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Author John G. Dyer's avatar

All done in broad daylight with the explicit approval of the media.

eric petersen's avatar

The media was hugely responsible for all the nefarious acts of the Obama-Biden admin. Obama was installed as a foreign agent in 2008 and that got the ball rolling. Horrible evil.

MarshaLouise's avatar

And we now are being shown that Obama’s appointment to the Senate was also illegitimate. There’s just so many ‘trinkets’ to be found on the trail of this evil creature.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Can you imagine how the wheels would come off this wagon if it was proven that Obama and Biden presidencies were both illegitimate and all the damage that has been inflicted upon this people was done by those who had no right to hold power? Talk about a Constitutional crisis? You could string them up and let the crows nibble at their remains and that wouldn't even be the tip of the beginning of justice for what has been done to the American people.

Mr. Kunstler's bi-weekly predictions that something is coming for these people is always a dose of positive energy in a negative and tormented society. One day, I hope to see some of these mother truckers perp walked to the traitor gallows. I'm 52 now and starting to feel my age. Don't know if I'll live long enough to see justice and righteous government restored to the American people. Then again, do the American people really deserve such? Only God can answer that question.

Freedom 4 conservatives's avatar

I make an editorial note here for new readers of the JHK blog: JHK is not a fire-breathing, raging conservative. In fact, I would label him as sort of an "old school liberal." You can bet, however, that the Fascist/Socialist and Communist/Socialist dirtbags will make hundreds of posts and other scathing comments that JHK is some "tool" of the "Fascist" right. Never mind that true conservatives recognize Fascism as just another evil flavor of Socialism, which it is.

As for JHK's list of criminal, treasonous human filth occupying the now completely turd-filled Democrat sewer pond, JHK is spot-on correct. Do I think that justice will come for them if they manage to rig just one more election in 2026?--likely not. However, as a person who has served in political campaigns, held elected public office, and even served as a high level state official in the past, I do know a little something about politics. One of those little tidbits is this: one of the ways to do the most political damage to candidates or a political party is to spring the trap of indictments, arrests, and charging of candidates, their cronies, and their supporters between 30-90 days right before an election. Why? Spring the trap earlier than that and many voters will forget about it by the time that they vote. Spring the trap in the 30-90 day window and those caught in the trap have little time to refute, deny, or escape the charges. The charges just lie there and stink, nasty and fragrant, when voters are casting their votes. Well, we're in that time window now. If there is ever going to be justice for the Democrat traitors on JHK's list, those traitors need to be getting indicted, arrested, and charged right now.

ezinmn's avatar

An October Surprise is coming, for sure. There could be a bundle of surprises as JHK portends, or just a few to preserve the congressional majorities. Shouldn't be too difficult to sway the middle to come over to the right side of history. There's plenty of material to work with.

Cankerpuss's avatar

End the insanity in Iran, let Israel fight their own wars, bring down gas prices. Done deal. Will it happen?

Lugh's avatar

Yes, old fashioned liberals were sane, believing that the government had a role in the economy, knowing that the corporations and banks had to be kept in line. You people know none of this, but rather go for a lot of idealism that simply doesn't work given the nature of man.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Eagerly waiting, hoping to see something, preparing for the inevitable disappointment.

P. Robert Thorson's avatar

History is definitely on the side of <maybe> some Minnows are prosecuted, while the Big Fish escape unscathed. I've long thought that any process put in motion to bring the criminals named by JHK to justice would be derailed by more urgent matters brought about by The Long Emergency. Swept under the rug so to speak, as higher priorities require attention, and the natural tendency of humans to forget past sins to focus on current fires becomes prevalent.

Here's to hoping this time will be different. We may very well find out how much stress the Republic can tolerate before losing complete control.

Author John G. Dyer's avatar

Yeah. Nothing will happen.

Ictator's avatar

I disagree in part. The Hunter laptop scandal appeared about four weeks prior to election day, and only days before advanced voting started.

The tech suppression combined with the far left “news media,” protected the bribem crime family despite the earlier, scandalous Tony Bobulinski revelations, that were also largely suppressed. If the leftist narrative/candidate is involved this timing doesn’t apply.

For GOP/conservative transgressions, this is accurate.

Three and Two's avatar

Actually, a much stronger argument can be made that Fascism is an evil flavour of capitalism. Just sayin'.

George Norwell's avatar

Capitalism is just a name for what people do when no one is coercing them; cronyism and mercantilism are not capitalism; whatever the hell we have in Western Civ right now is certainly not capitalism. And fascism, everywhere and always, precludes the possibility of capitalism, as surely as communism, collectivism, and socialism do. Don't mistake the corruption of capitalism for capitalism itself. See here: https://georgenorwell.substack.com/p/that-capital-thingy

Bill Bradford's avatar

Let me see if you agree or not: "Globalist-Monarchy Capitalism, arising in Great Britain with the English Empire, in different nation-states, also created bolshevism, socialism, communism, and fascism. All are different types and degrees of totalitarianism." I don't want to bias your answer by citing the source.

GAVEMartin's avatar

52??? That's what I call a "Spring Chicken"

Cankerpuss's avatar

Ha ha. That's the same thing my 80 year old mother keeps telling me!

GAVEMartin's avatar

Listen to your Mother. It is true!

complex Craftsman's avatar

Oh , and “ I can dream “ . but I think meaningful disclosure of anything in this day and age falls under the fact that we are a house so divided in vision , philosophical worldviews and so on . There’s always going to be a sizeable percentage of suspicion and cynicism form one side or the other no matter what . I obviously fall into” camp objectivist “, while those in opposition seem to live in “camp subjectivist , relativist “. If we cant come together to agree on what the truth is or even that there is a truth to begin with , then its a pretty slim chance we could all come together and realize that some type of official disclosure on anything is the truth of what either transpired or is transpiring . I cant see the middle holding because we cant even agree on things that from “camp objectivist’s” point of view oughta be a no brainer . Like, hell no I don’t want that freak in the bathroom with my baby girl no matter how convinced he is that his delusion is real !!!!!!We cant even come together and agree on that .

Cankerpuss's avatar

They have intentionally divided us on everything. Old vs young. Ugly vs. pretty. Fat vs thin. Male vs female. Wealthy vs poor. Tall vs short. Urban vs rural. County vs City. Public education vs home schoolers. Vegan vs meat eaters. Black vs white. Popular vs obscure. Brown vs black. Gay vs straight. Atheist vs spiritual. Athletes vs fans. Chevy vs Ford. Democrat vs Republican. Famous vs obscure. The list goes on and on and on. We will never unite until there is a serious reason to unite. That reason still doesn't exist. We still have things faaaaaarr toooooo goooood in the USA to warrant any unification of the people.

