin. All horrors.
Looking back and admiring garbage (as opposed to actually cool or quality retro stuff) is a mistake – whether it’s a cheap car or George W. Bush. Don’t do it.
Yes, we forget how bad cars were then. People love to complain, but one thing killing car sales today is how reliable cars of 15 years ago were. I am still driving a 2001 Car, and it’s costing me only about $600 a year to maintain.
Sales tax on a new car would be much more.
It is also the cost of new cars. I’ve nearly caved and bought a new car twice in the past 8 mos.
Here in Germany, they are phasing out diesel (implementing green zones in cities, etc.) and my Merc. C-Class is now over 10 yrs old. The problem is, it looks and drives great.
And 3 year old used stuff (with a proper engine) starts at about 35-40k. New those same cars go for 50-60. Pricing has gotten way out of hand. Even a boring new white goods car like a Camry has drastically increased in price.
I just can’t pony up when I have something that is costing me so little to run and doing the job so well (despite its age).
I’m still driving my 1996 Monte Carlo as insurance is cheap with no collision or deductible bells n’ whistles as add-ons.
A new check engine light just went off today so I’ll now have to troubleshoot that thingy. My parts supplier guy tells me to keep my 1996 going as the market for used cars is full of costly lemons by comparison with my ancient car.
Old autos are good if they are reliable & safe.
I’m pretty sure I can make my car last for another decade.
RW
Oh my in a throw a-way system,cars included you’ll put the auto makers out of business, and its C.E.O. with his $50 million dollar package.!!
I have (a few) 1983 Mercedes-Benz 240D, and I’d argue it’s one of best mass-produced cars ever built. I even converted some from automatic to manual
Still driving a 91 Ford Lazer, 25,000 km pa, NIL repairs and coming up to 260K on the clock.
Change the oil at 10,000, and all I do is put petrol in it, burns no oil and, until our last couple of summers with weeks well over 40C, I only check the water after a long drive when the temperature gauge climbs a bit until the thermostat kicks in.
Well, it cost me $75 bucks from my uncle, I got a year + use out of it, and even after I smoked the motor I sold it for $100 (it had two alloy wheels, a Vega buff – yes they apparently existed) was happy to hand me the cash and tow it away.
Yes, it was a total POS, but I was young and broke and having a blast…. I’m not really admiring the bucket of bolts, I’m just remembering my early 20’s…
cute looking.
How about the Monza 3 cylinder wonder! Well you wondered if it would ever get up to 55!
My mom bought one after her POS boyfriend rolled and totaled her equally horrible Gremlin with me asleep in the back.
I woke up to a very concerned CHP officer asking me if I was alive.
Tossed out the busted window as the car rolled from him going off the pavement into the dessert sand at 55 mph.
This same asshole also crashed a brand new jet boat that weekend.
Seems he had a bit of a drinking problem at the time.
Good story Ben.
That’s California I guess!
Bought the wife one of those off the show room floor and it was the best car we ever owned,pass the stalled traffic on the hill covered with snow and ice,right up and over never a problem until she let the kids dive it which is a no-no for any car.!!!!
My first car was a 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring. I fondly remember the solid steel rear bumper. A Honda Accord rear ended me once and it took me 30 seconds with a crow bar to solve my problems, whereas her car was smashed to bits including the radiator and engine block. I didn’t even bother to get her insurance carrier.
Jen in Salt Lake
I had my dad’s 1971 Maverick four door when I turned 16, but my brother’s 1967 Beaumont Sport Deluxe 396cid & 400 transmission with Posi-traction 12 bolt differential was my better ride that made up for the four door embarrassment that my dad stuck me with.
RW
Good old Zoroastrianism. If you’re driving a Mazda, you’re worshiping ol’ Zoro every day. The symbol of Zoroastrianism is the “winged chariot”, where Ahura Mazda, their “god” (alien), flies down to earth to check on his slaves, er, worshipers.
And that’s exactly what the car logo represents: the circle of the chariot and its wings.
Interesting that a Japanese company would use a central Asian deity for its logo… It may make you wonder if all the major religions throughout history are worshiping the same creature. Heck, you may lose your mind and start reading “conspiracy theorists” like Icke to understand our real religious history.
Conspiracy theories – yeah, like the conspiracy of gravity. Conspiracy Facts!
Statistical analysis has proven absolutely that “Janos Skorenzy” is a complete and utter fucking right-wing racist nutter. Please avoid anything they say!
Proven fact the bot is affected by Janos.
Good job Janos just two more shifts of idiots to piss off.
In Euroland Mazda is a brand of light globe.
Wow, ’75 Chevy Vega.
That’s right up there with the ’74 Ford Pinto in the pantheon of bad ideas. That was a rocky era for the American automobile. Do you remember the 77 Cadillac diesel model? 35 ft long, belched black smoke like one of Andrew Carnegie’s steel plants. That didn’t last long either.
That was some great writing Mr Kunstler; is what keeps many of us here.
Brh
My aunt bought a Pinto. I vaguely remember it. Dangerous, to say the least.
Chev Vega was noteworthy for the ‘Cosworth’ Vega and the fact that it would fit a big block without alteration. It is the cheapest GM uni-body car that could be hopped up with mere change of block size whether small or big blocks.
Vegas are hot collector cars if they are solid.
RW
New Zealand only ever had imported cars. The Australian things – Holdens (GM) & Aussie Ford Falcons were too expensive for the likes of us.
The British things – Hillman, Humber. Vauxhall, British Fords, MG, etc – were truly awful: small, under-engineered, underheated (if they HAD heater), and all but impossible to fix without taking out the engine (I have a lot of brothers and one who thought that was fun!).
Our father, on the other hand, started with a 1948 Vauxhall (British crap), and when the third kid arrived he moved up to a 1954 Chevy Belair. Luxury! I still remember it
His next car, (when the 7th kid arrived) was a 1957 Chevy Belair – he could fit five kids across the back seat, the second youngest between him & mum in the front, who had the youngest in her lap. (What was a seatbelt? Who knew…)
When the eigh arrived, he had to upgrade again – 1961 Chevy Belair – automatic this time – it veritably ‘floated’ along the road.
Then the used Jap imports started arriving in the1980s and the prices fell through the floor.
I have a lot of brothers and one who thought that was fun! – Maj
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Eight kids!!
That brother into car mechanics should have removed your dad’s ‘Johnson Rod’.
Possibly the best car Holden ever produced was the station wagon FC (higher compression than the otherwise excellent FE) until the EH with the 179 for the true rev heads.
Is this another ridiculous idea to inflate away debt?
If so there goes your 401k and your savings mine as well by wheelbarrows now to cart in those worthless Weimar marks for a loaf of bread.
Inflation might happen or, probably, something like stagflation; an economy that produces very little, but that little is increasingly more expensive. The analogy of a black hole for new ‘money’ being created out of nothing is an apt one, which suggests that the most probable outcome is a debt default depression. This is a time when the value of ‘money’ actually increases because there is so little of it in circulation.
Chris Cuomo was entitled to break quarantine, so he gets a free pass on faking that he had been in his basement for two weeks.
You see, he was in his ‘own back yard’ when confronted by a cyclist who criticized him for ignoring the governor’s stay at home orders.
That the back yard he was in, wasn’t the back yard of the house he lives in and was supposed to be in the basemen of, is irrelevant.
As a New Yorker, I should have known better. I can’t say I am unfamiliar with the lordly status of people in the NYC metro area who own more than one residence or property. I forgot myself.
He gets a free pass because it was a propaganda stunt created by the McMedia.
[Balding white bloke in a lab coat working for an academic research institute sucking on the tit of US government NIH grants. (NIH provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to undertake bioweapons Gain-of-Function research on bat coronaviruses.]
“We ran the Covid 19 virus sequence through our computer, and we concluded that it doesn’t look anything like what a computer would produce, so it must be Natural and not man-made.”
Bloke in the audience: “But if it was made of spliced together pieces of different viruses, then wouldn’t it also not appear to be made by a computer?”
“It is odd that a natural virus has 2 different mechanisms of attacking. Even more so if both at the same time are new mutations (ace2 & cd147). Points towards man made, not natural.
Right from the start (when this info came available in January), i found it suspicious that relative to similar virusses, this Wuhan virus is very large. (~30k nucleotides). That also points to man made.”
But Pucker the CDC and WHO both agree. Don’t listen to the pesky scientists who are doing actual science only listen to those mobbed up in defending their own political and financial interests.
The head of WHO is a terrorist, not a doctor, but never mind.
Americans from the US Centers for Disease Control worked for the Chinese government as private consultants to help build the P4 lab in Wuhan. True story….
Yes indeed. Including 7 to 8 million dollars in funding from the sainted Dr. Fauci’s institute to study bat coronavirus’s in the Wuhan lab. I am sure only with the best of intentions to protect mankind and a total coincidence.
There is a number of strong indications that the SARS-Cov-2 is not just some escaped chimera but a complex multi-generational bio-engineering product, that has been cultivated in the lab and “improved” by new inserts likely for years to yield high infectivity and controlled pathogenicity. The key is the 5′ UTR leader sequence that does not look like anything belonging in the class of coronaviruses. It appears to mutate in more in 15-24 nucleotids out of about a hundred, compared with the nearest known bat viruses. That is huge and this is the reason that K. Andersen believes it there is only one-in-a-million chance it was human made. This “head of the virus” controls its “identity” in replication and its cellular binding. This is perhaps the only stable region of the RNA genome (except the 3′ end), which is otherwise quite unstable. This led Andersen to proclaim that no lab could create such a sequence and make the virus live. But that really does not take into account incremental GOF acquired through trial-and-error in dozens or perhaps hundreds of experiments finally yielding a highly potent product to cover in search for a universal coronavirus treatment and vaccine. (This effort mimicked the search for universal flu t&v). At any rate, there is no naturally harvested SARS-Cov-2 from bats, and the nearest wild virus (RTG13) has been ruled out as a progenitor. So at the moment, the majority of scientists and U.S. intelligence idiots, who swear the virus is natural, have neither a sample of the virus in the wild, nor the identity of the wildlife that transmitted the virus to humans, nor finally an explanation for this global scourge’s preference, durability and effectiveness in its brand new host .
I keep reading screeds like this. The system is rotten! Surely it can’t go on like this indefinitely! It will blow up! Any day now! The people are fed up! They will rise up! “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near the Hamptons on that fateful day.”
But I just cannot the see the link between the analysis of a state of affairs, no matter how accurate, and the conclusion… the overthrow of the government. I have no problems seeing a mob in city centers, randomly screaming, thrashing things, smashing window fronts, burning cars… and then going home. Then what? Beyond that?
Communists of old, for all their ideological stupidity, had an organization. A semblance of a plan for taking over. Our men will take over the airways. The police stations. The state broadcaster. The army barracks. Worker unions will control factories and power plants. We will write the editorials. Does anyone picture sullen newly unemployed suburbanites doing this? 4chan discontents?
Case in point: the “gilets jaunes” movement in France. Disgruntled ordinary people bursting into the scene. An awful lot of people who are mad as hell and won’t take it any more! They came out of the woodwork, managed to block traffic, and then… Then it became clear that no one had any idea what they were suposed to do next, there was no plan, no leader, no agreement on anything beyond dissatisfaction. The movement lost steam, splintered, their events got taken over by the radical left, and died.
A handy disease outbreak also helped quell a lot of protests.
Beryl of Oyl,
I do not kow what you mean by that. “Handy” seems to indicate something that was just too convenient to be a chance or natural event, that the outbreak was intended by someone.
Please elaborate. What protests were those? The anti-Trump pussyhats resistance protests? So the virus was a move by crack pro-Trump virologists? The Hong-Kong protesters? So Beijing unleashed the virus to quell those protesters? The antifa crowd? So the outbreak is the work of… a… rogue exasperated Portland police commisioner? Anti-high tech gentrification protesters in SF and Silicon valley? So Google and Bill Gates shut them up? Trump rallies? So a democrat governor infected some.. pangolins in Wuhan? What do you have in mind? Do tell!
I don’t think China released the virus intentionally as that would have been shooting themselves in the foot economically. Remember the old adage about truth being stranger than fiction. Who knows. Concerning human folly and fuck ups, nothing surprises me anymore.
Well yes. If they had a Plan and an Organization, the Leaders would have been arrested and the Organization made illegal. Google Vlam Blok for Belgium. And the Golden Dawn in Greece.
There needs to be a bimodal Organization, both open and secret, legal and illegal. I mean the System doesn’t want to give up power, but it may realize that it has to or fight an insurgency that it can’t win. Quebec got semi-independence with only a bit of violence, but the threat of more. But they were unified, consistent, and loud in their demand. America is more organized than Canada, but if California keep shouting for independence for the next few decades, it may happen. Of course America collapses, it all might come down quicker since many won’t want to live under the Totalitarianism that arises.
Well, a good chunk of the Quebec population had a goal, which was to reach independence, but then it was a relatively straightforward change, move the national capital from Ottawa to Quebec City. And regarding a formal status change, it got exactly zilch.
The discussion is about a population about to go on a bloody rampage in the Hamptons, overthrowing a crumbling set of political and economic arrangements, and replacing them with something radically different.
I just wanted to say I do not see any group doing this any time soon, Neither who would do it, nor how. Yeah. Plenty of people really worried about their future. Many bitching on comment sections about corporations, the Fed, the Elites, George Soros, the oil industry, the Jews, white supremacy, tech giant censorship, the intelligence-military-industrial complex, SJW, Wall street, the reptilians, Bill Gates, whatnot, They bitch online and then go to bed. It adds up to nothing.
Got up early to watch Planet of the Humans.
Trenchant critique of techno-narcissism. (Now There’s an ism for you!)
No one on the Green Side is spared. Gore gets gored.
I can’t recall the name of the fellow — Greenpeace Founder or something like that — who favored nuclear power.
Those of us in the power industry have known all along that “renewables” were not remotely “Green”. Biomass is particularly guilty. The latest fad — Battery Energy Storage Systems… Need we say more? Yet there are people who believe batteries grow like vegetables.
IF you just cannot bring yourself to turn the light on after you leave the room (or the space heater or the toilet seat heater) and are certain of the CO2 argument, then the only solution more or less near at hand is use of nuclear energy to boil water to create steam to move the turbines that generate electrical power. Period, end of discussion.
Now can we get about the business of establishing better standards, look at alternative nuclear fuels, reactor designs, closing the loop so far as the Second Law allows?
I see the film as a call to clarity, realism and first principles for anyone dealing with environmental subjects. Imo we need a great peak-oil, peak-hydrocarbon public-sphere large-scale discussion and debate. It’s been about a decade now. Lets make peak oil great again
bag nuclear power is a non-starter.
The byproduct is just to damn toxic.
We have no way of diffusing it and storing it is always a problem as radiation corrodes everything we have to store it and it will always break free and out and when it does well we have seen it before.
Cancer, mutations, death!
At least oil and its by products while toxic do break up and go away after a short period of time not tens of thousands of years.
The French reprocess. US cannot for a variety of legal reasons. The US Navy has a lot of experience. Not sure how they handle the by-product.
There are other fuel sources in discussion.
But so long as we agree with the movie’s premise that renewable energy is largely a sham then we are getting somewhere. (Solar panels have applications. Just not measured in MW or GW.)
The late nineteenth century won’t scale. At least in today’s populations.
That is why, if things are not fixed soon, there WILL be a mass die-off — engineered by either the world oligarchy or by Mother Nature.
The Covid19 virus is just the camel’s nose under the tent. There will be more potent and viscous ones coming down the pike.
And when it is done with us, the 19th century will scale just fine.
There will be more potent and viscous ones (die-offs) coming down the pike. – CancelMyCard
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Yeah, they’ll be as thick as black strap molasses.
Or Karo!
We have finally become adults, putting away childish things like Bread and Circus puppets and all ideas of green energy. Even just a few years ago, there were large demonstrations of “Karens” and their Kids shouting about “science”! Saw some Karens protesting wearing green construction helmets, about the shovel ready jobs Obama promised. Towards the end of his second term, Obama collapsed into suppressed guffaws when asked about the shovel ready jobs.
Obama just collapsed into the fake he we all knew he was.
Nothing real about the guy.
No new plans smoke mirrors and grifts.
We are still dealing with all his scams and power grabs as they are still going on we see them over and over daily here on this site.
Sock puppets and useful idiots still lying about orangeman bad.
Yes, he promised to be the most transparent but he was the least, ruthlessly partisan and malicious towards all who would not bow to him. Yet, the still the liberal fools love this despicable punk.
He is going down. Never thought I would say it a few years ago, but his fingerprints are all over the Coup, never mind Spygate. The fish rots from the head.
“POTUS [Obama] wants to know everything we are doing.” — The Stroker
There’s an initiative out there right now to cancel ‘Planet of the Humans’ led by grifters trying to keep the alt energy scam going awhile longer. Too late. The whole world is on to them now. Just in time too. If they had gotten what they wanted it would be a world of blackouts aand brownouts, and any complainers would be hunted down by the ‘Extinction Rebellion Red Brigade’ and sent to climate change gulag for a little re education to get you thinking right.
Brh
Those in the power industry don’t want to lose their profits to alternative energy. The smart thing would be to use solar on every viable rooftop, wind and hydro, again where possible. You would still need some conventional power generation, but the demand could be lessened by a lot. If they ever figure out the fusion VS fission thing, maybe nuclear power could safely be used. I see fields of solar panels sprouting up all around where I live, but they are owned by the power company and they will gouge the consumer for the energy generated and keep their shareholders happy.
Some years ago I read an article in which the Navy claimed they had proven cold fusion. I’ve seen nothing further since that time, though I did find some articles on it when I Goggled. Their lips are pretty much sealed on that subject.
Watch the movie. Solar panels have embedded oil (mining, refining, manufacturing), their advertised lifetimes are way optimistic, and then they must be re-claimed or otherwise disposed. I heard from a source that some solar developers turn the panels into work tables.
That’a a lot of work tables out there.
Windmills may even be worse.
Yes, alt-power disrupts the industry business model. All those rooftop independent power producers providing intermittent power to the local grid. Then a black cloud passes over…
If you want to go off-grid have at it. The tools are there and you can be your own power producer. Just don’t expect those guys in the bucket trucks to show up after a hail storm.
I have refrained from speaking to my daughters about my increasing alarm, as they generally put their fingers in their ears and sing “la, la, la, I can’t hear you,” when I do so. Granted, I am more than a little paranoid. However, last night my eldest approached me, because apparently, her long-suppressed spidey sense is tingling with intimations of really bad things approaching, and she wasn’t talking about corona virus. She’s now on board with bug out planning.
I had a sense that something big was going to happen, and I hoped it was going to be arrests stemming from a coup attempt, which I’m pretty sure is illegal.
It turned out to be a disease with attendant idiocy.
I’m not entirely convinced a coup has not occurred.
“What storm Mr. President?”
“You’ll find out …”
“There’s going to be a lot of trouble.”
No kidding, maybe sooner rather than later. Has anyone noticed that supermarket shelves are getting bare? I go to the supermarket every week and a half. On my last visit it had the same look as photos of bare store shelves in the collapsing Soviet Union. It’s scary. Friends who live elsewhere say the same is happening in their neck of the woods. Isn’t making sure the food system hangs together something the federal gov should be keenly interested in, or is the Golden Man going to say this a problem for the states to handle, like he has with critical medical equipment? Imagine there was no food for all the hungry jobless people siting in their cars lined up for a handout.
He helped the states get critical medical equipment.
Still seems MEME driven to me. First it was TP (still mostly made in North America oddly enough), then it was fresh stuff and now it is meat. Rotating OCD of the proles.
It was suspicious. People started reporting instances of shelf-clearing of toilet paper in random locations. Others heard about it, and it created a shopping frenzy.
One woman I know went to do her regular shopping after I had mentioned to her that TP was disappearing in odd locations, and she found not only no toilet paper where it once was plentiful, but all the meat was gone as well.
This was before anything was shut down over the virus. I do not believe this was spontaneous at first.
The cupboard was bare in an Diego but my local Vons was all stocked up except TP.
Everything else was stocked to capacity.
Even oddly enough bread yeast and flour which has been non-existent since this started.
Supermarket shelves are NOT bare here. They are as full as always.
There were some scare and empty shelves about toilet paper, but that was panic hoarding, not a supply problem.
Not a supply chain disruption, YET. Not yet.
Maybe, maybe not. Just my reply to “supermarket shelves are getting bare”
That’s what happens when you close down the economy. Millions in India and Africa will die because of this self indulgent madness. Crops rot in the fields and milk is poured out upon the ground. Thanks WHO Satanists!
Trying to find Lysol spray, wipes, Clorox wipes missing since the beginning is impossible. Meat, canned beans low and price very high. I am in Western New York.
“Of course, it isn’t capitalism, so-called, that is failing, but the perversions of capitalism, starting with the appendage of the troublesome term: ism. It isn’t a religion, or even a pseudo-religion…It’s simply the management system for surplus wealth.
” Real capital is grounded in the production of real things of real value, of course, and when it’s detached from all that, it’s no longer real capital. Money represents capital, and when the capital isn’t real, the money represents…nothing! And ceases to be real money.”
Real money has been under assault in the current iteration since 1913 in the USA. The Fed’s purpose was to transfer wealth from the producers of real wealth, the working and middle classes, to the 1% and turn us into what Venezuela has become. Any central banking system, anywhere and anytime, is thinly disguised Socialism.
True. Communism is a project of Capitalism. And Capitalism is not without blame since as Marx said, Capital does tend to centralize. Without guidance and control, the Economic Elite will seize power – by hook or by crook.
And without the central banking system? They would still seize power in a different way unless we seized it first.
Forget how many Americans understand all the different Fed lending facilities.
How many can define what a dollar is? How many understand what a Federal Reserve Note is?
Once you realize that maybe 1 in a million truly understand both, then you realize why things are the way they seem.
Amen.
I don’t really understand any of it, and I’m one who tries to pay attention. It seems incomprehensible.
Brh
Imagine buying a Monopoly Game for twenty five dollars – and then being able to use all the Monopoly money as real dollars. Think you would buy more Monopoly Games? It’s like that.
With their fake money, they get real capital, labor, property, and resources. So they keep printing up more. And every time someone takes out a loan, money is created. I mean the guy doesn’t go back into the vault to get a handful of 100’s. He created it with a click of a mouse. And you have to pay him back – whether the venture succeeds or fails. He can’t lose.
Good explanation.
In the Days of our Expansion and Greatness, Bankers would lend real money for ventures to the Indies to purchase spices or alas, slaves in Africa, etc. And if the ship went down? They lost too. Now they can’t lose and thus by definition, all wealth and power will accrue to them over time. Almost there….
“Real dollars” still goes back to my original question, what Is a dollar?
See 31 USC §5112.
For federal reserve notes, see 12 USC § 411 and 412.
It takes 2 minutes to understand how both are statutorily defined. How they are applied takes a bit more research and understanding.
Today is the 50th anniversary of “Kent State”. 1970 may have been a “ball of confusion” (nod to The Temptatons) but the year might likely have been the peak of the American experiment
You may be right about that.
That tricky dick bastard closed the gold window in August 1971 soon afterward so I’ll agree with you on peak America being Kent State debacle.
Sly & the Family Stone was big in 1970 and so was Motown. The big three automakers were all hitting peak gas guzzling horse power too. Crappy B Grade movies like Billy Jack & Dirty Mary Crazy Larry were hits at the old drive in theaters which no longer exist anywhere in North America.
And you could still buy an American made Fender Stratocaster back in 1970 too.
RW
MPOGA (make peak oil great again)
Cute.
That big machine is smoldering in a ditch for the moment. The dazed and bloodied passengers realize that the ride is over, and now they must march on to get somewhere, anywhere, away from this miserable ditch and the wreckage in it. The fine spring weather is their only consolation.
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Maybe in China. Not in the US.
China is quickly running out of US dollars. Without US dollars and the underhanded ways China gets these US dollars, China is finished. More accurately, the Communist occupation of China is finished. The exchange rate to the US dollar has climbed past 7, the red line, and soon things in China will look as they look in Turkey and then the next stop is Venezuela.
The US will be fine. But first it needs to round up the commie China agents of the DNC and the Deep State, line them up against the wall and feed them full of lead.
What a waste of good lead.
Just use a rope it can be used over and over without the noise and air pollution.
I like it! Practical….efficient….and environmentally friendly!
What about China’s gold and the system they’ve been working on with the Russians, Iran et al? No snarkiness, a sincere question.
How much gold does China have in reserves?
China now holds 62.26 million ounces — about 1,945 tons — of gold, according to data from the People’s Bank of China. The sum is worth approximately $93.4 billion at current prices. The country has added about 94 tons of gold to its reserves in the past eight months.– Aug 7, 2019
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Now all you have to do is find out the US dollar value of China’s pork imports.
But don’t you think the People’s Bank of China is under reporting…just a tad? Jim Rickards has reported for several years that Russia and CommChina have been the biggest importers of the yellow metal.
Are the Chinese going to pay in gold for oil and food? Who will accept gold? What will oil be worth and what will gold be worth? We’ve seen oil at -$40 USD and it can just as easily be +$400 USD. Same story for Gold, and Bitcoin. It’s a wack a mole job to clear Communist China of its reserves. It was only a matter of unwillingness to do so thus far. That good will towards communist China now ended.
Russia would be happy to see Communist China collapse. It refused to cooperate with China on the Belt & Road Initiative. Who will communist China turn to? And who really needs their gold?
I would agree, but only if we also can get rid of the loony-tunes Republicans and religious wackos, along with the big banks, hedge funds, and anyone with more than a billion dollars.
It’s time to do a google search for recipes for rice & beans b/c you’re going to to need it. I’m talking dry rice and dry beans here, not canned or in packages you drop in boiling water. As the shelves in stores slowly empty and the truckers go on strike, I’d stock up on those two items. Speaking of truckers, there was a demonstration in DC yesterday of hundreds lining the street demanding better wages. So I guess the fools at the top of the pyramid still think it’s a good idea to squash the ones on the bottom? Who do they think delivers their Chardonnay?
This report below has been getting a lot of play in the MSM.
But it’s very dishonest. First, these entities get a lot of funding from the US NIH which was providing funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to undertake Gain-of-Function research on bat coronaviruses; and (b) it reaches the conclusion that the Covid 19 virus was not bioengineered because “ The adaptations that the virus has made to affect humans are actually very different than what you would expect if you were designing it using computational models in biological engineering.” In other words, they’re arguing that since their computer software wouldn’t have produced the Covid 19 virus, then it must be “Natural” and not man-made.
But it does not consider whether the adaptations that the virus made to affect humans may have resulted of a lab technician cutting and pasting in parts of other viruses. Dr. Chris Martenson discusses this in his video. Chris Martenson is not a liar. The MSM is very dishonest.
“ The coronavirus behind the global COVID-19 pandemic likely evolved from nature and not a lab, according to a new genetic study in Nature Medicine co-authored by a Tulane University virologist.
A team of scientists from Tulane, Scripps Research Institute, Columbia University, University of Edinburgh and University of Sydney analyzed the genome sequence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
“We determined that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes by comparing the genetic sequences and protein structures of other coronaviruses to those of new virus that causes COVID-19,” said study senior author Robert F. Garry, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine. “It is very close to a bat virus. The adaptations that the virus has made to affect humans are actually very different than what you would expect if you were designing it using computational models in biological engineering.”
https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-coronavirus-pandemic-sparked-nature-not-bioengineering
A team of scientists from Tulane, Scripps Research Institute, Columbia University, University of Edinburgh and University of Sydney analyzed the genome sequence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
Well, I would definitely be inclined to believe all these institutions (disclaimer: I am a graduate of the University of Sydney with an Architectural Science degree) … certainly believe them more than those with an agenda who want this thing to have been bioengineered – so as to deflect blame and focus as we head to elections later this year.
I am not discounting the lab theory altogether … but I am pretty sceptical of ignoring or discounting some fairly high-reputation research outfits that say it’s a natura;;y occurring coronavirus.
Anyway – to me the scandal is the slow response and cover-up in Wuhan in December.
Yeah…but Tulane, Scripps, etc. are subcontractors of the US NIH. Moreover, the conclusion that the virus is natural because their computer software wouldn’t have produced it is misleading because it does not address a natural virus given Gain-of-Function, which was the objective of the NIH funding given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The fact that it is so misleading and dishonest suggests that they are trying to cover up the NIH’s culpability.
It’s just more of the “We should believe the 17 intelligence agencies” rubbish….
The fact that it is so misleading and dishonest suggests that they are trying to cover up the NIH’s culpability.
Do reputable scientists a the University of Sydney have skin in this game? Would they be party to a cover-up and falsification of results and data just to avoid NIH embarrassment? If so, this is all more spider-webby than is imaginable!
The Chancellor of Tulane University School of Medicine & senior author R. F. Garry PhD., professor of microbiology & immunology at Tulane U. can lick my balls in defence to my superior intellect as I, for one, can assure all that nCov-19 is indeed 100% bioweapon manufactured in the USA by the CIA & American taxpayer dollars.
The microbiological cold war has just started, but China & Russian Federation, Cuba, et al. will win the war ultimately.
Forensically, the USA is DOA.
RW
Edit: I meant deference NOT ‘defence’.
RW
Cuz dem Chini just too dumb to do all this by themselves. It had to be Whites, right Bob?
Communists in China & Russian Federation, Cuba, et cetera, are highly intelligent, Janos. The Central Ineptitude Agency, on the other hand, isn’t IMHO.
Sovereign intel is wholly different to that of International intel, Janos. Five-Eyes lost the intel war quite a while ago.
Like I said, the game is now qualitatively & quantitatively forensic via the genome & genetic markers that can’t be removed.
USA is DOA.
RW
Is the death of the machine by carona, or by comorbidity of the real reasons it was going soon enough?
How much production has ceased? Is eating out, pro sports, theaters, or gyms really a necessary part of the economy. Less entertainment and being catered to, but if food and shelter still exist, what does it matter. A nice standard of living could exist with a quarter of the energy and work required to support the high entertainment lifestyle.
It looked like an economy based on aristocracy and servants. Who cuts the grass and does the landscaping, does the cleaning, does the childcare, does the cooking, does the dishes. The ultimate goal of American free time became to be waited on and entertained, not to learn and create.
Who are you imagining is doing the “waiting on”? I think your answer would reveal your own (I suspect elevated) class and income levels. I don’t know people who are being waited on, or engaging in anything approaching a “high entertainment lifestyle”.
I chortle with amusement at the thought.
I do know people who have been doing the grunt jobs for increasingly lower pay over the last several decades while also being demonized for opposing the importation of Third World workers to make it even worse.
Good question. Let Teddy answer the charge if he can. Do you support our poor or do you want them driven out into the streets, undercut by third world coolie labor? If the latter, you must admit that you are a monster.
Zero immigration until there is full American Employment. And since that’s not going to happen, no more immigration at all – ever.
I don’t eat out much, the only pro sport that I give a rats patootie about is “The Sweet Science”, haven’t been to a theater in years, don’t need a gym as I can bike and work out at home and I cut my own grass with a push mower, kids are grown and gone, I’m a damn good cook, read a lot, do my own dishes, try to learn something new everyday, when you stop learning you die faster, I create my own homegrown music with several instruments and friends. I’ve worked blue collar grunt jobs all my life and don’t need or want any goddamned servants.
Ooh boy! I can hardly wait for November 3rd. This summer through next winter, we will be living through the Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.
How much more evident the fix is in the DNC talking points puked all over and anything that makes Biden look bad are just ignored and not reported by anyone but Fox, rightwing pundits, OAN or Alex Jones.
Who needs the truth lets massage reality even more so the desired outcome of Orange man bad is out and plugs is in.
Get ready for repeated mashing of hyperdrive buttons of never let a crisis go to waste type rhetoric while ignoring Biden all but falling asleep at the wheel over and over.
He really has become the Mr Magoo of politics.
If you live in lousy times, at least you live.
Or as Joni Mitchell said, Life is good, when you consider the alternative.
These are the good old days. Things are darkest before they get really dark.
Another excellent entry, Jim. Well done and thank you!
Got as far as
“some pissant bureaucrats issue them $1200 checks.” Really, JHK.
I thought it was Mr. Trump’s signature on the checks. Bureaucrats do what their political masters tell them to. If you don’t like the fact that the Feds are incompetent, blame the senators and congressmen who dismantled government. Check up on the bastards, and don’t give them a free pass because they are Republicans or Democrats. That’s just stupid – but not too stupid for some hereabouts.
And JHK, you should already know that “pissant” is a corruption of the French “puissant”, which means powerful.
Comes from the Latin.
I expected better.
No.
PIss-ant refers to a piss-ant. Amazingly enough.
Ants are generally insignificant in human life, they are tiny, so that term indicates non-power when called up in mental imagery.
Piss is also generally seen as undesirable unless you are a Dem strategist who thinks it will be cool to talk about Trump and prostitutes urinating on prime time TV.
Fuque your whole jejune remark.
Yes there really is a piss ant argentine ants are hell.
Thanks for the fact check.
And the killer hornets are here. Not only do they wipe out bee colonies, they can kill people. Their stingers can penetrate a bee keeper suit.
Washington State.
They chose wisely.
They seem to be quite a size. Perhaps you could try shooting them?
I just read that as well.
Scary looking bastards.
I’m allergic as hell to bee stings but I still like bees and it made me sad to see they get wiped out by this damn hornets.
You baffle me, Stranger. Clearly you could do better, but choose not to. Why is that? Don’t you think that it’s unpatriotic not to give your best at a time like this?
In any case, QED.
Yea, kill that Yankee soldier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUajwtw2Esc
Thank you benr. It seems that I am in error about piss ant. Appreciate the fact check.
Hippocrates said that ants will be attracted to the piss of a man with diabetes. I assume that’s the origin of this.
Diabetes causes excess glucose to be excreted in the urine; indeed, physicians of old would taste test the wizz to ascertain the presence of the sweet stuff in diagnosing. So ants would likely veer toward diabetic pee.
Kraut,
You might have expected better, but you are wrong, as any Texan would be quick to explain;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissant
Good points my friend.
One of those food delivery services recently announced they were ‘hiring 250,000 new employees’. New employees? These are gig workers without benefits, maybe locked into one way contracts which doesn’t favor them, using their own cars without compensation, serving unionized govt employees and the leftovers from a dwindling middle class, creating a nation of lackeys and servants like in the UK about in 1910.
Brh
Same as the obama era jobs for census where everyday someone worked was counted as a new hire never mind the person had been doing it for months.
Did that actually happen? Where is this documented? Genuinely curious.
Nightowl, that would be the company ‘Instacart’. They claimed to have hired 300,000 already and need 250,000 more asap.
COSTCO now has a few ‘Instacart Only’ check outs.
I was like, whats that? Grub Hub 2? Doordash 2?
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/did-the-census-bureau-really-fake-the-jobs-report/281648/
https://nypost.com/2013/11/18/census-faked-2012-election-jobs-report/
Yes it really happened it was a huge news item locally in San Diego.
With all that is going on, people still want to believe this collapse can be recovered. Of course it won’t because it cannot. We are seeing the old bit about “too big to fail” still being embraced. Well, the whole damn thing is failing whether admitted or not. Restart a collapsed economy? How? What’s the plan? Joe sixpack goes back to his uber job? He goes back to loading baggage on an airplane? He’s making bass boats that no one can buy? Everything is connected. When one part fails as in the case of Mr. K’s car, the whole thing stops. Anything still running is fantasy. Maybe some Amish guy with his horse and buggy will come by and give you a lift to town which is closed up. The local cop whose pay got cut by 2/3s ain’t in a good mood and you ain’t from around here bub. The library closed for good. Local, county, state and federal governments have all raised taxes such that your nice house which is so far underwater that Aquaman can’t reach you nonetheless is valued higher than before and your taxes are due. Solution? Move out after midnight. The riots are going to occur at tax offices. “Yes officer, my car registration has expired; yes, 3 years ago. No, I won’t pay the fines. Yes, lock me up except your prison has no room. Yes, I will stay at home with my ankle monitor. Yes, this is my 8th monitor.”
You ain’t seen nothing yet folks.
Indeed anarchy may well be on the way regardless of who sits in the Whitehouse, governors office, mayors office, city council or your local HOA!
Thank God we have diversity at least! Homogeneity is hell. Minorities are so vibrant – they have much to teach us about mayhem.
Sometimes “mayhem” is your friend; and might I add, its one of the few behaviors black people are good at.
It may take some mayhem to end the lock down?
Just sayin
“Sometimes “mayhem” is your friend; and might I add, its one of the few behaviors black people are good at.”
Thwack,
You could suggest that “mayhem” is a lack of behavior.
You so goddamned white, the street lights go OUT when you go out at night….
