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I voted GOP straight ticket here in Vermont -- hopeless anyway, but still... national mandate and all that -- it will be my first actual vote for Trump -- first time I was a Bernie Bro-- lol! can you imagine?!? Boy, was I stupid....then the 2nd time Covid demoralized me and I didn't vote at all -- why bother in Vermont? Hardly even any Republicans ON the ballot! But this time "I'm vote Red, no matter who"...and then for 2025 --

--- I'm moving to Texas, where they have actual laws and the police to enforce them, at least try. State prosecutors won't even put anyone in jail until they murder someone -- 300 "encounters" with police for violent assault results only in a "letter to please come back for sentencing" ... Our local prosecutor DROVE DRUNK to the scene of a murder (unsolved -- another one, like the poor woman in Castleton, murdered on the bike path, probably by drug dealers, her schizophrenic son (high on super Ganja,) or an errant hunter...

--Vermont has just gone crazy, the whole state .... nasty, drug addled homeless people have taken over my "cute" little old village (Town Manager "doesn't know what to do!") and they don't even have laws on the books to shift the homeless tent city down the road -- so they homeless bums refuse to go to the shelter and urinate and defecate on the back steps of the library, and exposed themselves to the librarians through the window...("We don't know what to dooo! We can't punish people for not having a hoouussee!") Town business leaders and real estate brokers are BEGGING the town to DO SOMETHING, but alas -- the answer, it seems, is Federal money.....but nevere enough of that...

... ah well, I could go on, about how Vermont has banned gas cars, and is trying to eliminate oil and gas heat, raising property taxes 15% a year, legalized marijuana (zombie skunks everywhere!), lowered the speed limits to 25-35 mph everywhere (because of the skunk zombies driving around stoned) and are trying to legalize PROSTITUTION! Omg, I've had enough. My only hope is for Trump to win and some hysterical frightened NYC lunatic with too much money to come here and overpay for my little old house....in the "Safe Space" of Vermont --

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OMG, I left VT after 30yrs for all the above reasons and it wasn't even as bad as you describe 3yrs ago. How sad w it's ridiculously overpriced cost of living there to boot. I can't help but wonder which town you're in? How are people supposed to heat their mostly poorly insulated homes there if they ban all kinds of fuel? I'm surprised they haven't banned firewood yet. So sad what they've done to the beautiful state.

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"I'm surprised they haven't banned firewood yet." ~ Letsrock

If they did, the glaring hypocrisy would be blinding, with the show of cords of firewood surrounding Bernie's North Hero lake house.

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Don't say wood. Say biomass. Burning wood is immoral. Cutting down forests for "biomass" is pure environmentalism. One only helps individuals. The other makes money for "good" people.

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How about giving your assessment on the Global Public-Private Partnership (G3P) chart that Sedgwick C. Hartung linked?

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/actually-the-democratic-party-is/comment/75127793

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They've banned the sale/resale of wood stoves w/o catalytic convertors, they haven't banned wood yet but they're working on it.

Most of us don't pay any attention to those stupid laws anyway. It's way more important to be able to afford reliable heat than to freeze. If you run the stove right and keep the system clean it will be just as clean and efficient as any modern version.

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Let me guess. You're a stone mason.

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I have fond memories of Vermont as a child in the 60s: ski mountains, pristine villages, cozy family restaurants, dairy farms, nature, peacefulness. It was so exciting to drive up from Connecticut to ski on REALLY good snow.

Fast forward 50 years, we live in AZ and my wife and I went “back home” to visit mom in CT. A road trip north through VT enroute to Quebec revealed a place I couldn’t recognize. The former charm was overshadowed by impoverished villages with decrepit town centers, unemployment and creepy-looking stoners with Che’ tee-shirts and man-buns looking suspicious of something. The typical front yard adornments were rusty old refrigerators, toilets and tires. Depressing. It truly looked 3rd world. My wife, attuned to the beautiful Vermont tourist bureau ads, was shocked. “Where ARE we, anyway?”

“We’re in BERNIE’S socialist paradise,” I told her.

“Just keep driving north. How many more hours to Montreal?”

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Montreal is as bad as any blue US hellhole. We used to go to the Mpntreal Jazz festival sine the late 70's. That and the International Fireworks competition at La Monde.

It was the summer high point. Not any more though. The last time we went got very tired of the drunks and addicts passed out or begging on the streets as well as the neighborhoods , like Little Italy, which could now be called Little Mena.

While we sometimes consider leaving we cannot for the life of us bear to part with the little bit of heaven we own here. 10 acres of natural quiet beauty, peace and solitude.

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It's La Ronde if recalled, the amusement park we went to maybe 3 times.

I grew up in Montreal and did the fireworks thing a few times some summers too. Made part of a decent second date.

I might have preferred growing up in Quebec City, but then, the grass is always greener on the other side, oui? Maybe I'll retire there...

Here's a song called 'Charlatan', from a Quebec City band:

youtu.be/dzxQddI_H2Q?si=ptIFWUdh-WPqAOSm

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Yes, La Ronde! Great place, in the early days we used to walk up onto the bridge ot watch the fireworks go off right in your face. Later bought tickets for ground level to better hear the synchronous music.

There was some great jazz players at the Off Festival in Montreal. Here is Sylvain Provost on guitar: https://youtu.be/krgerSZCAbw

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Keep in mind that VT suffered a few devastating floods in recent years -- due to human caused Gorebull Warning of course -- and I imagine some areas never recovered.

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The flooding in Vermont not was NOT because of any human induced climate change. The geologic form of the mountains and valleys contributes to the flooding effect. This is easily seen in the geologic record and has occurred several times in the past, way before humans came on the scene... Very similar to what happened in western NC. It's more of a statistic event than anything else.

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What happened in WNC was most decidedly not natural. I've lived in both places. I was in Vermont for Irene and it was bad but not on same scale. I can tell you that Hurricane Sandy in NJ was not natural either, a land grab also, another area I lived in. And 'weather modification' is more accurate term than human induced climate change. 'Climate change' merely describes weather.

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I understand exactly how you feel. I was born and raised in San Francisco, 3rd generation.

This gentleman, Donald Jeffries, on Substack, describes what WE are experiencing…quite well…https://open.substack.com/pub/donaldjeffries/p/stranger-in-my-own-strange-land?r=l7pna&utm_medium=ios

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Ah yes, the “crushing poverty view” … I’ve only been here ten years and it’s gotten worse just in that time. It’s a beautiful place, the landscape and the old houses — achingly beautiful sometimes… but it’s getting so, so sad to see the decline —

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We would be glad to have you. It will be culture shock for you but, still, I think you'd adapt to it. Just remember: "Shit" and "Damn" have two syllables.

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I've lived in Texas for 40 years and never noticed that "Damn" has two syllables. Guess it all depends on what part - it's a big state.

By all means come here. But be careful where you settle. Avoid the large "blue" cities (which is most of them) and the border areas. Austin in particular has become a cesspool in recent years - the opposite of the laid-back college town it used to be.

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“Damn” = “day-um”

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Oh. Thanks. Not in Austin (except maybe at the Capitol during leg sessions). But then Austin isn't really Austin any more.

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Austin is about as “Texas” as San Fransicko now. I live in SE NM close to W TX so lots of day-um around here 😂

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Texan here; second this. Stay out of the 'Texas Triangle' - DFW to Houston to San Antonio. The rest of it is great, if you can handle heat and creepy crawlies.

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Look into Magnolia, Tx in Montgomery county. It’s outside Houston’s Democratic Harris County.

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And "bless your heart" has 2 meanings. Mississippian here.

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Indeed, but most people don’t know the second meaning! 😉🙊

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😂

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I see what you did there ;-)

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Looks like we have a few Southerners in the house here! 😂

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That is the ABSOLUTE Truth!