Lugh's avatar

Yes, all very real differences. Things are what they are because they're not something else. A hamster can be born in a goldfish bowl and live there it's entire life. It never becomes a goldfish.

It was hard enough uniting European ethnes and molding them into Americans. Anything beyond that is simply impossible.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

There are two types of folks in Murica, CP

1. Atheists

2. And folks who still haven't figured out they have been scammed.

complex Craftsman's avatar

Yes but , I think there are underlying truths about what is right and good , and they become self evident over time , when things go from being “ far to good “ as you put it , to being shitty their self evidence will become even more self evident .

So while I agree that divide and conquer is an obvious ongoing strategy , I also think that one of the camp s in this divide strategies idea of how to order society to their liking is also the product of an ongoing intentional debasement , demoralization and the ultimate destruction of this experiment in self government . I don’t find moral equivalancies , there is an undeniable bad side and a good side . It should be obvious that I am not on the side that champions killing babies in the womb , mutilating the gentialia of children after having brainwashed them into mental delusion , penalizes merit in order to reward sloth , invades their own country with millions of hostile aliens , facilitates human trafficking , facilitates the smuggling of highly addictive and deadly poisonous drugs that kill their citizens at the rate of a hundred thousand a year , and on and on and on it goes .

In summary , there was a general unifying ethos and scope of government that actually created all the prosperity and power , the value and quality that is the object that the conflict is all about ( both sides want control of it ) , but one side generally embraces the recipe for the creation of it as their ethos and the other side just wants what its false ethos will never stand a snow balls chance in hell of continuing to create or reproduce . I’m goin with the original recipe , my opponents have some delusional concept of some magical process whereby they can somehow go on getting the fruits of the opposing camps roots without the embracing the roots themselves .Sounds like theft , because it is . You want value and quality , create it , somebody had to . Ever heard of the universal laws of compensation ? It states that one cannot really meaningfully possess something they have not done the proper work to acquire , or something to that effect , and its true and observable . You cant simply steal someone else’s quality and value and expect it to endure beyond fleeting pleasure . These are all just false promises of a way out of creating a life of value and quality yourself .

Bill Bradford's avatar

Yes, the puppet masters have divided us into 2 groups, - those who can be divided into 1 of 2 groups, and those of us who CAN'T....Which are YOU? ....SEE?....

Bill Bradford's avatar

Truly, I feel your pain, BUT, please look up a rapidly going viral, 8-minute video from Jonah Wheeler. He's a 23-yr old, black, gay Democrat State Rep.from N.H. He destroys the whole "trans" scam. Look who's re-posting his video. There's a huge movement in the traditional lesbian/gay community, to sever the "TQ+", from the "LGB". J.K. Rowling praised it, and to be called a "TERF" has become both a target of death threats, but more so, a badge of honor & pride. The misogyny behind the "trans" delusion is being exposed faster than WPATH. So-called "trans women" ARE MEN.... Take my hope, & have faith, God wins!....

complex Craftsman's avatar

What is the best name for a trans woman ? Amanda . Why ? Because he's a man duh !

complex Craftsman's avatar

Somehow as a "collective body of peoples" 'we' certainly are making the restoration of some level of integrity to our government difficult to near impossible to realize ............ Cue "Jeff The Un Original " to Splain to us all , Kunstler included , why this is all so much MAGA, right wing conspiracy ,tin foil hattery cooked up in the fevered minds of his "intellectual lesser's " These are not the drones you are looking for "

Mmmm ," a house divided against itself "?

Lugh's avatar

Because MAGA is and always bullshit because Trump is bullshit, the servant of a foreign power. America First is what MAGA was supposed to be but never was.

Cankerpuss's avatar

The war in Iran completely substantiates what you are claiming Lugh. America doesn't come first. Israel and the military / industrial gods come first. That is evident to me.

Bill Bradford's avatar

Wouldn't that "foreign power" be "Globalist Bankster Zionism", and not Israel, per se?....

Casey's avatar

Mr. Kunstler has outlined the equivalent of a (truthful) and wonderfully historic stage play. But True! Maybe someone could put it to music. It would make a hell of a ballad.

If nothing else, take all the pieces, fit them together, and feed it into one of today's Artificial Intelligence systems,and see what comes out.

Jesus Schwarzkopf's avatar

before feeding it to an algorithm, you'd need to find one that is pure centrist. The bots that I hang out with from time to time are all left leaning. One caveat, if you craft your questions carefully, it is possible (I have discovered), to often constrain them from regurgitating lefty-left skewed palaver.

Mary Lucas's avatar

What part of this scenario do you think is not true? Much of it is just t even new.

complex Craftsman's avatar

I always kinda figured that while my interpretation of ‘Natural Born Citizenship( ‘per” Vattel’s Law Of Nations” ( George Washington owed 221 years of late fees for never returning the book to the New York Library Society ) doesn’t include someone claiming their Father was a British Subject Of Kenya at birth , if you took that part out of the equation , Obama did legitimately win in 2008 as odious as I found that . Now 2012 I think is when stuff really started to get weird . Like it seemed like Faux News had the whole thing wrapped up in time for Hannity in the prime time slot at 9pm . Maybe my recollection is overstating it a bit but not much . That just never passed the intuitive stink test for me . Its was all over by 11:15 PM ET , that’s only 8:15 PM PT out here on the left coast where I live . it was all just a little to easy and seamless , first time I seriously started wondering ,”What if ?“ (What if they rig these things ?) For me its no longer a” What if” but a foregone conclusion , with some limitations of course , they can only overcome leads so long as they are within some margin that I cant specify precise;y , and the gen pop has to be able to swallow it psychologically , neither of which criteria was working in there favor in 2024 .

Cankerpuss's avatar

But your forgetting something. The elections don't matter when both candidates of opposing parties ultimately do the same thing once they have power. Thus the theories that the candidates are long pre-selected as the automatons that they are by the powers that be. That was the epiphany I had during the Dubya years. It doesn't matter who wins the election. The results are always the same.

John Watson's avatar

this is why i laugh at all of the hub bub about DSA candidates! it doesn't matter; the elected have no control over the levers.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Not so old Murican saying: "No matter who you vote for you always get John McCain."

complex Craftsman's avatar

Pretty sure Harris wouldn't have shut down the border and started deporting illegals , but hey , I know that doesn't fit well into the black pill narrative so /

YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

"Now 2012 I think is when stuff really started to get weird . "

Donald Trump blasted the hinky results of the 2012 election on twitter shortly after Obama's victory was declared. DJT was just saying what many of us were noticing, and I think that was the start of the deep state focusing their sites on Donald Trump.

