Wake me when people start going to prison…that is, if leftist judges don’t dismiss the cases, leftist juries refuse to convict, etc. we’ve had a preview of this song and dance and each episode seems to have the same ending.
Still waiting for accountability for JFK’s assassination in 1963, more than 60 years ago and all the files still haven’t been released. So there’s that
Not exactly. It’s more that decades of duplicity, double standards, and insults to the public’s intelligence have left many Americans with a kind of exhausted resignation. The worst part is recognizing the gulf between what we were told and what we can plainly see.
In a functioning Constitutional Republic, many of these figures would have been investigated, tried, and, where warranted, convicted long ago. Instead, accountability always seems deferred, diluted, or denied altogether. When there’s a persistent disconnect between rhetoric and reality, public faith inevitably erodes.
My patience and goodwill are largely spent. I’ll believe something meaningful is happening when tangible consequences finally materialize - not before.
General George Washington and the American Revolutionary Patriots lost many battles, over a number of years, yet eventually they prevailed. All we can do is soldier on; persevere in the face of seemingly insurmountable roadblocks. What other choices do we have? We've been beaten back many times over the last 10 years but the battle still rages on, and some cracks in the wall of our opposition are appearing. Maybe we're nearing a point where the wall finally gives way and the bad actors are exposed and jailed. Acting AG Todd Blanche is supposed to be releasing the findings from the Georgia and Arizona 2020 election irregularities in the next week or so. We've got at least 2 1/2 years left to press our case.
Trump betrayed us, utterly. If you don't know it, rest assured that millions of his former supporters do. My opinion only? No, the poll numbers confirm it.
It is true. Trump's main concern now is Eretz Israel, and he makes no bones about it. You will never see anybody held accountable for the malfeasance of the 'Biden' years. Trump's got other fish to fry and he is looking out for himself and his family, playing the long game. One hand washes the other. He is in scorched-earth mode now, justifiably so, but it is America that will pay the price. He has trained his sights on the very people that have had faith in him. It is not just MTG or Massie that he abhors now. It is us. Not to worry - it will work out for him in the end.
I suspect that, like Reagan and Turd Kennedy, he was told to play ball or the nect one goes between your eyes, and your family will die too. Not good for the country, obviously, but better than the upheaval and likely civil war eventuated by an assassination.
It would appear you don’t understand what the MAGA agenda is….as in making America great again. Or perhaps you are unaware of the global shift, American energy, new American investments, etc. There’s a bigger picture to making America great, that goes beyond seeing people indicted. And forming iron clad cases against people takes time.
The price of gasoline and Trump's increasingly unpopular war in Iran will result in the Democrats taking back the House or the Senate or both. Trump will spend the last two years of his Presidency fighting back sham impeachment charges.
That's definitely a likelihood, but the executive branch of government can still enforce the law and lock some of these rascals up. I also think the dems need to be careful about their knee-jerk rush to impeachment. It'll likely backfire against them in the 2028 elections, just as it did in 2024.
Unlike the legislative and judicial branches, the function of the executive branch has been poorly defined. From my schoolboy days I recall a teacher explaining, "The executive branch sees that the laws are carried out."
Yeah, carried out of the Capitol and dumped into a trashcan in the alley. If my teacher's formulation was ever true, it's long since become obsolete.
These days presidential power is more often expressed in opposition to Congress's will, especially when the president and congressional majority are of different parties. At an extreme, the president can simply refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress, forcing it to attempt a do-over resulting in enough votes to overcome the veto.
I can't summon much respect for our national legislators (or for that matter, most state legislators I know anything about). But they are no longer in the driver's seat and that's a concern. Probably JHK will disagree, but when Trump (like Bushes I and II) can send US military forces halfway around the world to kill people and blow up things without a declaration of war or even a declaration of approval by Congress, we're in deep trouble.
The US has been at war somewhere or other almost continuously since WWII, and "the people" have had no chance to vote for or against it via their alleged representatives. The phrase, "the Imperial Presidency" comes to mind.
I think the Iran war, allied with Trump's soul mate Netanyahu, is a grave mistake. (Unlike the "Shakespeare" author, I will not make a pun on "grave.") But aside from the war's likely dire consequences, what's even scarier is that essentially one person could take the decision to make the earth tremble. Not just Trump, mind you, but anyone occupying the White House.
They never do. Every time the republican filth have the house, senate and executive it's just business as usual. More wars. More debt. Bigger gubmint. I learned this harsh lesson during the Dubya years.
So you are spot on. It doesn't matter. The result is always the same.
Exactly. We've seen this at least since Whitewater. A few sacrificial goats like Bob Menendez mean little. The prison system should require entire new facilities to house the number of government criminals that deserve incarceration.
A younger Jarhead, a well-known commentator, declares that government officials who abuse their positions of power need to be administered a punishment far more severe than a little incarceration ... so that the punishment is sufficient to cause communists to think twice before ever again doing any such thing.
Death doesn't deter Marxists. They probably imagine they're going to that great politburo in the sky when they die. But I agree with you. Let us pray for that, then. When human justice fails, there's always God, right? Let us pray for the death and destruction of these people.
Oh I understand the utility short ropes and long drops, but good luck with that. The present system can barely get a conviction when there is DNA, video and a dozen witnesses. Then the sentencing is all too often carried out by some Soros paid woke disgrace, unworthy of the position.
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
They controlled all the Media Communication platforms along with the failed Education Industry from Pre K through University.
Social Media pulled the plug on their monopoly of Controlled Propaganda.
The Leftist and their Big Government Apparatchiks vice-versa are against our Constitutional Republic and they desperately want a Democracy that they want to have total control over!
Technology and The MAGA movement popped that balloon!
So now we are on Clean Up not just in Isle Five, we have a massive job to clean it all up for our next 250 Years!
Our Elite are infinitely flexible in terms of appearance. Communists immigrated here, looked around, and became Republicans - the group known as the Neo-Cons. What works on the dull minds of the hoi polloi is what they do. They don't believe in any of it per se. They believe in themselves and what works.
Neocons, short for neoconservatives, are a political faction that emerged in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s, primarily among former liberals or left-leaning Democrats who became disillusioned with the Democratic Party’s shift toward pacifism, the New Left, and countercultural movements. They are best known for advocating an interventionist foreign policy, using American military power to promote democracy and counter perceived global threats.
Key beliefs include support for a strong military, assertive national defense, and the spread of democratic values—often through regime change—as seen in the support for the 2003 Iraq War and interventions in Afghanistan and Libya. Prominent figures include Irving Kristol (considered the "godfather" of neoconservatism), Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, and Lindsey Graham. While they tend to support free-market economics, they are more accepting of government intervention than traditional conservatives, especially in foreign affairs and national security.
Neocons are often pro-Israel and skeptical of international organizations like the UN.
They differ from paleoconservatives by favoring global engagement over isolationism and being more open to immigration and civil rights.
Their influence peaked during the George W. Bush administration but has waned in the Republican Party due to tensions with Trump’s “America First” and non-interventionist stance.
Though associated with Republicans, neoconservatism has occasionally drawn bipartisan support, including from some Democrats who back hawkish foreign policies.
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Lugh: Where does one start with someone like you? You know so little. You don't want to know more because that would get in the way of your Israel triumphalism fixation.
Just curious as to when you expected the investigations and arrests to take place….under the Biden administration?? I hope that any indictment and consequent arrest has been researched well enough where the case is steadfast, rather than quickly processed in order to satisfy the needs of an impatient public.
Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to when when running for office. Reversing the destruction of America. Maybe take a gander at Promethean Action over on Youtube. The entire globe is being redefined, because of Trump.
Exactly, Trump has failed to arrest anyone significant. In fact, he's reversed himself on pretty much everything he campaigned on, Epstein files, FISA, China, and war.
Now he's opposed to Massie, one of his strongest supporters, because Massie opposed the Big Bloated Bill, and said the thing that may never be said: every congressman is assigned an AIPAC handler.
It's a sad situation. Trump is no longer our guy. He's Miriam Adelson's guy. Maybe it was always that way and we just didn't know it.
Thank you! Please restack my memes if not inconvenient to you. That might help.
Someone or some group is also trying to take down my personal site, https://patrick.net
It was overwhelmed with robots, so I had to put in an anti-robot gate. I tried blocking IPs but whoever was doing it has a LOT of resources, more than a million distinct IP addresses to attack from.
If you can't see the site because of the robot gate, try logging in. Any logged-in user should easily be able to see the whole site.
I liked Massie's assessments that I heard, but people need to look at the current convoluted bastardized system from the perspective that a vote for Massie is essentially a vote for Mamdani, and that "... the 2030 Agenda will likely be re-cemented as the only legitimate framework for the next century.".
"Assessment: If the U.S. successfully builds a "Golden Age" through bilateral deals and energy dominance, it proves that the UN's 2030 model is not the only path to prosperity. If it fails or leads to "global chaos", the 2030 Agenda will likely be re-cemented as the only legitimate framework for the next century." https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-feral-and-savage-party/comment/250760813
Trump's New Golden Age is the only obstacle to the 2030 Agenda being re-cemented as the only legitimate framework for the next century, and if Trump loses this battle, "Mamdani" wins by default.
What does Thomas Massie propose to counter the re-cementing of the 2030 Agenda framework for the next century?
I think you have an incomplete notion of how societal change occurs. And how far revenge goes as a deterrent. Heads rolling would be gratifying, but the only thing that will really make a difference is if enough of the public becomes infuriated to the point of acting and thinking differently. For me, I would much rather a majority of people figure out that abortion is the murder of an innocent child than to see Comey behind bars.
Simply publicizing the magnitude of the breaches has already changed minds, and what we're watching unfold is an avalanche of exposure, from indigent public employees, to fraudulent health care centers, to illegal lawfare, to international money laundering schemes by Democrats, pedophiles, drug pushers, and dirty banks. Shining light on these things will cause the roaches, like Colbert, to scatter, whereas a few public humiliations, even hangings will not. Whether the crowd wakes up enough is still a question, but the reactions in Europe and the UK are promising.
But if Miriam Adelson's easy purchase of a congressional seat in KY is any indication, we are miles and miles away from the public catching on, even now.
"...beneath the bluster lies a deeper, more profound reality. The United States no longer threatens from a position of unchallenged supremacy that it once enjoyed. It is resorting to sabre-rattling now from the precipice of decline and decay."
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Zohran Mamdani Claims Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Asked Him to Play a ‘Game’ Involving the ‘Genocide’ in Gaza: I ‘Couldn’t Believe What Was Happening’
"A profile of Zohran Mamdani in the New Yorker alleges that the New York City mayoral candidate was asked by a producer of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' to play a 'game' surrounding his opinions about Israel’s war on Gaza...
In advance, he was briefed on the 'basic political topics' Colbert would bring up in their interview. But according to the New Yorker, producers proposed a new set of questions shortly before Lander and Mamdani went onstage because Colbert had received a letter that day from prominent pro-Israel figures demanding that Mamdani be pressed about his views of Israel."
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"I was actually a guest on Colbert’s show years ago in its early evening incarnation when the running gag was Colbert pretending to be a right-winger. In the green room before the show, his handlers told me to 'not try to be funny because that’s Stephen’s job.' " ~ James Howard Kunstler
Russia/China/Iran are going to take the Euro-Asiatic "land island", and probably Africa and Australia as well. We will try and take all of North and South America. Patagonia will be the new Israel, giving them access to the riches of Antarctica.
It is incredible to see the angst developed by a little country on the Med coast. But then again, it has been that way for a long time. They are still there.
