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It begins to look like the 2021 elections put a decisive end to the Woke-Jacobin-Progressive reign-of-terror, and its demonic efforts to cancel the authority of truth in human affairs — truth being derived from reality. For years, in an ever-escalating campaign of coercion, persecution, and punishment, the WJPs made their own reality-optional “truth” and foolishly expected the nation to roll over for it. On Tuesday, voters all over the land, in effect, whapped the Party of Chaos upside its head with thirty inches of No. 6 rebar and said “no more.” Days later, the Wokesters are still seeing stars and planets blink in their temporal lobes.
The Virginia governor’s contest illustrated plainly and clearly what was at issue, all crystalized in the Loudoun County School Board’s idiotic behavior this past year. First was the sex module of the mess: A fifteen-year-old boy pretending to be a girl in a dress raped an actual teenage girl in a “Girls’” bathroom. The Loudoun County School Board covered it up so as not to interfere with its innovative gender confusion pedagogy. The boy rapist was transferred to another school where he committed the same crime all over again. Very bad optics. And WJP candidate Terry McAuliffe told parents to stay out of it, stupidly driving a stake through his own heart in the process.
Second was the Woke race module, namely Critical Race Theory, the principle that American society is hopelessly and systemically racist and that white people need to be punished for it. The School Board and its political allies denied that this doctrine of Marxist identity politics was being worked into the curriculum. They were lying, of course, and stupidly, because it was very easy to prove.
Now, I’m going to tell you succinctly what is behind Critical Race Theory, and it’s going to hurt: After sixty-odd years of civil rights policy and legislation, a sizable cohort of African-Americans are not making it in this society and white WJPs (aka “liberals”) are stricken with guilt and shame at the failure of their efforts to uplift this group and heal the world. So, they’ve teamed up with the nation’s race hustlers to construct a scaffold of excuses for why this is so. The actual reasons for why this is so are taboo, namely, liberal deconstruction of American family life, unwillingness to prescribe behavioral norms, and self-sabotaging cultural choices such as the failure to promote the teaching of language skills as a primary task of public education — because ghetto English is more stigmatizing and economically disabling than skin color or any other feature of self-presentation, unless you are a professional comedian. That’s the cold, hard reality and that is what needs to change — but it won’t change as long as race-hustling (making money off the excuses) is considered “okay.”
Too many Americans see through the WJP sex-and-race nonsense and are now voting to evict it from the public square and run it out of the halls of power, at least at the state and local level. For now, though, it remains entrenched at the national level, in Washington, where it receives huge support from the very well-paid permanent bureaucracy that administers bad social policy. The 2021 election results suggest that the Woke Democrats will be run out of Congress and the White House in 2022 — if the USA can make it there without cracking up, which remains painfully uncertain under the toils of Covid-19.
The pandemic, so-called, invokes a dark suspicion of official misbehavior at a higher and more sinister level than the mere political inanities of Wokery. The public health officialdom has lied to the nation at every turn in this melodrama, and to the extent that many rational citizens think that the authorities are out to kill them. For instance, you have Dr. Fauci of the NIAID continuing to deny that he played any part in promoting gain-of-function research on viruses here and in the Wuhan lab. His latest dodge was to change the official definition of gain-of-function to an alphabet-salad of obfuscatory bullshit before a Senate committee — for which Senator Rand Paul once again accused him of lying and beseeched him to resign.
The CDC and the FDA have unleashed a set of untested vaccines on the public that have been shown to produce alarmingly high rates of adverse reactions, both disabling and leading to death. The CDC’s VAERS system for reporting all that is so janky that doctors can barely use it and the CDC refuses to fix it; meanwhile doctors are being punished for even attempting to report adverse reactions. The whole of medical officialdom has militated aggressively against early treatments of Covid-19 with cheap and easily available drugs, even firing doctors who attempt to use the protocols.
The entire approval process of the various vaccines has been rife with fraud, gamed statistics, sabotaged trials, bait-and-switch scams, and unaccountable manufacturing screw-ups — all immersed in a stench of moneygrubbing. The drug companies have refused to fully reveal the contents of the vaccines. Now they are ramping up an urgent campaign to vaccinate children following rushed and falsified clinical trials, with the statistical certainty that many more kids will be injured or will die from the vax than they would from Covid-19 itself.
Citizens have a right to object to this, and to the illegal vaccine “mandate” invoked by the pugnaciously stupid “Joe Biden” regime. There is an awful creeping suspicion in the USA and in other countries that people who have received vaccinations are beginning to present fatal cardiovascular and neurological illness in large numbers, and that an attempt is underway to cover all this up. There is likewise a growing body of evidence that the vaccines and “boosters” incrementally disable the human immune system so that later in the winter of 2021-2022 millions of people will be at risk of dying from Covid variants and virtually any other disease that comes along, including cancers. How many of us are prepared for that?
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You can tie about 99.9% of this woke nonsense back to the gender-confused, pronoun-obsessed you know whos and their attempts to paint their perversion as a civil rights issue. Most of the people of color I know (all of whom are pretty much just like you and me in the sense that they work and love America) aren’t buying any of the bullshit.
Thank you!
It’s mainly white people who push the CRT nonsense.
The liberal “elite” whites…
The liberal “elite” whites who need a gig playing savior. And a nice salary for doing so.
Yes. Education pays better than being a social worker.
JMG the Archdruid once wrote an article about what he called “The Rescue Game”. CRT is the institutionalized version of The Rescue Game. The game has roles for three players – Victim (blacks), persecutor (bad whitey), and rescuer (good whitey). You can guess how the game goes, and your assigned role.
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In their damned pursuit for power at the national level.
90% of Blacks are still too ignorant to realize they have voted as a bloc for the Democratic Party since 1964 and gotten nothing for it. Do they realize that by doing so, they are still political slaves in this country.
Blacks are a maternal society trying to compete with a strongly paternalistic European based society. The lack of male discipline and direction especially with young men cripples Black Society. Female Black society has increasingly become more dependent on the Federal government for sustenance. The combination is very similar to the Native American reservations. In both, males with no purpose except seeding the females lose their purpose in life and fall into drug or alcohol dependency. A small percentage figure their way out of this losing model and become very successful. A substantial percentage “succeed” by getting into crime. Wokeism has increased the latter substantially.
How to fix it? Get the Soros sponsored local shills out of the city governments and put solid fiscally conservative replacements in place. People that will condemn crime and put all those mules and users back into the slammer. People who will use local talent raise the economic boats and keep the Federal carpetbaggers out of their cities. Strive for independence!
There is a long long way to go, but Virginia may have shown that if you insult people long enough, they may finally start to get it.
Blacks had a choice of Obama or Romney their last time around.
I’ll offer that election was rigged in a number of ways, the outcome never in doubt.
Further, the “televised debates” are run by the uniparty, also known as the duopoly, to keep any serious debaters out of the debate and channel the discussion towards their selected individual.
Since television is the way a huge % of the population receives its daily dose of propaganda passed off as “news”, controlling who made it to the stage was managed from the start by a polling system designed to eliminate all but the two, who made their scheduled appearance according to the plan.
Dudley DoRight and the Kenyan wasn’t any sort of a contest.
A number of people raised money to fund an effort to change this system in the courts. The effort failed. The regime won.
My opinion is the courts are mostly, but not exclusively, rigged.
Thus the recourse to redress such issues is constantly being narrowed to a minimum of choices.
This is where it gets interesting, and not in a good way.
Yes, Roasted Vanilla or Artificially Flavored Vanilla.
“. The combination is very similar to the Native American reservations”.
As the Late Russell Means said …………
“WE”, are All On, the reservation now……………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9YlIG9ofGM
Indeed!
https://dillonreadandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AustinFitts_DillonRead.pdf
Yes JohnAZ, Leftists continue to believe it’s all about throwing more money at the problem. No, it’s about young black men (not all, but a large number of them) finding their purpose in life and embracing values and behavior leading to a successful life.
Traditionally, young males are the protectors of their society, not its predators. The old males are the decision makers, but the young provide the muscle and energy and face the dangers.
Democrats exalt the nanny state and life long dependency salted with perceived victimhood. They encourage reproduction outside of a stable two parent family. They discourage delayed gratification, self-responsibility, academic achievement to include proper language skills.
In fact, everything left wingers stand for seems to degrade and destroy rather than strengthen a society. Coincidence?
“Leftists continue to believe it’s all about throwing more money at the problem.”
There was a time when I thought this was the case, with the expected result being a fixed problem. I thought the strategy was misguided, not repression by design. Not so, the throwing of money was a bribe to keep the ghetto culture intact, thus maintaining the power structure. It created a dependency spanning generations, becoming a way to live. It was a bribe to surrender freedom and liberty for trinkets.
“Ghetto culture” is not based on race. It is based on a perverse system of economic wealth redistribution. It is designed to keep a substantial portion of the population, regardless of race, dependent on the nanny state, depriving them of knowledge regarding the means of escape along the way.
…”In fact, everything left wingers stand for seems to degrade and destroy rather than strengthen a society. Coincidence?”
Not a coincidence, though a lot of “left-wingers” don’t appear to have sufficient critical thinking skills to discern the reality of the scam.
Though tempting as it is to comment on each of the 4 paragraphs, they stand quite well on their own. Thumbs up.
But they don’t understand they were insulting people. What they thought they were doing is making sure the minions understood who was in charge and ratify their positions.
They now want to make it about race b/c to admit anything else would expose their authoritative agenda.
Well – for some historical context on this, most African societies are paternalistic as well, as are most Asian and Native American ones. Slavery in the US disrupted (intentionally) those west African norms to weaken the family structure and thereby weaken individuals to more easily subdue them. Unfortunately, post-slavery as black families were beginning to re-establish themselves as full family structures with fathers at the helm (although back in the day, most black families saw mothers and fathers as more equal financial partners than white families) and we began to see real and rapid gains in achievement for black children, white “liberals” funded desegregation efforts which (granted) seemed at the time to be the right progress for all of our civil liberties – and certainly were spearheaded by black intellectuals. This “progress” served to undermine black community structures and, therefore, black families which gave way to regression in achievement and then more white “liberal” funded welfare reform and “free housing” in urban ghettos – but only if there was no husband/father/man in the home. And, on and on we go. Actually, the only surprising thing (and maybe a testament to the actual resilience of black people) is that only a third of black families are in poverty given everything “liberals” – black and white – have done to try to destroy black families.
But, factually, blacks are no more inherently a maternal society than any other. (Not saying there’s anything also inherently wrong with being a maternal society if men are not sidelined). The state that you see many black children in now with nary a father in sight has been the result of hundreds of years of deliberate action – mostly by white Democrats of the past and white and black “liberals” today.
Really thoughtful comment, thanks.
Rundmc, thanx 4 that.
Correct you are, but the “Ultra-Orthodox-Leftist” Not us common
sense-Conservatives. You know who they are. The ones that deny science by denying biology.
And you want to talk about a scandal that the state of California is doing everything it can including moving the ones that have been raped from one prison to another to do everything they can to keep them quiet.
And that’s the women that have been raped by men saying this horse-shit.
“ I am woman hear me roar!! thank you Helen Reddy!! so I have to be with women, or I’ll likely to be raped by men!”
According to one whistle blower guard, One guy raped a woman just as soon as he was put in a cell with her after clearing “in-coming procedures.” And that prison did not bring him up on charges because they knew it would hit the media. So what did they do?
What do you think they did? they do what they’re good at. They lied their ass off and they covered it up by transferring both. Which lo and behold, the black rapist did it again once he cleared “in-coming
procedures!!”
There wouldn’t be a third time because this warden yanked him out and put him in with men. All according to the whistle-blower guard at the 1st prison that is close friends with the guards at the other prison which just happens to be right down the road from the first prison!!!!!
Jim said, “…language skills as a primary task of public education — because ghetto English is more stigmatizing and economically disabling than skin color or any other feature of self-presentation.”
Ouch! Truth hurts. Of course, a little missive regarding critical thinking would have been double damning. Maybe next post 🙂
But if you live in a vacuum of thought, relying upon your echo to permeate your belief to the point of religiosity, this is what you get.
This off-year vote validated the concept that how ever transitory the American psyche is, it will rise from time to time to remind those that live in a bubble that it can be popped.
jcp
This conversation reminds me of this article about “Why A.I. Is Always Racist”:
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/why-artificial-intelligence-is-always-racist/
I’ve never been sure what educators mean when they use the words “critical thinking”. How do you teach logical reality based thinking, or anything to people without language skills? People who don’t learn language skills don’t thrive.
What I find, anecdotally, is that “white saviors” suffer an inability to overcome their deep-seated racism, and this truly bothers them. They are most often infected with the type of racism known as “soft bigotry of low expectations”, and again, this bothers them, greatly.
They try to overcome this dissonance by throwing themselves at the extreme, so as to arrest any confusion within, and any efface suspicions percolating in those witnessing. The great act.
I agree with your analysis.
Yes, the white saviors are modern day “benevolent” plantation masters with the conviction: “I’ll decide what’s best for you poor, slow colored folk.”
And of course the live wire is the proven fact that Blacks do have a much lower IQ than Whites. You can’t deal with it either, so join the pity party.
LOL! Speaking of dog whistles!
“Blaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccckkkkkkksssssss! Buuuuhhhhhhlaaaaaaccccckkkkkksssssss! Blaaaaaaaaaacccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkssssssss”
C’mon Jarek, c’mon boy… fetch it
I see you have your dunce cap on today. Remember, Whites don’t exist, but Jews do – Jared Diamond. You think he’s smarter than Hernstein and Murray or just Murry? Do you think you are? Really?
Hahahahahaha, so spot on.
And now with everyone running around with their faces covered since March 2020, a NY pediatric psychiatrist is now saying all the babies born from that time on have a 20 point drop in their IQs because they were deprived of seeing and interacting with so many different human expressions.
This had to have been known prior to the mask mandates.
We are dealing with some seriously evil human beings here folks.
Of course it was known. Back in slavery days they’d put masks on the slaves. It’s completely psychologically damaging as well as unhealthy.
Just like at the Met Ball earlier this year, the people who make the rules, don’t follow the rules but do enforce them. Their kids (and the nannies who care for them) won’t be wearing masks but YOURS damn well better be! Close the schools, mask ’em up, and now vaccinate all the way to preschoolers.
Evil and unfortunately, powerful too.
Now I ain’t tryin’ a disrespechew o’ nothin’, but
Man, Wass wrong witch yew??
You are indebted to me for being able to hear the Truth – perhaps more then you can ever repay.
I have learned a thing or two from you over the years…
It’s not just “White saviors” with the “soft bigotry of low expectations”. I’ve known successful intelligent blacks whom I admire and respect, express these thoughts to each other when they didn’t know I could hear them.
All hail Jarek. The prophet of our time’s. The only one who can hear the truth from on high. Who is such a paragon of truth and virtue that the light is shining out of every orifice in his body. That everything you think and say is correct, and everyone who disabuses you of your notions is evil. So I walk around in my sackcloth and think, maybe I should listen to this person of truth and virtue. Because I’m such a ignorant bastard and so full of malevolence. Maybe this prophet Jarek will drop one thing on me that won’t make my life miserable and doomed to hell. All hail Jarek the light bringer of hope for the unwashed. Lol.
LOL!
“and any efface suspicions percolating in those witnessing.”
Oops.
The plight of blacks in America is documented in “The Bell Curve” by Herrnstein and Murray 1994, 845 pages. They illustrate correlation and causation with unequal intellectual ability among races. Talk about an unpopular topic. Their book was damn near banned from public distribution. However, time has validated their conclusions and predictions for America’s future.
Yes, the average low IQ (either 80 or 85, depending on the source) of American blacks is the unacknowledged underlying cause of black inequality. (Up until 1973, an IQ of 80 or less was the baseline for being considered mentally retarded. Meaning that about half of American blacks are mentally retarded.) This doesn’t necessarily make them bad people. They can be quite good people. The main thing that pisses people off are CRT and demands by blacks for equality of outcome.
Then you have the Dunning-Kruger effect: stupid people are too stupid to know they’re stupid. The public school system encourages this through grade inflation, so that they think they’ve achieved mastery of reading, writing, and arithmetic, even if they are functionally illeterate and innumerate. People have achieved even a modest degree of mastery of these skills appear to them to be sinister-intelligent oppressors for trying to impose standards–which is something they should be angry about.
What’s really needed are jobs that offer dignity and security for people who have below-average intelligence–and for such people to get over the idea that society owes them a career as an accountant.
Wasn’t it or isn’t it 70? This is the average IQ of Black Africa. The 85 is because of the substantial increment of White genes into their population.
It does make them bad or at least undeveloped people. See the seminal (you can say ovular) work of Laurence Kohlberg, Loveinger, et al anent the positive correlation between IQ and moral development.
But yes, IQ is necessary but not sufficient. There are other factors. The mad scientist type is all too real.
Jarek: Umm – how do you know the average IQ of “Black Africa?” Where and when was that assessed? And, what do you consider to be the geography of “Black Africa?”
While on the topic, how do some of you on this thread know the average IQ of any race of people – whether on the African continent or the North American one? Because, there’s been very little actual RCT of this measure across races. (And, don’t quote me Charles Murray on this – his analysis was thrown out as invalid years ago).
I also wonder, as a matter of scientific and social analysis, why you are stuck on one measure (IQ) that is hotly debated in scientific circles as a valid measure of anything, let alone innate intelligence. It’s quite easy to take a measure that one (or a couple) races of people score higher on – on average (although we certainly don’t know the IQ scores generally of all Africans…) – and say – that is THE measure to use to determine ability. It would be akin to using measures of ability in 3 sports – football, basketball and soccer – and using that to determine the ability of white vs black people to succeed in society. Either way is equally invalid.
BTW – as an inveterate consumer of true crime books and tv shows, I can tell you that the average IQ or just plain ole common sense of many white people ain’t so high… even those who aren’t killers.
and for such people to get over the idea that society owes them a career as an accountant. – Anthea
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As a person who holds a college degree in Accounting, I have to laugh at the above line. It is hard to picture college-age Black youth as desiring “a career as an accountant.” Why? There is no glory in it. Who the hell wants to be a “bean counter?”
Even in football where Blacks shine you will not find one Black punter or long snapper. OK, maybe ONE. Why? Because there is no glory in it. They want to be running backs or receivers so they can score a TD and race up to the cameras to perform their well-practiced inane celebrations.
Haha, accountant, as if.
“Even in football where Blacks shine you will not find one Black punter or long snapper. OK, maybe ONE. Why? Because there is no glory in it. They want to be running backs or receivers so they can score a TD and race up to the cameras to perform their well-practiced inane celebrations.” — Q. Shtik
No. Blacks are disproportionately represented as running backs, receivers, and defensive backs because of their leg structure and fast twitch muscles. (Jimmy the Greek got fired in the 70s for saying similar — Wokeism isn’t a new infectious ideology.)
Not the case for punters or long-snappers, where Whites excel.
Ray Guy. Nothing more need be said.
@ Billy Hill – what about Fred Biletnikoff?
My ex husband had a black accountant to do the taxes on his business. This was a Bad Idea. The guy filed one extension after another till we were all out of extensions.
The jobs that used to provide people with economic security are gone, either outsourced or mechanized, but the population has increased.
A black friend of mine drove me to the airport (a long time ago) and we chatted for two hours.
He grew up in this town when it was segregated and he liked the school he attended. He told me that back then the old women would watch the streets and if a child misbehaved his parents would be told immediately and they would be taught to behave.
If a man beat his wife he would be visited by a group of elders from his church and told that he could not continue with that behavior.
Many things have changed since then, not just integration. The jobs are gone, the old folks are probably watching TV instead of the streets, parents today have no idea of proper behavior for children, and the elders of the church are pretty much all that still attend.
Screens ruined community.
Chopper,
You are correct about the book rating blacks as somewhat lower in IQ than whites. But that was not the reason the book was almost banned in this nation. The book then went on to say that the Chinese are several points higher, in IQ, than white people.
THAT was what caused such a reaction.
Prove it. Academia is controlled by Liberals who are very uncomfortable with the model minority – as the East Asians are called. They should be dumb like the Blacks but they ain’t. But the Blacks were and are their main focus. Their usual defense to throw the whole idea of IQ out the window at least at this late date.
Yes they did document the superior average intellectual ability of Asians, now outperforming Caucasians in our universities – a prediction made in their book. However, Asians and whites were not a protected class at that time. The furor came from the same type of whites JHK identifies as (aka Liberals) in this blog.
If that’s the case, why are we lowering the standards for blacks only. Does it hurt or help them? Can’t do simple math, can’t read or write, can’t be on time, all racist. My daughter wants to be a astrophysicist, and professor. She’s not capable of that because she has down’s syndrome. I think they should lower the standards because she would be the first female astrophysicist, and professor. Sounds stupid dosen’t it. Or, does it.
It is stupid in itself to defame the IQ of a race of people and far worse when it is also false and malicious. Time has not validated the ‘writings’ of those 2 idiot-savants in the slightest. Do you know how white woke people sound to us when we hear them talk and grunt on TV overseas? Get an ‘effin clue.
They have received much hate, but no has been able to disprove their work. They were hardly the only or the first either. It is the simple Truth.
White Supremacism? Hardly. The same research finds the East Asians and Ashkenazi are smarter than us.
Not so, my liege. Ashkenazim have higher verbal I.Q., as they have made themselves the finest storytellers in the world. Their 3-D visuospatial IQ is a bit below that of the Caucasian on average. They are not builders, but nomads.
East Asian IQ rates highly in visuospatial, yet lower in verbal, than Caucasian averages. They are molded by ideograms.
Even so, their social proclivities overcame, again and again, their engineers- until Europeans gifted them with our kind of knowledge, even that gleaned from and unused by them. The average Chinese lived in rice-paddy villages with a bicycle economy in the cities.
