The City Administrator of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Stephanie Hirsch, breezed in last year and unilaterally ordered up some Congolese for her city. She expressed a vague sense of hurt feelings at the local reception of her decree ("Not great, Stephanie!"). Her father was a friend of mine . . . where did he go wrong in raising this clod of a daughter?
Eau Claire and other cities are also knocking together ugly, medium-density blocks of housing in empty store lots and such. They're all over the landscape here and in the Twin Cities. What the hell? Is this that bullshit Obama was planning?
Meanwhile, carjackings are up over 200% in Minnesota's Twin Cities. This must have something to do with "joy" and "turning the page," but I'm not sure what.
10/21/24: A LOT sooner than even they realize. The biggest budget item in the 2025 federal calculus will be prisons, and payroll for guards to staff them.
Simple, the liberal mind, actually the Leftist mind, is self-directed. They are gimme or gimme sympathetic folks who look to the government for sustenance. Their root is the Have Nots of society whose main goal is stealing from the Haves. Our Constitution protects ownership rights for the population, that is why the Left want it obliterated.
Many of us come here to escape people like you. We deal with your tripe seven days a week. You're not welcome here. I'm sure there are other sites that are more suited to your mentality. Go there. Drink your poisoned Kool aid and drown in it
I'm married to a professor emeritus/propulsion test engineer, and he self-directs himself to the voting booth to cast a ballot for Trump. If I had a nickel for ever self-important, elitist fuck who says Teump voters are . . . Neanderthals. Lol!
Dennis - my health is perfect. Food is our medicine, not the poison the whitecoats push. I'll never have cancer of any sort, but if I did, an Oncologist is the last person I'd go to - they poison people with chemotherapy and radiation - for mammon. How do they sleep at night?
Not too sure I'd be all that proud of your DUI daughters. I've worked with a lot of doctors and they, as in the general college population, are not all that smarter than is the average college professor who knows quite a bit about his chosen subject but gets himself lost looking for one errant shoe that has wandered under his bed. Doctors credentials, like most of those professors degrees, are the result of persistence rather than intelligence. Given your rhetoric and the fact that both are the product of your loins, I suspect both fall under that rubric.
Yeah, well, that's just another result of what's been going on since the mid to late 1970s when, especially, but not limited to, self hating Jewish doctors saw that there was a disparity between the percentage of those with enhanced melanin in the population as opposed to those entering medical school and decided to decrease the rigor of the testing and establish quotas (read: giveaways) for those coveted spots. (Don't quote me, but I think that was about the time when they decided to change autopsy language for doctor induced death from malpractice to 'medical misadventure'. That way everybody's off the hook.)
Now, of course, we have doctors practicing who have to have interpreters in the room with them in order to communicate with English speakers.
That second link is so ironic. Hillary brings up getting rid of Section 230, but awhile back when the right complained about Facebook and (then) Twitter for being so censoring, and wanted to take away that provision, the shit hit the fan with the leftie whackos.
Along that line, check out James MacPherson’s Substack from yesterday, “How Freedom Is Lost and How Freedom is Won.” He uses the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart from Exodus as his example.
The Twin Cities are the LA of the midwest. I swear, you can't get more Woke than Timpon Walz. So it's not much of a surprise. Somalians had already taken over Minnesota long ago. Why not keep that model going? I don't know why Minnesotans don't fight back. I dated one for many years, they were of Swedish decent, maybe the Swedes are neutral here like they are in their country? Who knows. In any case, what a mess.
Scandinavian and Scandinavians are deep into dignity culture and very trusting. Very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to every comer. It's not a common type of culture. It's very unlike the Scotch-Irish and Mestizo honor cultures of the American South where you defend your honor above all. We Norwegians and Swedes are like flipping sitting ducks in our communitarian states, and we let the barbarian walk in unopposed.
(It also means four cars at a four-way stop sign assuming the other guy should go first, then the awkward stop/go/stop exercise in futility, costing everyone 30 seconds of their respective days)
Hilarious, 'cuz its true! You shake your head, but then can't help but smile. Those Scandi's are just as sweet as spun sugar. The funny thing is when they all get to jabbering in Deep Nord; I can only make out about one word in three.
My first husband is a Swedish Minnesotan from the Iron Range. I'm a Wisconsin Norwegian, and we have the same mindset, really. But the Iron Range, until recently, was solid Dem because of all the recent immigrant miners who were strong for unions. Trump changed that. But I really don't know what keeps Minnesotans so simpleminded and trusting; they even have their weird Democratic Farm Labor party, which represents none of those things any longer.
I should add that my ex is a hereditary union-nased Dem, amplified by his decades of involvement in the teachers' unions. I love the guy, but he's a hard-core member of the Democratic state machine for that reason. I married a mobster!
No Union democrat teacher can ever be talked into changing their opinion, no matter how good the argument against the democrat candidate. I've tried for the past 30 years. When we go to the polls, my spouse just cancels out my vote. I guess we should just stay home and watch TV instead.
Don't stay home Outsider. Your wife, if she's like the dems I know, might just say she's going out for milk and eggs, and lo and behold, she casts a vote for the bad guys without you knowing.
The problem is, as in every part of the country now, you, if you are white and/or conservative, cannot fight back and win any battles in court. The justice system in the country is totally corrupted.
So wrong. SO WRONG! If you are white and conservative, just don't expect to have any sway with the courts IF YOU CANNOT PRODUCE EVIDENCE - viz Giuliani & Powell in Dec 2020 & Jan 2021
Yes, people just do not seem to want to acknowledge the degree of control the Leftist judiciary has in the country. There was reported to be significant evidence, affidavits of ballot stuffing, esp. in PA. It was suppressed and not even looked at. By the judiciary. The Left has learned that control of the media and the judiciary IS control.
Yeah, sure Maria. Tell that to those sitting in jail for simply showing up at the capitol on Jan6, and tell that to Trump, who is being maliciously prosecuted for political reasons. First, the defendant would have to have an honest, impartial judge. Then that judge would have to be willing to look at that evidence.
I think, Ms. Goldstein, your background (and I'm making, considering your last name, what I consider a pretty safe assumption here that you probably are versed in Yiddish) probably has you so used to witnessing corruption and underhandedness that it just seems natural to you. Consequently, your belief in the imaginary honesty of the justice system (and the state run election systems) that presently exists in this country can be excused.
I don't think they need to shoot anyone in the face. I think they should act smarter than the nutbags who have taken control and outsmart them. That way, they can't come back. Replace them and their system where they no longer fit. No one has the patience, though. It takes planning and long-range goals.
America had seen this movie before. In the 60s and 70s, it was the intercity “projects” ostensibly to create “affordable housing for the disadvantaged.” Now, in retrospect, we know the projects were designed to become festering cesspools of hate and divisiveness, not the “failed experiment” all the politicians claimed years later. How do we know this? Because that was the outcome in each and every city across America. Still, Our resilient society mostly overcame all that despite the government’s post meddling.
Now, phase 2. Import 10 millions of refugees and plant them in cities with stretched budgets and already crumbling infrastructure. Bonus points for making the optics even more insulting by giving them funding and support not available to actual citizens. The game though is the same: destabilize thru misery and decisiveness. It’s purposeful treasonous actions against America passed off as political incompetence.
Exactly, now the developers are building actual 'Colonies'- raiding bases, razzia, in other words, such as the one near Houston- but the real C40 s.m.a.r.t. cities will not be shining megalopolises such as the planned Tri-City development meant for Netherlands farmland or the Lahaina pilot project. That's horse manure sold to the investor class to boost the IPO.
The real 'smart cities' will simply be designated ULEZ zones in already crumbling urbans such as Detroit. Apartment blocs and Section 8 built under Obama's HUD directive in abandoned lots, or repurposed large buildings. The immigrant migration invasion authorities are already grabbing whatever old properties they can- a huge, vacated former paint factory in Ireland came to light by Ezra Levant's reporting- or enriching local corruptocrats with rental housing schemes like those in Springfield OH (owned by the mayor), or the government paying rising rents for 'investor' MP's council houses in Birmingham and Liverpool.
Where were the Floyd riots staged? In the priciest districts. Where are the 'natural disasters'- usually fires, due to bad forestry management- occurring? What do we do with these huge tracts of abandoned factories and the stores that no longer serve them? Replace a manufacturing community with a migrant rental housing one! Somebody wants to get real estate at a major discount and Build Back Better.
Favela world beckons, it's the latest in vulture capitalism!
Speaking of "...your happy 15-minute cities..." (not their term) a Japanese staffer on WIRED is slipping it to us (Publisher Conde Nasty being embedded Deep State Deep):
Yes, why not? More clients for the Welfare department, voters for the machine. And they will fold right into Black American welfare/criminal culture in short order.
To their credit, the Somalis in my county do not lower themselves to acting like the nearby Twin Cities' black underpass. They have their own ways. They really have not assimilated at all in 30 years here.
Nor have they learned to drive in a straight line. I figured it was from growing up where they did, without rectilinear stuff, but 3 decades later, it seems to be a trait that breeds true. Hmmm.
Interesting thought: Maybe Black African Muslims (not just Somalis) will assimilate Black America, not the other way around. Much worse for us of course.
As somebody raised next to an Elijah Muhummed neighborhood (and the only white kid on the bus), the cruelest twist of the knife is this: the creator of the Nation of Islam was not black. His real name was Eli Wallace, from Brooklyn.
Before the surgeries, he looked as ethnic as could be; those surgeries took their toll, when he died he was 400 pounds, with a harem of 23 "wives". He was an FBI informant, moving guns and heroin into the hood. He advocated for a breakaway Islamic state in Mississippi, and had Malcolm X killed to keep his secrets.
Huh? If you go back 20 generations, you have i excess of 1 million 'grandparents'. We ARE all 'cousins', in reality. And if you're a God-botherer, you know for certain that we all come from Noah, right?
It is interesting that DNA experts say that at one period, man was almost extinct, done to a few thousand individuals and we have descended from this small group.
Interesting regarding the carjackings in Minnesota. I'm in Maryland in a "safe" suburban neighborhood where there were NO carjackings for the first 20+ years I'd lived here. In the past couple of years, we've had about 5 or 6 armed carjackings in my neighborhood, some in broad daylight.
Let's see. what happens when you add population without having the support for them? No jobs? We will make some up, that is the birth of criminal elements. Also, the government is a criminal organization itself, utilizing the illicit trades to try to finance serving the interest payments on the debt.
When the Irish immigrated here, the Irish Mafia was born, when the Italians came in droves, they brought the Mafia. So as the rest of the world seems bent on coming here, they are going to bring their crimes with them. We are like a cesspool now, breeding criminal activity everywhere. The Swamp is well named.
Solution? Build the double 30 foot wall and monitor it, then deport any criminal activity as it occurs. As the are lots of them out here now, it will serve to slow the problem.
The US government, like the government of California, is seeing first hand what happens when its creative class goes Galt. It is easy to be maniac woke Jacobins when standing on the shoulders of giants but a lot harder when you need those very people to scratch and toil for their sustenance and your tax receipts. Tax receipts, I should remind you, that barely cover the interest on their debts.
Businessmen used to be shocked when I told them that were I a younger man that I'd move to a business friendly country. No one is shocked anymore - they just slowly nod in agreement.
2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write so I'm adding Fahrenheit 451 back into the running of Dystopian Future along with 1984 and Atlas Shrugged.
"Strong Strategic Partnerships. Infrastructure that is developed in partnership with those whom it benefits will last longer and generate more development impact. Infrastructure created under the B3W will be developed through consultation with communities and assessing local needs as a true partners. We will establish a taskforce together as a G7, and with others, to coordinate, harmonize our efforts, and increase our impact and reach."
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
Prosperity
We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
Peace
We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.
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Our vision
7. In these Goals and targets, we are setting out a supremely ambitious and transformational vision. We envisage a world free of poverty, hunger, disease and want, where all life can thrive. We envisage a world free of fear and violence. A world with universal literacy. A world with equitable and universal access to quality education at all levels, to health care and social protection, where physical, mental and social well-being are assured. A world where we reaffirm our commitments regarding the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation and where there is improved hygiene; and where food is sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious. A world where human habitats are safe, resilient and sustainable and where there is universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
8. We envisage a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination; of respect for race, ethnicity and cultural diversity; and of equal opportunity permitting the full realization of human potential and contributing to shared prosperity. A world which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation. A world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met.
9. We envisage a world in which every country enjoys sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and decent work for all. A world in which consumption and production patterns and use of all natural resources – from air to land, from rivers, lakes and aquifers to oceans and seas - are sustainable. One in which democracy, good governance and the rule of law as well as an enabling environment at national and international levels, are essential for sustainable development, including sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development, environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and hunger. One in which development and the application of technology are climate-sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient. One in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected."
2030 Agenda is just so much bullshit. It sounds wonderful at the same time it is completely undoable. The world is currently in an expanding battle for limited resources and soon all countries will be fighting for water, Oil, rare earths, agricultural land.
BTW, G7 is meeting. Son of a gun, if BRICS+ is also meeting in Russia with destruction of the G7 as part of its agenda. Right now.
John, the 2030 Agenda identifies, details, and proposes solutions for many of the issues that people on Jim's message board complain about, but for which few have a (viable) solution.
