At this point I don't much care about the Epstein list. I'd rather see heads start rolling for the covid debacle, USAID, and the crime described as ‘diabolical’ and yet another ‘informed consent violation’ by Bret Weinstein ( Feb 2025 Joe Rogan interview) : geoengineering.
Lisa - I agree, 100%, but not so sure anything is going to happen. Other than "making sure it never happens again". Makes my blood boil every time I hear that one. It's clear that we live in a lawless country, people just can't wrap their heads around it. When crimes are committed openly, with more than ample evidence of criminal conduct, and nothing is done about it, that, by definition is lawless. No other way to describe it.
Lawless for the elites and politically connected, Ron. We little people still have to abide the law, pay our taxes and be good little shoppers. Otherwise we end up in jail with the gangsters and the sodomites. Nobody is above the law except in America where the elites are above the law. Period. That makes my eyes bleed with anger.
There are a few channels on YouTube where independent guys find and take down the degenerate pedo pervs who sit in their trailers and plot to meet up with kids and contribute to the problem of trafficking and child porn. But they are the low-level scum. They are the ones that get caught and everyone then feels good knowing one less perv is off the street, never really thinking about the massive power behind what made those guys able to get to that porn in the first place. Same as it ever was.
So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
Degeneracy has been promoted, sold on a massive scale to the public, since the CIA began its programs post WWII. So people that are already degenerates and low-lives, sociopaths, psychopaths, sexual deviants - have it made. They've been coaxed out of the shadows and given the spotlight. If that isn't a sign of cultural collapse, I don't know what is.
I might fancy a hypothesis that the more fucked-up a society is/gets, the porn follows suit, perhaps like most everything else... porn, school, medicine... take your pick.
We are living in a fucked-up society, folks-- to be charitable with the definition of 'society'. As if we need to point that out.
People literally worship degeneracy and demand that it be included in all of our "entertainment" and culture, so I would tend to agree - 100%. Look at how low the bar has gone since, say, the 1950s. As family units have been destroyed to make way for the "freedom" of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and "coolness." One of my sisters, a teacher, says the F word 3 times per sentence but that's "edgy." Nope, to me, it's just profane. I don't want to hear it. But that's OK now in regular society. Just as it is in Portland for a dad and his young son to be sitting eating ice cream cones near someone shooting up heroin. How "cool"!
It appears that when a society becomes too rich and unbalanced with too much spare time (which used to be spent on warding off winter starvation/disease) that it turns to debauchery. Nowadays we have technology to add to the firehose. Look out below.
BINGO! Spot on Yirgach. You get it. We as a society have had it far too good for far too long. Instead of worrying about our next meal or working to build our shelter, our people have ample mental "space" to think on other things. Thus, out of literal boredom, they proliferate perversion, filth, decadence and immorality. They glom onto "causes" such as the environment, animal rights, and of course sexual deviancy.
If we had to spend more time producing our meals and maintaining our shelter many of these things that our people obsess over would simply disappear.
The curse of a wealthy society is real and we haven't evolved to the point that we can overcome our own greed and desires for power.
Inclined to thing the process is circular or, perhaps, a spiral. Bad folks, bad porn, more bad folks, badder porn, and so forth. But these distinctions are niceties. Bottom line: both life and art imitate each other and each is execrable.
I bought a couple more power-tools over the weekend for building/woodworking, along with a two-for-one on tape-measures. I'm slowly going outside of my comfort-zone with this kind of investment that's getting expensive. It's sort of like when you start going beyond some critical point where it's hard to back out of and the pressure of commitment is increasingly hanging over your head. ('What am I getting myself into?')
I love acoustic musical instruments of many kinds, they can be very beautiful. Even in You Tube videos, where the subject has nothing to do with that, there might be the odd guitar or whatever lying or hanging around on the walls in the backgrounds.
Zazzy, you'll do fine. You already have the creativity; that's the hard part. The rest is easy. There are people who say, I'll believe it when I see it. The truth is, we see it, when we believe it. Look around - everything you see, was once imagined - a belief.
Cavemen sat around in caves on cold, hard, dirt floors until one imagined a thing that had four legs, was elevated, and could be cushioned with pelts or moss. He fashioned it one day and brought it in the cave. He called it a chair.
The others believed it when they saw it, but had he not believed it before seeing it, they'd all still be sitting around on their asses.
Good quality tools are worth the investment. Look for vintage tools, many will last a lifetime. Check out pawn shops - many people put up tools, when short on money. Garage and estate sales are also a great source of tools. All three can contain real bargains, quality tools at a tenth of retail - and usually better made.
I have a custom designed piece - a combination corner table/end table/3-bottle wine rack design - that I haven't licensed yet - a funky custom design. The flagship piece for Funksional Furniture - a shop adjoining the cafe, which will craft custom furniture, but also hire out to build tiny houses.
Good that you got two tape measures - the old carpenter's sage advice - "Measure twice, cut once."
I've built houses, decks, custom furniture, "turned" wood bowls (on a lathe) - carpentry/woodworking is a great creative outlet, you'll love it, but don't stress over it, enjoy it.
Thanks for the encouragement, advice and the good points/analogies, Ron.
So you've built houses, etc.? Well then maybe I'll see if I can get away with picking your brain on the odd occasion or at least you're welcomed to offer any advice any time.
There's a lot one can do in/with carpentry of course, that's what's great about it and the material, wood, but I'll take a shot at tiny houses, alone, maybe including timberframe. It is imagined that, given increasing poverty, increasing prices with everything, including home-prices and increasing homelessness, the market might be ripe for tiny houses on a dime.
Did you say that you have a friend from Bic/Rimouski and that you had an idea to relocate there?
Mandatory State-prescribed curricula for children is a perversion that parents wilfully let happen, wilfully let their children be literally kidnapped-- Pied Pipered-- into.
Meanwhile, at some of America's schools, the children get abused in different ways and worse, shot and killed.
Your Rule of Law Jesus isn't going to save you.
You and a real community that is empowered to take care of itself might.
Morning Zazzy - nice post as usual - substantive as always.
Playing catch up now. 1) Le Bic, on the shore, adjacent Rimouski 2) Check out the Amish that went to Western NC and built tiny houses for the Hurricane Helene flood victims - 12 houses built in 48 hours, at a cost of $300K - all of which they did for free - most Master Carpenters.
On State-prescribed curricula, you are correct. Read a study years ago, that in Sweden (I think) formal school doesn't start until 7-years old. Data shows they academically outperformed every other industrialized country in later years.
There's a reason Obama and his ilk kept pushing for earlier and earlier pre-school "education" - Head Start - easier to bend those young minds. Preceded by the Bushs - Dubya and Jeb - with their "No Child Left Behind" indoctrination program foolishness.
In my comment, I just edited out 'under a certain age' in part because State-mandated anything at any age is fundamentally unethical because it's coercive.
I initially put 'under a certain age' because after a certain age, State-mandated curricula are not mandatory. So we won't have a social worker appear at our doors to question us about why our children, between certain ages, are not at school or submitting their tests.
I understand that some parents will be more fish-like than other parents and so be fine with laying their offspring like eggs to whatever/whoever happens.
Human beings and fish can of course peacefully coexist, as long as the fish don't impose their ways on we mammals.
"In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, songwriter Roger Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from his audiences:
Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad."
The State and their 'Rule of Law' is just yet another religion that does little for those who would have few ethical compunctions to do no harm/wrong. It's yet again an example of the classic priests abusing the children; their religion doesn't work on/for them.
If anything, as Cankerpuss' comment suggests, the State's 'Ten-Commandments Rule of Law' can often function as a hamstring against those who don't need it while helping to enable those who would.
You want real law? Try 'the law of the jungle' that 'the rule of lawyers' keep trying to disparage in support of their own.
We have no real, healthy, self-protecting communities anymore that would make the State's Rule of Law irrelevant and worse, such that it is.
Exactly. Why have Bill Gates and Bill Clinton not been arrested for raping children on Epstein Island?
Could it possibly have something to do with their wealth and power?
If the law is never actually enforced against such people, then "rule of law" is a sham and our government is entirely illegitimate, merely an occupying force in continuous violation of the Constitution.
I think that the risk vs. reward situation is upside down. Even if a perp is caught now, the DAs let them go. Perps have almost no chance of punishment today, even now.
I wrote a paper in nursing school about the effects of violence on kids. The studies showed that what really “programmed” the kids to violent behavior was unpunished violence, where, for example, the coyote kept coming back for more after getting clobbered by the roadrunner over and over.
I wonder if anyone has figured out that the criminal industry is a very lucrative business today, especially with so many people affected by the lousy economy. Could it be one of the draws for criminals entering the country is the availability of a very developed criminal network? The scum network has a ready made job waiting for them.
Phil? How about Canada, are you seeing the scum networks working up north?
Solution? Just like the 30s, concentrated effort by the FBI and local police to get these folks into cells or offshore. Two examples exist, the 30s as mentioned and the Old West before the Law came in. Both were unpleasant to Joe Average.
That's the State falling apart and that in-betweeness vacuum that gangs can enter.
But when/as the dust settles, the State might go away for a time and real community might pop back in-- those communities that settle the criminal gangs' hash through 'vigilante justice'-- another term for community self-protection in the absence of the farce of State protection.
Right now, the State's law is disabling 'vigilante justice' through the cliched mindfuck of 'don't take the law into your own hands.'
Criminal gangs don't stand a chance, but you have to look in the mirror sometimes and convince yourself that you're the adult and you don't answer to the decaying Nanny State.
Then you grab some guns, some armed pals and meetup with those gangs.
Get that new PM of yours to put the clamp on your border and stop the Latinos and especially Chinese from invading Canada. Then the tariffs will go off like Mexico. You look down here and see what the illegals have done to this country, start fighting the damn Leftists that want them with you.
Nope. Mark Carney is an ex-Goldman Sachs and central banker. He's as Rothschilds as a man can be. He'll do whatever TPTB tell him to do.
Sad but true.
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Illegal Latinos and Chinese are invading Canada? Are you sure? Can you provide a source? [Note: As a known, constant liar, Trump quotes do not count as they are usually unreliable and rarely are proven true.]
Take a trip to Seattle, or Vancouver and visit Little China. Most of the illegals coming into SoCal are Chinese. Think for a moment, Phil, if you wanted to take over without starting a shooting war, how would you do it? Rome was torn down by outsiders taking over. Britain was taken down by outsiders.
Look around Phil, you are the tip of the immigration spear. China is encroaching on the world, get it!?!!! Trump understands this, that is why he is a lot smarter than you appear to be.
I was waiting for you. Okay, you make lots of claims about Trump being dumb,etc. Where are your sources that he is wrong, that both our countries are not targets? You don’t have any. And you are right, that means with illegals you are in worse shape than what the data says. Just like here.
Now, about your sources? And what ideas do you have to stem the flow of Legals and illegals into our countries?
Mark 'Carnage' is a technocrat up to his evil eyeballs. While he was still head of the Bank of England he said companies that wouldn't go along with the ESG stuff would simply not survive.
Hold on one second here, Phil. You're saying that MR. Trump (we are careful to sound respectful around Mr. Kunstler) is a liar? If you don't like it here, as people like Mr. K used to demand of me in my student activities days, why don't you move to Russia?
Cape - you missed my point. It never does happen again, so that excuses the prior event - with no punishment - only assurances that it will never happen again.
Skyscrapers "felled by planes"? Has never happened again (Thanks TSA and "Patriot" Act). Federal Building blown up by a "fertilizer bomb", by a "homegrown terrorist"? Has never happened again (because they saved us from the Montana Freemen Militia, thanks FBI). Population locked down? Mistakes were made, but it won't ever happen again (Thanks WHO and CDC).
So, they really are protecting us, they're batting 1000. So, the only thing we have to worry about is the next thing that happens, but even then, no matter how bad it is, we can rest assured "that it'll never happen again". It's like a self-licking ice cream cone.
