New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Three once-great World class cities that are now each better called a word that begins with ‘S’ and ends with ‘Hole’. All thanks to demented governance and faux leaders who abandon common sense and good purpose in favor of collective delusionalism.
But of course, none of those who are leading their cities into dark oblivion could rule without the people of their captured region voting them in. And why do The People do such a thing? Because they themselves have become morally bankrupt and mentally deluded. They do not want to live good lives of purpose and agency. They want a Mommy-Daddy government to do everything for them and take care of them forever.
The citizens of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles do not want to grow up and one day grab a set of car-keys and get married. They want to wear diapers for the rest of their lives and sit in their high-chairs with their mouths wide open waiting for Daddy Government to put blended fruit mush into their mouths with a great big spoon.
Are New York, Los Angeles and Chicago the future of the entirety of America? Maybe yes, maybe no. But a body loses its Heart... the rest of the body cannot expect to have a good future.
Seattle, Portland, Denver, San Francisco. Let’s see, what is common between all these cities?
1. Poverty ridden shitholes.
2. Blue socialist governments encouraging Mommy-Daddy dependence.
3. The focus for the immigration nightmare of Mayorkas. Not Biden, he was probably unaware. What happens when you inject 30 million people into a crony led capitalist system that were raised and thus only understand socialist? Amerika!
There is a huge difference between the socialist philosophy of the West Coast and the East Coast. The West has a wealth advantage big time, they can support their gimme populations, well, until recently. The East is going to dissolve into a gigantic cesspool as their human assets, thus financial assets, leave the scene.
In the late 1960's, after the riots, Detroit suffered from white flight. And the city went from being prosperous to a third world sh*t hole. I know. I lived in the burbs there and worked in the city for several years.
What that means is... all of the suburbs were somehow forced to financially support Detroit. That's what could happen to NYC. The outlying regions will be required to pay the bills of that future Detroit in the east.
I now live in a different midwestern state, in a city that is growing, rather than declining. Their "bad neighborhoods" are laughable to me. And my realtor never knows how to answer when I ask where the murderers dump their dead prostitutes here.
After living 71 years in the same house 1/2 mile from the Detroit border, my 98 year old father is finally moving out about 20 miles away to middle suburbia. I remember taking the bus to downtown and spending the day parading around without a care in the world in the mid 60's.
Me too. We passed by MoTown while in the bus. The theatres and shops were beautiful and prosperous. Limousines and fur coats were in evidence. The restaurants were fabulous with water features, white tablecloths, and waiters dressed in formal attire. It was an amazing city. All gone.
Yes, poverty and dysfunction are directly proportional to the percentage of Blacks in a given city. Not "socialism" which of course is necessary to a degree in the modern industrial state where bigness, impersonality, and isolation are endemic.
see that's the problem. The inner city was carrying the suburbs. What happens now. The suburbs are living on credit. It's too hard to fix and unsustainable. They keep moving out and building more. It's a giant ponzi scheme.
According to the US Treasury Department’s May 2025 report on spending and tax revenue; the US Federal government is still very much on track to finish the fiscal year with more than two trillion, six-hundred billion dollars in new debt: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts0525.pdf
To reiterate, the US government is now nine months into its fiscal year (which began October 1) and the total federal deficit for the fiscal year is now $1.8 trillion (May), which is an increase of 23 percent over the same period of last year. At this pace the total federal deficit for the fiscal year is likely to come in around $2.6 trillion. So far, there is no end in sight to these immense spending totals. Although the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, initially claimed it could cut a trillion dollars from federal spending, that number was recently revised downward by 85 percent to $150 billion. Moreover, these claims of budget cutting are now being contradicted by new announcements of President Trump’s plans to increase discretionary spending while not touching nondiscretionary spending.
It’s going to take a lot more than some trimming around the edges to change the federal government’s current trajectory into ever increasing $2-trillion-plus annual deficits. So far, neither the Trump administration nor the RINO/GOP in Congress has shown any plans for significant spending cuts. It is MHO, the entire federal reserve system of sorcerer bankers and Keynesian economics is insolvent:
Toronto was once described as New York city run by Swiss. Now it's known as New Delhi run by Communists.
Vancouver has been called the world's largest drug market and Montreal is full of jihadists who prey on law-abiding citizens and terrorize the city's Jewish population. Life in the 21st century sucks.
Hey George, run this post past Phil. Good news is conservative aspects of Canadian people want out of this Leftist BS. BTW, Vancouver is 20% Chinese, the same Chinese that are killing Americans with Fentanyl.
Minneapolis was once great? Really? I was there in 2017 and it was a total shithole. I've been to most major American cities and, imho, Minneapolis was shittiest by a country mile.
You must have been to Mpls. in the winter, Phil! 😜 I grew up here, raised my kids her & moved away (winters) for 25 years, returning 4 years ago. The difference is stark, the city almost unrecognizable. It is woke central! The only thing our sissified Marxist communist governor is good at, besides destroying our state, is fairy dancing & getting chummy with horses.
It used to be exceptional with restaurants, DAYTON’S, entertainment of all kinds, etc. Downtown is now a ghost town. The destruction began well before 2017. I have never been to Winnipeg but I know that Canada is having her own problems. What a time to be alive, eh?
The Little Apple was always pretty good until the past decade and influx of unassimilated refugee scofflaws. Saint Paul was more of a known shithole, although my preference was always St. Paul (had a more functional feel). As a nearby rube, I visited "the cities" countless times over the decades and spent part of my honeymoon in the famous little Foshay Tower. Minneapolis was a decent metropolis in a high-trust state before it became "Snowgadishu" and then Frey and Walz let it burn after the Saint Floyd spectacle.
You are joking, right? Actually, it's the Christian Arabs, the Chaldeans, who first moved to Detroit, and it was all right. Dearborn next door is Arab now, and they voted for Trump.
Hamtramck, that Polish stronghold, is also Arab-owned now. But these are people following the old pattern of immigration.
When I returned to my native land, I resettled in Ann Arbor, which is now following the Woke train. I'm too old to move now.
Chicago has a glimmer of hope. The Mayor has a 7% approval rating and Black men and women are showing up wearing MAGA hats at City Council meetings screaming at him for his stupidity and incompetence and favoring illegals over citizens.
Just wait until Trump's Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent increases the federal debt limit by $5 Trillion and the Federal Reserve is forced into a "turbo-QE" facility to buy US Treasuries, with a resultant stagflation of 10% real inflation and 10% unemployment.
"A day's wages for a loaf of bread" [Revelation 6: 5]
Revelation was among the last books accepted into the Christian biblical canon, and to the present day many churches are sceptical of the book because of doubts concerning its authorship. This distrust persists in many Christian sects. Some sects go as far as considering it to be heretical.
The obscure and extravagant imagery, with many Old Testament allusions and numeric symbolism, has resulted in a wide variety of interpretations. It's such a mess; anybody can read anything into it they want.
And charlatans like the disgusting US Pastor John Hagee make a lot of money on that ~ by preaching their crazy end-times ideas to the gullible and unfortunate.
Carl Jung, influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies, in his autobiography "Memories Dream Reflections" said "I will not discuss the transparent prophecies of the Book of Revelation because no one believes in them and the whole subject is an embarrassing one."
Obviously Dennis Merwood, you and Carl Jung are numbered with the "tares". You will know the Book of Revelation is the inspired Word of the Living God, when the government forces you to receive a digital ID implant in order to buy and sell.
If you study the bible as a work of literature, you would know that everything Dennis says is true.
