Despite Putin’s (IMO) tongue-n-cheek “endorsement” of Kackala, I’ve been somewhat amazed at his patience w/ the West & can’t help but wonder if he’s holding out & hoping for a Trump victory to return sanity to this pathetic country. I’m betting if Kneepads “wins”, the nucs might start flying.
We should be saying a prayer of thanks that the Russians are a steadfast, patient, people who, even with all his flaws, follow their leader (and understand what happens when they don't).
Makes me think what a perfect description "the blob" is for the U.S.A. "The Blob" functions as a "den of thieves." I agree with you that the Kamala endorsement by Putin was "a chess move" by a very savvy man.
When Putin says something that makes me laugh out loud like commenting on Kamala's laugh or the look on his face when Hillary Clinton hands him a "reset button" with a bad translation on it, I instinctively know the man is, shall we say, multi-faceted. Jokes/humor can be a very complex way of communicating A Lot.
The insanity that prevails means that "we" have no interest in doing diplomacy with Russia, and the Russians are so beyond the pale that we have no interest in anything Russian. That's a new level of suicidal arrogance.
The Russians...with their capacity to be enthusiastic consumers of Mexican Novelas (soap operas) and know blue jeans are cool...it just amplifies even more that the "den of thieves" (in Washington DC) will do anything to save their own necks.
I am out here in the greater U.S. (outside the DC area) wearing blue jeans and watching Mexican Novelas (high quality productions, most of them And they end! They don't get moldy like "General Hospital" or "Days of Our Lives").
Putin is just waiting for the USA to ‘flame out’ and self destruct. He is watching from afar and he knows how totally f**ked up the USA is now, especially as it is being presently ‘governed’ by the current Ghost President JB and his minions who are pulling the strings behind the curtain.
Putin is not stupid. He wants a position on the world stage. WWII is not to his advantage any more that it is to our advantage.
The cold war is over except in the twisted minds of neo-cons. Economic cooperation benefits both Russia and the US. Only Trump gets this. He will "make a deal".
Now the russian government and the russian people are hostile to western countries. And NATO has pushed Russia and China, who are not the most natural allies, into one another's arms.
I don't think the Russian people are any more hostile to Americans than we are hostile to them. This is betweems governments , not between citizens. Citizens of Russia and the US are against WAR. WAR kills innocent citizens. How many politicians does it kill?
MY NEXTDOOR NEIGHBOR IS RUSSIAN, AND GREW UP WITH PUTIN. HE SAYS HE'S A GREAT GUY. A FAIR LEADER, AND A SANE AND RATIONAL MAN. I BELIEVE HIM. MY OWN HERITAGE IS HALF RUSSIAN. ZELENSKY ON THE OTHER HAND, IS THE POOREST EXCUSE FOR A MALE I'VE EVER SEEN.
THE MAN COULD WIPE US OFF THE MAP, IF HE CHOSE. FRANKLY, I'D LIKE HIM TO USE OUR CAPITAL AS TARGET PRACTICE... BUT ONLY WHEN THE DEM'S ARE IN SESSION. :~)
I believe the only redeeming quality that Putin mentioned about Kamala was, "she has an infectious laugh". And that makes me laugh. We can't read his mind, but I agree... it more than likely was tongue-n-cheek.
To me, that comment was how I knew he was kidding. She has been absolutely reviled for that kackle. And he also said that he had hoped Biden would win but “of course” would take Biden’s recommendation now to support Harris 😂
Two thoughts:
How do DemoncRATs go w/ the Russia!Russia!Russia! narrative now that Putin has “endorsed” her AND Zelenskyy has too?! It’s hilarious.
I think even dictators (@ least some of them - Middle East excluded) like & want world stability & sanity too
At one high level meeting in Europe on Ukraine, she was high as a kite. Probably pills as well as alcohol. Not so much cackles this time as uncontrolled giggles. Charming at a junior high dance perhaps. The people in the room were dumbfounded.
Zioctratic, a new word for me . Thanks >striketheroot < . How about strike the rot but I do see the point of being radical. I am one of the few New Zealanders who think that our ountry can only be saved by a societal revolution. Our leaders are invariably now puppets to the UN and NWO.,
A FORMER CLIENT OF MINE REFERRED TO HIS BORDERLINE DISORDERED EX, AS "THE STAIN." I FIND THIS DESCRIPTOR TO BE A PERFECT FIT FOR KAMALA. :~) SHE IS INDEED, A NASTY STAIN ON OUR REPUBLIC AND ON DEMOCRACY.
UGH. IVE ALWAYS LIKED TUCKER AND RESPECTED HIM... BUT THAT SILLY, HIGH-PITCHED LAUGH IS OFTEN POORLY PLACED, DISRUPTIVE TO HIS GUESTS ON INTERVIEWS, AND I WISH HE'D EXERCISE A BIT OF IMPULSE CONTROL OVER IT. FRANKLY, IT PUTS ME OFF THESE DAYS.
It's unfortunate that you interpreted a helpful commenting tip as an act of control. I was under the impression it was an unintended format but now realize all caps was part of your communication style within the moment.
KAMALA'S "LAUGH" DOESN'T STRIKE ME AS "INFECTIOUS." SHE HAS NO CONFIDENCE, AND LAUGHS WHEN SHE CAN'T ANSWER A DIRECT QUESTION. IT'S A DEFLECTION TECHNIQUE, I'M SURE SHE LEARNED AS A LITTLE GIRL, AND NEVER OUTGREW. IN SHORT, IT'S A NERVOUS LAUGH, WHICH SHE HOPES WILL HELP HER APPEAR "JOYFUL," WHEN IN REALITY, WE'RE SEEING HER AS A BIMBO.
Cindi, I do not classify what Putin is NOT DOING as patience, as much as I believe he is a man well-versed in history and that he is NOT Insane. He has no desire for “history” to remember him as the man who burnt the entire western world into an ashtray (as JHK has described); but, more importantly, he is not batshit-crazy, as most of his world-opponents are CATEGORICALLY BATSHIT-EPHEN-CRAZY…!
No nukes are going to fly. They're only used for fear. Russia has plenty of conventional/asymmetric/attritional/economic/digital warfare 'friends' and capabilities if things get gnarly/gnarlier.
Kinzhal hypersonic missiles fly at 7600 MPH. There is no air defense that can stop them. Putin unleashed 7 of them simultaneously during the SMO in Ukraine. The unspoken message - for those too dense to understand - is that he could reduce US Aircraft Carrier Groups worldwide, from 11 to 4, in about 15 minutes.
Well those are my chips for the pile, Ron. I wager no nukes.
Israel may have squeezed in a low-yield/harder-to-detect tactical one or more though, like in Lebanon.
My bet could be off but, AFAIK, US is developing similar and, in any case, it, along with its allies, probably already have many nuke launchers at the ready as close to all around Russia as they can get them, even if/where Cuba's/Venezuela's preloaded.
Asymmetry/Attrition makes more sense. Hence the pagers for example, and a perfect example. And picking off leaders like popcorn. Nothing like sous-leaders going up the ranks to make warfare even more guerrilla.
Oh, and Russia seems kind of downwind... although maybe watch out for any suspicious balloons over the Eastern Pacific with who-knows-what payloads. ;)
Where are you located? Maybe some of those Kinzhals can be retrofitted to deliver Russian cuisine overseas at a moment's notice-- fresh and still piping-hot.
Zazzy - I agree with you on the asymmetrical - always have. Think Viet Cong and the Mujahideen - unbreakable will - neither defeated in their own lands. The pager thing was definitely asymmetrical, but no better definition of terrorism.
I'm down with asymmetrical warfare, given that's it's enemy combatants. The pagers - from memory, 2700 wounded and 50 dead - was pure terrorism, meant to maim, dismember and terrorize, striking fear into the population.
The will to survive is one thing, the will to terrorize is another thing entirely.
I prefer Italian. If Italy could upgrade their technology, now you're talkin' - beats Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee.
Since the start, Israel certainly seems to have been challenging distinctions between terrorism, war, freedom-fighting, enemy combat and innocent civilian, ay? I wonder if all wars are like that. And what is ID politics if not calling oneself an Israeli, Russian or American and/or being called that by the State players, themselves?
'Oh, I'm an American too? Gee, thanks... I guess... Never really thought of myself that way... You now want me to what? Fight for 'my' country? Really? When? Now? You coming? No? Why not? Because you're a politician? Really? That's your reason? Oh, now you say that it's because you're the leader? Ok well then you go first... in the wars you started. Lead yourselves into battle. Myself, I'm going to get Ron to order a lasagna or something for me and hang out over here. Good luck!'
And how about this quote for a dovetail:
“ 'As shocking as it may sound, the institution of the State itself is the real enemy. It’s time to carefully analyze your relation to it.' — Doug Casey "
~ JHK
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Just after I wrote the previous, I realized that I have little idea about Russian cuisine. How about you? What will you be ordering from Italy?
I'M THINKIN, PUTIN "ENDORSED" KAMALA, TO LEAVE A PERMANENT STAIN ON HER CAMPAIGN. I MEAN, WHAT DOES IT SAY, WHEN THE ENEMY OF ONE'S COUNTRY YOU'RE SENDING BILLIONS TO, ACTS LIKE THEY'RE YOUR FRIEND? LOL... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.
The Democrats’ claim that “Democracy is at stake” in this election is the most vivid demonstration that I have ever seen of the principle that the best defense is a good offense.
The donkeys don’t seem to remember that Mr. Trump was already president for four years during which “democracy” – such as it is in twenty-first century America – survived. Or the glaring fact that we have more recently experienced proof of concept of US totalitarianism during Biden-Fauci’s Covid lock-down.
Remember when it was illegal for you to spend Christmas with your extended family, or visit your dying grandmother in the hospital, were required to shutter your small business, and pretend that putting a piece of cloth over your mouth and standing six feet apart would protect us from a pandemic that had no connection with the Gain-of-Function lab in Wuhan? That was American Totalitarianism 1.0, and the Democrats apparently didn’t notice.
And now we have would-be dowager Empress Hillary declaring that we should be put in prison is we say anything that does not conform to the Official Narrative?
That is how Harris/Walz would save democracy for us – if we let them.
I must reluctantly point out that the lockdowns started while Trump was still president, so I'm not sure I'd label them "the Biden-Fauci lockdowns." I hope Trump learned something from all his 2020 mistakes.
Your memory is flawed. Trump insisted that the states set up their own restriction as they saw it, he did not restrict anybody. Some states, NY for the biggest, dumped all over their people. Then Cuomo was promoted by the MSM as a Latter Day Saint until it was figured out he committed murder with the elderly. In the meantime, DeSantis (Florida) and Texas told the controllers to go to hell. I watched the Johns Hopkins data base and there was no difference between the “controlled” states and the “open” states on deaths or incidence. Trump was not involved excepting giving resources as best he could to the state folks when requested. Hospital ships, wartime corporate conversions to make respirators and PPE for the hospital staffs, new hospitals in NYC. It is ironic that very few of the Trump “donations” were ever used. NY and NYC are extremely gross examples of the idiocy of the Blue mind during a crisis. The Biden-Fauci lockdowns that happened were Blue state level after Trump was gone. Blue Feds lined up with blue states are a disaster.
I do agree with you that any reaction by the federal government to Covid was horrible and fear driven in 2020 and 2021. You have obviously forgotten who was in charge early in 2020 while Trump was fighting the House. Pence was given the job and he flubbed it, allowing the Meditechs to take over. If you must point your finger, start with Pence, Fauci, Birx, the NIH, Cuomo and his press in NYC, the FDA (Ivermectin) and the vaxx, and the CDC. Trump was in charge of it all and deferred to the “scientific” community and the states to do the right things. He was wrong to trust anyone as the entire group was aiming at getting rid of him in November.
Yep, as far as my recollection it was states and cities that did the lockdown BS, yes the feds gave guidance and did the same with their facilities etc, but primarily it was overzealous local and state govenment bureaucrats who jumped on the bandwagon for being tyrants.
JMHO
DJT should trust NO ONE from the establishment, if i were he i would have kicked the SS to the curb and set up my own security and intelligence detail and would be pulling leadership from the private sector from amongst the construction and development sphere
He is deeply flawed. His bark is far worse than his bite. He's pretty timid for the most part. But very strong on defense when it comes to his own person. If he could only put that strength at the service of the nation!
You just keep ignoring that the resident has little actual power, although they are trying to steal that power from the Congress with every EO they sign.
