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Crixcyon's avatar

The greatest mental retardation in history is POLITICS. Pick the blue or the red pills...either way, you will be endlessly bombarded with lies and propaganda. Never will you ever see a light at the end of the "political" tunnel...unless you are passing into the next life perhaps.

Suzy Cue's avatar

Yes. It’s all theater. Fake. Propaganda. Keeping the population distracted and fearful, so they be more easily controlled. As for Congress, don’t get me started. They’re corrupted to the core. They care about two things: money and votes.

Cankerpuss's avatar

In the US House of Representatives there are 217 Republicans and 214 Democrats.

Out of the 214 Democrats there isn't a single one of them, not ONE, that has a unique thought, that has a unique district to represent, a desire to think for themselves. Not ONE. Instead, 214 of them sit there with their thumbs up their asses and wait for the party bosses to tell them what to do. If they don't do it, they don't get their committee assignments, don't get the endorsement and don't get paid. Amen to the lucrative lobbying and talking head positions at MSNBC and CNN after they resign.

It's not much better out of the 217 Republicans. As always there are a handful of Republicans who like power too much and side too often with the brainless Democratic robots and screw everything up. These people are the worst of the worst. The shit clogging the toilet. The dregs of the dregs.

The US Congress is a dismal failure. A colossal waste of space and resources. Americans should be marching on the Congressional office buildings and removing these fuckers and stringing them up. They don't represent anything but their wallets and their careers.

So what do we the people do? Vote? Nope. Too corrupted. March on Washington? Nope. We end up in prison with no charges. Not pay taxes? And lose everything we've worked for. Contact our Congressional Representatives? Our message will end with some nubile aide that the representative is sleeping with. Rely on the States? The States are as corrupt as the US Congress.

In other words, we are screwed. There is always a John Thune out there to replace a rotting carcass like Mitch McConnell.

Tenquid's avatar

I feel like I'm an unscripted extra in the latest remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The No Kings demo in my little village was an illustration of what Stephen King called "sunlit horror ". I'm 75. I thought I knew these people. Some of these zombies teach my grandchildren in the local school. I recognized the clerk from the post office and the checkout lady from the Family Market. I will never trust them again.

Sue Thompson's avatar

Yes, YES--I invoke The Invasion of the Body Snatchers repeatedly. I'm watching for the pod people--do not go to sleep. The woke sleep and become aliens.

Letsrock's avatar

The pods are def out there.

wkenn's avatar

I was thinking of commenting. Best I could come up with: it sounds a lot like Massachusetts.

Whenever I hear (fill in the blank) say contact your congressman and senator, my internal response is 'ya right, contact Warren and Markey, that'll get things moving.

Cankerpuss's avatar

The only answer that makes sense to me, wkenn, is a complete and utter political and economical collapse. The system cannot be changed. It's too corrupted, the rot and decay are too deep, the cancer has spread too far. The only way to purge this is to bring it all down and rebuild from the debris left behind. The people have no voice or representation. Period. They steal our money with impunity, mock us, revile us, and hate us while they enrich themselves for life. It must come down for anything to change.

wkenn's avatar

Jefferson's opinion was a cleansing every 20 or so years was a good idea. We're way overdue.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Thomas Jefferson, who wants to listen to that old rich slave porking white dude. (note strong sarcasm).

Impatient's avatar

Bingo. It won't be fun but it is necessary. There are still a disturbing number of people who care for nothing but themselves. These will not wake up to reality until it bitch slaps them, HARD. Near death experience.

Kathy Christian's avatar

A 12-kt nuke detonated over Washington would accomplish that.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Ha, so true. Honestly, I don't think anyone is stupid enough to use a nuke other than the USA. There are those who believe nuclear bombs don't even exist, that all the testing and use of the bombs was theatrically created to keep the people in fear. Kind of like the moon landings.

I don't know what to believe anymore.

