This paragraph is absolute gold -- one of the best I've read all year:
"The essence of all that was a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become. Pretend that men can become women. Pretend that Covid vaccinations are safe and effective. Pretend that national borders don’t matter. Pretend that crime is not a social problem. Pretend that riots are mostly peaceful. Pretend that our elections are free and fair. Pretend that “Joe Biden” is president. Pretend that Ukraine is fighting for democracy. And so on. All pretend."
When it comes to JHK, it is impossible for me to decide which of his writings are pure gold or the best. ALL his essays are incredible and I end of saving most of them so I can re-read them when I have time to enjoy with a nice cuppa tea.
He’s a Genious at expressing the majority of thoughts & prayers held by most Americans! The Democratic Party is a moronic group of liars, cheaters, unpatriotic wackos! They must be stopped!! I have three grandchildren who I hope will inherit a sensible God-fearing government some day!
In a world awash with plastics leaking estrogen-mimics and other endocrine disruptors, I doubt the problem is entirely within their heads. I've spoken with a psychologist who worked with many of the transgendered and mentioned that the patients themselves felt that the culprit was likely chemical based.
Yes, a transcription of the edicts Billy was delivering from his Rockefeller owners would be most enlightening. One can sense SCAMdemic #2 is nearly finished being cooked and is ready to serve (mobile morgues ready to roll in the UK).......
AND of course it will somehow circumvent all those jolly Grand Juries Jimmy keeps telling us about....
I agree. Another possibility I wonder about is vaccines being cultured on fetal body parts, oftentimes of an opposite sex fetus. I have been anti vax since my mid 20s while still a looney lefty. I think this issue has many layers and is more nefarious than we understand at present.
I used that particular word with intention. I keep hammering at the same point: This is a war between good and evil. I saw the movie on Hoopla. Definitely worth watching.
Yes. We are and have been so chemically bombarded for so long now that it's more than likely a combination of all these things. We will probably never know.
Excellent observation! It isn't just endocrine disruptors, though, atrazine is being put in the water and it lowers HUGELY testosterone levels. I remember reading years ago that some type of frog that was male was now making female hormones as well and IIRC was able to give birth to baby frogs.
Been one of my primary concerns for years. The EU banned it decades ago, because they were slightly less corrupt than we are. Know multiple women where I formerly lived in the corn belt who contracted breast cancer, likely from atrazine exposure (and none that I know outside of it, where I've also lived for decades).
Interesting fact: Bayer, the makers of atrazine (an estrogen mimic, which feeds breast cancer), also manufacturers the leading breast cancer treatment (tamoxifen), which is an estrogen suppressor. Gotta give 'em credit for covering their bases, as well as being a poster child for corporate psychopathy.
There are several species of frogs & lizards that can change their sex. It’s a physiological stopgap measure to insure continued reproduction. This, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with a confused Human…
One huge pretend is missing, which is especially poignant because it crosses over party lines into the disordered minds of some supporters of the Trump agenda.
Pretend that Israel, and not the jihadists fronted by Hamas, is genocidal.
True-- both sides are no doubt genocidal (or, in less politicized terms, "highly competitive" in the way that most cultures have been throughout history). But one side has been enabled in their goals far more than the other, and has thus had far more success in pursuing them. For the Palestinians, their genocidal dreams are largely unrealized. Israel's are now in plain sight for all the world to see.
Except Israel really could wipe out the Palestinians and chooses not to. The other side wants to but is incapable of doing so. That is reality. Time to move the Palestinians back to Egypt since Egypt refused to take ownership back of the contested territories.
The Catholic and Orthodox Christians say they aren't going - they have announced they will refuse Israel's order to evacuate.
"Since Egypt refused to take ownership back" - ownership of the place Israel went to war to grab? It's the terminus of the proposed Ben Gurion Canal, Israel's alternative to the Suez.
Mr. Veale----I agree it is a great paragraph but.....I wish he would have added one more----
Pretend that CO2 is not a plant food but is a danger to us all and create possibly the greatest hoax in modern times and FORCE taxpayers all over the world to pay untold $Trillions so the left can allow the supersmart "elites" to gain an unimaginable amount of power and to Pretend that windmills and solar panels can produce electricity cheaper than fossil fuels.
In my mind the MMGW scam this is even a greater marketing coup than Pretending men can become women.
Having studied forestry and soil science (and had a friend getting his PhD in atmospheric science), I feel I'm probably still aligned with the left on the cause if not on the solution here.
Yes, CO2 is undoubtedly an essential nutrient; trees are largely made up of it. However, plant growth is regulated by the nutrient that's most restricted -- which is rarely CO2. For example, adding n-p-k fertilizer doesn't make anything grow faster if you don't water enough. Or, if the temperatures are too low for growth.
So yes, CO2 is plant food -- but increasing the concentration in our atmosphere has not appreciably increased forest growth. In a marijuana grow tent where all other conditions and nutrients are abundant, I'm sure it can do wonders.
IMNSHO, we've already f'd ourselves with CO2, as is evidenced by the death of winter I've witnessed over my lifetime. Just waiting for the oven to warm up to the temperature we've already set it to (we've already surpassed the point of CO2 concentration at which palm trees grew in Canada).
The current CO2 level is about 400 ppm. Paleo records indicate ranges of 1200 - 4000 ppm with incredible plant/animal life but no increase in temperatures.
With such low current levels plants are actually starving as they evolved under much higher conditions.
The science deists employed by the gov't have made up fables regarding many things as a form of controlling the pleb population. CO2 is simply a result of life on planet earth. The loony left has schooled kids to think it's 'poison' and the kids can't sleep at night. They truly believe they're polluters if they exhale.
I've little doubt that life will persist and likely flourish at the CO2 levels we're creating. The important caveat being excluded from your paleo argument, however, is that humans did not exist then, and are not capable of surviving in such an atmosphere. We experience dramatic cognitive declines well below 1000ppm, as can be demonstrated in any laboratory.
