I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today. I studied politics in college and have always had strongly-held political views, but when my daughter was a child I did not try to inculcate her with my own political philosophy. Instead, I pointed out that human beings are not intelligent enough to ever get things “right” for any length of time. On any given subject our species will inevitably swing between one stupid extreme and its opposite. If, as a society, we seem to have something figured out, it’s just at the optimal point in the pendulum swing at the present moment, having left one excess and on the way to its obverse.
Given this immutable law of human nature, it’s hardly to be expected that either of our political parties can be right for very long before going off the rails in one stupid direction or another. History confirms this fact, regardless of where you think “right” lies. The Republicans gave us Union martyr Lincoln, and Teapot Dome grifter Harding; the Democrats, National Bank nemesis Jackson, and bank whore Obama.
If you have always felt that you had your political compass fixed, but are increasingly feeling lost at sea, that’s because we are in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of our political landscape – a sea change.
If someone had predicted eight years ago, or even four, that Dick Cheney would ever back a Democratic presidential candidate and, in the same year, RFK Jr. would side with the Republican, they would have been laughed off the stage.
Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the authoritarians? Then why are the Democrats putting the foundation for totalitarian control of our lives in place? Aren’t Democrats supposed to defend our civil liberties? Then why are their leaders intent upon revoking our inalienable right to Free Speech?
Sea Change? Change is often unwelcome and seldom easy. Blame Bill Clinton, who tap-danced circles around the Republicans and stole the center (actually, well right of center) from them. With the heart of their ideological territory lost, the Party of Lincoln were pushed ever further to the right, until they risked falling off the edge of the earth. Equally significant, Clinton abandoned the working classes for the deeper pockets of a growing “professional class,” creating a new donor base that has since embraced the deepest pockets of all: Silicon Valley. (It’s the donors, stupid.)
To this day party dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell are by-God not going to be out-conservatived. What has changed is a younger generation of Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley, who are increasingly independent of the fossils, and embarked upon reinventing the party. Vance is not alone in actually caring about working people, and trying to readdress their increasingly dire needs. Not incidentally, that’s where the votes are going to be.
Will they prevail, as the Old Guard dies off? Too soon to tell, but an intriguing possibility, and plausible cause for hope for the future.
Perhaps more significant than migrating politicians is the wave of formerly liberal commentators. Our own James Howard Kunstler professes to being a life-long registered Democrat. Others, including Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, and Bret Weinstein are all now resolute critics of the Democratic Party. Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson both left Fox News to attack the Official Narrative from their own perspective. And, of course, two powerful voices of opposition, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, are now both
Democrat persona non grata.
When lost at sea you can never know where the ship is going to come ashore, or if it will founder on the rocks, but the landscape will certainly soon be different – and just possibly much improved.
I too, graduated high school in 1968, was a conscientious objector to the war and studied theology, and I completely agree with you. I just think there's a paradox in politics that is that people who are moral enough not to succumb to the heady liquor of wealth and power are not interested in being a politician so we get people who are not morally strong enough and thus eventually get corrupted and agree to play the puppeteers' game in order to end up with a mansion in Martha's Vineyard and enter the history books as "somebody." I'm hoping Trump is one of the rare ones who already has what they offer and so cannot come under their sway, and as Hillary complained the other day, they are losing total control, and that's why they're scared of Trump, who plans to take that away from them. DJT may not be the total answer but he seems to be a beginning of a new course for us, so I guess we'll find out soon. It's been a long time comin'
I hope your optimism is warranted, the Left media is doing a bang up job of hiding the truth of who is ahead. My hope is based on the You Tube poll averaging sites which are forecasting a Trump victory with over 300 electoral votes. I think their methods help cancel out the Left bias of the MSM polls.
Well, as Stalin put it, it's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes, so we'll see who wins that game this time. I doubt the Left can repeat.
Never, ever, underestimate the chicanery of democrats .. LBJ started it in 1948 and the present gang of ‘sharpies’ have taken it to new levels.. They fucked America in 2020 and they will do it again.
(And I am soooo tired of the dismissal of the facts of that stolen election)
There is an upwelling in the Congress occurring right now and it is blatant. There is also a release of charges and data from the judge of the election interference case. Both jive claimed to be the October surprise.
The one in the Congress is being led by Jamie Raskin. He is trying to gat a majority of the House to refuse to certify the election if Trump wins. Hmmm, does that sound familiar? What a humongous bunch of assholes congressmen are. Hypocrites, flip flappers, whatever name you want to call it.
Question: If this hypocrisy is allowed to happen, the illicit hijacking of the election process, what does that do to the validity of the Trump interference case?
Other Texas Democrats fucked LBJ out of previous elections, so when he fucked other candidates out of the Senate seat, he was just returning the favor.
Bingo...it's who counts the votes. Does anyone else remember when Biden was 'President Elect' and he and Kam were on Fox and they were watching fireworks spelling out their names? Right before that...Biden jogged out to a microphone and Said " Thank You To The People That Counted The Votes! I Owe You! I Owe You! I Owe You!" That simple statement he made confirmed what most of us already knew. If it was a semblance of a ligit count...he would've said "Thank You for Voting for Me". I'll never forget that he thanked the COUNTERS & THAT HE OWES THEM! Sickening...what a goofball. 🥴
Thank you, Christine. I’ve never heard that about Biden. It’s quite damning, I’d agree. The fact that that clip was not circulated widely is just another piece of evidence that we’re being gaslighted mightily. Here’s another clip showing what the J6 Comm. did to Trump:
Excellent. I didn’t watch any of those proceedings then. I knew it was all manipulated.
I know good people who were in DC on J6 & they saw only upbeat patriots standing up for fair & free elections.
They heard his speech - every word.
And knew zero about any violence or chaos until receiving phone calls & texts from those at home concerned for their safety.
Some saw the Capitol doors opened & thought that very strange. No one had contemplated entering at all.
One man in the group did approach more closely only to feel something wasn’t right so turned around. He was later contacted by the FBI. He merely got closer to the Capitol… on the outside steps.
These attendees I know noticed those near the Capitol wearing black attire, acting differently that the rest of the crowd. Meaning jumping up in statue bases, retaining walls, etc. where no one else did. They even commented to each other about the strangeness of them …. not “one of us.”
I’d attended a Nov. 14, 2020 Mega MAGA Rally in DC where 1000’s were - friendly, peaceable, upbeat. All ages, races, ethic groups…. orderly, polite, carrying great signs, flags etc.
Only discord that day were thugs attacking young families who strayed onto the downtown street designated BLM Street by the major (found out about this on the news later).
Oh, & the Proud Boys were there; calm, peaceful like the rest of us.
Btw, noticed the complete lack of trash/garbage strewn on the grounds & streets.
Yes Joe- whether in his cognitive decline or in his arrogance told the American people how he got in office several times. It’s what makes me most fearful for this election. We see what happens when the media decides to present a lie instead of the truth. They have gotten quite good at it!
You may think canceling an election would be nuts, but California Democrats have given up on being the underdog. They will win or go down fighting as dirtily as possible.
There is NFW Kammie will let herself be removed by an election. If she ever becomes convinced that she will lose, the election will be canceled in favor of a Constitution-free “transitional government” during a period of “national emergency”.
Well said. The Donald is not the "total answer", not by a long chalk, but he may be the "beginner" - and to harken back to Mr. Skillington, he did have the political sense to recognize JD for what he is. I'd almost say he was the better angel part of JFK reincarnated. Same youth, eloquence, charisma, and most impt. some gosh-darned Principles.
The only answer is Jesus Christ and His Word, the answers are all there. Donald John Trump is the one leading us toward this, the other side is the culture of death and destruction, steal, kill, and destroy…led by the devil himself, Joe Biden and Kamala are doing his bidding of evil.
"Donald John Trump is the one leading us toward this...". Uh, no I don't think so. The Donald does not have any history of being a pious Christian. Rather, I would say he is not standing in the way. Which is fine. Politics is no place for religion. Now morality, that is different. Morality does belong in politics, as the Founders knew.
DJT is not perfect, but he is not part of the establishment. The elites used to adore him, until he ran with as a republican. God picks imperfect people for his mission. Moses, David, Solomon, etc. Let's hope the country and the world changes course.
Only Trump has the balls to stand up to the right wing echo chamber and do things like promote the Covid vaccine and surrender to the Taliban. Vance and DeSantis are pussies that will end up being like George W Bush and going with the flow of the right wing echo chamber.
10 years ago, at least 67% of internet activity was estimated as due to bots. It's even more now, and even more unrecognizable, intended to subtly "NUDGE" conservatives into doubt and discouragement.
In February 2020 Trump finally grew a pair of balls and stood up to the Military Industrial Complex and surrendered to the Taliban…everyone knows what happened in March.
But FGB3's comment is directly under Pangolin Chow Mein's, yes? So who has/needs the vodka? You? Me? FGB3? I've got some in the freezer, along with some 'superpremium' coffee ice cream... PARTY! ...Or a nice Saturday wake-me-up at the very least.
In any case, it seems like Trump, who may be quite malleable, is already president, walking around and shaking apparently-military hands, and Harris is being thrown under the bus in slow motion, if glanced-at reports are any indication.
I figured JHK (along with Putin) might have a thing for her... but ya, ok, nice smile and infectious laugh...
Now if she can only slip out the back door, unscathed/unnoticed...
Remember that interview with Trump and that TV psychologist? Dr. Phil? (The guy who may have had a thing for Shelley Duvall [RIP] of The Shining fame? Granted, she was a doll with some brilliant acting in that film.)
He was very clear that Trump should not seek revenge. So maybe the Deep-Dish-Pizza State managed to strike some sort of compromise with Trump...
In that vein, Trump also seems kind of gung-ho about India's Modi. Maybe it's a thing. Did you see the video of him holding Modi's hand and, at one point, patting it with the other? (Shades of the Trump-Macron 'bromance'.) Maybe it's just AI.
Have you seen all those immigrants from India in your necks of the woods? I have over here. It almost looks like Halifax, NS is half Indian now, overnight.
But India is part of BRICS+ of course, and then there's that other/similar alt organization US et al may have been trying. I forget the acronym. Maybe it's just as well.
Yes, Don is a start. He is representative of MAGA, a populist organization. It is up to patriotic people to change this country. What would happen if Trump was killed? Would MAGA just die?
I've also wondered about that. Certainly his enemies believe so. But maybe there is more there. Certainly any political movement can use a martyr to advantage, esp. if there is someone who can pick up the mantle.
Funny how it seeps into your bones; gone but not forgotten. 'Speak out , you got to speak out against the madness .... speak your mind if you dare ... but don't, no don't, no, try to get yourself elected. If you do you had better cut your hair.' Thanks to all my brothers & sisters here for speaking out (and/or not cutting their hair. Ahem). Sometimes it's been left, sometimes it's been right, but it's always been about hubris; the depredations of another's dignity. Do. Not. Tread. On. Me.
Thats because you’re a stupid anti-zionist. One day you’ll learn of how the incredible cash of Ukraine aid is winding its way back to Biden and the DNC. Naivete cripples logic.
The fact that so many profess to hate President Trump- whether it’s the mainstream media, the politicians that have been in office too long or the Hollywood elites- proves to me that he is on the right path and will be the right man for the job. We have already seen him in action and our country was beginning to flourish despite all the monkey shines from the left and right. God bless America and it’s people 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Democrats were the biggest slave owners, that says it all, not that the North didnt have em too, but the most ardent for slavery were democrats and they still are today
I agree but let me tell you a story that orally given to my great-great grandfather form his father.
In 1854 my great-great-great grandfather came to the US from Ireland. He got a job building railroads out in the US West.
Well when thy came where they had to blast rock for the train track tunnels it was a tricky job back then so many workers got killed or maimed in the blastings.
There were three principal ethnic groups that worked on the railroad-Irish, Chinese Coolies and black slaves.
When there was blasting the boss would send only Irish or Chinese-because if they died they didn't get paid on Friday-if the black slave died it was a loss property around $2k.
I live in this country because my great grandfather's brother died in a dynamite accident, working in a stone quarry in England. My great grandfather then came to the US to work in another quarry, cutting stone for the Erie Canal.
The problem is that the narrative has it that 'blacks had it bad' and 'whites had it good'-and, on the average correct-but the stories like mine and yours illustrate that the Woke narrative is much too simple and Manichean like all their values.
No, that's not correct about whites having it good. Most whites did NOT own slaves and had an extremely hard existence just staying alive. Blacks were well cared-for by their owners because they were valuable property. The vast majority of whites throughout the budding United States lived a "hand to mouth" existence and struggled to survive!
Have you seen what a “steel driving” man like John Henry had to do to bore the holes for dynamite charges. One holding the spike and one banging on it with a sledge hammer. No thanks.
One thing often overlooked re: the civil war was the demographics at the time. The antebellum, agrarian south did not have a lot of folks, whereas the North full of cities, had many more people and thus votes. In our country, the South never stood a chance politically and it was the end of the compromise era that drove the South to try to exit. The real battle here was between the manufacturing North, and ENGLAND. The South was a “colony” of both, providing resources to both on-coming manufacturing giants. The South was backed by England throughout the war, Surprise!!!! The demographic advantage, ie, the number of available soldiers, was what did in the South. Grant just threw troops at Lee until Lee had no one left.
The victory of the North is what spurred on the Gilded Age which drove the USA way past England in economic power.
BTW, look at today. The power of the cities politically (Blue) contesting the power of the agrarian sector (Red). Politically, the cities will win, just like 1865, but today a strike by teamsters could undo any power the cities have. Cities today are much more dependent than in the 1860s.
Being from Massholechusetts I was never taught that there may have been other valid viewpoints about the Civil War 1 (given our probable future and the real possibility of future uncivil wars, I'm numbering them).