Silent scorn's avatar

💯-I really want to be around for it too. I’ve got you beat by a couple years but I think we’ll get our wish!

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Which "God" would that be, CP?

Cankerpuss's avatar

Whatever "God" people choose to believe in, DM.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

So, what happens if all these 100's of Gods have different ideas and goals? LOL Isn't that the problem with religion.

A true Christian is one who believes only the parts of the Bible he likes. True Christianity is the exact brand of Christianity the person believes in.

When inventing a “God”, the most important thing is to claim it is invisible, inaudible, and imperceptible in every way. Otherwise, people will become sceptical when it appears to no one, is silent and does nothing.

Adults should not have imaginary friends.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Which God would that be CP?

Cankerpuss's avatar

Whatever "God" people choose to believe in, DM.

Lugh's avatar

He wasn't even born in the United States, having gotten financial aid given to foreign students - a grotesque practice from any angle.

George Norwell's avatar

Obama was a genuine Manchurian candidate all the way; every step of his life was handled. Who was doing the handling? You'd think more people would be interested in that. I'm ashamed to say that I actually know some people who voted for him, which baffles me to this day.

bara.ex.nihilo's avatar

But first, there needed to be an important change to make that all possible: "...the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 which allowed for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be made available within the United States.[2][3]..."

Without that, the media would have been shut down for propagandizing to the American Citizens....which had been illegal up until 2012.....until Obama.

Our feckless Congress must address this issue for our nation to be restored.

JulieW's avatar

The media is CIA - so was twitter. It’s been that way since the 2950’s

Three and Two's avatar

So ... TPTB have the power to install Obama as a foreign agent for eight years as POTUS ... but they can't hit Trump with a sniper bullet? Have I got that right?

George Norwell's avatar

Say what you will about Trump, but he has the remarkable ability to drive his enemies completely insane. Insane people aren't very good shots, for the most part. Oh, I know you're probably thinking, what about Charlie Kirk---his killer was an insane tranny weirdo. He missed, but he got lucky and missed low on an easy shot. You can't count on luck, but luck counts. Take it from an actual marksman, crazy people can't shoot. The fact that Obama never got shot speaks more to the temperament of the right than anything else---the crazies are the ones who want to take the shot (and they're mostly on the left), they're not the ones who can make the shot (they're mostly on the right). Of course, you're also neglecting the fact that the system protected Obama; for whatever reason, this system (call it the Blob or the Deep State or whatever) doesn't seem as enthusiastic about protecting Trump. Especially the lesbians, who seem to comprise an enhance proportion of Trump's Secret Service detail.

complex Craftsman's avatar

I can find no fault in any of your reasoning .

Mark's avatar

Crooks came damn close, and no one has ever explained the fact that a cell phone number geo-located at the Crooks home before the assassination attempt was also found to be near the FBI office in Washington DC.

From Grok (because I couldn't remember the exact details):

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project (also called OversightPR) used commercially available mobile ad/location data (AD-IDs) to track devices that regularly visited both Thomas Matthew Crooks’ home and workplace in Bethel Park, PA.

They identified at least nine such devices. One of them also appeared at Gallery Place in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2023—near an FBI office and close to Secret Service headquarters. Other devices showed travel to Butler, PA (including a Home Depot stop), a local gun store, and Plymouth, MA; one linked device went quiet around July 12, the day before the assassination attempt.

The group shared the findings in a July 2024 X thread labeled an “assassination info drop” and offered to provide more data to certain investigators.

(Note: The data indicates shared locations/proximity, not definitive ownership by Crooks or a confirmed meeting.)

No one has ever adequately explained why someones phone number (presumably connected to a phone and a person) would have been at the Crooks home in Bethel Park, PA and at a location 4 hours away at or nearby the Washington DC FBI and/or Secret Service offices.... BEFORE the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

This information has never been debunked or, from what I can tell, followed up on.....

Leon Pierce's avatar

What media? The majority of what we call media is propaganda and special operations for the corrupt Dems and parasites in what we call the Deep State bureaucracy and sub feeders of NGO’s. It is so bad that they even funneled 3 Billion to the likes of Stacy Abrams. WTF. Auto pen Joe was mindless as the rats ran the ship into the rocks.

PrinceOfTheRavens's avatar

Wake me up when the hangings are about to start.

Until then it's pretty much yet another Tuesday...

PrinceOfTheRavens's avatar

Thank you for waking me up, i was only 1/2 awake.

zzzzz

Cankerpuss's avatar

I regularly forget what day it is. And I still work!

RobSan's avatar

Jim is WAAAY more optimistic that I am that these cases proceed as he envisions. I so want to be wrong & will apologize vehemently & with glee via email if so.

My skepticism is strictly empirical: name one high level deepstate participant or DC elite (not associated with Trump) who has ever peered through bars. Epstein is in a miniscule class & not only did it take many blatant repeat offenses for an actual incarceration, he lived barely a month before his potentiol to expose of MANY high level partakers was nullified.

GAVEMartin's avatar

A bit of a difference now is that the motely crew is getting "kidney punched" in the wallet. I see them ending up as exposed as Diddy, who wears a different "suit" now. Would love to see how Chris Wray looks in orange.

George Norwell's avatar

He does have a purdy mouth!

John Schrauth's avatar

We have no idea who the real "Mister Bigs" even are! These expendable supernumeraries are the very definition of fungible. The Ivys crank out a new load every May.

George Norwell's avatar

Bingo---if you knew who they were, you'd have already "Killed Yourself".

JohnAZ's avatar

The problem continues to be that the bastards mentioned are still running the show. Is the best the DNC can do is Harris, Newsom or AOC? Do not believe it, these bastards are still running the Deep State.

RobSan's avatar

Sockpuppet Joe & those you mentioned are blatant proof that those pulling the strings (“control bar”, in marionette parlance) do NOT want an intelligent true leader type, but an easily controlled, ambitiou$ buffoon.

AOC, sKamala & Newscum are little more than marketable (for the superficial-shallow who are sold on “looks”) & manipulatable clowns who will willingly go along with the muslim/Marxist/globalist (strange bedfellows who wittingly or unwittingly have similar ascention goals) plan to take down Western civilization.

We live in treacherous times, to put it mildly.

Mitch's avatar

Deep State powers always prefer figureheads that have little natural support among the people, for fear that they could gain some independence and go against their handler's wishes.

Lugh's avatar

He was a Lord among them. Killing him would be ridiculous. He got sprung and seems to be living in Israel. His gaming account was reactivated from there.