Such a world was, and will again be a tropical paradise at the poles, where ice no longer forms even in winter.
BTW -- we surpassed 400ppm years ago. Currently at 425ppm and rising 2-3ppm/year. Pre industrial -- the level to which humans are best adapted -- was 280ppm.
CO2 levels are highly cyclical and have gone up and down many times over the ages without any humans around. BTW, humans also evolved at much higher levels. Both NIOSH and OSHA allow long term exposures of 5000 ppm, while NASA allows a 180 day exposure of 7000 ppm.
That's interesting (have any links?), because I've seen demonstrations of a 25% cognitive decline at 1000ppm. High CO2 concentrations greatly decrease the function of the lungs in humans.
"the death of winter" - now you have exposed yourself as ridiculous. Palm trees grew in Canada at 10x the amount of CO2 we have in the atmosphere now.
You're looking for validation, not understanding. You cannot name the political and financial maneuvers behind your straightjacket of faith, nor have even considered their existence. It would be hurtful to do so, I understand that and don't mean harm. Please forgive my tone if its sounds harsh - but Green dogooders will be the death of us.
(I am thinking of the spread of toxic solar farms and windmills across our disappearing farm and pastureland, and of corporate farming's pesticides, chemicals, and gmo choking the life out of our soils as chemtrails rain down toxins on the soil and the waters from above - this is the source of my ire.
The Greens are working furiously to sterilize the planetary surface - and blame our existence for their intended goal.)
This is the problem with the religious - they cannot conceive of religion's political underpinnings, even as they deftly maneuver within that landscape.
Forests are now "biomass" to be cut down and used for fuel. The future is the distant past. People can easily to be led to believe the exact opposite of what they used to believe - without changing the brand name. Michael Moore's magisterial film, "Planet of Humans" portrays this and dirty littler money grubbers that the big environmentalists are.
Ditto the Democratic Party - once the party of White Men and then later, at least the party of the Worker, now neither and devoted to our extinction.
Currently residing in Duluth MN, formerly in Michigan and Washington state. It's no secret among Duluthians that winters are getting much shorter and milder; we could barely ski the trails for a few weeks last winter. The previous winter, basically failed to materialize at all -- producing one late season snowfall that was gone in a few days. In WA, I watched the snowline recede up the mountains just a bit each year and ski areas established in the (much cooler) 50's began to fail, as the lower glaciers shrank or disappeared (as is well documented by my former university).
Sure, it can still get cold at times -- especially when the failing arctic vortex opens up and spills southward, which is a regular occurrence nowadays. But... it never lasts more than a few weeks.
Next time it's cold in your neighborhood, check the satellite data on temps at the north pole. I remember doing that during the winter of 2014 in Michigan which was especially cold (for a few weeks). It was 36 degrees and raining at the north pole at the same time we were hitting -20F in southwest MI.
Rising temps are uneven; most of the rise occurs at the poles, not the tropics. The loss of the temperature differential between the tropics and poles (which drives the jetstream) has caused the jet stream to meander greatly north-south instead of running relatively strong east-west as it once did. That's what breaks up the polar vortex, both injecting warm temperate air into the arctic at the same time arctic air spills southward. I've watched it get worse and worse for decades now, after being a satellite imagery weather junkie in my college days.
You could be right. To tell the truth, I had only heard of a polar vortex about 10 or so years ago. I remember some long, cold winters in the forties. Now, the most snow I’ve seen recently (in southern Ontario) was in January 2024 and it lasted one whole month. I have not studied climate and weather patterns, but I strongly agree that some patterns are new and changing. I, therefore, agree with climate change. I do not, however, believe in MMGW nor do I think climate change is related to human activity. The whole CO2 debate is hogwash.
I firmly believe that most of the proposed solutions (electric vehicles, wind power, solar photovoltaic) are complete and utter hogwash, but after decades of studying this (I worked in a climate change lab in the early 90s) both professionally and personally, I've yet to see a credible argument that the underlying problem does not exist or is not man made.
My own take on the issue is that returning to a pre-industrial life is the only way forward. Industrial production is what created the problem, and cannot solve it imho. I believe this firmly enough that I spent about 16 years learning to live an agrarian lifestyle (farming and transport using horses, heating with wood harvested on our farm -- largely mirroring the Amish in my community).
I finally came to the conclusion that I was nothing more than a Don Quixote, and decided to burn fossil fuels with everyone else, once it became clear that I was not helping to set a trend of any sort.
It can easily be demonstrated that the molecular shape of CO2 traps heat energy by vibrating in ways that other atmospheric molecules (like N2) cannot. It is also well established that the warming we're seeing is consistent with what you would expect from adding "insulation" in the form of CO2 (night time lows have risen far more than daytime highs). It's also pretty easy to show that the amount of CO2 that's been added to the atmosphere is largely anthropogenic -- either through direct fossil fuel burning, agriculture (which causes soil carbon to oxidize and return to the atmosphere), or practices like deforestation.
No doubt, natural causes can change CO2 levels dramatically -- but there is no natural cause over the last century that anyone can point to as the culprit in our jump from 280 to 425ppm.
I'd be curious to know what your rejection of anthropogenic causes is based upon?
"IMNSHO, we've already f'd ourselves with CO2, as is evidenced by the death of winter I've witnessed over my lifetime. Just waiting for the oven to warm up to the temperature we've already set it to ..." ~ David Veale
I'd be interested in your thoughts about the following:
Armstrong contends that there is no direct correlation between CO2 and a rise in temperature.
"The core samples from EPICA Dome C ice core on the Antarctic Plateau establish that temperature rises first and CO2 level follow in a lagging manner."