1968 was the year I blew my chance at a comfy academic position at a second-rate Cali State College by getting involved in the Fresno Resistance and, at one rally, publicly eating my draft card with catsup on it. "Destruction of United States Gubmit Property", a Five-and-Dime. So I absquatulated, became a political exile, ending up in dour Vancouver-by-the-Void.
The fevered emotions ran high. The shit-kicking San Joaquin Valley cowboys who made up the majority of the student body were not amused. George Murphy and S.I. Hayakawa were for a crackdown. Bobby Kennedy intersected a fast-moving projectile in L.A.
One of the Vietnamese students I had been assigned to shepherd (they were, by the way, the ones that radicalized me against the US intervention) was Nguyen Thai Binh, first showcased by Jane Fonda and other antiwar stars before being discarded. He became famous for trying to hijack a 747 at Tan Son Nhut Airport (eggs wrapped in tinfoil). An American shot him and they dumped his body onto the runway. He is now a national martyr in Vietnam; schools and roads are named after him.
The Vietnam war was the first expansion attempt by the MIC and its leader , the Deep State. Look where we are today and realize that it is the Deep State that has expanded for 70 years against the people, regardless of party affiliation. The Vietnam protestors who were trying to curtail the expansion of the MIC, would be MAGA today, an ironic state of affairs.
Ready? RFK, Jr is a reflection of his dad and uncle, who were both terminated by Deep State forces for countering the MIC trying to control the war.. IMHO, both would be MAGA today.
If you recall, President Eisenhower reminded/warned us about the MIC as he left Office. Nope. Vietnam was a continuing action, of constant "actions" that spread far and wide. What irks the h**l out of me is how it was all couched in "democracy". And, being good, decent, honest, and innocent/ignorant of how degenerate that government was, we cheered for democracy.
JFK and his dad promised the Mafia that if he was elected he would get Havana back from the Castroites. He tried and failed. The military and CIA failed miserably. The he made a huge mistake, he told the Military that he was going to withdraw the “advisors” from Vietnam, as Bobby was announcing a crack down on the Mafia. The CIA and the Mafia held a meeting. The Capos got their revenge and the CIA got its war.
He was one, Allan Dulles. But so did Sam Giancana and his counter part in NYC. I don’t smoke anyway, but yes I get a cigar on this one. Also, LBJ got his war also. JFK was in everyone’s sights it seems.
Sam and his brother wrote a book together claiming that the Mafia was hired by the CIA to do the job. Another Mafia type from the time that worked for the capo in NYC is on You Tube giving details on the hit, including the second shooter was in a storm drain in front of the caravan and was responsible for the head shot no one can explain.
Jack Kennedy was as you say, that is, until his "come to Jesus moment" at American University. His statement that we are all mortal still sends shivers down my spine.
Sigh, if its any consolation you are certainly not alone in this category-my older son and I watched "Am I a Racist" last week-he's not Woke-but he hides it.
But when we went back to his place after the movie when he parked the car, he looked me in the eyes so solemnly I thought he was going to tell me he has 'cancer' but he demanded, that I tell Liz , his wife-high school teacher'- we saw 'Saturday Night" -as she is very, very Woke.
My young son, he's not Woke at all , but he is a laze about still at home at 27 drinking beer, smoking weed and eating on Dad and Mom's tab-I don't know what is worse...
Sounds like my nephew. "His dad ruined him" my sister says. So at 30, he's allowed to sponge off them both, not have a job, etc. Sure. How was he "ruined"? Well, his dad was emotionally unavailable. The horror! Yet, millions like him are able to work and run their own lives. He's even blessed with a high IQ. The problem there is that my sister is a toxic codependent who thinks that her family would die on the spot if she's not there catering to them. Something is very wrong in our society. She's not an outlier, IOW, she is typical.
You both have described the Nanny State that the government is trying to create, both kids finding easy touch parentage afraid to tell them “No”. The entire country is being threatened by 50% of folks being exactly the same as these two, and a Deep State kow-towing to them to get votes, unwilling to say “No”.
My most sincere condolences on the state of family affairs outlined above. Not to brag, but I have two very unwoke daughters-one married a LEO and the other is divorced but happily so. They had three sons between them, one of whom is making bank as an RN and the other doing likewise financially handling automated production at a large local food processing facility. The other one, well, he's not living at home, nor is he "woke," but he has "issues" involving drugs and the usual assortment of problems which accompany that. But hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, like Meat Loaf told us. Somehow I have to think our strict Christian upbringing had something to do with it. YMMV.
Part of it is a youth thing; when I was 20 or so, my roommate said that food, energy, and housing should all be free (he may have been right about energy, anyway); many people don't make it to adulthood (despite not dying) and learn to stand on their own two feet in every way.
We really lucked out. All six of our kids (ages 50-23) are conservatives. A few of them had brief moments of “teenage liberalism”...but they grew out of it LOL!!
I think it was Winston Churchill that said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.”
I don’t know that we did anything in particular, but we always made it a point to expose the differences (liberal vs conservative) whenever the opportunities arose. They are all very much “awake” (not woke)!
Haha!!! Same here. You didn’t steer your daughter in a political direction. But, I did.
I was an active conservative and enlisted my kids in campaigns . I figured it backfired which accounts for at least one of my kids becoming radically liberal.
No matter the approach, we probably have little influence on our children because our society has much more.
Howard. By age six, parental “programming” is over, most of personality is in place. All the stuff that is blamed on schools is in place before school starts. Parents!!!!!!
No, you were sold a bill of goods, that the Democrats are the party of Joe Average, the working man, and the GOP was the party of the Elite. The Dems pulled off the biggest con job in US history, and we are seeing the re-alignment of the parties now because of the lies that have been promulgated for 70 years. MAGA vs, Know-Nothings.
I saw the change with Bill Clinton in the ‘92 race when he was hawking the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council). I went to an event with him and at the time was fighting him about Mena and the whole “Compromised” Terry Reed thing . As soon as I shook his hand I knew he was a rat. Little did I know that his “Stand By Your Man” wife would become the biggest rat of all.
Indeed, Mary Rose. For me it was a bit of a painful transition, oscillating between the joy and amazement of discovery, and the angst of information overload and feeling forlorn. Admittedly, it's only been about 6 years since I was "red-pilled". The journey continues.
Well you are honest and authentic, obviously, and I bet it was diflicult socially, economically even to make the conversion-so you aren't a coward either.
You are right about the pendulum. It is the swinging back and forth that has kept the country on a steady course on average. Until 1988. The Bush boys are as left as the Ult-Left folks today, war, open border, corrupt DOJ, all the things we discuss here. We have been steadily Left of center for 36 years, so is it no wonder that the Deep State, all factions, are so far Left. The RINO contingent ARE NOT conservative, they are neo-con, MIC, tax and spend, blatant Deep Staters that have joined the Far Left in their desire to create a socialistic nanny state. Planted squarely in front of this whole bloc are the MAGA folks, led by the Golden Golem. What we are witnessing going into this election is a ripping apart of the political country, leaving a Left Right orientation into a different alignment of parties. IMHO, two parties are emerging, one, MAGA, center right and two, the “Know Nothings” Far Left. It reflects the Leftward drift of the country for the 36 years. MAGA is center right as its leader was a Democrat at one time and has some of that old democrat dogma inside his head. The Deep State hates MAGA as its prime directive is to reduce the noose around the country that the nanny state wants to install. The RINOs are an integral part of the Deep State and also hate MAGA and its leader. However, a new breed has arisen, old fashioned moderate Democrats who still love the country as it is, without the nanny state. These folks are moving to the right to join MAGA as they do no want the Constitution re-written. Two parties are arising, center right and far left. The cause is the attempted installation of socialism and the nanny state by a Deep State desperate to ward off the attempted control of their power and bureaucracy by the upstarts in MAGA. It definitely could turn bloody.
Side bar. Know Nothings fit well as a descriptor because during the last four years, the Obama Left has rolled out every article of their dogma, passed it into DC with dictatorial EOs and we have witnessed its total failure in every way possible. That is why Harris is running as she is, she has absolutely nothing positive to run on. So instead, we get empty nothing promises Called the Opportunity Economy with absolutely no idea what that means. Warning: Opportunity Economy sounds like a whole bunch of fiat spending, welfare spending, war spending, Deep State expansion spending, immigrant spending, ignoring every economic law ever invented. The Know-Nothing Party. If America votes these nincompoops into control, the Ens Times of this country draws near, and all the dunderheads that vote for the nanny state are going to find out, it will not and cannot ever exist. 0 bucks.
" If America votes these nincompoops into control...".
Whoa there Pardner! These "nincompoops" weren't voted into control in 2020. They STILL won't be in 2024. The Big Difference may be the old dictum, "Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on you".
Is it so difficult to imagine that there are less opportunities for a young person to "step into the adult world", than there were 30 years ago; and that 30 years ago, there were less opportunities than there were 60 years ago?
Sixty years ago, our parents had experienced tough times in their early years, and a War that transitioned the masses into the adult world. Schooling focused on teaching the 3 R's, and the trades. Few students were diagnosed and treated for a disability. The country was tooled-up as a result of the war. The US population was a bit over half of what it is today. America was positioned to benefit from the key currency status. And I would suggest that the majority of people our age lived through the "sweet spot".
Today, the obstacles are greater, and there are fewer legitimate opportunities (no, people like Kamala Harris should have more sense than to set themselves up for failure). I would argue that the money in politics, coupled with the existing format for life, has been a major detriment to the various determinants, and to label individuals as "Know Nothings" fails to recognize the cause, and is not productive.
Would an "Opportunity Economy" be beneficial at this point in time? Would major construction projects, and the associated economic activity, be beneficial for the citizens of the world? If presented with the opportunity, is there potential for some responsible individuals of lower-income households, and/or the migrant population, to set a leadership example that would help "Know Nothings" step into the adult world?
As you point out, politics is a major factor for our current predicament. So, we need to eliminate the nonsense, and correctly assess and address the problems. And, in this day and age, I don't think isolationism is a prudent solution.
I will vote for Trump in the hope that he will eliminate the nonsense, and perhaps as the cycle plays out, the problems will be correctly assessed and addressed.
The Know-Nothings were a party around Civil War 1 times that got that moniker because they did not have a clue what to do about the pending schism approaching. Sorta like today, hence the label.
The Know Nothings were against mass immigration. They were right. Everyone else was wrong. Their America was destroyed by the endless stream of Irish, Poles, and Italians.
I was born in 1968. In downtown Chicago, actually, during the chaotic Democratic Convention.
So here’s one brutal GenX take on your generation: you’re all haunted. Unable to detangle yourselves from the political traumas and skepticism of the 60s and 70s. And now, to be honest, you’ve lost your edge, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that retirement does not agree with you. Or rather, the kinds of retirement you’re living are sorting and cleaving you from mainline society.
We don’t know what to do with you. But we still admire you and wish you’d stop poisoning yourself with garbage media infotainment, parroting the political nonsense there, and feeling like everything in the news is about prosecuting the debates of your day in perpetuity.
Because it isn’t. And, sorry, but it’s no longer about you.
Nothing like learning from your elders, and respecting them. You're not much younger than me Paul, but I for one appreciate the wisdom being handed down to me by thoughtful, experienced people who share this wisdom with those who follow. As for all time, healthy societies will always look to, and learn from, older and wiser individuals such as many of those on this site, and provide them the dignity their years deserve.
Wishful thinking of the deposed. Don't expect it. We have just enough energy remaining to dance on the graves of disrespectful elders. Or perhaps enough to spin tunes in the DJ booth so that the younger ones can really tear it up.
Welp Paul P. both Jim Kunstler and I were born in 1948 and I don't think we'd agree that we are "poisoning [ourself] with garbage media infotainment...".
When Jim was my age, he was lucid enough to criticize it. Now, sometimes, he sounds afflicted by it. And while it's regrettable to read that result of that devolution at times, he has a good audience, that, I hope and imagine, it helping pad his retirement. So maybe he is out to demonstrate that there is something virtuous to the PT Barnum's strategy of fleecing suckers?
Howard, outstanding comment. The talented Mr. Clinton really did scramble the tokens on the game board, didn't he? If you had more time or space, I'm sure you would have included a paragraph on the possible effects of mass illegal immigration on the American electorate--not only in election years to come but also three and half weeks from now.
Lawyers probably have more power and influence in the U.S. than in any other country. Whatever their party affiliation (or none), they are an elite class.
Hence all the pseudcons who say, "We're a nation of immigrants! More more more! As long as they're legal." That word legal bathes their gray cells like a shot of Johnnie Walker Black.
Whenever a public figure is accused of, or charged with, a crime the first words out of his mouth are not, "I behaved according to the highest moral principles." No. They are, "I didn't do anything illegal." As if that's all that matters.
I wasn’t politically aware when I graduated from high school in 1968, but I can’t imagine it compares to our current situation. It’s hard to know what you didn’t experience. However, too many adult Americans reside in the same place I did at age 18. However, unlike my young self, they vote.
As a protester I was just a foot soldier, but we manned the barricades, protesting the war in Vietnam, saw students murdered at Kent State by the National Guard. The country was coming apart. But I agree that today is worse, because we still had resilient institutions, economy, and infrastructure then, to carry on with after things settled down. Now all of that is gone.
Even Libertarianism. Government needs to be controlled. BUT it is absolutely necessary. I do not remember which of the Great Philosophers it was, but he said government is requires when two or more people live together.