Letsrock's avatar

Exactly why they won't release all the files bc the entire collapse will be the outcome. Bring it on!

UncleBob9's avatar

Or The Brooklyn Schoolmarm (Schmuck Schumer) and Farmer (Kirsten) Gillibrand (a self-styled "farmer" who was a lawyer before she became a pol -- definitely not a legit farmer like Harry Truman).

UncleBob9's avatar

BTW, what DID happen to the aide who was found dead on the floor of Joke Scharborough's congressional office not long before he bolted for Mess-NBC?

Ben R's avatar

Not entirely true Fetterman, dare I say it breaks ranks as far as thinking goes, who knows.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Thinking is all nice, fun and dandy, but how does he vote? Does he ever break ranks when it comes to voting? If he does, I'd welcome the knowledge.

Letsrock's avatar

Fetterman 2.0

Lugh's avatar

They virtually take money from Israel. Some take money from China too. Or other countries. This should be illegal - all of it.

Ben R's avatar

I agree with you all of it.

Kathy Christian's avatar

Keep voting for those elected representatives!

Cankerpuss's avatar

Yes, because it has served us so well. (note heavy sarcasm).

Phil Denter's avatar

Three things, actually. Money and votes as a means to serve Israel. Sad but true.

JohnAZ's avatar

With the “creative” elections going on, I am not sure if the DC crowd even cares about votes. Remember that the numbskulls that JHK is writing about vote.

BTW, are we just seeing the effects of TLE? Are we that close to the supply/demand cliff that a war in the Middle East can do the damage in the markets that is happening?

wkenn's avatar

I think we've been in the act of going over the energy cliff, which is about the same thing. Without energy nothing moves.

There are a lot of deforested areas around the Mediterranean. It dates back to the Bronze Age, they needed the wood to run the furnaces.

CC's avatar

...and getting home on time for the Easter Bunny 🐰

Bandit's avatar

Yep. They've gotta have the votes to get more of the money.

Phil Denter's avatar

The Elephants vs. The Donkeys: '24 Midterms

"The most important midterms in history!"

Red v Blue

Frick v Frack

Tweedledum & Tweedledee

elysianfield's avatar

Phil,

Why am I seeing your posts? I was blocked.

Phil Denter's avatar

In a gesture of peace, I recently unblocked every block I had (about half a dozen characters). We'll see how it goes from here.

Cheers, Ely!

JackStrawWichita's avatar

I particularly enjoyed seeing Trump, as Scott Adams would say, "Picking the money up that was left on the table" by a frightened Lloyds of London. It happened so quickly that you knew it was pre-planned. Brilliant.

JM Calabrese's avatar

Yes, Trump surely has a nose for that.

Freedom 4 conservatives's avatar

The reality is that Communist China is behind almost all of it. The brain-dead No Kings Boomer leftist grandmothers (if they are grandmothers who squirted out a couple of puppies before they became frigid or lesbian, or are just bitter old man-hating women) are being bankrolled by ChiComm billionaire Singham and the CCP; Communist China and its toady North Korea are arming Iran with missiles, etc.; Communist China continues to pump fentanyl into America via the Mexican cartels (committing wholesale genocide against feckless Americans--as if unleashing the COVID pandemic on the world wasn't enough); the Communist Chinese have bought and paid for most of the Democrat Party hooligan politicians; and the former Communist Chinese proxy Venezuela helped to rig the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections in favor of the Democrats, often quite successfully.

Now, the Chi-Comms are all whacked off because their oil supply from Iran is being effectively cut off, and they might have to face the possibility that the U.S. will soon hold significant control over who, what, and where can go through the Straits of Hormuz. Few people can see (or do see but don't want to see) that President Trump's overall objective here is to fuck over Communist China--which Communist China so richly deserves--while not directly confronting China. Trump is also likely trying to convince Putin that burning all of Russia's military assets in the Ukraine War is foolishly weakening Russia's ability to defend itself against Communist China. Russia and America may not like each other--just like the Soviet Union and the U.S. didn't like each other in World War II--but Russia has much more to fear from China than it does from the U.S. Communist China is behaving bubby-buddy with Russia just like Nazi Germany was playing buddy-buddy with the Soviet Union right before Germany attacked the USSR. My surmise is that Communist China will invade Russia when Russia reaches the point that it is weak enough.