😂😂😂

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😂😂😂👍

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🤣 yep 2 syllables 🥳 proud Texan here

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♥️👍♥️

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😁

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Thank you -- I love Texas -- my mother's family are Texans way back, so I figure I'm just coming home, you know? Everything's better in Texas!

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I have a question for you, being in the most deep blue state in the union. Why? What has driven Montpelier into the cesspool of gimme politics? Why are homeless and gimme folks moving there? What drives a state legislature into insanity? I have the same questions for California?

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Jon,

I've lived in VT for almost 50 years now and have seen the decline happen. What used to be a rural conservative state has turned into a frothing woke caricature of a bad pastoral joke. Started with Howard Dean (a flatlander by trade) in the 90's when he shoved thru ACT 60 to "normalize" local funding for education. As widely expected this led to higher taxes, larger government (again), death of the family farm and larger state government (again). Climate change came next and the influx of plague refugees from neighboring woke states put a nice lid on things as others have noted. It was basically a change from a reactive to a proactive woke legislature, the death knell of an open society.

There will be much wailing and rending of garments when Trump wins. At least we all have guns and know how to use them.

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Y'all still haven't see anything: Few Blacks. But they are working on that and on getting Hispanics and Muslims in too. Freud postulated a death instinct: Thanatos. Thanatos has triumphed in America.

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It's not the Blacks, it's the outsiders who brought their lifestyle with them, it's the gangs and the drugs brought in by the Interstate or over the Canadian border, it's the liberal one party legislature. There used to be a bumper sticker which read "You've seen Vermont, now leave!"

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Consider that the infusion you are seeing is the spread of evil, some call Satan, finding weaknesses in humanity’s tendency to be sinful. Like Satan, the Democratic Party continuously strives to find weakness in the American population and drives into it. Divide and conquer is its modus operandi. Tax and spend is its theme.

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Yeah, it's never the Blacks, right? Because they don't have moral agency. Liberals think even less of them than we do with that attitude.

Anchorage, Alaska has Black gangs now. If you don't have them yet, consider yourself blessed. In any case, you soon will.

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So, again, tell me why there's a down-side to the largely libtardian kill jab uptake?

To the side-effect of "sudden death"?

To Dr. Geert vanden Bossche's predicted "tsunami of death"?

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Its commies infiltrating all facets of life including the mind. Its a slow and creepy-crawly process and reversal will take decades if at all possible?!

Re-attached breasts and penises will look funny no doubt :)

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And, you know I’m sure, that Yuri Bezmenov speaks of this MAJOR! It’s already happened to the former USA.

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💯🎯

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Uber leftist liberals infiltrated the govt. I moved there in 1995 and remember speaking casually w a gentleman in a restaurant who described VT like Russia and at that time I had no idea what he was talking about.

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Colorado too!

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As a former Coloradoan, it is an embarrassment. In the 1970s, one of the bumper stickers was "Don't Californicate Colorado". It did not work.

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Seen same bumper stickers here in Alabama😩

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Liberals are like a virus, invading any popular weakness.

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Every young, talented, interesting and attractive person leaves. The state attracts middle-aged to old, unattractive, unhappy, unsuccessful liberal women ONLY. The culture is baby-boomer codified until the very end, and because it continues to displace any other demographic at a rapid rate soon it will be ONLY ancient boomers. Hope has completely left the room, the only future that exists will be post-boomer.

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I’m a Boomer, but I’m a young Boomer-lol! And I’m not a Liberal. Big difference 😉!

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no one cares

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Who splits the wood?

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Oh, they've got machines for that now.

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Whose state this was I thought I knew

when green seemed such a simple hue.

Those who've moved in recently

have turned the place from green to blue...

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I grew up in western NYS. Went to college in Montana. In the 70's, my older brother had a bumper sticker that said, "Split Wood, Not Atoms." Still seems appropriate.

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Good motto. Human’s are fooling around with stuff, atoms and DNA, that they have no business fooling with. One of these days, men like Fauci are going to release something that is going to take out humanity.

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..and Illinois

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"What's wrong with Vermont" is a question as old as the state. "Freedom and Unity" is the State Motto, which perfectly captures the schizophrenic nature of the place. It's a fascinating place historically, but basically, on the one hand, Vermont is NYC's backyard-- liberals and progressives have always come here to "experiment" -- the back to nature movement, hippies, communes, gay marriage. Prohibition started in Vermont in the 1850s, driving away pretty much all business -- tourists wanted to drink, as did workers in mills and mines, so "off to NY" they went. (Of course the locals had their own homemade liquor and smuggling routes from Quebec.)

"Outsiders and Flat-landers" make up the bulk of our Burlington controlled, Dem legislature...they get to pass all the crazy "pie in the sky" laws they want while the conservatives are powerless to stop them and many and are now just pulling stakes and running away. Our "RINO" governor vetoed so many laws in the last few years, only to have his veto overridden and the insane laws passed.

As to the "locals" -- old English Yankees and French-Canadians, with a few Dutch farmers thrown in -- they were just trying to farm and work the land -- a very difficult thing to do here with our brutal, unpredictable climate and soil full of glacial rocks -- they were/are religious and conservative and the type to mind their own business. They were more likely to "work around" a hated law than repeal it -- using a network of family and friends, and they still do. Not so interested in politics and many don't even vote. It's the same in all the states -- the liberal cancer starts in the cities and rots away the whole place ---

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C’mon down to Midwest Ozarks. Home of Harry Truman and Josh Hawley…

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Alabama would welcome you! We need people like you to balance the Blues coming here with their politics which caused them angst enough to leave their former state.

Sweet Home Alabama!!!

Help us stay RED & not purple.

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+1 Google's and Microsoft's AI data centers ALONE consume more electricity than entire nations.

Yet, SOMEHOW, the massive "carbon footprint" of AI is above criticism. And Big Surveillance Tech is investing in NUCLEAR REACTORS (in red states?) to power the matrix multiplication underlying Large Language Models.

Corbett Report

Interview 1905 – FAANG Goes Nuclear (NWNW 569)

https://corbettreport.com/nwnw569/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Feds aren’t interested in putting money into solving your town’s problems. Fact is they invested in creating them and have yet to reap the rewards. They also support and abet Soros & the UN. Funding for invasion & occupation too.

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Liked your comment. But, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - if you move to TX DO NOT vote for the same type of people you used to vote for that led to the demise of Vermont. I know you've acknowledged being stupid for not voting or voting for Sanders, but it's too easy, once you get to a safe Red state and are able to exhale to forget that your voting patterns or lack thereof is why you had to flee your once beautiful state. I moved to ID to get away from the west coast. I always voted for pragmatists which meant mostly conservatives, but when WA state went all mail-in balloting, we started to see the fraud and the crazy move into our public sector and then our towns. And, because mail in balloting makes it child's play to steal elections, there was no stopping it through voting. Then, a relative of ours moved to ID from IL to get away from IL taxes, crime, crumbling infrastructure, crazy policies, etc. Lo and behold, she starts agitating for progressive change here. I asked her politely to either think twice about why she left IL to begin with, to not bring her lefist politics here or - and something I've never said to anyone previously - please just don't vote at all if you are going to vote for crazy here because we spent too much time, $ and mental energy to move here to get away from voting patterns like hers. She practically had a breakdown right in front of me, crying, calling me crazy. Sigh. But she soon moved, although unfortunately to another red state.

Be intentional. Vote, but never vote for crazy leftists again.

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Fellow Vermonter here. Agree 100% with your statement.

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Nov 2·edited Nov 2

Congratulations on waking the f up

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Wow! Sounds exactly like washington state.

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So so so sad. Vermont was truly magnificent years ago.....

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Welcome to "The FUTURE IS FEMALE". Librarians and politicians NEVER know what to do about ANYTHING but sweat the small stuff.

Former war correspondent, Michael Yon (his Rumble channel is here:

https://rumble.com/c/c-6595237 ),

has said words to the effect that, in the time it would have taken for an American to posture, "Don't mess with Texas!", hajji would have decapitated said American, kicked the head down the street "like a soccer ball", killed the dog, set the dog's body on fire, and be chasing the wife down to rape her.