It is my understanding that the majority of world leaders have embraced the agenda in one fashion or another (it appears that there is a pile of money for compliance), so it is stacking up to be leadership vs citizens. My understanding is that Putin and Xi are on board with this agenda, so how do you reconcile that?
The 2030 Agenda is already being implemented, so if you want to have a say or terminate it, shouldn't there be a discussion?
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
People are wired differently, where some have an advantage over others depending on the current format for life. Kamala Harris is a perfect example of a misfit who is setup to fail, and does not qualify to be in a leadership position. What is your solution to accommodate all the differences?
I saw it at the drive thru when young, and did not see it again for 50 years.
I was astounded at just how *good* it was, absolutely amazing. One of the Classics.
The furniture, to the detective: "We'll make it cold, like winter used to be!"
Also, Blade Runner. Roy Batty's incept date is Jan.16, 2019. He has a four year lifespan, setting him down one year after Soylent Green, in the year 2023.
Do you think the prophets were trying to tell us something?
Hmm. Reading it now, it looks like a prediction of what the "Conservative Elites" want to have...a return to medieval feudalism but with high-tech comforts. Is this why so many of the really moneyed class - the billionaires you've never heard of as well as the ones in public like Musk - are throwing all their financial might behind Trump - a meat-puppet of the first order - so their chosen 'boy', JD Vance, after ascending to the Presidency through a 25th Amendment move, can enact their Project 2025 Agenda for them? How's THAT for a conspiracy, you guys?
Even the liberal press with its extreme bias against Trump is publishing articles that state more billionaires support Harris, which only goes to show you believe what you want to believe, the hallmark of a conspiracy theorist as the term is commonly bandied about.
Maria, WTF are you talking about. Trump wants the economy to open up, to have more entrepeneuership, more manufacturing, more middle class, more opportunity for folks other than the service sector with its servile minimum wage. It is the Dems that want servitude, manufacturing overseas, high tax rates, fiat money to support non-productive workers, dependence on the government, high energy prices, tax, tax, tax and spend spend spend. The power hungry billionaires are all on the Left side, knowing they will maintain power with a Leftist government. Hmmm, isn't THAT Fascism?
So long as federal politicians have access and ability to create unlimited credit, it just doesn't matter what party rules. The result will be the same.
Liberty, and its accompanying general welfare, is incompatible with politicians having the ability to create credit, which passes nearly exactly the same as money.
No way would the constitution have been ratified where federal politicians could create unlimited credit/money. The Founders were well acquainted with the practice of government emitting irredeemable paper money, and they righteously rejected it. Alas, we find ourselves back with the same system they roundly rejected.
This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution.
All the states truly need to accomplish is end the practice of taxing gold and silver. Let the market determine what people use to transact and store wealth.
All true. I honestly believe that a complete Dollar Collapse will be more detrimental to the US than a limited nuclear exchange. In a Hyperinflationary Dollar Collapse scenario, I believe that if the US dollar becomes worthless by 7 a.m. one busy weekday morning, grocery stores will be empty, burning shells with some bodies in them by 10 a.m. and civilization will be gone by 3 in the afternoon. That is not wild conjecture, minds much wiser than I have written books about this stuff, it could happen very, very quickly in a heavily armed nation like this one.
I'm currently reading Shut Down by W.R. Flynn. It isn't Tolstoy or Hemingway but it gives the uninitiated an idea as to how things will play out. I'm reading it because I'm trying to find books that break down what a banking crisis and a dollar collapse would look like. In Shut Down, it all plays out exactly as you wrote - bodies by 10 a.m. and empty store shelves by 3pm.
I read it years ago. To me, it did not read like fiction. I am a suburban dad with a wife and kids, when my kids were younger if that happened my wife would have told me to get out of the house and not come back until I had food for the family, and that she didn't want to hear about the details. Imagine moms and dads all over America panicking when their dollars and debit cards were rejected and their kids were hungry. . .in unarmed countries that usually results in bread lines, but something very different would play out here, very quickly.
Wait til 20 million illegals find only *their* EBT cards suddenly cut off, and their free rent canceled. If Trump wins, the Democrats can set off a two-legged, biological nuclear bomb in this country.
Interesting idea, if welfare was cut off tomorrow, the shakeout would drive out many of our problems, and fast. 7.5 million males between 18 and 40 would have to find a job, any job to survive. Men and women would have to work together in marriages to succeed economically instead of just running away. Illegals would be heading elsewhere if their free lunch was discontinued. The ones here would be on their way home.
Welfare by the Left and their buying votes is the thing that is dragging the country down.
Are you listening to what is going on in the world right now? BRICS+ conference going on in Russia, not with a bunch of firebrands, but a group of very purposeful people determined to tear down the West. They have the power and the knowledge to do exactly that.
IMHO, their plans for the USA is to use the discord here and the illegal immigration to first segregate areas of the USA ethnically, then divide it up politically turning it into three or four smaller countries. With our government only concerned about itself, it is playing directly into their hands.
BTW, for all the folks here who have answered that BRICS+ is no problem , it is only economic, may I present to you NOKO troops in Ukraine. There was a Congressman today that stated that if NOKO goes into Ukraine, the USA needs to inject”boots on the ground”.
Good points Thomas. Add to "heavily armed nation", 30m invaders and growing daily to the chaos. If even a mere 10,000 of them have evil intent combined with the resources to assault the nation, this former republic will be brought to its knees and will thus be forced to fight from a severely crippled position.10% of shipping containers are inspected at our ports. I was on the freeways(I-75 corridor) these past 4 days and wondered what exactly was inside the many MAERSK and EVERGREEN containers I passed, and where they were headed to unload or if dead-heading for more, where their loads were now staged deep inside this borderless nation. Waiting. And that's just ONE vector of assault playing out.
Yes, I wonder that, too, when I see them on the highway. And only 10 percent of cargo containers are inspected. Where's Pete on this? Oh, I know, he's at an infrastructure project somewhere building an overpass so animals don't end up as road kill. Meanwhile, I saw a photo of an opened container holding a bunch of kids.
Of course! I saw it happen with CONvid! The shelves were empty in 2 days. It’s then that I purchased a freezer, and added to preps I already had. Be prepared!
You have to explain the reason for your scenario otherwise it IS wild conjecture.
What is the event would infect the world and the entire United States within a few hours that would collapse the currency?
It's important to remain fact-based about the financial markets now and how they interact otherwise ignorance will make you fearful and creating bad fiction.
Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse. Think about right now, is the “faith” of the people based more on good monetary situations or on apathy, denial and just stupidity?
If the “faith” disappears, think about what would it be like that every monetary transaction you do a day, disappeared. Every purchase you make today would be unavailable. There would be no stores. No transportation of goods from the coasts. The cities would erupt as there would not be any goods trucked in. City folks would be out in the rural areas, ready to kill to get sustenance.
I have recommended before, “Lucifer’s Hammer”, the story of the after world reeling from a comet strike. Elimination of the money would be equivalent.
A lot of folks don't realize that the "money" they think they have in financial institutions isn't physically there ... it's just pixels on a screen and the actual money has all been loaned out. Try making any substantial cash withdrawal at your local bank, say 20k or more. Now imagine over half of depositors clamoring to pull out their cash. Bank runs and pandemonium would ensue.
Alert! I wrote a check for cash a few months ago. The bank said that over a certain amount they are required to ask what I intend to use it for. The teller was embarrassed and provided me with a "potential use." I guess we have moved from "friendly banker" to "nosey banker."
They did that to me a few yrs ago when I pulled out 20k just to keep at home ... and I had to go to 2 different branches as neither had the 20k on hand. I told them it was "for a trip to Vegas to do hookers and blow"
That was installed a long time ago in the war on drugs. They have to insure that you're not withdrawing money to buy coke. Allowing fentanyl into the country via the southern border is altogether different, however.
I will add that there is still a "zero reserve" policy in place across the US banking system ... i.e. they don't need any reserves to cover all the outstanding loans they've made. Let that sink in.
AND another thing - "bail ins" are coming with the next banking crisis. What this means is instead of bailouts, where the govt steps in to provide emergency funding, the banks can now take the money they need from depositors. And you'll also be paying your bank to hold your money. And it's all legal, courtesy of our loving, caring banksters and government cronies.
I will give you something else to lose sleep over. The bullion banks, globally, where gold is bought and sold by large entities like countries, has allowed payment with US Treasuries. There is little accounting for how much of the world’s gold is actually paper. Credit has rotted even the bulwark of wealth.
My motto is "if you don't hold it, you don't own it". Glad I've built a modest little stack of bullion the past few years. Central banks around the world are loading up on gold. Wonder how much the U.S. has stored, and when the last time it was audited (??)
"Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse."
I believe the following to be the correct assessment:
The US$ is already significantly devalued, but it doesn't presently reflect its value because of money inflow due to big money getting out of worse situations..
If you want to get out of the US$, the first step is to get out of US Bonds. If the US Bond market is 10 times the value of the US stock markets, where do you expect the bond money to flow?
I believe that the US Bond money will (continue to) flow into the US stock markets (view a 10 year chart of the MERVAL for ridiculous). Then view the "all" time frame of the Venezuela Stock Market (IBVC) for an example of a no bid situation.
This is your free market capitalism, where guys like Soros know a good opportunity when they see it.
All it will take to bring everything down is an EMP or maybe a few. They can say it was Russia, China, or Iran to cover their ass but it will be like kicking an ant pile.
All highways will be blocked with new stalled "bells and whistles heavy" vehicles. Trucks can't get through, IF They could run. Empty grocery stores. Dead water systems. Thawing refrigerators and freezers. Armed gangs going house to house on foot pillaging and raping at will.
Travelers on their own with a bag of chips and a bottle of water.
1 Second After by William R. Forstchen is a good description of what would happen to the USA after an EMP incident. The first to go are those on meds, like Diabetics.. Then those with weak immune systems. Then a starvation diet for a year or so for any of the lucky survivors.
Yes, the Deagle Report predicted that in 2025 the US population will be down to 100 million, and when I read that, the first thing I thought of was that we'll get into a conflict with China and the prescription drugs that are made there, that our elected representatives refuse to have manufactured here, will be cut off.
Kathy. A non-shooting conflict with China already is in full swing. 1,000 Points of Light, etc. The Chinese steel everything we have with both hands now. No need for open warfare with the CCP. That they will leave to the invading hordes coming into our borderless nation. They are trained and will kill. Waiting. The Chinese will make an appearance but only after Islam and their Middle East brothers have made toast of our neighborhoods. Arm up. Prep.
"law enforcement" will be gathered at the state capitol guarding our elected representatives until they get to their bunkers. Citizens will be shot trying to defend themselves and their property, antifa and blm rioters will not.
Watch Cuba, as we speak. They can’t get their grid up and are about to say hello to a hurricane. Remember Haiti? We are always one week from catastrophe here.
Yes Q - we're airdropping in cases of Cialis and Viagra. Hopefully it'll work longer and better than the $320 million-dollar floating dock the "Biden" regime installed on the beach in Gaza - about a month or two if I recall correctly. Another fantastic failure, for which they've become famous.
I am the entity formerly known as Q. Shtik back before the CFN site became defunct. I have been known for correcting commenters' grammar, spelling, and usage and for my chronicles about my brother-in-law, Peter.
As you can see, I have adopted a new handle for use here on Substack. It is John Smith, a name I believe was at one time the most common name in the USA. Now, where I live in central NJ, every other person's last name is Patel.
Lately I've had all kinds of electronics problems with my RAM 1500 truck (it is being worked on at the dealership as we speak) as well as health issues. It has been determined that I have Afib which is an irregular heart beat. If not corrected it can lead to blood clots which can go to the brain and cause a stroke.
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure where they give a quick shock to the heart in hopes that it will put my heartbeats back in sync. Dr. Shah (dot Indian of course) says there is little for me to be concerned about since of all the many times he has executed this procedure he has never "lost" anyone however he implied results could vary. It was not clear to me why the shock would put my heartbeats IN sync rather than putting them farther OUT of sync. I have to assume that as experts they know what they're doing.
This has me concerned about "waking up dead" as the expression goes. I REALLY hate the notion of ceasing to exist for all eternity (note: I believe as Jose Mujica believes that "There is only one life and it ends")
Before the procedure I will leave a note for Bo (my wife) that trash pickup is on Mondays and recyclables on Tuesdays.
I have been looking forward to my 84th birthday a month from now, specifically Nov. 21st, and wouldn't want the shock treatment to upset the apple cart. If you don't see any posts from John Smith for an extended period you can probably assume the worst.
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure - John Smith (aka Q.)
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The procedure is known as TEE but I don't know what those letters mean. I am now scheduled for a week from today, Oct 31st. Talk about coinkydinks, my Maternal grandfather was born on Oct 31st, 1883. His daughter, my mother, died on Oct 31st, 1995. Does this have any deeper meaning? I wonder. Probably not. That's why its called a coinkydink.
Q - Best of luck, sir. It will likely be all good, as your doc says. Just in case it goes sideways, please make sure you leave Bo a list of your accounts/logins/pws for all financials, etc. When we lost my dad after carotid surgery with complications last winter, that was one of the best gifts we found from him hidden in his hospital belongings. He knew it was possible.
That said, he got the short end of the stick on his turn at the wheel. I think you will prevail with all of your shtick intact. Onward, Q. You're not done here yet.
