These are dark and crazy times. I have to pass a house with two lawn signs for "Harris" where they obviously just cut "Biden" off the top and so, half a sign. But the worst part, on the same lawn, between the halves supporting Kamala, is a four foot sign with Franklin's statement "A republic if you can keep it." I am so tempted to stop by and find out where the disconnect lies, but honestly, whoever lives there scares me more than the many outrageous displays of yard demons for the upcoming "Trick or Treat."
Kinda interesting quote to choose given those same people who love Harris often call us a democracy and get angry when you point out we're a representative republic. And also, they are the ones who want no borders, no culture, a global existence... so that would be anti-republic. Stupid idiots, don't even understand their own virtue signaling.
It may be a representative republic, but those elected representatives do not in any significant shape or form represent you or I. They all represent their corporate sponsors who have bought off both parties. The border only exists to keep you and I in. Welcome to the Hotel California where people check in but never check out...
I'm not a member or supporter of AIPAC. So before any of you jump on what I'm about to write here because my last name is Cohen, listen up to the facts I will supply that have nothing to do with my genetic inheritance.
There is nothing in this bill about not being able to criticize Israel, or calling for allegiance to Israel. On the contrary, the working definition of antisemitism given by the IHRA says - "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Also, "trackaipac" makes the scurrilous and thoroughly disproven charge of genocide against Israel and the IDF, when the exact opposite is true. Israel is fighting against agents of genocide directed towards Israel, combatants who deliberately hide underground and amongst civilians they hope will be killed when they themselves are the targets of elimination. Trackaipac and its supporters are the jihadists "useful idiots" if not jihadists themselves.
This much is obvious to anyone paying any attention to the facts on the ground, but apparently there are actual antisemites here who find the facts stubborn little things inconvenient to their personal animosities. Therefore they disregard reality and replace it with fantastic lies fed by their delusion.
Vote all you want for cessation of arm sales and support to Israel, but you can do that without lying and being vile racists. That's on you and you are reaping what you sow.
Well said! THANK YOU for educating the useful idiots. I guess it's not entirely their fault--the media and those who would like Israel destroyed are running a very slick anti-Israel propaganda con and they've fooled a lot of otherwise decent people. I do hope that those who've bought the lies will read--and re-read--what you have written here and will now understand the true situation.
Israel is an apartheid state (per Amnesty Internation, Human Rights Watch, and most important B't Selem, an ISRAELI human rights group).
Before Oct 07, Kim Iverson, hardly a radical, did podcasts from the occupied West Bank, where she discussed life for the Palestinians, having their land, water, homes, and even lives taken, and subject to checkpoints and arbitrary arrest at any time, for any reason.
Desmond Tutu of South Africa said the Palestinians had it worse than the Blacks in SA during apartheid.
Israel does not like being an apartheid state and has not liked it. They are not going to give the Palestinians equal rights, so they are trying to eliminate the Palestinians. The plan was to use Oct 07 as a pretext to kill quite a few of them, render Gaza uninhabitable, and make the Palestinians leave Gaza, and then repeat in the West Bank.
The Israelis have killed a lot of Palestinians and rendered Gaza largely uninhabitable, but it appears the Palestinians have realized that if they leave, like they did in 1948 or 1967, they will never return, so they are holding on.
The only lies are the blatant lies of Israelis ("they bayoneted babies!") debunked by several. Then we have the blatant lies of the media, and lies of omission by the mainstream media and even CFN.
The true situation is that Israel wants to eliminate the Palestinians, and that the US/Israel want to have hegemony over the Middle East, by making sure other countries are either US puppets, or totally impotent.
JHK has had some good guests of stature, who are not popular with the MSM, Dmitry Orlov comes to mind. But they didn't discuss Israel, the discussed the US and compared to the USSR. Russia survived the implosion--will America?
Why doesn't JHK invite Prof. John Mearsheimer on his podcast, to discuss what is REALLY going on? Or Max Blumenthal? Perhaps some of you might learn something.
How is it that Trump and Harris, most Republicans and Democrats, blindly support Israel? Miriam Adelson boasts of how much Trump did for Israel, and that's why she is donating $100 million to PACs; Haim Saban does the same for K Harris and donates $40 million.
Israel's stated goals were to eliminate Hamas and "recover the hostages. The unstated goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israel has failed on all counts. So Israel is now attacking Lebanon and doing what it does best, killing civilians. Israel is also escalating with Iran, as Israel wants to draw the US in.
And that's why Adelson and Saban and the Israeli Lobby have bought the US government. To make sure the US does what Israel wants.
We will see, if the internet stays up, and is still relatively free (note that CFN has not come back...) what people will have to say, if and when the attack on Iran leads to massive war that affects the US directly, or indirectly topples the house of cards here.
Ah, Desmond Tutu - here's a response to Tutu's claim of Israel committing genocide written some years ago while that little poseur was still self-righteously walking the earth and bamboozling the ignorant and credulous. Written by Simon Deng, a Sudanese man who, in his childhood, experienced his village being destroyed by jihadists with himself captured and sold into horribly degrading slavery. He escaped after 2.5 years.
"Where is Desmond Tutu when my people in Sudan call out for freedom?
"Late last month, I went to hear Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at Boston's Old South Church at a conference on "Israel Apartheid." Tutu is a well respected man of God. He brought reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa. That he would lead a conference that damns the Jewish state is very disturbing to me.
"The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families -- even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. I know Arabs go to Israeli schools, and get the best medical care in the world. I know they vote and have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu's South Africa.
"I also know countries that do deserve the apartheid label: My country, Sudan, is on the top of the list, but so are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. What has happened to my people in Sudan is a thousand times worse than Apartheid in South Africa. And no matter how the Palestinians suffer, they suffer nothing compared to my people. Nothing. And most of the suffering is the fault of their leaders. Bishop Tutu, I see black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud.
"Tutu said Israeli checkpoints are a nightmare. But checkpoints are there because Palestinians are sent into Israel to blow up and kill innocent women and children. Tutu wants checkpoints removed. Do you not have doors in your home, Bishop? Does that make your house an apartheid house? If someone, Heaven forbid, tried to enter with a bomb, we would want you to have security people "humiliating" your guests with searches, and we would not call you racist for doing so. We all go through checkpoints at every airport. Are the airlines being racist? No.
"Yes, the Palestinians are inconvenienced at checkpoints. But why, Bishop Tutu, do you care more about that inconvenience than about Jewish lives?
"Bishop, when you used to dance for Mandela's freedom, we Africans -- all over Africa -- joined in. Our support was key in your freedom. But when children in Burundi and Kinshasa, all the way to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in particular in Sudan, cried and called for rescue, you heard but chose to be silent.
"Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans -- I was part of the movement to stop slavery in Mauritania, which just now abolished the practice. But you were not with us, Bishop Tutu.
"So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?"
Watch the Al Jazeera documentary, "Gaza", much of it based on Israeli footage. The Israelis themselves tell and show us who they are. Yeah, it's ugly. The world will never forget this livestreamed atrocity and genocide. Prosecutors will have much to work with.
Look, Israel is special. The Israeli Lobby, consisting of wealthy Zionist Jews (American ANDS Israeli) and fanatic religious zealots (Jews and "Christians") controls virtually all key US government officials, including both Presidential candidates.
Israel is a racist society, whether people here like it or not. It's like a very hard version of the Deep South, circa 1910.
But it's not just the native Arabs whom the Israeli Jews view as sub-human. It is apparently ALL goyim.
I just stumbled across this story about David Bogdanovsky. You can't make this stuff up...
He was a solidier doing his part to eliminate the Palestinians of Gaza., he was apparently killed in action in Gaza. Neither of which should surprise anyone.
But this? I had to Google it. Below is an excerpt from the Jerusalem Post, Oct 22. I hope that is OK.
"The Defense Ministry is attempting to reach an agreement with the family of St.-Sgt. David Bogdanovsky, KIA, to remove a cross from his headstone.
“By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a MILITARY headstone,” the Ministry said.
The Ministry cited a ruling by the IDF Chief Rabbi that states the holiness of the Jewish cemetery is harmed by the cross.
The Ministry said it is working with the public committee for soldier memorial to reach an agreement with the family, “in light of requests by families whose loved ones are buried nearby who claim that the cross hurts their feelings and their ability to pray and say [the] Kadish [mourning prayer], and in light of the ruling of the IDF chief Rabbi.” "
Fascinating! This man died killing indigenous Arabs for the Jewish State, but this does not entitle his remains to be interred in a appropriately. The goyim are not worthy. Goyim. Like Untermensch. Let's salute "the only democracy in the Middle East"!
Another proof that, sadly, the UN Resolution 3379, passed in 1975, saying "Zionism is Racism" is true.
Now, I'm not saying the US should give Israel an ultimatum to stop the war on the Palestinians, and either give them equal rights or give them the entire West Bank and Gaza, or else our big bad Air Force will put an end to it.
But I do find it very offensive and disappointing that my tax money is enabling this racist behavior. Isn't it time to put America first?
When this Middle East war plays out, I foresee Israel will, like South Africa, grudgingly give the Palestinians equal rights.
This war will be a big setback, perhaps even a defeat, for the US. Consequently, the US will no longer be able to indulge Israel--or even secure AMERICAN interests. That oil is gonna be shared with others... just as the fracking miracle dries up.
And today's Israel is not the Israel of Moshe Dayan, of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Israelis have grown affluent and soft, like the big PX that sustains them. They are vicious, but not tough like they used to be. They will NOT commit suicide by blowing up the world to save their apartheid regime.
We will never know if an honest two-state solution, as imperfect as it would be, might have delayed, or even prevented, the tragedy we are seeing and the much greater debacles to come from the Middle East. Biblical.
Israel never wanted a two-state solution. Well, my Israeli friends, as your hero Miriam Adelson would say, "promise kept!". Enjoy your day--and my apologies for the long the post.
How do you know my liberalism? Yesterday's "classical liberal" is a "conservative" in today's US, isn't that so?
"ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ"
"The one thing I know is that I know nothing"--Socrates (the original, not me)
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not really know.... I learn one thing and feel that there are one or two things that I don't know that are relevant. Probably why my posts are so long here...
Still, I do know a few things.
One saying I like: good fences make good neighbors.
That seems to me to be the best prescription for getting along, with less fuss or bloodshed. A more humane way.
Liquidating your enemies does not work as well as it appears to. Nations, like people, need boundaries and limits. Absent that, when nations (or people) think they can get away with anything, their greed for "more" in the end leads to their demise.
I believe that is the destiny of the USA, as it hits 250 years, give or take a few.
Since Lincoln, even more so after 1913, and completely since WW2, the US government has been directed by the nefarious forces of big money from behind the scenes. A veneer of a republic under the control of big capital and big business and their agents known as "special interests".
War, debt, depravity, the dumbing down of the public, all reflect the wishes of the globalists to impose one-world government, and to be "God" (the biggest sin). Now, as they enter the final straightaway, the globalists have "floored it" and added wokeism, then the plandemic and mRNA injections, and now in an effort to subordinate Russia and increase economic control over China, TWO wars with Apocalyptic WW3 potential, one a pure proxy play against Russia using Ukraine, the other an unholy alliance joining hard-core Zionists and the US government against Iran in an effort to keep China and Russia out of the Middle East.
I can see the hazy outlines of those two conflicts merging, or shifting south, across the Black Sea (with all of Turkey's intrigues, plans against Greece, trying to upstage Iran, barking at Israel), and maybe China blockading Taiwan, and perhaps Egypt/Somalia fighting Ethiopia over the most valuable resource for life--water, the Nile.
We can endlessly debate the root causes of America's, impending, or for that matter, ROME's actual demise.
In the case of Rome, was it imperial overreach? Debasement of the currency? Corruption? The absorption of "non-Roman" subjects into the Empire in general, and important positions, like officers or officials in particular? Bloody conflicts between warring factions at the top? The blood of all the Christians?
Probably all of the above. Was one or two of these ills the main reason(s)? People who have studied Roman history (and that is not me) can intelligently debate this. I think they all fed on each other. I personally used to be a big proponent of "currency debasement", but who knows.
"Lugh", it appears to me that you and I agree on more things than we disagree.
Thank you for your succinct comment and giving me the opportunity to respond here.
You love Israel first and foremost and the United States only insofar as it supports Israel, not in and for itself. So the question becomes: Why do you live here? Why not live in your heart's desire?
I try to listen to what people are presenting. I look at whatever evidence they present, and this issue with Israel is disturbing. What I see quite often is people who have spent a LOT of time in an echo chamber. They refuse to look at anything that doesn't fit with their preferred narrative. This works quite well for moving the elite's plan forward because as long as people refuse to look at what others have to show them, they will continue on the elite's path of mutually assured destruction.
It's become too convoluted for me to do anything more than sit on the sidelines and watch it all play out.
So you're telling us you don't see clearly or understand what's going on and therefore have no helpful observations. How is it, then, that you know who is and who isn't spending time in "echo chambers"?
Well, yeah, obviously, we've been totalitarian for awhile now. But technically, that's what we are (RR). "They're attacking OUR DEMOCRACY!" if the funniest thing these Woke Jacobins* say. Well, one of them. There are so many.
What we all missed, is that Biden was the trojan horse to bring Kamala in.
They just needed to keep him stringing out the time until it was too late for anybody but Kamala to be on the ballot.
She is a hard Communist, a true believer, the red diaper baby of two Communists.
As a front for the Obama-Holder-Clyburn network, she will complete the DSA Revolution that Obama started, making America a One Party totalitarian state in all but name.
She was an MKUltra baby from a CIA fam just like Obama so yeah, they were gonna plug her in somewhere. I'm guessing she's somewhat of a disappointment though, maybe they wanted her to take down Willie Brown but instead she climbed up on his lap and cooed to get her way.
She was made Border Czar along with Mayorkas for a reason.
The troops are here and in place. Remember, Cloward-Piven theory says get your people in place, first, before you collapse the .gov with overwhelming demands. They will be in position then to "restore order".
Except that their "armies" will be, as with everything else they do, second-rate, third-class, incompetent failures incapable of carrying out the programs they are ordered to fulfill.
"Burn, loot, murder" doesn't work so well when those you want to burn, loot, and murder are heavily armed and outnumber you 100-1.
But will they use those guns? The actual good people in America are also very moral and religious people who are likely loathe to take another person's life. I imagine they can be pushed to the breaking point or would take a life to defend themselves, but it would probably take a lot to get them to that point. Note that it is the left's adherents who were burning, looting, and shooting a few years ago...it was not the conservative "deplorables" (per HRC et al) who took to the streets. Also, unless the uprising were HUGE, those taking up arms would be quickly rounded up and subjected to the current "justice" system...as were the very peaceful and UN-armed J6 protestors. I think the J6 persecutions/prosecutions have had a very chilling effect on We the People.
That is the single biggest question. As I've often said, if you've never point a gun at somebody and pulled the trigger, you have no idea whether you will actually be able to do so.
They are organized, on a global scale, using culture war, a war without weapons. (Developed specifically to counter superior strength-of-arms.)
We are armed, individually.
Which will prevail?
Our home guns seem to be a Maginot Line, every where the globalists went. Everybody was armed, yet they or their allies, puppets, and satraps hold the high ground in country after country.
Yeah there are "more of us than there are them". Problem is they are organized to the "T", and we ain't. I don't recall that the mob that finally ended Robespierre's reign of terror was organized either. They took out Robespierre but not the cancer he was emblematic of.
And if you kill enough of any organization, no matter how initially good it might be, its performance will quickly degrade to the point of collapse. And these people aren't that good in the first place.
Why? Neither is or will be in control of much of anything. Rather, both are controlled by the same people, the Obama group and those above him and them.
Besides voting FOR censorship, political persecution/assassination, WWIII, and the burning of our Constitution. But they're the "good guys," so if these things happen, it must be good.
Hi, Mary Ann! Yes, it's not EVERYONE'S democracy, but THEIR democracy. They love mob rule, because at present, they make up the mob (or so they believe).
I’m wrong; they don’t say “THEIR “democracy,” they always say “OUR”democracy. Mike Benz has said that at some point they redefined the word democracy to refer to the democracy of institutions, whatever that means, as distinguished from one based on the people.
I listen to Mike Benz all the time. Essentially "democracy" is whatever they need it to be. Primarily they simply use it as a euphemism to refer to the system they control via criminality and conspiracy which does include captured federal agencies and national political parties, etc.
+1 "Essentially 'democracy' is whatever they need it to be."
EVERY "loaded" word leftists use "is whatever they need it to be". The left avoids consistency and logic; their "spell" depends on disorienting and provoking their opponents.
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
Yes, the leftists have very much adopted the by any means necessary way of doing business philosophy. Maybe not a bad way to be when you're trying to survive in a dangerous world, but it seems like a very bad way of doing things when you're part of a society that is presumably supposed to be united around a common goal, idea or identity.
Such people can never, ever tell you why they would support Harris without mentioning the Bad Orange Man™. There's nothing there but completely manufactured hatred. And once they start up about him, you won't hear anything about policy preferences or disagreements, just lies, hoaxes, emotion-driven nonsense, and bullshit.
Yep. All those Harris signs are really saying "We hate Trump". They don't even think about what Harris is. What can you do with people that superficial?
And this truth is why I do believe we are all going to have to suffer just because these people need to be slapped across the face and doused with cold water.
Oh, how about get a good nights sleep, enjoy the wonder of each moment, de-regulate the nervous system and suddenly not be triggered by the color, red.
lol -- half a sign! cheap bastards....! the "Vermonters for Harris!" signs came up so fast, it's like the literally grew out of the Earth. It's so annoying, here, the "Harris/Walz" signs -- since the state votes 80% Democrat no matter what. It's like putting up a sign that says, "I'm with Everyone Else!"
10/21/24: Half-wits displaying half signs... one of James's best columns, ever. If the NY Post had any balls (HA!), they'd print it...
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Kamala Harris finally breaks down and visits a remote part of North Carolina.
With news crews following her around as they tour the place, the Vice President asks the local Mayor if there was anything they needed.
"Well," says the Mayor, "We have three very important needs.
"First, we have a medical clinic but no doctor to staff it."
Harris whips out her cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days. Now, what was the second problem?"
"We have no way to get clean water. The hurricane has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for dozens of years. We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive."
Once again, Harris dials a number, yells into her cellphone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "I've opened some roads for water delivery, and we are setting up a water purification plant for your people. Now, what was that third problem?"
The Mayor looks at her and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"
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Danno (posted elsewhere): At first I thought it was a true story.
10/19/24: It gave you that impression because she either so stupid that she didn't notice that she had no dial tone; or so nefarious that she was intentionally lying (pretending to have conversations so she could whip up some supply miracles for the TV cameras); or, and now we come full circle, so f**king stupid that she assumed that the mayor wouldn't KNOW that there's no cell phone service.
Libtards seem to fear "excommunication" above all else.
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"...really, it isn't one Left. There is an ascendant orthodoxy on the Left that is very troubling. It is quite broad, but I think not very deep...when you speak out on a college campus from a perspective on the Left that does not fit this orthodoxy, you are immediately categorized as on the Right, which makes it look that the Left is monolithic and all shares this opinion, but it's not the case."
~ Bret Weinstein Testifies to Congress on The Evergreen State College riots, Free Speech & Safe Spaces - YouTube
"Dark & crazy" times indeed. Mad times, bad times. Just about everywhere.
Our host has swallowed a 'happy/optimistic/fairy tales are real/ truth will out/justice will be done' pill. 'Aint gonna happen.
Stupidity & ignorance still reign supreme. For example, the truth about the vaxx was out there long before the injections really started to roll out. The info was disseminated by fearless & honest experts and available to all with an internet connection. And how many took the poison shot? About 80% world-wide? And how many still in denial, despite current MOUNTAINS of undeniable evidence - would 70% be a fair ball-park figure?
So from where is the momentum for 'justice' going to come - because you do need that broad ground swell of righteous indignation to make it happen. Otherwise it's pretty much this web site and (quite) a few others.. having a bitch. And largely ignored. And if Trumpy makes it to the WH, I'm certain he'll immediately have arrested all the bad guys. Just like he did before ('the Clintons are fine people' - did I get that quote more or less right?)
Nope. We're down the sewer, well past the "S" bend and the World, led by the USA, will spend due time in the cesspool for its sins.
Empires & civilisations come & go. The USA Empire 1945 - 2025 R.I.P.
And yet you’ll support a guy whose OWN chief of staff said he fits the definition of a fascist? A guy who betrayed his oath to the Constitution and tried to steal an election rather than admit he lost?
And a party that is running on a platform of fearmongering & lies.
Don’t waste your time trying to argue with a crazy person.
“I’m not going to help you pretend – by arguing with you – that the reality you’re talking about is not what it is, that there’s still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn’t.”
The City Administrator of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Stephanie Hirsch, breezed in last year and unilaterally ordered up some Congolese for her city. She expressed a vague sense of hurt feelings at the local reception of her decree ("Not great, Stephanie!"). Her father was a friend of mine . . . where did he go wrong in raising this clod of a daughter?
Eau Claire and other cities are also knocking together ugly, medium-density blocks of housing in empty store lots and such. They're all over the landscape here and in the Twin Cities. What the hell? Is this that bullshit Obama was planning?
Meanwhile, carjackings are up over 200% in Minnesota's Twin Cities. This must have something to do with "joy" and "turning the page," but I'm not sure what.
10/21/24: A LOT sooner than even they realize. The biggest budget item in the 2025 federal calculus will be prisons, and payroll for guards to staff them.