Again, learn the difference. Whatever political ‘arrests’ you are thinking about are going to be from a grand jury….and they will be indictments. Not arrests.
The problem, regardless of evidence, will be the “OJ Jury” empaneled in DC. I can’t think of any circumstance in which that jury will find any democrat guilty. This will put the nation in the “shot at the king and missed” situation, with Indies moving left cuz the Rs “obviously” weaponized DoJ in a political hit job. I sure hope Blanche does his serious work against the usual suspects in FL.
As to Maricopa, where I live & vote, Cartel Katie Hobbs needs to indicted, arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned for life.
Right now it is THE problem. A good indicator is how many times the one federal judge trick has been used against Trump vs. Biden. Even the supposed Red judges are owned by the Deep State.
I must say that I often find the comment section pretty frustrating. It appears that there are a few here that also don’t understand the difference between an arrest and an indictment.
IMO, tying the corruption of these people to the cartels and other crime families will need to happen.
Remember the Godfather and the ownership of the judges by the Mafia? It has not changed since then but has expanded. Now it is the ownership of the Blue cities.
Now Alexander don't be too hasty, we don't want to run past the humiliation phase too quickly. For Katy, how 'bout a month in a stock right in front of Chase Field, we've got to still have one of those around in the basement, then tarred & feathered, or how 'bout going a little ol' west on her sorry bottom and bury her in a red ant hill? Just for a while, it wouldn't be fair to the ants if it was too long. If we're not going to get some accountability then we need to come up with something just short of retribution...
Now that is ultimate question. Good people will allow themselves to be subjected to an incredible amount of abuse; for some it's because of fear of their God, for others they understand if they act in violence they risk becoming that which they despise. For now we attempt to work through these issues in a corrupt system, which is really testing our resolve, patience and sanity. Best we can do prepare for the worst and hope (that word again, almost feel like an idiot using it) for a fair resolution, before we're compelled to go total Revolution. We're certainly not the first society to be in this situation and assuredly will not be the last. For me, I'm busy preparing a lifeboat...but the seas are becoming exceeding rough and the sky on the horizon is becoming darker. Dang it...
"French-kissing his fellow late-night soul-mate hosts goodbye, perhaps to honor the French origins of the Woke political ideology that guided his rocket flight to fame — Michel Foucault (1926–1984), who argued that power was all that mattered and that you could talk any absurdity about sex, mental illness, and criminality into mass belief."
I had to read the trash written by this so-called philosopher while attending the University of Washington in the mid 1990s. What no one said is that not only did he die from AIDs but that he caught AIDs because he didn't use protection and was known to favor teenage boys from Tunisia. Did he inform those teen boys that he was HIV positive? Of course not. What a despicable piece of trash.
"Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS."
Foucault, et al., utterly ruined English lit. classes for me, and I was in college before they banished Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Donne from the curriculum entirely. There have been decades of English lit. professors whose idea of lit crit is defecating on the pages and smearing it around, little else.
I started as an English major. Loved the books we read: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, King Lear. What I came to despise was what was called close reading. It was painful. That was when I bailed and changed my major to Philosophy and Latin as my minor. Never looked back!
I started as foreign language teacher with English minor, dropped teaching after it became clear that I would have no professional autonomy, graduated with Eng. lit. minor, and became a nurse, lol.
Some of those English lit. instructors seemed very emotionally disturbed. One cried on my shoulder once about her low pay while subjecting me to Chopin's _The Awakening_, which my puppy pulled off the shelf last month, chewed, then criticized it like an English professor.
Same here. Fortunately, I was at a college that at least let me argue without penalizing my grade--as it was hard to defend readers making up their own independent meaning without bothering to refer to the text. Which is sort of weird--I mean, at heart, didn't everyone know it was the Emperor's New Clothes, but it was sort of tolerated because of so much fertile soil for their publish or perish--and even a mediocre hack can coast along on some instant prestige by making up some sort of 'critical' nonsense....
Word! I made the mistake of asking, "What's the point of deconstruction when you're just doing superficial wordplay?" of my instructor, who said she was a "ground-breaking narratologist." That netted me a D- on a 5-credit course the very semester that I graduated with honors.
A 'ground-breaking narratologist?' Wow. Curious that you couldn't just argue that your experience of the narrative was that deconstructing it eliminated all meaning from said narrative! Seriously, I have a MA in lit and have always been incredibly passionate about literature so there is nothing that stews my juices more than this academic fraudulence and tomfoolery which in a single sweeping blow completely destroyed the study of literature. The only way to look at that D- is as a secret badge of honor which says scores about said narratologist and very little about your paper.
I loved this Australian novel by Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity, simply because he spends the first half of the novel skewering deconstruction.
I will look up that book. I love playful snark, hence my dog-eared набоков and Barth.
I think she was determined to teach me how hard her trade really was, and there was no path to a decent grade. I looked up her "ground-breaking narratology" and it was disappointing feminist slop. Imho.
Strident earnestness and complete absence of a sense of humor, I'm willing to bet. Those are always the two telltale signs. I think you'd love that book as much as I did. I read it twice, didn't hold up as well the second time around, but I still love love love the 150 page or so dissection of every aspect of deconstruction.
Yes the realization that compounds his murderous anger that this man was one of many did exactly what he did. They would brag about their ability to get as many people they could and then kill them. I guess the proclivities of those whose entire life is about sex and death is why they are an abomination in the Bible. It’s not the fact they are human but it’s their choices that are selfish and narcissistic. And yet people think “live and let live! “. Those are the people who also don’t care about their victims and their CHOSEN lifestyles.
These two creatures from hell get coverage on cable about a French kiss, is a flagrant display of their own support of deviant culture.
They say that in Fourth Turnings such as these, it always looks darkest before the dawn. I know I'm scanning the horizon for a rosette glow and listening for bird song. The Trump administration has some heavy lifting to do, it seems, but maybe there will some revelation so astonishing that it will break the mass psychosis and bring on some proper disgust.
The slow process of enrichment of the immigrants will educate them that the socialists in the USA are really after their money. Same with Gen Z and Alpha. The tax and spend policies of the Left are its worst problem. Without mechanisms, education and illegal immigration, they cannot grow their base. There is going to be a political war over both of these mechanisms between 2026 and 2028. ICE and the border are front and center as the Left will try to figure out how to stop deportations. The Dept. of Education and federal grants for the Leftist SOBs in university America will be under fire. If MAGA is successful with these two items, socialism will be strangled.
Nope. Lots of demonstrations this summer against them doing their jobs. It is interesting though that Homan is not reporting results as much as before.
All the crap-talking bravado from him and especially from that ICE Barbie, Sec'y. Noem, had to be toned down. It was off-putting to people who could recognize and empathize with the human cost of bad, border-jumping decisions.
Leftist mumbled code talk for, I broke the law and stole, but gosh, I am sorry I have been caught -wink, wink!
Yes, Kristy and Tom are”off putting” (whatever the hell that made up phrase is) to those who want protections only for what personally benefits them, screw all others!
Yeah chuckie, Jeffery giraffe fan. Support the law breakers stealing all your shit and your pseudo empathy.
My thoughts exactly. No matter how compelling the evidence may be the media will ridicule it at first. They’ll portray it as Trump getting retribution against his enemies (already underway). When they can’t deny the facts any longer, they’ll act as if it was all matter of fact. We’ll NEVER hear any admission of being wrong or their admission of bias. In fact, they’ll double down on any desperate attempts to turn any remaining doubts against Trump.
Yes, just like the cockroach masses who move to our Southern Oregon and pine for their days in burnt out, taxed out, priced out leftist paradise. Maybe the Milton variety.
Of course I have the gall to say, “If you loved it so much and miss it so dearly should have done your research rainbow child, go back away from us rednecks (yup, more than a few of us staunch holdouts) fighting the good fight here.
Of course the response, medical care and costs are horrible, costs too much.
I can see why you pine for “the good ol days in kamehamaha land.
Never thought a state and brainwashed disciples could make, by comparison, Portland, Salem, Eugene and Ash-land and their beloved socialist guv and leftist polis seem a step closer to reasonable. Intelligence left the station decades ago.
I wish you luck California is still full of fucktard leftist idiots. I see chevron has started fighting back against Gavin Newsome lies with the $2 taxes on each gallon brocken down for all to see as they pump gas.
So very true Ben we have been invited by those dirty parasites from both the left East Coast as well as Hai and they just come and downgrade what used to be a great state continuously so yeah eventually they will get theirs but sadly they keep trying to drag us all down with them we’re fighting hard. They’re certain enclaves in southern Oregon and coastal Oregon and even in California. Hard to believe we keep fighting, but I don’t know if there are enough of us. We may lose the war of attrition, but we will go down fighting
Nice! This should be the approach all over the country! I know Californians pay ridiculous taxes on gas but countrywide, state and federal taxes make up the majority of the cost of a gallon of gas….to the great distress of the lefties that want to blame the evil, greedy oil companies.
It appears that which you are seeking is what Mattias Desmet described. It is the fear of something which is larger (bigger) than the fear one is presently facing.
There is a lot of interplay going on in the Imperial City. A complex web is in place. The members of the Cabinet are there for a reason, just as the guests on the just-completed trip to Bejing were all there for a reason.
It is as two wolves and a lamb deciding 'what's for dinner'.
My impression: the collective 'we' are represented by the lamb.
I had been slowly making my way through Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, but on the advice of a Twitter pal, I backtracked and started reading it aloud to my kids. Which has been amazing…reading this story out loud really feels like we’re harkening back to the time of Homer.
One of the things we’re discussing as we go along are the repeated epithets…the descriptions of gods and people that are used over and over in the poem. Zeus is often not just Zeus — he is “the great Thunderlord Zeus” — and Dawn (the Greek goddess of the dawn) is almost never just Dawn, as Wilson explains in the introduction:
Dawn appears some twenty times in The Odyssey, and the poem repeats the same line, word for word, each time: emos d’erigeneia phane rhododaktulos eos: “But when early-born rosy-fingered Dawn appeared…” There is a vast array of such formulaic expressions in Homeric verse, which suggest that things have an eternal, infinitely repeatable presence. Different things will happen every day, but Dawn always appears, always with rosy fingers, always early.
Wilson combats this precise repetition, which can sound antiquated to modern ears, by varying the epithets according to the context:
The formulaic elements in Homer, especially the repeated epithets, pose a particular challenge. The epithets applied to Dawn, Athena, Hermes, Zeus, Penelope, Telemachus, Odysseus, and the suitors repeat over and over in the original. But in my version, I have chosen deliberately to interpret these epithets in several different ways, depending on the demands of the scene at hand. I do not want to deceive the unsuspecting reader about the nature of the original poem; rather, I hope to be truthful about my own text — its relationships with its readers and with the original. In an oral or semiliterate culture, repeated epithets give a listener an anchor in a quick-moving story. In a highly literate society such as our own, repetitions are likely to feel like moments to skip. They can be a mark of writerly laziness or unwillingness to acknowledge one’s own interpretative position, and can send a reader to sleep. I have used the opportunity offered by the repetitions to explore the multiple different connotations of each epithet.
The appearance of Dawn has already become a source of comic relief while we’re reading — “here she is again, with the roses!” — and I was curious to see Wilson’s differing interpretations, I gathered all the appearances of Dawn from the text:
The early Dawn was born; her fingers bloomed.
When newborn Dawn appeared with rosy fingers…
When rosy-fingered Dawn came bright and early…
Soon Dawn was born, her fingers bright with roses.