Ice Core Samples Prove CO2 Levels Lag Behind Temperature Increases
Rising temps dramatically raise the oxidation of carbon from soils (primarily -- this is a huge effect) and vegetation, as well as dry out forests leading to more forest fires. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that the peak of CO2 often occurs *after* a sharp rise in temps.
I've yet to see anyone point to a non-anthropogenic source of atmospheric CO2 which would explain the rise we've seen from 280 to the current 425ppm.
Armstrong is not an idiot... but his website URL betrays where his focus lies -- and it's clearly not a focus on the natural world and it's functioning. There's no shortage of examples of smart people being duped by stories that tell them what they *want* to believe.
"I've yet to see anyone point to a non-anthropogenic source of atmospheric CO2 which would explain the rise we've seen from 280 to the current 425ppm." ~David Veale
... and your contention that the dramatic rise is a result of current human activity? Wouldn't the chart suggest that the cause is likely something else that has happened throughout time (and the current low is an anomaly)?
"When we simply run all of this through our correlation models, low and behold, a very obvious fact emerges. What we can ascertain from correlation models that will determine the cycles from all events is that there were major periods of volcanic eruptions which correspond to the Permian Extinction, Triassic Extinction, Jurassic Cretaceous Extinction, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction. This much we know does increase CO2, but it also throws ash into the atmosphere which reduces sunlight and creates a volcanic winter."
"Moreover, the 1930s saw the coldest period in modern history and that is when CO2 level rose the most. There was cooling, not warming. All the charts these people use are from 1850 forward. Historically, CO2 has been substantially higher well before the Industrial Revolution."
So refute it then, preferably with some actual knowledge that I apparently lack. I'm always open to new information, but will state that this subject is one I've studied intently for decades now. I'm not shooting from the hip on this.
If you have knowledge that I clearly don't, share it. In the absence of anything but name calling, I have to suspect that there's nothing to base your views on beyond feelings.
IDK, the word "pretend" suggests sort of a passive ignorance; something closer to premeditation and deliberate is more likely.
When you consider the fact that the military employed Lt Col Michael Aquino in Viet Nam - a satanist, who purportedly enjoyed the pillage of innocents too much, and influenced his colleagues, it's no wonder the process was repeated all over the world. This guy was groomed into the system and became a virtuoso at his schtick. Everything 'pretended' above fits perfectly into the psychopathology of satanism. They toy with their victims, gratified as they are driven into fear and chaos. Get it?
COV slurry injections destroys the immune system - elevated cancers and freak diseases. Tractor trailer loads of foreign insane criminals brought into the US to introduce significant crime into the population and then [the media] insists that we are racist if we don't welcome them; stress induced mental illness is inevitable. And, oh yes, elections have always been manipulated...follow the money. Voting just makes us FEEL fulfilled.
Because as we know that the sick require attention and all the spin off enterprises: big Med, Phm, illicit drugs (including legislation pushed to legalize escape substances), alcohol, tabaco, porn, etc. to cope with disease and stress, make the real big boys, money. Stress and mass psychosis turns the normal population into fearful, angry ppl. So, lets up the military budget to protect ourselves, they tell us, 'cause war is inevitable (n shucks, you folks don't need all that money).
And thus, the slow death of society...kinda like that frog in the water pot. The 'pretenders' are seating in gov't, voted in by US (right?), nicely paid off by their overlords to look the other way as they vote against SANITY. GOD IS SANITY.
Just an idea. Make it legal that no one will be considered legally trans until they have had their original sex organs, including gonads removed, or built up, whatever the situation is. Then a waiting period of hormonal balancing before they can act like their new gender.
The idea that men can just put on a dress and declare they are female is insane. But that is what so much is based on today. Put on a dress, and go into the female safe zones. What a joke. How many of these “women” just get off as voyeurs. Just like the doctors giving people handicapped plates during temporary problems like knee surgery and they just keep them forever.
Back in the mid-'50s when women were nurses, not doctors, I came across an extraordinary book "Woman Surgeon" by one Elsa K. LaRoe,. A plastic surgeon, Dr. LaRoe grew up and was educated during the Nazi period (later, although not Jewish, she fled Naziism for the U.S.) and her book is an eye-opener. She first chose her field out of a desire to help burn victims and did plenty of that during her long career. But over time, she encountered much else which she shares with her readers. The most shocking to my adolescent mind: transsexualism. "You'll meet the 'gay set', looking for a change in sex..." the cover blurb proclaimed. It was the first time I had ever heard the word "gay" used in a sexual context. She not only describes the trans subculture as it existed at the time but gives one particular example of a couple who wished to trade sexual organs and had even planned out the requested operation complete with diagrams. Sadly, she had to inform them that it was impossible.
How different today's response might be! Surely more than one surgeon could be found quite willing to proceed full speed ahead on such a groundbreaking project.
The book is difficult to find even on the Internet but I recommend it as a powerful stroll down Memory Lane to a time when the medical profession was very different from what it is today.
It's the general eupheminization of the language that is the ultimate incarnation of "political correctness". The only way this can work for them is if they can de-define core words. Also it's "opposite language". Denial (of biology) is "affirmation" (of delusion). Murder is "Reproductive rights". Countless other examples.
Well, it maybe enough that the insanity is ended. Cleaning up the mess may take much longer than we hope.
My favorite was "pretending that we needed congressional action thwarted by Republicans to close the border."
The current administration seems to be picking out things that can be done quickly to show the pretend world that was created.
But the long hard climb out of the hole dug over 20 or more years is going to be difficult. The populace may ot be prepared for that additional suffering.
Sad to say that most of the populace believes 99% of the nonsense and lies they read or hear in the Fake News. "Where ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
As of now, it appears that Trump and the Republicans will lose the House of Representatives in the next election. I don't really care about the feckless Republicans, they certainly deserve to lose, but to have the Democrats back in control would probably mean another impeachment of Trump, which would once again cripple his administration. I support most of Trump's agenda, except his foreign policy of supporting Ukraine and Israel with money and bombs, but the Dems are just bad, if not worse on that front. The stupid party or the evil party, when they do something stupid and evil, it's called bipartisanship. Anyway, the insanity is far from over. The next election will be very telling. As MTG wonders, will MAGA come out and support Republicans without Trump on the ballot?