Simple, the liberal mind, actually the Leftist mind, is self-directed. They are gimme or gimme sympathetic folks who look to the government for sustenance. Their root is the Have Nots of society whose main goal is stealing from the Haves. Our Constitution protects ownership rights for the population, that is why the Left want it obliterated.
Many of us come here to escape people like you. We deal with your tripe seven days a week. You're not welcome here. I'm sure there are other sites that are more suited to your mentality. Go there. Drink your poisoned Kool aid and drown in it
10/21/24: To the intemperate using ambiguous pronouns, congratulations. The rest of us who are reading your posts have no idea to whom your insults are addressed. But keep up the good work anyway.
I'm married to a professor emeritus/propulsion test engineer, and he self-directs himself to the voting booth to cast a ballot for Trump. If I had a nickel for ever self-important, elitist fuck who says Teump voters are . . . Neanderthals. Lol!
Dennis - my health is perfect. Food is our medicine, not the poison the whitecoats push. I'll never have cancer of any sort, but if I did, an Oncologist is the last person I'd go to - they poison people with chemotherapy and radiation - for mammon. How do they sleep at night?
Not too sure I'd be all that proud of your DUI daughters. I've worked with a lot of doctors and they, as in the general college population, are not all that smarter than is the average college professor who knows quite a bit about his chosen subject but gets himself lost looking for one errant shoe that has wandered under his bed. Doctors credentials, like most of those professors degrees, are the result of persistence rather than intelligence. Given your rhetoric and the fact that both are the product of your loins, I suspect both fall under that rubric.
There was a KunstlerCast podcast earlier this year, while kunstler.com worked, with a doctor/surgeon. I do not recall his name, nor how one can find this very interesting and informative podcast.
The doctor referenced the Libby Zion Case, 1984, in New York. This case ultimately changed the medical intern regimen and made it easier, using the rationale that Libby Zion died because the interns were overworked. However, JHK's guest shared the view, according to many in the medical profession, that reducing the ardor of internships has led to doctors who are not as sharp as they used to be.
Yeah, well, that's just another result of what's been going on since the mid to late 1970s when, especially, but not limited to, self hating Jewish doctors saw that there was a disparity between the percentage of those with enhanced melanin in the population as opposed to those entering medical school and decided to decrease the rigor of the testing and establish quotas (read: giveaways) for those coveted spots. (Don't quote me, but I think that was about the time when they decided to change autopsy language for doctor induced death from malpractice to 'medical misadventure'. That way everybody's off the hook.)
Now, of course, we have doctors practicing who have to have interpreters in the room with them in order to communicate with English speakers.
That second link is so ironic. Hillary brings up getting rid of Section 230, but awhile back when the right complained about Facebook and (then) Twitter for being so censoring, and wanted to take away that provision, the shit hit the fan with the leftie whackos.
I guess YOU are the one with the "problems", since you can't seem to grok men and women being friends, without going full nuclear. You want REAL problems? I can give you a few.
Along that line, check out James MacPherson’s Substack from yesterday, “How Freedom Is Lost and How Freedom is Won.” He uses the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart from Exodus as his example.
The Twin Cities are the LA of the midwest. I swear, you can't get more Woke than Timpon Walz. So it's not much of a surprise. Somalians had already taken over Minnesota long ago. Why not keep that model going? I don't know why Minnesotans don't fight back. I dated one for many years, they were of Swedish decent, maybe the Swedes are neutral here like they are in their country? Who knows. In any case, what a mess.
Scandinavian and Scandinavians are deep into dignity culture and very trusting. Very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to every comer. It's not a common type of culture. It's very unlike the Scotch-Irish and Mestizo honor cultures of the American South where you defend your honor above all. We Norwegians and Swedes are like flipping sitting ducks in our communitarian states, and we let the barbarian walk in unopposed.
(It also means four cars at a four-way stop sign assuming the other guy should go first, then the awkward stop/go/stop exercise in futility, costing everyone 30 seconds of their respective days)
Hilarious, 'cuz its true! You shake your head, but then can't help but smile. Those Scandi's are just as sweet as spun sugar. The funny thing is when they all get to jabbering in Deep Nord; I can only make out about one word in three.
What's "Deep Nord"? I know that when my sister and I get going, we lapse into the prosody of tonal Norwegian, but it's nothing like our grandma's brogue. She always sounded on the verge of tears. I don't know why we do this. A coworker who didn't like me much told me I sounded like a furriner.
The Minnesotan and Wisconsinite were walking by the lake one day, and found a bottle on the beach. Rubbing the sand off, a cloud of smoke poured billowed forth and poof!- out came the genie.
"There are two of you, so I can only grant each one wish," he announced. "Now, what will it be?"
The Minnesotan spoke up. "I want you to put a wall around my state to keep out dat bunch over dere!" he said, shaking his fist at Wisconsin. And poof!- a giant wall appeared, all around Minnesota.
"Now you," the genie said, "What is your wish?" to the other.
The Wisconsinite began pulling at his beard. "Ay dunno...," he mumbled, dismayed. Suddenly, he brightened. "Ooo, ay know! Now...fill it wit water!!"
My first husband is a Swedish Minnesotan from the Iron Range. I'm a Wisconsin Norwegian, and we have the same mindset, really. But the Iron Range, until recently, was solid Dem because of all the recent immigrant miners who were strong for unions. Trump changed that. But I really don't know what keeps Minnesotans so simpleminded and trusting; they even have their weird Democratic Farm Labor party, which represents none of those things any longer.
I should add that my ex is a hereditary union-nased Dem, amplified by his decades of involvement in the teachers' unions. I love the guy, but he's a hard-core member of the Democratic state machine for that reason. I married a mobster!
No Union democrat teacher can ever be talked into changing their opinion, no matter how good the argument against the democrat candidate. I've tried for the past 30 years. When we go to the polls, my spouse just cancels out my vote. I guess we should just stay home and watch TV instead.
Don't stay home Outsider. Your wife, if she's like the dems I know, might just say she's going out for milk and eggs, and lo and behold, she casts a vote for the bad guys without you knowing.
Anybody who's SOMEBODY had a George Floyd riot! I mean, isn't it awful that a repeat felon who pistol-whipped a pregnant woman during a house invasion committed suicide by ingesting fentynol while being arrested?
Swallowing his own stash so he wouldn't go back to prison in Texas certainly qualifies one for saint's murals, a golden casket, and a Pharoah's funeral!
Somebody was searching online for just such a local incident to exploit, and when they found it, they knew they had hit gold: Tim Walz and the mayor were their guys, and just the ones to pull it off. Now we have the same schemers trying to repeat the stunt with Hamas 'protests' during another election year. Maybe we can get Tren de Argua protests in 2028!
The problem is, as in every part of the country now, you, if you are white and/or conservative, cannot fight back and win any battles in court. The justice system in the country is totally corrupted.
So wrong. SO WRONG! If you are white and conservative, just don't expect to have any sway with the courts IF YOU CANNOT PRODUCE EVIDENCE - viz Giuliani & Powell in Dec 2020 & Jan 2021
Yes, people just do not seem to want to acknowledge the degree of control the Leftist judiciary has in the country. There was reported to be significant evidence, affidavits of ballot stuffing, esp. in PA. It was suppressed and not even looked at. By the judiciary. The Left has learned that control of the media and the judiciary IS control.
Yeah, sure Maria. Tell that to those sitting in jail for simply showing up at the capitol on Jan6, and tell that to Trump, who is being maliciously prosecuted for political reasons. First, the defendant would have to have an honest, impartial judge. Then that judge would have to be willing to look at that evidence.
I think, Ms. Goldstein, your background (and I'm making, considering your last name, what I consider a pretty safe assumption here that you probably are versed in Yiddish) probably has you so used to witnessing corruption and underhandedness that it just seems natural to you. Consequently, your belief in the imaginary honesty of the justice system (and the state run election systems) that presently exists in this country can be excused.
I don't think they need to shoot anyone in the face. I think they should act smarter than the nutbags who have taken control and outsmart them. That way, they can't come back. Replace them and their system where they no longer fit. No one has the patience, though. It takes planning and long-range goals.
America had seen this movie before. In the 60s and 70s, it was the intercity “projects” ostensibly to create “affordable housing for the disadvantaged.” Now, in retrospect, we know the projects were designed to become festering cesspools of hate and divisiveness, not the “failed experiment” all the politicians claimed years later. How do we know this? Because that was the outcome in each and every city across America. Still, Our resilient society mostly overcame all that despite the government’s post meddling.
Now, phase 2. Import 10 millions of refugees and plant them in cities with stretched budgets and already crumbling infrastructure. Bonus points for making the optics even more insulting by giving them funding and support not available to actual citizens. The game though is the same: destabilize thru misery and decisiveness. It’s purposeful treasonous actions against America passed off as political incompetence.
Exactly, now the developers are building actual 'Colonies'- raiding bases, razzia, in other words, such as the one near Houston- but the real C40 s.m.a.r.t. cities will not be shining megalopolises such as the planned Tri-City development meant for Netherlands farmland or the Lahaina pilot project. That's horse manure sold to the investor class to boost the IPO.
The real 'smart cities' will simply be designated ULEZ zones in already crumbling urbans such as Detroit. Apartment blocs and Section 8 built under Obama's HUD directive in abandoned lots, or repurposed large buildings. The immigrant migration invasion authorities are already grabbing whatever old properties they can- a huge, vacated former paint factory in Ireland came to light by Ezra Levant's reporting- or enriching local corruptocrats with rental housing schemes like those in Springfield OH (owned by the mayor), or the government paying rising rents for 'investor' MP's council houses in Birmingham and Liverpool.
Where were the Floyd riots staged? In the priciest districts. Where are the 'natural disasters'- usually fires, due to bad forestry management- occurring? What do we do with these huge tracts of abandoned factories and the stores that no longer serve them? Replace a manufacturing community with a migrant rental housing one! Somebody wants to get real estate at a major discount and Build Back Better.
Favela world beckons, it's the latest in vulture capitalism!
Speaking of "...your happy 15-minute cities..." (not their term) a Japanese staffer on WIRED is slipping it to us (Publisher Conde Nasty being embedded Deep State Deep):
Yes, why not? More clients for the Welfare department, voters for the machine. And they will fold right into Black American welfare/criminal culture in short order.
To their credit, the Somalis in my county do not lower themselves to acting like the nearby Twin Cities' black underpass. They have their own ways. They really have not assimilated at all in 30 years here.
Nor have they learned to drive in a straight line. I figured it was from growing up where they did, without rectilinear stuff, but 3 decades later, it seems to be a trait that breeds true. Hmmm.
Interesting thought: Maybe Black African Muslims (not just Somalis) will assimilate Black America, not the other way around. Much worse for us of course.
As somebody raised next to an Elijah Muhummed neighborhood (and the only white kid on the bus), the cruelest twist of the knife is this: the creator of the Nation of Islam was not black. His real name was Eli Wallace, from Brooklyn.
Before the surgeries, he looked as ethnic as could be; those surgeries took their toll, when he died he was 400 pounds, with a harem of 23 "wives". He was an FBI informant, moving guns and heroin into the hood. He advocated for a breakaway Islamic state in Mississippi, and had Malcolm X killed to keep his secrets.
Huh? If you go back 20 generations, you have i excess of 1 million 'grandparents'. We ARE all 'cousins', in reality. And if you're a God-botherer, you know for certain that we all come from Noah, right?
It is interesting that DNA experts say that at one period, man was almost extinct, done to a few thousand individuals and we have descended from this small group.
Interesting regarding the carjackings in Minnesota. I'm in Maryland in a "safe" suburban neighborhood where there were NO carjackings for the first 20+ years I'd lived here. In the past couple of years, we've had about 5 or 6 armed carjackings in my neighborhood, some in broad daylight.
Let's see. what happens when you add population without having the support for them? No jobs? We will make some up, that is the birth of criminal elements. Also, the government is a criminal organization itself, utilizing the illicit trades to try to finance serving the interest payments on the debt.
When the Irish immigrated here, the Irish Mafia was born, when the Italians came in droves, they brought the Mafia. So as the rest of the world seems bent on coming here, they are going to bring their crimes with them. We are like a cesspool now, breeding criminal activity everywhere. The Swamp is well named.
Solution? Build the double 30 foot wall and monitor it, then deport any criminal activity as it occurs. As the are lots of them out here now, it will serve to slow the problem.
The US government, like the government of California, is seeing first hand what happens when its creative class goes Galt. It is easy to be maniac woke Jacobins when standing on the shoulders of giants but a lot harder when you need those very people to scratch and toil for their sustenance and your tax receipts. Tax receipts, I should remind you, that barely cover the interest on their debts.
Businessmen used to be shocked when I told them that were I a younger man that I'd move to a business friendly country. No one is shocked anymore - they just slowly nod in agreement.
2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write so I'm adding Fahrenheit 451 back into the running of Dystopian Future along with 1984 and Atlas Shrugged.
"Strong Strategic Partnerships. Infrastructure that is developed in partnership with those whom it benefits will last longer and generate more development impact. Infrastructure created under the B3W will be developed through consultation with communities and assessing local needs as a true partners. We will establish a taskforce together as a G7, and with others, to coordinate, harmonize our efforts, and increase our impact and reach."
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
Prosperity
We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
Peace
We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.
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Our vision
7. In these Goals and targets, we are setting out a supremely ambitious and transformational vision. We envisage a world free of poverty, hunger, disease and want, where all life can thrive. We envisage a world free of fear and violence. A world with universal literacy. A world with equitable and universal access to quality education at all levels, to health care and social protection, where physical, mental and social well-being are assured. A world where we reaffirm our commitments regarding the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation and where there is improved hygiene; and where food is sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious. A world where human habitats are safe, resilient and sustainable and where there is universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
8. We envisage a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination; of respect for race, ethnicity and cultural diversity; and of equal opportunity permitting the full realization of human potential and contributing to shared prosperity. A world which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation. A world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met.
9. We envisage a world in which every country enjoys sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and decent work for all. A world in which consumption and production patterns and use of all natural resources – from air to land, from rivers, lakes and aquifers to oceans and seas - are sustainable. One in which democracy, good governance and the rule of law as well as an enabling environment at national and international levels, are essential for sustainable development, including sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development, environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and hunger. One in which development and the application of technology are climate-sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient. One in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected."
2030 Agenda is just so much bullshit. It sounds wonderful at the same time it is completely undoable. The world is currently in an expanding battle for limited resources and soon all countries will be fighting for water, Oil, rare earths, agricultural land.
BTW, G7 is meeting. Son of a gun, if BRICS+ is also meeting in Russia with destruction of the G7 as part of its agenda. Right now.
John, the 2030 Agenda identifies, details, and proposes solutions for many of the issues that people on Jim's message board complain about, but for which few have a (viable) solution.
It is my understanding that the majority of world leaders have embraced the agenda in one fashion or another (it appears that there is a pile of money for compliance), so it is stacking up to be leadership vs citizens. My understanding is that Putin and Xi are on board with this agenda, so how do you reconcile that?
The 2030 Agenda is already being implemented, so if you want to have a say or terminate it, shouldn't there be a discussion?
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
People are wired differently, where some have an advantage over others depending on the current format for life. Kamala Harris is a perfect example of a misfit who is setup to fail, and does not qualify to be in a leadership position. What is your solution to accommodate all the differences?
If you believe in America as it is designed, meritocracy counts more than anything. However, it is a function of the society to provide equal opportunity to everyone, which our government has sucked at big time. Just the fact that everyone seems to think it is the government's job to make jobs is a major malfunction of this society.
You know the Peter Principle, you rise to your level of incompetence. It is true, meritocracy takes us to where we fail, where it is just too much to handle. Recognition by managers is critical to keep it at a minimum. People should be able to reach up as far as they can though.
Letting the government make those decisions is what needs to stop, my solution is pure capitalism, where the market runs the show and people have the opportunity to excel to their limits. The government must be left out of the economy, other than supplying the money to support it. No corporate favoritism, think Boeing, no corporate lobbying, tax rates favoring venture capital and stock growth. Just a start.
Stop limiting economic growth and encourage it, damn Obama's modus operandi.
Well nepotism mitigates against meritocracy. Nevertheless, it will defeat it and/or destroy it in the short term. I think the Jews may have an artful combination going for them. Not a bad thing? Well they don't like us, you see. Google the Kalergi Plan to find out how much they don't.
OBTW, you know why Jews and Mormons do so well economically? They stand together, work together and support each other instead of constantly trying to rip each other up like the Gentiles seem to do. Our government and media is the antithesis of "together" so that By supporting each other, Jews and Mormons work their way into high positions easily.
True. We can't compete against the level of nepotism plus real ability in many cases. We must imitate them - which means having nations of our own which they are not a part of.
In one breath you promote letting the free market work, and in the next you praise the Jews and Mormons for doing well economically because of "networking".
What about those who do not "network"?
The object of capitalism is to win it all.
Wining it all is the equivalent of Israel dominating its neighbors economically and militarily for decades, and in the end they are surrounded by the enemies they have created.
I don't have the answer, and perhaps there is no perfect answer, but capitalism plays out over time, and this is where we are at.
No where did I say I favor their methodology, I do believe foremost in capitalism, pure capitalism with no government bias or interference. No where in the world does that exist, and the Leftists of America are fighting hard to try to get rid of capitalism here. We will rue the day that happens.
The object of capitalism is to win it all, is exactly right. When the market works, all boats rise according to the talents of the people. That is NOT the problem here. The government wants dependence to control the public, including their votes. They do not want a free society with meritocracy as the basis for achievement. They want servitude, feudal serfs to serve them. Capitalism rose from the feudalism of the Middle Ages along with the middle class. Socialism destroys the middle class.
Capitalism does play out, becoming crony capitalism as the government interferes and corrupts the free market and controls the creation of new companies and technologies.
That is where we are at. So now, who do you want as president, a businessman who has succeeded and favors a free market, or an ult-Left socialist who wants the government to make all decisions. Let me think.
I saw it at the drive thru when young, and did not see it again for 50 years.
I was astounded at just how *good* it was, absolutely amazing. One of the Classics.
The furniture, to the detective: "We'll make it cold, like winter used to be!"
Also, Blade Runner. Roy Batty's incept date is Jan.16, 2019. He has a four year lifespan, setting him down one year after Soylent Green, in the year 2023.
Do you think the prophets were trying to tell us something?
Hmm. Reading it now, it looks like a prediction of what the "Conservative Elites" want to have...a return to medieval feudalism but with high-tech comforts. Is this why so many of the really moneyed class - the billionaires you've never heard of as well as the ones in public like Musk - are throwing all their financial might behind Trump - a meat-puppet of the first order - so their chosen 'boy', JD Vance, after ascending to the Presidency through a 25th Amendment move, can enact their Project 2025 Agenda for them? How's THAT for a conspiracy, you guys?
Even the liberal press with its extreme bias against Trump is publishing articles that state more billionaires support Harris, which only goes to show you believe what you want to believe, the hallmark of a conspiracy theorist as the term is commonly bandied about.
Maria, WTF are you talking about. Trump wants the economy to open up, to have more entrepeneuership, more manufacturing, more middle class, more opportunity for folks other than the service sector with its servile minimum wage. It is the Dems that want servitude, manufacturing overseas, high tax rates, fiat money to support non-productive workers, dependence on the government, high energy prices, tax, tax, tax and spend spend spend. The power hungry billionaires are all on the Left side, knowing they will maintain power with a Leftist government. Hmmm, isn't THAT Fascism?
So long as federal politicians have access and ability to create unlimited credit, it just doesn't matter what party rules. The result will be the same.
Liberty, and its accompanying general welfare, is incompatible with politicians having the ability to create credit, which passes nearly exactly the same as money.
No way would the constitution have been ratified where federal politicians could create unlimited credit/money. The Founders were well acquainted with the practice of government emitting irredeemable paper money, and they righteously rejected it. Alas, we find ourselves back with the same system they roundly rejected.
This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution.
All the states truly need to accomplish is end the practice of taxing gold and silver. Let the market determine what people use to transact and store wealth.
All true. I honestly believe that a complete Dollar Collapse will be more detrimental to the US than a limited nuclear exchange. In a Hyperinflationary Dollar Collapse scenario, I believe that if the US dollar becomes worthless by 7 a.m. one busy weekday morning, grocery stores will be empty, burning shells with some bodies in them by 10 a.m. and civilization will be gone by 3 in the afternoon. That is not wild conjecture, minds much wiser than I have written books about this stuff, it could happen very, very quickly in a heavily armed nation like this one.
I'm currently reading Shut Down by W.R. Flynn. It isn't Tolstoy or Hemingway but it gives the uninitiated an idea as to how things will play out. I'm reading it because I'm trying to find books that break down what a banking crisis and a dollar collapse would look like. In Shut Down, it all plays out exactly as you wrote - bodies by 10 a.m. and empty store shelves by 3pm.
I read it years ago. To me, it did not read like fiction. I am a suburban dad with a wife and kids, when my kids were younger if that happened my wife would have told me to get out of the house and not come back until I had food for the family, and that she didn't want to hear about the details. Imagine moms and dads all over America panicking when their dollars and debit cards were rejected and their kids were hungry. . .in unarmed countries that usually results in bread lines, but something very different would play out here, very quickly.
Wait til 20 million illegals find only *their* EBT cards suddenly cut off, and their free rent canceled. If Trump wins, the Democrats can set off a two-legged, biological nuclear bomb in this country.