No one knows who wrote Revelation. People were writing all kinds of things and often attached the name of an important figure in the mythos to the works. Revelation of "John" has more gravitas than Revelation of Joe Bob, for example. The epistles of Paul are another example. Textual study shows that only seven (I think) of the so-called epistles are by the same person, purportedly Paul. The others are by different authors who made them out to be by Paul so people would read them. It was a pretty common practice.
I'm not sure about the authorship of Paul's epistles, but I think your comment is generally valid for the New Testament. You don't need to be a biblical scholar, just a reader with common sense, to perceive that even the Gospels were written and revised by various unknown hands (who may have been influenced by the ghostly "Q Document)."
Donna Wilson: The last book in the Bible is NOT the "Revelation of John" it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
You and Dennis Merwood do not understand the Book of the Revelation is YHVH/God (the Father's) plan for the end of the age of the Gentiles and the coming Kingdom of Heaven with the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ as King of kings.
“They do not know nor understand;
For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see,
And their hearts, so that they cannot understand.”
What ever happened to Elon Musk and DOGE auditing the gold in Ft. Knox?
President Trump wants We the People to lobby Congress to pass his "one big beautiful bill"; but one of Trump's campaign pledges was to have Elon Musk audit the gold in Ft. Knox.
I vote to have the gold in Ft. Knox audited before Trump's "one big beautiful bill" becomes law.
My great-great grandfather was named Gerald Michael McWilliams. He was Irish/Scottish (we don’t really know which) and in 1849 he sailed on a tall ship from Ireland/Scotland, “round the horn” to San Francisco and became a 49er. Later, (with his fortune in gold), he migrated to Southern California and purchased agriculture land, where his posterity became navel orange growers.
I was born in LA on Cinco-de-Mayo in 1948 and adopted by Redlands, California navel orange growers who were the victims of FDR’s 1933 executive order to confiscate the people’s gold. I grew up hearing the stories of what happened to the Southern California economy after FDR devalued the gold from $20.00/ounce to $35.00/ounce. My family and most of the Southern California farmers despised FDR.
The gold FDR stole by executive order in 1933 from my family and the other Americans is supposed to be in Ft. Knox……..? Candidate Donald J. Trump promised an audit of Ft. Knox and Elon Musk said the same. And now Trump wants We the People to believe him about his "one big beautiful bill"?
My grandfather was a bootlegger in NYC in the 1920s. One day when I was about 3 or 4 years old in the late 1950s found a draw in my grandparents house that was filled to the top with hundreds of big gold coins. I thought it was a treasure chest. I was so impressed by the size and pictures on it and the color that I asked my grandparents if I could have some. Looking back at that time I had no idea what I could have used it for. I just liked them because they were very pretty.
Shortly afterward the gold disappeared. Till today I never knew what he did with them. They did tell me when I was older that those were coins given to my grandfather as payment for work he used to do. He was smart enough never to give it to the government. And believe me he didnt put it in the bank either.
Auditing Fort Knox went the way of Russia/Ukraine peace in 24 hours and lower food prices.
A politician lied. "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!"
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Build Back Better. Big Beautiful Bill.
BBB -> bbb -> 666
Here's all we need to know about Trump's Big Beautiful Bill:
After making the provision of half a TRILLION[!] dollars to Ellison & Thiel to have them develop AI to a magnitude that we can't even fathom today (e.g. it promises to custom-build an mRNA jab that will "cure" you of cancers that you don't even have!) a top priority of his new administration immediately following his creepy Apotheosis of George Washington Illuminati inauguration (where he would not place his hand on the Bible!), his "Big Beautiful Bill" hand-cuffs all 50 states in the union from leasing this beast in any way whatsoever.
Elon talked to Rand who said, Let's do it! and then nothing. Someone told them on the QT to shut up about it. Just like the Epstein situation. This rotting planks of his hulk are held together by lies.
I am trying to imagine what that Obama Presidential Center grand opening is going to look like. It is Suppose to happen Spring of 2026, less than a year. Michelle might not show up and decide to stay at the "house" in Hawaii leaving the "deer in headlights" Barry in charge of festivities.
lol One of my favorite commenters a while back said if the presidential center thing doesn’t work out they could turn it into a bathhouse.
I just finished Joel Gilbert’s book “Michelle Obama 2024.” Not many copies available, I had already watched his documentary of the same name. highway61ent.com If you have time you should read it. It helped me fill in large gaps of how things have been molded to get where we are now. Pretty amazing to live through it and not see it.
Much of the above can also be said about Albuquerque. I moved here 10 plus years ago from the Bronx. I think it is more corrupt here than in NYC. The people are more down to earth but dumb as rocks.
And the County Commissioners have this amazing ability to stare like cows when you show them how they probably weren't elected. The state has them in ankle-irons and holding beggars' cups out.
"And why do The People do such a thing? Because they themselves have become morally bankrupt and mentally deluded. They do not want to live good lives of purpose and agency."
So how did they get these ideas, over roughly the past half-century? Did they grow organically from some brain disease carried by the water? Are they inherently "evil people"? Which magical explanation with blamecasting do you prefer?
I'm reading a book called The City of God, by Saint Augustine. It was written around the year 410. I ran across a little anecdote the other day about what happens when a city is peaceful and prosperous. People don't appreciate the peace and the prosperity and live moderate, temperate lives. Instead, the more peace and prosperity they have, the more decadent they become, until the society becomes unstable again.
Agreed. I'd say its the root reason also (on shorter timeframes) for business cycles, no matter what economics tells us. And, one could look at a modern parallel theory on it, the four turnings.
Try immigration of socialist populations. Or Leftist governances that reward dependence. Or a gimme university environment. It is interesting that the college crowd elected Zohran in the primary.
My point is they didn't become degraded *of their own accord*. If their supposed "helpers" are condemning them to a life of dysfunction, then it is those social powerbrokers -- whether Leftist social-architect dilettantes or Rightist business interests, both seeking slave labor -- we need to zero in on, and stop whaling on the hapless immigrants, and the brainwashed but non-silver-spoon young.
"Drugs and Porn: 2 of Satan's most effective tools."
Don't forget Rock & Roll! :)
Look, the most basic issue is moderation, not the vices themselves. Otherwise, IMO, you're being a Puritan. People are simply no longer educated, at home or school, on accumulated Western wisdom of how to manage themselves and participate constructively in society.
Essentially. But it's not conscious. They have been miseducated, rather than learning the best of what history teaches us about achieving both individual and social (cooperative) excellence.
I call the majority of them hapless because most of them are mere pawns of the Machiavellian monsters who orchestrate their transportation from around the world, (often from war-torn countries), gov support, substandard wages, and voter registrations. As soon as the latter has no use for them, they will go figuratively and literally into woodchippers (they'll die off). No, I'd never elect to be travel with them.
If you look at the Wikipedia charts on homicides, you will find a lot of American cities with much higher homicide rates than NYC, LA, and Chicago. On a worldwide basis, cities with large percentages of colored populations tend to have the highest homicide rates. Too bad Southern planters wouldn't pick their own damn cotton.
As far as a national divorce goes, how would you carve up the national debt and the cost of Social Security and Medicare?
I have not visited any of the above cities other than the airports in 35 years. I live on the central coast of California and drive out of my way to avoid LA or San Jose north to Marin. Filthy places.
To rule a multi cultural, ethnic, polygot populace, you need to focus on the lcd or lowest common denominators of food, fuel, and bread and circuses. You don't have the time, energy or inclination to focus on that which truly binds people together. Indeed the multi and poly makes that impossible.