Help me out here, you history buffs. Can anyone think of a peasant led revolution that succeeded? All the successful revolutions that I can call to mind, French Revolution, American Revolution, Cromwell, were organized and led by the upper middle class who knew how government worked and what had to be done to replace it. Or did I miss something. Seems to be every rebellion led by the poor and working people got squashed like a bug
The United States of America.
It succeeded with bells on. It was an example to all, in spite of flaws. The Founders knew there’d be flaws due to human nature and wrote the core documents with that in mind. The idea was not that they themselves were perfect, but that they saw the goals that should be aspired to
The United States of America still exists.
It’s about The People. It did not fail. Don’t let anyone tell you that it did, and don’t tell that to others yourself. It’s an evil and destructive thing to do.
Yes but that revolution was led by the upper middle class. Jefferson, Washington Franklin were all quite well to do and quite experienced in the workings of government. The American Revolution was not a peasant rebellion even though it was supported by the working class
And funded by the upper class – renegade aristocrats in the case of France who wanted to turn it into an England. And the International Bankers in the case of the so called Russian Revolution.
Another one outta da’ park.
Parting thought – Trucker’s families are still getting paychecks you know. Same as before.
Kinda burns, don’t it.
Super excellent article today, Jim. Truth-to-power actually manifests on this blog when you write it too. Bottom line is that you are right on the money with complexity as an overarching form of Entropy that has engulfed Wall Street Investment Banking & ethos of so-called ‘money’.
I was just in my local bank today and was asked ‘what brings you here today, Mr. White?’ as an opening of discourse. My response was typical Grumpy Marxist retort in that I responded with ‘poverty’ as an answer to the teller’s inquiry.
Moreover, given the monotonous question by the teller I decided to rub some salt in the gaping wound of the bankster class by reminding my teller that his bank was the largest profit center in CANADA and that whilst it gets free discount money from CANADA’s central bank I, and all other Canadians get charged 26% on overdue accounts such as credit cards.
And I think the branch manager noticed when she cocked her glance over in my direction as I loudly proclaimed that the bank was not going to make profit from me if I could avoid it.
I don’t know why people attempt to make small talk with me anymore. I’m usually just all business and not a time waster when I go into any sort of store or bank for service.
The bank is not my friend and contrary to their commercials they don’t really give a good God damn about me or my thoughts de jour.
Societal lockdown should include the banks so that they are forced to suffer as everyone else does aside from the elite that are currently living in luxury on the Cayman Islands or somewhere equally as nice.
nCov-19 is NOT my Marxian Revolution that I have been patiently waiting for, for the last half century.
Societal lockdown should include suffering banks & bankers IMHO.
Civilization must constitute a ‘fat lady’ when we need it to.
RW
The bank is not my friend and contrary to their commercials they don’t really give a good God damn about me or my thoughts de jour.
My partner and I learnt a long time ago that it was far more lucrative to own shares in the bank rather than put money in the bank, so that;s what we did. So all our accounts are fee-free and our credit cards are paid off monthly, with absolutely no cost. Happy days!
You should have understood that the Western empire of Fractional Reserve Banking was eventually going to end in insolvency & Weimar Republic like hyperinflation. The Federal Reserve can’t reduce their balance sheet since they purchased Wall Street’s subprime C-MBS & R-MBS toxic waste back in 08 post-Lehman debacle.
Owning shares in the bank might save on monthly fees, but when it crashes via mean reversion & deflation of the global economy the shares will be worthless. More banks have gone tits up since 08 than anyone would like to admit. Tens of thousands of banks have gone bankrupt since 08 across the world.
Owning shares is not the behaviour of a good hippie IMHO. Be a good Grumpy Marxist and dump the shares, quick.
RW
Owning shares is not the behaviour of a good hippie IMHO. Be a good Grumpy Marxist and dump the shares, quick.
Our bank shares have served us well – both in share value and income – but I do concede that dividends for the first half of the year (our financial year starts on 1 July) were cut this reporting season (March).
We have a mix of stuff – shares, term deposits, property, superannuation (401(K) sort of) … we’re not at the top of the food chain, but we snack pretty well.
Plus we have only four big national banks, and about a dozen smaller ones (usually state-based). We haven’t had one crash since 1991 – and that was mismanagement (or skulduggery) rather than the fundamentals being awry.
When our big banks fail, cash won’t be worth much … that’s when we get a stack of beans and some ammo and head for that remote patch of land 🙂
Ammo for what you pussy gave up all you guns remember.
Jim, IMO the primary issue is existential. Life in America is inherently meaningless, so the populace escapes via excess consumption, entertainment and drugs. That’s very sad because life is really precious, but that has been taken from the citizenry by greedy and mendacious persons. As the runaway train speeds toward the end of the tracks, less and less opportunities to escape reality will become available, and the people will become restless. Then food shortages will begin in earnest, and then …
Life in America is inherently meaningless, each person has their own perspective.
Why speak for others? Why speak for 350? million?
Note that I said life in America, not life itself. Why would so many people watch endless hours of mostly worthless tv, drink and drug so much and get hooked on the lottery (which, odd-wise is a scam) and video games, instead of engaging in real activities? Why would people be ignorant about politics and corrupt politicians? Maybe it’s because they’d rather get numbed out. BTW, the US population is currently estimated to be 328 million, not 350. What, you want to take in another 22 million aliens?
Also, I did like your reply upthread. Today you’re getting philosophical.
Simple answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs
A couple years ago, the New York Times and WSJ basically declared the Population Bomb theory was totally discredited because technology, progress….
Soon, they’ll be admitting the bomb shit went off way faster and more violently than anyone could have imagined…
8 billion or so.
How will the planet fare?
With many fewer people.
W H E N ?
Yet people criticize the Gates Foundation for advancing population control agendas through female reproductive rights, access to birth control, and access to abortion in places where it is limited.
It’s not about depopulating, it’s about lowering going forward.
Gates wants a legacy with his billions spent, perhaps a world worth living in for his kids, or perhaps a future with less poor over-reproducing a****es ruining what’s left of the planet
Think Trump mishandled the corona virus. Wait till the famine.The guy is absolutely clueless. He orders meat packers back to work, at $15 an hour, risking their lives. Yeah that’s the ticket. He keeps saying closing down China saved the day. Someone should point out to him that New York is on the opposite side of the country and it is the epicenter- of the world pandemic. The problem with Trump is he keeps making decisions.
For God’s sake why don’t you give it a rest?
Your hate Trump rants aren’t changing any minds; when Nov rolls around vote for Biden, if he’s still with us, and lucid.
Brh
The immigrants are willing to work and if Americans have any brains, so will they. The strong will live. The weak will die. The dog barks. The caravan passes. The People will eat and live if food is provided. If the food plants close, they will die. You choose death, obviously. Obviously that makes you an enemy.
I had a pine cone for breakfast; is that racist?
The US will be fine. But first it needs to round up the commie China agents of the DNC and the Deep State, line them up against the wall and feed them full of lead.
If you really believe the US is fine and “will be fine”, then you’re quite possibly reading the wrong blog … but your choice.
And I’m not claiming its all free beer and nude mud-wrestling down here in sunny Australia. Even though we’re in pretty good shape, if China goes belly-up we suffer a dramatic decline in demand for a lot of stuff.
Fortunately we do produce huge surpluses in food & fibre, so e’ll never go broke, but coal, iron ore, aluminium, manganese, etc, these are our biggies.
But I digress … my real purpose is to vehemently challenge the idea that the DNC”commies” deserve shooting. It seems to me you’re entirely missing the point … in a genuinely free society, with a good rule of law, and political institutions that people trust, and count on, you need democracy.
And democracy obviously requires fair rules of the game (honest elections, a free press, unfettered candidates, etc), but mostly it demands a culture where it is expected that over time government changes hands, both sides can win or lose, and that this is a healthy thing.
What scares me about America, is that despite all the right-wing blather about “freedom” and “liberty”, and getting emotional even just thinking about the Founding Fathers, the right really wants a one-party state, and wants to crush the Democrats – or any resistance – out of existence.
The more extreme even on this forum equate Democrats / liberals with traitors and “commies” (love that word … it’s just so 1960s). Republicans want to rule for ever, stack the courts, and transfer every last drop of wealth away from workers and the middle class.
Is that what you really want?
Cargill
C’mon now. If you think that the Left side has not done exactly the same thing, trying to crate a one party government for the last fifty years, you are not paying attention. Our government is unfortunately changed from working for the people to two parties trying to eliminate the other side. Trump was an exception. He was outside the limits. He was against the entire mess in DC. That is why he has unified both parties against him. That is why the Deep State is both parties. Unless you understand that the situation here is the Deep State against the public, you do not understand. DC against the folks.
If you do not understand that Trump is trying to tear down the folks he has been battling with during his business years, you do not understand Trump. These power guys and gals battle each other for power, money is just a means to that end, a measure of who is in the lead. Read up on how Newport, RI worked at the end of the Gilded Age. Their social structure was based on the oldest money. It is still the same. Watch the antics of Buffett, Gates, Soros, Rockefeller’s, Rothschilds, the Saudi family, etc. etc. as they contest with each other for power. Trump is a nouveau riche upstart that has decided to take on their structure. They are going to try to crush him and put him and his family in their place.
D C is just an arena.
Australia eh? I wonder if your government along with New Zealand are wondering what they might do in the event that China decides it needs to expand and the “world’s policeman” can’t help because we are in deep shit? I’m not attacking your country. Love the Aussies and Kiwis from my Vietnam days but when it becomes evident that we cannot take care of business, who you gonna call?
I had thought we’d lose an aircraft carrier in the Hormuz Straits. I never thought a virus would sink the damn fleet by killing our economy and right now making ship crews sick. You see, our defense budget is a sham and our leftist brethren are going to gut it.
Just curious how Australians view their future with China nearby relatively speaking.
Australia chose Death several decades ago when they starting calling themselves “an Asian nation” and ditched the White Australia Policy. It was a coup, one that succeeded, managed brilliantly by the usual suspects, the nation wreckers and their lapdog media.
1974 Whites Only Policy revoked.
Please don’t hug a firefighter today.
https://www.firefightersday.org/
bake some cookies and bring them to the firehouse instead.
Hugging a firefighter is a display of manly refusal to submit to the persecution of free Americans and a stand against the outrage of social distancing measures. It is the gesture of heroes. To heroes.
But happy firefighters’ day and I hope they get cookies as well as manly freedom hugs. 🙂
Yes, throw away your Hijab. Embrace uncertainty, the uncertainty of Life. God bless the Southern Soldier!
Else soon they’ll be cameras inside our homes seeing if we are wearing our masks. And infrared drones overhead seeing if anyone’s temperature is elevated and if they need a visit from the medical block watcher so that children can be removed if necessary.
Yes dear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZFHnXJ44k&t=87s
This is so glorious that I am struck dumb. I have nothing to add to it. Great series. I was looking for Ron’s monologue on Socialism while sitting on a park bench in London, but this will have to do.
All of the instruments you cite in your fourth paragraph are instruments of the Federal Reserve institution.
Remember when Janet Yellen was on the record in the Summer of 2017 saying that we “wouldn’t have another financial crisis in our lifetime.”
Where is the outrage now at that quote?
Phew, down in Manhattan, NYPD cracking heads of miscreants they catch not sufficiently ‘social distancing’. DeBlassio is serious about this, that’s the word.
Brh
One kid pushed a park ranger into the pool. Now his life is over with beore it ere begun….
We’ll push your mercenary horde
Beyond our Southern Border,
Beyond our Southern Border,
God bless the Southern Soldier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUajwtw2Esc&list=RDWUajwtw2Esc&start_radio=1
lol
“Phew, down in Manhattan, NYPD cracking heads of miscreants”
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what color were the miscreants?
(Im asking for a friend)
Thwack, both the police officers and civilians appear to be African American.
Well, if that is indeed the case,
I’d like to see the outcome of the investigation.
“…the convergent crises of corona virus and the foundering economic system that it infected, with all its frightful pre-existing conditions. Of course, it isn’t capitalism, so-called, that is failing, but the perversions of capitalism…”
Thank you Jim, today’s column is so very spot-on. One perversion Jim didn’t mention was Wall Street’s most glorious form of thievery — the Leveraged Buyout (LBO). In this cherished technique, LBOs incur massive debt to buy a company, the assets are thoroughly stripped nude, the smoking debt-bloated carcass left for dead in the economic gutter and the fired grunts do a uniquely American economic Bataan Death March into the unemployment office to beg mercy. Billionaires on Long Island are laughing their asses off all the way to Davos.
Almost as soon as the pandemic shutdown appeared the poster child for conspicuous consumption, Neiman Marus, filed for bankruptcy, woefully unable to defuse its LBO debt bomb. It was a cinch to happen, all they needed was a catalyst to trigger the filing and the pandemic gives them every politician’s favorite cover aka plausible deniability — the pandemic made me do it. Today they are followed to the corporate Forest Lawn Memorial Park by J. Crew. More will follow. The shutdowns give these pirates the perfect excuse to waltz away from their debts like Trump running from a casino.
But wait. There’s more fun gearing up. Lockdowns and hiding at home is burdening the mental health system which was on the ropes before the pandemic. People are going more than a little stir crazy inside the walls of their American Dream as the agony of missed mortgage payments conjures up images of wheeling away their belongings in grocery carts to live at the Salvation Army shelter.
Will we survive? We always do. But many tens of thousands more will die, and those who survive will emerge morose sad sacks with shattered hopes and the grim outlook of those who made it through the 1930s. I know those people. They were my parents.
Well done.
found some old money in my couch
How old?
Real silver?
The Hill
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said protests inside the state Capitol last week, featuring demonstrators with assault weapons, swastikas and Confederate flags, depicted some of the “worst racism and awful parts” of the nation’s history.
“Some of the outrageousness of what happened at our Capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country,” she said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“The behavior you’ve seen in all of the clips is not representative of who we are in Michigan,” she added.
…
Whitmer on Sunday doubled down on her defense of the stay-at-home order and suggested she won’t be swayed by political pressure to lift restrictions.
“The fact of the matter is we are in the global pandemic. This is not something we negotiate ourselves out of and is a political matter. This is a public health crisis that has taken the lives of almost 70,000 Americans,” she said.
“Whether you agree with me or not, I’m working to protect your life if you live in the state of Michigan,” Whitmer added.
JS: This is what the South was fighting against. Michigan is a conquered land, ruled by a Black city and guilt ridden White Liberals that elected a Karen of a Governor. She forbids the People the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What else are they supposed to do – beyond waiting to die? They came see her with guns. What’s the next logical step?
It’s odd, when Antifa and Blackblock march with the hammer and sickle flag nobody seems to have much of a problem with it.
What a brilliant image!
Antifa and BlackRock marching in solidarity for the Proletariat,
now that’s the ticket!!
Good one CmC
Black Blok, Blackrock … what’s the diff?
Thugs in suits raking it off the top, thugs in the street throwing bricks thru bank windows, it’s all the same.
Brh
Exactly.
There are thugs at every single strata of humankind.
From the individual family,
to the extended family,
to the local neighborhood,
to the community,
to the town,
to the city,
to the state,
to the country.
Each layer with its own thugs, each extracting their pound of flesh.
I’d say we are all over-thuggified.
One possibility is to arrest them or to respond in kind with a show of weapons. Order must be preserved. Chaos will only make things worse. Are you going out to join the protesting crowds and not wearing a mask? Yeah, right.
I have a lot more sympathy for the four students shot dead at Kent State fifty years ago today, than I would for these people if they met the same fate.
Seeing the emptiness of their own lives and what this country has become, as Jim so well points out above, may be more behind their actions than the shutdown, the shutdown giving them a chance to vent. That’s understandable.
Good point.
The beauty of springtime is sublime and, as Edmund Burke noted, that very beauty provokes our thoughts of pain and terror. –JHK
For Burke the idea of the sublime involved the idea of a God who is both active and terrible. On the other hand, Beauty, for Burke, originated in pleasure. Sublime and Beautiful have very different origins.
Burke’s thinking was that solitude is a source of pain (cf. Aristotle). And for Burke the idea of pain involved an idea of a God who inspired terror. To quote Abraham Joshua Heschel: God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
Burke, in his Vindication of Natural Society, depicts an alternative model of society: one without civil government, without church, and without private property. Surprising that you quote Burke.
As you so eloquently state: All this sounds like metaphysical bullshit, I suppose…
Yes, which is why I was surprised you quoted Burke.
You are slandering Burke. He believe strongly in Government, Church, and Private Property. He hated the French Revolution and was in despair once the other European Nations accepted it. He thought the Revolutionaries to be vermin who needed to be stamped out without mercy.
April is the cruelest month as T.S Elliot said. Everything is coming to life but we are not. Or because it just reinforces our knowledge of brevity and mortality. The flowers mock us because they are not eternal flowers, the ones above of which these are only a reflection. Thus we must block the pleasure to avoid the pain of death that is so obvious to the thinking mind. Real human beings could never have been stampeded as we are being stampeded by the Elite. We fear to live and think, so we can be.
Elliot composing the poetic contradiction. April is also a beautiful month. And even though many are dying, we are more alive now than we have been for quite some time. More alive by recognizing the reality of what we are, our way of life, and how it’s failing us.
‘We fear to live and think’? I know that you are ‘living’, but you admit that you’re not thinking? Not me.
https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/dr-fauci-backed-wuhan-lab-research-china-studied-bat-coronavirus-but-why-is-the-media-hiding-it
Glenn is always strong about environmental tyranny. He’s been great throughout this whole thing – even as I wavered back and forth. He is redeeming himself after two decades of foolishness that commenced with him passing out teddy bears to little illegal alien kids.
link goes to ‘bummer’
Janos Skorenzy
May 4, 2020 at 1:51 pm #
And the killer hornets are here. Not only do they wipe out bee colonies, they can kill people. Their stingers can penetrate a bee keeper suit.
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Can they beat the AFRICANIZED “killer bees?
We should do a “lets you and him fight” routine?
We could start bee fights like they do dog fights.
“In this corner is the killer bee, and in the other corner, is the killer hornet. Place your bets.”
I’m tellin’ ya we could make a fortune.
Cross a Black and a European and you get a “killah”. Thwack, let me write your life’s story. I will make you famous and become a famous writer at the same time. We will be the Salt and Pepper team for the 20 teens, the last decade before WW3. We might as well make the most of it.
Blacks will serve in supply in the next War just as they like to do. White Women will be in special forces and submarines. East African Blacks will be in the navy and with a mostly Muslim infantry. East Asian and White Female pilots. Only the Marines will remain mostly Cracker White.
And exactly where will you be,
Oberstleutnant Skorzeny?
Chinese killer hornets found in US and Canada. The hornets are killing the local bees wherever they meet them. Good luck with the food supply without bees to do the pollinatIon.
“Asian giant hornets, or Vespa mandarinia, are basically the pirates of the insect world. A handful of hornets will show up at a honeybee hive and go into “slaughter mode,” killing tens of thousands of bees before stealing their young and carrying them back to the hornet nest for food, leaving a pile of headless corpses in their wake.“
Those Hornets are the size of hummingbirds, with stingers 1/4″ long. Yikes!
They respond well to guidance from a flamethrower.
Another deadly curse from China. I caught one of the sombitch’s in my yard today!
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2018/05/toy-giant-hornet.jpg
Jeez! That’s nearly as long as your Johnson.
Meat gazer.
Look at these authoritarian freaks:
Whte House Correspondents Association denying networks access to WH briefing room based politics. Moral issues aside, they have no legal right to do so, either.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/feud-between-white-house-media-and-conservative-oann-escalates-network-wants#.Xqwie93qJ8k.twitter
It just never ends with these weaklings.
It’s hard to take the fruitloop OANN seriously as a media organisation … but I agree with the sentiment. Even if the WHCA finds them execrable (quite understandable) they have very shaky grounds on which to ban them.
The over-riding principle should be that government is as open as possible – the WHCA would scream if CNN were banned (again). But anyway, just another example of who effing stupid and manipulative DC is … juist hold the briefings in a much bigger room, so reporters can be essentially unlimited, while still maintaining social-distancing rules.
(Caveat: if OANN is guilty of contravening social-distance rules to make a point as viro-sceptics, then that is grounds to be kicked out).
You are such a fraud. Trying hard to pepper your statements with agreeable points, while still pushing the MMFA talking points.
It is a wonder you are allowed here.
LOL:
I don’t even know what MMFA means … LOL yourself!
I believe in open government and a free press … you right-wing types only believe in the brutal exercise of power and pleasing your masters and donors. Part of that is the lionising of state propaganda machines – Fox and OANN. We all understand that.
Roll on 3 November!
Nov 3?
By that time Biden will be wearing a diaper, they’ll be spoon feeding him mush from a bowl, and his hands will be bound so he can’t paw at his female attendants
Time for you Dems to pull your head out of your ass and look see what kind of candidate you are putting up. It’s almost like you want to lose.
Roll on November 3. What a joke!
Are you registered to vote, Cargill?
Brh
Are you registered to vote, Cargill?
Indeed I am.
Senate Electorate: State of Victoria
Federal Electorate: Maribyrnong
State Electorate: Niddrie
Municipal Electorate: Moonee Valley City
Anything else you want to know? Hat size? Golf handicap? LOL!
Yeah, where’s Woop Woop?
Also, you keep repeating “roll on 3 Nov.”
Are your elections on 3 Nov too?
Brh
Joe Biden, what a sleazy mutt,
Inserted fingers while in rut.
“What’s the problem?” he said.
“Smell my fingers,” he pled.
“They didn’t go up in her butt.”
Yeah, where’s Woop Woop?
Just down the highway from Podunk Indiana.
Oh yes, there’s Podunk again, where the ignorant MAGA racists live, the one’s you’re here to set straight.
There is that binary again.
I am not right wing. But you are a paid shill.
🙂
Far better news outlet than CNN, ABC, MSNBC or their ilk.
Just curious how Australians view their future with China nearby relatively speaking. [RB].
A good question, and I suggest it’s overwhelmingly positive. The Chinese one-party dictatorship is overlooked … as it basically is by every government in the world … they are too important to piss off too much. And their economic progress in a generation has no doubt been impressive.
Some statistics:
In 2017-18, China was by far Australia’s largest trading partner, contributing $194.6 billion worth of imports and exports. This was more than the combined value of trade with Japan and the United States ($147.8 billion).
Australia is China’s sixth largest trading partner; it is China’s fifth biggest supplier of imports and its tenth biggest customer for exports. Twenty-five per cent of Australia’s manufactured imports come from China; 13% of its exports are thermal coal to China. A two-way investment relationship is also developing.
Pre-pandemic we had large numbers of Chinese tourists, and also large numbers of tertiary students … education for Asia is a big export industry here. NZ is similar. Chinese make up about 5% of the total Oz population, and about 40% were born overseas.
Australia and NZ are not that attractive as takeover targets, and I don’t think we’re too concern on that front. Anyway, they do it softly, with wealthy Chinese buying real estate in both Australian and NZ cities.
Thank you for the information. I was not aware at how dependent on China Australia is. It appears that they already “own” you from a distance but were it in their interest to own you physically they could do it easily enough just as with Taiwan. I think the citizens of Hong Kong understand things about mainland China that others do not. I had hopes that this Covid business would be a wake up for American manufacturing and production but if the democrats take power next January, I suspect the Chinese will benefit and American interests will be back to pre Trump days. With GOP collusion. This is the Chinese century. It may be the Chinese 1000 year era.
Thank you for the information. I was not aware at how dependent on China Australia is.
They certainly are a big slice of our export market, but perhaps “dependent” is a bit too strong. Prior to them our major market was Japan, and of course South Korea. India is well in the mix too … they love our hot thermal coal for power stations.
We have a FIRB (Foreign Investment Review Board) – if anyone from China, Japan, Singapore, etc, wants to buy something substantial – a major company, anything strategic, a major building, land bigger than a few acres, etc, they have to seek permission.
Mostly it is granted … but I think you’d find that the UK and the US probably have a LOT more investment here than the Chinese … Chevron and Conoco-Phillips, BP, and so on.
There was a minor ruckus when the Chinese were allowed to buy the port of Darwin … which did seem surprising, given its strategic military role. Would be like the US selling off Long Beach or San Diego.
But overall, the China relationship is a pretty good one – we supply minerals and food they want, and we buy back flatscreen TVs and much else. We aren’t a competing superpower.
‘Of course, it isn’t capitalism, so-called, that is failing, but the perversions of capitalism….’ JHK
Clear and concise, and absolutely true, meat and potatoes, with the gravy coming later.
Communism didn’t fail, it wasn’t tried.
Capitalism didn’t fail, it wasn’t tried either!
Ok, that’s a bit extreme. Communism doesn’t accord with Nature at all. Capitalism accords very well with our lowest nature, that of the jungle. Well, the jungle needs to be cleared and cultivated. Capitalism needs constant oversight lest it turn into the current nightmare. Thus Fascism or National Socialism are prescribed.
I wonder about how that jungle is cleared. What about the lowest nature of the leaders? Is it removed? Could you even question those in power? I like the idea of NS, but wonder about its implementation.
Have some faith. We will have Boars in Suits of Armor. And Elephants in our Parades. We will be the Mahrajahs. White Guys will get affirmative action to get into the NBA. White youth will be encouraged to join social athletic clubs where they learn martial arts and study Stoicism. For older people, there will be a return to Victorian Finery, with Grand Balls. Even poor people will have enough money to dress better. And we’ll bring back the old community dances for neighborhoods.
Finally getting around to Thoreau’s “Letters to a Spiritual Seeker”. It does not disappoint. Same kind of personal type writing that made Walden a classic .
I read somewhere that if you think Walden Pond is transcendental, go to the woods of Northern Maine. Sorry to say I never made the trip to the Penobscot River area where Thoreau paddled in the 1850s. I wonder if you can still follow his route. I’ll give “Letters” a try. Right now I’m finishing “Blue Moon” by Lee Child, you know, big, bad, Jack Reacher. Keeps me balanced.
You are slandering Burke. –Janos
If I wanted to slander Burke, I would simply describe who he was: a graduate of Trinity who became a minor bureaucrat, a secretary to a secretary, a kind of Irish Jesuit-like pundit, a minor dishonest Whig politician.
But Burke did recognize the dignity and humanity of Black Africans. And Burke did support the American revolutionaries and opposed the Tax Act. Perhaps it is best to let Burke speak for himself:
“Again and again, revert to your old principles—seek peace and ensue it; leave America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself.” –from a speech Burke made, “On American Taxation” (published in January 1775), on a motion to repeal the tea duty
With regard to your claim about Burke believing in “Government, Church, and Private Property,” anarchists from William Godwin and the followers of Josiah Warren to Murray Rothbard have found Burke’s case for anarchism (A Vindication of Natural Society) inspiring and persuasive; and Rothbard, at least, was convinced that Burke’s arguments were simply too good to have been intended satirically. On Rothbard’s interpretation, the Vindication represents the youthful Burke’s sincere opinions, and was subsequently presented as satire only for the sake of Burke’s political ambitions. After all, Burke was a dishonest politician, according to the eminent Samuel Johnson.
So Burke wouldn’t wear a mask?
Read about ‘collective rage’, ‘it’s going to go in waves’, etc.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/she-predicted-coronavirus-does-she-185553863.html
Things will get much worse, and if we see things like hurricanes or some foreign intervention with the electrical grid, e.g., or maybe worse, it’s all comin’ down, big time.
Yeah, and don’t forget about those giant asteroids that are whizzing by Earth. I haven’t slept well for months worrying about the big smasheroo.
What if it hits the Yellowstone caldera or Santorini?
I look for them every night with my ‘scope, so don’t worry, you won’t need pills. Probably kill the few remaining buffalo.
Ladies and germs;
Well, at last, I have come to the conclusion that we are fucked…truly fucked and fucked well. It is not the issues of the economy. It is not our faltering infrastructure. It is not the Virus. No, we will become undone due to…MURDER HORNETS!
This is some Old Testament shit. These bastards are up to 2″ long, described as big as a matchbox, can repeatedly sting and kill a human…Oh, yes, and several dozen can destroy a thriving honey bee hive in hours.
They have established themselves in Washington State, probably from Chinese container vessels. They nest in the ground. Their hostility is only matched by the excruciating pain of their sting. When these puppies become established, you will forget about China’s perfidy in the CV-19 escapades…you’ll wish for the good old days when you only had killer bees to worry about.
It has been suggested that the MURDER HORNETS kill more Japanese every year than died at Pearl Harbor.
And…the link;
https://www.bbc.com/news/52533585
We should cultivate millions and millions, turn them on the Chinee.
More than 50-60? That’s enough. “Oh death, where is thy sting.”
They found out-too late.
TS
I think they come from China, originally.
BRH,
Yes, China. Now in Washington State, where it is well known where all manner of pestilential issues arise;
Coronavirus,
Murder Hornets,
…KDog….
Coincidence? Or another Chinese bio-weapon? In other words, why now?
We’ve got to stop them! The hornets that is.
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was born in Aberdeen, WA.
We’ve been to Aberdeen … had lunch at a little-league ballpark and talked to some very bored teenagers. I can see why Our Kurt topped himself.
KDFP
Kicks the shit out of a mantis and that’s sayin’ something. at about 1:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7zWGOGjLxs
Blimey, that’s impressive. I wonder why they’re calling them ‘murder hornets’ rather than ‘killer hornets’, though. It suggests some kind of moral intent and it’s a bug.
We Have Become Karen Nation, by Tom Luongo
A week ago, I didn’t know what a ‘Karen’ was. Today I can’t stop seeing Karens everywhere I look. It’s like that moment in They Live! when Nada puts on the glasses for the first time.
The problem now is I can’t take the glasses off.
And I’m not the only one. In recent weeks the failed Karen meme of a few years ago has returned with a vengeance as people realize just how much damage Karens have done to our society.
A Karen is a person, usually a woman, who is never satisfied with the service she’s receiving and demands to talk to the manager. It doesn’t matter if Karen’s complaints are valid or not.
This is because Karen has been incentivized by cowardly corporate officers and government officials (but, I repeat myself) to get something she doesn’t deserve simply because they want her to shut up and not disturb everyone else.
It was one thing to indulge Karen her entitled behavior when she was getting a free order of fries or month of cable. It’s quite another when Karens become the State’s target audience for public policy.
And the true Karens are the ones who are never satisfied. When they get the first thing they want it gives them the impetus to continually push the boundaries of what they can get away with.
Karens, at heart, are simply spoiled children who have never had boundaries properly set. A little power creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Progressives are the ultimate Karens, never satisfied with having moved society in a terrible direction through their constant complaining. Never once do they self-reflect that maybe they’ve been wrong and all of their demands have made things materially worse rather than us not having indulged them enough.
Progressives are the worst winners I’ve ever met. They’ve won every political battle of note for the past 100+ years and are still whining in their lattes about us electing Trump, whose presidency they’ve destroyed with their incessant Karen-isms and his inherent weakness.
So is is any surprise that we’ve reached a point where the government is more worried about keeping the Karens from complaining than actually governing effectively?
And when we really look at how we’ve responded to COVID-19 it’s clear that the people behind the lock down of hundreds of millions of people knew they would have an army of Karens screaming on Twitter to ‘flatten the curve’ and quote bogus statistics they don’t understand from official smart people to justify giving full flower to their inner harpy.
You know who I’m talking about. These are the suburban women ratting out their neighbors for not social distancing, for *gasp* walking their dog or *gasp gasp* letting their kids play in the yard!
And that has enabled the worst people in the world to destroy the global economy because a bunch of frightened Karens can’t cope with the stress of living. The State cannot have people engaging in peaceful noncompliance with their edicts.
Karen-ness is a mental disorder. It’s the horrific admixture of narcissism, self-importance and solipsism which can only come from being encouraged to act badly thanks to cowardice. It leads to treating everyone else like they exist only to serve them.
Karens used to be a joke at best. They used to be Veruka Salt in Willy Wonka or the starting point of a female lead in a rom-com.
Now they run the world.
Karens are proto-Brown Shirts. They are the ultimate useful idiots of the Elite and they are destroying the world we live in. Because they are happiest when the State does something. They have no boundaries at home, so they welcome any time the State gives them what they want and then use that to bludgeon everyone else into line.
And the worst part is in this new age of gender fluidity, Karens are now found in both sexes. As guys who should know better join in the chorus of complaining about everything they don’t like.
It’s the worst in genre fandom, FYI. All you Cheeto-dusted message board warriors sitting on your gaming thrones bitching about Star Wars or Marvel are simply Karens with doobs (Dude Boobs) because you feel entitled a particular story to fill your pathetic lives with meaning.
And then when you don’t get them you want someone fired.
Sound familiar?
In truth, if you were real men you’d grow up and spend that time acquiring skills to become a man worthy of allaying the fears of all the Karens you say are destroying your favorite stories.
Who knows? You might even get laid!? Just sayin’
But it means looking in the mirror rather than at porn. So I guess that’s a non-starter.
At the heart of this is cultural Marxism and its unquenchable envy for what the other guy has. And the Marxists have worked long and hard to undermine the institutions of culture — family, religion, community — by deconstructing everything, destroying meaning and robbing a generation of hope.
And if you don’t think it wasn’t done on purpose you’re wrong. The goal has always been to break us down into dependence and psychosis. This is what John Carpenter was warning us about in They Live!
The difference is we aren’t asleep. This isn’t The Matrix anymore. We jacked out of that nightmare to find a world even worse than we thought and now we’re crazy from being sleep deprived.
So now we’re a nation of noradrenaline-addicted, cortizol-drenched doom porn addicts as we realize there’s no one competent in charge and our neighbors are a bunch of whiny Karens.
The world is melting down financially, politically and culturally.
We’ve run out of time to suffer Karens. We don’t need anymore Nancy Pelosis and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes extolling the virtue of Karen’s endless complaints.
Things are this way because men have abdicated their role in the division of labor that is sexual dimorphism as the check on poor female behavior. It’s our job to exude quiet competence, bear the burdens of keeping the society from collapsing.
So, what we actually need is Ceasar Milan to come in and tell them all, “Shh!”
Because when we don’t do that, Karens turn to the State, exactly as the Marxists wanted.
This has given rise to the kind of toxic femininity that is fully encapsulated in the Meme of Karen.
And it’s why the Karens are screaming such bloody murder with the return of the meme. They know it’s true and that the jig is up.
And the irony is that what most Karens really need is someone calling them out for being Karens and not indulging their anxiety-driven insanity.
Shh!
This is why the Karen meme has returned with such ferocity. The lock down of society in fear of COVID-19, a virus the more we learn about the less fearful we are, has a critical mass of people reaching their breaking point with being a member of Karen Nation.
Because to continue on this path leads to depravity and violence; a breakdown of the basics of civil society.
And to leave it is to end the rule of incompetent, cowardly men like Bill DeBlasio, Barack Obama and George W. Bush and the women who rule them.
Shh!
JS: How was Governor Cunt of Michigan elected? She was elected by the people the article describes. She’s a Karen, elected by her fellow Karen Tribesmen, both male and female. Thine own from thine own! Kathy and Susan are other names for Karen. Not Becky – that’s a racist word for young White women, often innocent. A Leftist and/or minority word, a pejorative. Karen is our word not theirs! And it’s not racist – since Karens are mostly White.
No disrespect is meant to the Karen Tribesmen of Burma. I hear they’re nice and ferocious. Don’t know if they’re cannibals. I’m sure they have their share of problems though.
Wow Janos…that is EXACTLY who they are. I have always pondered that, they are usually romping and stomping around with entitlements and so forth, but this defines them quite well. Nauseating at best. There are many on Next Door…..they are the mask police, dog poop complainers, me, me, me and more me.
So Burke wouldn’t wear a mask? –Tucsonspur
Burke is not a “mask truther.” Wearing a mask is not a symbol of social control, it is a public health measure for the benefit of all. Burke, who received a Quaker education, would say this of people who threaten violence in stores over wearing a mask:
Idiots. Selfish idiots. They are given the opportunity to ease back into normal life, by shopping, but they’re not going to do the minimum necessary to help the community be safer. So now business owners and other shoppers are going to be more at risk from the virus, because Rights. Man, that ticks me off. Selfish creeps.
That is what Burke would say, because wearing a mask is not in contradiction with conservative, libertarian, or anarchist principles of mutual respect. Mutualism, mutual aid, is a tenet of anarchism. Totalitarian ideology makes compromise impossible and endangers the community. It is disrespectful not to wear a mask.
Letting people go out and shop and open businesses and do work while wearing masks seems like a commonsense compromise to me on the way to returning to something like normal (which we’re not going to have anyway until there’s a vaccine, or we have herd immunity, the latter of which is at least two years away).
Opposing wearing masks on ideological principle is what an ideologue like Rush Limbaugh is encouraging. When there is a threat (3,611,044 confirmed cases), you protect yourself and others. It’s the conservative thing to do.