I was class of 1978 and had the Good fortune to Graduate in 1974 from Edison Jr. High-school where they actually taught young men Metals class, Drafting, Wood Working as they taught young Ladies Home Economics, Cooking, Arts & Crafts. Some guys in our High Speed, The Pekin Chinks (Now politically Corrected to Dragons) had Shotguns or .22 Rifles on racks in the back window of their pickup truck. Nobody EVER got shot. We learned Power Mechanics and More Wood Working. When we left dchool, we went to work in a Trade and made good money while continuing to learn instead of racking up unsustainable debt. Our parents bought a 14 acre farm for $19k wiyh a 6 bedroom house, a large barn and pump house. Life was hard work but we were strong and up to the task. Today, too many migrate to the cities so they can be closer to hospitals in case they get sick. The hope and change promised by Free Trade, Free Health Insurance, Free College and Free stuff never happened and is on it's way to Extinction. #DefundTyranny #ResumeAmericanIndependenceAndDominanceOrExpectToDieCommunist #FreedomIsNotFree
Harding himself was honest, aside from his inability to keep his pants on (though compared to Bubba, FDR, JFK, and LBJ, he was a virgin); he just had some crooks in his administration, just like Grant, Nixon and Trump.
There are plenty of Obama's Army, ready, energetically willing and able to do their job, which is the keep the steal in motion, no matter, what ever cost.
10/11/24: Can anyone think of a satisfactory explanation as to how Kookamunga Harris passed her law school and law license exams? The person I see today can barely figure out how to open a box of Wheaties...
Maybe the California Bar Exam consists of questions regarding how to perform sex acts on married people. No way in hell she could pass the New York Bar.
10/13/24: It was a one-question exam, and you have identified its content. However, there was a bonus question: "Identify the chemical ingredients of Gov. Newsom's hair gel," (his election to that office having been rigged 20 years in advance), which ,if answered correctly, resulted in an automatic seat on the California State Supreme Court.
She didn’t have to pass. She had tone, and thick knee skin. Get you anywhere in liberal college world. Look at the fucking cunts teaching these colleges now. The men are all communist cucks, and aren’t getting any at home, so having a student with skills in bed? Pass pass pass!
I live in Western Wisconsin near the Minnesota border. We have had no less than four people knock on our door handing out Trump leaflets. I’ve assured all four that we will be voting on election day and voting for Trump. I have never in my life seen this many people Canvas like they are doing this year. The only thing that makes me sad is they should have a better record of recording which houses have been hit so they don’t waste their time coming back again and again.
Funny that. I live a few miles south of you, signs for Dem candidates outnumber Republicans five or six to one. I see canvassers daily walking around with Dem candidate literature, most of 'em are at least 50 if not 60 years old (I'm 76) so the disparity must be something to do with rural vs. not-so-rural perhaps?
Whatever the case, I'm voting straight Republican once again this year, just like in 2020 and in 2016. I graduated high school in 1967, voted Democrat until McCarthy got screwed at Chicago.
THAT showed me how things were going to be from then on and I'm sad to say "I could have told you so!" even then.
I am due East of St. Paul. When I moved here in 2006, the area was 75% conservative. We even had a local newspaper that was decent and fairly balanced. Now, it’s more 50-50 and it will fall to the way of MN if people don’t wake up soon.
"the many agency blobsters who fear prison . . . and the perfidious politicians who fear the judgment of history."
I'll say it again: Nothing is going to happen to any of these people. We're 20 years out from the war crimes of the Bush/Cheney regime, viewed by Democrats back then as analogous to Vader and the Emperor; not only do they continue to walk free, they actually ENDORSED this election's hapless Democrat candidate. If that isn't evidence they're all on the same team, I don't know what is.
I'm willing to wait and see if Trump is truly the reformer his supporters claim. But if elected, the moment he names the first swamp creature to his cabinet—like he did the first time around—I'll be here to say I told you so.
It's true that nothing gets done, but only as long as the uniparty swamp creatures are in control. Trump has had 4 long, hard years to put together a game plan to enact a 4th turning in politics, one that has the seeds of hope for our country; one not dependent on the military industrial complex model that has corrupted everything we supposedly stand for. The leaders are ready to fulfill their roles. The question is whether Trump has the wisdom and fortitude to see it through.
Trump has more common sense and cojones than the entire rest of the Deep State. That is why they cannot stop him. Even in the courts, the Media is having a ball raising all the Jack Smith bullshit, but nothing is going to stick. Trump must have learned how to “Teflon” from Reagan, another one that was smarter than his Deep State.
He is the Deep State candidate now. They set up poor Kammy on 60 Minutes, asking her real questions. He will take us into Iran. Down in Hell, McCain is still singing, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb
The USA backs Israel and the Russians back Iran. Iran is becoming isolated in the MIddle East trying to take control. Against Israel, Iran is incapable of winning. Israel will not attack Iran. So what to do?
I wonder if talks are not going on between all parties to stop the idiocy and settle the situation. After the Obama/Biden fiasco, Israel is not going to trust the USA much any more. So what to do? Get the Abraham accords settled, get Iran into the process, Russia pushing both and get the whole Middle East into BRICS+ including Israel. The USA sucks at foreign policy, this would serve it right. The motivation for my thought is that Israel will not defeat Iran, but will tear up their proxies. Iran cannot beat Israel as the current situation is showing. So their choice is endless war, mutual destruction or both to have a common enemy - USA.
Well it seems that perhaps the polarization and the kabuki theatre of election antics does very well at keeping the pitchfork folks fighting the torch folks as the overlords smile. A system of suffocating military/intelligence/surveillance/global capitalism is on the doorstep. We would be best served by knowing where the problem is originating however the cognitive dissonance permeates the culture….top to bottom. As a result we are left to wander within the ruse of participatory politics. No one resident of 1600 Pennsylvania is coming to save us. Unless we can generate a bonafide anti-aggression(war) party then It may be the only way to topple the death merchants ….that drive the empire….. is a revolt by the many across the globe who have suffered under the benevolence of rules based order or humanitarian intervention or democracy building.
We pissed away generations of talent by having psychopaths toil away behind the scenes ….with unlimited resources….creating new ways to pillage and plunder. Wrapped in a perverse blanket of morality and labelled as defense we have wandered well into the abyss.
Same. I'm about as cynical as it gets. I just see a big clown show with 2 clowns running. One is a glorified Sarah Palin and the other a carnival barker. There is no one who represents the average American.
Glorified Sarah Palin? At least Palin had some executive experience as the governor of Alaska. Carnival Barker? Hey, how would you do competing in the real estate market as a developer in the corrupt world of NYC and come out a winner.
Let's hear more about Operation Warp Speed and his push to vaccinate the populace. He still brags about it, so I guess he's proud of his work there. Oh wait: He was LIED to. He was SUCKERED. So let's elect him again, so that he can be duped by the same deep state he claims to want to do away with? Erm. OK. What about the neocons he put in his cabinet? He didn't know they were bad? So far, looks like I'm smarter than Trump as I wouldn't have been duped into either of these two things.
You are proof that hindsight is 20/20. You will notice that those folks that he hired, he fired when they exposed themselves. I agree that he allowed himself to be distracted by the impeachments and appointed Pence to run the Covid effort. it WAS a mistake the appoint Fauci as it turns out as he was not the solution but the culprit. Trump has always delegated and did forget the buck stopped at the Oval Office. But putting Pence in charge was a major blunder as he was coming under the influence of the RINOs with the election approaching. His, Pence, betrayal came later, maybe later? Pence+Fauci=disaster.
So you think "drain the swamp" actually means to FILL the swamp with your enemies to "keep an eye on them"? That's next-level self delusion right there.
There are a couple of Qanons up here doing their village idiot acts. What's great is, you can block them. Then them and their White Dunce Hats go bye-bye.
“and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us”. This is exactly how they believe and what they are doing. It’s been evident for a long time. If you push back, well, they will shut you up one way or another. Just watch what has been going on for years and What do you think you are going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?
EXACTLY! They are spitting in our faces and giving us the double middle finger salute just by putting up these execrable candidates- FJB and Kamala.
They are so sure that they can cheat their way to "winning" this election that it didn't matter to them who they ran for office. I don't know which choice was more brazen, the dementia patient in the basement or the cheap whore of color.
Not to mention the traitors and incompetents that are on Trump's team, pretending to be working for him. If the election is stolen, there are many of them that are to be blamed.
You point out a real problem. When Trump started in 2017, he was one against the Deep State and the Deep State found so many different ways to blunt his impact.
This time he has a few folks that have challenged the Deep State and have joined him, on his side. Last time it was almost exclusively his family, and they paid for it. This time, I just do not know if he has the support to do much more, even if the GOP takes the Congress. Why? Because the real situation in congress is that the alignment of the two parties today make it so that the congress really has no majorities as all the different priorities do no allow any real domination that is required to exact change. That is why the congress is worthless.
Emerald Robinson is all over Twitter/X claiming that the RNC including Lara Trump, Whatley and some of their top people are not doing anything about election integrity and trying to stop the Steal.
If the election was held today and there was no cheating, there absolutely no doubt that Pres. Trump would win in landslide.
The most important thing that the Trump Team has to work on is stopping the flood of fraudulent BALLOTS that they are going to inject into the system unless the RNC wakes the hell up.
This is the most effective group out there and they have put together all the data that shows exactly where the bad ballots are and how to stop them. This is URGENT.
They're trying. There is a small army of lawyers fanned out across the swing states doing whatever they can to stop the steal in 2024. It's very difficult to stop leftists governors and secretaries of state from allowing bad actors to inject fraudulent ballots into the system.
Illegals are being registered to vote, and the bad actors are voting on their behalf. The leftist state leaders likely just look the other way, with the excuse of plausible deniability. They know it's happening but don't do what needs to be done to stop it.
If you're really concerned, get involved at your local level by joining your local GOP party, door knocking, contributing money, etc. Join TrumpForce47.com Some of the media personalities do a great job of eliciting fear and anger, but without action on the part of civilian patriots, the real job of winning elections will not happen. I believe that there are hundreds of thousands of patriots doing what they can to stop the steal and secure a win for Donald Trump in 2024.
ez- you are correct in what you say about our efforts. I have been working in NY to try and clean up the rolls for the past couple of years and it is a daunting task.
It was discovered by one of our side's tech geniuses, Andrew Paquette, that there is some kind of algorithm implanted in the rolls, not just in NY but in other states as well. These algos make it almost impossible to detect the fraud but even so, they have found a tremendous number of phantom voters.
I hope that all of our efforts plus some Divine Intervention, will put our President Trump back in the White House.
I still cannot believe that FJB has been allowed to remain in office, after his admission to bow out of the race. Not that Khmer Rouge Harris is any better, BTW. It's the principle of the thing.
I love your reference to "The Death of Stalin". Unfortunately for America, I doubt that there a general in the armed services with the competence and prestige of Georgi Zhukov to pull off a successful coup. Note Zhukov's critical role in getting rid of the most malign character in the Politburo after Stalin's death. If, as JHK suggests, America could see a military takeover, are any of its military leaders actually capable of such an action?
I highly doubt it. Obama got rid of anyone who might have been a threat. What you have now are careerists who only care about their careers and living la dolce vita.
The real problem in the military is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It requires all in uniform to obey LAWFUL orders only. I went through boot camp in 1971, which was after the My Lai event, and we all understood clearly that we must disobey unlawful orders.
It's hard to say how many NCOs and junior officers still embrace that tenet, but no senior or general officer with the sense God gave an ordinary rubber duck can rely on troops blindly obeying any order. I think there would be widespread mutiny if anything nefarious were to be attempted.
I believe the US government mandated covid shots for all military personnel knowing that the toughest of the bunch would refuse, thereby eliminating them as a source of internal resistance should said nefarious actions take place.
The minions of evil do not know they are evil. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! Kamala is a classic psychopath who has no clue she is a moron. I will always believe Trump won in 2016 because people were keeping their mouths shut and lying to the pollsters so the Dims believed they were a shoe in but also they didn't know how much to cheat. This time they will pull out the stops and even if there are more votes than we have population they will swell up in indignation and ask, 'waddayagonnadoaboutit?'
I can’t help but wonder if they don’t care that the stealing/cheating is obvious. They can act with impunity. After all, they have stuffed all government agencies with their agents and have no respect for that old rag the constitution. They own the USofA now. The mission is complete.
They do think they have it wrapped up. However, what they have no clue about is that they are not really in control. I am a realist. I prefer tough truth over sweet lies any day. However, I also know that there is a grander plan and while I am ever watchful with eyes wide open, I am not discouraged. They can kill my body but not my soul. I think we are truly on the brink of major change, one way or the other. I am prepared emotionally, physically and spiritually. I just posted in my substack regarding this phenomenal statistic that most Christians do not vote. This baffles me.
On brink of major change for sure! The drumming of words such as The Great Reset... New Golden Age...BRICS (replacing dollar)...CBDC (replacing dollar)...One World Order (UN AGENDA 2030) Rule...Replacing our Constitution with a Digital Constitution...🥁🥁🥁ing getting more intense, louder.
True. They are following their playbook "Rules for Radicals". Do the dirty deed, then worry about the consequences later. Don't think they worry much though, with WEF, Soros, Clinton Foundation & Global elites all having their backs.
No she is not a psychopath. Look up the definition. Now 'Son of Sam' that was a psychopath. Psychopaths are not a problem. They are too crazy to do much damage.
It's the sociopaths you have to be worried about. And the DC government at its higher levels is full of them. As are the (mainly) Democrat state governors.
It's a rare sociopath who is a moron. Maybe none.
I do think you are right in your conjecture that evil persons do not know they are evil. This is one of the biggest contradictions in human affairs.
Love your writing, Jim, but you have REALLY got to stop with the talking and dreaming of prison for any of these gormless clowns running our imperial gaslighting authoritarian government. It isn’t going to happen. Not a single person will face a single minute of prison or a single dime of wealth forfeiture, because they’ve rigged the system to escape accountability - or so that accountability is now a thing that isn’t even considered at all. Don’t forget that some of histories worst mass murderers - Pol Pot, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh etc. - died peacefully at home. You really think a bunch of gormless warmongering liar bureaucrats are gonna get tried and sent to a supermax? Not a chance.
One small quibble, not disagreeing with you, not at all.
Did any of you know we had one of the world's greatest heros quietly hiding here in America?