Addendum, my lord Jarek. The IQ crowd misses a most important point. Capacity does not determine function.
Language has two functions, not one.
Because we have two processors, not one, and the use of emotive language, versus neutral information language, depends on which processor is dominant.
The breeder hindbrain’s function is to organize our social groups.
The mechanical forebrain”s function is to model.
The tone of a society, of a demographic, is dtermined by said processors as well as capacity (IQ). Hot scheming mess stuck in place, or the grandchildren of even slaves and prisoners building high civilization in savage wilderness?
O.G. is a fine example of the two processors.
His high capacity and cool calculation succeeded in one environment, but was shattered by the different strategeries of breeder brained women and lawyers. The trauma of his shattered world has left him veering between the two processors in cognitive dissonance, torn between emotion and observation.
Well said, my good counselor. I didn’t want to give them too much – and a bit of humility doesn’t hurt us. But only when balanced with rightful Pride! It’s no accident Whites created as much as they did.
I lifted one corner, and you lifted another. Else I should remain silent as Confucius said. As one convert to Christianity said of his people and their attraction to Art, We entered this realm only to destroy it.
But they are good at math and the sciences. As are the Asians. One is non-visual but verbal, the other verbal but non-visual. Thoughts? Perhaps they excel at theory and the Asians at application?
Yes, our good OG has been tormented by the Witches, as have I. Confucius as well to wit: When I want them to talk, they remain silent. When I want silence, they won’t stop talking.
What did we fight about two weeks ago? I have an emotional memory but not the exact one?
A few days ago Al said to ease off the ‘sisters’.
But…..but….AOC says the term “woke” is only used by “boomers”!
Greetings,
I live along the Ohio river near two coal fired power plants that provide electricity to Pittsburgh and our local area. Normally, those plants are surrounded by literal mountains of coal but that isn’t true at the moment. I’ve noticed that the supplies of coal are dwindling and yesterday, as I was driving past the plants on my way to pick up a wood-burning stove, I notice that the coal was almost all gone.
You can not tell truck drivers, coal miners, barge captains, power plant workers, etc to mask up indefinitely and to inject themselves with poison and expect to have electricity. You especially can not do such things in Amish country where all of us can see with our own eyes that the Amish are doing just fine without masks, social distancing, and vaccines.
I’ve stated many times that I have doubts as to whether Brandon was gonna run things into the ground such that they’d be unable to keep the lights on and it looks like I was correct.
Get ready for a dark winter.
Thanks Nickel – local recon always provides invaluable truth.
All that coal is probably being shipped off for storage in an endless warehouse, like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark…
The Lay-Off list state’s that the entire coal production for 2022 is already sold-out, going to both domestic and foreign buyers, strange they say it’s 15 dollars at the mine per ton, but locally it’s $305 a ton, so you can bet your ass green or not they aren’t going to let something as profitable as that go down the drain.
The area around me is the least jabbed in the country. Again, you can’t pretend the Amish do not exist because you see them every day and they NEVER wore masks even when they came into town to get something from the “English”.
There is a bridge near one of the power plants that connect W. Virginia to Ohio. There, the local hospital has a billboard that tells you the current “wait time” for the emergency room and emergency services. The billboard was put up at the start of the pandemic and remained up for about a year. Funny thing was, the wait time never exceeded 5 minutes except one time on a busy weekend when the wait time jumped up to 15 minutes.
My thinking is that someone in marketing actually believed the hype about the plandemic and thought that as wait times soared, they’d be able to scare the public into coming into the hospital that much quicker.
Coming from California where the wait time in an ER can be 14 hours or longer, I thought their silly stunt hysterical but it was a constant reminder to everyone that the virus was and is a hoax.
If you now demand vaccine passports then Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh will soon be without electricity. That is a fact.
The problem over and over is that the anti FF folks, especially coal,
HAVE NO FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES!!
Until a legitimate alternative is presented, no change, coal and oil will still be mined and drilled at increasing rates, because there is no choice.
Europe and their wind farms were a big propaganda tool for the AGW crowd for a short while. It is now an embarrassment.
Same with the Covid fixit groups, they do not have a clue how to fixit.
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Right now, the scourge seems to have leveled off. It is becoming the flu or a cold. New antivirals are being tested now that may attack this virus before it has a chance to propagate much in situ. This makes it so you can push back on the crud after it hits. This needs to be tested!! mRNA is too dangerous for certain age groups and needs to be relegated to emergency use only.
When the trucks stop, it’s over!
https://modernsurvivalblog.com/systemic-risk/when-the-trucks-stop-its-over/
“Same with the Covid fixit groups, they do not have a clue how to fixit.”
Like the crazy ex whose only obsession is to “get back at ’em”, not thinking if it will destroy his or her life as well.
For a few weeks or months during late summer, propane was unobtanium. My daughter was trying to get her tank filled for winter, and there simply was no propane. The propane companies told her that domestic propane supplies were being sold to overseas markets, so that there was none for the domestic market.
She was finally able to get her tank filled, and pay in advance in case she needed a winter re-fill, but the price was high.
What Jo Jo Magoo’s handlers want is chaos. They want the real world consequences for their increasingly insane actions.
I am not sure why this isn’t clear to people. They aren’t incompetent, they really want to destroy this country so they can rebuild it within their new transhumanistic confines.
I don’t think they will succeed, but how much damage can they do in the meantime?
I also think sheer chaos is one of their main goals.
However, I also think they are kidding themselves about being able to rebuild.
For many people, places, systems, and infrastructure, the descent into chaos will be a one-way trip.
No one is going to work 100 or 120 hour weeks to implement the WEF’s lunatic medico-techno-tyranny.
The few, well-paid that do will simply become targets for the roving gangs.
Remember PT Barnum
There is a sucker born every minute.
A good description of the 48% of the American public that buys Biden et al’s BS.
But do they? Or are they just pretending they do because they can’t get past Orange Man Bad?
Watch Mary, today we will find if the damn Liberals can push through the biggest inflation causer in history.
Just watched JoJo say that incomes are going up faster than inflation.
That is 1970s inflation talk, the he said that 17 Nobel economists agree with him that we are on the correct track. Boy does that make me feel comforted. Why don’t we just let the academia, totally worthless people dictate the direction of the country.
Yes Mary, it looks like Venezuela is their shining guidepost. Impoverish the people and destroy the middle class; thru scarcity the few can control the many.
Print money like mad, hyper-inflate the currency, destroy supply chains, create empty store shelves. Next comes gun confiscation while the gangs are allowed to terrorize the people.
These Globalists are not incompetent. Their plans for us are unfolding on schedule.
I agree completely. It’s going to get pretty nasty soon.
I once read many of the ordinary people were happy when the barbarians destroyed the Roman Empire and its Elite. Now I understand why.
Yes! History makes much more sense when you see the same situations unfolding again.
I was just discussing this with my daughter. I haven’t seen huge inflation in the cost of food. Since I normally don’t buy anything but food, clothes from the thrift store, and supplies needed for a little hobby retirement business, I haven’t felt inflations that much–except at the gas station. Since I am in the process of moving, I’ve been buying a few home furnishings, but since I never bought stuff like this before, I don’t know if it’s gone up or not.
But my daughter ticked off a list of items that have roughly doubled in price: heating fuel, housing, construction materials, construction labor, car parts, and medical care. She is the resident car mechanic, and she and her husband just finished rehabing a 100-year-old farmhouse. Health insurance is costing them a fortune, even though they get almost all their medical care from practitioners who are not covered by their insurance, and when they can use it, the deductable is some insane amount that they never reach.
She told me that she is frightened.
I’ve thought some about how to escape from this tightening noose and, frankly, the only solution I see is to choose a lifestyle along Amish lines in a like-minded community. As my daughter put it, the “English” way of life sucks all the blood out of you. And you know what? They’re prosperous and I’m not.
Health insurance got nuts since the late 90s. In 2005 I cancelled mine, since it was taking 1/3 of my income.
Then they put in Obama, who mandated health insurance, (a foreshadowing of this year’s vaccine mandates).
I still refused to get it until 2013 when my husband got a job that had cheaper insurance.
During those 9 years, I had pneumonia and an ankle injury, and my husband broke his ankle and all of that was far cheaper than the insurance.
But people who didn’t want to pay a penalty for not being able to afford insurance, so they voted for Trump?
Racist.
I heard a quote on a Peterson site by a preacher named Vanderclay,” if you don’t think the resurrection is believable, start hanging out with people that do and see what you think in a group.” Or something like that. It makes sense to scale life to fit the situation one is living with.
Take climate believers, I lived in Alaska for 6 winters after being in Maui for 6 years and the weather doesn’t “suit your clothes”
No matter where you are.
God makes the weather what one has (according to native Alaskans) is poor clothing options. God gave us a brain to use, but some folks don’t recognize that idea.
This life style of modernization is quite dependent of heat of some kind and refrigeration. The big equalizers.
Like James points out in WMBH and his other great books, it ain’t gonna be fun but we can do this. Adapt and get along.
That’s my rant
I am beginning to suspect that the wokesters actually want to provoke the deplorables into some type of reaction that can be labelled as ‘terrorist’ activity. Then they can double down on the mandates. I have no other explanation for their behaviour.
Absolutely. They just love their Hegelian dialectic. (Shorthand: engineering the preferred response to an engineered crisis.) Their single all-purpose tool.
Speaking of this here is Tucker Carlson’s documentary in three parts on 1/6:
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/tuckers-documentary-on-the-january-6th-so-called-insurrection-all-3-parts/
Thanks, I was looking for this.
I have been convinced for several months now that this is precisely their strategy.
Now that they have been shellacked in recent elections the Wokester panic will escalate and their desperation to provoke a bona fide “insurrection” will rapidly intensify. The clock is ticking and they know it. Newt Gingrich believes the Dems could lose anywhere from 40 to 70 seats in the House in a November of 2022. I suspect he knows what he is talking about. Newt also predicts a gain of about 4 seats in the Senate. So, by January of 2023 the window of opportunity to declare martial law and sic the Wokester military on us will have closed. They have 14 months to try to seize power and overthrow constitutional government. This is now the period of maximum peril for Patriots.
But make no mistake…..they are now on the defensive and in retreat. The elections last week were the Pickett’s Charge of the Wokester Revolution. These subversives remain dangerous, but are now in retreat.
I disagree on the competence angle.
Biden himself is a classic example. Even prior to the state he’s in now where a full Depends marks the high point of his day, Biden was a plagiarizing, gaffe-plagued moron who ran a 40-year grift doing the only “job” he probably was qualified for: the self-referential theater of the US Senate. In that nonsensical context, there are some who at least have attempted to author consequential legislation (whatever that may mean) but Biden doesn’t even meet that low standard. He’s a cipher.
And that cipher is surrounded by every cast-off from the Island of Misfit Toys: the ridiculous she-male admiral, a Secretary of Transportation whose area of expertise is probably in the field of personal lubricants, every race-grievance junkie and gender-fluidity addict, all focussed on their own pathologies to the virtual exclusion of everything else. It’s actually a perfect storm of incompetence.
The idea that there is always some mastermind in charge is not well-supported by the historical record. Hunter Thompson’s words, spoken not in the context of politics, but still imo relevant, come to mind:
“What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create… a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody… or at least some force – is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Those you refer to are just puppets though, being used for the theater that distracts the masses. Behind it is an intelligence apparatus that is well-oiled and knows exactly what it’s doing, and has been planning all of this for decades.
But even so, people make mistakes, miss things, and there are no doubt warring factions within the massive apparatus, so those create opportunities for us to fight back.
We just have to be aware and watchful for the cracks in the facade.
I don’t see it.
The “intelligence apparatus” has historically been way more Keystone Cops than Tom Clancy.
Occam’s Razor. The much more likely explanation is that no one is really in charge or maybe a better way of putting it:
Biden is president of a country that no longer exists.
King – I am going to steal your line – “Biden is president of a country that no longer exists” Thanks!
Good stuff, King. The take on Leary Generation is apt, their failure to account for evil (just basic human selfishness) doomed the flower children but still informs many who push for carbon limits for US but give China and India a pass.
The observation about Biden presiding over a nonexistent nation is almost an epiphany.
Absolutely right.
“I don’t see it”
LOL.
Jesus help us. Sometimes I think the psychos really did get it right when planning the Great Reset.
If you heard RFK, Jr’s coverage of the Fauxi mob today you might change your mind. Big Pharma, WHO, NIH, CDC, etc. are a well-oiled machine that have been screwing us for decades.
From Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style In American Politics:
“Here is Senator McCarthy, speaking in June 1951 about the parlous situation of the United States:
How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? This must be the product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. A conspiracy of infamy so black that, which it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men. . . . What can be made of this unbroken series of decisions and acts contributing to the strategy of defeat? They cannot be attributed to incompetence. . . . The laws of probability would dictate that part of . . . [the] decisions would serve the country’s interest.
Now turn back fifty years to a manifesto signed in 1895 by a number of leaders of the Populist party:
As early as 1865–66 a conspiracy was entered into between the gold gamblers of Europe and America. . . . For nearly thirty years these conspirators have kept the people quarreling over less important matters while they have pursued with unrelenting zeal their one central purpose. . . . Every device of treachery, every resource of statecraft, and every artifice known to the secret cabals of the international gold ring are being used to deal a blow to the prosperity of the people and the financial and commercial independence of the country.
Next, a Texas newspaper article of 1855:
. . . It is a notorious fact that the Monarchs of Europe and the Pope of Rome are at this very moment plotting our destruction and threatening the extinction of our political, civil, and religious institutions. We have the best reasons for believing that corruption has found its way into our Executive Chamber, and that our Executive head is tainted with the infectious venom of Catholicism. . . . The Pope has recently sent his ambassador of state to this country on a secret commission, the effect of which is an extraordinary boldness of the Catholic church throughout the United States. . . . These minions of the Pope are boldly insulting our Senators; reprimanding our Statesmen; propagating the adulterous union of Church and State; abusing with foul calumny all governments but Catholic, and spewing out the bitterest execrations on all Protestantism. The Catholics in the United States receive from abroad more than $200,000 annually for the propagation of their creed. Add to this the vast revenues collected here. . . .”
Sounds remarkably familiar…
I don’t doubt there is intent on the part of those in power, not just now but all throughout history, but intent and what can actually be pulled off are not quite the same thing.
King, with all due respect,
The facade of separate countries is coming to an end.
Republican & Democrat = 2 heads of the same hydra.
It’s all for show. The show has been going on for decades, and people still fall for it.
When a republican wins, what changes? When a democrat wins, what changes? Nothing. We still move toward the same trajectory – the Great Reset.
It’s been in the works for decades. They have made sure to distract us really well so we don’t see it, but those that knew about it 30-40-50 years ago have been warning us and they have been proven correct.
Hofstadter lays out several examples spaced a half a century apart with the same exact idea: a cabal conspiring to bring the country down or reorient the world. There are many other examples, not just in this country, of the “unknown superiors” meme. These to me are a close cousin of the end of the world meme promulgated by numerous cults throughout history and it always comes down to this simple (and curiously effective) sales pitch: while every other prediction may have been wrong, this time it’s for real. The “Great Reset” strikes me as yet another in an ongoing series.
On top of that, the notion of a global entity running the world goes entirely counter to the central theme of this blog: that large organizations are on borrowed time, anomalies as they are created by cheap and plentiful energy supplies that are no longer cheap or plentiful. Small and local will be the theme of the 21st century and that century will much more likely feature the horse and buggy than the flying car.
As far as population goes, 7 billion souls and counting are not a long-term option on the planet. A cursory study of evolution and population biology demonstrates that populations in nature are regulated by three things: disease, food supply, and predation. The first two will largely determine where exactly the human head-count winds up as this century progresses but it most assuredly will be considerably lower. And while it’s pretty clear that this pandemic is the result of assholes playing god, nature itself is quite adept at throwing up population killers at fairly regular intervals.
I just think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. Two different world-views.
John Kerry allegedly told the World Economic Forum last year that Bumblefuck Biden is on board with their plan to remake the world in their fascist image, including the a”Build Back Better”slogan and hyping shots and government control over everything. Klaus Schwab and Co. apparently like what they heard — and so it was that China Joe ended up in the White House (or a set in Delaware designed to look like the White House). And he, Kerry, and others pledged this week to achieve the WEF’s goals via the Federal regulatory state, regardless what We the People want, say, or vote.
I certainly don’t envy them their eventual appearance before YHWH to explain their actions. We’re all sinners, but to go out of your way to fuck over humanity when you know what you’re doing is evil according to your religion is stupid and begs for eternal punishment. But considering we’ve been told by lefties for decades that there’s no such thing as objective truth (unless it serves their purposes, of course), it makes sense that these dolts would buy their own bullshit, plunging the world into chaos and unspeakable horror, and setting themselves up for damnation.
Again, all because people disliked “mean” tweets by one of the few actual adults in American government. Thanks a lot.
It’s a religion. The true believers are operating on faith.
Ya know, as a deeply religious atheist, I see now the benefit of the concept underlying ‘grace’.
I tend to take a darker view of recent events and concur with a summary (copied below) provided by Mike Yeadon, the former head of Pfizer respiratory division. The masters of the universe are implementing their plans for global control and are well on the way to succeeding.
see https://www.australiannationalreview.com/health/mike-yeadon-ex-pfizer-scientist-sent-this-out-on-thursday-we-are-approaching-stage-5/
Yeadon says we are entering Phase 5 of their plan:
Phase 1: Simulate a threat and create fear. (December 2019-March 2020)
Mount a plandemic
– Kill tens of thousands of elderly people.
– Increase the number of cases and deaths
– Position vaccination as the only solution from the beginning.
– Focus all attention on Covid-19.
Result, (almost) general panic
Phase 2: Sow the tares and division. (March 2020-December 2020)
– Impose multiple unnecessary, liberticidal and unconstitutional coercive measures.
– Paralyze trade and the economy.
– Observe the submission of a majority and the resistance of a rebellious minority.
– Stigmatize the rebels and create a horizontal division.
– Censoring dissident leaders.
– Punish disobedience.
– Generalize PCR tests.
– Create confusion between cases, infected, sick, hospitalized and dead.
– Disqualify all effective treatments.
– Hope for a rescue vaccine.
Result, (almost) general panic.
Phase 3: Bring a treacherous and deadly solution. (December 2020-June 2021)
– Offer a free vaccine for everyone.
– Promise protection and return to normality.
– Establish a herd immunization target.
– Simulate a partial recovery of the economy.
– Hide statistics of side effects and deaths from injections.
– Passing off the side effects of the injections as “natural” effects of the virus and the disease.
– Recover the notion of a variant as a natural mutation of the virus.
– Justify the maintenance of coercive measures by not applying the herd immunity threshold.
– Punish health professionals for the illegal exercise of care and healing.
Result, doubts and feelings of betrayal among the vaxx, discouragement among opponents.
Phase 4: Install Apartheid and the QR code. (June 2021-October 2021)
– Voluntarily plan for shortages.
– Impose the vaccination pass (QR code) to reward the vaccinated, punish the resistant.
– Create an Apartheid of the privileged against the others.
– Take away the right to work or study from non-vaxx.
– Withdraw basic services to the non-vaxx.
– Impose PCR payment tests on non-vaxx.
Result, First stage of digital control, impoverishment of opponents
Phase 5: Establish chaos and Martial law. (November 2021-March 2022)
– Exploit the shortage of goods and food.
– Cause the paralysis of the real economy and the closure of factories and shops.
– Let unemployment explode.
– Apply a third dose to the vaxx (boosters).
– Take up the murder of the living old men.
– Impose compulsory vaccination for all.
– Amplify the myth of variants, the efficacy of the vaccine and the immunity of the herd.
– Demonize the anti-vaxx and hold them responsible for the dead.
– Arrest opposition leaders.
– Impose digital identity on everyone (QR code): Birth certificate, identity document, passport, driving license, health insurance card …
– Establish martial law to defeat the opposition.
Result, Second stage of digital control. Imprisonment or removal of opponents.
Phase 6: Cancel the debts and dematerialize the money. (March 2022-September 2022)
– Trigger the economic, financial and stock market collapse, the bankruptcy of the banks.
– To rescue the losses of the banks in the accounts of their clients.
– Activate the «Great Reset».
– De-materialize money.
– Cancel debts and loans.
– Impose the digital portfolio. (Digital Wallet)
– Seize properties and land.
– Ban all global medicines.
– Confirm the obligation to vaccinate semi-annually or annually.
– Impose food rationing and a diet based on the Codex Alimentarius.
– Extend the measures to emerging countries.
Result, Third stage of digital control. Extension of the N.O.M. to the whole planet.
I don’t entirely disagree with your contentions.
However, I think the supply chain issues and the failure of green energy to maintain sufficient electrical supply are going to put some serious crimps in their plan to digitize and electrify everything.
Agreed.
The material world is *not* data & the difference will impose itself in many more ways, also.frankly, I’m not sure how the material world can be successfully reengineered without intimate knowledge of what exists. This the planners are missing, or they wouldn’t approach living humans like inert matter..
Excellent points.
It is true that our Woke overlords don’t seem to realize our human resources are also declining in quality and quantity.
This is unsurprising to any intelligent observer since our schools and universities are nothing more than Woke indoctrination camps.
The global, cradle-to-grave surveillance and control grid the overlords desire would require far more technical talent than we’ve got now, or will have in five years.
I expect this will also put a crimp in their plans.
Perimetr,on the phase 5 idea of digital i.d.’s,the leftwing of T.P.T.B. currently don’t advocate i.d.’s for the Lives That Matter Most and illegal immigrants when it comes to voting rights.I can concur with the general outline of this though looks like a10 to 20 year project.
This is exactly what has and is being done.