The Democrats are in disarray, short on money, on the wrong side of many big issues like immigration, DEI, gender ideology, and crime. They have no popular, positive proposals, no appealing national leaders. How are they going to win the midterms? I think Trump sees winning in 2026 as crucial to his legacy, so I expect him to go all-out with indictments regarding dozens of Democrat scandals over the next year.
PapayaSF-----I saw a meme today that should be on millions of billboards across the nation. It had 2 columns----The column on the left had a listing of Trumps accomplishments over his short time in office. The column on the right showed the Democrats proposals to solve our issues. It only had one item-----Hate Trump. I think that even the low info voters which are in the 10s of millions are sharp enough to understand that the Ds stand for nothing but craziness.
That sums it up. It’s increasingly difficult for Democrats to paint Trump as a “fascist” as a substitute for policy proposals and expect voters to go along.
I think we’re beginning a big shift, sometimes called the Fourth Turning. Globalist progressivism is on the way out, and populist nationalism is rising. The Democrats have gone so far left that they are trapped, and Trump is turning the GOP into the party of the working class. Sure, there will be a core of “yellow dog Democrats” who will vote that way no matter what, but they are an aging and shrinking minority.
You are almost there. MAGA will be the start of a new party, after Trump. If it does not form and block the insanity of the Left, the country is lost. The people of MAGA will not support Republicans, they will support MAGA candidates.
My hope is that MAGA realizes they need to flush out the bums in the establishment Bush, Cheney RINO based GOP and create a new party, maybe Musk’s American Party. RINOs are worse than Dems, as being a traitor to the conservative cause because of TDS, is worse.
BTW, Putin is over-reaching right now, with intentions to take more territory in the Donbas to cement in the Russian corridor into Crimea. Does he want all of Ukraine? We will soon see, but IMHO, he is buying more problems than it is worth to take over the Ukrainian people. Donbas is Russian. Trump tried to reason with both sides. It backfired. Putin is not done yet. Trump knows that, and also knows that he has little to mediate with. Russia has BRICS+, a creation caused by the sanctions the USA and Europe put on Russia. Russia is learning how to speak Mandarin and Hindu and if things are not reversed and soon, the USA will become surrounded by BRICS+ and its influence will be reduced quickly.
Step 1. Stabilize Ukraine with Russia annexing the Donbas corridor into Crimea.
Step 2. China takesTaiwan with its wafer technology. This would affect Phoenix as Taiwan is building a fab here.
Just these two will totally change geo-politics. In the meantime, the insanity of the Ult-Left will destroy the USA as the BRICS+ globalists will continue to destroy Americana.
You folks up north? You think the USA should be knocked down? You are next along with your European allies. BRICS is after the West, not just the USA. Go ahead, root for China, I hope you can speak Mandarin.
I don't think a "new party" is such a good idea. Every time the Republicans go too far left, somebody starts yelling, "We need a new party!"
Well, we got a new party, the American Independent Party in 1968. It split, creating the American Party (not to be confused with Musk's America Party) a year later, then the Independent American Party in '72. Some say it later merged with the Constitution Party, originally formed as the US Taxpayers' Party in 1990...
A lot of time and effort wasted trying to create a new party.
Why not do CPR on the Constitution Party, rather than run off with Elon and give birth to yet another impotent upstart that will never get the attention it needs to grow up to a size that will allow it to take on the Uniparty juggernaut?
Or...
Take back the Republican Party. Unlike a new party, it does not need to be built, it just needs a serious cleaning. (Folks on the other side of the bus might consider doing the same with the Democrat Party.)
Not really a new party, more like an acknowledgement that MAGA is not Establishment Bush-Cheney GOP. It needs to leave these traitors behind. MAGA is scooping up independents and moderate Dems also as the dems go Leftist insane. New Party!
Lincoln unified the original GOP four years after its creation. MAGA like the GOP in 1960, is its own identity, it is not the GOP. The country club GOP is dead.
The MAGAS are crazed idiots. The Constitution Party is sane if not brilliant. Someone who is gaga for Trump is not right in the head. They're worse than the Reaganites.
Yup, the real polls show that the Libs are losing big time to Trumpian changes. The margin is increasing, that is why the Dems are in a panic now. They are really stupid though, thinking that the way to attack Trump is to go even farther to the Left. The election of 2026 may have the effect of driving the last nails into the Dem coffin.
The Democrats never came clean on Obama’s illegal spying, Russiagate, Biden’s censorship regime, Biden family corruption, the true costs of illegal immigration, illegal DEI discrimination, USAID waste, CDC lies, crime, or gender madness. How many votes will that cost them?
As such is American politics. Back and forth. Republicans to Democrats. Democrats to Republicans. It is a tired old game and I am wearied of it. Americans keep voting the same way, keep doing the same thing over and over again and then sit there with their thumbs up their asses and wonder why nothing is changing?
Are they that stupid? Seriously. When will they awaken and realize we are governed by a Uniparty and that there really isn't any difference between the Republican filth and the Democrat filth? The end result of their actions are always the same. More war. More debt. Bigger gubmit. It never ends.
Let the Democrats have the House. The result is always the same.
I'll give Trump a point for that. The border situation is better now than it was under Biden, or likely would have been under Harris.
But I think to say that Trump has made "significant progress" is a bit optimistic and premature.
Trump still wants to import foreigners, just rich ones and smart ones - rather than helping to create the conditions so that Americans can become rich and smart. Adding more spice to the stew to hide the rot underneath.
His foreign policy is even worse than Biden's, and that was a low bar to crawl under.