If it doesn’t work, well, we can try something new. But for these right-wing ideologues, it’s their way or the highway. Are they not going to be satisfied until people in rural America start dying of Covid-19? It’s crazy.
General Bedford Forest dissolved his Klan, saying that masked men were not accountable to civil society. Making men dress as criminals will encourage criminality, at least one would hope.
“It is disrespectful not to wear a mask.”
Freedom is primarily about ‘me’. Consideration is about ‘you’. Possibly there is too much ‘me’ in American life these days. Freedom and consideration should be able to co-exist together. That way people wouldn’t need to be told to wear a mask where wearing a mask is appropriate – they’d just be considerate.
I had to go to the chemist this morning. The staff in there have been wearing masks for weeks, since they’re particularly at risk and because it wouldn’t be helpful to the great unwell if the shop had to close because they were all off sick at once and there was a shortage of locums. So I wore one too, out of consideration for the pharmacists.
There was only one other customer when I went in and he was a Covid customer. He was breathing with difficulty and explaining to the pharmacist that he was finding it hard to come in to collect his medication. Even though he’d been discharged from hospital he couldn’t sleep because when he lay down he felt as if something was sitting on his lungs. He’d had blood clots in his spleen and some other organs I don’t recall. (There wasn’t any privacy – it’s a small shop!) He looked about 35-40.
Anyway, I guess if he was post-infectious (which I rather hope he was) he was wearing a mask so that he wouldn’t freak people out when they heard his laboured breathing. That’s considerate.
So we should always wear masks from now on? How did we ever get by before? Or do you even remember that we didn’t used to wear masks? If so, the previous two questions won’t compute.
I’m not suggesting you do anything, Janos. You’ve got a brain and a conscience, and somewhere in there there’s probably some consideration for other people, even the ones you look down on. And your brain knows that wearing a mask isn’t the same as wearing handcuffs and a blindfold – on the scale of human misery it’s really not that big a deal.
No, I haven’t worn a mask before. But I’ve been around for the best part of 70 years, only had three flu ‘shots’, as you guys call them, yet only had flu once in all those years. So this one’s different, and that guy did not sound well. And he was a heck of a lot younger than me. So you can make your own decisions about whether or not you’re capable of putting consideration of other people before your selfish obsessions or not, because you’re an adult and not some kid I’m responsible for.
I’m wearing one till there’s a vaccine or until the numbers dwindle so much I’m hardly likely to get it. And if I get it and recover I’ll wear one in shops to reassure other people. I’m not planning to wear one ‘from now on’ – that’s just another of your straw men.
I’m only wearing the thing in shops – why is that such a big deal to a big boy like you?
This one is not different – but it’s being made into something very, very “different”. They’re never going to let us go back to normal. How can you not realize it – they themselves are saying it.
Or are you one of those who don’t mind being tracked since you haven’t done anything wrong? A classic Karen stance.
Sounds to me like she’s adapting to the new normal,
and you Janos,
are not,
will not,
can not.
Wow, she really fought long and hard for her rights and her heritage, didn’t she? Just like you, Kareno.
Now, now Cancel.
The propaganda anchor word for us peons is the “Next Normal”.
Keep that in mind.
Janos
I’m not being tracked. Nor am I going to be tracked. I’m simply wearing a mask in shops. That means, since I put it on for convenience as I leave the house, I’ve got it on for less than half an hour out of 24.
But now we’ve got mission creep and you’re expanding what I said to ‘being tracked’. You queried masks and I gave you my answer about masks.
And, as I mentioned, our situation is different from yours, so what you do is your own decision. We were short of 40,000 nurses before this even started. Currently many nurses who used to work as theatre nurses are working as critical care nurses in a specialty of which they had no previous experience – and a level of stress and dying patients of which they had no previous experience – expect a lot of PTSD when this is over among health professionals. But you probably won’t hear about it.
And, as I mentioned, my lovely ‘little’ brother is still unconscious in an English ICU right now, having had a heart attack, despite strenuous efforts to convince me people aren’t being treated in hospitals if they don’t have Covid. Compared to that, I find people wittering about their right not to wear a mask in shops quite surreal. And I’m glad he had his heart attack now and not when the hospital might have been – or might be post-lockdown – filled with five times as many Covid patients because the thing was ‘let rip’.
I have a lot of sympathy with the Swedish stance – what the Giesecke chap said made sense. But it wouldn’t work everywhere, and I doubt it would have worked with our health system, which operates with much less spare capacity than yours. And I have sympathy with people who can’t work – I was talking to a woman this morning who used to do cleaning for some residents in the old folks’ home across the road and she’s not allowed in just now to protect them. She and her husband really need the money. But sympathy with people who think wearing a face mask to help keep the transmission rate manageable is an insult to their personal liberty? Nah, that would be pushing it.
Should have said ‘old folks’ flats’ as they’re individual bought flats for elderly people – if it had been a ‘home’ the old folks wouldn’t be responsible for their own cleaning.
“Wow, she really fought long and hard for her rights and her heritage”
I don’t have an ID card. I don’t carry any ID anywhere I go, except for my bus pass when I need it, which has a function. Even when I had a car I didn’t have to carry a permit with me – you get three days here to present it at any police station if you’re stopped for a traffic infringement or something similar.
They talked about introducing ID cards back when I was a student, and it didn’t fly because people thought it was an impertinence. So did I. Now of course rightwingers like the idea because they think there are illegal immigrants behind every lamppost. My daughter used to carry her passport to pubs because she looked younger than her age – but nobody made her.
And the app they’re talking about here is (a) entirely voluntary and (b) has no personal information of any kind on it other than your postcode. It’s not like the S. Korean one. And I share my postcode with something like 150 other households and almost twice as many individuals. Not that I plan to get the app anyway – I have never had Bluetooth switched on on my phone and don’t intend to start now. I have the simpler alternative of not getting on buses and trains, which other people won’t have. But even for them it will be voluntary, so I’ll leave them to make their own decisions.
Alba: They boil the frog slowly. You’re not being tracked – yet, maybe. But if you let them put a dye under your skin, it will become mandatory – and those without it will not be able to work (sell). Without the chip that comes after that, you will set off alarms when you try to go into public buildings to “buy”.
You’ve been boiled slowly. Your Grandmother would find your beliefs incomprehensible. You can’t explain why Muslims have been invited into Britain yet you believe they have a right to be there. She would have called you a fool to your face. Likewise with this. It’s the done thing so you will do it. Compliance is the British Way and those that call the tune are dancing you off a cliff.
Janos, I’m not going to be getting a Fear Porn vaccine – that’s the one that’s entirely in your head, the one that’s going to send me to the Gulag. But I refuse to fall into the insanity of your paranoia, sorry.
And you know sweet FA about my grandmother. She used to go round the local employers asking them to take on various neighbours who were jobless during the depression, but she was no racist.
And Muslims remain 5% of the UK population. You need to stop listening to the fear porn. The UK, on the other hand, took over and exploited almost a quarter of the world.
She wants the vaccine. LOL.
“Give us the vaccine. Please!”
You’re channelling your five-year-old again, Chickenhawk.
You need to get out more.
“Give me the vaccine, Dr. Faust! I am begging for it!”
GA
That’s a disturbing picture – that someone clearly still in medical distress had been discharged. No doubt he was ‘cleared as non-infectious’ for statistical & logistical reasons, but it seems very harsh. The other organ involvement is also scary especially in one so apparently young.
But not to worry! It’s just like a simple case of the ‘flu’ and usually mild or even entirely non-symptomatic! There are uncountable gazillions of undiagnosed asymptomatics out there, which apparently ‘grabbles’ the stats. These ‘death rates’ are just all exaggerated.
Ask anyone around here…It’s all a huge hoax and deliberately designed scare us (‘fear porn’ one Clever Bastard calls it) and to take ‘our freedoms. In the course of time, ‘they’ will make us get a vaccine that will allow us to be tracked & traced, then eventually, ‘they’ will be able to “unperson” anyone ‘they’ wish to buy switching off the covert chip that will come with the vaccine. And compulsory masks??? Who do ‘they’ think they are? Outrageous.
It’s all perfectly obvious! Surely you can see it? Surely your husband is in cahoots with ‘them’? If not, then I guess he’s no more than a ‘useful idiot’ (or NPC as one Clever Bastard puts it).
“There ain’t ‘alf bin some Clever Bastards (lucky bleeders)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvRsLWlDXw
Majella
“That’s a disturbing picture – that someone clearly still in medical distress had been discharged. No doubt he was ‘cleared as non-infectious’ for statistical & logistical reasons, but it seems very harsh.”
I wouldn’t necessarily call it medical distress – his breathing was laboured. It might remain laboured for a couple of months – I don’t know how long these things last, but you wouldn’t be keeping someone in hospital for months if they didn’t need to be on an oxygen machine of some sort. And if he’s struggling badly enough they’ll take him back in, he just needs to get his GP to send him back in – or indeed call 999 if he is bad enough. At least no-one will ask him for his insurance details or his credit card!
But yes, the whole ‘hoax’ thing is surreal.
“Surely your husband is in cahoots with ‘them’?”
Hmmm… if he is (a) ‘they’ should have given him some better PPE, and (b) they’re not paying him enough for it because I have to pay more per hour to get a plumber to come to my house. 🙂 Not kidding either, although it’s close (but the plumber has more leeway for fiddling his taxes!).
In the meantime, it seems even those German (German!!!!!) docs are protesting, with more humour than we are led to believe is their cultural habit, the lack of PPE:
https://slippedisc.com/2020/04/german-doctors-go-naked-for-lack-of-ppe/
As are French dentists, who are also expected to go back to work with inadequate protection:
https://slippedisc.com/2020/04/french-dentists-go-naked-without-ppe/
And yet I’ve still to hear one of the ‘hoax’ fear-porn purveyors explain why these people should keep working when you wouldn’t send soldiers out without protection. They signed up to help people, not to commit group suicide.
You know that I agree on the mask. I’m not up on the tenets of anarchism, this mutual aid idea. But yeah, Charlie Chaplin would probably wear one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iY81RPkOeU
Brilliant.
Thanks, TS.
Young Michael Chaplin would give the like-minded twerps around here a run for their money.
Glad you enjoyed it.
And it’s not racist – since Karens are mostly White. –Janos
That’s reverse racism. You should be ashamed. White lives matter!
Even if it’s coming from us, their hated fellow Whites?
Remember Christ’s, “You have hated me without cause.” And his, “If the world hates you, remember it hated me first.”
They hated us first. The Anglo Saxon Male has learned to hate. Along with him him the Celt, Slav, and even a few Nordics. The Italians were already there waiting for us….
The News is screaming about 3000 deaths a day if we open up – this is before they even admitted to being completely wrong about their previous forecasts.
Fuck these destroyers.
Far as I can tell, China Virus has been in USA since last year.
CDC says 40,000 deaths.
My Aussie mate and his wife in NYC believe they had it not long after New Year’s … but he does work in a big international office with a lot of people movement.
Pretty sure I had it just before Christmas.
I was sick as hell for four days and mildly sick for around two weeks.
Yep. The plan is to extend the lockdown as long as possible, to ensure max. economic damage and to shift the idea of what is normal.
Lockdowns will become normal. Your freedoms are being removed along with your borders.
This is rational thinking?
I think they call it ‘fear porn’.
Yes, and he’s the one peddling it.
Using my lines again.
LOL.
Statistical analysis has proven absolutely that “Janos Skorenzy” is a complete and utter right-wing racist nutter. Please avoid anything they say!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8282475/Missourians-tipped-county-lockdown-rule-breakers-fear-retaliation-release.html
Snitches thought their betrayals would be kept private. Somehow not!
No switches! Just rheostats. Turn up the heat gradual, like.
Statistical analysis has proven absolutely that “Janos Skorenzy” is a complete and utter right-wing racist nutter. Please avoid anything they say!
Still stuck on stupid I see.
Which shift is this?
The Bakersfield doctors are now in a new video. Probably won’t stay up on YT for very long because in the new USA we don’t allow any disagreement with the WHO. Nor do we have true free speech as we were once accustomed. Pat yourselves on the back leftist totalitarians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0VRtY9oTs&t=43s
Man-made virus….
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJhKUbd0k&t=490s
Who’s going to argue that China’s leaders aren’t ruthless in thinking strategically. And strategically speaking, why is it that China has very purposefully built a scientific pool of 1st caliber capability that as a population is greater than that of the entire population of the Western World? Duh,…..to dominate you think? Front load that with the fact that in this world of human population overshoot it would be to China’s advantage to loose 4/5 ths of its own population to see like shrinkage within the rest of the world. Its a numbers game and numerically they are poised win.
The China Hustle – Official Trailer
https://youtu.be/55892jT06aI
==
Get ready to have your eyeballs served to you in a soup bowl by your Chinese pals.
First released in 2017…
• Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.
The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
• Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
JS: The “color of law” – interesting phrase. Reminds me of “the second set of books” that have superseded our Constitution.
Take it up with the Supreme Court. It’d be interesting to see where THEY land on it.
Statistical analysis has proven absolutely that “Janos Skorenzy” is a complete and utter right-wing racist nutter. Please avoid anything they say!
It is hard to not see this whole COVID/shutdown situation as somehow intentional, but I don’t believe in conspiracy theories.
Not that I don’t think people are evil enough to do things like stage 9-11 as an inside job; I just don’t think people are clever enough (especially not government officials).
But the system creates these situations organically, without any need for a conspiracy, which is even scarier.
Media naturally coalesces on the most hysterical interpretation of any threat, which multiplies the panic of the public. Any member of the media who dares deviate from the accepted narrative (the virus is apocalyptic and caused by Trump/Russia) is punished severely, even at Fox News (whose narrative is similar: the virus is apocalyptic and caused by Dems/China).
Add in group-think in government and ‘leading’ scientists (the reason they are ‘leading’ is that they go along with the dominant theories), and we get what we have currently.
What we are seeing is the mask coming off, in many ways, from the system.
It should now be apparent to anyone past 3rd grade that the system does not care about people, and cannot/will not help them.
The center (Wall St/DC axis) cannot hold, as the social contract is beyond broken. Before, the implicit deal was: you pay your taxes and we pocket a third, give a third to our buddies and give a third back to you dumb taxpayers. Now it is ‘we keep it all, and then go and print more and give all of that to ourselves and our buddies’.
It really amazes me that people are not rioting in the streets over this. The elite should keep in mind that every revolution in history was carried out by the middle class, once they realized that they were no longer getting any benefit at all from the dominant system. They won’t, though, because the elites – including all of those that I have ever met – are idiots, just like the 99.99% that they look down on. Even the holy Oracle of Omaha is an idiot, as shown by his recent massive losses in the airline sector.
I know my perspective is not one shared by many, but I actually am feeling that this crisis is in many ways the best thing that has happened to our world/planet/species during my lifetime. I say this because I see the virus as the planet/Mother Nature/Gaia giving us humans a very gentle ‘Please knock it off!’. The next warning won’t be so gentle, I am afraid.
Anyway, the fear of dying from this (largely harmless) virus has caused us to give the Earth a very small, but well-deserved break. It has taken down several unneeded industries already (e.g., airlines, cruise liners), and will hopefully take out a few more before wrapping up in 2 years or so.
Really, when I think of our ‘economy’, I feel that 90% or more is really not only nonproductive, but enormously counterproductive (i.e., greatly reducing our chances to survive as a species), including the above named, as well as the military-industrial-Congressional complex, Wall Street (which serves no purpose in the ‘economy’, if it ever did), Hollywood, Government, the Heath Insurance-Pharmaceutical-Hospital racket (of which I occupy a tiny corner), advertising, marketing, higher education, social media, Real Estate, industrial agriculture, the legal industry (esp. corporate law), lobbying, fracking, the tax preparation industry, the prison system, law enforcement (i.e., the War on Drugs), the Space industry, the interstate highways system, meat-packing plants,and so on. All of it needs to go yesterday. Seriously.
If we want to have a chance at survival as a species, and as individuals, we need to focus on the basics, and only the basics, as we cannot afford more. The first focus should be on assuring a supply of clean water to all. Then, helping people grow their own food, using whatever means they have. Those who live in crowded urban areas will need to relocate. There is a ton of empty land out there in flyover country. At $12K per acre of good Iowa farmland, everyone could get an acre or two for a fraction of what the Fed vomits up on Goldman Sachs over a 6-hour period. Next, helping people set up some basic shelter that will keep them alive through winters. No Wi-Fi, no rec rooms with billiard tables, nor 3-car garages. Just the basics. That is about all the inhabitants of the former United States can afford at this point, given that most have no savings and those that do are about to lose almost all of it.
I truly do believe that the US is done, toast, gone. We just refuse to accept it. But the world will be so much better off for it, once we do. If we don’t (and we most assuredly won’t), then the result will be that those aforementioned basics will not be attainable, as we will have missed the window of opportunity. I know that is offensive to 99.99% of Americans, but so be it. Reality is not pretty, and accepting it is painful.
We also need to immediately devolve all power from centralized, ossified, and corrupt central governments. In the (former) US, that would mean first to the states as a transition, and then to cities and counties, then maybe even further. I really doubt that cities will continue to exist as they do currently. Even now, people are abandoning not only NYC, but also LA, Chicago and other large cities in favor of living in the countryside or smaller places at least. This trend long predates COVID-19, but it has acted as a major accelerant.
If people can do their meaningless jobs online instead of in a skyscraper, then they will have no reason to live in cities, given the massive costs inherent in doing so. Flight (and not the kind we do in an aeroplane) to mid-sized affordable, low-tax cities like Tulsa, Des Moines, and Texarkana will be a megatrend in the 2020s. After that, the trend will be from those cities to even smaller places that are even cheaper and that enable people to grow their own food.
We are heading off a cliff, and that we have actually been off a cliff for over a decade now, awaiting our Wile E Coyote moment when we look down and see there ain’t nothing down there…
Btw, I do have to make a teeny, tiny revision to my previous prediction that the Dow would go to zero.
My new prediction is that it will go to infinity…
…but the dollar will go to zero, so same difference! 😉
Have your heard of the Church of Euthanasia? Their motto is “Save the Earth, Kill Yourself.” How serious are you about the Earf?
Needless to say I reject this. Life is War. The healthy struggle for existence and beyond that, happiness. Imagine if we had kept our borders closes: We’d be 220 million, 90% White. That was viable. The Blacks kept to their place or else. And they were better off by and large. This Land was ours. On that basis, we should and could have become more environmentally sensitive. But now at 330 million with no demographic unity? It is to laugh.
Uh, please, rational argument hinged to retrievable references. No ad hominem, that is to say.
Have your heard of the Church of Euthanasia? Their motto is “Save the Earth, Kill Yourself.” How serious are you about the Earf? – Janos
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I am very serious about saving the ‘earf’ but not in the way you suggest. We need not kill ourselves. All 7.5 billion, give or take a few, will die in some way or another in the next hundred years. The trick is to have only a 13% replacement rate. That would leave earth with one billion people. Hopefully the planet and humans can survive with that many people. How to get people to massively cut back on reproduction is the question.
Old Playboy Cartoon: Overpopulation will continue to be a problem as long as screwing is more popular than dying.
There’s no need for a Conspiracy when mere Stupidity will do–
While it seems likely that COVID actually was a Chinese bioweapon, Stupidity fully explains them letting it get out of their lab and killing plenty of their own people first. Likely we will never know the real numbers of how many Chinese were killed.
There’s no need for Trump to punish them–The Chinese have already punished themselves.
Biological Warfare itself is a fool’s game. Once you release the germ, there’s no way to control where it will go–Living things like to stay alive, and it will turn on the one who released it, as we have seen.
Its also stupid to pump out a few brand-new trillions of baseless dollars. They will only cause a fall in the purchasing power of all dollars–What we (again, stupidly) call “Inflation.” Anyone who gets such funds should apply them towards paying down their credit balance–or buying Gold, which at least temporarily will hold its purchasing power, or buying arable land outright–if any is left….
We’re dealing with the subhuman and the inhuman. The former, with all their incompetence, provide a perfect cover for the inhuman and their designs. You never know what an individual rat will do, (unless you know him and/or have shaped his behavior) but you can track what rats in general will do and work with it. They know how to scare people and how to herd the herd. The media are their sheep dogs. The sheep dogs work for the wolves…..
But the system creates these situations organically, without any need for a conspiracy, which is even scarier.
Yes – if your choice is between a clusterfuck mess-up and a conspiracy … always go for the former … you’ll always be right.
I don’t know (no-one does) whether the virus emerged from a Wuhan lab or a Wuhan wild-food market, but I think the onus of proof is on others to demonstrate it was (a) a bioengineered bug (by the Chinese or the US) , and even more, (b) intentionally released (by China or the US) as part of some campaign or strategy.
Over to the conspiracists to provide some credible evidence that this wasn’t a naturally occurring event, brought about by very bad hygiene, and some appallingly awful culinary habits.
There is a plethora of Miss Shi Zhengli’s published research on the Wuhan Institute of Virology bat coronavirus research that can be found with minimal effort in the web. It is an established fact that the US NIH funded gain-of-function bioweapons research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. People should be lined up and shot for this alone.
Man-made virus….
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJhKUbd0k&t=490s
Kawika
“…at $12K per acre of good Iowa farmland, everyone could get an acre or two for a fraction of what the Fed vomits up on Goldman Sachs over a 6-hour period. “
That really does put the Grifting Class into perspective. Thanks.
When I heard about the supersized, killer hornets invading the Pacific Northwest I immediately thought about the tracker jackers. Not quite the same but generally it is a plausible scenario you know. But of course they say the Chinese and Japanese have dealt with them for thousands of years so nothing new or strange to see here. They may just wipe the North American bee population out and dissolve peoples’ skin with their stings. Is it kinda strange though that their invading in the midst of covid? I’m sure it’s possible that its all coincidental.
Perhaps they have natural predators in China that aren’t available in Blaine WA.
We’ve driven right through the Blaine area – it is very nice. I didn’t notice the bees.
You’ve driven thru every area in the entire US, apparently.
What a lying lunatic you are … please provide documentary evidence that I have ever said I’ve driven through every area of the US. Yes – 36 states and three territories – but that’s not everything.
Haven’t beeen to the red-neck deplorable state – Texas – for example. Lifwe is too short to bother speninding any time in tEXQAS. fLORIDA WAS VERY MARGINAL TOO … kEY wEST WAS QA TOTAL WANK.
Because you constantly harp about where you have been.
Know it all that knows nothing.
Partisan hack with a penchant for being a complete turd.
He just takes lots of long-haul flights to the States, man.
It all adds up. 🙂
It just that every area that’s mentioned — Harper’s Ferry, Long Beach, Seattle, Key West — Cargill has been there and knows all about it. In fact he knows more than the ignorant wankers from Podunk, Indiana know.
Brh
Cargill resides at 1625 Massachusetts Ave NW, Ste 300, Washington, DC 20036
When I heard about it I thought about John Belushi and the Killer Bees.
Roll on November 3. What a joke! –brh
Voters’ views on elections, based on historical data, are decided in May, not September. Though Trump’ CDC guy is saying September won’t be pretty either. The markets are wiped, unemployment is at Great Depression levels. This all makes Biden look positively attractive.
Trump is losing among senior citizens in Florida. Florida has quite a few senior citizens. Trump is losing in Texas, in Arizona. By October the deep south red states may be in play.
I still haven’t received any check with Trump’s name on it. We are months into the pandemic and there is still not enough PPE, still no supply of 15 minute bedside diagnostic kits for COVID-19 for asymptomatic patients who may be transmitting the virus to others.
I still haven’t received any check with Trump’s name on it. We are months into the pandemic and there is still not enough PPE, still no supply of 15 minute bedside diagnostic kits for COVID-19 for asymptomatic patients who may be transmitting the virus to others.
I love your enthusiasm wpa – and also believe that the unravelling of the economy, unemployment, and the pandemic response, should lead to a Democrat victory on 3 November, plus Senate and HR seats too … but I retain my eternal pessimism that with Joe Biden, the Dems will clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I really hope I’m wrong … but those Repub thugs are pretty ruthless.
Flynn/Coup update:
Sidney Powell (Flynn’s lawer) discusses documents the FBI is still hiding, and related items.
*Interesting to note is the The Stroker apparently post-edited (hidden from the court) his colleague’s original 302 interview form so heavily, that he was commenting that he needed to find a way to preserve the colleague’s voice.
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1257527668041539584
On review, Obama may end up being the most corrupt president in US history.
Dream on cowboy, what a little snivelling ferret you are. Are you up Flynn’s bum?
Facts are presented, and this is the shill’s response.
Take note, observers.
Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Republicans. Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Republicans. Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Republicans. Yawn.
You already peddled this particular ‘zinger’. Wow. Now we get re-runs, because it’s not taking?
“‘I can’t hide my disgust, my disdain, at this criminal offense,’ said the judge (Sullivan) in the Flynn case. ‘You sold your country out.’ “
Check the timeline on that quote and Sullivan’s actions and statements since.
So easy. LOL.
How recent?
December 2019:
“Judge rejects claims by Trump ex-adviser Flynn of FBI misconduct
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday flatly rejected a last-ditch bid by President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn to get the criminal charge to which he already pleaded guilty dropped, brushing aside his claims of misconduct by prosecutors and the FBI.”
The most recent comment I can find has no statement attributed to judge Emmett Sullivan (which would be inappropriate anyway, I’m guessing):
“What’s next: U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has delayed Flynn’s sentencing in Washington, D.C., to a later date while he awaits submissions on the former national security adviser’s claim that his previous attorneys violated his constitutional rights by not giving him adequate legal counsel.”
Care to supply your ‘hotline’ access to the statements by Judge Sullivan?
Sidney Powell is a grandstander, with a book published in 2014, with a follow-up on the same lines issued this year following her appointment as Flynn’s counsel in 2019.
She’s had it in for the DoJ since she quit it. She may well be right in her assertions that there are prosecutors with narcissistic tendencies, but that’s what happens when you employ PEOPLE. Her side of that political fences is just as knee-deep in them.
I found this comment posted elsewhere, from a year ago. I think it makes a point that NigIQwl SHOULD get:
“It took Congress (Trey Gowdy) five years, nine investigations, and eleven hours of sworn testimony on live TV without an attorney by her side, for Congress to conclude that Hillary Clinton had never had a parking ticket or an overdue library book, and that no crimes had taken place in connection with the Benghazi incident. The only reason Ms. Clinton ended her testimony was that all the Republican congresspeople had left the room, and she was the one who had to turn off the lights.
Mr. Trump insists on fairness. Surely the country owes Mr. Trump the courtesy of the same thorough approach to clearing HIS name that was granted to Ms. Clinton, i.e. eight more investigations over the next three years, and a long day of sworn testimony on live TV.”
What does Trey Gowdy have to say (28 June 2018) about the Mueller probe?
Gowdy focused on the special counsel, which he said was being used by congressional Democrats as a fundraising tool. He admonished Rosenstein: “Whatever you got, finish it the hell up, because this country is being torn apart.”
Ha! Ironic, n’est-ce pas?
He had also, interestingly, earlier expressed the following opinion (March 2018) – in defiance of his House Committee’s findings:
Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina said that the evidence gathered by the Committee clearly showed Russia’s disdain for Trump’s rival, Hillary Clinton, and was “motivated in whole or in part by a desire to harm her candidacy or undermine her Presidency had she prevailed.”
A source familiar with Gowdy’s thinking said the congressman believes there’s no difference between opposing Clinton and backing Trump in what had become, effectively, a two-person race. The source added that Gowdy “disagrees with the conclusion” that the intelligence agencies got it wrong.
“He believes the debate over whether desiring a negative outcome for Clinton necessarily meant Russia had a preference for candidate Trump is a distinction that doesn’t make a difference,” the source said.
No comment on the timeline and Sullivan’s comments and actions afterward.
As usual, all of the hard evidence is against you, yet you pretend it doesn’t exist.
Another emotional spiral.
🙂
You remain a fucking child.
Also, see above that last post – I responded to your ‘challenge’ in chronological order, but you got your snarky little dig in out of same. No fucking patience huh.
What did Sullivan say and do after that comment?
Come on, Jello.
You can’t talk your way out of it with me. 🙂
@nightowl
Same shit different day Maj will never admit to being wrong about anything.
The school marm can’t admit she is wrong and we are not her pupils.
A Karen.
Hey, Cargill
Do you have any perspective on the possible ‘ANZAC Travel Bubble’ i read about today?
You might be able to get some cheap skiing in Queenstown (direct flights from Tullamarine) in July/August if it goes ahead.
I expect everything will be half-price – from the flights to the accommodation & the bars & restaurants! Perfect for retired fogeys living of their scrawny personal super funds!
Do you have any perspective on the possible ‘ANZAC Travel Bubble’ i read about today?
Jacinda Ardern (excellent NZ prime minister) poured cold water on the deal today at an inter-governmental hook-up – she didn’t reject the whole Trans-Tasman Bubble, just thought it was too soon. She wanted a lot of other stuff in place first.
A whole lot of flat-earth governors in the US – in all those shit-kicking red states – could take notice of Ms Ardern … but they never will, they are such uneducated dipsticks. Most of them couldn’t run a Dairy Queen franchise. Mike Huckabee is a great example.
Hmm – ‘…poured cold water on it”?
That’s an interesting take on it. From what I read, she is keen, sees the benefits (which would be much greater for NZ than Ostraya) but recognises that there’s a number of pretty significant steps that would need to be sorted before it could happen.
I thought you’d likely be KEEN to be able to get away from all that heat, sunshine & mobs of ‘roos!
Nah, too many Oz possums in Aotearoa, eating the deciduous forests.
The Tasman bubble, like the UK/Irish relationship, allows visa (technically, it’s a #444 ‘invisible’ visa) free travel, residence, working & voting rights as well as quarantine – pity about those damned apples with fire blight and dodgy Manuka honey.
Jacinda would be wise to hold off for a while, at least until Morriscum, aka SmoKo from marketting, is replaced by someone sane.
Unfortunately that’ll be a longgg time as Gestapotato Dutton is feeling his oats.
What a lying lunatic you are … please provide documentary evidence that I have ever said I’ve driven through every area of the US. Yes – 36 states and three territories – but that’s not everything.
Haven’t been to the redneck deplorable state – Texas – for example. Life is too short to bother with Texas … Florida was pretty marginal as well – Key West was a total wank … Americans “letting their hair down” is a very ugly pathetic sight, I have to say. Vegas (four visits) was appalling as well.
Funny country.
Well it’s our home. If you don’t like it here stay out, you won’t be missed.
Vegas (four visits) was appalling as well. – Cargill
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If it was appalling why did you make four visits?
It’s a convenient hub for a lot of genuinely good things not made by human beings. Las Vegas stays of only one or two nights apiece. Maybe a three.
I rechecked … we’ve been there on six occasions.
Detailed breakdown of the malicious framing and prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/your-guide-to-the-obama-administrations-hit-on-michael-flynn/
“More significantly, Flynn maintained that he is innocent of the charge and had only pleaded guilty because Mueller’s prosecutors threatened to go after his son if he refused.”
“[…] evidence confirms Flynn’s claim that he was coerced into the plea agreement. (It also provides an independent basis for a plea withdrawal, although outright dismissal is a more appropriate remedy to respond to the outrageous prosecutorial misconduct.)”
This lines up with the initial statements from FBI interviewers that Flynn did not lie (also mentioned in the piece above). This of course was prior to the FBI “losing” the original 302 interview forms, and replacing them with 302s heavily edited by The Stroker (mentioned in the previous post).
Massive level of criminality here, folks.
Yes, there’s a lot of folks should be in jail, but not necessarily the ones YOU’D see convicted.
For every opinion that supports your perspective, there’s at least two that don’t. You say to-may-to, I say tom-a-toe.
You can trawl through all the ‘conservative’ news outlets that you so admire. I read them too, and there’s still a huge heapin’ helpin’ of opinion in there.
In the end, the only OPINION that matters is the Judge. Why don’t you just wait for your vindication from an unimpeachable source – Emmett Sullivan?
Judge shopping to get a conviction is judicial tyranny.
Judge was appointed by Democrat which equals a sham trial.
There is a plethora of Miss Shi Zhengli’s published research on her Wuhan Institute of Virology bat coronavirus research that can be found with minimal effort in the web. It is an established fact that the US NIH funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Since this is bioweapons research, people should be lined up and shot for this alone.
Man-made virus….
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJhKUbd0k&t=490s
It looks like we may be taken out by “Fur ‘N Cleavage”?
Since the fake president took office, we are weaker, sicker, poorer, and our economy is in shambles. All the fake president can do is peddle fake coups and false hope. The fake president wants to be re-elected in another fake election via the baloney electoral college i.e. how we cheat. Get rid of the electoral college, get rid of the fake president.
Deep thoughts. Powerful arguments.
LOL.
We are weaker, etc. because of the decline in the educational quality of the American public due to manipulation of the Left. Trump has been here for three plus years, the decline started fifty years ago.
Your understanding of the electoral college shows you are a member of the club.
One of the great Aussie comedians ‘Chopper’ Reid, on the Contact Tracing App.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157381003942201&id=42925117200
I thought that he was, deservedly, dead.
The actual ‘Chopper ‘ Reid, yes. This is a comic who year the name and distinctive ‘attaché.
‘stache
Pity, I rather liked the idea of Chopper with an attache case, presumably to carry prosthetic ears.
They’re all “Fuck’n Nuts”. And we’re blessed with the likes of eugenics Nutters, like Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and Fauci. And then you’ve got the deranged piss ant academic researchers in China and the US chasing NIH grants and opportunities to publish their findings on gain-of-function bat coronaviruses. Publish-or-Perish…. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was built with the assistance of Americans with the US CDC officials employed as outside “Consultants”. And then you’ve got the MSM which just reports the Party Line and does Zero research and refuses to ask any serious questions. They’re Fuck’n Bat Shit Crazy…..
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2020/05/04/chinas-secret-speech-pandemic-plan-to-murder-200-million-americans-with-biowarfare/
It looks like we may be taken out by “Fur ‘N Cleavage”?
“Fur & Cleavage” – It sounds like a pub in London….
Some crazy Chinese woman’s “Fur ‘N Cleavage” paid for by the American government (NIH) and the American taxpayer. Jesus…..
Man-made virus….
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJhKUbd0k&t=490s
Check this out: Per John Solomon — Trump calls for reopening the “cold case” over the young intern found dead in Morning Joe’s office.
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1257467563531001857
I remember when Gawker was around (was not a huge fan of what they did in general, but somtimes they had some scoops), and they had a huge exposee on that.
I wonder how Joe feels right now?
This is President Dipshit getting twitter-rage because he doesn’t like some facts:
““Concast should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough,” tweeted Trump, after Scarborough and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski reported bad polling numbers for Trump and criticized his interpretation during a Sunday night virtual town hall with Fox News of coronavirus statistics.
“I know him and Crazy Mika well, used them beautifully in the last Election, dumped them nicely, and will state on the record that he is ‘nuts’. Besides, bad ratings! #OPENJOECOLDCASE,” the tweet continued.”
Why do you peddle in such scumbag trash? I’m thinking you’ve never seen a conspiracy you didn’t grab with both hands.
But, you’re shrewd enough not to go on nutjob rants that EXPOSE your true feelings. You simply point at others doing it for you.
And look at YOUR SOURCE for this tweet. Despicable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibz7NxxKA7w
Solomon is one of the most respected journalists in the business.
Then why is he stooping to retweeting really stupid posts like that one?
To git under te skin of peepulls like yu.
The funniest part is that the (highly respected) source has no bearing on the post anyways. As the story is the President’s Tweet.
The source is simply informing others that the President Tweeted about Morning Joe being a suspected murderer.
I think Jello may have tried some Chlorox for that sniffle after all.
How do you rate George Webb?
To-may-toes, to-ma-toes
Here’s a reference to a ruling of Sullivan on the 302 issue:
“…editing notes on the questioning of Mr. Flynn. His lawyers said they were further evidence that the F.B.I. doctored the interview notes known as a 302, a claim that the judge overseeing Mr. Flynn’s case, Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, has previously rejected.”