I saw a picture of her humble home with a dirt driveway in small town in Wisconsin. She was checking her mailbox and glaring at the camera- some jerkoff drove by so he could get a picture and post it on social media.
I speak to you of one of the most noble women who has ever lived: Stalin's daughter.
I think her name was Anna.
It was she who blocked the door to his office for 10 hours as he strangled to death on his own tongue, his face turning black as he lay paralyzed on his own desk. She resolutely refused entry to any and all officers, making sure that no rescue would come until the monster, her father, was dead.
Such steel! Such justice! Surely she deserves a shrine and a statue befitting a hero of mankind.
Nonsense. Stalin’s daughter’s name was Shetland. She was a very troubled soul, and didn’t have the kind of power to be able to prevent anyone from entering Stalin’s office. By the time of his death, their relationship was already shaky, following Stalin many disappointments with his unstable daughter.
Yes, but hell is forever. No water in hell, no rest, no mercy of any kind, no light, just darkness, torment and screaming, the endless nonstop screaming of all those trapped in it for eternity. That's what's waiting for them.
My mother has been a lifetime JFK Democrat, and to this day does not understand how the party that she was partial to morphed into the party that it has become. I believe there are millions of JFK Democrats, who still believe that their party will miraculously drift back into what it once was. And for that reason continue to support their party.
Maybe it is very difficult to admit that you are wrong. It is hard to admit that the government is an evil agency comprised of evil people instead of their economic tit full of benevolent people.
"That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for."
Modern Americans are cowards, by and large it seems. We talk a big game, but our comforts are too great to lose. "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." The government is bankrupting us and flooding the country with millions of barbarians. Our currency is worthless, our economy is stagnant and probably shrinking, our so-called leaders are now breaking the fourth wall, our enemies are rehearsing in their own version of the Spanish Civil War and armed to the teeth, and our children's minds are being poisoned daily. Anyways, did you watch baseball playoffs last night?
If you’ve decided your currency is worthless, please send it all to me and I’ll try to find something worthwhile to spend it on.
Americans are mostly cowards but they are also mostly spoiled. Gas prices go up 20 cents a gallon and they are livid, demanding some politician’s head on a stick. Because God’s will is that gas should be dirt-cheap. I think that’s in the Bible.
No thank you. My cash is spent on ever more expensive goods and is better used feeding my infant and children the cost of which, by the way, has not jumped but pole vaulted (by design) in price between my first and most recently born. To my enthusiastic enjoyment, my creepy Uncle, Sam, who checks my web history and looks ay my texts over my shoulder, still takes much my worthless money. He does this despite knowing the fed can simply make more appear as if by magic. At any rate, do you remember when people were demanding heads on a stick over two shilling for a pound of tea? As I recall the cheap tea bit is in the old testament, so the cheap dinosaur squeezings must be in the new.
On a completely unrelated note do they still teach hyperbole in school?
In my neck of the woods, gas prices are down about 55 cents per gallon from where they were this time last year. Are we allowed to praise the powers that be for that deflation, or are we only allowed to whine like fourth-graders when the price goes up?
My (bad, I guess) analogy is that in many ways they are not pretending any longer or at least are badly keeping up appearances. The mask and the gloves are off. The irreality we are presented is becoming common knowledge (in the sense that you know that I know, I know you know that I know and so on) regarding the production the 'blob' is putting on.
I think the Peter Principle needs a female archetype to enact it for historical reference. This drunken halfbreed hyena of a high speed train wreck oughta do the trick!
And it shows Kamala to be the lowlife she is that she, recognizing their using of her, doesn't protest but prefers that to being the nobody she deserves to be. She's the embodiment of the Peter Principle.
Why would she protest being used this way!? She's laughing all the way to the bank! When 'they' ensure her free ride to the Presidency...she will end gas powered vehicle use. Will force Lithium battery powered vehicles on us, then she & hubby will rake in mega more millions than they already have when their Lithium stocks that they are invested in 'skyrocket'.🚀
Seems like most of the Dems who wish to be POTUS in the near term want Kamalama Ding Dong to crash and burn. The logic is simple - if she wins, her administration will be a chaotic nightmare, but she would run for re-election with virtually no chance of success, pushing out the Shapiro, Newsome and other Democratic POTUS candidates to 2032, at which time they would face an incumbent Republican with a newly revised electoral map, minimizing the chance of Democratic success. They certainly prefer a Harris failure today giving them a chance to run in 2028 against someone other than Trump.
I agree with you. I don’t believe this talk about being so scared they can’t think straight. I do believe they are concerned about Trump getting back into the WH. He will go scorched earth on them. He has a lot on them but I think their arrogance won’t allow them to even consider it. They’ve got this and continue to laugh at him over dinner and wine. Only the very best of course.
Do not forget that the bueaucracy runs DC and just laughs at the elected officials. It will take as many years to undo the Deep State mess as it took to form it, 36 years, as the bureaucracy has to be brought back to balance through attrition. The Left has had 36 years, thanks to the Bush Boys and the RINOs, to distort the government to where it is today.
Frankly my dear, I don't believe The Donald has a scorched earth bone in his body. Or huevos. If he had had some huevos in 2020, he'd have stopped the Steal.
It is difficult to get a clear "read" on many, or even ANY of their actions.
I recall in 2020, some guy on the street came up to Biden, questioning him about something (I do not recall any of that) ... I DO remember Biden telling the guy, he knew he was not going to win the election. It was that clear even at this moment in 2020.
agree. My husband worked for many many years at defense and the pentagon.
My hubbs won some award (twice actually) for doing some great job. "The Federal 100"
Yeah, nice dinner, and a big heavy award to dust or throw at someone, All kinds of political people go to those things just for the free dinner, comedy speaker.
Biden was at one of those dinners. I met him at this gigantic desserts table. He creeped me out so much. I knew it was him and ugh I kept my distance. He was there leering at women.
Ya know I kept asking a question no one else seemed to consider during the Ashley diary debaucle. Where was Jill when her husband was taking showers with their preteen daughter? Was she unaware? Really? Where was the mother?
They have managed to do so for the past 10 years. I remember reading that the reason they let Trump in, in 2016, was because they thought Hillary Clinton's secrets were out. But then they were able to do damage control on them. I'm not even sure which secrets they were. It might be hearsay. But Clinton threw a massive hissy, that is well-documented, and she was told she'd be installed, and it was changed at the last minute. This is why I see this all as theater. Also, her hubs is the one who asked Trump to run in the first place. They ran in the same circles and their daughters are besties. I am not convinced that Trump is against them.
TRMR. Ask Diddy what he knows about Cankles’ extra curricular, and outside the box, activities. If you can get a frank response it will make a donkey puke.
If that ever got out - whoo hooooo. I wonder how with so many people involved, we still can't get video! That is amazing to me. I think though, it exists, and hopefully someday it'll get out. I think that's why they were so quick to speed up "deep fakes" then CONDEMN it so that when the real thing gets out they can claim they are all deep fakes.
TRMR. Very likely. Similar to the harvesting of Adrenochrome by heads of state and the old Monarchical families still ruling. Child trafficking writ large.
Trump’s power is derived from MAGA, his populist base. The Deep State hates the control the ballot box holds over them. Trump thrives in that environment. Clinton hates it and they will never agree on that.
"It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world."
Oh, Jim, you give Kamala WAY too much credit. I doubt she is self-aware enough for it to even register.
She may be the hollowest person ever to run for president. There's just no there there. She makes that piece of puffery Barack Obama look profound by comparison.
Puffery cannot look as arrogant and miserable as Obama. Just looking at Kamala's facial, neck, and shoulder tension makes me want to go to a chiropractor. Killary's face is nothing if not A Masque of Misery. And don't forget Ben Bartee's classic, "The Physical Decay of War Pig Victoria Nuland Is Truly Shocking":
I feel sorry for them. So shallow, arrogant, trying to stay puffed up in their hollow shells & living in darkness. God says to let Him have the revenge. Their day is coming, like ours, to stand before the Lord.
Sea Change
I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today. I studied politics in college and have always had strongly-held political views, but when my daughter was a child I did not try to inculcate her with my own political philosophy. Instead, I pointed out that human beings are not intelligent enough to ever get things “right” for any length of time. On any given subject our species will inevitably swing between one stupid extreme and its opposite. If, as a society, we seem to have something figured out, it’s just at the optimal point in the pendulum swing at the present moment, having left one excess and on the way to its obverse.
Given this immutable law of human nature, it’s hardly to be expected that either of our political parties can be right for very long before going off the rails in one stupid direction or another. History confirms this fact, regardless of where you think “right” lies. The Republicans gave us Union martyr Lincoln, and Teapot Dome grifter Harding; the Democrats, National Bank nemesis Jackson, and bank whore Obama.
If you have always felt that you had your political compass fixed, but are increasingly feeling lost at sea, that’s because we are in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of our political landscape – a sea change.
If someone had predicted eight years ago, or even four, that Dick Cheney would ever back a Democratic presidential candidate and, in the same year, RFK Jr. would side with the Republican, they would have been laughed off the stage.
Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the authoritarians? Then why are the Democrats putting the foundation for totalitarian control of our lives in place? Aren’t Democrats supposed to defend our civil liberties? Then why are their leaders intent upon revoking our inalienable right to Free Speech?
Sea Change? Change is often unwelcome and seldom easy. Blame Bill Clinton, who tap-danced circles around the Republicans and stole the center (actually, well right of center) from them. With the heart of their ideological territory lost, the Party of Lincoln were pushed ever further to the right, until they risked falling off the edge of the earth. Equally significant, Clinton abandoned the working classes for the deeper pockets of a growing “professional class,” creating a new donor base that has since embraced the deepest pockets of all: Silicon Valley. (It’s the donors, stupid.)
To this day party dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell are by-God not going to be out-conservatived. What has changed is a younger generation of Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley, who are increasingly independent of the fossils, and embarked upon reinventing the party. Vance is not alone in actually caring about working people, and trying to readdress their increasingly dire needs. Not incidentally, that’s where the votes are going to be.
Will they prevail, as the Old Guard dies off? Too soon to tell, but an intriguing possibility, and plausible cause for hope for the future.
Perhaps more significant than migrating politicians is the wave of formerly liberal commentators. Our own James Howard Kunstler professes to being a life-long registered Democrat. Others, including Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, and Bret Weinstein are all now resolute critics of the Democratic Party. Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson both left Fox News to attack the Official Narrative from their own perspective. And, of course, two powerful voices of opposition, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, are now both
Democrat persona non grata.
When lost at sea you can never know where the ship is going to come ashore, or if it will founder on the rocks, but the landscape will certainly soon be different – and just possibly much improved.
I too, graduated high school in 1968, was a conscientious objector to the war and studied theology, and I completely agree with you. I just think there's a paradox in politics that is that people who are moral enough not to succumb to the heady liquor of wealth and power are not interested in being a politician so we get people who are not morally strong enough and thus eventually get corrupted and agree to play the puppeteers' game in order to end up with a mansion in Martha's Vineyard and enter the history books as "somebody." I'm hoping Trump is one of the rare ones who already has what they offer and so cannot come under their sway, and as Hillary complained the other day, they are losing total control, and that's why they're scared of Trump, who plans to take that away from them. DJT may not be the total answer but he seems to be a beginning of a new course for us, so I guess we'll find out soon. It's been a long time comin'
I hope your optimism is warranted, the Left media is doing a bang up job of hiding the truth of who is ahead. My hope is based on the You Tube poll averaging sites which are forecasting a Trump victory with over 300 electoral votes. I think their methods help cancel out the Left bias of the MSM polls.
Well, as Stalin put it, it's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes, so we'll see who wins that game this time. I doubt the Left can repeat.
Never, ever, underestimate the chicanery of democrats .. LBJ started it in 1948 and the present gang of ‘sharpies’ have taken it to new levels.. They fucked America in 2020 and they will do it again.
(And I am soooo tired of the dismissal of the facts of that stolen election)
There is an upwelling in the Congress occurring right now and it is blatant. There is also a release of charges and data from the judge of the election interference case. Both jive claimed to be the October surprise.
The one in the Congress is being led by Jamie Raskin. He is trying to gat a majority of the House to refuse to certify the election if Trump wins. Hmmm, does that sound familiar? What a humongous bunch of assholes congressmen are. Hypocrites, flip flappers, whatever name you want to call it.
Question: If this hypocrisy is allowed to happen, the illicit hijacking of the election process, what does that do to the validity of the Trump interference case?
And I see they're going to investigate the J6 Committee; that's a start!
Other Texas Democrats fucked LBJ out of previous elections, so when he fucked other candidates out of the Senate seat, he was just returning the favor.
And then he fucked JFK out his Oval Office seat as well.
And, what, they arrested a couple of flunkies in Michigan and Georgia. Disgusting!
Bingo...it's who counts the votes. Does anyone else remember when Biden was 'President Elect' and he and Kam were on Fox and they were watching fireworks spelling out their names? Right before that...Biden jogged out to a microphone and Said " Thank You To The People That Counted The Votes! I Owe You! I Owe You! I Owe You!" That simple statement he made confirmed what most of us already knew. If it was a semblance of a ligit count...he would've said "Thank You for Voting for Me". I'll never forget that he thanked the COUNTERS & THAT HE OWES THEM! Sickening...what a goofball. 🥴
Thank you, Christine. I’ve never heard that about Biden. It’s quite damning, I’d agree. The fact that that clip was not circulated widely is just another piece of evidence that we’re being gaslighted mightily. Here’s another clip showing what the J6 Comm. did to Trump:
https://rumble.com/v5i9exp-trumps-lawyer-gets-up-and-exposes-the-entire-demonrat-party-in-congress-dem.html
Excellent. I didn’t watch any of those proceedings then. I knew it was all manipulated.
I know good people who were in DC on J6 & they saw only upbeat patriots standing up for fair & free elections.