If Trump was unfettered by the DC politics, what do you think he would do to stop the socialization of the country?
They have very effectively been stealing power due to Congress' failure to guard its own legislative prerogative. Gold and silver are the only constitutional money, and yet Congress did nothing when FDR issued an EO in 1933 immediately after taking office,(and, ironically, as one plank in the DNC campaign was a pledge of support for the gold standard) ordering Americans to turn in their gold in exchange for fiat. Congress also reserves the right under the Constitution to debate whether we become involved in war, to declare war, and to authorize payment for same, but we have been committed to one undeclared war after another since WWII, with the War Powers Act, the Patriot Act, and much more yielding power to the President as a dictator,
I do remember that Bill, but in context. Trump's initial instincts were sound: treat Covid proactively with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, focus on protecting high-risk populations, and achieve herd immunity among the young and vigorous. The President was then attacked by Fauci and Big Pharma, who were pushing The Jab, and fifty million Democrats piled on, sensing blood in the political water. I don't believe Trump would have gone that route if had not been railroaded, and I think he would stick by his guns when the next designer virus is released.
It means the Democratic party! In any case, the Founders LOATHED Democracy as the lowest form of government, one that leads directly to tyranny as Plato said.
Democrats are anti-democracy. They use every mechanism possible to centralize power, to remove power from the people, to set up a nanny state in which they will control everything.
Democracy in the Democratic Party is a joke, a sick joke.
Misinformation censorship, media control (check out Apple+ News for this), election cheating, Covid management, war mongering, DOJ malfeasance, ignoring elections to hold a coup inside the party with Biden, open border, bullshit Soros driven judges and DAs targeting MAGA folks, esp. Trump, oligarchic control by the “Council” taking over the executive branch, Shoving a total incompetent down our throats that has “0” executive experience.
Remember when we were saying that Carter loved Biden because he was no longer the worst president in history? Well, that record may be broken again if we vote Harris into office. Biden may get de-throned as the worst very quickly.
A story in Apple+, a Lib rag, this morning has Carville saying that autocracy is needed in the campaign to ensure that democracy happens after the election.
??????????? He is as insane as the rest of the Leftist horde.
I am sure we will have a Leftist socialist power hungry Democratic Party that will give up power after a win in the election.
I police the comments section lightly as a general rule, but I have suspended "Fast Eddy" for one week because he is a disruptive troll. If he returns and disrupts the joint again, he'll be kicked out for good. Other trolls, take note.
" I police the comments section lightly as a general rule... "
I think that is true.
Unfortunately it is also true that the few bans I have seen here totally mystified me.
I'm leery of psychology, but perhaps there is some slight validity in the autism - thing because clearly 58 years consistent experience is certain nuances clearly simply don't register with me.
So if that hint should happen to include me , Don't hint.
Just say so , and I'll leave of my own accord anyway , because like being a voracious smoker , and swilling coffee by the gallon , I'm just not going to change anyway.
As a practical matter , when I lost internet access in March and came back in August I had to re - register , but then couldn't login or post.
So if your old site does get back up , this is just a temporary stay for me anyway since I can't access it , ban or no ban.
I don't recognize the name Cass71 and I doubt I ever banned anyone who posted under that name. But otherwise it is hard to figure what you are trying to say in this comment vis-a-vis autism, and how that relates to any of this.
Just finished a bio on Maximillian Robespierre, so this post was timely. Like the USA today, France was involved in European wars throughout the revolution which in some part distracted the French populace as the three estates were dissolved and the National Convention instituted. Here in the USA, what has happened is our border has been dissolved allowing millions to cross which the democrat party plans to use as tools to cement a permanent voter base to remain in power ad infinitum. One more reason democrats need to abolish the senate filibuster and seize the Supreme Court by adding additional liberal justices - all in an effort to abolish or significantly neuter the Second Amendment. What hasn't happened yet, is the erecting of scaffolds to hold those responsible to account.
1st Amendment and 2nd Amendment. That's why I will likely hold my nose and vote for Trump even though he is a vain retard, easily beholden to people who flatter or fund him like insane Zionists.
Absolutely, please hold your nose and vote. I myself am a single-issue voter at this point: NO NUCLEAR WAR. And Donald J. Trump is, however unexpectedly, but I am firmly convinced, the only thing standing between us and global conflagration.
Good point at least he wants to stop the onrushing insane war with Russia, though he is very much in the Zionist’s grips about the bogeyman of Iran. There is no electable actual peace candidate. :-(
So, the Mayor of NYC is being indicted for illegally taking foreign (in this case, Turkish) money. Yet Jimmy Dore did a nice video in which former President Trump brags about how good he was for Israel, and unwittingly says the Adelson's were in the Oval Office more than anyone. The Adelsons contributed hundreds of millions. AIPAC contributes tens of millions. What's the difference? Now, if Trump didn't do AIPAC/Israel's bidding, he would never have been President. Interesting, isn't it? Oh, one of the few people who is NOT an AIPAC puppet, Congressman Thomas Massie, R-KY. Well, his wife died rather suddenly this year. What a coincidence, eh?
Trump was forced to sell his prized shiksa to the Kushners. At first, they told Ivanka she wasn't good enough for Jared. But they eventually came around when she renounced her Christianity. Then Trump let Charles run the country through Jared and the now-Jewess Ivanka.
Hmmm, how can you give up your faith in Jesus as the Messiah? Conversion is a joke, a public spectacle only. The Jewish leadership consider Jesus as the criminal they condemned Him as, and I doubt Ivanka would call Him that.
Your support of Iran is surprising. This is the same Iran that has set the goal to destroy us, is it not. The Iran that wants control of the Gulf to cut us off from Middle Eastern oil. The same Iran that wants a return of a powerful Persia to conquer the Middle East? The same Iran that subdues 50% of its people who want no part of the religious zealousy, the same Iran that has spent 20 years trying to develop nukes to aim at another country but really wants the ability to take down the Saudi states. Remember, one bomb on that oil terminal in the Gulf, destroys this country as it now is.
Support of Iran, lol, Muzzies are number 2 on my shit list next to war mongering Jew neo-cons. Jews were run out of dozens of countries for over a thousand years for a reason. Stop murdering people to steal their land, and stop using usury to strip ordinary people of their assets. If you can't control your greed the pattern of history is going to repeat itself.
I figured as much. Both sides of the Middle East are to blame for the debacle going on here. My point has always been that if I was to place odds in VeGas, I would bet on the Israelis. Think about Palestine itself. Canaanites, Philistines et al destroyed and displaced by the Hebrews under Joshua, the growth of the Hebrew state under Kings, the destruction of the Hebrew states (Israel and Judea) by first Assyria then Babylon, the Hebrew return, dominance by Alexander then Rome, destruction by Rome, diaspora, Takeover by the Ottomans, the Crusades and temporary takeover by the Christians from Rome, return to Islam under Saladin, domination by the Ottomans for hundreds of years, destruction of the Ottomans after WW1 and domination by Britain until 1948. Then takeover by the newly formed Hebrews called Zionists. Formation of the Israeli nation with still 26% Arab population.
My question, who deserves Palestine’s very important land and location? My answer? Whoever is willing to fight and die for it, as always.
You aren't a "conservative," real conservatives with their roots in the middle ages realize Jews are a plague people, a parasite on any society that foolishly hosts them.
Bullshit, real conservatives believe that all folks are equal under the Constitution, that Law supercedes people, that all religions are welcome, that big government is an anathema. People that deny folks their rights are as far from Conservative as you can get. That is probably why the RINOS are voting for Harris.
Martha, look at right now. How do you get MAGA and The Know Nothings to negotiate. It has always been that people are willing to die for their political (or religious) beliefs. The removal of that part of our ego and super ego is not going to happen, ever, IMHO.
Just look at this blog, the amount of hatred that is demonstrated.
A nuclear war is less likely to emanate from Russia than the middle east (though it is plausible that the US and Russia COULD use WMD in the Middle East). We are less likely (IMO) to have a US-Russia nuclear exchange if Trump becomes President, or US policy changes. The US precipitated the Ukraine war. Pull US/Western aid, and it is over in 2-3 weeks. That said, a second war (DON'T FORGET, the US nuked Japan, and planet earth did not end) using nuclear weapons will likely happen. Perhaps it will be a world war, which could mean cyber war, or sinking commercial ships, or "sleeper cells" activated; or it could be in the Near and Middle East and Africa. It is just a matter of when. We have the Middle East, with one nuclear-armed, irredentist nation which controls the US currently running roughshod over the native people. While the (televised--in Western alternative media and the Global South, but ignored by Fox News and US MSM, no surprise here) attempted destruction of the Palestinians is a monstrous crime against humanity, even if all the Palestinians were wiped out, 5 or 6 million or so, you are going to see death and destruction in the Near and Middle East on a much larger scale, in the not-too-distant future. Our internet and other links may go down, but THAT destruction our overlords will want us to see, so we will see it, and get the message. The economic fallout globally will likely be very bad.
--------- While irredentist Israel is the biggest factor and actor (or perhaps AGENT of the US, it is hard to tell some days), there are several other conflicts in the wider region poised to metastasize into wars. Israel is not the only irredentist. And like Israel and the Palestinians, other nations in the general area have irreconcilable differences that have very little to do with Palestine/Israel (though Israel does dabble in some, like Azerbaijan and Kurdistan, to keep certain countries off-balance). Here are some spots to watch: Israel-Syria-Kurdistan-Turkey. Ethiopia-Egypt/Somalia. Armenia-Azerbaijan. Cyprus/Greece-Turkey. Greece-Turkey. Kosovo/NATO-Serbia/Russia. Libya faction A-Faction B. And some US "allies" especially Egypt and Jordan--they are like France in 1794, their decadent corrupt leaders rule by force but could go the way of the Shah of Iran in 1979 any day. Even Saudi. Put all this stuff together. Today, in the above tense conflicts, we have situations where country A and country B are allies in one, and opponents in another! These conflicts could feed off each other. And quite possibly the biggest victim country, the biggest tree to fall, may be one which most of you would not guess.... IMO. And while radioactive fallout may not end life as we know it, the economic fallout from the possible suspension of oil from the Persian Gulf, or from radiation contamination of oil wells or shipping terminals in the middle east rendering them useless for a few centuries (that's right--Iran, or anyone, doesn't need "bombs". Just lob some nuclear waste here and there...) that WILL end economic life as we have known it. Trump is wrong on the middle east, which is the conflict that's going to drag us down. Even so, Mr Trump so frightens the establishment they tried lawfare, they tried to "off" him. The July 13 shooting is probably the biggest reason to vote for Trump, and perhaps the most compelling reason to vote. And the second attempt. But events are much bigger than he, or anyone else, is.
One bozo on the other site thought that Hitler was taking orders from the Mufti. Netanyahu shows up here and gets standing ovations from Congress every sixty seconds or so. No doubt there were watchers in the balcony to see if anyone didn't stand. He and others Israelis have boasted of their control of the United States. There is little reason to doubt this. Believing otherwise is to be a bozo.
Trump isn't a 'retard". He's a real estate business man from Queens. Unless you have played the same game you don't understand it at all, but it works better than, "woke idealism".
Lol, you don’t want to play more right wing than thou games with me lady, considering I am literally a Nazi. And I stand by him being a vulgar retard, if you look at his Tweets his command of the English language is nil. As I said above I will probably vote for him to protect the 1st and 2nd Amendment, and stop war with Russia, but I am not going to be a fan boy and pretend he is intelligent, when he is a vulgar desire driven beast of a man.
LOL, said the guy whose whole last post was name calling, or in more formal terms the ad hominem fallacy. Self awareness isn't your strong suit is it? But then you probably think Ben Shapiro is a deep philosopher, lulz.
Vote the Constitution party in the deep red or blue states to chastise the Republicans and Trump for slandering MAGA, but hold the nose and vote Trump in the swing states where it really matters.
The Republican Party may as well change its name to the Whig Party, because, consisting almost totally of RINOS and not republicans, it deserves to go extinct too. Franklin was right, when on leaving the Constitutional Convention and asked, "What kind of government do we have?" he replied, "A republic if you can keep it."
Those RINOs are joining the Know Nothings as fast as the former moderate Dems are joining MAGA. Trump has already succeeded in one thing. He has re-ordered the political spectrum to fit reality better. Two new parties. MAGA and Know Nothings.
If I were a Philistine like you, I would’t advertise it in public? My music is literally above your head and uses non major and minor modes. “It sure do sound different, I reckon, yuck, yuck.”