Interesting idea, if welfare was cut off tomorrow, the shakeout would drive out many of our problems, and fast. 7.5 million males between 18 and 40 would have to find a job, any job to survive. Men and women would have to work together in marriages to succeed economically instead of just running away. Illegals would be heading elsewhere if their free lunch was discontinued. The ones here would be on their way home.
Welfare by the Left and their buying votes is the thing that is dragging the country down.
Are you listening to what is going on in the world right now? BRICS+ conference going on in Russia, not with a bunch of firebrands, but a group of very purposeful people determined to tear down the West. They have the power and the knowledge to do exactly that.
IMHO, their plans for the USA is to use the discord here and the illegal immigration to first segregate areas of the USA ethnically, then divide it up politically turning it into three or four smaller countries. With our government only concerned about itself, it is playing directly into their hands.
BTW, for all the folks here who have answered that BRICS+ is no problem , it is only economic, may I present to you NOKO troops in Ukraine. There was a Congressman today that stated that if NOKO goes into Ukraine, the USA needs to inject”boots on the ground”.
Good points Thomas. Add to "heavily armed nation", 30m invaders and growing daily to the chaos. If even a mere 10,000 of them have evil intent combined with the resources to assault the nation, this former republic will be brought to its knees and will thus be forced to fight from a severely crippled position.10% of shipping containers are inspected at our ports. I was on the freeways(I-75 corridor) these past 4 days and wondered what exactly was inside the many MAERSK and EVERGREEN containers I passed, and where they were headed to unload or if dead-heading for more, where their loads were now staged deep inside this borderless nation. Waiting. And that's just ONE vector of assault playing out.
Yes, I wonder that, too, when I see them on the highway. And only 10 percent of cargo containers are inspected. Where's Pete on this? Oh, I know, he's at an infrastructure project somewhere building an overpass so animals don't end up as road kill. Meanwhile, I saw a photo of an opened container holding a bunch of kids.
Of course! I saw it happen with CONvid! The shelves were empty in 2 days. It’s then that I purchased a freezer, and added to preps I already had. Be prepared!
You have to explain the reason for your scenario otherwise it IS wild conjecture.
What is the event would infect the world and the entire United States within a few hours that would collapse the currency?
It's important to remain fact-based about the financial markets now and how they interact otherwise ignorance will make you fearful and creating bad fiction.
Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse. Think about right now, is the “faith” of the people based more on good monetary situations or on apathy, denial and just stupidity?
If the “faith” disappears, think about what would it be like that every monetary transaction you do a day, disappeared. Every purchase you make today would be unavailable. There would be no stores. No transportation of goods from the coasts. The cities would erupt as there would not be any goods trucked in. City folks would be out in the rural areas, ready to kill to get sustenance.
I have recommended before, “Lucifer’s Hammer”, the story of the after world reeling from a comet strike. Elimination of the money would be equivalent.
A lot of folks don't realize that the "money" they think they have in financial institutions isn't physically there ... it's just pixels on a screen and the actual money has all been loaned out. Try making any substantial cash withdrawal at your local bank, say 20k or more. Now imagine over half of depositors clamoring to pull out their cash. Bank runs and pandemonium would ensue.
Alert! I wrote a check for cash a few months ago. The bank said that over a certain amount they are required to ask what I intend to use it for. The teller was embarrassed and provided me with a "potential use." I guess we have moved from "friendly banker" to "nosey banker."
They did that to me a few yrs ago when I pulled out 20k just to keep at home ... and I had to go to 2 different branches as neither had the 20k on hand. I told them it was "for a trip to Vegas to do hookers and blow"
That was installed a long time ago in the war on drugs. They have to insure that you're not withdrawing money to buy coke. Allowing fentanyl into the country via the southern border is altogether different, however.
I know about that limit. It was $10k in cash being Deposited into a bank. This check was not near $10k and I don't think they were inquiring as to whether I was off to buy drugs with cash coming Out of my account. (Are there really people that stupid that would tell a bank they are off to buy drugs? We might as well give up then!)
It's now much lower. $2000 was the 'recommended' limit about 10 years ago, but nervous banks, to cover their behinds, report just about everybody.
Please be careful. I had a friend years ago who bought and sold boats and trucks in cash; some crumb he nodded to at a party, hoping to avoid a probate violation, snitched to the cops that 'this guy over here' had loads of cash, and the next week he had DEA smashing the sheetrock with sledgehammers in his house, looking for loot. (They took all the boats and trucks, too.) Went to prison for four years because the DA, looking right at him, swept his account books and floppys into the trashcan and said, "there's your f***ing evidence," despite his secretary and CPA's affadavits. Asset confiscation has become the #1 source of funding for cash-strapped budgets, since blacks and probationers don't pay the endless fines, warrants, and fees the local judges lay on them.
You might want to think a bit more deeply about that one. Maybe a trip to Cuba might be enlightening. Or perhaps a study on current events regarding Wells Fargo.
I will add that there is still a "zero reserve" policy in place across the US banking system ... i.e. they don't need any reserves to cover all the outstanding loans they've made. Let that sink in.
AND another thing - "bail ins" are coming with the next banking crisis. What this means is instead of bailouts, where the govt steps in to provide emergency funding, the banks can now take the money they need from depositors. And you'll also be paying your bank to hold your money. And it's all legal, courtesy of our loving, caring banksters and government cronies.
I will give you something else to lose sleep over. The bullion banks, globally, where gold is bought and sold by large entities like countries, has allowed payment with US Treasuries. There is little accounting for how much of the world’s gold is actually paper. Credit has rotted even the bulwark of wealth.
My motto is "if you don't hold it, you don't own it". Glad I've built a modest little stack of bullion the past few years. Central banks around the world are loading up on gold. Wonder how much the U.S. has stored, and when the last time it was audited (??)
"Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse."
I believe the following to be the correct assessment:
The US$ is already significantly devalued, but it doesn't presently reflect its value because of money inflow due to big money getting out of worse situations..
If you want to get out of the US$, the first step is to get out of US Bonds. If the US Bond market is 10 times the value of the US stock markets, where do you expect the bond money to flow?
I believe that the US Bond money will (continue to) flow into the US stock markets (view a 10 year chart of the MERVAL for ridiculous). Then view the "all" time frame of the Venezuela Stock Market (IBVC) for an example of a no bid situation.
This is your free market capitalism, where guys like Soros know a good opportunity when they see it.
All it will take to bring everything down is an EMP or maybe a few. They can say it was Russia, China, or Iran to cover their ass but it will be like kicking an ant pile.
All highways will be blocked with new stalled "bells and whistles heavy" vehicles. Trucks can't get through, IF They could run. Empty grocery stores. Dead water systems. Thawing refrigerators and freezers. Armed gangs going house to house on foot pillaging and raping at will.
Travelers on their own with a bag of chips and a bottle of water.
1 Second After by William R. Forstchen is a good description of what would happen to the USA after an EMP incident. The first to go are those on meds, like Diabetics.. Then those with weak immune systems. Then a starvation diet for a year or so for any of the lucky survivors.
Yes, the Deagle Report predicted that in 2025 the US population will be down to 100 million, and when I read that, the first thing I thought of was that we'll get into a conflict with China and the prescription drugs that are made there, that our elected representatives refuse to have manufactured here, will be cut off.
Kathy. A non-shooting conflict with China already is in full swing. 1,000 Points of Light, etc. The Chinese steel everything we have with both hands now. No need for open warfare with the CCP. That they will leave to the invading hordes coming into our borderless nation. They are trained and will kill. Waiting. The Chinese will make an appearance but only after Islam and their Middle East brothers have made toast of our neighborhoods. Arm up. Prep.
"law enforcement" will be gathered at the state capitol guarding our elected representatives until they get to their bunkers. Citizens will be shot trying to defend themselves and their property, antifa and blm rioters will not.
Watch Cuba, as we speak. They can’t get their grid up and are about to say hello to a hurricane. Remember Haiti? We are always one week from catastrophe here.
Yes Q - we're airdropping in cases of Cialis and Viagra. Hopefully it'll work longer and better than the $320 million-dollar floating dock the "Biden" regime installed on the beach in Gaza - about a month or two if I recall correctly. Another fantastic failure, for which they've become famous.
I am the entity formerly known as Q. Shtik back before the CFN site became defunct. I have been known for correcting commenters' grammar, spelling, and usage and for my chronicles about my brother-in-law, Peter.
As you can see, I have adopted a new handle for use here on Substack. It is John Smith, a name I believe was at one time the most common name in the USA. Now, where I live in central NJ, every other person's last name is Patel.
Lately I've had all kinds of electronics problems with my RAM 1500 truck (it is being worked on at the dealership as we speak) as well as health issues. It has been determined that I have Afib which is an irregular heart beat. If not corrected it can lead to blood clots which can go to the brain and cause a stroke.
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure where they give a quick shock to the heart in hopes that it will put my heartbeats back in sync. Dr. Shah (dot Indian of course) says there is little for me to be concerned about since of all the many times he has executed this procedure he has never "lost" anyone however he implied results could vary. It was not clear to me why the shock would put my heartbeats IN sync rather than putting them farther OUT of sync. I have to assume that as experts they know what they're doing.
This has me concerned about "waking up dead" as the expression goes. I REALLY hate the notion of ceasing to exist for all eternity (note: I believe as Jose Mujica believes that "There is only one life and it ends")
Before the procedure I will leave a note for Bo (my wife) that trash pickup is on Mondays and recyclables on Tuesdays.
I have been looking forward to my 84th birthday a month from now, specifically Nov. 21st, and wouldn't want the shock treatment to upset the apple cart. If you don't see any posts from John Smith for an extended period you can probably assume the worst.
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure - John Smith (aka Q.)
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The procedure is known as TEE but I don't know what those letters mean. I am now scheduled for a week from today, Oct 31st. Talk about coinkydinks, my Maternal grandfather was born on Oct 31st, 1883. His daughter, my mother, died on Oct 31st, 1995. Does this have any deeper meaning? I wonder. Probably not. That's why its called a coinkydink.
Q - Best of luck, sir. It will likely be all good, as your doc says. Just in case it goes sideways, please make sure you leave Bo a list of your accounts/logins/pws for all financials, etc. When we lost my dad after carotid surgery with complications last winter, that was one of the best gifts we found from him hidden in his hospital belongings. He knew it was possible.
That said, he got the short end of the stick on his turn at the wheel. I think you will prevail with all of your shtick intact. Onward, Q. You're not done here yet.
No sweat. The procedure times the shock so that the “clock” takes over again. They will probably give you a relaxing dose of a sedative, not knock you out. You will feel so much better with things in sync, Afib causes a 20% reduction in blood flow, so you will be getting that back. Read Yirgach below for a further therapy in electro cardio version does not work.
They will probably give you a relaxing dose of a sedative, not knock you out. - JAZ
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Actually, the Doc says I will be put totally under and they will feed something down my throat (wind pipe, esophagus, not sure which) and then they zap me.
Don't worry, I had an aortic valve replacement and a week later had afib. Not pleasant when you're not even running a marathon.
The electrophysiologist did an ablation on the heart, essentially spot welding a circuit break using a catheter thru the groin. It stopped immediately. I was conscious during the whole procedure.. Dartmouth Medical is the best!
I am watching the CNBC business show at the moment. They have a very pretty woman named Brooke May on the show. She is what is known as a "contributor." Looking at her I am reminded of the expression "Big Tits Matter."
You said you didn't care about big tits anymore. Where you just having a bad period? Sounds like you're back! You're only as young as you feel. Good luck.
Just read that the writer, Charles Lamb, kept a full head of hair, not gray or white, until very old age, just like Peter.
Charles M. Blow, NYT Op-Ed columnist, gave me a yooge laugh as he complained about Trump's vulgarity with this line:
"Last week at a rally, he said, "We can't stand you, you're a shit vice president," shortly after sharing an admiring anecdote about the size of the late golfer Arnold Palmer's penis. "
100% .... and abolishing central banks won't come without bloodshed. Lots of bloodshed, as they are backed by the MIC (military industrial complex) around the globe.
"This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution." ~ Anonymous
If there were a solution, would you acknowledge, engage, and embrace it?
Your basic contention is that the system has failed and is broken. Will "end(ing) the practice of taxing gold and silver" solve all the problems?
Is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
THe solution, IMHO, is to start decreasing spending by the government and allow the economy to run itself. Slow decreases, over 70 or so years. It took that long to run up the bill, it will take that long to fix it. Slow decreases and an agreed to tax profile that will also decrease with time.
Is that possible with the power mongers in the Deep State?
I am in the camp that contends that the debt will never be repaid, so a devaluation will be the stand-by option (even you acknowledge that "government" will be needed to deal with the situation).
You also point out that a "loss of faith" situation will be devastating, but your solution fails to consider the impact of individuals like Soros, and bully countries like USA.
Once you start to gain an understanding of the current situation, and grasp the details of the 2030 Agenda, you will start to understand the method to the madness.
So, once again, is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
My objection to the 2030 Agenda is that it is impossible, period. It is a bunch of blathering by Global idiots trying to justify BS mission statements that have no chance of doing anything. You might as well pull out a copy of Das Kapital, the Bible of pure communism, and read how the rising of the proletariat is going to create a Utopia on earth. Only one problem, a big one, human nature and the evil side of humanity. Stop globalism, let every country do what is in its best interests. Here? America First.
If Xi has his way, he may impose his version of the 2030 Agenda on the world.
Why not review the 2030 Agenda assessments, and glean some solutions from their proposals? How does one fix something if they are unable to comprehend that which is broken?
Do you think we would be where we are today if "Joe Biden" had stepped up on the stump and had an open discussion about his administrations implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
Re your opening quote: Glad that you have discovered the writings of Elizabeth Nickson who like you, is an optimist in spite of her unsparing observations of the current wickedness.
Nick Johnson posted an interesting Youtube video about the presidential campaign in PA. Apparently the Amish are finally mobilizing to vote in the November election. After a long tradition of deliberately staying away from politics and voting, many members of the Amish community are deciding to cast their votes, many for the first time.........for Donald Trump.
No wonder, the Leftist Socialists hate independence of anyone. The Amish are an antithesis of the Leftist socialist dreams.
Stalin killed millions of Ukrainian farmers when they fought their family based farms being turned into communes. Later, the government allowed the individual farmers to have a small plot of land to grow their own crops, independent of the communes. It wasn’t long before the farmers started farmer’s markets in the towns. Not too much later, the plots out produced the communes. A story to tell your socialist supporter friends.
Another fictional account of note is in Michener’s “Centennial” where a sugar beet farmer named Brumbaugh was trying to find a reliable source of seasonal label for his farm. He tried Blacks and Indians, too unreliable, Japanese and Chinese, reliable but they saved their money and bought their own farms. His solution was Mexicans, reliable and skilled farm hands whose roots remained in Mexico. Over time, their families moved into the USA and they stayed.
I was raised picking chiles and tying grapes with those families. I have a lot I could say on this. (Plus, our beloved neighbors were actual Okies who came to pick fruit in California.) I've talked to farmers from Maryland to the San Joaquin Valley, some used to drive down to Mexico every season and pick up the same families every season.
Two quickies: in grade school we used to go by the burning busses where Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker's union thugs stood with baseball bats. He hated seasonal migrants, since he was born in Indiana.
When 'La Migra'- ICE immigration or Border Patrol would come by the ranch in Nevada, we'd hide our Mexicans inbetween haystacks, piling up bales to block off the ends and making it look like one solid stack. They'd offer to buy us beer and take us hands to the Mustang Ranch, the local brothel! (High school kids had to enter in the back.)
The Holodomor Ukrainians were actually descendants of the Anabaptist Amish.
The glorious Tsarina Catherine, our great ally, requested thousands of them from the American colonies to teach her nation how to farm the rich soils of the Ukraine, so profound was their skill.
The Cheka goons weren't just killing farmers. As per their historic wont, they were slaughtering Christians.
Yes, it's inevitable. The question is whether it will be under the tyranny of the International Bankers as in Marxism or an elected National Elite as in Fascism or National Socialism.
I think we should do an annual televised Nerf Bat stadium beatdown for all interested policy-makers. Whoever is left standing gets to make the rules for the next 12 months. And gets as many hot dogs from the concessions stand as they please on the way out. About as fair as any other system.
his video tours of various places around the country are great ... 'boots on the ground' type of interviews/commentary that reveal hard facts vs. the fiction we're being bombarded with by the establishment
Nature is a bitch. We have had it good for a long time. Go watch the people, aka tourists at Yellowstone Park for people who do not understand nature. There's a website tourons of Yellowstone Park. Reality is also a bitch. If Trump wins Pennsylvania, he wins the election. The food recalls are on the radar daily. I don't usually buy processed foods. I did have some frozen chicken tenders from Perdue, I had to throw those all away because they were deemed contaminated. Biden won Pennsylvania by 70,000 votes in 2020. In 2023, the Feds decided to go after an Amish organic farmer called Amos Miller. HE was selling organic produce and raw dairy products. The feds came in shut him down and humiliated him. He had never had a listeria problem. The Pennsylvania court ruled that he could still sell his products over state lines. The irony is large here. The original Amos was a shepherd and grew Sycamore figs in the Bible. He had enough of the "government" and turned into the first prophet and started preaching about morality. 190,000 Amish registered to vote. The mail voting is great for them. The tools that the dems used to cheat are being turned against them.
Other small farmers started banding together and supporting Amos Miller. The Navajo Nation came out enmasse for Trump. They are also shepherds and they make organic products like salsa, hot sauce, honey and cosmetics for sale. IMO the government has decided all the small farms must go, all the supplements that aren't big pharma must go. The EU tried to pull this on the Dutch farmers. The ITalians said no. They banned all fake foods and did not comply. Trump has a very good chance of winning Pennsylvania.
Anything can happen. Except this time people are really going out. I heard they have never seen this much voter participation. The Amish literally never ever vote. They are so angry that they are talking to the media. They never do that. The corporate media is lying about the Navajo. It's not even close. They are having a similar problem. They make their living with the sheep and making stuff. The Chinese flooded the market with cheap knock offs. They are done. Trump first time tried to do something about this. We really need the Senate and the house too.
I don't know why. I am here in Colorado. I have not seen people at the ballot box. There are a lot of Harris signs. I have not seen one Trump sign. I am wondering if people here just are not voting.
As a former life-time Coloradoan, I am ashamed of the condition of Colorado, the northern terminus of the I25 illicit crime conveyor. Denver, a former beautiful city, has evolved into a cesspool that dumps its effluent into Aurora. It has turned into a Californicated perversion of America. It’s governor makes a grand representation of its evil.
I told people years ago. This is not a problem that can be outrun. You cannot outrun a bad idea. These Jacobian people move. Thankfully, Colorado is losing people as they move on like locusts to Texas and Florida. I am willing to watch it all burn around me as I fight on.
Well, figuratively speaking anyway, be kinda hard to get anything done, am i right,
There are a lot of people who have been negatively affected by government, the biggest problem, is that the government, needs to have a come to jesus moment and be cut in half, if not now it will never happen, ALLLLL those career politicians, and I mean ALLLLLL of em, need to be dismissed then investigated.
Its not like they produce ANYTHING anyway, and the bureaucracy is mind numbing.
Then it must be the neocons turn to be chased through the streets by mobs with torches and pitchforks, same as the neoliberals and THE OLIGARCHS THEY BOTH SHILL FOR.
Because NOTHING WILL CHANGE if EITHER of these tools OR their OWNERS are allowed to remain.
If the results of the Presidential Election aren't declared, or simply obvious, by 10 p.m. on Election night, a lot of chaos may break out in this woke/broke/joke of a nation.
On the evening of November 5th and the morning of November 6th there will be a large scale cybersecurity EXERCISE in Atlanta, GA. What a coincidence! All the Intelligence Community will be there I expect.
The electoral college was put into place to insure that states like California didn't dominate the vote. Democrats hate the electoral college and have called for its abolition, along with pretty much of the rest of America 1.0. Until it is, and under a Harris presidency it probably will be, democrats have been busy undermining the electoral system nationwide any way they can, lately fast-tracking illegals to citizenship before November 5. You know, for democracy.
The Cheat in 2020 was flagrant, to anyone who had half a brain.
This one will be that too, but on steroids.
The DOJ is working feverishly to execute efforts to punish via lawfare, and even criminalize any state or entity or person who will dare to question this election, or even clean up their voter rolls!
Millions upon millions of ballots are being filled out as we speak with the names of illegal aliens who have been registered nationwide, and their names are now included on state voter rolls.
No investigation into the authenticity of any votes will be allowed and/or fought tooth and nail by our own Federal government, aided and abetted by cowardly courts.
Michigan's voter rolls list 8.4 million registered voters, nearly 500,000 more than the eligible voting population. That’s waaaay more than necessary to swing an election. And that’s just one state - not to mention a swing state.
I may not have skin in the game but I'm shocked to find out that apparently in California it is illegal to use ID to vote. ID is not required, and it is an offence for any official to even look at any ID shown. I know that sounds ridiculous but has been made in law now.
It doesn't really doesn't matter how many "Illegals" vote in California. It's not even in play as all the Electoral votes will be cast for Harris not only because she's a Democrat but because she's from there.
It's only about votes in certain counties in certain swing states.
When the checks stop coming and the EBT cards aren't resupplied, those Somalis and Venezuelans and the other illegals will fan out across the cities and towns into which they've been inserted and rob and kill anyone that gets in their way. The cops will all be at the state capitol or city county building guarding your elected representatives until they get to their bunkers or waiting helicopters. That's why they're so hot to eliminate the AR-15.
