“. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” — Sasha Stone on Substack
This analysis and evisceration of the left is brought to you by a legal immigrant who came, saw-right-through, and blew-up their madness:
"Not long after I came to America, I was exposed to the narrative that the Democrat Party was the party of the little guy and the only party with genuine care and compassion for the average American. Fortunately, because I grew up under a dictatorship, I could not be easily fooled by socioeconomic shackles masquerading as compassionate public policy. The truth is there is no compassion like Democrat compassion. It is the kind of compassion that lets people shoot illicit drugs into their body with the government's assistance. It is the kind of compassion that sees assisted suicide as a moral virtue.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that lets you rob the innocent in hardworking businesses in your neighborhood and walk out with impunity with no fear of prosecution.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that tells vulnerable women it is their right to abort and sacrifice their unborn children on the perverted altar of female empowerment and convenience. Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that tells children they were born in the wrong body and encourages and subsidizes their mutilation. Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that lets boys unfairly compete against girls and take their records, their opportunities, and their scholarships, and invade their private spaces turning back decades of hard-fought gains.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that allows homeless people to defecate on sidewalks and sleep in tents in public parks while watching them as they abuse drugs and suffer through mental illness.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that tells independent contractors that they don't have the right to choose how and when they work, in the name of protecting them from big bad corporations.
It is the kind of compassion that raises the minimum wage by government fiat and takes the earnings of fast food workers from $15 an hour to zero in a single day.
Democrat compassion is a kind of compassion that restricts the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, leaving them vulnerable to the criminals their compassion let out of prison with their no-bail policies.
Democrat compassion is the kind that secures the borders of Ukraine and leaves the American border wide open, allowing un-vetted illegal immigrants to wreak havoc on small towns and big cities alike and allowing drug cartels to kill 100,000 Americans each year with the poison of fentanyl.
This compassion is the kind of compassion that forces millions of Americans to close their businesses and to take experimental vaccines under the threat of losing their jobs and their livelihood.
It is the kind of compassion that praises Antifa as freedom fighters and raids the homes of pastors and churchgoers at dawn because they protested at the doors of abortion clinics.
Democrat compassion is the kind that weaponizes the justice system against political opponents while claiming to be defenders of democracy.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that colludes with social media companies to censor Americans and limit their constitutional freedoms.
Democrat compassion is the kind that tells minorities they cannot succeed without government handouts and without having the standards lowered for them.
It is the kind of compassion that tells black people they're too dumb to obtain IDs to vote but if they manage to do that they're not black if they don't vote Democrat.
I think America has had it with Democrat compassion. It has destroyed one's beautiful cities, left poverty and economic devastation in its wake everywhere it's been applied, and created a generation of voters so bereft of critical thinking skills that they so easily fall prey to a profound level of cunning and cynicism that enables them to vote 'blue no matter who' against their own interests.
As an immigrant and a new American voter I promise you this: I would much rather endure the uncertainty and the often difficult realities of life under the pragmatic principles of conservatism than bend one inch to the depravity of morally bankrupt policies cloaked in the robes of compassion but designed to keep Americans mentally subjugated, economically shackled, and emotionally weak.
We have to defeat Democrat compassion at the polls because our beloved country cannot endure four more years of this nightmare."
"Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" —Voltair
This was a darn good list... but I have warned Tritorch not to publish his blog right under my blog. This is a comment section, not a platform for bloggers. Others (e.g. "Skillington") take notice.)
“. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” — Sasha Stone on Substack
Not meant as a blog post, but rather a highly relevant compliment to Sasha's insight.
Now do one about how there is no saving the Right. Neither can exist without the other after all. By definition, all viable societies exist with both individualist and communal aspects. Any attempt by either side to become the all in all results in collapse. Libertarianism is a mind virus every bit as much as Communism.
I know this: There is no comparison. Given the choice between either extreme, I'll always choose the society that is driven by liberty, self-reliance, free-market capitalism and personal responsibility over the one that is driven by class envy and the coercion required to implement the government-sponsored social safety nets and other false promises (as the OP showed) under the guise of "compassion."
Competition leads to winners and losers. The winner absorb the losers. In Indian (dot) political philosophy this is known as the Law of the Fish. The winners also cooperate, something Adam Smiht thought would be impossible. But Marx was wiser: They are the first class to unify as a group and of course cooperation is possible. Few get rich alone, Len. The end result is where we are now - Plutocracy or Rule by Rich. They are few, thus it's an Oligarchy and of course, a Tyranny.
Class envy clouds people's judgment. The only people who the government makes rich are the politicians themselves and their cronies. If you don't believe me, all one has to do is look at the Soviet nomenklatura or their equivalent in every other communist nation. And if you want an example that is more recent and closer to home, then look at "principled" lefties railing against "the oligarchy" like Bernie Sanders.
Bernie the oligarch curser is a millionaire many times over thanks to capitalism. He's a regular oligarch working the system from the political inside.
The best we can do in this world is Biblical Christianity, submitting to the God who made us, loves us and died for us. I think it is evident that the Bible is true- we are all broken sinners, under God’s wrath, spiritually dead, and in need of a Savior. All other activities, choices and deeds accomplish only temporary results, because we will die and every nation will end. What we decide to do with Jesus, however, determines our eternal destiny.
That he made us, loves us and died for us is a great story.
Pity it was made up by unknown religious cultists and is bullshit.
Jesus and the resurrection are nothing but ancient myth.
The greatest scam in history. Now turned into a business!
You need to get your nose out of that old book that has caused so much human misery my dear!
"Religion poison's everything!" - The great atheist Christopher Hitchins. Never truer words spoken. Religion has proved to be the cause of so much suffering. A chain an anchor around folk's necks!
I was not raised Christian, I searched these things out for myself, so the opinion of atheists (who are ridiculously unscientific) is not persuasive to me at all. I suggest you look more closely, with an open mind. Because if the Bible is true (and it is), you are headed for a horrible destiny! However, Christians know that we can only share the truth- it is for others to make their own decision. As Jesus said, “If they don’t believe the law and the prophets, then they will not believe, even if a man were raised from the dead.” If nothing can convince you, then your course is decided. However, if you truly seek the truth, God will guarantee that you find it.
Libertarians do most of their communalism through their religions and/or individually chose charities not through the government. That's the idea behind free association, not forced taxation.
An actually cogent response. Thank you. But such charity in a profit obsessed culture (winning isn't everything, it's the only thing) is not enough.
Traditional Christianity demands tithing - one tenth. A heavy tax. To whom much is given much is asked. As T.S Elliot said, quoting the Upanishads: God said Da. Da. Da. Give. Give. Give. It is the Law.
Some "comments" are obviously brilliantly thought out and written over a longer period of time before being posted. If it were my blog, I'd be pissing razor blades.
Please read the very first sentence of the comment. It was written and orated by a legal immigrant who jumped through all of the hoops needed to move here honorably. From there it was transcribed and posted as a comment in numerous places so others could see through the democratic party just as the immigrant did with his unique foreign perspective.
There was no ill intention here whatsoever, and Mr. Kunstler concerns have been duly noted and replied to privately.
Democrat "compassion" is nothing more than their fervent wish to establish a Fascist/Communist/Socialist dictatorship in America. The sad part is that millions of parasitic, stupid, brainwashed leftist scumbag morons will vote for them. And here is the real sad irony of it:. As soon as the Democrat scum elite achieves dictatorial power, they will get about the task of killing anyone who dared or dares to oppose them, but heading to the death camps right after that will be all of the non-productive leftist morons who voted them into power. You see, the Socialist "utopia" is actually a slave state run by a Socialist dictatorial elite who forces their subjects to work for pitiful wages and use those pitiful wages to shop in mostly empty stores for crappy products and half-spoiled food. And, anyone who complains about the work, the awful working conditions, crappy products (or no products), the low pay, or how the government can't seem to manage anything gets sent to the re-education (death) camps.
I have no use for leftist parasites any longer. They are a cancer, and if every single one of them disappeared forever from this planet tomorrow, I would not shed a single tear. They no longer serve any useful purpose--all they cause is harm, suffering, and death.
"If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated." -Ayn Rand
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.” —Ann Rand
John Locke struggled with issue of child labor. He finally assented to it since they were individuals too, and thus could not be denied their "right to work". Capitalist stupidity. Now see the UN's manifesto "The Rights of Children". Both sides work together against sanity and humanity. The Capitalists mutilated children by "letting" them work long hours until they fell asleep and fell into the machines. The Left now mutilates children by abortion and sex change.
But at least the early Left, still under the influence of Christianity, stopped the Capitalists from working children to death. Now the Right, those still under the influence of Christianity, have to stop the Left from killing kids.
Children should be allowed to work. I have a 15 year old daughter who desperately wants a job but can't find one because she is too young.
As a child I had a newspaper route from the age of 10 until I was able to find another job. Gave me great spending money and a sense of pride to have a "job." Also instilled within me a work ethic that has served me well to this day.
I don't think children should be abused but I find no issues with children working to earn a little pay and to keep them busy and away from drugs and sex.
Sweat shops? No. Bagging groceries? Absolutely. Let em work!
yes, it would be great for them to be "employed" but there is a lot of legal nonsense for an employer, that would go along with that.
Instead, here is what my 8 and 11 year old grand girls are doing: mowing lawns, edging gardens, scubbing out toter trashcans, washing cars, vacuuming out cars, folding laundry for other ppl, inside household tasks like vacuuming and unloading dishwashers, watering plants, walking dogs, reading with younger kiddos, monitoring outdoor play, or indoor play (easier) while parents home of course. They are raking in the cash in Richmond Virginia. Last week my grand daughter went to the old people neighborhood close by and helped a cute lady organize her pantry. She did that for free.
ask her to get creative and make an advertisement for herself to print out and go door to door or if there are communities that will share her interest her services, that is good too.
Times have changed. baby sitting is still a huge cash cow! 🐮
We are not talking about after-school programs (work experience), weekends, or summer vacation, but about kids being forced to work at a very young age when they should be in school.
I started working for $2 an hour at the corner 76 gas station, cleaning and painting for 2-3 hours a day.
I was twelve years old and managed to buy an Atari 2600 and several hundred games.
Did me no harm, and I had extra spending money, not just given to me by my mom.
The Fascists and Communists hate each other since the former is a philosophy (or thee philosophy) of nationalism whereas Communism and Capitalism are anti-Nation. You need to try harder.
As so often happens, you get it wrong. Both Communism and Fascism are quite nationalistic. The common bond between them is Socialism--the idea that the means of production must either be fully owned (Communism) or under total control (Fascism) of the central government. Every other construct of either Communism or Fascism is built on that economic structure. And both Communism and Fascism require a central government strong enough to enforce its rules upon the citizenry--an actual or de facto dictatorship.
Capitalism is the least nationalistic of economic orders. Capitalism as both an economic and political system is based on individual rights. If there is a "sin" of free market capitalism it is that some less than moral capitalists would rather be "corporatists"--that is, curry favor from politicians to gain regulatory advantages over their competitors. And there are immoral politicians willing to use their political power to grant those advantages. Republican politicians were historically guilty of some of those abuses, but it has been Democrat politicians who have raised those abuses to a high art. That group now dominates the Fascist/Socialist wing of the Democrat Party that is now openly sparring with the Communist/Socialist wing of the Democrat Party. Their only unifying characteristics are that they both love Socialism and dictatorial power, and that they both hate conservatives, capitalism, and the American Constitutional Republic.
Thank you for your candor. Capitalism is dissolving the nations. Of course they use strong ones to help this process along (USA! USA!). The poor dupes die for this crap. Communism is for extreme cases - nations that had no intention of joining our system, like Aristocratic Russia or Imperial China. And yes, the Capitalists fund it. Easily verified. Whether you can accept it or not is another story.
If only there was an opposition party to vote against those "compassionate" democrats. There is no one to challenge the insanity of these democrats, only ghosts in the shadows on a perpetual vacation spending their unearned income while the country languishes.
The new citizens see the rot while the old citizens stumble on in ignorance waiting for the next free thing they can vote for. Thanks Randi Weingarten for turning our kids into dumbed down socialists. Happy Birthday, America, you got the government the deep state gave you.
Plenty of us old citizens see it too. We recognize it and want it dead. This was done to us. Looking back, it was slow as a sloth and about as noticeable. A fake cultural shift by psychological manipulation. Besides, plenty of "new citizens" grab the goody packs and swag bags from democrats in ecxhange for votes.
“The press is the enemy The press is the enemy The press is the enemy The establishment is the enemy The establishment is the enemy The establishment is the enemy The professors are the enemy The professors are the enemy The professors are the enemy
Write it on a blackboard 100 times, and never forget it.” —Nixon
“The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children.” —Dr. James Dobson ←we are here
Trump is a free agent. No one owns him. He may or may not be right every time, but he's the heart and soul of the final stand against the darkness of lefty utopia socialism.
I live in a small town in the suburbs of NYC, aka the "Commie Caliphate Corridor" and we are trying to get the local Dems to own their own people and platforms.
By that I mean, use the Rules for Radicals playbook for local political races.
We are demanding that every Democrat candidate for LOCAL office-including town board, town supervisor, county legislators et al. put out a statement renouncing and denouncing the platform of the Democratic -Socialists who have taken over that party.
Last year, because the Republicans are so absolutely clueless, we lost many MAGA positions in local elections. The Democrats are shrewd, cunning and they never stop working. They are totally loyal to one another and will never criticize another Dem-Soc even if they are an actual N**i like Mr. Plattner. Never forget that they want to see us dead.
At all costs, we need to get rid of the Buck-tooth Bimbo from Buffalo, aka Kathy Hochul and every other politician that bends over for the Democrat-Commie-Socialists. That includes our own neighbors who seem like really nice people except for the fact that they hate Trump, MAGA and the rest of us. You know- the ones who had BLM banners Biden/Harris lawn signs and Ukrainian flags in their yards.
I have been a precinct chair in Bexar County, Texas (San Antonio area for those who don't know), and I can tell you that there is no one I despise more, politically, that the self-satisfied, clue-free Republicans. And sadly, Texas has way too many.
They don't have the common sense that God gave an ordinary rubber duck.
Until the people in America think beyond political parties, nothing is going to improve. The political party system is a grotesque failure, an utterly epic failure. The fact that the American people haven't figured this out yet is incredibly depressing and debilitating. Like a dog to its vomit they keep going back to this failed system, over and over again, thinking "this time it will be different" or "this time the Republicans will do what is right to stop those pesky Democrats."
Ain't gonna happen. It's well past time for people to start thinking differently and cast down the failed political party system.
I'm not saying I have the answers but if one evaluates the current state of politics in this country the conclusion is obvious. The partisan system doesn't work and I refuse to continue to play nutjob by doing the same thing over and over again and hope for a different result each time.
There has to be a better way because the current system SUUUUUUCKS!
Because politics is about clusters of beliefs and policies, about general groupings of opinions. Parties are a useful shorthand that indicate, at least in general terms, what candidates believe. How many democracies have there been without parties? Certainly no large and modern ones. Parties are an emergent phenomenon, not something easily waved away.
