"As was absolutely everything about the George Floyd riots of 2020, Wokery-in-action, with the torching of cities, the looting flash-mobs, and the tearing down of statues honoring American heroes..."
All funded by George Soros, augmented with radicalization propaganda pushed through free Obama phones and his radio stations. The entire monstrous plot was orchestrated to ignite latent forgotten resentments and hatreds in order to ruthlessly rip America apart. In Seattle during this time there was at least one radio station whose sole purpose was to enrage the black community. All it played were news events from history where whites either killed or caused injustice to them. This was before and during CHAZ/CHOP and likely played a big role in its coming to be.
How do I know? I was there. I went to CHAZ, and during driving over a week-long period to and from Seattle, I listened to that malicious hate spewing radio station, and it all became clear: We are being played and mercilessly divided:
The globablists' have successfully weaponized (and dramatically magnified) the Red vs Blue, East vs West, Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed, Boy vs Girl, Gay vs Straight, Brown vs White, and Pro-Life vs Choice dichotomies to exploit our innate tribal nature, and in doing so are dividing and conquering us. This us-vs-them separation makes us easy to control and direct with simple angry thoughts about the enemy who isn’t really our enemy - while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings. If we could collectively recognize this for what it is the NWO wouldn’t stand a chance.
The globalists now have the technology to do away with the left versus right control grid, and so they’re angling in for full control at an individual level: from the inside out. In order to build a new system, you must first destroy the old one, and oh boy, are they destroying. Actually, they are filling our minds with hatred for one another so that we will destroy it ourselves.
These forces we are up against cannot be overcome if we keep allowing them to divide and conquer us. We must let go of our pride and our resentments for one another - which were instilled in us through their psychological operations - and unite together or we stand no chance.
Our adversaries know this, which is why they've been fighting tooth and nail to poison the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family—they've been doing everything they can to decimate the ties that bind by disintegrating every trace of common ground and brotherhood between us.
Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology.
They do not stand a chance against the united, undivided resolve of even a small percentage of us—and they know it. This is the reason they are frantically fighting and sparing no expense to keep us depressed, oppressed, divided, demoralized, and traumatized. And so we will respond by uniting and taking back what is ours.
100 days have passed. By now a Democrat president would have arrested and jailed the puppeteers at the highest levels. America has until November 2026 to get moving on Soros and others who are responsible for the actions you describe. I don’t think we will see arrests and trials let alone convictions except for some low hanging fruit. Just look at the pre-election promises to release the Kennedys assassinations. A nothing burger.
Time to take matters into our own hands and get control of our local town councils, resources and destinies. Waiting for someone else to save us was always a fool's errand, no matter who or how grand the promises or intentions, and we fall for it every-time.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
We are the masters of our fate
And the captains of our souls
-William Ernest Henley
No one is coming to save us, except ourselves.
"Everyone is looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror." -A Lunatic
Your desire is great. My cynical side says that the American people are not ready for your answers, they are so dependent now on the elites that they have turned into a cultural no-man's land, a miasma of cultural crap that the concept of "American" no longer exists. The signs are everywhere, labels being not "I am an American", but I am a Black American, Mexican American, Irish American, or Chinese American. Let us remember the "White Supremicist American".
I think of the late 1700s when the FF did their thing. The East Coast was English, White and European and the founding documents were aimed at that population. Our diversified population since, especially in the 21st century, hates that documentation and the White people it represented as the common culture. Res Republica itself is under attack as each group wants its culture to be dominant. E Pluribus Unum is becoming a wink-wink joke as these groups try to project their power. The best evidence is the US Congress, the biggest group of political idiocy in our history. Is it any wonder they are viewed favorably by less than 20% of the people? With as many completely different groups that they represent, no wonder nothing ever gets done. Add on the fact that a bunch of ass-kissing, ambivalent, Whites that favor their own Deep State allegiance over representing their culture, and the "glue" that has made the USA work over the centuries is quickly leaving.
The result? Each group is segregating itself geographically and thus politically. The USA used to be a respite from European discord and separation, people came here to get away from European monarchies, feudalism and animosity. Now look at us, we have the president of the EU over the weekend calling the USA the bad guys, because why? Take a wild guess, Trump.
Balkanization is coming and fast if the Trump revolution does not take. The Left wants the separatist revolution, the ultimate division of the country. They are supported by China, Soros and his henchmen and the Rothschild groups. The Rothscilds have done it before, Britain, so they know what they are doing. It is up to the people of this country to stop this, the expansion of MAGA into a dominant majority to stop the traitors on the Left. If the geo-politics of America has destroyed that possibility, America as a unit, a common culture, is finished.
JohnAZ - thanks for the very insightful comments! I don’t think the ‘Trump revolution’ is going to take. Not being negative…just realistic. Wish I was wrong.
If it was going to work, it would have worked by now. Let's face it: The Blacks have said no. First they wanted no part of America, now they fantasize about ruling it. Time to send them away as Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, et al advised.
Too late for that? Give them a generous swathe of the Deep South to rule and ruin. The results would be hilarious. And yes, we would recoup all of that territory in time and not very much time at that.
I think it was the book "Please Stop Helping Us," by an American Black, which revealed that Ebonics is actually degenerate WHITE culture from Wales and Ireland from early 20th century immigration. Their kids attended white schools and assimilated. But the Blacks think incompetence resentment poor language criminality are "Black culture," and that Blacks with class are betraying their race. The remedy is to get rid of LBJ's legacy, Affirmative Action, which is AGAINST THE LAW and results in this horrible culture. Blacks etc. need EQUAL OPPORTUNITY so they have incentive.
Yes, Lugh. my point exactly about the schism of America. Blacks are just one of the folks that would prefer leaving the USA. Latinos, Muslims and Chinese(Asians) follow too. The only problem is that when the problems leave, they will very quickly be clamoring to re-join as they fail. Refusal to re-join would have to be part of the secession deal. We agree.
You can play your role to prevent this from happening. Don't despair. Don't give up. Don't retire. This is YOUR moment in History to help improve the mess. Every little bit you do advances our righteous cause.
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams, American Founding Father
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison, American Founding father.
The debate about the supernatural should have been settled thousands of years ago. It’s unfalsifiable in reality, it doesn't exist, and you can't prove a negative. But here we are still. Bogged down because of the influence of ancient religions.
Having a hope in God does not make God real. I'll never understand when people deny the true power of their own free will.
"May God Bless you and may God bless America!" Why? What kind of God would bless a Nation providing F-35's and their 2,000lb bombs to a mass-murderer to drop on hospitals and refugee camps? And let the mass-murderer meet with its leader in its sacred office?
Wow. Someone is angry at God or has daddy issues. Time to grow up.
Yes, we do have free will. And God gave it to us. That's why we make mistakes and why bad things happen. Compare America to other countries that deny God and I think you'll see a big difference in their success and prosperity. Something helped make America a great Country. Why haven't others been as fortunate?
"American Exceptionalism" that overlooks that American history is morally flawed because of its dealing with Native Americans, slavery, civil rights, and social welfare problems that it cannot be an exemplar of virtue.
Compare America to any other countries that deny God and I know that you'll see that they are just as successful and prosperous. How many countries have you lived in? You are the one who needs to grow up!
*An adjective that describes someone who treats others as if they are less important or intelligent.
Ask your Maori and other indigenous people about taking lands and colonizing. 🍆
BTW... we don't claim to be perfect, but we try to fix our wrongs. People risk their lives to come here. New Zealand? Other former British Colonies? Not so much.
I've also heard of a similar expression, something like, 'Never wrestle with a pig. You will get dirty and they will enjoy it.'.
Once in awhile, I like to thumb my nose at that kind of thing and see if I can enjoy it, myself, and even beat the pig at its own game. :D (Ask happy-face-sunflower-icon Ben about that.) :D
Our bus is stopped in this tiny town for about half an hour, in between Gisborne and Napier, and I notice a sheep on the loose, so I decide to chase it so I can pet it or maybe even see if it has an address on some tag or something so I can maybe bring it home or at least tie it up somewhere, but it just keeps running away. My companion tells me later that the bus driver and a couple of passengers were wondering what I thought I was trying to do. Maybe catch it, skin and gut it, cook it and eat it! I wish I had my rollerblades!
So anyway, we get into Napier for an hour or so. It's a lovely Sunday or a holiday I forget, and kind of early morning and I still need new wheels and bearings for my rollerblades. It's a long shot, but I decide to put on my blades and blade into downtown. Lo and behold, I find a sports shop that is not only open but has freaking bearings and wheels! This is not long after going around Auckland (as far as I could) for them, to no avail. And so I have a good time in Whanganui smoothly blading all over with my new wheels and bearings for a few days around New Years.
There's not much that beats rollerblades if you like to travel around locally, fast, cheaply, conveniently and on the fly.
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Little Bo Peep: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of the Rhyme
You make a lot of good points. Where you and I may part company is in the use of the word supernatural. Typical definition - a manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. The "beyond scientific understanding" is the important part, as our scientific understanding of the universe is quite limited, so a lot of things deemed supernatural could be very real, we just don't understand them yet. Imagine a tribesman from deep in the Amazon woke up at the Rio airport - everything would appear to be "magic" or "god" to this person with no modern background.
One small example is the near death experiences of hospital patients who describe in great detail the toys and other knick knacks placed at the top of cabinets in hospital rooms, in places that can't be seen from the ground. Many books have been written of these experiences and hospitals continue to study the phenomena. Scientists have theorized about multiple dimensions for years - could this explain the NDE if we move into another dimension upon death? Who knows? But if our science gets better we may know someday, and may be able to conduct good experiments to prove it.
This has nothing to do with religion (which I agree is mostly nonsense and about control) but has everything to do with the way the universe actually works and how we lowly humans fit into it, things we know very little about.
If evidence proving a specific "supernatural" phenomena is real were found, then definitionally that would just be natural. The term "supernatural" is fine for categorizing ideas of things that don't have any evidence of actual existence, like ghosts and God, but if your claim is that such things exist, not that they are merely ideas, then you should not be calling them "supernatural".
The question is, how could we find evidence or measure the supernatural? If we could, by logic and reason, it would be a natural event.
If you found evidence for the "supernatural" then you'd have to redefine that as natural. It would by default be a part of the natural world, even if it's a part we don't yet understand.
I'm sure when humans discovered magnetism it probably seemed like a supernatural force.
A misconception of science and personal incredulity based on ignorance of the science doesn't count as "supernatural evidence".
"Time to take matters into our own hands and get control of our local town councils, resources and destinies." ~ TriTorch
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"One thing I would say about the prospects for government action. Governments are crowds. They are reactive not proactive. And essentially it means that whatever they do, they're... extrapolating past trends forward and not anticipating trend changes. So that's like driving your car, flooring it, while only looking in the rear view mirror. It's practically a guarantee of a really nasty accident. Plus the people who are in power tend to have the most invested in the status-quo. They tend to have benefitted greatly from that. These are not the people you are going to look to to change that kind of system. I more or less ignore them and I pay attention to municipal politics and things at lower levels, but I don't expect anything good from the top down..." ~ Nicole Foss (over 10 years ago)
Except Trump was not a part of that "crowd". He was an outsider and at least for some of the people (citizens who bother to vote), some of the time, he has moved the Overton window.
There is also a percentage of people previously politically disengaged who are now engaged.
Isn't this worth paying attention to rather than just ignoring it?
That's in part why I pop in, Dunc. Foss' quote is just that, but I think I get its gist/her sentiment (at least at the time the quote was made). Of course it helps to pay attention to some things (and I imagine Foss does or she wouldn't have written about it) but maybe not too much where it gets in the way of one trying to get out of the way, such as of an impending accident, or whatever have you.
Governments are the people in charge. They are proactive, it's the people who are under government auspices that are reactive, some positively, other negatively. The government wraps the status quo in propaganda of progress while they continue to gather power and wealth.
"These are not the people you are going to look to to change that kind of system." ~ Nicole Foss
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The only hope some of us have in that regard, Cosmo T Kat, is precisely anarchy-- as per one or more of its definitions.
If you're happy with your own choice of definition for it, along with the 'nanny-state', that's your prerogative of course. Just don't make it ours-- you know, mandatory-- if we don't want it. That's how we get social unrest, wars and related.
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"The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not." ~ Joseph Sobran
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"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable..." ~ H.L. Mencken
Soros should be arrested for inciting anarchy, chaos and crime. He is treasonous and devoid of any true feelings towards those he pretends to be helping. Yet, he is hailed as a philanthropist and humanitarian. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has a Nazi mentality, psychopathic mind and is what one would call a philanthropath not a philanthropist.
It's not the wealth that is the inhibitor, it's the protection he gets from the politicians who've been bought off. Much of his wealth was enabled and protected by his backers in the City of London. He is their chaos merchant.
"Soros should be arrested for inciting anarchy..." ~ Cosmo T Kat
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"Anarchy is democracy taken seriously, as in Switzerland, where issues of national importance are decided by direct vote of all citizens. Where each citizen, after his period of military training, takes his weapon home with him, to keep for life. Anarchy is democracy taken all the way, in every major sector of social life. For example, political democracy will not survive in a society which permits a few to accumulate economic power over the many. Or in a society which delegates police and military power to an elite corps of professionals. Sooner or later the professionals will take over. In my notion of an anarchist community every citizen–man or woman–would be armed, trained, capable when necessary of playing the part of policeman or soldier. A healthy community polices itself; a healthy society would do the same. Looters, thugs, criminals may appear anywhere, anytime, but in nature such types are mutants, anomalies, a minority; the members of a truly democratic, anarchistic community would not require outside assistance in dealing with them. Some might call this vigilante justice. I call it democratic justice. Better to have all citizens participate in the suppression and punishment of crime–and share in the moral responsibility–than turn the nasty job over to some quasi-criminal type (or hero) in a uniform with a tin badge on his shirt. Yes, we need heroes. We need heroines. But they should serve only as inspiration and examples, not as leaders.
No doubt the people of today’s Lebanon, for example, would settle gladly for an authoritarian government capable of suppressing the warring factions. But such an authoritarian government would provoke the return of the irrepressible human desire for freedom, leading in turn to rebellion, revolt and revolution. If Lebanon were not so badly overpopulated, the best solution there–as in South Africa–would be a partition of territory, a devolution into self-governing, independent regions and societies. This is the natural tendency of any population divided by religion, race or deep cultural differences, and it should not be restrained. The tendency runs counter, however, to the love of power, which is why centralized governments always attempt to crush separatist movements.
Government is a social machine whose function is coercion through monopoly of power. Any good Marxist understands this. Like a bulldozer, government serves the caprice of any man or group who succeeds in seizing the controls. The purpose of anarchism is to dismantle such institutions and to prevent their reconstruction. Ten thousand years of human history demonstrate that our freedoms cannot be entrusted to those ambitious few who are drawn to power; we must learn–again–to govern ourselves. Anarchism does not mean 'no rule'; it means 'no rulers'. Difficult, but not utopian, anarchy means and requires self-rule, self-discipline, probity, character."
~ Edward Abbey, Theory of Anarchy, 1988, The Anarchist Library,
That's never been true. Anarchy is violence to achieve goals that suit particular ideologies of disparate groups often just a few individuals. It does not suggest democracy, at all. What you describe above has some resemblance to the purpose of the U.S. Constitution when first written. We are supposed to be a constitutional Republic based on democratic principals. This ideal seems to have been discarded in favor of changing values that suit some, but not all citizens. Democracy tends to lead to tyranny. It's been said, that Democracy has been called the worst form of government, except for all others which have been tried. We tried Constitutional Republic and it has worked, but as we devolve into Democracy instead, the breakdown is obvious as is the tyranny. anarchism in the form of BLM and antifa has been active, and this will not lead to more democracy, but as you state, "Government is a social machine whose function is coercion through monopoly of power. Any good Marxist understands this" and this is what Democracy in America is devolving into and anarchy plays a vital part. Multiculturalism, DEI, and dual citizenship is breaking the social fabric which is hanging by a weak thread.
"Anarchy is a form of society without rulers. As a type of stateless society, it is commonly contrasted with states, which are centralized polities that claim a monopoly on violence over a permanent territory. Beyond a lack of government, it can more precisely refer to societies that lack any form of authority or hierarchy. While viewed positively by anarchists, the primary advocates of anarchy, it is viewed negatively by advocates of statism, who see it in terms of social disorder.
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During the Age of Enlightenment, philosophers began to look at anarchy in terms of the 'state of nature', a thought experiment used to justify various forms of hierarchical government. By the late 18th century, some philosophers began to speak in defence of anarchy, seeing it as a preferable alternative to existing forms of tyranny. This lay the foundations for the development of anarchism, which advocates for the creation of anarchy through decentralisation and federalism. " ~ Wikipedia
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"Multiculturalism, DEI, and dual citizenship is breaking the social fabric which is hanging by a weak thread." ~ Cosmo T Kat
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DEI is via your State engineering, and you are being engineered as its product, by the way, which has little to do with anarchy as I offer it.
I believe that I am accusing the powers that be for the crimes and merely point out the Democrats are aggressive and the Republicans are weak kneed. You sound hysterical.
You are not alone. Many of us are turning more cynical. We are getting snippets of positive which tends to be overwhelmed by bigger events. For example DOGE got everyone excited and for the last 60 days plus, not much new. Why? On the international scene, it's the same cabal leading us into wars for Israel and the Zionists. This helps us not at all, but it enriches the bankers.
Dem vs. GOP is ignorance. It has been obsolete for a decade or more.
Right now two parties: Liberal ult-Left vs. MAGA. The ult-Left want their government control of everything (Deep State) and MAGA wants the Deep State destroyed. IMO, two new parties by 28.
Trump, unfortunately, never fails to disappoint. What, looking at both terms, has he done for people, say, with less $500,000 in assets? Precious little. How about not taxing labor, and particularly tips? No, can’t do that.
Too many self-serving RINO's on the GOP side this is why they always fail. They are more comfortable taking bribes, and participating in corruption lining their pockets to care about the country.
Have you ever seen a tax that the Left does not like? Look and Scandinavia, the "Happy Lands", cradle to grave. No wonder they are happy, they never have the anxiety of taking risks, or being independent. They just make their wages, give the vast majority of it to the government, and the government takes care of them. No problems?
Just think, if everyone was so happy, why is there a Minnesota? Scandinavia, West?
Socialist Countries dominate the top positions in the latest World Happiness Report.
The US ranks a lowly 24th.
“The decline in the U.S. in 2024 was partly attributable to Americans younger than age 30 feeling worse about their lives....... Today’s young people In America report feeling less supported by friends and family, less free to make life choices and less optimistic about their living standards.
Must be your tinnitus, Dennis. I provide you with evidence and sense. You respond 'Fuck off'.
US deaths weren't caused by a virus. Dr Denis Rancourt knocked that one on the head years ago. They were caused by the 'countermeasures' to a non-existent pandemic.
Try not to scream hysterically, Dennis. Just read the evidence and remember that even old people can learn new information if they are willing to put their ego aside.
For the past two and a half years, U.S. hospitals have routinely screened newly admitted patients for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Hospitals report every SARS-CoV-2 positive patient who dies in the hospital as a COVID-19-related death. -08/31/22 12:30
The statistics for covid 19 death are completely biased wrong as a result for a two-year period.
The screening was meaningless, because (a) the PCR process is not a diagnostic test, as repeated loudly and often by its Nobel-laureate inventor, Dr Kary Mullis) and (b) because they weren't screening for a real thing. It's possible that there was some radiation poisoning or chemical poisoning in certain key locations (e.g. New York or Bergamo) to create the illusion of a deadly pandemic, but there is no evidence of the existence of the SARS-Cov-2 virus (or indeed of any other virus). The deaths are easily all accounted for by:
1. hospital and care-home death protocols (ventilators, Remdesivir, Midazolam/morphine, isolation, withdrawal of care, withdrawal of food and fluids, blanket DNAR notices meaning ambulances would not take sick patients who needed to go to hospital.
2. withdrawal of care in the community: halving of antibiotic prescriptions, people actively discouraged from seeking medical help or afraid to do so:
3. depression, mental illness, biological stress and suicides brought on by lockdown; physical illness and death caused by biological stress (see work of Canadian scientist, Dr Denis Rancourt).
Honestly, Ben, when you read how virologists claim to 'isolate' viruses - something I didn't even look into until about a year ago - to call it witch-doctor medicine would be an insult to witch doctors.
I hope you will be interested enough to look, Ben. Most people are terrified of the logical consequences of finding out that 'the authorities' have lied to them.
Jessica Hockett has written extensively on the New York supposed crisis in particular.
Only the most honest are willing to go the full distance and look at the clear evidence that the thing was faked from start to finish.
And they're surely going to do it again very soon with a fake 'bird flu' pandemic either in the autumn or next year - Moderna have been building plants all over the place to develop ever more toxic mRNA 'vaccines'.
The only way to be totally resilient to their lies is to learn the truth about virology. There has NEVER been a pandemic of a respiratory illness. For 1918 flu, see Rosenau experiments, which proved that the illness was neither infectious nor contagious. There's a reason why schoolchildren were never taught about Dr Rosenau's experiments or about the UK's Common Cold Unit, which was established in 1947 and closed its doors in 1989, having failed to demonstrate that colds or flu transmit from sick to healthy people.