You haven't "had enough". It's gonna get a LOT worse.

Payback time.

Americas Chickens Have Come Home To Roost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6lFFaX0nQ

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That is outrageous, we as Americans can not stand for this insanity and fall into, well this is the new normal! NO!

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It sounds like Europe coping with Moslem 'migrants'.. Just get 5 or 6 guys with a van or pickup & silenced Glocks or whatever. End them & stack them in the flatbed. Then out to a burial place. Something line that WILL be done

inevitably, eventually.

But of course doing it now would just lead to Feds showing up & much more controlled chaos. I guess there's no solution until the country implodes. Theater of the absurd.

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Why can't I get over the suspicion that all this talk about the Dems crashing and burning is somehow part of a plan to be the biggest mind-fuck yet, in the hope that the "shock and awe" of the Dems pulling it out against all expectations will be enough to trigger the "insurrection" that will justify the imposition of martial law, state of emergency, etc.?

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Our host always likes to say "anything goes and nothing matters". There will be no decision the eve of Nov 5th. It will be delayed for days, if not weeks. What ensues does not give me a very good feeling. I think you're right ... they want an excuse to put their boot on the neck of America ... question is, will the people allow it? Yeah, most likely. No backbone.

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"There will be no decision the eve of Nov 5th. It will be delayed for days,"

My wife of forty years has never been registered to vote. Her rational was if she registered she would get put on jury duty. Last time she renewed hr Drivers license she was automatically registered some how. We both received mail-in ballots even though they were never requested. Instructions state they must be POSTMARKED by Nov. 5 and received by Nov. 8. How does that even make sense. That means my state can't possibly begin counting until Nov 9 with official results sometime after that date. Insanity.

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That delay in counting allows the democrats to insert ballots into the system, just enough to win the state. Not sure how they do it, but my guess is that they go through the voter roll and pull non-voters and backfill with paper ballots previously returned to sender or manufactured for this purpose.

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This is the reason for the SwampTheVote movement which we hope fill be enough to overwhelm their cheating.

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If conservatives want to stop the Leftist drive, they need to vote!!!!! All the ego trips saying, “I am not going to vote”, are the cause of the leftist success. Vote, damn it.

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If voting made a difference, they wouldn't allow us to do it. I stand behind this comment even after Trump won last night. No matter who you vote for, Wall Street always gets bailed out. They all work for the same money/power people.

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Dr. Corsi on Dave Hodges' show- "We found algorithms in every state so far that can produce false but valid ballots".

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"Not sure how they do it" is the only thing in your post that is accurate.

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Right. That's why the democrat controlled swing states always need 5-10 days after the election to "count the votes". Start seeing.

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Quite easy with computers, algorithms, and people with no morals

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"Election officials say don’t give up your right to vote just to avoid jury duty. You could still get summoned if you have a driver's license or if you pay taxes." https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/claims-that-voting-makes-you-more-likely-to-be-picked-for-jury-duty-are-misleading/536-46d9be25-0362-4be9-b5af-d02958487286

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November 5 & 8, 2025! 🤣

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Did she vote?

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No, I voted twice! State results are now in question.

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I have been thinking that over the last 2 weeks. I am praying I am wrong. Who else but the commies said, ""Burn it down, man". Or "To make an omelet you have to break eggs"? I cannot fathom an admitted Trump victory and inauguration. I will believe it when I see it. Not sure if this is Stalin: "It doesn't matter who votes. It who COUNTS the votes that matter". Pray for our beloved country.

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Yes, it was Stalin.

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11/01/24: Speaking of Stalin, here's the 2024 American version of Russia in 1917:

James Kunstler (11/01/24): "A rather desperate gambit to oust Mr. Trump with a military coup, first advanced by former Pentagon official Rosa Brooks [nee Ehrenreich] in a February, 2017, op-ed in the high-toned journal Foreign Policy... has been resurrected now that Mr. Trump is firmly branded as Hitler ...meaning he can be eliminated by any means necessary..."

"Rosa Brooks is an American law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice" (Wikipedia 11/01/24).

"In 1970 Rosa Brooks was born to prominent socialist activists Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich... She was named after Rosa Parks and Rosa Luxemburg, the German revolutionary... Until her appointment to the Obama administration, [she] served on the Georgetown Law full-time faculty. Brooks, who wrote a weekly opinion column for the Los Angeles Times, holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School" (source: https://keywiki.org/Rosa_Brooks [11/01/24]).

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“holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School" (source: https://keywiki.org/Rosa_Brooks [11/01/24]).” Nuff said.

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Could be, MAGA and its 50% will be severely threatened by another steal.

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Ugh, those thoughts cross my mind daily. Pray people Pray.

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+1 @JustPlainBill, YOU ARE RIGHT.

I have come to suspect that all of the "red wave" / Trump victory predictions and assumptions jinx the process.

The sane outnumber the insane. The sane can cope with anything, but the insane cannot.

THE INSANE *MUST* FAKE A WIN. Their greatest fear is "coming down", alone, from positions of control. Have you ever seen a captured mongoose in a cage? A feral cat? Nowhere NEAR as vicious as the insane when cornered.

We cannot let them do as Maduro has done in Venezuela, as Lula has done in Brazil. This is our Hill to Die On.

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I’m sick of people using Hitler as a pejorative! We don’t know what happened in history since the allies obviously lied about a ton of stuff! They did not have to bomb Hiroshima or Nagasaki, they knew Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed, They could’ve prevented it. There were so much that they lied about.

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Not to mention, we have a couple generations of young people now that don't even know who any of these dictators were! lol. It's insane

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Common Core basically eliminated history.

It’s not on the tests so…..

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11/01/24: 25% of them have no idea who Biden is.

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For instance, I’m reading a series about the world fairs. They had a lot of sophisticated equipment back in the 1800s and it’s very weird that we supposedly lost a lot of beautiful techniques in construction and architecture. It’s on Substack and I would look it up. It’s very eye-opening.

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Yes. And please check out the destruction of the Morris Canal as a case in point.

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I will! Thank you very much, Jim!

Even though it hurts, I rather just know the truth!

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An entrepreneur was making ice cre -still a novelty - at the 1898 World’s Fair using: a simple solar reflector to produce the energy to run the freezer!

But, over a century later, WAAAA! We CAN’T rely on solar for our power because it just isn’t reliable or efficient! We NEED coal, and oil, and nuclear!

And the climate and energy normies refuse to even consider asking questions. Sooooo sad, and will help be the death of much of the life on our precious planet.

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Any idea what the name of the Substack is?

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The same people screeching "Hitler!" at everything flatly ignore that 30 million died under Stalin. But, Stalin good, Mao good, etc. Because they were atheist commies and that's what they want here.

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It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Now the lefties are starting to hate Solzhenitsyn because he was anti-Stalin... head-smacking.

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Henry Kissinger instructed President Gerald Ford NOT to receive Nobel Laureate Solzhenitsyn at the White House.

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Exactly! I’m so glad that there are intelligent people who can see right through the tricks!

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I have many Democratic and progressive friends. I can’t think of a single one who thinks that Stalin and Mao were “good.”

So maybe, with Halloween over now, it’s time to trot your beat-up straw man back into your storage closet.

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1) I said lefties - not Democrats or progressives; 2) I have plenty that HAVE said this; 3) you don't know what a straw man argument is, apparently.

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Pretty sure "Don" is a bot.

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Bottom line - governments kill more people than anything / anybody else. People have a hard time accepting that.