Imagine a system where there were no parties. Just candidates. Country first instead of party first. Yeah, I dream. I get it. I'm so sick of Democrat v Republican and Republican v Democrat. Both parties a abysmal failures. Get rid of them.
52 year old native born citizen here. I see the rot as clear as the bright blue sky above me. I just don't know what the hell I can do about it. Vote? Yeah right. No confidence in that one. Rally at the capitol? Sure. Nobody listens. Stop paying my taxes? And lose all that I have worked for? Nope, not going there.
We are so boned as a people. Leviathan has us right where it wants us and it is going to continue to skin us alive.
The goal is to splinter us all into a million pieces and push us into mental idealogical prisons that have us seeing everyone who doesn't align with every single one of our highly polititicized viewpoints as the enemy.
Politicization is an apex psyop weapon, thus everything has been deliberately deeply politized.
"There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject."—Prevensilk
Wealthy vs poor. White vs black. Hispanic vs non-hispanic. Fat vs thin. Old vs young. Republican vs Democrat. Gay vs straight. Man vs woman. Beautiful vs ugly. Tall vs short. Religious vs atheist. Healthy vs sick. Fast vs slow. Animal lovers vs animal eaters. Loggers vs tree huggers. It goes on and on and on.
The people can't unite under these kind of circumstances. To be sure.
Yes, we need to wake-up and Vote. Read the detail of the results in your community. Do the foreclosures happening coincide with the successful passing of yet another bond issue? Why are so many apartment complexes being built? I see delapidated houses along side brand new apartment buildings eating up acreage.
It has taken over 6 years, but unpaid professionals have finally figured out the con. And what have they gleaned from the monsterous amount of data? An electronic 3-sided vise: algorithmically loaded voter rolls, algorithmically processed "elections" and the ponzi scheme bond issues that enslave the citizenry.
Excellent comment Tri. Thank you! Happy 4th of July!
Vote? Ha ha ha! Surely you jest. How has voting worked out for us thus far?
How many times will you keep pulling the lever for the "Republican" only to have the "Republican" stab you in the back before you figure out that "voting" is a sham imposed upon a docile population to make them think they have a voice.
The great American experiment died with the Articles of Confederation.
Keep paying those property taxes on property that you supposedly "own" with income that has already been taxed. Ain't freedom in America just grand!
Dictatorial Compassion is the Fraud it’s the same rode to Perdition.
The Democrats Party of Slavery is still the same we want to control you and you are going to do as we tell you to do. They simply moved from the Plantations to the big cities like Bank Robbers, it’s where the money is!
When you’re a slave to the Party either mentally or economically you’re not free. Just the way they want you.
During conventional slavery, the slave owner had to incur all costs including housing, health care, food, cleaning of the slave quarters, clothing, birthing of the child slaves, raising the child slaves, transportation of the slaves back and forth from work, celebrations, clean up after a natural disaster, slave entertainment, schooling of the new slave children to be good slaves etc etc. A slave owner's profit was always revenue minus expenses, no different than any business. The big trick was to tell the slaves that they were free, let them pay all those expenses, allow them to come back to the plantations and then to tax them in order to actually make more profit compared to the original slavery concept, with little to no chance of rebellion or resistance.
All taxation is meant to increase a slave's dependence on their slavery, as the people taking the tax away from the slaves print the money themselves and therefore don't have any use for it. Taxation is about keeping the slave down. That's it. Taxation has one purpose and one purpose only.
To make the slave dependent on coming back to the modern plantations of slavery, day in and day out. If the slave starts to save their money, give them a TV full of negative role modelling and watch the slave magically go into debt. If the slave still has money, organize a stock market crash or increases the taxes (theft). The people who print the money, have no use for extra fake paper money, which they can print at anytime and in any quantity they desire. The entire drive of the tax system is to make sure the slave has no extra money, as to provide them with enough freedom to figure any of this out. Slavery wasn't abolished, the plantation was simply expanded and they mock us inside the language. Everyone was tricked into becoming a slave, while believing they're free.
If it is wrong for us to steal from our neighbors than why is it okay for the government to do it? If the government is OF the people then the government should be subject to the same rules the people are. If I can't steal from my neighbors and call it a "tax" then why can the government? In reality, it can't.
The authority of the created cannot and should not exceed the authority of the creator. The federal government is the creation of we the people and it can engage in conduct and behavior that is illegal to we the people. The federal government as it currently exists is immoral and illegitimate and should be cast down, trodden under foot, and utterly destroyed.
Instead we celebrate it with chants of "freedom!"
Americans aren't free. Try not paying your property taxes and you'll see just how free you truly are. The gubmint owns everything. You just rentin it.
The best way to handle taxation is to avoid it as much as possible. Start young and buy long term appreciating assets, like art or precious metals. Something which doesn't require a lot of maintenance. As time goes on their worth will increase (mostly due to inflation caused by currency debasement).
Yes, the same reason a policeman can do things citizens can't. There is no society without some degree of specialization.
You're just renting you body, too. I share your indignation, but you have to get First Causes right. Libertarianism moves logically from its premises to its conclusions, but its premises aren't First Causes, so it is ultimately completely wrong.
respectfully, you're sooo negative, as to effectively be throwing a pity party for yourself. too much word salad. your message of hopelessness has the tone and tenor of a kamala Harris press conference in which she announces that instead of being a progressive she is switching sides. either way, it's still Kamala spewing word salad.
I don't love paying taxes and getting no return. As of late, the depth of ov. penetration into the national crevice seems greater than ever. I suppose that is due to having to see the leering Mamdani gloating as he has his way with the new York City people who actually produce any wealth(real or imagined). It's a slow rolling nightmare that has recently been picking up speed noticeably. Up to this point in life, I was satisfied with what the government ALLOWED me to keep. I do realize that things may soon change for the worse, & forever. Our respective outlooks may not be that far apart, actually. AND, you're right. Your comment wasn't THAAAAT Bad. Perhaps it was my mood at the moment. I see you as a perceptive thinker who definitely is worth hearing out.
Yes, the Iron Lady revealed the Ultimate Truth in an interview: Society doesn't exist! My God, why didn't we realize this before? We must be ruled by the Plutocratic Supermen, not dirty politicians. The best of them will have fair skin and blonde hair as Ayn said.
"...you might want to steer clear of conspicuous public celebrations this week."
Screw that. I'll be in DC for the Birthday Party. I won't and never have skulked for fear of malevolence. Our founders refused to bend the knee, and we would be underserving of their gift of Liberty to have it any other way.
We are celebrating 250 years since we cast off tyrants in red coats and though they wear black and bleed blue these days, they are the same. If they try anything, we'll see blue.
Correct. “Steering clear” suggests succumbing to fear…and we shall not do that. I recall it’s why the media were so successful at getting the Covid jab into the majority of the population.
Fear stems from stupidification, it stems from people out of their comfort zone.
It is the aim of the Lefty-Left to keep the public stupid and afraid.
1920s, the invention of the car and tractor “drove” the job market into 25% unemployment. The country changed from agrarian to cities. The Depression ensued and it took WW2 to fix things ten years later. FDR knew that fear was the number one problem, 25% of America had no idea what to do next and it scared the shit out of them.
Fear is a disease. Cure yourself and eradicate it. In our biological *fight-or-flight* response, flight represents fear. When you've learned to eliminate all fear, your default response becomes fight. There is no other response. As Elon recently reiterated, *You fight or you die*.
Read How our Star Spangled Banner was drafted by Francis Scott Key depicting the heroic efforts of those Patriots who when one man fell holding the flag that British Demand to be lowered or it wouldn’t come down under overwhelming bombing by the British Fleet. They didn’t use their Opposition Threat to change their plans!
They stood up for their Country and their fellow Countrymen!
Beware of your surroundings but celebrate your Country and your Freedom like a Proud Brave American! 🇺🇸
We owe it to all those who sacrificed everything including their lives for us!
What kind of cruel God would bless a nation giving bombs to a mass murderer knowing full well he was going to drop them on refugee camps, hospitals and starving children, William?
I assume 'carrying' is off the table ? I wouldn't go .its a potential and perhaps intentional turkey shoot in the making . Screw that , try that in a small town .
Nations, dynasties, regimes: They only get about 200 years or so. Ours is done. Great Civilizations rise again and again. Ours has no such greatness and we have no future. Maybe the West will come through, here and there. But the Unites States? We don't even value our own people, seeing them only as economic units to be replaced by better ones.
You always forget that as the USA goes, so goes the world. If US Treasuries default, the global gold reserves, petrodollar, and the basis for global borrowing disappears, overnight. All you idiots rooting against the USA should remember that fact.
US Treasuries are unlikely to ever default because Congress will inevitably raise the debt ceiling. Besides we permanently de facto default by causing (purposely) ongoing inflation. This why a sniff of deflation (actually good for consumers) puts the bankers into panic attack mode.
As for gold. How are gold reserves going to “disappear? Do you make this stuff up?
More likely the petrodollar is on the way out which will require an international reset. One that will end unipolar dominance. We will adapt, adjust and be better off for it.
Okay, the international gold banks allowed trading for gold with US Treasuries. IOW, portions of “gold” in these banks is not gold but debt.
Remember Trump wanting to know what is in Fort Knox? Never did hear a reply, did we. I know BRICS+ is buying gold and selling treasuries. So how much of the world’s gold are really treasuries, ie debt? Hence my statement.
Also, I realize that the debt will not be called in until creditors need their money. That is slowly happening as other country are selling treasuries to get money and some to buy gold. The fear that the world has is if some nutty country or group decide to screw the dollar, the whole world goes down. I hope I am gone by then.
Unipolar dominance may be a necessity as through history bipolar or more leads to discord and war. How much stability would be in the money markets if two leaders existed? I would hate to think that monetary stability depended on the political situation between the USA and and say BRICS components.
As I said, we do not know the real contents of the gold market. Trump was right if the market is flooded with treasuries and much of “gold” is an illusion. That in of itself could bring down the IMF with panic trading.
Most of the foreign America-hating clowns live in countries with zero hope of actually feeding themselves when the shit hits the fan and everyone starts defaulting.
More pathetic, they don't have the resources to generate power so the great die-off of socialists will happen.
Shovels to bury the dead will be in very high demand.
In Canada our unelected prime minister was at a pedo parade with all the creeps, while most Canadians were distracted by a really bad World Cup soccer game.
I see and watch that travellers to USA love it there. This is not surprising as it is the Greatest country on Earth. Fight for it people and I pray that Canadians wake up but most of the people here are weak!
"Carnage" is also one of the heads of the World Economic Forum who wants YOU to eat bugs and live in a cubicle and has citizenship in three countries. Canada, UK and Ireland. I warn people continuously that he is one of America's greatest enemies. He will eventually make some kind of deal bringing Chinese military bases to our borders as he floods Canada with masses of unassimilables.
Yeah, good thing we didn't flood our nation with unassimilables. Chinese people means Chinese food. You don't like Chinese food? What kind of creep are you? Just kidding. I agree with you. As AH said, a Nation can withstand anything but the dilution of its blood. But Capitalism always wants cheap labor. And the people want cheap goods. Therefore? Therefore Capitalism is the enemy of all nations and peoples.
Hmmmm. A good exercise might be for Johnny (Watter’sWorld) to ask folks, especially young ones, what does America stand for. How many immigrants do not have a clue and just want a society that they brought with them. Until patriots stand up for USA principles and force immigrants to assimilate, this country will dissolve from within.
The rot of socialism continues to grow here as more and more ignorant foreign socialists move in.
One more, NYC. Yeah, communism is a bummer here BUT Islam is a much bigger threat. Look at Islam globally, it is dictatorial everywhere with the religious leaders in charge. Mamdani is not only a communist.
True. But they know America is a joke, and you don't. And they know Israel owns us, and you don't. And they know that Israel is behind genocide and genocide is wrong. You don't. All important things that they know and you don't.
We are headed for feudalism, a modern version where cities are substituted for manors. All nations, what is left of them will be maybe monarchies, or at least oligarchies with the strongest of them a king figure.
Republicanism is dying because its key identity, legislatures, cannot get their shit together. In the future, response time to emergencies will be critical to human survival. No. 1 is overpopulation made more severe with AI de-humanizing the labor pool and no. 2 is limited resources and not just oil.
Watch what happens with the water shortage that is stemming from the Colorado River later this year.
London is imploding on its own Petard. The Mentally Diminishing Monarchy and its Leftist Party’s Jim Jones Kool-Aid Agenda of importing barbarians for votes and party Power Politics!
Canadians must communicate to London, no thanks, we had enough!
Royalty forms a nationality. England is in the same trouble as the USA, no one knows what is means to be English. Allegiance to “ the King” IDed Englishmen for centuries. IMO, the United Kingdom will cease to exist without their royalty.
She was a tough act to follow. Charles has been sick since he took over. I think William is more modern, but I do not know how really interested he is in all the pomp and circumstance. Monarchies, like all forms of government, are losing control.
Yes, I saw all the naked people on Toronto streets celebrating their perversions and even the Conservative crowd was out there wearing matching rainbow t-shirts. Is there any hope anywhere for Canada?
As an outsider, it always appeared Canada wanted to be more European than anything like the US. It appears that after observing every outrage against humanity Brussells could imagine, professional stupid people like Trudeau and evil people like Carney said "hold my beer."
Remember that the original Canadians, Frenchmen and Tories from America all hated the USA. IMO, it carries on today. Canadians have loved ripping off the USA during USMCA days. Those days are over.
See, if you're not under grace, you're under the law, and if you're under the law, then everything you say and do in your life is used against you in that court of judgement.
And since you're under grace, you don't have to be logical since logic is the Law of the Logos. You get a hall pass, right? Seems like a cheap scam to me.
"you might want to steer clear of conspicuous public celebrations this week. Antifa and even worse gangs are out there right now, making plans and laying traps. Maybe not so much in places like Texas,"
James: As I'm sure you're well aware, travel an hour north of where you live and it's another world. July 4th in New York's North Country is a throwback to a different America: pickup trucks draped in Old Glory, small-town parades, and a palpable sense of civic pride. It isn't performative patriotism. It is simply how people live.
People up here are civil, mind their own business, and are genuinely kind and friendly to one another. A transplant from one of the country's more ideologically progressive urban enclaves would likely find the atmosphere almost foreign. The America many of us grew up knowing still exists. It survives in quiet, scattered pockets that have thus far resisted the cultural currents reshaping much of the nation's cities and coasts.
Should any would-be agitators venture that far north, "They'll never make it to the parish line" as the local said to the sheriff in Easy Rider (the diner scene when Nicholson, Fonda and Hopper exit the diner as they wouldn't serve them).
Thomas-- I'm pretty far up the Hudson Valley. . . 40 miles north of Albany. Quite a mix here of Wokies, red-bloods, and drug zonkies. A good cross-section of the national psyche.