When Dawn appeared, her fingers bright with flowers…
When early Dawn appeared and touched the sky with blossom…
Then Dawn rose up from bed with Lord Tithonus, to bring the light to deathless gods and mortals.
When vernal Dawn first touched the sky with flowers…
But when the Dawn with dazzling braids brought day for the third time…
Then Dawn came from her lovely throne, and woke the girl.
Soon Dawn appeared and touched the sky with roses.
When bright-haired Dawn brought the third morning…
When early Dawn shone forth with rosy fingers…
But when the rosy hands of Dawn appeared…
Early the Dawn appeared, pink fingers blooming…
When early Dawn revealed her rose-red hands…
Then when rose-fingered Dawn came, bright and early…
On the third morning brought by braided Dawn…
Then the roses of Dawn’s fingers appeared again…
Dawn on her golden throne began to shine…
When Dawn came, born early, with her fingertips like petals…
The golden throne of Dawn was riding up the sky…
When rose-fingered Dawn appeared…
Then Dawn was born again; her fingers bloomed…
Then all at once Dawn on her golden throne lit up the sky…
…Dawn soon arrived upon her throne.
When newborn Dawn appeared with hands of flowers…
When early Dawn, the newborn child with rosy hands, appeared…
As she said this, the golden Dawn arrived.
…she roused the newborn Dawn from Ocean’s streams to bring the golden light to those on earth.
I think my favorite is probably “Soon Dawn was born, her fingers bright with roses” but I also appreciate the very first appearance in the text: “The early Dawn was born; her fingers bloomed”. Either way, what a great illustration of Wilson’s skill & the creative latitude involved in translation, along with a reminder for writers of the many different ways in which you can essentially say the same thing.
Lugh: The movie is using Emily's translation, natch. Everything that can be female MUST be female. She's clunky giant(ess).
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that. I had thought we got a lot of wine-dark seas because of the need for anchors in oral retelling, and my preference would be to keep them, where possible. I used to translate fiction, but far be it from me to give a faithful yet not too literal translation of verse.
Bucke in his book, "Cosmic Consciousness" opined that humanity couldn't see blue back then, but only purple. With evolution, we will be able to see farther and farther into the spectrum.
The remake of the Odyssey with Elliot Page as Achilles with a supporting caste of Black (including Athena) may be the nadir. But remember: Things are darkest before they get even darker. The bird song will be your guide. It knows.
The final revelation was the Epstein Files which Trump and Co suppressed. No bird song yet.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.
I'm quite convinced that AIPAC had JFK killed because of his strenuous opposition to Israel's getting the bomb. This could explain the sudden raid on Tulsi's office and whisking away of JFK papers.
"but maybe there will some revelation so astonishing that it will break the mass psychosis"
Covid didn't do it, Beth. Forcing people to close their businesses, lose their income, cover their faces with filthy diapers, distancing themselves from their loved ones, coerced into taking untested vaccines into their bodies multiple times, and much more, didn't break the mass psychosis.
If the covid debacle didn't do it, I don't know what will. Starvation? Cannibalism?
That was different, a Republican was in charge, and largely went along with it in the beginning. I’m not proud of Trump falling into the trap - I could see it a mile away that Covid was a setup to f*ck up his reelection, and he pissed and moaned a bit (“The China Virus”) - but what were the choices?; fight it tooth and nail and ‘maybe’ a gazillion people die under your watch? - or take the ‘expert’ advice your getting until your common sense kicks in and tells you to walk away and let the states decide and hope you can pick up the pieces well enough before Election Day?… tough call…
Maria's point is fair. 2028 is coming up, and they are still gathering evidence? The left wing is rioting in the streets already, and talking about packing the Supreme Court.
The 'left wing' is not a monolith. The marxists, of which there are many woven through many organizations on the Far Left, believe their time has arrived. They could be correct.
Mark, they have to try, the Dems are on shaky ground. Right now, to change the court, it will take unanimity of the Congress and president. Not anytime soon. Including 61 votes in the Senate.
What really goes on? On paper it is the dream-come-true. Control of both Houses of Congress and the Executive. What could possibly go wrong? Well, we're seeing a lot of possibilities apparently vaporize in front of our eyes.
Yes, that! We already have both houses and the WH.
But it turns out that they were all bullshitting us about doing anything. This is worse than election fraud.
The only serious MAGA guy in Congress is Massie, and Miriam Adelson looks like she just wrote a check to buy his seat and install a warm body who will shut up about AIPAC.
"Donald Trump didn't just pick a Fed chair. He picked his donor's son-in-law, his hedge fund patron's protégé, and a man whose fortune depends on the people he'll now regulate."
Yes, that's the Trump we got, not the Trump we voted for.
Really doubt DJT knowingly engages in any illegal activity. By now those aligned against him have combed through 'every hair on his head' so to speak, looking for anything remotely eligible for lawfare tactics.
Only remaining action appears to be calling the WH switchboard, speak with a human, and politely yet firmly leave the message this is not what was voted into office.
There are many stumbling blocks. Access is tightly controlled by the President's CoS. Wiles is there for a reason.
There will always be a few people who are delusional, and a larger number who are impressionable. Mass formation psychosis (we’re not supposed to say that last word any more, cuz it might hurt someone’s feelings) is enabled when a majority are cowed into pretending not to disagree with the delusional and the impressionable.
A few years back the world seemed to agree that North Carolina was the worst place in the world, because we don’t want our mothers and sisters, wives and daughters to be obliged to share their restrooms with people who have a penis. For a while there the media were in lockstep agreement that to suggest otherwise was despicable.
On November fourth, 2020, there were innumerable eye witness reports of large-scale ballot fraud that had taken place on election night, all over the country. (I collected dozens of links for them, which gradually became non-functional as they were systematically sucked down the memory hole by DNC Damage Control) Within a few days nearly everyone accepted the result without further question.
For four years it was obvious to anyone with eyes and ears that “Joe Biden” was not mentally competent to function as our Chief Executive. He couldn’t find his way off a podium , or form a complete sentence. When this was pointed out to highly educated news-consuming friends they just blinked and insisted that they saw nothing to be concerned about.
Absurdities of this sort shouldn’t be as intractable as finding a cure for cancer or building operable fusion power plants. All that’s missing is for those who are not delusional or impressionable to refuse to be put on the defensive and silenced. We are, after all, the majority. If angry confrontation results, so be it. Truculence on behalf of truth and sanity is no vice.
Psychopaths recognize each other and work together. They don't allow non-psychos to rise up - unless they surrender their morality and bow down to them. Epstein last suppers (the last of their humanity) was one such way of doing this.
There is said to be a brain scan that can detect these Bad Seeds. Dare we use it? Dare we not use it?
Functional MRI, and it seems more reliable than polygraphs are. That guy doing the study famously was handed his own anonymized fMRI and diagnosed psychopathy in himself.
Apparently the machinations include co-opting the system to guarantee the 'investigations' drag on interminably, thereby reaching the key date: statute of limitations expiry. It is a conspiracy within a conspiracy.
If it’s tied into RICO then there are no statute of limitations. However, the Supremes did rule that civil RICO charges do have a four-year statute of limitations.
The Rosenbergs were the first American civilians to die for spying. They were accused of sending a rough sketch of the atomic bomb to Russia.
"Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," Judge Irving Kaufman said in sentencing them to death on April 5, 1951.
"Millions ... may pay the price of your treason," he said.
Lugh: Where do you stand on the execution of the Rosenbergs? For it, right?
I think that just happened re Fauci, didn't it? It seems that the powers that be create the illusion of transparency, investigation, and justice, but in reality, they do whatever it takes to run out the clock so that none of their "own" are held accountable.
It is also time to allow enough time between administrations to take out the garbage. Thirty five years of Leftist control has changed America. Especially the Bushes.
Polis releasing Tina Peters on June 1st is the first attempt by a major figure to get ahead of what they know is coming. Sickening how our media finds so much sympathy for filthy illegal multiple felons but none for a Gold Star mother who was made a political prisoner for trying to preserve files the state was demanding be illegally erased.
One may also recall how in 2000 the then highly inquisitive NYT went to Florida and did a recount of Bush vs Gore and then kept quiet when they discovered Bush had won by an exceedingly narrow margin.
Si! We need to make ThDS-Thune Derangement Syndrome a thing. It is now beyond obvious he is sabotaging everything. We need someone to make the motion to vacate the Chair. Just like Ancient Rome and even Star Wars, the Senate is a hotbed of intrigue, treachery and industrial level backstabbing.
Nothing changes in the US Senate until we can repeal the 17A. It is (along with the 16A and 18A) one of the worst Constitutional amendments ever passed; the 17A is definitely the one that is the most damaging to the Republic.
The Senate used to represent the States, not the people. It was a result of a critical compromise between the original states rights people (Jeffersonians) and the federalists (Hamilton, Washington). It provided a source of representation to the individual state and Senators were originally chosen by the state legislature. After that amendment the Senate became a glorified House of Representatives, subject to the same lobbying and campaign contributions as the House. The states then lost their critical representation in the Federal government and became nothing but small administrative jurisdictions of the Federal government. The balance of power that was so desired by the founders was destroyed. The power was equally distributed between the States (the Senate), the people (the House) and the Federalists (Presidency, SCOTUS). Now the power resides heavily in favor of the Federalist.
In short, the Federalists have kicked the Jeffersonians' asses. Started with old Abe Lincoln, culminated with Woodrow Wilson and is still being finished off today.
The states could amend the Constitution without the US Congress but the states themselves are just miniature versions of the Federal government and have their own heads so far up their own asses they don't realize the rightful power and authority that they have lost. Perhaps they don't want it. They enjoy the benefits of the Treasury Departments ever running money printing presses.
Yes, the amendment to change the Senate to popular vote replacing the previous method of selection by the individual state legislatures was one part of the 1913 Trifecta that eventually doomed individual freedom and limited government in the US. The other two were the creation of the Federal Reserve and the 16th amendment (income tax). 1913 was also the first year of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson—-a very bad year.
Voters in the state of Louisiana just defeated RINO mouthpiece for BIG PHARMA Senator Cassidy in the primary. MAHA PAC mobilized the grassroots, exposing Cassidy as the mouthpiece for BIG PHARMA, out to destroy MAJA and rfk. THEY showed us how it's done , and they were successful.
Tina Peters' testimony, if 'approved' to be uttered, will probably be some of the best evidence on what went on across the country with the 'resetting' (and wiping of vote tallies) on these vote counting machines...which is why all her excessive torment.
With her previous health problems (neoplasia), probably her son's death and her husband's obvious early demise - a result of nefarious state interventions, all these as stressors to a weak immune system, they hoped her abusive treatment (including denial of proper medical care) in the worst prison residence possible, would have taken her life before now.
The way she was treated by CO authorities should be a case taken up to the SCOTUS as a blatant case of 'cruel and unusual punishment'. These were heinous crimes committed against an elections clerk just doing her legal duties - and concerned about the fraud she saw.
I've seen lots of embarrassing things during my life. But absolutely none of them come close to being as embarrassing as Colbert's "Vax - scene" crap with the Tequila music. If you offered me $250K to do it, I'd turn you down. That aside from the fact that it helped to maim and kill millions!
It's worth repeating that under Trump, then Biden, and now Trump 2.0, the criminal participants of the COVID Crime remain free as wild birds, enjoying the fruits of their crimes. The State is using all of its might and resources to protect those criminals. Way to go, Trump ... Gooooooooooooo MAGA!!!