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Sharon

War is legalized murder and mayhem. War means the end of one people and the ascent of another. War is fought at all costs. People of the USA have forgotten this, they believe that war is civilized. War creates deep seated hatred. My dad was involved in the concentration camp cleanups and he told me once that he would hate Germans his entire life. MY counselor in high school was a Pacific Marine with the same feelings about Japan. The people involved in WW2 hated the enemy with a deep passion. No one cared about the Nukes, it got us out of the war quickly saving a million American and Japanese lives. You point out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but Tokyo was fire bombed by B29s to almost total destruction with more lost lives than the nukes caused. It was one of many Japanese cities that were decimated.

Did Pearl Harbor know the Japanese were going to attack? IMHO, no. Did Washington DC? Yup. I remember from various movies and sources that peace talks were going on in DC as the Japanese were ready to attack. Yamamoto was in a government group in Japan that were trying to figure out how to beat the oil blockade from SE Asia that was happening. The die was cast to crush the American fleet in Hawaii to prevent the USA from attacking Japanese assets in Asia as they grabbed China and SE Asia. Thank goodness that the carriers were at sea on Dec. 7 which actually made the decision in the Pentagon that battleships were obsolete. Those carriers eventually made Midway a resounding win for the US. Back to the statement, I would guess that betting odds in DC would have favored an attack on Pearl Harbor but it was ignored as the warbirds were gliding into control. Remember the emo that was sent for Pearl Harbor to go to war status that was deflected and arrived way too late? Suspicious, but I think the commands in Hawaii were caught at a low readiness condition in ignorance.

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JohnAZ: My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941. A week later he wrote a letter to my grandmother about the attack. In it he claimed that it was wrong for them to claim that"we were not prepared", but that they were told to prepare for a different threat, saboteurs in the harbor. He said he hoped that some day Americans would learn the truth about Pearl Harbor.

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Yes, I read about the fear of sabotage. Another part of that alert was the Air Corps lined up all the planes on the tarmac because they were afraid of sabotage. They made perfect roll them up targets for the Japanese planes.

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"...People of the USA have forgotten this, they believe that war is civilized. " Great observation.

American people have NO experience with war. It's something that happens "over there", that we can discuss and argue about over here.

The last time a foreign power invaded the US was Britain in the War of 1812. The last civilian Americans to shelled or occupied were Southerners.

That's part of the delusion of exceptionalism that plagues the US.

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"If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Being partnerships rather than incorporated organizations, they do not have to report to stockholders. And their profits were as secret as they were immense. How the bankers made their millions and their billions I do not know, because those little secrets never become public -- even before a Senate investigatory body."

~ Major General Smedley Butler

"All wars are bankers wars."

"My dad ... told me ... he would hate Germans his entire life. MY counselor in high school ... (had) the same feelings about Japan."

=D

Americas Chickens Have Come Home To Roost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6lFFaX0nQ

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Yes, the "allies" did lie! I agree, slapping "Hitler/Nazi" on anything can be overdone.

I'm fine with today's headline. IMO, it would be more precise to write "...the Democratic Party is the Nazi Party, circa 1932.." but that's more tiresome to read. Hitler/the Nazis in 1932 are not the same as they are in 1936 and 1940; in 1932, they are trying to take over. By 1936, they have taken over, and by 1940 they have absolute control in Germany.

In 1932, as I understand, the Nazi Party used a combination of propaganda (posters, newspaper articles), LAWFARE and legal sleight, and violent street protests. The Nazis "won" the 1932 election, Hitler became Chancellor, he put his men in key positions, while continuing t use the above techniques, and gradually assumed total control. Sounds like today's Democrats' plan, albeit more "professionally" with a more a veneer of "democracy". I could say the establishment has been doing this to us since 1913, but then, we'd be here all day....

A lot of declassified information suggests FDR KNEW the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. FDR let it happen, so he could win public support to fight Germany. Americans can legitimately debate whether the US should have entered WW2 in Europe.

However, no one can debate that Hitler and his Nazis were clearly evil people. There is ample historical evidence, print and film. Nazis were evil. Does that mean they were a problem for the USA? A threat to the American people?

It's never taught here, but Germany actually had legitimate grievances in the 1930s. Hitler spoke to those grievances. Unfortunately, the Germans followed Hitler into the abyss. The Nazis led to mass destruction and suffering. Three of my grandparents managed to shepherd themselves and their families and survive the real horrors of German occupation. Millions of others were not as fortunate.

IMO, today's Democrats rhyme a lot with the Nazi party circa 1928-32. The biggest difference, IMO, is that the German "elites" thought they could control Hitler better, so some supported him, whereas we know the American "elites" control both parties today, and they support both parties (and do their best to block 3rd parties). As long as the "elites" have their way, either party is acceptable.

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Hitler and his group enacted an economic renaissance, proving for all time that the Banker middle men are not necessary for either a money supply, business, international trade or prosperity. They are in fact the enemy of prosperity for the nation and people. They are parasites. Did you really think that Capitalism/Communism was just going to let this system spread to other nations? Of course they made war against Him! What is wrong with you? You'll still clinging to the evil which you hate.

Churchill admitted in him memoirs that Germany's refusal to give up sovereignty and accept the nascent new world order was the reason for the war.

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In a letter (that I have read but can't find now) Churchill stated that Germany's independent monetary system was the reason for the war. I hope that you can find it. That is further proof that economic competition from Germany was verboten. Now, think about the destruction of the North Stream pipeline.

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Now, think about the destruction of the North Stream pipeline. ~ Jim Hogue

Exactly!

Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Policy & "West's False Narrative" Stoking Tensions with Russia, China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmOePNsNFw0

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"Hitler and his group enacted an economic renaissance, proving for all time that the Banker middle men are not necessary for either a money supply, business, international trade or prosperity. They are in fact the enemy of prosperity for the nation and people." ~ Lugh

A continuation of discussions on JHK's recent blogs.

Lugh, I think it was you who pointed out that the Banker middle men have a strong network. I imagine that, essentially, many have served an apprenticeship from birth, which gives them an advantage over their peers.

Over the years, Armstrong has discussed that in his early years, few understood international arbitrage. While today I expect that the competition (at his level) is fierce.

"They are in fact the enemy of prosperity for the nation and people. They are parasites.. Did you really think that Capitalism/Communism was just going to let this system spread to other nations?". Essentially, this is just human nature protecting it's turf.

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I was entertained by being sent some X posts where a delusional Dem posted that Trump's Madison Square Garden event was the same as the Nazi rally held there in 1939. The problem with that is... it was the Democrat party that held it! I could NOT stop laughing. They don't even know.

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Don't forget the Reichstag false flag.

There are parallels to that ever since Trump asked "Why can't we be friends with Russia?" All the DNC/Deep state false flags failed. The repugs/mossad/neocon false flags worked. I'm too tired to explain all of that, but, if you read JHK, you probably understand.

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I agree that the genocide of the Palestinians is reprehensible, but so is everything the left did to the traditional family. We are certainly not better off now that mothers are working all day and people don’t even know their own neighbor. Children are dumped in places with strangers when they are tiny. And before you say well, who cares about the babies the women are happy think again. Women are taking 17 times the amount of depressant medication they used to when they were housewives.

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Democrat brainwashing has women now demanding the right to murder unborn babies as if it's some benevolent ritual (which I see as satanic). And they want the public to fund this. I never would have thought I'd live to see such depravity. I am a previously pro-choice person but not any more.

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Where does the cellular info happen that, through the life cycle creates, an adult human being. When is the DNA created that makes a human being?

Not at 6 weeks, 15 weeks or 40 weeks, it happens at conception.

We have loads of contraceptive devices and pills yet the Left still feels it needs abortion up to 40 weeks for birth control. I am not talking about threats to the mother here, I am talking about "Oops". Are today's females too dumb to realize that getting laid makes babies happen? The time to control their bodies is before conception, not after. Abortion is murder. If a child, one day old is killed, it is murder. Is birth a magic trick that changes legal status?

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Valid, John.

ALso, why by law is it a double-homicide if a pregnant woman is killed, no matter how far along she is?

Agree that life begins at conception. This really came through to me when I was gardening. When a seed sprouts, it's alive.