James: You live in a beautiful part of the country, near the majestic Adirondacks. Having spent most of my life amid the suburban bustle of the New York metropolitan area, living in the mountains about seventy miles north of you, as the crow flies, has given me a perspective on our country that I never fully appreciated before. Life in a small Adirondack hamlet has become something of a sanctuary, despite its location within the boundaries of a deep-blue state.
As I linger beside the brook near my home, beneath a leafy canopy and surrounded by a forest teeming with wildlife, the noise of political rancor and the bitter taste of division gradually fade away. Indeed, I often find my thoughts returning to Psalm 63 while contemplating the advance of leftist evil upon our civilization:
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Mr. Thomas----I feel your pain of having to live under the Dem/Marxists that run NY State. Brought to you by approx 17 counties that vote for the scum you have running your state, the rest of what used to be known as the Empire State is mostly red. Unfortunately many of those so called red pols are really Dem/Marxists who vote with the crazies when they are told to. Not everyone could stay and fight but.....I were in any deep blue state I would have to leave. My state---Arkansas----voted approx 65% for Trump and my county voted for Trump about 80%. Good Luck. Keep your powder dry.
Yes sir. There are several movements hoping to split Cook from the rest of the state or form a new state without Cook and its contiguous neighbor DuPage which is where the RINO controlled opposition holds sway. So far a third of the counties have voted willingness to consider attaching to a neighboring state or forming a new state. If they can pull off Greater Idaho with Oregon's eastern counties attaching to Idaho, I expect Illinois and a couple of other separation movements to gain serious steam.
Although I support these kinds of separations, I find these movements to be pipe dreams. The Legislature has to approve such separations and I believe even the US Congress has to approve new states or state boundary changes. Because Illinois's legislature is controlled by Cook County the remainder of the state has not the votes to pass it (same in Oregon). Even if by some miracle it were to get passed in Springfield, there is no way it would ever get approved in the US Senate or overcome a Presidential veto (if a Democrat gets control of the White House).
My favorite is a movement to divide California into three states. Northern California with Sacramento as the capitol. Southern California with San Diego as the Capitol. California including Los Angeles to San Francisco along the coast. Twill never happen.
Would love to see it happen, though. Don't get me wrong.
I refer to my mountainside dwelling (with its babbling brook and forest canopy) as "The Refuge". Perhaps the time may come when it will be re-christened "The Alamo". Time will tell.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! ....people, RELAX! Go out and celebrate our 250th birthday this July 4th with joy and vigor! This is an incredible milestone in a, still, very young country. Are we being attacked from all sides, in all ways, by adversaries, domestic and foreign? Yes... that's been the story from Day 1. That's what happens when the country you're in holds the golden chalice of freedom. Envy is inevitable. So... be vigilant, but be optimistic! Is the U.S. of A. perfect? Of course not. Remember Voltaire: the perfect is the enemy of the good. God Bless America. 🇺🇸 🙏
"golden chalice of freedom" That is a gross exaggeration of our "freedoms."
I am a sixth generation American. I had descendants on the Mayflower. I live in the Rocky Mountains of NE Utah. I love America, her beauty, her people and the LIMITED freedoms we enjoy.
By limited freedoms I mean that the government still lets me worship God as I may (as long as I don't try to break away like the Branch Davidians). I can still carry a gun (as long as the gun isn't more powerful than what the government gunships can wield). I can still come and go as I please and the government really wants me to go shopping to help turn the wheels of the US economy. I can visit or live in any of the 50 states without having to get a passport.
However, in America today I cannot TRULY own property. I paid off my mortgage about a decade ago but I still have to send in that annual rent payment, known as "property tax" to the County (which gets higher and higher every year) for the right to live on the land that I paid for with dollars that were already taxed thanks to the evil "income tax." I also paid a "sales tax" of about $8,000 when I bought my house in 2004. I will always have to pay property taxes on land that I paid for with money that was already taxed.
True freedom means we can own property free and clear from the intrusion of government, never to be taken, never to be threatened.
We do not have that in the USA. If I don't pay my property taxes the County will put my property up for tax sale and sell the land to another investor, right out from under me.
Property taxes are wholly and entirely IMMORAL and deny us Americans the right to truly own property and deny us TRUE freedom.
For this reason and this reason alone I argue that America doesn't hoist a golden chalice of freedom. Not by a long shot. Still, that being said, there is no other place I'd rather be living in this world.
By definition my post was talking about America as a whole, not an individual section. There are White sections - which they are working to integrate. You'll get a Bantustan or Muslim influx sooner or later. They don't want us to be able to recover after this Tower falls.
Indeed, there's climate change. NATURAL, since the earth was formed, it's been changing WITHOUT the green new scam. Independent of oligarchs and governments robbing us and stealing our wealth, it will change.
We in Phoenix are a good barometer, uh, thermometer for global warming. But, but it is cooler this year than last, and surprisingly so. 90s in June? Impossible, yet here it is.
Think of the one sided changes we are seeing. Slightly increasing sea levels, droughts, flooding, catastrophic earthquakes, El Niño, now look back and find out that things are changing for the last 20 years or so.
Cause and correlation. Why?
The Deep State has been increasing its power structure for twenty years, so maybe it is causing earthquakes, or drought? Correlation?
Phoenix has grown into a megapolis over the past 20 years, so maybe it has caused El Niño to increase? Correlation?
The advent of the EV society has caused the increase in CO2 and methane that is causing global warming? Correlation?
The bottom line is that we do not know much of anything.
How come the seat of Greta AGW, Europe, is being the hot spot for a heat bomb this summer? I wonder how the Europe folks who freeze all winter enjoy their summers W/O A/C.
"We in Phoenix are a good barometer, uh, thermometer for global warming. But, but it is cooler this year than last, and surprisingly so. 90s in June? Impossible, yet here it is."
Another ignoramus who does not know the difference between weather and climate change! LOL LOL
You prove yourself to be stupider with every post you do.
You show your ignorance about weather or climate change. El Niño is climate, dummy and is the cause of cooler and wetter weather in Arizona and the rest of the SW. a climate driver that affects the weather. Next time, think before you post.
No, I said very tongue in cheek that Phoenix was a barometer for global warming so why are we cooler if there is global warming?
If you have bought off on the global warming, AGW bullshit, it figures.
As I asked, explain the waking of the ring of fire and earthquakes. You cannot, as science cannot. That is why I jabbed at Leftists like you who tend to blame everything on Trump, again very tongue in cheek but hopefully damning.
Or the Deep State., or megapolis formation, or whatever.
A list of things that can Might affect global warming?
Megapolis formation at high latitudes making heat islands
Changes in the mantle being detected now, this might be making El Niño increase and activating the ring of fire
Changes to the earths orbit and spin, Milankovitch.
The Sun itself is changing.
CO2 from fossil fuels
Methane from permafrost melting
AGW? Maybe, maybe not. What is a fool’s errand is doing a power grab by labeling FF as the prime source.
How many of us will not be saddened to see the LA and San Francisco areas gently slide off into the sunset and right down to the the bottom of the Pacific? Two cancerous areas out of the way in one fell swoop.
In the '70s and '80s, Rolling Thunder, an American Indian shaman, and other international shamans were supposed to be working on astral plane to try to keep the tectonic plates from slipping and preventing San Francisco from sliding into the ocean. It was also said that RT refused to go to LA because it was so putridly evil on a spirtual level.
San Francisco was one of the cities God told Henry Gruver not to pray for. I think LA and Seattle were two others. He would travel to different states and countries and walk the cities and pray for them.
“The man who prays is the one who thinks that God has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct God how to put them right.” - Christopher Hitchens
So strange to see how people converted to Christianity because they prayed for help to stop sinning (stop using drugs, etc.) and God responded, but God do not respond to the 10,000 mothers who pray for their children dying (10 K deaths every day) of starvation.
Ignorance begets arrogance. Arrogance begets ignorance. The unbreakable loop of being Christian.
Atheists say that any amount of evidence is going to be enough to believe the existence of God. Whereas a theist's standard of evidence is none whatsoever.
"Ridicule is the only weapon to be used against unintelligible religious propositions."-Thomas Jefferson,
Unfortunately, Sasha is correct. I work in Washington State and see and hear the hopelessly brainwashed spewing their hateful nonsense everyday. Those with any functioning gray matter left are too proud to admit they were duped. If you tell them Trump supports breathing, they'll hold their breath till they pass out.
Hiding out and trembling in fear is EXACTLY what they want from you. And the very definition of terrorism. Where I live, open carry is the thing and when BLM and Antifa showed up, they were politely invited to enjoy their day by the hundreds of packing citizens of our town that turned out and not a single window was broken. They skulked off quietly after a few non productive hours of sign waving. If I die living my life, so be it. Hopefully, I'll take a few of 'em down with me on my way.
I attended the No Kings rally and nobody I saw was packing and it was completely peaceful. I will agree that the liberal local politicians struggle in western Washington but to act like civil unrest is all they want is simply exaggerated BS.
Just like everyone saying that Covid was their opportunity to completely control everything...but guess what? As soon as the vaccines started working and the pandemic subsided...these "liberal" politicians all pushed to reopen everything and get things back to normal.
Fear and trembling is what you spread when you make the Left to be monsters waiting to devour our nation.
I was GOP for 30 years...and call out the RW brainwashing which certainly looks like it's working on you.
Vaccines started working? They’d roll out a booster and out pops a variant. Another booster for that variant that had already morphed into another, thus begetting another booster for that. And how many people took all these boosters got Covid multiple times? Funny that. Madness.
You are the one that brought up vaccines in your opinion post when it wasn’t even germane to your subject matter. So why waste your valuable time bringing it up?
My apologies for forgetting about where I was posting. Next time I’ll be more careful about posting anything like the moon landing or earth being spherical.
This isn’t a website about the actual truth…it’s a website full of people who think they’re smarter than everyone else because you have some sort of inside scoop. I’m also incredibly skeptical of things but the stuff you guys CHOOSE to believe is more about wanting to believe something than following actual facts.
This very conversation is related to a conspiracy that y’all had that the pandemic was part of a Dem plot to control everybody. That was yet another example of WANTING to believe something that was never true!
If you guys stayed in your caves…I wouldn’t care but this shix got Trump elected…and he’s terrible for our country.
Vaccines were working? How many "boosters" did they try to force on everyone because the original "vaccine" didn't work. They even had to change the definition of a vaccine because the covid vaccine didn't work.
I don't know how many acquaintances I have who had the vaccine and many of the boosters and still got the covid. Even they were admitting that the damned covid vaccine didn't prevent covid but they would say "imagine how bad it could have been if I didn't get the covid shot." I always responded that their is no way to measure or quantify that claim as there isn't.
I'm please to say that I never took the fake vaccine, never stuck a long tampon up my nose to do a covid test, and never got the covid. Doing just fine, thank you.
“I always responded that there is no way to measure or quantify that claim as there isn't.”
Narrowly, yes. But generally, you can compare hospitalization and mortality rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. This was done, and it showed that the vaccinated population was a lot better off.
The idea that a vaccine by definition prevents a person from getting infected or even showing symptoms is nonsense. Consider the flu vaccine. Even at age 12, I knew that sometimes the flu vaccine was ineffective, depending on the strain of influenza you get.
Some types of viruses, like influenza, rhinovirus, coronavirus mutate rapidly which makes them harder to target with vaccines. Others, like poliovirus, don’t mutate as rapidly, so those vaccines are by many measures more effective. But in both cases, it’s better to take the vaccine than not. Downplay that long enough, you get increases in measles outbreaks and flu outbreaks like the one at Lackland.
A well tested, tried and true vaccine? Yes. I agree with you. The covid vaccine, however, was not well tested, was not tried and certainly wasn't true. I remember when they ran covid vaccine ads on the teevee and the ads were conspicuously absent any side effects. You know, the side effects that get rambled on during these big pharma drug ads. Not a peep about side effects for the covid vaccine. I found that to be a little odd. Perhaps they didn't broadcast the side effects because, due to a lack of proper testing, they didn't know what the side effects would be? Why was this drug exempt from the sharing of potential side effects while other drugs are not? I was all nasty business. Period.
It was certainly tested in multiple trial phases, albeit on an accelerated schedule. “Well-tested” is a thing I won’t debate because it’s a no true Scotsman thing.
I don’t know why the ads you saw didn’t list side effects. Maybe they were advertisements put on by government agencies that didn’t recommend a specific vaccine? Regardless, it’s not at all evidence for the claim that side effects weren’t studied or understood. We know they were.
I went to a No Kings rally too, never seen so many American flags in my life. I was flying one too. I think one of the main problems in the Democratic Party is their inability to simultaneously talk about patriotism and needed reforms. The most useful lie the right tells is “Democrats hate America”. I think Obama was successful in large part because he made that implausible, and Hillary Clinton was unsuccessful because she made it all too plausible (see “basket of deplorables”).
It’s a bit depressing that most of the comments are about vaccine efficacy… which is totally beside your point.
Yes… Democrats definitely have a messaging problem, but I think that’s more related to the RW echo chambers that seek out and amplify every stupid Dem utterance while ignoring Trump’s. A case in point is your deplorable comment which was how long ago AND is weak tea to a decade of Trump’s gross anti-liberal/dem rhetoric.
Yes…the anti-VAX rabbit hole is about the size of the Grand Canyon on this site
“was how long ago AND is weak tea to a decade of Trump’s gross anti-liberal/dem rhetoric.”
Believe me, you’re preaching to the choir on that, and on how awful the social media landscape is… it’s so much worse than traditional media for all the crap the latter gets.
I remember I was on active duty when Trump said that thing about “I like people who weren’t captured”, referring to McCain being a POW. I was more relieved than angry at the time because I KNEW that the GOP would never nominate him after that. Orders of magnitude worse than the “deplorable” thing, and for my money Trump has topped that several times over since.
The McCain comment is when I knew I couldn’t vote for Trump even as a GOP guy. I actually enjoy eating pretzels but I’m losing my appetite for them watching the GOP and Trump supporters pretzeling their brains in order to come to the conclusion that Trump’s playing 4-d chess or something.
I had WAY more faith in my fellow Americans before Trump’s arrival and he so effectively proved that my faith in their cognitive abilities was totally misplaced.
“The party has nothing left but chaos and, in the weeks ahead, anything that might be disrupted probably will be.” 😂😂 Ah, some prescient words - the most radical element of the Dem Party is about to clusterfuck the somewhat less radical wing of the party, while the handful of Dems retaining some intellectual acuity realize the party has imploded and they seek refuge with either independents or Republicans.
While it’s impossible to predict exactly how this debacle will unfold, one thing is certain - it will be chaotic and bloody (figuratively, I hope) as the DSA attempts to swallow the Democratic Party, remaking it as the most radical political party in the history of the USA 🇺🇸. Get your popcorn ready and prepare for millions of former Democrats to take the red pill and join the Republican Party.
No matter what proof is presented, many are set on the path of ignoring reality, even when their belief system is challenged by what they see and hear.