George Norwell's avatar

I look at it this way: when the Powerball jackpot gets really big, I'll spring for a $2 ticket. The hours to days of fantasies about unlimited wealth are well worth the price of admission. So it is with JHK's latest. Every Monday and Friday I get to engage in the fantasy of traitors swinging from lamp posts---priceless!

Gym+Fritz's avatar

Viva! El Gato Malo!

MarshaLouise's avatar

Oh, yes, the media, no less guilty than the main players with their complicity, corruption, lies and propaganda.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

The WEF/Transnational gangsters captured MSM is their main weapon in their assault to destroy this country.

JohnAZ's avatar

Yeah, but their real capture was the DNC and their donors.

MarshaLouise's avatar

Sadly, that carries a lot of weight in that it provided such an insulating cover.

RobSan's avatar

Some dims with similar goals... most of the remainder are simply useful idiots.

George Norwell's avatar

You have put your finger on the problem precisely---these are foreign influences attempting to disrupt our free society. The goal? One world government, global markets that can be dominated by them. Unlimited wealth and power. Some of these guys are better Bond villains than Ian Fleming ever imagined.

Letsrock's avatar

They absolutely must be held accountable as well.

RobSan's avatar

Rachel Madcow "earning" $35,000,000/year shows her worth to them as the Joseph Goebbels acolyte $he i$.

PKsweets's avatar

This failure of the fourth Estate, which is an essential leg of the checks and balances our government is supposed to be held to shows the slippery slope that we are now experiencing

PapayaSF's avatar

There’s an interesting Wikipedia angle. They depend on the mainstream media as their “reliable sources,” but the mainstream media was an active participant in the Russiagate hoax. So the media avoids reporting on things like Tulsi’s releases of the evidence, which means that Wikipedia considers it a conspiracy theory.

dancingtime's avatar

Wiki is good for many things as long as the subject matter is not objective in nature. You can also look up who has made changes but generally it doesn't matter. The minute that what wiki says reeks of subjectivity, quit. I find that a simple query will take me to AI response which will tell you what the sources are from which the info is drawn. In general, my queries also tell "on the one hand" and " on the other hand"....."some people find"..."but others find".....therefore giving many different opinions....The thing that I have found it that AI is simply doing a broad sweep on the subject asked about and gives the sourcing at the top with the source logos...And, to boot, will ask questions to broaden the response. I used to support wiki because I used it for selected research, but it belongs to Tides and I stopped....

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Wiki Vladimir Putin - if you want to read what Putin did.

It's the exact opposite to what he actually has done.

100% lies

PapayaSF's avatar

Wikipedia is pretty consistently terrible about anything related to current politics.

dancingtime's avatar

That is because they are leftists and politics is subjective. They are good inly when the subject matter is purely objective.

dancingtime's avatar

Well…I am not that curious at this moment to read what wiki has to say about Putin…or Trump for matter…presumed that he (both) are demonized…gotta have a boogie man…color me shocked if he is not demonized…

RobSan's avatar

I TOTALLY dismissed Wickedpedia many years ago as a propagandist publication. As a running joke, I test them regularly by searching someone from "the right" or a known staunch conservative and expect to see, & usually do, the term "conspiracy theorist" in the very first paragraph... often in the first sentence. For the unconvenced, listen to an interview with now-departed co-founder Larry Sanger.

JohnAZ's avatar

Not approval only, but promotion.

Howard Skillington's avatar

Media "approval" is beside the point. The same corporate masters control the media, which do their bidding.

Thomas's avatar

These people are “Americans” in name only. They seek absolute power and have proven beyond cavil that they shall use any and all means not to serve the interests of the country, but “the party.” I pray that justice cleans out this nest of traitors and seditionists from our house. May it come soon, and may it be a profoundly severe rebuke.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

They all need to be lined up and summarily shot. Will this comment go into my dossier in the local Data Center? Will it get me on some list? Spoiler Alert: I'm already on them all, top of most.

Cankerpuss's avatar

See my comment above, Ron Anselmo. Both of us have already had our names flagged in the NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah, just for logging onto Kunstler's blog. When they are ready to come take us and make us disappear, they have plenty of fodder to do so.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

CP - No need to fear them coming for us. Even uncertainty can make one anxious. Accept that it is a certainty, and stay fearless. I know you well enough to know that you won't go quietly into the night. Neither will I. So, when they do come, they better bring their "A' Game and pack a lunch besides, it'll be a long day.

Cankerpuss's avatar

They'll never get me, Ron. They are going to have to kill me.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

That's the Cankerpuss I know and love!

Cankerpuss's avatar

I'm not afraid of dying, Ron. I am prepared to barricade inside my home with all my weapons and if they want to come get me they will have to kill me, or I'll kill them first. I'm 52. I've lived a long and blessed life and I have had numerous brushes with death. Once I was in my drive way working on my 1968 Camaro when the car, for some reason slipped out of gear. I managed to get my chest, neck and head out of the way but had my hand crushed under the weight of the car. Another brush with death occurred in the Tetons of Wyoming where I was back packing alone. I came around a blind corner on the trail and right there coming at me was a massive grizzly bear. I was 10 feet away from that incredible animal. I tensed up, knowing that I was dead as most grizzly attacks happen when a bear is surprised. I stood there, frozen, waiting for the bear to charge, preparing to be chewed on and mauled. Then the bear simply veered off the trail. Oddly enough, when facing that bear I felt a strange acceptance that if death by bear was the way I would end then so be it. There was no raging fear. No, I don't fear death. Bring it on.

wkenn's avatar

I've long been an advocate of hemp. It's both reusable and renewable.

Mitch's avatar

summarily is a little slower than I would like.

Paula Kroll's avatar

Congratulations patriot!! I will probably be there too.

MarshaLouise's avatar

Do you really think they had any commitment to “the party”? I believe it has been just a big, safe umbrella under which the clique was able to act and enforce the actions of the cabal for selfish interests.

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JohnAZ's avatar

The Deep State is a uniparty, based on the program to have Federal power over everything.

PapayaSF's avatar

I see it as more a general allegiance to the leftist Omnicause.

ron's avatar

AKA modern "liberals."

dancingtime's avatar

Well....if you think that humans can be perfected, which is what you describe, that is also the position of the left....why they dig in....and keep repeating....they believe in the perfectibility of mankind....history has taught them nothing...But, for you, you will be doomed to Waiting for Godot....

Cape Tribulation's avatar

Anyone read what the socialists are ready to do to President Trump day one of retaking Congress?

