“A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.” — White House Guidance
Definitely the hill to die on...Trump absolutely needs to make recess appointments of these people if they aren't confirmed, which admittedly requires the Speaker to cooperate, because this obstruction can't be tolerated...
I agree. These monsters know that the majority of Americans want these 3 (for the most part) and if these out of control screeching demons are successful at blocking them, it will demoralize a lot of people. I agree with Mr Kunstler that there are other qualified people out there but usually when a confirmation is easy it means that individual will toe the line. Right now, we can't afford very many like that. We need people that the blob are terrified of. At least for now anyway.
The Republicans must get Gabbard, Kennedy and KASH confirmed.
We cannot give these destructive, corrupted Dem a**wipes anything they can use as a "victory."
But more importantly, these are Trump's picks. They should be confirmed.
This is going to be two years of intensity to start righting this cluster fuck the Demonrats created. Trump and Vance need their entire chosen team. Republicans must stand together. And someone needs to get the dementia patients and/or RINOs in line. Among them: Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Murkowski ...
Losing politically will not deter them. They have to pay with their money, reputations and their freedom. They must be prosecuted for their crimes and those crimes must be made into an albatross for the democrat party.
Just put someone up that is acceptable and then they can bring in RFK, Gabbard and Patel behind the scenes to act in their capacity. Give the Dems and Blob a taste of their own medicine.
Excellent post! 👍👍 This is really pretty simple stuff when one looks at the big picture. The policies pursued by Democrats are viewed as repulsive 🤮 by most normal people. Consider such doozies as open borders, DEI, boys playing sports against girls and sharing locker rooms with girls, etc. The idea that any of this is normal is nothing short of insane.
Until whatever normals are left in the Democratic Party wrest control of the party from the current lunatic “leaders” the Dem party will continue to slide into oblivion. Seems unlikely to happen any time soon, as people rarely give up power easily.
Combine that with the observation that most Dem leaders are old and inarticulate, compared to the younger, attractive and articulate Republicans and the Dems truly have a mountain to climb if they wish to regain relevance.
As Roger Stone observed, it's important for us to stop thinking indirectly in terms such as Republicans and Democrats, because the battle concerns Totalitarians versus Team Humanity (Edward Dowd/Phinance Technology's name for Our Side).
ALL of the blob's/WEF's/democrats'/leftists' actions have been observed and analyzed in Joost Meerloo, M.D.'s, 1956 MASTERPIECE, _The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing_. Their actions are Totalitarian.
Name the enemy. EVERYTHING in the Totalitarians' arsenal is OLD and well-practiced. As Alex Jones and others recognized decades ago, this is an InfoWar -- a war for our minds waged with words. We must use words more precisely and obliterate all mental fog.
This is why I'm asking the (rebel) Right to stop assuming the totalitarian so-called "Left" controlling the Democratic Party is the real Left. The real Left is, fundamentally, all about democracy and (negotiated) fairness, but the totalitarian "Left" has hijacked their minds over nearly a century to think *everything* -- not just the original abolishment of Jim Crow -- must be accomplished "by any means necessary". The perfect cover for all sorts of monstrous activity for decades.
I am in particular attached to RFK, Jr.'s confirmation. As a certifiable senior, I benefit from experience not available to youth and I pray some modicum of wisdom. Bobby's history and career make him perfect for the broken health care system that gave us a flawless failure record in managing our recent "pandemic". The system is so captured it impossible to determine if pharma runs our Government or visa versa. The volume of FDA approved drugs pulled for killing too many people reads like an encyclopedia set. The only health care council offered by the CDC is inject, inject and inject. We have products on grocery store shelves where eating the box or the contents are equally health beneficial. We prophylactically inject our developing infant bodies with some 72 , ( ? ), toxic substances. A status quo HHS boss will simply oil all of the above. RFK, jr. is extremely intelligent and his litigating history against the health harmful has armed him to save us from these travesties.
Yes.. America needs him.. so do we in Canada. We see him on television… we hear what he has to say.. changes here too is needed, and in case no one has noticed.. we most of the time follow. Thanks Bobby.
Canada? What is your opinion about unifying the North American continent under single rule? Latest thing I have seen is the proposal to make Greenland a state, #51. Canada will be between two US states. I saw this AM that Canada is trying to join the EU to counter Trump. Is this latent Trudeau-ism? Does Canada really believe it will be better off with the numbskulls of Europe than associated with the USA? With the WEF? That is pretty dumb! Russia already owns half the circumference of the Arctic, Canada better start realizing they have the other half which will be guarded by perhaps two US states. Hmmmmm?
Canada, from the people I know and talk to do not under any circumstances want to become any part of the USA. .. or the EU. We as a country want our sovereignty and have peaceful relations with all. The USA is now negotiating a peace deal with Russia and maybe someday in the future may be come trading partners. Trump appears to like a peaceful world as do I. BTW.. it is nice to have you as neighbours.. can I borrow a cup of sugar?😀🙏😉 Have a good day..
Also heard this AM that a poll of Panamanians have overwhelmingly said that there is no way they will fight the USA for control of the canal. Does this mean we may be fighting China? Maybe swap Taiwan for the canal?
Just as the Special Olympics was founded by his aunt Eunice Shriver out of recognition of the problems of an intellectually disabled family member (her sister Rosemary), I believe RFK Jr.'s passionate concern with vaccine safety likely rose from severe allergies several of his younger children have experienced - allergies now widespread but rarely seen until recent years. He even alluded to this in the recent hearings.
He certainly had a dark side in his youth. It's well documented in a fascinating book, "The Kennedys: An American Drama" by Peter Collier and David Horowitz which explains a great deal about this man. However, that was years ago and people grow, suffer, and sometimes mellow. As long as he remains laser-focused on the goal of making America healthy again, we can rejoice in that and worry about his less-appealing beliefs separately and/or later.
I haven't stopped smiling in the last 11 days! Did you see Trumps piece on FAA DEI on Fox News? https://ncrenegade.com/trump-on-faa-diversity-requirements/ He absolutely took Mayor Pete to the woodshed. About time. I have the bad luck to live in 'Mayor Pete's' city, and it is so refreshing to see him get called out for his BS.
This is what happens when the only reason one is tapped for a significant position in a Presidential cabinet is because one likes to pack fudge. The man had no business being in the position he was in. He was placed there to destroy. Just like Mayorkas, AKA Gollum, was placed in DHS. To destroy. To bring down the USA, the last bastion with even a semblance of freedom. Everything the Democrats have done was to bring about the destruction of the USA. They were damned successful. Thankfully, a majority of Americans are starting to see through the lies of the media and the celebrity influencers and are ignoring them. Hearing these celebrity blow-hards blubber about Trumps victory or the ICE actions against criminal immigrants (see Selena Gomez) is music to my ears. So far, I love and support what Mr. Trump is doing. I hope he continues it for next four years.
The term "Team Humanity", incidentally, was coined by Alex Jones during a conversation with Elon Musk. I don't particularly care for it - it's a bit too cute for my taste - but I'll be on the team, whatever they may call it.
People on these threads give too much credit to the Republican Party. I've witnessed a few times when the Republicans held the Presidency and the Congress and did they do anything of the sort that meets the party's mission? Not at all. When they have the power they do not reduce spending, reduce government, end wars, stop printing money, etc. Even Trump didn't do anything to stop the spending madness. I find the Republicans to be even more despicable than the Democrats. At least the Democrats don't hide their lunacy. The Republicans pretend to be something they most definitely ARE NOT. They are hypocrites of the worst order.
The Dems have a program to scrub the backgrounds of prospective candidates and place them into Republican primaries. I witnessed this first-hand with my congress critter Kiley who seemed like a solid conservative before getting elected and now is obviously a Democrat. This has been going on for decades. So before throwing "Republicans" out with the bath water, just remember a lot of them are actually Dems. What needs to happen is a much better vetting process so we can spot these infiltrators and flush them down the toilet during the primary process. With Ronna McDaniel out of the picture, this will start to tighten up but will take some time.
The republican party is defunct. Right now, we have the greatest president in my lifetime but, after President Trump, we're back to the same corrupt tool career politicians. Brown-nosing asswipe DeSantis, Peter Thiel's tool J.D.
You are quite correct that Donald Trump promised to balance the budget last time- and then proceeded to sign off on- not once veto- 4 consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. But he did try to garner some populist-cred by hanging the portrait of a man who did in fact balance 8 straight budgets and leave the U.S. $0.00 In debt when he left office: Andrew Jackson. A man who, unlike Trump did not take millions from the crypto industry and then pander to them (Jackson would be rolling in his grave at the mention of "digital currency"- and so should everyone here.