Your views on certain subjects are correct. Unfortunately you lower yourself with desperate replies. We've long passed the apex of classical and popular music, both sacred and secular. Your gratuitously caustic offerings are tired, not different. You conveniently forgot Arnold Schoenberg? His nonsense is tired too.
Philistine my ass. Get over yourself and get lost.
LOL, look in the mirror and try to gain to gain some self awareness, you are everything you project on to me.
The one thing I will concede to you is Palestrina was probably the peak of western music. Yet if we were to try to copy him now, that would be a dead music, not a live music. A contemporary music must grapple with the chaos of a dying empire. Perhaps after it dies when can then justly created something as ordered and meaningful as Palestrina again. Though it will be a different form of structured beauty as history never repeats though it does rhyme.
09/27/24: Mr Kunstler's comparison of today in the USA to France in 1794 is perfect. I long ago noticed exactly the same thing. And I pray that the outcome is also exactly the same. The National Razor should be the fate of the Bidens, the Harris cabal, and all the rest of these scumbags who have disgraced us.
There has to be a better way. Even Camille Desmoulins, who kicked off the Revolution in France was horrified by the excesses of The Terror. As in the case of Eric Edwards, their crimes are made public and they are indicted.
09/28/24: Highly recommend is "Napoleon Bonaparte" [1769-1821], by Alan Schom [born 1937/1941- ] HarperCollins (1997 hardcover). It was written/published long before the Trump era got going; ironically, Schom in his dotage succumbed to TDS.
"Peter the Great, His Life and World" by Robert K. Massie is excellent. A great investment in perspective on a people isolated...kinda like New Mexicans before New Mexico.
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. Henry L. Mencken, 1926.
Well said. What we must realize is that the US is NOT a sovereign nation. It lost its sovereignty long ago--a milestone was the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 when the US became a vassal of the international globalist banking empire. The closest I have been able to characterize the US at present is as the military arm of the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire, an entity which is coming to its deserved end on the battlefields of Ukraine and Palestine. What comes next? Well, let's wait for the collapse of Zelensky and Netanyahu then reassess. At some point, I think we are looking at a carefully orchestrated attack by Russia and China on the Empire's flanks. What real patriots much now do is put together an outline of what America might become in the multipolar world that is on its way. The US is collapsing.
Anglo-American-Zionist-French- Polish-German-Japan-Taiwan-Italian-Greece etc. Empire. One side as above, the other is BRICS+. BRICS+ is correct here, work on destroying the USA and the pyramid collapses. I do wonder what the WEF is thinking right now, do we let BRICS+ destroy the dollar or should we do it?
Agree with you 100% on the ??? Of what happens to the US and the world when the dollar goes up in smoke. Can the USA compete economically with BRICS+ after all the damage the Leftist Deep State has done to the country?
Oh really. The BRICS talk about their own currency to compete with the West- supposedly gold-backed, to boot, which would be a hoot if true, but the transparency of that claim is shown just yesterday as China announced it was going to pull the equivalent of $140 billion out of thin air to save its own banking system. So how do the other BRIC nations protect themselves against having their own resources sucked away by, say China's cranking out a few trillion surreptitiously in the basement?
The definition of bankruptcy in my book is when you have to borrow to pay interest payments. The USA passed one trillion dollars this year in servicing the debt. Pretty soon, the interest payments will be larger than the GDP, not the debt. Bankrupt.
No, bankruptcy is when you cannot pay your debts or your creditors refuse to extend credit. The U.S. has been able to continuously expand its debt, at the cost of widespread inflation that people do not seem to understand- $35 trillion could as easily gone for free housing (not that I am endorsing that fantasy) as for bombs and missiles destined to be blown to smithereens, but a complacent-or cowardly- electorate sits back as the dogs of war get fatter and fatter and they poorer and poorer.
When your inability to pay your interest payments is public, then you will be cut off from your creditors as a bad risk. You and I have said the same thing, the first runs into the second. The USA gets away with its debt load because as the creator of money, no one will call in that debt out of fear, until BRICS+. When the USA’s creditors come calling, End Times are near.
Fear of what? For all the added U.S. debt, the $USD still ranks favorably against all the G20 currencies- they have all been inflating. What governments have to fear is people seeing prices going up and up and reading that their "central banks have been buying gold." For whom? For what benefit? For themselves! And when people wake up to that, they will have something to fear.
Have you figured out how many fiat dollars the USA creates each year, or how many worthless bonds it sells. In the US economy, $140 billion is in the petty cash drawer.
BRICS+ is a total threat the the USA, but the number one threat is the Deep State.
Yes, compared to $35 trillion $140 billion seems small, but if you are BRIC1 and you find out BRIC2 has just printed $140 billion while you were not looking, how does BRICS+ survive as a cooperative entity? Does no one else think money should have definite tangible value? I regard the imposition of central bank cryptos, eliminating the cash economy, as part of what I think of as Deep State. Funny that the imposition of income tax came about the same year as the central bank, the Fed, ion 1913 (just in time for WWI) Because if it were not for the IRS, no one would care what form you chose to offer your goods or services- it would be by mutual agreement.
Think large here. Russia needs people to settle into Siberia as things warm up. China and India have lots and lots of poor people that need a start. Could there be a deal going on here? Where America is limiting out on its resources, Asia is just starting. I read an Apple+ article on the cooperation between China and Russia with the oil exploration in the Arctic. I believe Russia now has open water above Siberia for part of the year. Did you also know that the first SOS for Trump, Tillotson was his name I think, was the CEO of Exxon and was in the process of signing a deal with Russia to develop those Arctic oil fields? Then the Dem Neo-cons showed up with Russia, Russia, Russia to destroy that effort. There is much evil Left of center in this country.
An interesting point- and when, what with Russia moving to "reclaim" part of Ukraine, China decides it wants to "reclaim" some of the territory annexed by Russia in the past, some of that "cooperation" will be sorely tested.
The parallel to our current leadership situation was the crude agreement between the aristocrats in Europe 110 years ago that led them into The Great War. If one said, no we aren't going to war over an assassination that happen because of a wrong turn by the Archduke's carriage. If one said, the rest would have probably had a second thought. Even going to war, they thought it would last a month or so. The concentration of power inevitably leads to growing stupidity by those in power. They misunderstand every signal of concern and threat. We'll see, in our lifetime, one of these poorly equipped leaders press the button that starts a nuclear war. It will be just like the a century ago. Mistaken action that leads to genocide and degradation of the planet.
Our contemporary Jacobins need not go to the trouble of setting up an execution machine in Times Square. They're working to outsource the Terror by lobbing enough missiles into Russian sites so Putin & Co. will have no other option than to respond in kind.
To me, the worst element of the modern-day Terror is the utter unreliability of information. For the first month of the "pandemic," I heard what the media were advising us to do, and I thought I was going crazy, having dealt with pathogens for decades in EMS and as a nurse. Firmly established guidelines were ignored and conventional wisdom shot down. My colleagues, half of them, went along with the propaganda and lost my respect forever. And now I read journal articles with a critical edge that borders on paranoia. It is very unsettling. I just needed a heart procedure, and my trust deficit in the institutions made it a nerve-racking thing.
The official response to the "pandemic," with all its hysteria and counter-sanity procedures (remember grocery stores with one-way aisles?) forced a lot of us to give up our belief in benign authorities and the wisdom of scientists.
Agreed. There was a large public parking lot in San Diego, at a small lake, and every other parking space was cordoned off with tape and cones so cars could not park next to each other. Because Covid. That was probably the craziest thing I have seen.
I'm sure the cars appreciated being protected against catching Covid.
Speaking of stage 4 craziness, how about those dolts driving alone in cars with the windows up and wearing masks? To avoid infection from themselves, I guess.
And remember the tape on the floor?! Oh my! When doctors become, in essence, salesmen and government "employees" the medical system has become extinct...it is something else.
I went to my doctor for an exemption to the COVID "vaccine" because I once had a flu shot accelerate autoimmune hyperthyroidism (not to mention I distrusted the whole rationale and technical basis for the jab). This physician SMIRKED at me and said, "Well, I guess you'll just be working in the field (RN) a whole lot less, then." She was willing to give me an exemption if I had ever had an anaphyllactic reaction to a vaccine.
I fired her and eventually just signed a statement that I had a religious objection, which was my only option. The only reason I could get away with that was that my employer employed fewer than 50 persons.
You know as well as I do that the “pandemic” was a failure. A collapse of the world hospital system. Hospitals became a source of the spread of Covid. I was an RN for 17 years and know for a fact that the isolation capacity of the hospital system was never even explained as a source of the infection spread. In our hospital before the epidemic, one or at the most two rooms were outfitted for airborne disease, mostly TB. You know what a PIA working in that isolation setup was, n95 masks that had to seal, Negative airflow, separate entry areas, big time PPE, etc. I remember how long it took for the WHO to finally acknowledge that Covid was airborne. With that admission, the hospital isolation situation became impossible to deal with. Hospitals became a source of the spread of Covid instead of a refuge away from it. I would not be surprised that it was at this point that the Fauci crowd finally told the PTB, Trump included that the pandemic was out of control,
Which it was.
In retrospect, it would have been better for the treatment of Covid to be handled by the old fashioned quarantine procedures than putting them all in hospitals. Right here a reminder of the $40000 bonus per Covid patient probably is appropriate.
I have stepped down to working in a SNF, so that is where I rode out COVID. We had units where contagion spread, but not often, and not with much lethality. Nor did I ever catch it from a patient. (My son brought omicron home in `22).
We have had a 42-year struggle with TB in my region (my husband, nephew, and brother-in-law converted!), so I have had experience with respirators and positive-pressure rooms, but it was BARELY worse than suiting up in PPE during a COVID outbreak, which we are still mandated to do by CMS. That includes the perpetual face diaper and gowning up to enter a room. At this point, (and comparing it to other precaution protocols for influenza, etc.), I think this is just bureaucratic inertia and possibly a demoralization tactic. I am so ready to retire or just help people in my community in exchange for barter goods. I can always use eggs.
I tend to do as you do, but atrial fibrillation really kicked my ass, so I plumped for a catheter ablation recently. I'm hoping that an anti-inflamatory diet (keto) will help keep the doctor away in the future. The treatments you've named are frequently counterproductive, e.g. stating. It's nuts.
Speaking of rough, I was shovel-fed the aspiration to get a degree and be a white-collar something, but I ended up in a rough trade, myself, dealing in flesh, blood, and other such effluvia. Dad was in manufacturing and construction. So my peeps are rough, and it's also why I find Trump endearing. He deals in the concrete realm, with land, with materials, with groups of ordinary, competent people. He builds stuff, unlike so many of our pols who shuffle paper and sell hot air. Democrats, cat ladies, wine moms, white dudes for Harris, bureaucrats and ivory tower types will be smug at their own peril, because we already dislike and disrespect them. Those of us who get stuff done, that is.
Putin can wait a few months to make that decision. Can't imagine he and Trump aren't talking. The deal is being made now to avoid WWII.
Trump's opinion of Zelensky and NATO is obvious. We would not be involved in this disaster were it not for Dems, Biden, Harris (assuming she been allowed an opinion?), and the neo-cons in both Parties. This BS is a Military Industrial Complex money grab.
It is also a preservation of capital effort by Biden, his family and the Mob to maintain the corruptive hold on Ukraine that they had. Trump was impeached for even trying to investigate this corruption Biden bragged on video about his power to shut down internal investigation in Ukraine by with-holding funding. The real deal, the government is the Mob. Trump will cut off Z as he has no money invested there. Not Harris, Biden ordained.
Appreciate the style, the irony and the overall message! More people should be reading this. Very common sense, very grounded and the reach back to the Jacobins of history is quite valuable. Let's hope we are not headed to using the razor but rather the judicial system and make the blob accountable! Something I pray for daily!
I have read that the US is about to provide Ukraine with F-16 jets armed with long-range air-to-ground missiles to strike targets deep into Russia. If the US does that--launches missiles that strike Russian cities and towns, killing Russian citizens and destroying property--than the US will be in a de facto state of war with Russia. Putin would be absolutely 100% justified to launch missiles into the US. Why are US citizens ignoring this looming reality? Is NFL Football really more important than a Russian missile destroying your neighborhood? What the heck is going on in this drifting, aimless country?
Most of the voting public has no idea what's going on in the world. And they have no interest in finding out. They are largely economically and politically ignorant and content to be so. There's nothing to be done about that. Scrape them off.