Dennis Merwood's avatar

@Thomas

“Prayer is an act of doubt, not an act of faith, for if you truly trusted your God's plan, you wouldn't ever have to pray for anything.” - Michael Sherlock

“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

Double Mc's avatar

And every one of them should be prosecuted for violating their oath to uphold the Constitution. Obama first. But I'm all for getting them Al Capone-style. By any means available.

dancingtime's avatar

And your first statement supports why the left sees the Constitution as a living document subject to be easily changed....It will be a curiosity how someone who publicly supports the dissolution of the Constitution and the Senate can be sworn in. I would also question using the Koran vice the Bible but I have not read the Koran so I don't know whether it speaks of politics being a direct part of the religion. We know that that is how it is operating now, politics and religion being intertwined, but is it in the Koran?

Silent scorn's avatar

I recently read that the koran is only 20% of the Muslim thing (I will not call it a religion). There’s also another text and then required memorization of mohammeds life or something and learning sharia law. I would love to see and participate in a movement to get islam classified as a secular form of governance and declassified as a religion, so it can be abolished as conflicting with our constitution. Otherwise our hands are tied by our own laws.

dancingtime's avatar

I thought that it is generally recognized as being not pure religion but also a form of governing. Those who see it as religion only must be part of Woke 2.0.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

The Bible, the longest running broken phone in history.

Religion is supposed to promote love for all.

In reality, it has consistently promoted hate, aggression, dominance and violence.

The two cannot coexist together.

You cannot be a drunkard and a teetotaller at the same time.

Hitchens said that organised religion is "the main source of hatred in the world", calling it "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: It ought to have a great deal on its conscience".

Double Mc's avatar

Dear Dennis, you clearly haven't read the Bible. Just because hate, aggression, dominance and violence appear in the Bible (which is about racist, aggressive, dominating and violent people after all) doesn't mean those are promoted. And who decided that "love for all" was the express purpose of religion? Religion answers the big questions of life: how did the world come to be? What is my place and purpose? What happens when I die?The whole point is that God loves us enough to save us despite us being full of evil. Even atheist Richard Dawkins admitted in 2024 that he considers himself a 'cultural Christian.'

Dennis Merwood's avatar

I betcha I have read the Bible more times than you, my condescending friend.

“The road to atheism is littered with bibles that have been read cover to cover." --Andrew L. Seidel

"Religion answers the big questions of life: how did the world come to be?" Still waiting for religion to answer that question! What's their answer?

“God loves you” is incredibly hateful. Because the missing line after that is, "and if you don't love him back, you'll pay for it by burning in hell for all eternity."

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"- Thomas Jefferson

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."- Ben Franklin

"There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson

"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams

"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison

Millions of blind people exist, folks pray and God cures one ~ and that's a big deal, eh? God, or Jesus, the same guy eh, seems to be very selective about who he heals. What about the blind people who prayed, and were prayed for, and are still blind? What happened there? "God works in mysterious ways is not an explanation”.

Double Mc's avatar

Didn't mean to be condescending, sorry you took it that way. I can't talk you into faith any more than you can talk me out of mine. I wish you the best.

John Watson's avatar

ooooh "the bible' your really the only one who "gets it"; according to you

eric petersen's avatar

Very well said Mr. K. We can only hope and pray that justice will be served very cold. The ramp up of the " DSA" Commies also looks coordinated by Obama as to protect all of them.

IAN2364's avatar

Is that where "Defund the prisons" comes in?

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

Here we go again: "DEM bad ... REP good" [sigh ...] Yes indeed, the *past* crimes of the Clinton Crime Duo, of Barack Obama and of Joe Biden were terrible, and they along with hundreds of collaborators should be in prison, or worse - executed for those crimes. Meh ... never happen!

Hey, some of those collaborators were REPs - did you know that? By doing *NOTHING* - by not throwing the full weight of the law against those criminals - many REPs assisted those criminals in getting away with their crimes (and that's assuming that they didn't have an active role in them!).

And what about the 9/11 MEGA-crime of George Bush - a REP in case you've forgotten? Bush's crime was used to introduce the "Patriot Act" which has forever changed our country for the worse.

Last but not least, what about the *present* MEGA-SQUARED crimes of Donald J. Trump? Hardly a day goes by when criminal acts -- lies (perjury) & gaslighting, market manipulations, illegal wars, concealing/censoring evidence of crimes (e.g., Epstein, COVID, deadly jabs, etc.), and others -- aren't being committed by Trump & Gang. Did I mention that Trump is a REP?

Get it through your thick skull, already! There is NO difference in evil and criminality between REP and DEM - not any more. Maybe (maybe!) once upon a time there was. But that's erased forevermore.

Cankerpuss's avatar

So true. The Republicans are nothing but actors in the political drama production known as American politics. The people give them the senate, the house and the executive and what do the Republicans do? Not a goddamned thing. They just continue wage illegal foreign wars against sad sack poor countries, they continue to print money thus further devaluing our savings accounts and they never reform taxes. What happened to Donald Trump's suggestions that the income tax be repealed? What happened to DOGE? Gone like a fart in the wind. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Bupkiss. Silence. Another two years gone and nothing to show as progress for the conservative causes. Just another foreign war with no end in sight, just another Afghanistan. Thank you REPUBLICANS!

Republicans are the worst, the dregs of society.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

Exactly! It's amazing (to me) that so many people - even "intelligent", educated people - continue believing in the ancient "Two-Party System". Like the dinosaurs, they've been left behind, made irrelevant by the Globalist One-Party reality that we now live under.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Habits are hard to break. Deeply held beliefs are even harder to abandon. Humans are tribal and leaving a tribe is incredibly difficult to do. This two party system has been so deeply ingrained into the minds of most people, especially the old codgers that frequent this blog and possibly even our gracious host, that they cannot fathom any other way. So they proceed doing the same things over and over and over again, hoping that this time, just this time, finally, the Republicans will finally listen to the people and advance the conservative causes.

I became black pilled during the Dubya administration and I haven't looked back. I won't participate in this two party masquerade anymore. I can't in good conscience plug my nose and close my eyes and pretend that the Republicans are still the heroes and the Democrats are the zeroes. Both parties have failed the people. BOTH OF THEM are colossal failures and both of them deserve to be dumped in the landfill of failed political systems.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

Correct! BOTH are thoroughly corrupt gangs, deeply entrenched in our society. The question is, can we take them out of our lives, before they take *us* out? I've concluded that there's ONLY one way, and it isn't pretty!

Cankerpuss's avatar

The train has left the station, Jorge. The train is going to get to its destination and there is nobody that can stop it. It will arrive. The question is is when will it arrive at its ultimate destination? Next year? 20 years? It takes a lot to bankrupt a republic. Took Rome nearly 400 years before it was finished off.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

It took Rome 400 years because they didn't have computers that operated in microseconds. I've long been saying that *THE MOMENT* they establish what I call the "Universal Digital System" (UDS) that's it - game, set and match .... OVER ... FINI .... KAPUT! As you know, they are fast-tracking that UDS as we speak. At most I'm giving us a few years.