Finally, no one should doubt that Communist China is a totally genocidal regime. China does not need people--it needs land and natural resources. It will mass murder any country's inhabitants that it conquers as soon as it is able to do so efficiently and effectively--the 2025 version of Hitler's "Living Space" policies. What better target than its resource-rich, relatively low-population neighbor, Russia? Meanwhile, China will continue to try to overthrow the U.S. Government using its toadies here in the U.S., which includes much of the Democrat Party itself that is owned by the Communist Party.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Good Lord. After reading your post, which is well written, by the way, I am now convinced even more than ever that we should have listened to the admonishments of George Washington, when, in his farewell address, he strongly advised our fore fathers to have open trade with all but to avoid all foreign entanglements. What a complete and total mess this world is and the USA, my home, is right smack-dab in the middle of it all.

God help us.

Alice Ball's avatar

I agree with every word Freedom. This is about China & energy control. The hate-Israel fanatics are always misled into thinking "the Jews" made us do it. Trump is in charge.

Rob Anderson's avatar

It’s possible we the (U.S.) people have more than 2 adversaries.

Lugh's avatar

No. There can only be ONE! Simple minds demand it.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Yes, and one controls our political process.

Lugh's avatar

Yes, the Rothschilds are Chinese. And the Chinese control Hollywood. Schumer? Chinese. Israel? A Chinese colony.

RevMikeyMac's avatar

Most articulate comment today. If China is willing to harvest organs from the living among them (plenty of evidence that they are), they will stop at NOTHING to gain and retain power and their desired hegemony.

Kathy Christian's avatar

China wants to colonize the United States, for the reasons you stated. They have too many people and not enough arable land. I believe there are Chinese troops in the United States waiting for the signal. The food recalls feed them, since they must be fed off the books.

CC's avatar

Biden let in 50K Chinese at the southern border, mostly men - no vetting

UncleBob9's avatar

It kinda sounds like the back story of "1984"....

wkenn's avatar

I'm not so sure about the Straits part. OTOH Russia weakening itself with the Ukraine situation is spot on. Back in the Cold War era there were a few dustups on the Sino-Soviet border. Russia has massive land with resources but a small population compared to size. The CCP apparently has the workforce numbers to exploit the land mass and resources.

Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

"Eerie lackawanna" and a reference to "myrmidons" in the same post! We are not worthy. But, by all means, please continue to favor us with your literary effulgence. I look forward to every bit of word play and all the arcane references that you can muster, dear James. And in another positive development, the Iranians have promised to bomb American universities if we don't immediately cease our military operations. If only!

JohnAZ's avatar

Hmmm, is that an indication of where the globalistic inspired Iran cells are located, in our universities?

Mun’s Frolick's avatar

A republic cannot survive without civic virtue, and the American republic has not enough of that stuff. It drowns instead in oceans of ignorance and vanity (i.e. self-enrichment).

UncleBob9's avatar

It's so dead that not even Miracle Max could save it.

Castelletto's avatar

Maybe yes, maybe no. Don't know how you could possibly know how much civic virtue there is and how it compares to the broad swath of fallen humanity throughout history.

Lugh's avatar

Yes. The diseases of Capitalism and "Free Dumb" have triumphed. People actually feel morally triumphant when they devote themselves to getting rich as if nothing else matters.

Jack's avatar

We are on the right path. Don’t let those bastards convince you otherwise!

Daryl Poe's avatar

Well reviewed, sir. Thank you.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

sigh ... looks like JHK is gonna continue carrying the long-defunct "Two-Party" narrative 'til the day he croaks. "Donkeys - bad!! Elephants - good!!!" Way past the time to wake up, JHK!