Jorge, MAHA, A SUBSET OF MAGA, just put down pharma toady Senator Cassidy in the Louisiana primary.
This back story of his defeat is not presented in the media because it shows grassroots efforts on the part of MAHA supporters actually being successful in defeating RINO deep staters.
The arc of history is long. At length, the truth will out.
You have not been watching the congressional hearings on Covid and especially the Vaxx. Fauci is getting roasted pretty good. Paul Ryan is in the driver’s seat right now. I watched a panel of Vaxx haters led by Mc Collough go after Fauci and the gang.
Do you think that one problem may be the intent of the Deep State, led by Pence at the time, to use the Covid team set up by Trump, to bury Trump? Trump’s big problem was listening to the politics, rather than the science?
After thirty years of trying and failing to get mRNA tech to work and not kill the critter being injected, why would anyone then decide it's ready for primetime without another decade of testing?
It originally was aimed at terminal cancer as a last resort. I believe sharing the spotlight with the Pence, Fauci team should be the mRNA tribe that took the opportunity to conduct a utilization experiment on the American people.
Gee...what a coincidence that the statute of limitations just ran out regarding the crimes that Fauci was allegedly involved in. Who woulda thought that time could just fly by so quickly? Do those conducting the investigations not know how to read a calendar or the statutes? What a joke. We are offered the illusion of justice and accountability, but somehow the process never seems to get to the finish line.
Re Trump: He didn't understand the workings of the Deep State the first time around. The four-year break was a blessing in disguise--it gave him time to reflect and regroup.
Give me a call when Fauci has been stripped of every dime of his criminally-gotten wealth *AND* when he's serving a life sentence without the possibility of ever getting paroled *OR* when he has been executed for his multiple heinous crimes against humanity.
Until then all we get is blah-blah-blah ... **NOTHING** happens to these psychopaths.
No, I don't believe for one second that Trump isn't in on it up to his eyeballs. Why?
Because no one - I mean NO ONE - can be that stupid. Even IF Trump had been lied to, betrayed, and misled, the evidence for the Truth was overly-abundant YEARS ago.
So why hasn't Trump reversed course or expressed a mea culpa? Why hasn't Trump appointed a Special Task Force to go after ALL of the COVID Crime criminals? Why does **NOTHING** get done? Why are those criminals **PROTECTED** instead of pursued?
The only answer that makes sense is that Trump is in on the COVID Crime. Just as in the Epstein Files, Trump is not only protecting others, he is protecting HIMSELF!! To date I have yet to heard any other feasible explanation. Trump has got millions of people bamboozled.
Wow, Jorge showing true colors. Past history, but, were you outraged equally by Biden, his tranny health services mistress, fauci, bird and on…
Yes, Trump got suckered and did not take decisive corrective action. You clearly despise him, but kinda straw man positions.
You must be privy to far more info than all regarding faux vid and Epstein.
Please, go to congress and set all the lost souls straight.
You betrayed your true position with that Epstein sewage. You really don’t think your fellow hero anarchists would gave released “proof” to the NY slimes, commie not news net, the hard hitting fact based ((The Phew!)
I am very frustrated as a conservative with a good appetizer of libertarian bent. But he is still light years better than what I suspect you might prefer.
"Show my true colors" - what the hell do you mean? The "lesser of two evils" is still EVIL, regardless of representative color or animal. You know that, right?
Without a doubt, Biden (and Obama, and Bush, and Clinton, and ....) are **criminals** who deserve to be executed for their crimes. I'm being objective.
Remaining objective, Trump deserves execution every bit as much as those filthy criminals. But blind, rabid followers, who worship Trump as a God-sent gift to the world cannot be objective. Instead, anything said against their "god" is taken as a personal insult. As you did here.
It doesn't matter because Trump has now immunized himself and his entire family against government prosecution. He is now untouchable. The IRS can't touch him, or the DOJ or any government agency. And that's for ALL crimes - past, present and future. So now Trump is a Narcissistic psychopath with a TON of power and immune from the law. Hey, what can possibly go wrong?
Trump & Gang have made the Biden Crime Family look like a group of Sunday church choirboys.
Trump is a narcissist, he cannot and does not mea culpa anything. He is still four orders of magnitude better than the alternative on the Left. Remember too that they are narcissists too and never admit fault.
Trump’s allies are leading the charge against the Pence debacle. It also took lots of help from the WHO, FDA, NHS, lots of other national health services, the entire team of mRNA developers and panicked GOPers, including Trump in 2020 that were convinced that the risks of putting the Vaxx into millions of arms was justified. That was definitely an abuse of “do no harm”. I consider the Vaxx to be Trump’s dumbest move, a move predicated by him trusting Pence and the entire federal medical team..
There *is* a positive direction, it's just not the direction that the ruling entities want you to take. It's neither RED nor BLUE, those are two roads to the same destiny.
“election denier” (as a "term") is the biggest tell of a person's mendacity ever created. Once you hear it uttered from someone's mouth, you know the unfortunate future you are about to be a witness to.
What a fiasco! The last decade was like ingesting the brown acid at Woodstock. It wasn’t enough we were forced to endure the hallucinatory, virtue-signaling relativism of the Left - we had to suffer the social stigma of being sane, as well! Personally, I’m done being polite. I’m in asshole mode for the duration of this bad trip and I know I’m not alone.
"All the laws passed under “Joe Biden,” and the executive actions taken by him that were not laws strictly speaking, might have to be rescinded, cancelled, including all the many pardons issued under his autopen"
Late night TV demonstrated that the MSM and entertainment collusion against Trump is real and NOT comedy. If you have watched Mrs. Maisel you will realize that stand up comedy is really not funny and its goal is to hurt people of choice to try to get laughs. Late night TV has not been funny since Carson and Leno. Today, it is toxic.
I thought early Letterman had its moments. Inane stunts such as 'what does a watermelon sound like when it hits the ground after a ten story fall' were, in my opinion, escapist humor moments. Then again, I find comedies heavily laced with sight gags generate a ton of laughs and watch the re-runs to catch the ones I missed on first pass.
And yes, late night TV, which I avoid, along with just about all tv, is massive TDS on display.
In all of these articles mourning the loss of this professional stupid person, I have not seen one mention of the tidbit that "Gutfeld" on FOX is the #1 late night comedy show.
Wake me when people start going to prison…that is, if leftist judges don’t dismiss the cases, leftist juries refuse to convict, etc. we’ve had a preview of this song and dance and each episode seems to have the same ending.
True, Thomas, but one can always hope.
lets replace "hope" with certainty
There’s always, “Doubting Thomas’s”! 😉
Still waiting for accountability for JFK’s assassination in 1963, more than 60 years ago and all the files still haven’t been released. So there’s that
So, give up and ignore it?
Let the leftist shitbags win via fraud and theft?
Not exactly. It’s more that decades of duplicity, double standards, and insults to the public’s intelligence have left many Americans with a kind of exhausted resignation. The worst part is recognizing the gulf between what we were told and what we can plainly see.
In a functioning Constitutional Republic, many of these figures would have been investigated, tried, and, where warranted, convicted long ago. Instead, accountability always seems deferred, diluted, or denied altogether. When there’s a persistent disconnect between rhetoric and reality, public faith inevitably erodes.
My patience and goodwill are largely spent. I’ll believe something meaningful is happening when tangible consequences finally materialize - not before.
General George Washington and the American Revolutionary Patriots lost many battles, over a number of years, yet eventually they prevailed. All we can do is soldier on; persevere in the face of seemingly insurmountable roadblocks. What other choices do we have? We've been beaten back many times over the last 10 years but the battle still rages on, and some cracks in the wall of our opposition are appearing. Maybe we're nearing a point where the wall finally gives way and the bad actors are exposed and jailed. Acting AG Todd Blanche is supposed to be releasing the findings from the Georgia and Arizona 2020 election irregularities in the next week or so. We've got at least 2 1/2 years left to press our case.
No, we have a few months. The midterm elections this fall (early voting starts in October) are determinative.
Trump betrayed us, utterly. If you don't know it, rest assured that millions of his former supporters do. My opinion only? No, the poll numbers confirm it.
Funny. The poll numbers from CNN. Got it. And polls are meaningless. You should know that by now. They are meant to persuade low information voters.
It is true. Trump's main concern now is Eretz Israel, and he makes no bones about it. You will never see anybody held accountable for the malfeasance of the 'Biden' years. Trump's got other fish to fry and he is looking out for himself and his family, playing the long game. One hand washes the other. He is in scorched-earth mode now, justifiably so, but it is America that will pay the price. He has trained his sights on the very people that have had faith in him. It is not just MTG or Massie that he abhors now. It is us. Not to worry - it will work out for him in the end.
nah, referring to polls wins the competition for the lower level of clueless, now as before
7 clueless people agree, 7/7 trolls
Lughster oinks along, it ain't working.
What you mean "us," lily-white man?
I suspect that, like Reagan and Turd Kennedy, he was told to play ball or the nect one goes between your eyes, and your family will die too. Not good for the country, obviously, but better than the upheaval and likely civil war eventuated by an assassination.
You're right.
But why exactly? Because he never really gave a shit, and now that he's a lame duck there's no penalty for showing that he was never our guy?
Or did Israel find something? Maybe Trump was a client for Epstein's tax-evasion services.
Why do the midterms matter at all anymore?
We've had the House and Senate and White House, but somehow zero MAGA agenda gets passed.
We can't even get the SAVE Act passed.
Good illustration in a meme:
https://patrick.net/memes?date=2026-05-18#38
It would appear you don’t understand what the MAGA agenda is….as in making America great again. Or perhaps you are unaware of the global shift, American energy, new American investments, etc. There’s a bigger picture to making America great, that goes beyond seeing people indicted. And forming iron clad cases against people takes time.
The price of gasoline and Trump's increasingly unpopular war in Iran will result in the Democrats taking back the House or the Senate or both. Trump will spend the last two years of his Presidency fighting back sham impeachment charges.
Nah CankerSore, wars are never "popular" its been a very short couple of months, goals were accomplished in less than 2 weeks
The City of London is the real adversary. Pay attention
It's Cankerpuss you nitwit. You pay attention.
That's definitely a likelihood, but the executive branch of government can still enforce the law and lock some of these rascals up. I also think the dems need to be careful about their knee-jerk rush to impeachment. It'll likely backfire against them in the 2028 elections, just as it did in 2024.
Unlike the legislative and judicial branches, the function of the executive branch has been poorly defined. From my schoolboy days I recall a teacher explaining, "The executive branch sees that the laws are carried out."
Yeah, carried out of the Capitol and dumped into a trashcan in the alley. If my teacher's formulation was ever true, it's long since become obsolete.
These days presidential power is more often expressed in opposition to Congress's will, especially when the president and congressional majority are of different parties. At an extreme, the president can simply refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress, forcing it to attempt a do-over resulting in enough votes to overcome the veto.
I can't summon much respect for our national legislators (or for that matter, most state legislators I know anything about). But they are no longer in the driver's seat and that's a concern. Probably JHK will disagree, but when Trump (like Bushes I and II) can send US military forces halfway around the world to kill people and blow up things without a declaration of war or even a declaration of approval by Congress, we're in deep trouble.
The US has been at war somewhere or other almost continuously since WWII, and "the people" have had no chance to vote for or against it via their alleged representatives. The phrase, "the Imperial Presidency" comes to mind.