True that (I was one once, a diaper-wearing cherub in my Democratic youth). Turns out Daddy Government put a poison pill in its mush; Covid was an overly-successful real estate scam, and so now those 'opportunities' are collapsing too fast, and folks just can't believe the risk of a healthy rebound.
NYC died in the 70's when liberals like Koch turned her into a Charles Bronson script machine. The decline of the white population from roughly 75% in 1970 to a shade over 50% in the early 80's and falling since, is a doom loop. Sure the banks stayed, but companies like Pepsi and Texaco decamped to Westchester. And now you can cosplay Wall Street from anywhere, so good luck with that. The good news is that Pliskin is warming up in the bullpen.
Thank you for mentioning Pliskin! LOL Every time some political idiocy occurs in NYC, I think of that movie! Makes you wonder if Adams colluded with Mamdani to run to ensure getting reelected! It's no more farfetched than Mamdani actually winning.
Do you really think that New Yorkers won't elect a communist person of color? The only way he could really guarantee his election is if he was a gay communist person of color.
Abe Beame, who preceded Ed Koch, was just as guilty. And let's not forget David Dinkins who paved the way for Rudy Giuliani, the last Republican mayor of NYC.
If things don't work out - which they won't - for the cohort who voted for him, they can always move from their mommy and daddy's subsidized apartments on the Upper West Side, to their mommy and daddy's condo's in Florida. Heaven forbid.
Instead of all the scumbag politicians playing it cutesy, they need to stop their BS and get behind the ONLY viable candidate, the one man who can save the City- Curtis Sliwa.
First of all, I blame the reprobates who run the NY State Republicrat party for not wholeheartedly endorsing Curtis and providing him with enough money to overcome the margin of cheating and stupidity which would be many millions.
Even President Trump is talking about getting into the act and apparently he is deciding at this very moment who to support in the battle for his forever City.
I am hearing on local media- radio, cable tv, social, et al. that the "smart" money bros are trying to encourage (pay off) Curtis to drop out of the race so they can all get behind the Great Black Hope, Swagger Man with No Plan (as Curtis calls him).
What a bunch of stinking cowards if that's the way they're going to play it. Furthermore, in this race, where the lines are so clearly drawn between MAGA and Muslim, they would be fools not to go full Sliwa and roll the dice.
Although he does check off some of the boxes on the bingo card including race and phony police support, MINO (Mayor In Name Only) Adams is by no means a sure thing. Indeed, since his last catastrophic run in with our Satanic Overlords, it seems he's been in hiding, trying to hold on for dear life.
As a life long New Yorker who lives just north of the once greatest city, I hope and pray that President Trump will step in and back Curtis to the max. He saved the City once before, he can do it again.
"the 'smart' money bros are trying to encourage (pay off) Curtis to drop out of the race"
Would Sliwa really be that corruptible? It seems he's weathered quite a few political storms, and an attempt on his life, in over four decades.
"MINO" Adams, on the other hand, is infinitely malleable with the right back-room guys breathing over him. That monster, the aptly-named Bill ACKman is already trying, openly, to now buy Adams, and promote his piece of property!
I hope you are right about Curtis but politics is such a dirty game in NY that nothing would surprise me. The main thing that totally pisses me off is the disgusting NY GOP who seem to help the Dems more than their own candidates.
I see it in my own town where the local Repubs are all RINOs, not MAGA.
On the state level they are totally corrupt. I mean think of it- why are they not giving Curtis the millions he needs to go after the Hamas creep? Maybe because you're right and Curtis can't be bought.
Anyone else had a moment when they 'learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb'?
Well, maybe not LOVE it. Just accept it.
I used to think America was the one country that could stop the totalitarians march. No more. Now I'm placing my bets on Russia. Maybe God truly is not mocked.
The demonrats are stealing our populism and using it against us with this Islamo-communist and I hope reason skewers him when he goes head-to-head in debate, although there prolly won't be a debate.
Red meets Green(islam) in the city Muslims attacked 24 years ago. Not good.
Capitalism/Communism are one system, head and tails. The former fund the latter to overthrow who are not in system and/or are resisting it. Iran is "terrorist" because it has a central bank that doesn't do business with the Rothschilds. If you get this, you'll understand the reason for WW2 as well.
The people of Russia and Iran are the same as throughout the world, their leaders are gangsters, just like here(except Trump who can go gangster if needed).
MAGA chief ideologist Bannon has been speaking of a communist/Islamic alliance as we have been seeing in the anti-Israel and anti-ICE for some time now.
To be honest, what happened with WTC 1 and 2 made the fraud even more obvious. There is no way for two skyscrapers to collapse in near perfect freefall without the pulverization of the material that makes up the structure. Anything less than pulverization makes the speeds of the collapse absolutely impossible.
Yep. I am a mechanical engineer, not a structural one, and those buildings should have 'fell over' not collapse in freefall. Kerosene cannot melt steel.
As former representative Curt Weldon says... There was a battalion fire chief - the most experienced in the area(I am a firefighter(volunteer)) - on the 78th floor of building one reporting there were two manageable fires... And then the building collapsed one minute later.
I don't even think they would have fallen. Perhaps the top section above the initial hit. There are many examples of skyscrapers burning for days with no collapse. Interesting is to look at how the TTs were built. The structures were incredibly strong, and they were also designed to withstand the impact of being hit by a plane. All irrelevant to the main point of pulverization anyhow.
Hello...well, it is certain now that NYC is dead in the water. But not just that. the crime rate moving on up will astound even f'n liberals. It really is a shame; but, the exodus there will rival that of Biblical fame...and also...watch NY State just divorce itself from NYC. No one in the rest of the state likes NYC anyway. And that sick and ruined city only highlights the fact that the United States, as seen in Europe, has a Muslim problem. That MUST be solved before it is a sadly festered as in the UK. There are simply times when exceptional action must be taken. ICE must step up their arrests and deportations. And Muslims everywhere must be seen as the existential threat they truly are.
CAIR is not a benevolent society. They want the USA under Sharia law. They are an enormous existential threat to the culture of the USA. Think about this statement, is the USA more a Jewish style culture or a Sharia style culture. The anti-Jewish group of this blog need to think about that for a moment. Me, I want no part of any Muslim intrusion.
Homan said recently that ICE is concentrating on 3 cities, NYC being one. Chicago & LA being the others. Unless they have more men and more guns, I don't see ICE making enough of a dent in the illegal population. Besides which, do DEMs/DS really need actual bodies to cheat? I can see NYC going the way of Detroit. I have this mental image of squatters in Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower and pry all that gold leaf off the fixtures. Escape from New York. There are times when a "benevolent dictatorship" has its uses. Of course, it ain't a done deal yet.
You sure can turn a phrase JHK. Too many to quote. Gotta read again. I asked the question why reading you makes me feel so much better. Enjoying AI just for funs. Thought the answer was not too bad...
AI Overview
It can be comforting to have someone understand a bad situation, even if they can't fix it, because:
Validation: When someone understands and acknowledges your feelings and experiences, it validates them. This confirms that your reactions are understandable and that you are not alone in your struggle.
Reduced Isolation: Feeling understood helps reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness. Knowing that someone else can empathize with your situation creates a sense of connection and belonging.
Safety and Trust: Feeling understood by another person fosters a sense of emotional safety and trust in the relationship. This safe environment makes it easier to process emotions and work through the situation, even if a solution isn't immediately available.
Emotional Regulation: Validation helps regulate emotional distress. When negative emotions are acknowledged and accepted, their intensity may decrease, and it can help prevent further escalation of negative feelings.
Increased Self-Esteem and Resilience: Feeling understood and accepted can improve self-esteem and build emotional resilience. This can help you better cope with challenges and setbacks.
