“Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control. . . ." —Hillary Clinton
Not understanding how a hurricane traverses over 500 miles across land, without breaking up. Watch the radar. Storms are fed by the vortex pulling surface water from the ocean surface. Native Floridian - seen probably over 100 storms - never seen that before. Admittedly though, I'm not up on the latest HAARP updates.
On the non-response to Hurricane Helene in WNC - going as far as forbidding private search and rescue and private delivery of relief supplies - the larger message is clear and intentional. The lack of response is to keep the people discouraged and demoralized. It casts a pall of negative energy over the people, making them dependents of the state.
People helping each other, becoming independent and self-sustaining, is empowering and creates positive energy. Thus, they become enemies of the state. Fuck the state. We don't need them. The sooner we realize that the better off we'll be.
Time to put the blinders on, put our heads down and get to work. God bless the folks in Appalachia.
FEMA = Funnelling Emergency Money to Aliens. Let them have $750, when seconds count (FEMA is weeks away), FEMA won't rescue you (and will make sure nobody else does either) and more FEMA memes!
I'm so glad to see these kinds of posts which indicate to me that the truth about geoengineering is finally almost (not quite), but almost going mainstream. It's progress. Yeah a lot of folks forget the fire...just focus on the water. So what other Trump stronghold is next? Texas?
What does 🤔 mean?? 20 guys with box cutters on a suicide mission killed 3000 Americans and destroyed billions in property…and then Bush sacrificed 7000 troops to slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims while destroying hundreds of billions of dollars in property and costing us trillions.
Oh it's the same old story. The PTB's explanations are so full of holes they become ridiculous, and yet...those explanations are still the "official" line.
Also don't be confused by the fake news about increased number of hurricanes, the trend for the last 100 years is still flat. However they have changed the ways that they measure wind speed and also the use of untested models which overall make things seem worse than they are. This was a rare event, but it's not going to turn into a regular event.
And then there was Milton. The Gulf is definitely warmer and staying warmer deeper into the autumn. Heck, Phoenix is too, it will STILL be 100+ this week. More heat, more energy. More uplift, more rain, more wind, more storm surge and slower abatement over land. It is not rocket science. The retention of more heat energy later in the season is the key, whether it is on sea or land. Storms are on the boundary between cold and warm air. As the north cools down in fall, if the south retains heat, which it is, the gradient between the two increases, intensifying the storms following the jet stream. BTW, look at the backwards moving Milton. Following the jet stream boundary between the Gulf air and an arctic front, it looks like another ball buster. Watch out, Tampa and watch out Charleston if it makes a left turn like Helene. TWC is calling Milton a 100 year storm.
Milton won't even go in as a CAT 4. The worship of weather gods was supposed to have gone out with the Age of Enlightenment but 24x7 hype has brought it back full force. Sad.
The temperature of the earth has been decreasing for thousands of years. Good, God, read a book.
Milton will not go in a a category five? Are you disappointed? It was just announced it is now a cat 5. The storm surge will destroy downtown Tampa if it hits right. It will clobber mid-Florida, and that includes Disney World. It is all being evacuated as we speak today. Good God, get your head out of the book and just look around, long term may be cooling but it is getting hotter now. Science does not have a clue why, neither do you. In the meantime, we are breaking hundred + records here. And the storms are getting more intense.
It is a 5 now but will go in as a weak 4 or strong 3 according to forecasts. You hyper-ventilators and storm masturbators are the ones that get so disappointed when someone disputes the holy word of climate priests who've brainwashed you into believing the hoax. "Just look around." Yeah, that's how science works. You ever think that maybe "it's getting hotter now" comes from the same people, NASA, who were caught manipulating climate data? And, no, we are not breaking 100 year records at any faster clip that they've been broken in the past.
You know, funny thing about a lot of those old records. They indicate it got pretty damn hot here and there a long time ago, huh? And where are all of these thermometers that show "how much hotter it is now"? Maybe a bit too close to cities? Yep. That's been show to be major factor in the overly high readings. Funny how just forty years ago scientists who are still alive today forecasted gloom and doom over the next impending ice age. The covers of Time magazine are littered with them. I guess that didn't sell enough electric cars, though. Time to change course.
People like you will see what they are influenced to see both by their own ego, bias, belief system and people pushing propaganda for their own purposes. I'm looking at things logically, not emotionally.
Rapid warming in the last few years is likely caused by the Hunga Tonga eruption, which put billions of tons of water vapor into the atmosphere AND warmed the oceans. What goes up, must come down. In the meantime it manifests as additional heat and humidity. We will likely get pronounced cooling in a few years - don't throw away your skis!
One more fact. Hurricanes that follow other hurricanes path weaken as they follow or cross the previous storm’s path. Why, because the previous storm has sucked a bunch of heat out of the oceans making less available for number 2.
We know the reason why, but it's being suppressed. A couple years ago, an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific, instantly vaporizing an incredible amount of seawater and launching it into the atmosphere. This water will remain in the atmosphere for years, helping to increase both temperatures and precipitation. I posted this several months ago on CFN, and I believe you thanked me for sharing the information.
The earth along with all other planets in this solar system has been heating and cooling for hundreds of thousands of years. Science has plenty of clues why, but what passes for science today has been taken over by corporate interests who have already come up with their solution which is usually some version of "cap and trade", which doesn't prevent global warming in the slightest, but makes some people quite wealthy while the rest of the zombie class pays to sequester CO2.
I heard that it will begin to fall off quickly, unless that has changed. I haven't looked at the weathermen today, like Ryan Hall Y'all on YT. Now I will. OK Ryan is still prognosticating Cat 3 for Milton at Tampa. That's bad but not as bad as it is now just passing the Yucatan at Cat 4.
Just so you know, Centcom isn’t “Central Command” it’s Middle East Command “cent” just refers to Asia. South America Com is in Miami and Europe Com is in Germany.
Friends in Marshall & Swannanoa say different. Watch the radar. The storm formation - with an eye and counterclockwise rotation - stays intact - 500 miles over land. Never seen that before.
I was only talking about the wind speed. Radar does not equal wind speed. Wind speed is what makes the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane. However 50 miles west of Ashville, the wind was over 60 mph, which was to be expected on that side of the storm.
Yirgach - the friends I mention above are still encamped up in the mountains, self-sufficient - they'll be fine. They know their terrain and wind speeds. I'll take their word over any hearsay - anything I hear or read.
Ron - Your friends were very fortunate to be camping in high terrain as they missed the major brunt of the storm, like the extreme rain which caused havoc in the valley rivers and towns.
The Ventusky.com weather page has the ability to go back in time for any statistic, like wind, rain, satellite, etc. Very useful for looking at what happened.
Yirgach - not camping, encamped. They're tucked away, off-grid, 60KW solar capacity topped off batteries, with generator backup if needed. Plenty of other necessities. Talked with them the morning after the storm.
They may have been the only ones in Buncombe County, with power and Sat Phones. You see, they've done what most talk about doing. Again, they'll be fine.
Thanks for the site reference, I'll check it out. You know the site data can be manipulated, right? On-the-ground, word of mouth, not so much.
And it was flooding that was the problem. Two things contributed, one the uplift of the mountains causing upslope conditions which wrings out storms and second, the soil in mountains is shallow and only absorbs a small amount of rain before running off. Now multiply that by a jillion streams and rivers. Was there a guy named Noah building a ship around Asheville?
Uh, going by the last 4 years of unprecedented weather events I’m going to get the stronger roof and generator and have a rain barrel…you can pretend everything is normal. 😘
Check out Dane Wigington and GeoengineeringWatch.org. Explanation for management of a hurricane using electrically charged nanoparticles and radio waves. Like, this was a manmade storm, government as the killer.
Hurricane Helene last week, now this week comes Hurricane Milton, which jumped from the Pacific Ocean, over Mexico and headed in the wrong direction into the Gulf of Mexico. This can't possibly happen! (At least not as a natural storm.) However, the boys at HAARP with the DEW Weapons have been busy destroying Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee.
Can't possibly? The weather generally moves from West to East in the Northern Hemisphere. But yeah, generally any that tried that would dry up over Mexico.
Hurricanes seem to have a mind of their own, often traveling in a Northeasterly direction in the Caribbean, sometimes crossing Florida and strengthening again in the Gulf.
No doubt they are juicing this storm, now up to 185 mph and headed over most populated part of Florida. Destroy the polling places? No place to vote means no election on Nov 5. Mail-in ballots are water-logged piles of mush sitting in destroyed post office buildings.
There’s a lot going on, cosmically and globally speaking: first off the Tonga eruption in 2020 put unprecedented moisture into the upper atmosphere- guaranteed global warming for 5 years. Then the sun is at maximum- and it’s xray craziness isn’t calculated but solars storms, a weaker magnetosphere, heating crust AND a little bit of anthropogenic warming added together is weather beyond human control. In fact this hubristic idea that man can STOP climate change might be the silliest and most problematic stance in the history of human governance.
Where's the "cosmic" in your remark? I guess you mean the Sun? I thought for a second there would be something really cosmic. Like the Solar System. Most folks think that those planets out there past Mars are just "big gas bags". LOL. They have tremendous energy which affects Earth. That's just common sense. And the Ancients, who could see thru a brick wall as well as us, studied the heavens and the "stars". Remember the Magi? Well, guess what, since December 2008 Pluto, the bad boy of the planets, has been in Capricorn, negatively the sign of collectivism and the State. When I saw that coming I was really and truly concerned for the state of the World. And sure enough! Look what happened. But, good news friends! Pluto is leaving Capricorn for good and all right after Election Day. It's entering Aquarius. The Great Storm is coming but the Tide has changed. I'm optimistic now after 16 horrendous, hellish years. Aquarius is the sign of revolution, and a renewal of reason.
Something that amazes me is gravity and how powerful it is. Think of a softball on one goal line of a football field and a grain of sand on the opposite goal line. That is Jupiter and Earth. The gravity fields of both affect each other. Jupiter and Saturn affect each other and orbit in harmonic fashion. Their combined gravity influences protect the inner solar system from in-flying bodies. The sun’s gravity influences space time out trillions of miles. We still do not know what causes gravity.
Look at the track of Hurricane Agnes in 1972. It did tremendous damage to central, northcentral, and southwestern New York State and Pennsylvania. It came ashore in Florida at the same spot as Helene. 52 years ago. Most of the area never recovered, including Wilkes-Barre PA. If you don't understand how it traverses 500 miles, look at the historical record and learn.
You began with an insult. As a narcissist, you naturally turn this observation into an attack upon *you*, rather than a opportunity to reflect upon your boorishness. What a time to be alive, surrounded by man-children with the emotional maturity of children.
Weather Geo engineering has been around since the 60s… And come on man, that was 60 years ago. Oh the malfeasance and malevolence they have been doing in Alaska at HAARP.
One of their own scientist interviewed said they are working on making storms more potent as possible weapons against enemies… I think they meant domestic ones. The American people who won't comply.
Absolutely agree Ron! <3 Something is definitely up with these storms. Are they taking energy from systems that are in the East Pacific and transferring into the Gulf? I theorized that is what happened with Helene, and supposedly the energy that started Milton came from the East Pacific side. And then maybe they are using these fronts to direct the path? Praying for y'all and hoping y'all are safe and sound and far enough away from the storm!!
Thank you, Dreamy. You're precious and I appreciate you and your kind words. <3
We'll be fine, but I suspect many here on our barrier island will have a few feet of water in their homes. The storm passing below us, with it's counterclockwise rotation, throws winds onshore, causing storm surge on the ocean side of the island. Large dunes and a high ridge, make that surge a non-issue.
However, that surge at the STA Inlet at the north end of the island, and at the Matanzas Inlet at the south end of the island, prevents the Matanzas River from outflowing to the ocean. So, as the storm crosses the state, six to ten hours of rain sheds to the river but can't outflow. The river has nowhere to go but up - like filling a bathtub.
It's tidal, but you can't stop it. Only when the storm passes and the river can outflow to the ocean, does the water go down. Not usually life-threatening, but major destruction. The wind effects are a roll of the dice - I say 50/50 - either we get hit or we don't. :-)
For heaven's sake, so much psychic trauma up in NC, you may have to round up some Cherokee friends, and smudge the hills and hollows with sage - clear out the trauma. Nice to see the Cajun Navy coming to help as always - you all are such good people. Thanks again for your concern, you're so sweet, you give me cavities.<3
Lol, well I certainly don't want to give you any cavities!! I hate to think I have to reduce my portions so as not to overwhelm you but lol. Who needs teeth anyways 😝.
A lot of people have left here to help in the Carolinas and Tennessee and now people are preparing to go to Florida too. Thankfully right now we have sunny dry weather over here so fingers crossed. I am hoping that the storm weakens a good deal and stays far enough south of you that the impacts are as minimal as possible!! I am trying to focus a lot of my psychic energy on destroying the storm internally. I know that probably sounds crazy but I am. I don't think its completely natural so fighting against a literal weapon but yes we need to fight this with all aspects. And we have to help one another because the regime obviously won't.
I suspect they actually deliberately opened the dams in the area and that that is what caused the MASSIVE amount of water that took out homes, trees, thousands of people, pets, animals, property, etc.
The federal government and the globalist psychopaths behind it are actually AT WAR against us. They consider us vermin and they mean to exterminate us. That's all you need to know.
Some of us have known that since the pandemic and the vaxx mandates.
But if the response to Helene doesn't make it abundantly clear to a person, that person may be beyond reaching at this point.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." ~Frank Zappa
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain
Everything you know is wrong.
The Firesign Theatre
Last week my dear friend John and I had what may have been the last of many years of weekly lunches together. Not for the first time, we had failed to keep every trace of political reference out of our reliably-avid conversation, and John can’t take it any more.
To be clear: I have no problem with vigorous, even strenuous debate, whether with friends or strangers. Having long ago rejected the Official Narrative about our country, I have had no choice but to either call bullshit or have to listen to it. But John, like so many liberals in these times, is a political snowflake – fragile, unique (or so he thinks) and easily threatened with melting.
This time I screwed up by mentioning that the evening before I had seen a clip of the first cabinet meeting held by Joe Biden in the year 2024. Seated at the side of a long table among the cabinet secretaries, he slurred the meeting to order, and immediately turned its management over (illegitimately) to Jill, at the table’s head.
John’s reaction was revealingly twofold: he doubted that what I reported had taken place (as if he couldn’t possibly fact-check it, himself) and interpreted my anecdote as a criticism of the Biden-Harris administration, which is to say an expression of opposition to having Kamala as President.