I think the Iran war, allied with Trump's soul mate Netanyahu, is a grave mistake. (Unlike the "Shakespeare" author, I will not make a pun on "grave.") But aside from the war's likely dire consequences, what's even scarier is that essentially one person could take the decision to make the earth tremble. Not just Trump, mind you, but anyone occupying the White House.
"I also think the dems need to be careful about their knee-jerk rush to impeachment."
Do you really think the Democrats care? I do not.
Doesn't matter though.
We have the House and Senate and did bupkis with it.
They never do. Every time the republican filth have the house, senate and executive it's just business as usual. More wars. More debt. Bigger gubmint. I learned this harsh lesson during the Dubya years.
So you are spot on. It doesn't matter. The result is always the same.
Exactly. We've seen this at least since Whitewater. A few sacrificial goats like Bob Menendez mean little. The prison system should require entire new facilities to house the number of government criminals that deserve incarceration.
It's treason, what they did, and they deserve death for everything they did.
Tell them about how Abraham was a righteous man, therefore nobody else matters.
A younger Jarhead, a well-known commentator, declares that government officials who abuse their positions of power need to be administered a punishment far more severe than a little incarceration ... so that the punishment is sufficient to cause communists to think twice before ever again doing any such thing.
Death doesn't deter Marxists. They probably imagine they're going to that great politburo in the sky when they die. But I agree with you. Let us pray for that, then. When human justice fails, there's always God, right? Let us pray for the death and destruction of these people.
Like treason? It used to be a matter of honor, and a despicable crime punishable by public hanging.
1. Strip them of all their wealth and property. All of it. All their financial holdings, everywhere. Restore it back to those from whom it was stolen.
2. Broadcast their shame and their deviousness for all to see.
3. Hang them from the gallows.
Will this happen in America? Not a chance in hell.
Giving voice to outcomes like "not a chance in hell" is
actually advocating
Your first two points are well thought out
Oh I understand the utility short ropes and long drops, but good luck with that. The present system can barely get a conviction when there is DNA, video and a dozen witnesses. Then the sentencing is all too often carried out by some Soros paid woke disgrace, unworthy of the position.
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
Francis Bacon
They controlled all the Media Communication platforms along with the failed Education Industry from Pre K through University.
Social Media pulled the plug on their monopoly of Controlled Propaganda.
The Leftist and their Big Government Apparatchiks vice-versa are against our Constitutional Republic and they desperately want a Democracy that they want to have total control over!
Technology and The MAGA movement popped that balloon!
So now we are on Clean Up not just in Isle Five, we have a massive job to clean it all up for our next 250 Years!
Our Elite are infinitely flexible in terms of appearance. Communists immigrated here, looked around, and became Republicans - the group known as the Neo-Cons. What works on the dull minds of the hoi polloi is what they do. They don't believe in any of it per se. They believe in themselves and what works.
What the hell are you smoking? Communists into Republicans?
Neocons, short for neoconservatives, are a political faction that emerged in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s, primarily among former liberals or left-leaning Democrats who became disillusioned with the Democratic Party’s shift toward pacifism, the New Left, and countercultural movements. They are best known for advocating an interventionist foreign policy, using American military power to promote democracy and counter perceived global threats.
Key beliefs include support for a strong military, assertive national defense, and the spread of democratic values—often through regime change—as seen in the support for the 2003 Iraq War and interventions in Afghanistan and Libya. Prominent figures include Irving Kristol (considered the "godfather" of neoconservatism), Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, and Lindsey Graham. While they tend to support free-market economics, they are more accepting of government intervention than traditional conservatives, especially in foreign affairs and national security.
Neocons are often pro-Israel and skeptical of international organizations like the UN.
They differ from paleoconservatives by favoring global engagement over isolationism and being more open to immigration and civil rights.
Their influence peaked during the George W. Bush administration but has waned in the Republican Party due to tensions with Trump’s “America First” and non-interventionist stance.
Though associated with Republicans, neoconservatism has occasionally drawn bipartisan support, including from some Democrats who back hawkish foreign policies.
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Lugh: Where does one start with someone like you? You know so little. You don't want to know more because that would get in the way of your Israel triumphalism fixation.
Yes, for them, there is only power. They laugh at principles.
I'm right there with you, Thomas. What needs to happen will never happen. What is that? Restitution and proper punishment.
1. They need to restore every dime that was illegally taken from the people and illegally spent on illegal matters.
2. They need to suffer the penalties for treason. I'm not talking about taxpayer funded prison sentences.
This will never happen. Not under the uniparty system currently governing us.
more proscribing what will "never" happen, that is worse than useless
Thank you, that is very USEFUL information. You lecture me on useless and then post a comment like that? Go seek truth elsewhere.
Low level comprehension skills. This is a PUBLIC forum.
Not interested in your doomsplaying, iterested in exposing it.
and you think advertising that you are at the end of your rope is useful?
And your comment responding to that is useful?
Win by ambivalence and denial?
Just curious as to when you expected the investigations and arrests to take place….under the Biden administration?? I hope that any indictment and consequent arrest has been researched well enough where the case is steadfast, rather than quickly processed in order to satisfy the needs of an impatient public.
What arrests?
Arrests have always been in the future, and always will be. Never in the present.
It was all a kayfabe.
You don’t arrest until you have all your ducks in a row….otherwise it’s just a waste of time.
It's been plenty long.
Trump betrayed you. Get over it.
Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to when when running for office. Reversing the destruction of America. Maybe take a gander at Promethean Action over on Youtube. The entire globe is being redefined, because of Trump.
Woah, not sure how you managed to miss Trump's dramatic reversals on Epstein, war, mass deportations, arrests, China, etc etc.
He's betrayed us all horribly. Sorry, it's true.
“SHOW ME THE MONEY JERRY”
Exactly, Trump has failed to arrest anyone significant. In fact, he's reversed himself on pretty much everything he campaigned on, Epstein files, FISA, China, and war.
Now he's opposed to Massie, one of his strongest supporters, because Massie opposed the Big Bloated Bill, and said the thing that may never be said: every congressman is assigned an AIPAC handler.
It's a sad situation. Trump is no longer our guy. He's Miriam Adelson's guy. Maybe it was always that way and we just didn't know it.
You are my favorite shadowbanned account. Just thought you should know that.
Thank you! Please restack my memes if not inconvenient to you. That might help.
Someone or some group is also trying to take down my personal site, https://patrick.net
It was overwhelmed with robots, so I had to put in an anti-robot gate. I tried blocking IPs but whoever was doing it has a LOT of resources, more than a million distinct IP addresses to attack from.
If you can't see the site because of the robot gate, try logging in. Any logged-in user should easily be able to see the whole site.
Massie is history, next subject.
I liked Massie's assessments that I heard, but people need to look at the current convoluted bastardized system from the perspective that a vote for Massie is essentially a vote for Mamdani, and that "... the 2030 Agenda will likely be re-cemented as the only legitimate framework for the next century.".
Is that what you want?
I can't follow your logic.
Massie and Mamdani are opposites.
"Assessment: If the U.S. successfully builds a "Golden Age" through bilateral deals and energy dominance, it proves that the UN's 2030 model is not the only path to prosperity. If it fails or leads to "global chaos", the 2030 Agenda will likely be re-cemented as the only legitimate framework for the next century." https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-feral-and-savage-party/comment/250760813
Trump's New Golden Age is the only obstacle to the 2030 Agenda being re-cemented as the only legitimate framework for the next century, and if Trump loses this battle, "Mamdani" wins by default.
What does Thomas Massie propose to counter the re-cementing of the 2030 Agenda framework for the next century?
Massie proposed that Trump stick to the campaign promises Trump made to his MAGA base.
Trump failed on pretty much all of them.
I think you have an incomplete notion of how societal change occurs. And how far revenge goes as a deterrent. Heads rolling would be gratifying, but the only thing that will really make a difference is if enough of the public becomes infuriated to the point of acting and thinking differently. For me, I would much rather a majority of people figure out that abortion is the murder of an innocent child than to see Comey behind bars.
Simply publicizing the magnitude of the breaches has already changed minds, and what we're watching unfold is an avalanche of exposure, from indigent public employees, to fraudulent health care centers, to illegal lawfare, to international money laundering schemes by Democrats, pedophiles, drug pushers, and dirty banks. Shining light on these things will cause the roaches, like Colbert, to scatter, whereas a few public humiliations, even hangings will not. Whether the crowd wakes up enough is still a question, but the reactions in Europe and the UK are promising.
True, vox populi, vox dei.
But if Miriam Adelson's easy purchase of a congressional seat in KY is any indication, we are miles and miles away from the public catching on, even now.
You think rich people have not been buying seats of power all along?
Ever hear of Boss Tweed?
If not, research him.
Get ready for a deep dive into a murky world that has changed very little in a hundred years.
It's VERY different when a foreigner does it on behalf of a foreign country.
Score. Match.
Check. Checkmate.
Bin loses
Again
Bin?
~ America-As-Hollywood, Handlers' Games, & Lost Plots ~
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The Moment Hollywood Realised It Was Compromised
https://youtu.be/O_iC1_YHZrc?si=ONMvT1YuUkV1MyV2
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Empire in freefall: Desperate sabre-rattling against Iran shows US has completely lost the plot
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/17/768793/empire-freefall-desperate-sabrerattling-against-iran-shows-us-completely-lost-plot
"...beneath the bluster lies a deeper, more profound reality. The United States no longer threatens from a position of unchallenged supremacy that it once enjoyed. It is resorting to sabre-rattling now from the precipice of decline and decay."
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Zohran Mamdani Claims Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Asked Him to Play a ‘Game’ Involving the ‘Genocide’ in Gaza: I ‘Couldn’t Believe What Was Happening’
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zohran-mamdani-colbert-late-show-game-gaza-genocide-1236545620/
Paywall hack: https://smry.ai/
"A profile of Zohran Mamdani in the New Yorker alleges that the New York City mayoral candidate was asked by a producer of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' to play a 'game' surrounding his opinions about Israel’s war on Gaza...
In advance, he was briefed on the 'basic political topics' Colbert would bring up in their interview. But according to the New Yorker, producers proposed a new set of questions shortly before Lander and Mamdani went onstage because Colbert had received a letter that day from prominent pro-Israel figures demanding that Mamdani be pressed about his views of Israel."
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"I was actually a guest on Colbert’s show years ago in its early evening incarnation when the running gag was Colbert pretending to be a right-winger. In the green room before the show, his handlers told me to 'not try to be funny because that’s Stephen’s job.' " ~ James Howard Kunstler
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No way!? /sarc
...Handlers? 'Handlers'? What 'handlers'? /sarc
Russia/China/Iran are going to take the Euro-Asiatic "land island", and probably Africa and Australia as well. We will try and take all of North and South America. Patagonia will be the new Israel, giving them access to the riches of Antarctica.
It is incredible to see the angst developed by a little country on the Med coast. But then again, it has been that way for a long time. They are still there.
Ok fan boy.
The indictments continue. Sending a few to prison does not drain the swamp, that is long and wide. The ending has not yet arrived.
Indictments are not arrests.
no they are 100X stronger
Learn the difference between an indictment and arrest, FFS. https://legalclarity.org/what-is-the-difference-between-an-indictment-and-an-arrest/
Lol, did you read my comment? It's only four words.
Try again.
Again, learn the difference. Whatever political ‘arrests’ you are thinking about are going to be from a grand jury….and they will be indictments. Not arrests.
Patrick has little knowledge about many topics
It took seventy years to get to this point. Patience.
Ha ha ha, surely you jest. And no, I am not calling you "Shirley."