First and foremost, Trump is a liar as far as they are concerned, and no amount of proof showing he was the target of several long-standing media propaganda campaigns to cast a narrative showing him in a light of extreme corruption and criminality.
I'm truly surprised that the hate-mongers haven't blamed the Ring of Fire's latest quaking on President Trump. But, France is blaming him for their present heatwave, so all is not lost.
God Help Us, James! You really got the target in the cross hairs… all so pathetically true. Only a miracle can help, but I think we are up for one! And it is gonna be a biggie!
Let's get used to saying, ". . . claimed, without evidence, that Joe Biden won the 2020 election."
Also, I urge that we all drop the term "Nazi" and substitute the more correct "National Socialist". I know, I know. "Nazi" has a significant payload, and that's sometimes what you want. But we call communists "communists", partly because that's what they call themselves. Also, I think it does folks good to be reminded that they were actually socialists.
Exactly. And not communist. They allowed business, both small and big. The latter were carefully monitored. They had to play ball with the nation. They couldn't do whatever they wanted to do. We used to understand things like this back when we were sane. Thus National Socialism enacted the Economic Miracle which those in power don't want us to know about. The Capitalists moved quickly to destroy Germany before their system spread to other nations under the Rothschild boot.
Yes, once they left Communism behind and unleashed great individuals, the sky was the limit. Watched and guided by the Guardians who look out for the nation. Pure National Socialism. Yet still many abuses existed, with people taking their own lives for being overworked. I don't know if this has been rectified yet. Suicide nets to catch people jumping out of windows is just a first steop.
Bless his optimism, but Jim has been telling us for years that indictments of all the blue party criminals are imminent. Nothing has ever happened, and it certainly won’t now. If there ever was any hope of justice, it has been neutralized as Trump has blown his popular support and political capital by blundering into this stupid war with Iran. He’s clearly more committed to kitschy ambitions like a gold-plated White House Ballroom and plastering his mug on passports and a souvenir $250 bill.
Even if such indictments were made at this point, it would be child’s play for Democrat attorneys and judges to delay any action until the 2028 elections when Dems will likely control three branches of government, and will undo within a week anything and everything Trump did or got started.
Americans are soon to be neck deep in personal financial disaster, “unaffordability,” and unemployment, and will have no interest in pursuing anyone for crimes far beyond their horizon of memory. Their concern will be throwing support behind UBI and promises from Dems about more generous rationing coupons for gasoline, heating oil, and electricity.
Yeah, I love JHK's writings and appreciate the information he provides but I have become so black pilled for all these indictments we are constantly waiting for that I tend to glance over the predictions. One day, I hope, we will see these predictions come to fruition. I also understand that our host has an opinion and that he isn't any more of a prophet like I am or you are. He's making an educated guess. Nothing wrong with that.
You are correct when you point out that Trump gambled his presidency on his war with Iran, and lost, badly. W. Bush did the exact same thing in Iraq. The lie was WMD's then, it's those nuclear weapons that Iran has been "two weeks away" from developing for the last thirty years this time. The US has gone to war 4 times in the Middle East since 1991, and every single one of those wars has turned out badly. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, each time expecting a different result: perhaps our leaders have lost their minds.
Well, yeah, it will be over quickly. After all, we were only in Afghanistan for 20 years. The Taliban re-took the country within hours of our dishonorable departure.
Excellent post. JHK loves to engage in Wishful Thinking, endless braying about how all these indictments are coming and All the Democrats are Going to Jail, REAL SOON. . .which never happens, of course. He will post the same thing a few weeks later. He also has been saying, for the last few years, that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is about to be ousted from leadership in a coup in Ukraine--he passionately told us he would be gone by Halloween, last year, only to repeat the same hallucinogenic nonsense again in his annual yearly predictions in January of this year, he will probably say the same thing next week. The last time I called him out on all of his Wishful Thinking her threatened to ban me from posting here, let's see if that happens again. BTW, I agree that the Democrats are evil and should go to jail, that Zelenskyy is a bad guy, etc., but I don't pretend that things I wish were true actually are true. I am not delusional. . .
Do you think the answer to why nothing happens is because it's a bunch of BS passed around like facts on websites and shows like these? You can claim anything you want...it's just the damn facts that you have to get by.
American economists James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith signed a document with 1,200 other economists in 1968 calling Congress to introduce a system of income guarantees and supplements.
Milton Friedman advocated a basic income in the form of a negative income tax in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, and again in his 1980 book Free to Choose. During the 1960s, he became the main advocate opposing both Marxist and Keynesian government and economic policies. Upon his death, The Economist described him as "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century ... possibly of all of it"
Bill Gates said "it's too early for basic income, but over time 'countries will be rich enough'".
I would be discretely armed, if you’re not normally, and frosty as hell on 4 July if you are going to be near large crowds. White boy summer is upon us.
“The elite is upset over so many people finally noticing things. Like Donald Trump’s supernatural level of flip-flopping. Or Erika Kirk’s histrionic insincerity. Or the fact that MAGA really changed nothing except lowering the already juvenile level of public discourse. The infrastructure still cries out for repairs. DOGE audited one minor agency, got people excited, reneged on those $5000 checks, and then disappeared. The war with Iran has become an incomprehensible blur of ceasefires and peace deals, which are quickly violated by Israel. I can’t keep track of who’s bombing who. I am seriously willing to listen to those who say nothing is happening, and that it’s all theater. Whatever is happening makes little sense.”
Meanwhile, our national debt has hit $39.3 trillion dollars. $4.6 trillion of that has been added just since Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. Another $7.8 trillion was added during his first term. That means that ~31% of our *total accumulated debt since the founding of our nation 250 years ago* was amassed during the 5.5 years of the Trump presidency!
Weirdly, the news media finds the accumulated debt to be an important story ONLy when a Democrat is president. Republican presidents seem to get a pass, matter how much bigger they dig the hole. Because the GOP are “responsible spenders”, dontcha know?
I thought DOGE said they were gonna save us a couple of trillion dollars. It’s not clear if they in fact saved more than a few billion. And even if they did, those savings were quickly blown away by the Iran War.
(DOGE did kill a few tens of thousands of kids in sub-Saharan Africa by eviscerating USAID support. But those kids were mostly Black. So, I guess nothing to worry our pretty little heads about.)
Trump is a master at diverting the public’s attention from issues that ultimately affect their daily lives. The constant chaos he creates provides easy cover for his family’s grifting in broad daylight.
I just noticed that Ben/Ben R still seems to be outputting logical fallacies (in the case of what I read; 'Whataboutism', WRT the issue of Biden's ostensible corruption during a mention of Trump's).
If one's thought-patterns are chock-full of logical fallacies, it seems to stand to reason that they probably aren't going to reason, or act, very well in general.
Good observation. If he’s not a neoconservative he’s a good imitation of one.
And somewhere in their playbook is a chapter how to ignore/evade subjects not to be addressed, shape shift conversations and if all fails, fallback position is throw out ad hominem’s.
Apparently, Ben is US military, whether current, retired and/or periodic and I wouldn't put it past a 'War-Agitprop 101' playbook as part of his military training.
'This Is What You Say When You're Trying To Demonize The Manufactured Enemy: Chapter 5.1.'
When working, especially these days, as a cog in and for an outfit like the US MIC, a certain level of callousness, leader-sycophantilism and mindlessness seem like prerequisites, including sociopathology, such as when one has to commit cold-blooded murder for the State.
At Ben's ostensible age of ~58, one would think that he would have figured out some things a little better.
But then, look at No-New-Wars Trump at 80:
Stab your voters in the back and then the Iranians, during peace-negotiations.
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"Want to murder and torture people without having to go to prison, and be called a hero for it? Join the military!"
Ben’ is a loyal member of the Trump Personality Cult — Dear Leader can do no wrong … and anybody who claims otherwise is dismissed with the magic incantation “TDS”. Or, with a few choice ad hominem insults. Or, with tired “whataboutism” arguments, as you point out. All of which is supposed to shut down debate, I guess. But Ben never engages in an honest debate over the facts.
Which is even weirder because I’ve never claimed Biden was a stellar president. In my mind, Biden did many more good things than bad, but he dropped the ball on out-of-control immigration, he lost his way on the student loans issue, he hung onto his office way too long, and he ran up our national debt more than he should have. Among other mistakes.
Because — ALL presidents are imperfect and fallible. That said, it’s a simple fact that none have been anywhere as openly corrupt as Trump. In 250 years. That’s quite an accomplishment.
Biden at least mostly meant well, in spite of his screwups.At the end of the day, Trump clearly cares only about Trump.
This analysis and evisceration of the left is brought to you by a legal immigrant who came, saw-right-through, and blew-up their madness:
"Not long after I came to America, I was exposed to the narrative that the Democrat Party was the party of the little guy and the only party with genuine care and compassion for the average American. Fortunately, because I grew up under a dictatorship, I could not be easily fooled by socioeconomic shackles masquerading as compassionate public policy. The truth is there is no compassion like Democrat compassion. It is the kind of compassion that lets people shoot illicit drugs into their body with the government's assistance. It is the kind of compassion that sees assisted suicide as a moral virtue.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that lets you rob the innocent in hardworking businesses in your neighborhood and walk out with impunity with no fear of prosecution.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that tells vulnerable women it is their right to abort and sacrifice their unborn children on the perverted altar of female empowerment and convenience. Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that tells children they were born in the wrong body and encourages and subsidizes their mutilation. Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that lets boys unfairly compete against girls and take their records, their opportunities, and their scholarships, and invade their private spaces turning back decades of hard-fought gains.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that allows homeless people to defecate on sidewalks and sleep in tents in public parks while watching them as they abuse drugs and suffer through mental illness.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that tells independent contractors that they don't have the right to choose how and when they work, in the name of protecting them from big bad corporations.
It is the kind of compassion that raises the minimum wage by government fiat and takes the earnings of fast food workers from $15 an hour to zero in a single day.
Democrat compassion is a kind of compassion that restricts the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, leaving them vulnerable to the criminals their compassion let out of prison with their no-bail policies.
Democrat compassion is the kind that secures the borders of Ukraine and leaves the American border wide open, allowing un-vetted illegal immigrants to wreak havoc on small towns and big cities alike and allowing drug cartels to kill 100,000 Americans each year with the poison of fentanyl.
This compassion is the kind of compassion that forces millions of Americans to close their businesses and to take experimental vaccines under the threat of losing their jobs and their livelihood.
It is the kind of compassion that praises Antifa as freedom fighters and raids the homes of pastors and churchgoers at dawn because they protested at the doors of abortion clinics.
Democrat compassion is the kind that weaponizes the justice system against political opponents while claiming to be defenders of democracy.
Democrat compassion is the kind of compassion that colludes with social media companies to censor Americans and limit their constitutional freedoms.
Democrat compassion is the kind that tells minorities they cannot succeed without government handouts and without having the standards lowered for them.
It is the kind of compassion that tells black people they're too dumb to obtain IDs to vote but if they manage to do that they're not black if they don't vote Democrat.
I think America has had it with Democrat compassion. It has destroyed one's beautiful cities, left poverty and economic devastation in its wake everywhere it's been applied, and created a generation of voters so bereft of critical thinking skills that they so easily fall prey to a profound level of cunning and cynicism that enables them to vote 'blue no matter who' against their own interests.
As an immigrant and a new American voter I promise you this: I would much rather endure the uncertainty and the often difficult realities of life under the pragmatic principles of conservatism than bend one inch to the depravity of morally bankrupt policies cloaked in the robes of compassion but designed to keep Americans mentally subjugated, economically shackled, and emotionally weak.
We have to defeat Democrat compassion at the polls because our beloved country cannot endure four more years of this nightmare."
"Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" —Voltair
And oh boy, the left is commiting them en mass
This was a darn good list... but I have warned Tritorch not to publish his blog right under my blog. This is a comment section, not a platform for bloggers. Others (e.g. "Skillington") take notice.)
Agreed completely. A snip and a link maybe, but when the comment is longer than the post (ish), that's a problem.
It was a reply to this:
“. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” — Sasha Stone on Substack
Not meant as a blog post, but rather a highly relevant compliment to Sasha's insight.
Now do one about how there is no saving the Right. Neither can exist without the other after all. By definition, all viable societies exist with both individualist and communal aspects. Any attempt by either side to become the all in all results in collapse. Libertarianism is a mind virus every bit as much as Communism.
I know this: There is no comparison. Given the choice between either extreme, I'll always choose the society that is driven by liberty, self-reliance, free-market capitalism and personal responsibility over the one that is driven by class envy and the coercion required to implement the government-sponsored social safety nets and other false promises (as the OP showed) under the guise of "compassion."
Competition leads to winners and losers. The winner absorb the losers. In Indian (dot) political philosophy this is known as the Law of the Fish. The winners also cooperate, something Adam Smiht thought would be impossible. But Marx was wiser: They are the first class to unify as a group and of course cooperation is possible. Few get rich alone, Len. The end result is where we are now - Plutocracy or Rule by Rich. They are few, thus it's an Oligarchy and of course, a Tyranny.
Class envy clouds people's judgment. The only people who the government makes rich are the politicians themselves and their cronies. If you don't believe me, all one has to do is look at the Soviet nomenklatura or their equivalent in every other communist nation. And if you want an example that is more recent and closer to home, then look at "principled" lefties railing against "the oligarchy" like Bernie Sanders.
Sure, Marx was wiser...he never had a real job in his life, leeching off parents and acquaintances, borrowing large sums of money he never repaid.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/84a78ba20a1b4caabe4b9c859b33ce7b
Bernie the oligarch curser is a millionaire many times over thanks to capitalism. He's a regular oligarch working the system from the political inside.
Carry on, comrade.
On this, we agree: Libertarianism stands for nothing.
Free to be you and me, hug a tree, so to speak.
The best we can do in this world is Biblical Christianity, submitting to the God who made us, loves us and died for us. I think it is evident that the Bible is true- we are all broken sinners, under God’s wrath, spiritually dead, and in need of a Savior. All other activities, choices and deeds accomplish only temporary results, because we will die and every nation will end. What we decide to do with Jesus, however, determines our eternal destiny.
What utter codswallop, Mary.
God does not exist
That he made us, loves us and died for us is a great story.
Pity it was made up by unknown religious cultists and is bullshit.
Jesus and the resurrection are nothing but ancient myth.
The greatest scam in history. Now turned into a business!
You need to get your nose out of that old book that has caused so much human misery my dear!
"Religion poison's everything!" - The great atheist Christopher Hitchins. Never truer words spoken. Religion has proved to be the cause of so much suffering. A chain an anchor around folk's necks!
I was not raised Christian, I searched these things out for myself, so the opinion of atheists (who are ridiculously unscientific) is not persuasive to me at all. I suggest you look more closely, with an open mind. Because if the Bible is true (and it is), you are headed for a horrible destiny! However, Christians know that we can only share the truth- it is for others to make their own decision. As Jesus said, “If they don’t believe the law and the prophets, then they will not believe, even if a man were raised from the dead.” If nothing can convince you, then your course is decided. However, if you truly seek the truth, God will guarantee that you find it.