Citizens defending themselves will be shot by the troops that will be deployed to restore order, the actual rioters and looters will not. The DOD didn't just authorize lethal force against us by American troops for shits and giggles.
I think your number is about right. All the official numbers only include the port of entry plus asylum numbers, anywhere from 10 to 20 million. No boy talks about the walk overs, or climb overs or dig unders or wade overs. Guess which group the cartels use?
Biden’s Mob. The Federal government is a member of the global Cartel promoting drugs and other illicit crime entering this country to get their cut. Look around the world, it is happening everywhere. The IMF is an Emperor with no clothes.
Easy, he does not have any. Just likes to bitch about everyone else. He holds New Zealand up as an example, they have their problems like everyone else.
Yeah, I read that their leadership locked the population down, they couldn't travel but for a few miles outside their community and were censored on the Internet.
I spent a few years in the 90s living in NZ working with the RNZN. Such a beautiful country, such amazing, resourceful people. I made many friends. However those were the Clinton years. I was wary of all the shuttling back and forth to NZ being done by Clinton cronies, and after 2000, by Hildebeast and her rapist husband himself. Today we know they were busy helping to steal the government from the tiny agricultural paradise and turn the whole place into a socialist laboratory for the WEF. The rest is history. God bless New Zealand.
In _Tramp Royale_, Robert Heinlein recounts a 1953 trip to New Zealand and totally drags it. He said they were all provincial scolds:
Apparently, the pit of misery, the region without hope, the most god-awful place in the whole southern hemisphere circa 1954, was New Zealand. The chapter dealing with this unhappy visit is called “The Dreary Utopia,” and its dreariness was of varied kinds. This is the only piece of travel literature I can recall in which the writer truly, deeply hated a Post Office system. The problem was not that Heinlein was a free-market ideologue hostile to New Zealand’s welfare state and tightly-controlled economy. Uruguay had a lot in common with New Zealand politically and economically in those days, but Uruguay also had restaurants that served non-poisonous food, and not everybody there shortchanged visitors all the time. Such were the petty vexations of the country that Heinlein spluttered even at the famous narrow-gauge railways, which in a better mood he would have liked. No doubt part of this antipathy was due simply to the fact the tourist industry was not yet well-developed, but for once the Heinleins forbore to seek private hospitality. They did have a letter of introduction, to a former prime minister no less. Heinlein would not use it, however, because it would have been so difficult to stop himself from telling his host how much he hated his country and everything in it.
I was a big Heinlein fan growing up. Then I grew up. He had some nerve sarcastically referring to a "utopian" NZ. Heinlein's novels reek of his own brand of utopian hedonism. What I'm reading between the lines is Heinlein traveled to NZ and couldn't get laid.
Heinlein's social stuff later on sure took the cake. In Friday (1982) he took the time to shit all over New Zealand, 30 years after his trip there. As for Tramp Royale, I mainly remember that he had a rasher of boiled-looking bacon with pig bristles still in it. That would make me hold a grudge, too.
I read all of the Lazarus Long Jubal Harshaw crap. All of it. Lost it's entertainment value when I began adulting and realized Heinlein was writing mostly adolescent male sex fantasy. And there's nothing more miserable than an international traveler who whines about the bad food. That person is typically a bore to be avoided. It's part of the adventure. In NZ you're getting classic English "cuisine" (for lack of a better term) like it or leave it. My most memorable Thanksgiving was spent on the bathroom floor of a fine Auckland hotel with food poisoning. You learn to stick to the grilled lamb, fish and chips, pizza, and maybe some sweet yummy pavlova (basically a baked merengue cake) and you get by.
I know why - the Nutjob Right of NZ (many who agree with the likes of you and who support and would love to vote for Trump if they could) were making credible threats to her life if she led the Labour Party in the 2023 election. Police advice was that they could not guarantee her safety in campaigning. Aside form the practicalities of that she and her partner have a young child to raise. What would YOU do?
Pretty sure all politicians get credible threats from day one (or two). My small suburban city council members get threats. She has a family to raise, eh? How did that work for all the citizens who were forced into a corner to be able to do the same for theirs in 2020/2021? I presume she backed out after covid to get off the political grid before it came back down on her.
Not sure why I'm arguing with a bot claiming to be from New Zealand though. Oh well. It's Monday.
My fellow Americans, the Maori like to put a bit of tuoluene glue into a Coke bottle, a lighter to the thick glass bottom makes fumes they can huff all day. This one's been hitting the, er, 'pipe'.
No one ever said dogs, that I'm aware. There was one story (eyewitness neighbor) about a cat being skinned and hung to dry on a tree. The rest was about wild game (ducks/geese, etc) taken from the city's parks. But...keep pretending "extreme obfuscation" works on the non-retarded. Good work today! You'll get a free side order of queso from Chipotle on your next order!
I think your "I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize" captures the likely outcome. These people are bullies and cowards. To threaten insurrection will expose them to legal remedies and loss of wealth and power. Not likely they will take the risk and they are more likely to throw those most exposed under the bus to save themselves.
Jamie Raskin and a bunch of House Dems and a few RINOs are threatening to not certify the election if Trump wins. So if he wins, will there be a Dem. Jan.6, the people calling out Congress for not investigating the mechanics of the election. Will the pussy hat crowd invade the Capitol to support the Congressional hold on certification. In a world of hypocrisy, this is a doozy.
Well at least we'll get some honest-to-god rioting, mayhem, looting, and property damage out of that bunch, instead of a fake fbi 'false flag' to belay the audit.
One investigation with meat to it from Trump and all the false accusations will fall by the wayside. This is in the works as we speak. It will set a tone of unrooting illegal activity as vital to restoring law and order. Cheers from the average voter will cement it and few will risk exposure to their own criminality.
The first black president was Warren Harding, if you want to go by ancestry, and Mrs. Kennedy the first black First Lady, although to be fair, she was probably less African than KToe.
I have to say, as a woman, I despise soy boys. All women do. They'll use them for whatever they need, but at the end of the day, women despise weak men.
Don't forget the inauguration day rioting with flash-bang grenades and a burning limousine. Those neurotic mental children are capable of a lot of mayhem.
Yes, it's almost impossible to try to keep up with the babies and their tantrums. It was especially interesting that huge flats of bricks were left at specific locations where the "mostly peaceful" protests were held.
Howard, I admire your new found optimism, but I don’t share it. Almost every world leader, every institution, every organized government supported public body is arrayed against Trump for reasons of their very survival. Harris was picked four years ago to be President someday and that’s how we got here. Every piece had to fall into place and it has for this to happen. Her 60-day candidacy for President corresponds perfectly to her shelf life as a semi-likable person. The voting counting for a preselected winner is the easiest part. What happens afterwards is where things get messy. The fact that Harris is a Prosecutor is no accident.
Don’t forget the recording of President Ford, I think it was, who while replying to question by young girl said the first female president would occur due to the male president dying and his female vp becoming President. I Guess Biden refused to pass quietly in the night? But equally, or more, disturbing was his prophecy that when that happens men better watch out.
Kackula is a big puzzle. They picked the worst possible dud to try to insert. Obama was an illegal insert and chose Joe as insurance. Joe chose Kackula, then she couldn't find a stupider Democrat so she inserts a man that ruined his state. He is facing accusations of being a bisexual child molesters from 2 male former students that have started to talk. His legislation ideals fit that mold pretty well.
Still I don't think any election is too big to rig. She positively cannot we in without cheating so if she does it will be hell to pay. The nation will not roll over and play dead.
If she loses I think the illegals will rise up at the same time as the BLM and Antifa as terrorists.
Could be the Civil war either way they THINK they wanted. They won't like it!
Yes, but remember, the DOD has recently authorized lethal force to be used by American soldiers against us if so ordered. They won't use it against antifa or BLM.
"Microwave burns"? Lady, it was 110 Fahrenheit that day. The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor without any containment...what do you expect? Or perhaps it was the Jewish Space Lasers... you know, the ones that start hurricanes too....
I expect it could be the sun . . . Or it could be some other type of radiation, especially since it was limited to a few on the dais. After all the unlikely shit that's been happening, why NOT RF burns from a directional antenna? I'm an amateur radio operator Extra class. Even I could make that happen. Easily. If I were a maniac.
Unearned capital gains tax of 25% will force sales to pay the tax. Many homeowners will become homeless and the illegals can buy the house with her free down payment.
Exactly, exactly, my Harris voting friends were, umm, perturbed.
This is all part of the Great Taking; even your paper assets, such as stocks, will not have sufficient proof of 'ownership'. A commenter above mentions bail-ins, negative rates, and confiscation, and he is exactly right.
Go READ the policy, dimwits Jay & Kathy...dumb ass losers! Unless you have assets of more than $100 million dollars or earn income of more than $1 million per annum, there is NOTHING for you to be concerned about. I very much doubt that anyone on this blog would qualify for this new imposition on the very wealthy, except perhaps, JohnAZ.
Huh? You definitely have an inflated idea of me? Maria, if you believe the pols are going to stop from taxing everyone because of campaign promises, you are going to be disappointed. The Left taxes more and more and spends more and more, it is their livelihood, their method of buying votes. They are evil. They will spend beaucoup bucks to figure out how to take money away from you without pissing you off.
You want an example? California, where tax and spend has evolved into an art. The goal of the national Leftists is to spread Californication all over the country. It is working well here in AZ.
In DC, the Congress especially, there is no Left and Right, just Deep State. Their access and maintenance of power depends on spending. That is their number one priority, preservation of the Deep State.
What will happen when folks like Abbott and DeSantis tell the Feds under Kamala to Eff off and set secession in action? What happens when the NW area around Idaho do the same? Generally speaking, what happens when half the country decides to leave the USA and create their own country. Will the Dems of the East and West Coast in DC, try to stop the secession? Will a peaceable solution be found to a separation?
IMHO, the Leftist urbanites cannot let the Reds leave as their sustenance would be cutoff and the dependent Blues would have their hands out and up within a week.
Kathy, think. Who are they going to shoot at? Think of Texas ,the first drop out probably, shoot at Texans and sorry, East Coast, your oil is cut off. Shoot at the Red Mid-west and sorry, no more food, and that includes California’s Joaquin Valley, which is Red. Besides, how much of the military would favor shooting at Americans, much of them are from Red states.
They'll steal what they want from their unarmed neighbors and form gangs that cross state lines to prey on other states. Police will protect government, not citizens. After all, they still believe they'll get a pension if they can stick it out long enough.
Kathy, one comment. If a secession happens, there will be no pensions. There may be no police, just soldiers and rebels. A really big problem for the DC crowd will be who will the military back in a secession?
I disagree, much of the military are from all those states that would secede, they would probably go home to support their locals. Besides, if we have a civil separation, there will be no worthwhile cash to give them.
It's written as an exclusion in the standard home insurance policy (US). Excluded from property coverage includes: War, invasion, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, civil war, usurped power, damage caused by civil, governmental or military authority to hinder or defend against an actual or impending enemy act. Hope that helps.
Exactly - nothing new in that. It is a standard exclusion. Standard, not some premonition of the Civil War 2.0 that you 'conservatives' seem to be jonesing for.
I don't think they had anything else in their quiver. They weren't counting on Joe's dementia taking an upturn so fast (divine intervention?), and they didn't have any other viable candidate that they felt could win against Trump, so they went with the tried and true of color and gender. Hence, we have Harris.
I disagree, he was a placeholder there to run out the clock, until Kamala was the only available choice. Biden was a trojan horse, and Kammie was NOT a poor choice hastily made. She is entirely deliberate, the Manchurian dictator who will complete Obama and Soros's Revolution in time for 2030.
Remember the 2020 primary season and the Dem debates. Biden was chosen because he was the most moderate of the crazy Leftist candidates of which Kamala was one.
These are dark and crazy times. I have to pass a house with two lawn signs for "Harris" where they obviously just cut "Biden" off the top and so, half a sign. But the worst part, on the same lawn, between the halves supporting Kamala, is a four foot sign with Franklin's statement "A republic if you can keep it." I am so tempted to stop by and find out where the disconnect lies, but honestly, whoever lives there scares me more than the many outrageous displays of yard demons for the upcoming "Trick or Treat."
Kinda interesting quote to choose given those same people who love Harris often call us a democracy and get angry when you point out we're a representative republic. And also, they are the ones who want no borders, no culture, a global existence... so that would be anti-republic. Stupid idiots, don't even understand their own virtue signaling.
It may be a representative republic, but those elected representatives do not in any significant shape or form represent you or I. They all represent their corporate sponsors who have bought off both parties. The border only exists to keep you and I in. Welcome to the Hotel California where people check in but never check out...
And don’t forget AIPAC!
https://trackaipac.com/.
This shouldn’t be allowed.
Seriously, pledging allegiance to a foreign country in order to take office here in the US. Ridiculous.
I'm not a member or supporter of AIPAC. So before any of you jump on what I'm about to write here because my last name is Cohen, listen up to the facts I will supply that have nothing to do with my genetic inheritance.
There is nothing in this bill about not being able to criticize Israel, or calling for allegiance to Israel. On the contrary, the working definition of antisemitism given by the IHRA says - "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Also, "trackaipac" makes the scurrilous and thoroughly disproven charge of genocide against Israel and the IDF, when the exact opposite is true. Israel is fighting against agents of genocide directed towards Israel, combatants who deliberately hide underground and amongst civilians they hope will be killed when they themselves are the targets of elimination. Trackaipac and its supporters are the jihadists "useful idiots" if not jihadists themselves.
This much is obvious to anyone paying any attention to the facts on the ground, but apparently there are actual antisemites here who find the facts stubborn little things inconvenient to their personal animosities. Therefore they disregard reality and replace it with fantastic lies fed by their delusion.
Vote all you want for cessation of arm sales and support to Israel, but you can do that without lying and being vile racists. That's on you and you are reaping what you sow.
Well said! THANK YOU for educating the useful idiots. I guess it's not entirely their fault--the media and those who would like Israel destroyed are running a very slick anti-Israel propaganda con and they've fooled a lot of otherwise decent people. I do hope that those who've bought the lies will read--and re-read--what you have written here and will now understand the true situation.
Complete and utter BS.
Israel is an apartheid state (per Amnesty Internation, Human Rights Watch, and most important B't Selem, an ISRAELI human rights group).
Before Oct 07, Kim Iverson, hardly a radical, did podcasts from the occupied West Bank, where she discussed life for the Palestinians, having their land, water, homes, and even lives taken, and subject to checkpoints and arbitrary arrest at any time, for any reason.
Desmond Tutu of South Africa said the Palestinians had it worse than the Blacks in SA during apartheid.
Israel does not like being an apartheid state and has not liked it. They are not going to give the Palestinians equal rights, so they are trying to eliminate the Palestinians. The plan was to use Oct 07 as a pretext to kill quite a few of them, render Gaza uninhabitable, and make the Palestinians leave Gaza, and then repeat in the West Bank.
The Israelis have killed a lot of Palestinians and rendered Gaza largely uninhabitable, but it appears the Palestinians have realized that if they leave, like they did in 1948 or 1967, they will never return, so they are holding on.
The only lies are the blatant lies of Israelis ("they bayoneted babies!") debunked by several. Then we have the blatant lies of the media, and lies of omission by the mainstream media and even CFN.
The true situation is that Israel wants to eliminate the Palestinians, and that the US/Israel want to have hegemony over the Middle East, by making sure other countries are either US puppets, or totally impotent.
JHK has had some good guests of stature, who are not popular with the MSM, Dmitry Orlov comes to mind. But they didn't discuss Israel, the discussed the US and compared to the USSR. Russia survived the implosion--will America?
Why doesn't JHK invite Prof. John Mearsheimer on his podcast, to discuss what is REALLY going on? Or Max Blumenthal? Perhaps some of you might learn something.
How is it that Trump and Harris, most Republicans and Democrats, blindly support Israel? Miriam Adelson boasts of how much Trump did for Israel, and that's why she is donating $100 million to PACs; Haim Saban does the same for K Harris and donates $40 million.
Israel's stated goals were to eliminate Hamas and "recover the hostages. The unstated goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israel has failed on all counts. So Israel is now attacking Lebanon and doing what it does best, killing civilians. Israel is also escalating with Iran, as Israel wants to draw the US in.
And that's why Adelson and Saban and the Israeli Lobby have bought the US government. To make sure the US does what Israel wants.
We will see, if the internet stays up, and is still relatively free (note that CFN has not come back...) what people will have to say, if and when the attack on Iran leads to massive war that affects the US directly, or indirectly topples the house of cards here.
Ah, Desmond Tutu - here's a response to Tutu's claim of Israel committing genocide written some years ago while that little poseur was still self-righteously walking the earth and bamboozling the ignorant and credulous. Written by Simon Deng, a Sudanese man who, in his childhood, experienced his village being destroyed by jihadists with himself captured and sold into horribly degrading slavery. He escaped after 2.5 years.
"Where is Desmond Tutu when my people in Sudan call out for freedom?
"Late last month, I went to hear Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at Boston's Old South Church at a conference on "Israel Apartheid." Tutu is a well respected man of God. He brought reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa. That he would lead a conference that damns the Jewish state is very disturbing to me.
"The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families -- even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. I know Arabs go to Israeli schools, and get the best medical care in the world. I know they vote and have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu's South Africa.
"I also know countries that do deserve the apartheid label: My country, Sudan, is on the top of the list, but so are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. What has happened to my people in Sudan is a thousand times worse than Apartheid in South Africa. And no matter how the Palestinians suffer, they suffer nothing compared to my people. Nothing. And most of the suffering is the fault of their leaders. Bishop Tutu, I see black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud.
"Tutu said Israeli checkpoints are a nightmare. But checkpoints are there because Palestinians are sent into Israel to blow up and kill innocent women and children. Tutu wants checkpoints removed. Do you not have doors in your home, Bishop? Does that make your house an apartheid house? If someone, Heaven forbid, tried to enter with a bomb, we would want you to have security people "humiliating" your guests with searches, and we would not call you racist for doing so. We all go through checkpoints at every airport. Are the airlines being racist? No.
"Yes, the Palestinians are inconvenienced at checkpoints. But why, Bishop Tutu, do you care more about that inconvenience than about Jewish lives?
"Bishop, when you used to dance for Mandela's freedom, we Africans -- all over Africa -- joined in. Our support was key in your freedom. But when children in Burundi and Kinshasa, all the way to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in particular in Sudan, cried and called for rescue, you heard but chose to be silent.
"Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans -- I was part of the movement to stop slavery in Mauritania, which just now abolished the practice. But you were not with us, Bishop Tutu.
"So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A&t=1528s
Watch the Al Jazeera documentary, "Gaza", much of it based on Israeli footage. The Israelis themselves tell and show us who they are. Yeah, it's ugly. The world will never forget this livestreamed atrocity and genocide. Prosecutors will have much to work with.
Look, Israel is special. The Israeli Lobby, consisting of wealthy Zionist Jews (American ANDS Israeli) and fanatic religious zealots (Jews and "Christians") controls virtually all key US government officials, including both Presidential candidates.
Israel is a racist society, whether people here like it or not. It's like a very hard version of the Deep South, circa 1910.
But it's not just the native Arabs whom the Israeli Jews view as sub-human. It is apparently ALL goyim.
I just stumbled across this story about David Bogdanovsky. You can't make this stuff up...
He was a solidier doing his part to eliminate the Palestinians of Gaza., he was apparently killed in action in Gaza. Neither of which should surprise anyone.
But this? I had to Google it. Below is an excerpt from the Jerusalem Post, Oct 22. I hope that is OK.
"The Defense Ministry is attempting to reach an agreement with the family of St.-Sgt. David Bogdanovsky, KIA, to remove a cross from his headstone.
“By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a MILITARY headstone,” the Ministry said.
The Ministry cited a ruling by the IDF Chief Rabbi that states the holiness of the Jewish cemetery is harmed by the cross.
The Ministry said it is working with the public committee for soldier memorial to reach an agreement with the family, “in light of requests by families whose loved ones are buried nearby who claim that the cross hurts their feelings and their ability to pray and say [the] Kadish [mourning prayer], and in light of the ruling of the IDF chief Rabbi.” "
Fascinating! This man died killing indigenous Arabs for the Jewish State, but this does not entitle his remains to be interred in a appropriately. The goyim are not worthy. Goyim. Like Untermensch. Let's salute "the only democracy in the Middle East"!
Another proof that, sadly, the UN Resolution 3379, passed in 1975, saying "Zionism is Racism" is true.
Now, I'm not saying the US should give Israel an ultimatum to stop the war on the Palestinians, and either give them equal rights or give them the entire West Bank and Gaza, or else our big bad Air Force will put an end to it.
But I do find it very offensive and disappointing that my tax money is enabling this racist behavior. Isn't it time to put America first?
When this Middle East war plays out, I foresee Israel will, like South Africa, grudgingly give the Palestinians equal rights.
This war will be a big setback, perhaps even a defeat, for the US. Consequently, the US will no longer be able to indulge Israel--or even secure AMERICAN interests. That oil is gonna be shared with others... just as the fracking miracle dries up.
And today's Israel is not the Israel of Moshe Dayan, of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Israelis have grown affluent and soft, like the big PX that sustains them. They are vicious, but not tough like they used to be. They will NOT commit suicide by blowing up the world to save their apartheid regime.
We will never know if an honest two-state solution, as imperfect as it would be, might have delayed, or even prevented, the tragedy we are seeing and the much greater debacles to come from the Middle East. Biblical.