Well, I respect Yeadon, but if that’s their plan, it’s already failing. There are whole swathes of the world that are not playing: Russia, China, India, most of Africa, and many smaller nations like Sweden, Denmark, Rumania, etc. Their overweening arrogance and our resistance will stop them. It will be nasty, messy and disturbingly kinetic, but we will win.
True. But if they pull down communications (at least for the Western countries that are participating), then as far as most citizens in those countries (including us) will know is that Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are perpetually at war with each other, to borrow from Blair.
And we will only know what we are being told. Kind of hard to get to Russia or Romania to get the real news at the point.
We DO have a chance but it is slim, and it relies on our resilience, because they are not giving up.
So we have to assume we’re in this war (that is truly what it is) for the long haul.
Yep. And still the legacy conservatives call it incompetence. It’s 100% deliberate.
What a pernicious agenda the populace is being served. Catharsis is certainly in order.
@AKlein Agree with the need for catharsis – the longer we wait, the more traumatic it will be.
Good morning.
There has been talk that the vaccine mandate will not be shot down in the courts, because it is actually a “testing and masking mandate”.
If that were so, and it is not, it would still have to meet the same tests any other OSHA regulation has to meet, to make it legal.
The Market Ticker guy has listed those tests:
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244137
That’s not to say some judge somewhere won’t ignore all this.
Isn’t there a deadline for them to withdraw the PCR process by the end of the year?
Will they simply remove the testing option or come out with something even worse?
Excellent point TCL.
At the moment I’ll go with “come out with something even worse”.
Some people thing the new Gates test will contain the vaccine.
“Think”.
The way Bill Gates chortles while talking about his vaccines sterilizing people should be a big clue as to the agenda.
I would imagine they will roll on without the testing, and just push vaccine mandates harder.
Anyone presenting one or more symptoms (cough, headache, nausea, aches, fever, etc) will be publicly assumed to have covid, unless vaccinated…and subsequently quarantined.
If vaccinated, it’s just a bit of a cold, carry on.
If unvaccinated, away with thee, and no pay until after your 14-day home isolation.
Bonus points if they can achieve this via a self-policing workforce populace.
Just spitballing, but that’s what I’d do if I was a tyrannical crank.
Are you channeling your inner Justin Castreau?
Try and keep up, TCL. Gates and Soros recently bought a testing company. Expect, positive test results of 290% from Jan 1st and more calls for total lockdowns.
Remember the bias of the judicial as represented by their boss.
Beware MTG’s site. Good observations, yet void of retort – by design.
This host is honest, humble and provides more smiles than frowns.
Caveat emptor.
I thought you meant Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I will not hear a word against her.
I don’t see reading the Market Ticker site or someone else’s as an either/or situation.
B of O. You are more than welcome to read any site you like.
Just don’t be surprised to find that some of those sites present less then solid evidence for their claims. Simply linking to them without due regard should be avoided.
You said, per Congresscritter MTG: “I will not hear a word against her.” You proved my point.
No I did not. I have READ much of what Marjorie puts out there, and have formed a favorable opinion of the woman.
That was my attempt at a humorous response, but I can see you don’t deserve humor, nor do you deserve any credit for coming here in a serious attempt to have reasoned discussion of the issues.
You either haven’t read the article I linked to or you have read it and are trying to keep it from the wider audience it deserves.
You failed. The Market Ticker guy must be gaining traction, as he’s picked up a minder.
@ Beryl of Oyl:
Tickerforum.org is GREAT site. I’ve been following the guy since roughly 2005. Karl is a GREAT educator. Besides objective facts and excellent analysis, the site is good for shapening your analytic skills. A lot of people literally don’t know HOW to think rationally. Long exposure to rational thinking is medicinal for such folk.
Karl is, let us say, “temperamental,” and I personally think he could use a good editor. But some of this supposed “temperament” is probably stone-cold policy. A large contingent of readers of such sites go there for the endocrine high. You could call them “anger junkies.” Giving them their fix will keep them coming back for more.
The above is also a good reason to talk about your genitals a lot. The ambiance is one of…(cough, cough)…”male energy.” It sells.
Yep. Many of the conservative sites are either neck deep into Armageddonesque doom or Polyannish Q nonsense. They also have their Narrative to follow.
Beryl: not sure it matters any more. The sheep will obey and the freedom lovers will ignore it.
Morning Jim – excellent as always. Thanks.
Also, nice to see Durham working his way up the food chain.
I’m wondering; if the Clintons (mainly Hillary) find themselves about to go under the wheels of the bus, will she then release the mountains of dirt she has on the Obama camp?
They had some sort of Mutually Assured Destruction detente thing going on, but it looks to me as if he may have broken that agreement.
How much of that will we be able to see?
Another complete inversion of the truth – “Russian” interference by HRC and the DNC – exact opposite of the 5 years of allegations against DJT. Unfucking believable.
I still remember Scott Pelley of CBS ruining television coverage of the Trump inaugural with his constant jabber about Russia Russia Russia.
He knew how to investigate, but propaganda paid better.
Scott Pelley – what a pompous, lying scum bucket. I hope he gets dragged out to face justice.
Trump was destroyed by the media, he was buried by a pile of woke progressive BS that from which no one seemed to want to defend him. In ALL cases, he tried to defend himself, he was condemned from all directions. The Liberal scourge EVERYWHERE descended on him all the way up to a unanimous denial by the judiciary on election corruption. The biggest thing I got out of 2020 is how totally the power structure of this country is controlled by the Liberals, both the Dems and the RINOs. Virginia showed a slight crack in the dam, but the Liberals are still totally in control of this country.
His critics tend to ignore the degree to which he was hamstrung and lied to and undermined by his own party.
You are right! His enemy from the time he announced was the national Deep State, both parties. The voters beat them back in 2016, but Trump was outnumbered and out powered by the DS scum.
Thanks for the clear explanation of the root cause of the black condition in America Jim. When will it ever improve?
OSHA yesterday issued the official rule that vaccines are required of everyone who works for an employer with over 100 employees. You can test weekly though to avoid the vaccine. However, if you do that, you are required to wear a mask all day long. That makes no sense. If you don’t have covid and the the others are vaccinated so they don’t have covid then why wear a mask all day every day?
To continue and enforce the submission ritual.
The Ottoman Sultan made men wear a fez. In my opinion more stylist than those face diapers that fog up my glasses.
And the Manchus made the Chinese wear their hair in a “Q” or pigtail.
If a Chinaman working in America wanted to return to China, alive or in a casket, he had to have the pigtail intact. Hence when such a person cut his hair; it was a dramatic statement of intent to stay in America.
In my plant, everyone gets to wear a face diaper, regardless of jab status.
Ain’t equality grand?
I hope you quit or call in sick with a lot of other colleagues to teach your bosses a lesson.
I am the key person on a major overseas project with a lot of specific, irreplaceable knowledge and experience.
I predict progress on that project is going to be hurting in a few months.
Ah! This is a matter for very great baksheesh.
Bill
Please do not try to make sense out of politicians making the rules on anything.
If you go to OSHA website and drill down
“DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination at least through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.”
https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs
Yes, I saw that earlier. I’m sure they will reevaluate their position, but they already ‘know’ the best way forward. Get the jab! I feel the insanity watching this from abroad. Not sure when I will be back to the states to see family. I have a 2 year old grand-daughter I’ve never held yet. But there is no way I would go back to the US right. I am afraid I would somehow get stuck there.
Me, too. I am probably on a list somewhere.
Also, if you have any non-American family members who have not injected the MRNA swill, you can’t get in anyways.
OSHA has the “option” of which laws to enforce? Where do they get that from? The last I looked, the executive branch must enforce the laws passed by the legislative branch. Do we the people have the option of which laws we will follow? Of course not. This is a good time to write to our congressmen.
Bill – please save the time in writing your congressman.
Send me $100, and I’ll take the time to do it for you. If he/she replies in earnest and straightens it out, I’ll send the $100 back to you.
Problem solved and it cost you nothing.
Send your letter Bill–e-mail and snail mail, return receipt.
It can’t hurt.
They will give you a courteous non-answer. But it they are flooded with similar correspondence, who knows, it might help.
It can’t hurt.
If you’re identified as a subversive, worst case, you will just get in trouble sooner. Worst case, if we do not submit, we will be in trouble in this world.
“to record worker SIDE EFFECTS”
…not “status”…!!!
Not s t a t u s
Speaking of cohorts of African-Americans, I can remember a time when we were told that if you didn’t pay attention and work hard in school, you might end up as a ditch digger.
White boys as well as black boys heard this same message. That’s what vocational training was for, prevention of ditch digging being one’s only occupational path.
Illegal immigration even interfered with this last resort, they took all the ditch digging jobs.
Then there was the massive legal, chain immigration.
Now immigrants were competing head to head with Americans for the relatively unskilled. low wage work.
Meanwhile, those who were told work hard, stay in school. etc. found their high school degree increasingly worthless.
Then those that did educate themselves to their fullest capacity were finding that employers were hiring foreigners over American.
Many jobs went overseas.
People who did everything ‘right’ were facing economic challenges they never expected to face, and the MSM and even our elected leaders were telling them it was their own fault.
Illegal immigration also interfered with part-time jobs in retail and food service that were originally a conduit to introduce young people to the working world and for a smaller number of older, retired folks to earn extra income.
War on Drugs, think of all the employers who demanded drug testing for even the most loser-ish work.
Nobody tests illegals.
BTW, something I’ve wondered about for some time- at about the same time decent-paying jobs were drying up, crack was actually advertised on the evening news as the hot new drug.
Seriously. It was talked about in the national media before it was even a thing locally.
The failure to test illegals is a planned feature, not a bug.
This is because the plan is to degrade and destroy the middle class lifestyle of US citizens to a level resembling that of the illegals.
There is no intent to raise up the illegals, ever.
Surprise. Guess what is in the big spending bill.
Naturalization for the illegals, buried deep, here it comes!!
When Obama talked about Americans being made “competitive” with the rest of the world, that is exactly what he was talking about.
Side note cuz it’s a pet peeve:
Drug testing, especially since it allows 100x the amount of hard drugs (300 nanograms) versus dangerously dangerous danger marijuana (3 nanograms), allowed chain-smoking, alcoholic, gambling addict, high-function psychopath and HW Bush crony, Republican Bill Bennett to cut off 40% of insurance payments of hospital claims.
Lack of payment- thanks for the premiums, workers, but now you have test first- bankrupted enough local and regional not-for-profit hospitals and clinics that HCA Columbia could buy them for pennies to create the world’s largest corporate hospital chain.
Before, we had doctors practicing medicine.
Now, we have corporate treatment.
Addendum: and, along with putting his co-conspirator in this scheme in jail (for Medicare fraud, HA!), Billy B also earned seven figures as the Drug Czar of two government agencies, ONDCP and PFADFA.
He and Pappy, both Company mafiosi, had seized control of the drug trade that they had organized and expanded- both the licit and illicit sides of the profit stream.
*****
(Pappy, Naval Intelligence, and Ollie North created the systemic cocaine Cartel in Columbia and Peru, and funded various paramilitaries such as the Hondurans butchering Guatemalen villages or the Tri-borders region corner of Paraguay-Uruguay-Brazil.
Pappy got rid of his transit cop, Noriega, so that he and his old oil pal from the Texas Railroad Commision days, Presidente Salinas, could move the money laundering to the banks of Mexico City.
In this period, Pappy also resurrected the mujahidden to wrest control of the Afghan opium- the alll important global source of essential painkillers- from Russia’s control of the pipeline. Islam was almost entirely dead, a relic, until Pappy gifted us with jihad.
An interesting side note is the complementary rise of the concrete mafias in So.Am- just as State Sec. Hillary used French consortium concrete plants to employ ISIS fighters in the off season during her Arab Spring. She was repeating the Balkan Spring strategy she and Wesley Clark used, reinforcing Albanian KLA gangsters with Afghan mujahid to grab the heroin, oil, and uranium pipelines to the EU.
Drug turf wars. Foreign operations are resource and route wars conducted by Intelligence Companies, a replay of the 400-year spice and drug trade wars conducted by the naval Crown Companies such as the East India Companies, aka privateers. Said Companies were owned, as ever, by the banking Families that made war loans to the crowns.)
Forgive, please, the long note. I could go on for a long time about our world gangster system, and got a bit carried away.
Further addendum: Oil spies of the Great Game. The Gilded Age Great Game was built on the backbone of the naval Pirate Age.
Ain’t yer grandaddy’s capitalism. Never was.
Noted thnx
We can never be honest about race. To do so would trigger civil war. Standing next to the ladder of opportunity for fifty years and not reaching the first step is all you need to know.
Only 13% of this country is Black today, same as 1964.
Hmmm, I wonder why Blacks have not increased their %.
Take a long look at the abortion industry.
Leanna Wen certainly made beaucoup bucks in that industry.
I wish she’d crawl back into the pit she was dug up from already.
Smug as they come…
Look at this baby murdering twat begging for sympathy for her mother in this TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQ3KUTHDe0
Perfect example of rules for thee, not for MEEEE!!!
What % of crime? 85% ????
Yup! It is in the nature of the Black community.
The cities!
That is not their nature.
That is the environment.
The environment created for them by the true racist party, the Despocrats.
Public housing
Welfare
Limited public transportation
Harsh enforcement. harsh penalties
Victim status
The destruction of the african-american nuclear family.
A new culture was forged from this recipe for disaster.
Eat or be eaten 24/7
That’s my experience, Avatar.
I don’t think CRT helps though.
@ Mary
No, CRT serves multiple other purposes.
One of the primary purposes is to prepare white middle-class for their diminishment in class (socioeconomic) strata.
The reset requires a great reduction in the middle-class lifestyle, particularly expectations of what constitutes a middle-class lifestyle.
Once white people assimilate, the false narrative, that they are being denied access or ability or a lifestyle on account of who they are, but, at least for the assumed benefit of the historically repressed, the less likely they are to reject it.
Meanwhile, the elites will continue to enjoy a high QOL within the future framework/reality of severely limited resources/luxuries (limited for thee, not for me).
In other words, white middle class will be meeting blacks on a diminishment in lifestyle expectations, rather than blacks gaining.
The 1% way of life is not negotiable.
When a plane crashed in Lagos, Nigeria – the Police, Fire, and EMT’s has to fight their way thru a huge mob that was looting the plane and the bodies.
Black crime is higher everywhere Blacks live, including their own nations. It’s who and what they are.
great story, bro
@ 100th Avatar:
I disagree. YOU create your environment. You can do this in the midst a degraded larger community. You can do it on the flimsiest of material underpinnings. Heck, I’ve done it myself–raised three higly cultured, successful, and intelligent daughters here in Dogpatch-by-the-Lake while writing hot checks for Midol.
Look at the Jews.
One can make ones home a place of order and comfort, learning and culture, a place with “no raised voices, no tread of violence.” One can be well principled and religious anywhere.
Laying the blame on others is horseshit.
yes
blaming others is nonsense
indeed
“YOU create your environment. You can do this in the midst a degraded larger community” — Anthea
Indeed.
And what about the coming years and decades? Poverty and squalor will be a universal. Blacks think they’ve had it, or have it, tough? Imagine the chimp-outs in 2028.
But there are blacks who do plainly see what the problem is but are given no airtime. It’s only nutters like Joy Reid (who was forgiven for making rude comments about gays) who have their face in front of a camera. And who champion extreme measure like this for anyone who makes an unguarded observation:
“Poor Sandy Sellers. The adjunct professor of mediation and negotiation at Georgetown University Law Center found herself in a jam that even she wasn’t able to negotiate her way out of.
Momentarily forgetting that she’s a white person in 2021 America, Sellers told the truth. Specifically, she told the truth about the poor academic performance of her black students.
She might as well have waved a Confederate flag while attending an antebellum-themed cotillion.
“You know what? I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester, that a lot of my lower ones are blacks,” Sellers said in a Zoom chat with her Georgetown colleague Professor David Batson. “It happens almost every semester, and it’s like, oh, come on. You know, we get some really good ones, but there are also usually some of them that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”
Well, you can’t do that anymore. Where did she think she was, Nazi Germany?
When news of the Zoom call got out, Sellers was immediately terminated. In a series of press releases (because one is not nearly enough to address this genocidal atrocity), the university condemned her words as “reprehensible,” “hurtful,” “harmful,” and “racist.”
Not “wrong,” though. For some odd reason the university didn’t say the statements were wrong. Or inaccurate. Or any other synonym for wrong.
The “law school” also suspended Professor Batson indefinitely for the crime of hearing the statements. Yes, it’s now a fireable offense to merely hear someone speak the truth about black academic performance. The university failed to say whether it thinks Batson should’ve stabbed his eardrums after hearing Sellers’ remarks, or whether he should’ve socked the webcam Popeye-style hoping the punch would travel through the ether and knock the racist vermin out cold.
The Georgetown Black Law Students Association called on the university to retroactively change the grades of all of Sellers’ previous black students, declaring that “These racist statements reveal not only Sellers’ beliefs about Black students in her classes, but also how her racist thoughts have translated to racist actions. Professor Sellers’ bias has impacted the grades of Black students in her classes historically, in her own words.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Any business that wants to hire is going to be misled by fraudulent academic performance decrees, SW. Perhaps that is part of the plan.
@ rainmaker:
No business is going to be “misled” about any black candidate for any job. If you hire a black person, you are…hiring a black person, invariably under compulsion.
Just another brief pastiche in Jim Snow America.
Winsome Sear challenged Joy Reid to have her on her show:
“I wish Joy Reid would invite me on her show,” Sears said on “The Story” Wednesday after hearing Reid’s remarks. “Let’s see if she’s woman enough to do that. I’d go in a heartbeat.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/winsome-sears-joy-reid-virginia-republicans-dangerous
I love it when they get hoisted by their own petard.
Have you met “blacks” who had no need of the ladder, or have found it?
They are just like you. They put their pants on one leg at a time.
They care about their children, their education, their neighborhood, their community. They have career aspirations.
Isn’t that shocking?
They can still manage to do that, to be just like you, even knowing, as you do, that they are instantly judged, instantly assigned a heap of presumptions.
I wonder too, how they even got this far.
Avatar
What do you mean by “assigned a heap of presumptions”?
Do you mean a presumption that they rose due to affirmative action rather than their own genuine merit – objectively measured?
And who has been pushing affirmative action? The left-wingers.
Hence, the left wingers are creating this malaise among black people.
Now, go beat your face!
That is precisely what I wrote in other posts on this thread.
Those are not the primary presumptions being heaped on.
Now go eat another ****
Sorry if I misread you, Avatar. Now I’ll eat my **** covered in #### sauce.
It was a “foot” but **** lends itself to… presumptions;-)
LOL!
I am seeing a movement, not an official one, but it’s there. Black dads show up in force, when they can, to their children’s schools and related events.
They know what the country thinks of them, and they are determined to fight that stereotype.
BTW nobody ever talks about how the part-time, temp work economy affects parental involvement in their children’s education. If you don’t know from one week or less to the next, what hours you will have to work, it is hard to schedule that parent-teacher conference.
Good, I hope those black fathers come in talking loud and angry with nostrils flairing. Leftist teachers are cowardly, weak creme puffs when confronted forcefully.
No that isn’t shocking and as far as being “instantly judged, instantly assigned a heap of presumptions” — that’s a knife that cuts both ways. I’ve worked with black nurses whose respect I had to gain just as they had to gain mine. That’s a level playing field (or the start of one) that MLK recognized decades ago. Who you are as a person trumps every other criteria.
And that’s why a man like George Floyd is (to me) reprehensible. He preyed on his own community, fathered children he never supported and participated in a drug culture that has wreaked havoc on his race.
Ha! More advertising copy. You folks have been at it for a hundred years, back when you founded the NAACP for them.
Ha! This is the part in the story where Jarek insists I’m a…
It is only Monday.
I have never really called him out on it too much, well, because social engineering demands reveals.
Even the fictional divulging the manufactured here in the artificial ether.
+ or –
He wants a reveal. He wants to know.
If anything, it belies his carefully cultivated image of a man of letters and study.
Autodidactic erudition
Lifelong learning.
I have called him out on this habit many of times in the past.
Othering.
He so needs an other.
An easily definable adversary.
To fathom the contrary is small game
Cats pawing mice
You or another one of your personas already admitted it.
Well, you seem to have achieved the prose form of non-representational art: meaningless words randomly strung together, without any connection with reality. I’ll give you that.
Perhaps, as Jarek hints, you have written some lyrics suitable for Klesmer music.
Fantastic offering today, James. Thanks for the overview of CRT and why it is ridiculous tripe. I’m guessing the back-lash from it will set race relations back rather than move them forward. But that was always its purpose, cleverly hidden as it is.
At the college I just left, the obsession with CRT was just hitting its nadir when I chose to exit. If people really understood what a cult this is, they would want it out of these institutions immediately. Well, rational people.
One professor who headed the academic senate would appear on all zoom meetings with a huge Black Lives Matter background and others wore BLM t-shirts or hats. These were mostly white professors. There were crying jags by whites who “finally understand” their privilege and oaths to be subservient to blacks going forward. Rituals galore! At one indoctrination session, the black woman running it told us flatly that we should have more black people in our inner circles, not at school but in general. So yeah they want to control our lives outside of our job as well as on the job.
This b.s. was enough to scare me out of working in education ever again. But now that I am job searching, I see that most businesses have picked up the lingo and the bullshit and have ‘statements’ on their websites promising their dedication to inclusion, etc. I’m guessing for most it’s just some box they have to now check in order to be free from attack by the WJPs. Still, not a good sign.
I am glad that Virginia gave a strong message to schools who peddle this and the trans agenda bullshit.
Enterprising blacks could have started a gig economy as Rent-A-Friends.