Believe it or not, I heard it on Bannon's war room. They had the Rasmussen polling guy on, and he said that's what the polls are showing. Rasmussen is one of the most accurate and pro Trump polling outfits.
I was on Breitbart earlier. Here are some of the headlines:
"Kim Kardashian Trashes Trump Illegal Immigration Crackdown from Italy"
"Hulk Hogan’s Wife to File Medical Malpractice Suit over WWE Legend’s Death"
"Dept. of Education: Colorado School District Violated Title IX by Replacing Girls’ Restroom with ‘All-Gender’ Facility"
"Rosie O’Donnell Fantasizes About Trump Dying in Trans School Shooter Rant: ‘It’s Coming to an End, He’s Not Doing Well’"
"David Hogg: Trump Is a ‘Damn Coward’ For Not Changing Gun Laws"
"Emma Stone: ‘I’m Coming Out and Saying It, I Believe in Aliens’"'
"Sting Sued by Former Police Bandmates over Unpaid Royalties"
"Melania Trump ‘Laughed’ at the Offer to Appear on ‘Vanity Fair’ Magazine Cover"
This is Breitbart, a conservative news outlet and this is the bull-shit they post as news. How many idiot Americans gobble this shit up and listen to the likes of an empty skull like Kardashian whose only claim to fame was a sex tape she posted on line years ago. My point? The insanity hasn't ended. It is still full-bore. Until the news starts ignoring these insane morons like David Hogg, who doesn't even know that Congress makes laws, not the President, we aren't going to progress. Or, until people stop listening to it. Yes, you are right, it is going to take a long time to dig out of this mess, if humanity is able to do so at least.
Gary, the first step is to stop digging the hole. That is Trump. People expect him to undo the damage of 70 years of Left wing bullshit in a few years. It is not going to happen. It will take 70 more years of conservative American reversal to undo what the Dems have done. If Trump can maintain control of the Congress in 2026 and Vance or whoever gets elected in 2028, things will start to turn around. Right now? We are tied, just going into overtime.
"People expect him to undo the damage of 70 years of Left wing bullshit in a few years."
And therein lies the problem, JohnAZ. Trump is one man and by the Constitution he is only authorized to execute the will of Congress. Executive orders apply only to his administration and the agencies under his authority. Trump can't change a damned thing without a willing Congress. I've said it before and I will continue to say it again and again. Americans should be pissing razorblades in anger at the colossal failure that is the United States Congress. Instead of blaming one man, whether it be Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush or Clinton, they should be raging against their fucking Congress.
Congress IS the sovereign. Congress HAS the authority. Congress CONTROLS the purse. Congress IS fucking waste of space. Congress has FAILED its purpose and the people. It's well past time to re-think the US Congress, how Congress is selected and the true purpose of a representative.
Is that the amendment that turned the US Senate into a glorified House of Representatives and removed any representation of the individual states from the Congress?
Yes it is. Hence the reason for America to consider how our Congress is constituted. Elections are popularity contests, nothing more, and require large sums of money to get popular enough to win. Because of that campaign contributions are problematic. It doesn't work, Lugh. It's a failed system. It needs to be re-vamped, overhauled, abandoned, re-set. Anything.
Effing A, Cankerpuss. The Congress is still largely controlled by the Deep State, the arm of the Leftists. The Deep State is controlled by the DNC, the liberal bureaucracy, MIC, lobbyists, the cartels, all good little liberal gimme socialists.
This next election is so critical, it will shape the future of the country. How long does it take to effect change? That is how long MAGA needs to control DC.
Yes. FDR had a major problem, technology just about destroyed the US economy in the 1920s as manual labor was being replaced by machines with the creation of a large amount of unemployed. How to feed these folks, and create jobs for them to do to keep them quiet. That faced FDR in 1932.
Sidebar - For all the believers in the Fourth Turning, we are facing exactly the same thing today with AI, almost exactly 100 years later.
So he socialized large elements of the country trying to get folks back into work and re-start the economy. It did not work and was a failure for socialism as the highest unemployment was in 1936. So what worked? Putting the USA on a war footing with first Lend Lease, then WW2. How to fix a depression, manufacture bullets, guns, planes, tanks, etc., send your unemployed overseas to reduce the excess (nasty thought). By 1945, problem solved?
Sidebar2 - It was deficit Federal spending that got the job done, with the country coming to a war stance economically. Until now, the Feds were in debt the maximum amount during the war. BTW, the critical thing here is that the US recovered because we built “bullets” during the war, ie disposables. Hmmm, just like cars in the 50s and 60s? Every year they re-tooled for the next look. Every two years, you traded in for a new car as cars degraded quickly. Were cars the disposables that kept the economy humming in the rust belt? Did the introduction of the reliable 100000 mile car of the 1970’s inspired by Japanese quality control destroy the disposable car industry and with it the Rust Belt? Hmmmm.
War defined as something that employs people ... that wins the internet today. Musk's guaranteed minimum wage would, longterm, do less harm to humanity.
It also kills off the surplus. War is now impossible without mutual annihilation, so what to do?
An idea that caught my eye for about ten seconds. If manufacturers use AI and robotics to replace humans, why not tax the machines and just pat UBI to the people? Why not?
Because humans derive satisfaction and self-pride from their work. The idea that sitting at home getting a minimum paycheck from the government is a boon doggie. Proof exists right now, the Rust belt. The government allowed car manufacturing to move overseas in the 70s and the decline of the work environment in the Rust Belt was the result. So what do we have, an area of drugged up drunks that just sit around talking about the good old days.
As I said, put people to work, not take away their jobs. A good start? High speed rail!!!! The super conservatives spend lots of money talking down the HSR project in California, Texas, Illinois, and Florida. That is a huge mistake. The hypocrisy is alarming, California will have a HSR for $128 billion dollars. That is petty cash in today’s world of government high finance. The maintenance will be costly? So will paying UBI or welfare to the folks that would not have the jobs. I despise Newsom, but on this subject, he is on the right side, IMHO.