Israel never wanted a two-state solution. Well, my Israeli friends, as your hero Miriam Adelson would say, "promise kept!". Enjoy your day--and my apologies for the long the post.
Yes, the hatred of Christianity is part of Judaism and thus the Jewish state. You rstory shows the idiocy of the Zion-Christians.
You still think we can all get along at some level. That's not true. Your liberalism is full of uninspected beliefs and ungrounded idealism.
How do you know my liberalism? Yesterday's "classical liberal" is a "conservative" in today's US, isn't that so?
"ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ"
"The one thing I know is that I know nothing"--Socrates (the original, not me)
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not really know.... I learn one thing and feel that there are one or two things that I don't know that are relevant. Probably why my posts are so long here...
Still, I do know a few things.
One saying I like: good fences make good neighbors.
That seems to me to be the best prescription for getting along, with less fuss or bloodshed. A more humane way.
Liquidating your enemies does not work as well as it appears to. Nations, like people, need boundaries and limits. Absent that, when nations (or people) think they can get away with anything, their greed for "more" in the end leads to their demise.
I believe that is the destiny of the USA, as it hits 250 years, give or take a few.
Since Lincoln, even more so after 1913, and completely since WW2, the US government has been directed by the nefarious forces of big money from behind the scenes. A veneer of a republic under the control of big capital and big business and their agents known as "special interests".
War, debt, depravity, the dumbing down of the public, all reflect the wishes of the globalists to impose one-world government, and to be "God" (the biggest sin). Now, as they enter the final straightaway, the globalists have "floored it" and added wokeism, then the plandemic and mRNA injections, and now in an effort to subordinate Russia and increase economic control over China, TWO wars with Apocalyptic WW3 potential, one a pure proxy play against Russia using Ukraine, the other an unholy alliance joining hard-core Zionists and the US government against Iran in an effort to keep China and Russia out of the Middle East.
I can see the hazy outlines of those two conflicts merging, or shifting south, across the Black Sea (with all of Turkey's intrigues, plans against Greece, trying to upstage Iran, barking at Israel), and maybe China blockading Taiwan, and perhaps Egypt/Somalia fighting Ethiopia over the most valuable resource for life--water, the Nile.
We can endlessly debate the root causes of America's, impending, or for that matter, ROME's actual demise.
In the case of Rome, was it imperial overreach? Debasement of the currency? Corruption? The absorption of "non-Roman" subjects into the Empire in general, and important positions, like officers or officials in particular? Bloody conflicts between warring factions at the top? The blood of all the Christians?
Probably all of the above. Was one or two of these ills the main reason(s)? People who have studied Roman history (and that is not me) can intelligently debate this. I think they all fed on each other. I personally used to be a big proponent of "currency debasement", but who knows.
"Lugh", it appears to me that you and I agree on more things than we disagree.
Thank you for your succinct comment and giving me the opportunity to respond here.
Hey, Jarek. Why do you keep re-posting links that I've already posted? Read better.
You love Israel first and foremost and the United States only insofar as it supports Israel, not in and for itself. So the question becomes: Why do you live here? Why not live in your heart's desire?
In this case you assume and make an ass only of yourself.
Don't feel bad. Many Blacks don't want to live with their own kind either.
As I said….
I consider Israel an ally of the West and USA but the amount of aid they receive from USA is absurd
Israel should be less reliant on aid from USA - their defense and survival depend on self sufficiency like in 1967
I try to listen to what people are presenting. I look at whatever evidence they present, and this issue with Israel is disturbing. What I see quite often is people who have spent a LOT of time in an echo chamber. They refuse to look at anything that doesn't fit with their preferred narrative. This works quite well for moving the elite's plan forward because as long as people refuse to look at what others have to show them, they will continue on the elite's path of mutually assured destruction.
It's become too convoluted for me to do anything more than sit on the sidelines and watch it all play out.
So you're telling us you don't see clearly or understand what's going on and therefore have no helpful observations. How is it, then, that you know who is and who isn't spending time in "echo chambers"?
Complete and utter BS.
The Jew's win.
10/22/24: Go back to grade school and find out when and when not to use an apostrophe.
Fuck off and die, Nazi filth.
This is the only thing that Jew Harmon is capable of doing. Spewing expletives and curses in lieu of a coherent rebuttal. Fitting.
Ironically, that's his wish, Jim.
Should be. Won't be.
I’m blocked from liking your comment.
No you're not lol 🙄
Oh yes she is! (Yuk yuk...)
Reported for Anti-supremacism.
Well, yeah, obviously, we've been totalitarian for awhile now. But technically, that's what we are (RR). "They're attacking OUR DEMOCRACY!" if the funniest thing these Woke Jacobins* say. Well, one of them. There are so many.
* Thank you Jim for coining this
I wonder what Robespierre yelled in order to justify his system.
What we all missed, is that Biden was the trojan horse to bring Kamala in.
They just needed to keep him stringing out the time until it was too late for anybody but Kamala to be on the ballot.
She is a hard Communist, a true believer, the red diaper baby of two Communists.
As a front for the Obama-Holder-Clyburn network, she will complete the DSA Revolution that Obama started, making America a One Party totalitarian state in all but name.
She was an MKUltra baby from a CIA fam just like Obama so yeah, they were gonna plug her in somewhere. I'm guessing she's somewhat of a disappointment though, maybe they wanted her to take down Willie Brown but instead she climbed up on his lap and cooed to get her way.
As long as she signs what she is told to sign.
She was made Border Czar along with Mayorkas for a reason.
The troops are here and in place. Remember, Cloward-Piven theory says get your people in place, first, before you collapse the .gov with overwhelming demands. They will be in position then to "restore order".
Except that their "armies" will be, as with everything else they do, second-rate, third-class, incompetent failures incapable of carrying out the programs they are ordered to fulfill.
"Burn, loot, murder" doesn't work so well when those you want to burn, loot, and murder are heavily armed and outnumber you 100-1.
But will they use those guns? The actual good people in America are also very moral and religious people who are likely loathe to take another person's life. I imagine they can be pushed to the breaking point or would take a life to defend themselves, but it would probably take a lot to get them to that point. Note that it is the left's adherents who were burning, looting, and shooting a few years ago...it was not the conservative "deplorables" (per HRC et al) who took to the streets. Also, unless the uprising were HUGE, those taking up arms would be quickly rounded up and subjected to the current "justice" system...as were the very peaceful and UN-armed J6 protestors. I think the J6 persecutions/prosecutions have had a very chilling effect on We the People.
That is the single biggest question. As I've often said, if you've never point a gun at somebody and pulled the trigger, you have no idea whether you will actually be able to do so.
That's a good question.
They are organized, on a global scale, using culture war, a war without weapons. (Developed specifically to counter superior strength-of-arms.)
We are armed, individually.
Which will prevail?
Our home guns seem to be a Maginot Line, every where the globalists went. Everybody was armed, yet they or their allies, puppets, and satraps hold the high ground in country after country.
No, everybody wasn't armed. Far from it. And no nation in the history of the planet has been as well armed as the American people are.
Yeah there are "more of us than there are them". Problem is they are organized to the "T", and we ain't. I don't recall that the mob that finally ended Robespierre's reign of terror was organized either. They took out Robespierre but not the cancer he was emblematic of.
"Problem is they are organized to the "T""
Not really.
And if you kill enough of any organization, no matter how initially good it might be, its performance will quickly degrade to the point of collapse. And these people aren't that good in the first place.
Reminds me of that scene in the fifth element…Shoot their leader!😂
Why? Neither is or will be in control of much of anything. Rather, both are controlled by the same people, the Obama group and those above him and them.
Interesting thought. You might well be correct. That had not occurred to me.
Besides voting FOR censorship, political persecution/assassination, WWIII, and the burning of our Constitution. But they're the "good guys," so if these things happen, it must be good.
But they keep referring to THEIR democracy, so I assume it’s not the same one the rest of us want to live in. [Hi Mary❤️]
Hi, Mary Ann! Yes, it's not EVERYONE'S democracy, but THEIR democracy. They love mob rule, because at present, they make up the mob (or so they believe).
Same way they’re running around yelling Nazi & fascist trying to tag Trump. My lying eyes say THEY are the ones those labels fit.
Projection is their strong suit.
I’m wrong; they don’t say “THEIR “democracy,” they always say “OUR”democracy. Mike Benz has said that at some point they redefined the word democracy to refer to the democracy of institutions, whatever that means, as distinguished from one based on the people.
I listen to Mike Benz all the time. Essentially "democracy" is whatever they need it to be. Primarily they simply use it as a euphemism to refer to the system they control via criminality and conspiracy which does include captured federal agencies and national political parties, etc.
+1 "Essentially 'democracy' is whatever they need it to be."
EVERY "loaded" word leftists use "is whatever they need it to be". The left avoids consistency and logic; their "spell" depends on disorienting and provoking their opponents.
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
~ Lewis Carroll
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Yes, the leftists have very much adopted the by any means necessary way of doing business philosophy. Maybe not a bad way to be when you're trying to survive in a dangerous world, but it seems like a very bad way of doing things when you're part of a society that is presumably supposed to be united around a common goal, idea or identity.
Never better said, Dreamy, short and sweet. I don't mean you're short, but I'm certain you're sweet. <3
sweet as a peach cobbler lol <3
Oh yum.
Such people can never, ever tell you why they would support Harris without mentioning the Bad Orange Man™. There's nothing there but completely manufactured hatred. And once they start up about him, you won't hear anything about policy preferences or disagreements, just lies, hoaxes, emotion-driven nonsense, and bullshit.
Yep. All those Harris signs are really saying "We hate Trump". They don't even think about what Harris is. What can you do with people that superficial?
Beating them with the bucket after you empty the cold water over their heads sound like a good start.
And this truth is why I do believe we are all going to have to suffer just because these people need to be slapped across the face and doused with cold water.
What will they do when trumps gone? Make up stuff about DeSantis I guess.
There is no one like President Donald Trump. DeSantis, Vance, all the others are career politicians.
Oh, how about get a good nights sleep, enjoy the wonder of each moment, de-regulate the nervous system and suddenly not be triggered by the color, red.
Nope. They'll get wound up over whoever comes next.
Exactly. They will need another object onto whom to direct their self-loathing.
I have a long time friend that Hates Trump. Understandable, he's not all that likable. Number 1 issue; Abortion. Immigration zero, economy zero
lol -- half a sign! cheap bastards....! the "Vermonters for Harris!" signs came up so fast, it's like the literally grew out of the Earth. It's so annoying, here, the "Harris/Walz" signs -- since the state votes 80% Democrat no matter what. It's like putting up a sign that says, "I'm with Everyone Else!"
Here in our town, there's an underground economy in Harris/Walz signs: enthusiasts at the gun range pay 20 bucks for Harris/Walz signs.
10/21/24: If Harris and Walz were at this range, it would take them 18 hours to hit their own signs.
Yes, except they wouldn't have the stamina to make it two hours, let alone 18!
10/22/24: The Over/Under for accidental self-inflicted wounds is 13 seconds...
I'll take the Under.
UTSA's new QB is named, "Pickles."
Seriously, that's his name.
When the score is tied, he's half-sour.
10/22/24: An appropriate noun for a graveyard!
Lmao! 🤣👏😂
I rest my case.
I’d like some “We Hate Trump” signs and switch them out after dark, then sell the Harris signs to the gun range folks.
That's important to democrats, thinking and being like everyone else.
They're always stunned when you don't agree with every single thing they say. I get a kick out of it.
+1
10/21/24: Half-wits displaying half signs... one of James's best columns, ever. If the NY Post had any balls (HA!), they'd print it...
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Kamala Harris finally breaks down and visits a remote part of North Carolina.
With news crews following her around as they tour the place, the Vice President asks the local Mayor if there was anything they needed.
"Well," says the Mayor, "We have three very important needs.
"First, we have a medical clinic but no doctor to staff it."
Harris whips out her cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days. Now, what was the second problem?"
"We have no way to get clean water. The hurricane has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for dozens of years. We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive."
Once again, Harris dials a number, yells into her cellphone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "I've opened some roads for water delivery, and we are setting up a water purification plant for your people. Now, what was that third problem?"
The Mayor looks at her and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"
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Danno (posted elsewhere): At first I thought it was a true story.
10/19/24: It gave you that impression because she either so stupid that she didn't notice that she had no dial tone; or so nefarious that she was intentionally lying (pretending to have conversations so she could whip up some supply miracles for the TV cameras); or, and now we come full circle, so f**king stupid that she assumed that the mayor wouldn't KNOW that there's no cell phone service.
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“Vermonters for Harris” I threw up when I saw sign. I live in VT and vote in VT. I know I’m in the minority, but that sign does NOT represent me!
Nor me! There’s a lot of Trump voters actually, just not enough….
+1 "I'm with Everyone Else!"
Libtards seem to fear "excommunication" above all else.
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"...really, it isn't one Left. There is an ascendant orthodoxy on the Left that is very troubling. It is quite broad, but I think not very deep...when you speak out on a college campus from a perspective on the Left that does not fit this orthodoxy, you are immediately categorized as on the Right, which makes it look that the Left is monolithic and all shares this opinion, but it's not the case."
~ Bret Weinstein Testifies to Congress on The Evergreen State College riots, Free Speech & Safe Spaces - YouTube
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The disconnect is so bizarre. Same in my neighborhood. Blue no matter who. Tribalism at its worst. sabrinalabow.substack.com
You should find out, accountability is importent.
"Dark & crazy" times indeed. Mad times, bad times. Just about everywhere.
Our host has swallowed a 'happy/optimistic/fairy tales are real/ truth will out/justice will be done' pill. 'Aint gonna happen.
Stupidity & ignorance still reign supreme. For example, the truth about the vaxx was out there long before the injections really started to roll out. The info was disseminated by fearless & honest experts and available to all with an internet connection. And how many took the poison shot? About 80% world-wide? And how many still in denial, despite current MOUNTAINS of undeniable evidence - would 70% be a fair ball-park figure?
So from where is the momentum for 'justice' going to come - because you do need that broad ground swell of righteous indignation to make it happen. Otherwise it's pretty much this web site and (quite) a few others.. having a bitch. And largely ignored. And if Trumpy makes it to the WH, I'm certain he'll immediately have arrested all the bad guys. Just like he did before ('the Clintons are fine people' - did I get that quote more or less right?)
Nope. We're down the sewer, well past the "S" bend and the World, led by the USA, will spend due time in the cesspool for its sins.
Empires & civilisations come & go. The USA Empire 1945 - 2025 R.I.P.
And yet you’ll support a guy whose OWN chief of staff said he fits the definition of a fascist? A guy who betrayed his oath to the Constitution and tried to steal an election rather than admit he lost?
And a party that is running on a platform of fearmongering & lies.
Dark and crazy times indeed
Don’t waste your time trying to argue with a crazy person.
“I’m not going to help you pretend – by arguing with you – that the reality you’re talking about is not what it is, that there’s still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn’t.”
— Ayn Rand
It's a dog's life!
The City Administrator of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Stephanie Hirsch, breezed in last year and unilaterally ordered up some Congolese for her city. She expressed a vague sense of hurt feelings at the local reception of her decree ("Not great, Stephanie!"). Her father was a friend of mine . . . where did he go wrong in raising this clod of a daughter?
Eau Claire and other cities are also knocking together ugly, medium-density blocks of housing in empty store lots and such. They're all over the landscape here and in the Twin Cities. What the hell? Is this that bullshit Obama was planning?
Meanwhile, carjackings are up over 200% in Minnesota's Twin Cities. This must have something to do with "joy" and "turning the page," but I'm not sure what.
The worst part is these people do this with a smirk on their face, i will never understand the liberal mind
Yes, Tom, they do this with a smirk on their face, because that's their plan, and they know we won't do anything about it --- until we do.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." ~ "Iron Mike" Tyson
Their time is coming, I can assure you that.
Ayn Rand characterized it as "pure, naked, smirking evil."
10/21/24: A LOT sooner than even they realize. The biggest budget item in the 2025 federal calculus will be prisons, and payroll for guards to staff them.
Either that, or cemeteries and gravediggers. No further staff necessary, though.
10/21/24: But why disturb the voters?
The cemeteries are full of Democrats already. What difference would a few hundred thousand more make?
10/22/24: Well, if so, "whistling past" will now require airport pedestrian conveyor belts.
Why don't I feel very assured?
Because you doubt - you lack certainty - have faith and stay fearless, Outsider.
+1
Thomas
Simple, the liberal mind, actually the Leftist mind, is self-directed. They are gimme or gimme sympathetic folks who look to the government for sustenance. Their root is the Have Nots of society whose main goal is stealing from the Haves. Our Constitution protects ownership rights for the population, that is why the Left want it obliterated.
+1
Many of us come here to escape people like you. We deal with your tripe seven days a week. You're not welcome here. I'm sure there are other sites that are more suited to your mentality. Go there. Drink your poisoned Kool aid and drown in it
We're sick of you and your filth. Get out.
Go and drown in your Kool aid.
10/21/24: To the intemperate using ambiguous pronouns, congratulations. The rest of us who are reading your posts have no idea to whom your insults are addressed. But keep up the good work anyway.
Way to let your snobbery hang out, Skippy. And your credentialism.
I love that word credentialism. I am dealing with that right now--that is such a precisely accurate word. Thank you.
Don't get me started on credentialism.
Don’t get me started - your wife— on sincerity
Spoken like a true bezoar.
Go somewhere else and win hearts and minds for your candidates, cunt.
Of course you're an atheist. Cultural Marxist also. And yet, here you are. Hope you learn something, but I'm guessing you won't.
Dennis - you'd be surprised at how many pursue the medical profession, for mammon and so they can play God. Self-directed? How about self-important?
I'm married to a professor emeritus/propulsion test engineer, and he self-directs himself to the voting booth to cast a ballot for Trump. If I had a nickel for ever self-important, elitist fuck who says Teump voters are . . . Neanderthals. Lol!
+1 @Beth Nicolaides, the good news is many "elitist fuck(s)" are jabbed =D
Dennis - don't let her fool you, she has a secret crush on Orange Jesus.
I haven't seen anyone here denigrate or disparage Charles or the British government. Can you extend the same courtesy?
If you're not a Tommy, then you're a fookin' Commie.
Ron is the king of self-important….all of you out who think you know him
Dennis - my health is perfect. Food is our medicine, not the poison the whitecoats push. I'll never have cancer of any sort, but if I did, an Oncologist is the last person I'd go to - they poison people with chemotherapy and radiation - for mammon. How do they sleep at night?
He’s full of shit. He’s blind in one eye.,. shitty in the other, can’t smell or taste.
So, how many shots did you take?
Remember, if the batch number ended in 2, mycardia.
If the batch number ended in 3, cancer.
Not too sure I'd be all that proud of your DUI daughters. I've worked with a lot of doctors and they, as in the general college population, are not all that smarter than is the average college professor who knows quite a bit about his chosen subject but gets himself lost looking for one errant shoe that has wandered under his bed. Doctors credentials, like most of those professors degrees, are the result of persistence rather than intelligence. Given your rhetoric and the fact that both are the product of your loins, I suspect both fall under that rubric.
There was a KunstlerCast podcast earlier this year, while kunstler.com worked, with a doctor/surgeon. I do not recall his name, nor how one can find this very interesting and informative podcast.
The doctor referenced the Libby Zion Case, 1984, in New York. This case ultimately changed the medical intern regimen and made it easier, using the rationale that Libby Zion died because the interns were overworked. However, JHK's guest shared the view, according to many in the medical profession, that reducing the ardor of internships has led to doctors who are not as sharp as they used to be.
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Reference the Libby Zion Case:
Yeah, well, that's just another result of what's been going on since the mid to late 1970s when, especially, but not limited to, self hating Jewish doctors saw that there was a disparity between the percentage of those with enhanced melanin in the population as opposed to those entering medical school and decided to decrease the rigor of the testing and establish quotas (read: giveaways) for those coveted spots. (Don't quote me, but I think that was about the time when they decided to change autopsy language for doctor induced death from malpractice to 'medical misadventure'. That way everybody's off the hook.)
Now, of course, we have doctors practicing who have to have interpreters in the room with them in order to communicate with English speakers.
Isn't progress grand?
youtube.com/watch?v=amJQoNilH1Q
youtube.com/watch?v=csSph593QcE
Jeez! Corpse dust poured out of those links! Those two should be declared legally dead, even as their decrepit forms continue to move and make noises.
That second link is so ironic. Hillary brings up getting rid of Section 230, but awhile back when the right complained about Facebook and (then) Twitter for being so censoring, and wanted to take away that provision, the shit hit the fan with the leftie whackos.
Stop calling my husband. Whatever it is you’re talking about is unimportant in his world. We are married for 25 years and he has a family.
Stop stalking me, you stupid obsessive bitch.
He is my husband and I will do whatever the fuck I like bitch, stay away before you have some real problems
I guess YOU are the one with the "problems", since you can't seem to grok men and women being friends, without going full nuclear. You want REAL problems? I can give you a few.
Imagine yourself after you allow a few demons in to snatch your soul, and then you might understand it
Along that line, check out James MacPherson’s Substack from yesterday, “How Freedom Is Lost and How Freedom is Won.” He uses the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart from Exodus as his example.
"Sticking it" to their opponents, out of spite. Juvenile tantrums. Consequences are never part of their half-brain thinking.
They won't be smirking when the 100-kb hailstones start falling.