Puts us into a WROL situation, a very dangerous place. Without rule of law creates unintended consequences. These people don't appear to think it could happen to them, as they are above the law. Once the law disappears it gets more than nasty.
When folks speak of unpunished crimes, I sometimes think of MR. Trump's having inspired a deadly insurrection, but then I read in places like this that the whole thing was Nancy Pelosi's fault, or Gen. Milley's, or George Soro's, or Stacey Abrams' and realize I am 'way off base. MR. Trump happens to be about lawfulest person a body could hope to meet!
Over eight years of intense politically motivated investigations. Two impeachments. The Mueller "investigation". The J6 Committee. Not an outstanding parking ticket. Not an overdue library book. You may not like what he's done, but I can assure you, it's all been legal. Can't say the same for some others.
Deadly? Only for Ashli Babbitt. Murdered at point blank range by a Capitol Police officer. Oh, that's right, he wasn't guilty, no charges were filed. Sure hope that happens to me, if I ever "accidently" shoot someone. It will be an accidental shooting; I'm telling you right now.
I liked the library book joke, Ron! My understanding is that Ms. Babbitt’s death was a result of her ignoring a clear instruction not to continue trying to break into a that portion of the Capitol the guy who killed her was protecting.
This is a question I ask all the new friends I’ve made via Mr. Kunstler’s page. What are you feelings about MR. Trump’s devotion to an autocrat whose has his detractors either poisoned or dropped out of the windows of tall buildings? I personally find that kind of distasteful.
You got me, John. An awful lot of people have ended up dead around the Clintons, but I can't remember anyone being poisoned or being dropped out of a window. But there was Vince Foster who shot himself in the back of the head. Not only was he the White House Counsel, but who knew he was also a double-jointed contortionist. Plus, I don't think Trump was devoted to them in any way, but I could be wrong.
Agree entirely. Of all the fuckery put over people in the last few years the Covid scam was by far the most egregious. I suspect there will never be any accountability for any of it, though, for the same reason that the ‘Epstein files’ will go nowhere: too many people in high places involved and complicit, and the blobs would rather just pretend it didn’t happen.
And I have the feeling that there is likely overlap of the 'usual suspects' in all of these crimes. On other hand, the older I get the more I believe that the estimate of '1 in 24' individuals being a sociopath is far too low... And what better place for a sociopath to gravitate to than the maze of governmental bureaucracies.
This is why we must all PUBLICLY call for the hangings of everyone who worked on creating the virus and everyone who mandated the deadly mRNA jabs.
Every day. Forever.
This is the best way we can protect ourselves from a repeat. Calling in PUBLIC for the hangings of those criminals is literally the only way to get their attention. Pfauci pfirst.
... prison... you are being kind. I'm for a just trial (what other nefarious goings-on might surface during discovery? ) with gallows located in a very public place .
No prison for Fauci. He needs to hang. Not the kind hanging with a drop and a quick neck break. No, the kind where he struggles for a while and slowly suffocates. This guy is a mass murderer. Period.
I think most people will find the quick fix - Hang 'em High! - emotionally unsatisfying over the long term.
Two scenarios:
1) You're sitting in the laundromat parking lot watching Joe Rogan on your cell phone - the episode where he shows the lynching of Fauci. He was caught trying to sneak into Canada at Warroad, Minnesota when a lumberjack stepping out of Izzy's Lounge saw a little old lady trying to cross the road. Lifting her up on his broad shoulders, the lumberjack is shocked when Fauci's bonnet and wig fall off revealing the King of Spikes. Kicking and screaming in the icy wind, rope cinched tightly around his neck, Fauci is slowly hauled to the top of the power pole when his tiny head smacks into the line and ZAPP! The in vivo x-ray - caught by a few spectators quick with their cell phones is trending on Instagram... Or:
2) "The girls will cheer and the boys will shout..." The Dictator Zoo is rolling into town! Like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, your family - heck, the whole town! - is animated with electric expectation. Rotten eggs, apples, and tomatoes - and some not so rotten - are eagerly gathered into baskets as the family joyfully spills into the street. Fauci has the seat of honor on the dunk tank. "Three baseballs for a dollar! Drop 'im in the water and win a kewpie doll!", shouts the barker. "Just don't hit 'im in the face or you lose." "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" "Next?!" "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" And so it goes, from one town to the next...
It was necessary for the storyline. You kinda have to do that whole "suspension of disbelief thing".
Or, I could go for realism:
A lumberjack stumbling out of Izzy's Lounge saw the bonnet and wig fly off the 'little old lady' as she ran down the street, revealing the King of Spikes.
"Godspeed Mr. Fauci", toasts the lumberjack as he takes another swig of Bud Lite, turns, and walks back into the lounge, plunks a quarter into the jukebox, and queues up "Careless Whisper".
No lynchings as it will just escalate from there and as much damage as Fauci did to society we can't let him do any more by becoming some sort of martyr or impetus for all-out vigilante justice. Know these things: Fauci was put into place by the real villains and enabled by people who, largely in the SDNY and DC federal courts as well as SCOTUS, failed to uphold the Constitution and rule of law.
You could convict Fauci in a formal trial of 1M cases of murder or accessory to murder and give him the death penalty but what would happen is this: He would last on appeal long enough for the dipshit public to elect another Democrat POTUS who would pardon him. There's really only one way people like Fauci ever see reciprocal justice for the crimes they commit against the People.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. I'm inclined to think there is massive bribery and corruption there, and a travesty beyond comprehension inflicted upon the objects of abuse, which are real people (apparently a predominant number of young, underage both male and female) . These people are scarred for life.
If the greater systemic corruption issue is not identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished, it will continue under different form. It will take a while . The Epstein matter does come into play at a point. Presently, it could be a resource distraction.
The so-called justice system in NYC, SDNY and lower Manhattan in general has developed as a law unto itself. The Epstein case is a part of a much larger operation and culture which needs attention. The afore mentioned ie:' identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished' are the larger issue in play there.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. ~ wkenn
It might need to be moved all the way to the back of the bus. Musk calmly announced that efficiency was not an option, but a do or die requirement, and obstructionists, those who continually chirp "It will never work.", and those with a lesser agenda, need to "let that sink in".
If we actually had a Congress that truly represented the people and the states as the Founders intended, they would have already passed a bill banning public sector unions like Utah did a few weeks ago. They’ll drop to the floor kicking and screaming like they did in Utah, but they’ll either do their job, or they can go find a job in the private sector.
Until we the people take the steps to repeal the 17th Amendment we’ll have two lower houses of congress, and nobody representing the state’s interests.
I think the Epstein list might be a distraction from the massive real problem of human trafficking on a massive scale. Epstein was in charge of only a small delivery pool of humans to the elites. The trafficking world-wide, mostly using war situations or open borders as a cover, and involving large global entities like the Clinton Foundation as laundering apparatus, is so much more massive... but they focus on Epstein and Diddy.
According to Whitney Webb, we are being distracted by the salacious details of Epstein's blackmailing operation in order to hide the money laundering and power-brokering enabled by the sex-trafficking. I haven't read her two-volume work, "One Nation Under Blackmail" yet, but it's on my long - and growing - to-do list.
I like Whitney Webb a lot. I don't know where she gets her intel, but I would like to see how she figures they are going to replace gov't agencies with AI (per Musk). that is what I believe her current position is, although I will admit to seeing someone else's summary, not her own work (although I read her religiously a few years back).
We're not going to get shit from the Epstein list. How do you think Trump managed to get his cabinet picks all passed. He has the goods on his own party's people. They never cooperated before, why now? The manipulation of the population is being carefully herded toward civil war, if not global. Study late 1850's congress for anything close to what we're witnessing now. The lower your profile, the less likely they will be coming after you. Ya, I know, I just violated my own words.
Indeed...I seem to remember our host writing about seemingly endless orange barrels on I-87 north of Albany in one of his biweekly Clusterf*ck columns several years ago.
I do care about the Epstein _evidence_ (the list is already widely known).
But you're right, Fauci's creation of Wuhan Virus and the mandates to inject every human on the planet with dangerous and worse-than-ineffective mRNA slime are far more serious crimes:
The Epstein list is not to be discounted. For example, the fact that we never get any further information on it (even though dozens or hundreds of govt officials must be privy) tells us the names must be huge, and therefore worth pursuing. How many young lives were irreparably damaged by this ring?
The perps likely all hope to die of natural causes before it comes out, like any high criminal does.
And, sadly, I'd wager they all will. And then it still won't come out, if their name is big enough.
The FBI has a habit of gathering up evidence which magically disappears down a giant black hole.
Video from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, cell phones and casino video from the Las Vegas mass shooting. Evidence from Fast and Furious gun running, Hunter's Laptop, bags of Cocaine in the White House, Seth Rich murder, non-video from Jeffery Epstein's suicide. Poof..gone forever.
It seems as if FBI and government investigations are conducted not to get to truth, but rather to gather all available incriminating evidence for the purpose of concealing and destroying it. There must be a master playbook somewhere, a neo communist manifesto of sorts.
The J6 Committee is another example of this coverup operation. They looked at video evidence, text and phone messages, interviewed witnesses, all to what end? It seems the plan was create a counter narrative to what actually did occur. God I hope some of this gets exposed and heads roll.
FALSE FLAG CRIMES have been a STATE TOOL since before Roman Empire times. FALSE FLAG events are by definition crimes done to promote the government's desired policies (like disarming the public, creating an excuse to attack another country, etc, etc.). The biggest False Flag in our lifetimes (to date) was 911, the"Twin Tower incident" which was so blatantly false it's hard to believe it hasn't been laughed off the planet. The "Feebs" (our version of the KGB ) have since then become MASTERS of False Flagging, knowing that anyone challenging their "story lines" are easily dismissed through the Ziocratic apparatus that dictates our "Reality Narrative". Of course there are those who see all this B.S. and their numbers have multiplied with the rise of social media only to be tamped down by state sponsored "flak factories" leaving confusion and division in their wake. Long story short Hegel's Dialectic is alive and well in the 21st century and will continue for the foreseeable future.
Machiavellian maneuvers coupled with Hegelian Dialectics in the undeclared wars of Malum Prohibitum. Moral and Ethical conduct in the American Bolshevik irresponsible, unaccountable bureaucracy and their activist show trial courts is pretty daunting to those who would prefer not to be oppressed into oblivion.
Mandalay Bay video, this disappeared immediately after the event, it took some searching to find it again back then. (Nothing in the digital world really disappears forever). It was searchable and discoverable after a couple of days. Note the cab operator talks about the 10th floor as the source. I didn't review this video's full length, but it should contain flashes well below the 32nd floor, possibly 10th, maybe as far down as ?? 4th ??.
Two of my daughter's friends were there and traumatized to this day about it. I had one of them over a month or so after said nothing about helicopters with shooters hanging off them. I took her to a local range to shoot several times after and she now's owns several firearms.
NASA's not much better. Apparently all of the data and files from the Apollo Program were "accidentally" tossed out. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were the same group of black cleaning ladies ("Hidden Figures") that got us to the Moon in the first place that threw all this junk away?
"Maybelline, come ova heah honey. Does this equation look right to you?"
"Nuh uh. You gotta replace that "x" with a slice of apple pie. There ya go. If that don't git 'em to th' Moon, nothin' will!"
"White boys and their fancy degrees... Where would they be widdout us?"
"Heh, heh! They be cleanin' their own toilets - on Earth!"
My impression is that many Americans are digging their heels in and insisting at the top of their lungs that Trump is evil, Musk is evil, the status quo under Biden was righteous and "the Deplorables" now in power are a threat to Democracy.
The reality of their support of Criminal Government and Graft, Inc. never breaches the dike of cognitive dissonance deployed to protect their selfish characters. Like a cult, they'll prefer the destruction of the Republic rather than come to grips with the fact they are a huge part of the problem....
I'm notsure they either understand or comprehend their preference for destruction of the Republic. TDS is real. It thrives in an arena lacking critical thinking skills and prper discussion separate issues from positions.