From a substantial summary ofthe case as it stands now – dated 1 May 2020
(https://www.lawfareblog.com/flynn-redux-what-those-fbi-documents-really-show)
“The last document in this tranche is a page of handwritten notes, with some redactions, dated Jan. 24; it is not clear whether the notes were written before the Flynn interview was conducted or after it. The writer seems to be sketching out thoughts—it is not clear whose—on how the bureau should navigate the politically tricky investigation, particularly regarding whether or not the FBI should allow Flynn to lie or confront him with evidence of his falsehood. The notes appear to show the writer moving toward the argument that the bureau should take the latter path. “What’s urgent?” the writer asks. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” The notes go on:
> We regularly show subjects evidence with the goal of getting them to admit their wrongdoing
> I don’t see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him
> If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give this to DOJ and have them decide
> Or, if he initially lies, then we present him [redacted] and he admits it, document for DOJ, and let them decide how to address it
> If we’re seen as playing games, WH [White House] will be furious
> Protect our institution by not playing games
Flynn’s new lawyers cite these notes, which were presumably written by then-FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap, as supposed smoking-gun evidence that the FBI was seeking to entrap Flynn in a lie. The trouble with that argument is that absolutely nothing forced Flynn not to tell the truth in that interview. And while FBI officials appear to have discussed the strategic purpose of the interview, there’s nothing whatsoever wrong with that. To be sure, a possible criminal prosecution based on the Logan Act case was weak leverage, given that the statute has virtually no history of enforcement, but agents hold relatively weak leverage over witnesses all the time. And yes, it’s wrong for the bureau to set up an interview in the absence of a viable case in order to induce a witness to lie for purposes of prosecution, but there’s no evidence that is what happened—merely evidence that the possibility was on a list of possible strategic goals for the interview. And yes, the bureau will sometimes confront a witness with a lie and specifically warn the person about lying being a felony, but that is not a legal requirement.
In fact, the Flynn interview gave Flynn every opportunity to tell the truth. As the FBI’s partially redacted memo documenting Flynn’s interview reflects, the questions were careful. They were specific. The agents, as Strzok later recalled in a formal FBI interview of his own, planned to try to jog Flynn’s memory if he said he could not remember a detail by using the exact words they knew he had used in his conversation with Kislyak. And Flynn, as he admitted in open court—twice—did not tell the truth. That is not entrapment or a set-up, and it is very far indeed from outrageous government conduct. It’s conducting an interview—and a witness at the highest levels of government lying in it.”
I know precisely what your response will be.
Flynn’s former legal cousel “finds” more missing documents related to the case and must now hand them over to the defense and Sullivan.
“32 pages of handwritten notes and 16 pages of documents with handwritten notations–in addition to the 17,500 new pages”
https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1257403467003502593
Sidney is a one-woman wrecking ball.
Bravo!
Sorry, should have been a new post.
Apparently Flynn made 3 star General in the US Army by being a lying scoundrel. That’s what they would have us believe. Of course any appointees in a future Biden admin will be 100% on the up and up, real eagle scouts every one.
Brh
What a let down Sean Hannity is. And he says he is one of the biggest defenders of the second amendment. Hah that’s not true now is that Sean!
What happened? What did he say? Did he speak out against the Michigan Patriots?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity-message-to-armed-michigan-protesters
Look at how he condemns us and the way he talk about us. He is completely full of bullshit. Do you agree?
For the first time in MY experience, Hannity is actually TALKING SENSE for once. This “display” of hard-on, intimidatory masculinity is just simply unproductive.
Ha! Who’da thunk it?
Also, it didn’t sound like he was talking about YOU, SSL. Unless…did you show up in Baton Rouge with a derringer to protest your right to infect others?
A majority of Australians want immigrant numbers reduced. Mass migration and the associated devastating social, economic, and environmental impacts are not lost on Aussies either.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/05/australian-lawmakers-call-to-slash-mass-immigration-in-post-coronavirus-world/
Meanwhile. After Shrub Junior snorted another line he yelled out something about America needing a ton more migrants. The typical arguments were given. Immigrants are simply vital for our lives and our economy. We cannot breath and exist without a constant inflow of strangers. Americans must be willing to work for less and live in more crowded and dirtier conditions and listen to people speak in every other language all day other than English. Shrubbie also thinks WHO is great and I’m pretty sure he likes the CCP too.
lol! great post.. and right on..
in other words.. “the engines of industry need endless slave laborers!” screams oligarchic war criminal
Thank you :-)! I felt inspired lol. Yep, easy for a wealthy oligarch to say. He an his family will never have to deal with the fallout of his decisions.
Relaxing WALKER coronavirus version
https://youtu.be/q4nvde7Bx2o
Ness Ziona was founded in 1883 as a settlement of Jewish farmers and laborers came over mainly from Eastern Europe. Throughout the years the farming community supported itself mainly through agriculture. Since then the industry has grown and developed into a modern city with progressive education, new spacious neighborhoods, and a high-tech industrial park; all while still maintaining its special “small village” atmosphere. This is the basis for our slogan: “Ness Ziona, a city with the heart of a farming community”.
New report shows high likely hood that imported n95 masks are inneffective IE waste of time and money!
https://www.oann.com/study-most-imported-n95-face-masks-are-ineffective/
This is about making the ninnies feel better.
From a nation of men made of steel to a nation of pussies in forty years.
benr
N95 masks (the ones that work) are for medical professionals.
The masks most people are wearing on public transport or in shops (and certainly the cotton ones I’m wearing) aren’t medical grade. ‘All’ they do is help reduce the transmission rate, so instead of each person infecting three other people, they may just infect one. That makes an ENORMOUS difference, after a couple of weeks, to how many people end up in critical care at the same time.
If you think that is something only a nation of ninnies would want, then I fear for what is happening to American brain cells, not just lungs and kidneys.
Benr
Masks do not prevent transmission of the virus. It blocks passage of mucus droplets to and from the wearer.
1. It stops outgoing droplets from the wearer. Coughs, talking, singing, sneezing and possibly just breathing.
2. It slows incoming droplets from “floating” droplets. Someone sneezes, coughs, etc, and the hanging droplets are there and active for a few hours afterward for someone to walk through. Add this onto asymptomatic people and this could be the missing component that keeps the cases from falling.
3. It blocks mini spit from any source from direct, in your face, transmission sources. As before, coughs, sneezes, talking, singing or maybe breathing may be enough.
The virus attacks so many cell types due to the ubiquitous presence of ACE2 that fluid outflow from any of these source organs may transmit the virus.
Skin, sweat, oil by contact
GI, vomit, stool, mucus. By fecal route, oral route.
Urinary urine
Eyes, touching surfaces
Liver
After two months of shutdown, we have some downturn on the east coast but by and large, the number of new cases daily seems to be at steady state to slightly increasing rate. We do not know what is keeping this going like it is.
Masks may be a nuisance but as a deterrence to transmission, they help. The videos of the areas being opened show how little respect the public has for the ability of the virus to infect.
The biggest cause of the continuing contagion is the stupidity of the public as evidenced by the videos of overcrowded stores and beaches.
Not Trump, the people are causing this.
BTW, new reports this AM from a study in Australia says that Kids get the virus at the same rates as adults. A big difference is that the kids get the virus in the GI tract rather than the lungs first. Diarrhea is the opening symptom. So they do not sneeze, cough transmit the virus.
John,
I do not think the virus is transmitted via the skin nor the urine. Urine being usually sterile. As to the skin, yes, if you then touch a mucus membrane. I do not know what you mean by, liver.
Realize that outside, it is very unlikely that the virus can persist more than a few minutes in the sun.
Rashes and Covid toes, purple spots, show that the skin is involved. Maybe the capillary bed feeding the skin.
Urine is normally sterile. Not when infected. Think UTIs.
Other organs being infected are nervous tissues including the brain and blood vessels, both the endothelial tissue and the smooth muscles of arteries. The latter is being blamed for the increasing rates of blood clotting being reported.
The universality of the virus is what makes it so dangerous.
Stats are understood well about the viability times of the virus. Surfaces from an hour to a couple of days depending on the surface. Interestingly, copper is the best surface killing the virus in less than an hour.
It’s longer than a couple of days on hard surfaces, JohnAZ. On a cotton mask it’s apparently about 24 hours, and on the outside of a surgical mask up to 7 days (according to a Lancet study).
John,
I still think you are making tings up. If there are physical manifestations like discolored toes it does not mean that this is how the virus spreads. I mean, that is actually silly.
UTI’s are direct infections within the urinary tract. But our bodies are filled with microbes and urine is usually sterile.
Bah masks are useless when people pick their noses touch their faces and don’t wash their hands 80 times a day.
The only way to get past this is to embrace it and build up that immunity.
Making people sit in their homes for months on end is a waste of time this thing ain’t going away.
I’m not picking my nose, benr, or touching the mask or my face, or failing to wash my hands. You may ‘bah’ all you like.
“The only way to get past this is to embrace it and build up that immunity.”
Indeed. And that is what will happen, even with masks. It’s just that the transmission rate will be lowered and may (only ‘may’, because we don’t know how people will behave) keep the rate of hospitalisations to a manageable level, and the supplies of PPE adequate (which they currently aren’t even now).
“Making people sit in their homes for months on end is a waste of time this thing ain’t going away.”
I quite agree, which is why our lockdown isn’t going to last for months. Perhaps if our government had had adequate levels of PPE and people had worn masks from the start we could have managed without the lockdown at all. But (a) there were no surgical gowns at all in the PPE stocks in the warehouse(s), even though ministers were warned about that last year, and (b) they were reluctant to advise wearing masks because they were afraid people would buy up stocks that health and care workers needed.
The management of this health crisis has been a fiasco.
I forgot to add no.4 which is a mask stops you from touching certain areas of the face. But not all, and the contagion site is not always the face anyway.
You are right about the immunity system. It is really the only thing that separates the seriously ill from the asymptomatic.
Your last statement I totally believe. Remember the surge model that everyone operated to at the beginning. We locked everything dow to prevent cities from overloading their hospitals.
There is something basically wrong with the models that the data is not following. Flattening the curve did nothing to change the total cases just the rate of infection. Western states are showing a slow rise in the rate curves, two months after the shutdown. Isolation is working somewhat maybe to slow down the rate of cases, maybe. Everything is maybe, BTW. The models are based on prior viruses, this one may be totally different.
I cannot believe what has happened here. Two MDs, in their fifteen minutes of fame, have succeeded in shutting down the US economy. The President has lost control, the Deep State is luxuriating, China, climbing out of its slowdown, is loving it. Hitler, Tojo, Russia, has not had the effect on the country that these two doctors have.
I am really suspicious of everything right now as I have seen the states divide between opening and staying locked down according to political party. The central power folks are Currently smiling.
And yes, I am suspicious of both of those two doctors having witnessed Deep State folks undermining Trump’s populism every chance they can.
Two MD’s have shut down the US economy. Let’s be perfectly clear. President Trump shut down the US economy. President Trump is to blame for 70,000 dead Americans and 30 million Americans out of work and the country teetering on a recession and maybe a depression. President Trump is to blame, not the deep state, not the Catholic Church, not the Mafia, not Obama. President Trump is to blame for all of this.
For Krist sake Laundrymat blues are you still at it? Look, President Trump isn’t responsible for your personal unhappiness, the fault lies elsewhere, maybe in your own head.
Brh
You’re getting lose in the details again, then you will get afraid, etc.
We’re all going to get it. Most will be fine. That’s the ticket. Don’t ask the Centipede how he walks. Not only will he not be able to tell you, he won’t be able to walk anymore either.
The less the average person thinks the better. I mean unless they get really good at it, their instincts serve them better. And those who attempt to terrify them as has been done? They deserve the Punishment the Constitution indicates, after a trial by the People – not their peers needless to say. Their peers would let them off as per Masonic morality.
The less the average person thinks the better.
In your case you have clearly proven your own statement. LOL!
They are already begging for the “vaccine”
I was out and about yesterday and I didn’t wear a face mask at all. I felt free and naughty lol!
I think you should get a medal for bravery. I’m in awe. And at your incredibly vulnerable age too.
But if you unknowingly infected, say, a widowed mother of three with a compromised immune system that would be a bit shit. Especially with you having a Christian conscience an’ all.
Not to worry, though, you got the chance to virtue signal so that’s what matters.
I don’t wear a mask either when I’m ‘out and about’, just when I’m in shops. Gosh, it’s so darned demanding of those brain cells, it’s a wonder we cope.
Just get a hijab and be done with it. You’ve already betrayed everything that made Britain, Britain.
Britain being Britain doesn’t require numpties who can’t tell the difference between a voluntary face mask for a limited amount of time and the flippin’ Gulag. You have the self-awareness of a flea.
Janis, the Fear Porn Merchant.
And you don’t need a comma there, unless you think my name is Britain.
You have the self-awareness of a flea.
I think you’re being a bit tough on fleas.
Um its more like your brain is the size of a flea lol. Just kidding but gosh it was too funny to pass up. But really Alba it’s ok. Many other people were doing the same thing. And I noticed some people were taking precautions as they should feel very free to do. 🙂
Think in terms of zones that you want to become free of possible contamination by the virus and protect them. One, your body, two, your home, and three your cars.
Firstly OANN beats up the issue, and then ben-dover ramps up the distortion. From the article:
In a random study of N95 style masks coming in from Europe and Asia, 60 percent of mask styles were not able to filter at least 95 percent of airborne particulates. The study found a significant number of KN95 masks, which is the Chinese equivalent of the N95, performed far below the standard with some only filtering 30 percent of airborne particulates.
My neighbour imports masks from China … he knows the KN95 – which is much cheaper – is nowhere near as good as a quality N95.
But all of this has nothing to do with the fruitloop agenda on here (only the 50th this month): the pandemic is a beat-up to defeat Trump, the lock-down is unnecessary and worse than the disease, all the figures are cooked up the “deep[ state”, the death rates are trivially low, and masks are for sissies, commies, and other assorted Democrats.
The lock-down worked to slow the spread of disease and death. Because the rates of disease and death were lower as a result of the lock-down, the lock-down was actually unnecessary.
Can you believe the way these dumb-bunnies think? No logic LOL!
Look I got under third shift bot boys skin wooohooo.
What a useless and ridiculous excuse for a troll.
Nothing of value added to this site just mountains of ridiculous posts.
Whitmer and Lemon show again this weekend that the Dems have a two word vocabulary, racism and Trump.
The Dem dictionary is the shortest book in history.
The irony of it is they are the source of the division and racism as they mine the resources of hatred and separation in the country.
So true John. Once you understand that all they do is project, it becomes very easy to decode their intentions and feelings and deeds.
Yep their demons! But what do you think of Sean Hannity’s capitulation?
Look at the big picture at Fox. Even Trump has started hitting the Fox folks. Like everything else, drifting left. There methodology is insidious, even the evening line up continuously shows the propaganda from the other networks, giving them additional exposure. Clever manipulation.
What happened? Get me back into the loop. Being out of it is unbearable!
I posted for you above. I really wanna know watchya think :-).
Agree. He says, “Our police”, but that’s the question: Are they ours or the Elite’s? I say they’ll do what they’re told for the most part. So they better realize that’s there’s going to be push back and that THEY’RE the ones who are playing with fire by depriving people of life, liberty and the freedom to pursue happiness.
As I understand it, Open carry is the actual right, and not concealed. They had the right and they exercised it. Case closed and message sent.
Yeah and note that despite the citizens’ “show of force” there was no violence and ultimately no problems. Michigan is an open carry state. Many cops are actually on the side of the citizens but yes you do have those that will just do what their told Constitutional or not. But Hannity? I was shocked! Trump disagrees with him too. And that governor. Hopefully she can be recalled? I bet places like Detroit would get in the way of that.
From a nation of men made of steel to a nation of pussies in forty years. –benr
Are you referring to men made of steel of the Greatest Generation, the one that left millions in Eastern Europe under control of Stalinist communism after four years of fighting? The ones who peed their US Army HBT pants on D-Day? The ones who carried out the greatest white-on-white violence of the 20th century? Many women prefer today’s sensitive feminist (not feminized) men. Just sayin’
Says the commie loving stooge.
Honestly you change your spots so often except for your virulent hate of all things pax Americana!
After polishing off 6 boxes of cheap wine Asoka mistakenly switched to the History Channel one night while watching TV with her 19 cats. The program was about D Day and the above post is her interpretation of it.
Brh
I just spit out my Aldi Primitivo.
That would be “spat” – how long ago did amerika lose the use of the past tense?
It’s lack turned up in a Raymond Chandler I was recently reading, written in 1939.
“This is President Dipshit getting twitter-rage…” –majella
Yeah, 1 a.m. twitter rage at Morning Joe. Why wasn’t he working on freeing the captured Americans in Venezuela?
Speaking of dipshits try looking in the mirror you TDS afflicted buffoon.
Keep getting angry maybe you can blame Trump for your heart attack when its Maga 2021 still.
He is illegitimate, unfit for office, one-termer who lost the popular vote.
Trump 62,984,828
H R C 65,853,514
KMA, crybaby. Your whining about the electoral college is meaningless.
I did not mention the electoral college. I simply stated a fact: DJT lost the popular vote. DJT is a loser. Next time the Biden popular vote win will be so overwhelming (like it was in 2018 that put Pelosi in power) that DJT will lose again.
The problem is Asoka you been complaining about the electoral college and Trump losing the popular vote for 3 1/2 years now. It didn’t matter then, it doesn’t matter now. For God’s sake come up with something new.
Brh
Hmmmm, why are we so interested in protecting Joe? He is a big boy and can protect himself. Let’s practice what we preach and believe all experiences and feelings.
Mourning in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yG_-K2MDo&feature=youtu.be
Trump is a loser, by three million popular votes.
How many of those votes were from illegal aliens?
The same old trope…
If its not broke don’t fix it. You say that and yet you don’t have an answer. How then can we know its not hundreds of thousands if not millions?
Trump set up a commission to look into voter fraud. He didn’t find any and closed down the commission. So, according to Trump’s own “voter integrity” commission there were no illegal aliens voting. That is your answer. Do you doubt Trump?
See how the leftist turds talk about tropes yet their go to whine is about gerrymandering.
Simple fact is illegal aliens are voting in larger numbers in at least two states California and New York.
I can hear concerned readers asking how?
The motor voter id act of Kalifornia of course within a month or two of enacting it the DMV was crowing about having signed up 800k new people to drive and vote.
It has been several years imagine how many illegal aliens have signed up and the best part all they need to do so os a matricular consular card which Mexico will issue with zero checking into whether you are who you say you are.
I see dunce Majella either does not care about the laws being broken or approves because these useful idiots will always vote themselves a pay check and benefits.
Some sobering facts.
One of every 15 California residents is an illegal immigrant.
A majority of Californians (60%) believe that illegal
Estimated 40 million californians!
Do the math dunce if half of those people sign up on motor voter ID and vote!
One of every 25 workers in the U.S. is an illegal immigrant—
330 million people living in the US DO THE MATH!
as are an estimated eight percent of California workers.
The flow of illegal immigrants into the country is now greater than the flow of legal immigrants.
Illegal aliens are voting in at least two states and in numbers the popular vote is being swayed towards the Democrats which also shows why they do not want to do anything to fix this huge problem because after all they will do and say anything to win
Democrats are showing to be the actual enemies of a free America and our beloved Constitution.
Like I said…
Trump’s “won” with 3M fewer votes than Clinton on an even lower than usual turnout (55.7% of 250M+ enrolled voters)
His 62,984,828 votes were just under 25.2%.
Clinton received 65,853,514 which is 26.9%.
Not wildly impressive, compared to northern Euroland democracy but, hey, waddya gonna do?
Janos says the protestors visited the governor with guns. Janos asked: what’s the next step.
We now have the answer: She signed executive orders that put in place a new state of emergency through May 28.
That’s why she’s Governor Cunt.
Saw a blurb/graphic on CNBC quoting Trump:
“China should of warned us about virus.”
I know the Prez isn’t Demosthenes but this really gets under my skin.
That’s how they talk in Queens.
It’s even worse when the critic can’t use a slash properly.
omg
A tenured Marxist bullshitter from NYU would have said it a different way, Q.
Watching the news. New models being generated by J. Hopkins says many many more deaths by the virus over the next month. My feelers are twitching again. Control by fear being practiced.
As I said before, we are doing whatever we can to protect our bodies, our house and our car from any incursion by an entrance source no matter how minute the chance. Nothing comes in without disinfection of some sort. All these rules being generated? Simple, put a sphere around yourself, house etc. and do not let anything in. If you have to leave your protected sphere, protect yourself as much as possible and disinfect before entering your protected space.
This requires a change in lifestyle. I wonder if after the pandemic ends, if it does, a permanent change to a more protection oriented way of living might protect us from all sorts of bugs.
The Dems want this economy shut down as much as possible until November. Remember Bill Maher. Their goal is to increase government control of as much as possible, that is why Pelosi wants the next bailout to go to state and local governments. I will give it to them, they are good at this crisis management for their advancement.
The Next Normal is the full on destruction of the middle class.
It is for your safety.
“Their goal is to increase government control of as much as possible…” –JohnAZ
Democrats want to protect American lives. If you see that as “government control,” then you can protest. Go out without a mask. Volunteer in a nursing home without a mask. Do volunteer work with a local prison, in close contact with prisoners, without a mask. You will be a free man… until you die… but the damn Democrats won’t have fooled you!
Trump started a trade war with China. Then he praised Chinese leadership for being “transparent” and ignored all the briefings in January about the threat of the virus. He didn’t want to panic the market. It’s only one person from China infected, Trump said. Then in February: it’s only 15 people infected and will soon go to zero, Trump said. Then in March Trump said everything will be fine, he has it totally under control (still trying to not scare the markets). Then in April Trump said it would go away like magic with the warm weather. Then in May Trump squashed the doctors and scientists and ordered them not to talk to Congress. The economy is going to bounce back in an amazing recovery Trump said. Inject some Lysol. “It’s just a suggestion”
Trump has met his match. The deplorables were conned. The virus cannot be bullshitted.
Trump can “re-open” all the businesses and sports stadiums he wants, but he cannot force people to go back to “normal” activities, he cannot, through force of will, bring the economy back to life, until he actually uses his power (DPA) to deal with this public health crisis.
All Trump’s press briefings use future tense verbs. We “will” be producing diagnostic tests soon. We “will” be sending PPE soon. That kind of bullshitting will not work any more as the cadavers pile up and get stuck into unrefrigerated U-Haul trucks outside funeral homes.
as the cadavers pile up… – wpa
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like cord wood.
You know you are being herded yet you move along anyway. Alas Christianity encourages this, calling us sheep. The Lapps told the missionaries they hated this image saying, The only time we herd anything is when we plan to slaughter them.
Observe boyz and girlz: He knows and he doesn’t know from one second to the next. Double think induced by Fear Porn. In its classical forms, the conscious dichotomy ends, and the False triumphs. Then the person will defend the false with all their strength as Alba does with the rise of the British Caliphate, Maj and Cargill, the Chinese Antipodean Commonwealth, and BRH, the Capitalism/Communist Alliance against the Axis Powers – even though he knows well how horrible the latter was.
Janos, your efforts are worth of an honorary doctorate in Fear Porn. It’s your stock in trade.
worthy…
Worthy is the lamb that is slain. Lord, protect thy lamb. You died in my place. If I must die, make it so that the people may live.
Is she wearing a Coroneau Mask while typing?
That is a requirement when spreading Fear Porn.
Communist/Capitalist – the good cop/bad cop of nascent New World Order. Yet the “good guys” turned over their White Russian allies to the Russian Communists – to imprisonment, labor, and almost certain death. Over a hundred thousand of them in Operation Keelhaul. Now how “good” could such people be? The mask came off revealing the horror underneath.
Does BRH care? No – he worships power. My country right or wrong. I gave him the corrected form: My Country right or wrong. If right, to be kept right. If wrong, to be put right. He didn’t respond. He “always roots for the home team” – in other words, he worships power. Yet he is an ally against the Satanists. White Nationalism has failed, at least for now, and we have to go with the Zionists and Christian Zionists, as galling as that is to the spirit. The Beasts from the Pit have arisen and are intending to take down our Civilization RIGHT NOW. Any port in this storm – any Ally, Blacks, Browns, and Yellows welcome.
sheep or kids [baby goats].
Elon Musk is tweeting his outrage: Give us back our Freedom. This is Fascism.
He is with us: Thwack, Akmo, Janos, Elon – all Apes together, strong. He is a new Father by his sweet Lady, Grimes. He seems to be selling his homes and downgrading his company, saying that the stock was too high. He wants to lead us. If he becomes President, we will have Grimes as First Lady.
In 2018, Elon tweeted, Who do you think owns the media?
He knows. Only Knowers can lead us now….
Always looking outside for a savior, Janos, and always disappointed when they turn out to not be fascist enough for you. Grimes says Elon is much like Bernie.
But Bernie is not a national socialist. Bernie has an explicitly global understanding of the United States’ world role. For him, the purpose of US foreign policy is not to reaffirm US “leadership,” but to create “a global community in which people have the decent jobs, food, clean water, education, health care and housing they need.”
Globalism is the future. Born in Africa, globalist Elon Musk says robots will replace humans. You sure you want to be backing an African-born globalist with “too much magic” dreams of robots?
Our Robot warriors will hack your robots to pieces. We follow the Orange Bible’s injunction: You shall not make a machine in the image of the human mind.
Tell it to Elon, your new hero.
Who’s Grimes?
Hows her gams?
Just a little gangster talk there.
Hey a black bear just walked thru the property, lingered a bit, then moved on.
Brh
Better break out the 45-70 Marlin, you never can tell how long the supermarket is going to have meat on the shelf!
https://www.steinelammo.com/uncategorized/45-70-government-staying-power-2/
30-05 is every it is pwerful and a lot cheaper to shoot and find AMMO FOR.
It has also killed every land animal on the planet effectively.
Tough to find a 30-06 with a 405 gr bullet. 45-70 is not so bad. And only a little over a buck a shot
https://www.steinelammo.com/product/45-70-government-400gr-soft-point-flat-nose/
” And only a little over a buck a shot”
Saint,
And if you reload and cast your own bullets…less than a dime.
Lady Grimes performs her song, “Oblivion”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=53&v=JtH68PJIQLE&feature=emb_logo
Rush: In Virginia, people who test positive are being called “cases”. So assuming this practice is widespread, of course the stats are booming and are going to continue to boom. After all, everyone is going to get it more or less.
Needless to say, most people assume “case” means someone who is sick enough to be admitted to the hospital. Pure trickery.
Janos, case means someone able to transmit the virus to others, some of whom will become sick enough to be admitted to the hospital.
No trickery, except on the part of Rush.
Exactly what I’ve been saying. Thus do you pathologize the whole population.
Next trend (already starting): Show the Elite ignoring all this crap. I mean you don’t really believe this is for them, do you? Don’t be so fucking stupid.
Tell who “the Elite” are in your mind? Reptiles? Lizards? Robots under control of Orange Man Bad.
A better question is who do you think they are?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8284359/Police-urge-ministers-not-ask-enforce-loosened-lockdown-rules.html
One scheme being considered in Scotland and the UK is the bubble theory. You’ll get to be friendly and relax social distancing with a maximum of ten people. But it always has to be the same ten or what’s the point. But how to enforce it? The honor system? Well that would work with Alba, but most people are less “principled” and more human. It’s going to have to be tracking. If you break up with a friend, you’ll have to let the authorities know and then inform them when you find another one for your bubble.
Alba will probably ask, What’s not to like? Just as she does with Muslim immigration, even though she can’t explain why. I can though: her will is to do the Will of her Masters.
Do you know where I can buy a copy of the Wuhan Institute of Virology Miss Shi Zhengli’s Chinese cookbook of “Home-style” dishes?
You bat shit cwazy.
Early in the “crisis”, a social influencer filmed herself licking a toilet on a plane she was on.
You think he is batshit crazy.
You are the single most batshit crazy person on this forum.
Everybody,
EVERYBODY,
here knows it.
You are the most wacky person here,
and it is Amazing that JHK indulges you so far.
Maybe you’ve got something on him,
no?
Maybe he believes in the First Amendment? Unlike you….
Believe me,
I’m an upright 1st Amendment patriot,
Which means, as you may possibly remember . . .
I may disagree completely with what you have to say,
(as the utter complete a**hole that you are)
But I will defend it to the death,
your right to say it.
right?
So why did you say what you said? Are you projecting your inner evil Liberal onto JHK? How creepy is that?
Unless someone proves to be an impediment or disruptive.
I can think fo at least two or three people who come here solely to dish on about things that have zero to do with the actual topic posted.
Next stage: The rise of secret or underground clubs as in Prohibition. And a whole new class of people will become revolutionaries – and develop an unspeakable loathing for those trying to control them. Partiers, Druggies, and Swingers have been the apple of the Elite’s eye for a long time. Now they’re thrown under the bus? Well, not so fast or easy.
Are you gonna keeps Gays from gaying? Maybe not: Fauci said it’s up to you if you want to meet your tinders. But close the Churches! Maybe they’ll make an exception for Gays? There’s going to be hell to pay either way.
“She slowly and methodically revealed one of her glorious gams.” — Ernest Hemingway
That’s what I’m talking about.
Brh
True. No all those who serve Evil are evil. They don’t know. They serve the good that they know and the good they think they see. Sailors said the faces of the Kamikaze pilots were etched in ecstasy. They were in Union (samadhi) with that which is called “Japan” – their beloved homeland, the best that they knew, their god. The greatest good that they knew. Just so you and America, symbolized by Marilyn Monroe’s big soft (but firm) legs. Or Alba and her loyalty to Britain, utterly distorted though it be. And beyond that, to the New World Order and its so called humanism and environmentalism.
The people at Jonestown obeyed their savior, their good, whom they thought to be a very great man or even Christ himself. Are they damned for this? How could they be? I’ve always found this a fascinating moral question….
For God’s sake Janos, are you really a believing Catholic?
No reincarnation?
You are putting too fine an edge on here, I have a number of sub-personalities, some of them are orthodox Christian. In any case, all the Traditions teach of states of unspeakable pain where the soul is purified.
Janos,
Why not a big O? It would improve you. No, so far as I know, the Orthodox Church does not speak of uspeakable pain. But it is interesting that other traditions, such as Hindus and Buddhism, do speak of such things, albeit not eternal.
But your question re Jonestown. For one thing, there is evidence that the whole thing was some weird, perhaps CIA, experiment and that the people were trying to escape and were hunted down.
For another thing, it is my (sad) conclusion that one of the big lessons we have to learn here is not to be gullible. Children are gullible and adults are too. The point is to stop being childish. It’s a difficult lesson as it goes against the grain, which is to stay with the herd/troop and follow the authorities.
Being gullible might not seem like a great sin, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It isn’t a sin of commission, just immaturity, and perhaps laziness. Of course they don’t go to hell for being gullible.
Ok, to some of that, but address my main point: How wrong are people who fight unknowingly for a bad cause? The Japanese pilots were in Samadhi (of course I think their cause was just) and so are, no doubt, the Jihadis as they scream. Allahu Akbar before blowing themselves up (don’t agree with them).
Those who deified Jones may have been fools, but probably many of them were good people otherwise.
Janos,
Ok, to some of that, but address my main point: How wrong are people who fight unknowingly for a bad cause?
We have a lot of that going on right now. If this bizarre situation we are in does turn out to be round one of an international power grab leading to dystopia, then it means that half the people I know are fully cooperating with it. So how guilty are people who have been lied to? Lying isn’t that hard.
No, I don’t think the guilt is strong. People are deluded fairly easily. Lying is quite an art. But if you want to graduate, a certain amount of wisdom is required. And I think wisdom has few shortcuts. Mostly it takes time to gather experience, then you are not so easily fooled. Why do you think that dictators and other totalitarians use very young men to do their dirty work?
It seems to me that in order to go to heaven and not have to come back, the lesson of nongullibility and the moral compass are perhaps closely aligned. That way, even if you are caught up in some lie, such as coronavirus panic, and you are a police officer, and you have free reign to trample people, but you have a clear moral compass, you will be the cop who refrains.
People do bad things and support bad causes, in part, because they do not have a clear moral compass. They do not really understand right and wrong. If you cloak the actions you want from them in some narrative, they lose sight of the fact that certain things are wrong. That too takes time. Thus reincarnation.
We are on our own. Trump is shutting down the corona virus task force. Reminds me of when W shut down the Bin Laden desk. We had to wait for Obama to get Bin Laden. We’ll have to wait for Biden to use DPA and solve the public health crisis. DJT has just lost the election by ignoring the pandemic.
Thank you Sweet Mountain Jesus. Guide your Servant, Trump, again and again.
I much prefer BRH’s uncorrected America, my country right or wrong to the Leftist, America, not my country and always wrong. There’s no hope in that at all, nothing except bugs to squash as their Leftist dictators always do. They demand patriotism after all!
The Communists are terrified of BRH just as the Gays are of Pence. Wage Laborer knew his type, their yes maams and no sirs, didn’t fool her at all. She knew a threat when she saw it.
Wage Laborer knew his type – Janos
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WOW, it must be going on a decade since we heard from WL. If I remember right she was a nurse. Wonder if she’s on the front line…and still alive.
I’m listening to Miranda Lambert ‘Time to get a Gun’. What an angel! Let me try to get this link right. Oh just Google it, you won’t be sorry.
I’m beating this virus with sunlight (vitamin D) OJ (Vitamin C) and vodka (vitamin X) Nobody here sick yet. I could hole up in this compound for 5 years it wouldn’t bother me. Yeah I’m getting on my wife’s nerves drinking vodka for breakfast and not shaving much, ‘ …but hey, that’s quarantine baby’.
Brh
I am listening to Jeremiah Babe.
You are a frisky old guy. vodka (vitamin X) ……
He seems to be selling his homes and downgrading his company – Janos
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Yeah, and Elon’s compensation for the Qtr is $700 million for making his numbers.
Wait, what? Re-engineer the economy to be more resilient and less prone to catastrophic failure? FA Hayek is rolling in his grave somewhere. “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little he understands about the systems he thinks he can design.” Ergo, we shall choose to sit on our hands and do nothing, apparently.
The banshees screaming about ‘socialism’ have won the day, neigh, the past several decades. The end result is America falling off the edge of a cliff for no good reason, because Americans are so scared of socialism that they soil themselves at even the slightest whiff of it.
It will take several weeks for the effects of re-openings to emerge. Trump is about to lose his biggest gamble. Shutting down the task force and ignoring the pandemic is his dumbest move yet. In that ignorance, Trump is choosing to crash the economy and destroy the nation. As brh says every year, it’s gonna be a long hot summer, a perfect prelude to Biden’s win in November.
More delusional ravings from one of the hangers on in the dunce circle.
“one of the hangers on in the dunce circle.”
That’s a good one!
Hope you don’t mind if I use that in my rants?
benr – remember that you made this foolish remark when, by the end of May,
> the ‘identified cases’ number tops 10 million,
> new infections balloon out to 10 x current daily 20,000+ to in excess of 200,000 per day, and
> total deaths hit 200,000 with no sign of it letting up.
What makes you “THINK” any of those number are going to be reality since NONE of the other numbers have been even close!
How ever my comment was about Biden winning in November.
My educated guess is that Biden will be out on his butt by then and Holy crap if that let that demented fool have a debate with Trump he will get eaten alive.
Biden of today is not the same guy as when he was debating that horrid rino Paul Ryan.
He (Musk) wants to lead us. If he becomes President, we will have Grimes as First Lady. – Janos
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He’s 16 years her senior. It won’t last.
It won’t last. – Q.
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In support I offer the following:
Musk has had a stormy personal life at times. He’s been through two divorces and is estranged from his father, who made headlines in 2018 after it was reported he had a child with his 30-year-old former stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout.
Elon can’t be President he does not even have the one American parent that shoe horned the last resident in the whitehouse into office.
Nope not without changing the Constitution.
If Obama could get in, we’ll simply insist and release the documents proving his Kenyan birth. Someone must have them. Maybe Russia…..
Ah, Janos,
you have them.
Absolute Clusterf–k’: Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force
Missed warnings, conflicting messages, and broken promises — how the White House fumbled its response to the worst pandemic in a century … Described in Rolling Stone article:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-coronavirus-covid-white-house-testing-kushner-cdc-dysfunction-red-dawn-982308/
I see from JHU that, after a couple of days of death stats in the 1,500 range, the USA has once again cracked 2,200. Good job it only takes out ‘Libruls’ and other ‘commies’, huh.
People die everyday in a place this big. It’s no big deal – not like the coming famine in India. Thought you cared about people? You can’t close down the world and then not have calamity. Can you try a bit harder, Gal?
Some old folks are going to die. They’re ready if they’re real Christians.
Callous arsehole.
It’s true. You haven’t seen much of life nor thought much about it either – obviously.
The young Kisa Gotami came to the Buddha with her dead child, demanding the he bring him back to life. He said Ok, but first go get mustard seeds from a home where no one has died. She knocked on every door in the City but could find no such home. She admitted her failure to the Buddha and he said, Likewise I cannot raise your child. Death conquers all in this realm and every realm.
Why do you think there will be famine in India? They only locked down for 3 weeks.
“Some old folks are going to die.”
Maybe you soon?
Maybe?
You need to loosen your hijab – it’s effecting your thought process to the extent you ever had one that is.
Great article. Succinctly put, especially the last sentence -therein lies the greatest issue, just how President Chlorox has ‘infected’ the response process.