PapayaSF's avatar

It’s true that the GOPe dropped the ball on much of DOGE’s findings of wasteful programs. However, I think that was only part of their mission. By seizing control of federal computer systems they also paralyzed the ability of the Deep State to resist and sabotage Trump, and gathered lots of evidence of crimes. In the runup to the midterms DOGE will prove to have been a masterstroke.

Cankerpuss's avatar

I sincerely hope you are right but I believe it has all be theater. Nothing more.

PapayaSF's avatar

Trump has certainly been doing some theater as part of getting many things done, and is getting into position to do even more. He’s a big and positive thinker (e.g. “Golden Age”) who has had the goods on Democrats and the Deep State since early 2025. Legal cases are built carefully and in secret. He’s probably using Apprentice techniques with different groups on different fraud and corruption cases involving billions of stolen tax dollars that went between scammers (foreign and domestic), NGOs, unions, Democrats, and some radical left and Islamic terror groups.

I predict a series of scandals, starting soon, and running for months and years. Dems will howl that the first ones are too close to the election and thus merely partisan, but Trump say they are too important to keep secret, and the public evidence will be damning. It’ll be a Trump win all around: he can enforce the law, stop theft of government money, punish and hobble his biggest enemies, and make MAGA and moderates cheer, all before the midterms.

Robert Rivera's avatar

This upcoming election is the most important in our history. Please give generously to the GOP so we can stop the Dems/Marxists/Communists! Your donation helps us fight. I’ve heard all the B.S. before. Then the GOP winds up caving to the Dems. I hope JHK is correct, at least what most of us Americans would hope happens to the guilty parties. I’m not holding my breath. In the end I will do my best to fight, but also enjoy life while I can and leave it up to God.

Cankerpuss's avatar

"This upcoming election is the most important in our history. "

Been hearing this about every election my entire life.

You have completely ignored what has been said about the abject failure of the two party system. Like a dog to its vomit the voters keep returning to the polls and doing the same thing over and over again. You just demonstrated the problem. "Give generously to the GOP so we can stop the Communists!" So we do. The GOP gets the power like they have had for the last two years. The Senate, the House and the Exec and what happens?

Crickets.

Nothing. Not a goddamned fucking thing. The wars continue. The money printing continues because the debt ceiling continues to be raised. Taxes are never reformed. Government is never reduced in size.

I appreciate your tenacity, Rob Riv, but you are insane. Insanity is defined as doing the same things over and over again but expecting a different result each time. I don't mean this as an insult and I am not trying to be mean, but, what you are doing is exactly what insanity is.

I'm done. I won't give a dime to the GOP or the Democrats. Never. I'm done voting in Federal elections. I will not participate in this absurd fiasco known as American elections.

Robert Rivera's avatar

Cankerpuss, I was being facetious. I was just repeating the GOP mantra every election cycle where they beg for money and when they win the House, Senate & Presidency and either do nothing or cave in to the Democrats. When those we elect to represent us do not represent our wishes, we elect someone else. When neither party represents its constituents we know what is supposed to happen according to the Constitution but that will get us labeled as domestic terrorists. I agree with you 100%.

Cankerpuss's avatar

I gotcha. Makes sense now.

dbriz's avatar

Sarcasm doesn’t play well on many of these threads. 😆

John Watson's avatar

elections aren't important

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

They are "important" as a means to divide people; to create false illusions of "democracy" and "freedom"; to control people; to distract the population.

But as a means to actually ELECT what the people want, elections are as useless as a lead balloon. I will NEVER vote again under the present fraudulent system - not ever.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

I cast my last vote in 2024. NEVER AGAIN will I participate in fraud.

RobSan's avatar

IMO, this is not about Ds & Rs. Were way past that.

The PermanentDCUnipartyPower/$$/EgoMachine has been carefully built over the past 113 years and the APPEARANCE of opposition is but smoke & mirrors for us gullible proles.

There seems to be 0 will in DC to even dent their machine. The past two R majority leaders are proof enough that there is no actual intent to "drain the swamp"or otherwise seriously attempt to deconstruct what work$ FOR THEM/DC. And the fear of reprisal seems to nullifiy anything other then Kabuki theatre accusations. All bluster & zero action.

This 16 year old piece from Angelo Codevilla exposes much of DC's chicanery... and if he understood that well that long ago, just imagine where we are now:

https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class/

Kathy Christian's avatar

I'm just as frustrated as most people, but I'm always mindful that many of our elected representatives are murderers, in an indirect way, and inconvenient people end up dead. That, in my opinion, has a lot to do with why certain people never face justice for their actions.

Lugh's avatar

Like the kids in Gaza.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

It's *FAR* grimmer than you realize, Kathy. Keep on it.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

You are correct, sir! Wish more people were as aware of this as you are.

JohnAZ's avatar

You have just defined the Deep State.

John Schrauth's avatar

Those last two leaders like so many others are/were there because of the theft of federalism represented by the GD 17th amendment.

Jim's avatar

Wait, there are 9/11 truthers here too? Yeesh.

dancingtime's avatar

There are too many things to address in the above comment. I will address just one: Business methods of making deals. The general public and Congress, including you, cannot seem to recognize what he does is how he has always conducted business. People are not used to politicians actually conducting the back and forth of negotiating. Find other sources who understand what and how he is doing things. Trump's problem is that everybody wants to know the details (of which they couldn't begin to fathom) of what and how he does things....Did you vote for him or not? Did you have caveats on that vote (i.e. that you would support him only if he cuts you in on what he going to do and how and that you give your approval.) If not, just trust him.

ann lewis's avatar

My conclusion as well.

William Wallace's avatar

Well laid out, you have nicely unraveled the, “Cluster Fruck Nation Team who are responsible for many of the Cluster Frucks that are destroying our Republic.

Looking forward to these schemers and traitors enjoying their turns in open court and are finally found guilty for their actions and crimes against the American People!

Bill Elliot's avatar

The clock ticks. And still, I sadly believe nothing will be done.

PapayaSF's avatar

How can you think that? Don’t you understand Trump? Add it up: A big ego guy who wants vindication, revenge on his enemies, and a legacy. He’s a patriot and a positive thinker from the Norman Vincent Peale school. He’s a showman who ran a successful reality show. He knows Sun Tzu and persuasion. There’s massive Medicaid etc. fraud that connects with ActBlue and countless Democrats. DOGE and all those FBI burn bags mean the Deep State is vulnerable as never before. In what universe would Trump pass up the chance to use all of that to become a national hero?