What is different about the Leftist 49% of this country? Mental illness is too easy of an explanation. IMHO, the whole political split is Haves vs. Have nots. Our country, Canada too, have become complacent, expecting the government to take care of them. They look at the Right as folks that are going to take everything away from them, and they might have to “go to work”. Trump is attacking this paradigm at his risk as they are 49%, and they are going to raise hell as the reforms bite.
A large portion of the “stiff-necked” Hebrews under Moses refused to ‘bend down” to the will of God, and ended up walking the wilderness for forty years until the “Golden Calf” generation died. Even Moses and Aaron displeased God and were not allowed to enter Canaan. Is it going to take fifty years today to erase the curse of Gimme from this country?
The government has been doing a pretty good job of looking out for the "Haves", constantly shifting wealth upward from those dirty nasty lazy have-nots.
Wow, this guy is proof that there is academic backing for the Far Left, socialistic, yes communistic group in the USA. Alajazeera produced it, he disparages capitalism, entrepreneuers, and economic freedom in his TDS rants. The interviewer set him up over and over with TDS statements never mentioning the great shape the us economy was in just before Covid due to those “bad” tax cuts of 2017. In Reagan’s words, the way you control the spending of the Left is to cut off their money. That is why the tax cuts are important. Taking phony dollars away from the spenders prevents inflation to as the money supply is kept in check.
Richard Wolf,, leader of Democracy in America, is supporting just the opposite. Since when is Democracy dependent on socialism and government taxation and control.
Economics and the format for life is a grand experiment.
As you suggest, this video was a production with the goal of disparaging Trump and his agenda. The same goes for Judge James Boasberg and his obstruction.
His solution: sit down and work out a deal with China. What kind of meal, and when can you expect to be served, if there are 100 dictators micromanaging the meal?
As Wolff points out, the odds for success are not in our favor, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try.
We endured "Joe Biden's" path for 4 plus years. Trump is offering a vision, and I am willing to give him my support.
I suspect that AI is a game changer, and if everyone pitched-in, went along and got along, that we might be able to avoid destruction.
John, I'll watch it again, but my take-away was that he had some valid points, and that there is more than one way to skin a cat. But it boils down to having moral leadership that chooses to treat others with dignity and respect; and in this regard, Wolff did not put forth an objective assessment.
'Is it going to take fifty years today to erase the curse of Gimme from this country?" It might. I've commented a number of times it is an 80 - 120 year cycle, time enough for a complete group of generations to die-off , taking the hard-earned experience with them.
I was taught about 'haves and have-nots' many decades ago. The Haves want to keep and add more, the Have-nots want what the Haves have.
'Trump is attacking this paradigm at his risk as they are 49%, and they are going to raise hell as the reforms bite.' I'm not sure about 49%, I'd go with a rough 30% at each end of the spectrum, with the remaining 30% either swayable, gullible, or clueless. Regardless (the %'s are guesstimates), the raise hell part is just beginning.
Even when I spent 23 years building a case against the State of Utah for forcing my family into a condition of genocide/democide (as per 18 U.S.C. 1091, Conspiracy against Rights and Deprivation of Rights (as per 18 U.S.C. 241, 242, Witness Tampering (as per 18 U.S.C. 1215) among various other Crimes against humanity, capitol crimes that reduced me and my family beyond recovery and assigned a condition of perpetual penury, begs the question of who is going to investigate the perpetrators when they have all the cards stacked in their favor? Where did they obtain they "Authority" to steal and sell whole families into servitude to their convoluted opinions and criminalize anybody who disagrees with their biased opinion that they have the right to treat natural parents like Kafkaesque cockroaches? The perjury of their oaths of office and willful ignorance by "Special Interest Groups" the NGO's (i.e. The Mormon Church) who are not subject to the U.S. Constitution utilizing "Color of Law" to contravene natural law and rights to serve their own purposes, and the rich man's law to attack and impugn the integrity of the poor. Inhuman exploiters who cloak themselves in "Lawfare" to obtain what they could neither obtain naturally or lawfully?
Yes, both the haves and have nots are evil. And those in the middle often are too - or at least being luke warm, the kind that God spits out of His mouth with disgust.
People think because Elon Musk has money that he is just allowed to audit our government😝🤣😆?? somebody is wearing a mask because that is not Elon Musk anymore
Keeping Hampton Dellinger as Inspector General is like keeping the fictional Tony Soprano in charge of protecting of all the rats in the mob. Good riddance.
There has been soooo much clamoring on social media about the frickin’ Epstein Files it makes me want to roar!!
You have laid out here, (and in many of your articles), the vast and beyond egregious illegalities that have crushed the very life out of this country over the past 12 years alone! To build a case against any one of those, and not just case, an ironclad one, takes enormous care, attention and effort.
I’m sure the Epstein case was used by our Intel community and probably other country’s as well, as Kompromat on who knows how many people, but in the grand scheme of things it is just one on a loooong list of investigations and case-building that needs to occur.
Sadly, it seems to be now be being used used to sow discord and division by many MAGA people against our own - and May I add, Brand New - warriors tasked with the most daunting task of all tasks, and that is bringing all these traitors of the Constitution to Justice.
Less whining about them - much more praying for them in being able to accomplish this feat is most definitely in order.
"You have laid out here, (and in many of your articles), the vast and beyond egregious illegalities that have crushed the very life out of this country over the past 12 years alone! To build a case against any one of those, and not just case, an ironclad one, takes enormous care, attention and effort. " ~ Suzie
Yes, one step at a time.
Ray McGovern commented that a Federal Judge put today as the deadline for the FBI to comply with the demand to release documents relating to Russia Gate. (starts at 7:50)
Then Pam Bondi should be fired for fueling this public fire with false hopes. Our patience is at an end. We want justice now. Justice delayed is justice denied.
I can get over how juvenile- and ignorant an attitude that is. She hasn’t even been in there for 60 days, and because the evildoers who are STILL lurking in the corners of the most corrupt of corrupt domains she and Patel have entered, managed to sabotage her effort to expose the Epstein files, and you want to fire her. Extraordinary!
You are either a plant by the Left attempting to sow discord and division, or you’re just plain stupid. You may be both.
If Bondi is a bust time will tell, and sooner rather than later, but to base it on the Epstein files brouhaha, and the fact she’s barely been in there for TWO freakin’ months is like a child hollering, “when do we get there? When do we get there?” from the back seat. It’s pathetic.
She now says if and when we get the report, it will be redacted for "national security". She's complicit now, maybe she always was. Maybe that's why she was hired.
Trump is juggling some of the most tricky, risky and potentially dangerous dealings with countries all over the world in an effort to try to straighten out the mess this world has become over decades of neglect and malfeasance. If he deems something in the Epstein files might jeopardize or blow up more serious and sensitive negotiations or deals he is striving to make I trust him to be the best judge of that, even at risk of pissing off a few petulant people who are just clamoring for blood and damn the consequences.
So smart guy they should just release the data with the victims' names and pictures all over it right...dumbass.
Just huge data dump with everything in place so the victims get to relive the experience, and the victimizers have time to escape to a country with no extradition process.
The Jewish kid who made hundreds of fake bomb threats to synagogues fled to Israel. He hasn't been extradited. They seldom extradite Israeli citizens, especially not heroes like this or Solomon Morell, the butcher wanted for crimes against the Polish people.
Not sure why a Jewish kid would feel the need to fake attacks on Jewish synagogues there are plenty of real ones happening as far as hero odd you would think so.
I would think the kid is crazy and needs some serious therapy.
Kind of like the black people who fake attacks on themselves crazy is going to do crazy.
In recent days I have been surprised to see several of the writers whose opinions I usually find valuable defend our government against the excessive depredations of DOGE, contending that there is actually little waste and fraud in Washington, and that most of that modest amount of spillage is inadvertent and well-intentioned.
Asked by Joe Rogan how DOGE decides which line items to ax, Elon explained that - far short of having to justify their programs and how they spend our tax dollars - all each entity is asked to do is to prove that it actually exists, and that it checks its email once per week. At the risk of sounding like a hard ass, that strikes me as a pretty low bar to have to clear.
Like most citizens, I have long supposed that there is probably a generous amount of corruption in our government, but even on bad days did not fear it to be this massive. In reading Jim’s post this morning a connection became clear: we have long known that the most corrupt country in Europe is Ukraine. Ukraine and the US both found ways to put agents of corruption in their highest political office. Biden and Zelensky then scratched each other’s backs, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Both “leaders” have rewarded the media and others who enabled their corruption, and ruined those who attempted to oppose it.
And now about half of our fellow citizens are in a righteous fury that these two great statesmen are being brought down. Surely they can’t look forward to April 15th each year, or feel contented about ever-worsening government services to taxpayers, and yet they are steadfast in their support of corrupt government. Will the scales never fall from their eyes?
The Deep State is going to be hard to eradicate, they absolutely believe that the central government is there to “take care” of the people. Even now, 49% of the people agree with them. America’s paradigm has to change and that will take a full Turning, ie eighty years.
The People are lost without real Leaders. Nothing insures the triumph of Evil more than the doctrines of individualism. But yes, of course the Leaders should encourage the people to be thrifty and industrious to a degree, but that's a very different thing than having no leaders or public square.
Kunstler nails it again. To back up his commentary analysis the DOGE audits that are uncovering massive about of waste fraud and abusive is an indictment that the IGs system is broken. DOGE is doing the job that the IGs should have done but didn’t do by exposing waste fraud and abuse.
Great. Another divide-&-conquer invitation! Like our problem is the "Dem" sock puppet, as "opposed" to the "Repub" sock puppet (who championed the Iraqi $8 trillion, War of Aggression, 1 million civilian deaths.) So now the multi-decade Bi-partisan Looting operation tries to sell the risible notion that the problem is some irrelevant split, Dems v. Repubs (like these are actual choices), or Liberals v. Conservatives (like these words haven't been long stripped of meaningful definitions)...anything to distract from the Mob that perpetuates it all. Let's you & him fight! I'm suppose to care about the comic opera of Musk's tax-payer money saving operation...which hasn't touched the Pentagon, the biggest Money-Laundering operation in history, who regularly starts & loses 20 year wars with no consequences? That maintains, at some expense I imagine, a hundred TIMES more overseas bases than China & Russia together? It's THEATER! I'm being encouraged to give a sh-t despite the clear fact that every cent saved will be used, along with Medicare & SS to finance tax breaks for the Billionaires who make up this government (& did under the previous Sock Puppet). Hannah Arendt observed, propaganda is NOT designed to convince you of a point of view. It's to wear you out, discourage you from thinking or caring about the issue. Please watch, w/your thinking cap on, the absurd 33 second AI video of Trump Gaza and still believe its point isn't to make evil banal, acceptable, mainstream. (PS: Bondi will never expose Epstein's operation since Israel is behind it, with again, "BOTH" parties)
Also, Bush 2 was not MAGA. Neocon and open borderist. The Bushes are one of the reasons we are where we are. Look around, MAGA wants nothing to do with the Bushy Cheney RINOs.
See Whitney Webb, a prolific & detail-oriented blogger & author, wrote (2 volume) "One Nation Under Blackmail". The books have an extensive bibliography & gives some idea why your criminal politicians (again, both parties) applaud, like trained seals, for a war criminal.
Patience to a point, James. Patience is what allowed Amy Comey Barret to slip through. It's what enabled Mike Pompeo to run a silent coup the first time around. It's what allowed the FISA court / Russia collusion investigation to go nowhere via the Comey, Durham and Dourchebag Harry Potter LARPer (can never remember that idiot's name off the top of my head) to run a complete deep-state cover-up.