Face reality... the Repubs, the Dems, the Communists, the Capitalists, and any others in this category have done nothing but made a total mess of this country and our world. They all need to be erased and replaced with honest, constructive, survival-oriented groups.
Unfortunately it's a slim majority that will drag out the corrections that must be made to reverse the slide into destruction.
I did a Google search, and there are only 12 moderate democrats in the entire country. Don't expect the democrat party (or voter) to change any time soon.
Yeah, I guess Mayor Pete was pretty hot over that, too, calling his comments (and Trump himself, no doubt) despicable. But the record speaks for itself.
That actor was my congressman, and a good one. Very pro-MAGA. pro-family, as well. Had lunch with him, once, as well as with his predecessor, Dave "longest-serving" Obey, and I know which one came across as a hack and a poseur, and it wasn't the MTV actor.
Expanding that, I believe the FF wanted a Congress of Intelligensia to provide the knowledge bank for solving national problems. Washington warned folks about political parties, knowing that injecting politics into Congress would destroy its purpose. Today’s Congress is proof of his fears. The 100% partisan votes for any issue is proof of Washington’s foresight. Party before country.
Gretchen Whitmer is evil incarnate. I don't scare easy, but one look into her eyes gives me the heebie-jeebies - bottomless black pools. Your AG & SOS too, an evil triad.
Wa went mail in vote only & has been deep blue ever since. This state being a backwater, no one pays attention to pioneered a lot of the corruption & fraud that was done nationaly in 2020.
Mayor Pete has all that Chest Feeding expertise and knowledge to parcel out to the ignorant masses. I can picture Mayor Pete as President of a company that manufactures Chest Feeding apparatus ... and marketing it at Pride Paredes coast to coast.
The Democrat swine love to call President Trump vindictive for wishing to drain the Swamp. The Democrat Party is far more vindictive than Trump could ever be, and the Democrat Party levels its most vile, wicked vindictiveness toward the American people--the people that the Democrats had hoped to subjugate into a slave state governed by a dictatorial Democrat elite--but those people said, "Nope, I don't think that we're going to let you do that." Democrat elites are too full of themselves to understand that the people that they have continually fucked over during both the Obama and Biden years just might want some revenge--especially when "revenge" means stripping Democrat tyrants of their ability to fuck Americans over ever again. Trump received a large plurality of votes in the 2024 election because his voters knew that he intended to beat the Democrat elite and the Swamp into a political pulp. And, now, the more that the Democrat elite tries to hogtie Trump and his appointees, it will just make him more determined to exact the tons of political flesh out of them that they deserve to lose. The Democrats just got a taste of that from Trump yesterday--stonewall my pick to head the FBI--fine, I just fired the whole upper echelon of the agency. Oh, by the way, Patel was a pretty nice guy, wait to you see who I pick next to run the FBI if you don't confirm him. Trump is now fully playing "Fuck Around and Find Out." The Democrats just keep Fucking Around, and they are going to discover that the "Find Out" is more brutal than they can possibly imagine. And the Democrats deserve to get the Find Out part--good and hard.
"Was it the miasma of cognitive dissonance blackening the air-space over the DC swamp that caused the deadly collision of AA Flight 5342 and a Blackhawk Helicopter this week..."
Yes, likely it was and as usual the innocent and very young paid the price. Just like they do when they are given as their welcome to the world, a needle in their thigh to start their life-long attachment to the medical industry.
What I found particularly ghoulish was the female senator who looked like she spent the night with Dracula tried ever so hard to get Bobby to agree that Stem Cell research from FETAL TISSUE was vital and saved the lives of her constituents. The way he delivered his comment, "You can get stem cells from the umbilical cord, you don't need Fetal Tissue" was priceless as he was visibly disgusted by that woman.
I would say it was her and her cronies "SSRI's are absolutely safe". Vaccines are absolutely safe"
And their contestant SAY IT SAY IT.
For RFK jr. ist was SAY VACCINES ARE SAFE
For Kash it was SAY BIDEN WON THE ELECTION
For Tulsi it was SAY SNOWDEN IS A TRAITOR
They tried to get each of them to bend a knee and they wouldn't.
I so appreciate how you boil things down to the simplest and clearest view of what is happening. I agree 100%.
All in all I have never been so pleased in my entire life that all the bottled up feeling of how everything was just so unjust and insane is being made so clear by these people.
Trump at the presser yesterday was brilliant. DEI has literally killed people, we all knew it was a killer these past 4 years, but now at the expense of 67 beautiful souls, the press and all the country gets to look up from their chores, and their busy lives to really understand the impact.
Shades of New Orleans - could a helo pilot have been turned? Was it intentional? How the hell does a helo go from 200 to 350 feet in 3 miles and head right or a landing zone for a major airport. How can Atc be the cause if there were no communications recorded?
Right now, the explanation(?) is that ATC asked if Helo could see the plane, Answer was yes, and ATC told them to go behind the plane. That was it. Some think the helo saw a following flight instead of the one they hit. ??
My question is over and over, why was he at 350, some say 400 feet to hit the plane? That is question number one, as Hegspeth has said.
Another thing, there has been talk of many, many near misses between these helos and planes at Reagan, one the night before the crash. With that acknowledgement, is is appalling that this has been going on.
IMHO, 67 lives from the grave, shut this boondoggle down. Build high speed rail or even mag-lev to the Mail from Dulles and maybe BWI. Reagan is a death trap.
Former enroute (above 5,000 ft & out of Approach control airpsace) ATC here. Separation errors (failure to maintain mimimum distances btwn aircraft) could be 20 miles in some instances. Gotta tell ya, I was (and still am amazed) how few collisions (and near misses) there were/are in Approach controlled airspace. To this day, when I fly, my prayer on the runway has always been "Please G-d, get me to 5,000 ft".
There is something weird with this T-boning! Flying into the side of an airplane that size, flying at full speed with no evasion at any moment in time?
1 Timothy 6:10. "For the love of money [that is, the greedy desire for it and the willingness to gain it unethically] is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves [through and through] with many sorrows."
Not only the politicians, but also the thinking class who love to impress people with their "knowledge" and "status" - things that money can buy. This also applies to those in lower classes who don't think they have enough.
I think those who live in the real world with some semblance of being satisfied with what they have, who have worked for what they have, are the normal ones who are not blinded by money/evil.
And Trump wants to make those “good things” in America. The Deep State wants no part of that, they lose control if people become able to take care of their own needs without government help. I do understand you want no part of that either.
Yep, they're on to the trick, being paid back in cheaper dollars. Just like my contributions to SS in 1975 dollars - they now want to pay me in 2025 dollars.
As you know, they've been scaling out of US Treasuries for a long time - if they bail, too much, too soon, they cut their own throat.
"the thinking class who love to impress people with their "knowledge" and "status" - things that money can buy."
Yes, money can buy even "knowledge" and "status." How else can you explain that a man who specializes in producing computer software is now an expert on immunizations and control of the human population? Unfortunately, we as the regular type of people make this happen. In America, or in the world for that matter, when someone manages to acquire an ungodly amount of wealth we as a people place that individual on a pedestal. Suddenly, because they are wealthy, they know everything. Their opinion counts and matters. And, for some reason, millions of people listen to them.
The only difference between a billionaire and a regular middle class joe or jane is the billionaire has a bigger microphone. They still eat, drink, sleep and shit just like the rest of us.
She is a poster child for the WEF and the AGW crowd. A child can up-stage anyone. She is disappearing because she is no longer a child and the farther we get from Gore’s stupid predictions, the less effect the AGW folks have.
Adults who felt loved as children develop self-respect.
Adults who were objectified, neglected, or abused as children have a black hole inside where their self-respect should be.
Try as they might to fill it with credentials, awards, money, power, "pleasure", they fail, and Fail, and FAIL. And so we have Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Barry Obama, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, etc. -- see how "contented" they are?
Somebody made them that way. They have no self-respect.
I think it may be because people get tired of saying "ill-gotten gains" and want to mix things up a bit.
Also it is embedded in the oaths taken by attorneys in many jurisdictions, so the phrase has had a bit of staying power, what with thousands upon thousands declaring that they "shall do no act for malice or filthy lucre."