The Twin Cities are the LA of the midwest. I swear, you can't get more Woke than Timpon Walz. So it's not much of a surprise. Somalians had already taken over Minnesota long ago. Why not keep that model going? I don't know why Minnesotans don't fight back. I dated one for many years, they were of Swedish decent, maybe the Swedes are neutral here like they are in their country? Who knows. In any case, what a mess.
Scandinavian and Scandinavians are deep into dignity culture and very trusting. Very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to every comer. It's not a common type of culture. It's very unlike the Scotch-Irish and Mestizo honor cultures of the American South where you defend your honor above all. We Norwegians and Swedes are like flipping sitting ducks in our communitarian states, and we let the barbarian walk in unopposed.
"Scandinavian-Americans," I meant. "Minnesota nice" is not really all that nice, though. It better represents a limited tolerance and skepticism.
(It also means four cars at a four-way stop sign assuming the other guy should go first, then the awkward stop/go/stop exercise in futility, costing everyone 30 seconds of their respective days)
Hilarious.
Hilarious, 'cuz its true! You shake your head, but then can't help but smile. Those Scandi's are just as sweet as spun sugar. The funny thing is when they all get to jabbering in Deep Nord; I can only make out about one word in three.
What's "Deep Nord"? I know that when my sister and I get going, we lapse into the prosody of tonal Norwegian, but it's nothing like our grandma's brogue. She always sounded on the verge of tears. I don't know why we do this. A coworker who didn't like me much told me I sounded like a furriner.
Agreed. As a Minnesotan, I've long known that Minnesota Nice really means "non-confrontational, overly-cautious, and passive-aggressive".
Oh, but hey, sometimes we just let 'er rip. There is nothing more stinging than hearing one of us pause, then say, "Well, THAT'S different."
"Da hell was dat..."
The Minnesotan and Wisconsinite were walking by the lake one day, and found a bottle on the beach. Rubbing the sand off, a cloud of smoke poured billowed forth and poof!- out came the genie.
"There are two of you, so I can only grant each one wish," he announced. "Now, what will it be?"
The Minnesotan spoke up. "I want you to put a wall around my state to keep out dat bunch over dere!" he said, shaking his fist at Wisconsin. And poof!- a giant wall appeared, all around Minnesota.
"Now you," the genie said, "What is your wish?" to the other.
The Wisconsinite began pulling at his beard. "Ay dunno...," he mumbled, dismayed. Suddenly, he brightened. "Ooo, ay know! Now...fill it wit water!!"
Lol!
I only know anti-Iowa jokes, for some reason. Probably from being married to a Minnesotan.
Q: What keeps Minnesota from sliding into Lake Superior?
A: Because Iowa sucks.
Walz’s snitch line during covid seems to be a good example of that.
"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
~ Thomas Sowell
See also "Stockhome Syndrome".
My first husband is a Swedish Minnesotan from the Iron Range. I'm a Wisconsin Norwegian, and we have the same mindset, really. But the Iron Range, until recently, was solid Dem because of all the recent immigrant miners who were strong for unions. Trump changed that. But I really don't know what keeps Minnesotans so simpleminded and trusting; they even have their weird Democratic Farm Labor party, which represents none of those things any longer.
I should add that my ex is a hereditary union-nased Dem, amplified by his decades of involvement in the teachers' unions. I love the guy, but he's a hard-core member of the Democratic state machine for that reason. I married a mobster!
No Union democrat teacher can ever be talked into changing their opinion, no matter how good the argument against the democrat candidate. I've tried for the past 30 years. When we go to the polls, my spouse just cancels out my vote. I guess we should just stay home and watch TV instead.
Don't stay home Outsider. Your wife, if she's like the dems I know, might just say she's going out for milk and eggs, and lo and behold, she casts a vote for the bad guys without you knowing.
"...she casts a vote for the bad guys without you knowing." This is an extremely sad example of what's wrong around here.
You love your ex husband? You ARE def a Scandinavian.
It was an amicable split after 30 years, and we shared a child. No sense in courting discord.
Well, I was joking, sorta. But, good on you! That's the way to do it.
+1 Yay!!!
With the highest gun deaths!
https://news.sky.com/story/swedens-deadly-gang-war-has-turned-peaceful-country-into-murder-hotspot-13071608
It's no accident they staged the George Floyd false flag/psyops there.
"George Floyd false flag/psyops there." Are you actually for real? Is EVERYTHING a conspiracy in your world?
Nope. But that is.
Way to go Mary Rose!
They were having Floyd riots in Finland, finally!
There are what, four negros in the entire country?
Just more Soros antiwhite color revolution bullshit.
Anybody who's SOMEBODY had a George Floyd riot! I mean, isn't it awful that a repeat felon who pistol-whipped a pregnant woman during a house invasion committed suicide by ingesting fentynol while being arrested?
Swallowing his own stash so he wouldn't go back to prison in Texas certainly qualifies one for saint's murals, a golden casket, and a Pharoah's funeral!
Somebody was searching online for just such a local incident to exploit, and when they found it, they knew they had hit gold: Tim Walz and the mayor were their guys, and just the ones to pull it off. Now we have the same schemers trying to repeat the stunt with Hamas 'protests' during another election year. Maybe we can get Tren de Argua protests in 2028!
Nice dot-connecting there, Alz. Also, you made me spew a fine fizzy water. Nice work!
As a firm believer and purveyor of the biggest 'secret conspiracy' theory in human history, you should be one to talk.
It's become your religion, the basis of your moral outlook.
Your strongest commandment is that we must never doubt the Faith, while you build victory monuments everywhere in our lands.
The problem is, as in every part of the country now, you, if you are white and/or conservative, cannot fight back and win any battles in court. The justice system in the country is totally corrupted.
So wrong. SO WRONG! If you are white and conservative, just don't expect to have any sway with the courts IF YOU CANNOT PRODUCE EVIDENCE - viz Giuliani & Powell in Dec 2020 & Jan 2021
If we're not allowed to bring truck trailer loads of obvious evidence, because citizens don't have standing in their own country.
Chutzpah- shamelessness- is a virtue in some cultures.
Yes, people just do not seem to want to acknowledge the degree of control the Leftist judiciary has in the country. There was reported to be significant evidence, affidavits of ballot stuffing, esp. in PA. It was suppressed and not even looked at. By the judiciary. The Left has learned that control of the media and the judiciary IS control.
Even worse is nothing has been done about a corruptible election process. Surprise!
Yeah, sure Maria. Tell that to those sitting in jail for simply showing up at the capitol on Jan6, and tell that to Trump, who is being maliciously prosecuted for political reasons. First, the defendant would have to have an honest, impartial judge. Then that judge would have to be willing to look at that evidence.
I think, Ms. Goldstein, your background (and I'm making, considering your last name, what I consider a pretty safe assumption here that you probably are versed in Yiddish) probably has you so used to witnessing corruption and underhandedness that it just seems natural to you. Consequently, your belief in the imaginary honesty of the justice system (and the state run election systems) that presently exists in this country can be excused.
Timpon Walz is an apt description.
They've been blinded by the light
That day is long overdue.
I don't think they need to shoot anyone in the face. I think they should act smarter than the nutbags who have taken control and outsmart them. That way, they can't come back. Replace them and their system where they no longer fit. No one has the patience, though. It takes planning and long-range goals.
I do not live in "minny-soda" - so...
In any case, Mr. "Fit Pro", good luck with that! Let us know how it turns out for ya, tough guy.
Sure, tuff stuff. Rowr!
Yes, the Muslim dude not from Hawaii pleased it, Beth. Anti American zealot and Jew hater
Amen.
Better than u fer Shure.
America had seen this movie before. In the 60s and 70s, it was the intercity “projects” ostensibly to create “affordable housing for the disadvantaged.” Now, in retrospect, we know the projects were designed to become festering cesspools of hate and divisiveness, not the “failed experiment” all the politicians claimed years later. How do we know this? Because that was the outcome in each and every city across America. Still, Our resilient society mostly overcame all that despite the government’s post meddling.
Now, phase 2. Import 10 millions of refugees and plant them in cities with stretched budgets and already crumbling infrastructure. Bonus points for making the optics even more insulting by giving them funding and support not available to actual citizens. The game though is the same: destabilize thru misery and decisiveness. It’s purposeful treasonous actions against America passed off as political incompetence.
Exactly, now the developers are building actual 'Colonies'- raiding bases, razzia, in other words, such as the one near Houston- but the real C40 s.m.a.r.t. cities will not be shining megalopolises such as the planned Tri-City development meant for Netherlands farmland or the Lahaina pilot project. That's horse manure sold to the investor class to boost the IPO.
The real 'smart cities' will simply be designated ULEZ zones in already crumbling urbans such as Detroit. Apartment blocs and Section 8 built under Obama's HUD directive in abandoned lots, or repurposed large buildings. The immigrant migration invasion authorities are already grabbing whatever old properties they can- a huge, vacated former paint factory in Ireland came to light by Ezra Levant's reporting- or enriching local corruptocrats with rental housing schemes like those in Springfield OH (owned by the mayor), or the government paying rising rents for 'investor' MP's council houses in Birmingham and Liverpool.
Where were the Floyd riots staged? In the priciest districts. Where are the 'natural disasters'- usually fires, due to bad forestry management- occurring? What do we do with these huge tracts of abandoned factories and the stores that no longer serve them? Replace a manufacturing community with a migrant rental housing one! Somebody wants to get real estate at a major discount and Build Back Better.
Favela world beckons, it's the latest in vulture capitalism!
Speaking of "...your happy 15-minute cities..." (not their term) a Japanese staffer on WIRED is slipping it to us (Publisher Conde Nasty being embedded Deep State Deep):
https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-the-sustainable-cities-of-tomorrow-could-look-like/?
They never get it that eventually their servants become their masters.
Yes, why not? More clients for the Welfare department, voters for the machine. And they will fold right into Black American welfare/criminal culture in short order.
To their credit, the Somalis in my county do not lower themselves to acting like the nearby Twin Cities' black underpass. They have their own ways. They really have not assimilated at all in 30 years here.
Nor have they learned to drive in a straight line. I figured it was from growing up where they did, without rectilinear stuff, but 3 decades later, it seems to be a trait that breeds true. Hmmm.
Interesting thought: Maybe Black African Muslims (not just Somalis) will assimilate Black America, not the other way around. Much worse for us of course.
It certainly got off to a brisk start in the 1960s.
As somebody raised next to an Elijah Muhummed neighborhood (and the only white kid on the bus), the cruelest twist of the knife is this: the creator of the Nation of Islam was not black. His real name was Eli Wallace, from Brooklyn.
Before the surgeries, he looked as ethnic as could be; those surgeries took their toll, when he died he was 400 pounds, with a harem of 23 "wives". He was an FBI informant, moving guns and heroin into the hood. He advocated for a breakaway Islamic state in Mississippi, and had Malcolm X killed to keep his secrets.
+1 Much of this was news to me. I thought E.M. was just a pedophile.
3000 years of having children with their cousins.
Takes genetic testing to prevent inbreeding, and 300 years
Huh? If you go back 20 generations, you have i excess of 1 million 'grandparents'. We ARE all 'cousins', in reality. And if you're a God-botherer, you know for certain that we all come from Noah, right?
No, daughter of Ham, you know nothing, you have erased your own history hoping to replace us with yourselves, since you cannot be what we are.
It is interesting that DNA experts say that at one period, man was almost extinct, done to a few thousand individuals and we have descended from this small group.
Underclass
Re: " where did he go wrong in raising this clod of a daughter?"
Don't put it on the father (unless he abused her).
There are lots of influences in that girl's / woman's life besides Daddy once she turns 18.
Remember 1984, they were afraid of their own children denouncing them.
True. But I happen to know that he has some similar views, having been a professor in the humanities. He raised a hothouse flower.
This was set in motion before Obama was born. You are being genocided.
See: Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan
Gearing-up for the next Olympics, which'll feature carjacking, along with breaking.
Interesting regarding the carjackings in Minnesota. I'm in Maryland in a "safe" suburban neighborhood where there were NO carjackings for the first 20+ years I'd lived here. In the past couple of years, we've had about 5 or 6 armed carjackings in my neighborhood, some in broad daylight.
Let's see. what happens when you add population without having the support for them? No jobs? We will make some up, that is the birth of criminal elements. Also, the government is a criminal organization itself, utilizing the illicit trades to try to finance serving the interest payments on the debt.
When the Irish immigrated here, the Irish Mafia was born, when the Italians came in droves, they brought the Mafia. So as the rest of the world seems bent on coming here, they are going to bring their crimes with them. We are like a cesspool now, breeding criminal activity everywhere. The Swamp is well named.
Solution? Build the double 30 foot wall and monitor it, then deport any criminal activity as it occurs. As the are lots of them out here now, it will serve to slow the problem.
Your lips to God’s ears.
The US government, like the government of California, is seeing first hand what happens when its creative class goes Galt. It is easy to be maniac woke Jacobins when standing on the shoulders of giants but a lot harder when you need those very people to scratch and toil for their sustenance and your tax receipts. Tax receipts, I should remind you, that barely cover the interest on their debts.
Businessmen used to be shocked when I told them that were I a younger man that I'd move to a business friendly country. No one is shocked anymore - they just slowly nod in agreement.
2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write so I'm adding Fahrenheit 451 back into the running of Dystopian Future along with 1984 and Atlas Shrugged.
Literacy doesn't seem to be a big priority for the democrat party.
They like 'em dumb and stupid.
"2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write ..." ~ Robert
"Literacy doesn't seem to be a big priority for the democrat party." ~ Kathy Christian
Perhaps the problem isn't the focus, perhaps the problem relates to incompetent leadership.
Goal 4 - Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2022/Goal-04/
FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Launch Build Back Better World (B3W) Partnership
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/12/fact-sheet-president-biden-and-g7-leaders-launch-build-back-better-world-b3w-partnership/
"Strong Strategic Partnerships. Infrastructure that is developed in partnership with those whom it benefits will last longer and generate more development impact. Infrastructure created under the B3W will be developed through consultation with communities and assessing local needs as a true partners. We will establish a taskforce together as a G7, and with others, to coordinate, harmonize our efforts, and increase our impact and reach."
THE 17 (Sustainable Development) GOALS
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda
"People
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
Prosperity
We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
Peace
We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.
**
Our vision
7. In these Goals and targets, we are setting out a supremely ambitious and transformational vision. We envisage a world free of poverty, hunger, disease and want, where all life can thrive. We envisage a world free of fear and violence. A world with universal literacy. A world with equitable and universal access to quality education at all levels, to health care and social protection, where physical, mental and social well-being are assured. A world where we reaffirm our commitments regarding the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation and where there is improved hygiene; and where food is sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious. A world where human habitats are safe, resilient and sustainable and where there is universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
8. We envisage a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination; of respect for race, ethnicity and cultural diversity; and of equal opportunity permitting the full realization of human potential and contributing to shared prosperity. A world which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation. A world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met.
9. We envisage a world in which every country enjoys sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and decent work for all. A world in which consumption and production patterns and use of all natural resources – from air to land, from rivers, lakes and aquifers to oceans and seas - are sustainable. One in which democracy, good governance and the rule of law as well as an enabling environment at national and international levels, are essential for sustainable development, including sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development, environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and hunger. One in which development and the application of technology are climate-sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient. One in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected."
2030 Agenda is just so much bullshit. It sounds wonderful at the same time it is completely undoable. The world is currently in an expanding battle for limited resources and soon all countries will be fighting for water, Oil, rare earths, agricultural land.
BTW, G7 is meeting. Son of a gun, if BRICS+ is also meeting in Russia with destruction of the G7 as part of its agenda. Right now.
John, the 2030 Agenda identifies, details, and proposes solutions for many of the issues that people on Jim's message board complain about, but for which few have a (viable) solution.
It is my understanding that the majority of world leaders have embraced the agenda in one fashion or another (it appears that there is a pile of money for compliance), so it is stacking up to be leadership vs citizens. My understanding is that Putin and Xi are on board with this agenda, so how do you reconcile that?
The 2030 Agenda is already being implemented, so if you want to have a say or terminate it, shouldn't there be a discussion?
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
People are wired differently, where some have an advantage over others depending on the current format for life. Kamala Harris is a perfect example of a misfit who is setup to fail, and does not qualify to be in a leadership position. What is your solution to accommodate all the differences?
"People are wired differently, where some have an advantage over others depending on the current format for life."
Jim touched on this a few posts ago. Why do you think Jews dominate the high dollar positions?
So what if Jews inhabit the high places.
If you believe in America as it is designed, meritocracy counts more than anything. However, it is a function of the society to provide equal opportunity to everyone, which our government has sucked at big time. Just the fact that everyone seems to think it is the government's job to make jobs is a major malfunction of this society.
You know the Peter Principle, you rise to your level of incompetence. It is true, meritocracy takes us to where we fail, where it is just too much to handle. Recognition by managers is critical to keep it at a minimum. People should be able to reach up as far as they can though.
Letting the government make those decisions is what needs to stop, my solution is pure capitalism, where the market runs the show and people have the opportunity to excel to their limits. The government must be left out of the economy, other than supplying the money to support it. No corporate favoritism, think Boeing, no corporate lobbying, tax rates favoring venture capital and stock growth. Just a start.
Stop limiting economic growth and encourage it, damn Obama's modus operandi.
Well nepotism mitigates against meritocracy. Nevertheless, it will defeat it and/or destroy it in the short term. I think the Jews may have an artful combination going for them. Not a bad thing? Well they don't like us, you see. Google the Kalergi Plan to find out how much they don't.
The format for life is nothing more than a (flawed) game, and you admit that by promoting capitalism.
OBTW, you know why Jews and Mormons do so well economically? They stand together, work together and support each other instead of constantly trying to rip each other up like the Gentiles seem to do. Our government and media is the antithesis of "together" so that By supporting each other, Jews and Mormons work their way into high positions easily.
True. We can't compete against the level of nepotism plus real ability in many cases. We must imitate them - which means having nations of our own which they are not a part of.
In one breath you promote letting the free market work, and in the next you praise the Jews and Mormons for doing well economically because of "networking".
What about those who do not "network"?
The object of capitalism is to win it all.
Wining it all is the equivalent of Israel dominating its neighbors economically and militarily for decades, and in the end they are surrounded by the enemies they have created.
I don't have the answer, and perhaps there is no perfect answer, but capitalism plays out over time, and this is where we are at.
IAN
No where did I say I favor their methodology, I do believe foremost in capitalism, pure capitalism with no government bias or interference. No where in the world does that exist, and the Leftists of America are fighting hard to try to get rid of capitalism here. We will rue the day that happens.
The object of capitalism is to win it all, is exactly right. When the market works, all boats rise according to the talents of the people. That is NOT the problem here. The government wants dependence to control the public, including their votes. They do not want a free society with meritocracy as the basis for achievement. They want servitude, feudal serfs to serve them. Capitalism rose from the feudalism of the Middle Ages along with the middle class. Socialism destroys the middle class.
Capitalism does play out, becoming crony capitalism as the government interferes and corrupts the free market and controls the creation of new companies and technologies.
That is where we are at. So now, who do you want as president, a businessman who has succeeded and favors a free market, or an ult-Left socialist who wants the government to make all decisions. Let me think.
Atlas Shrugged gets my vote, may read it again in the run up to Nov just for the heck of it. Rather see my oil fields burn than be used by the robbers
Anyone have a nice used Norwegian "Nasty" boat? I want to be Ragnar Danneskjold if we're doing Atlas. LOL!
Wyatt's Torch here we come,
I read it this year. I like Ayn Rand and pro-producer thinking.
"2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write"
They're probably mostly jabbed so will be dead before too long =D
One of my favorite sci-fi movies! I watched it when I was little many times!
I saw it at the drive thru when young, and did not see it again for 50 years.
I was astounded at just how *good* it was, absolutely amazing. One of the Classics.
The furniture, to the detective: "We'll make it cold, like winter used to be!"
Also, Blade Runner. Roy Batty's incept date is Jan.16, 2019. He has a four year lifespan, setting him down one year after Soylent Green, in the year 2023.
Do you think the prophets were trying to tell us something?
10/21/24: What is the title of the first film that you are referring to?
Hmm. Reading it now, it looks like a prediction of what the "Conservative Elites" want to have...a return to medieval feudalism but with high-tech comforts. Is this why so many of the really moneyed class - the billionaires you've never heard of as well as the ones in public like Musk - are throwing all their financial might behind Trump - a meat-puppet of the first order - so their chosen 'boy', JD Vance, after ascending to the Presidency through a 25th Amendment move, can enact their Project 2025 Agenda for them? How's THAT for a conspiracy, you guys?
Even the liberal press with its extreme bias against Trump is publishing articles that state more billionaires support Harris, which only goes to show you believe what you want to believe, the hallmark of a conspiracy theorist as the term is commonly bandied about.
Maria, WTF are you talking about. Trump wants the economy to open up, to have more entrepeneuership, more manufacturing, more middle class, more opportunity for folks other than the service sector with its servile minimum wage. It is the Dems that want servitude, manufacturing overseas, high tax rates, fiat money to support non-productive workers, dependence on the government, high energy prices, tax, tax, tax and spend spend spend. The power hungry billionaires are all on the Left side, knowing they will maintain power with a Leftist government. Hmmm, isn't THAT Fascism?
So long as federal politicians have access and ability to create unlimited credit, it just doesn't matter what party rules. The result will be the same.
Liberty, and its accompanying general welfare, is incompatible with politicians having the ability to create credit, which passes nearly exactly the same as money.
No way would the constitution have been ratified where federal politicians could create unlimited credit/money. The Founders were well acquainted with the practice of government emitting irredeemable paper money, and they righteously rejected it. Alas, we find ourselves back with the same system they roundly rejected.