For those of us who have gradually learned over the course of years or decades that everything we are told is a lie, that the United States is not a Democracy, that those who rule us are unelected and can’t be deposed, these givens are a dismal fact of life, but not a revelation. For people like John, they are an appalling shock that can’t be reconciled with what they think they know about the world. For many, even parting company with old friends is preferable to having their comfortable, if illusory, world shattered.
Before reaching the sad conclusion that we can’t meet for lunch any more, John and I had several exchanges which were revealing. He said that he “can’t figure out what I believe” - which is silly, because every time I have ever tried to tell him what I believe he panics, and doesn’t want to hear it, because it is too threatening. He also insisted that he “is not a Democrat, but an Independent.”
This took me a bit longer to parse, because I already regarded both political parties as poison when I first became eligible to vote, and have been registered as an Independent for over a half century. For much of that time “Independent” was a fair description of my opposition to a succession of rotten presidents, from Nixon and W, to Clinton and Obama.
But the Reds and Blues have gradually coalesced into the Uniparty, necessarily distinguished by embracing different tenets of divisive identity politics, but in comfortable agreement over deficit spending, endless wars, and ever-increasing control of our lives as citizens.
John assiduously studies the mainstream media, believing that he has become “informed” by the likes of the NYT, WaPo, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, etc. As the computer geeks say, “Garbage In/Garbage Out.” If all you know is the narrative parroted in obedient unison by those tools of the Uniparty, you are independent of nothing.
If you had awakened yesterday after a century in suspended animation, and knew nothing of contemporary politics, it would be possible to construct a reasonably accurate worldview from harder-to-find independent media including, of course, James Kunstler’s invaluable blog. But how can an old man hope to have any clue about what the hell is going on, if his mind is already filled with a meticulously crafted false narrative, leaving no room for Truth?
It saddens me that I won’t get to visit with my friend over lunch this week, but our present rift has probably only hastened the inevitable by a month or so. Because if Mr. Trump prevails in next month’s election John won’t want to face reality; and, if we wake up to find that Kamala has been declared President, he damned sure will not want to hear what I have to say.
Thanks for your comment as I am in the exact same situation with some friends and even my adult children.
The saddest thing is that there is no way we an ever win the argument with these deluded fools simply because there is no objective basis, no facts that both sides can rely on to make our points.
If I tell my sister that there are probably 20 million illegals that have been brought in, she simply says that BS, not true. I can cite any number of articles, videos, etc. and she says, nope, all lies.
Same thing with the adult children, now in their 50s when I argue with them about phony man made "climate change." I can provide them with articles from some of the top physicists, engineers, scientists in the world that prove "climate change" is a hoax and CO2 is actually necessary for life on earth, but they say, not that's all bogus, those are not "real" scientists.
And the beat goes on.....
I think it was also Mark Twain who said that it's hard to win an argument with a smart person, impossible to do so with a stupid on.
Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector in the 80's, said that such people were inured to facts, and that no amount of facts would break through the indoctrination, and that they would only see the truth when the boot was to the balls or they were lined up against the wall to be shot.
Yup 100% correct. Read The Indoctrinated Brain by Dr Michael Nehls. He explains how the covid fear campaign and accompanying forced injections literally rewired many people's brains.
That is the very definition of a demoralized person: they will never change their position based on new information, but will change it immediately on the mere say-so of their “experts,” entirely without critique and often without even realizing their position has changed.
Those work well enough as synonyms, except for ignorance which is a different condition and more easily cured. There is hope for the ignorant that doesn’t exist for the demoralized.
Perfect description of our college campuses today. Those that run them believe themselves to be safe from the coming massacre because they fancy themselves elitists.
I refuse to discuss anything with them. There isn’t a point to it any longer. Everyone’s minds are made up. I doubt there are many undecided any more. There will be no coming together. Especially now that conservatives are done with giving an inch and liberals taking miles.
I have a friend who has a friend like that. No amount of facts can get through the indoctrination. At some point, you just have to cut bait and let them wallow in their delusion.
I lost my two "best mates", had 'em for 40 years but the glare from my tinfoil hat drove them crazy 🤷 one is now dead, 2 months after the 1st booster, his son, 17, survived the 2nd jab, in ICU, but no longer can play sport. Heart. My Dad wouldn't hear me, 3 jabs, then he got Convid, sent home from hospital coz "he's old". He lived... 7 more weeks until the turbo cancer got him.
The "legacy media" is extraordinarily powerful. Look at the mainstream media of 1930s Germany. They had very, very many Germans enthralled with Nazism. Today we look at those old newsreels and shake our heads.
I'm in the same boat as you. My son is reasonably intelligent except about politics and things that will affect his children, my grandchildren. On almost all issues he's bought into the Leftist pap. There is no reasonable discussion about anything. We practically came to blows last Thanksgiving. Since then, I don't discuss any politics or world view with him. Last I heard, his wife is supporting Kamala because " she's a woman." That moronic shit petrifies me. I'll be dead, as that's where us old dinosaurs are heading. But I worry about the world that my grandchildren will have to navigate after I'm gone. What weird guidance will their parents give them? Will they "wise up" after I'm dead? Here's to wishful thinking....
Dennis- Sad to say, I think it's this way for many of us "old timers" who are conservatives whose adult children have gone to the dark side, aka the DemonRats.
In my case, it is really incomprehensible how my kids (in their 50s) can be the most wonderful parents, citizens, neighbors, sons and daughters, yet be so f***** up when it comes to their political beliefs!
My grandchildren are growing up with way more than their parents had, including a stable family life which ours wasn't due to alcoholism and substance abuse issues.
I am very proud that their parents/ my children grew up to be so stable and productive in spite of everything. So I rack my brain wondering what the hell happened that causes these otherwise smart people to have "Harris/Walz" signs on their lawns??
Signs that I feel like tearing down and stomping on every time I stop by their homes!
By the way, there is one other thing that bothers me even MORE than the political stuff, something that is absolutely tragic, and that is the lack of religion and spirituality in their lives. This is one of my great heartbreaks- that my grandchildren have no idea about God, a Higher Power, a Creator, something greater than we are.
Religion is even more of a forbidden topic than politics and I am reduced to speaking with the grands when we are by ourselves, trying to instill in them the idea that the beauty we see all around us is not an accident, that there is a Creator who presides over all.
At this point I am feeling pretty hopeless because my influence is so insignificant as to be non-existent.
So my best solution has been over the years, to pray for them and ask the Good Lord to watch out for them, take care of them and maybe grant them the wisdom to see the error of their ways.
Yes, NYNanny, I agree with you 100% wholeheartedly! Sounds like practically a carbon copy of most all that you mention. The religion thing, so true, and it's possibly my fault as maybe I did not my emphasize my thoughts on God and religion enough. But ,as you say, it seems the lone answer, short of a miracle, is prayer.
Dennis- over the years I have tried in my own small ways, to teach my grandchildren about a Higher Power whom I call God.
As we hiked through the beautiful woods I would tell them that what they were seeing is not some accident but the work of a Creator who made all things great and small.
Sad to say that I have been no match for I-phones, TV, the media, etc. so I continue to keep them all in my daily prayers.
It's great you have the opportunity to do that. Unfortunately my eldest grandson is autistic. Communication is a definite challenge. He fixates on things, ever since he was small. We don't connect on most things, lately it's been classic cartoons. He's a very good artist., and I try to encourage that. He's just entering into puberty, which is proving to be a landmine, with the times we live in today. But I take what I can get with him, always hopefully engaging. His younger brother, in my opinion, is possibly on the spectrum, but he's still quite young yet, so I don't know what road that will lead to. Unfortunately God is probability a concept that is completely foreign to them. Possibly, in the future, it may come up, but I just don't know. Thank you for being an inspiration, keep it up, and may God bless you and yours.
You are a believer that God is the Giver, the entity that provides for us.
I wonder, as the evil pervades DC and the clamoring for power intensifies, have the next generations moved away from God as the provider and now think that the State is the Great Provider. Do they vote as they do because they think they are protecting their access to wealth, the government. I wonder how they will feel when the bill collector comes looking for the 36 trillion in debt their State provider owes and that they will have to pay up? Who will they look up to then?
God? From what I have read, the youngest of us is starting to realize what a joke the government is and are looking for options for their belief system. There is hope.
"A sentence that is either true or false, but not both, is called a (logical) proposition.",
I had to stop and take a break. That sentence made me realize that almost everything my grandmother and mother had said over the years was opinion masquerading as fact.
This is the M.O. of ideologues. Because of their arbitrary treatment of opinion as fact, there is no basis for logical argument when dealing with them.
Lost many friends and relationships with family members over this divide. I have had that lunch, too. I will leave it to your imagination to visualize which side had no problem getting ugly in their haste to slink back into the dark
I have a friend like that, too. I am going out "leaf peeping" with her tomorrow. It is funny how attracted she is to me at the same time thinking that I am wrong about everything. I find it interesting to see how her understanding of things evolves. Seems as though she just avoids thinking about certain things. I remember being like that myself, so I am not so judgmental. Plus, in her enormous favor, she did not abandon me during Covid. And plenty of people did.
You are learning the same lesson so many people do, eventually: Liberals and Humans just don't get along. I do not try to reason with these creatures; they lie like others breathe, and "moral relativism" governs their existence, and to them, everything is governed by an "ends justifies the means" mentality. These things honestly believe that lying, murder, corruption, and anything else you can conceive of is A-OK, because it all leads to communist Utopia, and any sacrifice is worthwhile to get there. The fact that such a Utopia doesn't exist, and never has, in all history doesn't matter to them: you see, this time they will get it right. . .
...and these fools also forget that in every case, once the psychopaths attain absolute power, they quickly EXTERMINATE the "useful idiots" who had helped them GET to power.
That's true, but in communist regimes, the people at the very top live lives of wealth, luxury, and power. Think about the folks who run North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela--the dictator, his immediate friends and family, his mistresses, and a handful of others in government live like royalty while their countrymen starve. So, some of the current leftist elites--think Hillary Clinton--expect to live even larger in a communist government than they do in the nominal democracy, what used to be a Democratic Republic, that governs this woke/broke/joke of a country. People can always fool themselves, pretending that "everyone ELSE will end up in a work camp, I will be the dictator's right-hand man".
As I see it, right now US citizens live in a Kleptocracy, we are governed by thieves who use their political positions to line their pockets. An obvious example would be Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez who went from working as a bartender to being worth over 30 million dollars after a few years in Congress. It's hard for me to feel sorry for my fellow citizens, as they are dumb enough to allow this to happen, in a sane country our government would have been forcibly overthrown decades ago, and in the government that replaced it corruption would have been monitored and swiftly punished. Trump, well, he stopped the bleeding, mostly, for 4Y and we had a temporary pause in the ongoing decline of this once-great nation. I support him and hope he wins again, but I think that another brief pause in the decline of the US is about all we can hope for. If Harris cheats her way into power instead, and again cranks up the printing press to devalue our currency, I would not be at all surprised to see a Hyperinflationary Dollar Collapse in the US, immediately followed by the end of civilization here. Think about it: if the Dollar became worthless at 7 a.m. on a busy weekday morning, grocery stores would be looted and burned by 9 a.m. Gun stores, gas stations, and pretty much every store would soon follow. I could see civilization here gone by 3 or 4 in the afternoon in a Dollar Collapse scenario, which I absolutely believe not only could happen, but will happen if we stay on course with print-and-spend.
I disagree. I think she is quite reasonable. Those like you who think she is a witch are just as bad as the "liberals" or "democrats" you probably rail against. Abortion is not a zero sum thing. You should know this. In some cases it is the absolutely right thing to do. If you can't see those cases then you are indoctrinated.
Well as Trump himself says, she is entitled to her opinion. Also, remember what field she was in before meeting Trump, I would imagine that abortions are wide spread in the modeling profession.
Perhaps I am an awful person, but I am committed to my own preservation. Most people I see in these comment threads were abandoned or rejected by their leftist friends. I did the opposite: I pre-emptively abandoned THEM.
When a couple friends turned into insane people during Covid, I just dropped them. Mentally ill people scare me, and these people had cracked and gone crazy. After two or three attempts to talk sense to them, I gave up.
When I feel guilty about that, I just remember the advice of Josh Slocum, whose specialty is Cluster B personality disorders. He said to ask yourself: If the country goes full Stalinist, would this person snitch on me to the authorities? If you have to hesitate even a moment before answering, DROP THAT PERSON FROM YOUR LIFE. Immediately and totally.
KATHY S - yes I agree used the same process. Don’t want them as friends - don’t trust them - they would hurt me to stay alive in their fantasy. Sorry - but F them I am too smart too strong and too independent to need those asshats around me.
That is exactly what I told my husband about several of our “friends” during Covid. They would snitch on us in a heartbeat. We still interact with them but are not true friends anymore. We we sad at first, but once we realize they would turn on us, the decision was easy.
Yes, exactly. I likewise cut a slew of people out of my life during the Covid/Vaxx attack. It was clear their critical judgment could no longer be taken seriously, while they were passing judgment on many others.
I can’t be friends with people I don’t respect. I know a lot of people I thought were smart who turned out not to be wise.
The bigger concern is what these fools are going to do, and allow to be done to us, when the next big horror show production gets dropped on us.
It's a combination of cognitive dissonance and what Ayn Rand aptly characterized as a "blank out." And that's the mildest case. Try telling your average shitlib that no nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. It will take them a few momentsnto process what you just said before they explode into paroxisms of spittle-flecked rage, hate and name-calling. Properly speaking, it's a psychotic break.
It's terrible, but I've seen it in my own family. I have a loved one who was a journalist and is still fanatically devoted to media. She spends all her time on internet forums worrying about Russia. When she used to still visit she would try to ask "gotcha" questions (she inevitably brings up politics, I do not) and then would get very angry, "panic" as you insightfully say, and tell me "well I guess I'm just not as smart as you" and then change the subject. She gave up seeing her only living family members in preference for websites like Democratic Underground and never having to hear a contrary opinion. I've tried to bridge the gap but it's a thankless task and it breaks my heart to see loved ones so caught up in anger, panic, know-nothingism. They had a lot to say about Q-Anon people, but these people have been high on their own supply since 2008 and now that it's running out it's getting tragic to see them avoiding a confrontation with themselves. I hope your friend chills out; he's giving up more than lunch, but a priceless connection to a living soul rather than another automaton.
I have thought over and over, WTF is going on here?
My answers, our politics , our beliefs are a big piece of our ego and especially super-ego. An attack on our politics is an attack on the deepest parts of ourselves. Think our where our beliefs come from, everything that affects our lives affects out beliefs. Crises that affect us turn us into Leftists or Rightists. One big one is if we are Haves or Have nots, whether we a winners or losers in the economy. Hidebound Leftists favor the tack that we take from the Haves and fire-distribute to the Have-nots. That violates a basic rule. “Thou Shall not steal.”