See Daniel Roytas' recent book 'Can you catch a cold? Untold history and human experiments'.
You bounce around this board insulting people and saying they are 'just a bit stupid', then you complain when anyone responds to you as you deserve. Look at the posts above. Yours ends with 'I can hear SheilaB screaming, all the way down hear in NZ', even though I have never 'screamed' at you, internet style, at any point. Unlike you, I have never told you to 'fuck off', which you did merely in reponse to some factual information (you also told me to take my meds).
I have given you information that you are afraid to engage with and that you are threatened by because of your religious zealotry, as explained elsewhere. It is an extremely dangerous religious zealotry, since it's likely to take the rest of us down with you. The only way to stop the approaching juggernaut of evil technocracy is mass non-compliance. And we have a pussy like you who is obsessed with other people's religious beliefs instead of doing something useful in that regard.
There is nothing nasty or rude or insolent (insolent - seriously, who do you think you are, Dennis?) in my post above. I suggested you not scream hysterically, mirroring YOUR use of the 'screaming' trope.
You seem to be an admirer of Goebbels' advice to accuse your opponent of what you are doing yourself. I'm not trying to catch bees, Dennis, I'm just putting you back in your box when you get too far out of line.
You are an extremely unpleasant and thoroughly hypocritical and dishonest individual, Dennis. I'm not the only one to point it out. And I'll keep pointing it out unless you behave better. Try to improve, as OG rightfully suggested.
Ho, ho, Dennis. Did it. The last sentence is “feeding your own inflated self-assessment”. Were you looking in a mirror when you wrote this? If anyone on this blog fits this description, it is you and your constant barrage of atheistic and socialistic bullshit. With you I do not have to defend myself, I do not continuously tear people down to feed my ego, like you do.
If anyone on this one needs professional care, it is you. Try a priest as a starter.
Do those your priests like to diddle old men's penis's too John? LOLs
I do not continuously tear people down to feed my ego my friend. Way too old for that. My ego without your God and your constant barrage of anti-socialism diatribes is fabulous!
Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be mocked. Religions deserve to be mocked. I don't mock people for being religious. I do however mock those who insist their personal religion is exempt from mockery.
Pointing out inconsistencies, or problems with an argument, only becomes “tearing people down” when addressing religious folk who are insecure about their believes. Because I do not believe in God, I am a "fallen human being?" Damn Christians are arrogant. The one I get the biggest laugh out of is ....."Well, fuck it then! I just know you are going to hell!" LOL
I love when people are like, “Atheists are so arrogant and smug!” when atheists are trying to be rational and civil with another theist. Atheists don't constantly tell theists that they will be eternally tortured for their beliefs. Who's being more vitriolic? Me, or you, my friend?
Christianity 101. If you can’t give evidence for your beliefs, attack the person who doesn’t believe you.
Yes, that is the duty of a nation's elite: To protect the people and provide security. They succeeded in that until they went crazy and started bringing in the scum of the third world like we do. The more dangerous and difficult the better, right? Have us compete with coolies, right?
You never start at the level of Principle, that why you end up speaking nonsense. You can't avoid philosophy. It comes before economics.
Not the purpose of the Elite, the purpose of the government. Keeping the Elite out of the government might make it more to your liking. The Elite do not give one damn about the people.
Philosophy sets the scene, the FF were philisophical politicians. The economics follow the philosophy. What do you do when the philosophy is wrong? When it is a matter of opinion? In my eyes, for example, much of your philosophy is speaking nonsense. So who is right? What is the ultimate Truth?
President Trump is a billionaire who DID . NOT . NEED . TO . DO . THIS .
Mike Benz (I think) said words to the effect that We the People have no idea how many knife fights in phone booths are happening backstage in D.C.
Too many citizens want results in internet time. Too many back seat drivers who have never driven a car. Too many ready to abandon a man who ALREADY SAVED OUR ASSES TWICE (from Killary and from the Totalitarian Willie-Sucker).
--> Everyone bitching about President Trump's results in what are still fewer than 100 days is exposing what they'd do in a lifeboat.
Were I President Trump, I'd say, "Fuck it. Melania, we're outta here.". Then, with half-dead George Soros, toast the demise of the ungrateful citizenry. President Trump could do that, were he so inclined. Many of these comments make me wish he would.
Republican-Democrat, left-right, it's division and that is how the elites want it. Chaos is profitable to the elites and it keeps us distracted while they go about planning our demise.
JHK lays out one outline of the "human" factor of the history and evolution of our culture. It's very complex, but it appears to me that the "elites" have been busy gaslighting, distracting and destroying the fabric of traditional American culture in pursuit of wealth and control. And the endless stream of propaganda and gaslighting hoodwinked many good people, and fooled them into complying with the changes as opposed to standing up against them, early and often.
It remains to be seen if Trump or others can bring America back from the brink, or if it collapses in a flurry of predicaments and problems as The Long Emergency continues. 20 years ago I found it rather easy to understand the basics of resource depletion and the end of cheap energy. I vastly underestimated the people factor, and how crazy that would get as the American Empire grew long in the tooth. It's made it much more difficult to be hopeful as the chains of division and grift are so difficult to break.
Elites? How about the fact that both parties are in civil wars internally and both by the same cause.
Deep State vs. Populism, the government trying to retain power and grow more against the people.
There is no more Dem. vs. GOP, the battle is between the believers in centralized government against the believers in individuality. IMHO, by 2028 there will be two new majority capable parties. The unity of the country depends who wins that contest.
"Elites? How about the fact that both parties are in civil wars internally and both by the same cause." The fact is, both parties expressly or tacitly support American involvement, with ballooning of the national debt and attendant inflation, in one undeclared war after another- if you felt like going trillions in debt, would people not be better off if it had gone for affordable housing? Modernization of the electrical grid? Repair rotting infrastructure? Anything but being blown to bits in the form of bombs and missiles? And yet this is exactly what Americans have let happen. At least, during the Vietnam era, there was a functioning peace movement- where are they today?(Admittedly, where they exist, you will not hear about it in the blood-soaked MSM).
It's always good to have definitions. By "elites", I'm thinking of the Uber-Wealthy who control the puppets in both parties, which is just a sideshow trying to fool Americans in thinking their votes matter. It appears to me the "deep State", President and the Senators are at best middle management in the hierarchy of control.
The battle is around the model of government we should have, and centralized vs individuality is one description of that. Maybe that will result in the birth of new political parties. But until the reins of control are taken from the elites, the battle to me appears to be the hidden Uber-wealthy puppet masters versus the rest of us. In other words, it's about the 5000 year old organization of wealth and control versus the masses. And we've never seen a truly free, fair and equitable arrangement in terms of government, so I'm not sure how we get there. The first century or so of the American Republic was better for the common man in many ways, but the government itself was infiltrated and corrupted on Day 1.
What I think is more likely is we get hoodwinked again into a revolution/Civil War and an outcome that appears to be more favorable, but as always has the same old elites running things.
Unfettered capital centralizes more slowly and organically. Marxism centralizes by design, eliminating democracy, while simultaneously claiming to be acting "for the people".
Both are evil, but primarily because they (as all systems) eventually become completely infested with intelligent psychopaths, who simply have no interest in people who are not members of their little clubs.
Maybe or at least in part, but there may be an even more fundamental problem, even a paradox for the human species:
Namely, its social bias toward social complexity that necessitates hyperspecialization that necessitates oversimplicity and assorted detachments from the 'natural holistic life' that creates a kind of social lobotomy... Then crash, rinse and repeat.
In other words, we are not ants, bees or termites-- we are not simple enough to take on our respective specializations like those arthropods would-- drone, queen, worker, soldier-- and so our hyperspecializations take their toll on our otherwise complex brains and it corrupts us.
It's more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
The trick(s) may be in part to recognize the paradox and then take the steps to effectively respond to it.
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Nate Hagens of the previous The Oil Drum website fame calls, or has called, the human, a 'superorganism', but that's where I break with him in that regard. We are not quite a superorganism, but keep trying, but cannot really be because we are too complex, unlike the arthropodal superorganisms. They can manage it, we cannot. But we keep trying and keep failing.
"social bias toward social complexity that necessitates hyperspecialization that necessitates oversimplicity and assorted detachments from the 'natural holistic life' that creates a kind of social lobotomy... Then crash, rinse and repeat."
I can agree with that. But it appears to me hyperspecialization has, so far, arguably gotten no worse for an *individual's* cognition than what happened about 200 years ago with the industrial complexity; it's just shifted into ever-deeper cells (Mandelbrot-like?), in which the cutting edge is now entirely in virtual realms. Otherwise TPTB would have trouble shepherding this along. And so it also makes sense for them to have shifted gears into AI.
The Capitalists are men and like all men they conspire or breathe together. Smith's fantasy of the invisible hand or neutral or natural (but benign!) process provided them with an ideal shield to hide behind.
But are you assuming that I don’t understand that both parties are corrupted? Sounds like it to me. Furthermore, the article uses the phrase, “boomers”. That is divisive. Putting that comment aside, I enjoy reading the author’s work here very much and like his take on things.
Phil lives in a country that is just as divided by sectionalism as we are. Both countries need a reason for unity, a reason why they should not just divvie themselves up into little sectional pieces. Today, Canada is making a big choice, and it is a reflection of the USA. Watch and see.
Trump slaughtered the Conservative: Pierre Poilievre. Weird how Trump wanted the WEF central banker, eh?
Trump and Carney will feign being foes while Trump's mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of the US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Phil, thought about you, re: the Carney election. FYI, the Alberta folks are starting to You Tube like crazy about secession, which they did say before your election they would do.
Face it Phil, both countries have “mortgaged” themselves to death, but then so has the rest of the world. If Canada goes financially belly up, IMO, so does the USA and vice versa. It will be interesting to see WHAT they do to try to avoid bankruptcy. Also, how to avoid influence by China. Again, IMO, if Canada goes to the EU for assistance, they are as bankrupt as everyone else.
Also, I am not so sure the result is a technocracy as the vast majority of the population does not even understand what that is. If you are right, they result will be a technocracy as force on top, maybe 5% and a bunch of serfs 95% eking by under their “guidance”, IOW, feudalism and the destruction of the middle class that goes along with it.
BTW, both sides of the border, good luck getting a car assembly job. Have you seen Tesla’s assembly line, pure robots. FYI, Musk actually has designed robotic assembly machines, then found out that people power is better and scrapped the robot.
I do agree with you on the feigning point, already they have folks scratching their heads with amiable phone calls. Do you think they will attempt a closing of the ranks, so to speak? I hope so.
One more, Phil, a You Tube was discussing that Mexico is doing things re: the tariffs, that is “shocking even Canada”. With the cartels and the China influence in Mexico, is USMCA dead? It was not working anyway or this lather would never have happened.
Do not get too intense about Alberta et al, we have ten states in the USA that want to join Canada, according to the You Tube “experts”.
You never really addressed anything that I said, John.
Yes, USMCA is dead. Trump killed it. It actually was working (over 99% of the trade between Canada and USA was FREE TRADE (tariff-free)).
This "lather" happened because, as he's clearly, repeatedly told us, Trump is destroying Canada's economy to weaken it to then annex it. Your "logic" that it wasn't working otherwise Trump would not have done what he did is pure lameass.
Your problem, OG, is that you are consistent, consistently wrong. Your consistent nationalism about Canada is wrong, just as mine about Trump is wrong at times.
No, Trump did not kill it, Biden and Mexico killed it. Canada killed it with its ignoring a growing trade imbalance with the USA. Mexico’s cartels killed it along with 40000 Americans last year. You ALWAYS ignore the fact that the USA has been preyed upon by its neighbors, defending Canada (You’re welcome) since WW2, (which Carney acknowledged by the way) and enriching Mexico for the last 40 years at the USA’s detriment financially.
If you want to get rid of the tariffs and “annexation” it is simple. Enforce your border, (you not having immigration issues is total bullshit), drop any tariffs, have a real 0 tariff situation with the US, stop the Chinese invasion on your west coast, (we need to do the same) and set up a mutual defense situation with the USA, because Canada cannot defend itself with a 1.3% GDP defense budget. I wonder how much of the trade imbalance would disappear if the USA just told you to eff off with defense.
BTW, Alberta is right to be sick of the parasites in Ottawa.
Nah, Phil said that the Chinese are not a problem. Even though they are 20% of Vancouver and are actively working on Greenland for control. Right now. BRICS+ is working the following regarding shipping lanes. The Suez Canal via the Red sea control, the Panama Canal ports, stopped now by Blackrock, Greenland as the eastern port of the proposed Northwest passage in Canada, Canada itself from the west, South China Sea ( I heard a rumor that Trump may be the seventh fleet back). If China gets influence into Canada and Greenland, affecting the Northwest Passage, BRICS+ will control the Arctic with only Alaska and Scandinavia (Norway I believe) representing the West.
I never said, "The Chinese are not a problem," John.
C'mon! You're better than that.
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A couple months ago, you and I argued about whether or not Canada has an illegal-immigrant problem. You claimed that Canada does have an illegal immigration problem then I proved that we do not. [Note: I don't recall ever seeing your mea culpa.]
Beyond that, I never did comment regarding Canada's very welcoming legal immigration policies.
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It's refreshing, John, to read your thoughts on Manifest Destiny in the 21st century. So many Americans buy the bull shit, non-conquesty main-stream justifications (and then spew them like this ridiculous argument were gospel).
But not you. You got no problem calling a spade a spade. The USA will annex Canada for geopolitical-strategy conquest, pure and simple.
Oh yes you did. Canada does not have a problem with immigration like the USA, your words. The hell you do not, you are just blind to it. You will not get any mea culpa from me. Look in your own mirror.
Annex? I doubt it. Economically fuse together, could be and soon. I do believe that the two are already there, with the acknowledgement of that coming. Mexico will be left out of the next “USMCA” due to the cartels.
USCA?????
Just keep watching, IMO, it is inevitable as the cross border NHL and MBA.
Apparently you don’t know much about China. Listen to remarks from. Chinese diplomats. trump says “he’s in talks” with Xi. Not replies a Chinese spokesman. This is how far this administration has sunk. The idiot agriculture secretary stated that China needs us more than we need China. 60% (at least) of Walmart’s inventory is made in China; Chinese exports to the US are 3% of China’s GDP. Do the arithmetic. trump is an imbecile in the eyes of those who govern China. And his latest embarrassment at the Vatican reinforces the hatred of this troglodyte.
No biggie. It's just more staggering hypocrisy from the tantrum-throwing, lifelong fraudster bully coward.
Swaggering parasite whose only ideology is self-enrichment. Third-rate mob boss, stuffing his crypto wallets while howling about patriotism he doesn't believe in. Self-dealing con artist with government as a prize to be looted and defiled.
So pathologically insecure and adulation-hungry, he mistakes groveling for loyalty and chaos for strength.
Here is what MAGA has fallen for so far: 1. I'm going to pick up the phone and end the war in Ukraine in one day.(It would suffice to stop feeding the dogs of war at the MIC trough and stop sending them any weapons) 2. I am going to audit Fort Knox (this, in keeping with the spirit of his promise last time around to balance the budget, as Andrew Jackson had done 8 years straight, the man whose portrait Trump hung in the Oval Office- and then proceeded to sign off on- not once veto- 4 straight TRILLION dollar deficits. To give the devil his due, he has started chopping with DOGE, but the deficits are nonetheless spiraling out of control.
The one thing he did was end some of the tranny bullshit, but even that is getting fought back and I wonder how much political capital he's willing to risk on it. I still see the trans agenda going strong here; completely insane people are being catered to, and it doesn't seem to be ending.
A real concern though is the hands off approach to China that has been prevalent for decades. Trump tries to hit them hard with tariffs and is rebuffed, typical. China has stolen most of the USA's economic strength, not by their own expertise, but by the greed of corporations in the USA handing it or selling it to them. My own manufacturing career was stopped by a product line just up and sold to China.
IMHO, we have created quite a pickle for ourselves with China. We will know tout-suite whether the USA has enough oomph left to offset the economic power of China.
OBTW, this is also a test of economics based on munufacturing control rather than a service economy. I believe Americans of the future will curse the name of Obama for taking us down the service sector path.
He was right about that and everybody laughed at him. I remember that. After that came the great health insurance crisis, which spawned Hillarycare, which was the forerunner to Obamacare.
Remember when Rachel Madcow went to the mat swearing that Clinton didn't sign NAFTA? This is the crap that MSDNC allows on their propaganda channel. The result is 30+ million people who believe in absolute and total lies, and live in a Truman Show level of delusion.
Tony, the only way free trade can exist between the three countries is if they are all playing off the same game card and no advantage is being sought by the three. It never happened that way. It was not only NAFTA either. I worked for a semi-conductor house in the eighties and watched how the bean counters sold businesses to China, moved MFG. to first Mexico, then to East Asia. That was five years before NAFTA.
Trump's tariffs today are indicative of his admission that USMCA, his substitute for NAFTA, has failed. His wanting political control of Canada and Mexico is further acknowledgement. The ability for free trade totally depends on no greedy competition between the parties.
When pigs fly!
Sidebar- Is Trump putting RFK,Jr. into HHS an acknowledgement of the failure of Warpspeed?
Exactly. Capitalism tend towards evil: "Greed is good". Time to let go of childish things and see the world as it is. The Corporations have to be made to be loyal by Government. This is Fascism, a good thing.
@Jim Griffin Let’s wait and see how long Communist China can sustain itself. Griffin, You are an evil American idiot indulged in the Trump Derangement Syndrome unless you have called out the illegitimacy of the unelected Biden and the Democrats regime
Jimmy you appear to be a frustrated socialist. Relax. Get a job. Things will improve , although those cheap china toys won’t be so cheap or available in time. Buy them NOW!
Well said, Tritorch. If they only realized that we are angry and annoyed but also laughing at them. We already said NO to their stupid, vapid, moronic candidate who was forced on us (and them - but they're OK with that), and still they don't get it.
"...while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings."
HINT: Who controls the media/entertainment/propaganda complex, as well as the financial system/Federal Reserve/NGO complex... the "lawfare" and "civil rights" attack dogs, the MIC war targeting, the primary seditionists in congress and the mega-powerful political bribery/extortion ring also known as: "AIPAC"??
TriTorch - you said it! If only more folks would open their eyes and minds and see this. Once seen, it cannot be unseen. It’s all so obvious - as plain as day.
"Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology." ~ TriTorch
Not to cause any further divide, but those doing the torching need to be neutralized.
Who sold out the Constitutional Freedom of the Press to the Permanent Government for their invitation to become voices for the Bureaucratic State against their fellow countrymen they are supposed to serve.
Why is the press in Amendment one? To serve as a check on the government for the people. If that is the intent, why is the corporate press supporting the Left only today? Why did they bless everything the Left has done in the last thirty years and crucified the conservatives? Why are all the correspondents and opinion makers on the Left, the Ult-Left? The press, per the Constitution, is NOT doing its job at all. Where are the Right leaning newspapers?
Anna, a fine example is Denver. The Rocky Mountain News was the AM paper and The Denver Post was the PM paper. The News was conservative leaning and the Post was Left leaning. Then Gannett bought out the Post, then bought out the News and turned the Denver Post into the rag it is today. The same thing happened in Phoenix with the Arizona Republic being bought out and turned into a Leftist rag.
Maybe a good exercise might be to find out where all this money came from to buy out our newspapers and magazines nation-wide?
The Tribe took over the Press as they now have taken over Foreign Policy. Food and Pharma to a large extent too. Kennedy will be allowed to do very little. They like things the way they are!
I bet the imbecilic radio station of hate in Seattle was at least partially sponsored by grants through NGOs which live off the illegal money from the Marxist USAID.
With every negative word, every negative thought, every negative action, every capitulation, every surrender we will that outcome into existence.
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Lao Tzu
“What might we try to achieve, if we believed we could not fail.” -Unknown
We have far more power than we realize. If we didn't then they wouldn't be sparing no expense to divide and conquer us.
"Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses." -unknown
That extraordinary young lass seems to teach us that there does not appear to be an upper limit on mankind’s potential. Limitations on our potential are often learned behavior rather than an organic emergence. If you put fleas into a glass jar, they will learn never to jump higher than the lid even when you take the jar away. Their offspring, tragically, will learn this behavior and do the same. If you put a short rope tied to a post around an elephant’s leg for long enough, eventually he will never leave the post, even if you take the rope away.
So many of our boundaries are like these prisons. They are drilled into our minds that we can’t achieve something when if we were left to our own devices and encouraged during the crucial periods of development we would likely triumph over them. It's just like this pair of frogs:
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The Inconceivable Power of Your Encouragement (And Discouragement) in 12 Sentences
As a group of frogs were traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them.
However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were saying and they proceeded to try and jump out of the pit.
Despite their efforts, the group of frogs at the top of the pit were still saying that they should just give up. That they would never make it out.
Eventually, one of the frogs took heed to what the others were saying and he gave up, falling down to his death.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.
He jumped even harder and finally made it out.