Read my lips: It's a UNI-Party, all working for the same Globalist Masters! They just want people to think that one side's "bad", the other "good", and you must pick a side. The tragedy is that people continue falling for it, thereby aiding their objective to "keep 'em divided and infighting". Meanwhile, they continue pursuing the Globalist agenda as a unified entity against we the people.

Way to go, JHK!!

James Howard Kunstler's avatar

Jorge--

"Uniparty" is a a tired, simpleminded cliche. It just doesn't make you look brilliant.

Jorge Fernandez's avatar

My goal isn't to "look brilliant", but merely to voice what is well known by informed individuals.

All anyone has to do is examine critically, sans bias, the voting in Congress. *Globalist* objectives (nearly) always get the votes, most often requiring that some reds vote with the blues, or vice versa. Interesting how that happens - always "just enough" turncoats.

You mean well, but have absorbed and are invested in the two-party narrative far too much for your discernment to function properly.

The Globalist Cabal has captured *enough* of our Congress so that they essentially control what Congress does. They don't need every single one captured, just enough to be certain that their agenda gets to advance - they've achieved that.

I won't try to convince you, just encourage you to view things with that perspective in mind. Do that and watch as "perplexing" events suddenly become easily explainable.

JohnAZ's avatar

Uniparty is a misnomer. There are two groups contesting in the Congress, one believing that government is the boss, and another that says that the people are the boss. The former is the Deep State that has managed to take control of both the Federal government and many of the states, and the latter is the populist group known as MAGA. Dem and GOP are obsolete. Just ask the RINOs or John Fetterman their opinions. I hope the country realigns itself into two legitimate parties with real differences between them. I also hope that the population wises up. The socialists are just about in perpetual control.

John Schrauth's avatar

The GOP voters are largely MAGA yet when push comes to shove on issues MAGA holds dear, the establishment weasel trash like McConnell/Thune screw us over at every turn. As I said, of the 535, Burchett and maybe two dozen others max are trying to be true to their voters.

JohnAZ's avatar

Agreed, but in 1856 and 1860, the GOP took over the country by putting out a platform that made sense. There is no helping the idiot Left, but populist control could stop the death of America.

John Schrauth's avatar

MAGA populists have proposed reforms that make sense, yet are frustrated continuously by RINOs like Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis et al in the Senate. MAGA should be the future but MAGA is vehemently anti grift and corruption, at least in theory, and this is a no starter for all of the Republican grandees who have mysteriously become multi-millionaires while in office just like their Democrat homies The evidence of this is in the horrified reactions over attempting to use the DOGE algorithms to detect thieving and phony voter rolls. Even though horrific financial crimes were uncovered such as USAID and all the rest, they couldn't stop it fast enough.

Review the headlines from one year ago and you will notice virtually every bombshell of corruption has since been memory holed.

Liquid Len's avatar

I think in order to find the group who think the people are the boss you'd need a microscope, seems to me that the air in Washington DC is corrosive to one's morals

dancingtime's avatar

Per chance, the IQ level of far too many people in Congress simply is not high enough to even know of globalist objectives....listen to these people....they are not smart....

John Schrauth's avatar

It is hard to dispute the line that "There are many Republicans who are actually Democrats in DC, but there are no Democrats in DC who are actually Republicans." Except for the dozen or two members like Tim Burchett, it looks like the other 500+ in both houses are for sale or have very bad ulterior motives.

Ray Bob's avatar

He forgot to blame the Jews as well

UncleBob9's avatar

Lugh will be along shortly to fill that void.

Ben R's avatar

Don't forget idiots like FOSP and the Anarchist stranger bedfellow.

Queerest name on this site, I might add.

Ben R's avatar

Oh, that canard is easily gleaned through in the mindlessness of the uni-party comment.