Think 1950s, what was creating jobs? How about the Interstate highway system?
Stay the course? Really? FYI - here is "the course":
Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Trump brokering and providing Larry Ellison & Peter Thiel with a half a TRILLION of Rothchilds' fiat duckets falls into that last mandate. Ellison & Thiel are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
Everybody Knows that Trump is a selfless savior who will do whatever is necessary to save God's Second Favorite People - and even our ungrateful neighbors - gathering us together in the protective embrace of Ol' Glory.
He got his goddamn ear shot off fer Chrissakes! What more do you want?!
Mr. Edwards---- the sad and frightening thing is that the reason it is so hard to climb out of the hole our nation has dug is that many of our elected officials that have an R behind their name really like the other side more than the Rs so.... they say they are an R because in a lot of areas today you cannot get elected if you even hint that you secretly wish you could "come out" as a D.
Yes, the Democratic Party has resorted to an agenda of lies for want of political solutions but, even more remarkable, is the fact that any significant portion of the public bought them, at least for a while.
In 1895 Gustave le Bon examined this phenomenon, as manifest during the French Revolution, in his book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. In 2022 Mathias Desmet formulated le Bon’s thinking as Mass Formation Psychosis in his book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism.
Out of politeness, most references to this phenomenon omit the crucial word, and just call it “mass formation,” but it truly is mass psychosis. Thankfully, it creates its own solution, by reaching such a point of absurdity that those in its thrall eventually are able to see reality beyond the smoke and mirrors.
As a useful exercise I propose that each of us make a list of the insults to reality that our nation is in greatest need of exorcising. Here’s mine:
1. That anyone should be permitted to vote without a photo ID
2. That unlimited numbers of illegal aliens should be encouraged to enter any sovereign country
3. That people who retain identifiably male or female genitals must be regarded as trans, if they wish to be
4. That biological men should be permitted to participate in competitive women’s sports
5. That biological men should be permitted to choose incarceration in women’s prisons
6. That others should be required to use non traditional pronouns to refer to people who identify as being of exotic gender
7. That terms like “mother” and “breast feeding” should be replaced by the vocabulary of trans propaganda
8. That any departure from woke propaganda speech should be subject to draconian punishment
9. That drag shows should be presented to school children
10. That others should be required to pretend that morbid obesity is admirable, beautiful, and not unhealthful
You might be interested in the words and phrases the Democrats have determined undermine their ability to connect with voters. It's actually kind of funny in a tragic way: www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-something-i-said
Tragic indeed! The CCP back this Organization? Endowed by the Karl Marx Foundation? Some Woodstock Concert goer who ignored the, “The Brown Acid Warnings”?
Again? There was nothing wrong with the brown acid. I tested it out on my dog (who ended up in a 3-hour, long-distance phone call with Alan Watts) and myself (who then went out and did the brake job my dog was "too busy" to do).
That was just a psyop to make the kids have bad trips.
You can look at the Sun for as long as you want too. Just don't try crossing a busy street immediately afterwards.
My people were union and Democrat - until they spat in our face. And of course the Marxists took over the unions and became friends with the Corporations. It's almost as if they were never what they purported to be. They used to be against illegal immigrants, seeing them as so many scabs. But now!
Part of my take on Mathias Desmet’s thought on what would replace the fear driving mass formation, (yes, I’ll go with psychosis), was emergence of a greater fear, which he identified as awareness totalitarianism was on the rise in a serious manner.
This is only the start of the Great Unwind, the beginning of truth-telling. It's not going to flip overnight: truth isn't like a government-mandated Scamdemic. It's going to take time and multiple repetitions and fact-checking and official investigations and prosecutions to convince the Crazy that they are mistaken. They may still go to their deaths thinking they were right.
In the meanwhile, keep on keeping on: live in Reality and spread it around.
That is all anyone can do. The beast is too big for any of us to slay. The train is in motion and has left the station and nothing can stop it except the forces of nature or God. Make sure you own house is in order. Live a good, clean, moral life. Love your spouse and your children. Be kind to and help your fellow man. Reject greed, envy and pride as much as you can. Those are things we can control. The world will unwind as it will or as it is intended. We can't stop it now.
Ben, people like Phil are why I am cautious about parts of Canada joining the USA. We have enough of a problem with the Leftist crazies on the coasts, do we need to add more?
The Great Unwind is what we were just talking about over coffee as I was reading through the comments.
Spot on!
Our country’s citizens have been living in a world of Unprecedented Underlying of Pretending from our government and their bought off Media for close to seven decades now.
We have generations of citizens who have never seen or would understand Reality if it rang their doorbell.
The Great Unwind will be as systemic as the Great Depression and WWII affected our parents and grandparents.
Our children and grandchildren’s children will be the arbiters of how we gotten ourselves out of this period of deliberate delusion and onto the pathway towards reality.
Our next 250 years will tell how we did and I pray that we are not the ones who stupidly fritted away the greatest place on earth for mankind.
"We have generations of citizens who have never seen or would understand Reality if it rang their doorbell."
The problem, WW, is most of us were born into and raised into this system. Our parents were born into this system and knew nothing different. What are they to do? This is all they know.
Bill Clinton was when I realized many things are not good.
Smacked with a good round of the Bush family and Barrack finished it off.
When they installed demented Joe Biden I was trying to figure out how so many people were blinded to the reality this guy was not even remotely all there.
When the presidential discourse was elevated to "boxers or briefs," it became apparent that "frat boys" were going to have their turn running the show. Well, they've run it aground.