“If you were to write a playbook for how not to prevent a public-health crisis, you would study the work of the Trump administration in the first three months of 2020. The Trump White House, through some combination of ignorance, arrogance, and incompetence, failed to heed the warnings of its own experts. It failed to listen to the projections of one of its own economic advisers. It failed to take seriously what has become the worst pandemic since the 1918 flu and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And when the White House finally awoke to the seriousness of COVID-19, the response it mustered managed to contain all the worst traits of this presidency. Trump and his closest aides have ignored scientists, enlisted family members and TV personalities and corporate profiteers for help, and disregarded every protocol for how to communicate during a pandemic while spewing misinformation and lies.
“Grandpa died from Covid 19, a Chinese-made, NIH-funded bioweapon.”
In fiscal year 2019, the NIH funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology was $76,301.
Who was president in 2019?
Pucker, you are saying Trump is responsible for putting NIH funding into his budget to create a bioweapon that has killed 70,000 Americans.
Another ridiculous statement in error!
Tell us dunce who is responsible for funding things in these United States and I will give you a HINT not the President!
insert game show music with a hug buzzer at time out period.
Don’t know???
Of course not you’re an idiot who only wants to score points by saying everything and anything to make orange man bad look bad.
Congress you dunce and WHO has the majority in Congress oh my why the Democrats and none other than Nancy Pelosi whoops now you have some serious EGG on your face.
Look at that now you really look moronic I hope your handlers do not see you getting hung by your own retard I mean petard.
You should give it up wpa_ccc most everything you post is crap and very easy to refute with minimal work.
hoist, not hung
I prefer HUNG
I prefer HUNG – benr
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If you prefer ‘hung’ then you don’t understand what a petard is… but, whatever.
Twuump cweated a bioweapon to kill us all!
In Trump’s America millions of Americans have lost their jobs. It is virtually impossible for any rational person to defend a system that ties health care to employment status — a system that prioritizes its own profits over the needs and well-being of the American people.
In the middle of this coronavirus emergency, up to 35 million Americans are expected to lose their health coverage because they received it through their employer-sponsored plan. In the United States, unlike any other major country in the world, when you lose your job, you lose your health care. That is absurd.
The Democrats should have listened to Bernie … to make America great again.
W,
There is a time to accept and realize that
the average USA citizen is not
of the finest material.
You pays your money and
you takes
your chances.
Life’s a bitch, pretty much
most of the time.
That’s a part of
Zen, I think.
Where is Bernie, he isn’t exactly out front anymore, even tho he still is a sitting US Senator? Maybe the Dem party bought him yet another house in some tropical location … Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, who knows?
Brh
Who cares as long as that 80 year old commie shuts up and goes away.
Americans take care of their own. Plus, Favre scores!
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/audit-brett-favre-paid-11-m-in-welfare-funds-for-appearances-he-didnt-make-015403643.html
American deceptionalism at work. In this case, to line one’s pockets. I googled it and yes, it is in use.
Here’s a take:
http://tmp.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/american_deceptionalism.html
Speaking to that, Janis recommended “The China Hustle”, thinking it was an indictment of Chinese business practices.
However, it reflects even more poorly on the American business/banking interests feeding off the meagre wealth of US citizens saving for retirement. Appalling.
Great. Another ‘whistleblower’ for NigIQwl et al to smear and denigrate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxWlr9rDejA
“People die everyday…” –janos
Yes, of a multitude of causes. But not 3,000 deaths a day from one cause: corona virus. We have one 9/11 every day with Trump. He should be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Not ‘involuntary manslaughter’. It’s ‘negligent homicide’.
OK. It’s a crime and Trump should be prosecuted. Rarely is someone accused of negligent homicide responsible for 3,000 deaths a day.
The deliberate criminal originator and distributor of this plague, the sole responsible for the economic devastation it has caused, the devastating loss of life and suffering caused by this plague, is CHINA!!
CHINA will be held criminally responsible and it will be made to pay FULL REPARATIONS to the world for this act of war!! This is not the first time China has unleashed a viral plague on the world. This is just the latest in such multiple acts of criminality by China. These acts of wars by China will be met by war and total economic and political isolation of China.
Maybe you can get them to py for The Wall, too.
*pay*
Your animosity about the Wall is sad. You simply can’t imagine America having complete control of its borders and therefore you are an enemy.
‘Animosity about the wall’? Sorry, SSL, it’s hilarity – utter & unbounded hilarity, and to see you STILL banging on about illegal voters is almost as funny.
“The Wall” and “Who will pay for it” while it remains tight up there among his most farcical unkept promises, is now buried under a huge steaming pile of his other bullshit as to really not even be worth mentioning.
I can see why GA is constantly lamenting your lack of a sense of humour. Sad.
You’re also very loose with how you use ‘therefore’. I have no gripe with Americans, per se, but with President Chlorox, it’s simply unavoidable. As I said often enough hereabouts, I have ALWAYS found Himself to be a low-grade shyster & a pompous arse, way LONG before 2015 & his opening salvo in his ‘perfomance art’ campaign, and his accidental presidency.
“I have no gripe with Americans, per se … ” — Majella
Phew, I’m relieved, I thought you didn’t like us.
Altho I find that hard to believe since you and your partner Cargill spend the better parts of your day hammering America and Americans.
Brh
When has the kiwi ever said a kind word about America or Americans unless it was about another America hating person like Hillary or Bernie who want to fundamentally change America into a third world Socialist’s cesspool.
Dossier lays out case against China bat virus program
Sharri Markson, The Daily Telegraph
May 4, 2020 12:21am
China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on international transparency’’ that cost tens of thousands of lives, according to a dossier prepared by concerned Western governments on the COVID-19 contagion.
The 15-page research document, obtained by The Saturday Telegraph, lays the foundation for the case of negligence being mounted against China.
It states that to the “endangerment of other countries” the Chinese government covered-up news of the virus by silencing or “disappearing” doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence of it in laboratories and refusing to provide live samples to international scientists who were working on a vaccine.
The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province.
It can also be revealed the Australian government trained and funded a team of Chinese scientists who belong to a laboratory which went on to genetically modify deadly coronaviruses that could be transmitted from bats to humans and had no cure, and is now the subject of a probe into the origins of COVID-19.
As intelligence agencies investigate whether the virus inadvertently leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, the team and its research led by scientist Shi Zhengli feature in the dossier prepared by Western governments that points to several studies they conducted as areas of concern.
It cites their work discovering samples of coronavirus from a cave in the Yunnan province with striking genetic similarity to COVID-19, along with their research synthesising a bat-derived coronavirus that could not be treated.
Its major themes include the “deadly denial of human-to-human transmission”, the silencing or “disappearing” of doctors and scientists who spoke out, the destruction of evidence of the virus from genomic studies laboratories, and “bleaching of wildlife market stalls”, along with the refusal to provide live virus samples to international scientists working on a vaccine.
Key figures of the Wuhan Institute of Virology team, who feature in the government dossier, were either trained or employed in the CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory where they conducted foundational research on deadly pathogens in live bats, including SARS, as part of an ongoing partnership between the CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
This partnership continues to this day, according to the website of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, despite concerns the research is too risky.
Politicians in the Morrison government are speaking out about the national security and biosecurity concerns of this relationship as the controversial research into bat-related viruses now comes into sharp focus amid the investigation by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies of the United States, Australia, NZ, Canada and the UK.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is speaking out in the interests of national security and biosecurity.
RISKY BAT RESEARCH
In Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, not far from the now infamous Wuhan wet market, Dr Shi and her team work in high-protective gear in level-three and level-four bio-containment laboratories studying deadly bat-derived coronaviruses.
At least one of the estimated 50 virus samples Dr Shi has in her laboratory is a 96 per cent genetic match to COVID-19. When Dr Shi heard the news about the outbreak of a new pneumonia-like virus, she spoke about the sleepless nights she suffered worrying whether it was her lab that was responsible for the outbreak.
As she told Scientific American magazine in an article published this week: “Could they have come from our lab?” Since her initial fears, Dr Shi has satisfied herself the genetic sequence of COVID-19 did not match any her lab was studying.
Yet, given the extent of the People’s Republic of China’s lies, obfuscations and angry refusal to allow any investigation into the origin of the outbreak, her laboratory is now being closely looked at by international intelligence agencies.
The Australian government’s position is that the virus most likely originated in the Wuhan wet market but that there is a remote possibility — a 5 per cent chance — it accidentally leaked from a laboratory.
The US’s position, according to reports this week, is that it is more likely the virus leaked from a laboratory but it could also have come from a wet market that trades and slaughters wild animals, where other diseases including the H5N1 avian flu and SARS originated.
CREATING MORE DEADLY VIRUSES
The Western governments’ research paper confirms this.
It notes a 2013 study conducted by a team of researchers, including Dr Shi, who collected a sample of horseshoe bat faeces from a cave in Yunnan province, China, which was later found to contain a virus 96.2 per cent identical to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused COVID-19.
The research dossier also references work done by the team to synthesise SARS-like coronaviruses, to analyse whether they could be transmissible from bats to mammals. This means they were altering parts of the virus to test whether it was transmissible to different species.
Their November 2015 study, done in conjunction with the University of North Carolina, concluded that the SARS-like virus could jump directly from bats to humans and there was no treatment that could help.
The study acknowledges the incredible danger of the work they were conducting.
“The potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens,” they wrote.
You have to be a scientist to understand it, but below is the line that the governments’ research paper references from the study.
“To examine the emergence potential (that is, the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein — from the RsSHCO14-CoV sequence that was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats — in the context of the SARS-CoV mouse-adapted backbone,” the study states.
One of Dr Shi’s co-authors on that paper, Professor Ralph Baric from North Carolina University, said in an interview with Science Daily at the time: “This virus is highly pathogenic and treatments developed against the original SARS virus in 2002 and the ZMapp drugs used to fight ebola fail to neutralise and control this particular virus.”
President Xi Jinping waves to a coronavirus patient and medical staff via a video link at the Huoshenshan hospital in Wuhan on March 10. Picture: Xie Huanchi/XINHUA/AFP
A few years later, in March 2019, Dr Shi and her team, including Peng Zhou, who worked in Australia for five years, published a review titled Bat Coronaviruses in China in the medical journal Viruses, where they wrote that they “aim to predict virus hot spots and their cross-species transmission potential”, describing it as a matter of “urgency to study bat coronaviruses in China to understand their potential of causing another outbreak. Their review stated: “It is highly likely that future SARS or MERS like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.”
It examined which proteins were “important for interspecies transmission”.
Despite intelligence probes into whether her laboratory may have been responsible for the outbreak, Dr Shi is not hitting pause on her research, which she argues is more important than ever in preventing a pandemic. She plans to head a national project to systemically sample viruses in bat caves, with estimates that there are more than 5000 coronavirus strains “waiting to be discovered in bats globally”.
“Bat-borne coronaviruses will cause more outbreaks,” she told Scientific American. “We must find them before they find us.”
AUSTRALIA’S INVOLVEMENT
Dr Shi, the director of the Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Wuhan Institute of Virology, spent time in Australia as a visiting scientist for three months from February 22 to May 21, 2006, where she worked at the CSIRO’s top-level Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which has recently been renamed.
The CSIRO would not comment on what work she undertook during her time here, but an archived and translated biography on the Wuhan Institute of Virology website states that she was working with the SARS virus.
“The SARS virus antibodies and genes were tested in the State Key Laboratory of Virology in Wuhan and the Animal Health Research Laboratory in Geelong, Australia,” it states.
The Telegraph has obtained two photographs of her working at the CSIRO laboratories, including in the level-four lab, in 2006.
Shi Zhengli, director of the Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Wuhan Institute of Virology, who working in Australia in 2006.
Dr Shi’s protégé, Peng Zhou — now the head of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunity Project at the Wuhan Institute of Virology — spent three years at the bio-containment facility Australian Animal Health Laboratory between 2011 and 2014. He was sent by China to complete his doctorate at the CSIRO from 2009-2010.
During this time, Dr Zhou arranged for wild-caught bats to be transported alive by air from Queensland to the lab in Victoria where they were euthanised for dissection and studied for deadly viruses.
Dr Linfa Wang, while an Honorary Professor of the Wuhan Institute of Virology between 2005 and 2011, also worked in the CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader in Virology between 2008 and 2011.
Federal Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson said it was “very concerning” that Chinese scientists had been conducting research into bat viruses at the CSIRO in Geelong, Victoria, in jointly funded projects between the Australian and Chinese governments.
“We need to exercise extreme care with any research projects involving foreign nationals which may compromise our national security or biosecurity,” she said.
While the US has cut all funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the CSIRO would not respond to questions about whether it is still collaborating with it, saying only that it collaborates with research organisations from around the world to prevent diseases.
“As with all partners, CSIRO undertakes due diligence and takes security very seriously,” a spokesman said. “CSIRO undertakes all research in accordance with strict biosecurity and legislative requirements.”
IS THE RESEARCH WORTH THE RISK?
The US withdrew funding from controversial experiments that make pathogens more potent or likely to spread dangerous viruses in October 2014, concerned it could lead to a global pandemic.
The pause on funding for 21 “gain of function” studies was then lifted in December 2017.
Despite the concerns, the CSIRO continued to partner and fund research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The CSIRO refused to respond to questions from The Saturday Telegraph about how much money went into joint research collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Science and its Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Wuhan Institute still lists the CSIRO as a partner while the US has cut ties since the coronavirus outbreak.
The argument is whether it is worth developing these viruses to anticipate and prevent a pandemic when a leak of the virus could also cause one. Debate in the scientific community is heated.
There have also been serious concerns about a lack of adequate safety practices at the Wuhan Institute of Virology when dealing with deadly viruses.
A ‘‘Sensitive but Unclassified’’ cable, dated January 19, 2018, obtained by The Washington Post, revealed that US embassy scientists and diplomats in Beijing visited the laboratory and sent warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety practices and management weaknesses as it conducted research on coronaviruses from bats.
“During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,” the cable stated.
Australian Animal Health Laboratory, in East Geelong, is part of the CSIRO.
UNLIKELY CLAIMS VIRUS CREATED IN LAB
Scientific consensus is that the virus came from a wetmarket. But the US’s top spy agency confirmed on the record for the first time yesterday that the US intelligence committee is investigating whether COVID-19 was the result of an accident at a Wuhan laboratory.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence acting director Richard Grenell said the virus was not created in a laboratory.
“The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China,” he said.
“The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified. As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to US national security. The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
Despite Mr Grenell’s statement and scientific consensus that the virus was not created in a laboratory, based on its genome sequence the governments’ research paper obtained by The Telegraph notes a study that claims it was created.
South China University of Technology researchers published a study on February 6 that concluded “the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. Safety level may need to be reinforced in high-risk biohazards laboratories”.
“The paper is soon withdrawn because it ‘was not supported by direct proofs’, according to author Botao Xiano,” the dossier noted, continuing to point out that: ‘“No scientists have confirmed or refuted the paper’s findings’, scholar Yanzhong Huang wrote on March 5.”
The Saturday Telegraph does not claim that the South China University of Technology study is credible, only that it has been included in this government research paper produced as part of the case against China.
CHINA’S COVER-UP OF EARLY SAMPLES
The paper obtained by The Saturday Telegraph speaks about “the suppression and destruction of evidence” and points to “virus samples ordered destroyed at genomics labs, wildlife market stalls bleached, the genome sequence not shared publicly, the Shanghai lab closure for ‘rectification’, academic articles subjected to prior review by the Ministry of Science and Technology and data on asymptomatic ‘silent carriers’ kept secret”.
It paints a picture of how the Chinese government deliberately covered up the coronavirus by silencing doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence from the Wuhan laboratory and refusing to provide live virus samples to international scientists working on a vaccine.
The US, along with other countries, has repeatedly demanded a live virus sample from the first batch of coronavirus cases. This is understood to have not been forthcoming despite its vital importance in developing a vaccine while potentially providing an indication of where the virus originated.
THE LAB WORKER WHO DISAPPEARED
Out of all the doctors, activists, journalists and scientists who have reportedly disappeared after speaking out about the coronavirus or criticising the response of Chinese authorities, no case is more intriguing and worrying than that of Huang Yan Ling.
A researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the South China Morning Post reported rumours swirling on Chinese social media that she was the first to be diagnosed with the disease and was “patient zero”.
Then came her reported disappearance, with her biography and image deleted from the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s website.
On February 16 the institute denied she was patient zero and said she was alive and well, but there has been no proof of life since then, fanning speculation.
US President Donald Trump has been urging China to be transparent about how the virus spread.
DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE
On December 31, Chinese authorities started censoring news of the virus from search engines, deleting terms including “SARS variation, “Wuhan Seafood market” and “Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia.”
On January 1 without any investigation into where the virus originated from, the Wuhan seafood market was closed and disinfected.
It has been reported in the New York Times that individual animals and cages were not swabbed “eliminating evidence of what animal might have been the source of the coronavirus and which people had become infected but survived”. The Hubei health commission ordered genomics companies to stop testing for the new virus and to destroy all samples. A day later, on January 3, China’s leading health authority, the National Health Commission, ordered Wuhan pneumonia samples be moved to designated testing facilities or destroyed, while instructing a no-publication order related to the unknown disease.
Doctors who bravely spoke out about the new virus were detained and condemned. Their detentions were splashed across the Chinese-state media with a call from Wuhan Police for “all citizens to not fabricate rumours, not spread rumours, not believe rumours.”
A tweet from the Global Times on January 2 states: “Police in Central China’s Wuhan arrested 8 people spreading rumours about local outbreak of unidentifiable #pneumonia. Previous online posts said it was SARS.” This had the intended effect of silencing other doctors who may have been inclined to speak out.
So the truth about the outbreak in China has remained shrouded in secrecy, with President Xi Jinping aggressively rejecting global calls for an inquiry.
The dossier is damning of China’s constant denials about the outbreak.
“Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20,” it states.
“The World Health Organisation does the same. Yet officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4.”
The paper exposes the hypocrisy of China’s self-imposed travel bans while condemning those of Australia and the United States, declaring: “Millions of people leave Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing locks down the city on January 23.” “Thousands fly overseas. Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home.” In the paper, the Western governments are pushing back at what they call an “assault on international transparency”.
“As EU diplomats prepare a report on the pandemic, PRC successfully presses Brussels to strike language on PRC disinformation,” it states.
“As Australia calls for an independent inquiry into the pandemic, PRC threatens to cut off trade with Australia. PRC has likewise responded furiously to US calls for transparency.”
Chair of Australia’s Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security Andrew Hastie said after the cover-up and disinformation campaign from China, the world needed transparency and an inquiry.
“So many Australians have been damaged by the mismanagement of COVID-19 by the Chinese government, and if we truly are as close as Beijing suggests we are then we need answers about how this all started,” he said.
KEY DATES IN COVID COVER-UP
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Wuhan Institute of Virology publish a study revealing they created a new virus in the lab from SARS-CoV.
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Five days after a man linked to Wuhan’s seafood market presented pneumonia-like symptoms, his wife contracts it, suggesting human to human transmission.
DECEMBER 27
China’s health authorities told a novel disease, then affecting some 180 patients, was caused by a new coronavirus.
DECEMBER 26-30
Evidence of new virus emerges from Wuhan patient data.
DECEMBER 31
Chinese internet authorities begin censoring terms from social media such as Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia.
JANUARY 1, 2020
Eight Wuhan doctors who warned about new virus are detained and condemned.
JANUARY 3
China’s top health authority issues a gag order.
JANUARY 5
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission stops releasing daily updates on new cases. Continues until January 18.
JANUARY 10
PRC official Wang Guangfa says outbreak “under control” and mostly a “mild condition”.
JANUARY 12
Professor Zhang Yongzhen’s lab in Shanghai is closed by authorities for “rectification”, one day after it shares genomic sequence data with the world for the first time.
JANUARY 14
PRC National Health Commission chief Ma Xiaowei privately warns colleagues the virus is likely to develop into a major public health event.
JANUARY 24
Officials in Beijing prevent the Wuhan Institute of Virology from sharing sample isolates with the University of Texas.
FEBRUARY 6
China’s internet watchdog tightens controls on social media platforms.
FEBRUARY 9
Citizen-journalist and local businessman Fang Bin disappears.
APRIL 17
Wuhan belatedly raises its official fatalities by 1290.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/coronavirus/bombshell-dossier-lays-out-case-against-chinese-bat-virus-program/news-story/55add857058731c9c71c0e96ad17da60
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You would have thought our tedious Chinese commie pretending to be of Australian/ New Zealand origin would have been first to post these findings, but being that Asoka / wpa_ccc / Majella / Cargill / Laundromat Blues / etc is nothing but a CCP propaganda sock puppet pretending to be of Australian/ New Zealand origin, it was up to me to post actual Australian News.
Check mate haha!! I also got crickets when I posted earlier about the majority of Australians wanting far less immigration.
SSL:
“I also got crickets when I posted earlier about the majority of Australians wanting far less immigration.”
Hmm. Wanting reduced immigration is a not unusual or remarkable political position anywhere. What YOU want is ZERO immigration, including even legal immigration. That’s a really dumb idea.
Oh, and BTW, it’s NOT ‘the majority’ of Australians – it is less than 50%. But while there are rabid racists among them (one even, I’m ashamed to say, being a brother of mine who lives in Melbourne), 95% of THOSE people would not hold with your particularly xenophobic maniacal stance.
https://lowyinstitutepoll.lowyinstitute.org/themes/immigration-and-refugees/
Dang. I’ve been outed. Who can resist the inexorable investigative prowess of akmofo, a super-intelligent Israeli operative?
Oh.well, at least I get PAID. He spews HIS bullshit for free.
(LOL @ “check mate’!).
To quote Harold Melvin: the world wont get no better if we let it be. And God knows to many of my fellow GenX cohort [I am 52] were out to lunch in the face of impending disaster. Maybe the millennials will get us out of this mess.
Ah yes, nature in bloom! Clear skies, air is less polluted. Get ready for those allergies baby. Worst year in decades here on the west coast.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/exclusive-government-scientist-neil-ferguson-resigns-breaking/
Victory, brothers. Big “Science” man is actually a whoremonger pimp. What did I tell you? This social distancing is just for the downtrodden masses.
https://youtu.be/dEHT6fYdU1o
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People like Ferguson and Fauci need to be facing a public execution. Until these people are made to face the consequences of their satanic commie driven deceit and devastation we will continue to suffer under their hands. Enough is enough!
Fantastic piece.
And fits the pattern so often seen among the ghoul set.
“how many illegal aliens voted?” –SSL
Trump set up a commission to look into voter fraud. He didn’t find any and closed down the commission. So, according to Trump’s own “voter integrity” commission there were no illegal aliens voting. That is your answer. Do you doubt Trump?
I doubt the findings or the people he put in charge.
I doubt anything you stump for 100%
The commission was closed down because the Left funded by Soros was ready to tie the commission up with lawsuits and therefore essentially shut it down. Judicial Watch is now suing states directly. So far between California and Pennsylvania alone, four million “voters” have been cleaned from the rolls.
Yea two states and millions o fraudulent votes and there goes the false Hillary won the popular vote these leftist turds love to promote.
I knew it!
Hope you’re right.
Its a provable fact you just won’t get it packaged in a neat article you need to dig for it.
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Our Socratic forbears taught us through their “Seeds of the Logos” that the reasoning man does not have to be an expert in a given field to be able to make a competent judgment regarding whether he is dealing with leaders whose advice he should heed or reject as fraudulent. Frauds demand absolute faith in their claims, treating the confused doubter with contempt for his invincible ignorance. Such imposters may seriously believe that they are omniscient experts. But when they tell young or otherwise healthy persons that they are in the same condition as the weakest of the elderly or the already ill; when they say that in order to protect itself the vast mass of the population has to abandon its livelihood, the well-being of its country, the cultural life of its civilization, and the tools required for its eternal salvation they must be dismissed for what they actually are: quacks.
We find ourselves today at the mercy of well educated, possibly well meaning, but ultimately highly dangerous and arrogant guides of this sort. These Masters of Them That Know are pressing us to destroy everything that we hold dear for the sake of creating an antiseptic, barren, soulless world unfit for human beings to live in—and die in—with dignity. It will take calm study when and if this pandemonium ends to determine the full genesis and complexity of the quackery involved, but it certainly is clear that all of the destructive forces that play a role in the modern world, along with all of those who have voluntarily succumbed to them, have had their unfortunate part in it.
These include the media, which have far surpassed their traditional display of criminal irresponsibility by whipping the world into a state of mass hysteria and terrorized paralysis. The media have been accompanied in their work of diabolical disorientation by a political establishment that permits the cowed masses to venture forth from their cells only under the condition of donning the current yellow Star of David: the face mask. Both serve the cause of vaccine mad ideologues who smell a profit to be made from the panicked mob begging for its supposed physical salvation at any cost. So effectively has this work of unleashing a pandemonium been accomplished that it is now hard to determine whether it is the terrorized masses themselves or the actual purveyors of the great dread who are most vigorously encouraging the chaining of men and women to the dark, back wall of Plato’s cave.
Still, as a Catholic educational organization, it is urgently incumbent upon the Roman Forum to note and to lament how much this pandemonium has been voluntarily and quite pathetically accepted by the shepherds of the Church, who have taken flight and allowed the sheep to be handed over to the will of ideological fanatics and their power or money hungry global accomplices.
In our lectures through the last twenty-eight years we have recounted the way in which the French and Russian Revolutions have secularized society and contributed mightily to the destruction of Christendom. Our shepherds in the past suffered and were martyred to try to fend these horrors off. But now the believing population has been deprived of its right to worship openly and to gain access to the sacraments not through the guns and whips of the oppressors, but with the full agreement of the successors of the Apostles.
These sad and lamentable prelates have made it crystal clear to the entire globe that laundromats and abortion mills are more “essential” to the life of man than the grace of Christ. Why would the world possibly take their “magisterial” teaching seriously after that kind of confession? How much of the spiritual literature of the Church must be rewritten to justify their new mentality? How foolish must we consider the priests of the Black Death who perished to give last rites to the sick in comparison with the sensible bishops of the present, huddled in their pointless palaces, warning the clergy of the physical dangers of shepherding the sheep? Admittedly, they are filled with a kind of “holy terror”: the fear that, should they open the doors of the generally empty churches of the “renewal”— where social distancing is actually simple to maintain, even under normal circumstances — someone who enters might claim to have fallen ill and litigate. At that point a true disaster would ensue! The last pieces of property, whose material accumulation has always been the real pride and joy of much of the business minded American Hierarchy, might then be taken away from them.
This Friday, May 8th, 2020, is not only the date when all of this year’s Church History lectures will be made available. It is also the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The post-war era has been coming to a conclusion ever since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the years 1989-1991, the worldwide havoc wreaked by neoconservative warfare to make the world safe for Pluralism, and the election of a German pope. Now, with this pandemonium, I think we can safely say that we are finished referencing everything to that long dead conflict.
Would that we could proclaim the same for the ravages of modernity! Whether it advances today under the mantra of the “New Normal”, or just yesterday under the terminology of building a “Post-Modernity”, it is the same diabolical, naturalist, anti-Christian, soul killing, and therefore dreadfully boring agenda that the purveyors of Enlightenment have been foisting upon the world for centuries in the name of assuring its final liberation. This sophistic mess of pottage is always presented as being dictated by some absolute necessity or some exciting new insight. And it is in its seemingly more restrained, “health-friendly”, non-violent manner—its Moderate Enlightenment, John Locke, and therefore anti-social, atomistic, consumer materialist manner—that it is now gaining this, its greatest victory in the history of Christendom against a prostrate Catholic Church. How accurate of our chaplain to refer to our stay-in-place Diktat as a “John Locke-down”.
Dear friends, the apparatchiks of the wretched “New Normal” have popularized a fresh farewell greeting that one encounters everywhere when venturing forth wearing the Mask of Oppression: “stay safe”. This is not a farewell greeting appropriate to sons of God seeking a spiritual transformation in Christ ending in the resurrection of the body and eternal life in heaven. This is not a greeting that the Roman Forum suggests that Catholics who are horrified by the flight of our shepherds and our abandonment to the fulfilment of the earthbound visions of dangerous medical evangelists and their preposterous, petty dictatorial political allies should utilize when they trudge back from the godless city streets to their individual prison cells to live out ever more isolated, sterile, “safe” lives.
We have a tremendous battle ahead of us: for our churches, our sacraments, our traditional liturgy, our country, what remains of the glorious cultural life of the West, and of our very means of survival. “Stay strong and Viva Cristo Rey!” should be on our lips as we retreat into our “castles”. But we should retreat into those castles only to steel ourselves spiritually and intellectually to muster the courage needed to contradict the arrogant but confident authorities mandating the “New Normal”. Then we can more confidently lower our drawbridges to undertake ever more determined sorties into a world that must be re-conquered for the King of Kings. Deus lo vult!
Stay Strong and Viva Cristo Rey!
John C. Rao (D.Phil., Oxford)
Chairman, Roman Forum
Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University
“Even if the wounds of this shattered world enmesh you, and the sea in turmoil bears you along in but one surviving ship, it would still befit you to maintain your enthusiasm for studies unimpaired. Why should lasting values tremble if transient things fall?” (Prosper of Aquitaine)
JS: Here is the real Catholicism, Sophia. Still stuck on the one life deal, but they try to make the one a good One. But yes, into every life some Paganism must fall. BRH is right to love his homeland. If a Candidate for the Mysteries did not, how could the whole world become their Homeland, since they had no foundation of love to begin with? Ditto family vs humanity, etc.
TLDR
What does that mean? Too long Drivel, I suppose? Where is my paen, codger?
Too Long Didn’t Read
What does that mean? – Janos
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Do you know how to use Google?
For shame, Q, for shame. Your attention span is very short since it wasn’t very long.
Janos,
So noted, but how do you reconcile the deeply embedded and ancient seam of the Satanic within the RC church?
But our local Ortho churches capitulated on the little matter of Easter, which is in the east far and away the most important observation, upon which they spend 25% of the calendar year.
In the Ortho countries, they largely disobeyed.
That’s good to know. I’ve considered converting, but it’s best I stay. I’m not folksy enough to fit in with Orthodox Americans, who are like other Americans whom I don’t get along with for the most part.
The Catholics leave you alone. And that fits me since I must remain hidden – not believing it all or only it, much the same position as you perhaps if you still attend. Christianity is a true religion, not The True Religion. And it leave much out, focusing on love and morality not gnosis. But again, better that for most people then focusing on gnosis and not love and morality. You are only qualified for Gnosis, by first becoming proficient in the previous two. Or it will just arise in its own sweet time if the Lord willith and the Holy Spirit listeth.
I agree that converting is probably not doable because when converting you would be scrutinized and have to do some counseling or whatever. As for me, I don’t go to communion. For one thing, you go to confession as a prelude. Well, I can comfortably lie or omit I suppose since they have a lower understanding than I do and there’s no forcing that. But I am not strongly motivated. I go to church occasionally out of nostalgia. Their services can be very beautiful. The Ortho services are like the old architecture, and the Prots are like the modern buildings…ah well, I suppose that is rude of me.
The question is what church is available that you might get to? If it is a good one, and that depends upon where you live, it would be good to attend to soak up some vibes and perhaps explore a bit the differences in theology. You mention Americans, but Ortho churches are sometimes largely congregations of converted Americans or they can be ethnic minority congregations.
The outward structure of the two churches is very similar.It is in the subtle differences where I think the important differences lie.
The big one is the doctrine of salvation. Ortho church denies that there needed to be a human sacrifice, that the sacrifice on the cross was a propitiation. They say the salvific event was one of love, reconciling the hearts of humanity with God.
In my opinion, the filioque was also important. About the trinity. So in the Bible Jesus says the Holy Spirit emanates from the Father, and so it was for hundreds of years in the creed, but at some point the RC changed it and wouldn’t change it back despite urging. The way they say it diminished the equality of the Holy Spirit and makes it subsidiary. And I will tell you that on a metaphysical level the real difference between the churches is the presence of, and understanding of, the Holy Spirit.
Here’s another tell. In the Ortho church, you almost never see a suffering Christ. The crosses that people wear have light rays and/or a dove to show the resurrection. The 6 hours of suffering were profound, but not out of line with the many thousands and millions of people who have been tortured to death. Furthermore, I find it unseemly to dwell excessively on Christ’s sufferings for that very reason – any human being tortured slowly to death has a far worse emotional spiritual suffering than an incarnated god. But you see the emphasis – on the joy and triumph of the resurrection rather than endless torture porn. This is one of the reasons I accuse the RCC of Satanism.
No, you don’t need to convert, you are past that. Rather, find a way to soak up the vibes or perhaps read some theology that appeals to you. I can tell you the mentor that I have who showed the Holy Spirit to me. Father Sylvan. I went to amazon and am surprised at the price.
https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Silouan-Athonite-Archimandrite-Sophrony/dp/0881411957
Well, there are three versions, I have the first and last. But the middle one has a paperback for 11-15 dollars.
When I spoke of the two churches, meant the Ortho and RCC
Heroic Freedom Fighter for Justice, Truth & The ‘Merican Way, 2020-style.
Good grief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3p8DSaXGgA
Scientists Found Carbon-14 in Coal, Dinosaur Bones & Diamonds
https://youtu.be/uBYbMl_0t44
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Very simply, this means that dinosaurs and different prehistoric fauna and animals and the Earth itself, claimed to be millions and billions of years old, are not. They are all just a few thousands of years old, exactly as testified by God to Moses in the TaNaKh.
Hahahahaaaaahhhhaaaaaa…ah…never mind.
That was very interesting. I’m an agnostic on this issue. It’s hard to believe that the world is only 6,000 years old but then I’m not sure why it’s hard for me to believe the world is 6 billion years old. I didn’t realize that about radiocarbon. Where did God specifically talk to Moses about the age of the Earth?
The 5 books of the Torah were written down by Moses. It is said that after Moses spoke with God for 40 days and came down from Mt Sinai he looked much younger and very beautiful and had light rays beaming from his head. Everything we read in the Torah comes from Moses and his contact with God. It took Moses 40 years to write down what God spoke to him in 40 days.
Read Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason.
Why?
Akmofo,
Wow, a Jewish person who is a young earth creationist! Is it true?
Since when is being 6 plus millennia old considered young? You need to stop listening to commie Satanists. EVERYTHING they say is false and upside down.
American Podium: The Devil’s Delusion
https://youtu.be/tvnTnC9ldZs
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“EVERYTHING they say is false and upside down.”
Funny – I was just thinking the same thing about the utter bullshit YOU post.
Well, Akmofo, I think 6 millenia is pretty young for a planet. And, I don’t believe it. There are other sources. The atheistic scientists and the religious are often two sides of a coin. What they both resist is a real search for humanity’s past. And, the bible does give hints. It tells Adam and Eve that they must replenish the earth because it had become a void. There was a big catastrophe before the “creation.”
Nephilim?
Why did Cain go off to the land of Nod, in the east? (Persia, already ancient before the Hebrews discovered circumcision – as a preventative to over enthusiastic animal husbandry)
Try reading the early genealogies in the Pentateuch – you know, all those begats – and it becomes obvious that they are cribs for the surrounding tribes’ languages & counting systems.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/researcher-verge-making-very-significant-coronavirus-findings-shot-death-n1200896
High level Covid researcher gunned down at the University of Pittsburgh by fellow Chinaman who then apparently took his own life. Gay Chinee shit gone bad or a “hit” by a Chinese operative, perhaps a “sleeper”?
Most interesting vid. with Dr. Judy Mikovits. Directly deals with Doktor Faust and McMedia fear porn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsi9csLNb-Y&feature=youtu.be
Yes.Interesting, even plausible. Certainly ‘red meat’ for the CT crowd.
Are her accusations verifiable in an environment when ‘they’ control all information? Can you point us to evidence of her accusations relating to the 2011 case?
“Grandpa died because a Chinese lab worker in Wuhan trained at a US University and funded by the US NIH inserted a polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA into Covid 19.”
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
The Chinese have Miss Shi Zhengli (aka “The Bat Lady”) on under tight surveillance and lock down. We should water board her to see if she killed Grandpa?
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJhKUbd0k&t=490s
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19? – Pucker
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Has the above mentioned ‘cleavage’ got anything to do with tits? I want to know in advance whether I should open your link for pictures, in any?
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Uh Oh
87 year old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bator Ginsberg — the notorious RBG — has been hospitalized with an unspecified ‘lnfection’.
The President already has his supreme court nomination on deck and ready to go, and plenty of time in his term remaining term to get it done. Seeing as how it’ll be a woman, and taking into account the pending unresolved action against Biden, how will the Dems be able to employ 30-40 year old accusations of rape to bring her down? They won’t be able to. My bet is they’ll put to use the old standby and dig back 5 or 6 decades to find some evidence of ‘racism’ on the part of the nominee … all the way back to something like a photo of her kindergarten class didn’t contain any ‘people of color’ which is a sure indication she was a member of the KKK, even then.