Improved Problem-Solving: Feeling understood can make you more open to exploring solutions
and engaging in constructive dialogue, even if the other person doesn't have the "answer."
Essentially, empathy and understanding provide a crucial emotional buffer during difficult times, enabling you to feel supported and cared for, even if a quick fix isn't possible.
Once Communists dig in, countries have to suffer long enough to finally kick them out.
We’ve been enjoying the weevils since Hussein’s coronation in 2008. Although, we might miss the worst of it because the Red/Blue mix of cities and states provides a preview of paradise in Socialist Amerika. The country can watch the ongoing destruction in CA and NY and say, “No, thanks.” to crime, poverty, freeloaders, and $120 tanks of gasoline.
Regardless, we need to clean up the ballot box and stop pretending the Left is half the nation. I must say, not focusing on election reform is a puzzling miss by the Trump Admin.
I think you overlook the fact (not my statement but from a book written by an actual holocaust survivor) that the "jews" who immigrated to New York, Maryland, DC before WW2 really got started were communist. Do your research. The name of the book is The Measure of a Man.
Many forget there was a Bolshevik revolution in Germany as well in 1918 and there was combat in the streets. The losers got out of Dodge long before Hitler became a thing. The same thing happened in 1848 when there were similar revolts all over Europe. The Spiegel brothers came to America after fighting on the losing side in 1848. They became officers in the Union Army and came up with the idea for their famous catalog sitting around the campfire. One of them was killed in battle and is buried on the banks of the Mississippi in the former Confederacy.
As I understand it they (the Democrats) went after Eric Adam’s because he had the temerity to complain to “Biden” about all the illegal aliens in NYC. He was told to “get back in line & be a good Democrat.” Guess Adam’s didn’t realize the repercussions of being honest.
Democrats don’t build anything besides dependency; all they do is destroy whatever they get ahold of.
While, of course, the Republicans are good guys. 🤣
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The sooner that you grasp that Left vs Right is merely TPTB's "divide-and-conquer" strategy used to keep the rabble fighting amongst themselves (and while TPTB march us all left-right-left-right into their wet-dream technocracy) the better.
Independent here & I get it. Don’t trust R’s any more than D’s. Left the R party over their BS WMD war & 2 Bushes into nation building as well as Milquetoast Mitt. That said, they’re never as destructive as the Dems/progs.
When NYC falls the tax base will leave and that's when things will get animated. The downstaters flocked upstate after 911 and they brought the same voting behavior with them. We are doomed as a state if that Mandami is elected.
Well capitalism is dead in a world in “the long emergency”. At least in the sense of how anyone in America has and does experience it. Is there any way to avoid a movement into something socialist as everyone gets poorer.
Even the godfather of warning about socialism gone wrong, George Orwell in his book “The road to Wigan pier” (great book btw) he mentions that a movement to some sort of socialist society is inevitable.
Everyone gets poorer as a few get almost everything. Capital centralizes - Marx. Capitalism is basically flawed. The good part can only be maintained by force. If not, the other thing happens. What other thing, John asks. See the the second sentence of the first line.
This is one of the pitfalls of CFN going from WordPress website to Substack. I have notification that you've replied to me ... so I go there and am given a stub thread. Then your reply references something nearer the top of the thread ... and I can't seem to get there from here!
This Substack comment format needs improvement. The multiple kite strings that are supposed to trace back to what is being replied to are non-intuitive and confusing. And no HTML coding is permitted so you can't use italics, which are part of many writers' style, including mine.
By the way, what does "Also share to Notes" mean?
This comment format seems to have been designed by a computer nerd who doesn't get out in the sunlight much and has no idea what normal people prefer.
"This comment format seems to have been designed by a computer nerd who doesn't get out in the sunlight much and has no idea what normal people prefer."
You nailed it!
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I believe that <i>Also share to Notes</i> is used to also display your post on your own Substack page (if you so desire).
Not complaining, because every stacker can do as they see fit, but of all the Substacks I read only about two default to 'oldest comments first'. Most of them list 'top comments' first. Why would I care how many people liked a comment? I just want to read the thing in the order it was written. I wouldn't thank you for a book where all the most popular paragraphs were listed in Chapter One.
On the old site I used to read most of the comments because I 'knew' most of the characters. Now I only know about 7 or 8 from the old site and I can't be bothered reading all the comments, so to search for half a dozen people that I'd like to read, I have to change the setting then open all the pages, then if I refresh it or follow a conversation that's gone off the page I have to reset the default to 'oldest first' and start again, which is a royal pain.
Rant over. And thank you Paul Kingsnorth and whoever else it is among my stackers who defaults to 'oldest first'.
Top of the morning to ye. Yes, and don't forget the baleful effects of the resident AI: If it doesn't like a thread it will derail it by putting responses in the middle of nowhere.
New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Three once-great World class cities that are now each better called a word that begins with ‘S’ and ends with ‘Hole’. All thanks to demented governance and faux leaders who abandon common sense and good purpose in favor of collective delusionalism.
But of course, none of those who are leading their cities into dark oblivion could rule without the people of their captured region voting them in. And why do The People do such a thing? Because they themselves have become morally bankrupt and mentally deluded. They do not want to live good lives of purpose and agency. They want a Mommy-Daddy government to do everything for them and take care of them forever.
The citizens of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles do not want to grow up and one day grab a set of car-keys and get married. They want to wear diapers for the rest of their lives and sit in their high-chairs with their mouths wide open waiting for Daddy Government to put blended fruit mush into their mouths with a great big spoon.
Are New York, Los Angeles and Chicago the future of the entirety of America? Maybe yes, maybe no. But a body loses its Heart... the rest of the body cannot expect to have a good future.
Don’t leave out the formerly great city of Minneapolis. It looks like we will have a repeat of NYC in the coming mayoral election.
Seattle, Portland, Denver, San Francisco. Let’s see, what is common between all these cities?
1. Poverty ridden shitholes.
2. Blue socialist governments encouraging Mommy-Daddy dependence.
3. The focus for the immigration nightmare of Mayorkas. Not Biden, he was probably unaware. What happens when you inject 30 million people into a crony led capitalist system that were raised and thus only understand socialist? Amerika!
There is a huge difference between the socialist philosophy of the West Coast and the East Coast. The West has a wealth advantage big time, they can support their gimme populations, well, until recently. The East is going to dissolve into a gigantic cesspool as their human assets, thus financial assets, leave the scene.
In the late 1960's, after the riots, Detroit suffered from white flight. And the city went from being prosperous to a third world sh*t hole. I know. I lived in the burbs there and worked in the city for several years.
What that means is... all of the suburbs were somehow forced to financially support Detroit. That's what could happen to NYC. The outlying regions will be required to pay the bills of that future Detroit in the east.
I now live in a different midwestern state, in a city that is growing, rather than declining. Their "bad neighborhoods" are laughable to me. And my realtor never knows how to answer when I ask where the murderers dump their dead prostitutes here.
After living 71 years in the same house 1/2 mile from the Detroit border, my 98 year old father is finally moving out about 20 miles away to middle suburbia. I remember taking the bus to downtown and spending the day parading around without a care in the world in the mid 60's.
Same in Chicago until the advent of Harold Washington and ultimately Rahm Emmanuel...Now every neighborhood in Chicago is dangerous..
Me too. We passed by MoTown while in the bus. The theatres and shops were beautiful and prosperous. Limousines and fur coats were in evidence. The restaurants were fabulous with water features, white tablecloths, and waiters dressed in formal attire. It was an amazing city. All gone.
That's already occurred. Recall NYC's bail out. who paid for it? We all did not just the suburbs.