“The corruption in all this has been supernatural, and the fact that, until late 2024, seventy-million Democratic Party American voters thought this was all okay is extra-supernatural. What happened to their minds?”
This is a reasonable question, addressed by a pair of important books. In 1896 Gustave le Bon pondered the bizarre events following the French Revolution and wrote The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. He concluded that occasionally societies collectively run off the rails – suffering mass insanity, with appalling consequences.
Building upon le Bon’s premise, in 2022 Mathias Desmet published The Psychology of Totalitarianism, coining the term “Mass Formation (Psychosis)” to describe this phenomenon. Among the causal factors identified by Desmet is exploitation of individual insecurity, caused by social isolation.
Draconian isolation, enforced during the Covid scare, provided ideal circumstances for subjecting the populace – already feeling insecure about a manufactured plague – to the most comprehensive and sophisticated program of propaganda ever contrived. The Blob capitalized on this giant experiment by inoculating the populace with the damnedest bunch of ridiculous ideas ever sold.
Having successfully demonstrated proof of concept for imposing totalitarian control of the American public, with free expression of objections outlawed, one can easily imagine the scenarios for building upon that experiment that The Blob concocted and was eagerly preparing to implement, had it won our recent election.
Maybe totalitarianism is a reaction by a government which considers itself under threat by groups of people that it alienated. I believe that people, like everything , are bipolar in nature. Not the disease but the natural fact that for any opinion there will be an equal and opposite opinion by someone else. So the positive job of government is to consolidate the opposing opinions into one “patriotic” common cause. Look at us right now. Both sides at a 50-50% split. Half want liberty and justice for all and the other “please Big Brother tell me what to do”.
History is not kind, almost all “governments”, no matter their form, have failed to consolidate their folks. The evil bred into the governments hinders any consolidation, as government by its nature is against 50% of the population. IMHO, the USA is very close to schism due to its Red-Blue split. Reagan and Trump both have used the patriotic “American First” and the flag to try to consolidate the people. Will it work? I wonder if Vegas is betting odds on that conundrum?
I have doubts that a "fifty-fifty" split is natural, or even real. We are taught that our two corrupt parties are adversarial when they are, in fact, symbiotic, sharing positions on the big stuff, like serving corporate interests and endless wars. The corporate press helps assure their perpetual parity by representing every election as a horse race, which sells their product.
Many of these guys jump from public to private and to academia (public or private) all the time. But a deeper look shows who is on top - the Bankers - very, very private. Being able to print money at will, they control all men and institutions, ultimately. A few outliers excepted.
Most people have never even heard of the BIS - the Bank of International Settlements. When the day comes that our Federal Reserve is at the brink of failure, the BIS can choose to bail them out, or to take them down.
Joost Meerloo, M.D.'s, 1956 book, _The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing_, spells out EVERYTHING anyone needs to know about Totalitarianism and human nature, specifically those aspects of human nature which make us vulnerable to totalitarian methods (which have remained remarkably consistent over the decades).
Great post. Hopefully they will be able to next remove the punishment fine for hard work AKA income tax and put Americans back to producing and proudly seeing MADE IN USA instead of Hecho en Mexico and Made in China in everything sold in Walmart, Home Depot and on Amazon. I personally hand make leather products and heard that big sucking sound Perot warned about NAFTA.
The Dem/Marxists will stop at nothing to try to derail Trump. Their biggest issue right now is that a sizable % of people watching have already seen lie after lie blow up and there will be no more major acceptance by Americans of the lies that the legacy media is spewing day after day. It surprises me that the legacy media still has the number of viewers that they have. I quit watching it 15 years or so ago.
Time, Life, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, all with millions in print circulation in the '60's now down the drain- quite the business model: Feed people sh*t and then act surprised when they die eating it. So many, like myself now paying for alternative news on line. The real challenge is combatting the billions from the likes of Soros being pumped into the hands of villainous political campaigns. Calling them Marxists, when there are billionaires plenty among them misses the point- it is about sucking money from the rest of us once their minions are elected.
If our Republic could be maintained in its ideal founding, there would be a continuous stream of hangings for the sedition and high crimes being continually thrust upon the American people, and those who believe we ever stood for their We the People best interests at heart.
There are vestiges of the Founding principles guiding our nation today, but the money and its consequent power have seduced the lives of many who are schooled in the ways of domination.
And thus the language of liberty has been corrupted to serve the interests of the powerful. Only in a society guided by the laws of the Creator will there be respect for what is made possible by principle. So it is in the interest of the evil ones to destroy as much law and order as possible, by all means, just as war causes the problem of refugees, and the destruction of wealth among the masses for the investment opportunities in serving ‘some’ of their basic needs, drawing as much as possible from those working class people whose wealth has not yet been seized, for redistribution and ’equity’. But alas, by ‘Virtue’ of the income tax, originally conceived to be a temporary solution for ‘wartime investments’, a source for the support of many, many other pursuits of government has become a fact of life. Expected, rationalized, argued about infinitely, and the means by which, if unpaid, your door will be kicked down for sure (unnecessarily, but for the sake of understanding the Necessity of paying, ultimately without withholding funds or making protest). No little old Constable man serving a paper (warrant) politely. No, this is a weaponized band of Sheriff’s deputies charged with serving ‘justice’ for the compliant American people who DO pay their taxes, willfully and without protest. And they use force opening the entrance to your home: Damn knocking on the door and requesting entrance. If you are a certified tax protester, they are there to forcibly remove you from what had been your home.
So if you object to the way they Spend your tax dollars, DO NOT confuse that right to speak out against the spending with the right to refuse paying taxes. It is THAT POWER to ultimately collect — on the tax debt which They Determine you owe — That Power is what the billionaires and Elitists covet. Then give them 25+ years to kick the can down the road (CRs) with Modern Economic Theory, voila, another vile species of thought trickling down from the French Revolution, destroying the basis for any ’Reserve’ currency status. Everyone on Earth is not willing to pay for the ‘froi gras’ of the Elite, especially those who have funded wars and coups at their sovereign expense. But so many of the world’s poor have been crushed for so long that the opposition they can muster is only that which is funded by evil ideologies. So who controls the narrative, and who even cares enough to hear it, or read about it?
Anyone up for a legitimate disrupter?
Anyone understand why Trump’s legitimacy has been under ‘full court press’ attack?
And now how about those disrupters Trump has chosen as his ‘Big Guns’?
Has anyone ever heard a more pathetic, whiney drivel from the mouths of those who are supposed to be our most senior statesmen? Especially the stateswomen!
Tulsi, Kash, and ‘Bobby’ (as senior statesman more appropriately known as RFK Jr) ALL Shine Brightly over the dim bulbs of the Established Order.
What will it take for Trump to effect the Will of We the People ?
Who will be destroyed by the minefields and obstacles they are setting for archenemy Trump/ MAGA patriots?
Warp Speed ‘Splainin’ is over ! These nominees are what the American people want, voted and expect — NOW.
The media maintained that there was no evidence for Trump's assertion that DEI policies enacted during the Obama years contributed to the DC plane crash, but today on the Substack of Jeff Childers, I learned that in 2014, merit-based testing for air-traffic controllers was scrapped entirely in favor of new standards that encouraged hiring more minorities. Scrapping merit-based testing, regardless of the justification, is a manifestly terrible idea for something as crucial as air-traffic control.
Once real standards are back in place, people will find it amazing and unbearable how few Blacks there are anywhere to be seen. That's simply the reality. There is no equality, anywhere. That will be the ultimate test of fortitude.
I would imagine that they were understaffed because of keeping vacant positions reserved for DEI hires. That was the Biden administration's prime directive for all federal agencies.
The first is good, but the second can only be imposed by force to the detriment of everyone. Even those who get unjustified jobs through DEI find that everyone rightly suspects them of incompetence.
If I see your reasoning accurately, I heartily disagree. But the point of competency is not negotiable, or anything other than merit based. There is enough sophistication in testing and physically assessing performance to fully vet any candidate.
Socially promoted prospects need Not apply, whatsoever.
And maybe it will fire up Black’s desire for education? Education and the military, the two social elevators. It will be up to the Blacks themselves, the government will no longer play the “gimme” game. If they want to succeed, it is up to them.
Oh yeah, Lugh, you keep trying to condemn Blacks to the “dumb” category. Exactly. What “brand” of Black are you talking about, total, or 1/2 black, or 1/4 black or whatever. There is no such thing any more as a pure black, or a pure white. The difference is culture, the community that spawns the folks. Black communities hate success. Ben Carson has talked about the social pressure he faced as a Oreo, or Uncle Tom. That is the problem with Blacks not succeeding, accentuated by the Federal welfare tit.