Lugh's avatar

Jews can do no wrong according to Jews.

Old Gyrene's avatar

George could borrow Elon's brain and still not look "brilliant".

Fill in the blank: "You can't fix ___."

Rob Anderson's avatar

Primaries matter. Even if you belong to “the other guy’s party”, some of the people in each are better or worse.

A Fetterman, or a Warren?

A Massie, or a Graham?

Polly Frost's avatar

Besides the Boomer No Kings crowd, my small CA city is duffer RINO central … they want their country club back! Oh, for the days of Reagan! (Whose ranch was in my city’s mountains.) Sometimes our local retired CIA operative (so he claims) will take a pause from martinis at the country club and tap out one of his columns in which he tells Trump how it ought to be done. Meanwhile, an Elon launch this morning from our nearby airforce base was successful, but our governor has chased him away because we need that bullet train from Modesto to Bakersfield running and Elon just won’t do the green thing. Everyone enjoy their Monday.

Ben R's avatar

Years behind and tens of billions over budget.

Anyone even remotely associated with that boondoggle deserves a month in court and years in the slammer.

The bullet train to nowhere!

A bullet to the California budget and our greasy haired fake teeth having Governor deserves his very own lampost!

Scott's avatar

It's so obviously a money laundering operation and was never going to be completed, or even started for that matter. Supposedly the proposition "passed" by a narrow margin, which means it didn't pass. There's an army of "consultants" making 400-500k a year for doing nothing. Meanwhile the "No Kings" crowd remains blissfully unaware of any of it. Thanks again to the criminally dishonest MSM

JohnAZ's avatar

However,

How do we get the infrastructure we do need? How come Asia can build high speed rail? Or Europe. This is what government should be doing, building the infrastructure that aids the economy and the people. I read the TLE the first time in response to JHK saying we need a much better railroad system, which I agree with. The real problem with the high speed rail in California is Newsom and the crooks in Sacramento. If Trump has built it, it would already be done and under budget. To a Democrat, infrastructure is primarily social welfare. “Not a rail has been laid”? True, but most of the construction involves separating the HSR trains from the road network to avoid high speed crashes. Look at a typical freeway project, it takes forever to build the supports and road bases, the roads themselves are fast. Laying and welding the rails will be small potatoes compared to what has been done.

I am in favor of building HSR all over the USA. The airways are getting too crowded and a secret is that is HSR is allowed to move at its 200+mph potential, it will compete on long distance routes. When California pulls this off and shows its capabilities, it will kick off a major build of HSR. Think Texas, think the Midwest, think Florida to NYC, the key is successful separation of the roadbed from the background roadways to allow full speed operation. Mag lev and the Boring company are next for urban development. It is a dream but a good one.

Full Name's avatar

May be cheaper and quicker to bore tunnels underground than to deal with the condemnation\EPA BS of obtaining surface rail right-of-way.

Of course, some claim those subterranean tunnels already exist, just not set up for rapid\cheap\safe proletariat passenger transport...

Lugh's avatar

Ditto the whole military/industrial complex. A for profit venture - thus both inefficient and demonic. Why can't we make weapons to just defend our nation? Why isn't that enough?

Letsrock's avatar

Elon is too busy doing the AI data centers thing. God help us.

Tom's avatar
5hEdited

The EZ button on the money printer is broken and it’s out of ink.

As for Trump, he's lost his mind -- his pressers are mind-bending. I voted for the guy six times, err....I mean three times. Complete an utter failure doesn't even come close to describing this fiasco launched solely on behalf of our so called "Greatest Ally."