No sweat. The procedure times the shock so that the “clock” takes over again. They will probably give you a relaxing dose of a sedative, not knock you out. You will feel so much better with things in sync, Afib causes a 20% reduction in blood flow, so you will be getting that back. Read Yirgach below for a further therapy in electro cardio version does not work.
Don't worry, I had an aortic valve replacement and a week later had afib. Not pleasant when you're not even running a marathon.
The electrophysiologist did an ablation on the heart, essentially spot welding a circuit break using a catheter thru the groin. It stopped immediately. I was conscious during the whole procedure.. Dartmouth Medical is the best!
I am watching the CNBC business show at the moment. They have a very pretty woman named Brooke May on the show. She is what is known as a "contributor." Looking at her I am reminded of the expression "Big Tits Matter."
100% .... and abolishing central banks won't come without bloodshed. Lots of bloodshed, as they are backed by the MIC (military industrial complex) around the globe.
"This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution." ~ Anonymous
If there were a solution, would you acknowledge, engage, and embrace it?
Your basic contention is that the system has failed and is broken. Will "end(ing) the practice of taxing gold and silver" solve all the problems?
Is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
THe solution, IMHO, is to start decreasing spending by the government and allow the economy to run itself. Slow decreases, over 70 or so years. It took that long to run up the bill, it will take that long to fix it. Slow decreases and an agreed to tax profile that will also decrease with time.
Is that possible with the power mongers in the Deep State?
I am in the camp that contends that the debt will never be repaid, so a devaluation will be the stand-by option (even you acknowledge that "government" will be needed to deal with the situation).
You also point out that a "loss of faith" situation will be devastating, but your solution fails to consider the impact of individuals like Soros, and bully countries like USA.
Once you start to gain an understanding of the current situation, and grasp the details of the 2030 Agenda, you will start to understand the method to the madness.
So, once again, is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
My objection to the 2030 Agenda is that it is impossible, period. It is a bunch of blathering by Global idiots trying to justify BS mission statements that have no chance of doing anything. You might as well pull out a copy of Das Kapital, the Bible of pure communism, and read how the rising of the proletariat is going to create a Utopia on earth. Only one problem, a big one, human nature and the evil side of humanity. Stop globalism, let every country do what is in its best interests. Here? America First.
If Xi has his way, he may impose his version of the 2030 Agenda on the world.
Why not review the 2030 Agenda assessments, and glean some solutions from their proposals? How does one fix something if they are unable to comprehend that which is broken?
Do you think we would be where we are today if "Joe Biden" had stepped up on the stump and had an open discussion about his administrations implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
Re your opening quote: Glad that you have discovered the writings of Elizabeth Nickson who like you, is an optimist in spite of her unsparing observations of the current wickedness.
Nick Johnson posted an interesting Youtube video about the presidential campaign in PA. Apparently the Amish are finally mobilizing to vote in the November election. After a long tradition of deliberately staying away from politics and voting, many members of the Amish community are deciding to cast their votes, many for the first time.........for Donald Trump.
No wonder, the Leftist Socialists hate independence of anyone. The Amish are an antithesis of the Leftist socialist dreams.
Stalin killed millions of Ukrainian farmers when they fought their family based farms being turned into communes. Later, the government allowed the individual farmers to have a small plot of land to grow their own crops, independent of the communes. It wasn’t long before the farmers started farmer’s markets in the towns. Not too much later, the plots out produced the communes. A story to tell your socialist supporter friends.
Another fictional account of note is in Michener’s “Centennial” where a sugar beet farmer named Brumbaugh was trying to find a reliable source of seasonal label for his farm. He tried Blacks and Indians, too unreliable, Japanese and Chinese, reliable but they saved their money and bought their own farms. His solution was Mexicans, reliable and skilled farm hands whose roots remained in Mexico. Over time, their families moved into the USA and they stayed.
I was raised picking chiles and tying grapes with those families. I have a lot I could say on this. (Plus, our beloved neighbors were actual Okies who came to pick fruit in California.) I've talked to farmers from Maryland to the San Joaquin Valley, some used to drive down to Mexico every season and pick up the same families every season.
Two quickies: in grade school we used to go by the burning busses where Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker's union thugs stood with baseball bats. He hated seasonal migrants, since he was born in Indiana.
When 'La Migra'- ICE immigration or Border Patrol would come by the ranch in Nevada, we'd hide our Mexicans inbetween haystacks, piling up bales to block off the ends and making it look like one solid stack. They'd offer to buy us beer and take us hands to the Mustang Ranch, the local brothel! (High school kids had to enter in the back.)
The Holodomor Ukrainians were actually descendants of the Anabaptist Amish.
The glorious Tsarina Catherine, our great ally, requested thousands of them from the American colonies to teach her nation how to farm the rich soils of the Ukraine, so profound was their skill.
The Cheka goons weren't just killing farmers. As per their historic wont, they were slaughtering Christians.
Yes, it's inevitable. The question is whether it will be under the tyranny of the International Bankers as in Marxism or an elected National Elite as in Fascism or National Socialism.
I think we should do an annual televised Nerf Bat stadium beatdown for all interested policy-makers. Whoever is left standing gets to make the rules for the next 12 months. And gets as many hot dogs from the concessions stand as they please on the way out. About as fair as any other system.
his video tours of various places around the country are great ... 'boots on the ground' type of interviews/commentary that reveal hard facts vs. the fiction we're being bombarded with by the establishment
Nature is a bitch. We have had it good for a long time. Go watch the people, aka tourists at Yellowstone Park for people who do not understand nature. There's a website tourons of Yellowstone Park. Reality is also a bitch. If Trump wins Pennsylvania, he wins the election. The food recalls are on the radar daily. I don't usually buy processed foods. I did have some frozen chicken tenders from Perdue, I had to throw those all away because they were deemed contaminated. Biden won Pennsylvania by 70,000 votes in 2020. In 2023, the Feds decided to go after an Amish organic farmer called Amos Miller. HE was selling organic produce and raw dairy products. The feds came in shut him down and humiliated him. He had never had a listeria problem. The Pennsylvania court ruled that he could still sell his products over state lines. The irony is large here. The original Amos was a shepherd and grew Sycamore figs in the Bible. He had enough of the "government" and turned into the first prophet and started preaching about morality. 190,000 Amish registered to vote. The mail voting is great for them. The tools that the dems used to cheat are being turned against them.
Other small farmers started banding together and supporting Amos Miller. The Navajo Nation came out enmasse for Trump. They are also shepherds and they make organic products like salsa, hot sauce, honey and cosmetics for sale. IMO the government has decided all the small farms must go, all the supplements that aren't big pharma must go. The EU tried to pull this on the Dutch farmers. The ITalians said no. They banned all fake foods and did not comply. Trump has a very good chance of winning Pennsylvania.
Anything can happen. Except this time people are really going out. I heard they have never seen this much voter participation. The Amish literally never ever vote. They are so angry that they are talking to the media. They never do that. The corporate media is lying about the Navajo. It's not even close. They are having a similar problem. They make their living with the sheep and making stuff. The Chinese flooded the market with cheap knock offs. They are done. Trump first time tried to do something about this. We really need the Senate and the house too.
I don't know why. I am here in Colorado. I have not seen people at the ballot box. There are a lot of Harris signs. I have not seen one Trump sign. I am wondering if people here just are not voting.
As a former life-time Coloradoan, I am ashamed of the condition of Colorado, the northern terminus of the I25 illicit crime conveyor. Denver, a former beautiful city, has evolved into a cesspool that dumps its effluent into Aurora. It has turned into a Californicated perversion of America. It’s governor makes a grand representation of its evil.
Well, figuratively speaking anyway, be kinda hard to get anything done, am i right,
There are a lot of people who have been negatively affected by government, the biggest problem, is that the government, needs to have a come to jesus moment and be cut in half, if not now it will never happen, ALLLLL those career politicians, and I mean ALLLLLL of em, need to be dismissed then investigated.
Its not like they produce ANYTHING anyway, and the bureaucracy is mind numbing.
Then it must be the neocons turn to be chased through the streets by mobs with torches and pitchforks, same as the neoliberals and THE OLIGARCHS THEY BOTH SHILL FOR.
Because NOTHING WILL CHANGE if EITHER of these tools OR their OWNERS are allowed to remain.
If the results of the Presidential Election aren't declared, or simply obvious, by 10 p.m. on Election night, a lot of chaos may break out in this woke/broke/joke of a nation.
On the evening of November 5th and the morning of November 6th there will be a large scale cybersecurity EXERCISE in Atlanta, GA. What a coincidence! All the Intelligence Community will be there I expect.
The electoral college was put into place to insure that states like California didn't dominate the vote. Democrats hate the electoral college and have called for its abolition, along with pretty much of the rest of America 1.0. Until it is, and under a Harris presidency it probably will be, democrats have been busy undermining the electoral system nationwide any way they can, lately fast-tracking illegals to citizenship before November 5. You know, for democracy.
The Cheat in 2020 was flagrant, to anyone who had half a brain.
This one will be that too, but on steroids.
The DOJ is working feverishly to execute efforts to punish via lawfare, and even criminalize any state or entity or person who will dare to question this election, or even clean up their voter rolls!
Millions upon millions of ballots are being filled out as we speak with the names of illegal aliens who have been registered nationwide, and their names are now included on state voter rolls.
No investigation into the authenticity of any votes will be allowed and/or fought tooth and nail by our own Federal government, aided and abetted by cowardly courts.
Michigan's voter rolls list 8.4 million registered voters, nearly 500,000 more than the eligible voting population. That’s waaaay more than necessary to swing an election. And that’s just one state - not to mention a swing state.
I may not have skin in the game but I'm shocked to find out that apparently in California it is illegal to use ID to vote. ID is not required, and it is an offence for any official to even look at any ID shown. I know that sounds ridiculous but has been made in law now.
It doesn't really doesn't matter how many "Illegals" vote in California. It's not even in play as all the Electoral votes will be cast for Harris not only because she's a Democrat but because she's from there.
It's only about votes in certain counties in certain swing states.
When the checks stop coming and the EBT cards aren't resupplied, those Somalis and Venezuelans and the other illegals will fan out across the cities and towns into which they've been inserted and rob and kill anyone that gets in their way. The cops will all be at the state capitol or city county building guarding your elected representatives until they get to their bunkers or waiting helicopters. That's why they're so hot to eliminate the AR-15.
Citizens defending themselves will be shot by the troops that will be deployed to restore order, the actual rioters and looters will not. The DOD didn't just authorize lethal force against us by American troops for shits and giggles.
I think your number is about right. All the official numbers only include the port of entry plus asylum numbers, anywhere from 10 to 20 million. No boy talks about the walk overs, or climb overs or dig unders or wade overs. Guess which group the cartels use?
Biden’s Mob. The Federal government is a member of the global Cartel promoting drugs and other illicit crime entering this country to get their cut. Look around the world, it is happening everywhere. The IMF is an Emperor with no clothes.
Easy, he does not have any. Just likes to bitch about everyone else. He holds New Zealand up as an example, they have their problems like everyone else.
Yeah, I read that their leadership locked the population down, they couldn't travel but for a few miles outside their community and were censored on the Internet.
I spent a few years in the 90s living in NZ working with the RNZN. Such a beautiful country, such amazing, resourceful people. I made many friends. However those were the Clinton years. I was wary of all the shuttling back and forth to NZ being done by Clinton cronies, and after 2000, by Hildebeast and her rapist husband himself. Today we know they were busy helping to steal the government from the tiny agricultural paradise and turn the whole place into a socialist laboratory for the WEF. The rest is history. God bless New Zealand.
In _Tramp Royale_, Robert Heinlein recounts a 1953 trip to New Zealand and totally drags it. He said they were all provincial scolds:
Apparently, the pit of misery, the region without hope, the most god-awful place in the whole southern hemisphere circa 1954, was New Zealand. The chapter dealing with this unhappy visit is called “The Dreary Utopia,” and its dreariness was of varied kinds. This is the only piece of travel literature I can recall in which the writer truly, deeply hated a Post Office system. The problem was not that Heinlein was a free-market ideologue hostile to New Zealand’s welfare state and tightly-controlled economy. Uruguay had a lot in common with New Zealand politically and economically in those days, but Uruguay also had restaurants that served non-poisonous food, and not everybody there shortchanged visitors all the time. Such were the petty vexations of the country that Heinlein spluttered even at the famous narrow-gauge railways, which in a better mood he would have liked. No doubt part of this antipathy was due simply to the fact the tourist industry was not yet well-developed, but for once the Heinleins forbore to seek private hospitality. They did have a letter of introduction, to a former prime minister no less. Heinlein would not use it, however, because it would have been so difficult to stop himself from telling his host how much he hated his country and everything in it.
I was a big Heinlein fan growing up. Then I grew up. He had some nerve sarcastically referring to a "utopian" NZ. Heinlein's novels reek of his own brand of utopian hedonism. What I'm reading between the lines is Heinlein traveled to NZ and couldn't get laid.
My fellow Americans, the Maori like to put a bit of tuoluene glue into a Coke bottle, a lighter to the thick glass bottom makes fumes they can huff all day. This one's been hitting the, er, 'pipe'.
I think your "I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize" captures the likely outcome. These people are bullies and cowards. To threaten insurrection will expose them to legal remedies and loss of wealth and power. Not likely they will take the risk and they are more likely to throw those most exposed under the bus to save themselves.