The problem, regardless of evidence, will be the “OJ Jury” empaneled in DC. I can’t think of any circumstance in which that jury will find any democrat guilty. This will put the nation in the “shot at the king and missed” situation, with Indies moving left cuz the Rs “obviously” weaponized DoJ in a political hit job. I sure hope Blanche does his serious work against the usual suspects in FL.
As to Maricopa, where I live & vote, Cartel Katie Hobbs needs to indicted, arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned for life.
South Florida is not DC. Nor is NC, where Comey seashell trial will take place.
The American judicial system will not and cannot save the country. It is part of the problem.
Right now it is THE problem. A good indicator is how many times the one federal judge trick has been used against Trump vs. Biden. Even the supposed Red judges are owned by the Deep State.
The unanimity of the 2020 “investigations” by federal judges are proof. Nothing is unanimous.
I must say that I often find the comment section pretty frustrating. It appears that there are a few here that also don’t understand the difference between an arrest and an indictment.
FL yes, NC Tillis land?
I admire your optimism, but cannot share in it.
Or at a minimum, bankrupted defending herself in court.
Too much cartel cash for that to happen.
Funding can be traced and tracked, add a Rico charge on there, and tax evasion.
IMO, tying the corruption of these people to the cartels and other crime families will need to happen.
Remember the Godfather and the ownership of the judges by the Mafia? It has not changed since then but has expanded. Now it is the ownership of the Blue cities.
Sure, but we still don't know who bet and won big on 9/11. FBI won't say.
Nor will they tell us who was skimming the markets with foreknowledge of the new war in Iran.
Hear, hear.
Now Alexander don't be too hasty, we don't want to run past the humiliation phase too quickly. For Katy, how 'bout a month in a stock right in front of Chase Field, we've got to still have one of those around in the basement, then tarred & feathered, or how 'bout going a little ol' west on her sorry bottom and bury her in a red ant hill? Just for a while, it wouldn't be fair to the ants if it was too long. If we're not going to get some accountability then we need to come up with something just short of retribution...
So what do we do, about this?
Now that is ultimate question. Good people will allow themselves to be subjected to an incredible amount of abuse; for some it's because of fear of their God, for others they understand if they act in violence they risk becoming that which they despise. For now we attempt to work through these issues in a corrupt system, which is really testing our resolve, patience and sanity. Best we can do prepare for the worst and hope (that word again, almost feel like an idiot using it) for a fair resolution, before we're compelled to go total Revolution. We're certainly not the first society to be in this situation and assuredly will not be the last. For me, I'm busy preparing a lifeboat...but the seas are becoming exceeding rough and the sky on the horizon is becoming darker. Dang it...
I knew a Lifer when I was stationed in Korea. "Hope For The Best, Expect the Worst, Settle For What You Get.".
"French-kissing his fellow late-night soul-mate hosts goodbye, perhaps to honor the French origins of the Woke political ideology that guided his rocket flight to fame — Michel Foucault (1926–1984), who argued that power was all that mattered and that you could talk any absurdity about sex, mental illness, and criminality into mass belief."
I had to read the trash written by this so-called philosopher while attending the University of Washington in the mid 1990s. What no one said is that not only did he die from AIDs but that he caught AIDs because he didn't use protection and was known to favor teenage boys from Tunisia. Did he inform those teen boys that he was HIV positive? Of course not. What a despicable piece of trash.
"Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
Foucault, et al., utterly ruined English lit. classes for me, and I was in college before they banished Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Donne from the curriculum entirely. There have been decades of English lit. professors whose idea of lit crit is defecating on the pages and smearing it around, little else.
I started as an English major. Loved the books we read: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, King Lear. What I came to despise was what was called close reading. It was painful. That was when I bailed and changed my major to Philosophy and Latin as my minor. Never looked back!
I started as foreign language teacher with English minor, dropped teaching after it became clear that I would have no professional autonomy, graduated with Eng. lit. minor, and became a nurse, lol.
Some of those English lit. instructors seemed very emotionally disturbed. One cried on my shoulder once about her low pay while subjecting me to Chopin's _The Awakening_, which my puppy pulled off the shelf last month, chewed, then criticized it like an English professor.
LOL!
What a Neanderthal gal has to do just to make a living, eh?
I assume close reading isn't reading with the page two inches away but rather searching out subtexts within the text?
Where are you anent the Quadrivium?
Same here. Fortunately, I was at a college that at least let me argue without penalizing my grade--as it was hard to defend readers making up their own independent meaning without bothering to refer to the text. Which is sort of weird--I mean, at heart, didn't everyone know it was the Emperor's New Clothes, but it was sort of tolerated because of so much fertile soil for their publish or perish--and even a mediocre hack can coast along on some instant prestige by making up some sort of 'critical' nonsense....
Word! I made the mistake of asking, "What's the point of deconstruction when you're just doing superficial wordplay?" of my instructor, who said she was a "ground-breaking narratologist." That netted me a D- on a 5-credit course the very semester that I graduated with honors.
A 'ground-breaking narratologist?' Wow. Curious that you couldn't just argue that your experience of the narrative was that deconstructing it eliminated all meaning from said narrative! Seriously, I have a MA in lit and have always been incredibly passionate about literature so there is nothing that stews my juices more than this academic fraudulence and tomfoolery which in a single sweeping blow completely destroyed the study of literature. The only way to look at that D- is as a secret badge of honor which says scores about said narratologist and very little about your paper.
I loved this Australian novel by Elliot Perlman, Seven Types of Ambiguity, simply because he spends the first half of the novel skewering deconstruction.
I will look up that book. I love playful snark, hence my dog-eared набоков and Barth.
I think she was determined to teach me how hard her trade really was, and there was no path to a decent grade. I looked up her "ground-breaking narratology" and it was disappointing feminist slop. Imho.
Strident earnestness and complete absence of a sense of humor, I'm willing to bet. Those are always the two telltale signs. I think you'd love that book as much as I did. I read it twice, didn't hold up as well the second time around, but I still love love love the 150 page or so dissection of every aspect of deconstruction.
The same one who put her head on your shoulder as an opening move?
I don't know you but that D- you earned makes me respect you more than the honors.
"Ground-breaking narratologist" SNORT! She's probably a barrista somewhere.
Lefties seem to scour the gutter for their heros & philosophers. BIZARRE.
I was never a fan of this post-modern French rubbish. It was all trash. Such a waste of my time.
Today I could look up the name using the internet to determine if taking such a course and spending money on the books was worth it.
The money and time I spend on Foucault was a complete waste.
That is because they are in the gutter along side them.
Yes the realization that compounds his murderous anger that this man was one of many did exactly what he did. They would brag about their ability to get as many people they could and then kill them. I guess the proclivities of those whose entire life is about sex and death is why they are an abomination in the Bible. It’s not the fact they are human but it’s their choices that are selfish and narcissistic. And yet people think “live and let live! “. Those are the people who also don’t care about their victims and their CHOSEN lifestyles.
These two creatures from hell get coverage on cable about a French kiss, is a flagrant display of their own support of deviant culture.
Kind of fits the FAFO narrative 🤔😉
They say that in Fourth Turnings such as these, it always looks darkest before the dawn. I know I'm scanning the horizon for a rosette glow and listening for bird song. The Trump administration has some heavy lifting to do, it seems, but maybe there will some revelation so astonishing that it will break the mass psychosis and bring on some proper disgust.
The slow process of enrichment of the immigrants will educate them that the socialists in the USA are really after their money. Same with Gen Z and Alpha. The tax and spend policies of the Left are its worst problem. Without mechanisms, education and illegal immigration, they cannot grow their base. There is going to be a political war over both of these mechanisms between 2026 and 2028. ICE and the border are front and center as the Left will try to figure out how to stop deportations. The Dept. of Education and federal grants for the Leftist SOBs in university America will be under fire. If MAGA is successful with these two items, socialism will be strangled.
JohnAZ says:
"There is going to be a political war over both of these mechanisms between 2026 and 2028."
BUT ONLY IF THE DEMS DO NOT WIN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW!
The president will still be MAGA until 2028.
Hasn't the left already, to a large degree, stopped deportations?
Nope. Lots of demonstrations this summer against them doing their jobs. It is interesting though that Homan is not reporting results as much as before.
I thought he was the person for the job. Possibly neutered, thus unable to deliver?
All the crap-talking bravado from him and especially from that ICE Barbie, Sec'y. Noem, had to be toned down. It was off-putting to people who could recognize and empathize with the human cost of bad, border-jumping decisions.
Leftist mumbled code talk for, I broke the law and stole, but gosh, I am sorry I have been caught -wink, wink!
Yes, Kristy and Tom are”off putting” (whatever the hell that made up phrase is) to those who want protections only for what personally benefits them, screw all others!
Yeah chuckie, Jeffery giraffe fan. Support the law breakers stealing all your shit and your pseudo empathy.
One side will care, the other will just shrug and say it's all lies.
Like that moron who posted under the name Majella.
Amazing when foreigners try to tell Americans about our politics and put the cherry on top by saying they once lived here.
My thoughts exactly. No matter how compelling the evidence may be the media will ridicule it at first. They’ll portray it as Trump getting retribution against his enemies (already underway). When they can’t deny the facts any longer, they’ll act as if it was all matter of fact. We’ll NEVER hear any admission of being wrong or their admission of bias. In fact, they’ll double down on any desperate attempts to turn any remaining doubts against Trump.
More likely, one side will continue to blame the other as is the case now.
He has current allies here.
Yes, just like the cockroach masses who move to our Southern Oregon and pine for their days in burnt out, taxed out, priced out leftist paradise. Maybe the Milton variety.
Of course I have the gall to say, “If you loved it so much and miss it so dearly should have done your research rainbow child, go back away from us rednecks (yup, more than a few of us staunch holdouts) fighting the good fight here.
Of course the response, medical care and costs are horrible, costs too much.
I can see why you pine for “the good ol days in kamehamaha land.
Never thought a state and brainwashed disciples could make, by comparison, Portland, Salem, Eugene and Ash-land and their beloved socialist guv and leftist polis seem a step closer to reasonable. Intelligence left the station decades ago.
I wish you luck California is still full of fucktard leftist idiots. I see chevron has started fighting back against Gavin Newsome lies with the $2 taxes on each gallon brocken down for all to see as they pump gas.
So very true Ben we have been invited by those dirty parasites from both the left East Coast as well as Hai and they just come and downgrade what used to be a great state continuously so yeah eventually they will get theirs but sadly they keep trying to drag us all down with them we’re fighting hard. They’re certain enclaves in southern Oregon and coastal Oregon and even in California. Hard to believe we keep fighting, but I don’t know if there are enough of us. We may lose the war of attrition, but we will go down fighting
Nice! This should be the approach all over the country! I know Californians pay ridiculous taxes on gas but countrywide, state and federal taxes make up the majority of the cost of a gallon of gas….to the great distress of the lefties that want to blame the evil, greedy oil companies.
All they do is lie and spin.
The leaders and their followers.
It appears that which you are seeking is what Mattias Desmet described. It is the fear of something which is larger (bigger) than the fear one is presently facing.
There is a lot of interplay going on in the Imperial City. A complex web is in place. The members of the Cabinet are there for a reason, just as the guests on the just-completed trip to Bejing were all there for a reason.
It is as two wolves and a lamb deciding 'what's for dinner'.
My impression: the collective 'we' are represented by the lamb.
Er, "roseate". Thanks, autocorrect.
I had been slowly making my way through Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, but on the advice of a Twitter pal, I backtracked and started reading it aloud to my kids. Which has been amazing…reading this story out loud really feels like we’re harkening back to the time of Homer.