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Me too! Some of the abortions are actually satanic rituals, and that is horrific! What a country!

Oh my God, one time I used to have tears streaming down my face when I would hear the national anthem!

Oh my gosh, I was so naïve!!

But I have to admit, I was happier than.

Still, I’m not going to live in a fantasy world. The truth is the truth, no matter how harsh it is we have to face up to it and do something about it.

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*then not than

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Well, our country IS great. Think of the amazing things it does stand for, historically, even though there are the ugly patches. We have amazing citizens for the most part. Mostly generous, educated, easy-going. It's just that Democrats (commies) are trying to ruin all that.

Our country is good The commies trying to take it over and cause civil war are not. The deep state attacking other countries is not. The Dems support those wars as well. They are an evil cancer that needs to be cut out or neutered.

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“Genocide of the Palestinians,” a bigger and more pernicious lie than the “the most secure election in US history.”

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False.

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It would be interesting to hear what liars like you would say if Israel actually was intent on genocide and obliterated the population of Gaza as they are surely capable of doing. "I guess they really didn't mean it the past 30 years, not like the Hutus or the Turks or Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot, etc....."

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Once heard a man speak. His mother was raped. He was conceived. He asked if he deserved to live. Did his life however begin not matter. He did nothing to deserve death.

There went my neat package of being staunchly (I thought) pro-life & against abortion except for cases of “rape, incest, life of the mother.”

Isn’t it interesting it’s said “life of the MOTHER.”

So a pregnant woman is already a mother before giving birth, but we treat that baby as a thing. A tumor basically.

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~ Cases -> Cults -> Cultures -> Eraserhead Babies/People ~

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"So a pregnant woman is already a mother before giving birth, but we treat that baby as a thing. A tumor basically." ~ SusanMc

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Sounds like the flirting with a rationalization for a past for a future that may not be or doesn't have to be, given a past that doesn't happen or have to happen.

Death is part of life. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with it. It's how it happens that matters. We all die, whether we lived a long life or a life that could have been but was not.

If we want to somehow rationalize rape/incest/Franken-engineering/questionable cultural acts/etc. by the thankful-to-be-alive children that they produce, they will produce dynamics of their own that, over time, may boomerang, like some kind of feedback effect, and very badly.

Like some preying mantis or spider species, but where the sex-roles are (sometimes) reversed.

That might work for some, maybe you, but not for me or others. Yikes.

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~ Eraserhead Ending ~

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~ Special Cases ~

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The diary of John F Kennedy:

“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived,” Kennedy wrote in his diary in 1945.

“He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him,” he added. “He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”

Lugh: Those who control our media and foreign policy have made it a point that the hatred would never abate but only spread to Whites everywhere and all Western Culture.

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+1 @Sharon, THANK YOU!!!

Arguably, Hitler's REAL crime was rescuing the German economy WITHOUT the "help" of the central banks. That's actually North Korea's crime as well -- disdaining the "help" of the central banks.

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

~ Lord Acton,

more famous for having said:

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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Americans are "lied into" every war.

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Agree, Sharon.

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11/01/24: Voice-over at the end of a new Dem TV Ad: "I'm Hitler, and I approve this message!"

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It sounds better in the original German.

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Kunstler has done a yeomen job in educating the public of the crime of the century, by exposing the greatest seditious conspiracy ever perpetrated on the American people. His numerous substack articles published over this last year has laid out how the deep state of unelected bureaucrats, legacy media, big tech conspired with the leadership within the radical Democratic Party in using Hitlers big lie theory to deceive the public in their goal of transforming this country into a Marxist socialist hell hole. Thank you for doing your public service duty for a search for the truth.

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JHK is absolutely tops in the print medium, with his information-rich and always engaging blog posts. For the broadcast format, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and their many extraordinary guests could be mentioned.

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Kunstler is a delusional hack.

Read any of his annual New Year “forecasts” over the last decade, and you’ll realize he’s correct about things maybe 5% of the time. In a good year.

The only thing JHK has going for him is his engaging and entertaining writing style. (Well, that, and a loyal cult-like following of conspiracy theorists and unapologetic racists and homophobes.)

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And your comments illustrate you can’t stop stupid

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John Seaman - he called you out as a conspiracy theorist, which you clearly are. Is telling the truth 'stupid' around here?

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Conspiracy theorist hardly, but as a retired Federal Agent who experienced in conducting Complex Conspiracy investigations for Federal Prosecutions makes me a Subject Matter Expert not a theorist.

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I understand what you're saying about JHK's forecasts. What you should understand is that he highlights what, in a sane and decent world, should be happening. He is praised for his keen insight into the workings of the world, and has a unique ability to communicate to those capable of grasping truth.

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JHK, like any historical prophet, takes what is happening, extrapolates to make forecasts of the future. I will not be kind, Don is full of shit regarding JHK, most of his forecasts have come true.

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I don’t thin Don is interested in rational reasoning & discussion.

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It is rather entertaining to see the Kunstler Krowd get their panties all tied in a knot when someone dares to question the “wisdom” of JHK — the same JHK who insisted we were going through global “peak oil” convulsions … 20 years ago.

Yep. He’s a hack.

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Then get the hell off of the blog. What are you here for except to cause discord? Oh yeah, maybe that is what gets you off.

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Please, JAZ, do not feed the troll/bot. What he/it needs is a battery acid enema. Feed that to him instead.

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"Grasping 'truth' " means, in your zeitgeist, any alternative theory about anything you don't like - in other words, the insanity of seeing things that aren't there and believing them despite the lack of evidence. It seems to go hand-in-hand with religious belief, funnily enough.

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An alternative scenario--just food for thought. The PTB realize that they cannot possibly pull off another steal like they did in 2020. The numbers just won't allow that, so they let Trump win in the landslide that seem obvious to everyone not a member of the MSM. Then, as a final FU, they pull the plug, trip the breaker, or whatever is needed to totally collapse the economy they have been destroying, beginning back in 2008. Pin the blame on MAGA is the plan. 4th turnings can get rather ugly, and this one is setting up to be a real duzzy.

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"Pin the blame on MAGA is the plan."

Blame? No one will give a shit about "Blame". Relinquish the power of the State to me, so that I can impoverish and kill you with impunity, and you can "Blame" me all you want.

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Mr. Trump is perfectly qualified to oversee another bankruptcy.

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This sounds like an insult, however, you are right. Trump has been there, he knows what the ups and downs of the American economy can do to entrepreneuers. Kamala is so ignorant, like Biden before her, of the mechanisms of the economy that like Biden, she is a danger to it. Just one example, her $25000 mortgage injection to buy votes,in an inflationary economy borders on insanity. Instead of enlarging the opportunities for young people to allow them to buy a house on their own, she feeds their dependence on the Feds, an obvious case of “Feeding the Gimmes”. Just one example, as all the economic policies of the Dems is aimed at making people more dependent on the government, of socialism. Socialism, the prelude that causes the death of every society it invades.

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JohnAZ - go read "Lucky Loser" to get a real insight into how Trump operated (and likely still operates) his businesses. He's always been a joke to real business people and that isn't likely to change.

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Real business people?

You are so patently full of it.

Reeking of TDS does not make you an authority on anything but your own worthless opinion and worthless is exactly what it is.

Do you have over 500 businesses?

I dare say you don't even have one, 99% of the world does not either and the one percent who do don't like Trump because he is mouthy not because he has failed in a handful of business ventures.

Many people can't get past the FACT that Trump was a DEMOCRAT who realized how horrible the term Democrat really is now and jumped off the plantation.

Making him a traitor to global Marxism.

If he was running as a Democrat spewing forth their talking points and making big donations top the party of chaos they would be singing his praises just like they used to.

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Time to pass the plate or pass the bottle, not sure which.

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Where’s the popcorn!