Another is access to power. This is a common thing for fence sitters, AKA independents or moderates. They are noted for switching sides depending on who is running things. The Bushes, Cheneys, are famous as well as Tulsi or RFK,Jr. IMHO, we are seeing a resetting of the spectrum location of both parties and a drift away from uniparty. The Deep State hates it and wants to kill the author of one side. Right now, 50% of the country is aligned, like your John, with the Deep State, which is extremist Left and Right. Both want the ascension of the State, everything else is secondary. The other 50% are aligned with folks that want the USA to stay as it was in the 1900s, strong, individualistic, and real. They are MAGA, not GOP. They are aligned with the Moderate right, people that want the State to keep their hands off everything, especially their money. The Deep State’s Prime Directive, thank you Star Trek, is preservation of the Deep State, to the detriment of the local issues, state issues, and most of all individual rights.
Clinton is an ass, now and always. She believes in the supremacy of the Deep State, period. The people be damned.
I wish to God that Trump would bolt on the Republican party and just go independent. Why he hasn't done that shocks me.
I wanna see that video of Hillary killing kids and drinking their blood. Apparently it's on the dark web somewhere, but I don't know how to access that kind of thing.
I fucking HATE, HATE, HATE Hillary Clinton. For too many reasons to list. If vigilante justice ever becomes legal, she is #1 on my hit-list.
No one ever liked HRC! Many Bill Clinton supporters didn’t like her either. A funny 1996 Weekend Update with Norm MacDonald reported that O.J. Simpson was endorsing Bill Clinton for president and that he offered that he would do anything to help him win. At that moment Norm quotes Bill saying, “Well, there is ONE thing…” and up comes HRC’s image on screen, haha. The audience laughter gives a good indication of what an ostensibly liberal audience of 1996 really thought of her. (It’s on yooootube somewhere) And it was justifiably downhill from there
I have wondered the same thing. Maybe because he has more friends in the Party than the big mouth RINOs. The RINOs will eventually leave the GOP as it dies and becomes MAGA.
Tee - I wouldn't mind being #1 on your list, but not that one. Anyway, the truth is, we live in a lawless country, Rule of Law is a joke. Look what they - fill in the blank - do so brazenly and with contempt for the law, and for us. I say vigilante justice is legal, and if HRC is ever within arm's reach, it's a good idea to remain vigilant.
I don't speak to my family and friends about political issues on which I know we strongly disagree. I want to keep my connections, and I don't trust people to be either tolerant or mature enough to respect a different perspective. It can get lonely, but at least I am still connected to people I want to remain connected to. Maybe this is self-serving of me? I know more about who they are than they know about me.
Have you ever seen North and South by John Jakes? A really good description of the emotions surrounding the 1850’s as the USA ripped itself apart. It is the story of two families, one in South Carolina and one in Pennsylvania, that were close due to the two leading men who were Army chums during the Mexican War. The war absolutely ripped them apart, but once over they healed. A good description of a Fourth Turning. We are there now as the narratives being discussed here are just another fore warning of what is coming. When spirituality breaks down between people, so do the relationships. When hatred becomes the basis instead of love, here comes CW2.
You have raised an important point: we can't escape knowing who they are, as obedient followers of the Official Narrative. We are obliged to stifle identifying openly with the truth and repudiating their false worldview in order to remain close to them. It's perverse, but true.
I've abandoned friendships, but I can't abandon family. Now if THEY were to abandon ME, that's a different matter. Thanks be to God, they have not done that.
Right, Athens discovered that Democracy was just another form of totalitarianism but that the Mob was the dictator. Today, “Democracy” serves the Leftist side as they manipulate the Mob to their ends. The Mob destroyed Rome. My Late Father-in-Law used to say that a society is doomed when the “Democracy” folks discover they own the purse strings. I believe we are witnessing that right now.
Friends I've parted from - yes indeed, ipso facto.
But finally, at long last, my wife. She's a perfect example of your "[watches] the mainstream media, believing that she has become “informed” by the likes of [for her] the PBS Nightly News.
We knew we were not "on the same page culturally" since our pre-martial counseling, but we lasted for 34 years and two fine boys. As the saying goes, 'strange bedfellows'.
That is terribly sad. If Mr. Trump wins I can be gracious in victory. If Kamala gets in power I will have to prune anyone who willingly forfeits our constitutional rights from my friends list.
Just imagine having to watch that face, that mouth, those teeth and that cackle for four years as she destroys what is left.
Her ads are hideous, they are total lies, I have not seen one particle of truth in any of them. She is trying to pass herself off as a tax cutter, ho, ho , ho. Abortion? Unlimited license for murder. In Arizona, it is the border and abortion, period. Ruben Gallegos is clobbering Lake with abortion and is putting out the Dem line of bullshit about the border. Kamal wins? Who will really be in charge, as she knows nothing.
You know who. Everyone will say it's Soetoro, but it'll be the WEF and its flunkies in the plutocracy, with Jugeared Barry merely acting as their messenger.
"John assiduously studies the mainstream media, believing that he has become “informed” by the likes of the NYT, WaPo, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, etc. " ~ Howard Skillington
The solution is simple with those who claim to have an open mind. All you have to do is "plant a few seeds" that lead them to come to the realization that their sources of information are not providing them with an objective assessment, and therefore are not reliable sources for information.
For example:
Ask him if he is aware of the 2030 Agenda, and that under Joe Biden's leadership "The United States remains committed to accelerating development progress around the world and to fully implementing the ambitious, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)". And if he is not knowledgeable about this, ask his why his news sources have not presented him with this information.
And in the case of Ukraine, try the following format:
As a person with an open mind, I am interested in viewing information which would counter that which I believe substantiates the claim that Putin/Russia did not start the conflict in Ukraine, but is merely representing the citizens of Russia.
This issue has the potential for WWIII. Are you aware of the Minsk agreements, and if not, are you interested in viewing, and countering, a perspective which I feel substantiates my belief?
If they respond in the affirmative, then provide them with a link to your source.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Untold History of the Cold War, CIA Coups Around the World, and COVID's Origin
If they are not interested in taking the time to review and refute your source of information, then surely they recognize that their incomplete perspective is meaningless, especially if it isn't subject to scrutiny.
"No poverty (SDG 1), Zero hunger (SDG 2), Good health and well-being (SDG 3), Quality education (SDG 4), Gender equality (SDG 5), Clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), Affordable and clean energy (SDG 7), Decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), Industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9), Reduced inequalities (SDG 10), Sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11), Responsible consumption and production (SDG 12), Climate action (SDG 13), Life below water (SDG 14), Life on land (SDG 15), Peace, justice, and strong institutions (SDG 16), and Partnerships for the goals (SDG 17)."
fairy stories. Goals are, about by definition - challenges, yet can be visualized as attainable with focused effort. All those listed, I'm sure many would agree with.
The amount of money, and the effort and focus necessary to even begin to implement any of it, tells me one thing for certain...
Never gonna happen. Too many fucking humans involved.
Your suggestions are generous and sound, but John and others know that they can evade both evidence and reason with a lazy declaration of "I don't believe it." If I had coercive power over them I could require that they read your suggested list, or my own, and confront them with a mountain of evidence and documentation, but I have no such control and, in the end, the friendship is a casualty.
Whether it be the president of the United States of America, members of his cabinet, your family, or your friends, if they are not interested in having a congenial discussion with you about anything, aren't they telling you that they don't respect your opinion, and ultimately that they don't respect you?
Given such circumstances, is it worth your time to invest in that relationship?
I say, toss the "seeds" out there, and if they take root, you can avail yourself if they ever come around.
As for a president, isn't a primary task of good leadership to stand for scrutiny and explain to the population that which you are doing and why you are doing it?
There is a stark difference between the current options, and if this represents the population at large, then it suggests that the current system is played out. But, why would anyone want a deceitful/incompetent administration to preside over the implementation of a new format for life?
I’m one of those descendants you speak of, and pissed off doesn’t begin to describe it. What amazes me more than anything is how little anger there is on the lib side iabout the lack of money and transformers to help those people as it was all sent to Ukraine and Israel. Great writing as usual Jim!
Where are you descended from? I'm from Johnson County, TN people and proud of it. I once had a woman (girl, really, as she was clearly a snot) say to me, "I bet you hate having that history" after I mentioned my forebears. I set her straight right away.
Most recently, mid-19th century my folks were in Maury County. That was where my great-grandfather was born and raised. He's the fella who took my branch to Texas.
I can guarantee there'd be a whole lot of anger and outrage if the hurricane victims were people of color, but since most are white, and Republican voters, hence the apathy.
I believe you Jim, and by the way I'm a big fan of yours, but I had to check and Holy Tofurky, seems it's true, Mayorkas was mega-dolt enough to be seen out shopping (in Georgetown, no less) at this moment:
Absolutely. Why do you think Harris put out that tweet about having just given another $157M to Lebanon - to displaced people for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, and sanitation. If they can taunt people to the point that they cause an "uprising" - then it's martial law no election.
Think about the ludicrousness of that. In one breath she says he supports Israel. and the next she is sending money to Lebanon. I am really sure they are going to spend it on the people.
Think what she is saying. She is going to send some petty cash to Lebanon to assuage her Mid-west Muslim voters. All it will do is provide more targets for Israel.
Yep. Archbishop Vigano had this figured out way back. He wrote Trump two letters about it. Basically he said that the powers that be were convinced of their control and had decided to come out in the open about their intentions.
I like a more kinetic approach. .22 long rifle, hollow point bullets starting at the feet, and then working on up from there. Avoiding any fatal shots as long as possible of course. I'm just joking of course (Disclaimer).
If you geolocate all the people that have shown up to the Harris rallies one would find that almost all of the attendees are the same people. That is: paid shills. it’s ironic that the people who showed up to the one or two Biden rallies 4 years earlier and sat in crop circles, were probably more legitimate.
If Harris is installed, I suspect that the future former Americans left in this country despondent and disturbed, will take their anger out on multiple segments of the population, such as journalists, Tech strongholds, Democratic down slate politicians, university professors, and individuals who support this cluster fuck. It did not work out well for Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette or Mussolini.
He isn’t. The last thing the media cannot control is the vote. They try with biased polls, but each individual votes their beliefs. The cheaters in the mail system, the election judges are a different story. The You Tube poll averages and the parties themselves are reacting in October as though there is a Trump landslide imminent. Hope so!!
Sorry to break your bubble but you probably are not aware of the massive amount of cheating that is already in place. Here's a link to a tech guy and his team- Stop Bogus Ballots- that have laid out one way the DemonRats are trying to STEAL this election via bogus ballots.
What I can’t figure out is why if the Republicans know the Democrats are stealing the election every year they just don’t play the same games and print a massive amount of fake ballots? in this scenario, we would see about 1 billion votes cast. Ironically, the Legacy media would not even question the vote total.
The key here is that cheating beyond a certain % difference becomes detectable, such as number of votes becoming bigger than the number of registered voters. Allegations of this were examined in 2020 and thrown out quickly by Deep State judges, nationwide.
"such as number of votes becoming bigger than the number of registered voters. " That happened in more than one place in 2020. Nothing substantial has been done about that. It will happen again. Dems will win by 500,000,000 votes - or whatever it takes.
Thanks, Jim, for this eloquent manifesto. And thanks for the heads up about the possible coming of--surprise--WWIII in the Middle East.
I am posting here a statement I just entered on the Forbidden News substack.
Thank you for your outstanding reporting on the catastrophe in the Appalachians.
As I explained and documented in my book, "Our Country, Then and Now," the federal government is engaged in a long-term genocide against our own population. My book provides a narrative of how things got so bad over out long history. Please check it out here. It is essential that people have a historical sense of what is going on.
Next, I recently published a shorter update as a Global Research eBook entitled "World War III Is 'On' But the Empire Has Already Lost. An American Civil War Looms. Spiritual Transformation Is the Only Way to Prevent Extinction."
We are now in the American Civil War II. Again, it is essential for people to gain a historical sense, particularly the fact that the Democratic Party has always been the agency for big global finance while the Republicans are historically the agency for indigenous American values. Here is the link for the free download:
Finally, it is time--past time--for every U.S. citizen to become a "survivalist." Granted this is a big topic, but it starts with food security and sovereignty for not just individuals and families, but whole communities. Every U.S. country has an emergency preparedness program. It is time for citizens to take control of those programs through their own organizing and efforts. It is our government. We must work at the local level to assure they work for us, not the globalist oligarchs who run the Democratic Party.
Look good. Much of it seems to be in line with White Nationalist thinking. No doubt he shies away from saying that we have the right to exist I imagine.
Such a great column today Jim! I happen to live one county upstream from Buncomb in a river valley that is the headwaters of the French Broad River. This is an area where tourism and outdoor adventure are the main industries and where the population is an interesting overlay of wealthy mostly liberal corporate executive retirees and the native Scotch Irish who are decidedly Christian and politically conservative. The local natives tend to reside more out in the county whereas the retirees concentrate in the neighborhoods surrounding our small downtown (though they’re also out in the county and up on the high vistas in their native built beautifully appointed abodes). This division is clearly depicted in where you find which political signs. Out in the county among the natives it is all Trump but in the downtown area it’s Harris/Walz all the way. The political and cultural dichotomy in our town of 7500 (33,000 in the entire 381 square mile county) has been mostly a peaceful reality but with the events unfolding in the days following the hurricane I’m definitely sensing the growing possibility of increased friction between these two groups, especially as a growing awareness sets in of the Federal Government’s flagrant ineptitude for responding to the disaster.
From what I see in the normie haunts (FB especially) and comment threads, there is now a concerted effort by the left to counter all the true accounts of FEMA/gov't absence, ineptitude and threats.
FB reels are sprinkled with nonsense videos that prove nothing. Just yesterday I came across one that was a 180 degree pan of a tanker truck refueling an Osprey. That's it. No people, no information. Nice pristine local airport, with no damage. I checked it out and the thing was filmed at Mountain Empire Airport, right off I-81 in Virginia. 250 miles from ground zero.
On a comment thread, anyone anti-Trump will deny the FEMA stories. Despite countless video testimonials to the contrary. Karens and beta men are what they are.
I’d like to think so too and I’m sure a certain percentage of voters will begin to wake up. The brainwashing has a powerful effect on at least a third of the population however who will not budge. These are the people whose whole identities are centered on their hatred of Trump and they wear it as a badge of honor.
This is the whole enchilada. They can put up all the yard signs they want saying "Harris/Walz" but they are not for Harris/Walz - they are just against Trump. They don't even know who Kamala Harris is.