Kapper's avatar

I agree with Bill. Trump is only focused on Iran. He believes he will be a national hero if he forces regime change.

PapayaSF's avatar

Trump does multiple things at once.

Lugh's avatar

Yeah, remember his "Affordability is a Democrat talking point" riff. He's our fucking hero, right?

Liber8or's avatar

Wow. What triggers my anger and high blood pressure, is that there are thousands of these slimy, evil, Deep State operatives floating around the planet at any given time. All of of them on the payroll of U.S. Government with the bill sent to taxpayers.

What's frustrating, is we are told daily that Social Security is out of money and Medicare must go....that Americans must "tighten their belts".

Dennis Merwood's avatar

What's frustrating, Liber8or, is Republicans keep saying Social Security is an "entitlement".

I always thought it was the money they deducted from my paycheck every pay day!

And if Social Security is out of money -where did my money go?

The same place as it did in 2008 - into cyberspace

JohnAZ's avatar

SSA is like the rest of the federal budget, only about 60% is paid from taxes and the other 40% is Fiat, logging into the 40 trillion dollar national debt. Where is the national debt? Is cyberspace the same thing as Never never land?

Dennis Merwood's avatar

Maybe my SS deductions went half to the US's proxy war in Ukraine to depose Putin, and the other half to Israel to keep Netanyahu out of prison.

I think one way to make SS solvent is to increase the cap so that the rich fuggers paid fairly into the fund. Did I state that correctly?

Wadda yuh think, John

JohnAZ's avatar

Raise the age of onset, increase the cap as you said, verify the integrity of every disability claim, trim COLA increases.

Estimated shortfall of SSA payments after the trust is gone, is as much as 30%. Then SS taxes will be the only source of the payments.

Sorta like water in the west when the Hoover dam goes dead pool.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

"trim COLA increases". It's been a measly 2.5% for years, correct?

How low can you go!

What's the cost-of-living increase been over the same time period?

And Inflation?

"Raise the age of onset", and fuck over every old person whose been contributing for 40+ years?

Where's your empathy, my friend.

I have a better idea "trim the military budget by half!

And fuck supporting the ethnosupremacist, apartheid, genocidal state of Isreal.

In This Dimension's avatar

Unless we see arrests within weeks, none of this matters, MAGA will stay home - cuz why bother - we will get shellacked in the mids, Trump will he impeached and removed, the borders will be opened, Islamization will take great strides, and America will be over.

Suzie's avatar

And staying home will only Assure we get shellacked. What twisted kind of reasoning is that?

In This Dimension's avatar

I’m not recommending we stay home. I’m commenting on the highly probable reaction of MAGA voters to the utter lack of law enforcement against a huge cohort of traitors. It’s like Thune & SAVE… if they aren’t going to do what the base demands, why should the base show up?

Suzie's avatar

For the very elementary reason that, as feckless as the Republicans are, the alternative is CERTAIN destruction. You play the hand you’re dealt. But play you must. Vote Republican!

Lugh's avatar

You must vote for the Party of Treason and War profiteering.

In This Dimension's avatar

Go take a look at the DOD KIA data. Over 98% of American KIA in foreign wars were killed in wars started by Dems. War party? Dems. Look it up. Oh yeah - and all 600K KIA in the War between the States, also started by Dems.

Simbro Fatarzo's avatar

You EARN my vote

I am sick and tired of “we need to vote to keep the Dems out so we can fix things” and then the “fix” is things like raising taxes, doubling the deficit, raising prices, starting another war

I was told ON DAY ONE and we're two years into a disaster.

I'm not voting until they do ANYTHING they promised.

John Schrauth's avatar

Sounds like a great recipe for Civil strife. Shake the jar, the red ants and black ants fight to the death and the jar shaker rolls in and takes over. Any MAGA that stays home and refuses to vote is betraying himself and everyone else.

Lugh's avatar

I did that as a kid. The reds almost always won. They seem to have more vitality.

Remember, you're voting for a Party that is loyal to Israel, not the United States. If you really want to vote conservative, vote the Constitution Party.

In This Dimension's avatar

While true, it doesn’t alter the calculus. Why bother to vote for pols not doing what they campaigned on?

Suzie's avatar

Because if they maintain the majority, they will remain as a wall of obstruction against the rabid designs of the Democrats to tear down this country and our Constitution and rule over the ashes. It keeps us in the fight which we’ve only just begun. The very Revolutionary War which eventually gave birth to this nation, looked particularly bleak in its early goings. Thankfully, they hung in there and kept fighting anyway. It’s no different now. “A Republic- if you can keep it.”

Lugh's avatar

Oh Sue! The same people fund both parties. Victory by either is a victory for them.

Debbie Wagner's avatar

You are right. I just hope that conservatives/republicans/ MAGA don’t turn out to be self-defeating, like the starving man who turned down a piece of bread because he couldn’t have the whole loaf.

To live is to choose.

ezinmn's avatar

There are far too many in our midst who will only cheer once the battle has been won. Rave on.

dbriz's avatar

When has the battle ever been won?

PapayaSF's avatar

Because whether you get everything you want as fast as you want or not, it comes down to the MAGA GOP vs. gay race communism.

Lugh's avatar

In other words, Israel First traitors vs gay race communists.

PapayaSF's avatar

If you can’t see the overall difference between those groups, I can’t help you.

Lugh's avatar

Yes, they're different, two different groups. One good and one bad? No. Where on Earth do you get that idea?

John Schrauth's avatar

Because you fear or dislike the likely result of said inaction.

ann lewis's avatar

The results are always the same no matter which side you vote for. So why play the game?

John Schrauth's avatar

So why do you bother to read sites like this?

ann lewis's avatar

Because I like to see what people are thinking, read other opinions, etc.

In This Dimension's avatar

If that were true no one would be fighting Trump.

In This Dimension's avatar

I’m always entertained by that analogy stating that we have the same total lack of agency and cognition as a buncha ants. 🙄

PapayaSF's avatar

Don’t you think Trump and his team know this? What do you think people like Miller do all day? Do you really think they’ll let the Democrats do that? Of course not! You can be 100% certain they are planning to win the midterms. Trump knows how to energize MAGA, so he will.

Rick's avatar

Well ? When you going to do something? All talk! No action!

Albert's avatar

I've heard this way too often to believe it will ever happen. Wake me up when these perps are in shackles and orange jump suits.

John Schrauth's avatar

You might consider staying awake long enough to find some way to help make it happen?

wkenn's avatar

If someone's knocked down, yet gets back up, the person has not lost.

The person who stays down is the one who loses.