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Think about the $25000 fiat infection into the money supply. What will happen when inflation elevates by a couple of percent. No 1 Their buying power is the first hit. No 2 When the Fed has to raise the interest rates to curb the increasing inflation rate, they get laid off and lose the house. Extreme example, but as one that it happened to, I am sensitive to its possibility.

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My thoughts, too! If for some reason Trump is "allowed" to win, they're going to tank the economy--which would be VERY easy to do at this point because it is being artificially propped up. They will probably wait until January 21st to do so, and then they'll blame it on Trump et al.

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If Trump is elected, and Musk gets to clean house, won't that in itself tank the economy?

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Today's job report actually tells the tale.

Remember the 800000 jobs that were revised downward from the new jobs report last month? Add another 112000 to that for the past two month's revision.

They expected 113000 new jobs, they got 12000. And most in government created jobs. The bulge of post Covid job re-filling is over and the lousy economy is starting to show itself. Reality is, the Biden Mob did nothing to create new jobs. Think about it. 30 million new immigrants to compete with Americans and minimum wage increases to inflate the economy. Great job. All you Biden folks, please comment on even one thing they did to increase jobs aside from living on job report lies and Covid recovery.

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The Republican Mob lost half my 401K savings in 2008. ~$420,000.

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They didn't lose the money, you did, Dummy. A poor decision to put your money in their hands to begin with. Like stealing candy from a baby, only you were the baby.

Why didn't you short the housing market, like the smart money did? Let me guess, you thought the "value" of your house actually went from $100K to $300K.

Stop contributing to your 401K. Send me the money and let me invest it for you. You'll earn 8%. The monthly statement I send you will prove it.

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Spot the Ponzi Scheme promoter! "Statements" like Bernie Madoff's I'm guessing.

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My big mistake was going to Africa with my wife to ride our BMW's for a month.

Before we left we consulted with our investment experts,( like you), for advice on how to protect our $1,000,000 life savings. Our house was fully paid off.

"Dennis and Anne, you just have to trust the American system!"

When we got back, the EXPERTS LIKE YOU, Merrill Lynch, had lost half our savings, but our SMART EXPERT BROKER LIKE YOU had not lost one red cent!

We should have taken our own advice and put our cash under our mattress.

6-months later we got a call from those assholes ~ "Send us your money and let us reinvest it for you. You'll earn 8%. The monthly statement we will send you will prove it."

Yeah right! There is NO SMART MONEY. It's a big casino, and the house always wins. And the DUMMY EXPERT BROKERS LIKE YOU never lose. Charlatans and crooks, every one of you!

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Yo, Dennis, re 401ks.......

I utterly fail to comprehend why so many people of reasonable intelligence put ANY faith whatsoever in 401ks, IRAs, etc. I made the connection at a very early age that Wall Street is the biggest fucking casino on the planet. I have always loathed gambling (and if you've ever taken a Statistics class, it'll cement it for you), so why in the hell would I trust SOMEBODY ELSE with my money??

There's also the moral angle. These funds invest in things that I'm just not down with. Like "defense" contractors. Good money, I don't care. They can all go to hell.

My Dad used to check his Wells Fargo profile several times a day, every fucking day. Never expressed any interest. And he never explained any of it to me.

So now, I have inherited his portfolio and am a total newbie. My financial advisor at WF was very gracious in explaining a lot of things, and seems to think I am pretty switched-on about it and understands my conservative position on it...so, we are working together to gradually liquidate all of it. I'd love to just pull it all out altogether, but you know what a metric assload of red flags that would make fly. I'd probably go to prison, if TPTB even let me do it.

So, our approach is to gradually cash it all out by converting everything to CDs (not great, but better than stocks, futures, etc.), that mature and can be liquidated. This will all happen over time.

Raytheon was one of the first to go. I don't care that my cousin used to be an Exec VP for them and that in these days of endless wars their stock is skyrocketing... fuck them. Next up, more "defense" contractors, Big Pharma, and Big Ag. Fuck'em all.

Just my two shekels. Sorry you had to learn the hard way.

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Those Merrill Lynch assholes used to come to our office every couple of months.

With their huge PowerPoint graph presentations about how we were all going to get amazingly wealthy!

They left out the part about the Casino, and if the Market crashed like it did to me my wife in 2008, we would become paupers living on our Social Security.

BTW, by the luck of the draw we were 65 in 2008 and just retired. No chance to make back the $420,000 that disappeared into the ethernet! (Where did it go?)

We asked our brilliant Merrill Lynch stockbroker if he lost anything? All we got was a sheepish look. Fucking crooks!

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Dennis - didn't you STAY in the market after the dip? The recovery was rapid & dramatic. If the $420K evaporated, it sounds like you 'crystallized' the loss by cashing out.

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We JUST LOST HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE MARKET

And were 65-years old.

RETIRED - what do you not understand about that "word"?

And you wanted us to stay in. GMAFB

We decided to put what we had under left our mattress.

Actually, in CD's that paid fuck all!

And not risk it with the assholes who stole half our 40-years lifetimes savings

CONCLUSION: there is nowhere SAFE to save your money in Murica.

Thank God for Social Security.

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The conventional wisdom is that it takes 200K new jobs every month just to absorb new enters into the job market...people turning of working age, getting out of prison, etc.

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Ha, that is because he guts you buying and selling. Get a banker and some mutual funds of a conservative nature and let them sit. These “stockbrokers” are no smarter than you are.

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"Get a banker"...your first mistake.

God JAZ, but you are naive.

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A lot of interplay will affect the economy. Closing the border, stopping illegal welfare, tariffs causing price increases but allowing domestic company formation, Musk streamlining Washington, lower taxes" for the rich", Drill, Baby, Drill, union demands for higher wages due to the inflation.

Ian, if we have allowed the Dems to do to us what they have, we sorta deserve a little trouble trying to re-build the gimme state into a meritocracy state. A really good question is, Is it too late?

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Show us on the Doll John where the nasty Dems man touched you!

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JHK has been calling attention to a variety of issues over the years, and by doing so, I feel that he has been representing my interests. I am hopeful that Trump will exceed my expectations in this regard, and a big reason for that hope is Musk, RFK Jr., Vivek, and others. If he manages the government like one of his businesses, I see that as the best chance for success.

As JHK and posters have discussed, our government has been gamed to extension and is corrupt to the core. It needs a major revamp. The claim is that Musk cut about 80% of Twitter staff. I assume that it might be healthy if the same were done to the US government, but in doing so, I would expect that there would be a significant economic downturn.

Gleaning information from Jeffrey Sachs discussion about economic recovery for Poland, it is my impression that success is a result of funds being available for constructive restructuring. The other element is gainful productive employment.

It is amazing to watch the Merval continually make new highs, and while I am of the opinion that it is a result of money flow escaping the currency, I keep looking for the no-bid moment. The Argentine peso is being continually devalued, and I suspect that unlike Venezuela, Milei is not threatening confiscation of property or taxing unrealized gains, so perhaps the market and currency survives.

Harris represents guaranteed failure, whereas I believe that Trump wants a successful economy in which to continue to conduct his private businesses. In my mind he has every justification to get aggressive with holding people who have abused their authority accountable, and unless he does so, the fix will be a band-aid.

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The economic shock will be the conversion of “gimme” folks back to people that have to have individual responsibility. Many of them are going to get hurt by Trump’s group. Many of them are immigrants that will go home. Many are young people, schooled in the belief that it is the government that will take care of them. Millions of young people are going to find out their college degrees are just a piece of paper and skills are what count. Don, that is a JHK prediction that is already coming true. A meritocracy economy will drive a stake in the College-as-a-requirement axiom that pervades the USA.

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How would Musk "clean house"?- and given that he hopes to influence Trump to support EV use, it would make no sense for him to want to tank the economy. OTOH I would much rather see someone who had actually accomplished so much have a hand in planning the economy than a coked-up cackling harridan like Harris.