Jamie Raskin and a bunch of House Dems and a few RINOs are threatening to not certify the election if Trump wins. So if he wins, will there be a Dem. Jan.6, the people calling out Congress for not investigating the mechanics of the election. Will the pussy hat crowd invade the Capitol to support the Congressional hold on certification. In a world of hypocrisy, this is a doozy.
Well at least we'll get some honest-to-god rioting, mayhem, looting, and property damage out of that bunch, instead of a fake fbi 'false flag' to belay the audit.
One investigation with meat to it from Trump and all the false accusations will fall by the wayside. This is in the works as we speak. It will set a tone of unrooting illegal activity as vital to restoring law and order. Cheers from the average voter will cement it and few will risk exposure to their own criminality.
The first black president was Warren Harding, if you want to go by ancestry, and Mrs. Kennedy the first black First Lady, although to be fair, she was probably less African than KToe.
I have to say, as a woman, I despise soy boys. All women do. They'll use them for whatever they need, but at the end of the day, women despise weak men.
Don't forget the inauguration day rioting with flash-bang grenades and a burning limousine. Those neurotic mental children are capable of a lot of mayhem.
Yes, it's almost impossible to try to keep up with the babies and their tantrums. It was especially interesting that huge flats of bricks were left at specific locations where the "mostly peaceful" protests were held.
Howard, I admire your new found optimism, but I don’t share it. Almost every world leader, every institution, every organized government supported public body is arrayed against Trump for reasons of their very survival. Harris was picked four years ago to be President someday and that’s how we got here. Every piece had to fall into place and it has for this to happen. Her 60-day candidacy for President corresponds perfectly to her shelf life as a semi-likable person. The voting counting for a preselected winner is the easiest part. What happens afterwards is where things get messy. The fact that Harris is a Prosecutor is no accident.
Don’t forget the recording of President Ford, I think it was, who while replying to question by young girl said the first female president would occur due to the male president dying and his female vp becoming President. I Guess Biden refused to pass quietly in the night? But equally, or more, disturbing was his prophecy that when that happens men better watch out.
Kackula is a big puzzle. They picked the worst possible dud to try to insert. Obama was an illegal insert and chose Joe as insurance. Joe chose Kackula, then she couldn't find a stupider Democrat so she inserts a man that ruined his state. He is facing accusations of being a bisexual child molesters from 2 male former students that have started to talk. His legislation ideals fit that mold pretty well.
Still I don't think any election is too big to rig. She positively cannot we in without cheating so if she does it will be hell to pay. The nation will not roll over and play dead.
If she loses I think the illegals will rise up at the same time as the BLM and Antifa as terrorists.
Could be the Civil war either way they THINK they wanted. They won't like it!
Yes, but remember, the DOD has recently authorized lethal force to be used by American soldiers against us if so ordered. They won't use it against antifa or BLM.
"Microwave burns"? Lady, it was 110 Fahrenheit that day. The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor without any containment...what do you expect? Or perhaps it was the Jewish Space Lasers... you know, the ones that start hurricanes too....
I expect it could be the sun . . . Or it could be some other type of radiation, especially since it was limited to a few on the dais. After all the unlikely shit that's been happening, why NOT RF burns from a directional antenna? I'm an amateur radio operator Extra class. Even I could make that happen. Easily. If I were a maniac.
Unearned capital gains tax of 25% will force sales to pay the tax. Many homeowners will become homeless and the illegals can buy the house with her free down payment.
Exactly, exactly, my Harris voting friends were, umm, perturbed.
This is all part of the Great Taking; even your paper assets, such as stocks, will not have sufficient proof of 'ownership'. A commenter above mentions bail-ins, negative rates, and confiscation, and he is exactly right.
Go READ the policy, dimwits Jay & Kathy...dumb ass losers! Unless you have assets of more than $100 million dollars or earn income of more than $1 million per annum, there is NOTHING for you to be concerned about. I very much doubt that anyone on this blog would qualify for this new imposition on the very wealthy, except perhaps, JohnAZ.
Huh? You definitely have an inflated idea of me? Maria, if you believe the pols are going to stop from taxing everyone because of campaign promises, you are going to be disappointed. The Left taxes more and more and spends more and more, it is their livelihood, their method of buying votes. They are evil. They will spend beaucoup bucks to figure out how to take money away from you without pissing you off.
You want an example? California, where tax and spend has evolved into an art. The goal of the national Leftists is to spread Californication all over the country. It is working well here in AZ.
What will happen when folks like Abbott and DeSantis tell the Feds under Kamala to Eff off and set secession in action? What happens when the NW area around Idaho do the same? Generally speaking, what happens when half the country decides to leave the USA and create their own country. Will the Dems of the East and West Coast in DC, try to stop the secession? Will a peaceable solution be found to a separation?
IMHO, the Leftist urbanites cannot let the Reds leave as their sustenance would be cutoff and the dependent Blues would have their hands out and up within a week.
Kathy, think. Who are they going to shoot at? Think of Texas ,the first drop out probably, shoot at Texans and sorry, East Coast, your oil is cut off. Shoot at the Red Mid-west and sorry, no more food, and that includes California’s Joaquin Valley, which is Red. Besides, how much of the military would favor shooting at Americans, much of them are from Red states.
They'll steal what they want from their unarmed neighbors and form gangs that cross state lines to prey on other states. Police will protect government, not citizens. After all, they still believe they'll get a pension if they can stick it out long enough.
Kathy, one comment. If a secession happens, there will be no pensions. There may be no police, just soldiers and rebels. A really big problem for the DC crowd will be who will the military back in a secession?
It's written as an exclusion in the standard home insurance policy (US). Excluded from property coverage includes: War, invasion, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, civil war, usurped power, damage caused by civil, governmental or military authority to hinder or defend against an actual or impending enemy act. Hope that helps.
Exactly - nothing new in that. It is a standard exclusion. Standard, not some premonition of the Civil War 2.0 that you 'conservatives' seem to be jonesing for.
I don't think they had anything else in their quiver. They weren't counting on Joe's dementia taking an upturn so fast (divine intervention?), and they didn't have any other viable candidate that they felt could win against Trump, so they went with the tried and true of color and gender. Hence, we have Harris.
I disagree, he was a placeholder there to run out the clock, until Kamala was the only available choice. Biden was a trojan horse, and Kammie was NOT a poor choice hastily made. She is entirely deliberate, the Manchurian dictator who will complete Obama and Soros's Revolution in time for 2030.
Remember the 2020 primary season and the Dem debates. Biden was chosen because he was the most moderate of the crazy Leftist candidates of which Kamala was one.
The City Administrator of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Stephanie Hirsch, breezed in last year and unilaterally ordered up some Congolese for her city. She expressed a vague sense of hurt feelings at the local reception of her decree ("Not great, Stephanie!"). Her father was a friend of mine . . . where did he go wrong in raising this clod of a daughter?
Eau Claire and other cities are also knocking together ugly, medium-density blocks of housing in empty store lots and such. They're all over the landscape here and in the Twin Cities. What the hell? Is this that bullshit Obama was planning?
Meanwhile, carjackings are up over 200% in Minnesota's Twin Cities. This must have something to do with "joy" and "turning the page," but I'm not sure what.
The worst part is these people do this with a smirk on their face, i will never understand the liberal mind
Yes, Tom, they do this with a smirk on their face, because that's their plan, and they know we won't do anything about it --- until we do.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." ~ "Iron Mike" Tyson
Their time is coming, I can assure you that.
Ayn Rand characterized it as "pure, naked, smirking evil."
10/21/24: A LOT sooner than even they realize. The biggest budget item in the 2025 federal calculus will be prisons, and payroll for guards to staff them.
Either that, or cemeteries and gravediggers. No further staff necessary, though.
10/21/24: But why disturb the voters?
The cemeteries are full of Democrats already. What difference would a few hundred thousand more make?
Why don't I feel very assured?
Because you doubt - you lack certainty - have faith and stay fearless, Outsider.
+1
Thomas
Simple, the liberal mind, actually the Leftist mind, is self-directed. They are gimme or gimme sympathetic folks who look to the government for sustenance. Their root is the Have Nots of society whose main goal is stealing from the Haves. Our Constitution protects ownership rights for the population, that is why the Left want it obliterated.
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Many of us come here to escape people like you. We deal with your tripe seven days a week. You're not welcome here. I'm sure there are other sites that are more suited to your mentality. Go there. Drink your poisoned Kool aid and drown in it
We're sick of you and your filth. Get out.
Go and drown in your Kool aid.
Way to let your snobbery hang out, Skippy. And your credentialism.
I love that word credentialism. I am dealing with that right now--that is such a precisely accurate word. Thank you.
Don't get me started on credentialism.
Spoken like a true bezoar.
Go somewhere else and win hearts and minds for your candidates, cunt.
Dennis - you'd be surprised at how many pursue the medical profession, for mammon and so they can play God. Self-directed? How about self-important?
I'm married to a professor emeritus/propulsion test engineer, and he self-directs himself to the voting booth to cast a ballot for Trump. If I had a nickel for ever self-important, elitist fuck who says Teump voters are . . . Neanderthals. Lol!
+1 @Beth Nicolaides, the good news is many "elitist fuck(s)" are jabbed =D
Ron is the king of self-important….all of you out who think you know him
Dennis - my health is perfect. Food is our medicine, not the poison the whitecoats push. I'll never have cancer of any sort, but if I did, an Oncologist is the last person I'd go to - they poison people with chemotherapy and radiation - for mammon. How do they sleep at night?
Not too sure I'd be all that proud of your DUI daughters. I've worked with a lot of doctors and they, as in the general college population, are not all that smarter than is the average college professor who knows quite a bit about his chosen subject but gets himself lost looking for one errant shoe that has wandered under his bed. Doctors credentials, like most of those professors degrees, are the result of persistence rather than intelligence. Given your rhetoric and the fact that both are the product of your loins, I suspect both fall under that rubric.
SocratesDetroit
Reference the Libby Zion Case:
Yeah, well, that's just another result of what's been going on since the mid to late 1970s when, especially, but not limited to, self hating Jewish doctors saw that there was a disparity between the percentage of those with enhanced melanin in the population as opposed to those entering medical school and decided to decrease the rigor of the testing and establish quotas (read: giveaways) for those coveted spots. (Don't quote me, but I think that was about the time when they decided to change autopsy language for doctor induced death from malpractice to 'medical misadventure'. That way everybody's off the hook.)
Now, of course, we have doctors practicing who have to have interpreters in the room with them in order to communicate with English speakers.
Isn't progress grand?
youtube.com/watch?v=amJQoNilH1Q
youtube.com/watch?v=csSph593QcE
Jeez! Corpse dust poured out of those links! Those two should be declared legally dead, even as their decrepit forms continue to move and make noises.
That second link is so ironic. Hillary brings up getting rid of Section 230, but awhile back when the right complained about Facebook and (then) Twitter for being so censoring, and wanted to take away that provision, the shit hit the fan with the leftie whackos.
Stop calling my husband. Whatever it is you’re talking about is unimportant in his world. We are married for 25 years and he has a family.
Imagine yourself after you allow a few demons in to snatch your soul, and then you might understand it
Along that line, check out James MacPherson’s Substack from yesterday, “How Freedom Is Lost and How Freedom is Won.” He uses the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart from Exodus as his example.
"Sticking it" to their opponents, out of spite. Juvenile tantrums. Consequences are never part of their half-brain thinking.
They won't be smirking when the 100-kb hailstones start falling.
The Twin Cities are the LA of the midwest. I swear, you can't get more Woke than Timpon Walz. So it's not much of a surprise. Somalians had already taken over Minnesota long ago. Why not keep that model going? I don't know why Minnesotans don't fight back. I dated one for many years, they were of Swedish decent, maybe the Swedes are neutral here like they are in their country? Who knows. In any case, what a mess.
Scandinavian and Scandinavians are deep into dignity culture and very trusting. Very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to every comer. It's not a common type of culture. It's very unlike the Scotch-Irish and Mestizo honor cultures of the American South where you defend your honor above all. We Norwegians and Swedes are like flipping sitting ducks in our communitarian states, and we let the barbarian walk in unopposed.
"Scandinavian-Americans," I meant. "Minnesota nice" is not really all that nice, though. It better represents a limited tolerance and skepticism.
(It also means four cars at a four-way stop sign assuming the other guy should go first, then the awkward stop/go/stop exercise in futility, costing everyone 30 seconds of their respective days)
Hilarious.
Hilarious, 'cuz its true! You shake your head, but then can't help but smile. Those Scandi's are just as sweet as spun sugar. The funny thing is when they all get to jabbering in Deep Nord; I can only make out about one word in three.
Agreed. As a Minnesotan, I've long known that Minnesota Nice really means "non-confrontational, overly-cautious, and passive-aggressive".
Oh, but hey, sometimes we just let 'er rip. There is nothing more stinging than hearing one of us pause, then say, "Well, THAT'S different."
"Da hell was dat..."
Walz’s snitch line during covid seems to be a good example of that.
"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
~ Thomas Sowell
See also "Stockhome Syndrome".
My first husband is a Swedish Minnesotan from the Iron Range. I'm a Wisconsin Norwegian, and we have the same mindset, really. But the Iron Range, until recently, was solid Dem because of all the recent immigrant miners who were strong for unions. Trump changed that. But I really don't know what keeps Minnesotans so simpleminded and trusting; they even have their weird Democratic Farm Labor party, which represents none of those things any longer.