They will attempt to coerce who you associate with via the social credit scoring system they plan to install.
Not enough diversity in your associations for a given week?
Watch your interest rates skyrocket, credit lines fall, and CBDC allotment slowly bleed away….
And Equity Specialists in colleges, hugely in demand, as are the crappy books they churn out.
Modern American Blacks would do it in a heartbeat and feel self righteous enough to demand a tip as well.
You cannot underestimate the inborn pride that has been weaponized into utter shamelessness.
MQ,
Regarding the kneeling business, there is a sign at one of ouir country crossroads informing the public that they can come and kneel every sunday at 10 a.m. Not, like, in prayer to God—does anyone even do that anymore?—but I suppose in order to be publicly credited with feeling guilty.
Maybe I should go there one Sunday and see what is actually going on.
OMG. That sounds insane. Maybe go there and sell cat-o-nine tails to the gullible whites who like to whip themselves for their privilege.
Anyone remember #MeToo? Where the woman is to be believed? Well, that was thrown overboard when the attempted smear was the same as the defense for no less a predator than Harvey Weinstein — they had sex before so it couldn’t be rape.
“Putting some blame on the girl and suggesting that transgenderism isn’t really part of what happened is Goldberg’s way of reframing the story to minimize the quotient of left-wing politics that has come into sharp focus for many Virginia voters. The trouble is that the school authorities and the school board plainly did act on left-wing dogma when they sought to hide what happened and then lied about their cover-up. Behind their actions was their determination to protect and advance the idea that “transgenderism” is a positive option for the students in their charge.”
The fact is just b/c a person has on a dress and make-up doesn’t make him a female. People have been bullied into silence from stating this obvious fact and it took the rape of two teenage girls to finally expose it as folly.
Hey, as long as his poker appendage is intact, s(he) is a threat.
Hey, where were all these parents when the Dems were promoting the bathroom changes two years ago?
I think they were all hiding in their living rooms, quaking in fear if they made a peep against the policy they’d be stigmatized as transphobic.
They still are promoting it.
It’s not going away that easily.
The Tranny Freak Show had its run; now it’s time to pull down the curtain.
In fact, the Left is doubling down: some of the base didn’t vote for us because we failed to get our legislation passed.
Nobody is buying this woke stuff anymore. It doesn’t solve any problem. Where is the solution? It’s a dead-end.
If your trying to sell something its has to have some value. I really believe most folks don’t care about any of this stupid stuff. We just put up with it. Not anymore. At least where I reside. We don’t participate in any bs. We cut out friends, family members and casual gatherings because of this stupid stuff. I’m personally think it s the silver lining to this whole hoax.
The traffic is light, eating better and less of it. Less comfort all for the better. Less is more for me at this point.
We’ll see what happens when they come for the SS. Oh you know thats on the table with these shitbags. Once you take everything from a man, he has nothing to lose that he’s not going to lose anyway. Game on!!!
Anyone remember Psycho?
Norman Bates dressing up as Mama Bates didn’t make him his mom!
But it did make him scary.
That movie has been denounced as “transphobic”, as has Silence of the Lambs.
Imagine having horror movies about batshit crazy men who dress up as women! That’s offensive.
“That movie has been denounced as “transphobic””
Jesus, seriously?
Would love to see who did the denouncing, and in what terms.
But . . . but . . . surely Perkins being gay gives any of his characters a get-out-of-jail-free card
What’s next? #MeToo adopts Scarlett O’Hara?
And Jodie Foster rejected the role of Clarice Starling because she ends up with the superman, Hannibal Lecter – just as Consuela ends up with the mutant superman, Zed, choosing him over her lesbian lover.
She felt the author who created the character of Clarice, “betrayed” Clarice, lol.
Gone With The Wind was already cancelled for being racist.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4415278/Psycho-remake-won-t-cross-dressing-scene.html
Hahahaha! I didn’t know that. That is just hilarious.
A study shows a possibility that getting the vaccine may be harmful:
“It is of particular note that A1c did not return to baseline over 90 days post jab. In fact, it remained elevated with some formerly-healthy people now being in the “pre-diabetic” category. This cannot be understated in terms of what it means: Diabetes is arguably the most-serious morbid condition you can contract. To take a person with a healthy A1c level and turn them into a pre-diabetic by telling them to take the jab is criminally insane.”
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244131
This is by no means proof. It’s just that we are supposed to get answers to these kinds of questions before we vaccinate people.
Not with the liberal politicians in control of DC.
Snake oil in a tin shotglass.
Using an anecdotal report of symptomatic reports unassociated with the pathway for these vaccines/therapeutics is inane. MTG is good, but please do not repost him unless you have actually read past his claims.
Instead, read the study he refers to and provide your own interpretation.
Caveat Emptor.
What makes you think I need you to tell me what and how to read, Penny?
If you have a problem with what he discusses, you are free to visit his site and have him explain his reasoning so that even you can grasp what he is saying.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”.
WTF is your problem, Penny?
Karl Denninger is actually quite responsive when commenters ask him for more info or more explanation.
I guess you can’t be bothered to engage.
Your comment reminds of the attitude displayed by Holocaust deniers at the Unz Review.
Noted.
JC was banned from Market Ticker recently, here:
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244100&page=4
You can read the back-and-forth that led to the banhammer and draw your own conclusions.
Yes. And yes.
Know your market. JHK knows his and so does KD.
Now, I know their x-over as well.
Both sites have an odd propensity for rabid adherence to presented dogma by the commenting minions. The difference is JHK will allow dissention, whereas TG will not.
There IS a reason everyone at TG agrees….. I suggest his fans take a step back and see. Cancel culture is vile and should be disputed where ever displayed.
Regardless, please only repost those articles from TG that you – personally – have fully vetted for accuracy. If you never disagree, and never research the information presented in any forum… you are “the” problem.
jcp
jcp
Penny’s instructions to the unwashed:
“Regardless, please only repost those articles from TG that you – personally – have fully vetted for accuracy.”
LOLOLOL.
Earth to Penny:
You don’t make the rules here.
I’ll post here whatever I damn well please.
And, BTW, getting on your high horse with other commenters isn’t any more acceptable than insulting your host at M-T.
Please do not post here until you have completed Manners 101 and and can demonstrate familiarity with the works of both Emily Post and Miss Manners.
Islander, Pranah, JCP,
intolerance for dissent is indeed a very bad sign in any intellectual discussion. A monolithic bloc of commenters is groupthink, conformity, safety in numbers. The opposite of a garden of ideas.
I’ve adjusted my views on some things when others were able to present a better case.
Rulo:
Leave me out.
Thanks.
I am not intolerant of actual viewpoints.
Only of bad manners and hoity-toity attitude.
Islander, on the contrary, I know for a fact you’re not intolerant of dissent and think for yourself.
I thought all 3 I mentioned were making the point that they supported the right to think differently, despite different approaches or ideas.
Maybe I misread or misunderstood.
Thanks, Rulo. I agree with Islander, above.
Hello from The Commonwealth of Virginia. I was yacking at the gym today with a bright and articulate friend who opined as to “how Terry McAwful actually got 44% of the vote”…? We all view it as a major step in the right direction but a long road to hoe. On another note-Brandon, I mean Biden is just soldiering on, like the Terminator. Whatever the disaster de Jour presents itself, he seems unaffected. F-up here, F-up there….No impact. Hey, let’s vaccinate 5 year olds (and his cabal know what is really going on). There is the weirdest sense that the whole thing is contrived to destroy the USA or what lingers of it’s past. They have destroyed health by high fructose and glyphosate laden processed calories. Testosterone and sperm production as has collapsed as has Vit D levels in blood. Collectively, with immune function even more compromised w vaxes, it’s going to be a noxious winter. An ICU nurse told me she treated a 32 year old for a heart attack and that their ICU is already slammed, younger variety than usual.
A billionaire named George Soros said his life goal was to destroy the United States of America.
We are witnessing the culmination of many years of planning with one intentional foul purpose.
And America lets him live on their territory. How many millions of people are waiting for this guy to pop his clogs?
In fact, Soros and the Clintons are neighbors.
He has been training his son for many years to replace him. And behind them are the Rothschilds and the rest of the International Bankers and Globalist cabal.
We fought the people who were taking them on, remember?
Western Australia has full hospitals, and they don’t have covid.
The hospitals in Australia are being overrun. Not from Covid. And no one can explain why.
Alex Berenson
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-hospitals-in-australia-are-being/comments
The friend of the family who got vaccinated and then was hospitalized with the coof, mentioned beds lining the corridors, but I assumed it was because of NY’s nutty governor and her evil edicts causing low staffing levels.
People who got vaccinated are getting the shingles. If I know two such people personally, that’s a lot.
Hmmm.
Only so many WBCs available and we keep favoring the memory cells for Covid. Do the others lessen in number causing uprises in things they no longer protect us from?
I do not think the PTB know about this.
Oops!?!
I know 1 with shingles, young.
About that “gain-of-function” thing: Readers might be interested that the NIH recently removed that terminology from their website so they can no longer be accused of doing GOF. That’s a neat trick; just call it something else and the issue goes away.
Original version of NIH web page: https://web.archive.org/web/20210825002512/https://www.nih.gov/news-events/gain-function-research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens
Revised version of NIH web page: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/research-involving-potential-pandemic-pathogens
My state, America’s most-vaxxed, set yet another daily case record yesterday, and we’re not even into deep winter yet. The number of unvaccinated people here continues to drop. The number of vaccinated continues to increase. The cases and fatalities also continue to increase. An obvious question: Should increasing cases and deaths be blamed on the group that is shrinking in size, or on the group that is growing? The answer should be obvious, but tell that to the public health “experts.”
The CDC changed the definition of vaccine just for the death jab to be passed off as a vaccine.
They knew it didn’t meet the definition, so they changed it.
We don’t need the CDC or the NIH.
They are a waste of money at best.
jeff,
they keep moving the goalposts. Changing the language. Newspeak in its initial stages.
I have little doubt the unjabbed will be the designated scapegoats. We see some of it already.
Yes Rulo, and now that boostahs are available, not long until the CDC changes the definition of “fully vaccinated”.
The trap for the vaxxed to get boostahs ad nauseum.
The current double-dosers will now be considered “unvaccinated”, until they get the boostah.
Hope the Fall planting is in, and things are good on the farm.
Cheers, Ron. I owe you a message – pretty hectic around here with winter setting in fast – will write in detail soon & we can keep plotting some good times soon.
Looking forward to it Rulo. You’ll definitely have four distinct seasons on the NFL Farm. Have some extra Ivermectin for you also. Talk soon.
I am of the belief this last ditch effort is to destroy the “control group” in their experiment. The Non-V are the non randomized control & placebo arm of a massive Phase 3 trial. Look at how the sports media is singling out Aaron Rogers, not the fact that dozens of vaxed athletes get CV 19 every week.
You nailed it. They want to eliminate the control group, just like they did in preliminary trials.
Unfortunately, we don’t eliminate easily.
You got that right. There are millions of people who have not gotten and don’t intend to get the clot shot.
“liberal deconstruction of American family life, unwillingness to prescribe behavioral norms, and self-sabotaging cultural choices such as the failure to promote the teaching of language skills as a primary task of public education”
Yep.
And an unwillingness to condemn criminals within their community. I understand that tribes of all races or religions close ranks if they perceive outside threats, but the black community has taken it further with the glorification of black crime. Long before George Floyd, rap lyrics was in-your-face aggression. The real victims are the helpless people trapped in the ghetto.
“Victims are the helpless people trapped in the ghetto” – keep infantilizing American Blacks as helpless victims – THAT’S the way to lift them up.
Some people are trapped there b/c of financial restraints just like there are people living in crappy trailer parks in Texas b/c they can’t scrape together first and last month’s rent, deposit for utilities and all the rest. It’s not infantilizing anyone to point out financial realities.
The small town I live close to is primarily white, 30% Mexican and maybe 2% black. But there’s a lot of poverty and no good jobs to help people escape these trailer parks. It’s nothing to do with race.
Most Blacks support BLM or anything else that will get them gibbs. That’s how it is and how it’s gonna be.
Making exceptions and excuses will keep it all going. People who think they get it tend to be part of the problem.
Great article. I wait and look twice a week for these insights. I’d just like to add that two things happened seemingly by design. One was removing the factories from inner cities. That collapsed family income. And second is the ‘rumour’ (cough) that a certain ‘agency’ (I don’t think it was the Boy Scouts) flooded certain neighbourhoods with a certain substance in the 80s. Unemployed depressed dad maybe did some self-medicating and things got way out of hand.
That’s why I voted for Trump. He talked about bringing the manufacturing back.
The trajectory for black Americans was straight up until the jobs started disappearing.
Get it?
The Dems do not want an independent Black population! They will continue keeping them down as much as possible.
Someone should tell that factoid to Nicky Minaj.
“the ‘rumour’ (cough) that a certain ‘agency’ (I don’t think it was the Boy Scouts) flooded certain neighbourhoods with a certain substance in the 80s.”
Lizard,
Do you know the difference between an excuse and a reason?
Hooray for the election and the people!
But……
Public education is one thing….
Bear in mind, a great majority of those now in the teaching force have been “educated” in crazy woke schools of “higher education”….
SO….
What about higher education….mosly an uber-woke mess?
Interested in your thoughts Jim. Everyone?
Get the government money out of Higher Ed, for starters.
And the corporate sponsorship
Higher education is a disaster. If I had a college-aged child right now, I would find a way around a traditional college education. They are indoctrination centers where students learn nothing but how to be a useless wokie.
And I just quit a college job so I know. I was in administration, and saw how the sausage is made.
There ARE alternatives, and they are cheaper, too. In the end, most employers don’t care where the degree came from, just that you have one.
There are cheap and even free college education options online.
Good points, Mary. And I think the word is out because college enrollment is flat across the country. Here in Ct I know of at least 1 college and 1 university that are wobbly and could fold any day.
My son dropped out of college in his first semester. I thought he was doomed, but he recently got his third tech job. All three of the companies hired by merit, not education.
My brother-in-law, a long time IBM employee, said that more companies are doing that. IBM hires H1B employees, but companies that really need intelligent and talented people go for the brains instead of the degree.
In my son’s second job, he worked with a dude that had two degrees and $100,000 of student debt. They did the same job and made the same salary, but my son had no student debt to pay. Then they promoted my son and gave him a raise and his friend was stuck with the same pay.
That whole college dropout thing worked out well, as it turns out.
Paula, spot on. Back when I still had “jobs” that I had to be “hired” for, nobody hiring took more than a glance at my education or degrees.
“This is an average example of what you will have to do at this job. Do it. The clock is ticking. Good luck.”
Have you read Mumford anent the creation of “time” as per the clock? Mechanical time in other words, not Black Elk’s “I will see you again when the grass is this high.”?
It is utter Tyranny. The reduction of human beings to servants of the Machine. Forget Mumford, watch Metropolis or Charlie Chaplin.
And we can never be as good machines as the machines themselves are…..
This was my experience for myself as well, but then I hit a wall, and so went back to finish college recently. I wish I hadn’t, in a lot of ways.
I’m glad that worked out well for your son.
Thank you, Mary. So far so good. But it’s a long way to become a surgeon. Fingers crossed. I know he’s in it for the right reasons, not for $ and status. To help others.
One of my uncles was a country doctor. A comfortable middle class life, but he’d have been shocked to see those MD’s now, their luxury cars and golf memberships. He would be called in the middle of the night, get in the car, go help a poor farmer, take payment in chickens or corn when no cash was available. An example.
If my son gets there, that would be glory. If he doesn’t make it, I know he’ll still be something useful. His plan B is in the trades, not in useless indoctrination studies.
Great story, Paula. May the whole college system fall into a black hole! My 4 kids are all intelligent, but none of them have any desire to go through the college propaganda system. They’ll make it without it.
Mary, true that. 90% of degrees are worthless, a waste of time and $, or worse, an indoctrination camp.
“The actual reasons for why this is so are taboo, namely, liberal deconstruction of American family life, unwillingness to prescribe behavioral norms, and self-sabotaging cultural choices such as the failure to promote the teaching of language skills as a primary task of public education — because ghetto English is more stigmatizing and economically disabling than skin color or any other feature of self-presentation, unless you are a professional comedian. ”
All true of course. However, let’s not forget the elephant in the room: average IQ. Just as the average IQ for whites is below the average IQ for Asians and Ashkenazi Jews, the average IQ for blacks is not only significantly below these groups, it also lower than Hispanics. This need not mean a lifetime of economic failure and welfare dependency, but it is a handicap in a technological society where advanced skills lead to higher incomes. Human beings are not equal in ability. Rewards and life outcomes should reflect this. Those who contribute most (according to unfettered markets) should be rewarded most. Everyone benefits when the most competent are allowed to attain positions of responsibility. This does not preclude compassion and charity to the poor. However, it should be voluntary.
I have seen far too many very educated and higher IQ people doing INCREDIBLY stupid things throughout this entire scamdemic, not to realize (if I didn’t know already) that the whole concept of IQ needs serious reconsideration.
Dr. Death there, Fauci, is going to score high on such a test. Just look at his record, and listen to the claptrap that comes out of his mouth.
I find it refreshing to talk with people who don’t think they are smart at all.
Beryl, you may be confusing “intelligent” and “intellectual”. One is clever; the other is stupid.
I learned a long time ago IQ and intelligence didn’t always “intersect” in the same person. Too many people have high IQs but no judgment or the ability to see anything from another perspective. A friend’s husband is a brilliant engineer but worshiped Obama and honestly thought b/c he was so smart all his ideas had to be beyond question. He has MSNBC on all day and believes every word.
Yep. And people strong in STEM areas typically make very poor political choices, as they tend to see everything in black/white terms.
Now why is knowing the truth about Black IQ important? Because WE will be blamed for their failures or lack of percentile of the graduating classes if it is NOT known.
Law School, Med School, Engineering programs, the Sciences, etc
Dr. Fauci has successfully acquired a high standard of living or himself and his family. He may not be adhering to your behavioral norms because those norms aren’t prescribed by the culture he operates in but he knows how to acquire affluence within his culture.
@ Beryl of Oyl:
The way it works from a practical standpoint is that the high IQ person has the POTENTIAL to become a thinker, a problem-solver, and a person of culture and refinement. The low-IQ person does not.
A high IQ person can fail to fulfill that potential because they are kept in ignorance or are miseducated. They can also choose to be intellectually dishonest, or even criminal. If the latter, I suppose it follows that they would be very good at.
A low-IQ person can be a good person. They just have no intellectual potential to fulfill.
One thing that seems to be true of many blacks–at least in my very limited experience–is that they seem to have a talent for certain types of “artisan” work. In soap making (which is what I do), you see many very talented blacks. I suspect they could produce high-quality work in a number of other crafts, such as pottery, woodworking, or textiles. I don’t know how many would have the business skills they’d need to make a go of it. I mean, you’re gonna need an Excel spreadsheet and be able to figure out how much you owe in taxes, and be able to reconcile your checking account and understand the credit cycle on your credit card. I would guess that less than half of blacks can do this stuff.
Wow! This is one article you won’t see reprinted in the Washington Post, NYTs, Atlantic Monthly, or the New Yorker; altho, I think Jim was kicked out of that CLUB a long time ago.
Oh, and on cable news, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and so on, the word of the week is ‘Dog Whistle’. Dems lost because Youngkin and other GOP candidates blew the racist Dogwhistle.
Also, I learned just last night that the new Lt. Governor of Va., a black woman who owns a plumbing supply shop, is a racist, White Supremacist, and a misogynist lol.
Hey BRH………….
Shes also a Marine Veteran, and an Avid shooter !!!!!!!!!
Shes the daughter of Jamaican Immigrants too !!!!!!
I would like to see her go on Joy Reid’s stupid show, and pull her hair.
Which hair?
“. Now they are ramping up an urgent campaign to vaccinate children following rushed and falsified clinical trials, with the statistical certainty that many more kids will be injured or will die from the vax than they would from Covid-19 itself.”
Where is Comirnaty?
Comirnaty for children?
The “approved” vaccine?
There is too much money in not being liable.
TBTF
The American way
If nobody has seen this, I wouldn’t be surprised. Only a damning article about haphazard vaccine testing published in a respected medical journal, so of course mainstream media ignores it: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
That is because Pfizer throws unbelievable amounts of money at Main Stream Propaganda.
Particularly the Boomer/X nostalgia programs: Today, GMA, 60 Minutes, etc.
Almost every program has a news “segment” brought to you by Pfizer.
And the consumers consume the pablum, without questioning.
100th-
Here is the video proof of what you state:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wRVddhGXCTHG/
“Weather report brought to you by…”
LOL, what percentage of America is hooked to that boob-tube?
A conduit of programming right into your home. And they do not even see it. Right before their glazed-over eyes.
Most of it, I’d imagine.
TV fought back against the internet by becoming a sexy, glowing, 85″, 4K Hi-Def flatscreen with menus and apps, just like a smartphone…one you can make the centerpiece of your McMansion and the wreckage of your nuclear family life!
They don’t call it the “Boob Tube” for nothing.
The tubes are now gone but the boobs are silicon bigger than ever.
It’s unbelievable to me that people continue to watch TV. While I can see a family in 1955 sitting down after dinner to watch Gunsmoke, or maybe the modern teen having a couple of favorite shows, everyone would be better off to put the damn thing out by the dumpster.
I have the impression from some old books that most family evenings were spent doing small chores like mending or cracking nuts, or in some cases, shelling beans. (My real-life reports from older people are that they hated that.) In educated and more leisured households, one or more family members might read aloud to entertain the others. In Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Collins annoyed the Bennet family by selecting Fordyce’s Sermons, but there are also accounts of this practice in The Good Life. Or, as a very old song, Caller O’u, as recorded by Jean Redpath, describes a winter evening:
“At necht ’round the ingle
Sae canty are we
The oyster lass brings our treat frae the sea.