They heard his speech - every word.
And knew zero about any violence or chaos until receiving phone calls & texts from those at home concerned for their safety.
Some saw the Capitol doors opened & thought that very strange. No one had contemplated entering at all.
One man in the group did approach more closely only to feel something wasn’t right so turned around. He was later contacted by the FBI. He merely got closer to the Capitol… on the outside steps.
These attendees I know noticed those near the Capitol wearing black attire, acting differently that the rest of the crowd. Meaning jumping up in statue bases, retaining walls, etc. where no one else did. They even commented to each other about the strangeness of them …. not “one of us.”
I’d attended a Nov. 14, 2020 Mega MAGA Rally in DC where 1000’s were - friendly, peaceable, upbeat. All ages, races, ethic groups…. orderly, polite, carrying great signs, flags etc.
Only discord that day were thugs attacking young families who strayed onto the downtown street designated BLM Street by the major (found out about this on the news later).
Oh, & the Proud Boys were there; calm, peaceful like the rest of us.
Btw, noticed the complete lack of trash/garbage strewn on the grounds & streets.
Yes Joe- whether in his cognitive decline or in his arrogance told the American people how he got in office several times. It’s what makes me most fearful for this election. We see what happens when the media decides to present a lie instead of the truth. They have gotten quite good at it!
I reckon Jim has covered three of the possibles pretty good.
I hope you’re correct
You may think canceling an election would be nuts, but California Democrats have given up on being the underdog. They will win or go down fighting as dirtily as possible.
There is NFW Kammie will let herself be removed by an election. If she ever becomes convinced that she will lose, the election will be canceled in favor of a Constitution-free “transitional government” during a period of “national emergency”.
Well said. The Donald is not the "total answer", not by a long chalk, but he may be the "beginner" - and to harken back to Mr. Skillington, he did have the political sense to recognize JD for what he is. I'd almost say he was the better angel part of JFK reincarnated. Same youth, eloquence, charisma, and most impt. some gosh-darned Principles.
The only answer is Jesus Christ and His Word, the answers are all there. Donald John Trump is the one leading us toward this, the other side is the culture of death and destruction, steal, kill, and destroy…led by the devil himself, Joe Biden and Kamala are doing his bidding of evil.
"Donald John Trump is the one leading us toward this...". Uh, no I don't think so. The Donald does not have any history of being a pious Christian. Rather, I would say he is not standing in the way. Which is fine. Politics is no place for religion. Now morality, that is different. Morality does belong in politics, as the Founders knew.
DJT is not perfect, but he is not part of the establishment. The elites used to adore him, until he ran with as a republican. God picks imperfect people for his mission. Moses, David, Solomon, etc. Let's hope the country and the world changes course.
Only Trump has the balls to stand up to the right wing echo chamber and do things like promote the Covid vaccine and surrender to the Taliban. Vance and DeSantis are pussies that will end up being like George W Bush and going with the flow of the right wing echo chamber.
Bullshit. I think perhaps you’ve had ‘one too many’ before typing.
+1 Ignore the fucker and VOTE!
10 years ago, at least 67% of internet activity was estimated as due to bots. It's even more now, and even more unrecognizable, intended to subtly "NUDGE" conservatives into doubt and discouragement.
Ignore them
In February 2020 Trump finally grew a pair of balls and stood up to the Military Industrial Complex and surrendered to the Taliban…everyone knows what happened in March.
It's rare that I find someone who is 1000% wrong. Congrats! You win.
proof positive of my reply. Try 1 vodka THEN 1 glass of water... Your thoughts will appear more cogent. buon apetito..
~ Menage A... Trois? ~
But FGB3's comment is directly under Pangolin Chow Mein's, yes? So who has/needs the vodka? You? Me? FGB3? I've got some in the freezer, along with some 'superpremium' coffee ice cream... PARTY! ...Or a nice Saturday wake-me-up at the very least.
In any case, it seems like Trump, who may be quite malleable, is already president, walking around and shaking apparently-military hands, and Harris is being thrown under the bus in slow motion, if glanced-at reports are any indication.
I figured JHK (along with Putin) might have a thing for her... but ya, ok, nice smile and infectious laugh...
Now if she can only slip out the back door, unscathed/unnoticed...
Remember that interview with Trump and that TV psychologist? Dr. Phil? (The guy who may have had a thing for Shelley Duvall [RIP] of The Shining fame? Granted, she was a doll with some brilliant acting in that film.)
He was very clear that Trump should not seek revenge. So maybe the Deep-Dish-Pizza State managed to strike some sort of compromise with Trump...
In that vein, Trump also seems kind of gung-ho about India's Modi. Maybe it's a thing. Did you see the video of him holding Modi's hand and, at one point, patting it with the other? (Shades of the Trump-Macron 'bromance'.) Maybe it's just AI.
Have you seen all those immigrants from India in your necks of the woods? I have over here. It almost looks like Halifax, NS is half Indian now, overnight.
But India is part of BRICS+ of course, and then there's that other/similar alt organization US et al may have been trying. I forget the acronym. Maybe it's just as well.
What's Vivek Ramaswamy up to these daze?
BOT ALERT!
Charisma? 🤔
I'd say so. Not like Trump's of course. No one is like The Donald.
Yes, Don is a start. He is representative of MAGA, a populist organization. It is up to patriotic people to change this country. What would happen if Trump was killed? Would MAGA just die?
No…. There are too many people that are awake. It will go on until freedom is achieved or MAGA is physically and mentally destroyed.
I've also wondered about that. Certainly his enemies believe so. But maybe there is more there. Certainly any political movement can use a martyr to advantage, esp. if there is someone who can pick up the mantle.
If MAGA dies, ???????
Nice ending, Aelred. Was that intended? I can hear the echoes of Crosby and Stills in harmony now. Thanks for the memory.
And A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.
You used to be so amused by Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Peter Saarsted. 1969 I believe
"Where Do You Go To My Lovely?" She had a carefully designed topless swimsuit that let her get an even sun tan on her back and on her legs"
Any relation to Bear?
So how does it feel?
Like a rolling stone of course.
I knew I got that from somewhere! "It's a long, long, long time before the dawn" (quoting from memory)
Funny how it seeps into your bones; gone but not forgotten. 'Speak out , you got to speak out against the madness .... speak your mind if you dare ... but don't, no don't, no, try to get yourself elected. If you do you had better cut your hair.' Thanks to all my brothers & sisters here for speaking out (and/or not cutting their hair. Ahem). Sometimes it's been left, sometimes it's been right, but it's always been about hubris; the depredations of another's dignity. Do. Not. Tread. On. Me.
And Crosby included another of his songs on that album titled “Almost Cut My Hair” Maybe he thought briefly of running for office. LOL
It's always darkest before the dawn.
New course? More wars for Israel but in new places.
Israel can't do squat without our support, and we will soon have lost the capacity of supporting them.
I look forward to the day when the State Dept says, like FEMA did, "sorry, we're all out of funds. Have a nice day."
Thats because you’re a stupid anti-zionist. One day you’ll learn of how the incredible cash of Ukraine aid is winding its way back to Biden and the DNC. Naivete cripples logic.
They’ll never say that. Wars are a wonderful reason to print more money and devalue our dollar which is what the goal is after all
Go jag off to yer giant-nose cartoons.
Fuck you.
Back atcha.
Guys are you kids or adults-come on!
I'm sure you can discuss your opposing points of view in a civilized manner ...
The IDF already wear patches on their uniforms of “Greater Israel”:
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And their flag!
The fact that so many profess to hate President Trump- whether it’s the mainstream media, the politicians that have been in office too long or the Hollywood elites- proves to me that he is on the right path and will be the right man for the job. We have already seen him in action and our country was beginning to flourish despite all the monkey shines from the left and right. God bless America and it’s people 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Democrats were the biggest slave owners, that says it all, not that the North didnt have em too, but the most ardent for slavery were democrats and they still are today
And Kamala's family was the biggest slaveholder om Jamaica.
Such a long post. I can see why you missed the Typo.
Cumala
What are the sources of your statement that Harris family was the biggest slaveholder? Never read or heard this anywhere else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Brown
https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/
The sources are legion, mostly based on these and genealogy researchers.
I agree but let me tell you a story that orally given to my great-great grandfather form his father.
In 1854 my great-great-great grandfather came to the US from Ireland. He got a job building railroads out in the US West.
Well when thy came where they had to blast rock for the train track tunnels it was a tricky job back then so many workers got killed or maimed in the blastings.
There were three principal ethnic groups that worked on the railroad-Irish, Chinese Coolies and black slaves.
When there was blasting the boss would send only Irish or Chinese-because if they died they didn't get paid on Friday-if the black slave died it was a loss property around $2k.
So there are many nuances.
I live in this country because my great grandfather's brother died in a dynamite accident, working in a stone quarry in England. My great grandfather then came to the US to work in another quarry, cutting stone for the Erie Canal.
The problem is that the narrative has it that 'blacks had it bad' and 'whites had it good'-and, on the average correct-but the stories like mine and yours illustrate that the Woke narrative is much too simple and Manichean like all their values.
No, that's not correct about whites having it good. Most whites did NOT own slaves and had an extremely hard existence just staying alive. Blacks were well cared-for by their owners because they were valuable property. The vast majority of whites throughout the budding United States lived a "hand to mouth" existence and struggled to survive!
You are generalizing.
In my humble opinion, in the main, it was better to not be a slave than to be a slave-yet there are exceptions as I have offered above.
Have you seen what a “steel driving” man like John Henry had to do to bore the holes for dynamite charges. One holding the spike and one banging on it with a sledge hammer. No thanks.
That's horrible, but some elites tend to feel entitled to treat people in abusive ways.
Darlin, The northerners shipped slaves from Africa to the Carribean for years after the civil war.
Yep, the War of Northern Aggression was only to force a one government rule, just like they are trying to do now to the world.
One thing often overlooked re: the civil war was the demographics at the time. The antebellum, agrarian south did not have a lot of folks, whereas the North full of cities, had many more people and thus votes. In our country, the South never stood a chance politically and it was the end of the compromise era that drove the South to try to exit. The real battle here was between the manufacturing North, and ENGLAND. The South was a “colony” of both, providing resources to both on-coming manufacturing giants. The South was backed by England throughout the war, Surprise!!!! The demographic advantage, ie, the number of available soldiers, was what did in the South. Grant just threw troops at Lee until Lee had no one left.
The victory of the North is what spurred on the Gilded Age which drove the USA way past England in economic power.
BTW, look at today. The power of the cities politically (Blue) contesting the power of the agrarian sector (Red). Politically, the cities will win, just like 1865, but today a strike by teamsters could undo any power the cities have. Cities today are much more dependent than in the 1860s.
Being from Massholechusetts I was never taught that there may have been other valid viewpoints about the Civil War 1 (given our probable future and the real possibility of future uncivil wars, I'm numbering them).
And take away states rights
The Arabs were the biggest slave traders and they preferred white meat.
They as just do good at lies and deception. Gaslighting and projection. Foolery and coersion.
"They are just so good at lies and deception..." like my spell checker
1968 was the year I blew my chance at a comfy academic position at a second-rate Cali State College by getting involved in the Fresno Resistance and, at one rally, publicly eating my draft card with catsup on it. "Destruction of United States Gubmit Property", a Five-and-Dime. So I absquatulated, became a political exile, ending up in dour Vancouver-by-the-Void.
The fevered emotions ran high. The shit-kicking San Joaquin Valley cowboys who made up the majority of the student body were not amused. George Murphy and S.I. Hayakawa were for a crackdown. Bobby Kennedy intersected a fast-moving projectile in L.A.
One of the Vietnamese students I had been assigned to shepherd (they were, by the way, the ones that radicalized me against the US intervention) was Nguyen Thai Binh, first showcased by Jane Fonda and other antiwar stars before being discarded. He became famous for trying to hijack a 747 at Tan Son Nhut Airport (eggs wrapped in tinfoil). An American shot him and they dumped his body onto the runway. He is now a national martyr in Vietnam; schools and roads are named after him.
Exciting times. Another realm of reality.
The Vietnam war was the first expansion attempt by the MIC and its leader , the Deep State. Look where we are today and realize that it is the Deep State that has expanded for 70 years against the people, regardless of party affiliation. The Vietnam protestors who were trying to curtail the expansion of the MIC, would be MAGA today, an ironic state of affairs.
Ready? RFK, Jr is a reflection of his dad and uncle, who were both terminated by Deep State forces for countering the MIC trying to control the war.. IMHO, both would be MAGA today.
If you recall, President Eisenhower reminded/warned us about the MIC as he left Office. Nope. Vietnam was a continuing action, of constant "actions" that spread far and wide. What irks the h**l out of me is how it was all couched in "democracy". And, being good, decent, honest, and innocent/ignorant of how degenerate that government was, we cheered for democracy.
JFK was all over the place, once saying that we should disarm in favor of the United Nations. Very, very philosophically immature.
JFK and his dad promised the Mafia that if he was elected he would get Havana back from the Castroites. He tried and failed. The military and CIA failed miserably. The he made a huge mistake, he told the Military that he was going to withdraw the “advisors” from Vietnam, as Bobby was announcing a crack down on the Mafia. The CIA and the Mafia held a meeting. The Capos got their revenge and the CIA got its war.
Nope, sorry, no cigar Johnny. It was the CIA's boss who got his revenge.
He was one, Allan Dulles. But so did Sam Giancana and his counter part in NYC. I don’t smoke anyway, but yes I get a cigar on this one. Also, LBJ got his war also. JFK was in everyone’s sights it seems.
Sam and his brother wrote a book together claiming that the Mafia was hired by the CIA to do the job. Another Mafia type from the time that worked for the capo in NYC is on You Tube giving details on the hit, including the second shooter was in a storm drain in front of the caravan and was responsible for the head shot no one can explain.