The huge irony there is, with women get equal sports funding via Title IX, female Admirals in the Navy, Generals (and even Rangers) in the Army, and serving as fighter pilots in the Air Force, of they do not draft women too, the men may pull a sit-down strike on very firm legal grounds. And then you may have a sort of mirror-play of Aristophenes' anti-war play Lysistrata: Lysistrato?
F 16s are old school, surpassed long ago by F22 and F35. We are giving them our rejects. We are watching how Russia deals with the F16 as they probably have the specs for it. We will not chance losing the latter two so Russia can reverse engineer them.
LOL! F-16s in competent pilots' hands are far superior to either of the two hangar queens F-22 and F-35. Hell, the Navy stills flying FA-18s, which competed with the F16 for the USAF's favor way back when. Trouble is, the F-16's had been milked for all the graft they had in them, so it was time to move on to something more expensive and worthless. Remember, the point of all these wars is NOT to actually defeat anybody, but to milk the US Treasury of every last drop of monetary goodness.
And we won't chance losing ANY of the latter two because we know for damn sure that we'd lose A LOT of them in any encounter with the Russians . Russian military aviation has long since been FAR superior to the US, since the point of their procurement programs is to actually provide effective defense.
The Chaos Tornado keeps twisting, ripping, and wreaking havoc. The next month, maybe 3, is going to be the most chaotic, dangerous, and consequential in modern American history... maybe World history, if things go crazy enough.
"They" clearly want a war, maybe 2-3, just as cover in the media! Imagine that! A group willing to burn down the world, rather than act rationally.
I am 100% certain about one thing, and one thing only- They will NEVER, let Trump back into the White House! Election doesn't matter, they'll just fraud their votes again, or if he wins too big for that, claim that his votes were fraud, done by Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, and the ghost of Adolf Hitler! They will kill the internet, and the power grid if they have to. And they will certainly start a war, with another gigantic false flag style "attack" if they can come up with nothing else.
This is End Game! For them, for us, for both, maybe for the modern world, and every human on the planet.
They're pushing all of their chips to the middle of table, and attempting to win with a pair of deuces (or dunces), and if that doesn't work, they will flip the table.
Brace yourself and steel your spine, it's on like Donkey Kong, and nobody is coming out unscathed!
"I am 100% certain about one thing, and one thing only- They will NEVER, let Trump back into the White House!" Don't be so sure. I am convinced Trump is the flip side of the Deep State album that Biden is currently ;playing. Trump, in his last campaign ;promised to balance the budget-hung Jackson's portrait as if he was a blood brother to the man who balanced 8 straight- and then signed off on- did not once veto four consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. Cynically nominated Judy Shelton, a supporter of the gold standard, to the Fed, knowing it was going nowhere, and later, after having his palm greased, came out supporting cryptos, which would have both Shelton and Jackson spinning in their grave. Waved a stern finger at Boeing for exorbitant charges to update Air Force One, but caved in to them once in office as well as every budget-busting military appropriation sent to him. Bent over and fully assumed the position for Big Bankers, Big Pharma, Israel, you name it- but a blind eye to any meaningful reform or consumer protection of any kind. Ronald Reagan, who had been regarded as a conservative before he was shot, fell into line with deficit spending afterwards, and was so controlled that I watched, as her was giving a speech on TV, Treasury Sec. Donald Regan signal him none too subtly, that it was time to wrap things ump, and Reagan did. I now wonder if Trump regards himself as similarly warned.
I have no idea if Harris will win this election, or if Trump will win it. I’m inclined to guess it will be Harris-Walz, based on what I’m seeing and hearing compared to 8 years ago. But it could go either way.
The only thing that’s “100% certain” is that if Trump loses, he will petulantly whine that the election was “rigged”. Waaaah. This, and this only, is a surer bet than the sun rising on November 5.
AND, our country is in imminent danger of collapse if Harris gets in there. I hope he whines big time if the Dem program of take-over happens. People who shut down the investigations of the 2020 election have condemned this country into obscurity financially, and if the 2024 ends up the same,our goose is not just cooked, it is incinerated.
Their desperation is driven by fear, not just of the temporal punishment awaiting them, but fear of their lives and that of their families. You don't give your allegiance to forces that guarantee you wealth, fame and fortune and then fail in your mission, and there are plenty of examples of those who do.
I think Ol' Vlad's savvy enough to know just who it is that's causing all the problems in the world today and limit his ashtray production to a select few European capitals and hopefully London and DC and their environs. Would that then cause the blob and its' middle eastern associate/crime boss to respond recklessly in kind? That seems likely as well, but he might not have a choice in the matter. Let's hope his strikes are boldly preemptive and that cooler heads prevail at least temporarily in the immediate aftermath, so that we can then get on with the necessary business of relieving some of the people who have caused all this mess in the first place of their troubled heads.
Some of the people? How do you remove the heads of all the globalist criminal groups that have created a monster in the USA with their invasion? First step is to burn down the MSM and its, not biased, but bigoted control of information in this country. Start with both the NYT and WaPo and MSNBC and CNN.
I like the sentiment, but its just as likely that the big boys would pull the plug on the internet and official news sources altogether, blame it on the ever-present Russians or whatever other boogeyman of the day is handy, and let rampant hysterical fear take hold of a population that's been pre-conditioned to fear their own shadows all these many years. Disinformation can thrive, even, and maybe especially, in a vacuum too.
Joe Rogan released a statement that he believes censorship will be increased if Harrris/Walz win, under the guise of misinformation. You know, misinformation, the body of communication that we do not agree with.
Why do you think the Founders felt freedom of protest was so important? It defuses things by allowing the minority to bitch publicly. Let the Dems win this fall, and the minority, Florida, Texas and the entire west minus Colorado might just decide to go their own way when their power of protest is stolen away.
Time, Life, U.S. News and World Report, The Saturday Evening Post- all iconic in their day- had the strangest(Deep State) business model: feed their readers crap and then act surprised when they died eating it. I would not even touch their on-line content with a ten-foot pole. Instead, I try to glean the truth here, and at other free sites, but am willing to pay also, according to my means. There is more investigative journalism produced free by Russ and Pam Martins, in Wall Street on Parade, than by the entire MSM combined, IMHO.
I remember Time as the conservative, Newsweek as the Liberal and US News and World report as neutral. That shows one of the big problems, instead of a balanced media today, we have total dedication to the Ult-Left.
That might well be the start of things. Take out the west's eyes on everything and see how well they fly blind. But that's the trouble with nuclear brinksmanship. A move like that would likely send the nukes flying out of fear of what might come next, whether it was the real deal or just another of the west's many false flag psyops against its own citizens. We'd likely never know for sure either way.
Instead of blowing up the Capitol, like Designated Survivor, let us blow up every server in every location. I honestly believe one of the prime problems today, the spread of political hatred, comes from the almost total Ult-Left swing of the sources of information in the country. Thank you Elon for breaking the mold.
I would not go back to an outfit that allowed the hack and then did not support their service when compromised. Sub-stack seems to be a better site with more tools available.
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
I wish I shared your optimism, but personally don’t see any possible way out of this that does not involve human suffering on a scale that is unimaginable. Let’s face it, the American Marxists have this locked up. They’ve penetrated far too wide and far too deep for any form of French-styled “enlightenment” to spontaneously occur. At least half of this nation has been reduced to “useful idiots” who support their own demise, and the number grows daily.
We may see brief glimpses of sanity return via the sporadic election of men like Trump, but the long game still belongs to the Marxists. And they know it. Remain patient and the anchor babies of Biden’s 15 million new illegals shall bear fruit when they reach voting ago.
“Ballots or bullets” is a saying that is often repeated. The next great awakening in America is that our ballots…and elections…are nothing more than Kabuki theatre. America really doesn’t have any good choices left, now does it?
'Fraid it's the same old story. No one repents until it gets as bad as it can get. I know. I've been there. It was scary, it hurt like hell (no pun intended), and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Now I know the worst, and I know I can survive it. But! I only did so by God's mercy.
We have one. If the church repented of it's apostasy and embrace of the world and what it offers. I don't say the "world" because the world is incapable of repentance. That's why God addresses this comment to the church only.
Despite Putin’s (IMO) tongue-n-cheek “endorsement” of Kackala, I’ve been somewhat amazed at his patience w/ the West & can’t help but wonder if he’s holding out & hoping for a Trump victory to return sanity to this pathetic country. I’m betting if Kneepads “wins”, the nucs might start flying.
We should be saying a prayer of thanks that the Russians are a steadfast, patient, people who, even with all his flaws, follow their leader (and understand what happens when they don't).
Makes me think what a perfect description "the blob" is for the U.S.A. "The Blob" functions as a "den of thieves." I agree with you that the Kamala endorsement by Putin was "a chess move" by a very savvy man.
Lavrov said a few days ago that it was a joke.
When Putin says something that makes me laugh out loud like commenting on Kamala's laugh or the look on his face when Hillary Clinton hands him a "reset button" with a bad translation on it, I instinctively know the man is, shall we say, multi-faceted. Jokes/humor can be a very complex way of communicating A Lot.
Mockery
The insanity that prevails means that "we" have no interest in doing diplomacy with Russia, and the Russians are so beyond the pale that we have no interest in anything Russian. That's a new level of suicidal arrogance.
The Russians...with their capacity to be enthusiastic consumers of Mexican Novelas (soap operas) and know blue jeans are cool...it just amplifies even more that the "den of thieves" (in Washington DC) will do anything to save their own necks.
I am out here in the greater U.S. (outside the DC area) wearing blue jeans and watching Mexican Novelas (high quality productions, most of them And they end! They don't get moldy like "General Hospital" or "Days of Our Lives").
Putin is just waiting for the USA to ‘flame out’ and self destruct. He is watching from afar and he knows how totally f**ked up the USA is now, especially as it is being presently ‘governed’ by the current Ghost President JB and his minions who are pulling the strings behind the curtain.
Putin is not stupid. He wants a position on the world stage. WWII is not to his advantage any more that it is to our advantage.
The cold war is over except in the twisted minds of neo-cons. Economic cooperation benefits both Russia and the US. Only Trump gets this. He will "make a deal".
I hope you're correct. Not necessarily that the US self-destructs, though US politics is so corrupt that it's highly likely.
I agree with you, but that boat has sailed.
Now the russian government and the russian people are hostile to western countries. And NATO has pushed Russia and China, who are not the most natural allies, into one another's arms.
I don't think the Russian people are any more hostile to Americans than we are hostile to them. This is betweems governments , not between citizens. Citizens of Russia and the US are against WAR. WAR kills innocent citizens. How many politicians does it kill?
MY NEXTDOOR NEIGHBOR IS RUSSIAN, AND GREW UP WITH PUTIN. HE SAYS HE'S A GREAT GUY. A FAIR LEADER, AND A SANE AND RATIONAL MAN. I BELIEVE HIM. MY OWN HERITAGE IS HALF RUSSIAN. ZELENSKY ON THE OTHER HAND, IS THE POOREST EXCUSE FOR A MALE I'VE EVER SEEN.
THE MAN COULD WIPE US OFF THE MAP, IF HE CHOSE. FRANKLY, I'D LIKE HIM TO USE OUR CAPITAL AS TARGET PRACTICE... BUT ONLY WHEN THE DEM'S ARE IN SESSION. :~)
Who would know better? A former KGB agent.
I believe the only redeeming quality that Putin mentioned about Kamala was, "she has an infectious laugh". And that makes me laugh. We can't read his mind, but I agree... it more than likely was tongue-n-cheek.
To me, that comment was how I knew he was kidding. She has been absolutely reviled for that kackle. And he also said that he had hoped Biden would win but “of course” would take Biden’s recommendation now to support Harris 😂
Two thoughts:
How do DemoncRATs go w/ the Russia!Russia!Russia! narrative now that Putin has “endorsed” her AND Zelenskyy has too?! It’s hilarious.
I think even dictators (@ least some of them - Middle East excluded) like & want world stability & sanity too
Personally, I prefer referring to the Kackler as Screeching Hyena Harris. Quite fitting!
I still like Kneepads Harris as descriptive of her political trajectory 🤣
She must be really good at that particular vocation. Its landed her one step from the White House.
Exactly
I suddenly now get the joke . Funny and sad at the same time .
At one high level meeting in Europe on Ukraine, she was high as a kite. Probably pills as well as alcohol. Not so much cackles this time as uncontrolled giggles. Charming at a junior high dance perhaps. The people in the room were dumbfounded.