This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution.
All the states truly need to accomplish is end the practice of taxing gold and silver. Let the market determine what people use to transact and store wealth.
All true. I honestly believe that a complete Dollar Collapse will be more detrimental to the US than a limited nuclear exchange. In a Hyperinflationary Dollar Collapse scenario, I believe that if the US dollar becomes worthless by 7 a.m. one busy weekday morning, grocery stores will be empty, burning shells with some bodies in them by 10 a.m. and civilization will be gone by 3 in the afternoon. That is not wild conjecture, minds much wiser than I have written books about this stuff, it could happen very, very quickly in a heavily armed nation like this one.
I'm currently reading Shut Down by W.R. Flynn. It isn't Tolstoy or Hemingway but it gives the uninitiated an idea as to how things will play out. I'm reading it because I'm trying to find books that break down what a banking crisis and a dollar collapse would look like. In Shut Down, it all plays out exactly as you wrote - bodies by 10 a.m. and empty store shelves by 3pm.
I read it years ago. To me, it did not read like fiction. I am a suburban dad with a wife and kids, when my kids were younger if that happened my wife would have told me to get out of the house and not come back until I had food for the family, and that she didn't want to hear about the details. Imagine moms and dads all over America panicking when their dollars and debit cards were rejected and their kids were hungry. . .in unarmed countries that usually results in bread lines, but something very different would play out here, very quickly.
My dad warned me I would see it…quietly studying hunched over Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, UN, prophets of old and dates of today…
Just wait until the EBT cards zero out.
Wait til 20 million illegals find only *their* EBT cards suddenly cut off, and their free rent canceled. If Trump wins, the Democrats can set off a two-legged, biological nuclear bomb in this country.
Interesting idea, if welfare was cut off tomorrow, the shakeout would drive out many of our problems, and fast. 7.5 million males between 18 and 40 would have to find a job, any job to survive. Men and women would have to work together in marriages to succeed economically instead of just running away. Illegals would be heading elsewhere if their free lunch was discontinued. The ones here would be on their way home.
Welfare by the Left and their buying votes is the thing that is dragging the country down.
Are you listening to what is going on in the world right now? BRICS+ conference going on in Russia, not with a bunch of firebrands, but a group of very purposeful people determined to tear down the West. They have the power and the knowledge to do exactly that.
IMHO, their plans for the USA is to use the discord here and the illegal immigration to first segregate areas of the USA ethnically, then divide it up politically turning it into three or four smaller countries. With our government only concerned about itself, it is playing directly into their hands.
BTW, for all the folks here who have answered that BRICS+ is no problem , it is only economic, may I present to you NOKO troops in Ukraine. There was a Congressman today that stated that if NOKO goes into Ukraine, the USA needs to inject”boots on the ground”.
Plan A.
Stay alert.
Be at the store before credit cards and checks are refused. Already have non perishable foods on hand
I have no trouble believing this and that it is very likely to happen.
Good points Thomas. Add to "heavily armed nation", 30m invaders and growing daily to the chaos. If even a mere 10,000 of them have evil intent combined with the resources to assault the nation, this former republic will be brought to its knees and will thus be forced to fight from a severely crippled position.10% of shipping containers are inspected at our ports. I was on the freeways(I-75 corridor) these past 4 days and wondered what exactly was inside the many MAERSK and EVERGREEN containers I passed, and where they were headed to unload or if dead-heading for more, where their loads were now staged deep inside this borderless nation. Waiting. And that's just ONE vector of assault playing out.
I am way more afraid of drones and AI autonomous robots.
The elite have never been in a stronger position.
To disable 99.9% of computerized stuff: Unplug.
I think you missed the whole point.
Not things I have purchased in my house. Things sent to harm or terrorize.
All those things run on electricity, or batteries... all the scary things.
Yes, I wonder that, too, when I see them on the highway. And only 10 percent of cargo containers are inspected. Where's Pete on this? Oh, I know, he's at an infrastructure project somewhere building an overpass so animals don't end up as road kill. Meanwhile, I saw a photo of an opened container holding a bunch of kids.
Of course! I saw it happen with CONvid! The shelves were empty in 2 days. It’s then that I purchased a freezer, and added to preps I already had. Be prepared!
You have to explain the reason for your scenario otherwise it IS wild conjecture.
What is the event would infect the world and the entire United States within a few hours that would collapse the currency?
It's important to remain fact-based about the financial markets now and how they interact otherwise ignorance will make you fearful and creating bad fiction.
The Euro goes before the dollar.
Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse. Think about right now, is the “faith” of the people based more on good monetary situations or on apathy, denial and just stupidity?
If the “faith” disappears, think about what would it be like that every monetary transaction you do a day, disappeared. Every purchase you make today would be unavailable. There would be no stores. No transportation of goods from the coasts. The cities would erupt as there would not be any goods trucked in. City folks would be out in the rural areas, ready to kill to get sustenance.
I have recommended before, “Lucifer’s Hammer”, the story of the after world reeling from a comet strike. Elimination of the money would be equivalent.
A lot of folks don't realize that the "money" they think they have in financial institutions isn't physically there ... it's just pixels on a screen and the actual money has all been loaned out. Try making any substantial cash withdrawal at your local bank, say 20k or more. Now imagine over half of depositors clamoring to pull out their cash. Bank runs and pandemonium would ensue.
Alert! I wrote a check for cash a few months ago. The bank said that over a certain amount they are required to ask what I intend to use it for. The teller was embarrassed and provided me with a "potential use." I guess we have moved from "friendly banker" to "nosey banker."
They did that to me a few yrs ago when I pulled out 20k just to keep at home ... and I had to go to 2 different branches as neither had the 20k on hand. I told them it was "for a trip to Vegas to do hookers and blow"
lol Good One!
+1 I like your style!
That was installed a long time ago in the war on drugs. They have to insure that you're not withdrawing money to buy coke. Allowing fentanyl into the country via the southern border is altogether different, however.
Typically the distributors are pursued, not the end users. Unless, perhaps I was being followed out of the bank...how boring for "them."
I know about that limit. It was $10k in cash being Deposited into a bank. This check was not near $10k and I don't think they were inquiring as to whether I was off to buy drugs with cash coming Out of my account. (Are there really people that stupid that would tell a bank they are off to buy drugs? We might as well give up then!)
It's now much lower. $2000 was the 'recommended' limit about 10 years ago, but nervous banks, to cover their behinds, report just about everybody.
Please be careful. I had a friend years ago who bought and sold boats and trucks in cash; some crumb he nodded to at a party, hoping to avoid a probate violation, snitched to the cops that 'this guy over here' had loads of cash, and the next week he had DEA smashing the sheetrock with sledgehammers in his house, looking for loot. (They took all the boats and trucks, too.) Went to prison for four years because the DA, looking right at him, swept his account books and floppys into the trashcan and said, "there's your f***ing evidence," despite his secretary and CPA's affadavits. Asset confiscation has become the #1 source of funding for cash-strapped budgets, since blacks and probationers don't pay the endless fines, warrants, and fees the local judges lay on them.
Jacinda, your adrenochrome dealer is calling.
You might want to think a bit more deeply about that one. Maybe a trip to Cuba might be enlightening. Or perhaps a study on current events regarding Wells Fargo.
I will add that there is still a "zero reserve" policy in place across the US banking system ... i.e. they don't need any reserves to cover all the outstanding loans they've made. Let that sink in.
AND another thing - "bail ins" are coming with the next banking crisis. What this means is instead of bailouts, where the govt steps in to provide emergency funding, the banks can now take the money they need from depositors. And you'll also be paying your bank to hold your money. And it's all legal, courtesy of our loving, caring banksters and government cronies.
Ghost
I will give you something else to lose sleep over. The bullion banks, globally, where gold is bought and sold by large entities like countries, has allowed payment with US Treasuries. There is little accounting for how much of the world’s gold is actually paper. Credit has rotted even the bulwark of wealth.
My motto is "if you don't hold it, you don't own it". Glad I've built a modest little stack of bullion the past few years. Central banks around the world are loading up on gold. Wonder how much the U.S. has stored, and when the last time it was audited (??)
Central banks loading up in gold? or US Treasuries? It will probably never be audited, the real story would collapse things.
"Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse."
I believe the following to be the correct assessment:
The US$ is already significantly devalued, but it doesn't presently reflect its value because of money inflow due to big money getting out of worse situations..
If you want to get out of the US$, the first step is to get out of US Bonds. If the US Bond market is 10 times the value of the US stock markets, where do you expect the bond money to flow?
I believe that the US Bond money will (continue to) flow into the US stock markets (view a 10 year chart of the MERVAL for ridiculous). Then view the "all" time frame of the Venezuela Stock Market (IBVC) for an example of a no bid situation.
This is your free market capitalism, where guys like Soros know a good opportunity when they see it.
I am the most deeply religious atheist you will ever meet, for the best of reasons.
John speaks a different dialect, is all, one which you do not understand.
All one needs do is translate.
Leave this one be. He has spent his life in the highest service, and is thus made holy.
Financial markets are merely ones and zeroes, gone in a heartbeat.
"I honestly believe that a complete Dollar Collapse will be more detrimental to the US than a limited nuclear exchange." ~ Thomas Madden
So if that is a problem that the US is confronted with, would you embrace a solution?
People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future
https://unsdg.un.org/resources/peoples-money-harnessing-digitalization-finance-sustainable-future
All it will take to bring everything down is an EMP or maybe a few. They can say it was Russia, China, or Iran to cover their ass but it will be like kicking an ant pile.
All highways will be blocked with new stalled "bells and whistles heavy" vehicles. Trucks can't get through, IF They could run. Empty grocery stores. Dead water systems. Thawing refrigerators and freezers. Armed gangs going house to house on foot pillaging and raping at will.
Travelers on their own with a bag of chips and a bottle of water.
Cannibalism soon to follow.
FEMA has already proven they are worthless.
1 Second After by William R. Forstchen is a good description of what would happen to the USA after an EMP incident. The first to go are those on meds, like Diabetics.. Then those with weak immune systems. Then a starvation diet for a year or so for any of the lucky survivors.
Yes, the Deagle Report predicted that in 2025 the US population will be down to 100 million, and when I read that, the first thing I thought of was that we'll get into a conflict with China and the prescription drugs that are made there, that our elected representatives refuse to have manufactured here, will be cut off.
Kathy. A non-shooting conflict with China already is in full swing. 1,000 Points of Light, etc. The Chinese steel everything we have with both hands now. No need for open warfare with the CCP. That they will leave to the invading hordes coming into our borderless nation. They are trained and will kill. Waiting. The Chinese will make an appearance but only after Islam and their Middle East brothers have made toast of our neighborhoods. Arm up. Prep.
The roundabouts built on every country road in my state…? Checkpoint Charlies from eastern bloc USSR days soon…
FEMA responds to the gay and colored blocs in any given area, everyone else can just go and die, as far as they're concerned.
"law enforcement" will be gathered at the state capitol guarding our elected representatives until they get to their bunkers. Citizens will be shot trying to defend themselves and their property, antifa and blm rioters will not.
Watch Cuba, as we speak. They can’t get their grid up and are about to say hello to a hurricane. Remember Haiti? We are always one week from catastrophe here.
They can’t get their grid up - JAZ
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"Grid" is a Cuban word which in English means "penis."
Yes Q - we're airdropping in cases of Cialis and Viagra. Hopefully it'll work longer and better than the $320 million-dollar floating dock the "Biden" regime installed on the beach in Gaza - about a month or two if I recall correctly. Another fantastic failure, for which they've become famous.
I am the entity formerly known as Q. Shtik back before the CFN site became defunct. I have been known for correcting commenters' grammar, spelling, and usage and for my chronicles about my brother-in-law, Peter.
As you can see, I have adopted a new handle for use here on Substack. It is John Smith, a name I believe was at one time the most common name in the USA. Now, where I live in central NJ, every other person's last name is Patel.
Lately I've had all kinds of electronics problems with my RAM 1500 truck (it is being worked on at the dealership as we speak) as well as health issues. It has been determined that I have Afib which is an irregular heart beat. If not corrected it can lead to blood clots which can go to the brain and cause a stroke.
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure where they give a quick shock to the heart in hopes that it will put my heartbeats back in sync. Dr. Shah (dot Indian of course) says there is little for me to be concerned about since of all the many times he has executed this procedure he has never "lost" anyone however he implied results could vary. It was not clear to me why the shock would put my heartbeats IN sync rather than putting them farther OUT of sync. I have to assume that as experts they know what they're doing.
This has me concerned about "waking up dead" as the expression goes. I REALLY hate the notion of ceasing to exist for all eternity (note: I believe as Jose Mujica believes that "There is only one life and it ends")
Before the procedure I will leave a note for Bo (my wife) that trash pickup is on Mondays and recyclables on Tuesdays.
I have been looking forward to my 84th birthday a month from now, specifically Nov. 21st, and wouldn't want the shock treatment to upset the apple cart. If you don't see any posts from John Smith for an extended period you can probably assume the worst.
Regards,
John "Q. Shtik" Smith
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure - John Smith (aka Q.)
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The procedure is known as TEE but I don't know what those letters mean. I am now scheduled for a week from today, Oct 31st. Talk about coinkydinks, my Maternal grandfather was born on Oct 31st, 1883. His daughter, my mother, died on Oct 31st, 1995. Does this have any deeper meaning? I wonder. Probably not. That's why its called a coinkydink.
Q - Best of luck, sir. It will likely be all good, as your doc says. Just in case it goes sideways, please make sure you leave Bo a list of your accounts/logins/pws for all financials, etc. When we lost my dad after carotid surgery with complications last winter, that was one of the best gifts we found from him hidden in his hospital belongings. He knew it was possible.
That said, he got the short end of the stick on his turn at the wheel. I think you will prevail with all of your shtick intact. Onward, Q. You're not done here yet.
John
No sweat. The procedure times the shock so that the “clock” takes over again. They will probably give you a relaxing dose of a sedative, not knock you out. You will feel so much better with things in sync, Afib causes a 20% reduction in blood flow, so you will be getting that back. Read Yirgach below for a further therapy in electro cardio version does not work.
They will probably give you a relaxing dose of a sedative, not knock you out. - JAZ
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Actually, the Doc says I will be put totally under and they will feed something down my throat (wind pipe, esophagus, not sure which) and then they zap me.
Breathing tube probably.
It is always the MDs call, I have seen it done with conscious sedation.
John
Don't worry, I had an aortic valve replacement and a week later had afib. Not pleasant when you're not even running a marathon.
The electrophysiologist did an ablation on the heart, essentially spot welding a circuit break using a catheter thru the groin. It stopped immediately. I was conscious during the whole procedure.. Dartmouth Medical is the best!
I am watching the CNBC business show at the moment. They have a very pretty woman named Brooke May on the show. She is what is known as a "contributor." Looking at her I am reminded of the expression "Big Tits Matter."
You said you didn't care about big tits anymore. Where you just having a bad period? Sounds like you're back! You're only as young as you feel. Good luck.
Just read that the writer, Charles Lamb, kept a full head of hair, not gray or white, until very old age, just like Peter.
You said you didn't care about big tits anymore. Where you just having a bad period? - Lugh
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I never said any such thing. And I have never had a period nor hot flashes.
BTW, Where s/b Were. Amazing that you don't notice these things.
Charles M. Blow, NYT Op-Ed columnist, gave me a yooge laugh as he complained about Trump's vulgarity with this line:
"Last week at a rally, he said, "We can't stand you, you're a shit vice president," shortly after sharing an admiring anecdote about the size of the late golfer Arnold Palmer's penis. "
LOL!
What solution do you propose?
This is more of a mini-essay full of wisdom than a comment. Thank you.
100% .... and abolishing central banks won't come without bloodshed. Lots of bloodshed, as they are backed by the MIC (military industrial complex) around the globe.
"This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution." ~ Anonymous
If there were a solution, would you acknowledge, engage, and embrace it?
Your basic contention is that the system has failed and is broken. Will "end(ing) the practice of taxing gold and silver" solve all the problems?
Is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/publications/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf
THe solution, IMHO, is to start decreasing spending by the government and allow the economy to run itself. Slow decreases, over 70 or so years. It took that long to run up the bill, it will take that long to fix it. Slow decreases and an agreed to tax profile that will also decrease with time.
Is that possible with the power mongers in the Deep State?
I am in the camp that contends that the debt will never be repaid, so a devaluation will be the stand-by option (even you acknowledge that "government" will be needed to deal with the situation).
You also point out that a "loss of faith" situation will be devastating, but your solution fails to consider the impact of individuals like Soros, and bully countries like USA.
Once you start to gain an understanding of the current situation, and grasp the details of the 2030 Agenda, you will start to understand the method to the madness.
So, once again, is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
My objection to the 2030 Agenda is that it is impossible, period. It is a bunch of blathering by Global idiots trying to justify BS mission statements that have no chance of doing anything. You might as well pull out a copy of Das Kapital, the Bible of pure communism, and read how the rising of the proletariat is going to create a Utopia on earth. Only one problem, a big one, human nature and the evil side of humanity. Stop globalism, let every country do what is in its best interests. Here? America First.
Whatever that means any more.
If Xi has his way, he may impose his version of the 2030 Agenda on the world.
Why not review the 2030 Agenda assessments, and glean some solutions from their proposals? How does one fix something if they are unable to comprehend that which is broken?
Do you think we would be where we are today if "Joe Biden" had stepped up on the stump and had an open discussion about his administrations implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
Re your opening quote: Glad that you have discovered the writings of Elizabeth Nickson who like you, is an optimist in spite of her unsparing observations of the current wickedness.
Just for those like me who want to know: https://elizabethjnickson.com/
Nick Johnson posted an interesting Youtube video about the presidential campaign in PA. Apparently the Amish are finally mobilizing to vote in the November election. After a long tradition of deliberately staying away from politics and voting, many members of the Amish community are deciding to cast their votes, many for the first time.........for Donald Trump.
No wonder, the Leftist Socialists hate independence of anyone. The Amish are an antithesis of the Leftist socialist dreams.
Stalin killed millions of Ukrainian farmers when they fought their family based farms being turned into communes. Later, the government allowed the individual farmers to have a small plot of land to grow their own crops, independent of the communes. It wasn’t long before the farmers started farmer’s markets in the towns. Not too much later, the plots out produced the communes. A story to tell your socialist supporter friends.
I just saw a movie about the Holidomor called Bitter Harvest.
I just bought a book about the Holodomor that was recommended! This is history that many people seem to forget!
Sorry, texting isn't my strong point. Holodomor.
Another fictional account of note is in Michener’s “Centennial” where a sugar beet farmer named Brumbaugh was trying to find a reliable source of seasonal label for his farm. He tried Blacks and Indians, too unreliable, Japanese and Chinese, reliable but they saved their money and bought their own farms. His solution was Mexicans, reliable and skilled farm hands whose roots remained in Mexico. Over time, their families moved into the USA and they stayed.
Much like today?
I was raised picking chiles and tying grapes with those families. I have a lot I could say on this. (Plus, our beloved neighbors were actual Okies who came to pick fruit in California.) I've talked to farmers from Maryland to the San Joaquin Valley, some used to drive down to Mexico every season and pick up the same families every season.
Two quickies: in grade school we used to go by the burning busses where Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker's union thugs stood with baseball bats. He hated seasonal migrants, since he was born in Indiana.
When 'La Migra'- ICE immigration or Border Patrol would come by the ranch in Nevada, we'd hide our Mexicans inbetween haystacks, piling up bales to block off the ends and making it look like one solid stack. They'd offer to buy us beer and take us hands to the Mustang Ranch, the local brothel! (High school kids had to enter in the back.)
Sometimes there are no solutions - only consequences.
The Holodomor Ukrainians were actually descendants of the Anabaptist Amish.
The glorious Tsarina Catherine, our great ally, requested thousands of them from the American colonies to teach her nation how to farm the rich soils of the Ukraine, so profound was their skill.
The Cheka goons weren't just killing farmers. As per their historic wont, they were slaughtering Christians.
Yes, it's inevitable. The question is whether it will be under the tyranny of the International Bankers as in Marxism or an elected National Elite as in Fascism or National Socialism.
I think we should do an annual televised Nerf Bat stadium beatdown for all interested policy-makers. Whoever is left standing gets to make the rules for the next 12 months. And gets as many hot dogs from the concessions stand as they please on the way out. About as fair as any other system.
No matter the "game", individuals will game the system.
As individuals, we just need to deal with the hand we are dealt, and game the system to the extent of our environment and abilities.
That's good to hear.
his video tours of various places around the country are great ... 'boots on the ground' type of interviews/commentary that reveal hard facts vs. the fiction we're being bombarded with by the establishment
Thanks to American Patriot Scott Pressler
Nature is a bitch. We have had it good for a long time. Go watch the people, aka tourists at Yellowstone Park for people who do not understand nature. There's a website tourons of Yellowstone Park. Reality is also a bitch. If Trump wins Pennsylvania, he wins the election. The food recalls are on the radar daily. I don't usually buy processed foods. I did have some frozen chicken tenders from Perdue, I had to throw those all away because they were deemed contaminated. Biden won Pennsylvania by 70,000 votes in 2020. In 2023, the Feds decided to go after an Amish organic farmer called Amos Miller. HE was selling organic produce and raw dairy products. The feds came in shut him down and humiliated him. He had never had a listeria problem. The Pennsylvania court ruled that he could still sell his products over state lines. The irony is large here. The original Amos was a shepherd and grew Sycamore figs in the Bible. He had enough of the "government" and turned into the first prophet and started preaching about morality. 190,000 Amish registered to vote. The mail voting is great for them. The tools that the dems used to cheat are being turned against them.