One of the things we’re discussing as we go along are the repeated epithets…the descriptions of gods and people that are used over and over in the poem. Zeus is often not just Zeus — he is “the great Thunderlord Zeus” — and Dawn (the Greek goddess of the dawn) is almost never just Dawn, as Wilson explains in the introduction:
Dawn appears some twenty times in The Odyssey, and the poem repeats the same line, word for word, each time: emos d’erigeneia phane rhododaktulos eos: “But when early-born rosy-fingered Dawn appeared…” There is a vast array of such formulaic expressions in Homeric verse, which suggest that things have an eternal, infinitely repeatable presence. Different things will happen every day, but Dawn always appears, always with rosy fingers, always early.
Wilson combats this precise repetition, which can sound antiquated to modern ears, by varying the epithets according to the context:
The formulaic elements in Homer, especially the repeated epithets, pose a particular challenge. The epithets applied to Dawn, Athena, Hermes, Zeus, Penelope, Telemachus, Odysseus, and the suitors repeat over and over in the original. But in my version, I have chosen deliberately to interpret these epithets in several different ways, depending on the demands of the scene at hand. I do not want to deceive the unsuspecting reader about the nature of the original poem; rather, I hope to be truthful about my own text — its relationships with its readers and with the original. In an oral or semiliterate culture, repeated epithets give a listener an anchor in a quick-moving story. In a highly literate society such as our own, repetitions are likely to feel like moments to skip. They can be a mark of writerly laziness or unwillingness to acknowledge one’s own interpretative position, and can send a reader to sleep. I have used the opportunity offered by the repetitions to explore the multiple different connotations of each epithet.
The appearance of Dawn has already become a source of comic relief while we’re reading — “here she is again, with the roses!” — and I was curious to see Wilson’s differing interpretations, I gathered all the appearances of Dawn from the text:
The early Dawn was born; her fingers bloomed.
When newborn Dawn appeared with rosy fingers…
When rosy-fingered Dawn came bright and early…
Soon Dawn was born, her fingers bright with roses.
When Dawn appeared, her fingers bright with flowers…
When early Dawn appeared and touched the sky with blossom…
Then Dawn rose up from bed with Lord Tithonus, to bring the light to deathless gods and mortals.
When vernal Dawn first touched the sky with flowers…
But when the Dawn with dazzling braids brought day for the third time…
Then Dawn came from her lovely throne, and woke the girl.
Soon Dawn appeared and touched the sky with roses.
When bright-haired Dawn brought the third morning…
When early Dawn shone forth with rosy fingers…
But when the rosy hands of Dawn appeared…
Early the Dawn appeared, pink fingers blooming…
When early Dawn revealed her rose-red hands…
Then when rose-fingered Dawn came, bright and early…
On the third morning brought by braided Dawn…
Then the roses of Dawn’s fingers appeared again…
Dawn on her golden throne began to shine…
When Dawn came, born early, with her fingertips like petals…
The golden throne of Dawn was riding up the sky…
When rose-fingered Dawn appeared…
Then Dawn was born again; her fingers bloomed…
Then all at once Dawn on her golden throne lit up the sky…
…Dawn soon arrived upon her throne.
When newborn Dawn appeared with hands of flowers…
When early Dawn, the newborn child with rosy hands, appeared…
As she said this, the golden Dawn arrived.
…she roused the newborn Dawn from Ocean’s streams to bring the golden light to those on earth.
I think my favorite is probably “Soon Dawn was born, her fingers bright with roses” but I also appreciate the very first appearance in the text: “The early Dawn was born; her fingers bloomed”. Either way, what a great illustration of Wilson’s skill & the creative latitude involved in translation, along with a reminder for writers of the many different ways in which you can essentially say the same thing.
Lugh: The movie is using Emily's translation, natch. Everything that can be female MUST be female. She's clunky giant(ess).
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that. I had thought we got a lot of wine-dark seas because of the need for anchors in oral retelling, and my preference would be to keep them, where possible. I used to translate fiction, but far be it from me to give a faithful yet not too literal translation of verse.
And I always knew Dawn was a slut.
Bucke in his book, "Cosmic Consciousness" opined that humanity couldn't see blue back then, but only purple. With evolution, we will be able to see farther and farther into the spectrum.
Never heard of that guy. Sounds a little more plausible than Julian Jayne's theory of the bicameral mind.
Also sounds like more half-baked late-70s intranaut meandering.
The remake of the Odyssey with Elliot Page as Achilles with a supporting caste of Black (including Athena) may be the nadir. But remember: Things are darkest before they get even darker. The bird song will be your guide. It knows.
The final revelation was the Epstein Files which Trump and Co suppressed. No bird song yet.
The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.
I'm quite convinced that AIPAC had JFK killed because of his strenuous opposition to Israel's getting the bomb. This could explain the sudden raid on Tulsi's office and whisking away of JFK papers.
"but maybe there will some revelation so astonishing that it will break the mass psychosis"
Covid didn't do it, Beth. Forcing people to close their businesses, lose their income, cover their faces with filthy diapers, distancing themselves from their loved ones, coerced into taking untested vaccines into their bodies multiple times, and much more, didn't break the mass psychosis.
If the covid debacle didn't do it, I don't know what will. Starvation? Cannibalism?
That was different, a Republican was in charge, and largely went along with it in the beginning. I’m not proud of Trump falling into the trap - I could see it a mile away that Covid was a setup to f*ck up his reelection, and he pissed and moaned a bit (“The China Virus”) - but what were the choices?; fight it tooth and nail and ‘maybe’ a gazillion people die under your watch? - or take the ‘expert’ advice your getting until your common sense kicks in and tells you to walk away and let the states decide and hope you can pick up the pieces well enough before Election Day?… tough call…
But now it's not a tough call at all.
He could tell the truth:
1. the virus Fauci created in Wuhan was never all that dangerous
2. the mRNA jabs are far more dangerous than the virus
For healthy people with normal immune systems, it was not that dangerous.
They called it the boomer remover for a reason.
Comorbidities, diabetes, lung issues, AIDS, old age.
Yes, exactly.
The average age of a death from Fauci's virus was _greater_ than normal life expectancy.
So either the virus prolongs life, or it wasn't dangerous to anyone not on death's door already.
Maria's point is fair. 2028 is coming up, and they are still gathering evidence? The left wing is rioting in the streets already, and talking about packing the Supreme Court.
The 'left wing' is not a monolith. The marxists, of which there are many woven through many organizations on the Far Left, believe their time has arrived. They could be correct.
Mark, they have to try, the Dems are on shaky ground. Right now, to change the court, it will take unanimity of the Congress and president. Not anytime soon. Including 61 votes in the Senate.
What really goes on? On paper it is the dream-come-true. Control of both Houses of Congress and the Executive. What could possibly go wrong? Well, we're seeing a lot of possibilities apparently vaporize in front of our eyes.
Yes, that! We already have both houses and the WH.
But it turns out that they were all bullshitting us about doing anything. This is worse than election fraud.
The only serious MAGA guy in Congress is Massie, and Miriam Adelson looks like she just wrote a check to buy his seat and install a warm body who will shut up about AIPAC.
https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-family-business/comments#comment-259095803
"Donald Trump didn't just pick a Fed chair. He picked his donor's son-in-law, his hedge fund patron's protégé, and a man whose fortune depends on the people he'll now regulate."
Yes, that's the Trump we got, not the Trump we voted for.
Ain't it so...
It's not illegal.
Really doubt DJT knowingly engages in any illegal activity. By now those aligned against him have combed through 'every hair on his head' so to speak, looking for anything remotely eligible for lawfare tactics.
Only remaining action appears to be calling the WH switchboard, speak with a human, and politely yet firmly leave the message this is not what was voted into office.
There are many stumbling blocks. Access is tightly controlled by the President's CoS. Wiles is there for a reason.
Not my work, relaying it from:
drjohnsblog@substack.com
Right, it proves that Trump is not just slow to arrest, but that he does not actually intend to ever arrest anyone significant.
There will always be a few people who are delusional, and a larger number who are impressionable. Mass formation psychosis (we’re not supposed to say that last word any more, cuz it might hurt someone’s feelings) is enabled when a majority are cowed into pretending not to disagree with the delusional and the impressionable.
A few years back the world seemed to agree that North Carolina was the worst place in the world, because we don’t want our mothers and sisters, wives and daughters to be obliged to share their restrooms with people who have a penis. For a while there the media were in lockstep agreement that to suggest otherwise was despicable.
On November fourth, 2020, there were innumerable eye witness reports of large-scale ballot fraud that had taken place on election night, all over the country. (I collected dozens of links for them, which gradually became non-functional as they were systematically sucked down the memory hole by DNC Damage Control) Within a few days nearly everyone accepted the result without further question.
For four years it was obvious to anyone with eyes and ears that “Joe Biden” was not mentally competent to function as our Chief Executive. He couldn’t find his way off a podium , or form a complete sentence. When this was pointed out to highly educated news-consuming friends they just blinked and insisted that they saw nothing to be concerned about.
Absurdities of this sort shouldn’t be as intractable as finding a cure for cancer or building operable fusion power plants. All that’s missing is for those who are not delusional or impressionable to refuse to be put on the defensive and silenced. We are, after all, the majority. If angry confrontation results, so be it. Truculence on behalf of truth and sanity is no vice.
Psychopaths recognize each other and work together. They don't allow non-psychos to rise up - unless they surrender their morality and bow down to them. Epstein last suppers (the last of their humanity) was one such way of doing this.
There is said to be a brain scan that can detect these Bad Seeds. Dare we use it? Dare we not use it?
The enemy of my enemy is an ally to me……….Until
Functional MRI, and it seems more reliable than polygraphs are. That guy doing the study famously was handed his own anonymized fMRI and diagnosed psychopathy in himself.
What was/is the name of this worthy?
Nice post!
Nice Goldwater reference.
It's time to update the Statute of Limitations on a lot of crimes.
It is certainly an idea worth entertaining.
Apparently the machinations include co-opting the system to guarantee the 'investigations' drag on interminably, thereby reaching the key date: statute of limitations expiry. It is a conspiracy within a conspiracy.
Election fraud should have no statute of limitations.
If it’s tied into RICO then there are no statute of limitations. However, the Supremes did rule that civil RICO charges do have a four-year statute of limitations.
The time to prosecute Fauci just ended.
In theory, but there are ways.
The robo-pardon is invalid.
Murder has no statute of limitations.
States can prosecute.
Crimes against humanity can be tried in a military court.
How about judicial fraud, how about immigration fraud?
Sure!
UPI
The Rosenbergs were the first American civilians to die for spying. They were accused of sending a rough sketch of the atomic bomb to Russia.
"Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," Judge Irving Kaufman said in sentencing them to death on April 5, 1951.
"Millions ... may pay the price of your treason," he said.
Lugh: Where do you stand on the execution of the Rosenbergs? For it, right?
Treason?
I think that just happened re Fauci, didn't it? It seems that the powers that be create the illusion of transparency, investigation, and justice, but in reality, they do whatever it takes to run out the clock so that none of their "own" are held accountable.
Yes
It is also time to allow enough time between administrations to take out the garbage. Thirty five years of Leftist control has changed America. Especially the Bushes.
Polis releasing Tina Peters on June 1st is the first attempt by a major figure to get ahead of what they know is coming. Sickening how our media finds so much sympathy for filthy illegal multiple felons but none for a Gold Star mother who was made a political prisoner for trying to preserve files the state was demanding be illegally erased.