When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time. —Unknown
Exactly. There are no other laws than this! We can be (or GET!) anything. We want Russia. We going to get Russia. Fuck these negative thinkers, we'll make them haul manure up the mountain to fulfill OUR dream!
We can sit back and do nothing against this encroaching darkness, and then one morning we will wake up to have hell on earth smirking right to our faces, and due to this inaction waged against a force that is making zero attempt to conceal the fact that they are diligently working to capture, corrupt, kill, or enslave us, we will have earned this fate of living in a nightmare we knowingly let them create. But our children will be dragged in right along with us, and they will have not, and we will be responsible for throwing them into this prison.
We either stand up and wage war for what is right no matter the cost or our fate will be in the hands of total psychopaths. And then, even if we fail, we can still look our children and our God in the eye and tell them, sincerely, that we fought for them. That we recognized and faced these challenges with truth & courage. And that means everything.
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To put one brick upon another,
Add a third and then a forth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether,
What you do has any worth.
But to sit with bricks around you,
While the winds of monsoons bawl,
Weighing what you should or can do,
Leaves no doubt of it at all.
—Philip Larken
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Will you sit with bricks around you Carl? And leave no doubt about your worth at all? Or will you stand up and fight to make a difference no matter how small, and signal to the world that you will spirit will not be beaten. If this is the case, then even if you die you will live on.
If it is not the case, then it does "leave no doubt about it at all".
One problem with your "individual control" argument is the media. The American corporate media controls the flow of information to the people. We have already seen an major erosion of support for Trump and MAGA doing what they were elected to do. I blame that on the amplification of TDS stemming from the media. The controlling factor of political fickleness seems to be NIMBY. People wil vote for "goodness" until needed corrections affect them.
Until the Leftist bias of the entire MSM goes away, "individual control" may not be possible.
It is a problem, that's why turning it off (for the -most- part is key (not dimming the telescreen, but turning it off). The narrative is the most powerful mind control mechanism in our world. Here is a deep dive into how the matrix is constructed (please forgive me Mr. Kunstler, this is just for reference): https://tritorch.substack.com/p/counterfeit-continuity-in-our-fourth
Yep, we can look our children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them about our God back in the day, And the lies that we were told.
We can tell them about The Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, invoking the Biblical reference with the Amalek rhetoric for a blatant call to genocide.
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." 1 Samuel 15:3.
And 100,000+ slaughtered in the name of God. And their houses, electricity, drinking water and sewage facilities and hospitals destroyed.
And not one God lifted a finger to stop the genocide.
I can’t claim to understand all the ways they’re doing it or who owns the master plan, I agree 100% our adversaries are absolutely committed to dividing us. They know that’s the only they can succeed, short of physical force.
Saw a fascinating documentary on PBS (yes! PBS) about the blowing apart of the black family and community by LBJ's "War on Poverty". For 100 years following Emancipation and the Civil War, black families migrated from southern farms into northern and midwestern cities for cash paying work and built what were called "alley-communities" in which they had nearly complete societies with their own businesses, schools, banks, libraries, etc. It was certainly an apartheid culture and the black alley communities were at the bottom with poor to no sanitation, shared privies and water faucets, however, most everything they needed was within short walking distance and crime was almost non-existent since everyone knew each other. The War on Poverty (WOP) came along and destroyed these communities (in order to build skyscrapers) and moved the families into randomly assigned apartments in low-income housing projects built on the fringes of the cities, putting strangers from different alley communities next door to each other. Not only were the surroundings unfamiliar, but the jobs and stores that put food on the table were located miles away from the projects, forcing commuters and shoppers onto buses & subways. The family separations, the stress of having to leave the home/neighborhood every day, the hostile neighborhoods all contributed to skyrocketing crime and the destruction of the black family. The Think-Gooders of elitist institutions had failed in the grandest fashion, yet.
“The juvenile idealism of Boomer hippiedom wrecked the crucial idea of a common culture, and I will tell you exactly how that happened. Two crusades: first, the civil rights campaign, and second, stopping the War in Vietnam, defined the era.”
I often see the civil rights movement described as a Boomer movement, but it was not. The oldest Boomers (born in 1945) were still children and teenagers when the marches and freedom rides took place, and all of 19 when the movement culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I get Boomers wanting to cosplay as civil rights activists, but they just weren’t. The whole hippie thing didn’t really start until after the civil rights movement.
The anti-war/anti-draft movement definitely involved the oldest cohort of Boomers, as they were the ones being drafted.
That's true. The Civil Rights era was carried by the so-called Silent Generation (born 1925-45), like my parents. And the late members of the Silent Generation were recruited to fight in the various hot & cold stages of the Cold War... from Korea to Viet Nam.... like my dad.
The Greatest Generation fought WW2 and Korea. Boomers fought Viet Nam. I was there. Boomers fought the Cold War battles. The Greatest Generation started the Cold War.
What bridged the gap, IMHO, was the MIC, the start of the Deep State. The same entity that DDE warned us about.
The Cold War started in 1952. The oldest Boomers were only seven years old at the time. My father's first TDY in VN was in 1964. His final TDY there was 1974-75.
Thank you for pointing this out. Born in 1957, I had none of these experiences-except by watching one of 3 tv news stations. This generational warfare is yet another divisive action, this time painting the alleged haves vs have nots. Beware the narrative you buy into and pass along! If it's binary, it's a trap. The world is seldom that simple.
The anti-war movement certainly involved the oldest cohort of "boomers", but if the Chicago 7 (originally the Chicago 8) is any indication the leaders of that movement were members of the "silent" generation, and, in the case of David Dellinger (born 1915), even older.
Also, "boomers" refers to those people born between 1946 and 1964. Not that it should matter. These generational divisions were created as another way to keep us divided and controlled.
"These generational divisions were created as another way to keep us divided and controlled".
No. They were created by Strauss and Howe, sociologists and historians. Came into common parlance via their last book written together, "The Fourth Turning".
Strass and Howe's first book was published in 1991. "The Fourth Turning" was published in 1997. The term "baby boomer" was first used in 1963 and became the popular name of a generation in 1971. The term "gen-x" was taken from a novel by Douglas Coupland that was published in 1991, although Coupland wasn't the first one to use it.
Generational divisions are a natural state. Adolescence breeds rebellion, and is the basis for the changes causing the Fourth Turnings. The PTB definitely use the inter-generational rebellions to their advantage.
Really? Seems to me that generational divisions are unique to western civilizations. Doesn't seem to exist in Asian cultures or in more primitive societies. It also didn't seem to exist in western cultures until the second decade of the 20th century.
That’s exactly right! It does not breed rebellion anywhere else but places with full propaganda in every single program, TV media, and commercial like the United States.
How about India-Pakistan? Russia- Chechnya? China-Tibet? China and its western Muslims ( I do not remember the name), China-Taiwan? China-Japan? Iran-Iraq? Iran-Saudi Arabia? Afghanistan and everyone?
You're comparing apples to oranges. India and Pakistan have been enemies since before the latter won its independence in 1947. That conflict has religious (i.e., cultural) roots. Religion also plays a role in the Chechyan hostility towards Russia. Likewise, the hostility among countries in western and central Asia were in no small part caused by the artificial boundaries drawn up by Britain and France after the first world war, as well as religious sects (i.e., Sunni vs. Shia). As for China and Tibet or Taiwan, it's hard to know what the truth is concerning those hostilities considering the amount of propaganda being pushed by the European and North American deep states, but whatever the case may be these hostilities have involved at least three generations.
Very astute lo' t. It's a bottoms up process. Start with the dregs and then work their way up. As many astute analysts have noted, globalization will have come to full fruition when labor the world over - and thus the cultures they're a part of as well - has been reduced to ignorant third-world pauper status. We've arrived!
Say it again, feudalism. What stopped feudalism during the Renaissance? The ascent of the Middle Class, the "Bourgoisie", those rotten entrepenuers that Marx hated so much. Take away the Middle Class, which our socialistic slant is doing world wide, and we will return to feudalism where the Upper Class rules the working class with little chance of social elevation.
Marx married into one of the wealthiest industriEList families in Europe. His assignment was to infiltrate and neuter the labor movement of his day and he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, seeding the world with a B.S Satanic religion that is alive and "well" today. The workers never got their revolution thanks to Marx. We all need to remember that "history (not facts) is written by the winners."
Indeed. "Neo-feudalism," as the cool kids are wont to say these days. Or "feudalism with democratic characteristics," as it's eventually likely to be marketed.
Good catch. If society is bi-lateral, PTB(Kings and royalty) and serfs(proletariat), there is no democracy. The PTB just tell everyone what to do. As all the feudal attempts have embraced hereditary succession in the PTB, no need for voting. Democracy dies with feudalism, exactly what the NWO wants.
Definitely! There is no way they would ever leave a big decision to us. They are all working together. And there are higher-ups that tell Trump and all the other fakes on television what to do.
As Herr Fuentes said, America could lose for a hundred years and could still stay our beloved homeland. If we "win" the way Az and Musk want us to win, we will lose everything, both our nation and our souls.
"The War on Poverty (WOP) came along and destroyed these communities (in order to build skyscrapers) and moved the families into randomly assigned apartments in low-income housing projects built on the fringes of the cities, putting strangers from different alley communities next door to each other. "
Actually, the WOP was the answer to dilemma after they "destroyed these communities" to build freeways - not skyscrapers. The Eisenhower Interstate System was a great idea. The only problem is that the Big City Fat Cats had to get that interstate into their city...which meant eminent domain takings. What better place to take land than the Black Alleys? Urban Renewal began with Ike. LBJ just revived the slave class with WOP.
Don't forget a Planned Parenthood within a mile of every housing project. Sell them the idea that the way out of poverty is killing their offspring and…voila!
The destruction of the black family under the guise of helping was the most terrible thing! Offering women money if they were unmarried and had babies was designed to divide and destroy!
White women opted not to have children at all, or put 'em in daycare, divorce is rampant, because women want to "have it all" or feel the pressure to, or be considered "only a housewife."
This was also by design. Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset, after all... she bragged about it.
It isn't directly pertinent to your comment, but I'm reading a novelist I had heard about for years but never gotten to, Chester Himes. In the late 1950s, Himes, who was black, began to write a series of novels, The Harlem Detectives Series, about two black detectives on the NYPD who are detailed to Harlem. Himes was an original, hard to describe. I'm reading "Cotton Comes to Harlem." It's cold eyed, brutal, hilarious, close to hallucinatory at times. So far, my thought is that these novels provide what literature usually does better than journalism, a scanning of people's souls.
It's unlike anything I've ever read. There is a movie of “Cotton Comes to Harlem” which was made circa 1970. I intend to watch it when I finish the novel if only because it starred Godfrey Cambridge, who was one of the funniest men of that generation, and whose early death consigned him to be unjustly all but forgotten.
Right, lots of crime. People who have had their opportunity taken away from them will survive, as we are learning today. I anticipate a large increase in crime everywhere as the world adjusts to its loss of opportunity due to high tech.
April 19, 2025, I along with dozens of Sons of the American Revolution reenactors march in the 3-mile parade in Concord, MA to commemorate the patriot stand at the Old North Bridge. The route was lined with mass produced signs calling us fascists, Nazis, etc. Some said "no king then, no king now."
The final insult was being called a racist by a blonde white woman.
These people would burn down the country but have no plans for improvement.
Egads! I grew up in MA - that sounds depressing- then again Concord and Lexington, MA where these events took place are chock-a-block with entitled elites and liberals…in college I befriended a girl from Concord; her father worked for the Harvard Business Review- she was really’maladjusted’, a trust fund baby whose subsequent life has been a search for meaning- advertising for sex meet-ups, divorcing her (psychologically battered) husband, eventually leaving the continent and her children stateside to pursue Hawaiian Gods 🤷♀️she built an altar, etc. One could hardly get more Blue-blood than her…her male sibling is also on the wonky left working for leftist politicians. These people have no grounding. So much material for a novel 😂
Fallen Puritanism. They lost their religion and hate their culture and history. They're always looking for the "truth" in primitive cultures and religions, when they abandoned the truth that their ancestors knew.
In Santa Fe-woketopia-I was called all sorts of names including racist for simply pointing out that the blm website declared they were for two things: defund the police and support antifa. Seriously? I am now a political refugee living happily in Idaho.
I work in an office in Princeton, New Jersey, with a number of these liberal types. Let's call them sub-elites, since while they are wealthy by most standards, they don't occupy the rarified air of the 1%. They do affect a lot of the attitudes that you'd expect in a well-to-do liberal bubble however.
They profess all the standard liberal lines about mass immigration, DEI, transgenderism, etc. that you would expect. They also have a fear of Trump and his supporters. Honestly, I have to believe that part of the reason these folks employ so many illegals is that they are afraid to have working class Americans in their homes.
That brings me to my main point. There are two basic attributes that these people display. The first is an amazing sense of entitlement. With all their talk of privilege, none of them seem to realize how privileged they are to show up to work where they work, get paid what they get paid and go home to the comfortable lives they enjoy every day. Associated with this is an apparent total lack of regard for how the majority of their fellow citizens live, whether rural whites or urban blacks. At least part of this derives I believe from a certain naivety about how the World works, which is actually quite astounding when you consider that this is supposedly the "educated" class.
I saw on X the other day, a story about Entrepreneur High School, which I believe in is California. Some of the female students were getting into it with the local cops. I am not sure that my coworkers understand that places like Entrepreneur HS exist in the U.S. They don't understand that George Floyd was a thug and a drug addict, because they are unaware the World George Floyd inhabited exists. Likewise, the concept of a criminal alien is incomprehensible to many of them.
A real change in attitudes will require some amount of education.
Far too few middle class Americans can grasp the absolute revulsion and hatred that coastal elites, and sub-elites, as you say (primarily New Englanders) have for middle American whites. They find it comical, and a good thing, when a tornado rips through a trailer park in Oklahoma or Alabama. They have a seething hatred of middle American whites, but will defend third-world criminals to the point of insanity. They absolutely love to see small towns in Ohio and Tennessee overrun by "refugees" but get in a lather when these same criminals are dumped in Massachusetts. Its the same mind-set as Ted Kennedy insisting that schools all over the heartland be forcibly integrated at the point of a bayonet while he's sending his kids to elite boarding schools. New England, and their fallen-Puritanism, has been a scourge on this country since the founding. They hate you. They hate your families. They hate your traditions. They wish you were dead.
John---I moved to Texas in the early 80's and what I found was that Texans did not have a problem with Yankees moving to Texas and enjoying the best state in the Union, what they particularly hated was people moving to Texas from Michigan or Ohio or other rust best states that were difficult to find jobs in...... but telling all the Texans that up in Michigan we did it this way and I do not understand why you people in Texas are so backward and do not do it that way. I am not suggesting that you did this, I am just pointing out that they had to put up with a whole lot of unreasonable people moving to Texas and telling them they were stupid or backward. They put up with a lot of this so I cut them a lot of slack and told them I was happy to be in Texas---which I was and never ever told them back in Alabama or Ohio we did it this way. There used to be bumper stickers on cars in Texas in the early and mid 80's that said------We do not care how you did it up in Michigan.
When my wife and I moved to Arkansas from Texas when we retired, we purchased some land and built a house and I advised my wife that never, ever, say.....back in Texas we did it this way. It rightly ruffles feathers and begs the response-----if you liked it so good in Texas why the hell did you move here?
Again, I am not suggesting that you did any of this unfriendly kind of thing, I am just suggesting that the Texas had to listen to a bunch of that kind of stuff.
And......Texans seem to prone to same thing because I was in a little town in Alaska----I believe the name was Soldotna-----and the waitress asked us where we were from and we told her Texas and.....the next thing she told us was that they had just taken down the Texas sign a few days ago. We asked her what kind of sign it was and she told us it was a large sign that said in very big letters-----Texans-- eat shiff and die!!! The sign did not say schiff.
So....maybe some Texans got the same kind of welcome you did.
I was not a Yankee. My point was that the divisions in the country are deep and wide. Your observations are correct, whichever direction you are going.
Ol' Dads, born in N'Orleans and living in Dallas, used to say, "Boy, don't go on up north to Shree'po thayah... that's Damn Yankee territory!" (to Shreveport, LA)
Mr. McWilliams----your liberal elite co-workers can spout all the liberal schiff they want and in their minds they probably believe it because they never have to deal with the consequences of the idiotic policies they are professing. They love the fact that they can get a gardener or a nanny or a guy to pick up trash real cheap in their neighborhood because none of these people and the criminals that come in with them have to live in another neighborhood so.......they do not have to live with them on a regular basis and deal with the drugs and the crime of the places these people live. Did you see how fast Martha's Vineyard deported the illegals that Greg Abbott bused to their communities. Of course the people in Martha's Vineyard were 100% against deporting these people but.....they had no issue to foist them off on someone else in a less politically powerful area.
Fortunately I do not have to deal with lib co-workers since I am retired but....I do have some bat-schiff crazy kin that I try to be around as little as possible.
Your co-workers are probably all on the climate hoax but.....suggest that maybe they should not take any airline trips because of the C02 emitted and they would most likely tell you that this does not apply to them because they drive a Prius.
Your observation is apt and on par with mine, working in the corporate sphere with liberals.
However, as to your last sentence, they don't respond to education. Why? Because they are indoctrinated. Therefore, logic, common sense and facts do not matter.
One must ponder whether our Republic is even worth saving at this point. I do not pretend to know the answer. Sometimes familial conflict necessitates separation as a matter of simple survival.
Woke leftists hate us because they hate themselves. They know they are contemptible and incompetent, but must believe we are even more so in order to justify their sinecures in government and academia.
Think about the left-wing women who blather about stupid shit like "confronting their whiteness". They're doing that because they *need* to offload their self-loathing into something they have no control over in order to avoid introspection.
So I strongly suspect you are correct. There's no middle ground here.
Vonnegut wrote "Player Piano" in 1952, portending exactly this. It never came to pass in the 70+ years since.
AI will be a force multiplier, but not an end into itself. It enables some pretty powerful stuff, like semantic search and content generation, but I will remain skeptical of the idea humanoid robots will be doing the dishes or nuking the planet or something.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's about 90% VR/Siri/Google Glass hype, with some powerful use cases on the edges.
Watched a You Tube last night talking about a new generation robot that is capable of doing assembly line operations, a humanoid robot. Ever wonder why BYD has EVs available for less that 15000 dollars? Why in 5 years they might put USA mfg. out of business aroung the world? Why Andrew Yang, a spokesman for the Silicon Valley crowd, introduced UBI to the American public in the Dem. debates in 2020? Connect the dots, globalist elements are not the only enemies of the economic health of the USA. The question is WHY? How can these domestic enemies take the oath of office, swearing to protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic? IMHO, we have more of the latter than the former.
Such a system, instead of many individual means-tested social benefits, would eliminate much more expensive social administration and bureaucratic efforts. Unattractive jobs would have to be better paid simply because there would be an incentive to do them when already receiving a basic income. This would have the result of increasing the willingness to work.
UBI ensures that everyone has a sufficient financial basis to essentially eliminate poverty thus allowing people to find work that suits their interests and strengths.
Swiss economist Thomas Straubhaar contends the concept of UBI is financeable without any problems. He says that; "at its core, nothing more than a fundamental tax reform" that "bundles all social policy measures into a single instrument, the UBI paid out unconditionally." He also explained how a UBI is socially just.
The Alaska Permanent Fund is a fund for all residents of the State of Alaska which averages $1,600 annually (in 2019 currency) and is an example of a real basic income in practice.
Supporters include:
*American economists James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith signed a document with 1,200 other economists in 1968 calling for the 90th U.S. Congress to introduce in that year a system of UBI.
* Conservative American economist Milton Friedman advocated a UBI in the form of a negative income tax in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, and again in his 1980 book Free to Choose.
*In his 1964 State of the Union address, President Johnson introduced legislation to fight the war on poverty. He supported the idea of a UBI for every American.
*The Famous Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek advocated a guaranteed minimum income in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, and reiterated his support in his 1973 book Law, Legislation and Liberty.
*Tony Atkinson - British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[129]
*Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed it under the name of "the guaranteed income" in his 1967 book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? shortly before his assassination.
If you like UBI (fine as a temporary measure when someone loses their job) you're going to love your new global slavemasters. UBI is exactly what they have in mind for the global technocratic digital plantation of Agenda 21-2030 - digital ID (with vaxx pass, naturally), combined with a social credit system, UBI, paid in CBDCs. Points for those who swallow State lies, do the State's bidding and never criticise the State or its institutions. For those who prefer to think for themselves penury awaits, and worse (NZ already has the internment camps). Same if you choose bodily autonomy to keeping up with your State-mandated jibby-jabbies for non-existent 'viruses'. Not Orwellian at all ...
It's worth mentioning that Agenda 21 plans the elimination of private property. That doesn't just mean your house, it means your pension too. But that will go anyway when they crash the financial system to bring in the new energy-based system. You'll just wake up one morning and your bank account will be empty. They don't call it communism, or feudalism or fascism or socialism, although it will be a mixture of all of those - they call it communitarianism. Welcome to your future, where human beings are of the same value as goats or plants. And the global-state religion is to be Gaia worship.
You are so gullible my dear. You need to be reading different comics! The ones you are reading are turning your brains into mush.