Hell, , if our Ziocratic Blob could sell Michelle as a woman to the normies, this media creation/ makeover of Cackles should be a cake walk.
Zioctratic, a new word for me . Thanks >striketheroot < . How about strike the rot but I do see the point of being radical. I am one of the few New Zealanders who think that our ountry can only be saved by a societal revolution. Our leaders are invariably now puppets to the UN and NWO.,
I maintain that she is herself dumbfounded at being invited to the table at all. I have always read her as feeling anxious and like an impostor.
Sorry but no. Not infectious. Now Tucker Carlson, that's an infectious laugh.
🤷 typhoid is infectious! 😁
A FORMER CLIENT OF MINE REFERRED TO HIS BORDERLINE DISORDERED EX, AS "THE STAIN." I FIND THIS DESCRIPTOR TO BE A PERFECT FIT FOR KAMALA. :~) SHE IS INDEED, A NASTY STAIN ON OUR REPUBLIC AND ON DEMOCRACY.
Carlson's manic laugh and numerous verbal and vocal affectations drive me off my fucking rocker.
MEEEE TOOO. I HAVE A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GUY THESE DAYS.
UGH. IVE ALWAYS LIKED TUCKER AND RESPECTED HIM... BUT THAT SILLY, HIGH-PITCHED LAUGH IS OFTEN POORLY PLACED, DISRUPTIVE TO HIS GUESTS ON INTERVIEWS, AND I WISH HE'D EXERCISE A BIT OF IMPULSE CONTROL OVER IT. FRANKLY, IT PUTS ME OFF THESE DAYS.
fyi, all caps means that you're yelling
First, I DON’T FUCKING CARE.
Second, ARE YOU ALWAYS THIS CONTROLLING WITH OTHERS IN YOUR WORLD??
Third, if you’ve read ANY of my posts and you think I’m as ignorant as you suggest, perhaps that’s YOUR projection of your own lack, onto Me.
It's unfortunate that you interpreted a helpful commenting tip as an act of control. I was under the impression it was an unintended format but now realize all caps was part of your communication style within the moment.
LOL... I'VE BEEN A WRITER FOR OVER 50 YEARS, HON.
ASK ME IF I GIVE A SHIT.
Good. Then you're familiar with a keyboard. Far left - check your Caps Lock key - it's probably stuck.
Yes. Very off-putting, along with his false self-deprecation and recent assurances that, "I'm half-crazy."
I have no doubt about that, although I respect most of his work as being important.
Well, she's also probably good in bed.
It's long been rumored that she is particularly adept at penilingus.
I think it's illegal to do it with penguins.
LOL
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ALL BORDERLINES ARE GOOD IN BED, BECAUSE THEY'RE HYPER-PERFORMERS. THEIR ENTIRE SENSE OF WORTH AND SELF, DEPEND ON IMPRESSING YA.
you can't be good at it when you are that ugly
KAMALA'S "LAUGH" DOESN'T STRIKE ME AS "INFECTIOUS." SHE HAS NO CONFIDENCE, AND LAUGHS WHEN SHE CAN'T ANSWER A DIRECT QUESTION. IT'S A DEFLECTION TECHNIQUE, I'M SURE SHE LEARNED AS A LITTLE GIRL, AND NEVER OUTGREW. IN SHORT, IT'S A NERVOUS LAUGH, WHICH SHE HOPES WILL HELP HER APPEAR "JOYFUL," WHEN IN REALITY, WE'RE SEEING HER AS A BIMBO.
Agree, most definitely. Russian strategy (and humor).
"Slavic" humor is priceless.
Cindi, I do not classify what Putin is NOT DOING as patience, as much as I believe he is a man well-versed in history and that he is NOT Insane. He has no desire for “history” to remember him as the man who burnt the entire western world into an ashtray (as JHK has described); but, more importantly, he is not batshit-crazy, as most of his world-opponents are CATEGORICALLY BATSHIT-EPHEN-CRAZY…!
Agreed Fredy
Agree.
Right!
No nukes are going to fly. They're only used for fear. Russia has plenty of conventional/asymmetric/attritional/economic/digital warfare 'friends' and capabilities if things get gnarly/gnarlier.
“Nucs” was allegory but lots of countries have them now & some are deeply unhinged so….
Kinzhal hypersonic missiles fly at 7600 MPH. There is no air defense that can stop them. Putin unleashed 7 of them simultaneously during the SMO in Ukraine. The unspoken message - for those too dense to understand - is that he could reduce US Aircraft Carrier Groups worldwide, from 11 to 4, in about 15 minutes.
Well those are my chips for the pile, Ron. I wager no nukes.
Israel may have squeezed in a low-yield/harder-to-detect tactical one or more though, like in Lebanon.
My bet could be off but, AFAIK, US is developing similar and, in any case, it, along with its allies, probably already have many nuke launchers at the ready as close to all around Russia as they can get them, even if/where Cuba's/Venezuela's preloaded.
Asymmetry/Attrition makes more sense. Hence the pagers for example, and a perfect example. And picking off leaders like popcorn. Nothing like sous-leaders going up the ranks to make warfare even more guerrilla.
Oh, and Russia seems kind of downwind... although maybe watch out for any suspicious balloons over the Eastern Pacific with who-knows-what payloads. ;)
Where are you located? Maybe some of those Kinzhals can be retrofitted to deliver Russian cuisine overseas at a moment's notice-- fresh and still piping-hot.
Zazzy - I agree with you on the asymmetrical - always have. Think Viet Cong and the Mujahideen - unbreakable will - neither defeated in their own lands. The pager thing was definitely asymmetrical, but no better definition of terrorism.
I'm down with asymmetrical warfare, given that's it's enemy combatants. The pagers - from memory, 2700 wounded and 50 dead - was pure terrorism, meant to maim, dismember and terrorize, striking fear into the population.
The will to survive is one thing, the will to terrorize is another thing entirely.
I prefer Italian. If Italy could upgrade their technology, now you're talkin' - beats Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee.
Since the start, Israel certainly seems to have been challenging distinctions between terrorism, war, freedom-fighting, enemy combat and innocent civilian, ay? I wonder if all wars are like that. And what is ID politics if not calling oneself an Israeli, Russian or American and/or being called that by the State players, themselves?
'Oh, I'm an American too? Gee, thanks... I guess... Never really thought of myself that way... You now want me to what? Fight for 'my' country? Really? When? Now? You coming? No? Why not? Because you're a politician? Really? That's your reason? Oh, now you say that it's because you're the leader? Ok well then you go first... in the wars you started. Lead yourselves into battle. Myself, I'm going to get Ron to order a lasagna or something for me and hang out over here. Good luck!'
And how about this quote for a dovetail:
“ 'As shocking as it may sound, the institution of the State itself is the real enemy. It’s time to carefully analyze your relation to it.' — Doug Casey "
~ JHK
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Just after I wrote the previous, I realized that I have little idea about Russian cuisine. How about you? What will you be ordering from Italy?
"Chicken Kiev" is delicious! It's stuffed with ham and herbs and other delicious tidbits. I am particularly fond of pirogis, too. Nice vodka, also.
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I'M THINKIN, PUTIN "ENDORSED" KAMALA, TO LEAVE A PERMANENT STAIN ON HER CAMPAIGN. I MEAN, WHAT DOES IT SAY, WHEN THE ENEMY OF ONE'S COUNTRY YOU'RE SENDING BILLIONS TO, ACTS LIKE THEY'RE YOUR FRIEND? LOL... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.
The Democrats’ claim that “Democracy is at stake” in this election is the most vivid demonstration that I have ever seen of the principle that the best defense is a good offense.
The donkeys don’t seem to remember that Mr. Trump was already president for four years during which “democracy” – such as it is in twenty-first century America – survived. Or the glaring fact that we have more recently experienced proof of concept of US totalitarianism during Biden-Fauci’s Covid lock-down.
Remember when it was illegal for you to spend Christmas with your extended family, or visit your dying grandmother in the hospital, were required to shutter your small business, and pretend that putting a piece of cloth over your mouth and standing six feet apart would protect us from a pandemic that had no connection with the Gain-of-Function lab in Wuhan? That was American Totalitarianism 1.0, and the Democrats apparently didn’t notice.
And now we have would-be dowager Empress Hillary declaring that we should be put in prison is we say anything that does not conform to the Official Narrative?
That is how Harris/Walz would save democracy for us – if we let them.
Oh, the Communists definitely noticed. They noticed that we took all the thumbs in our eyes they poked us with without hanging a single one of them.
Yet
Never Ever. Nobody fought back in 2020. Nobody ever will. Nothing Good Has Ever Happened.
I must reluctantly point out that the lockdowns started while Trump was still president, so I'm not sure I'd label them "the Biden-Fauci lockdowns." I hope Trump learned something from all his 2020 mistakes.
Your memory is flawed. Trump insisted that the states set up their own restriction as they saw it, he did not restrict anybody. Some states, NY for the biggest, dumped all over their people. Then Cuomo was promoted by the MSM as a Latter Day Saint until it was figured out he committed murder with the elderly. In the meantime, DeSantis (Florida) and Texas told the controllers to go to hell. I watched the Johns Hopkins data base and there was no difference between the “controlled” states and the “open” states on deaths or incidence. Trump was not involved excepting giving resources as best he could to the state folks when requested. Hospital ships, wartime corporate conversions to make respirators and PPE for the hospital staffs, new hospitals in NYC. It is ironic that very few of the Trump “donations” were ever used. NY and NYC are extremely gross examples of the idiocy of the Blue mind during a crisis. The Biden-Fauci lockdowns that happened were Blue state level after Trump was gone. Blue Feds lined up with blue states are a disaster.
I do agree with you that any reaction by the federal government to Covid was horrible and fear driven in 2020 and 2021. You have obviously forgotten who was in charge early in 2020 while Trump was fighting the House. Pence was given the job and he flubbed it, allowing the Meditechs to take over. If you must point your finger, start with Pence, Fauci, Birx, the NIH, Cuomo and his press in NYC, the FDA (Ivermectin) and the vaxx, and the CDC. Trump was in charge of it all and deferred to the “scientific” community and the states to do the right things. He was wrong to trust anyone as the entire group was aiming at getting rid of him in November.
Yep, as far as my recollection it was states and cities that did the lockdown BS, yes the feds gave guidance and did the same with their facilities etc, but primarily it was overzealous local and state govenment bureaucrats who jumped on the bandwagon for being tyrants.
JMHO
DJT should trust NO ONE from the establishment, if i were he i would have kicked the SS to the curb and set up my own security and intelligence detail and would be pulling leadership from the private sector from amongst the construction and development sphere
Very astute comments, JohnAZ!
He is deeply flawed. His bark is far worse than his bite. He's pretty timid for the most part. But very strong on defense when it comes to his own person. If he could only put that strength at the service of the nation!
You just keep ignoring that the resident has little actual power, although they are trying to steal that power from the Congress with every EO they sign.
If Trump was unfettered by the DC politics, what do you think he would do to stop the socialization of the country?
They have very effectively been stealing power due to Congress' failure to guard its own legislative prerogative. Gold and silver are the only constitutional money, and yet Congress did nothing when FDR issued an EO in 1933 immediately after taking office,(and, ironically, as one plank in the DNC campaign was a pledge of support for the gold standard) ordering Americans to turn in their gold in exchange for fiat. Congress also reserves the right under the Constitution to debate whether we become involved in war, to declare war, and to authorize payment for same, but we have been committed to one undeclared war after another since WWII, with the War Powers Act, the Patriot Act, and much more yielding power to the President as a dictator,
Easy answer John AZ
Not damn much.
I give you the term Balkanization as exhibit A: in the direction from hence
I agree, but to vote the other is insanity.
Exactly on point. Thanks
5d chess is a bullshit Copout and Cope. Operation Warp Speed happened, Trump shilled the Jab.
I do remember that Bill, but in context. Trump's initial instincts were sound: treat Covid proactively with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, focus on protecting high-risk populations, and achieve herd immunity among the young and vigorous. The President was then attacked by Fauci and Big Pharma, who were pushing The Jab, and fifty million Democrats piled on, sensing blood in the political water. I don't believe Trump would have gone that route if had not been railroaded, and I think he would stick by his guns when the next designer virus is released.
Warp Speed Fuck Up?
Incorrect sir. The lockdowns and mandates began under the Biden administration.
Correct
What democrats mean by "democracy" isn't what you and I mean.
The Democrats keep using that word "democracy". I don't think that word means what they think it means.