"Scrapping merit-based testing, regardless of the justification, is a manifestly terrible idea"
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Back in the day when I sat for my ATC Academy entrance test I sat for a 4 hr exam (the longest 4 hrs of my life) that tested for ability to interpret and manage time/space relationships among objects moving in 3 dimension space at different speeds (and you had very little time to figure the problem/s out). The top 2% of scorers were offered admission to the ATC academy. As a condition of admission, you had to pass a: (i) full day psychiatric evaluation; and (ii) FBI background check complete with unannounced interviews of relatives, neighbors and employers of yours. At the academy there was a 50% washout rate.
Of course, much of what Jim writes is absolutely correct. The weakness in his argument is to think that what has happened over the past decade is anything new. It might be reaching a crescendo, but the dark heart of our masters has been easily visible for a century. Among the worst things inflicted on us was the "civil rights" movement and all of its poisonous tentacles. Most Americans continue to regard it as some noble cause instead of a monstrous plot to deracinate and disenfranchise the real American people. Do you hate your own children so much that you would privilege some alien race's children over them? You're a monster.
I think you are referring to the federal government, whose evil nature, the Deep State, has derived its relevance from “protecting” the minorities from “Whitey”, the evil majority of the country. The great secret here is that, with a very few exceptions, “Whitey” could care less. Racism starts in the minority people as they try to explain their shortcomings to themselves. “Whitey” makes a great common target.
Is Trump changing this? We will see.
BTW, this tendency is losing its appeal as education and hard work IS working for an increasing population of minorities, a direct result of the diminishing influence of affirmative action and consequent welfare.
Poor Jim Harmon. There he sits. The world he was certain he made better through his activism and progressive thinking turned out to be a nightmare. Why won't everyone continue to thank him and pat him on the back? He only wanted "equality."
One of the best features on Facebook for the delusional TDS-stricken folks in my circle is "Stop seeing posts but remain friends". Literally 8yrs on and they can't shake it. It's fun to 'check in ' on some of them and see what they're posting. It's like when you're dead, you don’t know it - the pain is felt by others. Same thing if you're stupid.
Sadly, in my experience, the libs are soldiering on with their lunacy. I trust that those in the middle have moved to our side, leaving the far lefties alone in the wilderness.
Seems to me the hearings are just performance art. Just a way to look as though our representatives are working for us. Every single one, regardless of info presented in the interrogations have already made up their minds how they will vote. Unless someone can be bought to change at the last minute, After all we do have the very best politicians that money can buy.
"Was DEI a public ethics exercise or a massive jobs program for incompetents?"
The incompetent (stupid) are easily controlled. Lacking experience in management they perceived it to be license to control others which further eroded the workplace.
When then person in charge lacks the intelligence of their subordinates they become angry and the only thing that motivates them is destruction.
In my former career I worked at a variety of corporations, sole proprietorships, partnerships, the federal government and the state government.
Nothing was worse than the idiots I had to deal with at the state level. Mouth-breathers that would never make it in the private sector. No one with a brain stays in these situations so it's the C- crowd left by design to maintain the status quo.
My TA in college for economics class went to work for the CIA. He visited us once and boy did he give us an earful about federal employees and their incompetence. The one I remember most was secretaries that could not spell, write or type.
I recently visited the Recorder of Deeds in my county and the office was one old white man taking forever to service each person and three obese black women sleeping in their chairs. I'm not exaggerating, two of them were actually sleeping. One was fiddling with her computer. Probably scrolling BookFace.
He was trying to do a good job by going slow. Haste makes waste. Or as the Romans used to say, Make haste slowly. The Black women? Their bodies slept, but their hearts were awake.
Ever watch the progression of a public works project such as roads? It is almost comedic how many of the workers are actually doing anything. It is another form of public welfare. Remember Newt and Bill’s workfare? Whatever happened to the idea?
We shouldn't have public roads at all, obviously. In this new age of FORD (Trump), I'm going to get a job in a toll booth/shooting tower. I'll spend most of my time reading, my rifle propped up against the parapet. From up there, the whole city will be filled with similar towers, one for every street (at first). We'll have fun talking to each other when not shooting people who try to jump the gate.
Later, City Lords will consolidate whole regions and you won't have to pay more than once since each Lord owns that whole part of the city. Hopefully by that point, I'll be higher up the chain of command and won't lose my job.
NGOs are a form of government control themselves, competing with the government for influence. They, like all corporations, are not private, but are spawned by the government and its taxes and regulations.
If we let the blob defeat these candidates they will obstruct everything moving forward. Die on this hill!
Definitely the hill to die on...Trump absolutely needs to make recess appointments of these people if they aren't confirmed, which admittedly requires the Speaker to cooperate, because this obstruction can't be tolerated...
and if the rinoRat Senate (Thune) doesn't recess .... then the Trump"Kitchen Cabinet" comes even more into being following Musk and Homan.
I agree. These monsters know that the majority of Americans want these 3 (for the most part) and if these out of control screeching demons are successful at blocking them, it will demoralize a lot of people. I agree with Mr Kunstler that there are other qualified people out there but usually when a confirmation is easy it means that individual will toe the line. Right now, we can't afford very many like that. We need people that the blob are terrified of. At least for now anyway.
We won’t be demoralized not at all. We will destroy their careers. We don’t want the opposition energized.
+100
The Republicans must get Gabbard, Kennedy and KASH confirmed.
We cannot give these destructive, corrupted Dem a**wipes anything they can use as a "victory."
But more importantly, these are Trump's picks. They should be confirmed.
This is going to be two years of intensity to start righting this cluster fuck the Demonrats created. Trump and Vance need their entire chosen team. Republicans must stand together. And someone needs to get the dementia patients and/or RINOs in line. Among them: Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Murkowski ...
Call your senators.
Losing politically will not deter them. They have to pay with their money, reputations and their freedom. They must be prosecuted for their crimes and those crimes must be made into an albatross for the democrat party.
"The blob has already lost in the political battle-space. All they can manage at this point is some rearguard action."
YES!
Just put someone up that is acceptable and then they can bring in RFK, Gabbard and Patel behind the scenes to act in their capacity. Give the Dems and Blob a taste of their own medicine.
Not acceptable. They will be confirmed. They lost they will be vanquished.
Excellent post! 👍👍 This is really pretty simple stuff when one looks at the big picture. The policies pursued by Democrats are viewed as repulsive 🤮 by most normal people. Consider such doozies as open borders, DEI, boys playing sports against girls and sharing locker rooms with girls, etc. The idea that any of this is normal is nothing short of insane.
Until whatever normals are left in the Democratic Party wrest control of the party from the current lunatic “leaders” the Dem party will continue to slide into oblivion. Seems unlikely to happen any time soon, as people rarely give up power easily.
Combine that with the observation that most Dem leaders are old and inarticulate, compared to the younger, attractive and articulate Republicans and the Dems truly have a mountain to climb if they wish to regain relevance.
As Roger Stone observed, it's important for us to stop thinking indirectly in terms such as Republicans and Democrats, because the battle concerns Totalitarians versus Team Humanity (Edward Dowd/Phinance Technology's name for Our Side).
ALL of the blob's/WEF's/democrats'/leftists' actions have been observed and analyzed in Joost Meerloo, M.D.'s, 1956 MASTERPIECE, _The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing_. Their actions are Totalitarian.
Name the enemy. EVERYTHING in the Totalitarians' arsenal is OLD and well-practiced. As Alex Jones and others recognized decades ago, this is an InfoWar -- a war for our minds waged with words. We must use words more precisely and obliterate all mental fog.
This is why I'm asking the (rebel) Right to stop assuming the totalitarian so-called "Left" controlling the Democratic Party is the real Left. The real Left is, fundamentally, all about democracy and (negotiated) fairness, but the totalitarian "Left" has hijacked their minds over nearly a century to think *everything* -- not just the original abolishment of Jim Crow -- must be accomplished "by any means necessary". The perfect cover for all sorts of monstrous activity for decades.
They're digging their own grave, and after their performance the last 10 or 15 years, I'm perfectly happy to let them.
https://www.leefang.com/p/dnc-chair-election-suggests-democrats
Indeed! They’ve forgotten the Rule of Holes - when you’re in a hole, stop digging.