七転び八起き

Gym+Fritz's avatar

You are absolutely right about everything., but you left out 5 or 6 other deep state / FBI / CIA ops (Article Frost, Round River, etc.), the phony rape charges, the strange assassination attempts, the censorship and surveillance, the full extent of the election fraud, the collusion between the DNC and the “free press”, questionable actions by big Pharma, election interference by the Labor party and the Chinese, the vast money-laundering systems . . . and God knows what else.

I think what you’ve laid out is just the tip of the iceberg. The Dems owe the American people reparations.

dmm's avatar

Kevin Clinesmith radicalized me, then Boasberg gives slap on wrist

You can’t trust a Democrat, and can’t believe a Republican!

#PRESSTITUTES

In Joe DeGenova we trust

Thank you NSA Mike Rogers alerting Trump

Spygate is the greatest scandal in modern American history: a plot to topple President Donald J Trump.

Hillary planned to associate Trump voters with anti-American activities

They are after us, Trump is in the way

Endless deception and fakery. the party of bad ideas and crime

Quash the treasonists

FBI with HER

Igor Danchenko on FBI payroll up to 2019 to cover up 'sources and methods'

Perkins Coie had FBI SCIF on premise

"Generally speaking, when the FBI seizes devices it’s usually to bury them and protect affected interests in/around Washington DC."

Truly amazed at number of people and entities involved to subvert The Republic

Paula Kroll's avatar

The ones we know about.....

Rosemary B's avatar

James, this is well written. I completely enjoy your writing.

Well, since Obama, we have had an epic increase in arrogance right in our faces.

Obama was a contemptuous angry terrorist from the beginning,.. He did gain a lot of acolytes

because everyone wanted to "accept" him, so they could be part of the cool people. Kind of like Junior High bullies.

We are living in such shitty times. I am continuing to keep myself busy enjoying every other shred of the good life.

I am just finishing up your last book. Your paintings are always incredible. I am so honored to know you.

PapayaSF's avatar

It astounds me that there are still people black-pilling. Of course, Trump is not going to let this opportunity pass. He has all the evidence that we know about, plus all federal computer communications via DOGE (searched and indexed by AI), plus all those FBI burn bags. He can vindicate himself, get vengeance, and crush the Democratic Party and the Deep State. He can apply Norman Vincent Peale positive thinking, enforce federal law, and make himself a national hero. He has every reason to do so, and no reasons not to.

The suspense is getting to me. It has to start happening before the midterms.

Lugh's avatar

Yeah, just like he did with the Epstein files. Bam! Boom! (Add whatever Batman subtitles you desire)

Breaking The Change's avatar

This like hopeium. Is there a chance anything gets done? Probably not. 77 million people have been waiting with bated breath for anything and low and behold we still dutifully pay our taxes, watch living standards deteriorate and pray on high that the Lord truly does have a plan and it will all work out. Or the US turns into CA and their communist policies like banning tires. Keep the fire burning for this hope as the damn gonna break sooner or later and who wins no one knows.

Dennis Merwood's avatar

“Prayer is an act of doubt, not an act of faith, for if you truly trusted your God's plan, you wouldn't ever have to pray for anything.” - Michael Sherlock

“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

Religion is a fraud, the opiate for the masses propagated by the psychopaths who hear the word of their own delusions and believe in a book of incest, war, slavery, retribution, control of others and burning witches at the stake. Religion absolves you from taking responsibility or being compassionate, or caring for those punished for their skin colour, or stopping the Gaza genocide.

Religious "faith" is NOT a belief in "God." It is "faith" that one's own mythology is actual fact and that their gods really exist, as opposed to the mythologies and gods of every other religion, living or dead. Even the assertion that there "must be a creator" is a deliberately dishonesty attempt to slot their gods into that position, - as opposed to any other gods or mythologies. Every apologist knows full well there is no more evidence for their gods and mythology than for any other - that's why it's always been called "faith."

Religious apologetics is inherently an exercise in intellectual and personal dishonesty. The apologist can no more "prove" their own gods and mythology, than they can disprove the gods and mythology of any other religion. The demand that the atheist "disprove" the existence of an apologist's "god" is just more of the same hypocrisy and dishonesty inherent in religious apologetics and reflects the innate hypocrisy of the religious in general: they expect others to meet standards they rarely, if ever, hold themselves to.

Scott's avatar

Even though I'm inclined to agree with you on many points, you are kind of one-note posting. Every time someone mentions God, prayer, the Bible or anything related, you know Dennis will chime in. Why is that?

Dennis Merwood's avatar

For me, the bottom line is always Truth. The question must always be, Is it True? That is the only way to make the best choices for ourselves, as well as our society. Even the most inoffensive religious belief systems introduce unsupported claims and take us away from the path of Truth, robbing us of the ability to make the best decisions in our lives.

Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. And religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.

A philosophical argument for God and a ham sandwich combined are worth slightly less than a ham sandwich. You can have as many philosophical arguments for “God” as you like, it doesn't change the fact that there's no evidence that there is one.

If Christians could just state this fact ~ these discussions would be much shorter."I believe this Christian theology simply because I was randomly born into this culture and was told to believe it as a child. I have no shred of verifiable data or empirical science-based evidence for any supernatural events or Gods. I just believe it."

Zeus, Allah, Yahweh or Thor? There have been hundreds of "Gods." Every religion claim's that theirs is the only true God! What evidence do you have that your religion is not just other false religion? Why is your "God" real and all the others are not? When you understand why you dismiss ALL the other possible "Gods", only then will you understand why we atheists dismiss yours.

The Bible was written, revised and edited many times by the religious for the religious. The last thing it is, is truthful, reliable, unbiased, impartial or a neutral source. Christians that belief the entirety of Bible are willing to sacrifice their humanity on the altar of a book that they can't even prove.

PapayaSF's avatar

Read my other comments.

Doug Ross's avatar

Great summary, James. As this case unfolds, I've been sharing graphic novels to help tell the tale.

1. The Day They Manufactured Russiagate: A Graphic Novel - https://directorblue.substack.com/p/the-day-they-manufactured-russiagate

2. The FBI vs. General Flynn*: A Graphic Novel - https://directorblue.substack.com/p/the-fbi-vs-general-flynn-a-graphic

3. Weinergate: A Graphic Novel: https://directorblue.substack.com/p/weinergate-a-graphic-novel

* Gen. Flynn posted on X about this story. It's time all Americans knew the truth and demanded relief.

MarshaLouise's avatar

Apparently, that Weiner laptop will alone supply sufficient evidence to destroy many of the big players in this conspiracy plot.

Lugh's avatar

Good. Tony downloaded all that to protect himself. It probably still exists. Huma did him wrong. He'll cooperate if he doesn't know what's good for him.