(with a nod of thanks to Inigo Montoya)
It means the Democratic party! In any case, the Founders LOATHED Democracy as the lowest form of government, one that leads directly to tyranny as Plato said.
What bugged me was how they kept saying “our democracy”, as if they have a monopoly on true democracy…
Democrats are anti-democracy. They use every mechanism possible to centralize power, to remove power from the people, to set up a nanny state in which they will control everything.
Democracy in the Democratic Party is a joke, a sick joke.
Misinformation censorship, media control (check out Apple+ News for this), election cheating, Covid management, war mongering, DOJ malfeasance, ignoring elections to hold a coup inside the party with Biden, open border, bullshit Soros driven judges and DAs targeting MAGA folks, esp. Trump, oligarchic control by the “Council” taking over the executive branch, Shoving a total incompetent down our throats that has “0” executive experience.
Remember when we were saying that Carter loved Biden because he was no longer the worst president in history? Well, that record may be broken again if we vote Harris into office. Biden may get de-throned as the worst very quickly.
A story in Apple+, a Lib rag, this morning has Carville saying that autocracy is needed in the campaign to ensure that democracy happens after the election.
??????????? He is as insane as the rest of the Leftist horde.
I am sure we will have a Leftist socialist power hungry Democratic Party that will give up power after a win in the election.
lol "dowager Empress Hillary." Time to drape her in pearls.
Time to drape her in rope pulled up short.
perhaps gentle prison stripes with a forged "pearl" and chain???
How about a sheet and something to hang it on?
Or a red scarf and a doorknob? Those were the choice of discerning "suiciders" for awhile, like Mr. Bourdain.
I was thinking more like upsidedown in a barrel of old motor oil
In pearls and support hosiery
in the color "taupe"
with giant welted seams in the back.
Cute icon. Did you do that yourself?
My sweet little daughter is very proud of her artwork. I shall tell her you like it!
Great!
But remember it was
"our democracy". It had nothing to do with voting itself but, "OUR DEMOCRACY"
I police the comments section lightly as a general rule, but I have suspended "Fast Eddy" for one week because he is a disruptive troll. If he returns and disrupts the joint again, he'll be kicked out for good. Other trolls, take note.
Bruv don’t do that let him be a troll , it’s hilarious. We know he’s a knuckle head
Just for the record, my foosball community years ago called me Fast Eddie, but now I’m just ezinmn.
" I police the comments section lightly as a general rule... "
I think that is true.
Unfortunately it is also true that the few bans I have seen here totally mystified me.
I'm leery of psychology, but perhaps there is some slight validity in the autism - thing because clearly 58 years consistent experience is certain nuances clearly simply don't register with me.
So if that hint should happen to include me , Don't hint.
Just say so , and I'll leave of my own accord anyway , because like being a voracious smoker , and swilling coffee by the gallon , I'm just not going to change anyway.
As a practical matter , when I lost internet access in March and came back in August I had to re - register , but then couldn't login or post.
So if your old site does get back up , this is just a temporary stay for me anyway since I can't access it , ban or no ban.
I don't recognize the name Cass71 and I doubt I ever banned anyone who posted under that name. But otherwise it is hard to figure what you are trying to say in this comment vis-a-vis autism, and how that relates to any of this.
I think she's saying that she might be autistic (or have characteristics thereof) in some respects.
Yes ,
Or ,
Commonly ,
Hints don't work with me .
" Fuck off , go away " actually works better.
The site (any site) is poorer in your absence, Cass71. You're a true iconoclast in all the best possible ways.
Just finished a bio on Maximillian Robespierre, so this post was timely. Like the USA today, France was involved in European wars throughout the revolution which in some part distracted the French populace as the three estates were dissolved and the National Convention instituted. Here in the USA, what has happened is our border has been dissolved allowing millions to cross which the democrat party plans to use as tools to cement a permanent voter base to remain in power ad infinitum. One more reason democrats need to abolish the senate filibuster and seize the Supreme Court by adding additional liberal justices - all in an effort to abolish or significantly neuter the Second Amendment. What hasn't happened yet, is the erecting of scaffolds to hold those responsible to account.
1st Amendment and 2nd Amendment. That's why I will likely hold my nose and vote for Trump even though he is a vain retard, easily beholden to people who flatter or fund him like insane Zionists.
Absolutely, please hold your nose and vote. I myself am a single-issue voter at this point: NO NUCLEAR WAR. And Donald J. Trump is, however unexpectedly, but I am firmly convinced, the only thing standing between us and global conflagration.
Good point at least he wants to stop the onrushing insane war with Russia, though he is very much in the Zionist’s grips about the bogeyman of Iran. There is no electable actual peace candidate. :-(
So, the Mayor of NYC is being indicted for illegally taking foreign (in this case, Turkish) money. Yet Jimmy Dore did a nice video in which former President Trump brags about how good he was for Israel, and unwittingly says the Adelson's were in the Oval Office more than anyone. The Adelsons contributed hundreds of millions. AIPAC contributes tens of millions. What's the difference? Now, if Trump didn't do AIPAC/Israel's bidding, he would never have been President. Interesting, isn't it? Oh, one of the few people who is NOT an AIPAC puppet, Congressman Thomas Massie, R-KY. Well, his wife died rather suddenly this year. What a coincidence, eh?
Trump was forced to sell his prized shiksa to the Kushners. At first, they told Ivanka she wasn't good enough for Jared. But they eventually came around when she renounced her Christianity. Then Trump let Charles run the country through Jared and the now-Jewess Ivanka.
Hmmm, how can you give up your faith in Jesus as the Messiah? Conversion is a joke, a public spectacle only. The Jewish leadership consider Jesus as the criminal they condemned Him as, and I doubt Ivanka would call Him that.
Really?!
Your support of Iran is surprising. This is the same Iran that has set the goal to destroy us, is it not. The Iran that wants control of the Gulf to cut us off from Middle Eastern oil. The same Iran that wants a return of a powerful Persia to conquer the Middle East? The same Iran that subdues 50% of its people who want no part of the religious zealousy, the same Iran that has spent 20 years trying to develop nukes to aim at another country but really wants the ability to take down the Saudi states. Remember, one bomb on that oil terminal in the Gulf, destroys this country as it now is.
Support of Iran, lol, Muzzies are number 2 on my shit list next to war mongering Jew neo-cons. Jews were run out of dozens of countries for over a thousand years for a reason. Stop murdering people to steal their land, and stop using usury to strip ordinary people of their assets. If you can't control your greed the pattern of history is going to repeat itself.
I figured as much. Both sides of the Middle East are to blame for the debacle going on here. My point has always been that if I was to place odds in VeGas, I would bet on the Israelis. Think about Palestine itself. Canaanites, Philistines et al destroyed and displaced by the Hebrews under Joshua, the growth of the Hebrew state under Kings, the destruction of the Hebrew states (Israel and Judea) by first Assyria then Babylon, the Hebrew return, dominance by Alexander then Rome, destruction by Rome, diaspora, Takeover by the Ottomans, the Crusades and temporary takeover by the Christians from Rome, return to Islam under Saladin, domination by the Ottomans for hundreds of years, destruction of the Ottomans after WW1 and domination by Britain until 1948. Then takeover by the newly formed Hebrews called Zionists. Formation of the Israeli nation with still 26% Arab population.
My question, who deserves Palestine’s very important land and location? My answer? Whoever is willing to fight and die for it, as always.
You aren't a "conservative," real conservatives with their roots in the middle ages realize Jews are a plague people, a parasite on any society that foolishly hosts them.
Bullshit, real conservatives believe that all folks are equal under the Constitution, that Law supercedes people, that all religions are welcome, that big government is an anathema. People that deny folks their rights are as far from Conservative as you can get. That is probably why the RINOS are voting for Harris.
+1
What would happen if both sides just stopped?
What would happen if Jews stopped being genocidal land thieves? Who is mass murdering an ethnic group for "lebensraum" now?
Im a single issue voter too,
The establishment and liberals hate him,
SO HES MY GUY!
except they aren't liberals, they're Leftists, they hate individual rights
Totally agree! WAR is the failure of sane men to be able to negotiate. It must go if humanity is to grow, thrive and evolve.
Martha, look at right now. How do you get MAGA and The Know Nothings to negotiate. It has always been that people are willing to die for their political (or religious) beliefs. The removal of that part of our ego and super ego is not going to happen, ever, IMHO.
Just look at this blog, the amount of hatred that is demonstrated.
A nuclear war is less likely to emanate from Russia than the middle east (though it is plausible that the US and Russia COULD use WMD in the Middle East). We are less likely (IMO) to have a US-Russia nuclear exchange if Trump becomes President, or US policy changes. The US precipitated the Ukraine war. Pull US/Western aid, and it is over in 2-3 weeks. That said, a second war (DON'T FORGET, the US nuked Japan, and planet earth did not end) using nuclear weapons will likely happen. Perhaps it will be a world war, which could mean cyber war, or sinking commercial ships, or "sleeper cells" activated; or it could be in the Near and Middle East and Africa. It is just a matter of when. We have the Middle East, with one nuclear-armed, irredentist nation which controls the US currently running roughshod over the native people. While the (televised--in Western alternative media and the Global South, but ignored by Fox News and US MSM, no surprise here) attempted destruction of the Palestinians is a monstrous crime against humanity, even if all the Palestinians were wiped out, 5 or 6 million or so, you are going to see death and destruction in the Near and Middle East on a much larger scale, in the not-too-distant future. Our internet and other links may go down, but THAT destruction our overlords will want us to see, so we will see it, and get the message. The economic fallout globally will likely be very bad.
--------- While irredentist Israel is the biggest factor and actor (or perhaps AGENT of the US, it is hard to tell some days), there are several other conflicts in the wider region poised to metastasize into wars. Israel is not the only irredentist. And like Israel and the Palestinians, other nations in the general area have irreconcilable differences that have very little to do with Palestine/Israel (though Israel does dabble in some, like Azerbaijan and Kurdistan, to keep certain countries off-balance). Here are some spots to watch: Israel-Syria-Kurdistan-Turkey. Ethiopia-Egypt/Somalia. Armenia-Azerbaijan. Cyprus/Greece-Turkey. Greece-Turkey. Kosovo/NATO-Serbia/Russia. Libya faction A-Faction B. And some US "allies" especially Egypt and Jordan--they are like France in 1794, their decadent corrupt leaders rule by force but could go the way of the Shah of Iran in 1979 any day. Even Saudi. Put all this stuff together. Today, in the above tense conflicts, we have situations where country A and country B are allies in one, and opponents in another! These conflicts could feed off each other. And quite possibly the biggest victim country, the biggest tree to fall, may be one which most of you would not guess.... IMO. And while radioactive fallout may not end life as we know it, the economic fallout from the possible suspension of oil from the Persian Gulf, or from radiation contamination of oil wells or shipping terminals in the middle east rendering them useless for a few centuries (that's right--Iran, or anyone, doesn't need "bombs". Just lob some nuclear waste here and there...) that WILL end economic life as we have known it. Trump is wrong on the middle east, which is the conflict that's going to drag us down. Even so, Mr Trump so frightens the establishment they tried lawfare, they tried to "off" him. The July 13 shooting is probably the biggest reason to vote for Trump, and perhaps the most compelling reason to vote. And the second attempt. But events are much bigger than he, or anyone else, is.
One bozo on the other site thought that Hitler was taking orders from the Mufti. Netanyahu shows up here and gets standing ovations from Congress every sixty seconds or so. No doubt there were watchers in the balcony to see if anyone didn't stand. He and others Israelis have boasted of their control of the United States. There is little reason to doubt this. Believing otherwise is to be a bozo.
+1
Trump isn't a 'retard". He's a real estate business man from Queens. Unless you have played the same game you don't understand it at all, but it works better than, "woke idealism".
Lol, you don’t want to play more right wing than thou games with me lady, considering I am literally a Nazi. And I stand by him being a vulgar retard, if you look at his Tweets his command of the English language is nil. As I said above I will probably vote for him to protect the 1st and 2nd Amendment, and stop war with Russia, but I am not going to be a fan boy and pretend he is intelligent, when he is a vulgar desire driven beast of a man.
Do you even read your own posts? Compared to you, Trump is a virtuoso of the English language. Name calling is so sand boxish.