I am in particular attached to RFK, Jr.'s confirmation. As a certifiable senior, I benefit from experience not available to youth and I pray some modicum of wisdom. Bobby's history and career make him perfect for the broken health care system that gave us a flawless failure record in managing our recent "pandemic". The system is so captured it impossible to determine if pharma runs our Government or visa versa. The volume of FDA approved drugs pulled for killing too many people reads like an encyclopedia set. The only health care council offered by the CDC is inject, inject and inject. We have products on grocery store shelves where eating the box or the contents are equally health beneficial. We prophylactically inject our developing infant bodies with some 72 , ( ? ), toxic substances. A status quo HHS boss will simply oil all of the above. RFK, jr. is extremely intelligent and his litigating history against the health harmful has armed him to save us from these travesties.
Yes.. America needs him.. so do we in Canada. We see him on television… we hear what he has to say.. changes here too is needed, and in case no one has noticed.. we most of the time follow. Thanks Bobby.
Donna
Canada? What is your opinion about unifying the North American continent under single rule? Latest thing I have seen is the proposal to make Greenland a state, #51. Canada will be between two US states. I saw this AM that Canada is trying to join the EU to counter Trump. Is this latent Trudeau-ism? Does Canada really believe it will be better off with the numbskulls of Europe than associated with the USA? With the WEF? That is pretty dumb! Russia already owns half the circumference of the Arctic, Canada better start realizing they have the other half which will be guarded by perhaps two US states. Hmmmmm?
Canada, from the people I know and talk to do not under any circumstances want to become any part of the USA. .. or the EU. We as a country want our sovereignty and have peaceful relations with all. The USA is now negotiating a peace deal with Russia and maybe someday in the future may be come trading partners. Trump appears to like a peaceful world as do I. BTW.. it is nice to have you as neighbours.. can I borrow a cup of sugar?😀🙏😉 Have a good day..
Also heard this AM that a poll of Panamanians have overwhelmingly said that there is no way they will fight the USA for control of the canal. Does this mean we may be fighting China? Maybe swap Taiwan for the canal?
Wow!
Oh one more thing..please don’t listen to Trudy.. he’s almost gone.. good riddance
If that is the case then no wonder Canada has wound up w Castreau. I hope not.
Is there really a chance in hell Canada will pick Chrysta Freeland to succeed Justin Trudeau?
Few can kick ass regarding vaccines and health like RFK, Jr. He dominates in that arena, and that is good for him and for America.
However, at all times, we need to remember his complexity. He has a VERY dark side, as dark as his mind and ideals are bright.
Just as the Special Olympics was founded by his aunt Eunice Shriver out of recognition of the problems of an intellectually disabled family member (her sister Rosemary), I believe RFK Jr.'s passionate concern with vaccine safety likely rose from severe allergies several of his younger children have experienced - allergies now widespread but rarely seen until recent years. He even alluded to this in the recent hearings.
He certainly had a dark side in his youth. It's well documented in a fascinating book, "The Kennedys: An American Drama" by Peter Collier and David Horowitz which explains a great deal about this man. However, that was years ago and people grow, suffer, and sometimes mellow. As long as he remains laser-focused on the goal of making America healthy again, we can rejoice in that and worry about his less-appealing beliefs separately and/or later.
What dark side ? I am a believer in the "let he who is without sin" principle, but you seem to be implying more than that.
Say more about the Dark Side, please. A good deal is public, and acknowledged, so if there is something others ought to know about, please provide it.
He is pro vaccines. He is pro the cdcs jab schedule. He is pro all the 3 letter agencies. He is pro avian bird flu jabs. It’s all kabuki theatre.
His old hag of a cousin might have torpedoed his nomination. We shall see this coming week.
Disappointed in her for sure..
She supposedly has financial interests in big Pharma.
Frankly I think her son's despicable act may have pushed him over the top.
Unfamiliar here. What act was that?
BTW, she does look haggard. And she was so cute when she was little.
Sweet Caroline!
I haven't stopped smiling in the last 11 days! Did you see Trumps piece on FAA DEI on Fox News? https://ncrenegade.com/trump-on-faa-diversity-requirements/ He absolutely took Mayor Pete to the woodshed. About time. I have the bad luck to live in 'Mayor Pete's' city, and it is so refreshing to see him get called out for his BS.
This is what happens when the only reason one is tapped for a significant position in a Presidential cabinet is because one likes to pack fudge. The man had no business being in the position he was in. He was placed there to destroy. Just like Mayorkas, AKA Gollum, was placed in DHS. To destroy. To bring down the USA, the last bastion with even a semblance of freedom. Everything the Democrats have done was to bring about the destruction of the USA. They were damned successful. Thankfully, a majority of Americans are starting to see through the lies of the media and the celebrity influencers and are ignoring them. Hearing these celebrity blow-hards blubber about Trumps victory or the ICE actions against criminal immigrants (see Selena Gomez) is music to my ears. So far, I love and support what Mr. Trump is doing. I hope he continues it for next four years.
The Democrat Party is simply the Communist Party at this point.
Roger Stone advised us to stop using "republican" and "democrat".
It's Totalitarians versus Team Humanity.
The term "Team Humanity", incidentally, was coined by Alex Jones during a conversation with Elon Musk. I don't particularly care for it - it's a bit too cute for my taste - but I'll be on the team, whatever they may call it.
Yes, and the Republican Party late Capitalists.
Don't sell the Republican Party short, they are also the party of closeted, compromised fairies.
People on these threads give too much credit to the Republican Party. I've witnessed a few times when the Republicans held the Presidency and the Congress and did they do anything of the sort that meets the party's mission? Not at all. When they have the power they do not reduce spending, reduce government, end wars, stop printing money, etc. Even Trump didn't do anything to stop the spending madness. I find the Republicans to be even more despicable than the Democrats. At least the Democrats don't hide their lunacy. The Republicans pretend to be something they most definitely ARE NOT. They are hypocrites of the worst order.
The Dems have a program to scrub the backgrounds of prospective candidates and place them into Republican primaries. I witnessed this first-hand with my congress critter Kiley who seemed like a solid conservative before getting elected and now is obviously a Democrat. This has been going on for decades. So before throwing "Republicans" out with the bath water, just remember a lot of them are actually Dems. What needs to happen is a much better vetting process so we can spot these infiltrators and flush them down the toilet during the primary process. With Ronna McDaniel out of the picture, this will start to tighten up but will take some time.
There are two parties in DC right now. MAGA and the Deep State. Dems and GOP are so passé.
The republican party is defunct. Right now, we have the greatest president in my lifetime but, after President Trump, we're back to the same corrupt tool career politicians. Brown-nosing asswipe DeSantis, Peter Thiel's tool J.D.
We need an Alex Jones / Candace Owens ticket.
You are quite correct that Donald Trump promised to balance the budget last time- and then proceeded to sign off on- not once veto- 4 consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. But he did try to garner some populist-cred by hanging the portrait of a man who did in fact balance 8 straight budgets and leave the U.S. $0.00 In debt when he left office: Andrew Jackson. A man who, unlike Trump did not take millions from the crypto industry and then pander to them (Jackson would be rolling in his grave at the mention of "digital currency"- and so should everyone here.
Face reality... the Repubs, the Dems, the Communists, the Capitalists, and any others in this category have done nothing but made a total mess of this country and our world. They all need to be erased and replaced with honest, constructive, survival-oriented groups.
Nancy Graham comes to mind.
There are too many to name. Remember when Larry Craig took a "wide stance" in the bathroom?
Unfortunately it's a slim majority that will drag out the corrections that must be made to reverse the slide into destruction.
I did a Google search, and there are only 12 moderate democrats in the entire country. Don't expect the democrat party (or voter) to change any time soon.
The only thing I want ti hear is their death rattle.
Yeah, I guess Mayor Pete was pretty hot over that, too, calling his comments (and Trump himself, no doubt) despicable. But the record speaks for itself.
I guess you might want to ask East Palestine Ohio what they think of “mayor pete”.
Yeah, after that belated visit, and then all the predictable comments by the faithful blaming Trump for cutting the regulations
Regulations bad! Toxic chemicals are good for people.
Why Biden didn't reinstate them, then, is beyond me.
After four years in Washington, you'd think he'd have a thicker skin.
Progtards and narcissists can't take jokes or criticism.
Just a thick brain.
Pete’s replacement is an actor. I’m still waiting for the call.