A conspiracy theory posted on a New Zealand Facebook group's page claims camps was created for unvaccinated people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Posted by the goofy radical group "South Island Independence Movement" it didn't specify if the claim relates directly to New Zealand or elsewhere.
Either way the claims were false. No camps were established to detain people who refused a COVID-19 vaccine in NZ.
And several international fact-check organisations have debunked claims of camps for the unvaccinated elsewhere. Google is your friend.
This commentor is a whack job conspiracy theorist. Be warned about engaging with her! Put on your flak jacket first. LOL
There wasn't a pandemic, Dennis. We're 5 years into the psyop and you still don't know.
I suggest Dr David A Hughes' book 'Covid 19', Psychological Operations and the War for Technocracy, which you can download free from Springer (it's been through 3 stages of peer review and is published by the respected academic publisher, Palgrave Macmillan. Are you going to warn 'your readers' that they're conspiracy theorists as well?
The lockdowns were nothing to do with a public health emergency because there wasn't one. They were a response to the Repo market collapse in late 2019. Timeline here, from the late John Titus (economist):
First YouTube video is New Zealand, ingenu, announcing quarantine facilities for 'cases' (which weren't 'cases' just nonsense created by using a fraudulent process (PCR) whose inventor warned repeatedly that it wasn't a diagnostic test - he conveniently died at the end of 2019.🙄) Let me know when you've read a couple of chapters of Dr Hughes' book. He negotiated a free-access arrangement so that people like you could find out what's going on.
But you can't, can you, Dennis. Because basically you're just too scared. Bless.
"Do you know that New Zealand and Australia are different countries? 2,587 miles apart by air. "
Dennis did you flunk Geography? Or just too much crisp chardonney? Sydney to Aukland is about 1350 miles as the crow flies. Aussie coast to NZ coast about 900.
Also, you said 'fact-checkers' (hahaha) had debunked the notion that there were camps anywhere, so articles about Germany and Australia (in addition to the NZ video) are relevant to your comment.
You are flailing now Dennis, mired in ad homs as a substitute for facts.
"unattractive jobs would have to be better compensated..." Wait, that's why all the factories moved to CCP and why we have undocumented immigrants, under the current The Consumer is King Model. It's a great model until we're out of money. It's not sustainable. Printing money isn't a substitute for goods and services production.
Yes, it would be inevitable given what we were promised. That's not to say it would have been good or even possible. But the Elite of our day have no interest in those old promises. They want most of us gone. We're using up their world after all.
I think it's all a deep state psyop to make us beg for a dictator....and it's working imo. I can't anyone seriously believes the left's positions, so something else must be going on.
Agreed! BUT, like Britain was to us after WW2, as a vassal state to the new powerhouse on the block, China? "The People" that are choosing are changing quickly.
And by the way, World War III is about dividing and destroying the human family once and for all…it won’t be about Russia! Or anywhere else. It’s a spiritual war. Guard your loins.
Thanks Ricky - perfect, girding one's loins - defined as preparing for action. I'll have to commit this to memory, but I rarely wear a tunic. Only every now and then.
JK: the more I read you the more I see you as a national oracle who can remind us , without jingoism, who we AMERICANS really are and why nurturing our culture is critical to sustaining our nation. I just wish that we could replace HBO’s corrosive closet Marxist Bill Maher (neither funny nor intelligent) with you. Thank you.🙏 🇺🇸
I think it would be most beneficial to have JHK as a guest to have real discussions and exchange of views. Maher seems far more willing to accept reality than the blathering fools who host too many of these talk shows. He starts from a point of not seeing someone with differing opinions as evil and criticizes those who do.
Never in history has a nation spent so much time, and money on programs, trying to elevate a race of people. And after 150 years of experimentation, black people continue to show an inability to function in a civilized society. The American black culture has evolved into an irreparable crime ridden mess.
I wonder how much of the lack of assimilation by Blacks has been their heritage from Africa, IOW the cultures they lived in those many many years ago. That heritage has passed down through the years and the matriarchal society that is the result does not fit well into America of the 20th century. Hence, what we are witnessing today.
Sidebar - There is a subset of the Black community that is starting up a male responsibility model for their kids. Nobody fights that more than Black apologists, both Black and White.
There is a local disabled scumbag, who has made a career out of suing businesses for non-compliance with ADA. He goes around with his lawyer and counts parking spaces, measures the width of entryways, etc. and if they don't fully comply, he sues the business. The way the law is, you don't have to show harm, you just have to show non-compliance. As of a couple years ago, he had filed 47 lawsuits for this in just one county.
I understand what you are saying but I must object to your over-generalization. I suggest you insert the word 'some' in front of "black people" in your 2nd sentence. Whenever I run across this sort of generalization about "black people" (African-Americans), I think of Dr. Thomas Sowell. His skin was as black as the dead of night when younger.
As a veteran of those years you refer to ( Harvard 69), two of whose best friends lived with Timothy Leary at Millbrook, a few additional thoughts: the present ecosystem of evil agendas was really set into motion by deliberate agents of globalism. They infected the military then as they do now. Hence the bioweapon injection was distributed largely through NATO and came out of DARPA. Also I remember the in those years the panic about overpopulation, a valid enough concern though not any more. Birth rates are down and I’m told that 14 year old boys are no longer walking around trying to control their erections the way we had to in the good old days. The transhumanists who give you gender fluidity are now trying to inject the weather via chemtrails. They are psychopaths intent on dominating nature and other complex systems way beyond their grasp. Hence fire season in New Jersey immediately follows the spring thaw. Maybe they have another elite planet they plan to go to but I doubt it. Take a look at the new lizard at the WEF. Never underestimate the stupidity of the super rich.
Our only hope as that the will learn the same lesson that king Canute learned. You can't win a war against mother nature. That is unless you destroy the world.
“... ‘mass formation psychosis’ described by Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet, spawned by a crisis of meaning and purpose in the thinking classes of Western Civ.”
Individuals and groups and things like Nation States need grounding. You need a foundation. You need a set of principles and a guiding vision to give you cohesion and purpose and a sense of direction. In short, an identity driven by values, thoughts, and ideas fueled by the hearts and energies of people.
And when you lose these things – like the now lost and confused and alienated and malformed Western Civilization has – then you turn into nothing but a hellish realm of madness and bad intent.
We used to know what America meant. We used to know what bedrock and sound American foundational values were. Freedom. You can achieve anything if you work for it. A bright future. A shared pride in being – Americans. And an undercurrent of religious values like respect for life and one’s need for privacy and personal expression and space.
And after the passing of World War Two’s Greatest Generation... all of that began to crumble. While the need to challenge entrenched ideas and a desire to set a new course which began in the 1960s could have been a valuable re-energizing of the American Body and Spirit... it was coopted and contorted by the emerging Dark State as undermining what America was and should have become. The desire to have a militarized police state in America was the driving vision of the Dark State to have a dumb, compliant, subservient population that was fixated on nonsense and eating garbage and craving captivity and without good purpose or intention. And clueless American sheep went right along with this. And now, this is what we’ve got.
America lost the best of its foundational values, heart and soul. The Dark State was happy to lead and engineer our gradual descent into hell... and much of the American population has proven to be very happy to be carried into those dark depths. And even now, the lost and deluded are liking it and disliking those who resist being subjected to hellish rule and having association with billions of clueless idiots willingly participating in their own destruction.
Today's whole Race Industrial Complex is a harmful scam meant to divide people and fracture America. And it is wildly successful in that endeavor. Blacks today can now thank the heavens that racism once existed in America for this gives them the faux moral sledgehammer to sideline and de-person White Americans and give Persons-of-Color an undeserved and oversized importance in 21st Century America.
Racism of course did exist in America and needed to be eradicated in a healthy way. But not the way that the Racism Industrial Complex has gone about it to be one of the active agents to destroy America from within.
And don’t even get started on the kind of massive and profound and omnipresent influence that The Chosenites – the rabid Zionists and others who wrongly have declared themselves as God’s Favorites for Eternity - have had on the American Body and Spirit. That’s a whole deep level of affliction and disintegration of America. One again, racism for the sake of racism is wrong against any group. But the sledgehammer of so-called Anti-Semitism has become brutal and tyrannical that even the most legitimate and morally-based objections to things like the Gaza genocide are treated some kind of horrible sins. And that a sickening way to steal away a person’s right of moral compass and choice in the name of an undeserved favor and promotion of one single group above all others.
“An American common culture matters, and if we can’t put it together, we’re sunk. This is our chance to put it together.”
It’s too late for that. There are too many millions of America who are afflicted with the terminal disease of Wokeism. They do not want America to survive. They hate America and want it erased from the face of this Earth.
America may still have the same map borders as it did when the Greatest Generation was alive. But today those borders are a misleading myth. America is now terminally fractured.
And the only way forward is for Sane America to separate itself from the Lost Woke. Maybe ‘Red States’ and ‘Blue States’ is the way. But whatever the method... the America the World knew died in the 1960s and it never coming back.
And the sooner we all come to terms with that... the sooner we can begin to live in some kind of useful harmony again within groups that remember who and what they are -- and why.
We were healthy when we were racist. A sane people love themselves first and foremost. This kind of health is called racism in Whites, but not in other people.
Can't have a common culture with a political party that has polar opposite views of traditional America. They've gone off the cliff, past the event horizon, and down into the black hole, never to return. Solution?
Maybe just cut them off, no more freebies. What would happen if the Gimmes were just cut off, period? But then, what happens if the Gimme mob outnumbers the responsible crowd? Questions we are facing.
People who stick together are dangerous. Hence divide and counquer since the human family began and interlopers saw how to keep them enslaved.
You missed the point that Wars are not meant to be won. If they are won then why do you need a military industrial complex.
Furthermore, those well-familiar with the occult know that war is human sacrifice. Long never-ending wars that start up and stop at the most opportune times to correspond with celestial events, say, make the sacrifice of blood most optimized for the wicked.
War is control. War is having a common enemy to unite a group of people. War is started by a governmental elite, always looking for an excuse. War is power exerted by folks not affected by war. The MIC is an excuse, by the Deep State to control.
John distinguishes between government elite and corporate elite when in fact these guys just from one to the other all the time. He has a mental block which he loves too much to get rid of. He needs to keep things simple so he can BELIEVE.
The really big stories of our time are not covered by the MSM, and frequently, not even the alternate web media.
The biggest story of our time is the organized, concerted effort by Israel to exterminate the presence of Palestinians in "Greater Israel", with the active support of the United States, and the tacit support of Europe. In the US, the story is not covered. It is reframed as "..a war between Israel and Hamas". The coverage is very similar to the news coverage of COVID-19 (fear-mongering) and the mRNA injections (lies).
REAL ID is another big story hardly anyone talks about. It's a huge step towards mass surveillance.
Our good author is wildly lashing out. Why? What has happened in the last few days to trigger this attack on "hippie Boomers"? Not all Boomer were hippies, in fact most of them (us) weren't. And not all hippies were Boomers, either.
The children after WWII were divided into at least 4 groups, because there were too many of them born over too long a span (roughly 20 years) to cram them all into one "class". The Biggest Generation overwhelmed the Old Guard system, and only now in the end of its existence, can the results be examined.
There were the Patriots, who enlisted in the armed services, many of whom were destroyed in the Vietnam War and subsequently eliminated from the electorate and government. Subsequent wars of choice drained off more of them, until the revolt against Empire turned them away entirely. The election of Donald Trump has revived that group..
There were the Folk, rebuilding the back-to-the earth and rural life. They never went away, they just hid, keeping the heartland a haven for America.
There were the Ghetto, the foundation of the present Sanctuary City Resistance, trying to wipe out Whiteness and succeeding far too well.
And there were the Workers: going to school, working all the while, trying to continue the path our Founders set us upon.
Today's struggle is to erase the effects of this, the largest generation, if not "the Greatest", which I always thought was more hubris than fact.
Hippies were a subgroup of the Boomer generation, people who did not want to take individual responsibility for anything. Remember Jennie in Forrest Gump?
Now think about the Gimmes today, nothing much has changed, except there may be more of them.
Excellent observations about the need for a common culture to have a viable republic. I remember feeling like we won the battle to end the Vietnam travesty. That was the narrative. But we plain lost it, as we have in the successive forever wars, with Afghanistan being the most embarrassing. Maybe we can exit Israel and Ukraine before securing defeat there…. Or WW3?
"As was absolutely everything about the George Floyd riots of 2020, Wokery-in-action, with the torching of cities, the looting flash-mobs, and the tearing down of statues honoring American heroes..."
All funded by George Soros, augmented with radicalization propaganda pushed through free Obama phones and his radio stations. The entire monstrous plot was orchestrated to ignite latent forgotten resentments and hatreds in order to ruthlessly rip America apart. In Seattle during this time there was at least one radio station whose sole purpose was to enrage the black community. All it played were news events from history where whites either killed or caused injustice to them. This was before and during CHAZ/CHOP and likely played a big role in its coming to be.
How do I know? I was there. I went to CHAZ, and during driving over a week-long period to and from Seattle, I listened to that malicious hate spewing radio station, and it all became clear: We are being played and mercilessly divided:
The globablists' have successfully weaponized (and dramatically magnified) the Red vs Blue, East vs West, Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed, Boy vs Girl, Gay vs Straight, Brown vs White, and Pro-Life vs Choice dichotomies to exploit our innate tribal nature, and in doing so are dividing and conquering us. This us-vs-them separation makes us easy to control and direct with simple angry thoughts about the enemy who isn’t really our enemy - while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings. If we could collectively recognize this for what it is the NWO wouldn’t stand a chance.
The globalists now have the technology to do away with the left versus right control grid, and so they’re angling in for full control at an individual level: from the inside out. In order to build a new system, you must first destroy the old one, and oh boy, are they destroying. Actually, they are filling our minds with hatred for one another so that we will destroy it ourselves.
These forces we are up against cannot be overcome if we keep allowing them to divide and conquer us. We must let go of our pride and our resentments for one another - which were instilled in us through their psychological operations - and unite together or we stand no chance.
Our adversaries know this, which is why they've been fighting tooth and nail to poison the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family—they've been doing everything they can to decimate the ties that bind by disintegrating every trace of common ground and brotherhood between us.
Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology.
They do not stand a chance against the united, undivided resolve of even a small percentage of us—and they know it. This is the reason they are frantically fighting and sparing no expense to keep us depressed, oppressed, divided, demoralized, and traumatized. And so we will respond by uniting and taking back what is ours.
100 days have passed. By now a Democrat president would have arrested and jailed the puppeteers at the highest levels. America has until November 2026 to get moving on Soros and others who are responsible for the actions you describe. I don’t think we will see arrests and trials let alone convictions except for some low hanging fruit. Just look at the pre-election promises to release the Kennedys assassinations. A nothing burger.
Time to take matters into our own hands and get control of our local town councils, resources and destinies. Waiting for someone else to save us was always a fool's errand, no matter who or how grand the promises or intentions, and we fall for it every-time.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
We are the masters of our fate
And the captains of our souls
-William Ernest Henley
No one is coming to save us, except ourselves.
"Everyone is looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror." -A Lunatic
We are the ones we've been waiting for...
Your desire is great. My cynical side says that the American people are not ready for your answers, they are so dependent now on the elites that they have turned into a cultural no-man's land, a miasma of cultural crap that the concept of "American" no longer exists. The signs are everywhere, labels being not "I am an American", but I am a Black American, Mexican American, Irish American, or Chinese American. Let us remember the "White Supremicist American".
I think of the late 1700s when the FF did their thing. The East Coast was English, White and European and the founding documents were aimed at that population. Our diversified population since, especially in the 21st century, hates that documentation and the White people it represented as the common culture. Res Republica itself is under attack as each group wants its culture to be dominant. E Pluribus Unum is becoming a wink-wink joke as these groups try to project their power. The best evidence is the US Congress, the biggest group of political idiocy in our history. Is it any wonder they are viewed favorably by less than 20% of the people? With as many completely different groups that they represent, no wonder nothing ever gets done. Add on the fact that a bunch of ass-kissing, ambivalent, Whites that favor their own Deep State allegiance over representing their culture, and the "glue" that has made the USA work over the centuries is quickly leaving.
The result? Each group is segregating itself geographically and thus politically. The USA used to be a respite from European discord and separation, people came here to get away from European monarchies, feudalism and animosity. Now look at us, we have the president of the EU over the weekend calling the USA the bad guys, because why? Take a wild guess, Trump.
Balkanization is coming and fast if the Trump revolution does not take. The Left wants the separatist revolution, the ultimate division of the country. They are supported by China, Soros and his henchmen and the Rothschild groups. The Rothscilds have done it before, Britain, so they know what they are doing. It is up to the people of this country to stop this, the expansion of MAGA into a dominant majority to stop the traitors on the Left. If the geo-politics of America has destroyed that possibility, America as a unit, a common culture, is finished.
DC is to America as the City of London is to the UK. Occupying powers, both.
JohnAZ - thanks for the very insightful comments! I don’t think the ‘Trump revolution’ is going to take. Not being negative…just realistic. Wish I was wrong.
Stop the whining and start helping to win. Pessimists need to get out of the boat if they won't row.
I don’t consider my comment as ‘whining’. Also, maybe you could specifically define ‘helping to win’? You know nothing about me.
We all have our special gifts. If you truly want to advance a new Golden Era for the USA and the rest of this small world, then put your
talents to that goal.
And yes, you were “whining”
Optimists like to call realists pessimists. Rick, realists, Like Trump, need to steer the scow.
Very well stated, captured....
If it was going to work, it would have worked by now. Let's face it: The Blacks have said no. First they wanted no part of America, now they fantasize about ruling it. Time to send them away as Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, et al advised.
Too late for that? Give them a generous swathe of the Deep South to rule and ruin. The results would be hilarious. And yes, we would recoup all of that territory in time and not very much time at that.
I think it was the book "Please Stop Helping Us," by an American Black, which revealed that Ebonics is actually degenerate WHITE culture from Wales and Ireland from early 20th century immigration. Their kids attended white schools and assimilated. But the Blacks think incompetence resentment poor language criminality are "Black culture," and that Blacks with class are betraying their race. The remedy is to get rid of LBJ's legacy, Affirmative Action, which is AGAINST THE LAW and results in this horrible culture. Blacks etc. need EQUAL OPPORTUNITY so they have incentive.
They've already ruined big parts of the South...Atlanta, Macon, Birmingham, Memphis, Louisiana, Mississippi to name a few.
Yes, Lugh. my point exactly about the schism of America. Blacks are just one of the folks that would prefer leaving the USA. Latinos, Muslims and Chinese(Asians) follow too. The only problem is that when the problems leave, they will very quickly be clamoring to re-join as they fail. Refusal to re-join would have to be part of the secession deal. We agree.
The mess we ALL are in took decades to create. And you honestly expect to resolve it 100 days ? What Universe do you inhabit ?
Where the hell do you live? Better send them to your neighborhood, Billy Yank.
I didn't know the Fantastic Four existed in the 1700's. Or was that founding fathers. Daayim. Spell it out people.
You prefaced your remarks with "cynical side"
which marks you as not much help in this current existential struggle.
We might even call you a "sunshine" patriot.
"Realist" is a losing (loser) adjective.
Realists (all dutifully covered by the legacy media) claimed Trump could not be elected. Hmmm?
These are times that try a man's soul...etc.
Get in the boat and row, damn it.
You can play your role to prevent this from happening. Don't despair. Don't give up. Don't retire. This is YOUR moment in History to help improve the mess. Every little bit you do advances our righteous cause.
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams, American Founding Father
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison, American Founding father.
The debate about the supernatural should have been settled thousands of years ago. It’s unfalsifiable in reality, it doesn't exist, and you can't prove a negative. But here we are still. Bogged down because of the influence of ancient religions.
Having a hope in God does not make God real. I'll never understand when people deny the true power of their own free will.
"May God Bless you and may God bless America!" Why? What kind of God would bless a Nation providing F-35's and their 2,000lb bombs to a mass-murderer to drop on hospitals and refugee camps? And let the mass-murderer meet with its leader in its sacred office?
Wow. Someone is angry at God or has daddy issues. Time to grow up.
Yes, we do have free will. And God gave it to us. That's why we make mistakes and why bad things happen. Compare America to other countries that deny God and I think you'll see a big difference in their success and prosperity. Something helped make America a great Country. Why haven't others been as fortunate?
I can't believe you wrote that, Me!
That's the most condescending* comment I have ever read on the internet!
Actually, the Bible was all written by men with Daddy Issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeA-Nf5eYqk&t=11s
And America is a great Country, eh? Is that so?
How about "Self-proclaimed Great Country".
"American Exceptionalism" that overlooks that American history is morally flawed because of its dealing with Native Americans, slavery, civil rights, and social welfare problems that it cannot be an exemplar of virtue.
Compare America to any other countries that deny God and I know that you'll see that they are just as successful and prosperous. How many countries have you lived in? You are the one who needs to grow up!
*An adjective that describes someone who treats others as if they are less important or intelligent.