To quote the movie Gladiator: "A people should know when they are beaten," to which Maximus responds "would you, Quintus? Would I?" I predict the Democrat rank and file will resist with a stridency that will make southern adherence to slavery seem like a marginal belief. Stripped of the veneer or performance, stripped of the external validation of in-group identity, these people will have truly nothing left to hang on to. The NPCs will quite literally fight to keep everyone playing the game because, if the game gets turned off, they cease to exist. The rise of the Mamdahnis of the world makes me believe the adherents to the politics of pretend aren't ready to give up.
I agree with your assessment. Anyone who thinks these lefties are reasonable just needs to go read the comments on a few lefty sites (or the bots' comments on X/Twitter, etc.).
Rev, they are the conservative American’s worst enemy, worse than any foreign power, worse than NWO. They are the invasion of globalist socialist ideology into the American scene, the advance of Islamic control, the advance of Chinese control. All to satisfy the gimmes of society, which by the way, they have increased with the open border. Trump aside, they are still winning as long as the MSM favors them.
Great article, great analysis. Suggestion for everyone: Scrap “gender-affirming care” and call it what it is, “gender mutilation“ or “genital mutilation,“ if you prefer.
Remember when "trans" was the guy down the street that everyone knew "dressed up like a woman"? The guy down the street (often married) typically didn't hurt anyone. No one hated him or treated him badly. No one cared that he had this hang-up. We just thought he was odd. He didn't go on TV or social media to demand he get special "rights" for being odd. That guy playing dress up down the street left others alone and we left him alone, but we would also say hello if they walked by. "You do you, and I'll do me" was the policy.
"Trans" has always been a thing... for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Somehow, we all seemed to get along just fine... until "trans" became political and that ideology was pushed on the public. We not only have to walk on eggshells around anyone "trans", but we have to celebrate their quirkiness (and even participate in it if you really want to prove you aren't a "hater") and teach it to our children. Or, even go so far as to encourage our children to develop this mental illness in the name of love and acceptance. Every emotion, every pubescent struggle now means a young person was either "born in the wrong body" (impossible) or homosexual. We are no longer allowed to use the wise council many of us received from parents, other family members, or even some of our peers during the hell that is puberty, "You're just going through puberty and it sucks. I promise, things will get better, and if they don't, we're here for you."
Yet women started dressing as men and few said anything. Have a plain looking girl in your family? Depressed that she can't attract men? Tell her to start wearing dresses.
Ben, they are making a move to take over starting with the kids. Just like the Chinese, the Muslims, the zealot Blacks, all enabled by the Democrats party.
IMO, the Dems, a few years back, set an agenda to gain total control by getting the allegiance of all the Gimme groups and the sum total would outweigh the basically White majority in our majority control politics. They almost succeeded.
Good news, WW. RFK, Jr. led CDC is removing the recommendation of Vaxxing (Covid) kids, along with pregnant females. The medicos are going nuts as their medical autocracy is being challenged. Go Bob.
A remarkable instance that supports your idea: one of Ernest Hemingway's sons was a transvestite, an MD whose proclivities were well-known and evidently 'overlooked' and tolerated. The author of the fine non-fiction book "Hemingway's Boat" details that story in brilliant and compassionate prose.
Orthodox psychology - now almost extinct being replaced by the Cult - taught that gender dysphoria usually disappeared on its own by the late teens or early 20's.
The Cult is funded by the Globalists, the International Bankers. Now ask yourself, Why.
Since you mentioned Mayor Frey, and having observed him over the past several years, have you ever seen a more pathetic quisling? Can you not imagine him shivering in terror awaiting a delegation from Berlin or Moscow visiting his occupied village in a bygone era?
Yes, the Democrat party is and has always been the party of delusion, destruction, devastation and death, and will be until it is crushed into powder, and tossed deep into the sea of oblivion.
But that realization sparks another: where has the Republican Party been during all this political and societal upheaval? During COVID? During the Jan 6th Op? During the “Summer of Love”? During the invasion of our country by armies of illegals? During the transing of our kids? During the obstruction and perversion of law by rogue judges?
Totally AWOL, that’s where.
Until Trump, all this crap and more has been moving along with only the weakest of opposition, holding “hearings”, or going along to get along.
The fact that sooo much of Trump’s agenda requires the ACTION of Congress to see it through to fruition, to codify it, and to rectify the decades of corruption and abuse the country has suffered under Democrats, does not give one comfort.
And if Republicans don’t sweep the midterms, and allow Democrats to get another foothold on power, all will be for naught.
They need to feel the heat of a thousand suns coming from their citizenry, and the dreadful fear of God deep in their souls that they best get with program, or God have mercy on us all.
The Republican Party is nothing more than rehearsed vocal opposition to the Democrat Party. For this reason I hate Republicans more than Democrats. Democrats are open about their evil. Republicans are hypocrites and liars.
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
I do not see many fruits from the Republicans that tell me they are very different from the Democrats.
War? Republicans keep waging war just like the Democrats. Doesn't matter if the war is legal or not.
Debt? Republicans keep increasing the debt ceiling and spending money we don't have. Trump is increasing the national debt as I write this. No change there.
Taxes? Need I say more?
Constitution? What have the Republicans done recently to bring the Federal leviathan back under the original mandates of the US Constitution? Yeah, that's right, about as much as the Democrats have.
Government Reduction? What have the Republicans done to reduce the size of the government, return federal authority to the individual states, keep government out of the lives of the citizens? Yeah, that's right, about as much as the Democrats have.
When one casts off the tribal mentality and looks at the fruits of their labors one will quickly see that there is no difference in the political parties. It's all lip service. It's all designed to confuse and delude the people. Nothing more. We have been played. We have been duped. We are the losers.
Do you think Blacks are as smart as Whites? They're not. Science has known this for more than a hundred years. But our Civilization is obsessed with human equality and can't deal with this fact so instead, they Lie. Many special interests enable this lie and penalize those who speak the Truth openly.
While there are differences in the mean IQ scores of races, if you conclude that therefore a white person will have a higher IQ than a black person you do not understand what these statistics mean. A percentage of black people will fall above the mean white IQ score; a percentage of white people will fall below the mean IQ score.