Yes, poverty and dysfunction are directly proportional to the percentage of Blacks in a given city. Not "socialism" which of course is necessary to a degree in the modern industrial state where bigness, impersonality, and isolation are endemic.
see that's the problem. The inner city was carrying the suburbs. What happens now. The suburbs are living on credit. It's too hard to fix and unsustainable. They keep moving out and building more. It's a giant ponzi scheme.
QUESTION: What happens when you inject 30 million people into a crony led capitalist system that were raised and thus only understand socialist?
ANSWER: Cloward and Pivens.
According to the US Treasury Department’s May 2025 report on spending and tax revenue; the US Federal government is still very much on track to finish the fiscal year with more than two trillion, six-hundred billion dollars in new debt: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts0525.pdf
To reiterate, the US government is now nine months into its fiscal year (which began October 1) and the total federal deficit for the fiscal year is now $1.8 trillion (May), which is an increase of 23 percent over the same period of last year. At this pace the total federal deficit for the fiscal year is likely to come in around $2.6 trillion. So far, there is no end in sight to these immense spending totals. Although the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, initially claimed it could cut a trillion dollars from federal spending, that number was recently revised downward by 85 percent to $150 billion. Moreover, these claims of budget cutting are now being contradicted by new announcements of President Trump’s plans to increase discretionary spending while not touching nondiscretionary spending.
It’s going to take a lot more than some trimming around the edges to change the federal government’s current trajectory into ever increasing $2-trillion-plus annual deficits. So far, neither the Trump administration nor the RINO/GOP in Congress has shown any plans for significant spending cuts. It is MHO, the entire federal reserve system of sorcerer bankers and Keynesian economics is insolvent:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jEfdd6UsHP1WL0P7iJ5SVTAW-2dZ8kb9szVmqhPTjw/edit?usp=sharing
Toronto was once described as New York city run by Swiss. Now it's known as New Delhi run by Communists.
Vancouver has been called the world's largest drug market and Montreal is full of jihadists who prey on law-abiding citizens and terrorize the city's Jewish population. Life in the 21st century sucks.
Hey George, run this post past Phil. Good news is conservative aspects of Canadian people want out of this Leftist BS. BTW, Vancouver is 20% Chinese, the same Chinese that are killing Americans with Fentanyl.
Minneapolis was once great? Really? I was there in 2017 and it was a total shithole. I've been to most major American cities and, imho, Minneapolis was shittiest by a country mile.
You must have been to Mpls. in the winter, Phil! 😜 I grew up here, raised my kids her & moved away (winters) for 25 years, returning 4 years ago. The difference is stark, the city almost unrecognizable. It is woke central! The only thing our sissified Marxist communist governor is good at, besides destroying our state, is fairy dancing & getting chummy with horses.
It was May 2017. We stayed downtown - just a quick walk to the Twins' ball park. Minneapolis looked, to me, like a bigger, nastier Winnipeg.
It used to be exceptional with restaurants, DAYTON’S, entertainment of all kinds, etc. Downtown is now a ghost town. The destruction began well before 2017. I have never been to Winnipeg but I know that Canada is having her own problems. What a time to be alive, eh?
Why did you move back?
My son lives here, lots of friends & memories. I was living in Nashville & it wasn’t my vibe.
Good reasons all. Thanks!!
Minneapolis was pretty nice when it was 98% white...But those Nordic liberals have wrecked the place, along with the injection of IQ70 Somalians...
Downtown Minny sure was nowhere near 98% white in May 2017, that's for sure!
Same w Milwaukee. We can go on like this for quite a while.
I spent a completely delightful summer there in 1974 when I was vagabonding around.
Worked for a while as a dishwasher at the famous Charlie's restaurant and then for Acme Awning company taking down and storing awnings for the summer.
Also, got "lucky" there, so I thought it was a Great City:)
The Little Apple was always pretty good until the past decade and influx of unassimilated refugee scofflaws. Saint Paul was more of a known shithole, although my preference was always St. Paul (had a more functional feel). As a nearby rube, I visited "the cities" countless times over the decades and spent part of my honeymoon in the famous little Foshay Tower. Minneapolis was a decent metropolis in a high-trust state before it became "Snowgadishu" and then Frey and Walz let it burn after the Saint Floyd spectacle.
Detroit is already gone...but the muslims haven't taken over there...yet.
You are joking, right? Actually, it's the Christian Arabs, the Chaldeans, who first moved to Detroit, and it was all right. Dearborn next door is Arab now, and they voted for Trump.
Hamtramck, that Polish stronghold, is also Arab-owned now. But these are people following the old pattern of immigration.
When I returned to my native land, I resettled in Ann Arbor, which is now following the Woke train. I'm too old to move now.
Chicago has a glimmer of hope. The Mayor has a 7% approval rating and Black men and women are showing up wearing MAGA hats at City Council meetings screaming at him for his stupidity and incompetence and favoring illegals over citizens.
Just wait until Trump's Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent increases the federal debt limit by $5 Trillion and the Federal Reserve is forced into a "turbo-QE" facility to buy US Treasuries, with a resultant stagflation of 10% real inflation and 10% unemployment.
"A day's wages for a loaf of bread" [Revelation 6: 5]
Revelation was among the last books accepted into the Christian biblical canon, and to the present day many churches are sceptical of the book because of doubts concerning its authorship. This distrust persists in many Christian sects. Some sects go as far as considering it to be heretical.
The obscure and extravagant imagery, with many Old Testament allusions and numeric symbolism, has resulted in a wide variety of interpretations. It's such a mess; anybody can read anything into it they want.
And charlatans like the disgusting US Pastor John Hagee make a lot of money on that ~ by preaching their crazy end-times ideas to the gullible and unfortunate.
Carl Jung, influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies, in his autobiography "Memories Dream Reflections" said "I will not discuss the transparent prophecies of the Book of Revelation because no one believes in them and the whole subject is an embarrassing one."
Obviously Dennis Merwood, you and Carl Jung are numbered with the "tares". You will know the Book of Revelation is the inspired Word of the Living God, when the government forces you to receive a digital ID implant in order to buy and sell.
CFN's Torquemada speaks!
If you study the bible as a work of literature, you would know that everything Dennis says is true.
No one knows who wrote Revelation. People were writing all kinds of things and often attached the name of an important figure in the mythos to the works. Revelation of "John" has more gravitas than Revelation of Joe Bob, for example. The epistles of Paul are another example. Textual study shows that only seven (I think) of the so-called epistles are by the same person, purportedly Paul. The others are by different authors who made them out to be by Paul so people would read them. It was a pretty common practice.
I'm not sure about the authorship of Paul's epistles, but I think your comment is generally valid for the New Testament. You don't need to be a biblical scholar, just a reader with common sense, to perceive that even the Gospels were written and revised by various unknown hands (who may have been influenced by the ghostly "Q Document)."
Donna Wilson: The last book in the Bible is NOT the "Revelation of John" it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
You and Dennis Merwood do not understand the Book of the Revelation is YHVH/God (the Father's) plan for the end of the age of the Gentiles and the coming Kingdom of Heaven with the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ as King of kings.
“They do not know nor understand;
For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see,
And their hearts, so that they cannot understand.”
Isaiah 44:18
And $10,000/oz. gold.
What ever happened to Elon Musk and DOGE auditing the gold in Ft. Knox?
President Trump wants We the People to lobby Congress to pass his "one big beautiful bill"; but one of Trump's campaign pledges was to have Elon Musk audit the gold in Ft. Knox.
I vote to have the gold in Ft. Knox audited before Trump's "one big beautiful bill" becomes law.