New Zealand: where slavery was finally abolished in 1840, but WalkFree.org estimates 8000 modern day slaves still exist. https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/new-zealand/
At least we ended slavery here. 🤡
Ask your Maori and other indigenous people about taking lands and colonizing. 🍆
BTW... we don't claim to be perfect, but we try to fix our wrongs. People risk their lives to come here. New Zealand? Other former British Colonies? Not so much.
I think your sheep are calling. Bye. Cheers!
Well... believe it! Get over yourself.
Mark Twain famously said: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
More projection from the guy that thinks he is the smartest one in the room.
Oh, my, yes.
I've also heard of a similar expression, something like, 'Never wrestle with a pig. You will get dirty and they will enjoy it.'.
Once in awhile, I like to thumb my nose at that kind of thing and see if I can enjoy it, myself, and even beat the pig at its own game. :D (Ask happy-face-sunflower-icon Ben about that.) :D
~ Lookin' Out For Little Bo Peep Down Under <3 ~
Our bus is stopped in this tiny town for about half an hour, in between Gisborne and Napier, and I notice a sheep on the loose, so I decide to chase it so I can pet it or maybe even see if it has an address on some tag or something so I can maybe bring it home or at least tie it up somewhere, but it just keeps running away. My companion tells me later that the bus driver and a couple of passengers were wondering what I thought I was trying to do. Maybe catch it, skin and gut it, cook it and eat it! I wish I had my rollerblades!
So anyway, we get into Napier for an hour or so. It's a lovely Sunday or a holiday I forget, and kind of early morning and I still need new wheels and bearings for my rollerblades. It's a long shot, but I decide to put on my blades and blade into downtown. Lo and behold, I find a sports shop that is not only open but has freaking bearings and wheels! This is not long after going around Auckland (as far as I could) for them, to no avail. And so I have a good time in Whanganui smoothly blading all over with my new wheels and bearings for a few days around New Years.
There's not much that beats rollerblades if you like to travel around locally, fast, cheaply, conveniently and on the fly.
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Little Bo Peep: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of the Rhyme
youtu.be/XwXtFikTNH0?si=SUgma31bhRCCvLXj
You make a lot of good points. Where you and I may part company is in the use of the word supernatural. Typical definition - a manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. The "beyond scientific understanding" is the important part, as our scientific understanding of the universe is quite limited, so a lot of things deemed supernatural could be very real, we just don't understand them yet. Imagine a tribesman from deep in the Amazon woke up at the Rio airport - everything would appear to be "magic" or "god" to this person with no modern background.
One small example is the near death experiences of hospital patients who describe in great detail the toys and other knick knacks placed at the top of cabinets in hospital rooms, in places that can't be seen from the ground. Many books have been written of these experiences and hospitals continue to study the phenomena. Scientists have theorized about multiple dimensions for years - could this explain the NDE if we move into another dimension upon death? Who knows? But if our science gets better we may know someday, and may be able to conduct good experiments to prove it.
This has nothing to do with religion (which I agree is mostly nonsense and about control) but has everything to do with the way the universe actually works and how we lowly humans fit into it, things we know very little about.
What If There Is Evidence For The Supernatural?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En8829OmJa4
Fatal flaw in your argument Scott.
If evidence proving a specific "supernatural" phenomena is real were found, then definitionally that would just be natural. The term "supernatural" is fine for categorizing ideas of things that don't have any evidence of actual existence, like ghosts and God, but if your claim is that such things exist, not that they are merely ideas, then you should not be calling them "supernatural".
The question is, how could we find evidence or measure the supernatural? If we could, by logic and reason, it would be a natural event.
If you found evidence for the "supernatural" then you'd have to redefine that as natural. It would by default be a part of the natural world, even if it's a part we don't yet understand.
I'm sure when humans discovered magnetism it probably seemed like a supernatural force.
A misconception of science and personal incredulity based on ignorance of the science doesn't count as "supernatural evidence".
Take care
Add the word "preternatural" to your vocabulary. You will thank me.
Is there a difference between the supernatural and the preternatural?
Is this linked to mental health in some way?
There's critically thinking in a discovery method of the tangible; and then there's mindfuck masturbation of the absurd.
"Time to take matters into our own hands and get control of our local town councils, resources and destinies." ~ TriTorch
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"One thing I would say about the prospects for government action. Governments are crowds. They are reactive not proactive. And essentially it means that whatever they do, they're... extrapolating past trends forward and not anticipating trend changes. So that's like driving your car, flooring it, while only looking in the rear view mirror. It's practically a guarantee of a really nasty accident. Plus the people who are in power tend to have the most invested in the status-quo. They tend to have benefitted greatly from that. These are not the people you are going to look to to change that kind of system. I more or less ignore them and I pay attention to municipal politics and things at lower levels, but I don't expect anything good from the top down..." ~ Nicole Foss (over 10 years ago)
You got it Strange, thanks for posting that! Here is a relatively exploration of exactly that: https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/apathy-is-the-fire-in-which-we-burn
Thanks, I'll check it out!
Except Trump was not a part of that "crowd". He was an outsider and at least for some of the people (citizens who bother to vote), some of the time, he has moved the Overton window.
There is also a percentage of people previously politically disengaged who are now engaged.
Isn't this worth paying attention to rather than just ignoring it?
That's in part why I pop in, Dunc. Foss' quote is just that, but I think I get its gist/her sentiment (at least at the time the quote was made). Of course it helps to pay attention to some things (and I imagine Foss does or she wouldn't have written about it) but maybe not too much where it gets in the way of one trying to get out of the way, such as of an impending accident, or whatever have you.
Governments are the people in charge. They are proactive, it's the people who are under government auspices that are reactive, some positively, other negatively. The government wraps the status quo in propaganda of progress while they continue to gather power and wealth.
"These are not the people you are going to look to to change that kind of system." ~ Nicole Foss
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The only hope some of us have in that regard, Cosmo T Kat, is precisely anarchy-- as per one or more of its definitions.
If you're happy with your own choice of definition for it, along with the 'nanny-state', that's your prerogative of course. Just don't make it ours-- you know, mandatory-- if we don't want it. That's how we get social unrest, wars and related.
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"The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not." ~ Joseph Sobran
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"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable..." ~ H.L. Mencken
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"Grown men do not need leaders." ~ Edward Abbey
Soros should be arrested for inciting anarchy, chaos and crime. He is treasonous and devoid of any true feelings towards those he pretends to be helping. Yet, he is hailed as a philanthropist and humanitarian. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has a Nazi mentality, psychopathic mind and is what one would call a philanthropath not a philanthropist.
Soros should be arrested and tried. The obstacle? He controls too much wealth.
It's not the wealth that is the inhibitor, it's the protection he gets from the politicians who've been bought off. Much of his wealth was enabled and protected by his backers in the City of London. He is their chaos merchant.
As I see it, his wealth has bought the protection.
Yes, it has, but it is not that he controls too much, it's that he cannot be criticized. the protection comes for the lobby and the City of London.
It didn't do Nicolae Ceaușescu much good in the end, though, did it?
He is also protected by even more wealthy and powerful folks.
"Soros should be arrested for inciting anarchy..." ~ Cosmo T Kat
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"Anarchy is democracy taken seriously, as in Switzerland, where issues of national importance are decided by direct vote of all citizens. Where each citizen, after his period of military training, takes his weapon home with him, to keep for life. Anarchy is democracy taken all the way, in every major sector of social life. For example, political democracy will not survive in a society which permits a few to accumulate economic power over the many. Or in a society which delegates police and military power to an elite corps of professionals. Sooner or later the professionals will take over. In my notion of an anarchist community every citizen–man or woman–would be armed, trained, capable when necessary of playing the part of policeman or soldier. A healthy community polices itself; a healthy society would do the same. Looters, thugs, criminals may appear anywhere, anytime, but in nature such types are mutants, anomalies, a minority; the members of a truly democratic, anarchistic community would not require outside assistance in dealing with them. Some might call this vigilante justice. I call it democratic justice. Better to have all citizens participate in the suppression and punishment of crime–and share in the moral responsibility–than turn the nasty job over to some quasi-criminal type (or hero) in a uniform with a tin badge on his shirt. Yes, we need heroes. We need heroines. But they should serve only as inspiration and examples, not as leaders.
No doubt the people of today’s Lebanon, for example, would settle gladly for an authoritarian government capable of suppressing the warring factions. But such an authoritarian government would provoke the return of the irrepressible human desire for freedom, leading in turn to rebellion, revolt and revolution. If Lebanon were not so badly overpopulated, the best solution there–as in South Africa–would be a partition of territory, a devolution into self-governing, independent regions and societies. This is the natural tendency of any population divided by religion, race or deep cultural differences, and it should not be restrained. The tendency runs counter, however, to the love of power, which is why centralized governments always attempt to crush separatist movements.
Government is a social machine whose function is coercion through monopoly of power. Any good Marxist understands this. Like a bulldozer, government serves the caprice of any man or group who succeeds in seizing the controls. The purpose of anarchism is to dismantle such institutions and to prevent their reconstruction. Ten thousand years of human history demonstrate that our freedoms cannot be entrusted to those ambitious few who are drawn to power; we must learn–again–to govern ourselves. Anarchism does not mean 'no rule'; it means 'no rulers'. Difficult, but not utopian, anarchy means and requires self-rule, self-discipline, probity, character."
~ Edward Abbey, Theory of Anarchy, 1988, The Anarchist Library,
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/edward-abbey-theory-of-anarchy
"Anarchy is democracy taken seriously"
That's never been true. Anarchy is violence to achieve goals that suit particular ideologies of disparate groups often just a few individuals. It does not suggest democracy, at all. What you describe above has some resemblance to the purpose of the U.S. Constitution when first written. We are supposed to be a constitutional Republic based on democratic principals. This ideal seems to have been discarded in favor of changing values that suit some, but not all citizens. Democracy tends to lead to tyranny. It's been said, that Democracy has been called the worst form of government, except for all others which have been tried. We tried Constitutional Republic and it has worked, but as we devolve into Democracy instead, the breakdown is obvious as is the tyranny. anarchism in the form of BLM and antifa has been active, and this will not lead to more democracy, but as you state, "Government is a social machine whose function is coercion through monopoly of power. Any good Marxist understands this" and this is what Democracy in America is devolving into and anarchy plays a vital part. Multiculturalism, DEI, and dual citizenship is breaking the social fabric which is hanging by a weak thread.
"Anarchy is a form of society without rulers. As a type of stateless society, it is commonly contrasted with states, which are centralized polities that claim a monopoly on violence over a permanent territory. Beyond a lack of government, it can more precisely refer to societies that lack any form of authority or hierarchy. While viewed positively by anarchists, the primary advocates of anarchy, it is viewed negatively by advocates of statism, who see it in terms of social disorder.
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During the Age of Enlightenment, philosophers began to look at anarchy in terms of the 'state of nature', a thought experiment used to justify various forms of hierarchical government. By the late 18th century, some philosophers began to speak in defence of anarchy, seeing it as a preferable alternative to existing forms of tyranny. This lay the foundations for the development of anarchism, which advocates for the creation of anarchy through decentralisation and federalism. " ~ Wikipedia
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"Multiculturalism, DEI, and dual citizenship is breaking the social fabric which is hanging by a weak thread." ~ Cosmo T Kat
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DEI is via your State engineering, and you are being engineered as its product, by the way, which has little to do with anarchy as I offer it.
And away we go…turning everything into Reps vs Dems. Retired - you don’t get it. It doesn’t matter who is the ‘President’.
I believe that I am accusing the powers that be for the crimes and merely point out the Democrats are aggressive and the Republicans are weak kneed. You sound hysterical.
I sound hysterical? Not sure how you got that from my comment.
You don't sound hysterical, I'd say cynical and for good reason.
Thank you. Yes, I admit to being cynical. Hard not to be in recent years.
You are not alone. Many of us are turning more cynical. We are getting snippets of positive which tends to be overwhelmed by bigger events. For example DOGE got everyone excited and for the last 60 days plus, not much new. Why? On the international scene, it's the same cabal leading us into wars for Israel and the Zionists. This helps us not at all, but it enriches the bankers.
Dem vs. GOP is ignorance. It has been obsolete for a decade or more.
Right now two parties: Liberal ult-Left vs. MAGA. The ult-Left want their government control of everything (Deep State) and MAGA wants the Deep State destroyed. IMO, two new parties by 28.
Trump, unfortunately, never fails to disappoint. What, looking at both terms, has he done for people, say, with less $500,000 in assets? Precious little. How about not taxing labor, and particularly tips? No, can’t do that.
Only the GOP majority in Congress can make these changes. Trump has proposed, Congress must dispose.
Too many self-serving RINO's on the GOP side this is why they always fail. They are more comfortable taking bribes, and participating in corruption lining their pockets to care about the country.
I believe the democrats recently voted down not taxing tips or social security.
Have you ever seen a tax that the Left does not like? Look and Scandinavia, the "Happy Lands", cradle to grave. No wonder they are happy, they never have the anxiety of taking risks, or being independent. They just make their wages, give the vast majority of it to the government, and the government takes care of them. No problems?
Just think, if everyone was so happy, why is there a Minnesota? Scandinavia, West?
Oh dear...Yawn!
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/worlds-happiest-countries-2025-wellness/index.html
Socialist Countries dominate the top positions in the latest World Happiness Report.
The US ranks a lowly 24th.
“The decline in the U.S. in 2024 was partly attributable to Americans younger than age 30 feeling worse about their lives....... Today’s young people In America report feeling less supported by friends and family, less free to make life choices and less optimistic about their living standards.
”https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democracy-index-by-country
Norway has the highest democracy score in the world, with a 9.81, with perfect 10s in electoral process, participation, and political culture.
Second on the list is New Zealand, at 9.61 out of 10.
29th on the list is the United States with 7.85 out of 10. Oh dear!
New Zealand went into hyper hysterical coercion mode during the plandemic
I live in New Zealand. I know you are talking out of a hole in your arse, LWB.
Except for masking in the Supermarket ~ my daily life was no different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country
USA: 1,193,165 deaths. 3,493 deaths per capita.
NZ: 4,284 deaths. 834 deaths per capita.
I can hear SheilaB screaming as I type all the way down here in NZ! LOL
Must be your tinnitus, Dennis. I provide you with evidence and sense. You respond 'Fuck off'.
US deaths weren't caused by a virus. Dr Denis Rancourt knocked that one on the head years ago. They were caused by the 'countermeasures' to a non-existent pandemic.
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/there-was-no-pandemic
Try not to scream hysterically, Dennis. Just read the evidence and remember that even old people can learn new information if they are willing to put their ego aside.
For the past two and a half years, U.S. hospitals have routinely screened newly admitted patients for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Hospitals report every SARS-CoV-2 positive patient who dies in the hospital as a COVID-19-related death. -08/31/22 12:30
The statistics for covid 19 death are completely biased wrong as a result for a two-year period.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/3622402-mandatory-hospital-screenings-fuel-inaccurate-covid-death-counts/
The screening was meaningless, because (a) the PCR process is not a diagnostic test, as repeated loudly and often by its Nobel-laureate inventor, Dr Kary Mullis) and (b) because they weren't screening for a real thing. It's possible that there was some radiation poisoning or chemical poisoning in certain key locations (e.g. New York or Bergamo) to create the illusion of a deadly pandemic, but there is no evidence of the existence of the SARS-Cov-2 virus (or indeed of any other virus). The deaths are easily all accounted for by:
1. hospital and care-home death protocols (ventilators, Remdesivir, Midazolam/morphine, isolation, withdrawal of care, withdrawal of food and fluids, blanket DNAR notices meaning ambulances would not take sick patients who needed to go to hospital.
2. withdrawal of care in the community: halving of antibiotic prescriptions, people actively discouraged from seeking medical help or afraid to do so:
3. depression, mental illness, biological stress and suicides brought on by lockdown; physical illness and death caused by biological stress (see work of Canadian scientist, Dr Denis Rancourt).
Honestly, Ben, when you read how virologists claim to 'isolate' viruses - something I didn't even look into until about a year ago - to call it witch-doctor medicine would be an insult to witch doctors.
https://drsambailey.com/a-farewell-to-virology-expert-edition/
I hope you will be interested enough to look, Ben. Most people are terrified of the logical consequences of finding out that 'the authorities' have lied to them.
Jessica Hockett has written extensively on the New York supposed crisis in particular.
https://www.woodhouse76.com/
Only the most honest are willing to go the full distance and look at the clear evidence that the thing was faked from start to finish.
And they're surely going to do it again very soon with a fake 'bird flu' pandemic either in the autumn or next year - Moderna have been building plants all over the place to develop ever more toxic mRNA 'vaccines'.
The only way to be totally resilient to their lies is to learn the truth about virology. There has NEVER been a pandemic of a respiratory illness. For 1918 flu, see Rosenau experiments, which proved that the illness was neither infectious nor contagious. There's a reason why schoolchildren were never taught about Dr Rosenau's experiments or about the UK's Common Cold Unit, which was established in 1947 and closed its doors in 1989, having failed to demonstrate that colds or flu transmit from sick to healthy people.
See Daniel Roytas' recent book 'Can you catch a cold? Untold history and human experiments'.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-You-Catch-Cold-Experiments/dp/1763504409/ref=sr_1_1
Sorry for the long post. I don't see the point of telling half a story or telling a story without providing evidence/references.
You are nasty piece of work, Sheila!
The idiom, “You can catch more bees with honey than vinegar” is as clear as day and you have obviously never heard of it.
Though a figurative expression, its application works in real life, with bees, with flies, and with people.
It is much easier to convince people of your point of view by being polite rather than by being rude and insolent.
Dennis, Dennis, look in the mirror.
You bounce around this board insulting people and saying they are 'just a bit stupid', then you complain when anyone responds to you as you deserve. Look at the posts above. Yours ends with 'I can hear SheilaB screaming, all the way down hear in NZ', even though I have never 'screamed' at you, internet style, at any point. Unlike you, I have never told you to 'fuck off', which you did merely in reponse to some factual information (you also told me to take my meds).
I have given you information that you are afraid to engage with and that you are threatened by because of your religious zealotry, as explained elsewhere. It is an extremely dangerous religious zealotry, since it's likely to take the rest of us down with you. The only way to stop the approaching juggernaut of evil technocracy is mass non-compliance. And we have a pussy like you who is obsessed with other people's religious beliefs instead of doing something useful in that regard.
There is nothing nasty or rude or insolent (insolent - seriously, who do you think you are, Dennis?) in my post above. I suggested you not scream hysterically, mirroring YOUR use of the 'screaming' trope.
You seem to be an admirer of Goebbels' advice to accuse your opponent of what you are doing yourself. I'm not trying to catch bees, Dennis, I'm just putting you back in your box when you get too far out of line.
You are an extremely unpleasant and thoroughly hypocritical and dishonest individual, Dennis. I'm not the only one to point it out. And I'll keep pointing it out unless you behave better. Try to improve, as OG rightfully suggested.
Oh dear. Who gives a shit about a happiness report where the first in line are cradle to grave socialists? And about to be taken over by refugees.
Google the Dunning Kruger Effect my friend,
You seem to be infected with a chronic case.
See if you can find a professional to help you with it.
Take care.
It's a waste of time to argue with athiests, people.
Ho, ho, Dennis. Did it. The last sentence is “feeding your own inflated self-assessment”. Were you looking in a mirror when you wrote this? If anyone on this blog fits this description, it is you and your constant barrage of atheistic and socialistic bullshit. With you I do not have to defend myself, I do not continuously tear people down to feed my ego, like you do.
If anyone on this one needs professional care, it is you. Try a priest as a starter.
Do those your priests like to diddle old men's penis's too John? LOLs
I do not continuously tear people down to feed my ego my friend. Way too old for that. My ego without your God and your constant barrage of anti-socialism diatribes is fabulous!
Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be mocked. Religions deserve to be mocked. I don't mock people for being religious. I do however mock those who insist their personal religion is exempt from mockery.
Pointing out inconsistencies, or problems with an argument, only becomes “tearing people down” when addressing religious folk who are insecure about their believes. Because I do not believe in God, I am a "fallen human being?" Damn Christians are arrogant. The one I get the biggest laugh out of is ....."Well, fuck it then! I just know you are going to hell!" LOL
I love when people are like, “Atheists are so arrogant and smug!” when atheists are trying to be rational and civil with another theist. Atheists don't constantly tell theists that they will be eternally tortured for their beliefs. Who's being more vitriolic? Me, or you, my friend?
Christianity 101. If you can’t give evidence for your beliefs, attack the person who doesn’t believe you.
Okay, registered, ignored, sympathized.
Sorta like cows and hogs just before they go down the slaughter chute. Happy till the premature end.
Yes, that is the duty of a nation's elite: To protect the people and provide security. They succeeded in that until they went crazy and started bringing in the scum of the third world like we do. The more dangerous and difficult the better, right? Have us compete with coolies, right?
You never start at the level of Principle, that why you end up speaking nonsense. You can't avoid philosophy. It comes before economics.
Not the purpose of the Elite, the purpose of the government. Keeping the Elite out of the government might make it more to your liking. The Elite do not give one damn about the people.
Philosophy sets the scene, the FF were philisophical politicians. The economics follow the philosophy. What do you do when the philosophy is wrong? When it is a matter of opinion? In my eyes, for example, much of your philosophy is speaking nonsense. So who is right? What is the ultimate Truth?