I should add that my ex is a hereditary union-nased Dem, amplified by his decades of involvement in the teachers' unions. I love the guy, but he's a hard-core member of the Democratic state machine for that reason. I married a mobster!
No Union democrat teacher can ever be talked into changing their opinion, no matter how good the argument against the democrat candidate. I've tried for the past 30 years. When we go to the polls, my spouse just cancels out my vote. I guess we should just stay home and watch TV instead.
Don't stay home Outsider. Your wife, if she's like the dems I know, might just say she's going out for milk and eggs, and lo and behold, she casts a vote for the bad guys without you knowing.
"...she casts a vote for the bad guys without you knowing." This is an extremely sad example of what's wrong around here.
You love your ex husband? You ARE def a Scandinavian.
It was an amicable split after 30 years, and we shared a child. No sense in courting discord.
Well, I was joking, sorta. But, good on you! That's the way to do it.
+1 Yay!!!
With the highest gun deaths!
https://news.sky.com/story/swedens-deadly-gang-war-has-turned-peaceful-country-into-murder-hotspot-13071608
It's no accident they staged the George Floyd false flag/psyops there.
"George Floyd false flag/psyops there." Are you actually for real? Is EVERYTHING a conspiracy in your world?
Nope. But that is.
Way to go Mary Rose!
They were having Floyd riots in Finland, finally!
There are what, four negros in the entire country?
Just more Soros antiwhite color revolution bullshit.
As a firm believer and purveyor of the biggest 'secret conspiracy' theory in human history, you should be one to talk.
It's become your religion, the basis of your moral outlook.
Your strongest commandment is that we must never doubt the Faith, while you build victory monuments everywhere in our lands.
The problem is, as in every part of the country now, you, if you are white and/or conservative, cannot fight back and win any battles in court. The justice system in the country is totally corrupted.
So wrong. SO WRONG! If you are white and conservative, just don't expect to have any sway with the courts IF YOU CANNOT PRODUCE EVIDENCE - viz Giuliani & Powell in Dec 2020 & Jan 2021
If we're not allowed to bring truck trailer loads of obvious evidence, because citizens don't have standing in their own country.
Chutzpah- shamelessness- is a virtue in some cultures.
Yes, people just do not seem to want to acknowledge the degree of control the Leftist judiciary has in the country. There was reported to be significant evidence, affidavits of ballot stuffing, esp. in PA. It was suppressed and not even looked at. By the judiciary. The Left has learned that control of the media and the judiciary IS control.
Even worse is nothing has been done about a corruptible election process. Surprise!
Yeah, sure Maria. Tell that to those sitting in jail for simply showing up at the capitol on Jan6, and tell that to Trump, who is being maliciously prosecuted for political reasons. First, the defendant would have to have an honest, impartial judge. Then that judge would have to be willing to look at that evidence.
I think, Ms. Goldstein, your background (and I'm making, considering your last name, what I consider a pretty safe assumption here that you probably are versed in Yiddish) probably has you so used to witnessing corruption and underhandedness that it just seems natural to you. Consequently, your belief in the imaginary honesty of the justice system (and the state run election systems) that presently exists in this country can be excused.
Timpon Walz is an apt description.
They've been blinded by the light
That day is long overdue.
I don't think they need to shoot anyone in the face. I think they should act smarter than the nutbags who have taken control and outsmart them. That way, they can't come back. Replace them and their system where they no longer fit. No one has the patience, though. It takes planning and long-range goals.
I do not live in "minny-soda" - so...
In any case, Mr. "Fit Pro", good luck with that! Let us know how it turns out for ya, tough guy.
Yes, the Muslim dude not from Hawaii pleased it, Beth. Anti American zealot and Jew hater
Better than u fer Shure.
America had seen this movie before. In the 60s and 70s, it was the intercity “projects” ostensibly to create “affordable housing for the disadvantaged.” Now, in retrospect, we know the projects were designed to become festering cesspools of hate and divisiveness, not the “failed experiment” all the politicians claimed years later. How do we know this? Because that was the outcome in each and every city across America. Still, Our resilient society mostly overcame all that despite the government’s post meddling.
Now, phase 2. Import 10 millions of refugees and plant them in cities with stretched budgets and already crumbling infrastructure. Bonus points for making the optics even more insulting by giving them funding and support not available to actual citizens. The game though is the same: destabilize thru misery and decisiveness. It’s purposeful treasonous actions against America passed off as political incompetence.
Exactly, now the developers are building actual 'Colonies'- raiding bases, razzia, in other words, such as the one near Houston- but the real C40 s.m.a.r.t. cities will not be shining megalopolises such as the planned Tri-City development meant for Netherlands farmland or the Lahaina pilot project. That's horse manure sold to the investor class to boost the IPO.
The real 'smart cities' will simply be designated ULEZ zones in already crumbling urbans such as Detroit. Apartment blocs and Section 8 built under Obama's HUD directive in abandoned lots, or repurposed large buildings. The immigrant migration invasion authorities are already grabbing whatever old properties they can- a huge, vacated former paint factory in Ireland came to light by Ezra Levant's reporting- or enriching local corruptocrats with rental housing schemes like those in Springfield OH (owned by the mayor), or the government paying rising rents for 'investor' MP's council houses in Birmingham and Liverpool.
Where were the Floyd riots staged? In the priciest districts. Where are the 'natural disasters'- usually fires, due to bad forestry management- occurring? What do we do with these huge tracts of abandoned factories and the stores that no longer serve them? Replace a manufacturing community with a migrant rental housing one! Somebody wants to get real estate at a major discount and Build Back Better.
Favela world beckons, it's the latest in vulture capitalism!
Speaking of "...your happy 15-minute cities..." (not their term) a Japanese staffer on WIRED is slipping it to us (Publisher Conde Nasty being embedded Deep State Deep):
https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-the-sustainable-cities-of-tomorrow-could-look-like/?
They never get it that eventually their servants become their masters.
Yes, why not? More clients for the Welfare department, voters for the machine. And they will fold right into Black American welfare/criminal culture in short order.
To their credit, the Somalis in my county do not lower themselves to acting like the nearby Twin Cities' black underpass. They have their own ways. They really have not assimilated at all in 30 years here.
Nor have they learned to drive in a straight line. I figured it was from growing up where they did, without rectilinear stuff, but 3 decades later, it seems to be a trait that breeds true. Hmmm.
Interesting thought: Maybe Black African Muslims (not just Somalis) will assimilate Black America, not the other way around. Much worse for us of course.
It certainly got off to a brisk start in the 1960s.
As somebody raised next to an Elijah Muhummed neighborhood (and the only white kid on the bus), the cruelest twist of the knife is this: the creator of the Nation of Islam was not black. His real name was Eli Wallace, from Brooklyn.
Before the surgeries, he looked as ethnic as could be; those surgeries took their toll, when he died he was 400 pounds, with a harem of 23 "wives". He was an FBI informant, moving guns and heroin into the hood. He advocated for a breakaway Islamic state in Mississippi, and had Malcolm X killed to keep his secrets.
+1 Much of this was news to me. I thought E.M. was just a pedophile.
3000 years of having children with their cousins.
Takes genetic testing to prevent inbreeding, and 300 years
Huh? If you go back 20 generations, you have i excess of 1 million 'grandparents'. We ARE all 'cousins', in reality. And if you're a God-botherer, you know for certain that we all come from Noah, right?
No, daughter of Ham, you know nothing, you have erased your own history hoping to replace us with yourselves, since you cannot be what we are.
It is interesting that DNA experts say that at one period, man was almost extinct, done to a few thousand individuals and we have descended from this small group.
Underclass
Re: " where did he go wrong in raising this clod of a daughter?"
Don't put it on the father (unless he abused her).
There are lots of influences in that girl's / woman's life besides Daddy once she turns 18.
Remember 1984, they were afraid of their own children denouncing them.
True. But I happen to know that he has some similar views, having been a professor in the humanities. He raised a hothouse flower.
This was set in motion before Obama was born. You are being genocided.
See: Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan
Gearing-up for the next Olympics, which'll feature carjacking, along with breaking.
Interesting regarding the carjackings in Minnesota. I'm in Maryland in a "safe" suburban neighborhood where there were NO carjackings for the first 20+ years I'd lived here. In the past couple of years, we've had about 5 or 6 armed carjackings in my neighborhood, some in broad daylight.
Let's see. what happens when you add population without having the support for them? No jobs? We will make some up, that is the birth of criminal elements. Also, the government is a criminal organization itself, utilizing the illicit trades to try to finance serving the interest payments on the debt.
When the Irish immigrated here, the Irish Mafia was born, when the Italians came in droves, they brought the Mafia. So as the rest of the world seems bent on coming here, they are going to bring their crimes with them. We are like a cesspool now, breeding criminal activity everywhere. The Swamp is well named.
Solution? Build the double 30 foot wall and monitor it, then deport any criminal activity as it occurs. As the are lots of them out here now, it will serve to slow the problem.
Your lips to God’s ears.
The US government, like the government of California, is seeing first hand what happens when its creative class goes Galt. It is easy to be maniac woke Jacobins when standing on the shoulders of giants but a lot harder when you need those very people to scratch and toil for their sustenance and your tax receipts. Tax receipts, I should remind you, that barely cover the interest on their debts.
Businessmen used to be shocked when I told them that were I a younger man that I'd move to a business friendly country. No one is shocked anymore - they just slowly nod in agreement.
2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write so I'm adding Fahrenheit 451 back into the running of Dystopian Future along with 1984 and Atlas Shrugged.
Literacy doesn't seem to be a big priority for the democrat party.
They like 'em dumb and stupid.
"2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write ..." ~ Robert
"Literacy doesn't seem to be a big priority for the democrat party." ~ Kathy Christian
Perhaps the problem isn't the focus, perhaps the problem relates to incompetent leadership.
Goal 4 - Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2022/Goal-04/
FACT SHEET: President Biden and G7 Leaders Launch Build Back Better World (B3W) Partnership
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/12/fact-sheet-president-biden-and-g7-leaders-launch-build-back-better-world-b3w-partnership/
"Strong Strategic Partnerships. Infrastructure that is developed in partnership with those whom it benefits will last longer and generate more development impact. Infrastructure created under the B3W will be developed through consultation with communities and assessing local needs as a true partners. We will establish a taskforce together as a G7, and with others, to coordinate, harmonize our efforts, and increase our impact and reach."
THE 17 (Sustainable Development) GOALS
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda
"People
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
Prosperity
We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature.
Peace
We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.
**
Our vision
7. In these Goals and targets, we are setting out a supremely ambitious and transformational vision. We envisage a world free of poverty, hunger, disease and want, where all life can thrive. We envisage a world free of fear and violence. A world with universal literacy. A world with equitable and universal access to quality education at all levels, to health care and social protection, where physical, mental and social well-being are assured. A world where we reaffirm our commitments regarding the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation and where there is improved hygiene; and where food is sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious. A world where human habitats are safe, resilient and sustainable and where there is universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
8. We envisage a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination; of respect for race, ethnicity and cultural diversity; and of equal opportunity permitting the full realization of human potential and contributing to shared prosperity. A world which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation. A world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which the needs of the most vulnerable are met.
9. We envisage a world in which every country enjoys sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and decent work for all. A world in which consumption and production patterns and use of all natural resources – from air to land, from rivers, lakes and aquifers to oceans and seas - are sustainable. One in which democracy, good governance and the rule of law as well as an enabling environment at national and international levels, are essential for sustainable development, including sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development, environmental protection and the eradication of poverty and hunger. One in which development and the application of technology are climate-sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient. One in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected."
2030 Agenda is just so much bullshit. It sounds wonderful at the same time it is completely undoable. The world is currently in an expanding battle for limited resources and soon all countries will be fighting for water, Oil, rare earths, agricultural land.
BTW, G7 is meeting. Son of a gun, if BRICS+ is also meeting in Russia with destruction of the G7 as part of its agenda. Right now.
John, the 2030 Agenda identifies, details, and proposes solutions for many of the issues that people on Jim's message board complain about, but for which few have a (viable) solution.
It is my understanding that the majority of world leaders have embraced the agenda in one fashion or another (it appears that there is a pile of money for compliance), so it is stacking up to be leadership vs citizens. My understanding is that Putin and Xi are on board with this agenda, so how do you reconcile that?
The 2030 Agenda is already being implemented, so if you want to have a say or terminate it, shouldn't there be a discussion?
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
People are wired differently, where some have an advantage over others depending on the current format for life. Kamala Harris is a perfect example of a misfit who is setup to fail, and does not qualify to be in a leadership position. What is your solution to accommodate all the differences?
"People are wired differently, where some have an advantage over others depending on the current format for life."
Jim touched on this a few posts ago. Why do you think Jews dominate the high dollar positions?
Atlas Shrugged gets my vote, may read it again in the run up to Nov just for the heck of it. Rather see my oil fields burn than be used by the robbers
Anyone have a nice used Norwegian "Nasty" boat? I want to be Ragnar Danneskjold if we're doing Atlas. LOL!
Wyatt's Torch here we come,
I read it this year. I like Ayn Rand and pro-producer thinking.
"2/3rds of our 4th graders can not read or write"
They're probably mostly jabbed so will be dead before too long =D
One of my favorite sci-fi movies! I watched it when I was little many times!
I saw it at the drive thru when young, and did not see it again for 50 years.