That actor was my congressman, and a good one. Very pro-MAGA. pro-family, as well. Had lunch with him, once, as well as with his predecessor, Dave "longest-serving" Obey, and I know which one came across as a hack and a poseur, and it wasn't the MTV actor.
I meant the Dept of Transportation Sec got an actor since Pete left.
Probably better an actor than a politician who failed at being a mayor.
Expanding that, I believe the FF wanted a Congress of Intelligensia to provide the knowledge bank for solving national problems. Washington warned folks about political parties, knowing that injecting politics into Congress would destroy its purpose. Today’s Congress is proof of his fears. The 100% partisan votes for any issue is proof of Washington’s foresight. Party before country.
I've heard that Mayor Pete is considering running for a senate seat in Michigan, or the governorship.
In Michigan he might have a good chance of winning.
In Michigan he's got to deal with the Muslim vote, and we know how they feel about gays
You mean the sodomites? They should be called what they are.
"and we know how they feel about gays"
The same way that every major religion felt about them until a couple decades ago?
I believe they still throw gay people off rooftops in some Muslim countries.
Democrats have cheating down to a science here.
Your governor is a uniquely evil woman. She's like the High Priestess of Abortion manifest.
You forgot to mention our AG and SOS. Together they comprise the Vagina Mafia. Truly evil women.
NGL, I LOL'd.
Gretchen Whitmer is evil incarnate. I don't scare easy, but one look into her eyes gives me the heebie-jeebies - bottomless black pools. Your AG & SOS too, an evil triad.
The Lansing Coven?
Same here in washington state.
Wa went mail in vote only & has been deep blue ever since. This state being a backwater, no one pays attention to pioneered a lot of the corruption & fraud that was done nationaly in 2020.
Gotta check for KY jelly on that seat, ‘fore you sit on it.
Mayor Pete has all that Chest Feeding expertise and knowledge to parcel out to the ignorant masses. I can picture Mayor Pete as President of a company that manufactures Chest Feeding apparatus ... and marketing it at Pride Paredes coast to coast.
That guy is revolting. Somebody should throw him off a roof, in minecraft of course.
We need a gargantuan solar flare. Bad.
The Democrat swine love to call President Trump vindictive for wishing to drain the Swamp. The Democrat Party is far more vindictive than Trump could ever be, and the Democrat Party levels its most vile, wicked vindictiveness toward the American people--the people that the Democrats had hoped to subjugate into a slave state governed by a dictatorial Democrat elite--but those people said, "Nope, I don't think that we're going to let you do that." Democrat elites are too full of themselves to understand that the people that they have continually fucked over during both the Obama and Biden years just might want some revenge--especially when "revenge" means stripping Democrat tyrants of their ability to fuck Americans over ever again. Trump received a large plurality of votes in the 2024 election because his voters knew that he intended to beat the Democrat elite and the Swamp into a political pulp. And, now, the more that the Democrat elite tries to hogtie Trump and his appointees, it will just make him more determined to exact the tons of political flesh out of them that they deserve to lose. The Democrats just got a taste of that from Trump yesterday--stonewall my pick to head the FBI--fine, I just fired the whole upper echelon of the agency. Oh, by the way, Patel was a pretty nice guy, wait to you see who I pick next to run the FBI if you don't confirm him. Trump is now fully playing "Fuck Around and Find Out." The Democrats just keep Fucking Around, and they are going to discover that the "Find Out" is more brutal than they can possibly imagine. And the Democrats deserve to get the Find Out part--good and hard.
What the Democrats did to Trump is called “vindictiveness”. What Trump will now do to the Democrats will be called “justice”.
Is that a nom d'internet? Are you making fun of a campaign admonition by "Joe Biden"? How dare you!
Even little people get to find out. Some Hispanic construction worker bad mouthed Trump on camera, and they came and got him.
We're now living in Fascist Russia - and that's a good thing.
Such bullshit! What a surprise.
Can you digress a bit?
"Was it the miasma of cognitive dissonance blackening the air-space over the DC swamp that caused the deadly collision of AA Flight 5342 and a Blackhawk Helicopter this week..."
Yes, likely it was and as usual the innocent and very young paid the price. Just like they do when they are given as their welcome to the world, a needle in their thigh to start their life-long attachment to the medical industry.
What I found particularly ghoulish was the female senator who looked like she spent the night with Dracula tried ever so hard to get Bobby to agree that Stem Cell research from FETAL TISSUE was vital and saved the lives of her constituents. The way he delivered his comment, "You can get stem cells from the umbilical cord, you don't need Fetal Tissue" was priceless as he was visibly disgusted by that woman.
I would say it was her and her cronies "SSRI's are absolutely safe". Vaccines are absolutely safe"
And their contestant SAY IT SAY IT.
For RFK jr. ist was SAY VACCINES ARE SAFE
For Kash it was SAY BIDEN WON THE ELECTION
For Tulsi it was SAY SNOWDEN IS A TRAITOR
They tried to get each of them to bend a knee and they wouldn't.
I so appreciate how you boil things down to the simplest and clearest view of what is happening. I agree 100%.
All in all I have never been so pleased in my entire life that all the bottled up feeling of how everything was just so unjust and insane is being made so clear by these people.
Trump at the presser yesterday was brilliant. DEI has literally killed people, we all knew it was a killer these past 4 years, but now at the expense of 67 beautiful souls, the press and all the country gets to look up from their chores, and their busy lives to really understand the impact.
Found the person who's never heard of hemorrhaghic disease of the newborn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K_deficiency_bleeding
That "needle in the thigh" is Vitamin K.
Shades of New Orleans - could a helo pilot have been turned? Was it intentional? How the hell does a helo go from 200 to 350 feet in 3 miles and head right or a landing zone for a major airport. How can Atc be the cause if there were no communications recorded?
Is ATC not in contact at all times with both civilian and military aircraft operating in that airspace? Why was flight separation not maintained?
Right now, the explanation(?) is that ATC asked if Helo could see the plane, Answer was yes, and ATC told them to go behind the plane. That was it. Some think the helo saw a following flight instead of the one they hit. ??
My question is over and over, why was he at 350, some say 400 feet to hit the plane? That is question number one, as Hegspeth has said.
Another thing, there has been talk of many, many near misses between these helos and planes at Reagan, one the night before the crash. With that acknowledgement, is is appalling that this has been going on.
IMHO, 67 lives from the grave, shut this boondoggle down. Build high speed rail or even mag-lev to the Mail from Dulles and maybe BWI. Reagan is a death trap.
So,, are we to believe that flight paths are allowed to cross if their altitudes differ by 200 feet?
That is also a good point. What is considered a near miss? Less than 150 feet vertically?
Former enroute (above 5,000 ft & out of Approach control airpsace) ATC here. Separation errors (failure to maintain mimimum distances btwn aircraft) could be 20 miles in some instances. Gotta tell ya, I was (and still am amazed) how few collisions (and near misses) there were/are in Approach controlled airspace. To this day, when I fly, my prayer on the runway has always been "Please G-d, get me to 5,000 ft".
There is something weird with this T-boning! Flying into the side of an airplane that size, flying at full speed with no evasion at any moment in time?
Let’s just hope we get some truth this time.
1 Timothy 6:10. "For the love of money [that is, the greedy desire for it and the willingness to gain it unethically] is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves [through and through] with many sorrows."
Not only the politicians, but also the thinking class who love to impress people with their "knowledge" and "status" - things that money can buy. This also applies to those in lower classes who don't think they have enough.
I think those who live in the real world with some semblance of being satisfied with what they have, who have worked for what they have, are the normal ones who are not blinded by money/evil.
"He who knows he has enough, is rich." ~ Unknown
Ron, remember that at the upper crust the motivator is not money, it is power. Money is the key to power.
True, John, absolutely.
Capitalism's ethos: Greed is good. And advertising helps convince people to buy these good things not made in America with money they don't have.
And Trump wants to make those “good things” in America. The Deep State wants no part of that, they lose control if people become able to take care of their own needs without government help. I do understand you want no part of that either.
Janos - very well said, and the little money they do have is from China buying our debt.
Which is coming to a close.
Yep, they're on to the trick, being paid back in cheaper dollars. Just like my contributions to SS in 1975 dollars - they now want to pay me in 2025 dollars.
As you know, they've been scaling out of US Treasuries for a long time - if they bail, too much, too soon, they cut their own throat.
"the thinking class who love to impress people with their "knowledge" and "status" - things that money can buy."