Of course they did.
Give the MAN (DJT) a break! You ALL know who he’s up against! Patience!
President Trump is a billionaire who DID . NOT . NEED . TO . DO . THIS .
Mike Benz (I think) said words to the effect that We the People have no idea how many knife fights in phone booths are happening backstage in D.C.
Too many citizens want results in internet time. Too many back seat drivers who have never driven a car. Too many ready to abandon a man who ALREADY SAVED OUR ASSES TWICE (from Killary and from the Totalitarian Willie-Sucker).
--> Everyone bitching about President Trump's results in what are still fewer than 100 days is exposing what they'd do in a lifeboat.
Were I President Trump, I'd say, "Fuck it. Melania, we're outta here.". Then, with half-dead George Soros, toast the demise of the ungrateful citizenry. President Trump could do that, were he so inclined. Many of these comments make me wish he would.
How many of these comments are from America hating British subjects, Chinese plants and Islamofascists?
Tell that to the Middle East dead he's still enabling to bomb.
Go ahead and wake them up and say, 'Patience!'. And then slowly place all their shattered fragments back where you found them.
It's been 100 days. Jeese!
My thoughts exactly!
Imagine how these demanding, impatient, --> pseudo-intellectual <-- chickenshits treat wait staff.
Lower fuel prices and lowered overall inflation acceleration.
That alone is huge.
The game of chess requires ponds, knights, bishops, rooks, queens, to be captured.
I’m the most impatient person I know.
But put your attitude right and put your imagination to the vision that these demons will be arrested and charged and hung if their crimes demand it.
Bad enough having the democrats fight us add the rhinos and rogue judges.
Unite the self unite the clan !!! Our only hope.
Really? You respond with "Democrats vs Republicans"? Did you learn nothing?
Republican-Democrat, left-right, it's division and that is how the elites want it. Chaos is profitable to the elites and it keeps us distracted while they go about planning our demise.
Phil Denter - exactly! This is, as you know, one of the many ways they keep people gaslit and distracted. Why can’t people see it?
JHK lays out one outline of the "human" factor of the history and evolution of our culture. It's very complex, but it appears to me that the "elites" have been busy gaslighting, distracting and destroying the fabric of traditional American culture in pursuit of wealth and control. And the endless stream of propaganda and gaslighting hoodwinked many good people, and fooled them into complying with the changes as opposed to standing up against them, early and often.
It remains to be seen if Trump or others can bring America back from the brink, or if it collapses in a flurry of predicaments and problems as The Long Emergency continues. 20 years ago I found it rather easy to understand the basics of resource depletion and the end of cheap energy. I vastly underestimated the people factor, and how crazy that would get as the American Empire grew long in the tooth. It's made it much more difficult to be hopeful as the chains of division and grift are so difficult to break.
Elites? How about the fact that both parties are in civil wars internally and both by the same cause.
Deep State vs. Populism, the government trying to retain power and grow more against the people.
There is no more Dem. vs. GOP, the battle is between the believers in centralized government against the believers in individuality. IMHO, by 2028 there will be two new majority capable parties. The unity of the country depends who wins that contest.
"Elites? How about the fact that both parties are in civil wars internally and both by the same cause." The fact is, both parties expressly or tacitly support American involvement, with ballooning of the national debt and attendant inflation, in one undeclared war after another- if you felt like going trillions in debt, would people not be better off if it had gone for affordable housing? Modernization of the electrical grid? Repair rotting infrastructure? Anything but being blown to bits in the form of bombs and missiles? And yet this is exactly what Americans have let happen. At least, during the Vietnam era, there was a functioning peace movement- where are they today?(Admittedly, where they exist, you will not hear about it in the blood-soaked MSM).
It's always good to have definitions. By "elites", I'm thinking of the Uber-Wealthy who control the puppets in both parties, which is just a sideshow trying to fool Americans in thinking their votes matter. It appears to me the "deep State", President and the Senators are at best middle management in the hierarchy of control.
The battle is around the model of government we should have, and centralized vs individuality is one description of that. Maybe that will result in the birth of new political parties. But until the reins of control are taken from the elites, the battle to me appears to be the hidden Uber-wealthy puppet masters versus the rest of us. In other words, it's about the 5000 year old organization of wealth and control versus the masses. And we've never seen a truly free, fair and equitable arrangement in terms of government, so I'm not sure how we get there. The first century or so of the American Republic was better for the common man in many ways, but the government itself was infiltrated and corrupted on Day 1.
What I think is more likely is we get hoodwinked again into a revolution/Civil War and an outcome that appears to be more favorable, but as always has the same old elites running things.
I read that silly book. Capital centralizes just as Marx said. So your premise is utter nonsense.
Unfettered capital centralizes more slowly and organically. Marxism centralizes by design, eliminating democracy, while simultaneously claiming to be acting "for the people".
Both are evil, but primarily because they (as all systems) eventually become completely infested with intelligent psychopaths, who simply have no interest in people who are not members of their little clubs.
Psychopathy is the actual problem.
~ Failed States; Failed Superorganism ~
"Psychopathy is the actual problem." ~ Anti-Hip
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Maybe or at least in part, but there may be an even more fundamental problem, even a paradox for the human species:
Namely, its social bias toward social complexity that necessitates hyperspecialization that necessitates oversimplicity and assorted detachments from the 'natural holistic life' that creates a kind of social lobotomy... Then crash, rinse and repeat.
In other words, we are not ants, bees or termites-- we are not simple enough to take on our respective specializations like those arthropods would-- drone, queen, worker, soldier-- and so our hyperspecializations take their toll on our otherwise complex brains and it corrupts us.
It's more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
The trick(s) may be in part to recognize the paradox and then take the steps to effectively respond to it.
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Nate Hagens of the previous The Oil Drum website fame calls, or has called, the human, a 'superorganism', but that's where I break with him in that regard. We are not quite a superorganism, but keep trying, but cannot really be because we are too complex, unlike the arthropodal superorganisms. They can manage it, we cannot. But we keep trying and keep failing.
"social bias toward social complexity that necessitates hyperspecialization that necessitates oversimplicity and assorted detachments from the 'natural holistic life' that creates a kind of social lobotomy... Then crash, rinse and repeat."
I can agree with that. But it appears to me hyperspecialization has, so far, arguably gotten no worse for an *individual's* cognition than what happened about 200 years ago with the industrial complexity; it's just shifted into ever-deeper cells (Mandelbrot-like?), in which the cutting edge is now entirely in virtual realms. Otherwise TPTB would have trouble shepherding this along. And so it also makes sense for them to have shifted gears into AI.
The Capitalists are men and like all men they conspire or breathe together. Smith's fantasy of the invisible hand or neutral or natural (but benign!) process provided them with an ideal shield to hide behind.
You'd be surprise how many do see it, but also feel powerless. that is exactly how it was intended.
Cosmo T Cat - I think you’re right on this.
Look at the plank platforms.
Democrats are straight up Marxists.
Republicans for the most part are Conservative light.
There is a difference the problem with Republicans is they do not fight hard enough for their beliefs.
Democrats tend to be in lock step while Republicans are all over the place in belief systems.
Canadian know thyself and stop pretending to know American politics.
Right. Only Americans can judge America while it tries to run the world.
Good thinking.
Did you learn nothing from this article? You sound divisive.
Ha! Yes. I am dividing those who can learn from the dolts.
But are you assuming that I don’t understand that both parties are corrupted? Sounds like it to me. Furthermore, the article uses the phrase, “boomers”. That is divisive. Putting that comment aside, I enjoy reading the author’s work here very much and like his take on things.
Phil lives in a country that is just as divided by sectionalism as we are. Both countries need a reason for unity, a reason why they should not just divvie themselves up into little sectional pieces. Today, Canada is making a big choice, and it is a reflection of the USA. Watch and see.
Trump slaughtered the Conservative: Pierre Poilievre. Weird how Trump wanted the WEF central banker, eh?
Trump and Carney will feign being foes while Trump's mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of the US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Phil, thought about you, re: the Carney election. FYI, the Alberta folks are starting to You Tube like crazy about secession, which they did say before your election they would do.
Face it Phil, both countries have “mortgaged” themselves to death, but then so has the rest of the world. If Canada goes financially belly up, IMO, so does the USA and vice versa. It will be interesting to see WHAT they do to try to avoid bankruptcy. Also, how to avoid influence by China. Again, IMO, if Canada goes to the EU for assistance, they are as bankrupt as everyone else.
Also, I am not so sure the result is a technocracy as the vast majority of the population does not even understand what that is. If you are right, they result will be a technocracy as force on top, maybe 5% and a bunch of serfs 95% eking by under their “guidance”, IOW, feudalism and the destruction of the middle class that goes along with it.
BTW, both sides of the border, good luck getting a car assembly job. Have you seen Tesla’s assembly line, pure robots. FYI, Musk actually has designed robotic assembly machines, then found out that people power is better and scrapped the robot.
I do agree with you on the feigning point, already they have folks scratching their heads with amiable phone calls. Do you think they will attempt a closing of the ranks, so to speak? I hope so.
One more, Phil, a You Tube was discussing that Mexico is doing things re: the tariffs, that is “shocking even Canada”. With the cartels and the China influence in Mexico, is USMCA dead? It was not working anyway or this lather would never have happened.
Do not get too intense about Alberta et al, we have ten states in the USA that want to join Canada, according to the You Tube “experts”.
YouTube experts. 🤣
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You never really addressed anything that I said, John.
Yes, USMCA is dead. Trump killed it. It actually was working (over 99% of the trade between Canada and USA was FREE TRADE (tariff-free)).
This "lather" happened because, as he's clearly, repeatedly told us, Trump is destroying Canada's economy to weaken it to then annex it. Your "logic" that it wasn't working otherwise Trump would not have done what he did is pure lameass.
Your problem, OG, is that you are consistent, consistently wrong. Your consistent nationalism about Canada is wrong, just as mine about Trump is wrong at times.
No, Trump did not kill it, Biden and Mexico killed it. Canada killed it with its ignoring a growing trade imbalance with the USA. Mexico’s cartels killed it along with 40000 Americans last year. You ALWAYS ignore the fact that the USA has been preyed upon by its neighbors, defending Canada (You’re welcome) since WW2, (which Carney acknowledged by the way) and enriching Mexico for the last 40 years at the USA’s detriment financially.
If you want to get rid of the tariffs and “annexation” it is simple. Enforce your border, (you not having immigration issues is total bullshit), drop any tariffs, have a real 0 tariff situation with the US, stop the Chinese invasion on your west coast, (we need to do the same) and set up a mutual defense situation with the USA, because Canada cannot defend itself with a 1.3% GDP defense budget. I wonder how much of the trade imbalance would disappear if the USA just told you to eff off with defense.
BTW, Alberta is right to be sick of the parasites in Ottawa.
The Canadians are bought and paid for by the Anglo-Zionists just like the USA, but they have another suitor in the great white north, the Chinese.
Nah, Phil said that the Chinese are not a problem. Even though they are 20% of Vancouver and are actively working on Greenland for control. Right now. BRICS+ is working the following regarding shipping lanes. The Suez Canal via the Red sea control, the Panama Canal ports, stopped now by Blackrock, Greenland as the eastern port of the proposed Northwest passage in Canada, Canada itself from the west, South China Sea ( I heard a rumor that Trump may be the seventh fleet back). If China gets influence into Canada and Greenland, affecting the Northwest Passage, BRICS+ will control the Arctic with only Alaska and Scandinavia (Norway I believe) representing the West.
IMHO, Trump sees this coming.
I never said, "The Chinese are not a problem," John.
C'mon! You're better than that.
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A couple months ago, you and I argued about whether or not Canada has an illegal-immigrant problem. You claimed that Canada does have an illegal immigration problem then I proved that we do not. [Note: I don't recall ever seeing your mea culpa.]
Beyond that, I never did comment regarding Canada's very welcoming legal immigration policies.
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It's refreshing, John, to read your thoughts on Manifest Destiny in the 21st century. So many Americans buy the bull shit, non-conquesty main-stream justifications (and then spew them like this ridiculous argument were gospel).
But not you. You got no problem calling a spade a spade. The USA will annex Canada for geopolitical-strategy conquest, pure and simple.
May God have mercy on your soul.
Oh yes you did. Canada does not have a problem with immigration like the USA, your words. The hell you do not, you are just blind to it. You will not get any mea culpa from me. Look in your own mirror.
Annex? I doubt it. Economically fuse together, could be and soon. I do believe that the two are already there, with the acknowledgement of that coming. Mexico will be left out of the next “USMCA” due to the cartels.
USCA?????
Just keep watching, IMO, it is inevitable as the cross border NHL and MBA.
The Democrats ARE your "puppeteers".
Exactly! And the Republicans are the good guys!
Wait! What?
The Rino's sure aren't.
They're all crooked. Every last one of them.
Every government, in every era has corruption.
Every one of them has a "Morgan-Stanley guy" (AIPAC member) telling him what to do.
Seems like China’s CCP has been working hard to undermine our country from the inside…
Working great with the sellouts and our addiction to cheap and cheaper consumerism.
Why are you advertizing on this Sub?
Apparently you don’t know much about China. Listen to remarks from. Chinese diplomats. trump says “he’s in talks” with Xi. Not replies a Chinese spokesman. This is how far this administration has sunk. The idiot agriculture secretary stated that China needs us more than we need China. 60% (at least) of Walmart’s inventory is made in China; Chinese exports to the US are 3% of China’s GDP. Do the arithmetic. trump is an imbecile in the eyes of those who govern China. And his latest embarrassment at the Vatican reinforces the hatred of this troglodyte.
So Trump's a troglodyte for wearing a blue suit? Maybe you should have looked at the panned out photo where there are blue suits galore.
Libs never tire of falling for the same propaganda over and over.
No biggie. It's just more staggering hypocrisy from the tantrum-throwing, lifelong fraudster bully coward.
Swaggering parasite whose only ideology is self-enrichment. Third-rate mob boss, stuffing his crypto wallets while howling about patriotism he doesn't believe in. Self-dealing con artist with government as a prize to be looted and defiled.
So pathologically insecure and adulation-hungry, he mistakes groveling for loyalty and chaos for strength.
Sounds like someone lives rent free in your noggin.
Merely a lazy paste job.
Whine about criticism of your king.
"So persecuted!!"
Lazy thinker too
I'm not sure what you're talking about, it doesn't read like anything in English or even coherent if it is.
... wrote the sentence mangler
Mary you are trying to talk sanity to someone whose very name is insane.
Yes Mary, it’s truly remarkable how stupefyingly ignorant the leftards have become. Or always were!!!
I'm pretty sure they have always been this way.
Here is what MAGA has fallen for so far: 1. I'm going to pick up the phone and end the war in Ukraine in one day.(It would suffice to stop feeding the dogs of war at the MIC trough and stop sending them any weapons) 2. I am going to audit Fort Knox (this, in keeping with the spirit of his promise last time around to balance the budget, as Andrew Jackson had done 8 years straight, the man whose portrait Trump hung in the Oval Office- and then proceeded to sign off on- not once veto- 4 straight TRILLION dollar deficits. To give the devil his due, he has started chopping with DOGE, but the deficits are nonetheless spiraling out of control.
The one thing he did was end some of the tranny bullshit, but even that is getting fought back and I wonder how much political capital he's willing to risk on it. I still see the trans agenda going strong here; completely insane people are being catered to, and it doesn't seem to be ending.
A real concern though is the hands off approach to China that has been prevalent for decades. Trump tries to hit them hard with tariffs and is rebuffed, typical. China has stolen most of the USA's economic strength, not by their own expertise, but by the greed of corporations in the USA handing it or selling it to them. My own manufacturing career was stopped by a product line just up and sold to China.
IMHO, we have created quite a pickle for ourselves with China. We will know tout-suite whether the USA has enough oomph left to offset the economic power of China.
OBTW, this is also a test of economics based on munufacturing control rather than a service economy. I believe Americans of the future will curse the name of Obama for taking us down the service sector path.
Clinton. NAFTA. That sucking sound as manufacturing jobs went south of the border. Thanks Ross for the word picture.
He was right about that and everybody laughed at him. I remember that. After that came the great health insurance crisis, which spawned Hillarycare, which was the forerunner to Obamacare.
Remember when Rachel Madcow went to the mat swearing that Clinton didn't sign NAFTA? This is the crap that MSDNC allows on their propaganda channel. The result is 30+ million people who believe in absolute and total lies, and live in a Truman Show level of delusion.
Tony, the only way free trade can exist between the three countries is if they are all playing off the same game card and no advantage is being sought by the three. It never happened that way. It was not only NAFTA either. I worked for a semi-conductor house in the eighties and watched how the bean counters sold businesses to China, moved MFG. to first Mexico, then to East Asia. That was five years before NAFTA.
Trump's tariffs today are indicative of his admission that USMCA, his substitute for NAFTA, has failed. His wanting political control of Canada and Mexico is further acknowledgement. The ability for free trade totally depends on no greedy competition between the parties.
When pigs fly!
Sidebar- Is Trump putting RFK,Jr. into HHS an acknowledgement of the failure of Warpspeed?
Exactly. Capitalism tend towards evil: "Greed is good". Time to let go of childish things and see the world as it is. The Corporations have to be made to be loyal by Government. This is Fascism, a good thing.
@Jim Griffin Let’s wait and see how long Communist China can sustain itself. Griffin, You are an evil American idiot indulged in the Trump Derangement Syndrome unless you have called out the illegitimacy of the unelected Biden and the Democrats regime
Jimmy you appear to be a frustrated socialist. Relax. Get a job. Things will improve , although those cheap china toys won’t be so cheap or available in time. Buy them NOW!
Well said, Tritorch. If they only realized that we are angry and annoyed but also laughing at them. We already said NO to their stupid, vapid, moronic candidate who was forced on us (and them - but they're OK with that), and still they don't get it.
A new and ingenious way to get banned. Why has no one tried this method before?
Missed it. It was?
Spam.
Thanks Dis - the stuff that looked like it came from Jim?
Yep.
"...while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings."
HINT: Who controls the media/entertainment/propaganda complex, as well as the financial system/Federal Reserve/NGO complex... the "lawfare" and "civil rights" attack dogs, the MIC war targeting, the primary seditionists in congress and the mega-powerful political bribery/extortion ring also known as: "AIPAC"??
It ain't the Goyim!
TriTorch - you said it! If only more folks would open their eyes and minds and see this. Once seen, it cannot be unseen. It’s all so obvious - as plain as day.
"Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology." ~ TriTorch
Not to cause any further divide, but those doing the torching need to be neutralized.
Again, a primary source of the division is the MSM.
Who sold out the Constitutional Freedom of the Press to the Permanent Government for their invitation to become voices for the Bureaucratic State against their fellow countrymen they are supposed to serve.
Why is the press in Amendment one? To serve as a check on the government for the people. If that is the intent, why is the corporate press supporting the Left only today? Why did they bless everything the Left has done in the last thirty years and crucified the conservatives? Why are all the correspondents and opinion makers on the Left, the Ult-Left? The press, per the Constitution, is NOT doing its job at all. Where are the Right leaning newspapers?
Anna, a fine example is Denver. The Rocky Mountain News was the AM paper and The Denver Post was the PM paper. The News was conservative leaning and the Post was Left leaning. Then Gannett bought out the Post, then bought out the News and turned the Denver Post into the rag it is today. The same thing happened in Phoenix with the Arizona Republic being bought out and turned into a Leftist rag.
Maybe a good exercise might be to find out where all this money came from to buy out our newspapers and magazines nation-wide?
The Tribe took over the Press as they now have taken over Foreign Policy. Food and Pharma to a large extent too. Kennedy will be allowed to do very little. They like things the way they are!
I bet the imbecilic radio station of hate in Seattle was at least partially sponsored by grants through NGOs which live off the illegal money from the Marxist USAID.
No question, Yang. And it was paid for by our tax dollars to destroy our nation.
Unfortunately I disagree. The American center will not hold. A bloody civil war is coming soon.
With every negative word, every negative thought, every negative action, every capitulation, every surrender we will that outcome into existence.
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -Lao Tzu
“What might we try to achieve, if we believed we could not fail.” -Unknown
We have far more power than we realize. If we didn't then they wouldn't be sparing no expense to divide and conquer us.
"Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses." -unknown
Love your stuff TriTorch. But this:
“What might we try to achieve, if we believed we could not fail.” -Unknown...
I've begun to wonder what the relationship of such positive thinking is to rampant global narcissism.
I see your point Tony, but it was more in reference to amazing things like this:
Four Year Old World Record Holder Plays Beethoven’s Fur Elise: https://substack.com/@tritorch/note/c-111316721
That extraordinary young lass seems to teach us that there does not appear to be an upper limit on mankind’s potential. Limitations on our potential are often learned behavior rather than an organic emergence. If you put fleas into a glass jar, they will learn never to jump higher than the lid even when you take the jar away. Their offspring, tragically, will learn this behavior and do the same. If you put a short rope tied to a post around an elephant’s leg for long enough, eventually he will never leave the post, even if you take the rope away.