My great-great grandfather was named Gerald Michael McWilliams. He was Irish/Scottish (we don’t really know which) and in 1849 he sailed on a tall ship from Ireland/Scotland, “round the horn” to San Francisco and became a 49er. Later, (with his fortune in gold), he migrated to Southern California and purchased agriculture land, where his posterity became navel orange growers.
I was born in LA on Cinco-de-Mayo in 1948 and adopted by Redlands, California navel orange growers who were the victims of FDR’s 1933 executive order to confiscate the people’s gold. I grew up hearing the stories of what happened to the Southern California economy after FDR devalued the gold from $20.00/ounce to $35.00/ounce. My family and most of the Southern California farmers despised FDR.
The gold FDR stole by executive order in 1933 from my family and the other Americans is supposed to be in Ft. Knox……..? Candidate Donald J. Trump promised an audit of Ft. Knox and Elon Musk said the same. And now Trump wants We the People to believe him about his "one big beautiful bill"?
Once scorched, twice burned.
My grandfather was a bootlegger in NYC in the 1920s. One day when I was about 3 or 4 years old in the late 1950s found a draw in my grandparents house that was filled to the top with hundreds of big gold coins. I thought it was a treasure chest. I was so impressed by the size and pictures on it and the color that I asked my grandparents if I could have some. Looking back at that time I had no idea what I could have used it for. I just liked them because they were very pretty.
Shortly afterward the gold disappeared. Till today I never knew what he did with them. They did tell me when I was older that those were coins given to my grandfather as payment for work he used to do. He was smart enough never to give it to the government. And believe me he didnt put it in the bank either.
Auditing Fort Knox went the way of Russia/Ukraine peace in 24 hours and lower food prices.
A politician lied. "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!"
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Build Back Better. Big Beautiful Bill.
BBB -> bbb -> 666
Here's all we need to know about Trump's Big Beautiful Bill:
After making the provision of half a TRILLION[!] dollars to Ellison & Thiel to have them develop AI to a magnitude that we can't even fathom today (e.g. it promises to custom-build an mRNA jab that will "cure" you of cancers that you don't even have!) a top priority of his new administration immediately following his creepy Apotheosis of George Washington Illuminati inauguration (where he would not place his hand on the Bible!), his "Big Beautiful Bill" hand-cuffs all 50 states in the union from leasing this beast in any way whatsoever.
I definitely thought about the “Build Back Better/Big Beautiful Bill”= bbb connection, didn’t equate it with 666 though…
Elon talked to Rand who said, Let's do it! and then nothing. Someone told them on the QT to shut up about it. Just like the Epstein situation. This rotting planks of his hulk are held together by lies.
Which clearly means...that there is very little gold left in Fort Knox....
Phil,
10K gold? Sadly, I have none. But...what would be the value of lead?
(asking for a friend).
E - you're sitting on gold, you just haven't realized it yet. Start the "Bringing Reno" Project. Still open to a GM position :-)
Ron,
Well, we have a few unpaid intern positions newly available...they keep quitting....
Like always, Ely, that will be determined by Supply & Demand.
"He who has the gold makes the rules." That axiom has held for, like, ever.
Yeah, and he who has the lead may not make the rules, but he who has the lead has a veto....
lol
A days wages IN gold!
I am trying to imagine what that Obama Presidential Center grand opening is going to look like. It is Suppose to happen Spring of 2026, less than a year. Michelle might not show up and decide to stay at the "house" in Hawaii leaving the "deer in headlights" Barry in charge of festivities.
That Obama building looks either like the Ministry of Love from _Nineteen Eighty-Four_, or a giant CPAP standing on end.
lol One of my favorite commenters a while back said if the presidential center thing doesn’t work out they could turn it into a bathhouse.
I just finished Joel Gilbert’s book “Michelle Obama 2024.” Not many copies available, I had already watched his documentary of the same name. highway61ent.com If you have time you should read it. It helped me fill in large gaps of how things have been molded to get where we are now. Pretty amazing to live through it and not see it.
Their brand of MAGA is special treatment for Blacks, not Browns.
Much of the above can also be said about Albuquerque. I moved here 10 plus years ago from the Bronx. I think it is more corrupt here than in NYC. The people are more down to earth but dumb as rocks.
And the County Commissioners have this amazing ability to stare like cows when you show them how they probably weren't elected. The state has them in ankle-irons and holding beggars' cups out.
"And why do The People do such a thing? Because they themselves have become morally bankrupt and mentally deluded. They do not want to live good lives of purpose and agency."
So how did they get these ideas, over roughly the past half-century? Did they grow organically from some brain disease carried by the water? Are they inherently "evil people"? Which magical explanation with blamecasting do you prefer?
I'm reading a book called The City of God, by Saint Augustine. It was written around the year 410. I ran across a little anecdote the other day about what happens when a city is peaceful and prosperous. People don't appreciate the peace and the prosperity and live moderate, temperate lives. Instead, the more peace and prosperity they have, the more decadent they become, until the society becomes unstable again.
Once again, this was written around 410.
"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." - G. Michael Hopf
The Fourth Turning concept in a nutshell.
Agreed. I'd say its the root reason also (on shorter timeframes) for business cycles, no matter what economics tells us. And, one could look at a modern parallel theory on it, the four turnings.
Try immigration of socialist populations. Or Leftist governances that reward dependence. Or a gimme university environment. It is interesting that the college crowd elected Zohran in the primary.
My point is they didn't become degraded *of their own accord*. If their supposed "helpers" are condemning them to a life of dysfunction, then it is those social powerbrokers -- whether Leftist social-architect dilettantes or Rightist business interests, both seeking slave labor -- we need to zero in on, and stop whaling on the hapless immigrants, and the brainwashed but non-silver-spoon young.
They've been raised to expect no discomfort in their lives, just drugs and porn (same thing). That's what Zohran and his promises are.
Drugs and Porn: 2 of Satan's most effective tools.
God, help us!
"Drugs and Porn: 2 of Satan's most effective tools."
Don't forget Rock & Roll! :)
Look, the most basic issue is moderation, not the vices themselves. Otherwise, IMO, you're being a Puritan. People are simply no longer educated, at home or school, on accumulated Western wisdom of how to manage themselves and participate constructively in society.
Satan does not exist.
Just a mythical character in an old book of fiction.
All of Western Civ. Is threatened by both. Both are being encouraged by the Ult-Left communist politicos.
Essentially. But it's not conscious. They have been miseducated, rather than learning the best of what history teaches us about achieving both individual and social (cooperative) excellence.
The Left and Right interests, mostly Left provided the open border that created all those “not so hapless” immigrants.
I call the majority of them hapless because most of them are mere pawns of the Machiavellian monsters who orchestrate their transportation from around the world, (often from war-torn countries), gov support, substandard wages, and voter registrations. As soon as the latter has no use for them, they will go figuratively and literally into woodchippers (they'll die off). No, I'd never elect to be travel with them.
As stated above...a lot of it has been "manufactured consensus."
Detroit is so decimated it no longer makes anyone’s failing city list.
Nailed it.
"Are New York, Los Angeles and Chicago the future of the entirety of America?"
The time is now for a national divorce. Before the bloody-civil war begins.
If you look at the Wikipedia charts on homicides, you will find a lot of American cities with much higher homicide rates than NYC, LA, and Chicago. On a worldwide basis, cities with large percentages of colored populations tend to have the highest homicide rates. Too bad Southern planters wouldn't pick their own damn cotton.
As far as a national divorce goes, how would you carve up the national debt and the cost of Social Security and Medicare?