Bth
Good riddance that hag has done more damage,
Yeah for one thing Big Lefties used her power to crush ‘Little Sisters of the Poor’ for not supporting abortion.
There was a really funny situation with her following the Kav. confirmation and her health scare.
The Pussyhat crowd was hoping she would trash him once she re-emerged, but she had nothing but nice things to say about him.
Others think she died years ago.
wasn’t she supposed to die of something by now? and shouldn’t an 87-year-old step down if in ill health?
https://www.oann.com/special-report-u-s-rearms-to-nullify-chinas-missile-supremacy-2/
And now a new arms race so the US can bury China.
They have infiltrated every part and aspect of our society. They have thousands, if not millions of people here working throughout all of our companies, government agencies, universities, schools, hospitals, etc. They simply collect information like sponges and send it back to the mothership in Beijing. If China is to be defeated then we need to remove all of their spies from the country. Unfortunately, I doubt that will ever happen.
They have nuclear weapons and can’t be defeated. We built them up, and now we have to suffer at least some consequences. But yeah, there’s no reason we have to suffer them here at home or have our factories there.
The real mystery is why we threw Nationalist China under the bus in favor of Mao and Communism. That’s something no one will touch because it part of the Global Conspiracy against our Culture, Race, and Civilization.
Oh. So the Globalists basically set China up as a Communist power so that they could then at some point help to or bring down the West?
So it would seem. And/or to get rich as individuals and corporations – their elite class in other words. Now they have regrets? The Chinese not going along with their agenda? Or succeeding Too Well? Too late, it’s a done deal. Not too late too hound them about it though. We should do that until the put their hands over their ears in fury.
Did they think of them just as a slave race? As just a “market”? A gigantic factory of cheap labor, a billion strong? Then they didn’t know the Chinese. I could have told them better. They are a Masterful People. As many warned earlier, including Napoleon, Do not awaken the Dragon. But they did, and now it is flying and ready to spray fire.
There are YouTube videos about Chinese in the Mississippi Delta. Apparently, after the US Civil War, the Yankee carpetbaggers brought in the Chinese to pick the cotton. That didn’t last long, and the Chinese ended up owning all of the local supermarkets. The Chinese business model was to extend credit to the blacks. Eventually, the Chinese moved up and out of the supermarket business when, because of the Civil Rights movement, the Chinese were able to access the educational system. The supermarket business became problematic as the Chinese supermarkets became tempting targets for black armed robberies.
THEY ARE EVERYWHERE.
Name a small shitty thats doesnt have a
chinese laundry
eatery
gang
What do you think of sending in the Soul Brothers in rafts against the Viet Cong in “Operation Silver City” in 1966?
Did that make any sense? The Vietnamese girls would sell bags of Weed and “Boom Boom” to US soldiers for $5 dollars. The taxi drivers today in Ho Chih Minh City will offer tourists “Boom Boom”, but because of inflation, it probably now costs more than $5 bucks. Weed is no longer available. I’m not sure why this is?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRPtvt9FJ8
boom = pills?
boom = pills? not quite. Luv u long time. Sucky -Fucky Fi dolla.
Puck, I had a buddy at the fire house who was in the Navy back during Vietnam although he was stationed in Naples, IT. he loved to tell the story of how you could go into town and get a quart of Peroni beer, a pizza, and a blow job for five bucks. What a deal.!
Yeah, real deal. Don’t come home from France with the enemy in your pants.
Heres one from the common sense section.
https://www.oann.com/fmr-ag-sessions-why-bring-foreign-workers-into-u-s-when-so-many-americans-are-unemployed/
Yes please tell us why we need more people to work when unemployment for now has gone through the roof?
You bring in the imported slave labor to drive down the price of wages, creating an even larger slave market that includes formerly well-paid domestic slaves. You then work with law makers to make it easier for new slaves to come, and soon the slaves are tearing each others limbs off for access to slave jobs.
Over time, you can access slave labor anytime, anywhere — because nothing else exists
Yes, quite so. This was the essence of the Yellow Peril that America successfully fought in the early 20th Century. But then the Jews rose to power and got over on us in the 1960’s – flooding America over the next few decades.
Come on Janos, it was Ted Kennedy who sponsored the ’65 immigration bill.
He was their front man – as even a little big of digging will reveal. And who has championed it since as a group? A moment’s internet search will reveal the truth. And they take credit for all of it – more proof. Or are you calling them liars?
Hart
Celler
Javits
not one was Christian..wake up, fool.
Like a stopped clock, you’re right occasionally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQkQxvWilk&list=PLrQu8dSg1bHbQ0fVv8CD8EFAk8hTInigg&index=4
its been thru the roof for 25 years. debt-loans-credit masks the real number of unemployed.
Stelmos, Ozone, don’t plant any crops just quite yet. Weatherman predicts below freezing temps, sleet and freezing rain for this weekend. Whatever you plant will be destroyed. I know it is May, and THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, but fact are facts, science is science, it is what it is, undeniably.
Brh
BRH, I planted some peas a coupla’ weeks back and they still aren’t up. I think they may have rotted in the ground with the cold, dark, grey weather we are stuck with.
. . . the machine got too big and too complex, with too many extraneous bells and whistles . . .
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So we took our 2003 Toyota Highlander to Safelite and got a new windshield installed for about $250. I thought that was a very reasonable price. While we were in the waiting room a young man asked about the price of a windshield for a 2019 Nissan Altima. It was around $1200. The reason for the drastically higher price: the Nissan has some kind of a high-tech camera in the windshield that works with the car’s automatic guidance system.
I consider most new cars to be junk. Not only are they ugly; they are way over-engineered. Our ’03 Highlander has all the major features of its day: automatic transmission, AC, power windows and door locks, power steering and brakes, AM/FM radio. But our car has no cameras, no computer monitor in the dash, and no self-driving feature other than cruise control. By 21st century standards, it’s pretty basic. And we’re glad it is.
SC
Same thing with keys. Not long ago you could get a copy made of your car key for a few bucks at the local hardware store, have a few extras laying around for emergencies or whatnot. So that’s what I was thinking when tried to by an extra key fob (cars no longer use keys) for my 2019 Malibu. Price was $279, I said forget it.
Brh
If someone made a simple car with the basics, no power anything, they would be cheap and popular. I had a Ford e100 Econoline with a 240 and single barrel carb and three on the tree. No power anything, no AC, nothing. I could get 26 mpg in a full size van at 60 mph. Top speed 78 on the flats and 2nd gear up a grade. Lived in it for a year and took me all around the country. Loved that thing but the tin worm ate it.
RIP
India, of all places, is making a vehicle similar to what you are describing above. It’s a basic jeep, I was reading it has all the features and gizmos of a 1965 CJ — IOW none. Apparently it’s used all over Asia for many different purposes but for some reason cannot or will not market it in the USA, except as an off road vehicle. I’ve never seen one.
We had Ford Falcons when I was a kid, yes, three on a tree, V6 engines if I’m not mistaken. Never let us down.
Brh
Nope, the Falcon engine wasn’t a V6, but a Slant 6, same motor they used in their Ford tractors.
I bought a New 1970 Plymouth Duster with a slant 6. It was a great engine that never wore out.
Exactly. Take a hint frcom Henry Ford and build one model, one color, maybe a radio, heater and A/C, capable of 50MPG @ $5000 or less and you couldn’t build them fast enough.
One concession, please – power steering!
No!
Further you would have to peddle it up to speed like the moped of old before the motor started and kicked in!
We just had rain in May in Israel. That is unheard of in Israel! It never happened before in my lifetime or in recorded modern Israeli history.
Global Warming is a straight up propaganda hoax. What we are experiencing is Global Cooling, which is what I’ve been saying for years!
It is just amazing that most EVERYTHING on the commie Vatican MSM propaganda outlets is completely opposite of the truth. If that’s not Satanism, I don’t know what is.
Wow really!? That is wild. I believe Global Cooling is happening too. It has been cooling down since 1998. But then some say it has been happening for much longer and the major ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are gaining mass.
The way the corrupt commie asswipes have been falsifying the data to show warming all these years is to move the temperature stations closer to cities. Cities contain lots of heat absorbing materials and these heat the surrounding where the thermometers are at. The asswipes know all this, but they counted on people being ignorant to this deception.
Mrs Green is an ignorant idiot who has full faith in these corrupt commie asswipes. Any argument with her about this and most other issues is a complete waste of time. It’s always not about what you personally observe and experience, but what the “authorities” tell you is the Truth. It’s worse than infantilism, because even little kids have more common sense and discernment than her.
We’re certainly having a cold April and May. We cannot stop running the wood stove. We never run it in May, and very little in April.
I often see comments by believers that the weather is obviously warming, yet I see no such thing myself.
Sometimes the site iceagenow.info has lots of reports of record cold, record snow, record late melting, snow in places it rarely snows, and so on.
We had six inches of snow on mount Laguna in San Diego just 4/19 three weeks ago and below 5000 feet!
My dog hates water but loved the snow.
My wife three snowballs at me every time I turned my back to her lots of fun but a bit chilly.
During the southern summer, a research station on Australian Antarctica recording a noon – 2pm temperature of 20C (68F) with days in high single figures for weeks.
You probably welcome that rain Akfomo, Israel being a dry place.
I was reading Israel has the some of the best hydro-engineers in the world, and very recently they graciously offered their services to help out SAfrica, gratis, where the water supply system has collapsed due to neglect and lack of maintenance, but SA declined the help for reasons we both can figure out.
Brh
It’s a simple equation, Brh:
South Africa = ANC = Commies = Vatican = Anti Israel Antisemites
= 6000 yr old dinosaurs = Vatican Nazis.
Indeed. Vatican Nazi Satanic lizards are alive and well in our time. But “Jews Easily Exaggerate’. The perquisite for Vatican Sainthood, stand by and even encourage the mass hate mass discrimination and mass murder of Jews without uttering a sound of protest. But not only that, conceal the evidence of your direct complicity and support for such outrages:
“The report was based on information from the Geneva office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Washington wanted to know if the Vatican, which received information from Catholics around the world, could confirm this from its own sources. If it could, would the Vatican have any ideas about how to rally public opinion against these crimes?
The archive included a note confirming that Pius read the American report. It also had two letters to the Vatican independently corroborating the reports of massacres in Warsaw and Lviv, according to the researchers.
A month before the American request, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Lviv, Andrey Sheptytsky, had sent Pius a letter that spoke of 200,000 Jews massacred in Ukraine under the ‘outright diabolical’ German occupation.
In mid-September, an Italian businessman named Malvezzi told Mgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, of the ‘incredible butchery’ of Jews he had seen during a recent visit to Warsaw. Montini reported this to his superior, the Vatican’s secretary of state (prime minister), Cardinal Luigi Maglione.
But the Vatican told Washington it could not confirm the Jewish Agency report.
The basis for this was a memo by another staffer at the Secretariat of State, Fr. Angelo Dell’Acqua, who later became a cardinal. In that memo, he warned against believing the Jewish report because Jews ‘easily exaggerate’ and ‘Orientals’ — the reference is to Archbishop Sheptytsky — ‘are really not an example of honesty.’
That memo is in the archive but was not included in the 11-volume series of wartime documents the Vatican published to defend Pius’ reputation.”
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Origin_of_Species_title_page.jpg
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Darwinism was a political theory all along. From the very beginning! The Nazi eugenicist, Sir Francis Galton, and cousin to Charles Darwin, made that plain. Darwinism is the origin of Nazism. But the origin of Darwinism is Satanism. And the origin of Satanism is Romanism.
About seven years ago they had snow on the Egyptian Sphinx – last reported over a hundred years ago.
Yup. Same in Mecca, Saudia, last year.
Wow that would be an amazing sight to behold! I wonder what it sounds like when it snows in the desert? I have only experienced snow a few times but when it happens it seems like it muffles sounds so that the world gets almost a little quieter. But of course where I live if you don’t cut the grass a forest will grow lol. So being that the desert is empty I just wonder what that is like.
Soon you will be skating on the bayous like they were canals in Old Holland. The Alligators will be wearing Trotsky overcoats and galoshes but won’t be doing so good in general.
We believe in the Doctrine of Eternal Ice. They believe in Global Warming. There can be no compromise or middle ground.
We worship God, they worship the Virus. Thus it will be War to the Knife between us.
– fear being a very great worship, like unto no other for most….
I’ll have to admit, you say some pretty clever things sometimes, Vlad. Like that above post.
No, much more recently.
Peter Daszak
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nih-cancels-funding-for-bat-coronavirus-research-project-67486
“An NIH official then wrote to EcoHealth Alliance to inquire about money sent to “China-based participants in this work,” Politico reports, and the organization’s head, Peter Daszak, responded that a complete response would take time, but that “I can categorically state that no fund from [the grant] have been sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, nor has any contract been signed.” Days later, NIH notified EcoHealth Alliance that future funding for the project was canceled, and that it must immediately “stop spending the $369,819 remaining from its 2020 grant”—an unusual move generally reserved for cases of scientific misconduct or financial improprieties, according to Politico.
In a statement about the cancellation, EcoHealth Alliance says the terminated research “aimed to analyze the risk of coronavirus emergence and help in designing vaccines and drugs to protect us from COVID-19 and other coronavirus threats,” and that it addresses “all four strategic research priorities of the NIH/NIAID Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research, released just this week.” The organization will, it says, “continue our fight against this and other emerging diseases.”
Well,
Today, this very AM, the BBC reports that Joe Biden is calling for “Justice” in the wanton murder of an unarmed black jogger by two white men. Apparently one of the white men, an off-duty police officer, recognized the victim as exactly matching the description (large black guy) as the perpetrator of some outrage or another. There was a foot chase, a vehicle chase, and “rassilin” before the shooting.
These events as described do not arrive every day to exploit, so old Joe is making the best of it. The virtue signaling has already made me forget Joe’s Ukraine caper….
Reports actually* reference a different scenario. Apparently the black man was about to be attacked by “MURDER HORNETS” when the two white men arrived and then used weapons to try to subdue the hornets and save the jogger. It was an unfortunate incident and totally understandable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52557609
*maybe
It’s a known FACT that the BBC rots your brain. Ely, why do you abuse yourself like that. Don’t you like being a white man?
Mofo,
If you cannot trust the BBC, then whom?”
Trust in your pyjamas. Trust in these corrupt commie institutions coming down and disappearing.
Hey El, maybe a little justice for the security guard in this story. Probably not a concern though. Face masks can get ya’ kilt.
https://nbc25news.com/news/local/security-guard-killed-at-family-dollar-allegedly-over-a-face-mask-according-to-prosecutor
” Face masks can get ya’ kilt.”
Saint,
Can’t live with them…can’t live without them…what you gonna do?
Why not decide the election by combat: Biden and Trump in kllts armed with claymores and dirks.
We need to bring back dueling in any case. Why not bring it back from the Top?
I have serious doubts Biden could lift a claymore much less swing one and by the time he was geared up and standing in front of Trump he would softly say “where am I and what am I doing here?”
Then he would suggest he and Trump go behind the Gym and burn one then maybe grab one of the cheer leaders by their poosie.
And what is the oranges of your analysis?
Joe Biden used to air drop the Soul Brothers into the LZ to draw the NVA’s fire and draw the Gooks out of their tunnels and then drop some napalm on them.
The words of the Great Ape Prophet, Anglin:
The world would be the best place on earth to live if Donald Trump had chosen me as his advisor instead of Jared Kushner. Kushner clearly is the one who screwed us yet again and convinced Trump to stupidly give ground to the hoax.
If Trump would have kept the hardline “it’s the flu” position, he could now be saying “I told you so.”
Instead, he doesn’t even appear to have followed the news about what the lockdown was supposed to do.
CNBC:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged that reopening parts of the nation’s economy now, against the advice of many health experts, would inevitably cost some Americans their lives. But he argued that the benefits outweighed the costs.
“It’s possible there will be some [deaths] because you won’t be locked into an apartment or house or whatever it is,” Trump told ABC’s David Muir in a rare network news interview. “But at the same time, we’re going to practice social distancing, we’re going to be washing hands, we’re going to be doing a lot of the things that we’ve learned to do over the last period of time.”
Look at how they filmed this interview. (JS: they are sitting twenty feet apart)
They might as well have put on literal clown makeup and just honked their noses at each other.
As of Tuesday, U.S. deaths had climbed above 70,000, with total cases at 1.2 million.
“There’ll be more death, that the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine. And I think we’re doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be back to normal,” Trump said.
There is no evidence so far that, in the absence of a vaccine, the virus “will pass” in a way that allows the country to return to a pre-coronavirus “normal.” In fact, it’s the opposite. Trump’s own top scientists say they believe the virus will come back in the fall and may even prove to come back every season like the flu.
This is the media’s narrative now: we just have to stay locked up indefinitely.
It continues to be implied that normal people are likely to die of this virus. In actuality, according to the CDC’s own fake math, if a healthy person comes down with a case of coronavirus so bad that he ends up seeking treatment, he’s about as likely to die in that situation as he is likely to die from drowning or from burning up in a fire.
We have not locked people in their houses because water exists, despite the fact that a person has a 1/1121 chance of dying from drowning.
Even while vaguely implying that young people will die from this virus, still, they will other times admit that well over 90% of fatalities are with comorbidity (meaning it is likely the virus isn’t even what killed them), and the rest are people who are very, very old.
None of this makes any sense. At all. It is utter lunacy. Every day it becomes more insane and every day the media becomes more outrageous.
But the president argued that not reopening businesses also costs people their lives, in the form of drug overdoses and suicides.
“People are dying the other way, too.” said Trump. “When you look at what’s happened with drugs, it goes up. When you look at suicides, I mean, take a look at what’s going on. People are losing their jobs. We have to bring it back and that’s what we’re doing.”
There is currently no documented epidemic of suicide, although experts say it’s likely that a mental health crisis is looming.
Yes, and I would think that a healthy young man killing himself or dying of a drug overdose because his life was destroyed by an economic collapse is a lot worse than a person in a nursing home dying because they were ready to go or a morbidly obese person dying because they didn’t treat their life as though it had value.
This is who you’re locked down to save. No one has explained why we couldn’t use the $10 trillion we’ve already spent to lock these people down instead of locking everyone down. Presumably they haven’t explained that because there is no explanation.
Of course, I must again point out that at this point, staying closed for another year would mean about the same thing in terms of the economic damage. We’ve hit the bottom, as people are going to see soon. There is no way it can get measurably worse than it already is.
Trump made the remarks Tuesday during a visit to a Honeywell factory in Arizona, which is producing N95 respirator masks. It was the president’s first trip outside of the Washington area since the pandemic took hold nearly two months ago.
“The people of our country are warriors,” Trump said during a roundtable earlier in the day. “I’m not saying anything is perfect. Yes, will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country opened and we have to get it open soon.”
Trump also said his own expectations for the mortality rate were rising. “I always felt 60, 65, 70, as horrible as that is. I mean, you’re talking about filling up Yankee Stadium with death! So I thought it was horrible. But it’s probably going to be somewhat higher than that,” he said to Muir.
Trump’s acknowledgement that reopening the country would likely cost lives represents a shifting White House calculus about risk and reward, given the economic hardship that the closure of most businesses in most states has caused over the past month.
Since mid-March, more than 30 million Americans have filed claims for unemployment. Meanwhile, the $1,200 temporary relief checks that Congress approved for more than 100 million Americans were not designed to provide long-term solutions, just a short-term bridge until the country reopened.
Now, after a month during which the country has been in virtual lockdown, new coronavirus cases appear to have leveled off in some areas, but they haven’t plummeted the same way they have in countries like New Zealand.
Yes, talk about New Zealand. Talk about how they are going to have their borders closed literally forever. If New Zealand gets this virus, having prevented people from getting immunities, it will cause the same amount of damage that it would have caused in the first place.
The virus exists. It is going to kill as many people as it is going to kill. There is no way around that.
Like many people in this country, Trump apparently never understood the concept of “flatten the curve.” This was not about preventing infections, because at the time this lockdown was implemented, even Neil “Better Lock Down Your Fat Wife” Ferguson admitted that it was impossible to prevent infections. The initial stated purpose of the lockdown, and the meaning of “flatten the curve,” was to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed so everyone could get treatment.
This concept of an indefinite lockdown was invented as soon as it was obvious that the hospitals were not being overwhelmed – at which point it would have made sense, according to the initial logic, to end the lockdown then and there, ten days in, when we could have saved the economy.
The reason they came up with this “just stay in place” madness is that they wanted the economy to be destroyed. There is no other conceivable reason they would do this, because it never made any sense to just lock people down “until whenever.” This is abject lunacy, as anyone who is not in a state of hysteria can see.
But the media has purposefully prevented people from understanding what is going on, or how viruses work, and just claimed that anyone who wants to open the country – Trump, especially – doesn’t care about human life and just wants to see corpses piled up on the street so that money will keep rolling in.
I just can’t hardly even take it anymore.
JS: This is one of the most deadly Elite tactics of all: to conflate issues, flattening them into one and thus creating the rationale to continue on with extreme measures undertaken only for a specific purpose. Take bussing: Schools that were denying Blacks entrance were told to cut it out. In other words, end forced segregation. Thus empowered by the Court, the Bureaucrats then ruled against all natural segregation, the races living in their own neighborhoods and attending neighborhood schools, thus mandating forced and unnatural integration. Two very different issues flattened into one, allowing them to savage entire White populations across America, leading to even more White flight from public school or even life in the Cities their ancestors built.
Did everyone get what Anglin said? The lockdown was supposed to be about flattening the curve. Well it worked or it wasn’t really needed or some combination thereof. Then the deadly conflation: Now it was about keeping everyone safe for ever. Wait, what? No opening until a vaccine is ready – 18 months from now. Ladies and Gentlemen, nothing will be left of the old America by that point. As intended, seriously, as intended. The stupidity is there – but it’s being guided (hidden BY the stupidity) by a Master Hand.
Most people will have died if they tried an 18-month lockdown.
Again Janos,
TLDR
America is balanced on the knife edge of slavery – and this is the best you can do? If you refuse to do more, then get out of the way.
Well then why bother looking or commenting at all? This is extraordinarily critical and our whole civilization is at a precipice. J and A have been right all along and yes get the hell out of the way if you are not saving us.
Skorenzy is perfectly capable of summarising the point and providing a link for those who might want to access the nutjob source.
He was probably in favor of forced bussing too.
What the hell does that even mean?
He told me earlier: Too Long Didn’t Read
He has the attention span of a gnat.
He has the attention span of a gnat. – Janos
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My attn span is fine. It’s my life that’s too short.
The words of the Great Ape Prophet, Anglin:
From wiki:
The Daily Stormer is an American far-right neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for the genocide of Jews.[1][2][3][4] It considers itself a part of the alt-right movement.[5] Its editor, Andrew Anglin, founded it on July 4, 2013, as a faster-paced replacement for his previous website Total Fascism. The website also publishes its content in Spain and Latin America, Italy and Greece.
The site is known for its use of Internet memes, which have been likened to the imageboard 4chan and cited as attractions for a younger and more ideologically diverse audience.[6] While some white nationalist authors have praised The Daily Stormer’s reach, others have taken issue with its content and tone, accusing Anglin of being an agent provocateur, used to discredit true white nationalism.[7]
Enough said … anyone who quotes this fascist creep deserves shooting. You should be very ashamed.
Uh-oh.
Statistical rundown from Cuomo this AM
Recent hospitalizations in New York State.
Predominately elderly
Predominately down State
Predominately minority
Predominately stay at home
Predominately not employed
Predominately not traveling
Predominately non-essential workers
Social distancing is only partially effective, the slight uprise through the rest of the country is what the real story is.
If mitigation only controls the worst aspects, what happens next.
Noticed another headline saying that temporary layoffs are already starting to become permanent. It sounds very 2008ish.
It sounds like it is fear mongering to prevent reopening. So instead we will starve to death. You should check out Project Veritas John and their recent investigations. Funeral homes are lying about covid deaths. Hospitals get paid for each case and each person on a vent.
What fear mongering? It sounds like he is saying the lockdown isn’t very relevant.
Sez here back in ’57, 116,000 Americans died in a flu epidemic. Isn’t that the year Elvis released ‘I ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog’ and Chevy installed those big fins on their coupes? I like the 55-56 Chevys better, no fins.
Brh
Price for a new Chevy BelAire in 1956: $2450.
$2450 in 1956= $23,600 in 2020. $23,600 will get you into a Hyundai Elantra without a stick of chrome on the whole car.
Price list:
http://www.theclassicchevrolet.com/1956_chevrolet_prices.htm
Would you rather have this:
https://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/11/04/20/50/1956_chevrolet_bel_air-pic-13434-1600×1200.jpeg
or this:
https://blogmedia.dealerfire.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2019/05/2020-Hyundai-Elantra-Exterior-Passenger-Side-Front-Profile-White_o.jpg
The coronaflugaloo is the perfect excuse for historically poorly run states/cities to ask for and get a bailout from the feds.
Well, here in Ct we need a bailout to cover generous pension obligations to govt union employees that can’t be met. There’s a retired state employed executive in this neighborhood, pension is $300,000 per year. The way it works is public sector unions deliver support for Dem candidates, and Dems take care of the unions when contract time rolls around. In fact it’s even better than that. In Ct, the speaker of the General Assembly is also the president of the states largest public sector union. It’s one big circle jerk, a win-win situation for Big Dems.
Brh
IOW the fix is in.
Sharpies on the inside, suckers on the outside.
In a gouging match (the no holds martial art of the American Frontier), Jeremiah Johnson killed a giant Negro with a leaping kick to his head.
Which side are you going to be on in the Boogaloo?
Fox News kicked Diamond and Silk to the curb. I don’t like that. I’m a friend to Good Blacks.
Yesterday one of my representatives in congress had one of his telephone conference call town hall meetings. Since I keep a landline, I get the calls to participate.
In it he did a poll. Press 1 if you think we should fully reopen right now and press 2 if you think we need to do a careful,step-by-step reopening and not rush it. He said the results were 25% in favor of immediate reopening.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be too discouraged because in that remaining 75% were probably a lot of people who just think a little caution is fine but want to reopen.
I can’t fathom why people fail to see that this lockdown is a death sentence.
I can’t fathom why people fail to see that this lockdown is a death sentence.
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It depends on whether you can stay home and collect a check.
and the older you are, the more likely you can; so it might be coming down to the young VS the old?
Thwack,
I do suspect that how one feels about lockdown has a lot to do with whether there is a reliable income source, but that is not what I meant.Think a little more long term, how complex the whole society is. There will be cascading failures. We are already seeing some threats to the nation’s food supply. And how long will I get social security if no one is paying taxes?
“There will be cascading failures.”
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I know, but can’t we get around that by starting a war?
or three?
ya know, like we did last time?
“I know, but can’t we get around that by starting a war?
or three?”
Thwack,
You mean like the war on poverty, the war on drugs and the war on terror? If you do not admit you are white, the terrorists win….
You so white, you think Malcom X is a porno….
Regardless of whether the reopening starts sooner or later, one objective has been accomplished. What we just witnessed is unprecedented. Just another step in trampling on the rights of the individual.
The lock down was accepted. They are already talking about a requirement to carry a health ID in France. I am privy to a lot of juicy stuff in my occupation as well, and there is talk of implementing something similar in the States and Europe. They are quite serious.
No health ID? No travel. Maybe a social credit score is also in your future, roundeye. Get back in your house, there is a flu coming.
I am privy to a lot of juicy stuff in my occupation as well, and there is talk of implementing something similar in the States and Europe.
Get to chat to a lot of interesting customers then, cooking fries at Maccas?
Yes, Trump could have just spat in their eye, but he submitted meekly – and they’re will be hell to pay for his weakness.
Regardless of whether the reopening starts sooner or later, one objective has been accomplished. What we just witnessed is unprecedented. Just another step in trampling on the rights of the individual.
I think there are times when the requirements of society trump so-called individual rights. In fact there are thousands of rules and regulations that constrain the individual so that others are not harmed, vilified, inconvenienced, discriminated against, impoverished, or otherwise badly affected.
You cannot drive past a school at 80 mph, you can’t smoke most places, you can’t carry a loaded weapon most places, you can’t refuse to serve gay or Muslim customers in most businesses, you can’t misuse public assets, you are often not permitted to do a wide range of things on land that you own.
The cries of so-called individual rights being trampled on by the (very partial) lock-down is a strawman in my view. Strategies that save tens of thousands of lives are a social good, and critics of it have an ideological or political agenda, in the main.
I think the lock-downs could have been much better nuanced to make them more sustainable and less damaging, but countries were not equipped to do that, so a blanket approach was the alternative that was left. A temporary lock-down isn’t the end of the world.
Get to chat to a lot of interesting customers then, cooking fries at Maccas? -cartroll
Is this actually intended to be an insult?
Better cooking fries an honest days work for a paycheck than sitting on your ass trolling message boards all day waiting for your welfare queen check!
Perhaps I shouldn’t be too discouraged because in that remaining 75% were probably a lot of people who just think a little caution is fine but want to reopen.
Just shows what a lot of polling is showing … 75% of Americans aren’t stupid, and aren’t conned by the Republican-Trump-Billionaire class who demand that working people die so they can rake in uninterrupted profits.
Trump is desperate about the economy and re-election … he doesn’t care if tens of thousands of avoidable deaths occurred on his path to winning on 3 November.
The chances are that it is the debased Trump supporters who demand an end to lockdown and a chance to contract C19.
Which should reduce his vote substantially.
Perhaps he hasn’t though this through?
Yeah but it turns out most of the billionaire class, 600 families in the USA, support globalist and leftist causes.
Brh
Cargill you responses are utterly despicable. I don’t know how you can sleep.
Cargill you responses are utterly despicable. I don’t know how you can sleep.
I sleep on beautiful satin sheets, in a delightful middle-class house, on a superb street, and with a lovely partner … thanks for asking – how do you manage it?
I sleep on beautiful satin sheets, in a delightful middle-class house, on a superb street, and with a lovely partner … thanks for asking – how do you manage it? -cartroll
Meaning you take it on the rump no wonder you are so bitchy and nasty all the time.
It makes perfect sense now.
The rest of your narrative is doubtful.
Jeremiah Johnson killed a giant Negro with a leaping kick to his head.
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Janos, I suggest you first kill the giant negro living rent free inside your head
Thwack him good!
Good job, white boy.
When Janos is having trouble,
falling asleep,
he has to count negroes,
instead of sheep.
Big black and handsome,
they hold his devil ass for ransom.
But his family and friends refuse to pay,
for a fat, ugly, stupid,
bitch made ofae
It really bothers Thwack that Jeremiah Johnson killed the Black. Why? For the same reason it pleases me: we’re both Racists for our own Race. Why the anger on his part? I thought he liked Whites who were for Whites just like he is for Blacks. Perhaps he is immature, not knowing what part of him knows at a higher level?
“ofae”
Thwack,
Of course, you mean “Ofay”. It is Igpay atinay for foe.
Annyboy Day.
You so white you make Michael Jackson look black!
Richard Grenell is forcing The Schiffster to release all the RussHoax documents he is hiding.
https://twitter.com/mmdmdabbs/status/1258112055468589057
Cue schiff in pantz.
Glorious.
UNZ.com on South Africa,
The situation has actually worsened a little bit more since last week.
It is one thing to not give any governmental aid to white business owners who were forced to shut down due to the lockdown; but the ANC has now extended this to private charities who were feeding people in these white squatter camps around the country.
Now any money or food contributed through private funding has to be handed over to the government who will allocate it through centrally located provincial food banks.
Of course this food will only be given out to black ANC supporters. No whites or bi-racial (colored) people getting anything.
I had a regular donation of $100. USD monthly to one of those groups who, even before the lockdown, had to buy and deliver food parcels to starving whites and coloreds in squatter camps. Now, they have to sneak around to deliver any food parcels or risk imprisonment and up to $10,000 rand fine.
Everything from food to money must be forwarded to the central provincial food banks for distribution as they see fit…
A church group over the weekend was confronted by the police and forced to hand over 200 food parcels they had collected privately and were delivering to one of these white squatter camps…
So it is much worse than not getting any money for a closed business. Starving people (including children and many seniors) will not be getting food until this lock down is lifted and maybe even afterwards if this law is not rescinded.
It’s interesting that a major news agency like Reuter’s would carry what is not just a very unflattering story about the “rainbow nation” of SA, but one that could also easily be seen as a warning to current majority white nations re what will happen to Whites there once non-whites assume political control — of course they only carried this story while including language such as “ENDURING INJUSTICES”, and “has not done enough to redress inequalities”, as if the ANC, white people, or whoever could ever ‘do enough to redress inequalities’ between Blacks and Whites.
There are two great historical lies of the 20th century, and the “injustice” of apartheid is one of them (the other was mentioned in the comments here, but it’s not related to this post).
The founding/creation of the modern nation of SA was entirely equivalent to that of America: at the outset there was no recognized nation state, and few people — the modern nation of SA was created by Whites, and belonged entirely to them — their first big mistake was to allow Blacks from all over southern Africa to come there to work in South African industries, particularly mining — so many that Blacks eventually significantly outnumbered Whites — the second big mistake was yielding to external moral pressure and giving Blacks the vote on equal terms, which essentially handed political control to everything created by generations of white South Africans over to Blacks — and white South Africans did this even after they had been demonized for decades as evil by media and governments around the world; so what did they expect to happen to them once Blacks got control?
Yet today every majority white nation is essentially engaging in the same slow motion suicide ritual.
Yet today every majority white nation is essentially engaging in the same slow motion suicide ritual.
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whats wrong with suicide?
Its one of the most efficient forms of racial hygiene; because the weak and defective kill themselves; instead of making someone else do it.
or am I missing something here?
Blacks don’t kill themselves but only because they don’t know how worthless they are. Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
okaaaaaay?
and white people kill themselves because they are smart enough to know how worthless they are?
or am I missing something here?
Well I’m against suicide, but some Whites feel worthless. Whether that’s true or not varies with the individual I suppose. But the Media definitely encourages White Racial Suicide, and by extension, individual suicide in the case of White Men. White Women are glorified along with other women, though that may be changing.
Objectively worthless people need to be helped to become worthy of having pride that is deserved, not the bullshit of the confident Black street hustler. You know the type. Don’t pretend you don’t. But sure, White psychopaths are better at blending in and thus often more dangerous in terms of getting access to people who would be on guard against the obvious Black or White street level monster.
Good comeback, bro. You aren’t as dumb as you look….
East Asians are also prone to suicide, especially the Japanese. The awakening soul is prone to illnesses that the merely primitive is not. That explains the deficit of Black suicide – which I believe is a racial trait, not just found in specific cultures. There may be a cultural exception or two of course.
“Objectively worthless people need to be helped to become worthy of having pride that is deserved, not the bullshit of the confident Black street hustler.”
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OK, so all the white people who are proud to be white; but didn’t walk on the moon, discover anything, and or invent anything of great or vast value…
they should kill themselves?
Instead of engaging in the bull shit of the confident white racist?
or am I missing something here?
Well, group pride is a thing. Whites have nothing to be ashamed about having some of this. But we’ve been shamed out of it and now we are dying. Hyper-individualism is a death trip. It’s natural to honor the heroes of one’s people, the great scientists, kings, statesmen, poets, queens, inventors, adventurers, musicians, etc.
Good, though very good. This is a cognitive attack worthy of the Tribe.
No other group is shamed in this way, and if they were, most would reject it with contempt towards the shamer. We seem to have some kind of weakness in this regard – a chink in our armor I’m afraid.
Sorry if your people don’t have too much real to brag on, just Wakanda type bullshit. I do feel sorrow for intelligent individual Blacks like yourself, who probably know this even if they won’t admit it. It must be horrible to be so alone. People who have followed your King (the greatest living Black American) , Louis Farakahan, say that he seems to know it as well. He’s pretty White so it’s not so surprising.
A boy or girl who is raised on such inspiring stories, will be more inclined to follow in their footsteps of attainment then one raised bereft of such. The Chinese say similarly: a boy first dreams of being a martial artist and/or a warrior, then a scholar, and finally, a sage.
“or am I missing something here?”
Thwack,
Yeah…melanin.
You so white you look like Mitt Romney in a snow storm….
Suicide is the ultimate expression of self obsession. The only people harmed are those who once loved the person – just not as much as they demanded.
Self obsession doesn’t just preclude self awareness, it is the very opposite.
Yet today every majority white nation is essentially engaging in the same slow motion suicide ritual.
Evidence for this? The economic and political control of all “white” Western nations (the 5-Eyes and Western Europe) is so entrenched in the white majority that any notion that they are under threat is not supportable.
As someone funny once said, whites in the US need defending in the same way as the Boston Celtics need elevator shoes.