So many of our boundaries are like these prisons. They are drilled into our minds that we can’t achieve something when if we were left to our own devices and encouraged during the crucial periods of development we would likely triumph over them. It's just like this pair of frogs:
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The Inconceivable Power of Your Encouragement (And Discouragement) in 12 Sentences
As a group of frogs were traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them.
However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were saying and they proceeded to try and jump out of the pit.
Despite their efforts, the group of frogs at the top of the pit were still saying that they should just give up. That they would never make it out.
Eventually, one of the frogs took heed to what the others were saying and he gave up, falling down to his death.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.
He jumped even harder and finally made it out.
When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time. —Unknown
I get, TT. Your other quote by LaoTsu is right on the mark. EVERYTHING starts with a thought/word. “In the Beginning…” and then the consequences.
It’s just that OBSESSIVELY thinking “I can’t fail” or “I’m entitled to this” is awfully close to the narcissism I referred to before.
Exactly. There are no other laws than this! We can be (or GET!) anything. We want Russia. We going to get Russia. Fuck these negative thinkers, we'll make them haul manure up the mountain to fulfill OUR dream!
Hopeium.
We can sit back and do nothing against this encroaching darkness, and then one morning we will wake up to have hell on earth smirking right to our faces, and due to this inaction waged against a force that is making zero attempt to conceal the fact that they are diligently working to capture, corrupt, kill, or enslave us, we will have earned this fate of living in a nightmare we knowingly let them create. But our children will be dragged in right along with us, and they will have not, and we will be responsible for throwing them into this prison.
We either stand up and wage war for what is right no matter the cost or our fate will be in the hands of total psychopaths. And then, even if we fail, we can still look our children and our God in the eye and tell them, sincerely, that we fought for them. That we recognized and faced these challenges with truth & courage. And that means everything.
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To put one brick upon another,
Add a third and then a forth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether,
What you do has any worth.
But to sit with bricks around you,
While the winds of monsoons bawl,
Weighing what you should or can do,
Leaves no doubt of it at all.
—Philip Larken
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Will you sit with bricks around you Carl? And leave no doubt about your worth at all? Or will you stand up and fight to make a difference no matter how small, and signal to the world that you will spirit will not be beaten. If this is the case, then even if you die you will live on.
If it is not the case, then it does "leave no doubt about it at all".
One problem with your "individual control" argument is the media. The American corporate media controls the flow of information to the people. We have already seen an major erosion of support for Trump and MAGA doing what they were elected to do. I blame that on the amplification of TDS stemming from the media. The controlling factor of political fickleness seems to be NIMBY. People wil vote for "goodness" until needed corrections affect them.
Until the Leftist bias of the entire MSM goes away, "individual control" may not be possible.
It is a problem, that's why turning it off (for the -most- part is key (not dimming the telescreen, but turning it off). The narrative is the most powerful mind control mechanism in our world. Here is a deep dive into how the matrix is constructed (please forgive me Mr. Kunstler, this is just for reference): https://tritorch.substack.com/p/counterfeit-continuity-in-our-fourth
Yes, spot on JAZ.
The Woke Jacobin commies still control the airwaves, for the most part.
Yep, we can look our children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them about our God back in the day, And the lies that we were told.
We can tell them about The Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, invoking the Biblical reference with the Amalek rhetoric for a blatant call to genocide.
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." 1 Samuel 15:3.
And 100,000+ slaughtered in the name of God. And their houses, electricity, drinking water and sewage facilities and hospitals destroyed.
And not one God lifted a finger to stop the genocide.
This was done in Yugoslavia and in Rwanda.
I can’t claim to understand all the ways they’re doing it or who owns the master plan, I agree 100% our adversaries are absolutely committed to dividing us. They know that’s the only they can succeed, short of physical force.
That was great, TriTorch! Thank you!
Positive Thinking is the very essence of vile Americanism. Nothing is wrong, all is permitted. Freedom isn't one thing, it's the only thing.
The kids are in the bathroom snorting fentanyl, but I shot a 72 today and the stock market is up again.
The Democrat Party would cease to exist if they weren’t dividing America into victimized groups that they pretend to care about.
Republicans are great at announcing hearings both parties have a lot to repair.
Thank you TriTorch, you’ve nailed it. It’s extremely difficult to get folks to see it for what it is though.
I think you just might have won the internet today with this one. Kudos!!!
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Saw a fascinating documentary on PBS (yes! PBS) about the blowing apart of the black family and community by LBJ's "War on Poverty". For 100 years following Emancipation and the Civil War, black families migrated from southern farms into northern and midwestern cities for cash paying work and built what were called "alley-communities" in which they had nearly complete societies with their own businesses, schools, banks, libraries, etc. It was certainly an apartheid culture and the black alley communities were at the bottom with poor to no sanitation, shared privies and water faucets, however, most everything they needed was within short walking distance and crime was almost non-existent since everyone knew each other. The War on Poverty (WOP) came along and destroyed these communities (in order to build skyscrapers) and moved the families into randomly assigned apartments in low-income housing projects built on the fringes of the cities, putting strangers from different alley communities next door to each other. Not only were the surroundings unfamiliar, but the jobs and stores that put food on the table were located miles away from the projects, forcing commuters and shoppers onto buses & subways. The family separations, the stress of having to leave the home/neighborhood every day, the hostile neighborhoods all contributed to skyrocketing crime and the destruction of the black family. The Think-Gooders of elitist institutions had failed in the grandest fashion, yet.
“The juvenile idealism of Boomer hippiedom wrecked the crucial idea of a common culture, and I will tell you exactly how that happened. Two crusades: first, the civil rights campaign, and second, stopping the War in Vietnam, defined the era.”
I often see the civil rights movement described as a Boomer movement, but it was not. The oldest Boomers (born in 1945) were still children and teenagers when the marches and freedom rides took place, and all of 19 when the movement culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I get Boomers wanting to cosplay as civil rights activists, but they just weren’t. The whole hippie thing didn’t really start until after the civil rights movement.
The anti-war/anti-draft movement definitely involved the oldest cohort of Boomers, as they were the ones being drafted.
That's true. The Civil Rights era was carried by the so-called Silent Generation (born 1925-45), like my parents. And the late members of the Silent Generation were recruited to fight in the various hot & cold stages of the Cold War... from Korea to Viet Nam.... like my dad.
The Greatest Generation fought WW2 and Korea. Boomers fought Viet Nam. I was there. Boomers fought the Cold War battles. The Greatest Generation started the Cold War.
What bridged the gap, IMHO, was the MIC, the start of the Deep State. The same entity that DDE warned us about.
The Cold War started in 1952. The oldest Boomers were only seven years old at the time. My father's first TDY in VN was in 1964. His final TDY there was 1974-75.
Thank you for pointing this out. Born in 1957, I had none of these experiences-except by watching one of 3 tv news stations. This generational warfare is yet another divisive action, this time painting the alleged haves vs have nots. Beware the narrative you buy into and pass along! If it's binary, it's a trap. The world is seldom that simple.
The anti-war movement certainly involved the oldest cohort of "boomers", but if the Chicago 7 (originally the Chicago 8) is any indication the leaders of that movement were members of the "silent" generation, and, in the case of David Dellinger (born 1915), even older.
Also, "boomers" refers to those people born between 1946 and 1964. Not that it should matter. These generational divisions were created as another way to keep us divided and controlled.
"These generational divisions were created as another way to keep us divided and controlled".
No. They were created by Strauss and Howe, sociologists and historians. Came into common parlance via their last book written together, "The Fourth Turning".
Strass and Howe's first book was published in 1991. "The Fourth Turning" was published in 1997. The term "baby boomer" was first used in 1963 and became the popular name of a generation in 1971. The term "gen-x" was taken from a novel by Douglas Coupland that was published in 1991, although Coupland wasn't the first one to use it.
Generational divisions are a natural state. Adolescence breeds rebellion, and is the basis for the changes causing the Fourth Turnings. The PTB definitely use the inter-generational rebellions to their advantage.
Really? Seems to me that generational divisions are unique to western civilizations. Doesn't seem to exist in Asian cultures or in more primitive societies. It also didn't seem to exist in western cultures until the second decade of the 20th century.
That’s exactly right! It does not breed rebellion anywhere else but places with full propaganda in every single program, TV media, and commercial like the United States.
How about India-Pakistan? Russia- Chechnya? China-Tibet? China and its western Muslims ( I do not remember the name), China-Taiwan? China-Japan? Iran-Iraq? Iran-Saudi Arabia? Afghanistan and everyone?
Those are geopolitical and ethnic divisions, not generational divisions.
Do you think that the issues between parties change from generation to generation?
You're comparing apples to oranges. India and Pakistan have been enemies since before the latter won its independence in 1947. That conflict has religious (i.e., cultural) roots. Religion also plays a role in the Chechyan hostility towards Russia. Likewise, the hostility among countries in western and central Asia were in no small part caused by the artificial boundaries drawn up by Britain and France after the first world war, as well as religious sects (i.e., Sunni vs. Shia). As for China and Tibet or Taiwan, it's hard to know what the truth is concerning those hostilities considering the amount of propaganda being pushed by the European and North American deep states, but whatever the case may be these hostilities have involved at least three generations.
The lines were drawn by the Brits, specifically to keep everyone fighting.
Though it didn't begin with him, this conflict is a legacy of Gandhi.
You've bought into the illusion of endless growth and "change". So naturally that applies to people too - just another product!
Any aging boomers still have their draft card and recall their draft lottery number from 1970?
I just posted my number from 1971. Then I realized I put my birthday online so I deleted it. Hint.
Yup. 126.
Nope, I was in the Navy.
And now, Jeff, the white family is being blown apart, too. The Long Emergency continues...
Very astute lo' t. It's a bottoms up process. Start with the dregs and then work their way up. As many astute analysts have noted, globalization will have come to full fruition when labor the world over - and thus the cultures they're a part of as well - has been reduced to ignorant third-world pauper status. We've arrived!
Say it again, feudalism. What stopped feudalism during the Renaissance? The ascent of the Middle Class, the "Bourgoisie", those rotten entrepenuers that Marx hated so much. Take away the Middle Class, which our socialistic slant is doing world wide, and we will return to feudalism where the Upper Class rules the working class with little chance of social elevation.
Marx married into one of the wealthiest industriEList families in Europe. His assignment was to infiltrate and neuter the labor movement of his day and he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, seeding the world with a B.S Satanic religion that is alive and "well" today. The workers never got their revolution thanks to Marx. We all need to remember that "history (not facts) is written by the winners."
Indeed. "Neo-feudalism," as the cool kids are wont to say these days. Or "feudalism with democratic characteristics," as it's eventually likely to be marketed.
Good catch. If society is bi-lateral, PTB(Kings and royalty) and serfs(proletariat), there is no democracy. The PTB just tell everyone what to do. As all the feudal attempts have embraced hereditary succession in the PTB, no need for voting. Democracy dies with feudalism, exactly what the NWO wants.
The voting illusion is a great trick, though. Give the prisoners the illusion of choice, all pre-selected and neutered of course.
Definitely! There is no way they would ever leave a big decision to us. They are all working together. And there are higher-ups that tell Trump and all the other fakes on television what to do.
As Herr Fuentes said, America could lose for a hundred years and could still stay our beloved homeland. If we "win" the way Az and Musk want us to win, we will lose everything, both our nation and our souls.
I don't think they failed. I think this was their goal all along. The old rule of divide and conquer is in full force to this day.
"The War on Poverty (WOP) came along and destroyed these communities (in order to build skyscrapers) and moved the families into randomly assigned apartments in low-income housing projects built on the fringes of the cities, putting strangers from different alley communities next door to each other. "
Actually, the WOP was the answer to dilemma after they "destroyed these communities" to build freeways - not skyscrapers. The Eisenhower Interstate System was a great idea. The only problem is that the Big City Fat Cats had to get that interstate into their city...which meant eminent domain takings. What better place to take land than the Black Alleys? Urban Renewal began with Ike. LBJ just revived the slave class with WOP.
That is a remarkably good catch!
Yep, that, too.
Don't forget a Planned Parenthood within a mile of every housing project. Sell them the idea that the way out of poverty is killing their offspring and…voila!
The destruction of the black family under the guise of helping was the most terrible thing! Offering women money if they were unmarried and had babies was designed to divide and destroy!
Same with white professionals.
White women opted not to have children at all, or put 'em in daycare, divorce is rampant, because women want to "have it all" or feel the pressure to, or be considered "only a housewife."
This was also by design. Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset, after all... she bragged about it.
And some of us bought the narrative.
"The Think-Gooders of elitist institutions had failed in the grandest fashion, yet."
When it comes to government institutions: Never attribute to good intentions what should aptly be attributed to malice.
It isn't directly pertinent to your comment, but I'm reading a novelist I had heard about for years but never gotten to, Chester Himes. In the late 1950s, Himes, who was black, began to write a series of novels, The Harlem Detectives Series, about two black detectives on the NYPD who are detailed to Harlem. Himes was an original, hard to describe. I'm reading "Cotton Comes to Harlem." It's cold eyed, brutal, hilarious, close to hallucinatory at times. So far, my thought is that these novels provide what literature usually does better than journalism, a scanning of people's souls.
Now that sounds interesting. I'll look for it and thank you!
It's unlike anything I've ever read. There is a movie of “Cotton Comes to Harlem” which was made circa 1970. I intend to watch it when I finish the novel if only because it starred Godfrey Cambridge, who was one of the funniest men of that generation, and whose early death consigned him to be unjustly all but forgotten.
I'm going to have to check that out, too.👍
And crack. Lots and lots of crack.
Right, lots of crime. People who have had their opportunity taken away from them will survive, as we are learning today. I anticipate a large increase in crime everywhere as the world adjusts to its loss of opportunity due to high tech.
Yes. If a Universal Basic Income isn’t quickly and successfully established (is that even possible?) we’re in for hellish crime.
Agreed. The changes in DC will make the difference.
April 19, 2025, I along with dozens of Sons of the American Revolution reenactors march in the 3-mile parade in Concord, MA to commemorate the patriot stand at the Old North Bridge. The route was lined with mass produced signs calling us fascists, Nazis, etc. Some said "no king then, no king now."
The final insult was being called a racist by a blonde white woman.
These people would burn down the country but have no plans for improvement.
Egads! I grew up in MA - that sounds depressing- then again Concord and Lexington, MA where these events took place are chock-a-block with entitled elites and liberals…in college I befriended a girl from Concord; her father worked for the Harvard Business Review- she was really’maladjusted’, a trust fund baby whose subsequent life has been a search for meaning- advertising for sex meet-ups, divorcing her (psychologically battered) husband, eventually leaving the continent and her children stateside to pursue Hawaiian Gods 🤷♀️she built an altar, etc. One could hardly get more Blue-blood than her…her male sibling is also on the wonky left working for leftist politicians. These people have no grounding. So much material for a novel 😂
Fallen Puritanism. They lost their religion and hate their culture and history. They're always looking for the "truth" in primitive cultures and religions, when they abandoned the truth that their ancestors knew.
Wonderful comment. And it seems to me that it's the judgment of God on them that the heritage is right there for them and they're oblivious to it.
In Santa Fe-woketopia-I was called all sorts of names including racist for simply pointing out that the blm website declared they were for two things: defund the police and support antifa. Seriously? I am now a political refugee living happily in Idaho.
You're doing something right if you're called racist!
Hey, Rod, a few hours ago in another Substack thread some Zoomer dolt insisted repeatedly that I am a racist because I support Israel against Hamas.
I work in an office in Princeton, New Jersey, with a number of these liberal types. Let's call them sub-elites, since while they are wealthy by most standards, they don't occupy the rarified air of the 1%. They do affect a lot of the attitudes that you'd expect in a well-to-do liberal bubble however.
They profess all the standard liberal lines about mass immigration, DEI, transgenderism, etc. that you would expect. They also have a fear of Trump and his supporters. Honestly, I have to believe that part of the reason these folks employ so many illegals is that they are afraid to have working class Americans in their homes.
That brings me to my main point. There are two basic attributes that these people display. The first is an amazing sense of entitlement. With all their talk of privilege, none of them seem to realize how privileged they are to show up to work where they work, get paid what they get paid and go home to the comfortable lives they enjoy every day. Associated with this is an apparent total lack of regard for how the majority of their fellow citizens live, whether rural whites or urban blacks. At least part of this derives I believe from a certain naivety about how the World works, which is actually quite astounding when you consider that this is supposedly the "educated" class.
I saw on X the other day, a story about Entrepreneur High School, which I believe in is California. Some of the female students were getting into it with the local cops. I am not sure that my coworkers understand that places like Entrepreneur HS exist in the U.S. They don't understand that George Floyd was a thug and a drug addict, because they are unaware the World George Floyd inhabited exists. Likewise, the concept of a criminal alien is incomprehensible to many of them.
A real change in attitudes will require some amount of education.
Far too few middle class Americans can grasp the absolute revulsion and hatred that coastal elites, and sub-elites, as you say (primarily New Englanders) have for middle American whites. They find it comical, and a good thing, when a tornado rips through a trailer park in Oklahoma or Alabama. They have a seething hatred of middle American whites, but will defend third-world criminals to the point of insanity. They absolutely love to see small towns in Ohio and Tennessee overrun by "refugees" but get in a lather when these same criminals are dumped in Massachusetts. Its the same mind-set as Ted Kennedy insisting that schools all over the heartland be forcibly integrated at the point of a bayonet while he's sending his kids to elite boarding schools. New England, and their fallen-Puritanism, has been a scourge on this country since the founding. They hate you. They hate your families. They hate your traditions. They wish you were dead.
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I lived in Texas in the 70s. Believe me their feelings about Yankees was not much different.
John---I moved to Texas in the early 80's and what I found was that Texans did not have a problem with Yankees moving to Texas and enjoying the best state in the Union, what they particularly hated was people moving to Texas from Michigan or Ohio or other rust best states that were difficult to find jobs in...... but telling all the Texans that up in Michigan we did it this way and I do not understand why you people in Texas are so backward and do not do it that way. I am not suggesting that you did this, I am just pointing out that they had to put up with a whole lot of unreasonable people moving to Texas and telling them they were stupid or backward. They put up with a lot of this so I cut them a lot of slack and told them I was happy to be in Texas---which I was and never ever told them back in Alabama or Ohio we did it this way. There used to be bumper stickers on cars in Texas in the early and mid 80's that said------We do not care how you did it up in Michigan.
When my wife and I moved to Arkansas from Texas when we retired, we purchased some land and built a house and I advised my wife that never, ever, say.....back in Texas we did it this way. It rightly ruffles feathers and begs the response-----if you liked it so good in Texas why the hell did you move here?
Again, I am not suggesting that you did any of this unfriendly kind of thing, I am just suggesting that the Texas had to listen to a bunch of that kind of stuff.
And......Texans seem to prone to same thing because I was in a little town in Alaska----I believe the name was Soldotna-----and the waitress asked us where we were from and we told her Texas and.....the next thing she told us was that they had just taken down the Texas sign a few days ago. We asked her what kind of sign it was and she told us it was a large sign that said in very big letters-----Texans-- eat shiff and die!!! The sign did not say schiff.
So....maybe some Texans got the same kind of welcome you did.
I was not a Yankee. My point was that the divisions in the country are deep and wide. Your observations are correct, whichever direction you are going.
I grew up in Texas. My grandma called them Damn Yankees.
Ol' Dads, born in N'Orleans and living in Dallas, used to say, "Boy, don't go on up north to Shree'po thayah... that's Damn Yankee territory!" (to Shreveport, LA)
Mr. McWilliams----your liberal elite co-workers can spout all the liberal schiff they want and in their minds they probably believe it because they never have to deal with the consequences of the idiotic policies they are professing. They love the fact that they can get a gardener or a nanny or a guy to pick up trash real cheap in their neighborhood because none of these people and the criminals that come in with them have to live in another neighborhood so.......they do not have to live with them on a regular basis and deal with the drugs and the crime of the places these people live. Did you see how fast Martha's Vineyard deported the illegals that Greg Abbott bused to their communities. Of course the people in Martha's Vineyard were 100% against deporting these people but.....they had no issue to foist them off on someone else in a less politically powerful area.
Fortunately I do not have to deal with lib co-workers since I am retired but....I do have some bat-schiff crazy kin that I try to be around as little as possible.
Your co-workers are probably all on the climate hoax but.....suggest that maybe they should not take any airline trips because of the C02 emitted and they would most likely tell you that this does not apply to them because they drive a Prius.
Agree deal with the same people, they are all smoking the drapes!
Your observation is apt and on par with mine, working in the corporate sphere with liberals.
However, as to your last sentence, they don't respond to education. Why? Because they are indoctrinated. Therefore, logic, common sense and facts do not matter.
This is by design.
"A real change in attitudes will require some amount of education."
A nice in your face local war is a great place to educate yourself on how the World works.
Or some out of their comfort zone experiences. We learn experientially. Hmmm...use your imagination on that one!
Street smarts?
One must ponder whether our Republic is even worth saving at this point. I do not pretend to know the answer. Sometimes familial conflict necessitates separation as a matter of simple survival.
Woke leftists hate us because they hate themselves. They know they are contemptible and incompetent, but must believe we are even more so in order to justify their sinecures in government and academia.