The hell it will! They'll blame Trump and his "Trumptards" for the disaster because they don't follow the climate narrative like sheep, and are helping one another recover despite FEMA's incompetence instead of waiting for The Great BIPOC Mother ( formerly The Great White Father) to rescue them. As David Axelrod said, the educated, wise, affluent liberals will vote just fine, but them thar hicks in dem woods an' hills are gonna have trouble votin'! Since lefties really don't give a rat's ass about anyone else, the government's response to Helene seems fine to them.
Nick - thanks for the comment. I'm very familiar with that area. Run them the F out. They are like a cancer. Tell them the French Broad River don't go to Aintry :-)
Used to be that "Southern Hospitality" was a badge of honor for us - a source of pride - welcoming and helping any and all. A shame, but time to become a little less hospitable.
Mayorkas is a real piece of work. A creep of the lowest order. A scum apparatchik. I don't have words enough to describe his total lack of morals, insight, and decency. Yeah, Hillary, let's find out what we, the "deplorables", are made of. And don't get me started on the "media". Don't we need a new word for these party-mad propagandists?
How does it happen that Mayorkas, one scummy apparatchik, ends up running FEMA, the border AND the Secret Service. Hmmm. The blob oozes like black goo.
That is where he came from, lurking down in Panama organizing caravans of invaders to come up here. I don't think Biden tracked him down on his own. Why would a pos dual-citizen like Mayorkas be head of Homeland Security? There are no badass ex-special ops, 20-year law enforcement, Border Patrol, or Interpol veterans to do such a job?
Anyway, ammo up because we are screwed and there is no reason to go down without taking a few deserving ones along to hell.
Even more surprising than the failing efforts of the Would-Be Masters of the Universe is their inability to accept the possibility of defeat. If there were any realists in their ranks, they would have been a little more mature and thorough in their planning, including a way out. Several ways out. They burnt all their bridges long ago. Where would Hillary flee, for example...Haiti? They are destroying the peaceful, prosperous US with immigration....where will they go when it's gone? New Zealand is too easily starved out, even with bunkers full of everlasting dried food. And what kind of medical staff would put up with that kind of life? The servants and minions would take them out. Robots are notoriously useless, if their programming needs tweaking, who will do it?
Their political machinations do not rise above the level of cranky two-ear-olds. The sense of entitlement, their superiority over all the rest of the US and the world, their arrogance, reminds me of the Age of Kings. Several attempts, and no permanent success.
I am also surprised that there isn't any back-stabbing going on, any factionalism. It takes a lot of money to keep so many fools so quiet. There's a real lack of talent and no evidence of debate among them. One chief to rule them all? Who is this chief? Either the Rockefellers have been subtle, or the leadership is concealing from its party faithful the extent of the trap they are walking into.
It's a great time to live for history buffs. The rest of us, not so great.
Why do these people never have to flee in helicopters with money trailing across the runway? It really makes me question the American character. Even unarmed Sri Lankans made their president flee then rooted through his underwear drawer before burning down his house. What the hell is wrong with us?
Well Doc, I'll have a go at it. America has been blessed, and that has become, in the course of human events, a curse. We have not suffered like your Sri Lankans, or the noble Russians, or the Eastern Europeans, or even yes the Iranians. And I could go on.
I fear for my country because we don't know what suffering is. We made it thru the Great Depression without having to truly suffer like other folks have. Or the Civil War. Et cetera. We haven't been shaken to our core.
I do believe sir, that our time has come. We'll see what it produces in our fellow Americans. Or rather others will. I will most likely not be here - thanks be to the Holy Spirit.
People don't agitate violently for change until there is no food to buy. As long as the just in time supply system limps along they shrug and say $15 dollar burger and fries or $6 for a loaf of wonder bread or cheesy doodles is fine.
De Tocqueville: America is great because America is good.
Is abortion good?
Blessed? We took this continent by fire and sword. We believed in ourselves. Now we want to give it back to stone age people from the far corners of the world.
Over and over, sexual immorality is the number one sin in God’s eye and the sin He will walk away from, in societies, removing His protection. LBGTQ+ and the prevalence of birth control abortion both are indicators of our society’s drive into sexual immorality. Both are successful attempts by the Evil One to convince people that both things are righteous. I believe the catastrophes we are starting to see may be the result of God walking away. I wonder who He is considering to support next?
If societies become lost, Think S&G, God does not walk away, He destroys.
Sexual immorality is an outgrowth of arrogance, as well as lying -- to oneself, and to others. "I don't have to follow the rules because I'm great! I have trophies and people telling me that I'm great! You should want me to bang you so that you can say you were with the greatest lay on Earth!" And people buy the bullshit -- not all of them, but enough of them for it to matter, so that the society is changed such that increasing numbers of narcissists prowl around for dumb, impressionable, and willing people who'll let themselves be screwed, just so they can say they had the experience. These are the ones held up as role models, while the people who don't do that, or who learn from their mistakes are pilloried and ruined for their non-compliance.
Less a claque than a coven of witch-biotches (beta males included). Why doesn’t that horrible old crone die already. I guess Satan takes care of his own
God is saving these people for the really horrible things coming our way, since those in leadership positions suffer worse punishment than the average bear.
I've speculated, but only to myself and my wife, that Obama and his Stooges actually running the government want a big war before the election. Why? Americans tend to keep the same leadership during wartime. It could be the Kenyan's only shot at a shadow fourth term
LOVE your command of the English language! I crack up with every column. I've said for years that every nation has a life span and then falls to the thirst for power and control. Thereafter, a nation either resists or succumbs, and it's people from places no one knows exist. You're right about those NC/TN mountain people, from whom I am proud to have descended. I can trace my mother's side (the only one that counts) back to 1815, in Johnson County, TN before the records disappear. They are fierce people - although you'd never know it by looking at them, talking to them, being around 'em. But when it counts. . . . I saw a video of a young woman from there, and her message was, "Kamala/FEMA: stay at home. We don't need you. Shove your $750. We take care of our own." And they will. And what you wanna bet they find a way to vote? I wouldn't take that bet.
Happy to have you as a long-lost cousin Te Burt. I have traced my father's family straight back to Antrim County, Ireland. I'm the 10th Generation here in America, by eldest son to eldest son. Yours faithfully, Frank Gibson Breckenridge III.
I was born in Asheville NC in a house just a little uphill from Biltmore Village and a short drive from the lovely Biltmore House. I claim Appalachian heritage, even though my parents were a Yankee and an Okie. I'm proud to be "half horse, half alligator"!!!
I live in East TN now, outside the area of destruction, but close enough to know people who are affected. The Appalachian Trail, which my husband and I have hiked, follows the state line through the worst hit areas. We walked across several of those bridges that aren't there anymore. We drew water from creeks that are now full of debris. We walked the footpath that our hillbilly and native American cousins established, climbed their mountains, and sang their songs. We love Dolly, and she loves us.
Today is October 7. It's been a year since the butchery of Hamas. Four weeks and a day till the election. So much has happened, and still could happen.
According to Haaretz stories shortly after 10/7/23, IDF sentries along the Gaza fence repeatedly reported on a lot of practice exercises going on out in the empty fields inside the fence, and ramping up with simulated live fire and explosives going into October. They were ignored by superiors. It was Israel's 911 alright...
And Asheville flooding has happened before and will happen again. Just increased population and media coverage. Unfortunately we live in an age of weather porn and biased reporting.
Hamas is a political party established in the 1990s to counter the PLO and hamper possibilities for a 2-state solution. Established with the full moral and financial support of the Israeli government and others, including our government that celebrated the advent a new Palestinian two-party system with real "democratic" elections. This is fully known by everyone who was reading the papers or listening to the news back then. Until Hamas got elected. Then there was some sniveling on the US side. The Zionists always knew where this was going.
50% of Hamas members were probably IDF/Mossad anyway. There is no indigenous Arab Islamic resistance organization anywhere that is not penetrated by Israeli intelligence. This is a simple fact of life. For a fun rabbit hole, search "Ben Gurion Canal". They got plans for the Gaza area, it is not just about the massive offshore gas fields.
This is incredible writing and quite inspirational Mr. K. Thank you.
"The Party of Chaos has managed to piss-off the most ferocious demographic in the land, the wild and cross-grained Scotch-Irish who populate those devastated hills and hollows of Western Carolina and East Tennessee, the people who, for generations, were first to volunteer to fight in America’s wars, the Sargent Yorks, the moonshiners and the stock car heroes, the Johnson Boys, Boones and Crocketts, Hatfields and McCoys, the very warp and woof of our folklore, half horse and half alligator, born fighting. And now you and your gang of wine-club harpies, Beltway mezzofinukes, Hollywood Satan-conjurors, Hamptons charity-hags, globe-trotting errand boys, color revolution maestros, race hustlers, drag queens, lawfare shysters, spooks, cut-outs, beach friends, and grifters has gone and pissed these folks off royally."
Morning Jim, thanks as always.
Not understanding how a hurricane traverses over 500 miles across land, without breaking up. Watch the radar. Storms are fed by the vortex pulling surface water from the ocean surface. Native Floridian - seen probably over 100 storms - never seen that before. Admittedly though, I'm not up on the latest HAARP updates.
On the non-response to Hurricane Helene in WNC - going as far as forbidding private search and rescue and private delivery of relief supplies - the larger message is clear and intentional. The lack of response is to keep the people discouraged and demoralized. It casts a pall of negative energy over the people, making them dependents of the state.
People helping each other, becoming independent and self-sustaining, is empowering and creates positive energy. Thus, they become enemies of the state. Fuck the state. We don't need them. The sooner we realize that the better off we'll be.
Time to put the blinders on, put our heads down and get to work. God bless the folks in Appalachia.
MOCK THE STATE:
GOVERNMENTsteria: Best FEMA Memes
FEMA = Funnelling Emergency Money to Aliens. Let them have $750, when seconds count (FEMA is weeks away), FEMA won't rescue you (and will make sure nobody else does either) and more FEMA memes!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/governmentsteria-best-fema-memes
And that $750 has to be repaid or they face property confiscation.
How fucking convenient!
Kathy, Is that for real? I have never seen the terms of this aid.
Nah. People spreading rumors...
I saw the radar images. Sure looks like direct energy weapon to me. Shades of Hurricane Erin on 9/1/1.
…..and Ian! 2022. HAARP/EMF driven
Actually folks,
It's driven by the NexRad stations
that are ALL OVER the country.
For specific information,
go to:
https://www.GeoengineeringWatch.org
and listen to Dean Wigington
who does a one-hour broadcast
every Saturday on YouTube
The Direct Energy Weapons (DEW)
were used in Lahaina, Hawaii
and Paradise, California
and possibly other places
I'm so glad to see these kinds of posts which indicate to me that the truth about geoengineering is finally almost (not quite), but almost going mainstream. It's progress. Yeah a lot of folks forget the fire...just focus on the water. So what other Trump stronghold is next? Texas?
I’ve followed DW for about ten years on this, yes.
I read that two dams failed…echos of tall buildings that pancaked on themselves 23 years ago 🤔
So Bush took down WTC but he couldn’t defeat the Taliban?? 👌
Who said anything about Bush taking down the WTC…or the Taliban. I’m not saying that.
What does 🤔 mean?? 20 guys with box cutters on a suicide mission killed 3000 Americans and destroyed billions in property…and then Bush sacrificed 7000 troops to slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims while destroying hundreds of billions of dollars in property and costing us trillions.
Oh it's the same old story. The PTB's explanations are so full of holes they become ridiculous, and yet...those explanations are still the "official" line.
Yeah.
Helene was a tropical storm when it reached Ashville, the recorded wind speed was 45 mph.
But there was a LOT of rain in a very short period of time over mountainous terrain.
Also don't be confused by the fake news about increased number of hurricanes, the trend for the last 100 years is still flat. However they have changed the ways that they measure wind speed and also the use of untested models which overall make things seem worse than they are. This was a rare event, but it's not going to turn into a regular event.
And then there was Milton. The Gulf is definitely warmer and staying warmer deeper into the autumn. Heck, Phoenix is too, it will STILL be 100+ this week. More heat, more energy. More uplift, more rain, more wind, more storm surge and slower abatement over land. It is not rocket science. The retention of more heat energy later in the season is the key, whether it is on sea or land. Storms are on the boundary between cold and warm air. As the north cools down in fall, if the south retains heat, which it is, the gradient between the two increases, intensifying the storms following the jet stream. BTW, look at the backwards moving Milton. Following the jet stream boundary between the Gulf air and an arctic front, it looks like another ball buster. Watch out, Tampa and watch out Charleston if it makes a left turn like Helene. TWC is calling Milton a 100 year storm.
Milton won't even go in as a CAT 4. The worship of weather gods was supposed to have gone out with the Age of Enlightenment but 24x7 hype has brought it back full force. Sad.
The temperature of the earth has been decreasing for thousands of years. Good, God, read a book.
Milton will not go in a a category five? Are you disappointed? It was just announced it is now a cat 5. The storm surge will destroy downtown Tampa if it hits right. It will clobber mid-Florida, and that includes Disney World. It is all being evacuated as we speak today. Good God, get your head out of the book and just look around, long term may be cooling but it is getting hotter now. Science does not have a clue why, neither do you. In the meantime, we are breaking hundred + records here. And the storms are getting more intense.
It is a 5 now but will go in as a weak 4 or strong 3 according to forecasts. You hyper-ventilators and storm masturbators are the ones that get so disappointed when someone disputes the holy word of climate priests who've brainwashed you into believing the hoax. "Just look around." Yeah, that's how science works. You ever think that maybe "it's getting hotter now" comes from the same people, NASA, who were caught manipulating climate data? And, no, we are not breaking 100 year records at any faster clip that they've been broken in the past.
You know, funny thing about a lot of those old records. They indicate it got pretty damn hot here and there a long time ago, huh? And where are all of these thermometers that show "how much hotter it is now"? Maybe a bit too close to cities? Yep. That's been show to be major factor in the overly high readings. Funny how just forty years ago scientists who are still alive today forecasted gloom and doom over the next impending ice age. The covers of Time magazine are littered with them. I guess that didn't sell enough electric cars, though. Time to change course.
People like you will see what they are influenced to see both by their own ego, bias, belief system and people pushing propaganda for their own purposes. I'm looking at things logically, not emotionally.
Rapid warming in the last few years is likely caused by the Hunga Tonga eruption, which put billions of tons of water vapor into the atmosphere AND warmed the oceans. What goes up, must come down. In the meantime it manifests as additional heat and humidity. We will likely get pronounced cooling in a few years - don't throw away your skis!