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"... he (Musk) hopes to influence Trump to support EV use ..." ~ OTOH/IMHO

Another factor is that X has the potential to replace MSM.

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"How would Musk "clean house"?" ~ OTOH/IMHO

Trump announces Elon Musk will head audit of 'entire federal government'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YyGXgDG_i4

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Well, that is great news, and if Musk were smart, he would have 1000 drones trailing banners announcing just that.

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Not clean house, audit and reduce the bureaucracy that has stagnated DC. It will be aimed at the Leftist stalwarts to remove them from power. IMO,most of Trump’s new alliance were Dems, just not Ult-Leftists. MAGA is mid-Right, not nutty far Rightists.

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Interesting...

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Greetings,

I have one simple bellwether - the transformers that feed the Blue Cities. I'll know that Civil War 2.0 is on for real when those get taken out. If nothing else, the Drone War in Ukraine has taught us that civil infrastructure stands no chance against these drones.

Take out the transformers that feed New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and D.C. and they'll be no need for a 3rd Bull Run.

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You just gotta do DC and the rest of the country will fall.

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Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, and Portland?

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Thank you, Robert. I have been saying this for decades.

And any electrican with any common sense knows this, too.

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Those transformers are everywhere

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I truly think the left has convinced themselves that they are omnipotent and can do any old damn thing they please. The peasants (us) are at their mercy or lack thereof. The near future will be interesting

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So we've been relegated to mere pheasants now, too? LOL! Freudian typo... I think.

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Oops. I’m laying on a beach and should know better than to comment after a Bloody Mary AND memosa and sans reading glassesI stupid ai auto correct! think you get my meaning though. Cheers!

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You're on the beach? Do you see Biden anywhere?

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Pheasants … a hunted bird around here. I say you did ok.

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It wasnt intentional but I’ll go with Freudian

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Enjoy that beach…

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auto-correct not in play -- pheasant is a word 😂

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I have to explain to you why it is auto correct? Now that is funny. Some people will argue over anything. Not me and not now

I’m enjoying myself waaay too much for that.

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Do I have to explain my cute emoji to you? Sheesh. But you're welcome to continue getting your panties in a wad.

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Hilarious! And, somehow, it just seems to fit perfectly!

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Exactly.

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You know, Hitler actually believed that master race BS. It was such utter Bullshit, I have no idea how a thinking person could believe it. Then he had these insane ideas, for example the Japanese were honorary Aryans and the Native Americans were Aryans. Hitler had some of his henchmen try to get the native Americans to revolt. Fortunately, they saw through is totally stupidity.

These current people in the Democratic party really believe this gender fluidity nonsense and DEI stupidity. They actually can look at Kamala Harris and think she's competent because she is the right gender. It doesn't even matter that she is Irish, and Indian. I guess her skin tone is correct. I have no idea because it makes no sense at all. They can look you in the face and claim reproductive rights when it's actually not reproduction. Whoever came up with that name is batshit crazy.

Kamala Cannot restore national Abortion. Congress CANNOT restore federal abortion. Go watch what RBG said, Roe vs. Wade was always temporary. She thought that they could get the ERA, and a constitutional amendment. Roe Wade was just legal maneuvering to buy time to get that. She had this stupid idea that women would not be equal until they could kill their offspring. Make it make sense.

Jena Griswold Secretary of State of Colorado LEAKED passwords to the election. She thinks Trump is an insurrectionist. I hope she gets her butt thrown in jail. I can dream. They must be really scared. The unaffiliated are coming out of the woodwork to vote here. The democrats outnumber the republicans but the unaffiliated outnumber everyone. We have Amish and Mennonites here and they all signed up to vote. Someone tried to steal ballots in red Mesa County.

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"Hitler actually believed that master race BS"

On the numbers - in aggregate, he was correct. At that time, and perhaps currently, there is a clear distinction between mean/median of "White" vs. "Brown" intelligence. He ignored the distinction between mean/median of "White" vs. "Brown" stamina & strength. Ignoring the individuality of Brain & Braun has been and will always be the hallmark of a tyrant's downfall.

Similarly, the Vax was deemed 'safe and effective' without any differentiation as to the individual. After discovering it was neither (as was obvious in the trials), the MSM recharacterized it as, "It would have been worse without the Vax." That is impossible to prove at the individual level because n=1. Yet, the Übermenschen of the 1930's along with the current Übermenschen of the DNC both carry the same genes that lead to narcissism, hedonism and genocide.

Hitler was not a supremacist of any sort; he was a realist. He believed that, in aggregate, the best Army/Population would be made up of the best genes - in the aggregate. He got played by his own genes and the clear support of his adoring fans (non-adoring were MIA).

Now, look to the DNC, and/or Kamala, and see the reincarnation of the fascism JHK described.

It's there. You just have to pull the blinders off.

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I believe of all races are equally intelligent. IQ tests aren't the greatest tests for measuring anything. Anyone that could survive in that environment and cross the ice sheets was pretty intelligent. Surviving in the Africa takes skill. I sure I would fail that test.

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I think you people confuse species with race.

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So you both admit that they are intellectually inferior and don't belong in our culture , just as we don't belong in theirs - though you admit it ever so grudgingly. That's your normalcy bias, your conditioning. Work on getting rid of that.

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Intelligence comes in different types, trying to judge people based on their skin color is a sign of a lack of intelligence. Skills seem to vary in different ethnic groups. iI would say that people who promote that Blacks are dumber than Whites could not hold a candle physically to the stereotypical Black. In a country that deifies athletes, that seems like an advantage to me. IQ is a test for one form of intelligence, that’s it.

I wonder how many brain surgeries our resident bigots have performed like Ben Carson?

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Ben thinks the Great Pyramid was used to store grain - even though it's not hollow. He's not intellectual genius that's for sure.

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The average IQ of Black Africa is 70 - retarded by our standard of 100. Generations of testing has established this. The proponents of human equality are simply victims of an unending propaganda campaign. They are emotionally invested in it and will reject the well established data.

Btw, Jesse Owens talked about how they wouldn't let him shake Hitler's hand and that Hitler was moving towards him to congratulate him. Even at that point, the Enemy was in almost complete control of the media.

Hitler admitted that the Black man was faster. Oh well. I wonder what Whites are good at? Anything?

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DEI

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Organization!

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Ok, certainly compared to the Blacks. But the East Asians are better. Try again.

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Nice comment. The steal is on! Elizabeth Nickson did a long article on it, it gives some idea of what people are dealing with just trying to get 1 person 1 vote. It's pretty much all FUBAR now. https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/hey-mark-elias-hired-your-prison

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The "master race" stuff is super overplayed by the people who won the war. Also the dichotomy was "master and apprentice," not "master and slave". Germany really didn't have a history of slavery, unlike the "good guys."

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https://academic.oup.com/yale-scholarship-online/book/29764/chapter-abstract/251307901?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Every single group of people has a history of slavery. BTW did you know that Moctezuma's heir is a Hapsburg prince. Yes, that's correct, Moctezuma's children married the Hapsburgs.

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Germany didn't exist as it is today. IT was a bunch of sometimes warring states. They were involved in the slave trade.

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I tend to think that an attempt at a military coup is the most likely scenario. The left plays the long game, and they've diluted the integrity of the armed forces to a stunning degree. One can imagine a high-ranking officer with the jaundiced mind-set of Mark Milley justifying the liquidation of the president-elect on the basis of "saving democracy". Of course not all of the military will go along, and ***presto*** you have the makings of a civil war. Given their propensity for destruction and chaos, it would not be surprising if the left decides that they'd rather see the end of our republic ("end" meaning our country descending into open internal conflict) rather than lose power.

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Before the Civil War, generals and all other officers went home to their states, the most famous Robert E. Lee. Thanks to the border, we are seeing a split forming between sections of the country with potential secession forming state to state and state to Feds. The Pentagon will split according the state split. There is a contingent of Federal DeepState supporters, but are they willing to die or give up their positions for the scum in DC?