Jack Kennedy was as you say, that is, until his "come to Jesus moment" at American University. His statement that we are all mortal still sends shivers down my spine.
Is your daughter Woke or is she following your sage advice?
Of course not, Drew. My daughter is woke as hell, and her father is an idiot.
Sigh, if its any consolation you are certainly not alone in this category-my older son and I watched "Am I a Racist" last week-he's not Woke-but he hides it.
But when we went back to his place after the movie when he parked the car, he looked me in the eyes so solemnly I thought he was going to tell me he has 'cancer' but he demanded, that I tell Liz , his wife-high school teacher'- we saw 'Saturday Night" -as she is very, very Woke.
My young son, he's not Woke at all , but he is a laze about still at home at 27 drinking beer, smoking weed and eating on Dad and Mom's tab-I don't know what is worse...
Sounds like my nephew. "His dad ruined him" my sister says. So at 30, he's allowed to sponge off them both, not have a job, etc. Sure. How was he "ruined"? Well, his dad was emotionally unavailable. The horror! Yet, millions like him are able to work and run their own lives. He's even blessed with a high IQ. The problem there is that my sister is a toxic codependent who thinks that her family would die on the spot if she's not there catering to them. Something is very wrong in our society. She's not an outlier, IOW, she is typical.
You both have described the Nanny State that the government is trying to create, both kids finding easy touch parentage afraid to tell them “No”. The entire country is being threatened by 50% of folks being exactly the same as these two, and a Deep State kow-towing to them to get votes, unwilling to say “No”.
My most sincere condolences on the state of family affairs outlined above. Not to brag, but I have two very unwoke daughters-one married a LEO and the other is divorced but happily so. They had three sons between them, one of whom is making bank as an RN and the other doing likewise financially handling automated production at a large local food processing facility. The other one, well, he's not living at home, nor is he "woke," but he has "issues" involving drugs and the usual assortment of problems which accompany that. But hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, like Meat Loaf told us. Somehow I have to think our strict Christian upbringing had something to do with it. YMMV.
Part of it is a youth thing; when I was 20 or so, my roommate said that food, energy, and housing should all be free (he may have been right about energy, anyway); many people don't make it to adulthood (despite not dying) and learn to stand on their own two feet in every way.
Well, they want to create dependence and this socialist thing then sounds wonderful- until it isnt.
"Ditto" on not alone.
What's worse? Having parents who allow him to do that.
It's just a matter of time for the older. Hopefully sooner, or he'll squander his whole life being cucked by her.
We really lucked out. All six of our kids (ages 50-23) are conservatives. A few of them had brief moments of “teenage liberalism”...but they grew out of it LOL!!
I think it was Winston Churchill that said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.”
He admitted in his memoirs that the real reason for WW2 was that Germany wouldn't renounce its sovereignty in favor of the nascent New World Order.
How did you manage that????? Even though it’s too late for me I’d still like to know. Maybe I can practice on my grandchildren.
I don’t know that we did anything in particular, but we always made it a point to expose the differences (liberal vs conservative) whenever the opportunities arose. They are all very much “awake” (not woke)!
It is this dichotomy that drives the Turnings. Do not trust anyone over 30, right?
That's pretty poignant!
Haha!!! Same here. You didn’t steer your daughter in a political direction. But, I did.
I was an active conservative and enlisted my kids in campaigns . I figured it backfired which accounts for at least one of my kids becoming radically liberal.
No matter the approach, we probably have little influence on our children because our society has much more.
Homeschool. Peer pressure is the surrounding family. 🤷
Research suggests that by age ten our kids are more influenced by their peers than they will ever be by adults again,
Close the schools. The people will benefit a hundred-fold - Lao Tzu
I've said for decades, I'd rather have my kids raised by wolves than be victims of the public schools.
Howard. By age six, parental “programming” is over, most of personality is in place. All the stuff that is blamed on schools is in place before school starts. Parents!!!!!!
Thre is no solver bullet in this paradigm
Peer pressure/Tribal Unity is SO powerful. I was a Democrat until 2019. I don’t brag about that, or my change.
No, you were sold a bill of goods, that the Democrats are the party of Joe Average, the working man, and the GOP was the party of the Elite. The Dems pulled off the biggest con job in US history, and we are seeing the re-alignment of the parties now because of the lies that have been promulgated for 70 years. MAGA vs, Know-Nothings.
I saw the change with Bill Clinton in the ‘92 race when he was hawking the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council). I went to an event with him and at the time was fighting him about Mena and the whole “Compromised” Terry Reed thing . As soon as I shook his hand I knew he was a rat. Little did I know that his “Stand By Your Man” wife would become the biggest rat of all.
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Welcome to the deprogrammed world. It is glorious, indeed.
Indeed, Mary Rose. For me it was a bit of a painful transition, oscillating between the joy and amazement of discovery, and the angst of information overload and feeling forlorn. Admittedly, it's only been about 6 years since I was "red-pilled". The journey continues.
It was easy for me when I began to see what hypocritical liars democrats are.
Just like in the Matrix when Neo learns the real world is an illusion.
Or The Truman Show!
Well you are honest and authentic, obviously, and I bet it was diflicult socially, economically even to make the conversion-so you aren't a coward either.
Glad you are on our side now
Appreciate your honesty. I had that same question.
I wondered the same thing.
You are right about the pendulum. It is the swinging back and forth that has kept the country on a steady course on average. Until 1988. The Bush boys are as left as the Ult-Left folks today, war, open border, corrupt DOJ, all the things we discuss here. We have been steadily Left of center for 36 years, so is it no wonder that the Deep State, all factions, are so far Left. The RINO contingent ARE NOT conservative, they are neo-con, MIC, tax and spend, blatant Deep Staters that have joined the Far Left in their desire to create a socialistic nanny state. Planted squarely in front of this whole bloc are the MAGA folks, led by the Golden Golem. What we are witnessing going into this election is a ripping apart of the political country, leaving a Left Right orientation into a different alignment of parties. IMHO, two parties are emerging, one, MAGA, center right and two, the “Know Nothings” Far Left. It reflects the Leftward drift of the country for the 36 years. MAGA is center right as its leader was a Democrat at one time and has some of that old democrat dogma inside his head. The Deep State hates MAGA as its prime directive is to reduce the noose around the country that the nanny state wants to install. The RINOs are an integral part of the Deep State and also hate MAGA and its leader. However, a new breed has arisen, old fashioned moderate Democrats who still love the country as it is, without the nanny state. These folks are moving to the right to join MAGA as they do no want the Constitution re-written. Two parties are arising, center right and far left. The cause is the attempted installation of socialism and the nanny state by a Deep State desperate to ward off the attempted control of their power and bureaucracy by the upstarts in MAGA. It definitely could turn bloody.
Side bar. Know Nothings fit well as a descriptor because during the last four years, the Obama Left has rolled out every article of their dogma, passed it into DC with dictatorial EOs and we have witnessed its total failure in every way possible. That is why Harris is running as she is, she has absolutely nothing positive to run on. So instead, we get empty nothing promises Called the Opportunity Economy with absolutely no idea what that means. Warning: Opportunity Economy sounds like a whole bunch of fiat spending, welfare spending, war spending, Deep State expansion spending, immigrant spending, ignoring every economic law ever invented. The Know-Nothing Party. If America votes these nincompoops into control, the Ens Times of this country draws near, and all the dunderheads that vote for the nanny state are going to find out, it will not and cannot ever exist. 0 bucks.
[Whispering in your ear, JohnAZ]
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" If America votes these nincompoops into control...".
Whoa there Pardner! These "nincompoops" weren't voted into control in 2020. They STILL won't be in 2024. The Big Difference may be the old dictum, "Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice, shame on you".
Ahemmm...No, you've got it backwards. FYI...Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me. (Should've learned not to get fooled again)
John, I will suggest that your post, and the related discussions, need to take into account Dalio's ...
Relative Standing of Great Empires
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and the major factors that create great empires ...
The Archetypical Rise and Decline of an Empire by Determinant
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Is it so difficult to imagine that there are less opportunities for a young person to "step into the adult world", than there were 30 years ago; and that 30 years ago, there were less opportunities than there were 60 years ago?
Sixty years ago, our parents had experienced tough times in their early years, and a War that transitioned the masses into the adult world. Schooling focused on teaching the 3 R's, and the trades. Few students were diagnosed and treated for a disability. The country was tooled-up as a result of the war. The US population was a bit over half of what it is today. America was positioned to benefit from the key currency status. And I would suggest that the majority of people our age lived through the "sweet spot".
Today, the obstacles are greater, and there are fewer legitimate opportunities (no, people like Kamala Harris should have more sense than to set themselves up for failure). I would argue that the money in politics, coupled with the existing format for life, has been a major detriment to the various determinants, and to label individuals as "Know Nothings" fails to recognize the cause, and is not productive.
Would an "Opportunity Economy" be beneficial at this point in time? Would major construction projects, and the associated economic activity, be beneficial for the citizens of the world? If presented with the opportunity, is there potential for some responsible individuals of lower-income households, and/or the migrant population, to set a leadership example that would help "Know Nothings" step into the adult world?
As you point out, politics is a major factor for our current predicament. So, we need to eliminate the nonsense, and correctly assess and address the problems. And, in this day and age, I don't think isolationism is a prudent solution.
I will vote for Trump in the hope that he will eliminate the nonsense, and perhaps as the cycle plays out, the problems will be correctly assessed and addressed.
The Know-Nothings were a party around Civil War 1 times that got that moniker because they did not have a clue what to do about the pending schism approaching. Sorta like today, hence the label.
The Know Nothings were against mass immigration. They were right. Everyone else was wrong. Their America was destroyed by the endless stream of Irish, Poles, and Italians.
This makes zero sense, Jarek.
How not so?
Wow, this Skillington guy even outbloviates RS. Not that he's wrong, just overly wordy.
What superfluous part should I have omitted?
I was born in 1968. In downtown Chicago, actually, during the chaotic Democratic Convention.
So here’s one brutal GenX take on your generation: you’re all haunted. Unable to detangle yourselves from the political traumas and skepticism of the 60s and 70s. And now, to be honest, you’ve lost your edge, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that retirement does not agree with you. Or rather, the kinds of retirement you’re living are sorting and cleaving you from mainline society.
We don’t know what to do with you. But we still admire you and wish you’d stop poisoning yourself with garbage media infotainment, parroting the political nonsense there, and feeling like everything in the news is about prosecuting the debates of your day in perpetuity.
Because it isn’t. And, sorry, but it’s no longer about you.
Oh how precious. Go outside and play and let the grownups talk
Paul P Westhelle, courtesy of ChatGPT
Nah. I have toe fungus. Pretty sure that disqualifies me.
Nothing like learning from your elders, and respecting them. You're not much younger than me Paul, but I for one appreciate the wisdom being handed down to me by thoughtful, experienced people who share this wisdom with those who follow. As for all time, healthy societies will always look to, and learn from, older and wiser individuals such as many of those on this site, and provide them the dignity their years deserve.
Punks run revolutions.
And after the revolution they are the first to get their throats cut
Wishful thinking of the deposed. Don't expect it. We have just enough energy remaining to dance on the graves of disrespectful elders. Or perhaps enough to spin tunes in the DJ booth so that the younger ones can really tear it up.
Welp Paul P. both Jim Kunstler and I were born in 1948 and I don't think we'd agree that we are "poisoning [ourself] with garbage media infotainment...".
When Jim was my age, he was lucid enough to criticize it. Now, sometimes, he sounds afflicted by it. And while it's regrettable to read that result of that devolution at times, he has a good audience, that, I hope and imagine, it helping pad his retirement. So maybe he is out to demonstrate that there is something virtuous to the PT Barnum's strategy of fleecing suckers?
Howard, outstanding comment. The talented Mr. Clinton really did scramble the tokens on the game board, didn't he? If you had more time or space, I'm sure you would have included a paragraph on the possible effects of mass illegal immigration on the American electorate--not only in election years to come but also three and half weeks from now.
Just legalize the illegals. Presto! Somali and Haitian primitives would suddenly become as Americans as you or I. This was George Bush Jr's solution.
Lawyers probably have more power and influence in the U.S. than in any other country. Whatever their party affiliation (or none), they are an elite class.
Hence all the pseudcons who say, "We're a nation of immigrants! More more more! As long as they're legal." That word legal bathes their gray cells like a shot of Johnnie Walker Black.
Whenever a public figure is accused of, or charged with, a crime the first words out of his mouth are not, "I behaved according to the highest moral principles." No. They are, "I didn't do anything illegal." As if that's all that matters.
George Bush Jr. was a dimwit, alcoholic - one an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
Insightful synopsis. Thank you.
I wasn’t politically aware when I graduated from high school in 1968, but I can’t imagine it compares to our current situation. It’s hard to know what you didn’t experience. However, too many adult Americans reside in the same place I did at age 18. However, unlike my young self, they vote.
As a protester I was just a foot soldier, but we manned the barricades, protesting the war in Vietnam, saw students murdered at Kent State by the National Guard. The country was coming apart. But I agree that today is worse, because we still had resilient institutions, economy, and infrastructure then, to carry on with after things settled down. Now all of that is gone.
And you were against those institutions back then, right? Marxism is a disease, a mind virus, just like Feminism or Libertarianism.
Yup! Good statement LUGH.
Even Libertarianism. Government needs to be controlled. BUT it is absolutely necessary. I do not remember which of the Great Philosophers it was, but he said government is requires when two or more people live together.
Tulsi is WEF 'young global leader'. She's a Trojan Horse - imho.
Noe. Tulsi is authentic. There was no place for her with the Dems and she retains her integrity with the Republicans.