I was astounded at just how *good* it was, absolutely amazing. One of the Classics.
The furniture, to the detective: "We'll make it cold, like winter used to be!"
Also, Blade Runner. Roy Batty's incept date is Jan.16, 2019. He has a four year lifespan, setting him down one year after Soylent Green, in the year 2023.
Do you think the prophets were trying to tell us something?
10/21/24: What is the title of the first film that you are referring to?
Hmm. Reading it now, it looks like a prediction of what the "Conservative Elites" want to have...a return to medieval feudalism but with high-tech comforts. Is this why so many of the really moneyed class - the billionaires you've never heard of as well as the ones in public like Musk - are throwing all their financial might behind Trump - a meat-puppet of the first order - so their chosen 'boy', JD Vance, after ascending to the Presidency through a 25th Amendment move, can enact their Project 2025 Agenda for them? How's THAT for a conspiracy, you guys?
Even the liberal press with its extreme bias against Trump is publishing articles that state more billionaires support Harris, which only goes to show you believe what you want to believe, the hallmark of a conspiracy theorist as the term is commonly bandied about.
Maria, WTF are you talking about. Trump wants the economy to open up, to have more entrepeneuership, more manufacturing, more middle class, more opportunity for folks other than the service sector with its servile minimum wage. It is the Dems that want servitude, manufacturing overseas, high tax rates, fiat money to support non-productive workers, dependence on the government, high energy prices, tax, tax, tax and spend spend spend. The power hungry billionaires are all on the Left side, knowing they will maintain power with a Leftist government. Hmmm, isn't THAT Fascism?
So long as federal politicians have access and ability to create unlimited credit, it just doesn't matter what party rules. The result will be the same.
Liberty, and its accompanying general welfare, is incompatible with politicians having the ability to create credit, which passes nearly exactly the same as money.
No way would the constitution have been ratified where federal politicians could create unlimited credit/money. The Founders were well acquainted with the practice of government emitting irredeemable paper money, and they righteously rejected it. Alas, we find ourselves back with the same system they roundly rejected.
This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution.
All the states truly need to accomplish is end the practice of taxing gold and silver. Let the market determine what people use to transact and store wealth.
All true. I honestly believe that a complete Dollar Collapse will be more detrimental to the US than a limited nuclear exchange. In a Hyperinflationary Dollar Collapse scenario, I believe that if the US dollar becomes worthless by 7 a.m. one busy weekday morning, grocery stores will be empty, burning shells with some bodies in them by 10 a.m. and civilization will be gone by 3 in the afternoon. That is not wild conjecture, minds much wiser than I have written books about this stuff, it could happen very, very quickly in a heavily armed nation like this one.
I'm currently reading Shut Down by W.R. Flynn. It isn't Tolstoy or Hemingway but it gives the uninitiated an idea as to how things will play out. I'm reading it because I'm trying to find books that break down what a banking crisis and a dollar collapse would look like. In Shut Down, it all plays out exactly as you wrote - bodies by 10 a.m. and empty store shelves by 3pm.
I read it years ago. To me, it did not read like fiction. I am a suburban dad with a wife and kids, when my kids were younger if that happened my wife would have told me to get out of the house and not come back until I had food for the family, and that she didn't want to hear about the details. Imagine moms and dads all over America panicking when their dollars and debit cards were rejected and their kids were hungry. . .in unarmed countries that usually results in bread lines, but something very different would play out here, very quickly.
Just wait until the EBT cards zero out.
Wait til 20 million illegals find only *their* EBT cards suddenly cut off, and their free rent canceled. If Trump wins, the Democrats can set off a two-legged, biological nuclear bomb in this country.
Interesting idea, if welfare was cut off tomorrow, the shakeout would drive out many of our problems, and fast. 7.5 million males between 18 and 40 would have to find a job, any job to survive. Men and women would have to work together in marriages to succeed economically instead of just running away. Illegals would be heading elsewhere if their free lunch was discontinued. The ones here would be on their way home.
Welfare by the Left and their buying votes is the thing that is dragging the country down.
Are you listening to what is going on in the world right now? BRICS+ conference going on in Russia, not with a bunch of firebrands, but a group of very purposeful people determined to tear down the West. They have the power and the knowledge to do exactly that.
IMHO, their plans for the USA is to use the discord here and the illegal immigration to first segregate areas of the USA ethnically, then divide it up politically turning it into three or four smaller countries. With our government only concerned about itself, it is playing directly into their hands.
BTW, for all the folks here who have answered that BRICS+ is no problem , it is only economic, may I present to you NOKO troops in Ukraine. There was a Congressman today that stated that if NOKO goes into Ukraine, the USA needs to inject”boots on the ground”.
Plan A.
Stay alert.
Be at the store before credit cards and checks are refused. Already have non perishable foods on hand
I have no trouble believing this and that it is very likely to happen.
Good points Thomas. Add to "heavily armed nation", 30m invaders and growing daily to the chaos. If even a mere 10,000 of them have evil intent combined with the resources to assault the nation, this former republic will be brought to its knees and will thus be forced to fight from a severely crippled position.10% of shipping containers are inspected at our ports. I was on the freeways(I-75 corridor) these past 4 days and wondered what exactly was inside the many MAERSK and EVERGREEN containers I passed, and where they were headed to unload or if dead-heading for more, where their loads were now staged deep inside this borderless nation. Waiting. And that's just ONE vector of assault playing out.
I am way more afraid of drones and AI autonomous robots.
The elite have never been in a stronger position.
To disable 99.9% of computerized stuff: Unplug.
I think you missed the whole point.
Not things I have purchased in my house. Things sent to harm or terrorize.
All those things run on electricity, or batteries... all the scary things.
Yes, I wonder that, too, when I see them on the highway. And only 10 percent of cargo containers are inspected. Where's Pete on this? Oh, I know, he's at an infrastructure project somewhere building an overpass so animals don't end up as road kill. Meanwhile, I saw a photo of an opened container holding a bunch of kids.
Of course! I saw it happen with CONvid! The shelves were empty in 2 days. It’s then that I purchased a freezer, and added to preps I already had. Be prepared!
You have to explain the reason for your scenario otherwise it IS wild conjecture.
What is the event would infect the world and the entire United States within a few hours that would collapse the currency?
It's important to remain fact-based about the financial markets now and how they interact otherwise ignorance will make you fearful and creating bad fiction.
The Euro goes before the dollar.
Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse. Think about right now, is the “faith” of the people based more on good monetary situations or on apathy, denial and just stupidity?
If the “faith” disappears, think about what would it be like that every monetary transaction you do a day, disappeared. Every purchase you make today would be unavailable. There would be no stores. No transportation of goods from the coasts. The cities would erupt as there would not be any goods trucked in. City folks would be out in the rural areas, ready to kill to get sustenance.
I have recommended before, “Lucifer’s Hammer”, the story of the after world reeling from a comet strike. Elimination of the money would be equivalent.
A lot of folks don't realize that the "money" they think they have in financial institutions isn't physically there ... it's just pixels on a screen and the actual money has all been loaned out. Try making any substantial cash withdrawal at your local bank, say 20k or more. Now imagine over half of depositors clamoring to pull out their cash. Bank runs and pandemonium would ensue.
Alert! I wrote a check for cash a few months ago. The bank said that over a certain amount they are required to ask what I intend to use it for. The teller was embarrassed and provided me with a "potential use." I guess we have moved from "friendly banker" to "nosey banker."
They did that to me a few yrs ago when I pulled out 20k just to keep at home ... and I had to go to 2 different branches as neither had the 20k on hand. I told them it was "for a trip to Vegas to do hookers and blow"
That was installed a long time ago in the war on drugs. They have to insure that you're not withdrawing money to buy coke. Allowing fentanyl into the country via the southern border is altogether different, however.
I will add that there is still a "zero reserve" policy in place across the US banking system ... i.e. they don't need any reserves to cover all the outstanding loans they've made. Let that sink in.
AND another thing - "bail ins" are coming with the next banking crisis. What this means is instead of bailouts, where the govt steps in to provide emergency funding, the banks can now take the money they need from depositors. And you'll also be paying your bank to hold your money. And it's all legal, courtesy of our loving, caring banksters and government cronies.
Ghost
I will give you something else to lose sleep over. The bullion banks, globally, where gold is bought and sold by large entities like countries, has allowed payment with US Treasuries. There is little accounting for how much of the world’s gold is actually paper. Credit has rotted even the bulwark of wealth.
My motto is "if you don't hold it, you don't own it". Glad I've built a modest little stack of bullion the past few years. Central banks around the world are loading up on gold. Wonder how much the U.S. has stored, and when the last time it was audited (??)
"Financial markets are “paper”. They can be destroyed in a week. Paper fiat money is only as good as the faith of the “Users” . Lose the faith, 1929, and the markets collapse."
I believe the following to be the correct assessment:
The US$ is already significantly devalued, but it doesn't presently reflect its value because of money inflow due to big money getting out of worse situations..
If you want to get out of the US$, the first step is to get out of US Bonds. If the US Bond market is 10 times the value of the US stock markets, where do you expect the bond money to flow?
I believe that the US Bond money will (continue to) flow into the US stock markets (view a 10 year chart of the MERVAL for ridiculous). Then view the "all" time frame of the Venezuela Stock Market (IBVC) for an example of a no bid situation.
This is your free market capitalism, where guys like Soros know a good opportunity when they see it.
I am the most deeply religious atheist you will ever meet, for the best of reasons.
John speaks a different dialect, is all, one which you do not understand.
All one needs do is translate.
Leave this one be. He has spent his life in the highest service, and is thus made holy.
Financial markets are merely ones and zeroes, gone in a heartbeat.
"I honestly believe that a complete Dollar Collapse will be more detrimental to the US than a limited nuclear exchange." ~ Thomas Madden
So if that is a problem that the US is confronted with, would you embrace a solution?
People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future
https://unsdg.un.org/resources/peoples-money-harnessing-digitalization-finance-sustainable-future
All it will take to bring everything down is an EMP or maybe a few. They can say it was Russia, China, or Iran to cover their ass but it will be like kicking an ant pile.
All highways will be blocked with new stalled "bells and whistles heavy" vehicles. Trucks can't get through, IF They could run. Empty grocery stores. Dead water systems. Thawing refrigerators and freezers. Armed gangs going house to house on foot pillaging and raping at will.
Travelers on their own with a bag of chips and a bottle of water.
Cannibalism soon to follow.
FEMA has already proven they are worthless.
1 Second After by William R. Forstchen is a good description of what would happen to the USA after an EMP incident. The first to go are those on meds, like Diabetics.. Then those with weak immune systems. Then a starvation diet for a year or so for any of the lucky survivors.
Yes, the Deagle Report predicted that in 2025 the US population will be down to 100 million, and when I read that, the first thing I thought of was that we'll get into a conflict with China and the prescription drugs that are made there, that our elected representatives refuse to have manufactured here, will be cut off.
Kathy. A non-shooting conflict with China already is in full swing. 1,000 Points of Light, etc. The Chinese steel everything we have with both hands now. No need for open warfare with the CCP. That they will leave to the invading hordes coming into our borderless nation. They are trained and will kill. Waiting. The Chinese will make an appearance but only after Islam and their Middle East brothers have made toast of our neighborhoods. Arm up. Prep.
FEMA responds to the gay and colored blocs in any given area, everyone else can just go and die, as far as they're concerned.
"law enforcement" will be gathered at the state capitol guarding our elected representatives until they get to their bunkers. Citizens will be shot trying to defend themselves and their property, antifa and blm rioters will not.
Watch Cuba, as we speak. They can’t get their grid up and are about to say hello to a hurricane. Remember Haiti? We are always one week from catastrophe here.
They can’t get their grid up - JAZ
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"Grid" is a Cuban word which in English means "penis."
Yes Q - we're airdropping in cases of Cialis and Viagra. Hopefully it'll work longer and better than the $320 million-dollar floating dock the "Biden" regime installed on the beach in Gaza - about a month or two if I recall correctly. Another fantastic failure, for which they've become famous.
I am the entity formerly known as Q. Shtik back before the CFN site became defunct. I have been known for correcting commenters' grammar, spelling, and usage and for my chronicles about my brother-in-law, Peter.
As you can see, I have adopted a new handle for use here on Substack. It is John Smith, a name I believe was at one time the most common name in the USA. Now, where I live in central NJ, every other person's last name is Patel.
Lately I've had all kinds of electronics problems with my RAM 1500 truck (it is being worked on at the dealership as we speak) as well as health issues. It has been determined that I have Afib which is an irregular heart beat. If not corrected it can lead to blood clots which can go to the brain and cause a stroke.
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure where they give a quick shock to the heart in hopes that it will put my heartbeats back in sync. Dr. Shah (dot Indian of course) says there is little for me to be concerned about since of all the many times he has executed this procedure he has never "lost" anyone however he implied results could vary. It was not clear to me why the shock would put my heartbeats IN sync rather than putting them farther OUT of sync. I have to assume that as experts they know what they're doing.
This has me concerned about "waking up dead" as the expression goes. I REALLY hate the notion of ceasing to exist for all eternity (note: I believe as Jose Mujica believes that "There is only one life and it ends")
Before the procedure I will leave a note for Bo (my wife) that trash pickup is on Mondays and recyclables on Tuesdays.