Bondi, Patel and Bongino would have about 6 months max to produce an indictment of at least one of the above-mentioned officials as well as getting an impeachment going on at least a half-dozen activist judges if I were Trump. I would already have a list of designated hitters waiting to step into the breach if any of them fail. My hope is that a massive RICO case can be constructed with overwhelming evidence that will destroy the uniparty in the court of public opinion since it is unlikely to result in any actual convictions. I would also want to see within the next week at least 1,000 arrests, minimum, of people on Blue Sky calling for violence against public officials, especially the most egregious actors (double meaning intended). Raid their houses with the FBI and Secret Service. Try to arrest as many journalists as possible that have participated in the calls for violence. The longer this shit goes on the worse it will get. People need some serious cold water in the face.
My guess is that Stacey Abrams will skate since charging her with anything would be racism. Just doing a check of the inflows and outflows from her bank accounts would be quite revealing as it would be for each and every Congresscritter and Senator. I am truly sick and fed up with what we can see just on the surface without any deep dives. People making approx $200K per year nave net worths of $ tens or hundreds of millions after only a decade or so in their jobs (jobs) is used loosely ). Especially since most gov't "jobs" do not require an immense amount of time to do and.....has super great perks and time off options. All of the IGs need to be fired since it appears they are not doing much except maybe getting drinks for the people stealing our money.
Having grown up on a farm, I equate the current situation in DC as springtime on the farm. Once spring arrives, the farmer is tasked with the unenviable chore of cleaning out the barn where his animals have spent the winter. That cleaning is essentially removing the animal droppings (aka manure, bullshit, etc) from the barn.
The various Trump appointees in the Justice Department (along with the DOGE team) are readying the crews to clean out the DC stables of the manure accumulated over the past 4-40 years. This will be a Herculean task for the Trump team and it will be joyous to watch the stinking Democratic dumps be hauled away. 👍👍💪💪
A good friend who spent a 30-year career in law enforcement gave me this insight into high level prosecutions: When you don't hear many public statements or comments to the media or anyone else from law enforcement, it often means that the law enforcement and prosecutors are engaged in building an airtight case against the perp(s). He said this is particularly true when organized criminal activity is being investigated. The public often assumes that lack of any information or statements from law enforcement indicates that nothing is being done--sometimes that is true, but more often just the opposite is true. All of the leftist propaganda bullshit being spewed endlessly by the MSM and the Swamp just indicates to me that the Trump Administration is hot on the trail of a huge bunch of leftist scum Swamp twerps--leading clear to the top of the Democrat turd pile.
Yes, it takes time and attention to detail when building a good case when operating under rule of law. This is made more difficult by significant magnitude when those holding the evidence and access to the chain of custody are the very ones the case is being made against regarding a broad spectrum of illegal activity.
It requires being 'very patient' as the wheels of justice have always been described as a slow-moving event.
Better to have as airtight a case as possible than rush the job a botch the effort.
Unfortunately the wheels of justice being a slow moving event allows time for the criminal to destroy evidence of wrongdoing and lawyer up to delay and obfuscate until a new regime can be installed to cover up the crimes.
How easy is it to destroy evidence? I mean, they’ve had enough time to neuter or obliterate it. Is there a chain of custody that sees multiple copies placed in multiple locations overseen by multiple people or is there a squalid storeroom somewhere with a few cardboard Storage King boxes of physical evidence known only to the few?
I do not believe it all can be destroyed. The low hanging fruit gets destroyed, the obvious and slightly less than obvious hiding places cleaned out.
Every email, every text, everything written here is swept up, compressed and stored somewhere. The task is finding, following and unwinding the digital trail.
Too much low-hanging fruit? Just imagine yourself in Bondi or Patel’s shoes right now, the wall of shit they are facing. It will take a year just to figure out what to do first.
My take is the priorities were developed during the intervening years (46 as resident), dealing with the actual impediments being implemented is the current status.
Bondi's face, maybe even underlying physique, reminds me of those bodybuilder women's.
If she ever got into bodybuilding, she could always gain some extra muscle by lifting everyone that needed to be removed, out.
It might make for a fun AI short; Bondi lifting a couple of suits by their 'wedgies' (to echo Beth's mention in these threads) out of some government office-building, maybe with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the background, just outside the lobby, spurring her on; "That's good... good... very good..." and then placing his hand in a kind of ceremonious gesture, like those tv evangelists, on each suit's head as he says, "You are terminated."
Not bad, except for recycling Ahnold. Actors playing the role of President (or any other government official) is such an old joke in this country now that it isn't funny anymore. The irony is appropriate, but I would prefer to let lying dogs sleep.
Well it was more for his bodybuilder role and cute Austrian accent and voice, rather for his reprised role as The Governator, but fair enough.
(Newsom might make a great liquid-metal cop. Think of his hair, too, only textured metal, and there's fire everywhere behind him and he's smiling and running after you, through patches of fire and at high speed. Maybe someone secretly taped 'land-speculator' on the back of your shirt. That's the stuff of nightmares. Or maybe it's just his way of catching up to you and offering to buy you a drink. AI/Robotics can be weird like that.)
Also, there's that videoed interview still on You Tube where at one point, Schwarzenegger predicts that Trump won't win. Trump not winning of course was a no-brainer, given that there'd be attempts on his life and stuff like that, but still.
It's possible that, since those attempts and a ton of other stuff, Trump has probably lost his mind, or some of it, already anyway, but I guess we'll see.
Like the title of that Stranglers tune, 'If Something's Gonna Kill Me (It Might As Well Be Love)'.
Because of the culture of colonial America, the domination of Common Law from England and its ability to convict folks at will, the Constitution is designed to protect the perp, to make sure someone is guilty. Our judicial system is based on these principles. It has been so misused by today’s government.
This is interesting. I’m not a student of law so have never really stopped to think that other countries go about their justice in very different ways.
Although, we’ve got a two-tiered justice system now, and most likely certain areas are de-facto run by Sharia law.
Yup, the “Great American Experiment” is that a nation can exist with any number of cultures in it. Are we creating another Tower of Babel challenging God?
The Founders would have said to that, What the fuck are you talking about? That whole mindset is much later spin. They revolted against England for themselves and their progeny, not Blacks, American Indians, or Jews.
Yes, this "Great American Experiment" is a fanciful notion dreamed up by someone in an ivory tower, safely insulated from the mayhem that lifted him to his elevated position, and also safe from the mayhem he is propounding.
The "Founding Fathers" were concerned about the rate of German immigration as they didn't think that such a foreign culture could or would integrate into our English society. Were they dreaming of a rainbow utopia with endless flavors of ethnicity, culture, gender, and "life-style choices"? I don't think so - but that is what we are told, and that is what we must believe.
At this point I don't much care about the Epstein list. I'd rather see heads start rolling for the covid debacle, USAID, and the crime described as ‘diabolical’ and yet another ‘informed consent violation’ by Bret Weinstein ( Feb 2025 Joe Rogan interview) : geoengineering.
Lisa - I agree, 100%, but not so sure anything is going to happen. Other than "making sure it never happens again". Makes my blood boil every time I hear that one. It's clear that we live in a lawless country, people just can't wrap their heads around it. When crimes are committed openly, with more than ample evidence of criminal conduct, and nothing is done about it, that, by definition is lawless. No other way to describe it.
Lawless for the elites and politically connected, Ron. We little people still have to abide the law, pay our taxes and be good little shoppers. Otherwise we end up in jail with the gangsters and the sodomites. Nobody is above the law except in America where the elites are above the law. Period. That makes my eyes bleed with anger.
There are a few channels on YouTube where independent guys find and take down the degenerate pedo pervs who sit in their trailers and plot to meet up with kids and contribute to the problem of trafficking and child porn. But they are the low-level scum. They are the ones that get caught and everyone then feels good knowing one less perv is off the street, never really thinking about the massive power behind what made those guys able to get to that porn in the first place. Same as it ever was.
So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
Degeneracy has been promoted, sold on a massive scale to the public, since the CIA began its programs post WWII. So people that are already degenerates and low-lives, sociopaths, psychopaths, sexual deviants - have it made. They've been coaxed out of the shadows and given the spotlight. If that isn't a sign of cultural collapse, I don't know what is.
Nail on head, Mary.
Thank you, Ron.
McAfee left some cryptic crumbs, maybe on Gab, a few years ago, regarding this. Cautioned to avoid it, as it was a funding source.
I'd need to try a search, maybe another time, it's past midnight on the East Coast... slow fade...
Here's as good a place as any to begin, a quick, somewhat random search, maybe it leads back to the posts around the alleged demise.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1898149162069193025
I might fancy a hypothesis that the more fucked-up a society is/gets, the porn follows suit, perhaps like most everything else... porn, school, medicine... take your pick.
We are living in a fucked-up society, folks-- to be charitable with the definition of 'society'. As if we need to point that out.
People literally worship degeneracy and demand that it be included in all of our "entertainment" and culture, so I would tend to agree - 100%. Look at how low the bar has gone since, say, the 1950s. As family units have been destroyed to make way for the "freedom" of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and "coolness." One of my sisters, a teacher, says the F word 3 times per sentence but that's "edgy." Nope, to me, it's just profane. I don't want to hear it. But that's OK now in regular society. Just as it is in Portland for a dad and his young son to be sitting eating ice cream cones near someone shooting up heroin. How "cool"!
It appears that when a society becomes too rich and unbalanced with too much spare time (which used to be spent on warding off winter starvation/disease) that it turns to debauchery. Nowadays we have technology to add to the firehose. Look out below.
BINGO! Spot on Yirgach. You get it. We as a society have had it far too good for far too long. Instead of worrying about our next meal or working to build our shelter, our people have ample mental "space" to think on other things. Thus, out of literal boredom, they proliferate perversion, filth, decadence and immorality. They glom onto "causes" such as the environment, animal rights, and of course sexual deviancy.
If we had to spend more time producing our meals and maintaining our shelter many of these things that our people obsess over would simply disappear.
The curse of a wealthy society is real and we haven't evolved to the point that we can overcome our own greed and desires for power.
Well said CP.
I know from many elders here in VT that life in VT was really brutal.
Very hard to imagine nowadays . Electricity was a God send and cheap energy a miracle.
Now they are doing everything they can to stop it.
Well said.
Inclined to thing the process is circular or, perhaps, a spiral. Bad folks, bad porn, more bad folks, badder porn, and so forth. But these distinctions are niceties. Bottom line: both life and art imitate each other and each is execrable.
You're channeling me this morning, Zazzy. Pick a place, let's start anew.
I bought a couple more power-tools over the weekend for building/woodworking, along with a two-for-one on tape-measures. I'm slowly going outside of my comfort-zone with this kind of investment that's getting expensive. It's sort of like when you start going beyond some critical point where it's hard to back out of and the pressure of commitment is increasingly hanging over your head. ('What am I getting myself into?')
Woodworking, heh? Perhaps pick up a geetar kit and become an amateur luthier. I've dabbled in it over the years.
https://guitarspace.org/acoustic-guitars/best-diy-acoustic-guitar-kits/
I love acoustic musical instruments of many kinds, they can be very beautiful. Even in You Tube videos, where the subject has nothing to do with that, there might be the odd guitar or whatever lying or hanging around on the walls in the backgrounds.
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Insomnia
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Zazzy, you'll do fine. You already have the creativity; that's the hard part. The rest is easy. There are people who say, I'll believe it when I see it. The truth is, we see it, when we believe it. Look around - everything you see, was once imagined - a belief.
Cavemen sat around in caves on cold, hard, dirt floors until one imagined a thing that had four legs, was elevated, and could be cushioned with pelts or moss. He fashioned it one day and brought it in the cave. He called it a chair.
The others believed it when they saw it, but had he not believed it before seeing it, they'd all still be sitting around on their asses.
Good quality tools are worth the investment. Look for vintage tools, many will last a lifetime. Check out pawn shops - many people put up tools, when short on money. Garage and estate sales are also a great source of tools. All three can contain real bargains, quality tools at a tenth of retail - and usually better made.
I have a custom designed piece - a combination corner table/end table/3-bottle wine rack design - that I haven't licensed yet - a funky custom design. The flagship piece for Funksional Furniture - a shop adjoining the cafe, which will craft custom furniture, but also hire out to build tiny houses.