The Dems suing to keep RFKJR OFF the ballot in some states while suing to keep him ON in others finally makes sense: https://x.com/thelastrefuge2/status/1847215489186988412?s=43&t=-eDDmxb9gSDxiUXuEV2zTA
I was class of 1978 and had the Good fortune to Graduate in 1974 from Edison Jr. High-school where they actually taught young men Metals class, Drafting, Wood Working as they taught young Ladies Home Economics, Cooking, Arts & Crafts. Some guys in our High Speed, The Pekin Chinks (Now politically Corrected to Dragons) had Shotguns or .22 Rifles on racks in the back window of their pickup truck. Nobody EVER got shot. We learned Power Mechanics and More Wood Working. When we left dchool, we went to work in a Trade and made good money while continuing to learn instead of racking up unsustainable debt. Our parents bought a 14 acre farm for $19k wiyh a 6 bedroom house, a large barn and pump house. Life was hard work but we were strong and up to the task. Today, too many migrate to the cities so they can be closer to hospitals in case they get sick. The hope and change promised by Free Trade, Free Health Insurance, Free College and Free stuff never happened and is on it's way to Extinction. #DefundTyranny #ResumeAmericanIndependenceAndDominanceOrExpectToDieCommunist #FreedomIsNotFree
And we are at an unfortunate point in history where both of the major parties of the United States are left-of-center, wrong, and retarded.
Other non-fossils come to mind like Jordan, Stefanik, Mace, etc
Harding himself was honest, aside from his inability to keep his pants on (though compared to Bubba, FDR, JFK, and LBJ, he was a virgin); he just had some crooks in his administration, just like Grant, Nixon and Trump.
As you probably know, the record for crooks in an administration is Reagan's.
Feel sorry for your daughter!
Let’s not be counting those chickens before they’re hatched , folks. Keep the pedal to the metal.
Oh indeed
There are plenty of Obama's Army, ready, energetically willing and able to do their job, which is the keep the steal in motion, no matter, what ever cost.
10/11/24: Can anyone think of a satisfactory explanation as to how Kookamunga Harris passed her law school and law license exams? The person I see today can barely figure out how to open a box of Wheaties...
If a bird had Kamalamadingdong's brain it would fly backwards
10/11/24: The interior space of any bird's head would be too large for Kamala's "brain."
Maybe the California Bar Exam consists of questions regarding how to perform sex acts on married people. No way in hell she could pass the New York Bar.
10/13/24: It was a one-question exam, and you have identified its content. However, there was a bonus question: "Identify the chemical ingredients of Gov. Newsom's hair gel," (his election to that office having been rigged 20 years in advance), which ,if answered correctly, resulted in an automatic seat on the California State Supreme Court.
She didn’t have to pass. She had tone, and thick knee skin. Get you anywhere in liberal college world. Look at the fucking cunts teaching these colleges now. The men are all communist cucks, and aren’t getting any at home, so having a student with skills in bed? Pass pass pass!
10/13/24: "Summa Come Laude," printed on the diplomas (protected against bad weather on graduation days by being wrapped in unfurled condoms).
Supposedly her charm, youth and lovely laugh .... And some gentleman professors who were susceptible to thar sort of thing
I live in Western Wisconsin near the Minnesota border. We have had no less than four people knock on our door handing out Trump leaflets. I’ve assured all four that we will be voting on election day and voting for Trump. I have never in my life seen this many people Canvas like they are doing this year. The only thing that makes me sad is they should have a better record of recording which houses have been hit so they don’t waste their time coming back again and again.
Funny that. I live a few miles south of you, signs for Dem candidates outnumber Republicans five or six to one. I see canvassers daily walking around with Dem candidate literature, most of 'em are at least 50 if not 60 years old (I'm 76) so the disparity must be something to do with rural vs. not-so-rural perhaps?
Whatever the case, I'm voting straight Republican once again this year, just like in 2020 and in 2016. I graduated high school in 1967, voted Democrat until McCarthy got screwed at Chicago.
THAT showed me how things were going to be from then on and I'm sad to say "I could have told you so!" even then.
Grifters, all of 'em.
Which of you lives in or near LaCrosse, out of curiosity? I understand that part of Wisconsin is heavily Democrat, but I don't understand the reason.
I am due East of St. Paul. When I moved here in 2006, the area was 75% conservative. We even had a local newspaper that was decent and fairly balanced. Now, it’s more 50-50 and it will fall to the way of MN if people don’t wake up soon.
10/13/24: Bad habit. And dead people voting.
Agrred
+1 Exactly.
Long ago, Kamala was a pretty girl with a law degree. That pretty much sums up everything the woman has going for her, all past tense by the way.
In all my 58 + years, I have never before seen someone so incapable occupying such a large stage.
"the many agency blobsters who fear prison . . . and the perfidious politicians who fear the judgment of history."
I'll say it again: Nothing is going to happen to any of these people. We're 20 years out from the war crimes of the Bush/Cheney regime, viewed by Democrats back then as analogous to Vader and the Emperor; not only do they continue to walk free, they actually ENDORSED this election's hapless Democrat candidate. If that isn't evidence they're all on the same team, I don't know what is.
I'm willing to wait and see if Trump is truly the reformer his supporters claim. But if elected, the moment he names the first swamp creature to his cabinet—like he did the first time around—I'll be here to say I told you so.
It's true that nothing gets done, but only as long as the uniparty swamp creatures are in control. Trump has had 4 long, hard years to put together a game plan to enact a 4th turning in politics, one that has the seeds of hope for our country; one not dependent on the military industrial complex model that has corrupted everything we supposedly stand for. The leaders are ready to fulfill their roles. The question is whether Trump has the wisdom and fortitude to see it through.
Trump has more common sense and cojones than the entire rest of the Deep State. That is why they cannot stop him. Even in the courts, the Media is having a ball raising all the Jack Smith bullshit, but nothing is going to stick. Trump must have learned how to “Teflon” from Reagan, another one that was smarter than his Deep State.
He is the Deep State candidate now. They set up poor Kammy on 60 Minutes, asking her real questions. He will take us into Iran. Down in Hell, McCain is still singing, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb
Bomb Bomb Iran
You are so wrong, Jarek.
Devil’s advocate time Lugh, Think about this.
Putin is meeting with Iran’s president right now.
The USA backs Israel and the Russians back Iran. Iran is becoming isolated in the MIddle East trying to take control. Against Israel, Iran is incapable of winning. Israel will not attack Iran. So what to do?
I wonder if talks are not going on between all parties to stop the idiocy and settle the situation. After the Obama/Biden fiasco, Israel is not going to trust the USA much any more. So what to do? Get the Abraham accords settled, get Iran into the process, Russia pushing both and get the whole Middle East into BRICS+ including Israel. The USA sucks at foreign policy, this would serve it right. The motivation for my thought is that Israel will not defeat Iran, but will tear up their proxies. Iran cannot beat Israel as the current situation is showing. So their choice is endless war, mutual destruction or both to have a common enemy - USA.
Fuckin' A.
Well it seems that perhaps the polarization and the kabuki theatre of election antics does very well at keeping the pitchfork folks fighting the torch folks as the overlords smile. A system of suffocating military/intelligence/surveillance/global capitalism is on the doorstep. We would be best served by knowing where the problem is originating however the cognitive dissonance permeates the culture….top to bottom. As a result we are left to wander within the ruse of participatory politics. No one resident of 1600 Pennsylvania is coming to save us. Unless we can generate a bonafide anti-aggression(war) party then It may be the only way to topple the death merchants ….that drive the empire….. is a revolt by the many across the globe who have suffered under the benevolence of rules based order or humanitarian intervention or democracy building.
We pissed away generations of talent by having psychopaths toil away behind the scenes ….with unlimited resources….creating new ways to pillage and plunder. Wrapped in a perverse blanket of morality and labelled as defense we have wandered well into the abyss.
Same. I'm about as cynical as it gets. I just see a big clown show with 2 clowns running. One is a glorified Sarah Palin and the other a carnival barker. There is no one who represents the average American.
Glorified Sarah Palin? At least Palin had some executive experience as the governor of Alaska. Carnival Barker? Hey, how would you do competing in the real estate market as a developer in the corrupt world of NYC and come out a winner.
Let's hear more about Operation Warp Speed and his push to vaccinate the populace. He still brags about it, so I guess he's proud of his work there. Oh wait: He was LIED to. He was SUCKERED. So let's elect him again, so that he can be duped by the same deep state he claims to want to do away with? Erm. OK. What about the neocons he put in his cabinet? He didn't know they were bad? So far, looks like I'm smarter than Trump as I wouldn't have been duped into either of these two things.
You are proof that hindsight is 20/20. You will notice that those folks that he hired, he fired when they exposed themselves. I agree that he allowed himself to be distracted by the impeachments and appointed Pence to run the Covid effort. it WAS a mistake the appoint Fauci as it turns out as he was not the solution but the culprit. Trump has always delegated and did forget the buck stopped at the Oval Office. But putting Pence in charge was a major blunder as he was coming under the influence of the RINOs with the election approaching. His, Pence, betrayal came later, maybe later? Pence+Fauci=disaster.
No. It's not hindsight. I knew these things already, but Trump did not? Not buying it. Sorry!
Does The Fake Mary Rose have better sense?
Asks Jonesy Not-So-Smart.
Make my point for me why don't you. 😂
Meh. I think it's obvious enough by the likes I got on my comment that pests like you are for swatting, and not much else.
You can "like" your own comment as much as you want, but it doesn't make it any more valid.
Yeah, both of them.
Sir you want the "swamp creatures" right next to you? Keep your enemies closer
So you think "drain the swamp" actually means to FILL the swamp with your enemies to "keep an eye on them"? That's next-level self delusion right there.
Lol...you have to investigate them and their networks before you can remove them? Chess not Checkers !
Still reading the Q posts, I see. Still waiting for those magical "White Hats" to finish the job.
There are a couple of Qanons up here doing their village idiot acts. What's great is, you can block them. Then them and their White Dunce Hats go bye-bye.
WTF are you on about, troll?
It's up to me and you to finish the job? Trump needs our support. Our elections are rigged and fake. 1 day voting, ID and paper ballots hand counted!
Fine and dandy. But if he gets in, watch what he does, not what he says. That's all I'm saying.
Would 1 day voting have worked if Hurricane Milton hit Florida on election day?
There is a remedy here. As many are going to do: Don’t vote.
“and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us”. This is exactly how they believe and what they are doing. It’s been evident for a long time. If you push back, well, they will shut you up one way or another. Just watch what has been going on for years and What do you think you are going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?
EXACTLY! They are spitting in our faces and giving us the double middle finger salute just by putting up these execrable candidates- FJB and Kamala.
They are so sure that they can cheat their way to "winning" this election that it didn't matter to them who they ran for office. I don't know which choice was more brazen, the dementia patient in the basement or the cheap whore of color.
Not to mention the traitors and incompetents that are on Trump's team, pretending to be working for him. If the election is stolen, there are many of them that are to be blamed.
You point out a real problem. When Trump started in 2017, he was one against the Deep State and the Deep State found so many different ways to blunt his impact.
This time he has a few folks that have challenged the Deep State and have joined him, on his side. Last time it was almost exclusively his family, and they paid for it. This time, I just do not know if he has the support to do much more, even if the GOP takes the Congress. Why? Because the real situation in congress is that the alignment of the two parties today make it so that the congress really has no majorities as all the different priorities do no allow any real domination that is required to exact change. That is why the congress is worthless.
Emerald Robinson is all over Twitter/X claiming that the RNC including Lara Trump, Whatley and some of their top people are not doing anything about election integrity and trying to stop the Steal.
If the election was held today and there was no cheating, there absolutely no doubt that Pres. Trump would win in landslide.
The most important thing that the Trump Team has to work on is stopping the flood of fraudulent BALLOTS that they are going to inject into the system unless the RNC wakes the hell up.
This is the most effective group out there and they have put together all the data that shows exactly where the bad ballots are and how to stop them. This is URGENT.
https://www.stopbogusballots.com/
You are right. Election fraud of any source is a felony, if anyone can find a judge that will enforce the law.
They're trying. There is a small army of lawyers fanned out across the swing states doing whatever they can to stop the steal in 2024. It's very difficult to stop leftists governors and secretaries of state from allowing bad actors to inject fraudulent ballots into the system.
Illegals are being registered to vote, and the bad actors are voting on their behalf. The leftist state leaders likely just look the other way, with the excuse of plausible deniability. They know it's happening but don't do what needs to be done to stop it.
If you're really concerned, get involved at your local level by joining your local GOP party, door knocking, contributing money, etc. Join TrumpForce47.com Some of the media personalities do a great job of eliciting fear and anger, but without action on the part of civilian patriots, the real job of winning elections will not happen. I believe that there are hundreds of thousands of patriots doing what they can to stop the steal and secure a win for Donald Trump in 2024.
ez- you are correct in what you say about our efforts. I have been working in NY to try and clean up the rolls for the past couple of years and it is a daunting task.
It was discovered by one of our side's tech geniuses, Andrew Paquette, that there is some kind of algorithm implanted in the rolls, not just in NY but in other states as well. These algos make it almost impossible to detect the fraud but even so, they have found a tremendous number of phantom voters.
I hope that all of our efforts plus some Divine Intervention, will put our President Trump back in the White House.
I like that, "whore of color." That's a new one. You could put any description in there in front of "of color."
I still cannot believe that FJB has been allowed to remain in office, after his admission to bow out of the race. Not that Khmer Rouge Harris is any better, BTW. It's the principle of the thing.
"...or the cheap whore of color."
Nanny,
To be fair, and accurate, she was never cheap.
I love your reference to "The Death of Stalin". Unfortunately for America, I doubt that there a general in the armed services with the competence and prestige of Georgi Zhukov to pull off a successful coup. Note Zhukov's critical role in getting rid of the most malign character in the Politburo after Stalin's death. If, as JHK suggests, America could see a military takeover, are any of its military leaders actually capable of such an action?
Certainly, none at the top…
I highly doubt it. Obama got rid of anyone who might have been a threat. What you have now are careerists who only care about their careers and living la dolce vita.