Think about the left-wing women who blather about stupid shit like "confronting their whiteness". They're doing that because they *need* to offload their self-loathing into something they have no control over in order to avoid introspection.
So I strongly suspect you are correct. There's no middle ground here.
We all project our own reality onto the world around us. Scary, isn't it?
"We" have a job with competent people providing goods and services to people who willingly pay for it. "We" are not the free shit fairy.
The PTB are driving us toward high tech economic destruction. Their solution? UBI, universal basic income. A product of the "Free Shit Fairy?
Musk has sent out the message that AI that is uncontrolled is the most dangerous item on our agenda today. Think he foresees the future?
Vonnegut wrote "Player Piano" in 1952, portending exactly this. It never came to pass in the 70+ years since.
AI will be a force multiplier, but not an end into itself. It enables some pretty powerful stuff, like semantic search and content generation, but I will remain skeptical of the idea humanoid robots will be doing the dishes or nuking the planet or something.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's about 90% VR/Siri/Google Glass hype, with some powerful use cases on the edges.
Watched a You Tube last night talking about a new generation robot that is capable of doing assembly line operations, a humanoid robot. Ever wonder why BYD has EVs available for less that 15000 dollars? Why in 5 years they might put USA mfg. out of business aroung the world? Why Andrew Yang, a spokesman for the Silicon Valley crowd, introduced UBI to the American public in the Dem. debates in 2020? Connect the dots, globalist elements are not the only enemies of the economic health of the USA. The question is WHY? How can these domestic enemies take the oath of office, swearing to protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic? IMHO, we have more of the latter than the former.
Watched a You Tube last night ~ you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. LOL
UBI, universal basic income.
Such a system, instead of many individual means-tested social benefits, would eliminate much more expensive social administration and bureaucratic efforts. Unattractive jobs would have to be better paid simply because there would be an incentive to do them when already receiving a basic income. This would have the result of increasing the willingness to work.
UBI ensures that everyone has a sufficient financial basis to essentially eliminate poverty thus allowing people to find work that suits their interests and strengths.
Swiss economist Thomas Straubhaar contends the concept of UBI is financeable without any problems. He says that; "at its core, nothing more than a fundamental tax reform" that "bundles all social policy measures into a single instrument, the UBI paid out unconditionally." He also explained how a UBI is socially just.
The Alaska Permanent Fund is a fund for all residents of the State of Alaska which averages $1,600 annually (in 2019 currency) and is an example of a real basic income in practice.
Supporters include:
*American economists James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith signed a document with 1,200 other economists in 1968 calling for the 90th U.S. Congress to introduce in that year a system of UBI.
* Conservative American economist Milton Friedman advocated a UBI in the form of a negative income tax in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, and again in his 1980 book Free to Choose.
*In his 1964 State of the Union address, President Johnson introduced legislation to fight the war on poverty. He supported the idea of a UBI for every American.
*The Famous Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek advocated a guaranteed minimum income in his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, and reiterated his support in his 1973 book Law, Legislation and Liberty.
*Tony Atkinson - British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[129]
*Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. endorsed it under the name of "the guaranteed income" in his 1967 book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? shortly before his assassination.
If you like UBI (fine as a temporary measure when someone loses their job) you're going to love your new global slavemasters. UBI is exactly what they have in mind for the global technocratic digital plantation of Agenda 21-2030 - digital ID (with vaxx pass, naturally), combined with a social credit system, UBI, paid in CBDCs. Points for those who swallow State lies, do the State's bidding and never criticise the State or its institutions. For those who prefer to think for themselves penury awaits, and worse (NZ already has the internment camps). Same if you choose bodily autonomy to keeping up with your State-mandated jibby-jabbies for non-existent 'viruses'. Not Orwellian at all ...
It's worth mentioning that Agenda 21 plans the elimination of private property. That doesn't just mean your house, it means your pension too. But that will go anyway when they crash the financial system to bring in the new energy-based system. You'll just wake up one morning and your bank account will be empty. They don't call it communism, or feudalism or fascism or socialism, although it will be a mixture of all of those - they call it communitarianism. Welcome to your future, where human beings are of the same value as goats or plants. And the global-state religion is to be Gaia worship.
NZ does not already have internment camps. LOL
You are so gullible my dear. You need to be reading different comics! The ones you are reading are turning your brains into mush.
A conspiracy theory posted on a New Zealand Facebook group's page claims camps was created for unvaccinated people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Posted by the goofy radical group "South Island Independence Movement" it didn't specify if the claim relates directly to New Zealand or elsewhere.
Either way the claims were false. No camps were established to detain people who refused a COVID-19 vaccine in NZ.
And several international fact-check organisations have debunked claims of camps for the unvaccinated elsewhere. Google is your friend.
This commentor is a whack job conspiracy theorist. Be warned about engaging with her! Put on your flak jacket first. LOL
Google is nobody's friend, except the intel agencies.
'Fact checkers' - you really are an ingenu, aren't you, Dennis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WE1vshrRfs
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/12/covid-madness-germany-isolates-unvaccinated-australia-arrests-escapees-from-quarantine-compound/
Includes pictures, Dennis. Some people need pictures.
https://tottnews.com/2021/12/07/revealed-australian-quarantine-camp-locations/
There wasn't a pandemic, Dennis. We're 5 years into the psyop and you still don't know.
I suggest Dr David A Hughes' book 'Covid 19', Psychological Operations and the War for Technocracy, which you can download free from Springer (it's been through 3 stages of peer review and is published by the respected academic publisher, Palgrave Macmillan. Are you going to warn 'your readers' that they're conspiracy theorists as well?
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41850-1
The lockdowns were nothing to do with a public health emergency because there wasn't one. They were a response to the Repo market collapse in late 2019. Timeline here, from the late John Titus (economist):
https://goingdirect.solari.com/timeline-of-key-economic-events-of-the-pandemic/
You are so behind the curve, it is jaw-dropping.
Do you know that New Zealand and Australia are different countries? 2,587 miles apart by air. You don't do you! LOL
Where is your link to New Zealand internment camps? LOL
You are so brainwashed, it is jaw-dropping.
First YouTube video is New Zealand, ingenu, announcing quarantine facilities for 'cases' (which weren't 'cases' just nonsense created by using a fraudulent process (PCR) whose inventor warned repeatedly that it wasn't a diagnostic test - he conveniently died at the end of 2019.🙄) Let me know when you've read a couple of chapters of Dr Hughes' book. He negotiated a free-access arrangement so that people like you could find out what's going on.
But you can't, can you, Dennis. Because basically you're just too scared. Bless.
"Do you know that New Zealand and Australia are different countries? 2,587 miles apart by air. "
Dennis did you flunk Geography? Or just too much crisp chardonney? Sydney to Aukland is about 1350 miles as the crow flies. Aussie coast to NZ coast about 900.
Also, you said 'fact-checkers' (hahaha) had debunked the notion that there were camps anywhere, so articles about Germany and Australia (in addition to the NZ video) are relevant to your comment.
You are flailing now Dennis, mired in ad homs as a substitute for facts.
"unattractive jobs would have to be better compensated..." Wait, that's why all the factories moved to CCP and why we have undocumented immigrants, under the current The Consumer is King Model. It's a great model until we're out of money. It's not sustainable. Printing money isn't a substitute for goods and services production.
Yes, it would be inevitable given what we were promised. That's not to say it would have been good or even possible. But the Elite of our day have no interest in those old promises. They want most of us gone. We're using up their world after all.
I read about three sentences of your post before figuring you are an insane socialist. Bye.
An insane socialist who looks at the real results on the ground.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
Instead of having his head up his arse! Bye
White = happy. Haiti= horrid. $ talks.
No a Marxist Communist.
Are you sure you even understand these Terms, John?
Maybe you need to be hanging around a better class of capitalist losers.
The dumbing down of America has been an utter success.
USA 90% White. 1960..now?
I think it's all a deep state psyop to make us beg for a dictator....and it's working imo. I can't anyone seriously believes the left's positions, so something else must be going on.
It makes me rely upon myself, to not seek the "help" of government. Live free or die.
Indeed!
When a society loses faith in itself, it looks for a savior. Sound familiar?
A really good question is what will it take to "fix" America?
Easy. One race. One culture. A good race and a good culture. For America, that means White Christians. Free thinkers tolerated.
Faith and courage!
It’s down to one to one tribe. Connecting to someone who shoots as equally well as myself, from the same side of the fence.
MUCH more easily said than done, Sir.
It can't be saved, but we could still have Empire. Unfortunately the Trumps aren't up to the job.
Unless you have an alternative, The USA will continue. After all the People choose.
Certainly I hope and pray it does, but am not clear on what you mean by "all" the people choose. Are you speaking of a plebiscite?
Agreed! BUT, like Britain was to us after WW2, as a vassal state to the new powerhouse on the block, China? "The People" that are choosing are changing quickly.
Yawn!
The People? Like there's just one of them? C'mon Demi!
And by the way, World War III is about dividing and destroying the human family once and for all…it won’t be about Russia! Or anywhere else. It’s a spiritual war. Guard your loins.
My loins are always guarded - but will now gird them.
Semantics…:)
No. Words have meanings. One should use the right word when trying to communicate effectively.
Yes, Exactly.
Not so sure...maybe...
Gird them loins!
https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-gird-up-your-loins-an-illustrated-guide/
Thanks Ricky - perfect, girding one's loins - defined as preparing for action. I'll have to commit this to memory, but I rarely wear a tunic. Only every now and then.
It's gird your loins but given the mass sterilization plans of the likes of Bill Gates maybe it should be changed to guard your loins.
Sweet Jesus...make it stop.
“Gird” your loins probably.
JK: the more I read you the more I see you as a national oracle who can remind us , without jingoism, who we AMERICANS really are and why nurturing our culture is critical to sustaining our nation. I just wish that we could replace HBO’s corrosive closet Marxist Bill Maher (neither funny nor intelligent) with you. Thank you.🙏 🇺🇸
I think it would be most beneficial to have JHK as a guest to have real discussions and exchange of views. Maher seems far more willing to accept reality than the blathering fools who host too many of these talk shows. He starts from a point of not seeing someone with differing opinions as evil and criticizes those who do.
Seconded! I wonder if Jim has pursued that? I would make it a point to tune into that! Maher has become SUCH a tedious, pretentious prick!
He's on the Trump train now.
Also Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Cobert, Jimmy Fallon, NBC News. They haven't changed their ways and still attack Trump Nightly.
Do people actually watch those idiots?
Never in history has a nation spent so much time, and money on programs, trying to elevate a race of people. And after 150 years of experimentation, black people continue to show an inability to function in a civilized society. The American black culture has evolved into an irreparable crime ridden mess.
Jimmy
I wonder how much of the lack of assimilation by Blacks has been their heritage from Africa, IOW the cultures they lived in those many many years ago. That heritage has passed down through the years and the matriarchal society that is the result does not fit well into America of the 20th century. Hence, what we are witnessing today.
Sidebar - There is a subset of the Black community that is starting up a male responsibility model for their kids. Nobody fights that more than Black apologists, both Black and White.
Lot of racists in this thread, eh!
Calling someone a racist is so overused as to be meaningless.
I suggest looking up the actual word and then applying the definition to each post.
Even Lugh fails to rise up to the actual definition of Racist.
As a Public Works Director told me when discussing the cost of implementing the ADA:
"Never before has so much been done for so few"
There is a local disabled scumbag, who has made a career out of suing businesses for non-compliance with ADA. He goes around with his lawyer and counts parking spaces, measures the width of entryways, etc. and if they don't fully comply, he sues the business. The way the law is, you don't have to show harm, you just have to show non-compliance. As of a couple years ago, he had filed 47 lawsuits for this in just one county.
These are some of the people fighting Trump trying to remove regulations.
I understand what you are saying but I must object to your over-generalization. I suggest you insert the word 'some' in front of "black people" in your 2nd sentence. Whenever I run across this sort of generalization about "black people" (African-Americans), I think of Dr. Thomas Sowell. His skin was as black as the dead of night when younger.
As a veteran of those years you refer to ( Harvard 69), two of whose best friends lived with Timothy Leary at Millbrook, a few additional thoughts: the present ecosystem of evil agendas was really set into motion by deliberate agents of globalism. They infected the military then as they do now. Hence the bioweapon injection was distributed largely through NATO and came out of DARPA. Also I remember the in those years the panic about overpopulation, a valid enough concern though not any more. Birth rates are down and I’m told that 14 year old boys are no longer walking around trying to control their erections the way we had to in the good old days. The transhumanists who give you gender fluidity are now trying to inject the weather via chemtrails. They are psychopaths intent on dominating nature and other complex systems way beyond their grasp. Hence fire season in New Jersey immediately follows the spring thaw. Maybe they have another elite planet they plan to go to but I doubt it. Take a look at the new lizard at the WEF. Never underestimate the stupidity of the super rich.
That big fire in New Jersey was set by a zit faced liberal twat who looked stoned or out of his gourd on ssri meds.
Patsy, dime a dozen.
A pasty who did it.
Our only hope as that the will learn the same lesson that king Canute learned. You can't win a war against mother nature. That is unless you destroy the world.
Did you mean that Canute was teaching his people about the limits of human power, including his own.? That's the way I understood what he did...
"I’m told that 14 year old boys are no longer walking around trying to control their erections the way we had to in the good old days."
LOL!!! Oh, the 8th grade stories I could tell!
“... ‘mass formation psychosis’ described by Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet, spawned by a crisis of meaning and purpose in the thinking classes of Western Civ.”
Individuals and groups and things like Nation States need grounding. You need a foundation. You need a set of principles and a guiding vision to give you cohesion and purpose and a sense of direction. In short, an identity driven by values, thoughts, and ideas fueled by the hearts and energies of people.
And when you lose these things – like the now lost and confused and alienated and malformed Western Civilization has – then you turn into nothing but a hellish realm of madness and bad intent.
We used to know what America meant. We used to know what bedrock and sound American foundational values were. Freedom. You can achieve anything if you work for it. A bright future. A shared pride in being – Americans. And an undercurrent of religious values like respect for life and one’s need for privacy and personal expression and space.
And after the passing of World War Two’s Greatest Generation... all of that began to crumble. While the need to challenge entrenched ideas and a desire to set a new course which began in the 1960s could have been a valuable re-energizing of the American Body and Spirit... it was coopted and contorted by the emerging Dark State as undermining what America was and should have become. The desire to have a militarized police state in America was the driving vision of the Dark State to have a dumb, compliant, subservient population that was fixated on nonsense and eating garbage and craving captivity and without good purpose or intention. And clueless American sheep went right along with this. And now, this is what we’ve got.
America lost the best of its foundational values, heart and soul. The Dark State was happy to lead and engineer our gradual descent into hell... and much of the American population has proven to be very happy to be carried into those dark depths. And even now, the lost and deluded are liking it and disliking those who resist being subjected to hellish rule and having association with billions of clueless idiots willingly participating in their own destruction.
Today's whole Race Industrial Complex is a harmful scam meant to divide people and fracture America. And it is wildly successful in that endeavor. Blacks today can now thank the heavens that racism once existed in America for this gives them the faux moral sledgehammer to sideline and de-person White Americans and give Persons-of-Color an undeserved and oversized importance in 21st Century America.
Racism of course did exist in America and needed to be eradicated in a healthy way. But not the way that the Racism Industrial Complex has gone about it to be one of the active agents to destroy America from within.
And don’t even get started on the kind of massive and profound and omnipresent influence that The Chosenites – the rabid Zionists and others who wrongly have declared themselves as God’s Favorites for Eternity - have had on the American Body and Spirit. That’s a whole deep level of affliction and disintegration of America. One again, racism for the sake of racism is wrong against any group. But the sledgehammer of so-called Anti-Semitism has become brutal and tyrannical that even the most legitimate and morally-based objections to things like the Gaza genocide are treated some kind of horrible sins. And that a sickening way to steal away a person’s right of moral compass and choice in the name of an undeserved favor and promotion of one single group above all others.
“An American common culture matters, and if we can’t put it together, we’re sunk. This is our chance to put it together.”
It’s too late for that. There are too many millions of America who are afflicted with the terminal disease of Wokeism. They do not want America to survive. They hate America and want it erased from the face of this Earth.
America may still have the same map borders as it did when the Greatest Generation was alive. But today those borders are a misleading myth. America is now terminally fractured.
And the only way forward is for Sane America to separate itself from the Lost Woke. Maybe ‘Red States’ and ‘Blue States’ is the way. But whatever the method... the America the World knew died in the 1960s and it never coming back.
And the sooner we all come to terms with that... the sooner we can begin to live in some kind of useful harmony again within groups that remember who and what they are -- and why.
We were healthy when we were racist. A sane people love themselves first and foremost. This kind of health is called racism in Whites, but not in other people.
Can't have a common culture with a political party that has polar opposite views of traditional America. They've gone off the cliff, past the event horizon, and down into the black hole, never to return. Solution?
Throw Progressives out of the country.
A house divided will always fall.
Maybe just cut them off, no more freebies. What would happen if the Gimmes were just cut off, period? But then, what happens if the Gimme mob outnumbers the responsible crowd? Questions we are facing.
Good thinking.
People who stick together are dangerous. Hence divide and counquer since the human family began and interlopers saw how to keep them enslaved.
You missed the point that Wars are not meant to be won. If they are won then why do you need a military industrial complex.
Furthermore, those well-familiar with the occult know that war is human sacrifice. Long never-ending wars that start up and stop at the most opportune times to correspond with celestial events, say, make the sacrifice of blood most optimized for the wicked.
War is control. War is having a common enemy to unite a group of people. War is started by a governmental elite, always looking for an excuse. War is power exerted by folks not affected by war. The MIC is an excuse, by the Deep State to control.
Two things can be true at once! Even three things can be true
John distinguishes between government elite and corporate elite when in fact these guys just from one to the other all the time. He has a mental block which he loves too much to get rid of. He needs to keep things simple so he can BELIEVE.
Thank you for the heads-up; but like many I am about getting meaningful employment to keep me out of trouble; business classes cost money!
The really big stories of our time are not covered by the MSM, and frequently, not even the alternate web media.
The biggest story of our time is the organized, concerted effort by Israel to exterminate the presence of Palestinians in "Greater Israel", with the active support of the United States, and the tacit support of Europe. In the US, the story is not covered. It is reframed as "..a war between Israel and Hamas". The coverage is very similar to the news coverage of COVID-19 (fear-mongering) and the mRNA injections (lies).
REAL ID is another big story hardly anyone talks about. It's a huge step towards mass surveillance.
Little coverage or critical discussion.
The big fish among the 'alternative media' are owned by the same people who own the rest of the information ecosphere.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, Dennis.
Perhaps this will help:
America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up and sell it off, piece by piece,
until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create and control.
This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them , very slowly.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Recorded at Finks Bat 1990
I might also add that in the mid 60s we passed the immigration and reform act that opened
up our borders to mass (legal) immigration that has resulted in the slow, but inexorable erasure
of what's left of our previous European based culture.
Diversity is our downfall, not our strength.
The only other place we see mass immigration of unassimilable people is Europe and we all
can see how that has worked out.
Witness the large protest in Ireland yesterday just for one example.
Kipling's "Stranger at the Gate" comes to mind and that applies to America's Black problem
also.
Our good author is wildly lashing out. Why? What has happened in the last few days to trigger this attack on "hippie Boomers"? Not all Boomer were hippies, in fact most of them (us) weren't. And not all hippies were Boomers, either.
The children after WWII were divided into at least 4 groups, because there were too many of them born over too long a span (roughly 20 years) to cram them all into one "class". The Biggest Generation overwhelmed the Old Guard system, and only now in the end of its existence, can the results be examined.
There were the Patriots, who enlisted in the armed services, many of whom were destroyed in the Vietnam War and subsequently eliminated from the electorate and government. Subsequent wars of choice drained off more of them, until the revolt against Empire turned them away entirely. The election of Donald Trump has revived that group..
There were the Folk, rebuilding the back-to-the earth and rural life. They never went away, they just hid, keeping the heartland a haven for America.
There were the Ghetto, the foundation of the present Sanctuary City Resistance, trying to wipe out Whiteness and succeeding far too well.
And there were the Workers: going to school, working all the while, trying to continue the path our Founders set us upon.
Today's struggle is to erase the effects of this, the largest generation, if not "the Greatest", which I always thought was more hubris than fact.
He was talking about Hippie Boomers. Not people who weren't. And Hippie Boomers shaped the culture - that is 100% true.
Of sorts, I guess. Doubly ironic then that the the so-called "Hippies" became such inveterate and unapologetic capitalists in their later years.
The Me generation.
Hippies were a subgroup of the Boomer generation, people who did not want to take individual responsibility for anything. Remember Jennie in Forrest Gump?
Now think about the Gimmes today, nothing much has changed, except there may be more of them.
LOL! And the drugs are a helluva lot better!
Pretty sure that is his point.
Excellent observations about the need for a common culture to have a viable republic. I remember feeling like we won the battle to end the Vietnam travesty. That was the narrative. But we plain lost it, as we have in the successive forever wars, with Afghanistan being the most embarrassing. Maybe we can exit Israel and Ukraine before securing defeat there…. Or WW3?