I have not visited any of the above cities other than the airports in 35 years. I live on the central coast of California and drive out of my way to avoid LA or San Jose north to Marin. Filthy places.
To rule a multi cultural, ethnic, polygot populace, you need to focus on the lcd or lowest common denominators of food, fuel, and bread and circuses. You don't have the time, energy or inclination to focus on that which truly binds people together. Indeed the multi and poly makes that impossible.
True that (I was one once, a diaper-wearing cherub in my Democratic youth). Turns out Daddy Government put a poison pill in its mush; Covid was an overly-successful real estate scam, and so now those 'opportunities' are collapsing too fast, and folks just can't believe the risk of a healthy rebound.
Don’t forget San Francisco.
exactly right. That is the perfect way to put it.
We are suffering from, as Clayton Morris beautifully put it, "manufactured consensus".
NYC died in the 70's when liberals like Koch turned her into a Charles Bronson script machine. The decline of the white population from roughly 75% in 1970 to a shade over 50% in the early 80's and falling since, is a doom loop. Sure the banks stayed, but companies like Pepsi and Texaco decamped to Westchester. And now you can cosplay Wall Street from anywhere, so good luck with that. The good news is that Pliskin is warming up in the bullpen.
Thank you for mentioning Pliskin! LOL Every time some political idiocy occurs in NYC, I think of that movie! Makes you wonder if Adams colluded with Mamdani to run to ensure getting reelected! It's no more farfetched than Mamdani actually winning.
Do you really think that New Yorkers won't elect a communist person of color? The only way he could really guarantee his election is if he was a gay communist person of color.
Abe Beame, who preceded Ed Koch, was just as guilty. And let's not forget David Dinkins who paved the way for Rudy Giuliani, the last Republican mayor of NYC.
And San Francisco
If things don't work out - which they won't - for the cohort who voted for him, they can always move from their mommy and daddy's subsidized apartments on the Upper West Side, to their mommy and daddy's condo's in Florida. Heaven forbid.
not exactly justice in rent control for the remnant, eh ron?
Nope, they are savaging their daddy's REIT holdings - unknowingly biting the hand that feeds them. Champagne Socialists.
Instead of all the scumbag politicians playing it cutesy, they need to stop their BS and get behind the ONLY viable candidate, the one man who can save the City- Curtis Sliwa.
First of all, I blame the reprobates who run the NY State Republicrat party for not wholeheartedly endorsing Curtis and providing him with enough money to overcome the margin of cheating and stupidity which would be many millions.
Even President Trump is talking about getting into the act and apparently he is deciding at this very moment who to support in the battle for his forever City.
I am hearing on local media- radio, cable tv, social, et al. that the "smart" money bros are trying to encourage (pay off) Curtis to drop out of the race so they can all get behind the Great Black Hope, Swagger Man with No Plan (as Curtis calls him).
What a bunch of stinking cowards if that's the way they're going to play it. Furthermore, in this race, where the lines are so clearly drawn between MAGA and Muslim, they would be fools not to go full Sliwa and roll the dice.
Although he does check off some of the boxes on the bingo card including race and phony police support, MINO (Mayor In Name Only) Adams is by no means a sure thing. Indeed, since his last catastrophic run in with our Satanic Overlords, it seems he's been in hiding, trying to hold on for dear life.
As a life long New Yorker who lives just north of the once greatest city, I hope and pray that President Trump will step in and back Curtis to the max. He saved the City once before, he can do it again.
"the 'smart' money bros are trying to encourage (pay off) Curtis to drop out of the race"
Would Sliwa really be that corruptible? It seems he's weathered quite a few political storms, and an attempt on his life, in over four decades.
"MINO" Adams, on the other hand, is infinitely malleable with the right back-room guys breathing over him. That monster, the aptly-named Bill ACKman is already trying, openly, to now buy Adams, and promote his piece of property!
I hope you are right about Curtis but politics is such a dirty game in NY that nothing would surprise me. The main thing that totally pisses me off is the disgusting NY GOP who seem to help the Dems more than their own candidates.
I see it in my own town where the local Repubs are all RINOs, not MAGA.
On the state level they are totally corrupt. I mean think of it- why are they not giving Curtis the millions he needs to go after the Hamas creep? Maybe because you're right and Curtis can't be bought.
The Red Beret is the only thing that can save MAGA.
Anyone else had a moment when they 'learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb'?
Well, maybe not LOVE it. Just accept it.
I used to think America was the one country that could stop the totalitarians march. No more. Now I'm placing my bets on Russia. Maybe God truly is not mocked.
'Nuclear Weapons', the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on humanity.
It's even bigger than the covid hoax! The preferred method of citizen control...
Get some fucking therapy, or at least an education.
I have often wondered this, but nothing in human history was bigger than the Covid Hoax, IMO.
Breck,
Well, I had a movement several days ago that was memorable.
Movement? That word is not in my comment.
Re-check that Ely.
Breck,
Ahhhh, so sorry. Sometimes we see what we need or want to see, rather than what we are presented with. My apologies.
I surmised this but wasn't sure of course. Thanks for the correction.
The demonrats are stealing our populism and using it against us with this Islamo-communist and I hope reason skewers him when he goes head-to-head in debate, although there prolly won't be a debate.
Red meets Green(islam) in the city Muslims attacked 24 years ago. Not good.
Capitalism/Communism are one system, head and tails. The former fund the latter to overthrow who are not in system and/or are resisting it. Iran is "terrorist" because it has a central bank that doesn't do business with the Rothschilds. If you get this, you'll understand the reason for WW2 as well.
The people of Russia and Iran are the same as throughout the world, their leaders are gangsters, just like here(except Trump who can go gangster if needed).
MAGA chief ideologist Bannon has been speaking of a communist/Islamic alliance as we have been seeing in the anti-Israel and anti-ICE for some time now.
Indeed he has.
Real Islam rejects Communism but mandates charity to other Muslims.
I am starting to realize that. Building #7 opened my eyes.
To be honest, what happened with WTC 1 and 2 made the fraud even more obvious. There is no way for two skyscrapers to collapse in near perfect freefall without the pulverization of the material that makes up the structure. Anything less than pulverization makes the speeds of the collapse absolutely impossible.
Yep. I am a mechanical engineer, not a structural one, and those buildings should have 'fell over' not collapse in freefall. Kerosene cannot melt steel.
As former representative Curt Weldon says... There was a battalion fire chief - the most experienced in the area(I am a firefighter(volunteer)) - on the 78th floor of building one reporting there were two manageable fires... And then the building collapsed one minute later.
I don't even think they would have fallen. Perhaps the top section above the initial hit. There are many examples of skyscrapers burning for days with no collapse. Interesting is to look at how the TTs were built. The structures were incredibly strong, and they were also designed to withstand the impact of being hit by a plane. All irrelevant to the main point of pulverization anyhow.
Hello...well, it is certain now that NYC is dead in the water. But not just that. the crime rate moving on up will astound even f'n liberals. It really is a shame; but, the exodus there will rival that of Biblical fame...and also...watch NY State just divorce itself from NYC. No one in the rest of the state likes NYC anyway. And that sick and ruined city only highlights the fact that the United States, as seen in Europe, has a Muslim problem. That MUST be solved before it is a sadly festered as in the UK. There are simply times when exceptional action must be taken. ICE must step up their arrests and deportations. And Muslims everywhere must be seen as the existential threat they truly are.
CAIR is not a benevolent society. They want the USA under Sharia law. They are an enormous existential threat to the culture of the USA. Think about this statement, is the USA more a Jewish style culture or a Sharia style culture. The anti-Jewish group of this blog need to think about that for a moment. Me, I want no part of any Muslim intrusion.