I laugh at the oxymoron Leftist democracy.

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Thanks for bringing up Robert E. Lee. A real hero.

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Raskin's ploy is doomed to failure even if the Dems gain the majority in the House. Read Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. In the event that the process does not yield a clear winner, the House will choose the President, but not by a straight head-count. Each state's delegation will cast one vote, and even if the Dems have a majority, most state's delegations will be majority GOP. Unless they can blackmail or buy off a significant number of those Congresscritters (TM), Trump still wins.

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Not surprising Raskin doesn’t know the Constitution. Only the parts he thinks helps his position.

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Speaking of Raskin, Sith Smith, Bragg, and Elias as JHK has made mention of...Why hasn't somebody Visine'd these c*nts' coffee yet?

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Cherry-picking and projection, 2 of the Democrats' most favorite things.

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Raskin is a non-thinking Mouth, like all the zealot Dems are.

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As part of the “George Floyd Riots,” which we are expected to believe were due to a great outpouring of emotion over the unfortunate death of a criminal druggie under the influence of a lethal dose of fentanyl, the White House itself was attacked by a mob. There were no quiet middle aged civilians being ushered through the White House doors, and unlike the later January 6 incident at the capital it was not mostly peaceful.

The question is not so much about what happened as it is about why there is such a double standard. It was an event at least on a par with January 6, but the official reaction has been almost non-existent.

https://drp314.substack.com/p/may-29th-at-the-white-house

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Leftist vs. MAGA interfaced in the Media. The media spins EVERYTHING to the Left. Even Fox.

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Recall how JHK phrased them as "the old media". Perfect depiction. They are fading fast.

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I love your eternal optimism, tainted with realism! I don't have any faith that things will work out well anytime soon, but I'm here to watch the show. It never fails to be entertaining. I've already accepted that a large portion of our citizens have gone bonkers and that deep state denizens are numerous and busy trying to wreck anything we can do.

I work on keeping to the straight and narrow myself. As our society gets more neurotic and suicidal, I counter by continuing to put my faith in God. It absolutely works wonders: Keeps me sane and unafraid of whatever's coming down the pike.

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There are good people who do good things, and there are evil people who do evil things, but for a good person to do evil things that takes FAITH and RELIGION.

RELIGION is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought, and FAITH is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows.

There is NOTHING you could NOT do based on FAITH

The mass murderer who is adored by the US Congress, Bibi Netanyahu, has FAITH that killing each other to decide who has the best imaginary friend is moral.

"It's the Lords will to save the baby, but in case the baby is not saved, it was the Lords will the baby was supposed to die"

Baby lives ~ God is amazing, and prayer works.

Baby dies ~ it was God's will and we aren't meant to know or understand the reasons these things happen. It's in accordance with his plan.

So, what purpose does prayer have?

This surely and precisely sums up the Christianity hoax, doesn't it?

GOD CAN'T LOSE!

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"There are good people who do good things, and there are evil people who do evil things, but for a good person to do evil things that takes FAITH and RELIGION."

Yo, Dennis, I do agree with this^, but you bash faith while having the FAITH to put your life-savings into a 401k that crashes out 50% of it? That's called, hypocrisy.

Just sayin'

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Yep, a hypocrite and a fool.

I found out too late that FAITH is not a reliable path to TRUTH.

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Good on you for admitting it. Much respect.

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This is a stunning display of complete ignorance about Christianity. It sounds like a complete meltdown. I hope you get the help you need. God bless.

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Ultimately, as with so many expressions it all comes down to intent. But the next time a Christian says, “God bless you,” notice how the sentence is used.

Is it a kind expression of love and concern, or is it what it is meant to be ~ a slap in your face?

"I am superior to you. I know a truth that is unavailable to you. You are ignorant! God saved me because he has a special plan for me…. I'm so special."

There's no hate like Christian love, no arrogance like Christian humility and no ignorance like Christian knowledge.

They know that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God. LOL

"Created sick, and then ordered to be well." The Christians believe that their GOD made them imperfect and punishes them if they don't get well. That simple sentence shows you everything that is sick with their beliefs right there.

" I counter by continuing to put my faith in God. It absolutely works wonders: Keeps me sane and unafraid of whatever's coming down the pike." ~ Take no care for tomorrow. Trust and obey God. The wish to be a slave - a celestial North Korea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPD1YGghtDk

And the ultimate irony: it's always you that is having a complete meltdown ~ NEVER them basking in their self-imposed victimhood over something happening between their ears. LOL LOL

Imagine what goes on in these people’s heads. It’s amazing to me how people can believe these religious stories that play over and over in their imaginations. It’s mental illness. How do they function in the real world? The depth of their delusions and their grip it has on their mind is terrifying. I always hope they have someone caring for their well-being.

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You chose sick all on your own. That’s on you and you’re owning it whether acknowledged or not. Until you come to that realization there’s no hope for you.

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Yep, a 40-year-old still running in marathons. Nondrinker or smoker.

And a Health food nut!

How did I choose to get testicular cancer?

What a total jerk off you are Paul! There is definitely no hope for you, asshole!

There truly is no hate quite like Christians Love! Religious folk prove every day that arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

Proud American Atheists for TRUMP - who gets sick and tired of this religious bullshit being shoved down my throat!

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I was addressing your sin state, Dennis, to which this bitter rant and execration testify. I'm not against you by stating the truth. Bitterness creates a hospitable environment for the proliferation of cancer.

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LOL.

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Yeah right, Christianity is a laugh.

Mary Rose, the real one, has a nonreciprocal nontangible relationship with a guy that was nailed to two sticks a couple thousand years ago and now he helps her find her car keys. And tells her who to vote for!

People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong. The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin

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God Bless you. May the demons tormenting you leave you in peace.

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My wife hates Trump but voted for him to spite the dems. I wonder how many other people have done the same ? And will we ever really know?

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I suspect there is a LOT of spite voting going on.

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Are you SURE she voted for him? Did you SEE her mark the GOP ticket? LOL...Surely the sanctity of the 'secret ballot' remains? Or has it gone the way of so many other 'norms' Trump has thrown in the garbage?

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Why does you wife hate Trump? MSNBC/CNN overload?

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Before he became president my wife was window shopping in Palm Beach and bumped into him coming out of some place. She said he oozed creep. Then, he constantly is going on about everything he does is great, better than anybody, anytime, ect, ect.... yada yada. Never admits he's wrong on his vaccine or his misjudging his cabinet picks. Every immigrant is going to murder you and rape your daughter, instead of just saying they are here illegally and must go back. Women do not like that BS, and women are going to decide this election. Why oh why does he do that? I don't know, but hopefully the dems sins have caught up with them and enough women will hold their noses and vote for him.

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Also did admit his cabinet mistakes

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Can it possibly be that what he says is true? Yeah, I do not like what he did in 2020 with the vaxx but he was one of millions that were taken in by the Pence-Fauci-Birx creep show. Remember he told the states to do what was necessary for Covid, it was Biden and the Mob who put out all the bullshit later under federal auspices. Ask yourself, does he say things that are untrue?

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Cut off your nose to spite your face. Makes perfect sense to me.

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ALL SAINTS DAY is today. It's encouraging to read the lives of the saints as they often overcame sufferings and injustices many times worse than we see today.

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I won't rule out the insanity of Kamala losing so Biden resigns, she becomes President, country riots and she declares Martial Law further weaponizibg the war against Trump being sworn in.

They have done every other criminal and illegal thing they can dream up and gotten away with it

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Probably not that unlikely a scenario!

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Don't give them any ideas.

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"The youth have nothing purposeful to do"

Makes me ask why the youth in Austria, Germany, Finland can figure out how to sell 2x4s to homebuilders in the forests of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. That's quite a feat. Our leaders and parents should be ashamed of themselves for letting the youth waste their lives on facebook so that they now depend on far away countries to be able to put a roof over their heads.

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