Libertarians do most of their communalism through their religions and/or individually chose charities not through the government. That's the idea behind free association, not forced taxation.
An actually cogent response. Thank you. But such charity in a profit obsessed culture (winning isn't everything, it's the only thing) is not enough.
Traditional Christianity demands tithing - one tenth. A heavy tax. To whom much is given much is asked. As T.S Elliot said, quoting the Upanishads: God said Da. Da. Da. Give. Give. Give. It is the Law.
Or you could simply wait a bit so it's not directly under his work.
Take a step back, put it in perspective, and realize it's rather disrespectful.
"Not meant as a blog post,..."
How do you say bullshit in your native language?
Next time, post a simple comment with a link to your own blog, and quit big-footing another man's efforts.
On the plus side, I will simply activate the "Block" function so that your future comments will be invisible (to me).
Some "comments" are obviously brilliantly thought out and written over a longer period of time before being posted. If it were my blog, I'd be pissing razor blades.
Please read the very first sentence of the comment. It was written and orated by a legal immigrant who jumped through all of the hoops needed to move here honorably. From there it was transcribed and posted as a comment in numerous places so others could see through the democratic party just as the immigrant did with his unique foreign perspective.
There was no ill intention here whatsoever, and Mr. Kunstler concerns have been duly noted and replied to privately.
Luckily, TT, it isn't my blog.
I always enjoy your comments.
Interesting that you can't spell Jim's name right, or is that the new AI sideswipe?
Accident, thank you for pointing that out, ive fixed it
Democrat "compassion" is nothing more than their fervent wish to establish a Fascist/Communist/Socialist dictatorship in America. The sad part is that millions of parasitic, stupid, brainwashed leftist scumbag morons will vote for them. And here is the real sad irony of it:. As soon as the Democrat scum elite achieves dictatorial power, they will get about the task of killing anyone who dared or dares to oppose them, but heading to the death camps right after that will be all of the non-productive leftist morons who voted them into power. You see, the Socialist "utopia" is actually a slave state run by a Socialist dictatorial elite who forces their subjects to work for pitiful wages and use those pitiful wages to shop in mostly empty stores for crappy products and half-spoiled food. And, anyone who complains about the work, the awful working conditions, crappy products (or no products), the low pay, or how the government can't seem to manage anything gets sent to the re-education (death) camps.
I have no use for leftist parasites any longer. They are a cancer, and if every single one of them disappeared forever from this planet tomorrow, I would not shed a single tear. They no longer serve any useful purpose--all they cause is harm, suffering, and death.
"If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated." -Ayn Rand
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.” —Ann Rand
I always wanted to be Ragnar Danneskjold. Maybe one of the grandsons will get to do that.
John Locke struggled with issue of child labor. He finally assented to it since they were individuals too, and thus could not be denied their "right to work". Capitalist stupidity. Now see the UN's manifesto "The Rights of Children". Both sides work together against sanity and humanity. The Capitalists mutilated children by "letting" them work long hours until they fell asleep and fell into the machines. The Left now mutilates children by abortion and sex change.
But at least the early Left, still under the influence of Christianity, stopped the Capitalists from working children to death. Now the Right, those still under the influence of Christianity, have to stop the Left from killing kids.
Children should be allowed to work. I have a 15 year old daughter who desperately wants a job but can't find one because she is too young.
As a child I had a newspaper route from the age of 10 until I was able to find another job. Gave me great spending money and a sense of pride to have a "job." Also instilled within me a work ethic that has served me well to this day.
I don't think children should be abused but I find no issues with children working to earn a little pay and to keep them busy and away from drugs and sex.
Sweat shops? No. Bagging groceries? Absolutely. Let em work!
yes, it would be great for them to be "employed" but there is a lot of legal nonsense for an employer, that would go along with that.
Instead, here is what my 8 and 11 year old grand girls are doing: mowing lawns, edging gardens, scubbing out toter trashcans, washing cars, vacuuming out cars, folding laundry for other ppl, inside household tasks like vacuuming and unloading dishwashers, watering plants, walking dogs, reading with younger kiddos, monitoring outdoor play, or indoor play (easier) while parents home of course. They are raking in the cash in Richmond Virginia. Last week my grand daughter went to the old people neighborhood close by and helped a cute lady organize her pantry. She did that for free.
ask her to get creative and make an advertisement for herself to print out and go door to door or if there are communities that will share her interest her services, that is good too.
Times have changed. baby sitting is still a huge cash cow! 🐮
I think children learn many important lessons from work. It can also reinforce the importance of obtaining an education for them.
We are not talking about after-school programs (work experience), weekends, or summer vacation, but about kids being forced to work at a very young age when they should be in school.
I started working for $2 an hour at the corner 76 gas station, cleaning and painting for 2-3 hours a day.
I was twelve years old and managed to buy an Atari 2600 and several hundred games.
Did me no harm, and I had extra spending money, not just given to me by my mom.
“Those that are willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither liberty nor security”,
B. Franklin
If the FF could see the monstrosity that is NYC, Portland, Chicago, LA or Seattle right now, they would be sick.
The Fascists and Communists hate each other since the former is a philosophy (or thee philosophy) of nationalism whereas Communism and Capitalism are anti-Nation. You need to try harder.
As so often happens, you get it wrong. Both Communism and Fascism are quite nationalistic. The common bond between them is Socialism--the idea that the means of production must either be fully owned (Communism) or under total control (Fascism) of the central government. Every other construct of either Communism or Fascism is built on that economic structure. And both Communism and Fascism require a central government strong enough to enforce its rules upon the citizenry--an actual or de facto dictatorship.
Capitalism is the least nationalistic of economic orders. Capitalism as both an economic and political system is based on individual rights. If there is a "sin" of free market capitalism it is that some less than moral capitalists would rather be "corporatists"--that is, curry favor from politicians to gain regulatory advantages over their competitors. And there are immoral politicians willing to use their political power to grant those advantages. Republican politicians were historically guilty of some of those abuses, but it has been Democrat politicians who have raised those abuses to a high art. That group now dominates the Fascist/Socialist wing of the Democrat Party that is now openly sparring with the Communist/Socialist wing of the Democrat Party. Their only unifying characteristics are that they both love Socialism and dictatorial power, and that they both hate conservatives, capitalism, and the American Constitutional Republic.
Thank you for your candor. Capitalism is dissolving the nations. Of course they use strong ones to help this process along (USA! USA!). The poor dupes die for this crap. Communism is for extreme cases - nations that had no intention of joining our system, like Aristocratic Russia or Imperial China. And yes, the Capitalists fund it. Easily verified. Whether you can accept it or not is another story.
That is bullcrap.
You’ve delineated an excellent compendium of the Democrat platform and the immoral universe they want.
If only there was an opposition party to vote against those "compassionate" democrats. There is no one to challenge the insanity of these democrats, only ghosts in the shadows on a perpetual vacation spending their unearned income while the country languishes.
The new citizens see the rot while the old citizens stumble on in ignorance waiting for the next free thing they can vote for. Thanks Randi Weingarten for turning our kids into dumbed down socialists. Happy Birthday, America, you got the government the deep state gave you.
Plenty of us old citizens see it too. We recognize it and want it dead. This was done to us. Looking back, it was slow as a sloth and about as noticeable. A fake cultural shift by psychological manipulation. Besides, plenty of "new citizens" grab the goody packs and swag bags from democrats in ecxhange for votes.
“The press is the enemy The press is the enemy The press is the enemy The establishment is the enemy The establishment is the enemy The establishment is the enemy The professors are the enemy The professors are the enemy The professors are the enemy
Write it on a blackboard 100 times, and never forget it.” —Nixon
“The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children.” —Dr. James Dobson ←we are here
Yep.
Who owns the press? Same people who own Trump, right?
Trump is a free agent. No one owns him. He may or may not be right every time, but he's the heart and soul of the final stand against the darkness of lefty utopia socialism.
You think he's our savior?
You may be owned, but Trump is is not.
Pro Tip : Think big.
They had nothing on Charlie so they had to get rid of him. He was against the coming War and he had Trump's ear.
Think bigger. Nobody, but nobody gets to be president of the US without being owned. If they didn't own him they'd have killed him.
And I'm not referring to the fake assassination attempts as seen so far.
I live in a small town in the suburbs of NYC, aka the "Commie Caliphate Corridor" and we are trying to get the local Dems to own their own people and platforms.
By that I mean, use the Rules for Radicals playbook for local political races.
We are demanding that every Democrat candidate for LOCAL office-including town board, town supervisor, county legislators et al. put out a statement renouncing and denouncing the platform of the Democratic -Socialists who have taken over that party.
Last year, because the Republicans are so absolutely clueless, we lost many MAGA positions in local elections. The Democrats are shrewd, cunning and they never stop working. They are totally loyal to one another and will never criticize another Dem-Soc even if they are an actual N**i like Mr. Plattner. Never forget that they want to see us dead.
At all costs, we need to get rid of the Buck-tooth Bimbo from Buffalo, aka Kathy Hochul and every other politician that bends over for the Democrat-Commie-Socialists. That includes our own neighbors who seem like really nice people except for the fact that they hate Trump, MAGA and the rest of us. You know- the ones who had BLM banners Biden/Harris lawn signs and Ukrainian flags in their yards.
I have been a precinct chair in Bexar County, Texas (San Antonio area for those who don't know), and I can tell you that there is no one I despise more, politically, that the self-satisfied, clue-free Republicans. And sadly, Texas has way too many.
They don't have the common sense that God gave an ordinary rubber duck.
Until the people in America think beyond political parties, nothing is going to improve. The political party system is a grotesque failure, an utterly epic failure. The fact that the American people haven't figured this out yet is incredibly depressing and debilitating. Like a dog to its vomit they keep going back to this failed system, over and over again, thinking "this time it will be different" or "this time the Republicans will do what is right to stop those pesky Democrats."
Ain't gonna happen. It's well past time for people to start thinking differently and cast down the failed political party system.
And replace it with what? Parties are pretty central to politics.
Who says they are central to politics and why?
I'm not saying I have the answers but if one evaluates the current state of politics in this country the conclusion is obvious. The partisan system doesn't work and I refuse to continue to play nutjob by doing the same thing over and over again and hope for a different result each time.
There has to be a better way because the current system SUUUUUUCKS!
Because politics is about clusters of beliefs and policies, about general groupings of opinions. Parties are a useful shorthand that indicate, at least in general terms, what candidates believe. How many democracies have there been without parties? Certainly no large and modern ones. Parties are an emergent phenomenon, not something easily waved away.
Imagine a system where there were no parties. Just candidates. Country first instead of party first. Yeah, I dream. I get it. I'm so sick of Democrat v Republican and Republican v Democrat. Both parties a abysmal failures. Get rid of them.
spot on...
I recommend you discontinue those black pills. The reason they're making their move is precisely because they are being challenged like never before.
Yeah, the black pills make you down and lethargic. We need to stay awake and seize any opportunity we can. CP is like Eeyore.
52 year old native born citizen here. I see the rot as clear as the bright blue sky above me. I just don't know what the hell I can do about it. Vote? Yeah right. No confidence in that one. Rally at the capitol? Sure. Nobody listens. Stop paying my taxes? And lose all that I have worked for? Nope, not going there.
We are so boned as a people. Leviathan has us right where it wants us and it is going to continue to skin us alive.
Thanks Tri - you nailed it 🎯🎯🙏🏻
Here here! A tour de force!!🇺🇲
FREEEEEDOMMMM!!!
Democrat compassion sucks, I get it. But what are the feckless Republicans doing to stop it?
Not a goddamned thing. I'm so sick of this Republican good, Democrat bad bullshit mentality that permeates our people. Tribalism at is mightiest.
A.g.r.e.e.
The goal is to splinter us all into a million pieces and push us into mental idealogical prisons that have us seeing everyone who doesn't align with every single one of our highly polititicized viewpoints as the enemy.
Politicization is an apex psyop weapon, thus everything has been deliberately deeply politized.
"There is something way bigger going on when you can divide everyone in the entire world into an 'us vs them' mentality on almost every single subject."—Prevensilk
Wealthy vs poor. White vs black. Hispanic vs non-hispanic. Fat vs thin. Old vs young. Republican vs Democrat. Gay vs straight. Man vs woman. Beautiful vs ugly. Tall vs short. Religious vs atheist. Healthy vs sick. Fast vs slow. Animal lovers vs animal eaters. Loggers vs tree huggers. It goes on and on and on.
The people can't unite under these kind of circumstances. To be sure.
Michael Parenti: "Super Patriotism vs Real Patriotism" (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKfejeruhk
Michael Parenti was a patriot against the evils of capitalism, imperialism and the war economy.
He called it: manipulated patriotism.
Essentially Patriotism for the socialist militarism that drives the US!
"Ladies and gentlemen, the difference between individual morality and national morality is a very real one."
"....how that military power is used and for whose interest it might serve at home and abroad" ~he hit the nail on the head.
Enjoy your posts, CP. Hope you are copacetic my man.
Yes, we need to wake-up and Vote. Read the detail of the results in your community. Do the foreclosures happening coincide with the successful passing of yet another bond issue? Why are so many apartment complexes being built? I see delapidated houses along side brand new apartment buildings eating up acreage.
It has taken over 6 years, but unpaid professionals have finally figured out the con. And what have they gleaned from the monsterous amount of data? An electronic 3-sided vise: algorithmically loaded voter rolls, algorithmically processed "elections" and the ponzi scheme bond issues that enslave the citizenry.
Excellent comment Tri. Thank you! Happy 4th of July!
Vote? Ha ha ha! Surely you jest. How has voting worked out for us thus far?
How many times will you keep pulling the lever for the "Republican" only to have the "Republican" stab you in the back before you figure out that "voting" is a sham imposed upon a docile population to make them think they have a voice.
The great American experiment died with the Articles of Confederation.
Keep paying those property taxes on property that you supposedly "own" with income that has already been taxed. Ain't freedom in America just grand!
Dictatorial Compassion is the Fraud it’s the same rode to Perdition.
The Democrats Party of Slavery is still the same we want to control you and you are going to do as we tell you to do. They simply moved from the Plantations to the big cities like Bank Robbers, it’s where the money is!
When you’re a slave to the Party either mentally or economically you’re not free. Just the way they want you.
During conventional slavery, the slave owner had to incur all costs including housing, health care, food, cleaning of the slave quarters, clothing, birthing of the child slaves, raising the child slaves, transportation of the slaves back and forth from work, celebrations, clean up after a natural disaster, slave entertainment, schooling of the new slave children to be good slaves etc etc. A slave owner's profit was always revenue minus expenses, no different than any business. The big trick was to tell the slaves that they were free, let them pay all those expenses, allow them to come back to the plantations and then to tax them in order to actually make more profit compared to the original slavery concept, with little to no chance of rebellion or resistance.
All taxation is meant to increase a slave's dependence on their slavery, as the people taking the tax away from the slaves print the money themselves and therefore don't have any use for it. Taxation is about keeping the slave down. That's it. Taxation has one purpose and one purpose only.