Homan said recently that ICE is concentrating on 3 cities, NYC being one. Chicago & LA being the others. Unless they have more men and more guns, I don't see ICE making enough of a dent in the illegal population. Besides which, do DEMs/DS really need actual bodies to cheat? I can see NYC going the way of Detroit. I have this mental image of squatters in Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower and pry all that gold leaf off the fixtures. Escape from New York. There are times when a "benevolent dictatorship" has its uses. Of course, it ain't a done deal yet.
You sure can turn a phrase JHK. Too many to quote. Gotta read again. I asked the question why reading you makes me feel so much better. Enjoying AI just for funs. Thought the answer was not too bad...
AI Overview
It can be comforting to have someone understand a bad situation, even if they can't fix it, because:
Validation: When someone understands and acknowledges your feelings and experiences, it validates them. This confirms that your reactions are understandable and that you are not alone in your struggle.
Reduced Isolation: Feeling understood helps reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness. Knowing that someone else can empathize with your situation creates a sense of connection and belonging.
Safety and Trust: Feeling understood by another person fosters a sense of emotional safety and trust in the relationship. This safe environment makes it easier to process emotions and work through the situation, even if a solution isn't immediately available.
Emotional Regulation: Validation helps regulate emotional distress. When negative emotions are acknowledged and accepted, their intensity may decrease, and it can help prevent further escalation of negative feelings.
Increased Self-Esteem and Resilience: Feeling understood and accepted can improve self-esteem and build emotional resilience. This can help you better cope with challenges and setbacks.
Improved Problem-Solving: Feeling understood can make you more open to exploring solutions
and engaging in constructive dialogue, even if the other person doesn't have the "answer."
Essentially, empathy and understanding provide a crucial emotional buffer during difficult times, enabling you to feel supported and cared for, even if a quick fix isn't possible.
Thank you James!
What about throwing down your tools and fleeing? You know, before it is too late? This AI is very, very feminine in the bad sense.
Haifa, Israel Before and After
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GijhkHPyNNQX
These 21 seconds of video say a lot. They say, "FAFO."
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Bibi cares for Israel's Average Joel Six-pack about as much as Trump does for America's.
Sad but true.
Zionists are not going to be able to tolerate free speech much longer.
The worst part of the implosion of New York is that many of the people who live there will move to other places.
Once Communists dig in, countries have to suffer long enough to finally kick them out.
We’ve been enjoying the weevils since Hussein’s coronation in 2008. Although, we might miss the worst of it because the Red/Blue mix of cities and states provides a preview of paradise in Socialist Amerika. The country can watch the ongoing destruction in CA and NY and say, “No, thanks.” to crime, poverty, freeloaders, and $120 tanks of gasoline.
Regardless, we need to clean up the ballot box and stop pretending the Left is half the nation. I must say, not focusing on election reform is a puzzling miss by the Trump Admin.
"...not focusing on election reform is a puzzling miss by the Trump Admin."
Trump is part of the machine. He only focuses on himself.
"this solves the old riddle of why Europe’s Jews walked so placidly into Auschwitz."
Ouch! Harsh but true!
Here's their "logic": It may (will) produce the opposite results they voted for, but it's the "right way" to think.
More like the right way to feel!
Abiding duke — if you use that phrase “holo-hoax” again, I will kick you out.
I think you overlook the fact (not my statement but from a book written by an actual holocaust survivor) that the "jews" who immigrated to New York, Maryland, DC before WW2 really got started were communist. Do your research. The name of the book is The Measure of a Man.
Your comment reminds me of Barbra Streisand's character in "The Way We Were".
Many forget there was a Bolshevik revolution in Germany as well in 1918 and there was combat in the streets. The losers got out of Dodge long before Hitler became a thing. The same thing happened in 1848 when there were similar revolts all over Europe. The Spiegel brothers came to America after fighting on the losing side in 1848. They became officers in the Union Army and came up with the idea for their famous catalog sitting around the campfire. One of them was killed in battle and is buried on the banks of the Mississippi in the former Confederacy.
As I understand it they (the Democrats) went after Eric Adam’s because he had the temerity to complain to “Biden” about all the illegal aliens in NYC. He was told to “get back in line & be a good Democrat.” Guess Adam’s didn’t realize the repercussions of being honest.
Democrats don’t build anything besides dependency; all they do is destroy whatever they get ahold of.
While, of course, the Republicans are good guys. 🤣
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The sooner that you grasp that Left vs Right is merely TPTB's "divide-and-conquer" strategy used to keep the rabble fighting amongst themselves (and while TPTB march us all left-right-left-right into their wet-dream technocracy) the better.
Independent here & I get it. Don’t trust R’s any more than D’s. Left the R party over their BS WMD war & 2 Bushes into nation building as well as Milquetoast Mitt. That said, they’re never as destructive as the Dems/progs.
Atta boy!
When NYC falls the tax base will leave and that's when things will get animated. The downstaters flocked upstate after 911 and they brought the same voting behavior with them. We are doomed as a state if that Mandami is elected.
Well capitalism is dead in a world in “the long emergency”. At least in the sense of how anyone in America has and does experience it. Is there any way to avoid a movement into something socialist as everyone gets poorer.
Even the godfather of warning about socialism gone wrong, George Orwell in his book “The road to Wigan pier” (great book btw) he mentions that a movement to some sort of socialist society is inevitable.
"Is there any way to avoid a movement into something socialist as everyone gets poorer[?]"
Exactly. Brilliant. Thank you.
Everyone gets poorer as a few get almost everything. Capital centralizes - Marx. Capitalism is basically flawed. The good part can only be maintained by force. If not, the other thing happens. What other thing, John asks. See the the second sentence of the first line.
This is one of the pitfalls of CFN going from WordPress website to Substack. I have notification that you've replied to me ... so I go there and am given a stub thread. Then your reply references something nearer the top of the thread ... and I can't seem to get there from here!
This Substack comment format needs improvement. The multiple kite strings that are supposed to trace back to what is being replied to are non-intuitive and confusing. And no HTML coding is permitted so you can't use italics, which are part of many writers' style, including mine.
By the way, what does "Also share to Notes" mean?
This comment format seems to have been designed by a computer nerd who doesn't get out in the sunlight much and has no idea what normal people prefer.
"This comment format seems to have been designed by a computer nerd who doesn't get out in the sunlight much and has no idea what normal people prefer."
You nailed it!
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I believe that <i>Also share to Notes</i> is used to also display your post on your own Substack page (if you so desire).
Not complaining, because every stacker can do as they see fit, but of all the Substacks I read only about two default to 'oldest comments first'. Most of them list 'top comments' first. Why would I care how many people liked a comment? I just want to read the thing in the order it was written. I wouldn't thank you for a book where all the most popular paragraphs were listed in Chapter One.
On the old site I used to read most of the comments because I 'knew' most of the characters. Now I only know about 7 or 8 from the old site and I can't be bothered reading all the comments, so to search for half a dozen people that I'd like to read, I have to change the setting then open all the pages, then if I refresh it or follow a conversation that's gone off the page I have to reset the default to 'oldest first' and start again, which is a royal pain.
Rant over. And thank you Paul Kingsnorth and whoever else it is among my stackers who defaults to 'oldest first'.
Top of the morning to ye. Yes, and don't forget the baleful effects of the resident AI: If it doesn't like a thread it will derail it by putting responses in the middle of nowhere.
Thank you. I will keep the top-of-the-morning under my hat for tomorrow, as it's half six in the evening here now.
Resident E[AI]vil. Interesting.