One more fact. Hurricanes that follow other hurricanes path weaken as they follow or cross the previous storm’s path. Why, because the previous storm has sucked a bunch of heat out of the oceans making less available for number 2.
We know the reason why, but it's being suppressed. A couple years ago, an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific, instantly vaporizing an incredible amount of seawater and launching it into the atmosphere. This water will remain in the atmosphere for years, helping to increase both temperatures and precipitation. I posted this several months ago on CFN, and I believe you thanked me for sharing the information.
The earth along with all other planets in this solar system has been heating and cooling for hundreds of thousands of years. Science has plenty of clues why, but what passes for science today has been taken over by corporate interests who have already come up with their solution which is usually some version of "cap and trade", which doesn't prevent global warming in the slightest, but makes some people quite wealthy while the rest of the zombie class pays to sequester CO2.
I heard that it will begin to fall off quickly, unless that has changed. I haven't looked at the weathermen today, like Ryan Hall Y'all on YT. Now I will. OK Ryan is still prognosticating Cat 3 for Milton at Tampa. That's bad but not as bad as it is now just passing the Yucatan at Cat 4.
CentCom is in Tampa. Just sayin'...
Whoever is on the HAARP joystick may want to toggle left or right...
Or maybe not, depends on intent I suppose...
the HAARP joystick? I wanna ride that one.
Just so you know, Centcom isn’t “Central Command” it’s Middle East Command “cent” just refers to Asia. South America Com is in Miami and Europe Com is in Germany.
Yes, CentCom is in Tampa, what's your point, dumbass?
Friends in Marshall & Swannanoa say different. Watch the radar. The storm formation - with an eye and counterclockwise rotation - stays intact - 500 miles over land. Never seen that before.
Hint: Manmade........
Hint: Juiced up to make more rain and with some Microwave energy burst that's exactly what happens... more energy, longer storm...
NEXRAD
Never seen before, at least in the past 200 years or so.
Exactly.
Counterclockwise? Really?
Think of the uplift from the Appalachians wringing out the declining storm. Asheville was clobbered by rain.
I was only talking about the wind speed. Radar does not equal wind speed. Wind speed is what makes the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane. However 50 miles west of Ashville, the wind was over 60 mph, which was to be expected on that side of the storm.
Yirgach - the friends I mention above are still encamped up in the mountains, self-sufficient - they'll be fine. They know their terrain and wind speeds. I'll take their word over any hearsay - anything I hear or read.
Ron - Your friends were very fortunate to be camping in high terrain as they missed the major brunt of the storm, like the extreme rain which caused havoc in the valley rivers and towns.
The Ventusky.com weather page has the ability to go back in time for any statistic, like wind, rain, satellite, etc. Very useful for looking at what happened.
Yirgach - not camping, encamped. They're tucked away, off-grid, 60KW solar capacity topped off batteries, with generator backup if needed. Plenty of other necessities. Talked with them the morning after the storm.
They may have been the only ones in Buncombe County, with power and Sat Phones. You see, they've done what most talk about doing. Again, they'll be fine.
Thanks for the site reference, I'll check it out. You know the site data can be manipulated, right? On-the-ground, word of mouth, not so much.
And it was flooding that was the problem. Two things contributed, one the uplift of the mountains causing upslope conditions which wrings out storms and second, the soil in mountains is shallow and only absorbs a small amount of rain before running off. Now multiply that by a jillion streams and rivers. Was there a guy named Noah building a ship around Asheville?
And there had been some serious rain in the days previous.
Uh, going by the last 4 years of unprecedented weather events I’m going to get the stronger roof and generator and have a rain barrel…you can pretend everything is normal. 😘
Category is set by the wind speed. The problem with Helene was water content, not measured. It looks like Milton is a wind speed surge storm.
Check out Dane Wigington and GeoengineeringWatch.org. Explanation for management of a hurricane using electrically charged nanoparticles and radio waves. Like, this was a manmade storm, government as the killer.
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CO-RRECT
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
Dane Wigington, on Greg Hunter Rumble channel, said the rain was DRIVEN to them thar hills.
Hurricane Helene last week, now this week comes Hurricane Milton, which jumped from the Pacific Ocean, over Mexico and headed in the wrong direction into the Gulf of Mexico. This can't possibly happen! (At least not as a natural storm.) However, the boys at HAARP with the DEW Weapons have been busy destroying Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee.
You think? Talk about "pulling out all the stops"! We will leave no stone unturned in our drive to install totalitarianism.
FGB3 that's the obvious reality. At least to me.
Can't possibly? The weather generally moves from West to East in the Northern Hemisphere. But yeah, generally any that tried that would dry up over Mexico.
Hurricanes seem to have a mind of their own, often traveling in a Northeasterly direction in the Caribbean, sometimes crossing Florida and strengthening again in the Gulf.
No doubt they are juicing this storm, now up to 185 mph and headed over most populated part of Florida. Destroy the polling places? No place to vote means no election on Nov 5. Mail-in ballots are water-logged piles of mush sitting in destroyed post office buildings.
There’s a lot going on, cosmically and globally speaking: first off the Tonga eruption in 2020 put unprecedented moisture into the upper atmosphere- guaranteed global warming for 5 years. Then the sun is at maximum- and it’s xray craziness isn’t calculated but solars storms, a weaker magnetosphere, heating crust AND a little bit of anthropogenic warming added together is weather beyond human control. In fact this hubristic idea that man can STOP climate change might be the silliest and most problematic stance in the history of human governance.
Where's the "cosmic" in your remark? I guess you mean the Sun? I thought for a second there would be something really cosmic. Like the Solar System. Most folks think that those planets out there past Mars are just "big gas bags". LOL. They have tremendous energy which affects Earth. That's just common sense. And the Ancients, who could see thru a brick wall as well as us, studied the heavens and the "stars". Remember the Magi? Well, guess what, since December 2008 Pluto, the bad boy of the planets, has been in Capricorn, negatively the sign of collectivism and the State. When I saw that coming I was really and truly concerned for the state of the World. And sure enough! Look what happened. But, good news friends! Pluto is leaving Capricorn for good and all right after Election Day. It's entering Aquarius. The Great Storm is coming but the Tide has changed. I'm optimistic now after 16 horrendous, hellish years. Aquarius is the sign of revolution, and a renewal of reason.
Something that amazes me is gravity and how powerful it is. Think of a softball on one goal line of a football field and a grain of sand on the opposite goal line. That is Jupiter and Earth. The gravity fields of both affect each other. Jupiter and Saturn affect each other and orbit in harmonic fashion. Their combined gravity influences protect the inner solar system from in-flying bodies. The sun’s gravity influences space time out trillions of miles. We still do not know what causes gravity.
Hey Jim.....best column evah!!!!
Apparently the Cajun Navy is going all in. They now have access to helicopters. Goddess bless these brave volunteers.
Hey Jim.....best column evah!!!! - astera
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Nearly every essay posted by JHK is declared by some commenter as the best ever
Hey Q...you're an ass.
Q - welcome back. Fair warning though, if you mess with the bull, you may get the horns - or get throat-punched, watch out.
Q shitck? Really?
Throat punching, LOL...let's have a discussion about this ;-)
You are the cow…so people that mess with you will get the udders. 🐄
Hey Substacker, it's sort of a private joke between a few longtime CFN regulars. Isn't it about time for your next booster?
🐄 💩
Fortunately Peter is in a NJ Nursing Home. By mid-day Wednesday his old apt in Estero, FL might be under a few feet of water.
Hurricane Milton is a Cat 5. Why are hurricanes always said to "pack" winds. Why not "have" winds or "possess" winds?
Why is "the red zone" called "the red zone"? Why not orange, yellow or purple?
Red is the color of violence and blood. Danger!
Or, "throw" winds?
Look at the track of Hurricane Agnes in 1972. It did tremendous damage to central, northcentral, and southwestern New York State and Pennsylvania. It came ashore in Florida at the same spot as Helene. 52 years ago. Most of the area never recovered, including Wilkes-Barre PA. If you don't understand how it traverses 500 miles, look at the historical record and learn.
Have another drink. Agnes looped east out over the Atlantic Ocean - restrengthened over water before driving back north and west into NY & PA.
Hey, remember Sandy. Both of them had uplift from the mountains behind the Fall line on the coast and were flooding events.
What soul rot possesses you to start out a reply to a factual comment with an insult. Can you be civil and polite? Not possible, with cretins.
"If you don't understand how it traverses 500 miles, look at the historical record and learn." ~ Martini Heideggar
Word up. Everybody likes a little ass, but nobody likes a smart ass.
Try to be nice. We can’t be quarreling over this, we have a national to save.
Send that sentiment to Wash, DC who does not give one damn about the victims, just immigrants.
You began with an insult. As a narcissist, you naturally turn this observation into an attack upon *you*, rather than a opportunity to reflect upon your boorishness. What a time to be alive, surrounded by man-children with the emotional maturity of children.
Grow up Martini, reflect on this:
You started with a condescending tone, and then got your feelz hurt when I called you on it. Keep backpedaling.
First Rule of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging.
Yup!
Weather Geo engineering has been around since the 60s… And come on man, that was 60 years ago. Oh the malfeasance and malevolence they have been doing in Alaska at HAARP.
One of their own scientist interviewed said they are working on making storms more potent as possible weapons against enemies… I think they meant domestic ones. The American people who won't comply.
Absolutely agree Ron! <3 Something is definitely up with these storms. Are they taking energy from systems that are in the East Pacific and transferring into the Gulf? I theorized that is what happened with Helene, and supposedly the energy that started Milton came from the East Pacific side. And then maybe they are using these fronts to direct the path? Praying for y'all and hoping y'all are safe and sound and far enough away from the storm!!
Thank you, Dreamy. You're precious and I appreciate you and your kind words. <3
We'll be fine, but I suspect many here on our barrier island will have a few feet of water in their homes. The storm passing below us, with it's counterclockwise rotation, throws winds onshore, causing storm surge on the ocean side of the island. Large dunes and a high ridge, make that surge a non-issue.
However, that surge at the STA Inlet at the north end of the island, and at the Matanzas Inlet at the south end of the island, prevents the Matanzas River from outflowing to the ocean. So, as the storm crosses the state, six to ten hours of rain sheds to the river but can't outflow. The river has nowhere to go but up - like filling a bathtub.
It's tidal, but you can't stop it. Only when the storm passes and the river can outflow to the ocean, does the water go down. Not usually life-threatening, but major destruction. The wind effects are a roll of the dice - I say 50/50 - either we get hit or we don't. :-)
For heaven's sake, so much psychic trauma up in NC, you may have to round up some Cherokee friends, and smudge the hills and hollows with sage - clear out the trauma. Nice to see the Cajun Navy coming to help as always - you all are such good people. Thanks again for your concern, you're so sweet, you give me cavities.<3
Lol, well I certainly don't want to give you any cavities!! I hate to think I have to reduce my portions so as not to overwhelm you but lol. Who needs teeth anyways 😝.
A lot of people have left here to help in the Carolinas and Tennessee and now people are preparing to go to Florida too. Thankfully right now we have sunny dry weather over here so fingers crossed. I am hoping that the storm weakens a good deal and stays far enough south of you that the impacts are as minimal as possible!! I am trying to focus a lot of my psychic energy on destroying the storm internally. I know that probably sounds crazy but I am. I don't think its completely natural so fighting against a literal weapon but yes we need to fight this with all aspects. And we have to help one another because the regime obviously won't.
You are an agent of Satan…fuck you and your horned master!
wow. I thought about commenting on your inanity earlier. What a waste of time you are.
+1, classic bot action.
I hope you die of covid, pangolin-eater.
I suspect they actually deliberately opened the dams in the area and that that is what caused the MASSIVE amount of water that took out homes, trees, thousands of people, pets, animals, property, etc.
They hate you and they want to kill you.
The federal government and the globalist psychopaths behind it are actually AT WAR against us. They consider us vermin and they mean to exterminate us. That's all you need to know.
Some of us have known that since the pandemic and the vaxx mandates.
But if the response to Helene doesn't make it abundantly clear to a person, that person may be beyond reaching at this point.
I didn't see your comment before I posted mine. I am in total agreement.
You are people are nutz! How much do you spend on Substack subscriptions that make you dumber?? 😂
How I wish you were right—we’re all nuts and everything is truly right with the world.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." ~Frank Zappa
Not only do we not need them, they are the enemy.
They screw up everything they touch. Not only do we not need them, we need not to HAVE any of them anywhere near us.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain
Everything you know is wrong.
The Firesign Theatre
Last week my dear friend John and I had what may have been the last of many years of weekly lunches together. Not for the first time, we had failed to keep every trace of political reference out of our reliably-avid conversation, and John can’t take it any more.
To be clear: I have no problem with vigorous, even strenuous debate, whether with friends or strangers. Having long ago rejected the Official Narrative about our country, I have had no choice but to either call bullshit or have to listen to it. But John, like so many liberals in these times, is a political snowflake – fragile, unique (or so he thinks) and easily threatened with melting.
This time I screwed up by mentioning that the evening before I had seen a clip of the first cabinet meeting held by Joe Biden in the year 2024. Seated at the side of a long table among the cabinet secretaries, he slurred the meeting to order, and immediately turned its management over (illegitimately) to Jill, at the table’s head.
John’s reaction was revealingly twofold: he doubted that what I reported had taken place (as if he couldn’t possibly fact-check it, himself) and interpreted my anecdote as a criticism of the Biden-Harris administration, which is to say an expression of opposition to having Kamala as President.
For those of us who have gradually learned over the course of years or decades that everything we are told is a lie, that the United States is not a Democracy, that those who rule us are unelected and can’t be deposed, these givens are a dismal fact of life, but not a revelation. For people like John, they are an appalling shock that can’t be reconciled with what they think they know about the world. For many, even parting company with old friends is preferable to having their comfortable, if illusory, world shattered.
Before reaching the sad conclusion that we can’t meet for lunch any more, John and I had several exchanges which were revealing. He said that he “can’t figure out what I believe” - which is silly, because every time I have ever tried to tell him what I believe he panics, and doesn’t want to hear it, because it is too threatening. He also insisted that he “is not a Democrat, but an Independent.”
This took me a bit longer to parse, because I already regarded both political parties as poison when I first became eligible to vote, and have been registered as an Independent for over a half century. For much of that time “Independent” was a fair description of my opposition to a succession of rotten presidents, from Nixon and W, to Clinton and Obama.
But the Reds and Blues have gradually coalesced into the Uniparty, necessarily distinguished by embracing different tenets of divisive identity politics, but in comfortable agreement over deficit spending, endless wars, and ever-increasing control of our lives as citizens.