With music and song, the hours pass us by,
And we hear in the distance the creel lassie’s cry.”
For a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzqP2yDEY
My daughter and her husband gave up TV for Lent one year, and evenings were spent taking walks or riding their bicycles, or playing board games and drinking hot chocolate.
TV has robbeed family life of so much.
I like to watch M*A*S*H reruns. The Medicare scammers and drug pushers are virtually the only advertisers in the program’s slots.
Rainmaker: how can you stand Alan Alda. The archetypal smug liberal t*urd.
Ditto
Alan Alda is not Hawkeye Pierce!
They also have a revolving door at the FDA between Pfizer board positions and FDA leadership.
RFK, Jr. pointed that out in his Fauxi mob takedown today at the Corono Auschuss. I am tempted to buy his book. The stuff he was laying out was amazing.
Who’da thought we’d be relying on a Kennedy for a bit of honesty and selfless patriotism? Times we live in!
Well, JFK also give us some pretty dire warnings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PygFaRt-U
Great video. You cannot beat reading or hearing their own words.
Jim has once again hit the nail on the head. Well meaning guilty white women gave black kids a pass on proper English, thereby achieving the opposite effect of assimilation into white society. Those guilt wracked white liberals from the sixties on are the culprits. Unfortunately, only a sexual predator, Bill Cosby , was brave enough to chastise his fellow black citizens about things like this and the absent black father syndrome.
Are they well meaning?
Assuaging one’s guilt of their true feelings?
That is their primary motivation.
And where’s the gratitude, the appreciation? Has a black bar tender so much as named a drink after Bill Cosby?
It would have to have Benadryl in it.
LOL!
Viagra
I have to commend James for not lapsing into profanity or digitally frothing at the mouth when itemizing these crimes. If it were up to me, I’d hang every last one of the perps–and have a quite a lot of them drawn and quartered.
Actually, he could be frothing and we wouldn’t know it.
The lumber for the gallows would be cheap at any price.
JHK said: “Now, I’m going to tell you succinctly what is behind Critical Race Theory, and it’s going to hurt: After sixty-odd years of civil rights policy and legislation, a sizable cohort of African-Americans are not making it in this society.”
This is the crux of the problem and until we are able to discuss the reasons in a rational manner, it will not be solved.
Why are they not making it?
Liberal policies designed to fracture the nuclear family, lowered expectations of acceptable behavior and educational progress are the primary suspects.
Libs have been killing the black community for decades with policies they THINK are helping. Blacks are beginning to see the facts but someone in the black community needs to lead them out of the wilderness of progressive ideology.
“… it will not be solved.”
Hardrock,
Where, in current history, has it been otherwise?
‘Cept Wakanda, of course….
Before 1960, blacks in the US, were not allowed to assimilate into the then current culture…after 1960, they refused to be assimilated.
A person of limited gifts but with a strong sense of victimization, is difficult to talk to.
Yes, the gifts of “acceptable” public welfare:
-public education
-land grant U
-military, GI Bill
-civil servant job/leo job
Yes, the gift of whiteness is severely limited, but undoubtedly needed.
How else to get limited whites ahead in America?
How else to get limited whites ahead in America?
Whites are held back by affirmative action. Whites to the back of the line.
“How else to get limited whites ahead”
100,
Who’s to say that they are “getting ahead”?
Your examples were enjoyed by blacks as well as whites. I expect you know the difference between an excuse and a reason? Most victims have a mouth full of excuses…and a lifestyle that provided the reasons.
It’s just that I find it funny and all, the irony, of a bunch of rather ordinary white people, who have not accomplished much, beyond being spectacularly average and only by way of spectacular help of public welfare, lament over the inability of blacks to reach a level of confidence the allows one to take such foolish pride from that perch.
The elite is not a white’s club, not by any stretch.
Now many white people have a false sense of entry on account of their skin suit.
But I hasten to remind the lowbred whites that many much more intelligent people previously assessed your trajectories. And not liking them, and not liking what the crash landings would bring them, they took proactive measures. Namely, the ones aforementioned.
Many of these were denied to blacks, as of late.
You’re not special. You have not accomplished anything someone did not make for you.
don’t forget it.
The Avatar of Hate takes off his mask and suit to reveal an Antifa uniform.
A little too close to home?
I get it.
Nothing makes average people feel worse than showing them how much closer they are to those they despise than those they admire.
“You’re not special. You have not accomplished anything someone did not make for you.
don’t forget it.
100,
Well, fair enough, but could you provide an example of an endeavor that you might consider “an accomplishment” that would be what…self-generated…and without help?
If we are all provided similar benefits, assuming even that they are means tested…then no one has accomplished anything.
I think the higher ups know CRT harms the black community, but their minions (the academics) are bamboozled/indoctrinated, and think it helps them.
Interesting combo. The academics are being used to create other little zealots… and so it goes.
I think the higher ups don’t care whether CRT harms their community. They have to keep the minions (aka teachers, bureaucrats, and other expendables) stirred up and holding placards to justify keeping their spots at the top.
Whatever brings the $$$ in…
Or why buy cow when milk is free? Worked for men, works for race.
Right on target, JH! I think it’s disgusting to use race in such a perverted way to gain power and political advantage through intimidation. I hope the Dems will be remembered appropriately for their absurd and destructive behaviour regarding CRT. As for the “clot shot”, may the offending parties that perpetrated these crimes against humanity be appropriately dealt with, and soon! Thanks! Keep ’em coming,JH!
If we boil it down to its base elements:
the Despocrat party is primarily a bunch of old white elitists.
the Despocrat party desperately needs to build a plantation of black voters.
So what did they farm: fringe issues, deeply emotional ones:
Race! Hate! Race! Hate!
And don’t forget Trump’s “Platinum Plan” for Blacks. He was trying to become the Republican Lyndon Johnson. And his White base? He never mentioned them. Never, but once or twice strategically as in, Sharpton hates Whites and cops.
Here is a dog that hasn’t barked: where, oh where is that most cherished of alt-left Person of Color – the one who couldn’t vote because they couldn’t get an ID? Such a person would be feted by the media and alt-left celebrities for a full year. Statues of them would be erected in town squares throughout Blue USA. Where, oh where is that ID-less person?
“MY GRANDFATHER’S SON” by Judge Clarence Thomas … a good schoolbook for all pupils and a counterpoise to CRT.
Live now, Corona Auschuss, RFK Jr. exposing a lot of unbelievable stuff!! WOW.
https://dlive.tv/CoronaInvestigative
JFK, Jr. is exposing the entire Tony Fauxi mafia, with him as the boss. NIH is a mafia. He is explaining how Tony Fauxi funds Stanford to the tune of 1/2 a billion $$ a year & tell them what they can or can’t do studies on.
This is just mind-blowing.
The mass-delusion on the extremes, the left and the right is very disconcerting.
JHK: “— if the USA can make it there without cracking up”
We are living through a mass-psychosis event.
100%, 100. Though I think I fall into your craaaaaazy right column
Mass-psychosis is easily thwarted.
Through knowledge.
Not through belief. Through knowledge.
And not any old knowledge. Through tacit knowledge.
The real stuff.
But many people cannot reach it, or never got it, never worked for it, never experienced it, or having experienced it, never let it in.
Because one first needs to know oneself.
Have that reckoning.
The desire, the will to want more, other, be more, be other, blame, fault, is followed to its source.
You.
When you find yourself, and do not like him or her, well… you need an extreme palliative.
Extreme diversion form the discomfort.
Something, hmmm…. crazy.
Avatar,
to know oneself… the most difficult thing to know. The source that explains everything else. Very good comment.
Replay here.
https://dlive.tv/p/dlive-mybfprkjzk+bxBNu_FnR
Their channel can no longer be found on You Tube.
Never mind. I forget sometimes that noone else here speaks German aside from Islander. 🙂
“Ya uchu russkiy yazyk,” – skazal Verner fon Braun. ((;-))
I’ll keep my eye out for the English version.
FYI, when they got taken down from YT was while RFK, Jr. was talking. I’m sure that ruffled some feathers.
It is all so pathetic.
I had it up when it got whacked. Thankfully, I was watching it on dlive.
Also I noticed, on dlive there were a lot of people watching and interacting, which never happens on YT, so I’m guessing they’ve always been throttled.
Nice to see them on a few different platforms.
@JHK
“Now, I’m going to tell you succinctly… The actual reasons…”
Quite simply, the lack of equality across the spectrum of all individuals of any species of organism, a near-must for the sustainability of an industrialized society of creatures, lies with the disparity between genetically driven, emotionally motivated behaviors and cognitive, intellectually motivated behaviors.
The specific behaviors, as you are observing here, are but symptoms, not causal agents.
I could be wrong.
~toktomi~
“Perhaps on land, we could take inspiration from this ancient coral city.”
“A multitude of interconnected individuals collaborating and cooperating to share a single home.”
[17:26-20:50] A World of Calm; S1E1
I can remember when I thought the Natural News guy was pretty unhinged.
Now, I think he might be spot on when he postulates that Biden might surrender the US to the Chicoms to prevent the midterm elections next year.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-11-04-globalists-running-sabotage-teams-to-take-out-fertilizer-plants-crash-transport-trains.html#
I think OG already covered that with the mortage on the newborns @ 240,000, payable to China.inc.
Loan called in.
Not to worry. Sec. of Transport Buttgieg, an expert on rail, is looking into it. (Just as soon as he masters breastfeeding)
Our local paper reported that although African Americans make up 48% of the student body, they receive 74% of the discipline and suspensions.
Why? Because………racism.
When my kids were in those schools I had to drive to their schools to pick them up because the school buses were full of rowdy, violent children and the drivers ignored their behavior. One principal rode the bus a couple of days to try to maintain some sort of order, but she gave up.
So I drove to their schools and waited for them to come out. I could plainly see which students where coming out pushing and fighting and which students only wanted to get out of the mess safely.
But, instead of demanding that parents teach their children proper behavior, the teachers are being told to quit trying. I don’t know about the tests anymore. During the No Child Left Behind days, the paper used to publish the results, divided by race. Oops! More racism, even though the schools are integrated and the kids get the same education and the teachers, principals and school board are also integrated.
Violent incidents in public High Schools in Ct is off the charts (in Hartford, Middletown and New Britain) to the extent that local TV news cannot ignore it. At NBHS, a police officer detained a non student in the building; he was attacked by 3 students and the trespasser, and badly beaten. In Hartford, teachers are quitting in droves. Added to that chaos are dozens of bus drivers being fired for refusing the vaccinations and I don’t see how they can keep these systems going as they have been much longer.
and the immigrants keep showing up. The violence is not from white students.
Indeed. The schools are struggling as they have to add ESL classes and supply other special needs as more and more dysfunctional children are added, at the same time that property owners are struggling with their taxes.
This is nuts.
As the Comedian said, Where’s the American Dream? This is it. You got it.
Similarly, you people won. This is Marxism. Don’t blame anyone but yourself that you dreamed poorly.
Right, Jarek, I won. Little ol’ me. Who knew I had such power?
There I was, struggling against the entire ruling class, demanding that they shut down industry and open the borders. What were the odds that I would prevail, when their interests were in no way involved?
Yay me! I am Woman, hear me roar.
I said you people won, dummy. And that you got your dream. Now you don ‘t like it? Of course not: Communism is a nightmare. If you like it, you’re a monster. It’s good if you’re unhappy – that means you’re not a monster. Unfortunately, you’re gonna keep going with the plan.
@Paula D, right on.
Little ol’ you.
Meanwhile, I’m solely responsible for the feminization of men (not the drugs in the water and those people I oppose pushing SJW bullshit).
Little ol’ me!
Because that’s what you wanted!!!!! You personally wanted feminine men (whatever that means).
“whatever that means”? Are you sure she’s an ally, Mary?
Paula: She can’t stand the idea of men getting feminine privileges. It’s not she loves men – quite the contrary. The idea of such disgusting work animals getting human status enrages her.
A pox on both your houses.
/s Thank you for your very unique personal perspective.
May I offer a bit of counsel for your apparent distress?
Exercise the full extent of your power to affect the circumstances as you perceive them, walk away.
Haven’t found the scroll button on your computer yet, have you?
~toktomi~
My scroll on my mouse works perfect Mister, But…………
It Gets a Little “Tedious”, Every Fricken, Day……………
If I wanted a “religious perspective” Every, single, day…….
I’d go to a site that contained that……..
(or go listen to my “Batshit, crazy, Baptist mother)
If I wanted to listen to the “Kids” scrappin (no offense to either)
I’d go to the local day-care…..
We are Supposed to be Adults here………
leave the “religion and politics out of it.
Testify!
@Wiburs
The very same, unfortunately, could be said for one’s bitchin’ about the bitchin’.
Leave the bitching about the bitching out of it!
~toktomi~
I might add, telling people, in essence, to shut up strikes me as perhaps the most infantile form of discourse possible.
Your mileage may vary.
~toktomi~
Like i’d tell my former boss, “If i was Yellin, the windows would
be falling out”…………
Applies here at well.
If I was a Bitching, You, Would Know Fnnn Well ,
I was More than “Making A Statement”.
Plain and simple.
Leave The Fnnnnnnnn Religion and Politics the Hell Out of it and…….
We can all get along better
Classic mid-twentieth century update to Dale Carnegie. If you want to get ahead, don’t talk about anything controversial. Many went with this. One of the many reasons for our steep decline.
Talk about the Game instead – like children…..
News flash! You are commenting in a political forum here.
Religion, as the moral basis for the Rule of Law, is inextricably entertwined with politics–and moreso when political shenanigans seek to undermine religion, morals, and the Rule of Law.
I am sure there are many other sites you could frequent, if you want to stick to puppies and kittens–or charcuterie, dairy goats, or whatever rings your bell.
The Only time I’d Tell Anyone To Shut The Fuck Up Is………..
When ALL six foot four of me, Was Looking them
Straight in the eyes.
Respect Is earned mister, plain and simple.
“The Only time I’d Tell Anyone To Shut The Fuck Up Is………..
When ALL six foot four of me, Was Looking them
Straight in the eyes.” — WilbursHuman
Hey tough guy, most attempts to shut people up don’t come about by screaming “Shut The Fuck Up!”
They come about by piggybacking pleas, snipes, above-it-all calls for “reason” and consideration, and calls to the host to “please do something!”
As to the so-called call for this being an issue of destroying or hindering “intelligent discourse”, what you really mean is that you only want discourse that you agree with.
It’s just a subtler form of cancel culture. You’d all fit in really well in the universities, either as profs, admins, or the Woke student body politic.
just calmate your other nom de plume,OG? Uh, I mean, OK?
I’m a hoping that wasn’t directed to me 100th
(I actually had to look up all of that to figure it out)
OG’s the smart one here, not this simple old man…….
My Biggest Issue with the Internet is………
People talking , like there is absolutely
No recourse to their words…..
Just pisses me off , More than you can Imagine.
same penchant for irregular capitalization
imitation is the sincerest form of
divulgement
I guess its time for me to leave here.
If You Think, For One Fnnn Minute I’m OG
Then you re sadly Mistaken tooo.
Fucking Really ??????????
Goggle up John D Rockefellers home town
Thats where MY People have been the last one hundred and fifty Fnnnn years
So If you Think for two Fuckin Seconds I’m some
Bible Thumpin, Hells gonna get ya guy from canada
You can Go Fuq Yourself toooo
I came to this site, to be around “Somewhat Like Minded People”
But Like every other “Make Believe Site”
theres always a few, that have got to be assholes……..
And Unlike real life…….
Where we wouldn’t treat each other in person like this…….
We , harass, accuse, intimidate, (try) Be rude, be obnoxious
Ect, Ect……….
Believe me, I won’t Let The Fnnnn Door Hit me in the ass On the way out………
I Sure as fuq, don’t need this constant BullShit in my Life.
OG, the feigned victimhood isn’t helping your case BTW, but if this is the comical tipping of your hat to the other character in your quiver, well played
I don’t quite understand, or I should say, my suspension of disbelief has been shattered.
Take me home internet roads or not, this persona that you tried to create, should not have such an emotional reaction.
Everyone needs a creative outlet, especially when hokey lyrics do not suffice.
Thank you, WH. You are a class act. You are also far more intelligent than you admit. You are modest and unassuming. God loves that about you.
—–
Mary and I have come to an awkward Truce. I will not:
1) Demand Justification of her allegations against me
2) Demand a recant (recantification ?)
3) Demand an apology
4) Read her
5) Reply to her
6) Refer to her in other posts
Q’s concerns, while valid, are history.
It is over.
—–
Leave Politics out of CFN? Then what’s the point? Are we here to swap apple pie recipes?
As for Religion. We must bundle that in First Amendment Free Speech Rights. You see, Believers are compelled to share the Good News and the Warnings of what is too come. A Believer will gladly inconvenience a million scoffers in the Hope of playing a small role in saving a single soul. TruStory
—–
I too am frustrated and will now post far, far less. I’ve made my points and will watch you CFNers sort this out from a distance.
—–
God bless each and every one of you. You are all God’s children and He loves you all very much. Satan knows that his time is short. May you walk to The Light.
*to come.
—–
The Curse of Jeff Edmonds
Grade 5. 1976. I got 100% on the Math test. My best friend, Jeff, spotted an error that had slipped through the cracks during marking and he literally ran my marked test to Mr Sewell to have it literally downgraded to 98%.
I have always come up short of perfection ever since.
Wilbur hang around you’re the only guy here besides me who gets the Dixie Gunworks catalogue.
As far as I know.
One thing I wanted to mention is Dixie (and other retailers) show a pretty nice selection of BP firearms, but when you try to place an order, it is invariably “out of stock”. ‘Traditions’ HQ is close by so I paid them a visit; it was a warehouse setup and they wouldn’t let me in the door because of Covid restrictions, and turned away a paying customer.
@ O.G.:
Why are you even thinking about Mary? You don’t know her. You know nothing about her. Like you and me, she is a digital phantom here.
For all you know, Mary and I could be the twin princesses of Lower Slobovia, or we could be living in a group home.
Furthermore, about half the people in this country are on anti-psychotic meds of some kind. The other half are undiagnosed. They all go blah-blah-blah. You might as well take offense at the sound of the wind blowing.
“The very same, unfortunately, could be said for one’s bitchin’ about the bitchin’.
Leave the bitching about the bitching out of it!
~toktomi~”
Yes indeed.
While being a devout atheist, I’ve always recognized that certain biblical passages serve as excellent metaphors for current events.
The concept of an elite squad of thinkers pretending to be feckless nit wits mirrors the idea that Satan’s greatest achievement was convincing the masses he doesn’t exist.
As for the continued political tone, I don’t know if jim actually believes/cares about the competing rivalries, or feels the need to satisfy a certain group of readers.
It’s all moot of course. The real issue is who gets to be the guard, and who gets to be the inmate. Every person here has a life experience of simply growing our way out.
But that requires surplus, not scarcity. Some unlucky people through the ages who have come and gone before us have experienced similar periods of decline aka empire collapse.
Think broad scale and ignore the daily bs.
@mitchellc
In your mind, what is the definition of “atheist”?
Does one who disbelieves in the existence of a god but who recognizes that anything is possible meet the criteria as an atheist?
Must an atheist proclaim a truth that gods do not exist?
I’m always curious about this because it seems to me the contentiousness between beliefs is unnecessarily fabricated. By example, I consider my religious friends and family to be silly and naive in their beliefs but I’m certainly in no position of absolute knowledge to tell them that they are wrong. I simply wish they would adopt a similar position in their perspectives.
What’s your take?
~toktomi~
I’m unsure who said it first, explaining their rejection of the term “atheist”:
“Is there a word for someone who denies the easter bunny?”
That’s about right.
Well … except for NOBODY believes in the Easter Bunny while the vast majority of people (billions) believe in God.
So there’s that.
And many people who believe they are a woman when they are a man and a man when they are a woman or a furry when they are human or black when they are white or hispanic (Baldwin’s wife) when they are white, or are good when they are evil.
No matter the size of the affected population,
their insanity does not define my terms.
I was not referring to your terms. You are 1/8,000,000,000 of Earth (i.e. except to God and perhaps a dozen people, you are statisically insignificant).
Regardless of you, the belief/denial of the Easter Bunny and of God are very different on account of it is zero vs. billions.
That’s why your lame proposition is not widely used. It is apples and orangatangs.
You could hear yourself sweat, he walks in
Eyes black as coal
And when he lifts his face
Ev’ry ear in the place is on him
Starting soft and slow
Like a small earthquake
And when he lets go,
Half the valley shakes
It’s Love, Brother Love
Avatar: You must love Kyle Rittenhouse. He really got those bastards who were trying to kill him. It doesn’t matter than they were your folks. You’re beyond all such Tribalism. Amirite?
He would have got the Black who kicked him in the head but the Black’s momentum put him behind Kyle and he got while the getting was good when Kyle began to fight back.
@Jarek
I’m of 2 minds
What kind of messed-up parents allows their armed teenage son to enter the fray ?
He knew what he was getting into.
Knowing the gunsexual AR type, I know what they imagine themselves doing when not in COSPLAY, pretending to be revolutionary survivalists.
But, absent of this judgment, he seems perfectly justified in his defensive actions.
But again, I don’t forgive people for putting themselves in stupid situations, particularly situations that will allow for your dreadful fantasy:
A justified shoot.
Jarek needs a Rittenhouse. A useful red blooded warrior to do the work neither his convictions or courage or soft effeminate hands will allow him?
Ain’t that right Vlad.
Voyeurism, ain’t it something?
I get it: You love tough Blacks but hate and fear tough Whites. Perhaps you are right to do so.