I wonder, what finally made him pull the trigger? Maybe Jared and Steve W. (two completely disinterested parties re: the interests of Israel...cough ....cough) showed him that cartoon drawing of the Wile E. Coyote time bomb that Bibi has been carrying around for the past two decades. Someone should ask him.

ezinmn's avatar

“Many claim they “have no idea” what we are doing there — can it be that hard? — “

John Schrauth's avatar

Regardless of all the controversies and ideas, both crazy and those rooted in some evidence, Shia Islam is a doomsday cult. Like those Christian doomsday fellows accused of wanting Armageddon "so they can build the Third Temple," yada yada, the Shia want their own kind of Armageddon which they believe will bring the return of their Hidden Imam who has been waiting hundreds of years to reemerge and impose their beliefs on all of mankind.

Nothing is off the table in bringing this about and a Shiite with a working nuke would absolutely use it if we believe their claims of being eager to die in order to do this to the rest of us. If I see a rabid Coyote on my property I am going to blast it with a shotgun regardless of how upset my old lady neighbor who was waving signs downtown Saturday would be as a result. Perhaps that is the logic at work here? I despise war but everyone needs to be aware that they're going to do it when they can regardless of whether they offend the sensibilities of the blue hair crazies among us.

Ira's avatar
3hEdited

YOU, "wonder, what finally made him pull the trigger?"

Maybe the Mullahs WERE "that close" to building the bomb, and the missiles to deliver them!

That YOU rule out the possibility, off-handedly, defines who and what you are.

Have a nice day, Tucker!

Ben R's avatar

It was Iran revealing that they have enough material to make 10-11 nukes right now.

And rubbing it in the faces of the team negotiating for a peaceful resolution.

In other words, Iran being Iran trolling and not getting the result they expected.

Paul B. Cohen's avatar

Tom, many people will agree with you that the Islamists and CCP should take over what remains of this greatly-addled and decency-despising contingent resisting the King of the Jews. You must be right because there seems to be so many of you.

Scott's avatar

It's odd to see all the Trump hatred. Maybe it's just paid trolls or black pill addled brains, not sure. From where I'm sitting Trump is doing a great job bringing back the American economic system and turning away the forces of globalist imperialism. Hard to imagine anyone doing a better job with those things, and those are by far the most important

JohnAZ's avatar

There was no king of the Jews. Jesus did everything he could to remove that moniker.

Jesus was put on earth to destroy the Judaic religion, not the Hebrews. Think about this, His ministry was in the North, in Samaria, Syria and Galilee. All His folks were Galileans. These people were despised by the Judeans as the ten lost tribes of Israel. Thus it makes sense that the political execution of Jesus was mandatory to the Judeans in Jerusalem, He was a huge threat to their little game. Were the descendents of Jude and Benjamin going to kowtow to the ten Israeli tribes? Never.

It was a Hebrew civil war.

Paul B. Cohen's avatar

“Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

“He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.”

John, stop being a know-it-all and start listening.

“If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to.”

JohnAZ's avatar

Well, well, another hater who cannot understand counter views.

Jesus was not accepted by the rulers of Judea or their outreach into Samaria and Galilee. He was sent to change the Judaic corrupted religion where the belief was that money, buying animals for sacrifice, would forgive sins. That is why He drove the money hangers out of the Temple.

His ministry was in the North, not Jerusalem. He knew when He came South the last time that they would kill Him, or at least try. He lost Judea as “they received Him not”, but won the Roman world. Thirty years later, the Romans finished the job of destroying the Temple. Jesus, however, spiritually destroyed the Temple by rising in three days, destroying the Judaic religion base.

To today, the Jews do not believe in a spiritual Messiah, still waiting for someone that will defeat the world in their favor. That is slowly changing with the Jews for Jesus.

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

POTUS does well in bad economic times. Creating a global and US recession is an opportunity for he and his Epstein Island billionaire buddies like Bill Gates to clean up. He only has 3 years left and he us not going to pass up this opportunity.

John The Visionary's avatar

RINOs are democRATs who couldn't get elected as the democRATs that they are.

JohnAZ's avatar

That is a truth.

Mary Fisher's avatar

Unbelievable how the New York Times has carried water for the Iranian regime. Absolutely agree with all you wrote. They hate America and want to destroy it. They love fascism, if they even know what it means, and they are on the side of Hitler, policy wise - siding with the bad guys while telling themselves they are good.