John assiduously studies the mainstream media, believing that he has become “informed” by the likes of the NYT, WaPo, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, etc. As the computer geeks say, “Garbage In/Garbage Out.” If all you know is the narrative parroted in obedient unison by those tools of the Uniparty, you are independent of nothing.
If you had awakened yesterday after a century in suspended animation, and knew nothing of contemporary politics, it would be possible to construct a reasonably accurate worldview from harder-to-find independent media including, of course, James Kunstler’s invaluable blog. But how can an old man hope to have any clue about what the hell is going on, if his mind is already filled with a meticulously crafted false narrative, leaving no room for Truth?
It saddens me that I won’t get to visit with my friend over lunch this week, but our present rift has probably only hastened the inevitable by a month or so. Because if Mr. Trump prevails in next month’s election John won’t want to face reality; and, if we wake up to find that Kamala has been declared President, he damned sure will not want to hear what I have to say.
Thanks for your comment as I am in the exact same situation with some friends and even my adult children.
The saddest thing is that there is no way we an ever win the argument with these deluded fools simply because there is no objective basis, no facts that both sides can rely on to make our points.
If I tell my sister that there are probably 20 million illegals that have been brought in, she simply says that BS, not true. I can cite any number of articles, videos, etc. and she says, nope, all lies.
Same thing with the adult children, now in their 50s when I argue with them about phony man made "climate change." I can provide them with articles from some of the top physicists, engineers, scientists in the world that prove "climate change" is a hoax and CO2 is actually necessary for life on earth, but they say, not that's all bogus, those are not "real" scientists.
And the beat goes on.....
I think it was also Mark Twain who said that it's hard to win an argument with a smart person, impossible to do so with a stupid on.
Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector in the 80's, said that such people were inured to facts, and that no amount of facts would break through the indoctrination, and that they would only see the truth when the boot was to the balls or they were lined up against the wall to be shot.
Wow that is painful to think of. 'Indoctrination' is absolutely the correct word.
Yup 100% correct. Read The Indoctrinated Brain by Dr Michael Nehls. He explains how the covid fear campaign and accompanying forced injections literally rewired many people's brains.
That is the very definition of a demoralized person: they will never change their position based on new information, but will change it immediately on the mere say-so of their “experts,” entirely without critique and often without even realizing their position has changed.
Demoralized? How about insane. Ignorant? Stupid? Gullible? Hide-bound?
Those work well enough as synonyms, except for ignorance which is a different condition and more easily cured. There is hope for the ignorant that doesn’t exist for the demoralized.
Yes. Only when they get kicked on their fat bottom he said.
Perfect description of our college campuses today. Those that run them believe themselves to be safe from the coming massacre because they fancy themselves elitists.
I refuse to discuss anything with them. There isn’t a point to it any longer. Everyone’s minds are made up. I doubt there are many undecided any more. There will be no coming together. Especially now that conservatives are done with giving an inch and liberals taking miles.
Conservatives will continue to invent plenty of creative, clever ways to lose and/or humiliate themselves. Don't worry.
Ryan - Troll - dumb lib. Will learn the hard way
I have a friend who has a friend like that. No amount of facts can get through the indoctrination. At some point, you just have to cut bait and let them wallow in their delusion.
I lost my two "best mates", had 'em for 40 years but the glare from my tinfoil hat drove them crazy 🤷 one is now dead, 2 months after the 1st booster, his son, 17, survived the 2nd jab, in ICU, but no longer can play sport. Heart. My Dad wouldn't hear me, 3 jabs, then he got Convid, sent home from hospital coz "he's old". He lived... 7 more weeks until the turbo cancer got him.
I see dead people.
Holy Crap, I'm so sorry for your position. OMG!
You are describing the life blood of MSNBC and CNN. Stupidity!!!!
The "legacy media" is extraordinarily powerful. Look at the mainstream media of 1930s Germany. They had very, very many Germans enthralled with Nazism. Today we look at those old newsreels and shake our heads.
I'm in the same boat as you. My son is reasonably intelligent except about politics and things that will affect his children, my grandchildren. On almost all issues he's bought into the Leftist pap. There is no reasonable discussion about anything. We practically came to blows last Thanksgiving. Since then, I don't discuss any politics or world view with him. Last I heard, his wife is supporting Kamala because " she's a woman." That moronic shit petrifies me. I'll be dead, as that's where us old dinosaurs are heading. But I worry about the world that my grandchildren will have to navigate after I'm gone. What weird guidance will their parents give them? Will they "wise up" after I'm dead? Here's to wishful thinking....
Dennis- Sad to say, I think it's this way for many of us "old timers" who are conservatives whose adult children have gone to the dark side, aka the DemonRats.
In my case, it is really incomprehensible how my kids (in their 50s) can be the most wonderful parents, citizens, neighbors, sons and daughters, yet be so f***** up when it comes to their political beliefs!
My grandchildren are growing up with way more than their parents had, including a stable family life which ours wasn't due to alcoholism and substance abuse issues.
I am very proud that their parents/ my children grew up to be so stable and productive in spite of everything. So I rack my brain wondering what the hell happened that causes these otherwise smart people to have "Harris/Walz" signs on their lawns??
Signs that I feel like tearing down and stomping on every time I stop by their homes!
By the way, there is one other thing that bothers me even MORE than the political stuff, something that is absolutely tragic, and that is the lack of religion and spirituality in their lives. This is one of my great heartbreaks- that my grandchildren have no idea about God, a Higher Power, a Creator, something greater than we are.
Religion is even more of a forbidden topic than politics and I am reduced to speaking with the grands when we are by ourselves, trying to instill in them the idea that the beauty we see all around us is not an accident, that there is a Creator who presides over all.
At this point I am feeling pretty hopeless because my influence is so insignificant as to be non-existent.
So my best solution has been over the years, to pray for them and ask the Good Lord to watch out for them, take care of them and maybe grant them the wisdom to see the error of their ways.
My grandchildren
Yes, NYNanny, I agree with you 100% wholeheartedly! Sounds like practically a carbon copy of most all that you mention. The religion thing, so true, and it's possibly my fault as maybe I did not my emphasize my thoughts on God and religion enough. But ,as you say, it seems the lone answer, short of a miracle, is prayer.
Dennis- over the years I have tried in my own small ways, to teach my grandchildren about a Higher Power whom I call God.
As we hiked through the beautiful woods I would tell them that what they were seeing is not some accident but the work of a Creator who made all things great and small.
Sad to say that I have been no match for I-phones, TV, the media, etc. so I continue to keep them all in my daily prayers.
It's great you have the opportunity to do that. Unfortunately my eldest grandson is autistic. Communication is a definite challenge. He fixates on things, ever since he was small. We don't connect on most things, lately it's been classic cartoons. He's a very good artist., and I try to encourage that. He's just entering into puberty, which is proving to be a landmine, with the times we live in today. But I take what I can get with him, always hopefully engaging. His younger brother, in my opinion, is possibly on the spectrum, but he's still quite young yet, so I don't know what road that will lead to. Unfortunately God is probability a concept that is completely foreign to them. Possibly, in the future, it may come up, but I just don't know. Thank you for being an inspiration, keep it up, and may God bless you and yours.
NY Nanny
What you said!!!!!
You are a believer that God is the Giver, the entity that provides for us.
I wonder, as the evil pervades DC and the clamoring for power intensifies, have the next generations moved away from God as the provider and now think that the State is the Great Provider. Do they vote as they do because they think they are protecting their access to wealth, the government. I wonder how they will feel when the bill collector comes looking for the 36 trillion in debt their State provider owes and that they will have to pay up? Who will they look up to then?
God? From what I have read, the youngest of us is starting to realize what a joke the government is and are looking for options for their belief system. There is hope.
My sister is the type of person that will argue that the sky isn't blue if I say it is.
She is a Demo-Commie although she's a RINO as far as voter registration.
Talking to her about politics is like putting your head in a blender.
Putting one's head in a blender is sadly very descriptive of how it is to argue with an ideologue.
+1 The day I read in a discrete mathematics book:
"A sentence that is either true or false, but not both, is called a (logical) proposition.",
I had to stop and take a break. That sentence made me realize that almost everything my grandmother and mother had said over the years was opinion masquerading as fact.
This is the M.O. of ideologues. Because of their arbitrary treatment of opinion as fact, there is no basis for logical argument when dealing with them.
"the type of person that will argue that the sky isn't blue if I say it is" This type has always been very common. Start by saying,
"I know you will always object to every assertion I make"
"No, I won't"
🤣🤣🤣
Lost many friends and relationships with family members over this divide. I have had that lunch, too. I will leave it to your imagination to visualize which side had no problem getting ugly in their haste to slink back into the dark
They think of themselves as gentle and open-minded.
"Inclusive" (LOL)....except for all of us who they consider wrong. Ironic, no?
They will be living g in a dark world
I have a friend like that, too. I am going out "leaf peeping" with her tomorrow. It is funny how attracted she is to me at the same time thinking that I am wrong about everything. I find it interesting to see how her understanding of things evolves. Seems as though she just avoids thinking about certain things. I remember being like that myself, so I am not so judgmental. Plus, in her enormous favor, she did not abandon me during Covid. And plenty of people did.
Sorry about your friend.
You are learning the same lesson so many people do, eventually: Liberals and Humans just don't get along. I do not try to reason with these creatures; they lie like others breathe, and "moral relativism" governs their existence, and to them, everything is governed by an "ends justifies the means" mentality. These things honestly believe that lying, murder, corruption, and anything else you can conceive of is A-OK, because it all leads to communist Utopia, and any sacrifice is worthwhile to get there. The fact that such a Utopia doesn't exist, and never has, in all history doesn't matter to them: you see, this time they will get it right. . .
...and these fools also forget that in every case, once the psychopaths attain absolute power, they quickly EXTERMINATE the "useful idiots" who had helped them GET to power.
That's true, but in communist regimes, the people at the very top live lives of wealth, luxury, and power. Think about the folks who run North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela--the dictator, his immediate friends and family, his mistresses, and a handful of others in government live like royalty while their countrymen starve. So, some of the current leftist elites--think Hillary Clinton--expect to live even larger in a communist government than they do in the nominal democracy, what used to be a Democratic Republic, that governs this woke/broke/joke of a country. People can always fool themselves, pretending that "everyone ELSE will end up in a work camp, I will be the dictator's right-hand man".
As I see it, right now US citizens live in a Kleptocracy, we are governed by thieves who use their political positions to line their pockets. An obvious example would be Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez who went from working as a bartender to being worth over 30 million dollars after a few years in Congress. It's hard for me to feel sorry for my fellow citizens, as they are dumb enough to allow this to happen, in a sane country our government would have been forcibly overthrown decades ago, and in the government that replaced it corruption would have been monitored and swiftly punished. Trump, well, he stopped the bleeding, mostly, for 4Y and we had a temporary pause in the ongoing decline of this once-great nation. I support him and hope he wins again, but I think that another brief pause in the decline of the US is about all we can hope for. If Harris cheats her way into power instead, and again cranks up the printing press to devalue our currency, I would not be at all surprised to see a Hyperinflationary Dollar Collapse in the US, immediately followed by the end of civilization here. Think about it: if the Dollar became worthless at 7 a.m. on a busy weekday morning, grocery stores would be looted and burned by 9 a.m. Gun stores, gas stations, and pretty much every store would soon follow. I could see civilization here gone by 3 or 4 in the afternoon in a Dollar Collapse scenario, which I absolutely believe not only could happen, but will happen if we stay on course with print-and-spend.
She’s just the latest in a long line of scum. Pelosi comes to mind. Heck, they are all guilty
Look at Melania. She was great when before she started talking. Now she has revealed herself to be a pro-abort, feminist witch.
I disagree. I think she is quite reasonable. Those like you who think she is a witch are just as bad as the "liberals" or "democrats" you probably rail against. Abortion is not a zero sum thing. You should know this. In some cases it is the absolutely right thing to do. If you can't see those cases then you are indoctrinated.
Well as Trump himself says, she is entitled to her opinion. Also, remember what field she was in before meeting Trump, I would imagine that abortions are wide spread in the modeling profession.
Yeah, it's all just opinions, right John? Let's vote on scientific hypothesises too.
Lugh, the longer I watch the more I realize that emotion and opinion seem to matter more than facts.
And New Zealand welcomes the day.
Liberals and humans, ha! Does that mean that liberals equals Klingons or Romulans.
Perhaps I am an awful person, but I am committed to my own preservation. Most people I see in these comment threads were abandoned or rejected by their leftist friends. I did the opposite: I pre-emptively abandoned THEM.
When a couple friends turned into insane people during Covid, I just dropped them. Mentally ill people scare me, and these people had cracked and gone crazy. After two or three attempts to talk sense to them, I gave up.
When I feel guilty about that, I just remember the advice of Josh Slocum, whose specialty is Cluster B personality disorders. He said to ask yourself: If the country goes full Stalinist, would this person snitch on me to the authorities? If you have to hesitate even a moment before answering, DROP THAT PERSON FROM YOUR LIFE. Immediately and totally.
KATHY S - yes I agree used the same process. Don’t want them as friends - don’t trust them - they would hurt me to stay alive in their fantasy. Sorry - but F them I am too smart too strong and too independent to need those asshats around me.
That is exactly what I told my husband about several of our “friends” during Covid. They would snitch on us in a heartbeat. We still interact with them but are not true friends anymore. We we sad at first, but once we realize they would turn on us, the decision was easy.
Yes, exactly. I likewise cut a slew of people out of my life during the Covid/Vaxx attack. It was clear their critical judgment could no longer be taken seriously, while they were passing judgment on many others.
I can’t be friends with people I don’t respect. I know a lot of people I thought were smart who turned out not to be wise.
The bigger concern is what these fools are going to do, and allow to be done to us, when the next big horror show production gets dropped on us.
Good advice!
It's a combination of cognitive dissonance and what Ayn Rand aptly characterized as a "blank out." And that's the mildest case. Try telling your average shitlib that no nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. It will take them a few momentsnto process what you just said before they explode into paroxisms of spittle-flecked rage, hate and name-calling. Properly speaking, it's a psychotic break.
Reading your descriptive comment, I totally saw in my mind’s eye Keith Olbermann 😜
It's terrible, but I've seen it in my own family. I have a loved one who was a journalist and is still fanatically devoted to media. She spends all her time on internet forums worrying about Russia. When she used to still visit she would try to ask "gotcha" questions (she inevitably brings up politics, I do not) and then would get very angry, "panic" as you insightfully say, and tell me "well I guess I'm just not as smart as you" and then change the subject. She gave up seeing her only living family members in preference for websites like Democratic Underground and never having to hear a contrary opinion. I've tried to bridge the gap but it's a thankless task and it breaks my heart to see loved ones so caught up in anger, panic, know-nothingism. They had a lot to say about Q-Anon people, but these people have been high on their own supply since 2008 and now that it's running out it's getting tragic to see them avoiding a confrontation with themselves. I hope your friend chills out; he's giving up more than lunch, but a priceless connection to a living soul rather than another automaton.