Jarek
You’re too cavalier with your use of “hate”
I figure you’re only allowed to hate one or 2 people
Like say Hillary or… BonJovi
I cannot comprehend hating a class of people.
I am, quite literally, unable to comprehend it. Even the mysterious monolithic whites you are convinced I despise.
I am not being sanctimonious here.
I know this is true for many people
But I’ve probably been to, and lived in, more places than you haven’t. Interacted with all sorts of people.
I never really had time to be afraid of strange people or strange places or strange ways.
Your mind is closed
Because you never stepped outside it
@100th
The key cognitive consideration here is difference between disbelief and denial or rejection.
Most people, I find, do not understand the distinction. Can we count on you to be among this flock?
~toktomi~
no
you cannot
your denial, and it is denial, does not set my terms
the key consideration is the depth of your exploration
I consider my religious friends and family to be silly and naive in their beliefs but I’m certainly in no position of absolute knowledge to tell them that they are wrong.
Brilliant!
One cannot prove a negative. An absolute belief in no God can be no more valid than an absolute belief in God.
I’m with you. Agnosticism is the pov of pure rationality qua rationality. The zero. Belief in Something or Nothing, plus 1 or negative 1, is still Belief. And if about God, a religion.
People want to believe. And since Atheism is In, they prefer Atheism and its positive negative message to humble, modest rationality which says, “I don’t know”.
Atheism is cool. Agnosticism seems cold, but it is the true cool, the Warm of the Sun of the natural intellect. That being said, I’m a Believer, for non-rational reasons.
@toktomi
Great response. Personally the thought of making a statement of being “devout” of anything makes me cringe. Total and absolute belief in anything is the abandonment of critical thought. Just my 2 cents.
There is such a thing as direct experience of spiritual realms, though it is somewhat rare. Such cases compel belief, in the same way that one believes in the existence of ham sandwiches; one has seen them.
We are intended to be working in the dark here. If we knew that the outcome of our actions would be beneficial, we would do right opportunistically–to “get” something. I think this is why direct experiences of the divine are fairly rare. They are a form of interference with The Work. I think they are usually an emergency intervention.
Amen Anthea, that was true in my case.
Mitchell,
(from Wiki) “The contemporary meaning of the term “transhumanism” was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, a man who changed his name to FM-2030. In the 1960s, he taught “new concepts of the human” at The New School when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and worldviews “transitional” to posthumanity as “transhuman”
The whole “transhumanism” entry is worth reading.
When you say “thinkers”, are you thinking “transhumans”? As envisioned by someone like Julian Huxley? (“Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS[1] (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959-1962), and the first President of the British Humanist Association”).
Just trying to understand your most unusual thought wavelength.
Rulo,
mitchellc doesn’t deign to respond to us, the deluded hoi polloi. I think he’s a closet centralist, envious of the current PTB that have a chance at all that future, copious poontang, AI servants, and steak and lobster on roomy jets between an uncluttered Acapulco and the Mediterranean crescent.
Soul,
it could be that. The closet thing.
When I see something he’s posted I’m very curious to understand him, because he’s spot on resource depletion, overpopulation.
Then says he wants to be the guard, not the inmate.
He sounds cold and rational, Apollonian – but isn’t endorsing mass murder, and volunteering to be a guard, Dionysian? Or even Molochian?
It’s one thing to recognize there’s too many of us and not enough Earth, quite a different one to signal one is ready to help the “thinkers” by dropping the Zyklon B into the showers.
To get on a flight to Acapulco?
Lonely planet indeed, Mitch.
Soul, Mitch was out having a ham sandwich ffs. Get a grip.
Rulo, I am astonished. I will back your logical depop dreams ONLY if you & all your beloveds take that one way ticket off this rock now. Wtf?
Mitch, yes, pure energy or something close to it is the way to go. But the trouble is the so called “thinkers” think they have it all figured out. Like Marx, Adolf, J Jones, more…,
They are right about the problems we face, and helpless in the face of ‘merely human’ options. And so the green option now up.
How very kind of them to condescend to solve our dilemma.
The answer is not a human plan. A human might get the gist of it like these so called thinkers have, but they are infinitely short on understanding. They are one part of infinity but have not transcended the whole of it.
If the Pope and the Dalai Llama don’t get it, I don’t know who will.
Oh, wait, I do know. It’s the lowly, the simple, those with no presumption of power who will be and have been told how this will play out.
Go figure.
It is a kind of divine irony that those without one iota of power, truly, have it all.
Kind of like a seed dead to this world
Actually, I do respond to valid commentary. It just seems around 75% of the posts are written by asylum inmates.
Anyway, I came up with the term thinkers as a substitute for leaders, elite, powers, etc. It’s wealth/power neutral, so that it incorporates a broad intellectual class who understand what is occurring.
Our host of course gets it, but he also enjoys the mental exercise putting pen to paper entails. So we get these political missives that act a bit like a strong cup of coffee.
As for transhumanism, that’s become a loaded term with negative connotations. To be honest, Arthur c Clark had it figured out before I was born: the true way forward is pure energy.
This suggests biological intelligence is merely a necessary step towards reaching full expression as time/space travelers.
Soooo, getting back to where we are today, if one were to draw an arc to what’s required to achieve our full potential, you can quickly see we have a major obstacle.
Yes, those pesky 7b useless eaters who are quickly consuming the critical resources needed to nurse humanity along until the zero point.
Now, to be clear, I don’t quite possess the necessary psychopathy that is essential to pulling off the great culling, but I certainly understand the motivations and objectives.
Mtchell,
fair enough. My 2¢ per paragraph #. Assuming you’re interested in another person’s view and not consider yourself the owner of the truth:
1- No, only about 25 to 50% depending on the week.
2- Maybe it’s not the complete term. The more accurate term, then, would be “right thinkers” – “bien pensants”, which is a loaded term too as it implies smug superiority. Many of us think. Yet don’t impose ghoulish agendas on the world. Perhaps the right term would be “gods” (small g). Or “kapos”. Or “mad scientists”. Or “false prophets”
3- Yes, a strong cup of coffee. Yes, he’s veered off of his forte and into petty politics. Meaningless politics, manipulated, irrelevant. Still a great writer. One day he’ll be back to acting, not reacting – setting up his own agenda, not dancing to the tunes of others. Or not.
4- A good author: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
5- Hm, OK. Perhaps the only possible time – space travel is mystical, visionary, and to force us all into their understanding of that quest implies we don’t value our own time or space and, through technology, wish to transcend the dystopia we’ve created also through technology.
6- What is our full potential? My version: to be a race of kind philosophers. To be happy and wish all around us to also be happy. To live in harmony with Nature. To be rich because we need little, not because we have much. Other things too, but you get the idea. What’s yours?
7- Useless eaters doesn’t capture the whole idea. There’s a Kant and a Mozart among them, a man who makes his village happy with fireworks, a devoted mother who sacrifices all for her children, a joker, a guru, a man who talks to trees and the trees answer him, someone who pushes an old lady from the ongoing train and ends up under it himself. Useless? Who decides who’s useless? The “bien pensants”? Are they useful to anyone but themselves, under your definition? And what is the zero point? The singularity? OK, so I was right – you are a transhumanist. Not so unique, that. Brewed out of California’s witches’ cauldron along with New Age, political correctness, Manson cult, UFO cults, tech surveillance, plastic surgery, pop satanism and so many other Trojan horses. You may want to read Michel Houellebecq about all this I’m talking about. Plenty of English translations.
8- The only possible culling is not a culling – it’s a reduction in our numbers by methods both rational and humane. I’ve written posts about it here before in more detail, but you were not interested. In a nutshell: global consensus, education, economic incentives for sterilization, legal euthanasia for those who desire it, some forms of eugenics, a massive change in habits and expectations when it comes to consumption, a massive training of slum and city dwellers to become organic farmers and foresters, etc. You are correct a culling that involves deceiving and mass murdering people to preserve some “thinkers” prestige, status and use of whatever resources are left, would be pure psychopathy, and moreover, very bad mojo, very bad karma, for whoever tries to achieve it. Glad you’re not in that camp. Maybe it’s time we started talking about what I mentioned in the first part of this #8 answer, and not endorsing a “kill them all (you do it, I’m too chicken to do it myself… and please spare me, I supported you the whole time)” attitude.
Cheers!
Rulo, your reduction list is repugnant to me, though in the past at some point I may have agreed. Global consensus, but not in the way you see it. And education, yes, that aligns.
I am not talking about planned parenthood education or any iteration of globo homo talking points.
amw, how is his list repugnant? It makes sense to me.
Humans are using up resources at an unsustainable rate, and the human population will crash when the crops fail, which will happen when the oil and natural gas is unavailable.
We’ve already had testimony on this very thread that they are selling oil elsewhere for the higher prices, and that industrial agriculture will be struggling for artificial fertilizer this spring.
There is no point in pretending that 8 billion humans will be just fine without food and water, because we desire it to be so.
Better birth control and moving to the country is a better answer than a great culling, which is how I read what Rulo said.
Paula, you are right. I am not wrong. You can educate people but you can’t play God.
Hey ru, reconsider this, I know I sound brutal.
Rulo, I am astonished. I will back your logical depop dreams ONLY if you & all your beloveds take that one way ticket off this rock now. Wtf?
Mitch, yes, pure energy or something close to it is the way to go. But the trouble is the so called “thinkers” think they have it all figured out. Like Marx, Adolf, J Jones, more…,
They are right about the problems we face, and helpless in the face of ‘merely human’ options. And so the green option now up.
How very kind of them to condescend to solve our dilemma.
The answer is not a human plan. A human might get the gist of it like these so called thinkers have, but they are infinitely short on understanding. They are one part of infinity but have not transcended the whole of it.
If the Pope and the Dalai Llama don’t get it, I don’t know who will.
Oh, wait, I do know. It’s the lowly, the simple, those with no presumption of power who will be and have been told how this will play out.
Go figure.
It is a kind of divine irony that those without one iota of power, truly, have it all.
Kind of like a seed dead to this world.
Yeah, we can’t play God, but there are clearly people who think they can. Look at Gates and Fauci’s smug smiles and imperial decrees.
Paula, yes but when ru says he’s down with eugenics and euthanasia and sterilization. Too far imho.
I know the planet is crumbling under our weight. But every time a human made solution comes around it is a slippery slope until it becomes the final solution.
I think we will get crushed by the borg, and like that Marx quote from Jim I posted downstream, only after they lose it all, will they come round to God.
Of course for Marx that wsd come round to cccp
For time traveller extraordinaire, may I reccomend Louise Piccaretta. Worth the slog.
Following her dictates, (from above), YOU create the universe.
In conjunction with the divine.
anmari, what’s repugnant on my list? Seems rational and humane. Better than genocide, war, or a bioweapon pandemic and vaccines, no?
Voluntary euthanasia? Why do you talk about Planned Parenthood? I didn’t even touch on abortion. A movement to move to organic farms that would replace the mass industrial ag we now have? Certain forms of eugenics? (I’m thinking preventing carriers of certain hereditary diseases from having offspring, for example)
Bottom line, nobody alive today has to die. What’s wrong about it?
Rulo. P. parenthood was the wrong choice of words, sorry.
Repugnant because this, I’m going to go broad here and then get personal….good on everything u said except…
You cannot play God. You can educate. Did you see E. Musk on world population by 2050? Utube. The true population trajectory is down down down, once educated and living just above the poverty line. Malthus theory works.
I am religious. You know that. It is my understanding that these people trying to kill us by deception will be nuked in short order. 3.5 years from now. At that time the USA will be down to 100 million people, the rest having died by suicide according to Deagal, an arm of the intelligence community.
Most by suicide. I have my suspicions that that’s part of the ‘prick’, some code to shut down the amygdala when tptb see fit.
Stop laughing. If not then by despair! You see your country destroyed, your family, your hopes and dreams dashed, all your money turned to smoke, no food no hope, JUMP.
You’ve lived through the fire. You should be teaching us how to prepare not saying, ‘Off yourself, come on man, give us a hand.’
You saying this makes you just like them.
Eugenics? What, so we can have more human weiner dogs dragging their tums on the ground? Three eyes instead of two? What exactly are you trying to improve? Brain? Body? Design?
If you think brains are all that matter, and I know you don’t, go look at the lives of Musk…!, Gates, Bezos, Zuk. Look at any of your heroes. You want longevity? No you don’t.
Leave it to God man you are playing with a fire that is going to destroy you along with them in 3.5 years.
My brother opted out up here just after they legalized suicide. What a fucking mess. He had a DNR, do not resuscitate, we all do, NO intibation, ever, because 30% you’ll survive it w/o life altering injury.
So in their wisdom they convince him to intibate. This is before the coof. All downhill from there. Fully on fentanyl till he got the legal chops to pull the plug. Messy biz ru. For Gods sake no.
Just saw your comment about disease. Just you wait buddy. A continental sister of yours named Maria Esperanza saw some shit that takes care of congenital troubles and disease only 3.5 years out.
Hold it in your heart Ru, it’s a slippery slope.
For your son and his sons sons.
Please
Rulo, like my many syblings that attended private catholic schools and got ten times the education and life skills I could ever aspire to, who left the church forever but who had solid families, good jobs and only one divorce in the family, so somethinf must have rubbed off, like it did with you.
Your mom. Your mom is only here part time now. My mom was the same. It happens very fast when it begins, the final slope downward. Think of what she believed. I know you grew out of that, so did I, so did everybody that thought they had half a brain.
But they were wrong. My sybs are under a forced delusion. Two shots down, kids in line, arms ready to go, the kids kids same.
I want to go there in my stealth ninja midnight raid gear, save their lives. Ain’t gonna happen Ru. God will wake them up and heal them.
Do you remember the examine? Look at your thinking. No man can solve the big problems. Leave it to God.
anmari,
it seems you’re not really reading my thoughts but listening to the knee-jerk reactions in your mind to what you think I’m saying. Because I appreciate your contributions here, I’m not losing patience. I’ll be clear to the point of silliness:
I’m not playing God. I’m against trans-humanist experiments to deal w overpopulation. I’m not a nazi, a Mengele. I don’t endorse the great reset, or however this covid crisis is being framed.
My vision is a process of several decades where a consensus is reached globally that business as usual re pop and resources is not possible anymore. VOLUNTARY reductions, VOLUNTARY sterilizations funded by raiding the leech plutocrat, Wall St class. VOLUNTARY euthanasia. MILD FORMS of eugenics, not race or politically based exterminations. EDUCATION and a shift away from technology into billions of small homesteads growing organically.
That’s it. I’m done explaining it to you. Understand, or don’t. I respect your right to be a fundamentalist, messianic Christian, Catholic, whatever your beliefs. But you can’t tell me not to think for myself. In any case, my vision is totally optimistic and will never be achieved, so reductions will have to happen by the usual methods. In the words of Shakespeare, “famine, sword, and fire”. Cheerio, ciao.
Understood Rulo. Thanks for responding. Hope I didn’t poison the well.
Good convo. I think everybody’s an agnostic, cuz nobody knows 4 shore
But we will
1 more story. Remember Hitchens gr8 debates? So I know 1 of his debaters and asked him to get a quantum physicist in on the debate because of my experience with that discipline being indistinguishable from faith. He did and the debate flopped cuz Hitch, in his hilarious manner just made a joke of the scientist.
ammari,
I like Hitchens when he sticks to facts, but he had no sense of the transcendent, for which I could never forgive him.
Like his practical slam dunks against monotheism, he also excoriated the logical plot lines when critiquing world literature, but refused — nay, was unable — to distinguish or even recognize the deeper and esoteric issues the non-linear structure and mood were pointing to. (I.e., his reviews of the novels of Graham Greene and Orhan Pamuk were shallow and petty.)
I’ve always found that militant atheists are very similar to fundamental Christians. They both share a complete inability to question their bedrock foundational beliefs: atheists that life is purely mechanistic and materialist; and fundies that the bible is literally true.
Agreed, HTW.
I will venture, not for the first on these forums, that atheism is merely the absence of belief. It’s a pure negative. Not a positive belief in an ‘alternative’.
That said, as an atheist, I’m willing to believe that I might be wrong. Perhaps the Christians are right. Perhaps the Muslims are. Maybe the Indians. One of them could be.
Soul & Hereward, I disagree. Chris (and Rahm Emmanuel for that matter), were/was raised in a family similar to my own, excepting they were intellectuals, mine not so much.
So, and you can read this yourselves in various interviews with either, they would ‘have it out’ around the kitchen table.
Hitches brother of course became the famous pastor & columnist, and Hitch, true to his role at the dinner table, became the court jester. (& Some say agent for the state, which follows).
Now he may have been stuck there, but I don’t think so. I think inferring from some death bed tales we might presume otherwise.
And, HE facilitated actually talking religion for once, in those debates. And I am grateful.
SF, “I like Hitchens when he sticks to facts, but he had no sense of the transcendent, for which I could never forgive him.”
Amusing to conjecture what “…sense of the transcendent…” he has at this point.
Though who knows. It may be quite possible that, having evacuated the mortal shell, you stick to your guns and continue to appreciate the “Big Picture”.
Didn’t Hitchens drop acid? (Vague memory only.) That alone should have taught him a hard lesson about material reality.
RULO, one more reply from me Above the rest. Go up man, UP
Soon to be former Indianapolis school admin says that Indy schools are lying about not teaching CRT:
https://gab.com/KeepNHGranite/posts/107224771810112104
I admire the honesty.
I hope he’s got some rainy day savings and side/passive/gig income and few responsibilities in life.
In today’s day and age, honesty, while perhaps admirable, will get you little other than a spot in line at a local Food Bank.
Today one must “kiss up and shit down.” (It always was like that but now it is even more so.)
@5G
False dichotomy, I would offer.
There are probably a multitude of alternatives.
For example, walk away, either figuratively or literally.
To rattle on a bit more, I offer that there are only two things in life that we own, our opinions and our word. I value them dearly, and I will endeavor forever to speak my peace honestly and to keep my word. I’ll take that spot in line at the Food Bank while I walk away from their lying media outlets, their invitations for voluntary lethal injections, and their respect for authority. As any self-respecting red neck will tell you, fences keep in only the complacent.
So, there are a few more possibly wrong PO’s.
~toktomi~
Honesty and integrity in a world gone mad. You are an admirable but dying breed.
I commend you for your honesty and integrity. Does it get lonely?
Unless one is smart/energetic/lucky enough to forge his/her own ticket (entrepreneurial pursuits), one must play the game and nod as HR presents CRT with catered lunch. To do otherwise would be like trying to stop the tide.
So not true. There are huge movements arising because of the absolute insanity going on in schools. A new home schooling movement, lots of alternatives. People aren’t just going to comply with the New Normal.
@5G
There is no shame, at least to me, in accepting a humble and meager existence. For me, it has been a life’s trip, amazingly trippy, that broke down the facades and barriers and allowed the Earth into my life. Walking away from a job when it ceased to be fun, being granted anearly a lifelong thrill with each fun task at hand [save for that Marine Corps thing of my youth] and spitting in authority’s soup all along the way has made for unlimited happiness.
There is no need to stop the tide. One need only to retreat to higher ground.
maybe; maybe not
~toktomi~
toktomi,
well said. And our word is vastly more important than our opinion; in fact it includes and supersedes it. If we are serious about our word, and keep an impeccable record of fulfilling whatever we said we would, what does it matter what our opinions are? Our word IS our opinion, a stronger version of our opinion.
Opinions are cheap, a belief strong enough to vow to act in a certain way because of it, even if we end up in the welfare line or the concentration camp:
– The nazis are shite: opinion
– I will fight the nazis to my death: my word
– The jabs are dangerous: opinion
– I will not get the jabs no matter what: my word
Nice. Anglin estimates 40% of antifa are Tribe. Your brothers and sisters.
Jarek
“Anglin estimates 40% of antifa are Tribe. Your brothers and sisters.”
What tribe? Organic farmers? Lapsed Catholics? Book readers? Soccer fans? White Hispanics?
Yeah, the organic honey community! Face it, you’re sick of this organic shit. You want Action….
Today one must “kiss up and shit down.” (It always was like that but now it is even more so.)
Yes, it took me far too long to learn this in my own career.
Right? It feels so creepy. I railed against Teacher’s Pet while accumulating higher grades. Not just an individual pet but the entire concept.
I thought that merit and track record would prevail in the “adult” corporate world but Teacher’s Pets naturally progress into Brown-nosers and get the perks and the promotions.
At least, that has been my experience.
All those white women teachers will turn on him. They love Mayor Pete and Chasten!
JHK:
“Now, I’m going to tell you succinctly what is behind Critical Race Theory, and it’s going to hurt: After sixty-odd years of civil rights policy and legislation, a sizable cohort of African-Americans are not making it in this society and white WJPs (aka “liberals”) are stricken with guilt and shame at the failure of their efforts to uplift this group and heal the world. So, they’ve teamed up with the nation’s race hustlers to construct a scaffold of excuses for why this is so. The actual reasons for why this is so are taboo, namely, liberal deconstruction of American family life, unwillingness to prescribe behavioral norms, and self-sabotaging cultural choices such as the failure to promote the teaching of language skills as a primary task of public education — because ghetto English is more stigmatizing and economically disabling than skin color or any other feature of self-presentation, unless you are a professional comedian. That’s the cold, hard reality and that is what needs to change — but it won’t change as long as race-hustling (making money off the excuses) is considered “okay.””
EXCELLENT explanation.
When the USA hit peak oil in the 70s, the Congress of that time passed a law saying that US oil companies could not sell any more oil abroad.
The Congress of 2015 lifted the ban and the oil companies immediately started selling oil to other countries.
They also sell coal.
The Ohio and Mississippi rivers come together near the town of Cairo, Illinois. Some years back I heard that China had bought the Port of Cairo and was planning on modernizing it.