LOL, said the guy whose whole last post was name calling, or in more formal terms the ad hominem fallacy. Self awareness isn't your strong suit is it? But then you probably think Ben Shapiro is a deep philosopher, lulz.
lol
Vote the Constitution party in the deep red or blue states to chastise the Republicans and Trump for slandering MAGA, but hold the nose and vote Trump in the swing states where it really matters.
After the election, after the re-structure of the parties, the choices may be clearer.
I suggest the Left’s moniker be the Know Nothing Party.
Oh darn, already been used.
The Republican Party may as well change its name to the Whig Party, because, consisting almost totally of RINOS and not republicans, it deserves to go extinct too. Franklin was right, when on leaving the Constitutional Convention and asked, "What kind of government do we have?" he replied, "A republic if you can keep it."
Those RINOs are joining the Know Nothings as fast as the former moderate Dems are joining MAGA. Trump has already succeeded in one thing. He has re-ordered the political spectrum to fit reality better. Two new parties. MAGA and Know Nothings.
Yeah, I am in Michigan unfortunately, the ur swing state.
What you offer as music makes Taylor Swift sound like Puccini. And you're going to hold your nose, and vainly label Trump a retard. SMH.
If I were a Philistine like you, I would’t advertise it in public? My music is literally above your head and uses non major and minor modes. “It sure do sound different, I reckon, yuck, yuck.”
IDIOT!
Your views on certain subjects are correct. Unfortunately you lower yourself with desperate replies. We've long passed the apex of classical and popular music, both sacred and secular. Your gratuitously caustic offerings are tired, not different. You conveniently forgot Arnold Schoenberg? His nonsense is tired too.
Philistine my ass. Get over yourself and get lost.
LOL, look in the mirror and try to gain to gain some self awareness, you are everything you project on to me.
The one thing I will concede to you is Palestrina was probably the peak of western music. Yet if we were to try to copy him now, that would be a dead music, not a live music. A contemporary music must grapple with the chaos of a dying empire. Perhaps after it dies when can then justly created something as ordered and meaningful as Palestrina again. Though it will be a different form of structured beauty as history never repeats though it does rhyme.
09/27/24: Mr Kunstler's comparison of today in the USA to France in 1794 is perfect. I long ago noticed exactly the same thing. And I pray that the outcome is also exactly the same. The National Razor should be the fate of the Bidens, the Harris cabal, and all the rest of these scumbags who have disgraced us.
There has to be a better way. Even Camille Desmoulins, who kicked off the Revolution in France was horrified by the excesses of The Terror. As in the case of Eric Edwards, their crimes are made public and they are indicted.
And you don’t need a power source to do the perfect job. It’s a plus plus game.
09/28/24: Highly recommend is "Napoleon Bonaparte" [1769-1821], by Alan Schom [born 1937/1941- ] HarperCollins (1997 hardcover). It was written/published long before the Trump era got going; ironically, Schom in his dotage succumbed to TDS.
Scaffolds & a guillatine(?sp)
"Peter the Great, His Life and World" by Robert K. Massie is excellent. A great investment in perspective on a people isolated...kinda like New Mexicans before New Mexico.
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. Henry L. Mencken, 1926.
Well said. What we must realize is that the US is NOT a sovereign nation. It lost its sovereignty long ago--a milestone was the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 when the US became a vassal of the international globalist banking empire. The closest I have been able to characterize the US at present is as the military arm of the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire, an entity which is coming to its deserved end on the battlefields of Ukraine and Palestine. What comes next? Well, let's wait for the collapse of Zelensky and Netanyahu then reassess. At some point, I think we are looking at a carefully orchestrated attack by Russia and China on the Empire's flanks. What real patriots much now do is put together an outline of what America might become in the multipolar world that is on its way. The US is collapsing.
Anglo-American-Zionist-French- Polish-German-Japan-Taiwan-Italian-Greece etc. Empire. One side as above, the other is BRICS+. BRICS+ is correct here, work on destroying the USA and the pyramid collapses. I do wonder what the WEF is thinking right now, do we let BRICS+ destroy the dollar or should we do it?
Agree with you 100% on the ??? Of what happens to the US and the world when the dollar goes up in smoke. Can the USA compete economically with BRICS+ after all the damage the Leftist Deep State has done to the country?
Oh really. The BRICS talk about their own currency to compete with the West- supposedly gold-backed, to boot, which would be a hoot if true, but the transparency of that claim is shown just yesterday as China announced it was going to pull the equivalent of $140 billion out of thin air to save its own banking system. So how do the other BRIC nations protect themselves against having their own resources sucked away by, say China's cranking out a few trillion surreptitiously in the basement?
The definition of bankruptcy in my book is when you have to borrow to pay interest payments. The USA passed one trillion dollars this year in servicing the debt. Pretty soon, the interest payments will be larger than the GDP, not the debt. Bankrupt.
No, bankruptcy is when you cannot pay your debts or your creditors refuse to extend credit. The U.S. has been able to continuously expand its debt, at the cost of widespread inflation that people do not seem to understand- $35 trillion could as easily gone for free housing (not that I am endorsing that fantasy) as for bombs and missiles destined to be blown to smithereens, but a complacent-or cowardly- electorate sits back as the dogs of war get fatter and fatter and they poorer and poorer.
When your inability to pay your interest payments is public, then you will be cut off from your creditors as a bad risk. You and I have said the same thing, the first runs into the second. The USA gets away with its debt load because as the creator of money, no one will call in that debt out of fear, until BRICS+. When the USA’s creditors come calling, End Times are near.
Fear of what? For all the added U.S. debt, the $USD still ranks favorably against all the G20 currencies- they have all been inflating. What governments have to fear is people seeing prices going up and up and reading that their "central banks have been buying gold." For whom? For what benefit? For themselves! And when people wake up to that, they will have something to fear.
Have you figured out how many fiat dollars the USA creates each year, or how many worthless bonds it sells. In the US economy, $140 billion is in the petty cash drawer.
BRICS+ is a total threat the the USA, but the number one threat is the Deep State.
Yes, compared to $35 trillion $140 billion seems small, but if you are BRIC1 and you find out BRIC2 has just printed $140 billion while you were not looking, how does BRICS+ survive as a cooperative entity? Does no one else think money should have definite tangible value? I regard the imposition of central bank cryptos, eliminating the cash economy, as part of what I think of as Deep State. Funny that the imposition of income tax came about the same year as the central bank, the Fed, ion 1913 (just in time for WWI) Because if it were not for the IRS, no one would care what form you chose to offer your goods or services- it would be by mutual agreement.
Think large here. Russia needs people to settle into Siberia as things warm up. China and India have lots and lots of poor people that need a start. Could there be a deal going on here? Where America is limiting out on its resources, Asia is just starting. I read an Apple+ article on the cooperation between China and Russia with the oil exploration in the Arctic. I believe Russia now has open water above Siberia for part of the year. Did you also know that the first SOS for Trump, Tillotson was his name I think, was the CEO of Exxon and was in the process of signing a deal with Russia to develop those Arctic oil fields? Then the Dem Neo-cons showed up with Russia, Russia, Russia to destroy that effort. There is much evil Left of center in this country.
An interesting point- and when, what with Russia moving to "reclaim" part of Ukraine, China decides it wants to "reclaim" some of the territory annexed by Russia in the past, some of that "cooperation" will be sorely tested.
Good point !
The parallel to our current leadership situation was the crude agreement between the aristocrats in Europe 110 years ago that led them into The Great War. If one said, no we aren't going to war over an assassination that happen because of a wrong turn by the Archduke's carriage. If one said, the rest would have probably had a second thought. Even going to war, they thought it would last a month or so. The concentration of power inevitably leads to growing stupidity by those in power. They misunderstand every signal of concern and threat. We'll see, in our lifetime, one of these poorly equipped leaders press the button that starts a nuclear war. It will be just like the a century ago. Mistaken action that leads to genocide and degradation of the planet.
Our contemporary Jacobins need not go to the trouble of setting up an execution machine in Times Square. They're working to outsource the Terror by lobbing enough missiles into Russian sites so Putin & Co. will have no other option than to respond in kind.
To me, the worst element of the modern-day Terror is the utter unreliability of information. For the first month of the "pandemic," I heard what the media were advising us to do, and I thought I was going crazy, having dealt with pathogens for decades in EMS and as a nurse. Firmly established guidelines were ignored and conventional wisdom shot down. My colleagues, half of them, went along with the propaganda and lost my respect forever. And now I read journal articles with a critical edge that borders on paranoia. It is very unsettling. I just needed a heart procedure, and my trust deficit in the institutions made it a nerve-racking thing.
The official response to the "pandemic," with all its hysteria and counter-sanity procedures (remember grocery stores with one-way aisles?) forced a lot of us to give up our belief in benign authorities and the wisdom of scientists.
Agreed. There was a large public parking lot in San Diego, at a small lake, and every other parking space was cordoned off with tape and cones so cars could not park next to each other. Because Covid. That was probably the craziest thing I have seen.
I'm sure the cars appreciated being protected against catching Covid.
Speaking of stage 4 craziness, how about those dolts driving alone in cars with the windows up and wearing masks? To avoid infection from themselves, I guess.
How about arrows setting one way aisles in stores?
I enjoyed rolling over those arrows
while going the wrong way.
Called myself "Wrong-Way Carol E"
Crazy is when you do not know WTF you are talking about and still play the power game.
And remember the tape on the floor?! Oh my! When doctors become, in essence, salesmen and government "employees" the medical system has become extinct...it is something else.
I went to my doctor for an exemption to the COVID "vaccine" because I once had a flu shot accelerate autoimmune hyperthyroidism (not to mention I distrusted the whole rationale and technical basis for the jab). This physician SMIRKED at me and said, "Well, I guess you'll just be working in the field (RN) a whole lot less, then." She was willing to give me an exemption if I had ever had an anaphyllactic reaction to a vaccine.
I fired her and eventually just signed a statement that I had a religious objection, which was my only option. The only reason I could get away with that was that my employer employed fewer than 50 persons.
Beth
You know as well as I do that the “pandemic” was a failure. A collapse of the world hospital system. Hospitals became a source of the spread of Covid. I was an RN for 17 years and know for a fact that the isolation capacity of the hospital system was never even explained as a source of the infection spread. In our hospital before the epidemic, one or at the most two rooms were outfitted for airborne disease, mostly TB. You know what a PIA working in that isolation setup was, n95 masks that had to seal, Negative airflow, separate entry areas, big time PPE, etc. I remember how long it took for the WHO to finally acknowledge that Covid was airborne. With that admission, the hospital isolation situation became impossible to deal with. Hospitals became a source of the spread of Covid instead of a refuge away from it. I would not be surprised that it was at this point that the Fauci crowd finally told the PTB, Trump included that the pandemic was out of control,
Which it was.
In retrospect, it would have been better for the treatment of Covid to be handled by the old fashioned quarantine procedures than putting them all in hospitals. Right here a reminder of the $40000 bonus per Covid patient probably is appropriate.
I have stepped down to working in a SNF, so that is where I rode out COVID. We had units where contagion spread, but not often, and not with much lethality. Nor did I ever catch it from a patient. (My son brought omicron home in `22).
We have had a 42-year struggle with TB in my region (my husband, nephew, and brother-in-law converted!), so I have had experience with respirators and positive-pressure rooms, but it was BARELY worse than suiting up in PPE during a COVID outbreak, which we are still mandated to do by CMS. That includes the perpetual face diaper and gowning up to enter a room. At this point, (and comparing it to other precaution protocols for influenza, etc.), I think this is just bureaucratic inertia and possibly a demoralization tactic. I am so ready to retire or just help people in my community in exchange for barter goods. I can always use eggs.
It's only getting stupider out there . . .
But covid was dangerous to only a few. A sane society could have isolated only the ones truly at risk.
One or two airborne isolation rooms, per floor. The scrubbing filtration for these rooms was very expensive.
sigh.
Idjut doctor.
Of the same ilk: git yer covid shot; yer blood-pressure meds;
git yer mammogram, statin meds; colonoscopy; take yer aspirin
git yer cancer chemo & radiation therapies
take yer fluoride --!
Me: "NO." Works every time.
I tend to do as you do, but atrial fibrillation really kicked my ass, so I plumped for a catheter ablation recently. I'm hoping that an anti-inflamatory diet (keto) will help keep the doctor away in the future. The treatments you've named are frequently counterproductive, e.g. stating. It's nuts.