Other small farmers started banding together and supporting Amos Miller. The Navajo Nation came out enmasse for Trump. They are also shepherds and they make organic products like salsa, hot sauce, honey and cosmetics for sale. IMO the government has decided all the small farms must go, all the supplements that aren't big pharma must go. The EU tried to pull this on the Dutch farmers. The ITalians said no. They banned all fake foods and did not comply. Trump has a very good chance of winning Pennsylvania.
TRUMP WON LAST TIME........
LOOK WHAT'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Anything can happen. Except this time people are really going out. I heard they have never seen this much voter participation. The Amish literally never ever vote. They are so angry that they are talking to the media. They never do that. The corporate media is lying about the Navajo. It's not even close. They are having a similar problem. They make their living with the sheep and making stuff. The Chinese flooded the market with cheap knock offs. They are done. Trump first time tried to do something about this. We really need the Senate and the house too.
I don't know why. I am here in Colorado. I have not seen people at the ballot box. There are a lot of Harris signs. I have not seen one Trump sign. I am wondering if people here just are not voting.
As a former life-time Coloradoan, I am ashamed of the condition of Colorado, the northern terminus of the I25 illicit crime conveyor. Denver, a former beautiful city, has evolved into a cesspool that dumps its effluent into Aurora. It has turned into a Californicated perversion of America. It’s governor makes a grand representation of its evil.
20 years later, here in Arizona, I am watching the same thing happening here.
I told people years ago. This is not a problem that can be outrun. You cannot outrun a bad idea. These Jacobian people move. Thankfully, Colorado is losing people as they move on like locusts to Texas and Florida. I am willing to watch it all burn around me as I fight on.
Fingers crossed!
Well, figuratively speaking anyway, be kinda hard to get anything done, am i right,
There are a lot of people who have been negatively affected by government, the biggest problem, is that the government, needs to have a come to jesus moment and be cut in half, if not now it will never happen, ALLLLL those career politicians, and I mean ALLLLLL of em, need to be dismissed then investigated.
Its not like they produce ANYTHING anyway, and the bureaucracy is mind numbing.
I know, i know,
Itll never happen, nice to dream though
A good start! "Well begun is half done"!
Then it must be the neocons turn to be chased through the streets by mobs with torches and pitchforks, same as the neoliberals and THE OLIGARCHS THEY BOTH SHILL FOR.
Because NOTHING WILL CHANGE if EITHER of these tools OR their OWNERS are allowed to remain.
The entrenched DC political class certainly must be defunded and eviscerated, and its federal powers scattered to the wind.
@Robert Italia
After posting THAT, I advise you not ride through Dallas in a convertible?
Not a problem.
If the results of the Presidential Election aren't declared, or simply obvious, by 10 p.m. on Election night, a lot of chaos may break out in this woke/broke/joke of a nation.
On the evening of November 5th and the morning of November 6th there will be a large scale cybersecurity EXERCISE in Atlanta, GA. What a coincidence! All the Intelligence Community will be there I expect.
https://atlanta.afceachapters.org/2024-homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-conference
https://www.govevents.com/details/75020/afcea-atlanta-homeland-security-conference
The electoral college was put into place to insure that states like California didn't dominate the vote. Democrats hate the electoral college and have called for its abolition, along with pretty much of the rest of America 1.0. Until it is, and under a Harris presidency it probably will be, democrats have been busy undermining the electoral system nationwide any way they can, lately fast-tracking illegals to citizenship before November 5. You know, for democracy.
Isn't that what Stalin said?
I believe the Democrat party’s biggest fear is us and they should be afraid
The Cheat in 2020 was flagrant, to anyone who had half a brain.
This one will be that too, but on steroids.
The DOJ is working feverishly to execute efforts to punish via lawfare, and even criminalize any state or entity or person who will dare to question this election, or even clean up their voter rolls!
Millions upon millions of ballots are being filled out as we speak with the names of illegal aliens who have been registered nationwide, and their names are now included on state voter rolls.
No investigation into the authenticity of any votes will be allowed and/or fought tooth and nail by our own Federal government, aided and abetted by cowardly courts.
Michigan's voter rolls list 8.4 million registered voters, nearly 500,000 more than the eligible voting population. That’s waaaay more than necessary to swing an election. And that’s just one state - not to mention a swing state.
We need a miracle.
I pray God He feels we deserve one.
I may not have skin in the game but I'm shocked to find out that apparently in California it is illegal to use ID to vote. ID is not required, and it is an offence for any official to even look at any ID shown. I know that sounds ridiculous but has been made in law now.
Yes, I read that Newsome signed that into law.
It doesn't really doesn't matter how many "Illegals" vote in California. It's not even in play as all the Electoral votes will be cast for Harris not only because she's a Democrat but because she's from there.
It's only about votes in certain counties in certain swing states.
I'm no political genius but I've said from the start that those whom we all know will not, can not let Trump back in the WH.
By whatever means necessary.
WE HAVE A LOT OF GASOLINE
Well said. The miracle will be the crackdown that follows doesn’t end civil rights once and for all.
Many democrat states allow illegals to vote in local elections, including primaries.
When the checks stop coming and the EBT cards aren't resupplied, those Somalis and Venezuelans and the other illegals will fan out across the cities and towns into which they've been inserted and rob and kill anyone that gets in their way. The cops will all be at the state capitol or city county building guarding your elected representatives until they get to their bunkers or waiting helicopters. That's why they're so hot to eliminate the AR-15.
Citizens defending themselves will be shot by the troops that will be deployed to restore order, the actual rioters and looters will not. The DOD didn't just authorize lethal force against us by American troops for shits and giggles.
Especially right before a national election.
He was cut off at the knees in 2018
Any you support them forcing the illegal immigrants out - with fire and steel if necessary? All 50 million of them or so?
I think your number is about right. All the official numbers only include the port of entry plus asylum numbers, anywhere from 10 to 20 million. No boy talks about the walk overs, or climb overs or dig unders or wade overs. Guess which group the cartels use?
Nobody talks
What is Socialism other than organized crime posing as "Government?"
Biden’s Mob. The Federal government is a member of the global Cartel promoting drugs and other illicit crime entering this country to get their cut. Look around the world, it is happening everywhere. The IMF is an Emperor with no clothes.
TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU.
BEST GET TO A RED STATE IN AMERICA AND BUY A SEMI AUTOMATIC RIFLE.
WHILE YOU CAN STILL FIND BUYERS FOR YOUR PROPERTY.
Dennis, thanks for making my point for me. 🤣
Why don't you tell us about YOUR ideas, then?
Easy, he does not have any. Just likes to bitch about everyone else. He holds New Zealand up as an example, they have their problems like everyone else.
Deep-seated problems, beginning with a longstanding thirst for being told when to shit and also what color.
Yeah, I read that their leadership locked the population down, they couldn't travel but for a few miles outside their community and were censored on the Internet.
I spent a few years in the 90s living in NZ working with the RNZN. Such a beautiful country, such amazing, resourceful people. I made many friends. However those were the Clinton years. I was wary of all the shuttling back and forth to NZ being done by Clinton cronies, and after 2000, by Hildebeast and her rapist husband himself. Today we know they were busy helping to steal the government from the tiny agricultural paradise and turn the whole place into a socialist laboratory for the WEF. The rest is history. God bless New Zealand.
In _Tramp Royale_, Robert Heinlein recounts a 1953 trip to New Zealand and totally drags it. He said they were all provincial scolds:
Apparently, the pit of misery, the region without hope, the most god-awful place in the whole southern hemisphere circa 1954, was New Zealand. The chapter dealing with this unhappy visit is called “The Dreary Utopia,” and its dreariness was of varied kinds. This is the only piece of travel literature I can recall in which the writer truly, deeply hated a Post Office system. The problem was not that Heinlein was a free-market ideologue hostile to New Zealand’s welfare state and tightly-controlled economy. Uruguay had a lot in common with New Zealand politically and economically in those days, but Uruguay also had restaurants that served non-poisonous food, and not everybody there shortchanged visitors all the time. Such were the petty vexations of the country that Heinlein spluttered even at the famous narrow-gauge railways, which in a better mood he would have liked. No doubt part of this antipathy was due simply to the fact the tourist industry was not yet well-developed, but for once the Heinleins forbore to seek private hospitality. They did have a letter of introduction, to a former prime minister no less. Heinlein would not use it, however, because it would have been so difficult to stop himself from telling his host how much he hated his country and everything in it.
I was a big Heinlein fan growing up. Then I grew up. He had some nerve sarcastically referring to a "utopian" NZ. Heinlein's novels reek of his own brand of utopian hedonism. What I'm reading between the lines is Heinlein traveled to NZ and couldn't get laid.
Heinlein's social stuff later on sure took the cake. In Friday (1982) he took the time to shit all over New Zealand, 30 years after his trip there. As for Tramp Royale, I mainly remember that he had a rasher of boiled-looking bacon with pig bristles still in it. That would make me hold a grudge, too.
I read all of the Lazarus Long Jubal Harshaw crap. All of it. Lost it's entertainment value when I began adulting and realized Heinlein was writing mostly adolescent male sex fantasy. And there's nothing more miserable than an international traveler who whines about the bad food. That person is typically a bore to be avoided. It's part of the adventure. In NZ you're getting classic English "cuisine" (for lack of a better term) like it or leave it. My most memorable Thanksgiving was spent on the bathroom floor of a fine Auckland hotel with food poisoning. You learn to stick to the grilled lamb, fish and chips, pizza, and maybe some sweet yummy pavlova (basically a baked merengue cake) and you get by.
God, now I understand why we fought a war for independence!
Best your dumb little heart. 🤣
Why did Jacinda the Horsewoman resign so suddenly? Seemed pretty close after all the jab deaths were getting attention.
I know why - the Nutjob Right of NZ (many who agree with the likes of you and who support and would love to vote for Trump if they could) were making credible threats to her life if she led the Labour Party in the 2023 election. Police advice was that they could not guarantee her safety in campaigning. Aside form the practicalities of that she and her partner have a young child to raise. What would YOU do?
The citizens of her gulag regime were right to do so.
They will not stop until they are stopped.
Pretty sure all politicians get credible threats from day one (or two). My small suburban city council members get threats. She has a family to raise, eh? How did that work for all the citizens who were forced into a corner to be able to do the same for theirs in 2020/2021? I presume she backed out after covid to get off the political grid before it came back down on her.
Not sure why I'm arguing with a bot claiming to be from New Zealand though. Oh well. It's Monday.
Aw, boo hoo. Are you crying about Trump getting shot in the head? Betting not. Betting you think he deserved it - am I right?
Still huffing, eh?
My fellow Americans, the Maori like to put a bit of tuoluene glue into a Coke bottle, a lighter to the thick glass bottom makes fumes they can huff all day. This one's been hitting the, er, 'pipe'.
Yeah..and they're eating the cats & they're eating the dogs, too...right?
Yes they are. I know Haitians. I know voudoun, too.
No one ever said dogs, that I'm aware. There was one story (eyewitness neighbor) about a cat being skinned and hung to dry on a tree. The rest was about wild game (ducks/geese, etc) taken from the city's parks. But...keep pretending "extreme obfuscation" works on the non-retarded. Good work today! You'll get a free side order of queso from Chipotle on your next order!
Not only did they, that Trump pronouncement inspired the BEST MEMES EVAR.
I think your "I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize" captures the likely outcome. These people are bullies and cowards. To threaten insurrection will expose them to legal remedies and loss of wealth and power. Not likely they will take the risk and they are more likely to throw those most exposed under the bus to save themselves.
Jamie Raskin and a bunch of House Dems and a few RINOs are threatening to not certify the election if Trump wins. So if he wins, will there be a Dem. Jan.6, the people calling out Congress for not investigating the mechanics of the election. Will the pussy hat crowd invade the Capitol to support the Congressional hold on certification. In a world of hypocrisy, this is a doozy.
Kamel is the one to certify Trump’s win…yeah…
Well at least we'll get some honest-to-god rioting, mayhem, looting, and property damage out of that bunch, instead of a fake fbi 'false flag' to belay the audit.
Yes, I read that. So much for the rule of law
One investigation with meat to it from Trump and all the false accusations will fall by the wayside. This is in the works as we speak. It will set a tone of unrooting illegal activity as vital to restoring law and order. Cheers from the average voter will cement it and few will risk exposure to their own criminality.
It all starts with the Manchurian/Kenyan Candidate--Obama, who gave the go-ahead for federal agencies to attack Trump.
Robert, Obama gave the go-ahead for the federal agencies to attack us.
Obama, the second black president, Bill Clinton being the first, according to Toni Morrison.
BLARFF
The first black president was Warren Harding, if you want to go by ancestry, and Mrs. Kennedy the first black First Lady, although to be fair, she was probably less African than KToe.
Not….was Eleanor Roosevelt!
Last time all they could muster was a pussy hat parade so, yeah, there probably isn't much of a threat there.
But what about those fierce, tough as boot leather "White Dudes For Harris"? Don't they put the fear of God in you?
I have to say, as a woman, I despise soy boys. All women do. They'll use them for whatever they need, but at the end of the day, women despise weak men.
I can't stand them. How are any women attracted to that? Yuckers.
Those soyboys are the first to drop a roofie in your drink, though.
Oh that's how they get the women. Either that, or "becoming" one - lol.
About as much fear as the drugged up soi boi Antifa goofballs do.
Funny. Thanks for sharing.
That ad (the original) was obviously created by insider gay men groupies of Cackles. Watch Jimmy Dore & co. mocked it for 20 minutes or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbmVDGzOWa8&ab_channel=TheJimmyDoreShow
Don't forget the inauguration day rioting with flash-bang grenades and a burning limousine. Those neurotic mental children are capable of a lot of mayhem.
Yes, it's almost impossible to try to keep up with the babies and their tantrums. It was especially interesting that huge flats of bricks were left at specific locations where the "mostly peaceful" protests were held.
Howard, I admire your new found optimism, but I don’t share it. Almost every world leader, every institution, every organized government supported public body is arrayed against Trump for reasons of their very survival. Harris was picked four years ago to be President someday and that’s how we got here. Every piece had to fall into place and it has for this to happen. Her 60-day candidacy for President corresponds perfectly to her shelf life as a semi-likable person. The voting counting for a preselected winner is the easiest part. What happens afterwards is where things get messy. The fact that Harris is a Prosecutor is no accident.
Don’t forget the recording of President Ford, I think it was, who while replying to question by young girl said the first female president would occur due to the male president dying and his female vp becoming President. I Guess Biden refused to pass quietly in the night? But equally, or more, disturbing was his prophecy that when that happens men better watch out.
Biden passing quietly in the night may yet happen.
Very true
State of emergency just before the "election" President has fallen off the mortal coil. These creatures have a plan.
I don’t think many share his optimism. This election will settle nothing I’m afraid
Kackula is a big puzzle. They picked the worst possible dud to try to insert. Obama was an illegal insert and chose Joe as insurance. Joe chose Kackula, then she couldn't find a stupider Democrat so she inserts a man that ruined his state. He is facing accusations of being a bisexual child molesters from 2 male former students that have started to talk. His legislation ideals fit that mold pretty well.
Still I don't think any election is too big to rig. She positively cannot we in without cheating so if she does it will be hell to pay. The nation will not roll over and play dead.
If she loses I think the illegals will rise up at the same time as the BLM and Antifa as terrorists.
Could be the Civil war either way they THINK they wanted. They won't like it!
Yes, but remember, the DOD has recently authorized lethal force to be used by American soldiers against us if so ordered. They won't use it against antifa or BLM.
What about those possible microwave burns sustained by Trump rallygoers in NV last month?
"Microwave burns"? Lady, it was 110 Fahrenheit that day. The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor without any containment...what do you expect? Or perhaps it was the Jewish Space Lasers... you know, the ones that start hurricanes too....
I expect it could be the sun . . . Or it could be some other type of radiation, especially since it was limited to a few on the dais. After all the unlikely shit that's been happening, why NOT RF burns from a directional antenna? I'm an amateur radio operator Extra class. Even I could make that happen. Easily. If I were a maniac.
You're not even real are you? "Goldstein the Yenta." Try harder.
Perfect time to test out the latest toy, eh?
Microwave burns- it makes sense now, thanks.
Microwaves to disperse crowds are an old weapon.
KEENLY AWARE OF THIS.
80,000 ARMED AND TRAINED
IRS AGENTS.
Property confiscation for when that 25 percent equity tax is enacted, should Harris get the presidency.
Unearned capital gains tax of 25% will force sales to pay the tax. Many homeowners will become homeless and the illegals can buy the house with her free down payment.
Exactly, exactly, my Harris voting friends were, umm, perturbed.
This is all part of the Great Taking; even your paper assets, such as stocks, will not have sufficient proof of 'ownership'. A commenter above mentions bail-ins, negative rates, and confiscation, and he is exactly right.
Yes, Alzaebo - after the Great Taking, it will be easier to tell what people don't own.
Go READ the policy, dimwits Jay & Kathy...dumb ass losers! Unless you have assets of more than $100 million dollars or earn income of more than $1 million per annum, there is NOTHING for you to be concerned about. I very much doubt that anyone on this blog would qualify for this new imposition on the very wealthy, except perhaps, JohnAZ.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/harris-unrealized-capital-gains-tax/
So, you lack ethics and a basic sense of finance and economics. Did you also wear a red diaper?
Slippery slope
Huh? You definitely have an inflated idea of me? Maria, if you believe the pols are going to stop from taxing everyone because of campaign promises, you are going to be disappointed. The Left taxes more and more and spends more and more, it is their livelihood, their method of buying votes. They are evil. They will spend beaucoup bucks to figure out how to take money away from you without pissing you off.
You want an example? California, where tax and spend has evolved into an art. The goal of the national Leftists is to spread Californication all over the country. It is working well here in AZ.
Not just the left anymore the "right" also is spending like drunken sailors.
In DC, the Congress especially, there is no Left and Right, just Deep State. Their access and maintenance of power depends on spending. That is their number one priority, preservation of the Deep State.
Yes.
Yes. Please shut off your caps lock.
Fuel for the already raging fire.
What will happen when folks like Abbott and DeSantis tell the Feds under Kamala to Eff off and set secession in action? What happens when the NW area around Idaho do the same? Generally speaking, what happens when half the country decides to leave the USA and create their own country. Will the Dems of the East and West Coast in DC, try to stop the secession? Will a peaceable solution be found to a separation?
IMHO, the Leftist urbanites cannot let the Reds leave as their sustenance would be cutoff and the dependent Blues would have their hands out and up within a week.
What if employers ceased to collect taxes, SS, and insurance from paychecks?
We have already been threatened with, drones, F 16s, and nukes.
Yes, especially the F-16s! I nearly crapped my pants when I heard that!
Kathy, think. Who are they going to shoot at? Think of Texas ,the first drop out probably, shoot at Texans and sorry, East Coast, your oil is cut off. Shoot at the Red Mid-west and sorry, no more food, and that includes California’s Joaquin Valley, which is Red. Besides, how much of the military would favor shooting at Americans, much of them are from Red states.
Remember “ Don’t Mess with Texas”.
They'll steal what they want from their unarmed neighbors and form gangs that cross state lines to prey on other states. Police will protect government, not citizens. After all, they still believe they'll get a pension if they can stick it out long enough.
Kathy, one comment. If a secession happens, there will be no pensions. There may be no police, just soldiers and rebels. A really big problem for the DC crowd will be who will the military back in a secession?
The military will back whoever pays them. That's what they did in Rome.
I disagree, much of the military are from all those states that would secede, they would probably go home to support their locals. Besides, if we have a civil separation, there will be no worthwhile cash to give them.
Yes, but they don't know that.
You can expect riots, looting, arson and murder when they run out of free.
I've heard that insurance companies have already stated that they won't cover riot-related damages.
It's written as an exclusion in the standard home insurance policy (US). Excluded from property coverage includes: War, invasion, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, civil war, usurped power, damage caused by civil, governmental or military authority to hinder or defend against an actual or impending enemy act. Hope that helps.
Exactly - nothing new in that. It is a standard exclusion. Standard, not some premonition of the Civil War 2.0 that you 'conservatives' seem to be jonesing for.
Reality inversion bot 1.0 failing miserably
You are a bad bot.
I don't think they had anything else in their quiver. They weren't counting on Joe's dementia taking an upturn so fast (divine intervention?), and they didn't have any other viable candidate that they felt could win against Trump, so they went with the tried and true of color and gender. Hence, we have Harris.
They ran out of "insiders" who would volunteer for the job, and there wasn't time to vet new ones.
Good point. Who, in their right mind, would want to follow the debacle of the last four years? I know one.
They had to find someone dumber than Joe Biden. No small task, but they found one.
Who, in their right mind, would want to consider the offer when better than half the population is sharpening their pitchforks?
I disagree, he was a placeholder there to run out the clock, until Kamala was the only available choice. Biden was a trojan horse, and Kammie was NOT a poor choice hastily made. She is entirely deliberate, the Manchurian dictator who will complete Obama and Soros's Revolution in time for 2030.
Remember the 2020 primary season and the Dem debates. Biden was chosen because he was the most moderate of the crazy Leftist candidates of which Kamala was one.
Yes, it will. First and foremost, Americans are rule followers, and apathy reigns supreme.