Big ships could only come up to Memphis, but they wanted to be able to send them up to Cairo. It involved removing a bridge which was too low for the big ships. So we started getting propaganda about “modernizing” infrastructure, including replacing that bridge.
I have no idea what happened. The man that told me all this is no longer a friend, and none of it was reported in the media, except the part about how we “needed” to “modernize” our infrastructure.
I did go to Cairo and wanted to go see where the Ohio and Mississippi came together, but the road to it was blocked and I didn’t want to walk. Why was it blocked? They didn’t say, but I can guess.
My point is that it is probably more profitable to sell the oil abroad than to make sure that Americans have electricity, so that is what they will do.
And coal.
Capitalism. Free market. Goods are sold for profit. Supply/Demand. Bigger demand, higher price. Higher price, more profit.
Those opposed should have bought shares in the frackers and thus benefited from these larger profits of increased supply.
American oil is no more American than Chinese iPhones are Chinese.
That is supposedly why we have a government, to protect the people.
Look at the difference between the Congress of the 70s and the Congress of 2015, when it comes to saving American fossil fuels for Americans.
Yes, you are correct. We are in agreement.
You speak of how things were (US Congress for US citizens) while I speak of how things are (US Congress for multi-national corporations).
In my opinion, many Americans were so indoctrinated with the simplistic: Capitalism Good, Socialism Bad that they never saw the “end-run” coming.
Capitalism will devour everything until it eventually must feed upon itself.
Capitalism hates borders and, ultimately, populations.
“Greed is good.”
– Gordon Geko
Yes, if the point is to have everything and you are already at the Top, then it becomes a question of reducing the number of slices of pie, and thus eaters of the pie. What the point of owning the Pie if you have to share it? Now they just want the pie itself. The eaters helped get them there, but now they’re just useless eaters who have to go.
The people who founded this country came up with an excellent system that:
1. Worked very well for them (they were the elite expatriate Brits of their day. Why should they pay taxes to the King? Even though Britain, the KING, had incurred very real costs, raising taxes and borrowing money (which had to be repaid) to outfit ships and soldiers to fight across the Atlantic to save the Colonies from France in the French and Indian War, 1755-1763). Let’s just cancel that and start anew–no Kings. And I personally fully support that!!!
2. Worked well for the hoi polloi.
The founding fathers were not about “democracy”. Many cringed at the thought of under- or uneducated people voting, some maintained that only property owners should vote. Elitist thoughts that I have come to appreciate with and empathize with.
The founding fathers were certainly not “statists” or totalitarians.
The founding fathers came up with a Republic, with government power relatively limited, and that power divided between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Remaining authority was the domain of the states, and it was expected that they too would have checks and balances.
The implication was that every entity would zealously work to ensure its prerogatives were maintained and not encroached. It was anticipated that entities might seek more power (at the expense of other entities), and the other entities would check this.
While the USA had, all things considered, an exceptional run from 1789 to 1860, and again from 1865 to 1973, the foundation was corrupted by the poison pill of slavery.
In my opinion, as America developed differently, between the nascent industrial North, and the agrarian South, the real question was how the Feds would generate tax revenue. The North was in favor of tariffs on foreign goods (and EVERY successful economy has availed itself of tariffs) to help the NORTHERN elites who had factories making goods that were overpriced and inferior to European (British) goods. However, the SOUTHERN elites (the plantation owners) wanted free trade, so they could export their wares (which used slave labor) and get the most for them.
Slavery was related, but not the big issue. However, it resonated with the public in the North, so it was used.
The Civil War was a big blow to decentralized power, as the Federal government’s role expanded.
The Federal Reserve Act, the income tax, the direct election of Senators also eroded the Constitutional foundation. The huge corporations and banks of the late 1800s and early 1900s had excessive control of government, also eroding the Constitutional vision. FDRs attempts to corral them didn’t stop there–let the government take over. Then the mega-state required to fight WWII. The the military-industrial complex to fight the cold war. All of these took us off the course the founders had aimed for.
My goodness, must I be so long to get to the point?
So, here’s the deal (in my opinion): the modern Republican party’s main mission in life was to preserve the wealth of big money. To cut taxes, playing to the public’s “freedom” and “lower taxation”, while in reality, corporate America and their elite usually (not always) benefit. They also push smaller government. In the past 40 years, lack of money and the GOP have eviscerated the watchdogs.
While the watchdogs have been excessive at times, in general, they are undermanned, overwhelmed, and do a poor job of regulating. They’ve outsourced the regulation of industries to the industries themselves.
Laissez-faire, absent of checks and balances, leads to monopoly, corporate control, and ultimately feudalism, as we will be finding out.
On the other hand, government run amok leads to pretty much the same thing: government control and slavery.
The slow erosion of the values and finances of middle America has weakened the checks that “normal people” agreed on, and made Americans more partisan, and the duopoly reflects the wishes of the elite.
A Republic, if you can keep it, said Ben Franklin.
According to this piece, the results of vaccine trials were doctored, and the FDA really hasn’t overseen them. Actually, according to this piece:
In 2007 the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General released a report on FDA’s oversight of clinical trials conducted between 2000 and 2005. The report found that the FDA inspected only 1% of clinical trial sites.6 Inspections carried out by the FDA’s vaccines and biologics branch have been decreasing in recent years, with just 50 conducted in the 2020 fiscal year
http://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
The Democrats of course have degenerated into statists who sow division and are willing and eager to destroy what is left of this country so they can run it.
Socrates, gr8 insight there for me, admittedly a non citizen. So what’s the solution then? I keep thinking about that 3 feet of rebar used to hit the libs upside the head in Jims piece.
I think the tool or weapon if you will that we can use to take down the behemoth might also be the thing that can shore up the foundation of the republic.
What say you?
Good points, Socrates.
We’re in quite a predicament at this point.
Thank you all.
I just wanted to point out how little the FDA actually monitors the pharmaceutical industry, according to that link.
We have hundreds of pages of laws, but this is just common sense.
And the much-hated IRS (and I hate the the tax code too, and by the extension, the IRS) is drowning in thousands of laws, yet undermanned. The average person who gets caught up (not CAUGHT for wrong doing, just caught up, can be destroyed). Yet people who are cheating, most of them can lawyer up, and the IRS seems too weak to catch them.
The SEC. Are they really preserving the integrity of stock markets?
Pro sports, not nearly as important as those three functions, have officials, and official reviews.
I’m not laissez faire. I’m an advocate of limited government. We we need the same rules for everyone, and they need to have teeth and be enforced.
Too much government leads to dictatorship and slavery.
Laissez-faire leads to servitude. Different flavors of the same disease.
Socrates, as was discovered in 2008, the sec, like the fda today has meagre human resource and less will to enforce any law, lest it go against the true mandate of gov.
On laissez faire vs supreme top down fascism, you are on to something here.
To marry Jims rebar with that, it was moral outrage that served to bring down the servant of moloch, and that same outrage could fix the foundational deviations writ large these dark days…..
@Paula
Are you positing that 1] selling oil abroad and 2] making sure that Americans have electricity are mutually exclusive?
aside: even as a net importer of oil, the US still exports oil, and I’m not aware that anyone on the continent went without electricity due to a shortage of fossil fuels.
I can’t make heads or tails of your tales.
~toktomi~
I’ve read Cairo has fallen on hard times. Was that your impression?
I’m 66 and a native Illinoian. The last time Cairo was vibrant I was not yet born.
Although Cairo got some nice publicity in season 2 of “American Gods”, a TV series I recommend.
I made a special effort to visit Cairo, Illinois a few months ago because it’s position at the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers made me think it might be an ideal town with attributes which Jim Kunstler would espouse. Sorry to say it is a wreck. It reminded me of one of those abandoned towns in a Mad Max movie.
It floods. They have a giant floodgate there, but the last time it flooded they evacuated a lot of people, many of whom never made it back.
During a recent driving trip out West my husband had to figure out a way to get there from Georgia without going through Illinois (we were travelling with firearms and God forbid the Illinois gun laws he said). We took a 45 minute detour but it turned out that we actually did have to go through Illinois for 10 minutes via the Cairo bridge. If the bridge has been modernized you can’t prove it by me – two lanes barely wide enough for a car and semi to pass at the same time.
Interesting. Thank you.
Be happy you don’t live in Europe.
You have not seen anything until you drive Alpine roads just wide enough for a Volkswagen Golf, and need to devise a way to let an oncoming tractor pass without finding yourself tipping over the edge and falling about a thousand feet to your death. In winter with about two feet of snow.
Night Owl, those (Austrian never been to Switz), switchbacks are truly something to behold. Btw, half of my genes come from Baden Baden, in the Black Forrest bordering your country.
Yes, Cairo has been largely depopulated, and it has been going on for decades, but it has increased.
There is a young reporter who was assigned to investigate the housing projects. It turns out that the Alexander County housing department was corrupt!! What a shock! She won a prize for her reporting and the entire housing project was shut down, and the residents removed.
I pointed out to her that that is the reason we have auditors and building inspectors. They could have fixed the problem without kicking out the residents by auditing the books and fixing the plumbing, etc.
She looked shocked. I don’t think that ever occurred to her. She was just SO proud of her prize.
The man that told me about the plans for the Port is a professor of architecture and he was trying to save both the old mansions of Cairo and the shotgun housing. Both are a lot like old New Orleans, which is probably because it was the French who built both cities.
But he failed. They tore down all that classic housing also.
It turns out that the Alexander County housing department was corrupt!! What a shock!
That made me laugh.
Where did the displaced people go?
I only know where the mother of my co-worker went. She went to an assisted living place in this town.
Same as New Orleans. Who knows where they went? I recently heard that some of them are here also.
Karl Marx would object to having his good name associated with ‘wokedom’
He was a scumbag.
Remember, Remember
The fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever. Be. Forgot.
– V
@Southern
Are you advocating for insurrection against the forces of evil?
No!
But I sure do admire it.
~toktomi~
Absolutely I am ~toktomi~. But let’s not speak of insurrection when we really should be speaking of revolution. After all, insurrection suggests an unpopular or factional uprising against an elected government (a classic Pelosian gaslight). The last time I looked a lot of people didn’t vote for Joe (and he needs some – yaaaaawn) and even less people voted for the Deep State actors/bureaucraps et.al. that truly control the affairs of the nation. So yes, let us all be Vs (sans the physicsl disfigurement).
SY
It’s all go outside my window – the fireworks I mean. (The curtains are closed – I’m just getting the noise).
Our previous dog used to go insane with terror, desperately trying to force herself into tiny corners or under the desk, shaking with fear, scraping with her sharp, greyhound’s claws on the carpet as she tried to dig her way through to Australia and freedom from fireworks.
This one, thankfully, isn’t bothered, which is a blessed relief. Also, in recent years, the 5 Nov. fireworks would start at Halloween and carry on every night until the weekend after bonfire night. In these covid times, the appetite seems to have waned, so nothing but a few crackers in the nights after Halloween and most people seem to have waited until tonight, although I expect the weekend will also be active.
GreenAlba, I eagerly await the return of large explosive displays, celebratory or not. However, to ne clear, the original intent of Guy Fawkes Day is not what I have in mind, Rather, here in the States, and indeed the world, we should be lamenting the failed attempt of the plotters for we Americans cannot take even small satisfaction in, say the graciousness or the dignity of our King or Queen. No. We unfortunately are stuck with the snakes and locusts of our ruling and political class which have ruined our nation and cast blame on everyone else for its condition as JHK alludes to above.
Here in Germany they have stopped selling fireworks in most of the local shops due to “climate change.”
And what exactly does gunpowder have to die with climate change? Oh wait, I get it. We can’t celebrate because the Climate Changers are saying we all must bow our heads while planet earth, uh, “suffers.” As if during the last 4.5 billion years prior to the rise of Homo Sapiens the planet never strained under the weight of some other catastrophe. Bullshit. But, you know that NightOwl. I preach to the choir.
have to do with. Sorry.
Smoke is bad for the climate you, see.
Meanwhile thousands of private jets fly into Scotland to save the planet.
“Meanwhile thousands of private jets fly into Scotland to save the planet.”
Bwa ha ha.
Not a good “look.”
Indeed. And to think I felt mildly guilty when I took the Jacobite steam train (aka the ‘Harry Potter train’) from Fort William to Mallaig for no good reason but to enjoy the scenery.
https://www.radiotimes.com/uploads/images/original/112490.jpg
Toot toot …
If you look closely you can see me waving from the window. 🙂
That pic reminds me of Glencoe. No idea if it is actually near there, however.
It’s about a 90 minute drive away.:-)
We didn’t get a view like that, sadly. We arrived in Oban from the lovely island of Mull on the ferry the day before, with Mediterranean sunshine splitting the bricks, and looking forward to the trip the next day. I’d booked first class tickets, which gave you seats that were like elegant Edwardian armchairs, plus free tea and a scone!
Sadly we woke to pissing rain, which stayed with us the entire day. We had to run to a restaurant on arrival in Mallaig, for fish and chips, then run back to the train for the rainy return trip.
I love that photograph, Alba. Were you actually on that train?
Yes, there are normal trains on the Ft Wm to Mallaig line too, but there is one Jacobite trip a day in the summer. The scenery is impressive, but you do need the weather.
https://westcoastrailways.co.uk/jacobite/steam-train-trip
Although you get more and cheaper just by getting a normal train from Glasgow up to Fort William. You’re hardly out of Glasgow before you hit the beautiful views of the Clyde estuary in Argyll (‘land of the Gaels’), and the single track railway further north over e.g. the Rannoch Moor (think RLS’ ‘Kidnapped’ from Jacobite times, if you have read the book) is beautiful, in a wild, slightly desolate way.
Fort William, though – known as the ‘gateway to the Highlands’ (it’s by Ben Nevis) is a dump. But there is the best pie shop ever on the Main Street!
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186545-d10557166-r794998729-Nevis_bakery_shop_and_takeaway-Fort_William_Lochaber_Scottish_Highlands_Scotlan.html
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186545-d10557166-r483835935-Nevis_bakery_shop_and_takeaway-Fort_William_Lochaber_Scottish_Highlands_Scotlan.html
See, it’s not just me!
brh, if you are around, there is a chicken, haggis and peppercorn sauce pie waiting for you in Fort William. 🙂
Alba,
Haggis. I once heard it described as “eating fat out of a sheep’s asshole….”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1416801/characters/nm0829032
Don’t taze me, bro….
EF
The filling was traditionally encased in the lining of the fourth stomach (rumen) of a sheep – not it’s colon. So you may conclude that the rather short list of ingredient(s) mentioned is not accurate either.
The most infuriating thing NightOwl and Islander is this. The same clack and cluck of industrialist, of globalists who profited these decades and centuries from all the wondrous economic expansion now want to claim the moral high ground using climate change as their cover story when, in reality if we subscribe to our host’s thesis, endless economic expansion is no longer possible due to Peak Oil. They created a Frankenstein, a bubble of human population and now they need to deflate it. They seek to furlough the greater part of humanity from existence. But DuPont and other chemical manufacturers didn’t mind the expansion while they were selling toxic, petroleum based fertilizers and pesticides to the agricultural industry. Archer Midland Daniels and other giant Agri-ists didn’t mind the expansion while they were selling us their increasingly nutrient deficient and insipid tasting food products. Gates and Jobs didn’t mind selling us their computers which supposedly makes our lives better until maybe people started to get too smart. All of them capitulated only when their natural capitalist inclinations came under attack from the same clack which always ruins it for everyone. The Socialists or the Marxists or whatever you want call them. In the end they’re all Ayn Rand’s Destroyers.
Weirdly enough, in the spring of 2020, during the pandemic, some US cities were bombarded with fireworks going off all night, every night, for months.
The poor dogs! But people were also complaining about it.
It went on in New York, Detroit, LA, San Jose, and others that I can’t remember. I just remember that for some reason, it didn’t happen in Seattle.
The noise lasted until 3 or 4am every night. Where did the fireworks come from? They are illegal in most of the places they were going off?
Who paid for it? Fireworks ain’t cheap.
Why did the police allow it?
The whole thing was suspect as hell. I still don’t know what happened, but this year, it did not happen.
Must have been part of the psy op.
They were also having ambulances driving around with their sirens on all the time.
I hadn’t heard that part. But constant noise is very stressful to humans and other animals.
One of my friends in New York City was sleeping in the closet with her dog to try to escape the noise.
And around here we didn’t even have much on July 4th. Everyone was too poor, I assume.
So where did the city people get the money?
Always with the language eh? Change it’s meaning, redefine, ghetto-up, what ever happened to Esperanza, language of the world?
Short story. I had to give a speech in Japanese. I could write it, but it would sound something like, “This big house is government….”. A Japanese person wrote the speech for me instead. I have no idea what it said, but am an excellent parrot. Afterwards I was pursued by some folks who wanted to continue the conversation begun in the speech.
Meanwhile, I’d been hanging out with peeps my own age and had learned their jargon, a whole other language in fact with different verb endings, accents, the whole shebang, a gutteral and harsh version of Japanese, very rappish.
So they ask me a question, and I say something like, “Yah, it’s all bs.”, forgetting precisely WHO I am talking to IN Japanese society considering MY position as a young, white, female. These 3 consideration should have raised my Japanese to using the highest honorifics, a good two or more levels of language above what I actually said. Room went silent, gasps were heard, laughter barked. I was not asked to return.
Now we get your moniker. Guess you wont be hosting NHK WORLD anytime soon.
Guess not
@animari
“honorifics” in the Japanese language and culture, honoring the hierarchy, eh? I’m just now becoming aware of such societal atrocities.
Who should bow the lowest? No thanks. I’ll seek out my coyote brethren; seeking to neither submit nor dominate but merely earning or takig what little I need in the shadows.
Good story on you.
~toktomi~
Look outzzzz, them coyotes be tricksters.
And them wolves hunt them peoples
Seen it. Ok, heard about it.
I as female, young and white should scrape my very head on their august robes by light of the temple of the August moon.
And have done so.
Not on, upon
“the August moon.”
anmari,
And…and cry for happy?
Ely, not sure here. I certainly had to defer to these erstwhile mandarins.
I was lonely there and had not a moment of alone time……
If you mean the laughter barked……Japanese do that when discomfited, so do we but not like them. So many rules !
An,
Sorry. It was an obscure reference to a movie…”The Teahouse of the August Moon”
A memorable line.
Yah, I looked that up actually but didn’t see that quote. Lol.
Cry for happy it is then.
anmari, what an amazing story. Thanks for sharing.
Do they really have “Japanese only” signs in some places there? Is it as closed as I read it is? What’s your take on it? I read it’s very hard to become a resident there from someone, a Canadian, who taught English there for a while. Was that your gig, too?
Rulo, they take all comers now as Japans pop crisis is in overdrive. Most men go there to teach english and marry a Japanese girl.
Maybe thats the only way in.
The old samurai family that housed me there had no heirs. I think their plan was to adopt me and marry me off to one of the up and comers, or adopt him or something.
My experience of the Japanese is that they are xenophobic to the max. Extremely polite so you would probably never guess.
I was studying there Ru.
Never saw a Japanese only sign. I would think they would not be overt about it. But all my intel is old so, maybe.
One more story. First a dream. When I first arrived I was asleep on tatami, on a japanese futon, (the kind you roll up and put away in the morning), in the upper chamber.
I dreamt two hags, long grey hair swirling, kimonos waving around them, pointed to me with their inches long and curled fingernails, hovering above me, warning me off their island, in no uncertain terms.
It was cicada season, the roar you would hear while going by a jungle, a bamboo forest. I awoke with one in my mouth, thrashing furiously.
Think 3 inches of cockroach, but with mythical properties.
…………….
Next is not a dream. I thought I dreamt that somebody old kept coming in my room at night and looking down at me. Every night.
After a month of this, I ask if anybody gets up in the middle of the night to pray at the shinto shrine to ancestors that is adjacent to my room. Looks are passed quietly around the dinner table, one foot higher than the tatami floor, with a depression for more leg room, an electric brazier under it to toast our feet, and a table blanket we get under ànd strap to our kidneys to stay warm.
No central heat!
Later the mother of the house takes me to a small sliding wooden door, something like a big closet emerges, beautifully finished wooden bookshelves set into the closet but with small and varied divisions housing dolls and toys from a bygone era, mostly.
Below these shelves is a single bed, made up in tones of pink.
Mother tells me this is where her husbands sister lives and sleeps. This sister was still invitro when Nagasaki, a few short miles away, was nuked. Something’s wrong with sister. The Japanese did not at that time display their crippled or their weak. They still might not, Olympics notwithstanding.
So I met sis, not downs, but sweet like that, just not really there. They let her out to play at night. And sometime in the day when I was not around, somebody would cart her off for other things.
Classic feminine writing. The Dreams come first. And the actual physical action in our common world comes second. It’s hard to tell them apart in the writing. You come to realize that women find it hard to tell them apart too – and prefer the subjective in any case. As Freud said, “the primary process”.
Interesting info on the Japanese though. Some have said behind their ritualized indifference, they are very emotional – like Italians.
Yes, they are dying, infected by modern Western culture, both pop and corporate. The women all want to be millionaires not mothers, and the men have lost interest in them now as well.
Good observations J, and true, though I never thought about it that way.
Could you do me a favour, and read my comments on the point form culling solution debate by Ru and Mitchell somewhere upthread.
Specifically my replies, which are out of order according to the blog list, but pertinent I think.
Tell me if I have to clarify, condense, or expand.
Critique it baby!
J, is this not magic realism? Marquez asking.
anmari,
both stories are eerie. The first one was hypnotic, the dream. I know cicadas. I also know historically the Japanese have been very isolationist. It would make sense that the hags were spirits to warn you, the foreigner, to get out. The cicada in the mouth being a reminder of that when you got out of dreamworld. Kind of like the flower that the time traveler brings back in HG Wells’ “The Time Machine”, a real token of a different world. In any case, what a shock.