I love your spunk And heart. Take good care of both! from a rough person, rough building trades and at times using rough language "Lady in Training"
Speaking of rough, I was shovel-fed the aspiration to get a degree and be a white-collar something, but I ended up in a rough trade, myself, dealing in flesh, blood, and other such effluvia. Dad was in manufacturing and construction. So my peeps are rough, and it's also why I find Trump endearing. He deals in the concrete realm, with land, with materials, with groups of ordinary, competent people. He builds stuff, unlike so many of our pols who shuffle paper and sell hot air. Democrats, cat ladies, wine moms, white dudes for Harris, bureaucrats and ivory tower types will be smug at their own peril, because we already dislike and disrespect them. Those of us who get stuff done, that is.
I recall dropping my mask away
and continually going the wrong way down those aisles.
I got funny looks but no one challenged me
Ooh, what a rebel I was. [rolls eyes]
Putin can wait a few months to make that decision. Can't imagine he and Trump aren't talking. The deal is being made now to avoid WWII.
Trump's opinion of Zelensky and NATO is obvious. We would not be involved in this disaster were it not for Dems, Biden, Harris (assuming she been allowed an opinion?), and the neo-cons in both Parties. This BS is a Military Industrial Complex money grab.
It is also a preservation of capital effort by Biden, his family and the Mob to maintain the corruptive hold on Ukraine that they had. Trump was impeached for even trying to investigate this corruption Biden bragged on video about his power to shut down internal investigation in Ukraine by with-holding funding. The real deal, the government is the Mob. Trump will cut off Z as he has no money invested there. Not Harris, Biden ordained.
Appreciate the style, the irony and the overall message! More people should be reading this. Very common sense, very grounded and the reach back to the Jacobins of history is quite valuable. Let's hope we are not headed to using the razor but rather the judicial system and make the blob accountable! Something I pray for daily!
Well said SMM.
I have read that the US is about to provide Ukraine with F-16 jets armed with long-range air-to-ground missiles to strike targets deep into Russia. If the US does that--launches missiles that strike Russian cities and towns, killing Russian citizens and destroying property--than the US will be in a de facto state of war with Russia. Putin would be absolutely 100% justified to launch missiles into the US. Why are US citizens ignoring this looming reality? Is NFL Football really more important than a Russian missile destroying your neighborhood? What the heck is going on in this drifting, aimless country?
Most of the voting public has no idea what's going on in the world. And they have no interest in finding out. They are largely economically and politically ignorant and content to be so. There's nothing to be done about that. Scrape them off.
Draft, here we come! Glad I'm retired!
The huge irony there is, with women get equal sports funding via Title IX, female Admirals in the Navy, Generals (and even Rangers) in the Army, and serving as fighter pilots in the Air Force, of they do not draft women too, the men may pull a sit-down strike on very firm legal grounds. And then you may have a sort of mirror-play of Aristophenes' anti-war play Lysistrata: Lysistrato?
That'll get rid of a whole swath of antifa and blm soldiers.
Cuba, 1962. In reverse. How di we feel about Kennedy’s resolve? The same way the Russians are feeling about Putin right now.
I do have one question. Why doesn’t Putin just blow the hell out of every long range missile or F 16 that enters Ukraine territory? What stops him?
"I do have one question. Why doesn’t Putin just blow the hell out of every long range missile or F 16 that enters Ukraine territory? What stops him?"
...Physics.
I thought the F-16s were reserved for the white supremacists in the US. Isn't that what Joe intimated once?
F 16s are old school, surpassed long ago by F22 and F35. We are giving them our rejects. We are watching how Russia deals with the F16 as they probably have the specs for it. We will not chance losing the latter two so Russia can reverse engineer them.
LOL! F-16s in competent pilots' hands are far superior to either of the two hangar queens F-22 and F-35. Hell, the Navy stills flying FA-18s, which competed with the F16 for the USAF's favor way back when. Trouble is, the F-16's had been milked for all the graft they had in them, so it was time to move on to something more expensive and worthless. Remember, the point of all these wars is NOT to actually defeat anybody, but to milk the US Treasury of every last drop of monetary goodness.
And we won't chance losing ANY of the latter two because we know for damn sure that we'd lose A LOT of them in any encounter with the Russians . Russian military aviation has long since been FAR superior to the US, since the point of their procurement programs is to actually provide effective defense.
The Chaos Tornado keeps twisting, ripping, and wreaking havoc. The next month, maybe 3, is going to be the most chaotic, dangerous, and consequential in modern American history... maybe World history, if things go crazy enough.
"They" clearly want a war, maybe 2-3, just as cover in the media! Imagine that! A group willing to burn down the world, rather than act rationally.
I am 100% certain about one thing, and one thing only- They will NEVER, let Trump back into the White House! Election doesn't matter, they'll just fraud their votes again, or if he wins too big for that, claim that his votes were fraud, done by Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, and the ghost of Adolf Hitler! They will kill the internet, and the power grid if they have to. And they will certainly start a war, with another gigantic false flag style "attack" if they can come up with nothing else.
This is End Game! For them, for us, for both, maybe for the modern world, and every human on the planet.
They're pushing all of their chips to the middle of table, and attempting to win with a pair of deuces (or dunces), and if that doesn't work, they will flip the table.
Brace yourself and steel your spine, it's on like Donkey Kong, and nobody is coming out unscathed!
In Dante's Inferno, didn't Satan say it was better to rule in hell than serve in heaven?
...and in Paradise Lost he said "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate"
We're completely screwed. When somebody says its on like donkey kong things are really getting real.
"I am 100% certain about one thing, and one thing only- They will NEVER, let Trump back into the White House!" Don't be so sure. I am convinced Trump is the flip side of the Deep State album that Biden is currently ;playing. Trump, in his last campaign ;promised to balance the budget-hung Jackson's portrait as if he was a blood brother to the man who balanced 8 straight- and then signed off on- did not once veto four consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. Cynically nominated Judy Shelton, a supporter of the gold standard, to the Fed, knowing it was going nowhere, and later, after having his palm greased, came out supporting cryptos, which would have both Shelton and Jackson spinning in their grave. Waved a stern finger at Boeing for exorbitant charges to update Air Force One, but caved in to them once in office as well as every budget-busting military appropriation sent to him. Bent over and fully assumed the position for Big Bankers, Big Pharma, Israel, you name it- but a blind eye to any meaningful reform or consumer protection of any kind. Ronald Reagan, who had been regarded as a conservative before he was shot, fell into line with deficit spending afterwards, and was so controlled that I watched, as her was giving a speech on TV, Treasury Sec. Donald Regan signal him none too subtly, that it was time to wrap things ump, and Reagan did. I now wonder if Trump regards himself as similarly warned.
I have no idea if Harris will win this election, or if Trump will win it. I’m inclined to guess it will be Harris-Walz, based on what I’m seeing and hearing compared to 8 years ago. But it could go either way.
The only thing that’s “100% certain” is that if Trump loses, he will petulantly whine that the election was “rigged”. Waaaah. This, and this only, is a surer bet than the sun rising on November 5.
AND, our country is in imminent danger of collapse if Harris gets in there. I hope he whines big time if the Dem program of take-over happens. People who shut down the investigations of the 2020 election have condemned this country into obscurity financially, and if the 2024 ends up the same,our goose is not just cooked, it is incinerated.
What exactly do you think the Know Nothings will say or do if Trump wins? Do you think this will really be settled with a suspect election?
Their desperation is driven by fear, not just of the temporal punishment awaiting them, but fear of their lives and that of their families. You don't give your allegiance to forces that guarantee you wealth, fame and fortune and then fail in your mission, and there are plenty of examples of those who do.
Yeah, what she said!!!!!
Much of what you prognosticate is likely. Esp. the part about Trump.
TDS!!!
It's a bitch.
I think Ol' Vlad's savvy enough to know just who it is that's causing all the problems in the world today and limit his ashtray production to a select few European capitals and hopefully London and DC and their environs. Would that then cause the blob and its' middle eastern associate/crime boss to respond recklessly in kind? That seems likely as well, but he might not have a choice in the matter. Let's hope his strikes are boldly preemptive and that cooler heads prevail at least temporarily in the immediate aftermath, so that we can then get on with the necessary business of relieving some of the people who have caused all this mess in the first place of their troubled heads.
Some of the people? How do you remove the heads of all the globalist criminal groups that have created a monster in the USA with their invasion? First step is to burn down the MSM and its, not biased, but bigoted control of information in this country. Start with both the NYT and WaPo and MSNBC and CNN.
I like the sentiment, but its just as likely that the big boys would pull the plug on the internet and official news sources altogether, blame it on the ever-present Russians or whatever other boogeyman of the day is handy, and let rampant hysterical fear take hold of a population that's been pre-conditioned to fear their own shadows all these many years. Disinformation can thrive, even, and maybe especially, in a vacuum too.
Joe Rogan released a statement that he believes censorship will be increased if Harrris/Walz win, under the guise of misinformation. You know, misinformation, the body of communication that we do not agree with.
Why do you think the Founders felt freedom of protest was so important? It defuses things by allowing the minority to bitch publicly. Let the Dems win this fall, and the minority, Florida, Texas and the entire west minus Colorado might just decide to go their own way when their power of protest is stolen away.
Time, Life, U.S. News and World Report, The Saturday Evening Post- all iconic in their day- had the strangest(Deep State) business model: feed their readers crap and then act surprised when they died eating it. I would not even touch their on-line content with a ten-foot pole. Instead, I try to glean the truth here, and at other free sites, but am willing to pay also, according to my means. There is more investigative journalism produced free by Russ and Pam Martins, in Wall Street on Parade, than by the entire MSM combined, IMHO.
I remember Time as the conservative, Newsweek as the Liberal and US News and World report as neutral. That shows one of the big problems, instead of a balanced media today, we have total dedication to the Ult-Left.
A nuke on DC would solve a lot of the world's problems.
Hmmm, how about the NSA site?
The one in Utah?
If I were any schmuck in Europe, I'd be afraid of Vladimir Vladimirovich. It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for, not the loudmouths.
Why not start with pulling the plug on the internet and GPS, and then see what comes of that?
That might well be the start of things. Take out the west's eyes on everything and see how well they fly blind. But that's the trouble with nuclear brinksmanship. A move like that would likely send the nukes flying out of fear of what might come next, whether it was the real deal or just another of the west's many false flag psyops against its own citizens. We'd likely never know for sure either way.
Instead of blowing up the Capitol, like Designated Survivor, let us blow up every server in every location. I honestly believe one of the prime problems today, the spread of political hatred, comes from the almost total Ult-Left swing of the sources of information in the country. Thank you Elon for breaking the mold.
Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak, and the couplings strain.
For the pace is hot, and the points are near,
and Sleep hath deadened the driver’s ear:
And signals flash through the night in vain.
Death is in charge of the clattering train!”
Churchill was fond of quoting this portion of Edward Milliken's poem, The Clattering Train
Your webpage still seems to be down. Or at least not what it used to be. I miss eyesore of the month.
I was recently in Berlin and I realized that even the old Soviet architecture of East Germany is better than any buildings built today.
We're in the process of rebuilding the old website and may lodge the whole of it here on this Substack. Patience. Lotta old archives to mess with.
I would not go back to an outfit that allowed the hack and then did not support their service when compromised. Sub-stack seems to be a better site with more tools available.
I'm patient. Gotta admit from what I've seen that Substack seems to be the "real deal". I've joined it.
Holy moley! That IS bad!!
"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
~ Ludwig von Mises
“Do not fear.”
I wish I shared your optimism, but personally don’t see any possible way out of this that does not involve human suffering on a scale that is unimaginable. Let’s face it, the American Marxists have this locked up. They’ve penetrated far too wide and far too deep for any form of French-styled “enlightenment” to spontaneously occur. At least half of this nation has been reduced to “useful idiots” who support their own demise, and the number grows daily.
We may see brief glimpses of sanity return via the sporadic election of men like Trump, but the long game still belongs to the Marxists. And they know it. Remain patient and the anchor babies of Biden’s 15 million new illegals shall bear fruit when they reach voting ago.
“Ballots or bullets” is a saying that is often repeated. The next great awakening in America is that our ballots…and elections…are nothing more than Kabuki theatre. America really doesn’t have any good choices left, now does it?
'Fraid it's the same old story. No one repents until it gets as bad as it can get. I know. I've been there. It was scary, it hurt like hell (no pun intended), and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Now I know the worst, and I know I can survive it. But! I only did so by God's mercy.
We have one. If the church repented of it's apostasy and embrace of the world and what it offers. I don't say the "world" because the world is incapable of repentance. That's why God addresses this comment to the church only.