I have been looking forward to my 84th birthday a month from now, specifically Nov. 21st, and wouldn't want the shock treatment to upset the apple cart. If you don't see any posts from John Smith for an extended period you can probably assume the worst.
Regards,
John "Q. Shtik" Smith
Very soon (within a few weeks) I will undergo a procedure - John Smith (aka Q.)
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The procedure is known as TEE but I don't know what those letters mean. I am now scheduled for a week from today, Oct 31st. Talk about coinkydinks, my Maternal grandfather was born on Oct 31st, 1883. His daughter, my mother, died on Oct 31st, 1995. Does this have any deeper meaning? I wonder. Probably not. That's why its called a coinkydink.
Q - Best of luck, sir. It will likely be all good, as your doc says. Just in case it goes sideways, please make sure you leave Bo a list of your accounts/logins/pws for all financials, etc. When we lost my dad after carotid surgery with complications last winter, that was one of the best gifts we found from him hidden in his hospital belongings. He knew it was possible.
That said, he got the short end of the stick on his turn at the wheel. I think you will prevail with all of your shtick intact. Onward, Q. You're not done here yet.
John
No sweat. The procedure times the shock so that the “clock” takes over again. They will probably give you a relaxing dose of a sedative, not knock you out. You will feel so much better with things in sync, Afib causes a 20% reduction in blood flow, so you will be getting that back. Read Yirgach below for a further therapy in electro cardio version does not work.
John
Don't worry, I had an aortic valve replacement and a week later had afib. Not pleasant when you're not even running a marathon.
The electrophysiologist did an ablation on the heart, essentially spot welding a circuit break using a catheter thru the groin. It stopped immediately. I was conscious during the whole procedure.. Dartmouth Medical is the best!
I am watching the CNBC business show at the moment. They have a very pretty woman named Brooke May on the show. She is what is known as a "contributor." Looking at her I am reminded of the expression "Big Tits Matter."
LOL!
What solution do you propose?
This is more of a mini-essay full of wisdom than a comment. Thank you.
100% .... and abolishing central banks won't come without bloodshed. Lots of bloodshed, as they are backed by the MIC (military industrial complex) around the globe.
"This monetary system won't be reformed at the federal level. States have been neutered after the 17th Amendment. However, the current system will persist until a force greater than it acts in opposition. That force can only be states acting in concert to re-establish gold and silver as money....as defined in the Constitution." ~ Anonymous
If there were a solution, would you acknowledge, engage, and embrace it?
Your basic contention is that the system has failed and is broken. Will "end(ing) the practice of taxing gold and silver" solve all the problems?
Is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/publications/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf
THe solution, IMHO, is to start decreasing spending by the government and allow the economy to run itself. Slow decreases, over 70 or so years. It took that long to run up the bill, it will take that long to fix it. Slow decreases and an agreed to tax profile that will also decrease with time.
Is that possible with the power mongers in the Deep State?
I am in the camp that contends that the debt will never be repaid, so a devaluation will be the stand-by option (even you acknowledge that "government" will be needed to deal with the situation).
You also point out that a "loss of faith" situation will be devastating, but your solution fails to consider the impact of individuals like Soros, and bully countries like USA.
Once you start to gain an understanding of the current situation, and grasp the details of the 2030 Agenda, you will start to understand the method to the madness.
So, once again, is there a better or more advanced proposal for a new format for life than the 2030 Agenda?
My objection to the 2030 Agenda is that it is impossible, period. It is a bunch of blathering by Global idiots trying to justify BS mission statements that have no chance of doing anything. You might as well pull out a copy of Das Kapital, the Bible of pure communism, and read how the rising of the proletariat is going to create a Utopia on earth. Only one problem, a big one, human nature and the evil side of humanity. Stop globalism, let every country do what is in its best interests. Here? America First.
Whatever that means any more.
If Xi has his way, he may impose his version of the 2030 Agenda on the world.
Why not review the 2030 Agenda assessments, and glean some solutions from their proposals? How does one fix something if they are unable to comprehend that which is broken?
Do you think we would be where we are today if "Joe Biden" had stepped up on the stump and had an open discussion about his administrations implementation of the 2030 Agenda?
Re your opening quote: Glad that you have discovered the writings of Elizabeth Nickson who like you, is an optimist in spite of her unsparing observations of the current wickedness.
Just for those like me who want to know: https://elizabethjnickson.com/
Nick Johnson posted an interesting Youtube video about the presidential campaign in PA. Apparently the Amish are finally mobilizing to vote in the November election. After a long tradition of deliberately staying away from politics and voting, many members of the Amish community are deciding to cast their votes, many for the first time.........for Donald Trump.
No wonder, the Leftist Socialists hate independence of anyone. The Amish are an antithesis of the Leftist socialist dreams.
Stalin killed millions of Ukrainian farmers when they fought their family based farms being turned into communes. Later, the government allowed the individual farmers to have a small plot of land to grow their own crops, independent of the communes. It wasn’t long before the farmers started farmer’s markets in the towns. Not too much later, the plots out produced the communes. A story to tell your socialist supporter friends.
I just saw a movie about the Holidomor called Bitter Harvest.
I just bought a book about the Holodomor that was recommended! This is history that many people seem to forget!
Sorry, texting isn't my strong point. Holodomor.
Another fictional account of note is in Michener’s “Centennial” where a sugar beet farmer named Brumbaugh was trying to find a reliable source of seasonal label for his farm. He tried Blacks and Indians, too unreliable, Japanese and Chinese, reliable but they saved their money and bought their own farms. His solution was Mexicans, reliable and skilled farm hands whose roots remained in Mexico. Over time, their families moved into the USA and they stayed.
Much like today?
I was raised picking chiles and tying grapes with those families. I have a lot I could say on this. (Plus, our beloved neighbors were actual Okies who came to pick fruit in California.) I've talked to farmers from Maryland to the San Joaquin Valley, some used to drive down to Mexico every season and pick up the same families every season.
Two quickies: in grade school we used to go by the burning busses where Cesar Chavez's United Farm Worker's union thugs stood with baseball bats. He hated seasonal migrants, since he was born in Indiana.
When 'La Migra'- ICE immigration or Border Patrol would come by the ranch in Nevada, we'd hide our Mexicans inbetween haystacks, piling up bales to block off the ends and making it look like one solid stack. They'd offer to buy us beer and take us hands to the Mustang Ranch, the local brothel! (High school kids had to enter in the back.)
Sometimes there are no solutions - only consequences.
The Holodomor Ukrainians were actually descendants of the Anabaptist Amish.
The glorious Tsarina Catherine, our great ally, requested thousands of them from the American colonies to teach her nation how to farm the rich soils of the Ukraine, so profound was their skill.
The Cheka goons weren't just killing farmers. As per their historic wont, they were slaughtering Christians.
Yes, it's inevitable. The question is whether it will be under the tyranny of the International Bankers as in Marxism or an elected National Elite as in Fascism or National Socialism.
I think we should do an annual televised Nerf Bat stadium beatdown for all interested policy-makers. Whoever is left standing gets to make the rules for the next 12 months. And gets as many hot dogs from the concessions stand as they please on the way out. About as fair as any other system.
No matter the "game", individuals will game the system.
As individuals, we just need to deal with the hand we are dealt, and game the system to the extent of our environment and abilities.
That's good to hear.
his video tours of various places around the country are great ... 'boots on the ground' type of interviews/commentary that reveal hard facts vs. the fiction we're being bombarded with by the establishment
Thanks to American Patriot Scott Pressler
Nature is a bitch. We have had it good for a long time. Go watch the people, aka tourists at Yellowstone Park for people who do not understand nature. There's a website tourons of Yellowstone Park. Reality is also a bitch. If Trump wins Pennsylvania, he wins the election. The food recalls are on the radar daily. I don't usually buy processed foods. I did have some frozen chicken tenders from Perdue, I had to throw those all away because they were deemed contaminated. Biden won Pennsylvania by 70,000 votes in 2020. In 2023, the Feds decided to go after an Amish organic farmer called Amos Miller. HE was selling organic produce and raw dairy products. The feds came in shut him down and humiliated him. He had never had a listeria problem. The Pennsylvania court ruled that he could still sell his products over state lines. The irony is large here. The original Amos was a shepherd and grew Sycamore figs in the Bible. He had enough of the "government" and turned into the first prophet and started preaching about morality. 190,000 Amish registered to vote. The mail voting is great for them. The tools that the dems used to cheat are being turned against them.
Other small farmers started banding together and supporting Amos Miller. The Navajo Nation came out enmasse for Trump. They are also shepherds and they make organic products like salsa, hot sauce, honey and cosmetics for sale. IMO the government has decided all the small farms must go, all the supplements that aren't big pharma must go. The EU tried to pull this on the Dutch farmers. The ITalians said no. They banned all fake foods and did not comply. Trump has a very good chance of winning Pennsylvania.
TRUMP WON LAST TIME........
LOOK WHAT'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Anything can happen. Except this time people are really going out. I heard they have never seen this much voter participation. The Amish literally never ever vote. They are so angry that they are talking to the media. They never do that. The corporate media is lying about the Navajo. It's not even close. They are having a similar problem. They make their living with the sheep and making stuff. The Chinese flooded the market with cheap knock offs. They are done. Trump first time tried to do something about this. We really need the Senate and the house too.
I don't know why. I am here in Colorado. I have not seen people at the ballot box. There are a lot of Harris signs. I have not seen one Trump sign. I am wondering if people here just are not voting.
As a former life-time Coloradoan, I am ashamed of the condition of Colorado, the northern terminus of the I25 illicit crime conveyor. Denver, a former beautiful city, has evolved into a cesspool that dumps its effluent into Aurora. It has turned into a Californicated perversion of America. It’s governor makes a grand representation of its evil.
20 years later, here in Arizona, I am watching the same thing happening here.
Fingers crossed!
Well, figuratively speaking anyway, be kinda hard to get anything done, am i right,
There are a lot of people who have been negatively affected by government, the biggest problem, is that the government, needs to have a come to jesus moment and be cut in half, if not now it will never happen, ALLLLL those career politicians, and I mean ALLLLLL of em, need to be dismissed then investigated.
Its not like they produce ANYTHING anyway, and the bureaucracy is mind numbing.
I know, i know,
Itll never happen, nice to dream though
A good start! "Well begun is half done"!
Then it must be the neocons turn to be chased through the streets by mobs with torches and pitchforks, same as the neoliberals and THE OLIGARCHS THEY BOTH SHILL FOR.
Because NOTHING WILL CHANGE if EITHER of these tools OR their OWNERS are allowed to remain.
The entrenched DC political class certainly must be defunded and eviscerated, and its federal powers scattered to the wind.
@Robert Italia
After posting THAT, I advise you not ride through Dallas in a convertible?
Not a problem.
If the results of the Presidential Election aren't declared, or simply obvious, by 10 p.m. on Election night, a lot of chaos may break out in this woke/broke/joke of a nation.
On the evening of November 5th and the morning of November 6th there will be a large scale cybersecurity EXERCISE in Atlanta, GA. What a coincidence! All the Intelligence Community will be there I expect.
https://atlanta.afceachapters.org/2024-homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-conference
https://www.govevents.com/details/75020/afcea-atlanta-homeland-security-conference
The electoral college was put into place to insure that states like California didn't dominate the vote. Democrats hate the electoral college and have called for its abolition, along with pretty much of the rest of America 1.0. Until it is, and under a Harris presidency it probably will be, democrats have been busy undermining the electoral system nationwide any way they can, lately fast-tracking illegals to citizenship before November 5. You know, for democracy.
Isn't that what Stalin said?
I believe the Democrat party’s biggest fear is us and they should be afraid
The Cheat in 2020 was flagrant, to anyone who had half a brain.
This one will be that too, but on steroids.
The DOJ is working feverishly to execute efforts to punish via lawfare, and even criminalize any state or entity or person who will dare to question this election, or even clean up their voter rolls!
Millions upon millions of ballots are being filled out as we speak with the names of illegal aliens who have been registered nationwide, and their names are now included on state voter rolls.
No investigation into the authenticity of any votes will be allowed and/or fought tooth and nail by our own Federal government, aided and abetted by cowardly courts.
Michigan's voter rolls list 8.4 million registered voters, nearly 500,000 more than the eligible voting population. That’s waaaay more than necessary to swing an election. And that’s just one state - not to mention a swing state.
We need a miracle.
I pray God He feels we deserve one.
I may not have skin in the game but I'm shocked to find out that apparently in California it is illegal to use ID to vote. ID is not required, and it is an offence for any official to even look at any ID shown. I know that sounds ridiculous but has been made in law now.
Yes, I read that Newsome signed that into law.
It doesn't really doesn't matter how many "Illegals" vote in California. It's not even in play as all the Electoral votes will be cast for Harris not only because she's a Democrat but because she's from there.
It's only about votes in certain counties in certain swing states.
WE HAVE A LOT OF GASOLINE
Well said. The miracle will be the crackdown that follows doesn’t end civil rights once and for all.
Many democrat states allow illegals to vote in local elections, including primaries.
When the checks stop coming and the EBT cards aren't resupplied, those Somalis and Venezuelans and the other illegals will fan out across the cities and towns into which they've been inserted and rob and kill anyone that gets in their way. The cops will all be at the state capitol or city county building guarding your elected representatives until they get to their bunkers or waiting helicopters. That's why they're so hot to eliminate the AR-15.