The real problem in the military is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It requires all in uniform to obey LAWFUL orders only. I went through boot camp in 1971, which was after the My Lai event, and we all understood clearly that we must disobey unlawful orders.
It's hard to say how many NCOs and junior officers still embrace that tenet, but no senior or general officer with the sense God gave an ordinary rubber duck can rely on troops blindly obeying any order. I think there would be widespread mutiny if anything nefarious were to be attempted.
I believe the US government mandated covid shots for all military personnel knowing that the toughest of the bunch would refuse, thereby eliminating them as a source of internal resistance should said nefarious actions take place.
When in doubt, just think of Admiral Levine. Their presence negates our entire System and Way of Life. If
The minions of evil do not know they are evil. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! Kamala is a classic psychopath who has no clue she is a moron. I will always believe Trump won in 2016 because people were keeping their mouths shut and lying to the pollsters so the Dims believed they were a shoe in but also they didn't know how much to cheat. This time they will pull out the stops and even if there are more votes than we have population they will swell up in indignation and ask, 'waddayagonnadoaboutit?'
I can’t help but wonder if they don’t care that the stealing/cheating is obvious. They can act with impunity. After all, they have stuffed all government agencies with their agents and have no respect for that old rag the constitution. They own the USofA now. The mission is complete.
They do think they have it wrapped up. However, what they have no clue about is that they are not really in control. I am a realist. I prefer tough truth over sweet lies any day. However, I also know that there is a grander plan and while I am ever watchful with eyes wide open, I am not discouraged. They can kill my body but not my soul. I think we are truly on the brink of major change, one way or the other. I am prepared emotionally, physically and spiritually. I just posted in my substack regarding this phenomenal statistic that most Christians do not vote. This baffles me.
I have all manner of Christian friends and relatives - from Latin Mass Catholics to Southern Baptist. Trust me, they all vote.
Good to hear!
On brink of major change for sure! The drumming of words such as The Great Reset... New Golden Age...BRICS (replacing dollar)...CBDC (replacing dollar)...One World Order (UN AGENDA 2030) Rule...Replacing our Constitution with a Digital Constitution...🥁🥁🥁ing getting more intense, louder.
True. They are following their playbook "Rules for Radicals". Do the dirty deed, then worry about the consequences later. Don't think they worry much though, with WEF, Soros, Clinton Foundation & Global elites all having their backs.
No she is not a psychopath. Look up the definition. Now 'Son of Sam' that was a psychopath. Psychopaths are not a problem. They are too crazy to do much damage.
It's the sociopaths you have to be worried about. And the DC government at its higher levels is full of them. As are the (mainly) Democrat state governors.
It's a rare sociopath who is a moron. Maybe none.
I do think you are right in your conjecture that evil persons do not know they are evil. This is one of the biggest contradictions in human affairs.
Love your writing, Jim, but you have REALLY got to stop with the talking and dreaming of prison for any of these gormless clowns running our imperial gaslighting authoritarian government. It isn’t going to happen. Not a single person will face a single minute of prison or a single dime of wealth forfeiture, because they’ve rigged the system to escape accountability - or so that accountability is now a thing that isn’t even considered at all. Don’t forget that some of histories worst mass murderers - Pol Pot, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh etc. - died peacefully at home. You really think a bunch of gormless warmongering liar bureaucrats are gonna get tried and sent to a supermax? Not a chance.
One small quibble, not disagreeing with you, not at all.
Did any of you know we had one of the world's greatest heros quietly hiding here in America?
I saw a picture of her humble home with a dirt driveway in small town in Wisconsin. She was checking her mailbox and glaring at the camera- some jerkoff drove by so he could get a picture and post it on social media.
I speak to you of one of the most noble women who has ever lived: Stalin's daughter.
I think her name was Anna.
It was she who blocked the door to his office for 10 hours as he strangled to death on his own tongue, his face turning black as he lay paralyzed on his own desk. She resolutely refused entry to any and all officers, making sure that no rescue would come until the monster, her father, was dead.
Such steel! Such justice! Surely she deserves a shrine and a statue befitting a hero of mankind.
Yes, As a native Wisconsinite, I knew about her living somewhere around here years ago.
Nonsense. Stalin’s daughter’s name was Shetland. She was a very troubled soul, and didn’t have the kind of power to be able to prevent anyone from entering Stalin’s office. By the time of his death, their relationship was already shaky, following Stalin many disappointments with his unstable daughter.
Yes, but hell is forever. No water in hell, no rest, no mercy of any kind, no light, just darkness, torment and screaming, the endless nonstop screaming of all those trapped in it for eternity. That's what's waiting for them.
My mother has been a lifetime JFK Democrat, and to this day does not understand how the party that she was partial to morphed into the party that it has become. I believe there are millions of JFK Democrats, who still believe that their party will miraculously drift back into what it once was. And for that reason continue to support their party.
Maybe it is very difficult to admit that you are wrong. It is hard to admit that the government is an evil agency comprised of evil people instead of their economic tit full of benevolent people.
Spot on, i see it all the time here in the islands, they just dont get it
"That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for."
Modern Americans are cowards, by and large it seems. We talk a big game, but our comforts are too great to lose. "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." The government is bankrupting us and flooding the country with millions of barbarians. Our currency is worthless, our economy is stagnant and probably shrinking, our so-called leaders are now breaking the fourth wall, our enemies are rehearsing in their own version of the Spanish Civil War and armed to the teeth, and our children's minds are being poisoned daily. Anyways, did you watch baseball playoffs last night?
If you’ve decided your currency is worthless, please send it all to me and I’ll try to find something worthwhile to spend it on.
Americans are mostly cowards but they are also mostly spoiled. Gas prices go up 20 cents a gallon and they are livid, demanding some politician’s head on a stick. Because God’s will is that gas should be dirt-cheap. I think that’s in the Bible.
No thank you. My cash is spent on ever more expensive goods and is better used feeding my infant and children the cost of which, by the way, has not jumped but pole vaulted (by design) in price between my first and most recently born. To my enthusiastic enjoyment, my creepy Uncle, Sam, who checks my web history and looks ay my texts over my shoulder, still takes much my worthless money. He does this despite knowing the fed can simply make more appear as if by magic. At any rate, do you remember when people were demanding heads on a stick over two shilling for a pound of tea? As I recall the cheap tea bit is in the old testament, so the cheap dinosaur squeezings must be in the new.
On a completely unrelated note do they still teach hyperbole in school?
In my neck of the woods, gas prices are down about 55 cents per gallon from where they were this time last year. Are we allowed to praise the powers that be for that deflation, or are we only allowed to whine like fourth-graders when the price goes up?
All true revolutions are started by a few patriots with the flame of freedom in their hearts.
"now breaking the fourth wall"
This is golden.
I do wonder if an adequate response can be attained in adequate time.
Tripp, could you elaborate on “the fourth wall” ?
According to my AI assistant, The fourth wall is an imaginary wall that separates the audience from the actors in a performance.
So we are all being brought into the fray?
My (bad, I guess) analogy is that in many ways they are not pretending any longer or at least are badly keeping up appearances. The mask and the gloves are off. The irreality we are presented is becoming common knowledge (in the sense that you know that I know, I know you know that I know and so on) regarding the production the 'blob' is putting on.
Not a bad analogy at all. I got it as soon as I read it. Beautiful.
I think the Peter Principle needs a female archetype to enact it for historical reference. This drunken halfbreed hyena of a high speed train wreck oughta do the trick!
And it shows Kamala to be the lowlife she is that she, recognizing their using of her, doesn't protest but prefers that to being the nobody she deserves to be. She's the embodiment of the Peter Principle.
The problem that Kamala Harris presents, as it relates to the Peter Principle, is that she rose to a level of incompetence several iterations back.
Indeed, but turds tend to float
That is precisely what Khrushchev cracked when one of his underlings queried him about the promotion of a bumbling nobody to a high post.
(Presuming present company excepted.)
As opposed to Donald Trump, that paragon of accomplishment?
there's no comparison; get real
A very helpful, illuminating remark, Aelred. Thanks for it.
Why would she protest being used this way!? She's laughing all the way to the bank! When 'they' ensure her free ride to the Presidency...she will end gas powered vehicle use. Will force Lithium battery powered vehicles on us, then she & hubby will rake in mega more millions than they already have when their Lithium stocks that they are invested in 'skyrocket'.🚀
Good one!
Seems like most of the Dems who wish to be POTUS in the near term want Kamalama Ding Dong to crash and burn. The logic is simple - if she wins, her administration will be a chaotic nightmare, but she would run for re-election with virtually no chance of success, pushing out the Shapiro, Newsome and other Democratic POTUS candidates to 2032, at which time they would face an incumbent Republican with a newly revised electoral map, minimizing the chance of Democratic success. They certainly prefer a Harris failure today giving them a chance to run in 2028 against someone other than Trump.
Yes, but can the cadre of criminals risk what may come of their fate over the next four years? I believe that is the thrust of James missive.
They seem to have the judicial system locked up so maybe they aren't are worried about retrobution as they are about losing power and therefore money.
I agree with you. I don’t believe this talk about being so scared they can’t think straight. I do believe they are concerned about Trump getting back into the WH. He will go scorched earth on them. He has a lot on them but I think their arrogance won’t allow them to even consider it. They’ve got this and continue to laugh at him over dinner and wine. Only the very best of course.
Classic arrogant delusion. The upside is that is often the thing that does in those who believe they are little g gods.
Do not forget that the bueaucracy runs DC and just laughs at the elected officials. It will take as many years to undo the Deep State mess as it took to form it, 36 years, as the bureaucracy has to be brought back to balance through attrition. The Left has had 36 years, thanks to the Bush Boys and the RINOs, to distort the government to where it is today.
The greatest problem of all is that we don't have 36 years.
Demographic overload is conquest and erasure of our kind, our potential, our future AND our past.
Yes, the Kalergi Plan meets Cloward-Piven.
Yup, and the continuation of The Long Emergency.
Frankly my dear, I don't believe The Donald has a scorched earth bone in his body. Or huevos. If he had had some huevos in 2020, he'd have stopped the Steal.
It is difficult to get a clear "read" on many, or even ANY of their actions.
I recall in 2020, some guy on the street came up to Biden, questioning him about something (I do not recall any of that) ... I DO remember Biden telling the guy, he knew he was not going to win the election. It was that clear even at this moment in 2020.
Biden has been in mental decline for years. He hardly knows where he is.
agree. My husband worked for many many years at defense and the pentagon.
My hubbs won some award (twice actually) for doing some great job. "The Federal 100"
Yeah, nice dinner, and a big heavy award to dust or throw at someone, All kinds of political people go to those things just for the free dinner, comedy speaker.
Biden was at one of those dinners. I met him at this gigantic desserts table. He creeped me out so much. I knew it was him and ugh I kept my distance. He was there leering at women.
This does not surprise me in the least.
Ya know I kept asking a question no one else seemed to consider during the Ashley diary debaucle. Where was Jill when her husband was taking showers with their preteen daughter? Was she unaware? Really? Where was the mother?
He does have some high functioning moments I've noticed.
He is actually pretty accomplished at pedophilia.
he is a sick sick dirty old man. Arrogant and repulsive.
Don't forget he's accomplished at licking ice cream cones.
Thanks for stating the obvious.
They have managed to do so for the past 10 years. I remember reading that the reason they let Trump in, in 2016, was because they thought Hillary Clinton's secrets were out. But then they were able to do damage control on them. I'm not even sure which secrets they were. It might be hearsay. But Clinton threw a massive hissy, that is well-documented, and she was told she'd be installed, and it was changed at the last minute. This is why I see this all as theater. Also, her hubs is the one who asked Trump to run in the first place. They ran in the same circles and their daughters are besties. I am not convinced that Trump is against them.
TRMR. Ask Diddy what he knows about Cankles’ extra curricular, and outside the box, activities. If you can get a frank response it will make a donkey puke.
If that ever got out - whoo hooooo. I wonder how with so many people involved, we still can't get video! That is amazing to me. I think though, it exists, and hopefully someday it'll get out. I think that's why they were so quick to speed up "deep fakes" then CONDEMN it so that when the real thing gets out they can claim they are all deep fakes.
TRMR. Very likely. Similar to the harvesting of Adrenochrome by heads of state and the old Monarchical families still ruling. Child trafficking writ large.
Trump’s power is derived from MAGA, his populist base. The Deep State hates the control the ballot box holds over them. Trump thrives in that environment. Clinton hates it and they will never agree on that.
"newly revised electoral map"
God, but you're hopeful. Good luck with that.
I love your nickname for the Kameltoe! Brilliant.
"It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world."
Oh, Jim, you give Kamala WAY too much credit. I doubt she is self-aware enough for it to even register.
She may be the hollowest person ever to run for president. There's just no there there. She makes that piece of puffery Barack Obama look profound by comparison.
Puffery cannot look as arrogant and miserable as Obama. Just looking at Kamala's facial, neck, and shoulder tension makes me want to go to a chiropractor. Killary's face is nothing if not A Masque of Misery. And don't forget Ben Bartee's classic, "The Physical Decay of War Pig Victoria Nuland Is Truly Shocking":
https://thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/the-physical-decay-of-war-pig-victoria-nuland-is-truly-shocking/
These fuckers are the poster children of mental illness.
"32 days...32 days...32 days...".
[Some time later]
"Who fucked with my teleprompter?".
HRC awaits like a Vampire at the bloodbank
See a doctor for your HDS.
I almost feel bad for them, you know, except for all the evil.
Never feel bad for them- they want to kill us.
You can never hate these people enough.
I don't.
I feel sorry for them. So shallow, arrogant, trying to stay puffed up in their hollow shells & living in darkness. God says to let Him have the revenge. Their day is coming, like ours, to stand before the Lord.
And why aren't actions taken by a mortal manifestations of God's revenge?