I have thought over and over, WTF is going on here?
My answers, our politics , our beliefs are a big piece of our ego and especially super-ego. An attack on our politics is an attack on the deepest parts of ourselves. Think our where our beliefs come from, everything that affects our lives affects out beliefs. Crises that affect us turn us into Leftists or Rightists. One big one is if we are Haves or Have nots, whether we a winners or losers in the economy. Hidebound Leftists favor the tack that we take from the Haves and fire-distribute to the Have-nots. That violates a basic rule. “Thou Shall not steal.”
Another is access to power. This is a common thing for fence sitters, AKA independents or moderates. They are noted for switching sides depending on who is running things. The Bushes, Cheneys, are famous as well as Tulsi or RFK,Jr. IMHO, we are seeing a resetting of the spectrum location of both parties and a drift away from uniparty. The Deep State hates it and wants to kill the author of one side. Right now, 50% of the country is aligned, like your John, with the Deep State, which is extremist Left and Right. Both want the ascension of the State, everything else is secondary. The other 50% are aligned with folks that want the USA to stay as it was in the 1900s, strong, individualistic, and real. They are MAGA, not GOP. They are aligned with the Moderate right, people that want the State to keep their hands off everything, especially their money. The Deep State’s Prime Directive, thank you Star Trek, is preservation of the Deep State, to the detriment of the local issues, state issues, and most of all individual rights.
Clinton is an ass, now and always. She believes in the supremacy of the Deep State, period. The people be damned.
I wish to God that Trump would bolt on the Republican party and just go independent. Why he hasn't done that shocks me.
I wanna see that video of Hillary killing kids and drinking their blood. Apparently it's on the dark web somewhere, but I don't know how to access that kind of thing.
I fucking HATE, HATE, HATE Hillary Clinton. For too many reasons to list. If vigilante justice ever becomes legal, she is #1 on my hit-list.
No one ever liked HRC! Many Bill Clinton supporters didn’t like her either. A funny 1996 Weekend Update with Norm MacDonald reported that O.J. Simpson was endorsing Bill Clinton for president and that he offered that he would do anything to help him win. At that moment Norm quotes Bill saying, “Well, there is ONE thing…” and up comes HRC’s image on screen, haha. The audience laughter gives a good indication of what an ostensibly liberal audience of 1996 really thought of her. (It’s on yooootube somewhere) And it was justifiably downhill from there
I have wondered the same thing. Maybe because he has more friends in the Party than the big mouth RINOs. The RINOs will eventually leave the GOP as it dies and becomes MAGA.
Respectfully, I think you're a bit too hopeful.
Nothing will bring much more delight than the day a random re() d()t ambles it’s way mercifully onto her forehead.
Nice.
Tee - I wouldn't mind being #1 on your list, but not that one. Anyway, the truth is, we live in a lawless country, Rule of Law is a joke. Look what they - fill in the blank - do so brazenly and with contempt for the law, and for us. I say vigilante justice is legal, and if HRC is ever within arm's reach, it's a good idea to remain vigilant.
I don't speak to my family and friends about political issues on which I know we strongly disagree. I want to keep my connections, and I don't trust people to be either tolerant or mature enough to respect a different perspective. It can get lonely, but at least I am still connected to people I want to remain connected to. Maybe this is self-serving of me? I know more about who they are than they know about me.
Have you ever seen North and South by John Jakes? A really good description of the emotions surrounding the 1850’s as the USA ripped itself apart. It is the story of two families, one in South Carolina and one in Pennsylvania, that were close due to the two leading men who were Army chums during the Mexican War. The war absolutely ripped them apart, but once over they healed. A good description of a Fourth Turning. We are there now as the narratives being discussed here are just another fore warning of what is coming. When spirituality breaks down between people, so do the relationships. When hatred becomes the basis instead of love, here comes CW2.
You have raised an important point: we can't escape knowing who they are, as obedient followers of the Official Narrative. We are obliged to stifle identifying openly with the truth and repudiating their false worldview in order to remain close to them. It's perverse, but true.
"Relationships" where one can't speak one's mind? Junk food for the soul. Values don't matter! Only "connection" with human junk.
Yeah, but when it's family...
I've abandoned friendships, but I can't abandon family. Now if THEY were to abandon ME, that's a different matter. Thanks be to God, they have not done that.
If you cannot let go of family, then quite likely you are not go8ng to survive what is coming. Just sayin’
Well, the two people in question are both elderly, disabled, and frail. CAN NOT do that, just can't.
I’d feel sorrier for you but facing the same issues with my 3 adult daughters and wife of 35 years my sympathies lie mostly with myself.
The truth is a cold comfort on a long and lonely winter night. Hope your acquaintances and mine see the light before the darkness is done.
This explains everything about our friends and relatives. Don't know how to deprogram though
https://rumble.com/v5hsfeq-neuroscientist-explains-why-its-so-hard-to-change-someones-mind.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
The Founders loathed Democracy. We weren't supposed to be a Democracy in other words.
Right, Athens discovered that Democracy was just another form of totalitarianism but that the Mob was the dictator. Today, “Democracy” serves the Leftist side as they manipulate the Mob to their ends. The Mob destroyed Rome. My Late Father-in-Law used to say that a society is doomed when the “Democracy” folks discover they own the purse strings. I believe we are witnessing that right now.
Friends I've parted from - yes indeed, ipso facto.
But finally, at long last, my wife. She's a perfect example of your "[watches] the mainstream media, believing that she has become “informed” by the likes of [for her] the PBS Nightly News.
We knew we were not "on the same page culturally" since our pre-martial counseling, but we lasted for 34 years and two fine boys. As the saying goes, 'strange bedfellows'.
That is terribly sad. If Mr. Trump wins I can be gracious in victory. If Kamala gets in power I will have to prune anyone who willingly forfeits our constitutional rights from my friends list.
Just imagine having to watch that face, that mouth, those teeth and that cackle for four years as she destroys what is left.
Her ads are hideous, they are total lies, I have not seen one particle of truth in any of them. She is trying to pass herself off as a tax cutter, ho, ho , ho. Abortion? Unlimited license for murder. In Arizona, it is the border and abortion, period. Ruben Gallegos is clobbering Lake with abortion and is putting out the Dem line of bullshit about the border. Kamal wins? Who will really be in charge, as she knows nothing.
You know who. Everyone will say it's Soetoro, but it'll be the WEF and its flunkies in the plutocracy, with Jugeared Barry merely acting as their messenger.
"John assiduously studies the mainstream media, believing that he has become “informed” by the likes of the NYT, WaPo, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, etc. " ~ Howard Skillington
The solution is simple with those who claim to have an open mind. All you have to do is "plant a few seeds" that lead them to come to the realization that their sources of information are not providing them with an objective assessment, and therefore are not reliable sources for information.
For example:
Ask him if he is aware of the 2030 Agenda, and that under Joe Biden's leadership "The United States remains committed to accelerating development progress around the world and to fully implementing the ambitious, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)". And if he is not knowledgeable about this, ask his why his news sources have not presented him with this information.
And in the case of Ukraine, try the following format:
As a person with an open mind, I am interested in viewing information which would counter that which I believe substantiates the claim that Putin/Russia did not start the conflict in Ukraine, but is merely representing the citizens of Russia.
This issue has the potential for WWIII. Are you aware of the Minsk agreements, and if not, are you interested in viewing, and countering, a perspective which I feel substantiates my belief?
If they respond in the affirmative, then provide them with a link to your source.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Untold History of the Cold War, CIA Coups Around the World, and COVID's Origin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-3QssVPeg
Jeffrey Sachs the Reality of our Imperial Neocons
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/jeffrey-sachs-the-reality-of-our-imperial-neocons/
If they are not interested in taking the time to review and refute your source of information, then surely they recognize that their incomplete perspective is meaningless, especially if it isn't subject to scrutiny.
2030 is merely a set of goals, not nasty.
"No poverty (SDG 1), Zero hunger (SDG 2), Good health and well-being (SDG 3), Quality education (SDG 4), Gender equality (SDG 5), Clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), Affordable and clean energy (SDG 7), Decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), Industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9), Reduced inequalities (SDG 10), Sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11), Responsible consumption and production (SDG 12), Climate action (SDG 13), Life below water (SDG 14), Life on land (SDG 15), Peace, justice, and strong institutions (SDG 16), and Partnerships for the goals (SDG 17)."
There needs to be an international discussion about the 2030 Agenda.
The problem I have, is with the grifters associated with it's implementation.
fairy stories. Goals are, about by definition - challenges, yet can be visualized as attainable with focused effort. All those listed, I'm sure many would agree with.
The amount of money, and the effort and focus necessary to even begin to implement any of it, tells me one thing for certain...
Never gonna happen. Too many fucking humans involved.
Your suggestions are generous and sound, but John and others know that they can evade both evidence and reason with a lazy declaration of "I don't believe it." If I had coercive power over them I could require that they read your suggested list, or my own, and confront them with a mountain of evidence and documentation, but I have no such control and, in the end, the friendship is a casualty.
A relationship with a person with a closed mind is like trying to dance on the head of a pin. It's not worth it.
Whether it be the president of the United States of America, members of his cabinet, your family, or your friends, if they are not interested in having a congenial discussion with you about anything, aren't they telling you that they don't respect your opinion, and ultimately that they don't respect you?
Given such circumstances, is it worth your time to invest in that relationship?
I say, toss the "seeds" out there, and if they take root, you can avail yourself if they ever come around.
As for a president, isn't a primary task of good leadership to stand for scrutiny and explain to the population that which you are doing and why you are doing it?
There is a stark difference between the current options, and if this represents the population at large, then it suggests that the current system is played out. But, why would anyone want a deceitful/incompetent administration to preside over the implementation of a new format for life?
Well put, and I heartily concur. You evoke a better world than the one in which we live.
I’m one of those descendants you speak of, and pissed off doesn’t begin to describe it. What amazes me more than anything is how little anger there is on the lib side iabout the lack of money and transformers to help those people as it was all sent to Ukraine and Israel. Great writing as usual Jim!
Where are you descended from? I'm from Johnson County, TN people and proud of it. I once had a woman (girl, really, as she was clearly a snot) say to me, "I bet you hate having that history" after I mentioned my forebears. I set her straight right away.
Most recently, mid-19th century my folks were in Maury County. That was where my great-grandfather was born and raised. He's the fella who took my branch to Texas.
I can guarantee there'd be a whole lot of anger and outrage if the hurricane victims were people of color, but since most are white, and Republican voters, hence the apathy.
I believe you Jim, and by the way I'm a big fan of yours, but I had to check and Holy Tofurky, seems it's true, Mayorkas was mega-dolt enough to be seen out shopping (in Georgetown, no less) at this moment:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/dhs-sec-mayorkas-shops-for-high-end-menswear-as-mass-power-outages-continue-in-north-carolina/
But why am I surprised? Guess I just need some more coffee.
It's in-your-face contempt, is what it is.
Absolutely. Why do you think Harris put out that tweet about having just given another $157M to Lebanon - to displaced people for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, and sanitation. If they can taunt people to the point that they cause an "uprising" - then it's martial law no election.
Think about the ludicrousness of that. In one breath she says he supports Israel. and the next she is sending money to Lebanon. I am really sure they are going to spend it on the people.
Fund both sides and watch the fireworks.
Think what she is saying. She is going to send some petty cash to Lebanon to assuage her Mid-west Muslim voters. All it will do is provide more targets for Israel.
Yep. Archbishop Vigano had this figured out way back. He wrote Trump two letters about it. Basically he said that the powers that be were convinced of their control and had decided to come out in the open about their intentions.
Sure does look like it.
He hates white, heterosexual, Christians. That is obvious,
This fecal-encrusted Bolshevik faggot needs staked to an ant mound—STAT.
I like a more kinetic approach. .22 long rifle, hollow point bullets starting at the feet, and then working on up from there. Avoiding any fatal shots as long as possible of course. I'm just joking of course (Disclaimer).
If he'd wanted to give that impression I'd say he's doing a bang-up job.
During the early days of the slaughter in Gaza, they opened up a new Holocaust museum in Europe.
Sorry, but I can't help but LOL about that. So typical.
No, they do not.
If you geolocate all the people that have shown up to the Harris rallies one would find that almost all of the attendees are the same people. That is: paid shills. it’s ironic that the people who showed up to the one or two Biden rallies 4 years earlier and sat in crop circles, were probably more legitimate.
If Harris is installed, I suspect that the future former Americans left in this country despondent and disturbed, will take their anger out on multiple segments of the population, such as journalists, Tech strongholds, Democratic down slate politicians, university professors, and individuals who support this cluster fuck. It did not work out well for Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette or Mussolini.
There is no doubt- if President Trump loses it's for one reason- CHEATING.
He isn’t. The last thing the media cannot control is the vote. They try with biased polls, but each individual votes their beliefs. The cheaters in the mail system, the election judges are a different story. The You Tube poll averages and the parties themselves are reacting in October as though there is a Trump landslide imminent. Hope so!!
Sorry to break your bubble but you probably are not aware of the massive amount of cheating that is already in place. Here's a link to a tech guy and his team- Stop Bogus Ballots- that have laid out one way the DemonRats are trying to STEAL this election via bogus ballots.
https://open.substack.com/pub/omega4america/p/2024-is-decided-on-january-20-trump?r=e49v3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://open.substack.com/pub/omega4america/p/how-trump-stops-a-contested-election?r=e49v3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
What I can’t figure out is why if the Republicans know the Democrats are stealing the election every year they just don’t play the same games and print a massive amount of fake ballots? in this scenario, we would see about 1 billion votes cast. Ironically, the Legacy media would not even question the vote total.
The key here is that cheating beyond a certain % difference becomes detectable, such as number of votes becoming bigger than the number of registered voters. Allegations of this were examined in 2020 and thrown out quickly by Deep State judges, nationwide.
"such as number of votes becoming bigger than the number of registered voters. " That happened in more than one place in 2020. Nothing substantial has been done about that. It will happen again. Dems will win by 500,000,000 votes - or whatever it takes.
Until the republicans are as proactive in cheating and can then get voter id and secret voting then they will lose forever
"The last thing the media cannot control is the vote."