To make the slave dependent on coming back to the modern plantations of slavery, day in and day out. If the slave starts to save their money, give them a TV full of negative role modelling and watch the slave magically go into debt. If the slave still has money, organize a stock market crash or increases the taxes (theft). The people who print the money, have no use for extra fake paper money, which they can print at anytime and in any quantity they desire. The entire drive of the tax system is to make sure the slave has no extra money, as to provide them with enough freedom to figure any of this out. Slavery wasn't abolished, the plantation was simply expanded and they mock us inside the language. Everyone was tricked into becoming a slave, while believing they're free.
Well said. Taxation is evil.
If it is wrong for us to steal from our neighbors than why is it okay for the government to do it? If the government is OF the people then the government should be subject to the same rules the people are. If I can't steal from my neighbors and call it a "tax" then why can the government? In reality, it can't.
The authority of the created cannot and should not exceed the authority of the creator. The federal government is the creation of we the people and it can engage in conduct and behavior that is illegal to we the people. The federal government as it currently exists is immoral and illegitimate and should be cast down, trodden under foot, and utterly destroyed.
Instead we celebrate it with chants of "freedom!"
Americans aren't free. Try not paying your property taxes and you'll see just how free you truly are. The gubmint owns everything. You just rentin it.
Enjoy your "freedom" this 4th of July.
The best way to handle taxation is to avoid it as much as possible. Start young and buy long term appreciating assets, like art or precious metals. Something which doesn't require a lot of maintenance. As time goes on their worth will increase (mostly due to inflation caused by currency debasement).
Unrealized assets are not taxed (yet).
“Unrealized assets are not taxed (yet).”
Right though the AOC’s and Mamdami’s of the world have their eyes on them.
As does Gavin Newsom.
Well, I'm an old dude so it is too late to start young :)
Never too late if you're young at heart!
Yes, the same reason a policeman can do things citizens can't. There is no society without some degree of specialization.
You're just renting you body, too. I share your indignation, but you have to get First Causes right. Libertarianism moves logically from its premises to its conclusions, but its premises aren't First Causes, so it is ultimately completely wrong.
You're right, we are renting our bodies as well. Hence the reason I take care of it and don't mark it up with tattoos, piercings and so forth.
You lost me on the rest of your statement. I tried to understand.....
We're not renting them - they're a free gift. We just don't know in advance when we'll have to give them back. 😂
respectfully, you're sooo negative, as to effectively be throwing a pity party for yourself. too much word salad. your message of hopelessness has the tone and tenor of a kamala Harris press conference in which she announces that instead of being a progressive she is switching sides. either way, it's still Kamala spewing word salad.
Good Lord, man. The comment wasn't thaaaaat bad.
Are you one of those people who loves paying taxes to a government and get no returns for those taxes?
I don't love paying taxes and getting no return. As of late, the depth of ov. penetration into the national crevice seems greater than ever. I suppose that is due to having to see the leering Mamdani gloating as he has his way with the new York City people who actually produce any wealth(real or imagined). It's a slow rolling nightmare that has recently been picking up speed noticeably. Up to this point in life, I was satisfied with what the government ALLOWED me to keep. I do realize that things may soon change for the worse, & forever. Our respective outlooks may not be that far apart, actually. AND, you're right. Your comment wasn't THAAAAT Bad. Perhaps it was my mood at the moment. I see you as a perceptive thinker who definitely is worth hearing out.
Yes, the Iron Lady revealed the Ultimate Truth in an interview: Society doesn't exist! My God, why didn't we realize this before? We must be ruled by the Plutocratic Supermen, not dirty politicians. The best of them will have fair skin and blonde hair as Ayn said.
Watch the movie “The Jones Plantation” (on TUBI for free) and it lays it all out there…
12 min amimated version":
The Jones Plantation: https://old.bitchute.com/video/Hul5vU29cHs4
Long story short, it's a death cult.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/its-all-theyve-got-now/comment/286735552
Gad Saad (Suicidal Altruism) tells the same sad story.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/its-all-theyve-got-now/comment/285555759
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(Gabor Mate Responds to Gaad Saad
https://youtu.be/P7CiRadpUpw?si=7GyYWqD36xdDelUC&t=2039)
In other words, 'suicidal empathy'. (Referring to TT og post.
Thank you once again SS for removing and placing my post to where it's completely out of context. FUSS).
FANTASTIC!!
Quite a thorough analysis here. Reactions are-and ought to be-"all over the map".
Excellent commentary, much appreciated. I am sharing this far and wide.
"...you might want to steer clear of conspicuous public celebrations this week."
Screw that. I'll be in DC for the Birthday Party. I won't and never have skulked for fear of malevolence. Our founders refused to bend the knee, and we would be underserving of their gift of Liberty to have it any other way.
We are celebrating 250 years since we cast off tyrants in red coats and though they wear black and bleed blue these days, they are the same. If they try anything, we'll see blue.
Correct. “Steering clear” suggests succumbing to fear…and we shall not do that. I recall it’s why the media were so successful at getting the Covid jab into the majority of the population.
Fear stems from stupidification, it stems from people out of their comfort zone.
It is the aim of the Lefty-Left to keep the public stupid and afraid.
1920s, the invention of the car and tractor “drove” the job market into 25% unemployment. The country changed from agrarian to cities. The Depression ensued and it took WW2 to fix things ten years later. FDR knew that fear was the number one problem, 25% of America had no idea what to do next and it scared the shit out of them.
Now, AI has been born 100 years later???
Fear is a disease. Cure yourself and eradicate it. In our biological *fight-or-flight* response, flight represents fear. When you've learned to eliminate all fear, your default response becomes fight. There is no other response. As Elon recently reiterated, *You fight or you die*.
I remember well, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Stupidification is a good word.
Read How our Star Spangled Banner was drafted by Francis Scott Key depicting the heroic efforts of those Patriots who when one man fell holding the flag that British Demand to be lowered or it wouldn’t come down under overwhelming bombing by the British Fleet. They didn’t use their Opposition Threat to change their plans!
They stood up for their Country and their fellow Countrymen!
Beware of your surroundings but celebrate your Country and your Freedom like a Proud Brave American! 🇺🇸
We owe it to all those who sacrificed everything including their lives for us!
🇺🇸 God Bless America 🇺🇸 All of us!
Freedom
What kind of cruel God would bless a nation giving bombs to a mass murderer knowing full well he was going to drop them on refugee camps, hospitals and starving children, William?
God bless America, as it so vexes Dennis.
American exceptionalism is on display here in the good ol' USA.
I assume 'carrying' is off the table ? I wouldn't go .its a potential and perhaps intentional turkey shoot in the making . Screw that , try that in a small town .
It's also too friggin hot! At least for me.
Nations, dynasties, regimes: They only get about 200 years or so. Ours is done. Great Civilizations rise again and again. Ours has no such greatness and we have no future. Maybe the West will come through, here and there. But the Unites States? We don't even value our own people, seeing them only as economic units to be replaced by better ones.
You always forget that as the USA goes, so goes the world. If US Treasuries default, the global gold reserves, petrodollar, and the basis for global borrowing disappears, overnight. All you idiots rooting against the USA should remember that fact.
US Treasuries are unlikely to ever default because Congress will inevitably raise the debt ceiling. Besides we permanently de facto default by causing (purposely) ongoing inflation. This why a sniff of deflation (actually good for consumers) puts the bankers into panic attack mode.
As for gold. How are gold reserves going to “disappear? Do you make this stuff up?
More likely the petrodollar is on the way out which will require an international reset. One that will end unipolar dominance. We will adapt, adjust and be better off for it.
Okay, the international gold banks allowed trading for gold with US Treasuries. IOW, portions of “gold” in these banks is not gold but debt.
Remember Trump wanting to know what is in Fort Knox? Never did hear a reply, did we. I know BRICS+ is buying gold and selling treasuries. So how much of the world’s gold are really treasuries, ie debt? Hence my statement.
Also, I realize that the debt will not be called in until creditors need their money. That is slowly happening as other country are selling treasuries to get money and some to buy gold. The fear that the world has is if some nutty country or group decide to screw the dollar, the whole world goes down. I hope I am gone by then.
Unipolar dominance may be a necessity as through history bipolar or more leads to discord and war. How much stability would be in the money markets if two leaders existed? I would hate to think that monetary stability depended on the political situation between the USA and and say BRICS components.
“Remember Trump wanting to know what is in Fort Knox? Never did hear a reply, did we.”
No. And Trump backstabbed the guy who wants to find out.
https://knotonboard.com/index.php/2025/03/06/rep-thomas-massie-sen-mike-lee-introduce-bills-to-audit-and-abolish-federal-reserve/
https://www.freedomradio.us/vof/index.php/en/component/content/article/thomas-massie-introduces-bill-to-audit-amerikas-gold-reserves?catid=178&Itemid=220
As I said, we do not know the real contents of the gold market. Trump was right if the market is flooded with treasuries and much of “gold” is an illusion. That in of itself could bring down the IMF with panic trading.
That's what BRICS is all about. The new New World Order.
Most of the foreign America-hating clowns live in countries with zero hope of actually feeding themselves when the shit hits the fan and everyone starts defaulting.
More pathetic, they don't have the resources to generate power so the great die-off of socialists will happen.
Shovels to bury the dead will be in very high demand.
Steam shovels and back hoes. Look at Venezuela.
I am way too old to steer clear of anything.
If the radical lefties want to bring it on, what better way to go out then with a bang?
I just wish it would hurry up, while I know who and where to go to make the world a better place.
Got really bad news for you, Ben, there aren’t any.
In Canada our unelected prime minister was at a pedo parade with all the creeps, while most Canadians were distracted by a really bad World Cup soccer game.
I see and watch that travellers to USA love it there. This is not surprising as it is the Greatest country on Earth. Fight for it people and I pray that Canadians wake up but most of the people here are weak!
...and brainwashed. Imagine a country falling for, and celebrating, a "bankster's banker", and City of London puppet, as their leader!
"Carnage" is also one of the heads of the World Economic Forum who wants YOU to eat bugs and live in a cubicle and has citizenship in three countries. Canada, UK and Ireland. I warn people continuously that he is one of America's greatest enemies. He will eventually make some kind of deal bringing Chinese military bases to our borders as he floods Canada with masses of unassimilables.
Yeah, good thing we didn't flood our nation with unassimilables. Chinese people means Chinese food. You don't like Chinese food? What kind of creep are you? Just kidding. I agree with you. As AH said, a Nation can withstand anything but the dilution of its blood. But Capitalism always wants cheap labor. And the people want cheap goods. Therefore? Therefore Capitalism is the enemy of all nations and peoples.
Hmmmm. A good exercise might be for Johnny (Watter’sWorld) to ask folks, especially young ones, what does America stand for. How many immigrants do not have a clue and just want a society that they brought with them. Until patriots stand up for USA principles and force immigrants to assimilate, this country will dissolve from within.
The rot of socialism continues to grow here as more and more ignorant foreign socialists move in.
One more, NYC. Yeah, communism is a bummer here BUT Islam is a much bigger threat. Look at Islam globally, it is dictatorial everywhere with the religious leaders in charge. Mamdani is not only a communist.
They did.
He went to the New Jersey shore and asked them all sorts of simple questions one should have learned in High school.
It was an absolute shit show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssobOEVfElg
Some of the dumbest people I have ever seen.
Wonder how many people they went through to find the absolute dumbest of the dumb.
True. But they know America is a joke, and you don't. And they know Israel owns us, and you don't. And they know that Israel is behind genocide and genocide is wrong. You don't. All important things that they know and you don't.
Without rule of law being reliably enforced, no system can serve anyone but the elites.
Without law, even those "elites" will be cast down.
What it takes is for people to get hungry, with no way to feed themselves and their children.
"Let them eat brioche" -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are headed for feudalism, a modern version where cities are substituted for manors. All nations, what is left of them will be maybe monarchies, or at least oligarchies with the strongest of them a king figure.
Republicanism is dying because its key identity, legislatures, cannot get their shit together. In the future, response time to emergencies will be critical to human survival. No. 1 is overpopulation made more severe with AI de-humanizing the labor pool and no. 2 is limited resources and not just oil.
Watch what happens with the water shortage that is stemming from the Colorado River later this year.
"...masses of unassimilables."
Terrific phrase.
Well done.
Isn't he gone yet? Three cheers for PM Pierre!
You are making a quite accurate prediction, sadly.
London is imploding on its own Petard. The Mentally Diminishing Monarchy and its Leftist Party’s Jim Jones Kool-Aid Agenda of importing barbarians for votes and party Power Politics!
Canadians must communicate to London, no thanks, we had enough!
I've been saying for a long time now that King Charles isn't half the man his mother was!
Can William save them??
Royalty forms a nationality. England is in the same trouble as the USA, no one knows what is means to be English. Allegiance to “ the King” IDed Englishmen for centuries. IMO, the United Kingdom will cease to exist without their royalty.
Also, what are all those tourists going to do?
Yeah, but look at their lizard king.
King Charles what a joke.
She was a tough act to follow. Charles has been sick since he took over. I think William is more modern, but I do not know how really interested he is in all the pomp and circumstance. Monarchies, like all forms of government, are losing control.
Even now, with the rot set in by the weirdo brigade, American exceptionalism is on display!
Yes, I saw all the naked people on Toronto streets celebrating their perversions and even the Conservative crowd was out there wearing matching rainbow t-shirts. Is there any hope anywhere for Canada?
As an outsider, it always appeared Canada wanted to be more European than anything like the US. It appears that after observing every outrage against humanity Brussells could imagine, professional stupid people like Trudeau and evil people like Carney said "hold my beer."
Remember that the original Canadians, Frenchmen and Tories from America all hated the USA. IMO, it carries on today. Canadians have loved ripping off the USA during USMCA days. Those days are over.
Many Canadians I know love America and President Trump, but then I’m not friends with many Lefties.
Which province do you live in? The productive west or the Carney blood sucking east?
My relatives live in eastern Ontario but I spend my time in the Orlando, Fl area.
One can only hope!
No truer words were spoken.
And stupid from what I see of posters like former Phil Denter now calling himself several stupid names.
That parade will be played back to him at the judgment.
See, if you're not under grace, you're under the law, and if you're under the law, then everything you say and do in your life is used against you in that court of judgement.
And since you're under grace, you don't have to be logical since logic is the Law of the Logos. You get a hall pass, right? Seems like a cheap scam to me.
I might not be with you on many issues but you beat me to replying to this bit of hypocritical nonsense .
The Court of Judgement....haaahahahaha.... at the Pearly Gates!
"you might want to steer clear of conspicuous public celebrations this week. Antifa and even worse gangs are out there right now, making plans and laying traps. Maybe not so much in places like Texas,"
James: As I'm sure you're well aware, travel an hour north of where you live and it's another world. July 4th in New York's North Country is a throwback to a different America: pickup trucks draped in Old Glory, small-town parades, and a palpable sense of civic pride. It isn't performative patriotism. It is simply how people live.