Freedom 4 conservatives's avatar

The greatest lie perpetrated in the post World War II era--purposely by Socialists--has been that conservative capitalists are Fascists. In fact, Communist/Socialist and Fascist/Socialist ideologies are nearly identical: they both believe in a centrally (government-dictated) "planned" economy, both ideologies hate free market capitalism, both are anti-freedom, both believe that the people serve the government and not the other other way around, both espouse racism and bigotry (with the only difference being what ethnic, racial, or religious group is to be victimized by the regime). The basic difference between Communist/Socialist and Fascist/Socialist ideology is that the Fascist/Socialists will tolerate large corporatists to own property and make a profit only so long as the corporatists pledge total allegiance to the regime and to be heavily controlled by the regime. The Communist/Socialists believe that the state should own and control ALL property. And, even the Fascist/Socialist Hitler confided that he believed that private ownership of property by the corporatists would be only a "temporary condition", and that the government would eventually "nationalize" all private property. Now, if that sounds something like the WEF mantra, "You will own nothing and you will be happy," you would be correct. Socialism in all its forms is inherently evil and anti-freedom. And anyone who embraces Socialism is profoundly evil, whether they think or realize that they are or not.

Cankerpuss's avatar

"The Communist/Socialists believe that the state should own and control ALL property."

The state of the USA does own and control ALL property, F4C. It's called "property tax." Every one of us who owns property has to pay this tax or the government can place liens on the property and eventually foreclose or put the property up for tax sale. In other words, the US government owns every inch of land in the USA. We own absolutely nothing. We are renters only, serfs subject to our government Lords.

What gets my panties in a wad is most Americans care not and willfully pay that property tax. Well, at least those who are smart enough to know that the banks pay the tax out of their monthly escrow. Most Americans have no clue how much tax they pay because of those insidious little things called "withholdings" and "escrows."

They are so clever, aren't they? We are so stupid, aren't we?

JohnAZ's avatar

Musk is NOT controlled by the government, he is in continuous competition with them. DOGE, SpaceX, Tesla, X all are in opposition to the bureaucracy.

Yes, half the people in the USA are stupid, believing that a corrupt government thinks or cares about them. Trump’s big victory in 2024 gives hope, but now we see the reaction of the gimmes to the hard knocks required to right the ship, in 2026, this fall, we will see if Americans are worth the worry.

You realize that the social media is under assault by the government for control of what we hear? The kids are the legality, but it is control of content that is the meat of the matter.

Cankerpuss's avatar

"Musk is NOT controlled by the government"

Where did you get that, JohnAZ. Most of Musk's wealth has come from government contracts.

JohnAZ's avatar

He is an embarrassment to NASA who fights Space X for dollars, the cabinet dumped Musk when DOGE started eating up their public dollars,

Tesla is his image, solar everywhere, cars, houses, boats, battery storage. Now, AI where he is fighting the no holds barred approach of the Google et al crowd. Musk knows what is coming with AI, and is afraid of it.

He is an individual entrepreneur, and we need many more of him.

Cankerpuss's avatar

I'm not saying Musk isn't an entrepreneur, brilliant or creative. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in

government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits. Someone who receives this kind of money from the government definitely has strings attached.

Mary Fisher's avatar

They also don’t understand how money printing has stolen the value of money, debts signed in their name has stolen the future, and regulation(intimidation) of businesses has stolen the jobs. That’s why working people are living in their cars and can’t afford much food or any healthcare. When the welfare and food stamps run out- it’s going to be Mad Max.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Money printing......AKA the "silent tax." They print the money and inject it into the system. The banks and those who receive the newly minted money enjoy the extra money at today's prices. As the money trickles down the additional dollars are competing for the same amount of resources causing prices to rise. By the time that newly minted money makes it to the people prices have already increased. Money printing takes that 100 dollars you have in the bank and makes it even worth less than it was before.