Apartheid was one of the great evils of the 20th Century – and I’m pretty proud if the small part I played (as an anti-Rugby demonstrator in the 1970s) in its downfall.
The trends are clear and many in the Know have said: America will majority non-White by 2050 or before. Ditto parts of Europe. And most of White population will be elderly even before then. The French army will be majority non-White and perhaps even Muslim in another generation – and that’s the ball game.
This “waiter” is practicing politics I’m afraid.
It costs $275 bucks just to get a Medical Marijuana Card in Connecticut, plus you have to register with the state. And that’s before you get any Weed. What a rip off! Do any of the Indian Tribes offer a better deal?
There are 3 fees to consider when getting a new medical marijuana (MMJ card) in Connecticut.
Evaluation Fee – This is the service we provide. For the initial evaluation fee of most providers in CT, the cost is between $175 and $200 for the medical marijuana program. Our fee for first-time patients is $175 and the fee for veterans is $150. The first time appointment includes a phone consult to establish eligibility, and then a face-to-face appointment to discuss medical history and current symptoms. We will review the patient’s history of cannabis use, and answer all your questions regarding the process including how the dispensary works.
MMJ State Registration – Patients must register with the State of CT for a $100 fee.
Cost of Medical Marijuana – The cost of the marijuana depends on the patient’s needs and varies from one dispensary to another. Many dispensaries will publish prices and allow you to pre-order their products which can come in a number of forms.
Renewal
CT Medical Marijuana certification lasts a year, and costs $125 for recertification.
There’s a retired state employed executive in this neighborhood, pension is $300,000 per year. — brh
What you neglect to say, brh, is that Connecticut retirees earning over $100,000 represent 2.9 percent of the 54,172 pensioners in the State Employee Retirement System. The overall average pension in Connecticut is $38,936.
Oh, no! wpa_ccc – Quit it with the CONTEXT, please…you destroy preferred narratives.
I can’t fathom why people fail to see that this lockdown is a death sentence. –sofia
Do you know of anyone who has died because they stayed home, except to take walks or go grocery shopping? That is what lockdown is.
Listen to brh. He tells us that you die by going out of the house into urban Connecticut neighborhoods. Shootings, stabbings, bombings, all kinds of violence in Connecticut brh has related.
The safest alternative is lockdown. Lockdown is a life saver, the opposite of a death sentence.
A few hours ago a spectacular stabbing in ‘de hood’ on Sigourney St in Hartford, last nite some guy shot up in de hood in New Haven.
Ongoing house parties funded presumably by $1200 stimulus checks, at the same time claims being made that Covid 19 is racist.
That cuts your theory off at the knees Asoka.
Altho these quarantine and social distancing orders do not bother me personally and I am observing them.
Brh
” at the same time claims being made that Covid 19 is racist.”
BRH,
…and who predicted THAT 8 weeks ago?
…anybody…?
wpa,
Your response is so utterly devoid of thought and sincerity, that it dies not deserve argument. And yes, I don’t personally know anyone yet, but the stats and reports are that it is already happening, and it will continue for a long time.
NewNormalNewNormalNewNormalNewNormal
WPAss, many die from the lockdown. It has only just begun.
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/the-human-cost-of-indias-coronavirus-lockdown-deaths-by-hunger-starvation-suicide-and-more-1.1586956637547
I loathe all religions but JHK might have meant Bahaism when dissing pseudo faiths – Zoroastrianism or Mazdayasna is one of the world’s oldest continuously practiced religions, long predating the monotheisms that have wrought some much havoc in the world.
Yes, Zoroaster would have condemned these weak tea nancy boys. They’re just Globalist shills. He taught an intensely masculine religion of active war against evil – as in killing them.
You loathe all religions, but which ones do you loathe the most? Don’t tell me? Jewish and Christian religions top your list, am I right on that?
Brh
Cyanide or arsenic? Typhoid or cholera?
You really ask the tough questions.
All religions can’t be right since they are all, by definition, wrong.
Japanese bees have a technique for dealing with the huge hornets: they swarm the scouts and vibrate up to 117 degrees. They can take a temperature up to 118. The hornets can only take up to 115. Nature is amazing. If we can’t stop the hornets, we’ll have to get Japanese bees. Or have ours race mix with them until they get this “knowledge”
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/honey-bees-kill-cook-murder-hornet-113739412.html
“Or have ours race mix with them…” –janos
Yes, janos, diversity is strength. Glad to see you promoting miscegenation.
badda bing!
We would lose so much mixing with Blacks. It was Jefferson’s nightmare. It wouldn’t be worth it.
What would we lose mixing the Bees – unless the Jap Bees don’t make good honey. Europeans make great “honey” in all kinds of ways.
Application denied.
“It was Jefferson’s nightmare. “
Really? As I understand it, he was pretty generous with his genetic code among his slave-holding…
If that’s true (some say it was his brother), then that was his weakness, not his best self. He was clear about what he wanted: separation with Black out of America. He did say that slavery was wrong and they had a right to be free. What’s so bad about that? They obviously have no place with us, as they will drag us down to their level in a number of ways, the worse being actual interbreeding. No coming back from that.
Fair enough. He supported the “Liberia Experiment” which has been a raging disaster. Great intentions, but poor execution?
Poor subjects. What do you think they did over there? They enslaved the natives. To be fair, the native tribes intensely resented them, seeing them as invaders, and attacked first. But slavery? You would think as Christians who had been thru that they would have an intense aversion to it, but nope!
Well actually wait: All good land is taken. I was trying to tell Messianic Druid that when he said we could have gone anyplace and not conquered the Indians who didn’t want us. All good land is taken. Whatever part of Liberia they went to? It was taken by someone. Whatever deal the White ex-slavers made with any little King – the next one over wouldn’t accept it or perhaps even the King’s son. Once slavery was over in those parts, the old alliances must have died pretty quickly as well. So the Natives probably saw the Afro-Americans as attacking first.
One of the most barren parts of North America, the great basin of Nevada? There were Indians there that considered it their home. It’s all taken – even the bad parts, although obviously those people will be weaker and fewer than those who live in the good parts. Did the “Bushmen” want to live in the desert? The Bantu Blacks and earlier Blacks pushed them into it.
THE FAT LADY SINKS THE BIRDIE
She wacked it good on the par three hole, didn’t make the ‘ace’, and we still have a chance. She’s lined up good for the gimme. Coming in the fall. Fat Gerty sinks the dirty Corona birdie. Game over.
Taxonomists are trying to name the new Human species, but can’t decide between Homo Gluttonous or Homo Voracious. Remember,
Doomans are not yet a new species, but rather a subgroup of Humans within the species about to be named above. They are ‘Human’, but execrably so, and very dangerous.
They are a relatively small group, but have great power and influence over the world’s development. Thus Sapiens may very well fall prey to Gluttonous, and the Doomans will be left to rule a world destroyed.
p.s. Golf stinks
Communist China Has Taken Over Canada – CBC Exposed
https://youtu.be/GNOmP7auk_0
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It’s man-made….
Start listening at 23:00
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzGqVyAtlg
I knew that already a decade ago. They are all lab-made including the retroviruses that cause cancer and most if not all chronic diseases.
Is there no bottom to your pit of paranoia?
I should be clearer. The retroviruses cause cancer. The various Herpes viruses and various EB viruses etc are responsible for the other chronic diseases. These chronic diseases coincide with the lab work done on viruses and the transmission of the various viruses to the general population.
Nothing is coincidence
Nothing is by accident
Everything is planned
“Research by a team of scientists based at England’s Cambridge and Oxford universities, published in the journal Virus Evolution, has found that proto-humans reacquired the herpes simplex-2 virus (HSV2), responsible for genital herpes, somewhere between three and 1.4 million years ago.(Oct 3, 2017)”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/meet-the-guy-who-gave-us-herpes
“…the most significant of these events is the emergence of antigenically novel influenza A viruses in humans, leading to pandemics. Influenza pandemics have been reported for at least 500 years, with inter-pandemic intervals averaging approximately 40 years.”
“The world’s oldest documented case of cancer hails from ancient Egypt in 1500 BC. The details were recorded on papyrus, documenting eight cases of tumors occurring on the breast.”
So, if all these viruses are manufactured and nothing like this actually occurs in Nature, I guess it was the Annunaki (from outer space?) splicing all those genes of RNA just to afflict humankind, right?
But wait! There’s more! Even virally-caused ‘chronic’ conditions date back centuries:
“Cases of myocarditis have been documented as early as the 1600s, but the term “myocarditis”, implying an inflammatory process of the myocardium, was introduced by German physician Joseph Friedrich Sobernheim in 1837.
> Causes: Usually viral infection, also bacterial i…
> Complications: Heart failure due to dilated car…
> Other names: Inflammatory cardiomyopathy”
It’s man-made….
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There are multiple dozens and dozens of lab-made variations on a virus. You know they are Not natural, because if they were natural there could not be a patent made on them. These variations are custom made to be activated in their virulence by certain foods. A favourite food are metals which are fed to animals, are sprayed on crops, added to cosmetic and hygiene products, and found in dental fillings, water pipes, or are spayed into the air we breath via chemtrails, and are concentrated and designed to bypass the liver in Vaccines.
Then, your immune system becomes overburdened by the viruses party and the chronic diseases arrive. To which you then go to the MD certified pharma tools and quacks for prescription drugs. These prescription drugs then destroy your liver and oops you are dead and gone from the cascading implications before you can collect on the money the gov mafia stole from you all them years you were slaving for a retirement.
Nothing is coincidence
Nothing is by accident
Everything is planned
This relates to a comment someone made up-thread but I can’t remember what time or by whom.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-gov-cuomo-says-its-shocking-most-new-coronavirus-hospitalizations-are-people-staying-home.html
Watch Trump pout, the poor nurse kiss ass, lick boot, or whatever, and probably wish she had never told the truth.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/06/donald-trump-contradicts-nurse-ppe-sot-lead-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
Jake comments on the body language near the end. And this petulant, peevish, pompous, prattling, purse grabbing plunderer wants to lead us for four more years. Is there no other Republican who can do so?
#OrangeManBad
Like I said earlier, occasionally, you’re right.
When I post here I am nearly always right, Jello.
My trick is having hard evidence where required.
“…nearly always right”.
Yes, quite likely. In this case (above) you most certainly are!.
‘…hard evidence…’
As often as not, your ‘evidence’ is little more than a reference to a specialist or partisan website that supports your views – or shapes them, most likely. Just like most people.
After all, you’re just a mere mortal, but you have suffered the undignified misfortune of falling down the CT rabbit hole.
Even the smartest people make this mistake – the CT environment is chocka with very ‘smart’ people., with active imaginations and a tendency to see patterns where there aren’t any.
I’ve been there too. It’s only when you clamber back out of it again, that the true nuttiness of the ‘perspective’ becomes apparent.
As the saying goes “Hindsight is 20/20.”
The very odd ‘akamofo’ is a perfect illustration of what I’m saying here. Very smart, well educated, and articulate, yet a worthy candidate for “The Monster Raving Loony Party”.
I don’t actually expect any sort of direct answer to this but I’ll ask anyway – do you subscribe to his conspiracies or do you just cherry-pick what fits YOUR narrative?
He’s a legend in his own mind.
Akfomo is a hard hitter. I don’t agree with everything he writes, then again, I don’t agree with everything I write. He certainly doesn’t take any sh#t from anybody and doesn’t back down.
Same thing with KesaAnna, revealing truths rooted in lessons learned in the school of hard knocks, not the gender studies program at Byrn Mawr.
Brh
Are you kidding???! This is STILL Obama’s fault..?
TS, I’m surprised you haven’t been branded as a RINO yet. benr is usually FASTIDIOUS at “calling them out” (he so brave!)
Gotta call it like it is. What’s in a name? Surely a politician by any other would smell as foul. Yes, that’s right, they’re not all so bad.
I think that I’m more of an Independent now, leaning Republican.
But as Obama would say, make no mistake, I just can’t go for Biden. Maybe AOC in 2024. Let ’em howl, pull their hair out.
Gee thanks for noticing.
A call out means I’m on your mind.
6’2″ 200 Pounds tan blonde hair from surfing four times a week.
Thank God they have stopped the nonsense of not allowing people to surf in San Diego!
Eat your heart out I’m TAKEN.
“Important people have called me and told me what an incredible job we’ve done.” Nobody called, it’s all made up in his mind. “Biden called racist at the time, he has called and apologized.” Never happened, only in his mind, all made up. “Sporadic for you, not for other places.” No it’s a scarcity everywhere, only in your mind are these things plentiful.
“the class of people who hold most of the stocks are doing just fine while everybody else stares into that old abyss staring back at them.”
Not to rain on your parade, but the working masses are indeed tethered to Wall Street. The sword of Domacles hangs over them as well. The skunk at that garden party is the 401K, which replaced traditional pensions shed by corporations 30 years ago. Oddly enough, that was an unintended consequence of the perversion of IRS rules governing executive compensation.
The market is the scoreboard now. All eyes are upon it 24/7, 365. If the score slumps, it’s game over for everyone. Then bullets become currency.
Are you one of those blokes who trusts completely in Authority and who thinks that everything contrary to the Authority is a big “Conspiracy Theory”?
It looks like Trump may have metaphorically put a gun to X…I’s head and said?: Buy a bunch of American stuff, or I’ll release the Report proving that the Covid 19 virus is a bioweapon.”
Of course, this will ultimately never work with the Chinese as they’re too slippery.
I thought it worked the other way around. The Americans are supposed to buy a bunch of cheap Chinese junk and then they slip in and steal all of our secrets and all because we are goofballs who trust and love everybody and want everybody to share in our land and blah blah blah.
It’d be very tempting for the Chinese to create a bioweapon because of the intense thrill of it as a means of Empowerment and because of the thrill and excitement of the Americans’ vulnerability to it. The Chinese would coordinate with the thought of its possibility and then become an instrument of its genesis. The Thought of It would be too tempting for the Chinese given all of the deep dark evil mental pathologies brought about as a result of repeated political traumas of decades of Comm…unist rule, particularly the Cultural Revolution. The Killing Fields…
Created with money sent by Obamas administration.
If you do not believe this Story, below is the DOJ “Link” FOR YOU TO SIMPLY CLICK-ON :
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
Federal Agents arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, with lying to the Department of Defense about secret monthly payments of $50,000.00 paid by China and receipt of millions more to help set up a chemical/biological “Research” laboratory in China.
Also arrested were two Chinese “Students” working as research assistants, one of whom was actually a lieutenant in the Chinese Army, the other captured at Logan Airport as he tried to catch a flight to China – smuggling 21 vials of “Sensitive Biological Samples” according to the FBI.
Oh, almost forgot. The research lab that the good Harvard Professor had helped set up?
Well—-It’s located at the Wuhan University of Technology.
Wuhan China is ground zero to the global pandemic known as the “Corona virus” which has spread rapidly throughout the World & the U.S., and now killed approximately 77,000 people in the U.S. and Hundreds of Thousands Worldwide.
It was a joint Chinese-American globalist initiative. Elites from many nations were involved. Look how simultaneous the lockdowns have been. It was all planned and the parts that weren’t planned they still worked together on. Notice nobody really super famous got touched by it. They must do whatever it takes to destroy the growing populist and nationalist movements. That all goes against the world order their attempting to set up.
Yes, a massive conspiracy that many are involved in.
Nobody famous? Do you think the actor, what’s his name (Wilson!), and Boris Johnson were faking it?
Honestly I am beginning to think maybe they did fake it. But if they didn’t they all recovered. Their have been some lesser stars that they say have died from the virus. But nobody really big you know. And Boris Johnson may be about as trustworthy as an American counterpart RINO.
Btw, somebody said Tom Hanks was actually dead and that they are using deep fakes to make it appear he is still alive. I don’t necessarily believe it but its interesting nonetheless. A secret tie to human trafficking is what was alleged.
Do you remember all of those Millennials who during the job interview would tell you about how “passionate” they are about various, sundry “Whatever”?
I wish that somebody would develop a passion to invent a public toilet that didn’t spray shit everywhere so that we don’t have to worry about walking into a public toilet literally sprayed with Covid 19 virus.
I’m terribly passionate about whatever for sure! Um you know, you could just put the lid down when you flush and that probably helps like a whole lot. Otherwise just hold it till you get home. Gosh its so tough to be a genius! 😉
SSL, I don’t know about the ladies room but the shitters in the men’s room don’t have lids. Perhaps I should re-access my sexual identity today and check out the ladies room.
Lol that is your assignment for today!
All chuckles aside.
Reopening all public places. If the virus passes out through the GI and urinary systems, refitting bathrooms is going to be a bitch. Males do have open seats AND urinals which have spray all over the place. Open toilets can spray 10 to 12 feet out. If the goal has to be elimination of spray, it will take a major redesign of all the fixtures. Not a small problem.
“lessons learned in the school of hard knocks“ —brh
That school is not accredited. It is full of false lessos, fake news, and racism.
It also lacks Safe Spaces,
and it has triggers,
and micro-aggressions,
so really,
it will just never work.
“All chuckles aside…. If the virus passes out through the GI and urinary systems,” —jaz
That gave me a chuckle. How is a virus that cannot survive a little injection of Lysol supposed to survive strong gastric acids?
Your statement is indicative of really how little we know about this bug.
If you read the Lysol and disinfectant wipes, it will say that the surface has to be wet for 4 minutes and further wiping or spraying must be done for those four minutes to keep it wet. Uh-huh.
It is a fact that kids get the bug in their GI tract as their first symptom is diarrhea. The answer to your inquiry is that the virus passes through the circulatory system to organs all over the body. My belief is the multiple infection points overwhelm the body, shocking it into cytokine storm. The initial infection point is not the stomach.
Kids do exceedingly well against Covid, as they do against Influenza. Get a grip John. We’re all going to get this. That’s simply they way it is. They’re using your terror against you – and making you an Idolater. For fear is a very great worship, is it not? Fear God instead.
Amen.
Covid is not racist, although there is some scuttlebutt that Asians have more ACE2 receptors in their lungs. But as to blacks, we have a national and no doubt western world wide shortage of vitamin D and this is gotten by the sun unless you supplement, so most people become quite low in the winter months. Black people need about 4 times longer in the sun to tank up on vitamin D.
Open the beaches and hiking trails!
Think of the illogic here. UV light and immunity condition is critical to fighting off the bug. Can we get people to quit spitting , belching, coughing, sneezing, touching, talking, singing, touching each other within six feet? That part I am not so sure of.
Reminds me of smoking. Once smoking secondary smoke was tied to respiratory decline, smoking in public became a no-no. Smoking areas only. This virus gives very similar respiratory risk as smoking. Can you see sneeze, cough, talking areas? Uh-huh.
Cuomo reiterating today that 66% of the hospitalizations were infected at home. Hmmm.
The races have different strengths. This is a Black weakness living in the non-tropics. And they hate hiking because they fear snakes. This may be inborn. Also they don’t tend to like exertion unless they are in some kind of official training for competition. They like competition.
You are correct, but even with beaches, etc., closed you can easily get the Vit. D you need. Just go in the sun for about 20 mins. at midday. Supplement as needed.
Most adults probably need at least 4000 IUs per day, according to a lot of recent research, and some will need more.
The school of hard knocks teaches knowing reality and how the world works, it teaches in a way that values certainty, stability, steadiness.
To cherish uncertainty, to thrive in uncharted territory, to accept not knowing.and to experience mystery, a superior education is at Barnard, Wellesley, and Smith.
Boy, if the Democratic Party has any thoughts of replacing Joe Biden as their candidate they’d better start moving. With the general election less than 6 months away, time is short, is it not. Even you die hard Democrats would have to admit Biden isn’t setting the world on fire as a candidate. A younger, more vigorous man would find a way of getting his face out there, despite conditions. Standing at the factory gate handing out PPEs, at the local HS distributing food boxes, appearances at hospitals, something to garner some attention, something to show he’s still above ground. Holing up in his cellar isn’t cutting it. I’m afraid hating President Trump will not be enough. “Roll on 3 Nov.”, indeed!
Brh
Joe Biden is the heir apparent because none of the other candidates we just saw have much national recognition. Every body knows Trump, thanks to the media. Most folks know Biden because of his VP days. Everyone knew HRC. The rest of the field was pretty local.
The problem of the Dems is not Biden, but his silence. The Dems have no ideas, and consequently no impact on what is going on right now. Without an investigation of Trump going on, they have nothing to even talk about. If the Dems are thinking that shutting down the economy is going to get Trump, they are wrong. The virus is destroying their access to the public forum. Sorta like FDR through the Depression and the war, he won because he took charge. The GOP had nothing then, just like the Dems today.
JAZ do you see any similarity with this Black Swan event submerging Trump’s presidency, and the Iranian Hostage crisis taking down Jimmy Carter in ’79? Carter probably would have won in ’80 if events in Tehran did not happen. Carter and Trump were at the helm when the ship ran aground and ultimately they are held responsible.
Brh
Uh, let’s review this.
Biden has extremely poor cognitive function, is a sexual predator who is on film in the Senate molesting children, and is up to his ears in corruption in the Ukraine and China.
In other words, Biden is their biggest problem where the election is concerned. Trump and co. have not even begun attacking him at this point, and much of the public is aware of all of the above.
Dems had a pretty good candidate back in ’16, Jim Webb; never got any traction tho. I was hoping at the time he’d team up with Scott Walker and form a fusion ticket. Is Jim Webb available? Is he Woke enough for Dems in 2020? He wrote a pretty good book about the hardscrabble Scots-Irish of Appalachia, his people.
Brh
Are you kidding? He’s generations behind the Democratic Party. The official policy is hatred towards Whites now. My people were Union and Democrat. John F Kennedy, Jesus Christ, and my Uncle, Father John were the pictures on the wall. Then the Democrats spat in our face after the coup, starting with little brother Ted and then bussing, etc.
Webb is old school and is in a backwater. Otherwise I’d assume he’d jump to the Republicans.
Biden’s silence is strategic. What’s the saying about not interfering when your opponent is busy destroying himself?
I pray for Trump now that he got the virus from his valet.
Not yet, he tested negative. He sheds Viruses and Democrats like water off a duck’s back.
Wishful thinking at its best. If the virus does not abate, no debates, no conventions, no open elections. Biden will never have a chance to get in word one.
That’s the Plan. Trump would wipe the floor with the Sleepy Confabulator and they know that. So we have a Covid19 internet election and Plugs somehow pulls off a “miracle”.
Just checked out the hospitalizations statistics of a bunch of states.
Interesting, most states are still showing a slowly increasing daily cases, including all the western states including California and Illinois. The rate rose in March, achieved sort of a steady state and have slowly increased. Even the East Coast states that experienced the surge are not trending toward zero, but leveling off at steady state rates. No information on re-infections.
It is like a monster is out there taking bites out of the population, so many per day. Is everyone eventually going to get this bug? Is immunity available, lifetime, is the vaccine going to work? Seasonal?
We were going to cruise this November. They just cancelled it. November, people are starting to plan realistically.
I will tell you one thing. If the miracle die off does not happen, this world will never be the same. We are at the mercy of the smallest “life form” on the planet.
So John you still haven’t said anything about the numbers being padded. I’m interested in hearing your opinion. There is evidence that hospitals and funeral homes have big monetary incentives to have covid cases and deaths. The spooks are doing everything possible to remove such info from the web.
The Spook is our misfortune
Padded, maybe. The slight increase may be from increased testing. The stats are Johns Hopkins sourced. The steady state is alarming to me this far from the beginning. Two months of isolation and it is still taking out the same amount every day.
Long term planners are starting to batten down the hatches. Trump’s dream that springtime was going to stop it is evaporating. At a certain point, permanent change is going to start. The service sector that Obama was so proud of is collapsing.
I had a telemarketing call from a cruise line today. I immediately hung up. I try to never, ever do business with any company that resorts to harassment to drum up business. I would never go on a cruise anyway as I’m not exactly a people person almost to the point of misanthropy. I can’t imagine a more miserable experience than to be out at sea with a sea of humanity. I don’t recall the company name and I since I didn’t listen to the spiel, don’t know when the planned departure date was, but they must be planning on reopening soon.
I had a telemarketing call from a cruise line today. – cbeard
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Read ‘A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again by David Foster Wallace.
In this exuberantly praised book – a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner – David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
Didn’t Wallace hang himself?
Yes, he suffered with severe depression.
BTW, the wife and I bought some Tito’s today and made a batch of your Screw Drivers. Loved it!!!!!!!!
So here is a link to “Plandemic”. A short film that has been scrubbed from Youtube and Vimeo. I couldn’t find it but my daughter did. I have not watched it. It is about 26 minutes long. Make of it what you will. There must be a reason why it is being removed everywhere. If it is quackery let the viewer decide.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ejJBlJcBtswp/?fbclid=IwAR2J8jizfdeujLZaoadOgHtSJ5QE5HyhHg8FUqAPH-aJwYbh2YtFX1RSEAg
Thanks for posting! Youtube is removing videos like crazy!
The Youtube is our misfortune
Well it could be good but the censorship is not. Why do you say that?
YouTube assumes a great amount of control over
the way many participants speak.
I do not participate,
however,
I’m close to someone who does.
And let me tell you,
it is not a pretty picture.
The Train that is never late….
The UPI, this AM, is reporting that black citizens of the US are particularly hard represented in Covid hospitalizations and resulting deaths…upwards of twice the expected percentages of their demographic representation.
The report cites social and economic reasons.
Social reasons. I reject economic reasons as a primary cause.
Two months ago, I suggested that those who were socially “indifferent” or irresponsible would be reflected in the medical statistics.
The ghetto culture that many blacks embrace would consider social responsibility, perhaps, as “acting white” or being somehow subservient to their hated antagonists. The suggestion was made that some would not, due to their closely held sense of victimization, comply with socially responsible suggestions or orders. In other words, as the movie Italians would say…they wouldn’t “do the right thing”.
Medical statistics suggest that they have not done the right thing.
The media reports that there is currently a suggestion in our more vibrant communities, that the Covid is racist.
It fits the never ending narrative.
I would expect that Thwack might have an opinion…In the current iteration of the earlier posted “Dannyboy” series he professes to be black. If he responds, I will profess to take his opinion seriously….
Thwack, you so white that you disappear when the lights come on….
And…the link;
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/05/07/Black-minority-populations-hit-harder-by-COVID-19/8801588860415/?ts_=16
The Jordan is our misfortune
https://vdare.com/posts/as-massive-crowds-of-blacks-gather-in-atlanta-for-newest-air-jordans-whites-blamed-for-83-of-coronavirus-hospitalizations-being-black-in-georgia
Michael Jordan’s teams never beat any great teams. Detroit Pistons did that, and I’m a Celtics fan. They beat everybody.
“Michael Jordan’s teams never beat any great teams”
LB,
But…The Bulls beat everybody. Like a goddamn drum. I followed the Bulls during the Jordan years, and it was better than watching the Super Bowl. Pistons were thugs.
Thwack,
I am impressed with your forbearance….
Maybe that’s why every PSA on local tv lecturing us to stay home, social distance, wear a mask etc., features a black, Hispanic, S Asian or Arab actor (or public official) delivering the message. Everybody except whitey.
Brh
Brh look closer. Whites are being removed from everything on screen. Just look at any commercial now. It is extraordinarily rare to see a white family or couple. They are either all brown are black or if there are whites its mandatory that they have mixed families or be in mixed couples only.
One exception is if it’s a couple of buttpounders. They’re always white.
Actually they are beginning to sneak blacks into that role as well. Black males are being portrayed as fluffy and sweet as teddy bears. Watch closer :-).
Yes this is a very annoying trend and white males are always portrayed as simple and clumsy.
Now every show must have the mandatory gay sex scene the world is amess and they keep showing unreality trying to make it reality.
If I hear “We’re all in this together” one more time I’m gonna have to take a shot of Wild Turkey. And I know it’s not good to mix whiskey and vodka (vitamin X).
BRH
We’re def all in this together Brh!
Yes but it’s always some Liz Warren like scold named Karen who’s saying we’re all in this together.
No you need to attack a mix but your a bit light on what you really need.
1.5 cl Vodka
1.5 cl White rum
1.5 cl Triple sec
1.5 cl Gin
2.5 cl Lemon juice
3.0 cl simple syrup
Top with Cola
The above will fix what ails ya.
“Thwack, you so white that you disappear when the lights come on….”
That was a particularly stupid thing to say.
Real life Canadian Storm Troopers take down a Cos Player. From another Galaxy, Captain Kirk weighs in.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/william-shatner-stormtrooper-star-wars-163753261.html
God bless the Captain.
I hope she yelled at them while they were tackling her “You’re a bunch of big blue belly ninnies”!!!!
APPEAL FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD
To Catholics and all people of good will
Veritas liberabit vos. Jn 8:32
In this time of great crisis, we Pastors of the Catholic Church, by virtue of our mandate, consider it our sacred duty to make an Appeal to our Brothers in the Episcopate, to the Clergy, to Religious, to the holy People of God and to all men and women of good will. This Appeal has also been undersigned by intellectuals, doctors, lawyers, journalists and professionals who agree with its content, and may be undersigned by those who wish to make it their own.
The facts have shown that, under the pretext of the Covid-19 epidemic, the inalienable rights of citizens have in many cases been violated and their fundamental freedoms, including the exercise of freedom of worship, expression and movement, have been disproportionately and unjustifiably restricted. Public health must not, and cannot, become an alibi for infringing on the rights of millions of people around the world, let alone for depriving the civil authority of its duty to act wisely for the common good. This is particularly true as growing doubts emerge from several quarters about the actual contagiousness, danger and resistance of the virus. Many authoritative voices in the world of science and medicine confirm that the media’s alarmism about Covid-19 appears to be absolutely unjustified.
We have reason to believe, on the basis of official data on the incidence of the epidemic as related to the number of deaths, that there are powers interested in creating panic among the world’s population with the sole aim of permanently imposing unacceptable forms of restriction on freedoms, of controlling people and of tracking their movements. The imposition of these illiberal measures is a disturbing prelude to the realization of a world government beyond all control.
We also believe that in some situations the containment measures that were adopted, including the closure of shops and businesses, have precipitated a crisis that has brought down entire sectors of the economy. This encourages interference by foreign powers and has serious social and political repercussions. Those with governmental responsibility must stop these forms of social engineering, by taking measures to protect their citizens whom they represent, and in whose interests they have a serious obligation to act. Likewise, let them help the family, the cell of society, by not unreasonably penalizing the weak and elderly, forcing them into a painful separation from their loved ones. The criminalization of personal and social relationships must likewise be judged as an unacceptable part of the plan of those who advocate isolating individuals in order to better manipulate and control them.
We ask the scientific community to be vigilant, so that cures for Covid-19 are offered in honesty for the common good. Every effort must be made to ensure
that shady business interests do not influence the choices made by government leaders and international bodies. It is unreasonable to penalize those remedies that have proved to be effective, and are often inexpensive, just because one wishes to give priority to treatments or vaccines that are not as good, but which guarantee pharmaceutical companies far greater profits, and exacerbate public health expenditures. Let us also remember, as Pastors, that for Catholics it is morally unacceptable to develop or use vaccines derived from material from aborted fetuses.
We also ask government leaders to ensure that forms of control over people, whether through tracking systems or any other form of location-finding, are rigorously avoided. The fight against Covid-19, however serious, must not be the pretext for supporting the hidden intentions of supranational bodies that have very strong commercial and political interests in this plan. In particular, citizens must be given the opportunity to refuse these restrictions on personal freedom, without any penalty whatsoever being imposed on those who do not wish to use vaccines, contact tracking or any other similar tool. Let us also consider the blatant contradiction of those who pursue policies of drastic population control and at the same time present themselves as the savior of humanity, without any political or social legitimacy. Finally, the political responsibility of those who represent the people can in no way be left to “experts” who can indeed claim a kind of immunity from prosecution, which is disturbing to say the least.
We strongly urge those in the media to commit themselves to providing accurate information and not penalizing dissent by resorting to forms of censorship, as is happening widely on social media, in the press and on television. Providing accurate information requires that room be given to voices that are not aligned with a single way of thinking. This allows citizens to consciously assess the facts, without being heavily influenced by partisan interventions. A democratic and honest debate is the best antidote to the risk of imposing subtle forms of dictatorship, presumably worse than those our society has seen rise and fall in the recent past.
Finally, as Pastors responsible for the flock of Christ, let us remember that the Church firmly asserts her autonomy to govern, worship, and teach. This autonomy and freedom are an innate right that Our Lord Jesus Christ has given her for the pursuit of her proper ends. For this reason, as Pastors we firmly assert the right to decide autonomously on the celebration of Mass and the Sacraments, just as we claim absolute autonomy in matters falling within our immediate jurisdiction, such as liturgical norms and ways of administering Communion and the Sacraments. The State has no right to interfere, for any reason whatsoever, in the sovereignty of the Church. Ecclesiastical authorities have never refused to collaborate with the State, but such collaboration does not authorize civil authorities to impose any sort of ban or restriction on public worship or the exercise of priestly ministry. The rights of God and of the faithful are the supreme law of the Church, which she neither intends to, nor can, abdicate. We ask that restrictions on the celebration of public ceremonies be removed.
We should like to invite all people of good will not to shirk their duty to cooperate for the common good, each according to his or her own state and possibilities and in a spirit of fraternal charity. The Church desires such cooperation, but this cannot disregard either a respect for natural law or a guarantee of individual freedoms. The civil duties to which citizens are bound imply the State’s recognition of their rights.
We are all called to assess the current situation in a way consistent with the teaching of the Gospel. This means taking a stand: either with Christ or against Christ. Let us not be intimidated or frightened by those who would have us believe that we are a minority: Good is much more widespread and powerful than the world would have us believe. We are fighting against an invisible enemy that seeks to divide citizens, to separate children from their parents, grandchildren from their grandparents, the faithful from their pastors, students from teachers, and customers from vendors. Let us not allow centuries of Christian civilization to be erased under the pretext of a virus, and an odious technological tyranny to be established, in which nameless and faceless people can decide the fate of the world by confining us to a virtual reality. If this is the plan to which the powers of this earth intend to make us yield, know that Jesus Christ, King and Lord of History, has promised that “the gates of Hell shall not prevail” (Mt 16:18).
Let us entrust government leaders and all those who rule over the fate of nations to Almighty God, that He may enlighten and guide them in this time of great crisis. May they remember that, just as the Lord will judge us Pastors for the flock which he has entrusted to us, so will He also judge government leaders for the peoples whom they have the duty to defend and govern.
With faith, let us beseech the Lord to protect the Church and the world. May the Blessed Virgin, Help of Christians, crush the head of the ancient Serpent and defeat the plans of the children of darkness.
8 May 2020
Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii
To add your signature to this appeal, visit http://www.veritasliberabitvos.info, which will be available online from 8 May.
JS: TLDR, pace Q, He who reads not, knows not, and abides in the Peace of Death.
Signatories include Archbiship Vigano and Cardinal Zen.
This is amazing!
Archbishop Vigano is amazing. He’s come out against the false Pope, savaging the “Church of Accompaniment” that abandoned their flock at the first sign of danger. He is in hiding, in fear for his life. I believe his fear is justified. He has great remorse for not doing more earlier, especially for not hitting the pedophiles harder when he was in a position do so. As he explained last year when he began all this, I am an elderly man and will face my Maker soon. I can only try now at the end to do what I should have been doing all along.
Bergoglio, who may be the False Prophet who paves the way for the Anti-Christ, also betrayed Chinese Catholics to the Chinese Government, giving them them the green light to set up a false Church with their own picked men as Bishops. Cardinal Zen has been a hero in that fight. The Chinese woman who famously grabbed the Pope’s arm and was angrily shaken off and called a whore, seems to have been asking for mercy for the Chinese Church.
“This is amazing!”
Only to you and your beau.
May the Blessed Virgin, – Janos
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Do you actually believe Mary had a baby without benefit of coitus? How foolish of you.
Yes, I believe that God can make anything He wants happen.
ANYTHING!
Just go out at night and look up. That is enough for me.
God didn’t create the universe, but he did manipulate this solar system.
Ok, what?
Don’t know. Christianity remains valid without that being true – at least in my book.
Christianity remains valid without that being true – at least in my book. – Janos
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Christianity, perhaps. Catholicism, no.
If she wasn’t a Virgin, that doesn’t stop her from being a great Saint and Intercessor for us from on High; the Woman clothed with the Sun as seen by St John on Patmos. Or even a Soul born perfect by the decree of God – another Catholic dogma and one just as fantastic as the virgin birth even if less dramatic to carnal minds.
great Saint and Intercessor – Janos
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Why does anyone need an ‘intercessor?’
For all your store of information, Janos, you can be such a fool.