Yes, money can buy even "knowledge" and "status." How else can you explain that a man who specializes in producing computer software is now an expert on immunizations and control of the human population? Unfortunately, we as the regular type of people make this happen. In America, or in the world for that matter, when someone manages to acquire an ungodly amount of wealth we as a people place that individual on a pedestal. Suddenly, because they are wealthy, they know everything. Their opinion counts and matters. And, for some reason, millions of people listen to them.
The only difference between a billionaire and a regular middle class joe or jane is the billionaire has a bigger microphone. They still eat, drink, sleep and shit just like the rest of us.
And then there's Greta Thunberg. A whole nother story!
She's a strange anomaly that cannot quite be explained.
Greta's a fucking hero when it comes to Palestine.
Why? Because she found a new grift?
She is a poster child for the WEF and the AGW crowd. A child can up-stage anyone. She is disappearing because she is no longer a child and the farther we get from Gore’s stupid predictions, the less effect the AGW folks have.
Huh?
Adults who felt loved as children develop self-respect.
Adults who were objectified, neglected, or abused as children have a black hole inside where their self-respect should be.
Try as they might to fill it with credentials, awards, money, power, "pleasure", they fail, and Fail, and FAIL. And so we have Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Barry Obama, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, etc. -- see how "contented" they are?
Somebody made them that way. They have no self-respect.
Q would know why it is called “filthy lucre”.
I think it may be because people get tired of saying "ill-gotten gains" and want to mix things up a bit.
Also it is embedded in the oaths taken by attorneys in many jurisdictions, so the phrase has had a bit of staying power, what with thousands upon thousands declaring that they "shall do no act for malice or filthy lucre."
Money talks and the people walks...
“The corruption in all this has been supernatural, and the fact that, until late 2024, seventy-million Democratic Party American voters thought this was all okay is extra-supernatural. What happened to their minds?”
This is a reasonable question, addressed by a pair of important books. In 1896 Gustave le Bon pondered the bizarre events following the French Revolution and wrote The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. He concluded that occasionally societies collectively run off the rails – suffering mass insanity, with appalling consequences.
Building upon le Bon’s premise, in 2022 Mathias Desmet published The Psychology of Totalitarianism, coining the term “Mass Formation (Psychosis)” to describe this phenomenon. Among the causal factors identified by Desmet is exploitation of individual insecurity, caused by social isolation.
Draconian isolation, enforced during the Covid scare, provided ideal circumstances for subjecting the populace – already feeling insecure about a manufactured plague – to the most comprehensive and sophisticated program of propaganda ever contrived. The Blob capitalized on this giant experiment by inoculating the populace with the damnedest bunch of ridiculous ideas ever sold.
Having successfully demonstrated proof of concept for imposing totalitarian control of the American public, with free expression of objections outlawed, one can easily imagine the scenarios for building upon that experiment that The Blob concocted and was eagerly preparing to implement, had it won our recent election.
A more simple explanation would be just two words. "Group Think." A very dangerous phenomenon.
Two words don't explain "why," which is the question posed by Jim in the first place.
Maybe totalitarianism is a reaction by a government which considers itself under threat by groups of people that it alienated. I believe that people, like everything , are bipolar in nature. Not the disease but the natural fact that for any opinion there will be an equal and opposite opinion by someone else. So the positive job of government is to consolidate the opposing opinions into one “patriotic” common cause. Look at us right now. Both sides at a 50-50% split. Half want liberty and justice for all and the other “please Big Brother tell me what to do”.
History is not kind, almost all “governments”, no matter their form, have failed to consolidate their folks. The evil bred into the governments hinders any consolidation, as government by its nature is against 50% of the population. IMHO, the USA is very close to schism due to its Red-Blue split. Reagan and Trump both have used the patriotic “American First” and the flag to try to consolidate the people. Will it work? I wonder if Vegas is betting odds on that conundrum?
I have doubts that a "fifty-fifty" split is natural, or even real. We are taught that our two corrupt parties are adversarial when they are, in fact, symbiotic, sharing positions on the big stuff, like serving corporate interests and endless wars. The corporate press helps assure their perpetual parity by representing every election as a horse race, which sells their product.
Many of these guys jump from public to private and to academia (public or private) all the time. But a deeper look shows who is on top - the Bankers - very, very private. Being able to print money at will, they control all men and institutions, ultimately. A few outliers excepted.
Most people have never even heard of the BIS - the Bank of International Settlements. When the day comes that our Federal Reserve is at the brink of failure, the BIS can choose to bail them out, or to take them down.
That's ever present. But periodically it's get weaponized and overcomes the real individuals upon who society depends.
Joost Meerloo, M.D.'s, 1956 book, _The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing_, spells out EVERYTHING anyone needs to know about Totalitarianism and human nature, specifically those aspects of human nature which make us vulnerable to totalitarian methods (which have remained remarkably consistent over the decades).
Great post. Hopefully they will be able to next remove the punishment fine for hard work AKA income tax and put Americans back to producing and proudly seeing MADE IN USA instead of Hecho en Mexico and Made in China in everything sold in Walmart, Home Depot and on Amazon. I personally hand make leather products and heard that big sucking sound Perot warned about NAFTA.
The Dem/Marxists will stop at nothing to try to derail Trump. Their biggest issue right now is that a sizable % of people watching have already seen lie after lie blow up and there will be no more major acceptance by Americans of the lies that the legacy media is spewing day after day. It surprises me that the legacy media still has the number of viewers that they have. I quit watching it 15 years or so ago.
VIVA Trump.
Time, Life, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, all with millions in print circulation in the '60's now down the drain- quite the business model: Feed people sh*t and then act surprised when they die eating it. So many, like myself now paying for alternative news on line. The real challenge is combatting the billions from the likes of Soros being pumped into the hands of villainous political campaigns. Calling them Marxists, when there are billionaires plenty among them misses the point- it is about sucking money from the rest of us once their minions are elected.
What you just said sounds like a 16 oz hammer banging a 20 penny nail down on an oak stump, just because you can.
It has always been about wresting the control of our Treasury and resources to aid and abet the domination of as many people on Earth as possible.
More at length in Reply to me.
If our Republic could be maintained in its ideal founding, there would be a continuous stream of hangings for the sedition and high crimes being continually thrust upon the American people, and those who believe we ever stood for their We the People best interests at heart.
There are vestiges of the Founding principles guiding our nation today, but the money and its consequent power have seduced the lives of many who are schooled in the ways of domination.
And thus the language of liberty has been corrupted to serve the interests of the powerful. Only in a society guided by the laws of the Creator will there be respect for what is made possible by principle. So it is in the interest of the evil ones to destroy as much law and order as possible, by all means, just as war causes the problem of refugees, and the destruction of wealth among the masses for the investment opportunities in serving ‘some’ of their basic needs, drawing as much as possible from those working class people whose wealth has not yet been seized, for redistribution and ’equity’. But alas, by ‘Virtue’ of the income tax, originally conceived to be a temporary solution for ‘wartime investments’, a source for the support of many, many other pursuits of government has become a fact of life. Expected, rationalized, argued about infinitely, and the means by which, if unpaid, your door will be kicked down for sure (unnecessarily, but for the sake of understanding the Necessity of paying, ultimately without withholding funds or making protest). No little old Constable man serving a paper (warrant) politely. No, this is a weaponized band of Sheriff’s deputies charged with serving ‘justice’ for the compliant American people who DO pay their taxes, willfully and without protest. And they use force opening the entrance to your home: Damn knocking on the door and requesting entrance. If you are a certified tax protester, they are there to forcibly remove you from what had been your home.
So if you object to the way they Spend your tax dollars, DO NOT confuse that right to speak out against the spending with the right to refuse paying taxes. It is THAT POWER to ultimately collect — on the tax debt which They Determine you owe — That Power is what the billionaires and Elitists covet. Then give them 25+ years to kick the can down the road (CRs) with Modern Economic Theory, voila, another vile species of thought trickling down from the French Revolution, destroying the basis for any ’Reserve’ currency status. Everyone on Earth is not willing to pay for the ‘froi gras’ of the Elite, especially those who have funded wars and coups at their sovereign expense. But so many of the world’s poor have been crushed for so long that the opposition they can muster is only that which is funded by evil ideologies. So who controls the narrative, and who even cares enough to hear it, or read about it?
Anyone up for a legitimate disrupter?
Anyone understand why Trump’s legitimacy has been under ‘full court press’ attack?
And now how about those disrupters Trump has chosen as his ‘Big Guns’?