Good that you got two tape measures - the old carpenter's sage advice - "Measure twice, cut once."
I've built houses, decks, custom furniture, "turned" wood bowls (on a lathe) - carpentry/woodworking is a great creative outlet, you'll love it, but don't stress over it, enjoy it.
Thanks for the encouragement, advice and the good points/analogies, Ron.
So you've built houses, etc.? Well then maybe I'll see if I can get away with picking your brain on the odd occasion or at least you're welcomed to offer any advice any time.
There's a lot one can do in/with carpentry of course, that's what's great about it and the material, wood, but I'll take a shot at tiny houses, alone, maybe including timberframe. It is imagined that, given increasing poverty, increasing prices with everything, including home-prices and increasing homelessness, the market might be ripe for tiny houses on a dime.
Did you say that you have a friend from Bic/Rimouski and that you had an idea to relocate there?
Mandatory State-prescribed curricula for children is a perversion that parents wilfully let happen, wilfully let their children be literally kidnapped-- Pied Pipered-- into.
Meanwhile, at some of America's schools, the children get abused in different ways and worse, shot and killed.
Your Rule of Law Jesus isn't going to save you.
You and a real community that is empowered to take care of itself might.
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Another Brick In The Wall
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School
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Morning Zazzy - nice post as usual - substantive as always.
Playing catch up now. 1) Le Bic, on the shore, adjacent Rimouski 2) Check out the Amish that went to Western NC and built tiny houses for the Hurricane Helene flood victims - 12 houses built in 48 hours, at a cost of $300K - all of which they did for free - most Master Carpenters.
On State-prescribed curricula, you are correct. Read a study years ago, that in Sweden (I think) formal school doesn't start until 7-years old. Data shows they academically outperformed every other industrialized country in later years.
There's a reason Obama and his ilk kept pushing for earlier and earlier pre-school "education" - Head Start - easier to bend those young minds. Preceded by the Bushs - Dubya and Jeb - with their "No Child Left Behind" indoctrination program foolishness.
In my comment, I just edited out 'under a certain age' in part because State-mandated anything at any age is fundamentally unethical because it's coercive.
I initially put 'under a certain age' because after a certain age, State-mandated curricula are not mandatory. So we won't have a social worker appear at our doors to question us about why our children, between certain ages, are not at school or submitting their tests.
And by all means, don't let school get in the way of your education.
~ Tom's School ~
I understand that some parents will be more fish-like than other parents and so be fine with laying their offspring like eggs to whatever/whoever happens.
Human beings and fish can of course peacefully coexist, as long as the fish don't impose their ways on we mammals.
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Scary School Nightmare
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Alan Parker's Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) is a highly under-rated cinematic masterpiece.
"In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, songwriter Roger Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from his audiences:
Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad."
~ Wikipedia
Rule of law is for pussies. So lame!
I'm down with the laws of physics.
The State and their 'Rule of Law' is just yet another religion that does little for those who would have few ethical compunctions to do no harm/wrong. It's yet again an example of the classic priests abusing the children; their religion doesn't work on/for them.
If anything, as Cankerpuss' comment suggests, the State's 'Ten-Commandments Rule of Law' can often function as a hamstring against those who don't need it while helping to enable those who would.
You want real law? Try 'the law of the jungle' that 'the rule of lawyers' keep trying to disparage in support of their own.
We have no real, healthy, self-protecting communities anymore that would make the State's Rule of Law irrelevant and worse, such that it is.
Exactly. Why have Bill Gates and Bill Clinton not been arrested for raping children on Epstein Island?
Could it possibly have something to do with their wealth and power?
If the law is never actually enforced against such people, then "rule of law" is a sham and our government is entirely illegitimate, merely an occupying force in continuous violation of the Constitution.
I think that the risk vs. reward situation is upside down. Even if a perp is caught now, the DAs let them go. Perps have almost no chance of punishment today, even now.
I wrote a paper in nursing school about the effects of violence on kids. The studies showed that what really “programmed” the kids to violent behavior was unpunished violence, where, for example, the coyote kept coming back for more after getting clobbered by the roadrunner over and over.
I wonder if anyone has figured out that the criminal industry is a very lucrative business today, especially with so many people affected by the lousy economy. Could it be one of the draws for criminals entering the country is the availability of a very developed criminal network? The scum network has a ready made job waiting for them.
Phil? How about Canada, are you seeing the scum networks working up north?
Solution? Just like the 30s, concentrated effort by the FBI and local police to get these folks into cells or offshore. Two examples exist, the 30s as mentioned and the Old West before the Law came in. Both were unpleasant to Joe Average.
Here in sunny southern California the criminal gangs are targeting people's vehicles.
Work trucks are being hit especially hard for the tools usually left in them over night.
The gangs are hitting entire streets busting out windows and stealing anything not bolted down.
That's the State falling apart and that in-betweeness vacuum that gangs can enter.
But when/as the dust settles, the State might go away for a time and real community might pop back in-- those communities that settle the criminal gangs' hash through 'vigilante justice'-- another term for community self-protection in the absence of the farce of State protection.
Right now, the State's law is disabling 'vigilante justice' through the cliched mindfuck of 'don't take the law into your own hands.'
Criminal gangs don't stand a chance, but you have to look in the mirror sometimes and convince yourself that you're the adult and you don't answer to the decaying Nanny State.
Then you grab some guns, some armed pals and meetup with those gangs.
You're on fire this morning, Zazzy. You had your Wheaties for sure this morning - or whatever the NS equivalent is. Carry on.
This is the first day of the end of a medium-level but draggy cold that's been de-Wheatifying me for a little over the past 3 weeks.
Ivermectin... Viruses are parasites. D3 is good too.
I'm ok, Sam, cold's gone, but good to know for another time, thanks.
The same is happening in Boise, ID. People aren't prepared for it - but they are getting used to it, sadly, as the area grows because... progress.
Is this MQ? Just a fond hello if so.
Remember, it's Boy-C and not Boy-Z. Boy-Z's a tinpot douchebag calling Ukraine home, for now at least.
In Canada, it's pronounced, Boy-Zed.
Zed, as in Pulp Fiction Zed?
Hey John.
I have not heard immigrant-gang crime-wave stories in Canada like I've recently heard from Ben (SoCal) and Anna (Colorado).
Get that new PM of yours to put the clamp on your border and stop the Latinos and especially Chinese from invading Canada. Then the tariffs will go off like Mexico. You look down here and see what the illegals have done to this country, start fighting the damn Leftists that want them with you.
Nope. Mark Carney is an ex-Goldman Sachs and central banker. He's as Rothschilds as a man can be. He'll do whatever TPTB tell him to do.
Sad but true.
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Illegal Latinos and Chinese are invading Canada? Are you sure? Can you provide a source? [Note: As a known, constant liar, Trump quotes do not count as they are usually unreliable and rarely are proven true.]
Take a trip to Seattle, or Vancouver and visit Little China. Most of the illegals coming into SoCal are Chinese. Think for a moment, Phil, if you wanted to take over without starting a shooting war, how would you do it? Rome was torn down by outsiders taking over. Britain was taken down by outsiders.
Vancouver has how many illegals from China?
I'm unaware of that. Again, please provide a source.
You guys always use this MO to try to tear down others. it will not work here,
2011 Chinese were 1.4% of Canadian population, 2021 they were 1.71%.
By province, 2021, BC, 10.5%, Alberta 4.3%, and Ontario 5.9%.
Vancouver and Richmond? 20%.
Source: Wikipedia
Do not feel bad, the West Coast of the USA is doing exactly the same thing.
AND
Latinos?
2001. 2021
Alberta. 19000. 66000
.6%. 1.6%
BC. 24000. 65000
.6%. 1.3%
Ontario. 106000. 250000
.9%. 1.8%
Quebec. 59000. 172000
.8%. 2.0%
Source: Wikipedia
Look around Phil, you are the tip of the immigration spear. China is encroaching on the world, get it!?!!! Trump understands this, that is why he is a lot smarter than you appear to be.
It is why our countries need to join up to counter this threat.
Those are legal migrants, John.
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Asking for a source to back your assertions is not an MO. That is standard debate procedure.
Legal doesn't mean it's right or a good thing.
I was waiting for you. Okay, you make lots of claims about Trump being dumb,etc. Where are your sources that he is wrong, that both our countries are not targets? You don’t have any. And you are right, that means with illegals you are in worse shape than what the data says. Just like here.
Now, about your sources? And what ideas do you have to stem the flow of Legals and illegals into our countries?
Mark 'Carnage' is a technocrat up to his evil eyeballs. While he was still head of the Bank of England he said companies that wouldn't go along with the ESG stuff would simply not survive.
Yes. Sadly, much like any Dem vs GOP election, Carney's competition, Pierre Poilievre, appears to be yet another skunk.
TPTB fix the entire game. We cannot vote our way out of tyranny any more than we can comply our way out.
Hold on one second here, Phil. You're saying that MR. Trump (we are careful to sound respectful around Mr. Kunstler) is a liar? If you don't like it here, as people like Mr. K used to demand of me in my student activities days, why don't you move to Russia?
Oops.
I'd like it here just fine if we cleaned house.
I suspect you would be part of the ousted if house was cleaned here.
The crime wave is not being blamed on immigrants per se.
Just that people are wandering down streets breaking into every car on that street.
Could be illegals could be gang bangers or as is more the case tweakers looking for meth money.
You're so not SoCal, Ben. But it makes sense that you need to be in San Diego. I would think that you'd more comfortable in Dubya's East Texas.
Crimes gone unpunished will definitely happen again.
For example, the worst crime against humanity ever, the mandates to inject poison mRNA.
"Patience." A good idea. Especially between March 15th-April 7th, 2025, when a lot of wheels will be falling off the wagons.
If nothing happens now then it will be certain that “that which can never be allowed to happen again” is more than certain to happen again.
Cape - you missed my point. It never does happen again, so that excuses the prior event - with no punishment - only assurances that it will never happen again.
Skyscrapers "felled by planes"? Has never happened again (Thanks TSA and "Patriot" Act). Federal Building blown up by a "fertilizer bomb", by a "homegrown terrorist"? Has never happened again (because they saved us from the Montana Freemen Militia, thanks FBI). Population locked down? Mistakes were made, but it won't ever happen again (Thanks WHO and CDC).
So, they really are protecting us, they're batting 1000. So, the only thing we have to worry about is the next thing that happens, but even then, no matter how bad it is, we can rest assured "that it'll never happen again". It's like a self-licking ice cream cone.
"...a self-licking ice cream cone." ~ Ron Anselmo
That might make for an interesting AI video text prompt.
Puts us into a WROL situation, a very dangerous place. Without rule of law creates unintended consequences. These people don't appear to think it could happen to them, as they are above the law. Once the law disappears it gets more than nasty.
Hemp is a renewable and reuseable commodity.
When folks speak of unpunished crimes, I sometimes think of MR. Trump's having inspired a deadly insurrection, but then I read in places like this that the whole thing was Nancy Pelosi's fault, or Gen. Milley's, or George Soro's, or Stacey Abrams' and realize I am 'way off base. MR. Trump happens to be about lawfulest person a body could hope to meet!
Over eight years of intense politically motivated investigations. Two impeachments. The Mueller "investigation". The J6 Committee. Not an outstanding parking ticket. Not an overdue library book. You may not like what he's done, but I can assure you, it's all been legal. Can't say the same for some others.
Deadly? Only for Ashli Babbitt. Murdered at point blank range by a Capitol Police officer. Oh, that's right, he wasn't guilty, no charges were filed. Sure hope that happens to me, if I ever "accidently" shoot someone. It will be an accidental shooting; I'm telling you right now.
I liked the library book joke, Ron! My understanding is that Ms. Babbitt’s death was a result of her ignoring a clear instruction not to continue trying to break into a that portion of the Capitol the guy who killed her was protecting.