It is evil. Few there be that give a damn. As long as they can watch the NFL and the NBA and buy a sports jersey with some other man's name on their back, hey, that's all that matters.

JohnAZ's avatar

Yup, and remember it is the result of politics. And stupidity. What do you think, you think the Deep State might be feeding on the stupidity?

JohnAZ's avatar

How any of those bumpkins understand basic economics? Or want to? They are gimmes, and do not care where their livelihood comes from.

Ron Neff's avatar

Not many people understand basic economics. My sister in law once complained that her money from the gov't was not enough and when I interjected that the gov't cannot fund everything and her honest answer was that well.......they could just print some more. She has no idea that we are wildly printing money or borrowing money that does not exist-----as fast as our bureaucracy can make it happen. And......she thinks inflation happens because people running businesses raise their prices.

Sadly 10's of millions of her fellow citizens are just like her.

Kathy Christian's avatar

Yes, many years ago I ran into someone who said exactly that, they can just print some more.

Mary Fisher's avatar

Freedom 4, I agree, but even Russia has always had carve outs for powerful gangsters. That’s how you know an evil regime- the only way you can have “freedom” is if you’re a criminal - either in actuality or because of dissent.

UncleBob9's avatar

You have to remember, NYT carried water for both Hitler and Stalin, so why are you surprised they're still supporting America's enemies?

Mary Fisher's avatar

I’m not surprised by them per se, just that they’re still doing it in 2026. They are probably funded by stolen money, because I doubt there are that many subscribers. And it’s still unbelievable- their headlines and articles are utterly unbelievable. So many people lie, and many live in what I call, “Opposite Land” or “Upside Down World”. Good is evil to them and evil is good. Racism is anti-racism and murder is “healthcare”. They are drowning because they are swimming away from the true light.

Old Gyrene's avatar

Yes, those MF'ing lefties hate us but we but we're the ones with the equipment to win the battle.

A.M.'s avatar

Irony painfully thick this weekend as I drove past our small town's lunatic gathering of No Kings protesters. Egads, we are talking Washington State here where our legislature and governor have behaved worse than Marie Antoinette. Not only do we pay an extra 60 cents per gallon of gas for 'Climate Intiatives' (and mind you this tax also applies to heating oil--and I live in a town where we can't have natural gas because we are coastal) but despite our state constitutional protections against a state income tax, we've now got one, along with higher property tax and capital gain tax. We've also had our legislature decree that cities and towns will have no say in bureaucrats and NGOs who decide to build junkie hotels in our towns. We get a public bus terminal in the midst of downtown right next to the high school which is a magnet for every junkie traveling up and down the road from Olympia to Astoria and the city is told we have no say.

But, by all means, go out and spend your Saturday protesting the elusive King of your fevered brain while ignoring all those governing us in our state.

izzy's avatar

Preceding all mentioned above, the notion that men can become women just by saying so, was an obvious clue that outright insanity is now the order of the day. If that absurdity can be believed, almost anything else is then possible.

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I didn’t spot a single king this weekend. See how well the protests are working?

Full Name's avatar

Yeah, but I saw lots and lots of "FOO-KING idiots" holding signs...

Ben R's avatar

I saw a small one run off by a Persian protest against Iran and for the American war with American, Iranian, and Israeli flags up and down the street.

Another one, consisting of a thousand or so people, on Mira Mesa Blvd near the Miramar Marine Air Station.

Lots of green and purple hair and old people everywhere.

Noisy, stupid, but exercising their rights to peaceful protest.

They lasted a couple of hours in the noonday heat.

Saw my first movie in a movie theater in at least a decade, Hail Mary.

Kathy Christian's avatar

Why do they always color their hair weird colors? My hairdresser says that that really damages your hair.

David "JC" Penny's avatar

Play pinochle.... better chance at seeing a king. :)