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Don't need to, although it would be nice for them if the vote actually resulted in the outcome they wanted. In any event same outcome.
"Those who cast the votes mean nothing. Those who count the votes mean everything" ~Josef Stalin.
Rasmussen proves this, yes
"crop circles".....LMFAO!!!
We can only hope.
Response to Mark
Thanks, Jim, for this eloquent manifesto. And thanks for the heads up about the possible coming of--surprise--WWIII in the Middle East.
I am posting here a statement I just entered on the Forbidden News substack.
Thank you for your outstanding reporting on the catastrophe in the Appalachians.
As I explained and documented in my book, "Our Country, Then and Now," the federal government is engaged in a long-term genocide against our own population. My book provides a narrative of how things got so bad over out long history. Please check it out here. It is essential that people have a historical sense of what is going on.
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Country-Then-Richard-Cook/dp/1949762858
Next, I recently published a shorter update as a Global Research eBook entitled "World War III Is 'On' But the Empire Has Already Lost. An American Civil War Looms. Spiritual Transformation Is the Only Way to Prevent Extinction."
We are now in the American Civil War II. Again, it is essential for people to gain a historical sense, particularly the fact that the Democratic Party has always been the agency for big global finance while the Republicans are historically the agency for indigenous American values. Here is the link for the free download:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-is-on-but-the-empire-has-already-lost-an-american-civil-war-looms-spiritual-transformation-is-the-only-way-to-prevent-extinction/5868285
Finally, it is time--past time--for every U.S. citizen to become a "survivalist." Granted this is a big topic, but it starts with food security and sovereignty for not just individuals and families, but whole communities. Every U.S. country has an emergency preparedness program. It is time for citizens to take control of those programs through their own organizing and efforts. It is our government. We must work at the local level to assure they work for us, not the globalist oligarchs who run the Democratic Party.
Thank you.
Richard C. Cook
I bought your book.
Look good. Much of it seems to be in line with White Nationalist thinking. No doubt he shies away from saying that we have the right to exist I imagine.
Just ordered your book sir.
*typo RCC, EEery U.S. country - COUNTY*
Such a great column today Jim! I happen to live one county upstream from Buncomb in a river valley that is the headwaters of the French Broad River. This is an area where tourism and outdoor adventure are the main industries and where the population is an interesting overlay of wealthy mostly liberal corporate executive retirees and the native Scotch Irish who are decidedly Christian and politically conservative. The local natives tend to reside more out in the county whereas the retirees concentrate in the neighborhoods surrounding our small downtown (though they’re also out in the county and up on the high vistas in their native built beautifully appointed abodes). This division is clearly depicted in where you find which political signs. Out in the county among the natives it is all Trump but in the downtown area it’s Harris/Walz all the way. The political and cultural dichotomy in our town of 7500 (33,000 in the entire 381 square mile county) has been mostly a peaceful reality but with the events unfolding in the days following the hurricane I’m definitely sensing the growing possibility of increased friction between these two groups, especially as a growing awareness sets in of the Federal Government’s flagrant ineptitude for responding to the disaster.
From what I see in the normie haunts (FB especially) and comment threads, there is now a concerted effort by the left to counter all the true accounts of FEMA/gov't absence, ineptitude and threats.
FB reels are sprinkled with nonsense videos that prove nothing. Just yesterday I came across one that was a 180 degree pan of a tanker truck refueling an Osprey. That's it. No people, no information. Nice pristine local airport, with no damage. I checked it out and the thing was filmed at Mountain Empire Airport, right off I-81 in Virginia. 250 miles from ground zero.
On a comment thread, anyone anti-Trump will deny the FEMA stories. Despite countless video testimonials to the contrary. Karens and beta men are what they are.
Bot, troll and rage baiting percentage of commentary has ramped to the sky. Somebody is worried
I bet this clusterfuck will change the Liberals' politics amazingly. They'll join their rural neighbors in voting for Trump/Vance.
I’d like to think so too and I’m sure a certain percentage of voters will begin to wake up. The brainwashing has a powerful effect on at least a third of the population however who will not budge. These are the people whose whole identities are centered on their hatred of Trump and they wear it as a badge of honor.
This is the whole enchilada. They can put up all the yard signs they want saying "Harris/Walz" but they are not for Harris/Walz - they are just against Trump. They don't even know who Kamala Harris is.
The hell it will! They'll blame Trump and his "Trumptards" for the disaster because they don't follow the climate narrative like sheep, and are helping one another recover despite FEMA's incompetence instead of waiting for The Great BIPOC Mother ( formerly The Great White Father) to rescue them. As David Axelrod said, the educated, wise, affluent liberals will vote just fine, but them thar hicks in dem woods an' hills are gonna have trouble votin'! Since lefties really don't give a rat's ass about anyone else, the government's response to Helene seems fine to them.
Nick - thanks for the comment. I'm very familiar with that area. Run them the F out. They are like a cancer. Tell them the French Broad River don't go to Aintry :-)
Used to be that "Southern Hospitality" was a badge of honor for us - a source of pride - welcoming and helping any and all. A shame, but time to become a little less hospitable.
~ A Fifth Generation Florida Native
Mayorkas is a real piece of work. A creep of the lowest order. A scum apparatchik. I don't have words enough to describe his total lack of morals, insight, and decency. Yeah, Hillary, let's find out what we, the "deplorables", are made of. And don't get me started on the "media". Don't we need a new word for these party-mad propagandists?
How does it happen that Mayorkas, one scummy apparatchik, ends up running FEMA, the border AND the Secret Service. Hmmm. The blob oozes like black goo.
One word. Possession.
Hebrew International Aid Society https://hias.org/
That is where he came from, lurking down in Panama organizing caravans of invaders to come up here. I don't think Biden tracked him down on his own. Why would a pos dual-citizen like Mayorkas be head of Homeland Security? There are no badass ex-special ops, 20-year law enforcement, Border Patrol, or Interpol veterans to do such a job?
Anyway, ammo up because we are screwed and there is no reason to go down without taking a few deserving ones along to hell.
Saruman agitating both the Orcs and Hill Men to attack Minas Tirith.
He's part of the Tribe. destruction of the U.S. is the goal.
Presstitutes.
I would never say that they're plum out of tricks. It seems too confident to me. DC employs an awful lot of people
An awful lot of AWFUL people too, Rich
And that too
Even more surprising than the failing efforts of the Would-Be Masters of the Universe is their inability to accept the possibility of defeat. If there were any realists in their ranks, they would have been a little more mature and thorough in their planning, including a way out. Several ways out. They burnt all their bridges long ago. Where would Hillary flee, for example...Haiti? They are destroying the peaceful, prosperous US with immigration....where will they go when it's gone? New Zealand is too easily starved out, even with bunkers full of everlasting dried food. And what kind of medical staff would put up with that kind of life? The servants and minions would take them out. Robots are notoriously useless, if their programming needs tweaking, who will do it?
Their political machinations do not rise above the level of cranky two-ear-olds. The sense of entitlement, their superiority over all the rest of the US and the world, their arrogance, reminds me of the Age of Kings. Several attempts, and no permanent success.
I am also surprised that there isn't any back-stabbing going on, any factionalism. It takes a lot of money to keep so many fools so quiet. There's a real lack of talent and no evidence of debate among them. One chief to rule them all? Who is this chief? Either the Rockefellers have been subtle, or the leadership is concealing from its party faithful the extent of the trap they are walking into.
It's a great time to live for history buffs. The rest of us, not so great.
Why do these people never have to flee in helicopters with money trailing across the runway? It really makes me question the American character. Even unarmed Sri Lankans made their president flee then rooted through his underwear drawer before burning down his house. What the hell is wrong with us?
Well Doc, I'll have a go at it. America has been blessed, and that has become, in the course of human events, a curse. We have not suffered like your Sri Lankans, or the noble Russians, or the Eastern Europeans, or even yes the Iranians. And I could go on.
I fear for my country because we don't know what suffering is. We made it thru the Great Depression without having to truly suffer like other folks have. Or the Civil War. Et cetera. We haven't been shaken to our core.
I do believe sir, that our time has come. We'll see what it produces in our fellow Americans. Or rather others will. I will most likely not be here - thanks be to the Holy Spirit.
I wish everyone well.
People don't agitate violently for change until there is no food to buy. As long as the just in time supply system limps along they shrug and say $15 dollar burger and fries or $6 for a loaf of wonder bread or cheesy doodles is fine.
De Tocqueville: America is great because America is good.
Is abortion good?
Blessed? We took this continent by fire and sword. We believed in ourselves. Now we want to give it back to stone age people from the far corners of the world.
Over and over, sexual immorality is the number one sin in God’s eye and the sin He will walk away from, in societies, removing His protection. LBGTQ+ and the prevalence of birth control abortion both are indicators of our society’s drive into sexual immorality. Both are successful attempts by the Evil One to convince people that both things are righteous. I believe the catastrophes we are starting to see may be the result of God walking away. I wonder who He is considering to support next?
If societies become lost, Think S&G, God does not walk away, He destroys.
Sexual immorality is an outgrowth of arrogance, as well as lying -- to oneself, and to others. "I don't have to follow the rules because I'm great! I have trophies and people telling me that I'm great! You should want me to bang you so that you can say you were with the greatest lay on Earth!" And people buy the bullshit -- not all of them, but enough of them for it to matter, so that the society is changed such that increasing numbers of narcissists prowl around for dumb, impressionable, and willing people who'll let themselves be screwed, just so they can say they had the experience. These are the ones held up as role models, while the people who don't do that, or who learn from their mistakes are pilloried and ruined for their non-compliance.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. In a nutshell
"Good times create weak men"
And here we are.
Truer words never spoken.
So what to do? Hmm, vote? Lets hope.
If that doesn't work then there's always the guillotine.
Get ready for the alternatives America, it may not be pretty.
It's One Ring to rule them all. And that Ring belongs to Satan Himself.
Concur
This article should be on the front page of the New York Times (like that’s gonna happen).
Less a claque than a coven of witch-biotches (beta males included). Why doesn’t that horrible old crone die already. I guess Satan takes care of his own
God is saving these people for the really horrible things coming our way, since those in leadership positions suffer worse punishment than the average bear.
I've speculated, but only to myself and my wife, that Obama and his Stooges actually running the government want a big war before the election. Why? Americans tend to keep the same leadership during wartime. It could be the Kenyan's only shot at a shadow fourth term
They want WWIII so bad they're salivating for it.
Makes lots of $, destroys an entire generation of young people (replaced) and gives them control over what's left of the population.
LOVE your command of the English language! I crack up with every column. I've said for years that every nation has a life span and then falls to the thirst for power and control. Thereafter, a nation either resists or succumbs, and it's people from places no one knows exist. You're right about those NC/TN mountain people, from whom I am proud to have descended. I can trace my mother's side (the only one that counts) back to 1815, in Johnson County, TN before the records disappear. They are fierce people - although you'd never know it by looking at them, talking to them, being around 'em. But when it counts. . . . I saw a video of a young woman from there, and her message was, "Kamala/FEMA: stay at home. We don't need you. Shove your $750. We take care of our own." And they will. And what you wanna bet they find a way to vote? I wouldn't take that bet.
Happy to have you as a long-lost cousin Te Burt. I have traced my father's family straight back to Antrim County, Ireland. I'm the 10th Generation here in America, by eldest son to eldest son. Yours faithfully, Frank Gibson Breckenridge III.
That's incredible. Welcome, cuz!
We Breckenridge men tend to produce sons. I have two, and my two boys have one each!
I was born in Asheville NC in a house just a little uphill from Biltmore Village and a short drive from the lovely Biltmore House. I claim Appalachian heritage, even though my parents were a Yankee and an Okie. I'm proud to be "half horse, half alligator"!!!
I live in East TN now, outside the area of destruction, but close enough to know people who are affected. The Appalachian Trail, which my husband and I have hiked, follows the state line through the worst hit areas. We walked across several of those bridges that aren't there anymore. We drew water from creeks that are now full of debris. We walked the footpath that our hillbilly and native American cousins established, climbed their mountains, and sang their songs. We love Dolly, and she loves us.
Today is October 7. It's been a year since the butchery of Hamas. Four weeks and a day till the election. So much has happened, and still could happen.
Israel friendly-fired most of those Israelis killed in the initial attack by Hamas. It's been conveniently forgotten......
According to Haaretz stories shortly after 10/7/23, IDF sentries along the Gaza fence repeatedly reported on a lot of practice exercises going on out in the empty fields inside the fence, and ramping up with simulated live fire and explosives going into October. They were ignored by superiors. It was Israel's 911 alright...
And Asheville flooding has happened before and will happen again. Just increased population and media coverage. Unfortunately we live in an age of weather porn and biased reporting.
See https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/02/no-media-hurricane-helene-was-not-worsened-by-climate-change/
The butchery of proxy Hamas and its Silent Partner, the U.S. government.
Hamas is a political party established in the 1990s to counter the PLO and hamper possibilities for a 2-state solution. Established with the full moral and financial support of the Israeli government and others, including our government that celebrated the advent a new Palestinian two-party system with real "democratic" elections. This is fully known by everyone who was reading the papers or listening to the news back then. Until Hamas got elected. Then there was some sniveling on the US side. The Zionists always knew where this was going.
50% of Hamas members were probably IDF/Mossad anyway. There is no indigenous Arab Islamic resistance organization anywhere that is not penetrated by Israeli intelligence. This is a simple fact of life. For a fun rabbit hole, search "Ben Gurion Canal". They got plans for the Gaza area, it is not just about the massive offshore gas fields.
Yes, many Jews have converted to Islam over the ages.
Gaza is Israel's Vietnam. Lebanon will be their Waterloo.
Dream on , little dreamers, dream on.
Yes.
This is incredible writing and quite inspirational Mr. K. Thank you.
"The Party of Chaos has managed to piss-off the most ferocious demographic in the land, the wild and cross-grained Scotch-Irish who populate those devastated hills and hollows of Western Carolina and East Tennessee, the people who, for generations, were first to volunteer to fight in America’s wars, the Sargent Yorks, the moonshiners and the stock car heroes, the Johnson Boys, Boones and Crocketts, Hatfields and McCoys, the very warp and woof of our folklore, half horse and half alligator, born fighting. And now you and your gang of wine-club harpies, Beltway mezzofinukes, Hollywood Satan-conjurors, Hamptons charity-hags, globe-trotting errand boys, color revolution maestros, race hustlers, drag queens, lawfare shysters, spooks, cut-outs, beach friends, and grifters has gone and pissed these folks off royally."
Too bad that they are so hopelessly unaware. Too bad for them that is
Are they still racist? That may save them when the Feds start bringing in immigrant soldiers to blend them out.