Yeah, a real tough guy - shooting an unarmed woman. The only reason he didn't simply put her in a headlock, was that she would have kicked his ass.
This is a question I ask all the new friends I’ve made via Mr. Kunstler’s page. What are you feelings about MR. Trump’s devotion to an autocrat whose has his detractors either poisoned or dropped out of the windows of tall buildings? I personally find that kind of distasteful.
You got me, John. An awful lot of people have ended up dead around the Clintons, but I can't remember anyone being poisoned or being dropped out of a window. But there was Vince Foster who shot himself in the back of the head. Not only was he the White House Counsel, but who knew he was also a double-jointed contortionist. Plus, I don't think Trump was devoted to them in any way, but I could be wrong.
"MR. Trump's having inspired a deadly insurrection" LOL
Where nobody had guns in the most heavily armed country in the World! But had bus tickets to get themselves home in time to watch themselves on TV.
GMAFB Mendlessohn
The whole J6 thing was an entrapment operation:
https://patrick.net/post/1378157/2023-01-01-january-6th-should-be-a-national
Just watch the video of the Buffalo Guy being given a _tour_ of the Capitol by police, and then being arrested.
Walter - that's my point, we're already there, and have been - WROL, as you say.
Agree entirely. Of all the fuckery put over people in the last few years the Covid scam was by far the most egregious. I suspect there will never be any accountability for any of it, though, for the same reason that the ‘Epstein files’ will go nowhere: too many people in high places involved and complicit, and the blobs would rather just pretend it didn’t happen.
And I have the feeling that there is likely overlap of the 'usual suspects' in all of these crimes. On other hand, the older I get the more I believe that the estimate of '1 in 24' individuals being a sociopath is far too low... And what better place for a sociopath to gravitate to than the maze of governmental bureaucracies.
I agree...and it's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for, as one wag once said.
Well remember, a classic psychopath doesn't care about anybody but themselves.
Most bad people aren't that bad. Most murderers love their mothers, etc.
This is why we must all PUBLICLY call for the hangings of everyone who worked on creating the virus and everyone who mandated the deadly mRNA jabs.
Every day. Forever.
This is the best way we can protect ourselves from a repeat. Calling in PUBLIC for the hangings of those criminals is literally the only way to get their attention. Pfauci pfirst.
…..and a president that was complicit in the whole NWO test of conformity and obedience.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-awards-presidential-commendations-operation-warp-speed-team/
True, OWS is Trump's biggest failure.
On the other hand, he never mandated the poison mRNA injections like Biden did.
agree. Honestly, so many dirtbags and "at this point, what difference does it make"
I want to see Fauci go to prison
... prison... you are being kind. I'm for a just trial (what other nefarious goings-on might surface during discovery? ) with gallows located in a very public place .
No prison for Fauci. He needs to hang. Not the kind hanging with a drop and a quick neck break. No, the kind where he struggles for a while and slowly suffocates. This guy is a mass murderer. Period.
I think most people will find the quick fix - Hang 'em High! - emotionally unsatisfying over the long term.
Two scenarios:
1) You're sitting in the laundromat parking lot watching Joe Rogan on your cell phone - the episode where he shows the lynching of Fauci. He was caught trying to sneak into Canada at Warroad, Minnesota when a lumberjack stepping out of Izzy's Lounge saw a little old lady trying to cross the road. Lifting her up on his broad shoulders, the lumberjack is shocked when Fauci's bonnet and wig fall off revealing the King of Spikes. Kicking and screaming in the icy wind, rope cinched tightly around his neck, Fauci is slowly hauled to the top of the power pole when his tiny head smacks into the line and ZAPP! The in vivo x-ray - caught by a few spectators quick with their cell phones is trending on Instagram... Or:
2) "The girls will cheer and the boys will shout..." The Dictator Zoo is rolling into town! Like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, your family - heck, the whole town! - is animated with electric expectation. Rotten eggs, apples, and tomatoes - and some not so rotten - are eagerly gathered into baskets as the family joyfully spills into the street. Fauci has the seat of honor on the dunk tank. "Three baseballs for a dollar! Drop 'im in the water and win a kewpie doll!", shouts the barker. "Just don't hit 'im in the face or you lose." "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" "Next?!" "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" And so it goes, from one town to the next...
Now, which world do you want to live in?
I'm all for the Dictator Zoo Road Show. I gotcher rotten tomatoes and eggs right here.
But how naive are you believing that a Minnesotan would lynch Fauci? Silly boy! That's the land of Timpon Walz*.
All pharma crooks and mass murderers go free there, don't they? Isn't it a Sanctuary State (tm)?
*Hoping not to get a rap on the wrist from JK for using a punny name
"But how naive are you..."
It was necessary for the storyline. You kinda have to do that whole "suspension of disbelief thing".
Or, I could go for realism:
A lumberjack stumbling out of Izzy's Lounge saw the bonnet and wig fly off the 'little old lady' as she ran down the street, revealing the King of Spikes.
"Godspeed Mr. Fauci", toasts the lumberjack as he takes another swig of Bud Lite, turns, and walks back into the lounge, plunks a quarter into the jukebox, and queues up "Careless Whisper".
My world's better,, isn't it?
Hahahahahahahaa!
I want to live in the world where dollar-dropping video-taking drones buzz rooftop sundeck-tanning strippers. Who's with me?!
Me
I love you, Annette. <3
No lynchings as it will just escalate from there and as much damage as Fauci did to society we can't let him do any more by becoming some sort of martyr or impetus for all-out vigilante justice. Know these things: Fauci was put into place by the real villains and enabled by people who, largely in the SDNY and DC federal courts as well as SCOTUS, failed to uphold the Constitution and rule of law.
You could convict Fauci in a formal trial of 1M cases of murder or accessory to murder and give him the death penalty but what would happen is this: He would last on appeal long enough for the dipshit public to elect another Democrat POTUS who would pardon him. There's really only one way people like Fauci ever see reciprocal justice for the crimes they commit against the People.
Bill Gates right alongside of him.
I would much rather see Fauci drawn and quartered.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. I'm inclined to think there is massive bribery and corruption there, and a travesty beyond comprehension inflicted upon the objects of abuse, which are real people (apparently a predominant number of young, underage both male and female) . These people are scarred for life.
If the greater systemic corruption issue is not identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished, it will continue under different form. It will take a while . The Epstein matter does come into play at a point. Presently, it could be a resource distraction.
The so-called justice system in NYC, SDNY and lower Manhattan in general has developed as a law unto itself. The Epstein case is a part of a much larger operation and culture which needs attention. The afore mentioned ie:' identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished' are the larger issue in play there.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. ~ wkenn
It might need to be moved all the way to the back of the bus. Musk calmly announced that efficiency was not an option, but a do or die requirement, and obstructionists, those who continually chirp "It will never work.", and those with a lesser agenda, need to "let that sink in".
If we actually had a Congress that truly represented the people and the states as the Founders intended, they would have already passed a bill banning public sector unions like Utah did a few weeks ago. They’ll drop to the floor kicking and screaming like they did in Utah, but they’ll either do their job, or they can go find a job in the private sector.
Until we the people take the steps to repeal the 17th Amendment we’ll have two lower houses of congress, and nobody representing the state’s interests.
No, the Epstein files need to be moved UP in priority.
Punishment of the powerful for their flagrant crimes is more important than anything else.
I think the Epstein list might be a distraction from the massive real problem of human trafficking on a massive scale. Epstein was in charge of only a small delivery pool of humans to the elites. The trafficking world-wide, mostly using war situations or open borders as a cover, and involving large global entities like the Clinton Foundation as laundering apparatus, is so much more massive... but they focus on Epstein and Diddy.
This is a real problem.
According to Whitney Webb, we are being distracted by the salacious details of Epstein's blackmailing operation in order to hide the money laundering and power-brokering enabled by the sex-trafficking. I haven't read her two-volume work, "One Nation Under Blackmail" yet, but it's on my long - and growing - to-do list.
I like Whitney Webb a lot. I don't know where she gets her intel, but I would like to see how she figures they are going to replace gov't agencies with AI (per Musk). that is what I believe her current position is, although I will admit to seeing someone else's summary, not her own work (although I read her religiously a few years back).
Yep! Limited hangouts, most likely.
We're not going to get shit from the Epstein list. How do you think Trump managed to get his cabinet picks all passed. He has the goods on his own party's people. They never cooperated before, why now? The manipulation of the population is being carefully herded toward civil war, if not global. Study late 1850's congress for anything close to what we're witnessing now. The lower your profile, the less likely they will be coming after you. Ya, I know, I just violated my own words.
THIS is a metaphor for our patience;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7UAyQ83Yg
Tis the season again.
Indeed...I seem to remember our host writing about seemingly endless orange barrels on I-87 north of Albany in one of his biweekly Clusterf*ck columns several years ago.
I do care about the Epstein _evidence_ (the list is already widely known).
But you're right, Fauci's creation of Wuhan Virus and the mandates to inject every human on the planet with dangerous and worse-than-ineffective mRNA slime are far more serious crimes:
https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-imposed-toxxine-mandates
The Epstein list is not to be discounted. For example, the fact that we never get any further information on it (even though dozens or hundreds of govt officials must be privy) tells us the names must be huge, and therefore worth pursuing. How many young lives were irreparably damaged by this ring?
The perps likely all hope to die of natural causes before it comes out, like any high criminal does.
And, sadly, I'd wager they all will. And then it still won't come out, if their name is big enough.
The lack of prosecutions of Epstein clients is proof of the utter illegitimacy of our "government".
The FBI has a habit of gathering up evidence which magically disappears down a giant black hole.
Video from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, cell phones and casino video from the Las Vegas mass shooting. Evidence from Fast and Furious gun running, Hunter's Laptop, bags of Cocaine in the White House, Seth Rich murder, non-video from Jeffery Epstein's suicide. Poof..gone forever.
It seems as if FBI and government investigations are conducted not to get to truth, but rather to gather all available incriminating evidence for the purpose of concealing and destroying it. There must be a master playbook somewhere, a neo communist manifesto of sorts.
The J6 Committee is another example of this coverup operation. They looked at video evidence, text and phone messages, interviewed witnesses, all to what end? It seems the plan was create a counter narrative to what actually did occur. God I hope some of this gets exposed and heads roll.
FALSE FLAG CRIMES have been a STATE TOOL since before Roman Empire times. FALSE FLAG events are by definition crimes done to promote the government's desired policies (like disarming the public, creating an excuse to attack another country, etc, etc.). The biggest False Flag in our lifetimes (to date) was 911, the"Twin Tower incident" which was so blatantly false it's hard to believe it hasn't been laughed off the planet. The "Feebs" (our version of the KGB ) have since then become MASTERS of False Flagging, knowing that anyone challenging their "story lines" are easily dismissed through the Ziocratic apparatus that dictates our "Reality Narrative". Of course there are those who see all this B.S. and their numbers have multiplied with the rise of social media only to be tamped down by state sponsored "flak factories" leaving confusion and division in their wake. Long story short Hegel's Dialectic is alive and well in the 21st century and will continue for the foreseeable future.
Machiavellian maneuvers coupled with Hegelian Dialectics in the undeclared wars of Malum Prohibitum. Moral and Ethical conduct in the American Bolshevik irresponsible, unaccountable bureaucracy and their activist show trial courts is pretty daunting to those who would prefer not to be oppressed into oblivion.
https://archive.org/details/VegasShootingTaxiDriversVideoMustWatchB4WellYouKnowTheTakeDownFEf7HObspB0
Mandalay Bay video, this disappeared immediately after the event, it took some searching to find it again back then. (Nothing in the digital world really disappears forever). It was searchable and discoverable after a couple of days. Note the cab operator talks about the 10th floor as the source. I didn't review this video's full length, but it should contain flashes well below the 32nd floor, possibly 10th, maybe as far down as ?? 4th ??.
Paddock... there's always a patsy.