Has anyone ever heard a more pathetic, whiney drivel from the mouths of those who are supposed to be our most senior statesmen? Especially the stateswomen!
Tulsi, Kash, and ‘Bobby’ (as senior statesman more appropriately known as RFK Jr) ALL Shine Brightly over the dim bulbs of the Established Order.
What will it take for Trump to effect the Will of We the People ?
Who will be destroyed by the minefields and obstacles they are setting for archenemy Trump/ MAGA patriots?
Warp Speed ‘Splainin’ is over ! These nominees are what the American people want, voted and expect — NOW.
The media maintained that there was no evidence for Trump's assertion that DEI policies enacted during the Obama years contributed to the DC plane crash, but today on the Substack of Jeff Childers, I learned that in 2014, merit-based testing for air-traffic controllers was scrapped entirely in favor of new standards that encouraged hiring more minorities. Scrapping merit-based testing, regardless of the justification, is a manifestly terrible idea for something as crucial as air-traffic control.
Once real standards are back in place, people will find it amazing and unbearable how few Blacks there are anywhere to be seen. That's simply the reality. There is no equality, anywhere. That will be the ultimate test of fortitude.
I would imagine that they were understaffed because of keeping vacant positions reserved for DEI hires. That was the Biden administration's prime directive for all federal agencies.
Or the fact that when women and unqualified minorities are shoehorned into positions they didn't earn, qualified men find it intolerable and leave.
Equality of opportunity, or equality of outcome?
The first is good, but the second can only be imposed by force to the detriment of everyone. Even those who get unjustified jobs through DEI find that everyone rightly suspects them of incompetence.
Isn’t equality of outcome = Equity?
Yes, that's that they call it. Really it's just racism.
If I see your reasoning accurately, I heartily disagree. But the point of competency is not negotiable, or anything other than merit based. There is enough sophistication in testing and physically assessing performance to fully vet any candidate.
Socially promoted prospects need Not apply, whatsoever.
Race is not a basis for evaluation. Period.
And maybe it will fire up Black’s desire for education? Education and the military, the two social elevators. It will be up to the Blacks themselves, the government will no longer play the “gimme” game. If they want to succeed, it is up to them.
Oh yeah, Lugh, you keep trying to condemn Blacks to the “dumb” category. Exactly. What “brand” of Black are you talking about, total, or 1/2 black, or 1/4 black or whatever. There is no such thing any more as a pure black, or a pure white. The difference is culture, the community that spawns the folks. Black communities hate success. Ben Carson has talked about the social pressure he faced as a Oreo, or Uncle Tom. That is the problem with Blacks not succeeding, accentuated by the Federal welfare tit.
What brand of Blacks hate success? You question the validity of the category and then use the same category.
Mine is a trained intellect, yours is not.
A trained intellect? Ho,ho! That is funny.
Who trained you to hate as you do?
Air traffic control has been 'under attack' by DEI, former controller says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/air-traffic-control-has-been-under-attack-by-dei-former-controller-says/vi-AA1y9m6A
Listen to what Michael Pearson has to say about the "immunity program".
"Scrapping merit-based testing, regardless of the justification, is a manifestly terrible idea"
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Back in the day when I sat for my ATC Academy entrance test I sat for a 4 hr exam (the longest 4 hrs of my life) that tested for ability to interpret and manage time/space relationships among objects moving in 3 dimension space at different speeds (and you had very little time to figure the problem/s out). The top 2% of scorers were offered admission to the ATC academy. As a condition of admission, you had to pass a: (i) full day psychiatric evaluation; and (ii) FBI background check complete with unannounced interviews of relatives, neighbors and employers of yours. At the academy there was a 50% washout rate.
And this from January 2024 - https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring-people-with-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities/
Of course, much of what Jim writes is absolutely correct. The weakness in his argument is to think that what has happened over the past decade is anything new. It might be reaching a crescendo, but the dark heart of our masters has been easily visible for a century. Among the worst things inflicted on us was the "civil rights" movement and all of its poisonous tentacles. Most Americans continue to regard it as some noble cause instead of a monstrous plot to deracinate and disenfranchise the real American people. Do you hate your own children so much that you would privilege some alien race's children over them? You're a monster.
Most here think it's completely normal, nay moral! By way of deception did they make war against us, using the Blacks as their shock troops.
I think you are referring to the federal government, whose evil nature, the Deep State, has derived its relevance from “protecting” the minorities from “Whitey”, the evil majority of the country. The great secret here is that, with a very few exceptions, “Whitey” could care less. Racism starts in the minority people as they try to explain their shortcomings to themselves. “Whitey” makes a great common target.
Is Trump changing this? We will see.
BTW, this tendency is losing its appeal as education and hard work IS working for an increasing population of minorities, a direct result of the diminishing influence of affirmative action and consequent welfare.
Bull.
Poor Jim Harmon. There he sits. The world he was certain he made better through his activism and progressive thinking turned out to be a nightmare. Why won't everyone continue to thank him and pat him on the back? He only wanted "equality."
Tikkun Olam or Repair of the World means getting rid of Whites.
One of the best features on Facebook for the delusional TDS-stricken folks in my circle is "Stop seeing posts but remain friends". Literally 8yrs on and they can't shake it. It's fun to 'check in ' on some of them and see what they're posting. It's like when you're dead, you don’t know it - the pain is felt by others. Same thing if you're stupid.
Sadly, in my experience, the libs are soldiering on with their lunacy. I trust that those in the middle have moved to our side, leaving the far lefties alone in the wilderness.
I keep seeing posts from my TDS friends that Mysk & co. are trying to cut social security benefits and/or Medicare, is that true or just fake news?
Seems to me the hearings are just performance art. Just a way to look as though our representatives are working for us. Every single one, regardless of info presented in the interrogations have already made up their minds how they will vote. Unless someone can be bought to change at the last minute, After all we do have the very best politicians that money can buy.
Yes! It all depends on the traitorous RINOs. All have DTS.
Oops. TDS.
Outstanding, James. You detail the current zeitgeist perfectly. Sometimes, good does prevail over evil.
"Was DEI a public ethics exercise or a massive jobs program for incompetents?"
The incompetent (stupid) are easily controlled. Lacking experience in management they perceived it to be license to control others which further eroded the workplace.
When then person in charge lacks the intelligence of their subordinates they become angry and the only thing that motivates them is destruction.
In my former career I worked at a variety of corporations, sole proprietorships, partnerships, the federal government and the state government.
Nothing was worse than the idiots I had to deal with at the state level. Mouth-breathers that would never make it in the private sector. No one with a brain stays in these situations so it's the C- crowd left by design to maintain the status quo.
When all consuming ambition exceeds talent the result is often crime.
My TA in college for economics class went to work for the CIA. He visited us once and boy did he give us an earful about federal employees and their incompetence. The one I remember most was secretaries that could not spell, write or type.
I recently visited the Recorder of Deeds in my county and the office was one old white man taking forever to service each person and three obese black women sleeping in their chairs. I'm not exaggerating, two of them were actually sleeping. One was fiddling with her computer. Probably scrolling BookFace.
He was trying to do a good job by going slow. Haste makes waste. Or as the Romans used to say, Make haste slowly. The Black women? Their bodies slept, but their hearts were awake.
Lugh
Ever watch the progression of a public works project such as roads? It is almost comedic how many of the workers are actually doing anything. It is another form of public welfare. Remember Newt and Bill’s workfare? Whatever happened to the idea?
We shouldn't have public roads at all, obviously. In this new age of FORD (Trump), I'm going to get a job in a toll booth/shooting tower. I'll spend most of my time reading, my rifle propped up against the parapet. From up there, the whole city will be filled with similar towers, one for every street (at first). We'll have fun talking to each other when not shooting people who try to jump the gate.
Later, City Lords will consolidate whole regions and you won't have to pay more than once since each Lord owns that whole part of the city. Hopefully by that point, I'll be higher up the chain of command and won't lose my job.
Their hearts were full of hydrogenated seed oils and Funyuns.
Imagine how great it will be when everything is private. No public lands, certainly not beaches. The Rich own everything - Heaven!
The rich own everything whether its public or private.
Right, at least everyone has a chance if the government is not trying to destroy them with taxation and regulations.
NGO's good, right? Since they're not government!
NGOs are a form of government control themselves, competing with the government for influence. They, like all corporations, are not private, but are spawned by the government and its taxes and regulations.
So private entities can act like government? Tell us more!