People up here are civil, mind their own business, and are genuinely kind and friendly to one another. A transplant from one of the country's more ideologically progressive urban enclaves would likely find the atmosphere almost foreign. The America many of us grew up knowing still exists. It survives in quiet, scattered pockets that have thus far resisted the cultural currents reshaping much of the nation's cities and coasts.
Should any would-be agitators venture that far north, "They'll never make it to the parish line" as the local said to the sheriff in Easy Rider (the diner scene when Nicholson, Fonda and Hopper exit the diner as they wouldn't serve them).
Thomas-- I'm pretty far up the Hudson Valley. . . 40 miles north of Albany. Quite a mix here of Wokies, red-bloods, and drug zonkies. A good cross-section of the national psyche.
James: You live in a beautiful part of the country, near the majestic Adirondacks. Having spent most of my life amid the suburban bustle of the New York metropolitan area, living in the mountains about seventy miles north of you, as the crow flies, has given me a perspective on our country that I never fully appreciated before. Life in a small Adirondack hamlet has become something of a sanctuary, despite its location within the boundaries of a deep-blue state.
As I linger beside the brook near my home, beneath a leafy canopy and surrounded by a forest teeming with wildlife, the noise of political rancor and the bitter taste of division gradually fade away. Indeed, I often find my thoughts returning to Psalm 63 while contemplating the advance of leftist evil upon our civilization:
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
That's fine. Just don't mention Christ. That would be idolatry. The Noahide Laws says so.
My waking prayer every morning. I share your peace.
Oh, no! Please! No! Not Hell!
Not the Lake of Eternal Fire!
Lord, I believe! I believe!
I'm saved now, praise Jesus!
I'm Saved!
Thank you, God, thank you!
God has his limited choices. Grovel or burn.
For a God that demands worship, but won't reveal itself, that's some shady shit to take on faith, Paula.
The most vitriolic atheist doesn't hold a candle to theists who subjugate and murder in the name of their God.
Good grief, do you ever shut up?
Your hatred of Christianity is noted and now tiresome.
Mr. Thomas----I feel your pain of having to live under the Dem/Marxists that run NY State. Brought to you by approx 17 counties that vote for the scum you have running your state, the rest of what used to be known as the Empire State is mostly red. Unfortunately many of those so called red pols are really Dem/Marxists who vote with the crazies when they are told to. Not everyone could stay and fight but.....I were in any deep blue state I would have to leave. My state---Arkansas----voted approx 65% for Trump and my county voted for Trump about 80%. Good Luck. Keep your powder dry.
Illinois has ONE county out of 102 doing it to us.
Let me guess, Chicago? Cook County, right? Illinois is one of those states that would surely benefit from separation.
Yes sir. There are several movements hoping to split Cook from the rest of the state or form a new state without Cook and its contiguous neighbor DuPage which is where the RINO controlled opposition holds sway. So far a third of the counties have voted willingness to consider attaching to a neighboring state or forming a new state. If they can pull off Greater Idaho with Oregon's eastern counties attaching to Idaho, I expect Illinois and a couple of other separation movements to gain serious steam.
Although I support these kinds of separations, I find these movements to be pipe dreams. The Legislature has to approve such separations and I believe even the US Congress has to approve new states or state boundary changes. Because Illinois's legislature is controlled by Cook County the remainder of the state has not the votes to pass it (same in Oregon). Even if by some miracle it were to get passed in Springfield, there is no way it would ever get approved in the US Senate or overcome a Presidential veto (if a Democrat gets control of the White House).
My favorite is a movement to divide California into three states. Northern California with Sacramento as the capitol. Southern California with San Diego as the Capitol. California including Los Angeles to San Francisco along the coast. Twill never happen.
Would love to see it happen, though. Don't get me wrong.
It's been done before but not since Virginia and West Virginia.
I refer to my mountainside dwelling (with its babbling brook and forest canopy) as "The Refuge". Perhaps the time may come when it will be re-christened "The Alamo". Time will tell.
If you run into that situation, and you might, do it clandestinely.
How about the High Peaks/Keene Valley?
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! ....people, RELAX! Go out and celebrate our 250th birthday this July 4th with joy and vigor! This is an incredible milestone in a, still, very young country. Are we being attacked from all sides, in all ways, by adversaries, domestic and foreign? Yes... that's been the story from Day 1. That's what happens when the country you're in holds the golden chalice of freedom. Envy is inevitable. So... be vigilant, but be optimistic! Is the U.S. of A. perfect? Of course not. Remember Voltaire: the perfect is the enemy of the good. God Bless America. 🇺🇸 🙏
"golden chalice of freedom" That is a gross exaggeration of our "freedoms."
I am a sixth generation American. I had descendants on the Mayflower. I live in the Rocky Mountains of NE Utah. I love America, her beauty, her people and the LIMITED freedoms we enjoy.
By limited freedoms I mean that the government still lets me worship God as I may (as long as I don't try to break away like the Branch Davidians). I can still carry a gun (as long as the gun isn't more powerful than what the government gunships can wield). I can still come and go as I please and the government really wants me to go shopping to help turn the wheels of the US economy. I can visit or live in any of the 50 states without having to get a passport.
However, in America today I cannot TRULY own property. I paid off my mortgage about a decade ago but I still have to send in that annual rent payment, known as "property tax" to the County (which gets higher and higher every year) for the right to live on the land that I paid for with dollars that were already taxed thanks to the evil "income tax." I also paid a "sales tax" of about $8,000 when I bought my house in 2004. I will always have to pay property taxes on land that I paid for with money that was already taxed.
True freedom means we can own property free and clear from the intrusion of government, never to be taken, never to be threatened.
We do not have that in the USA. If I don't pay my property taxes the County will put my property up for tax sale and sell the land to another investor, right out from under me.
Property taxes are wholly and entirely IMMORAL and deny us Americans the right to truly own property and deny us TRUE freedom.
For this reason and this reason alone I argue that America doesn't hoist a golden chalice of freedom. Not by a long shot. Still, that being said, there is no other place I'd rather be living in this world.
Have you tried New Zealand CP? LOL
Socialist shithole; its only redeeming grace is vast areas devoid of Kiwilanders.
There is no American people anymore, just alien, warring groups. A house divided cannot stand.
In my neck of the woods there are still plenty of decent Americans. Not sure where you are, Lugh.
By definition my post was talking about America as a whole, not an individual section. There are White sections - which they are working to integrate. You'll get a Bantustan or Muslim influx sooner or later. They don't want us to be able to recover after this Tower falls.
No disagreement from me on that one.
Of this we agree. The globalists know and utilize this.
The earthquakes are a clear sign of climate change. Repent, you science-denying, far right nutjobs.
The only thing that can save us now is a 50% carbon tax and Bernie.
Indeed, there's climate change. NATURAL, since the earth was formed, it's been changing WITHOUT the green new scam. Independent of oligarchs and governments robbing us and stealing our wealth, it will change.
We in Phoenix are a good barometer, uh, thermometer for global warming. But, but it is cooler this year than last, and surprisingly so. 90s in June? Impossible, yet here it is.
Think of the one sided changes we are seeing. Slightly increasing sea levels, droughts, flooding, catastrophic earthquakes, El Niño, now look back and find out that things are changing for the last 20 years or so.
Cause and correlation. Why?
The Deep State has been increasing its power structure for twenty years, so maybe it is causing earthquakes, or drought? Correlation?
Phoenix has grown into a megapolis over the past 20 years, so maybe it has caused El Niño to increase? Correlation?
The advent of the EV society has caused the increase in CO2 and methane that is causing global warming? Correlation?
The bottom line is that we do not know much of anything.
How come the seat of Greta AGW, Europe, is being the hot spot for a heat bomb this summer? I wonder how the Europe folks who freeze all winter enjoy their summers W/O A/C.
AGWis a rip off of the middle class.
"We in Phoenix are a good barometer, uh, thermometer for global warming. But, but it is cooler this year than last, and surprisingly so. 90s in June? Impossible, yet here it is."
Another ignoramus who does not know the difference between weather and climate change! LOL LOL
You prove yourself to be stupider with every post you do.
You show your ignorance about weather or climate change. El Niño is climate, dummy and is the cause of cooler and wetter weather in Arizona and the rest of the SW. a climate driver that affects the weather. Next time, think before you post.
But you said that if its 90 in Arizona one week in June then that must be global warming.
Cause and correlation, my friend.
No, I said very tongue in cheek that Phoenix was a barometer for global warming so why are we cooler if there is global warming?
If you have bought off on the global warming, AGW bullshit, it figures.
As I asked, explain the waking of the ring of fire and earthquakes. You cannot, as science cannot. That is why I jabbed at Leftists like you who tend to blame everything on Trump, again very tongue in cheek but hopefully damning.
Or the Deep State., or megapolis formation, or whatever.
A list of things that can Might affect global warming?
Megapolis formation at high latitudes making heat islands
Changes in the mantle being detected now, this might be making El Niño increase and activating the ring of fire
Changes to the earths orbit and spin, Milankovitch.
The Sun itself is changing.
CO2 from fossil fuels
Methane from permafrost melting
AGW? Maybe, maybe not. What is a fool’s errand is doing a power grab by labeling FF as the prime source.
ROTFLOL. Thanx!
50% Carbon tax? Damn Moderates!
Since you mention the air waster Bernie, remember how is idiot wife as a college president , bankrupted the college?
And satire. Satire will save us.
You have to be a troll! There is no other explanation.
It's called satire.
You're being sarcastic. Got it.
🤮🤮🤮
LMFAO 😂
How many of us will not be saddened to see the LA and San Francisco areas gently slide off into the sunset and right down to the the bottom of the Pacific? Two cancerous areas out of the way in one fell swoop.
I don’t want to see that happen. God forbid an Earthquake happens I hope that all the people get to safe locations!
I believe their Political Party is nothing but Scum Marxist Thief’s and they are economically corrupt and destroying the Golden State.
But to wish our fellow Americans who live there, yes even the dimwits to perish in an environmental disaster is Unacceptable!
only the Communist ones who are bent on destroying America
But, only those stupid enough to vote for the Democrat Party would live on an active fault zone, or the side of an active volcano, Seattle.
Who is afraid of earthquakes?
I will take an earthquake over a damn tornado or a damn hurricane!
When the very air tries to kill you, now that is terrifying!
Edgar Cayce predicted just that. He was right about a lot of things, just saying
In the '70s and '80s, Rolling Thunder, an American Indian shaman, and other international shamans were supposed to be working on astral plane to try to keep the tectonic plates from slipping and preventing San Francisco from sliding into the ocean. It was also said that RT refused to go to LA because it was so putridly evil on a spirtual level.
Any movement around NYC or Chicago. It is sad that the elimination of the four would drastically improve the quality of life in the USA.
San Francisco was one of the cities God told Henry Gruver not to pray for. I think LA and Seattle were two others. He would travel to different states and countries and walk the cities and pray for them.
“The man who prays is the one who thinks that God has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct God how to put them right.” - Christopher Hitchens
So strange to see how people converted to Christianity because they prayed for help to stop sinning (stop using drugs, etc.) and God responded, but God do not respond to the 10,000 mothers who pray for their children dying (10 K deaths every day) of starvation.
Ignorance begets arrogance. Arrogance begets ignorance. The unbreakable loop of being Christian.
Atheists say that any amount of evidence is going to be enough to believe the existence of God. Whereas a theist's standard of evidence is none whatsoever.
"Ridicule is the only weapon to be used against unintelligible religious propositions."-Thomas Jefferson,
Posted like a true ignorant, arrogant person.
San Francisco is the modern day equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah. You can pick which one.
Unfortunately, Sasha is correct. I work in Washington State and see and hear the hopelessly brainwashed spewing their hateful nonsense everyday. Those with any functioning gray matter left are too proud to admit they were duped. If you tell them Trump supports breathing, they'll hold their breath till they pass out.
Hiding out and trembling in fear is EXACTLY what they want from you. And the very definition of terrorism. Where I live, open carry is the thing and when BLM and Antifa showed up, they were politely invited to enjoy their day by the hundreds of packing citizens of our town that turned out and not a single window was broken. They skulked off quietly after a few non productive hours of sign waving. If I die living my life, so be it. Hopefully, I'll take a few of 'em down with me on my way.
I attended the No Kings rally and nobody I saw was packing and it was completely peaceful. I will agree that the liberal local politicians struggle in western Washington but to act like civil unrest is all they want is simply exaggerated BS.
Just like everyone saying that Covid was their opportunity to completely control everything...but guess what? As soon as the vaccines started working and the pandemic subsided...these "liberal" politicians all pushed to reopen everything and get things back to normal.
Fear and trembling is what you spread when you make the Left to be monsters waiting to devour our nation.
I was GOP for 30 years...and call out the RW brainwashing which certainly looks like it's working on you.
Vaccines started working? They’d roll out a booster and out pops a variant. Another booster for that variant that had already morphed into another, thus begetting another booster for that. And how many people took all these boosters got Covid multiple times? Funny that. Madness.
The point was that the blue states didn't maintain the controls once the pandemic started to ebb.
I'm not going down your anti-vax rabbit hole. My time is too valuable for that shix.
You are the one that brought up vaccines in your opinion post when it wasn’t even germane to your subject matter. So why waste your valuable time bringing it up?
My apologies for forgetting about where I was posting. Next time I’ll be more careful about posting anything like the moon landing or earth being spherical.
This isn’t a website about the actual truth…it’s a website full of people who think they’re smarter than everyone else because you have some sort of inside scoop. I’m also incredibly skeptical of things but the stuff you guys CHOOSE to believe is more about wanting to believe something than following actual facts.
This very conversation is related to a conspiracy that y’all had that the pandemic was part of a Dem plot to control everybody. That was yet another example of WANTING to believe something that was never true!
If you guys stayed in your caves…I wouldn’t care but this shix got Trump elected…and he’s terrible for our country.
Millions died and tens of millions were maimed and can expect an early death. They worked as intended.
Didn't do much to cull the herd, though. Visit one of America's National Parks lately? Still too many people.
It took out a lot of very old sick people.
The shame is that it did not take out more cultish Democrat types.
Vaccines were working? How many "boosters" did they try to force on everyone because the original "vaccine" didn't work. They even had to change the definition of a vaccine because the covid vaccine didn't work.
I don't know how many acquaintances I have who had the vaccine and many of the boosters and still got the covid. Even they were admitting that the damned covid vaccine didn't prevent covid but they would say "imagine how bad it could have been if I didn't get the covid shot." I always responded that their is no way to measure or quantify that claim as there isn't.
I'm please to say that I never took the fake vaccine, never stuck a long tampon up my nose to do a covid test, and never got the covid. Doing just fine, thank you.
“I always responded that there is no way to measure or quantify that claim as there isn't.”
Narrowly, yes. But generally, you can compare hospitalization and mortality rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. This was done, and it showed that the vaccinated population was a lot better off.