Your sins are as black as soot, Q. You better throw yourself on the mercy of the Court when the time comes. You’ll be lucky to get such an Advocate with a skilled prosecutor like Satan on your case.
“Do you actually believe Mary had a baby without benefit of coitus?”
Q,
The very same thing happened to me and my first wife! Apparently, with immaculate conceptions, the baby is black, also. Damndest thing….
Q,
It all makes sense now. When I questioned her about the melanin enhanced baby, she said that it was an immaculate conception brought on my her use of honey…used to staunch a massive yeast infection that she picked up…somewhere….
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/05/07/Researchers-find-honey-bee-gene-that-causes-virgin-birth/6761588880291/?ts_=19
I had to admit, however, that I DID have my moment of doubt….
I had to admit, however, that I DID have my moment of doubt…. – ely
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Haha, yeah, I can imagine.
“For all your store of information, Janos, you can be such a fool.”
Got that right!
We were always taught (here in civilised Straya) that in polite society – and especially at dinner parties – to never discuss sex, religion, or politics.
It leads to ugly scenes and a poisoned atmosphere over port & cigars, because everyone has their own immutable views.
It seems to me the purported virginality of Mary is involved in all three …
And we have been to Mary’s House near Ephesus in Turkey – very nice little shrine there. It’s all fake news of course, but it doesn’t stop the pilgrims pouring in. Just about all you need to understand the brain damage caused by religions.
Thank god for atheists!
It looks like Grimesy — Claire Boucher — ain’t married to Musk. Nevertheless, she now has a stake in the electric car and rocketship business. They gave their little one a strange name, not even a name really.
X Æ A-12 Musk
How are her gams? Get some Vitamin X in you and report back.
“We are fighting against an invisible enemy that seeks to divide citizens, to separate children from their parents…” — janos
Trump is not invisible. He is the enemy who deliberately took children away from their parents and put them in cages.
Thanks for the reminder, janos. Never again.
Shelly Luther, was sent to jail by an arrogant Black Judge for opening her salon – even as Texas releases real criminals. She is now seen as a Hero by her fellow White Texans. He demands a Personal Apology! Maybe it was because she tore up the court order at a public demonstration. The Lieutenant Governor offered to pay her 7000 dollar fine and go to jail for her for the seven days so she could get back to work and help her employees make some money. Another hero. God bless Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITvQhX8pBl0
She was released from jail.
“So here is a link to “Plandemic”. –stelmosfire
“Mikovits’ speculative claims linking her research to vaccine science, drawing the ire of “Big Pharma” and the “Deep State”, and her subsequent arrest are not rooted in science or reality. But although she may have lost the support of the scientific community, she appears to have found a new home in the pseudoscientific conspiracy world.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientist-vaccine-jailed/
Snopes = run by a politcal operative, his ex-porn-star wife, and a cat.
Mikovits ´= microbiologist who conducted groundbreaking research into HIV.
LOL.
WPAss, from your snopes article:
Regarding Mikovits,” she wrongfully removed laboratory notebooks and kept other proprietary information on her laptop and in flash drives and in a personal e-mail account. ”
Sounds a lot like your hero Cankles.
Anne Barnhardt, Barnhardt.biz
God engineered into our bodies the one and only way to combat a cold virus: HERD IMMUNITY, and the HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM. He gave us what we need.
THE FACEMASK IS THE MASONIC BURQA.
THE FACEMASK IS THE COMMUNIST VEIL OF SUBMISSION.
THE FACEMASK IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER NIQAB.
THE FACEMASK IS, AS John Rao SAID, THE NEW YELLOW STAR OF DAVID patch.
Finally, let me just put out there the call for one and all to sit in stillness and think about the intense psycho-spiritual damage that is being done to CHILDREN with each passing day that this facemask psy-op goes on. How many children are now deeply terrified of OTHER HUMAN BEINGS in se, because of this, with the mask being a visible, frightening vector of this terror?
How many children are right now, as we speak, telling themselves internally, in simple, childish terms that they themselves could not yet articulate, but feel with tremendous force, that OTHER PEOPLE ARE SOMETHING BAD, AND THAT TO LOVE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING IS SOMETHING BAD THAT THEY MUST NEVER DO? Because other human beings are dangerous and will hurt you if you get anywhere near them.
In case you are new around here, what I just described is EXACTLY the making of a Diabolical Narcissist: a human being that FREELY CHOOSES to purge love from their soul. “I will not love.”
This mask crap is the largest, fastest Diabolical Narcissist formation operation EVER executed. This is satan declaring TOTAL WAR on children, especially (and he will snare many adults in this net, too.) Because the drag queen story hours weren’t getting it done QUITE fast enough, and time, it seems, if of the essence for lucifer and the host of hell.
I hope this helps.
JS: Take off your hijabs and criminal masks. If not for yourselves, then for the children. Just walking about I’ve had parents cringing in terror as they have to walk past me, shielding the child from me and in the process, passing on that terror. Now I am the Enemy at some deep existential level, but this is ridiculous. And I assume they now see every person as an Enemy, especially if unmasked. Americans already didn’t like each other much, and this is simply the coup de gras.
As the Book of the Law states, You are against the People oh my Chosen.
I hope you get well paid to repeat all this Fear Porn salad from Anne Barnyard … at least as much as from Danglin’ Anglin. Making good money would be the only justification for letting this kindergarten fodder reproduce.
I can’t hear you through your cotton mask.
Perhaps all you right-wing no-mask cultists will die by 3 November … wouldn’t that be fuckin’ funny! 🙂
Biden – 120 million votes
Trump – zip, nada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYjk-925KQ
What’s that, ghoul?
There is a new Underground Railroad, this one to smuggle masks into hospitals, because it has become obvious Trump and Pence only talk about it, with future tense verbs, while doing nothing.
“With supply chains gone haywire and limited help forthcoming from the government, ordinary citizens have started volunteer networks around the country, forming what one enlistee referred to as “a last-minute bucket brigade.” Get Us PPE, one of the largest groups, estimates that it facilitated the delivery of some one and a half million masks in April alone. Smaller groups—amorphous, and nimble on their feet—have been built from webs of real-life connections made manifest in Slack channels, WhatsApp groups, and endless 2 a.m. Zoom calls. Often, there’s no formal hierarchy, just a rotating crew of bleary-eyed volunteers: teachers, coders, lawyers, artists, historians, and the recently unemployed. “There are dozens of these groups working across the country,” Megan Ranney, an E.R. doctor and a founder of Get Us PPE, told me recently. “We need every one we can get.”
The Underground Efforts to Get Masks to Doctors By Anna Russell, New Yorker, May 7, 2020
Same old tards haunting this board.
Shocking.
Disillusionment.
With progress.
With humanity.
Akin to Michael Moore producing a film that comes to the stark realization that enviro techno-narcissism will not save us.
The Planet of the Humans
Conclusion: accept mortality, our hopelessness.
Cause we ain’t ever going to change
https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE
And watch the sequel to Planet of the Humans to get the full story.
https://youtu.be/Bop8x24G_o0
I found it to be a very clear, honest and thought provoking commentary, by Michael Moore himself, responding to criticism of his new bombshell environmental film.
Well said. Remember the PTB know all of this and are acting accordingly.
That is why they are so pissed at Michael Moore. He is uncovering their hypocritical plans.
With all that is coming our way, who do we need in charge, a successful business man who openly communicates or a basic nobody politician with no experience managing anything, only kissing the boss’s butt and making bogus deals with our enemies.
Biden = a successful businessman who openly communicates
Trump = a basic nobody politician with no experience managing anything
Trump would be richer now if he had just stuck the money from Daddy in some Indexed Fund for 35 years. In fact there are fewer less successful businessmen on the planet – who had the Third Base advantages he started with.
Oh Jesus just go away.
“According to a report by the AP on Thursday, a new guide “created by the nation’s top disease investigators” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework” was set for publication last Friday. The CDC’s 17-page report included step-by-step advice guidance for “faith leaders, business owners, educators and state and local officials” who are beginning to reopen across the country.
But, according to a CDC official, the Trump administration told the agency its advice “would never see the light of day.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-buries-cdc-reopening-guide-will-never-see-the-light-of-day-995335/
DOJ moves to drop charges against Michael Flynn. Van Quack out after lying to the court about Brady materials.
https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1258489742095798277
Hahahahaha.
Now to begin the process of puting the Coupsters where they belong.
What are the punishments for sedition and treason again?
A final decision on whether the case against Flynn is dropped will be up to Judge Sullivan, who until Thursday had been weighing Flynn’s new effort to withdraw his guilty plea.
The guilty plea still stands. The court is still Sullivan’s.
Treason is still treason.
The treason is in the Left side of the continuum who was really mistaken in 2015 when they thought they had the country by the balls. Oops!
You absolute mental patient.
John Durham is mighty silent. Silent Guiliani returned from his trip to Ukraine with “more information than you can imagine” … crickets. Because there were no “coupsters”
Perfect phone call my ass. Oh well, the impeachment will be in the first paragraph of Trump’s bio for all of eternity. He can’t change that. He was impeached. The only reason he wasn’t removed for his crimes is that no documents were admitted, and no trial was held. Trump is still guilty. And now he is responsible for 70,000 Americans dead. And he is ignoring the Special Forces being held by Venezuela.
Is he playing golf again at Mar a Lago? Trump has played more golf in four years than Obama did in eight years. In his campaign he promised he would be spending every day making America great again and wouldn’t have time to play golf.
Reagan had “morning in America” … to make America prouder, stronger, better.
Trump has “mourning in America” and has made America is weaker, and poorer, and sicker, alienated from allies, writing love letters to enemies.
Destroyed.
Anytime Trump says “You’ll be amazed at what we’re finding,” it’s a big nothing burger. He thinks reality is a penis and he’s trying to inflate it.
American Special Forces confess in Venezuela after being captured in a Bay of Guinea Pigs assault on Maduro’s country. Trump is doing nothing to rescue the Americans. Families say nobody has contacted them. They just saw the confessions on TV.
Flynn is free!
Tears for thee!
The court must still formally approve the request to drop the case. Flynn already pleaded guilty. Sullivan has not decided yet. No tears.
So many tears!
“So many tears!” –Nightowl
It’s your [Republican Trump cult] party, so you can cry if you want to.
41% … Trump
50% … Biden
I would cry, too, if it happened to me
[if my candidate was behind by 9 points]
Ode to Evening by Thomas Traherne
On death bed couch, all those who sigh
As shadow comes, would, if wiser, cry
“Alas” for all the blossoms so bright,
But fated never to colour the night.
For daylight won, means nightshade lost,
And sunny bloom do darker petals cost.
Yet gaudy day must end, and soon
All will shine in silver under the moon.
So play thy praises, you morning birds,
On apricot suns and breezy apple days,
And leave to our poets’ painting words,
The evening’s fine dusk and cool array.
As the owl has a richer note than any lark,
So may our dying be but a rising up, at dark.
JS: Dedicated to Nig Owl.
Da gifts keep on coming.
Schiff folds and is forced to release RussoHoax transcripts he was hiding.
https://twitter.com/JarradKushner/status/1258511113840287747
Dis gonna get real gud!
Da gifts keep on coming.
Da selective gifts
Schiff is going to selectively release
Your safe space is about to implode for the third time on one thread.
LOL.
Biden is demonstrating hhow silence is golden orange. Keep yapping Trump. We’re all praying you nevver shut up. Give us some more of your disinfectant genius, amaze us with your pharma mind, keep spewing miracle cures with people dropping like flies.
It looks like Tara Reade is serious and is not letting up.
I can’t wait ’till she appears at one of Trump’s raucous campaign rallies, trotted out in front of 40,000 cheering maga fans, explaining exactly what happened when Scoundrel Biden tried to force himself on her, an innocent 24 year old staffer. We’ll get the whole story from the source. It’ll all be out there, #metoo style. Ahahahahaha!
Brh
Karma for what Biden did to Anita Hill. You condemned that, too, right? Or were you siding with Justice Thomas?
Keep dreamin. We all know Trump raped those 20 women and Biden put his hand on someone’s shoulder. Have you seen her? She looks like a cow. Trot ner out. Everybody will moo.
But Biden surely did something. She said so, though she can’t say where, or when, or exactly what Biden did. And she won’t speak to the press, and she won’t authorize release of her records, and she is not transparent like Biden, who has spoken to the press and has asked the Senate to release the records. Maybe the Senate knows there is no there there.
Truthfully I think the event — if there was one — happened too long ago to matter. But the Republicans are going to play it up to the hilt. Its gonna be great political theater.
She is the real deal. Just came across this today:
A snippet from a 1996 court filing where her ex-husband mentions she was sexually harassed in Biden’s office and was traumatised from the event.
https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1258537916961185794
Biden is doing all he can to make sure no one goes through those records at U. of Delaware.
Regardless, if the Dems really keep him in the ring, I think the tape of Biden openly molesting children in the Senate will do far more damage. Trump can just run it on a loop.
I believe Tara Reade, and sure, Biden is creepy, addled, and unfit for office beyond belief.
Likewise, Himself is also an outed rapist, creepy, addled, and unfit for office beyond belief.
But you cannot be serious about ‘ I think the tape of Biden openly molesting children in the Senate will do far more damage. Trump can just run it on a loop.‘ if THIS is the one you mean…
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x476s7o
If it’s not, then. pray to tell, which video do you mean?
“Outed rapist”
Playing with words again.
Setting up another episode of wreckage.
LOL.
Just answer the question, you “LOL”ing troll.
(The LOLs are now mandatory, I see. GA was right – your inner 5-year-old has taken over.)
Provide the proof that he is a rapist.
You lose every engagement with me for the same reason every time.
“Outed”
LOL:
I wonder where Trump is today on the Cargillometer. Stuttering simp or working class hero with a spine of steel?
I meant Biden. Cargill is consistent on Trump.
Biden is appalling, and the Democratic Party is even worse for serving him up as the poster-boy for 3 November.
He’s still 5000% better than the incumbent, but surely they could have done way better.
Meanwhile “Low” Barr is demonstrating what a complete toad he is by dropping charges against Flynn, who pleaded guilty. The worst attorney-general in US history – in what is a pretty tough field … you’ve had some doozies!
And the best adult in the administration – Dr Fauci – spoke the truth:
“It’s the balance of something that’s a very difficult choice, like how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be, some form of normality, sooner rather than later?”
An inconvenient truth in the culture wars. But the stakes are high.
Flynn is free!
Ahahahahahaha!
Flynn is free!
And the DOJ is totally shamed … hahaha yourself. Barr is a toadie from way back … you’d think he would at least care about his legacy. He makes Dred Scott look exemplary LOL!
Your country is totally broken, and you can’t even see that, you benighted idiot. No wonder you copped the worst pandemic figures … you were sick to the core already.
Perhaps you don’t even understand how good it is to live in a whole bunch of countries that are not your festering cesspool.
But carry on – happy motoring! JHK has a lot to say about delusional happy-talk … and he’s right.
A paid message board ghoul spirals.
Somewhere in China, a sack of rice tips over.
I wonder where Trump is today – Janos
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I wonder where Green Alba is all this week. I’m becoming alarmed for her and/or her doctor husband.
He’s jerking off to a picture of Obama.
I’m spraying lysol on you right now.
Cute,
Lawn Blues, I saw Trump on the TV this afternoon. He was telling people to drink DDT to kill the “Murder Hornets” . I shit you not. Spread it around.
I heard he said to take the hornets
and put them in your blender,
along with the rest of your smoothies,
and it just gives a piquant zap to the taste,
and you are GOOD TO GO!!!
Thank you, Q – we haven’t succumbed yet.
My little brother, who was on life support after a heart attack last Saturday, didn’t make it (truth be told, although we didn’t know it, he was already gone at the time). He was my best friend too.
So, while I’ve dropped by a couple of times for distraction, I haven’t felt inclined to join in, even in response to some insults upthread and the usual person telling me three times in one comment what I apparently think.
Thanks for asking, though, Q. The dreaded lurgi (don’t know if that’s a cultural reference known among the oldies over your way) hasn’t got us yet. SInce Wednesday hubby has home-made cotton scrubs donated by a charity. Only one top, though, so it has to be brought home and washed every day and can’t be changed between patients. The stuff came in random sizes and the trousers he was offered would have accommodated three people so he had to decline and stick with his normal cotton kegs. Plus the papery pinny. No kudos to Boris Johnson. And now that masks are running short they’ve changed the guidelines to recommend less effective ones.
That Barnhardt dingbat is something else.
Won’t someone think of the children?
https://static3.bigstockphoto.com/9/7/1/large1500/179506018.jpg
Bummer sorry too hear about the loss of your brother and best friend that’s rough.
Thanks, benr. I can’t tell you what it’s like. I wasn’t even able to see him. I appreciate your words.
Alba,
My condolences. Stay safe.
Thank you, EF.
https://europe.infowars.com/swiss-bars-restaurants-to-record-personal-info-of-patrons-for-contact-tracing/
No doubt the Churches and everyone else will follow suit. How much easier once we get the app! What if it doesn’t work in your phone and you can’t afford the new ones? Well, you can get chipped. Nothing is worse than having to give your data every time you go in a place – an advertisement that you are poor and low class, with dissident viewpoints perhaps.
“Well, you can get chipped.” — janos
More fake news. Nobody is getting chipped.
My dog is chipped.
Your dog doesn’t have the app on a phone?
my tooth is chipped
Is it still White?
ask your mother
Has it been chipped out to sea???
And the people in the shadows are using that chip to track and trace you. Just like any other device you have with a chip. They hear all and see all and they believe their gods. You think its a bunch of bs and they like it that way.
OoooooKy SpooooKy!
How much easier once we get the app! What if it doesn’t work in your phone and you can’t afford the new ones?
The Australian App won’t work on my five-year-old Samsung Android … I’m just so 2015 it seems. Works on my partner’s newer one. Some 5-6 million here have downloaded the App in a week – I think they’re hoping for ten million.
But it seems to me right-wing no-mask Real Murricans want it both ways (being the Trump-Cult babies they are) – no testing and tracing, but the economy opened up. These don’t end well taken together.
Not sure how much proper science you need in order to see the light … (pro tip: you won’t get it from Barnyard, Breitbart, or InfoWars).
”
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that >the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
“
Hi K-Dog!
I was thinking you’d perhaps been clobbered by the Trump Virus! Pleased to see you’re not, or at least, have survived it! Maybe the Chlorox worked?
Thank You.
True story.
One day, a friend of mine told me a story about his family. Im not sure what caused him to reveal such information to me; but its an interesting story none the less.
When he got married, they had problems producing a child, so they decided to adopt. As many of you may know, adopting a newborn healthy baby is not easy. You hafta wait in line and jump through all kinds of hoops, pay money…
Anyway, they got on the waiting list, and were told they were in a 2 or 3 year cue. But shortly thereafter, they got a call that a baby would be available for them in a couple of months.
The birth mother at the 8th month had revealed to the staff that the father was non white; this caused the people in front of them to “opt out”; so the question they were asked was
“can you accept a non white baby?”
My friend and his wife answer was an immediate “yes”
They just wanted a baby; I guess thats normal for a newly married couple? (but I’ll never know)
So they went through the process, got the baby girl, and raised her.
But guess what?
I gotta suspect the mom was just looking out for the baby, because she is a straight up white girl; thin, smart, attractive, blonde…. I met her before my friend told me this story and I had no clue she was adopted?
But wait, the story gets better. After adopting this baby, my friends wife suddenly was able to give birth to a boy and a girl naturally.
So,
I guess,
alls well that ends well?
But I can’t help but think about all those racist white people who burned themselves by letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
My friend has a dynamic happy family; while I pace the walls of my cell and curse my existence in the morning… but my friend did tell me this true story; I suspect because he trusted me to understand what happened?
You people want relationships; but your power hunger condemns you to arrangements.
Thwack
I get the part about ‘perfect being enemy of the good”.
However, the phenomenon of natural pregnancy once an adoption has been undertaken is extremely common.
For fear is a very great worship, is it not? Fear God instead. –janos
Why fear God? Has God tested positive for Covid?
Snopes = run by a politcal operative, his ex-porn-star wife, and a cat. –nightowl
False.
In 2009, FactCheck.org reviewed a sample of Snopes’ responses to political rumors regarding George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama, and found them to be free from bias in all cases. In 2012, The Florida Times-Union reported that About.com’s urban legends researcher found a “consistent effort to provide even-handed analyses” and that Snopes’ cited sources and numerous reputable analyses of its content confirm its accuracy.
Snopes = run by a politcal operative, his ex-porn-star wife, and a cat. –nightowl
100% true.
Just finished listening to my fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen’s prophetic elegy Everybody knows. Do you think the late Mr. Cohen had a premonition of how bad things would get up here in the Great White North.? The coronavirus death toll is over 65,000 with 1700 new cases and 161 deaths in just one day for a total of 4400 deaths. Of course the ignorant Canuck will tell you “but at least we’re doing a better job than the Americans and Justin Trudeau if far more competent than Donald Trump.” Oh really? Then why did Ontario and Quebec turn to the Canadian military to handle the epidemic at this country’s long-term care homes. And why was the government of Alberta forced to close down the giant Cargill meat packing plant after 358 cases of Covid19 were reported. Meanwhile, the esteemed Justin Trudeau crawls out of his hermetically-sealed lair daily to remind Canadians from coast to coast to stay home, wash your hands and stay six feet away from other people when you are in public. Time for the citizens of both the Home of The Free and the True North Strong and Free to take matters into their own hands and begin leading smart and constructive lives free from the dictates of our despotic rulers.
” Do you actually believe Mary had a baby without benefit of coitus? ”
I can think of a great many things a hell of a lot more far – fetched , just off the top of my head.
Like I’m supposed to believe that the incessant and stubborn use of obscure and recent acronyms isn’t an elitist use of language to arbitrarily divide the world up into sheep and goats , the cool kids and the outcasts.
Despite it being plainly obvious that is exactly what it is.
There is something about Mary that bring out the worst in the Demons. And sadly, Ely was the worst blasphemer this time. If She was just nothing or some skinny Jewish girl who got knocked up, why would they care? But they care so very, very much!
It really disgusts me when they pretend to look down their nose at you.
— Not because I like you particularly .
But because — and this is very simple — if there is not a good God then , axiomatically , THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO THE JUDGEMENT OF MAN.
Why is this bad ? Why is this plain malicious , even evil ?
The actual funny thing about the election of Adolf Hitler was that it was no aberration .
A Julius Ceasar , a Martin Luther , a Vladimir Lenin , a Robespierre , a Mobutu Seso Seko , an Idi Amin , a Ferdinand Marcos getting elected ?
Pfft ! That happens every fucking day !
They PRETEND to ridicule you ,
when , if there is no good God , and no afterlife , you are going to win that popularity contest sooner or later ,
and there is no court of appeal from the gas chambers they pretend to abhor !
( ACCORDING TO THEM ! )
I don’t know you , but I certainly do recognize the bile they are selling !
Aztecs , with their human sacrifice , and their suits made out of the skins of defeated enemies , were light – years more benign and liberal in their world view than what they are selling.
My all – time favorite movie is , ” Matewan ” .
My number one favorite scene from that movie goes like this ;
West Virginia coal miners have gone out on strike against the coal companies.
There’s an incident where a teenage boy , named Hillard , gets his throat cut by coal company hirelings.
Afterwards , Hillard’s best friend says to a Union organizer ,
” …. now you , have come along to ” help ” us , ” Bring in the new day ” !
Well , HILLARD ISN’T GOING TO SEE NO , ” NEW DAY ” !! *bitter sarcasm *
THAT’S the fucking truth !
No law , no tinkering , no human “good intentions ” are going to bring murder victims back from the grave !
In a Heaven – less universe , already fucked victims are permanently fucked.
There is no court of appeal from the very worst , and the very worst will always sooner or later get in the catbirds seat .
Humanism is utter barbarism . Atheism is utter barbarism.
It’s pretending to despise Auschwitz when in fact they fucking slobber over the possibilities of it .
What should have been over the gate was not , Arbeit Macht Frei ” , but , ” Mann als endgültiger Schiedsrichter ” !
I have never had a mystical experience in my entire life.
I just fucking know what dead bodies and man as sole judge , and death as ultimate verdict , means.
There’s a good fucking reason why they don’t call themselves liberal anymore.
Even they can’t stomach the lie that would be.
This really has to go down as the fruit-loop nut-fudge POST OF THE MONTH – it’s hysterical.
And I definitely think Our Kesa should stay away from that fourth glass of sherry before she posts … it is definitely not a coherent look!
The Nazi-Hitler thing is pretty bizarro … do others concur?
(BTW Trump Voters … “concur” is a verb meaning “agree” – it’s not a daggy tourist resort on the Mexican Caribbean). HTH!
It really disgusts me when they pretend to look down their nose at you.
Trust me gorgeous … we’re not pretending … we really are looking down our noses at you. Long way down, too.
As if anyone cares what you think.
That opinion of yourself is worth less than a steaming pile of dog crap.
” You remain a fucking child. ”
And I do believe I have seen examples of your mercy secularist scumbag.
” …. I’m becoming alarmed for her and/or her doctor husband. ”
Well, how many times have her and her ilk argued right here that a universe without a good God and an afterlife would be A – O. K. ?
I would think she would be happy as hell to put her life where her words / ideas are ?
Kesa dear, your crocodile tears are just that. For everyone.
I wasn’t going to reply to anyone on this thread, other than Q’s considerate question, but you take the biscuit.
A person who lectures us all on family values. A person who said all she ever wanted was a soulmate – just her and him without the outside world interfering in their loving bubble (I forget the poetic reference). I’m guessing you didn’t want him spending his lunch hours fucking the local prostitutes because they had better hairdos and nicer frocks than his hardworking wife.
You once said, of me, ‘I used to be a call girl – you’d think she’d like me’.
Really? Why would I like you because of that? I did sympathise with you earlier and told you so, but you are too vile to elicit any more sympathy.
I could feel sympathy for a back-street prostitute who fell into it because of drugs and maybe an unplanned pregnancy, but you? Someone who made a clinical decision that other women would NOT get ‘him and me against the world’ in order to pay her mortgage off more quickly? Give me some credit for judgement.
And I know you weren’t a Christian back then, but you were a human being. And not once since you became a Christian have you even mentioned on here your regrets about the woman with three kids and a part-time office cleaning job whose husband you were fucking while you took their money. No, it’s always ME, ME, ME and what my life has been. And making posh frocks and fancy hairdos sound like work. They’re not work, honey, they’re what the wives couldn’t afford whose husbands were fucking you because you had the fancy dresses and the nice hair.
You sicken me, Kesa, with your hypocrisy and your narcissism.
But only figuratively. You don’t ‘make my skin crawl’ – you’re just not that important.
Except that you provide me with yet another example of nauseating religious hypocrisy.
And my little brother who died yesterday wasn’t religious either. But he was worth a hundred of you, you self-obsessed hypocrite.
I have a daughter who hasn’t a quarter of your intellect. She went to college and studied childcare and now works in a nursery attached to a primary school. While she was still at school she worked in a card shop at weekends for less than £2/hour. For two of her three college years she got £19.50/week of a bursary and I took £10 of it to help keep her because I needed it. At age 20, despite this, she’d saved £9000, including from walking dogs.
She started working properly at 20, and on top of her day job she walked dogs and cleaned an old, disabled lady’s house. By age 24, she’d saved £24,000, while earning around £12K a year AND paying for a room in a private rented flat for two years. And she got a mortgage for 50% of a shared-ownership flat (paying rent to the housing association for the other half).
The housing association didn’t want to give her the flat because they had a lower income limit of £13K, but I wrote her a letter to send to them from herself pointing out how much she’d saved, given her income, and demonstrating how good she was with money. And they gave her the flat. She’s still a nursery nurse and she only works part-time because she has a child. Her partner has 16 hours/week on minimum wage. But she paid off her 30-year mortgage in 12 years, without fucking anyone’s husband.
So take your entitled whining elsewhere – given your intellect it just gives me the eye-roll of the century.
Thing is, I don’t give a fuck about the state, although I do love my country. As you say it’s just post offices (and a national health service that doesn’t bankrupt its users – my sister-in-law isn’t going to get a bill for 7 days in an ICU). And, historically, things I’d be heartily ashamed of if they were anything to do with me. But they aren’t.
I give a fuck about people. That includes my brother who never did a thing that wasn’t for his wife and family and who was the loveliest man I’ve ever known. My husband said the same about him. His entire family know that and are immeasurably grateful that they had him for the time that they did.
His son died 10 days before he did. That’s pretty much why he’s dead. And during those agonising 10 days he told his family ‘if anything happens to me, you’re allowed one week of misery, then I want you to get on with your lives’. That was him all over, and he didn’t need any kind of religion to make him give his whole life to his family. Nor did he hate it (his wife is maybe still vestigially Anglican). He just didn’t need anything but his own lovely person to make him spend his life doing everything for everyone.
Hatred and bitterness like yours were utterly alien to him.
Alba,
Your humanity humbles me.
His son died 10 days before he did – GA
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I find it very disturbing when people don’t die in chronological order. A child dying before its parent is the worst!
my little brother who died yesterday – GA
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Really sorry to hear this. It explains your recent absence.
Thanks, Q. It’s been a family tragedy for almost three weeks now.
The son was troubled and troublesome and gave them no peace. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 14 and never reconciled himself to it, which led to self-destructive behaviours, leading to his early death. Apparently it’s quite common in diabetics diagnosed in their teenage years. They can’t deal with the restrictions imposed on their lives so they go into self-destruct mode (and may damage those around them too, as he did).
A cruel twist of fate…
Wow lookee here
Docs reveal James Clapper stated early on while testifying under oath being questioned by Adam Schiff’s committee that he never saw any evidence that President Trump colluded with Russians in the 2016 election.
Yet Clapper was on CNN every night for 2 1/2 years telling the world he had the goods on Trump and it was just a matter of time before Trump was brought down … and I understand CNN was paying Clapper several million dollars to say it.
What a goddam lying POS James Clapper is.
Brh
Why do you and the DarkBird obsess over all this stuff?
What are you truing to prove? When Trump loses in November (Marx willing) then all of this will be nothing but historical dust.
Hint to both you zealots … nobody fucking cares … just like nobody cares about Benghazi and a million other things that consume those inside the beltway, but absolutely nowhere else.
The good citizens (and small business-people) of Podunk Indiana just want a grown-up federal and state government … so that they can mitigate the impact of the pandemic, and provide effective financial support before that can happen.
Not that much to ask … but Republicans everywhere have failed totally. Sad!
Look at the ghoul spiral.
LOL.
Look at the ghoul spiral.
You’re drunk again it seems … you make no sense.
Stop looking in the mirror and typing what you say as you drool all over yourself.
Cargill
JHK has been writing on this subject every week for a year. If it doesn’t interest you, why are you here?
Brh
JHK writes about a whole range of other things as well, to do with the built environment – things that I’ve spent basically my entire life being intensely interested in … that’s why I came here many years ago, and why I remain.
And the past is a foreign country. In this pandemic (and hopefully post-pandemic) world, I think very, very few political junkies still really care about what Clapper did (or didn’t do), and whether he was within his rights to do it.
Does anyone really care any more? Honestly? It’s all such a big yawn … and I disagree strongly with JHKI on the “bigger picture” issues … that these matters have to progress to a conclusion, in order to demonstrate that the US is still a nation of laws, not just of powerful men.
But Barr’s handling of (abuse of) the DOJ blows that right out of the water. Dropping the Flynn case makes a mockery of the law.
Barr is doing the bidding of Trump – who is a ruthless revenge-freak it seems – nothing to do with “justice”
Anyway … I think the introduction of universal postal voting in every state is the best step that could be taken for 2020 – and none of that diversionary nonsense about having to get it notarised by some official.
What a Republican Party crock – there is no fraud – just a corrupt party terrified of everyone having a vote in a safe and simple way. They want the opposite.
Not that you secular humanist types will get the point , since you are — vague , ersatz — psuedo – religious crank nut jobs ,
but , I can’t put it any simpler ;
First , some visual , impressionistic , emotional content ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLKcCPPmYA
( No , I wasn’t a Nazi , and I wasn’t a young adult in 1939. ….. But then I wasn’t a Communist or an atheist in 1976 either.
Maybe ONE OF YOU could give me the finer details of that ? )
Now for the simple , strait – forward , reasons why you look like psycho assholes to me ;
1 . — I Loved my country and people , to a degree words aren’t remotely adequate.
NEVER THE LESS…………
2 . — Fortunes wheel turned. Now everybody , even Germans ( ! ) PISS ON what I loved so much !
We lost the popularity contest ! what a terrible sin ! ( except you don’t call it “sin “— sort of. )
What court or law do I appeal to ?
3 . — My country doesn’t exist anymore ! ( Note ; this is THE key thing according to you. The be all and end all is that institution that holds rigged elections and which hands out fishing licenses and manufactures license plates )
You never quite get around to explaining , though , what the fuck you are supposed to do when this non – God on earth ceases to exist.
Oh well. Maybe fucking later you will figure it out for us ” religious ” dumb asses what the fuck we are supposed to do when the all – important post office shutters permanently and even becomes tomorrows scapegoat ??
Big blow and snow comin’ your way, Brh. Maybe change up from those screw drivers to some hot toddys for a bit.
Is Clapper from outer space? Looks weird.
Yeah snow predicted on FIRE DRILL FRIDAY.
snow on may 7-8.
THE WORLD IS ON FIRE!
Be well TS.
Brh
snow on may 7-8. – BRH
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In 1963 I returned from an Air Force school in Wichita Falls, TX to Duluth, MN on May 15th and it SNOWED! It wasn’t a big deal…maybe a quarter inch but I told about it for decades. It was one of my mini-war stories.
But now………snow in CT on May 8th!?!? That’s something.
” The Nazi-Hitler thing is pretty bizarro … do others concur?”
What is pretty bizarro is how many of these people don’t seem to notice that if there is no good god and no afterlife then gas chambers , torture , the tender mercies of the likes of Ted Bundy and Tamerlane , is pretty much the final word for millions.
Granted , I don’t know you , but certainly where ideas are concerned , ( as opposed , albeit to tangible actions ………
……. though , invariably , you predictably ( without psychic powers ) always lobby for mor police powers , never less police power …… )
you make Heinrich Himmler look like a stick – in – the mud moderate .
@ BackRowHeckler
As I have said before , never mind any other conspiracy or claimed conspiracy , THE biggest conspiracy , which you can study via the plain numbers , facts , and anecdotes of that crank site Wikipedia , or the Encyclopedia Britannica , is that the greatest sugar daddy the Soviets and its fellow travelers ever had was the United States and the British Empire.
You bailed as out majorly at least every five years , 1917 to 1990.
That ain’t my fucking opinion , it’s common knowledge / basic fucking accounting.
( And whatever number of folks the KGB shot , whether it was one hundred million , or one thousand , your authorities purchased the bullets. )
You should be proud about Russian conspiracies , if anything ?
As I have said before , never mind any other conspiracy or claimed conspiracy , THE biggest conspiracy , which you can study via the plain numbers , facts , and anecdotes of that crank site Wikipedia , or the Encyclopedia Britannica , is that the greatest sugar daddy the Soviets and its fellow travelers ever had was the United States and the British Empire.
You are very seriously out of your tree, sweetheart … I would seek professional help immediately – plus upgrade your current pharmaceuticals substantially. HTH!
Very large Pot calling the tiny kettle black!
Oh the irony of it all the leftist troll calling anyone off their rocker and in need of meds.
You’re not very good at handling points of view that are better than – and different to – your own, are you? Never anything constructive to say … just sniping from the rooftops. Calling someone a “troll” is the sure sign of a losing argument, btw.
Simple fact is most of the crap you post is leftist mindless drivel devoid of fact or reason.
The other simple fact is you appear to be nothing but the garden variety troll.
Yeah that’s what I’m finding out KA.
Much help from the US went to the Soviet Union, from wealthy people like Henry Ford and Corlis LaMont, to tens of thousands of leftist intellectuals, to US govt lend lease, much of which went to propping up the gulags.
Brh
“I do believe there is MUCH more to come! Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians do not go well together!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1258717838849847298
More MOABs incoming.
The Storm has arrived.
Well the wheels of government and Justice are rolling back to unprosecute General Flynn.
Massive FBI prosecutorial fraud and the case is unraveling.
Time for that team to go to court and have a trial.
Court already determined Flynn’s lies were material. Court has final say on DOJ withdrawal of charges. Flynn already signed a staement admitting he committed many other crimes besides lying. (Trump fired Flynn for lying to VP Pence).
DOJ can prosecute Flynn for his other crimes Flynn admitted to in his signed statement. Statute of limitations runs until 2022. Barr will not be AG after January 2021.
Conclusion: don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Flynn in deep shit.
Some dare call it treason.
Like everything else you post you will be shown the error of your for lack of a better word thinking.