John Cullen…ran audio as well as vids and did incredible research. Lotsa guns, firing from copters…so many dead and nothing from the govt but a patsy.
Two of my daughter's friends were there and traumatized to this day about it. I had one of them over a month or so after said nothing about helicopters with shooters hanging off them. I took her to a local range to shoot several times after and she now's owns several firearms.
Is it possible you could provide a link to the John Cullen work? Otherwise I can search for it later.
NASA's not much better. Apparently all of the data and files from the Apollo Program were "accidentally" tossed out. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were the same group of black cleaning ladies ("Hidden Figures") that got us to the Moon in the first place that threw all this junk away?
"Maybelline, come ova heah honey. Does this equation look right to you?"
"Nuh uh. You gotta replace that "x" with a slice of apple pie. There ya go. If that don't git 'em to th' Moon, nothin' will!"
"White boys and their fancy degrees... Where would they be widdout us?"
"Heh, heh! They be cleanin' their own toilets - on Earth!"
Oh, the history we've been robbed of...
That's epic. +100.
Let's not forget the short lived assassination attempt on Trump by Crook and all his inconsequential evidence up in smoke. Literally.
It’s not enough to stop government corruption. People need to serve harsh prison sentences. Some should be executed for treason.
Agree, turning the other cheek with a sociopath/psychopath only ensures that there will be additional victims down the line.
My impression is that many Americans are digging their heels in and insisting at the top of their lungs that Trump is evil, Musk is evil, the status quo under Biden was righteous and "the Deplorables" now in power are a threat to Democracy.
The reality of their support of Criminal Government and Graft, Inc. never breaches the dike of cognitive dissonance deployed to protect their selfish characters. Like a cult, they'll prefer the destruction of the Republic rather than come to grips with the fact they are a huge part of the problem....
I'm notsure they either understand or comprehend their preference for destruction of the Republic. TDS is real. It thrives in an arena lacking critical thinking skills and prper discussion separate issues from positions.
What is different about the Leftist 49% of this country? Mental illness is too easy of an explanation. IMHO, the whole political split is Haves vs. Have nots. Our country, Canada too, have become complacent, expecting the government to take care of them. They look at the Right as folks that are going to take everything away from them, and they might have to “go to work”. Trump is attacking this paradigm at his risk as they are 49%, and they are going to raise hell as the reforms bite.
A large portion of the “stiff-necked” Hebrews under Moses refused to ‘bend down” to the will of God, and ended up walking the wilderness for forty years until the “Golden Calf” generation died. Even Moses and Aaron displeased God and were not allowed to enter Canaan. Is it going to take fifty years today to erase the curse of Gimme from this country?
The government has been doing a pretty good job of looking out for the "Haves", constantly shifting wealth upward from those dirty nasty lazy have-nots.
I think you mean middle class the bottom third pay nothing in taxes by getting more back than they paid into the system.
The 1% pay more in taxes than the bottom 50%. Gotta admit though, the 1% make a great target.
"... the 1% make a great target." ~ JohnAZ
Yea, why not kill the goose that creates the jobs for gainful employment?
Exactly, just like the corporation haters. They never think of what the job market would be without the entrepreneuers class.
Richard Wolff discusses this detail.
The American empire is over: Richard Wolff on Trump, tariffs and the rising power of BRICS | UpFront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ih7WJrcjWg
Wow, this guy is proof that there is academic backing for the Far Left, socialistic, yes communistic group in the USA. Alajazeera produced it, he disparages capitalism, entrepreneuers, and economic freedom in his TDS rants. The interviewer set him up over and over with TDS statements never mentioning the great shape the us economy was in just before Covid due to those “bad” tax cuts of 2017. In Reagan’s words, the way you control the spending of the Left is to cut off their money. That is why the tax cuts are important. Taking phony dollars away from the spenders prevents inflation to as the money supply is kept in check.
Richard Wolf,, leader of Democracy in America, is supporting just the opposite. Since when is Democracy dependent on socialism and government taxation and control.
Economics and the format for life is a grand experiment.
As you suggest, this video was a production with the goal of disparaging Trump and his agenda. The same goes for Judge James Boasberg and his obstruction.
His solution: sit down and work out a deal with China. What kind of meal, and when can you expect to be served, if there are 100 dictators micromanaging the meal?
As Wolff points out, the odds for success are not in our favor, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try.
We endured "Joe Biden's" path for 4 plus years. Trump is offering a vision, and I am willing to give him my support.
I suspect that AI is a game changer, and if everyone pitched-in, went along and got along, that we might be able to avoid destruction.
Obstacles like Wolff need to be eliminated.
John, I'll watch it again, but my take-away was that he had some valid points, and that there is more than one way to skin a cat. But it boils down to having moral leadership that chooses to treat others with dignity and respect; and in this regard, Wolff did not put forth an objective assessment.
'Is it going to take fifty years today to erase the curse of Gimme from this country?" It might. I've commented a number of times it is an 80 - 120 year cycle, time enough for a complete group of generations to die-off , taking the hard-earned experience with them.
I was taught about 'haves and have-nots' many decades ago. The Haves want to keep and add more, the Have-nots want what the Haves have.
'Trump is attacking this paradigm at his risk as they are 49%, and they are going to raise hell as the reforms bite.' I'm not sure about 49%, I'd go with a rough 30% at each end of the spectrum, with the remaining 30% either swayable, gullible, or clueless. Regardless (the %'s are guesstimates), the raise hell part is just beginning.
Even when I spent 23 years building a case against the State of Utah for forcing my family into a condition of genocide/democide (as per 18 U.S.C. 1091, Conspiracy against Rights and Deprivation of Rights (as per 18 U.S.C. 241, 242, Witness Tampering (as per 18 U.S.C. 1215) among various other Crimes against humanity, capitol crimes that reduced me and my family beyond recovery and assigned a condition of perpetual penury, begs the question of who is going to investigate the perpetrators when they have all the cards stacked in their favor? Where did they obtain they "Authority" to steal and sell whole families into servitude to their convoluted opinions and criminalize anybody who disagrees with their biased opinion that they have the right to treat natural parents like Kafkaesque cockroaches? The perjury of their oaths of office and willful ignorance by "Special Interest Groups" the NGO's (i.e. The Mormon Church) who are not subject to the U.S. Constitution utilizing "Color of Law" to contravene natural law and rights to serve their own purposes, and the rich man's law to attack and impugn the integrity of the poor. Inhuman exploiters who cloak themselves in "Lawfare" to obtain what they could neither obtain naturally or lawfully?
49% guesstimate based on the election.
49% of this country voted for a dimwit spinning word salads and a total freak, Trump et al have their work cut out for them.
Yes, both the haves and have nots are evil. And those in the middle often are too - or at least being luke warm, the kind that God spits out of His mouth with disgust.
Yes, because the courage generation has been badly infected.
People think because Elon Musk has money that he is just allowed to audit our government😝🤣😆?? somebody is wearing a mask because that is not Elon Musk anymore
Keeping Hampton Dellinger as Inspector General is like keeping the fictional Tony Soprano in charge of protecting of all the rats in the mob. Good riddance.
Yes, yes and YES! Be Patient!!
There has been soooo much clamoring on social media about the frickin’ Epstein Files it makes me want to roar!!
You have laid out here, (and in many of your articles), the vast and beyond egregious illegalities that have crushed the very life out of this country over the past 12 years alone! To build a case against any one of those, and not just case, an ironclad one, takes enormous care, attention and effort.
I’m sure the Epstein case was used by our Intel community and probably other country’s as well, as Kompromat on who knows how many people, but in the grand scheme of things it is just one on a loooong list of investigations and case-building that needs to occur.
Sadly, it seems to be now be being used used to sow discord and division by many MAGA people against our own - and May I add, Brand New - warriors tasked with the most daunting task of all tasks, and that is bringing all these traitors of the Constitution to Justice.
Less whining about them - much more praying for them in being able to accomplish this feat is most definitely in order.
"You have laid out here, (and in many of your articles), the vast and beyond egregious illegalities that have crushed the very life out of this country over the past 12 years alone! To build a case against any one of those, and not just case, an ironclad one, takes enormous care, attention and effort. " ~ Suzie
Yes, one step at a time.
Ray McGovern commented that a Federal Judge put today as the deadline for the FBI to comply with the demand to release documents relating to Russia Gate. (starts at 7:50)
So, as Ray put it, this might be a "litmus test".
Ray McGovern : Zelenskyy's Endgame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7q9KPNi6W0
Then Pam Bondi should be fired for fueling this public fire with false hopes. Our patience is at an end. We want justice now. Justice delayed is justice denied.
I can get over how juvenile- and ignorant an attitude that is. She hasn’t even been in there for 60 days, and because the evildoers who are STILL lurking in the corners of the most corrupt of corrupt domains she and Patel have entered, managed to sabotage her effort to expose the Epstein files, and you want to fire her. Extraordinary!
You are either a plant by the Left attempting to sow discord and division, or you’re just plain stupid. You may be both.
If Bondi is a bust time will tell, and sooner rather than later, but to base it on the Epstein files brouhaha, and the fact she’s barely been in there for TWO freakin’ months is like a child hollering, “when do we get there? When do we get there?” from the back seat. It’s pathetic.
She now says if and when we get the report, it will be redacted for "national security". She's complicit now, maybe she always was. Maybe that's why she was hired.
You're a dupe, Snoozy.
Trump is juggling some of the most tricky, risky and potentially dangerous dealings with countries all over the world in an effort to try to straighten out the mess this world has become over decades of neglect and malfeasance. If he deems something in the Epstein files might jeopardize or blow up more serious and sensitive negotiations or deals he is striving to make I trust him to be the best judge of that, even at risk of pissing off a few petulant people who are just clamoring for blood and damn the consequences.
In other words, a lot of those people were Israeli citizens? If that "blew up" the Gaza deal (steal), then I'm all for it.
Wake up, lil Snoozy, wake up.
So smart guy they should just release the data with the victims' names and pictures all over it right...dumbass.
Just huge data dump with everything in place so the victims get to relive the experience, and the victimizers have time to escape to a country with no extradition process.
My God you really are a special kind of stupid.
A country like Israel?
It always comes back to Jews and Israelis for you.
This amigo is actually a mental illness on your part.
Do your monsters wear little funny hats and speak yiddish?
I honestly have no idea if Israel has extradition treaties in place or not.
So, I did the look up and lo and behold nope not a safe place to flee American prosecution most of which would be at least felonies.
Try again jarek.
Israel and the United States have an extradition treaty that allows for the extradition of people who have committed specific crimes.
The Jewish kid who made hundreds of fake bomb threats to synagogues fled to Israel. He hasn't been extradited. They seldom extradite Israeli citizens, especially not heroes like this or Solomon Morell, the butcher wanted for crimes against the Polish people.
Win some you lose some.
It's how life works.
Not sure why a Jewish kid would feel the need to fake attacks on Jewish synagogues there are plenty of real ones happening as far as hero odd you would think so.
I would think the kid is crazy and needs some serious therapy.
Kind of like the black people who fake attacks on themselves crazy is going to do crazy.
Yes
In recent days I have been surprised to see several of the writers whose opinions I usually find valuable defend our government against the excessive depredations of DOGE, contending that there is actually little waste and fraud in Washington, and that most of that modest amount of spillage is inadvertent and well-intentioned.
Asked by Joe Rogan how DOGE decides which line items to ax, Elon explained that - far short of having to justify their programs and how they spend our tax dollars - all each entity is asked to do is to prove that it actually exists, and that it checks its email once per week. At the risk of sounding like a hard ass, that strikes me as a pretty low bar to have to clear.
Like most citizens, I have long supposed that there is probably a generous amount of corruption in our government, but even on bad days did not fear it to be this massive. In reading Jim’s post this morning a connection became clear: we have long known that the most corrupt country in Europe is Ukraine. Ukraine and the US both found ways to put agents of corruption in their highest political office. Biden and Zelensky then scratched each other’s backs, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Both “leaders” have rewarded the media and others who enabled their corruption, and ruined those who attempted to oppose it.