The second one is also strange, but not as scary. You say the sister was “in vitro” when the bomb dropped, but did they have artificial insemination back in the ’40’s? Maybe you meant “in utero”?
I read somewhere that cultures are either of guilt or of shame. I think Japan is probably the latter, and they must be very keen on hiding away any source of shame, like that odd sister.
In any case, what an experience to be there, back when there were very few outsiders. What an alien culture.
I appreciate you sharing some of the stories and experiences from those years.
I thought you may enjoy this recent piece on a blog I follow, written by a Swedish man, sometimes in English. He makes very interesting connections between the US political situation and traditional Japanese worldviews, and the way they understand warfare. Enjoy!
https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/
RU, yes, in utero!!!
Big shock. Terror in fact. I think they were relative come down to scare off the gaijin bitch.
The token, the cicaida. Will look up what it means….
Cicada Represents illumination, empowerment, insight, breaking through, and having a sense of humor with leaving others to figure out
The cicada is an animal replete with symbolism: recurring themes are resurrection, immortality, spiritual realization and spiritual ecstasy. For the Ancient Greeks and Romans they sang ecstatically, were sacred to Apollo and related to the dionysiac bacchae and maenads.
More meanings on search too.
Shame! Alien! You nailed it ….like bladerunner Ist
Will read ru, thnx!!!
Jarek. Very emotional. Will kill themselves at any opportunity. Shame, failing a test, love troubles, work troubles, but some are survivors.
You know the black robes that survived Hiroshima with nary a radiation sickness, w e r e p r o t e c t e d by God. Look it up!
One thing I forgot. The grandfather lived there too. His I presume, because of the paternal nature of their society. I bet it was his house. The day I arrived he said, “I smell gaijin’. Ouch.
He was nearly blind, white eyed, a spider of a man, tall in his muted silks, pouring over the Asa Hi Shibun, the newspaper, with a 6 inch magnifying block of circular lens, laying on top of the low table where he sat cross legged with his tea.
This in a separate apartment set apart from the main house. A traditional U shaped Japanese construction, garden in the centre of the U. All sliding shoji doors, a miracle of paper and bamboo.
No Japanese without a phd could read that paper.
His samurai sword hung behind him on the wall, a fact I kept close.
And for Samurais anyway, money was dirty, women kept the books. They had graineries for shipping rice and the hospital.
Wow! A feudal society, JHK called it in one of his essays. I can see why.
I read somewhere that Japanese and Chinese can actually smell Westerners. We smell of sour milk. Traditionally, they never used to eat dairy products or drink milk. It’s changing some now, with globalization. China now imports some cheese and milk, I know that.
So the old samurai could smell you. Besides, when you’re blind, they say your other senses get sharper.
Ru, He never deigned to be in my presence again. Oh would be usurper I.
HE was probably praying at that shrine to his ancestors every night to nuke me….and they did!
And….late at night I smelled the incense, heard the gong.
Ru, this was the 1980s
Jared Taylor, the Founder of American Renaissance, grew up in Japan and speaks it fluently. Japanese find this mind blowing. They admit that they are so ethnocentric that they find it hard to even see it, being so central to their identity.
He tells a story of a girl who lived with a Japanese family like you. As she left, the mother said: We loved having you. You’ve become like a daughter to us. Please don’t use your ability to speak Japanese to get a Japanese boy. We would see that as a betrayal.
The girl felt she was out on her feet. She never picked up on it during her time with them. If they feel this way, why do they do this to themselves, hosting foreigners? Duty?
As far as overpopulation, Traditional Catholics haven’t a clue and react violently and stupidly. It’s something new and they can’t deal with anything not in Scripture or talked about by the Church Fathers. The Fathers knew nothing about this. But you’re right too: the solutions proffered are monstrous.
I sense OG gets it. He really is very smart. He doesn’t get involved in the debate because he never believed fallen humanity would ever be able to solve its own problems.
A non-Fallen humanity? Sex would be sacred and obviously couples would only have children intentionally. The idea that real Catholics have to have huge families is crap I’m afraid. That would lead to over-population in the long run. After two or three, you have to stop if the world population is in the billions. After the Catastrophes, there will be the opportunity to have more of course. These things are difficult for us because of our fallen natures and blighted intellects. They’re not that complicated in and of themselves.
Why do this? They were on top of the world when I was there, like 1950s america. So the deal was, in order to ease the commerce/trade & diplomacy angle, encourage foreign students, sponsor them. My niece did the same in this century, but note this, the kids lived in dorms….no more families.
Lucky me. I got to see some rare thing that is no more.
I did go overboard up there. Should have left it at my initial -people w/o an iota of power have it all -comment. But you know, nothing exceeds like excess, I am a master of that. A brain is a dangerous thing J. Thankfully mine’s waning.
How’s smells & bells ? Go today? I went last eve but am needing a refill, asap.
“I have come to many realizations reading AmRen, but the most important is that we cannot be overcome with hatred and rage. All of us have those feelings sometimes, but they are not productive emotions and are eventually self-destructive. Instead, let us endeavor to channel our focus into helping one another and waking up as many of our people as possible”
just took that off Amren websight J. Comments.
Og, smart guy. Yes.
I don’t think you need much more than attrition and real love to conquer our problems. Easier said than done mind you. And by real love I mean a true emptying of oneself for ‘other’.
Sad today.
While I was being groomed in the land of the rising sun, before the desolation of the Christmas season, (when, for the first time since arriving I walked to town and got a pack of smokes from a vending machine on the street), a certain wife showed me how to sleep.
It is a womans duty to be ever ready for her husbands attentions you see, and so she unrolled her futon and lay down, on her back, head or neck rather upon the block, now not wooden, and if I remember correctly, hands were at her sides, palms open, ready to receive.
I tried sleeping like that. Block was first to go, then soon I rolled on my side and went to sleep. Nothing took you see.
New Years day… We rise to steaming bowls bowls of sweetened beans, a reddish brown, like the laquer ware. And mochi, or go mochi, the honorific reserved for sacred stuff. We have our green tea, not the powder used in the tea ceremony, not the Chinese gun powder tea, not the summers moogi cha with bits of toasted rice and barley, no.
We dress in our finest. We have written our prayers to the kami on small slivers of rice paper. We pile in the Jag, end up at a Buddhist shrine, or is it Shinto, in tow with maybe a hundred thousand others.
Moving with the crowd over the ancient curved bridge, I turn and take a picture, my best I think, now. A sea of finery and small white slips trails behind, a river of humanity, come to ask favour and absolution.
Rituals of feet and water ensue, the incense lit, the gong rung, the prayers stated in our hearts and on our paper tokens, and offerings having been deposited, we file out and tie them to relatively unburdened trees. It takes hours.
Here is another interesting thing I learned about Cairo.
The military built an airport around there in WW2 and then abandoned it after the war.
But the residents reported seeing giant planes landing in the middle of the night in the years after 2001. What were these planes doing?
I wonder if it had anything to do with the heroin explosion in this country after the US invaded Afghanistan. All that heroin had to be transported somewhere, and Illinois has the railroads and the rivers and the highways to move it.
@Paula D
Reportedly a $Trillion a year industry.
~toktomi~
Rendition came to mind but your bet’s where the $$$ is.
Oooh, now that is a story waiting to be told!
@Mary
Jim Willie has been telling a version of it for years.
~toktomi~
“Now they are ramping up an urgent campaign to vaccinate children.” – Well, time to see what the people are made of.
Amman: the people are made of spike proteins and graphene oxide.
My colleagues are on this thing and HR went all “Ooh la la’ when I opted out on it. Anyway, I hope it’s nowhere as bad as some of the literature says it is. How about that politician who scornfully and sarcastically thanked the President for scaring millions of American citizens into buying more guns and ammo than ever? She was made of something recognizable.
LOL.
And don’t forget the parasitic hydras are in there too
Newshawks are bringing their cameras and microphones to ‘Vaccination Centers’ where little ones as young as 6 are getting jabbed, interviewing these “Little Heroes”, shoving a microphone in their face for a quote, the kid with a shocked look on his face, not knowing how to respond, so just looks plaintively at his mother.
“A festive atmosphere at the vaccination center, Maury. These little heroes are doing their part. Now back to the studio.” (Cut to a 2 minute Pfizer commercial)
UGH I hate this soooooo much.
BRH,
We need a catchy name for the little buggers…Stickhanovites?
Ely, replicants
@Anman
I fear that picture has already taken and posted.
Baaa aaaaa
~toktomi~
Right you are tok. Baaaaa
Greetings,
When it comes to the human race, I’m certain of two things: i. there are some excellent white folks out there, as well as some excellent non-white folks; and ii. those excellent human beings are so few and far between that all together they don’t have the wit, nor the strength, to tame MMM*.
a kullervo, the suave misanthropist
(one of the damned, albeit a mellow damnation)
Little pleasures ? Little pain
No pleasure ? No pain
* My Mellow Misanthropy
Well Killervo, if the people who raised me were also the ones who killed my family & tribe, I wouldn’t even try. Condolences
kullervo,
don’t lose hope. “those excellent human beings” are not so few… a lifetime on Earth has taught me this… still a misanthropist, kind of, putting my $ where my mouth is and living far and away from the madding crowds, but… but… complete strangers have saved me more than once… I’ve seen acts of kindness… don’t give up!
We all can be the best version of ourselves. Despair is the enemy. Eats us up.
Big Pleasures? La Petit Mort. Is death pain? No, it’s a friend, not to be feared – the natural order of things. She walks next to us. She teaches us how important each day, each hour are.
Being the best version of yourself is all you can do, and it’s good enough. Have hope, my friend! No, not hope… have strength! To smile to the sun and the Earth every day, which is your last day. Every day is your last. Every day is final. And yet you smile. And plant seeds. And move a tortoise away from the road. And make an old woman happy by bringing her flowers. Your best you.
@Rulo Deschamps
Kind words.
Thank you.
Radical acceptance: the human brain is nothing but a tagging & ranking device; keeping my listings concise and tidy is my path. May yours be a fulfilling journey.
Best regards
Interesting how many seem to have suddenly “got religion” so as to avoid the vaxx. That’s what faith can do, I guess.
Hallelujah, brother!
@tom clark
Have ya ever seen a video recording of arguably the apex predator of their ecosystems, wolves, shying away from fenced enclosures newly erected in their habitat by humans?
paranoia, vibes, sixth sense ?????????????
There’s probably a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on there.
~toktomi~
Amen to that! 😉
Count me in as one of the few to being prepared (to the extent one can be, that is).
I suggest doing some serious reading:
Start here: http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omnsv17n15.shtml
Then here:
http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v17n13.shtml
Our medical system was hijacked well over 100 years ago with the replacement of homeopathic medicine with allopathic medicine (treating cause of illness with substances from nature that the body needs versus treating SYMPTOMS with unnatural toxic chemical cocktails that create more health issues).
Illness/disease occurs when the body is lacking what it needs to stay healthy, I.e. vitamins, minerals. With the industrialization of food production, the earth in which our food grows lacks the essential nutrients to pass along into our food. The toxic herbicides like RoundUp add toxins to our food, further exacerbating the health crises we face.
Eat as healthy as you can. Grow organic gardens. Stay away from vaccines and toxins. Supplement your diet with large amounts of vitamin C in addition to D3, zinc, magnesium, B complex, and also take detoxifying elements such as iodine and selenium. Etc etc. And read the other editorials by Thomas Levy and others on orthomolecular.org.
Knowledge is Power.
Enchanted1…knowledge is power, indeed. You sound like an environmentalist.
@tom and enchanted
Is “power” the answer?
A bit of tree cambium and insect larvae each day might suffice.
~toktomi~
@Enchated
As one who has dedicated one’s life these last 21 years to preparations, I would like to humbly suggest that there is no such thing as “being prepared” for what is about to go down.
But anything is probably better than nothing, eh?
~toktomi~
Yes, sir, Enchanted!
And read good books, and smile, and throw away the TV, and do random acts of kindness.
Enchanted
…Who said that “Power comes out of the barrel of a book?”
No one
I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but I don’t know how many people watched it.
CRT teaches that all ghetto problems are caused by 1619 and slavery. It completely ignores today’s culture.
I got this from a black friend who is horrified by it and worried about how to protect her son from these influences.
Please note that YouTube has not removed it because of “community standards” in the way they remove dissident scientists and doctors. Also note that it has 3.5 million views…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXl5B5_0MY
Paula,
there’s many in the black community sick and tired of this whole zeitgeist, this whole academic and wokie framework to explain what’s going on in their community.
Many! And they are getting bolder in raising their voices.
Tell me when they reject affirmative action and I’ll take them seriously. They’re natural place is at the bottom – and I think a lot of them know that.
their not they’re
Jarek,
“They’re natural place is at the bottom”, nope. Nobody’s natural place is at the bottom. At the bottom of what, anyway?
Rulo, Jarek is showing what the white nationalist thing is actually about.
They spend all of their time arguing about IQs among the races, as if only high IQ people deserve a job at a living wage.
Why? Is that a God Rule? Or is it a cutthroat capitalist rule? It didn’t used to be a rule. Manual labor was well paid when it was unionized, no matter how the worker scored on an IQ test.
We all have the same amount of hours in our days. Where is it written that some people’s labor time is worth so much more than other people’s? Where is it written that vast amounts of the population should be unemployed while other people work 80 hour weeks?
That makes no sense. And you would think that religious people, who tell you that God loves all his children the same, would not turn around and tell you that living conditions should depend on the color of your skin or your IQ.
Well once AA is gone, they would sink down to manual labor again – obviously.
In an earlier America, they did attain a small middle class on their own power. But they had their own little America then and that was probably a big factor. In todays America? As even the White middle class is dying? They wouldn’t have a chance in competition against us and the high IQ Asian immigrants, what to speak of Hispanic hordes.
@Paula, well said. The IQ argument to me is incredibly weak. Especially when you look at the crew in charge now, and how they are tanking the country. All Yale and Harvard grads, natch.
Why is no one addressing the big brains who never amount to anything? No shortage of those.
I hate the way our culture measures ‘success’ – it’s money based, not happiness based. And it seems to me, plenty of high IQ people are complete messes. I’ve personally known quite a few.
And, also, Paula, I am guessing that the white supremacist God does not consider ‘others’ to be ‘His children’. They are lesser. So that’s how they get around thinking of them as fully human, etc.
To Paula below specifically and others who are angry with God because of how He is often misrepresented by the ignoranuses in the world. I am a white male, my wife is a white female (and Southern Baptist) and we both are members of a church here in NC which is about as multicultural as you can find. There are a good number of interracial marriages and offspring including our pastor. We love the people in this church and I really cannot understand where this idea comes from that white is better except perhaps from a deep sense of self hatred. It is not inferior but neither is black. Most importantly, the true God of the Bible, YHWH, does not think so either. And I challenge anyone to prove otherwise by showing me in the BIBLE where it says the God prefers white people and chose them. After all, if white supremacists are correct, then how can they invoke the name of Jesus who was a Jew? Technically a Semite which puts Him closer to an Arab, which they refer to as sand ni***rs. And if they read their Bible even occasionally then they must know the story about the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8. But, pay no attention to those details you ‘ol cracker.
Yeah, the Old Testament is about the struggle for survival of one people, the Jews. In the sense it’s a very awkward fit with Christianity, though there are universal elements in it. Now some bozo Christians want to drag our Religion back to Judaism, and worship a Tribal God of an Alien people. Can delusion get any greater?
I take the opposite approach. If we would keep the Old Testament (beloved Marcion said ditch it), then we use it. We’re the Chosen People now. This was the traditional philosophy of the Church. The Jews forfeited it as a group by rejecting the new Covenant. Of course they can rejoin as individuals (convert).
Southern Yankee, I didn’t mean to include you or your fellow Christians who accept everyone as a child of God.
It is because I know a lot of people like you and yours in real life that I am able to recognize the lack of it in people like Jarek, who profess Christianity, but can’t quite grasp the concept.
Thx Paula D. Jarek, you make a good point. In fact, despite my Jewish friendships and Christian affiliation , I do not support the Apartheid in Israel which never gets addressed for fear of being blacklisted. And having worked among Hasidic Jews for ten years I can attest that their tribalism can sometimes turn my stomach. But fortunately some Jews have seen the Light. Have a nice weekend ya’ll!
Yankee,
Remember the quote of that “Sarte” feller?
“Hell is other people”/
Sartre….
Another Daily Stormer editorial is upon us, I fear.
Things are what they are regardless of who says them. That’s above your he said/she said paygrade, evidently.
One wonders why Jarek doesn’t spend his time with like minds, on white supremacy blogs, since he’s so anti-diversity.
I agree Rulo. One day last year when this CRT was ramping up I had two black friends say almost the same thing, one on Facebook and one in real life. They said ”What does it matter how we got here? We’re all here now. Why can’t we get along?” And I agree.
The criticisms people here are making are actually criticisms of the ghetto culture, and many, many black Americans agree with them. The whole ”pop ’em if you don’t like ’em” thing is unappealing to most people, no matter what color their skin.
But it is the ghetto culture that the Establishment elevates and exaggerates and glorifies.
Talk about a level playing field and taking away their Affirmative Action advantage – and watch them become very uncool very fast.
They know. You don’t. They can’t complete fairly.
I’m guessing you have had very little professional office work type jobs in a big city? Because I have years and years of it.
I worked with many many black people and honestly the difference between us was minimal. They were all middle class educated people like me.
And just as smart.
They have fooled you, Jarek.
The issue is not race, it’s class.
“The issue is not race, it’s class.”
It’s both.
And now that the middle-class are sinking into the working- and lower-classes like a bad souffle, class distinctions (outside the 1% of the 1%) are becoming increasingly meaningless. Not so with race.
Well you fall for the race-baiting stuff the PTB have engineered you to care about. I don’t, I tend to use some common sense.
You only know – and care to know – about the exceptions to the rule. But logic dictates we know the average first. And you have very little if any experience of regular Blacks. I do.
The odds that the 100s or even 1000s of black people I worked with over the years were all ‘exceptions’ is probably a million to one.
No.
They were normal middle class people, who did their jobs competently and usually with a great attitude.
Oh really! You worked with that many Blacks and never experienced any anti-White racism from any of them? I don’t believe you. You’re just copping an attitude and being oppositional. Just more of what we’ve come to expect from you.
“Well you fall for the race-baiting stuff the PTB have engineered you to care about.” — MaryQ
No, you’re a hypocrite, because you’re doing the same thing you accuse others of doing to you — that is, reading people’s minds.
I’m very dispassionate about this. Most Blacks, just like most people, I meet are moderately pleasant and benign. So what? This isn’t about whose anecdotes trump others’ anecdotes. That’s statistically insignificant, skewed in any number of ways, and frankly, silly. You like to go on about how real science is so important (re Covidian issues). Hard core statistics, measured appropriately, and set to rigorous parameters, able to be falsified, and able to be repeatable: sounds like the scientific method, what?
Use those resources for yourself, then compare and contrast all manner of categories — crime, education, and family stats being three big areas — White vs Black over monumental sample sizes. Then we can have a proper, unemotional discussion.
“The issue is not race, it’s class.”
MMFP,
No, the issue is culture, not class. Can a poor man be decent? Intelligent? Empathetic? Of course. Can one who embraces the Ghetto Culture be these things? Not so much.,…
No matter what his class….
What about rich people who embrace the ghetto culture, EF?
It is celebrated by the wealthy and powerful of this country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBZLFB7kLo
“What about rich people who embrace the ghetto culture, EF?”
Paula,
Exactly the point., can a rich man lie, steal cheat and kill?
You don’t have to live in a Ghetto to embrace what I call the ghetto culture.
only quacks would try early treatment.
@spain
Some quacks duck.
~toktomi~
A man goes to Istanbul and brings back a report: “the place is dysfunctional, dirty, derelict and dangerous.”
Another man goes to the same city: the place is “mellow, monumental, magnificent and magical.”
A third comes back with: “Food’s good. Lots of thieves. Beautiful women. Terrible traffic.”
Replace Istanbul with blacks in America. Or anything else, really.
The first visitor is the bigot: his blinders inform his whole view.
The second visitor is the wokie: his blinders inform his whole view.
Both the bigot and the wokie are right – there’s good and bad in Istanbul. But neither has the truth, because they see only one side of the coin, depending on their prejudice. The truth is the whole picture, not just one part of it.
Only the third visitor is both right and true.
To be the third visitor is a lifetime’s work.
Thus the importance of being able to take all the data and form a data set from which to generalize and abstract. Example: The average Black American IQ is 85. That’s knowledge. And from that flows more knowledge: they will never succeed in our society for the most part, completely outclassed intellectually by Whites and other groups. And from that, more knowledge: They should have been sent out of America as Jefferson, Lincoln, et al so greatly desired.
You’re stumbling around in the dark, Rulo….
“You’re stumbling around in the dark” – are you not?
“They should have been sent out of America as Jefferson, Lincoln, et al so greatly desired.” – How is pondering about what may or may not have happened helpful to us now?
You are aware that IQ is only one measure of intelligence, right?
You are aware that until relatively recently, places in Britain had signs warning “No blacks, no dogs, no Irish”, right?
Have you thought of the possibility that the rat race of the big cities, diminishing prospects for everybody regardless of IQ, a materialistic, golden Baal culture, technological alienation, and diminishing opportunities and resources bring out the worst in everyone, not just certain groups?
Agreed, Rulo. We sneer at blacks and then see millions of stupid whites rushing to take the jab. Blacks have enough IQ to realise what’s in the “vaccine”
There you go.
Common sense being used. Unlike among the uber-educated whites.