Citizens defending themselves will be shot by the troops that will be deployed to restore order, the actual rioters and looters will not. The DOD didn't just authorize lethal force against us by American troops for shits and giggles.
Especially right before a national election.
He was cut off at the knees in 2018
Any you support them forcing the illegal immigrants out - with fire and steel if necessary? All 50 million of them or so?
I think your number is about right. All the official numbers only include the port of entry plus asylum numbers, anywhere from 10 to 20 million. No boy talks about the walk overs, or climb overs or dig unders or wade overs. Guess which group the cartels use?
Nobody talks
What is Socialism other than organized crime posing as "Government?"
Biden’s Mob. The Federal government is a member of the global Cartel promoting drugs and other illicit crime entering this country to get their cut. Look around the world, it is happening everywhere. The IMF is an Emperor with no clothes.
TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU.
BEST GET TO A RED STATE IN AMERICA AND BUY A SEMI AUTOMATIC RIFLE.
WHILE YOU CAN STILL FIND BUYERS FOR YOUR PROPERTY.
Dennis, thanks for making my point for me. 🤣
Why don't you tell us about YOUR ideas, then?
Easy, he does not have any. Just likes to bitch about everyone else. He holds New Zealand up as an example, they have their problems like everyone else.
Deep-seated problems, beginning with a longstanding thirst for being told when to shit and also what color.
Yeah, I read that their leadership locked the population down, they couldn't travel but for a few miles outside their community and were censored on the Internet.
I spent a few years in the 90s living in NZ working with the RNZN. Such a beautiful country, such amazing, resourceful people. I made many friends. However those were the Clinton years. I was wary of all the shuttling back and forth to NZ being done by Clinton cronies, and after 2000, by Hildebeast and her rapist husband himself. Today we know they were busy helping to steal the government from the tiny agricultural paradise and turn the whole place into a socialist laboratory for the WEF. The rest is history. God bless New Zealand.
In _Tramp Royale_, Robert Heinlein recounts a 1953 trip to New Zealand and totally drags it. He said they were all provincial scolds:
Apparently, the pit of misery, the region without hope, the most god-awful place in the whole southern hemisphere circa 1954, was New Zealand. The chapter dealing with this unhappy visit is called “The Dreary Utopia,” and its dreariness was of varied kinds. This is the only piece of travel literature I can recall in which the writer truly, deeply hated a Post Office system. The problem was not that Heinlein was a free-market ideologue hostile to New Zealand’s welfare state and tightly-controlled economy. Uruguay had a lot in common with New Zealand politically and economically in those days, but Uruguay also had restaurants that served non-poisonous food, and not everybody there shortchanged visitors all the time. Such were the petty vexations of the country that Heinlein spluttered even at the famous narrow-gauge railways, which in a better mood he would have liked. No doubt part of this antipathy was due simply to the fact the tourist industry was not yet well-developed, but for once the Heinleins forbore to seek private hospitality. They did have a letter of introduction, to a former prime minister no less. Heinlein would not use it, however, because it would have been so difficult to stop himself from telling his host how much he hated his country and everything in it.
I was a big Heinlein fan growing up. Then I grew up. He had some nerve sarcastically referring to a "utopian" NZ. Heinlein's novels reek of his own brand of utopian hedonism. What I'm reading between the lines is Heinlein traveled to NZ and couldn't get laid.
God, now I understand why we fought a war for independence!
Best your dumb little heart. 🤣
Why did Jacinda the Horsewoman resign so suddenly? Seemed pretty close after all the jab deaths were getting attention.
Still huffing, eh?
My fellow Americans, the Maori like to put a bit of tuoluene glue into a Coke bottle, a lighter to the thick glass bottom makes fumes they can huff all day. This one's been hitting the, er, 'pipe'.
I think your "I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize" captures the likely outcome. These people are bullies and cowards. To threaten insurrection will expose them to legal remedies and loss of wealth and power. Not likely they will take the risk and they are more likely to throw those most exposed under the bus to save themselves.
Jamie Raskin and a bunch of House Dems and a few RINOs are threatening to not certify the election if Trump wins. So if he wins, will there be a Dem. Jan.6, the people calling out Congress for not investigating the mechanics of the election. Will the pussy hat crowd invade the Capitol to support the Congressional hold on certification. In a world of hypocrisy, this is a doozy.
Well at least we'll get some honest-to-god rioting, mayhem, looting, and property damage out of that bunch, instead of a fake fbi 'false flag' to belay the audit.
Yes, I read that. So much for the rule of law
One investigation with meat to it from Trump and all the false accusations will fall by the wayside. This is in the works as we speak. It will set a tone of unrooting illegal activity as vital to restoring law and order. Cheers from the average voter will cement it and few will risk exposure to their own criminality.
It all starts with the Manchurian/Kenyan Candidate--Obama, who gave the go-ahead for federal agencies to attack Trump.
Robert, Obama gave the go-ahead for the federal agencies to attack us.
Obama, the second black president, Bill Clinton being the first, according to Toni Morrison.
BLARFF
The first black president was Warren Harding, if you want to go by ancestry, and Mrs. Kennedy the first black First Lady, although to be fair, she was probably less African than KToe.
Last time all they could muster was a pussy hat parade so, yeah, there probably isn't much of a threat there.
But what about those fierce, tough as boot leather "White Dudes For Harris"? Don't they put the fear of God in you?
I have to say, as a woman, I despise soy boys. All women do. They'll use them for whatever they need, but at the end of the day, women despise weak men.
I can't stand them. How are any women attracted to that? Yuckers.
Those soyboys are the first to drop a roofie in your drink, though.
Oh that's how they get the women. Either that, or "becoming" one - lol.
About as much fear as the drugged up soi boi Antifa goofballs do.
Funny. Thanks for sharing.
That ad (the original) was obviously created by insider gay men groupies of Cackles. Watch Jimmy Dore & co. mocked it for 20 minutes or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbmVDGzOWa8&ab_channel=TheJimmyDoreShow
Don't forget the inauguration day rioting with flash-bang grenades and a burning limousine. Those neurotic mental children are capable of a lot of mayhem.
Yes, it's almost impossible to try to keep up with the babies and their tantrums. It was especially interesting that huge flats of bricks were left at specific locations where the "mostly peaceful" protests were held.
Howard, I admire your new found optimism, but I don’t share it. Almost every world leader, every institution, every organized government supported public body is arrayed against Trump for reasons of their very survival. Harris was picked four years ago to be President someday and that’s how we got here. Every piece had to fall into place and it has for this to happen. Her 60-day candidacy for President corresponds perfectly to her shelf life as a semi-likable person. The voting counting for a preselected winner is the easiest part. What happens afterwards is where things get messy. The fact that Harris is a Prosecutor is no accident.
Don’t forget the recording of President Ford, I think it was, who while replying to question by young girl said the first female president would occur due to the male president dying and his female vp becoming President. I Guess Biden refused to pass quietly in the night? But equally, or more, disturbing was his prophecy that when that happens men better watch out.
Biden passing quietly in the night may yet happen.
Very true
State of emergency just before the "election" President has fallen off the mortal coil. These creatures have a plan.
I don’t think many share his optimism. This election will settle nothing I’m afraid
Kackula is a big puzzle. They picked the worst possible dud to try to insert. Obama was an illegal insert and chose Joe as insurance. Joe chose Kackula, then she couldn't find a stupider Democrat so she inserts a man that ruined his state. He is facing accusations of being a bisexual child molesters from 2 male former students that have started to talk. His legislation ideals fit that mold pretty well.
Still I don't think any election is too big to rig. She positively cannot we in without cheating so if she does it will be hell to pay. The nation will not roll over and play dead.
If she loses I think the illegals will rise up at the same time as the BLM and Antifa as terrorists.
Could be the Civil war either way they THINK they wanted. They won't like it!
Yes, but remember, the DOD has recently authorized lethal force to be used by American soldiers against us if so ordered. They won't use it against antifa or BLM.
What about those possible microwave burns sustained by Trump rallygoers in NV last month?
"Microwave burns"? Lady, it was 110 Fahrenheit that day. The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor without any containment...what do you expect? Or perhaps it was the Jewish Space Lasers... you know, the ones that start hurricanes too....
I expect it could be the sun . . . Or it could be some other type of radiation, especially since it was limited to a few on the dais. After all the unlikely shit that's been happening, why NOT RF burns from a directional antenna? I'm an amateur radio operator Extra class. Even I could make that happen. Easily. If I were a maniac.
You're not even real are you? "Goldstein the Yenta." Try harder.
Perfect time to test out the latest toy, eh?
Microwave burns- it makes sense now, thanks.
Microwaves to disperse crowds are an old weapon.
KEENLY AWARE OF THIS.
80,000 ARMED AND TRAINED
IRS AGENTS.
Property confiscation for when that 25 percent equity tax is enacted, should Harris get the presidency.
Unearned capital gains tax of 25% will force sales to pay the tax. Many homeowners will become homeless and the illegals can buy the house with her free down payment.
Exactly, exactly, my Harris voting friends were, umm, perturbed.
This is all part of the Great Taking; even your paper assets, such as stocks, will not have sufficient proof of 'ownership'. A commenter above mentions bail-ins, negative rates, and confiscation, and he is exactly right.
Yes, Alzaebo - after the Great Taking, it will be easier to tell what people don't own.
Go READ the policy, dimwits Jay & Kathy...dumb ass losers! Unless you have assets of more than $100 million dollars or earn income of more than $1 million per annum, there is NOTHING for you to be concerned about. I very much doubt that anyone on this blog would qualify for this new imposition on the very wealthy, except perhaps, JohnAZ.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/harris-unrealized-capital-gains-tax/
So, you lack ethics and a basic sense of finance and economics. Did you also wear a red diaper?
Slippery slope
Huh? You definitely have an inflated idea of me? Maria, if you believe the pols are going to stop from taxing everyone because of campaign promises, you are going to be disappointed. The Left taxes more and more and spends more and more, it is their livelihood, their method of buying votes. They are evil. They will spend beaucoup bucks to figure out how to take money away from you without pissing you off.
You want an example? California, where tax and spend has evolved into an art. The goal of the national Leftists is to spread Californication all over the country. It is working well here in AZ.
Yes.
Yes. Please shut off your caps lock.
Fuel for the already raging fire.
What will happen when folks like Abbott and DeSantis tell the Feds under Kamala to Eff off and set secession in action? What happens when the NW area around Idaho do the same? Generally speaking, what happens when half the country decides to leave the USA and create their own country. Will the Dems of the East and West Coast in DC, try to stop the secession? Will a peaceable solution be found to a separation?
IMHO, the Leftist urbanites cannot let the Reds leave as their sustenance would be cutoff and the dependent Blues would have their hands out and up within a week.
What if employers ceased to collect taxes, SS, and insurance from paychecks?
We have already been threatened with, drones, F 16s, and nukes.
Yes, especially the F-16s! I nearly crapped my pants when I heard that!
Kathy, think. Who are they going to shoot at? Think of Texas ,the first drop out probably, shoot at Texans and sorry, East Coast, your oil is cut off. Shoot at the Red Mid-west and sorry, no more food, and that includes California’s Joaquin Valley, which is Red. Besides, how much of the military would favor shooting at Americans, much of them are from Red states.
They'll steal what they want from their unarmed neighbors and form gangs that cross state lines to prey on other states. Police will protect government, not citizens. After all, they still believe they'll get a pension if they can stick it out long enough.
Kathy, one comment. If a secession happens, there will be no pensions. There may be no police, just soldiers and rebels. A really big problem for the DC crowd will be who will the military back in a secession?
The military will back whoever pays them. That's what they did in Rome.
Yes, but they don't know that.
You can expect riots, looting, arson and murder when they run out of free.
I've heard that insurance companies have already stated that they won't cover riot-related damages.
It's written as an exclusion in the standard home insurance policy (US). Excluded from property coverage includes: War, invasion, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, civil war, usurped power, damage caused by civil, governmental or military authority to hinder or defend against an actual or impending enemy act. Hope that helps.
Exactly - nothing new in that. It is a standard exclusion. Standard, not some premonition of the Civil War 2.0 that you 'conservatives' seem to be jonesing for.
Reality inversion bot 1.0 failing miserably
You are a bad bot.
I don't think they had anything else in their quiver. They weren't counting on Joe's dementia taking an upturn so fast (divine intervention?), and they didn't have any other viable candidate that they felt could win against Trump, so they went with the tried and true of color and gender. Hence, we have Harris.
They ran out of "insiders" who would volunteer for the job, and there wasn't time to vet new ones.
Good point. Who, in their right mind, would want to follow the debacle of the last four years? I know one.
They had to find someone dumber than Joe Biden. No small task, but they found one.
Who, in their right mind, would want to consider the offer when better than half the population is sharpening their pitchforks?
I disagree, he was a placeholder there to run out the clock, until Kamala was the only available choice. Biden was a trojan horse, and Kammie was NOT a poor choice hastily made. She is entirely deliberate, the Manchurian dictator who will complete Obama and Soros's Revolution in time for 2030.
Remember the 2020 primary season and the Dem debates. Biden was chosen because he was the most moderate of the crazy Leftist candidates of which Kamala was one.
Yes, it will. First and foremost, Americans are rule followers, and apathy reigns supreme.
Made my day Sir James! You are a powerful wordsmith. And you don’t dole out positivity until it’s real. Appreciate your work immensely.