And now about half of our fellow citizens are in a righteous fury that these two great statesmen are being brought down. Surely they can’t look forward to April 15th each year, or feel contented about ever-worsening government services to taxpayers, and yet they are steadfast in their support of corrupt government. Will the scales never fall from their eyes?
Not until the boot is to the balls, to quote Yuri Bezmenov, a defector from the Soviet Union.
God bless Yuri. He tried to warn us.
The Deep State is going to be hard to eradicate, they absolutely believe that the central government is there to “take care” of the people. Even now, 49% of the people agree with them. America’s paradigm has to change and that will take a full Turning, ie eighty years.
The People are lost without real Leaders. Nothing insures the triumph of Evil more than the doctrines of individualism. But yes, of course the Leaders should encourage the people to be thrifty and industrious to a degree, but that's a very different thing than having no leaders or public square.
"Dan Bongino will not take up his duties as FBI Deputy Director until March 15", beware the Ides of March
He's a fanatical Zionist. Think he will pursue members of the Tribe?
You're just trying to cheer me up, Otto.
Amen!
More infuriating than the crime is the abject lack of wood-chipper justice, therein.
I like that idea... wood-chipper justice.
Amen.
Kunstler nails it again. To back up his commentary analysis the DOGE audits that are uncovering massive about of waste fraud and abusive is an indictment that the IGs system is broken. DOGE is doing the job that the IGs should have done but didn’t do by exposing waste fraud and abuse.
Great. Another divide-&-conquer invitation! Like our problem is the "Dem" sock puppet, as "opposed" to the "Repub" sock puppet (who championed the Iraqi $8 trillion, War of Aggression, 1 million civilian deaths.) So now the multi-decade Bi-partisan Looting operation tries to sell the risible notion that the problem is some irrelevant split, Dems v. Repubs (like these are actual choices), or Liberals v. Conservatives (like these words haven't been long stripped of meaningful definitions)...anything to distract from the Mob that perpetuates it all. Let's you & him fight! I'm suppose to care about the comic opera of Musk's tax-payer money saving operation...which hasn't touched the Pentagon, the biggest Money-Laundering operation in history, who regularly starts & loses 20 year wars with no consequences? That maintains, at some expense I imagine, a hundred TIMES more overseas bases than China & Russia together? It's THEATER! I'm being encouraged to give a sh-t despite the clear fact that every cent saved will be used, along with Medicare & SS to finance tax breaks for the Billionaires who make up this government (& did under the previous Sock Puppet). Hannah Arendt observed, propaganda is NOT designed to convince you of a point of view. It's to wear you out, discourage you from thinking or caring about the issue. Please watch, w/your thinking cap on, the absurd 33 second AI video of Trump Gaza and still believe its point isn't to make evil banal, acceptable, mainstream. (PS: Bondi will never expose Epstein's operation since Israel is behind it, with again, "BOTH" parties)
Israel is behind Epstein? Expand please.
Also, Bush 2 was not MAGA. Neocon and open borderist. The Bushes are one of the reasons we are where we are. Look around, MAGA wants nothing to do with the Bushy Cheney RINOs.
See Whitney Webb, a prolific & detail-oriented blogger & author, wrote (2 volume) "One Nation Under Blackmail". The books have an extensive bibliography & gives some idea why your criminal politicians (again, both parties) applaud, like trained seals, for a war criminal.
Every Republican has his "Morgan Stanley (AIPAC) guy". They are no better than the Democrats. Worse in fact in this regard.
Bush said legalize the illegals. That solves the problem of illegal immigration! Slightly more nuanced, Trump is of the same opinion.
And so was Raygun.
RR started it with the first am nasty. how many since A1?
Yr talkin out of Jimbo's league
Patience to a point, James. Patience is what allowed Amy Comey Barret to slip through. It's what enabled Mike Pompeo to run a silent coup the first time around. It's what allowed the FISA court / Russia collusion investigation to go nowhere via the Comey, Durham and Dourchebag Harry Potter LARPer (can never remember that idiot's name off the top of my head) to run a complete deep-state cover-up.
Bondi, Patel and Bongino would have about 6 months max to produce an indictment of at least one of the above-mentioned officials as well as getting an impeachment going on at least a half-dozen activist judges if I were Trump. I would already have a list of designated hitters waiting to step into the breach if any of them fail. My hope is that a massive RICO case can be constructed with overwhelming evidence that will destroy the uniparty in the court of public opinion since it is unlikely to result in any actual convictions. I would also want to see within the next week at least 1,000 arrests, minimum, of people on Blue Sky calling for violence against public officials, especially the most egregious actors (double meaning intended). Raid their houses with the FBI and Secret Service. Try to arrest as many journalists as possible that have participated in the calls for violence. The longer this shit goes on the worse it will get. People need some serious cold water in the face.
Bravo!
My guess is that Stacey Abrams will skate since charging her with anything would be racism. Just doing a check of the inflows and outflows from her bank accounts would be quite revealing as it would be for each and every Congresscritter and Senator. I am truly sick and fed up with what we can see just on the surface without any deep dives. People making approx $200K per year nave net worths of $ tens or hundreds of millions after only a decade or so in their jobs (jobs) is used loosely ). Especially since most gov't "jobs" do not require an immense amount of time to do and.....has super great perks and time off options. All of the IGs need to be fired since it appears they are not doing much except maybe getting drinks for the people stealing our money.
How about $2 BILLION for Stacy from FJB??? Shouldn't even be a trial.
Having grown up on a farm, I equate the current situation in DC as springtime on the farm. Once spring arrives, the farmer is tasked with the unenviable chore of cleaning out the barn where his animals have spent the winter. That cleaning is essentially removing the animal droppings (aka manure, bullshit, etc) from the barn.
The various Trump appointees in the Justice Department (along with the DOGE team) are readying the crews to clean out the DC stables of the manure accumulated over the past 4-40 years. This will be a Herculean task for the Trump team and it will be joyous to watch the stinking Democratic dumps be hauled away. 👍👍💪💪
The difference is that I can use my animal's manure to fertilize the crops I grow.
The difference is that on a farm, work that needs to be done gets done.
You betcha, there's no putting shit off. It gets done, or you get behind.
A good friend who spent a 30-year career in law enforcement gave me this insight into high level prosecutions: When you don't hear many public statements or comments to the media or anyone else from law enforcement, it often means that the law enforcement and prosecutors are engaged in building an airtight case against the perp(s). He said this is particularly true when organized criminal activity is being investigated. The public often assumes that lack of any information or statements from law enforcement indicates that nothing is being done--sometimes that is true, but more often just the opposite is true. All of the leftist propaganda bullshit being spewed endlessly by the MSM and the Swamp just indicates to me that the Trump Administration is hot on the trail of a huge bunch of leftist scum Swamp twerps--leading clear to the top of the Democrat turd pile.
... and if they let people like JHK treat TDS and unite a bigger percent of the population, their job will be sooo much easier.
"Be patient."
Yes, it takes time and attention to detail when building a good case when operating under rule of law. This is made more difficult by significant magnitude when those holding the evidence and access to the chain of custody are the very ones the case is being made against regarding a broad spectrum of illegal activity.
It requires being 'very patient' as the wheels of justice have always been described as a slow-moving event.
Better to have as airtight a case as possible than rush the job a botch the effort.
Unfortunately the wheels of justice being a slow moving event allows time for the criminal to destroy evidence of wrongdoing and lawyer up to delay and obfuscate until a new regime can be installed to cover up the crimes.
Lawfare should work for both sides.
How easy is it to destroy evidence? I mean, they’ve had enough time to neuter or obliterate it. Is there a chain of custody that sees multiple copies placed in multiple locations overseen by multiple people or is there a squalid storeroom somewhere with a few cardboard Storage King boxes of physical evidence known only to the few?
I do not believe it all can be destroyed. The low hanging fruit gets destroyed, the obvious and slightly less than obvious hiding places cleaned out.
Every email, every text, everything written here is swept up, compressed and stored somewhere. The task is finding, following and unwinding the digital trail.
That's what fusion centers are for, innit? To hoover up every scrap under the Blob's control.
Too much low-hanging fruit? Just imagine yourself in Bondi or Patel’s shoes right now, the wall of shit they are facing. It will take a year just to figure out what to do first.
My take is the priorities were developed during the intervening years (46 as resident), dealing with the actual impediments being implemented is the current status.
Yeah so the obvious answer is promise everything and then hold up binders of useless information. Fire the Bondi publicity hound.
If she didn't know what she was holding before us ("binders of useless information"), she is incompetent.
If she did know that she had nothing, but tried to fill our dog bowl with it anyway, then she is corrupt.
Neither is a very good qualification.
~ Bodybuilding Bondi ~
Bondi's face, maybe even underlying physique, reminds me of those bodybuilder women's.
If she ever got into bodybuilding, she could always gain some extra muscle by lifting everyone that needed to be removed, out.
It might make for a fun AI short; Bondi lifting a couple of suits by their 'wedgies' (to echo Beth's mention in these threads) out of some government office-building, maybe with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the background, just outside the lobby, spurring her on; "That's good... good... very good..." and then placing his hand in a kind of ceremonious gesture, like those tv evangelists, on each suit's head as he says, "You are terminated."
Not bad, except for recycling Ahnold. Actors playing the role of President (or any other government official) is such an old joke in this country now that it isn't funny anymore. The irony is appropriate, but I would prefer to let lying dogs sleep.
Well it was more for his bodybuilder role and cute Austrian accent and voice, rather for his reprised role as The Governator, but fair enough.
(Newsom might make a great liquid-metal cop. Think of his hair, too, only textured metal, and there's fire everywhere behind him and he's smiling and running after you, through patches of fire and at high speed. Maybe someone secretly taped 'land-speculator' on the back of your shirt. That's the stuff of nightmares. Or maybe it's just his way of catching up to you and offering to buy you a drink. AI/Robotics can be weird like that.)
Also, there's that videoed interview still on You Tube where at one point, Schwarzenegger predicts that Trump won't win. Trump not winning of course was a no-brainer, given that there'd be attempts on his life and stuff like that, but still.
It's possible that, since those attempts and a ton of other stuff, Trump has probably lost his mind, or some of it, already anyway, but I guess we'll see.
Like the title of that Stranglers tune, 'If Something's Gonna Kill Me (It Might As Well Be Love)'.
"...cute Austrian accent and voice..." Hey Ahnold - you're cute!!
Well, that's the last we should hear from that Zeppelin-inflator.
She is Woman, hear her roar!
Because of the culture of colonial America, the domination of Common Law from England and its ability to convict folks at will, the Constitution is designed to protect the perp, to make sure someone is guilty. Our judicial system is based on these principles. It has been so misused by today’s government.
This is interesting. I’m not a student of law so have never really stopped to think that other countries go about their justice in very different ways.
Although, we’ve got a two-tiered justice system now, and most likely certain areas are de-facto run by Sharia law.
Yup, the “Great American Experiment” is that a nation can exist with any number of cultures in it. Are we creating another Tower of Babel challenging God?
The Founders would have said to that, What the fuck are you talking about? That whole mindset is much later spin. They revolted against England for themselves and their progeny, not Blacks, American Indians, or Jews.
Yes, this "Great American Experiment" is a fanciful notion dreamed up by someone in an ivory tower, safely insulated from the mayhem that lifted him to his elevated position, and also safe from the mayhem he is propounding.
The "Founding Fathers" were concerned about the rate of German immigration as they didn't think that such a foreign culture could or would integrate into our English society. Were they dreaming of a rainbow utopia with endless flavors of ethnicity, culture, gender, and "life-style choices"? I don't think so - but that is what we are told, and that is what we must believe.
Yes, the Irish and the Catholics were bad enough. But the Catholic colony, Maryland, got on board so they must be tolerated. But fucking Germans?