The idea that a vaccine by definition prevents a person from getting infected or even showing symptoms is nonsense. Consider the flu vaccine. Even at age 12, I knew that sometimes the flu vaccine was ineffective, depending on the strain of influenza you get.
Some types of viruses, like influenza, rhinovirus, coronavirus mutate rapidly which makes them harder to target with vaccines. Others, like poliovirus, don’t mutate as rapidly, so those vaccines are by many measures more effective. But in both cases, it’s better to take the vaccine than not. Downplay that long enough, you get increases in measles outbreaks and flu outbreaks like the one at Lackland.
A well tested, tried and true vaccine? Yes. I agree with you. The covid vaccine, however, was not well tested, was not tried and certainly wasn't true. I remember when they ran covid vaccine ads on the teevee and the ads were conspicuously absent any side effects. You know, the side effects that get rambled on during these big pharma drug ads. Not a peep about side effects for the covid vaccine. I found that to be a little odd. Perhaps they didn't broadcast the side effects because, due to a lack of proper testing, they didn't know what the side effects would be? Why was this drug exempt from the sharing of potential side effects while other drugs are not? I was all nasty business. Period.
It was certainly tested in multiple trial phases, albeit on an accelerated schedule. “Well-tested” is a thing I won’t debate because it’s a no true Scotsman thing.
We do know that side effects were studied, you can read about them (everything from injection site tenderness to very serious issues) in one of the studies: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389?__cf_chl_f_tk=N91ipc0PzvGWH5AKmkRVkVtsn4iFBj1AxCJ6UYji9O0-1782928810-1.0.1.1-in__rp.SMOEZ4uYUySE_4BusAwDiBR4Bq0kYyAhJzR4
I don’t know why the ads you saw didn’t list side effects. Maybe they were advertisements put on by government agencies that didn’t recommend a specific vaccine? Regardless, it’s not at all evidence for the claim that side effects weren’t studied or understood. We know they were.
The flu vaccine is one of the biggest jokes running.
I went to a No Kings rally too, never seen so many American flags in my life. I was flying one too. I think one of the main problems in the Democratic Party is their inability to simultaneously talk about patriotism and needed reforms. The most useful lie the right tells is “Democrats hate America”. I think Obama was successful in large part because he made that implausible, and Hillary Clinton was unsuccessful because she made it all too plausible (see “basket of deplorables”).
It’s a bit depressing that most of the comments are about vaccine efficacy… which is totally beside your point.
Yes… Democrats definitely have a messaging problem, but I think that’s more related to the RW echo chambers that seek out and amplify every stupid Dem utterance while ignoring Trump’s. A case in point is your deplorable comment which was how long ago AND is weak tea to a decade of Trump’s gross anti-liberal/dem rhetoric.
Yes…the anti-VAX rabbit hole is about the size of the Grand Canyon on this site
“was how long ago AND is weak tea to a decade of Trump’s gross anti-liberal/dem rhetoric.”
Believe me, you’re preaching to the choir on that, and on how awful the social media landscape is… it’s so much worse than traditional media for all the crap the latter gets.
I remember I was on active duty when Trump said that thing about “I like people who weren’t captured”, referring to McCain being a POW. I was more relieved than angry at the time because I KNEW that the GOP would never nominate him after that. Orders of magnitude worse than the “deplorable” thing, and for my money Trump has topped that several times over since.
The McCain comment is when I knew I couldn’t vote for Trump even as a GOP guy. I actually enjoy eating pretzels but I’m losing my appetite for them watching the GOP and Trump supporters pretzeling their brains in order to come to the conclusion that Trump’s playing 4-d chess or something.
I had WAY more faith in my fellow Americans before Trump’s arrival and he so effectively proved that my faith in their cognitive abilities was totally misplaced.
More, I was once like you, but I saw the light, while your posting speaks otherwise.
This, folks, is the face of someone with severe brain damage or simply just a liar.
“The party has nothing left but chaos and, in the weeks ahead, anything that might be disrupted probably will be.” 😂😂 Ah, some prescient words - the most radical element of the Dem Party is about to clusterfuck the somewhat less radical wing of the party, while the handful of Dems retaining some intellectual acuity realize the party has imploded and they seek refuge with either independents or Republicans.
While it’s impossible to predict exactly how this debacle will unfold, one thing is certain - it will be chaotic and bloody (figuratively, I hope) as the DSA attempts to swallow the Democratic Party, remaking it as the most radical political party in the history of the USA 🇺🇸. Get your popcorn ready and prepare for millions of former Democrats to take the red pill and join the Republican Party.
No matter what proof is presented, many are set on the path of ignoring reality, even when their belief system is challenged by what they see and hear.
First and foremost, Trump is a liar as far as they are concerned, and no amount of proof showing he was the target of several long-standing media propaganda campaigns to cast a narrative showing him in a light of extreme corruption and criminality.
Case and point...
https://www.kunstler.com/p/its-all-theyve-got-now/comment/284797835
I’m not going to hold my breath albeit I hope you’re right.
Most Democrats I know double down on stupid than to admit they have been wrong and blindly believing they have been lied to and manipulated.
Pride comes before the fall!
And quite likely to strengthen the Uniparty.
I'm truly surprised that the hate-mongers haven't blamed the Ring of Fire's latest quaking on President Trump. But, France is blaming him for their present heatwave, so all is not lost.
It's All They've Got Now! Hell yah.
And not much else left on the planet except the brilliance of this article and TriTorch's comment below.
Happy Independence Day. Smoke em if you got em.
God Help Us, James! You really got the target in the cross hairs… all so pathetically true. Only a miracle can help, but I think we are up for one! And it is gonna be a biggie!
Let's get used to saying, ". . . claimed, without evidence, that Joe Biden won the 2020 election."
Also, I urge that we all drop the term "Nazi" and substitute the more correct "National Socialist". I know, I know. "Nazi" has a significant payload, and that's sometimes what you want. But we call communists "communists", partly because that's what they call themselves. Also, I think it does folks good to be reminded that they were actually socialists.
Exactly. And not communist. They allowed business, both small and big. The latter were carefully monitored. They had to play ball with the nation. They couldn't do whatever they wanted to do. We used to understand things like this back when we were sane. Thus National Socialism enacted the Economic Miracle which those in power don't want us to know about. The Capitalists moved quickly to destroy Germany before their system spread to other nations under the Rothschild boot.
Thanks Lugh. "Thus National Socialism enacted the Economic Miracle which those in power don't want us to know about."
I get so tired of Americans chucking around the lazy term "those commies!"
I wonder if they have ever read one article about the Economic Miracle of China?
Lifting millions out of poverty, while on their way to becoming the richest nation on earth.
Eating Americas lunch!
Yes, once they left Communism behind and unleashed great individuals, the sky was the limit. Watched and guided by the Guardians who look out for the nation. Pure National Socialism. Yet still many abuses existed, with people taking their own lives for being overworked. I don't know if this has been rectified yet. Suicide nets to catch people jumping out of windows is just a first steop.
And no abuses exist under dog-eat-dog capitalism? OK!
Your claim about suicide in China are just silly hyperbole!
Wanna look up the number of suicides in Murica?
Start with Veterans first. Then onto drug overdoses.... Then depression....and on and on! Lack of healthcare!
Most Yanks who visit China are shocked to see how much better life is for average folk.
Of course abuses exist under Capitalism, you dunce. As they do under Communism. As they do under mixed economies like China's.
Spoken like someone who has never been there, but that is what you heard.
Why then is anyone with enough money trying to get out of China?
Why do people with real money send their children abroad for schooling?
Once again, Dennis spews forth.
Bless his optimism, but Jim has been telling us for years that indictments of all the blue party criminals are imminent. Nothing has ever happened, and it certainly won’t now. If there ever was any hope of justice, it has been neutralized as Trump has blown his popular support and political capital by blundering into this stupid war with Iran. He’s clearly more committed to kitschy ambitions like a gold-plated White House Ballroom and plastering his mug on passports and a souvenir $250 bill.
Even if such indictments were made at this point, it would be child’s play for Democrat attorneys and judges to delay any action until the 2028 elections when Dems will likely control three branches of government, and will undo within a week anything and everything Trump did or got started.
Americans are soon to be neck deep in personal financial disaster, “unaffordability,” and unemployment, and will have no interest in pursuing anyone for crimes far beyond their horizon of memory. Their concern will be throwing support behind UBI and promises from Dems about more generous rationing coupons for gasoline, heating oil, and electricity.
Yeah, I love JHK's writings and appreciate the information he provides but I have become so black pilled for all these indictments we are constantly waiting for that I tend to glance over the predictions. One day, I hope, we will see these predictions come to fruition. I also understand that our host has an opinion and that he isn't any more of a prophet like I am or you are. He's making an educated guess. Nothing wrong with that.
You are correct when you point out that Trump gambled his presidency on his war with Iran, and lost, badly. W. Bush did the exact same thing in Iraq. The lie was WMD's then, it's those nuclear weapons that Iran has been "two weeks away" from developing for the last thirty years this time. The US has gone to war 4 times in the Middle East since 1991, and every single one of those wars has turned out badly. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, each time expecting a different result: perhaps our leaders have lost their minds.
It is not over yet. How about waiting until it is to pass judgement?
Well, yeah, it will be over quickly. After all, we were only in Afghanistan for 20 years. The Taliban re-took the country within hours of our dishonorable departure.
Excellent post. JHK loves to engage in Wishful Thinking, endless braying about how all these indictments are coming and All the Democrats are Going to Jail, REAL SOON. . .which never happens, of course. He will post the same thing a few weeks later. He also has been saying, for the last few years, that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is about to be ousted from leadership in a coup in Ukraine--he passionately told us he would be gone by Halloween, last year, only to repeat the same hallucinogenic nonsense again in his annual yearly predictions in January of this year, he will probably say the same thing next week. The last time I called him out on all of his Wishful Thinking her threatened to ban me from posting here, let's see if that happens again. BTW, I agree that the Democrats are evil and should go to jail, that Zelenskyy is a bad guy, etc., but I don't pretend that things I wish were true actually are true. I am not delusional. . .
Do you think the answer to why nothing happens is because it's a bunch of BS passed around like facts on websites and shows like these? You can claim anything you want...it's just the damn facts that you have to get by.
It's not rocket science.
ex-GOP guy
You’re desire to see America burn is showing
Support behind UBI:
American economists James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith signed a document with 1,200 other economists in 1968 calling Congress to introduce a system of income guarantees and supplements.
Milton Friedman advocated a basic income in the form of a negative income tax in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, and again in his 1980 book Free to Choose. During the 1960s, he became the main advocate opposing both Marxist and Keynesian government and economic policies. Upon his death, The Economist described him as "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century ... possibly of all of it"
Bill Gates said "it's too early for basic income, but over time 'countries will be rich enough'".
All hardly lefty nutjobs!
Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin.
Leftist nutjob is a matter of perspective.
They all look leftie and nutty to me, as do you.
I would be discretely armed, if you’re not normally, and frosty as hell on 4 July if you are going to be near large crowds. White boy summer is upon us.
Be brave.
My pick for thought of the week.
Cloud Cuckoo Land beckons:
“The elite is upset over so many people finally noticing things. Like Donald Trump’s supernatural level of flip-flopping. Or Erika Kirk’s histrionic insincerity. Or the fact that MAGA really changed nothing except lowering the already juvenile level of public discourse. The infrastructure still cries out for repairs. DOGE audited one minor agency, got people excited, reneged on those $5000 checks, and then disappeared. The war with Iran has become an incomprehensible blur of ceasefires and peace deals, which are quickly violated by Israel. I can’t keep track of who’s bombing who. I am seriously willing to listen to those who say nothing is happening, and that it’s all theater. Whatever is happening makes little sense.”
Donald Jeffries
Nice encapsulation of our sorry predicament.
Meanwhile, our national debt has hit $39.3 trillion dollars. $4.6 trillion of that has been added just since Trump’s inauguration in January 2025. Another $7.8 trillion was added during his first term. That means that ~31% of our *total accumulated debt since the founding of our nation 250 years ago* was amassed during the 5.5 years of the Trump presidency!
Weirdly, the news media finds the accumulated debt to be an important story ONLy when a Democrat is president. Republican presidents seem to get a pass, matter how much bigger they dig the hole. Because the GOP are “responsible spenders”, dontcha know?
I thought DOGE said they were gonna save us a couple of trillion dollars. It’s not clear if they in fact saved more than a few billion. And even if they did, those savings were quickly blown away by the Iran War.
(DOGE did kill a few tens of thousands of kids in sub-Saharan Africa by eviscerating USAID support. But those kids were mostly Black. So, I guess nothing to worry our pretty little heads about.)
Trump is a master at diverting the public’s attention from issues that ultimately affect their daily lives. The constant chaos he creates provides easy cover for his family’s grifting in broad daylight.
I just noticed that Ben/Ben R still seems to be outputting logical fallacies (in the case of what I read; 'Whataboutism', WRT the issue of Biden's ostensible corruption during a mention of Trump's).
If one's thought-patterns are chock-full of logical fallacies, it seems to stand to reason that they probably aren't going to reason, or act, very well in general.
Good observation. If he’s not a neoconservative he’s a good imitation of one.
And somewhere in their playbook is a chapter how to ignore/evade subjects not to be addressed, shape shift conversations and if all fails, fallback position is throw out ad hominem’s.
Apparently, Ben is US military, whether current, retired and/or periodic and I wouldn't put it past a 'War-Agitprop 101' playbook as part of his military training.
'This Is What You Say When You're Trying To Demonize The Manufactured Enemy: Chapter 5.1.'
When working, especially these days, as a cog in and for an outfit like the US MIC, a certain level of callousness, leader-sycophantilism and mindlessness seem like prerequisites, including sociopathology, such as when one has to commit cold-blooded murder for the State.
At Ben's ostensible age of ~58, one would think that he would have figured out some things a little better.
But then, look at No-New-Wars Trump at 80:
Stab your voters in the back and then the Iranians, during peace-negotiations.
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"Want to murder and torture people without having to go to prison, and be called a hero for it? Join the military!"
~ hypothetical US-MIC recruitment advertisement
Ben’ is a loyal member of the Trump Personality Cult — Dear Leader can do no wrong … and anybody who claims otherwise is dismissed with the magic incantation “TDS”. Or, with a few choice ad hominem insults. Or, with tired “whataboutism” arguments, as you point out. All of which is supposed to shut down debate, I guess. But Ben never engages in an honest debate over the facts.
Which is even weirder because I’ve never claimed Biden was a stellar president. In my mind, Biden did many more good things than bad, but he dropped the ball on out-of-control immigration, he lost his way on the student loans issue, he hung onto his office way too long, and he ran up our national debt more than he should have. Among other mistakes.
Because — ALL presidents are imperfect and fallible. That said, it’s a simple fact that none have been anywhere as openly corrupt as Trump. In 250 years. That’s quite an accomplishment.
Biden at least mostly meant well, in spite of his screwups.At the end of the day, Trump clearly cares only about Trump.