One may also recall how in 2000 the then highly inquisitive NYT went to Florida and did a recount of Bush vs Gore and then kept quiet when they discovered Bush had won by an exceedingly narrow margin.
Do something with Señior Thune!
Si! We need to make ThDS-Thune Derangement Syndrome a thing. It is now beyond obvious he is sabotaging everything. We need someone to make the motion to vacate the Chair. Just like Ancient Rome and even Star Wars, the Senate is a hotbed of intrigue, treachery and industrial level backstabbing.
Nothing changes in the US Senate until we can repeal the 17A. It is (along with the 16A and 18A) one of the worst Constitutional amendments ever passed; the 17A is definitely the one that is the most damaging to the Republic.
The Senate used to represent the States, not the people. It was a result of a critical compromise between the original states rights people (Jeffersonians) and the federalists (Hamilton, Washington). It provided a source of representation to the individual state and Senators were originally chosen by the state legislature. After that amendment the Senate became a glorified House of Representatives, subject to the same lobbying and campaign contributions as the House. The states then lost their critical representation in the Federal government and became nothing but small administrative jurisdictions of the Federal government. The balance of power that was so desired by the founders was destroyed. The power was equally distributed between the States (the Senate), the people (the House) and the Federalists (Presidency, SCOTUS). Now the power resides heavily in favor of the Federalist.
In short, the Federalists have kicked the Jeffersonians' asses. Started with old Abe Lincoln, culminated with Woodrow Wilson and is still being finished off today.
The states could amend the Constitution without the US Congress but the states themselves are just miniature versions of the Federal government and have their own heads so far up their own asses they don't realize the rightful power and authority that they have lost. Perhaps they don't want it. They enjoy the benefits of the Treasury Departments ever running money printing presses.
Yes, the amendment to change the Senate to popular vote replacing the previous method of selection by the individual state legislatures was one part of the 1913 Trifecta that eventually doomed individual freedom and limited government in the US. The other two were the creation of the Federal Reserve and the 16th amendment (income tax). 1913 was also the first year of the presidency of Woodrow Wilson—-a very bad year.
So right you are.
The irony here is as president, Jefferson contributed to Jeffersonianism demise.
Voters in the state of Louisiana just defeated RINO mouthpiece for BIG PHARMA Senator Cassidy in the primary. MAHA PAC mobilized the grassroots, exposing Cassidy as the mouthpiece for BIG PHARMA, out to destroy MAJA and rfk. THEY showed us how it's done , and they were successful.
Prescient, though pretty much a lost cause.
Tina Peters' testimony, if 'approved' to be uttered, will probably be some of the best evidence on what went on across the country with the 'resetting' (and wiping of vote tallies) on these vote counting machines...which is why all her excessive torment.
With her previous health problems (neoplasia), probably her son's death and her husband's obvious early demise - a result of nefarious state interventions, all these as stressors to a weak immune system, they hoped her abusive treatment (including denial of proper medical care) in the worst prison residence possible, would have taken her life before now.
The way she was treated by CO authorities should be a case taken up to the SCOTUS as a blatant case of 'cruel and unusual punishment'. These were heinous crimes committed against an elections clerk just doing her legal duties - and concerned about the fraud she saw.
Bingo
I've seen lots of embarrassing things during my life. But absolutely none of them come close to being as embarrassing as Colbert's "Vax - scene" crap with the Tequila music. If you offered me $250K to do it, I'd turn you down. That aside from the fact that it helped to maim and kill millions!
It's worth repeating that under Trump, then Biden, and now Trump 2.0, the criminal participants of the COVID Crime remain free as wild birds, enjoying the fruits of their crimes. The State is using all of its might and resources to protect those criminals. Way to go, Trump ... Gooooooooooooo MAGA!!!
Jorge, MAHA, A SUBSET OF MAGA, just put down pharma toady Senator Cassidy in the Louisiana primary.
This back story of his defeat is not presented in the media because it shows grassroots efforts on the part of MAHA supporters actually being successful in defeating RINO deep staters.
The arc of history is long. At length, the truth will out.
I respect your view, I just don't agree that it describes reality.
One thing is certain, "soon" any and all doubts will be erased.
You have not been watching the congressional hearings on Covid and especially the Vaxx. Fauci is getting roasted pretty good. Paul Ryan is in the driver’s seat right now. I watched a panel of Vaxx haters led by Mc Collough go after Fauci and the gang.
Do you think that one problem may be the intent of the Deep State, led by Pence at the time, to use the Covid team set up by Trump, to bury Trump? Trump’s big problem was listening to the politics, rather than the science?
After thirty years of trying and failing to get mRNA tech to work and not kill the critter being injected, why would anyone then decide it's ready for primetime without another decade of testing?
mRNA tech is poison with zero actual benefit.
It originally was aimed at terminal cancer as a last resort. I believe sharing the spotlight with the Pence, Fauci team should be the mRNA tribe that took the opportunity to conduct a utilization experiment on the American people.
Correction: an experiment on the people of the entire globe.
Gee...what a coincidence that the statute of limitations just ran out regarding the crimes that Fauci was allegedly involved in. Who woulda thought that time could just fly by so quickly? Do those conducting the investigations not know how to read a calendar or the statutes? What a joke. We are offered the illusion of justice and accountability, but somehow the process never seems to get to the finish line.
Re Trump: He didn't understand the workings of the Deep State the first time around. The four-year break was a blessing in disguise--it gave him time to reflect and regroup.
If you can't beat them, join them. He did - not Democrats but the older group, the Zionists.
"Fauci is getting roasted pretty good."
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Give me a call when Fauci has been stripped of every dime of his criminally-gotten wealth *AND* when he's serving a life sentence without the possibility of ever getting paroled *OR* when he has been executed for his multiple heinous crimes against humanity.
Until then all we get is blah-blah-blah ... **NOTHING** happens to these psychopaths.
No, I don't believe for one second that Trump isn't in on it up to his eyeballs. Why?
Because no one - I mean NO ONE - can be that stupid. Even IF Trump had been lied to, betrayed, and misled, the evidence for the Truth was overly-abundant YEARS ago.
So why hasn't Trump reversed course or expressed a mea culpa? Why hasn't Trump appointed a Special Task Force to go after ALL of the COVID Crime criminals? Why does **NOTHING** get done? Why are those criminals **PROTECTED** instead of pursued?
The only answer that makes sense is that Trump is in on the COVID Crime. Just as in the Epstein Files, Trump is not only protecting others, he is protecting HIMSELF!! To date I have yet to heard any other feasible explanation. Trump has got millions of people bamboozled.
Wow, Jorge showing true colors. Past history, but, were you outraged equally by Biden, his tranny health services mistress, fauci, bird and on…
Yes, Trump got suckered and did not take decisive corrective action. You clearly despise him, but kinda straw man positions.
You must be privy to far more info than all regarding faux vid and Epstein.
Please, go to congress and set all the lost souls straight.
You betrayed your true position with that Epstein sewage. You really don’t think your fellow hero anarchists would gave released “proof” to the NY slimes, commie not news net, the hard hitting fact based ((The Phew!)
I am very frustrated as a conservative with a good appetizer of libertarian bent. But he is still light years better than what I suspect you might prefer.
"Show my true colors" - what the hell do you mean? The "lesser of two evils" is still EVIL, regardless of representative color or animal. You know that, right?
Without a doubt, Biden (and Obama, and Bush, and Clinton, and ....) are **criminals** who deserve to be executed for their crimes. I'm being objective.
Remaining objective, Trump deserves execution every bit as much as those filthy criminals. But blind, rabid followers, who worship Trump as a God-sent gift to the world cannot be objective. Instead, anything said against their "god" is taken as a personal insult. As you did here.
It doesn't matter because Trump has now immunized himself and his entire family against government prosecution. He is now untouchable. The IRS can't touch him, or the DOJ or any government agency. And that's for ALL crimes - past, present and future. So now Trump is a Narcissistic psychopath with a TON of power and immune from the law. Hey, what can possibly go wrong?
Trump & Gang have made the Biden Crime Family look like a group of Sunday church choirboys.
Trump is a narcissist, he cannot and does not mea culpa anything. He is still four orders of magnitude better than the alternative on the Left. Remember too that they are narcissists too and never admit fault.
Trump’s allies are leading the charge against the Pence debacle. It also took lots of help from the WHO, FDA, NHS, lots of other national health services, the entire team of mRNA developers and panicked GOPers, including Trump in 2020 that were convinced that the risks of putting the Vaxx into millions of arms was justified. That was definitely an abuse of “do no harm”. I consider the Vaxx to be Trump’s dumbest move, a move predicated by him trusting Pence and the entire federal medical team..
Meh ... RED poison vs. BLUE poison -- pick one.
Oh, did I mention that they're BOTH poison? Yeah, I believe I did.
You're playing *their* game, with *their* rules, on *their* home court.
You CAN'T expect to win! Trying to do is an exercise in futility.
When - oh - when are people going to realize that?
If there is no positive direction, what is the point of the journey?
There *is* a positive direction, it's just not the direction that the ruling entities want you to take. It's neither RED nor BLUE, those are two roads to the same destiny.
Unfortunate for Trump. The science was the politics.
JohnAZ,
You mean Rand Paul, not Paul Ryan!
Yep, mea culpa. Always get them confused
“election denier” (as a "term") is the biggest tell of a person's mendacity ever created. Once you hear it uttered from someone's mouth, you know the unfortunate future you are about to be a witness to.
What a fiasco! The last decade was like ingesting the brown acid at Woodstock. It wasn’t enough we were forced to endure the hallucinatory, virtue-signaling relativism of the Left - we had to suffer the social stigma of being sane, as well! Personally, I’m done being polite. I’m in asshole mode for the duration of this bad trip and I know I’m not alone.
Here here brother 🤜
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Let's take them on, scanner style!
They were warned about the Brown Acid, but they didn’t listen and are in denial still!
I never watched these "late night" shows, ever. I hate Hollywood. I pretty much always have.
I remember back in the day, I enjoyed watching Merv Griffin at 4:00pm... way back in the day.
I used to watch it when I came home from Junior High haha hahaha
The left ... and democrats, whatever.... Those pink haired mentally unwell people the whole lot of them are so annoying.
Jay Leno was pretty funny. Once they got rid of him there was nothing worth watching anymore.
"All the laws passed under “Joe Biden,” and the executive actions taken by him that were not laws strictly speaking, might have to be rescinded, cancelled, including all the many pardons issued under his autopen"
Including the Appointment of Ketanji
Colbert couldn't have gone out in a more fitting manner.
Late night TV demonstrated that the MSM and entertainment collusion against Trump is real and NOT comedy. If you have watched Mrs. Maisel you will realize that stand up comedy is really not funny and its goal is to hurt people of choice to try to get laughs. Late night TV has not been funny since Carson and Leno. Today, it is toxic.
I thought early Letterman had its moments. Inane stunts such as 'what does a watermelon sound like when it hits the ground after a ten story fall' were, in my opinion, escapist humor moments. Then again, I find comedies heavily laced with sight gags generate a ton of laughs and watch the re-runs to catch the ones I missed on first pass.
And yes, late night TV, which I avoid, along with just about all tv, is massive TDS on display.
In all of these articles mourning the loss of this professional stupid person, I have not seen one mention of the tidbit that "Gutfeld" on FOX is the #1 late night comedy show.
Yup, when the targets of comedy become gags instead of people?
Kissing an Ass!
With a tongue lashing from the sewer