The answer used to be -- and should be again-- to stop using racial categories to decide who gets what job, position, benefit, etc. This is a divide and conquer strategy that we keep falling for. Look at the individual not the collective.
BTW, Asians score higher than whites. Does this mean the comic Margaret Cho is smarter than you? Maybe but for for your sake I hope not.
In sum, I have read Thomas Sowell, and you are no Thomas Sowell.
Yeah, we're talking averages. Don't use my imagined inability to understand statistics to avoid the truth. In fact, 87% of Blacks fall below the White average of 100. And by definition, 50% of Whites do. And American Blacks are only this smart because of the input of White genes. The Black average here is 85. The pure Black African average is around 70, varying a bit lower or higher by area.
In summary, Whites are smarter than Blacks. If you can't get that, then you don't understand how to read statistics but only how to fool yourself with them. Congrats, that's what the Elite want.
The leftists who treat druggies, criminals, illegal aliens, and sex perverts like heroes or martyrs are not just fools, they are profoundly evil. The sooner the rest of the U.S. citizenry figures that out, the better it will be for all of us. Some of those leftists may eventually realize just how evil their whole mantra and beliefs actually are, but, sadly, many--if not most--will not. Just like devout Fascist/Socialist Nazis and Communist/Socialists, the totally brainwashed and un-reformed American Socialists will eventually face complete isolation from normal American society. Their destructive danger and malice to a free Republic will be neutralized.
Yes, evil, like the evil that St John warned us about in the Revelation, leading up to the Anti-Christ. It is happening, just look around and remember that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the same thing the dems are worshipping. Hmmm.
The parents and doctors of Robert should be held liable for his insanity and the horrific murders he committed on Wednesday. Send them away for a very long time.
Only conservative parents whose kids shoot people get punished .... these parents will be coddled and sympathized.... Any word or update on the parents of Thomas Matthew Crooks?
This paragraph is absolute gold -- one of the best I've read all year:
"The essence of all that was a gigantic game of pretend, a broad and deliberate dissociation from reality for the purpose of maintaining a political racketeering operation, which is what the Democratic Party had become. Pretend that men can become women. Pretend that Covid vaccinations are safe and effective. Pretend that national borders don’t matter. Pretend that crime is not a social problem. Pretend that riots are mostly peaceful. Pretend that our elections are free and fair. Pretend that “Joe Biden” is president. Pretend that Ukraine is fighting for democracy. And so on. All pretend."
When it comes to JHK, it is impossible for me to decide which of his writings are pure gold or the best. ALL his essays are incredible and I end of saving most of them so I can re-read them when I have time to enjoy with a nice cuppa tea.
Mr. Kunstler has the ability to express the words that I think but am unable to express in written form. He truly has a god given gift.
He’s a Genious at expressing the majority of thoughts & prayers held by most Americans! The Democratic Party is a moronic group of liars, cheaters, unpatriotic wackos! They must be stopped!! I have three grandchildren who I hope will inherit a sensible God-fearing government some day!
He is definitely a wordsmith of the first order.
Yes. He does.
Pretend that the problem is between your legs and not between your ears.
In a world awash with plastics leaking estrogen-mimics and other endocrine disruptors, I doubt the problem is entirely within their heads. I've spoken with a psychologist who worked with many of the transgendered and mentioned that the patients themselves felt that the culprit was likely chemical based.
Or 72 vaccinations-based!
It was worrisome to see Bill Gates meet with Trump for three hours this week. Nothing good can come from that vile union, imho.
Billy: "Gee Donnie, thanks for saving me from that Epstein nothingburger!"
Donnie: "Hey, no problem Billy. Take a number! Heh heh! But what I really called ya over here for. I need to reset my Apple Watch."
He got Gates to pull funding from Arabella lest he also be the target of RICO.
Oh ... ok ... gee, I thought that the mass murderers were the bad guys.
Yes, a transcription of the edicts Billy was delivering from his Rockefeller owners would be most enlightening. One can sense SCAMdemic #2 is nearly finished being cooked and is ready to serve (mobile morgues ready to roll in the UK).......
AND of course it will somehow circumvent all those jolly Grand Juries Jimmy keeps telling us about....
You're right, OG. Hard to believe DJT would give him an audience, but I'm sure there are reasons.
Funding of Arabella and threat of RICO.
Time to start the vegetable program.
You guys need to get out in the sunlight more.
Or are you part of a psyop to convince people that anyone who believes in conspiracy theories is bonkers?
Toby Rogers, in his uTobian Substack, theorized back in 2021 that ASD, transgenderism, and vaccines are linked. Definitely a chemical issue…
I agree. Another possibility I wonder about is vaccines being cultured on fetal body parts, oftentimes of an opposite sex fetus. I have been anti vax since my mid 20s while still a looney lefty. I think this issue has many layers and is more nefarious than we understand at present.
Watch the movie Nefarious on youtube. The teachings of the demon, Nefarious.
I used that particular word with intention. I keep hammering at the same point: This is a war between good and evil. I saw the movie on Hoopla. Definitely worth watching.
“Return of the Gods”… J. Cahn… the first couple chapters were though for me to get through but it turned a corner and changed gears..A Great Read.
There is a also a relationship with being 'on the spectrum' ....
Good reason to get a reverse osmosis filter.
It will help some..unfortunately we're surrounded by these chemicals everywhere we go, not just through our home spigots.
Yes. We are and have been so chemically bombarded for so long now that it's more than likely a combination of all these things. We will probably never know.
RFK Jr is asking about meds he was on. As should have been done with all the shooters.
Or just drink only distilled water.
Just like SAC General Jack Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove".
Got one -- it's entirely plastic, as I'm sure are the filters themselves. All "food safe", of course!
Hormones tend to alter the way we think. Ask any teenager. Another good reason to place the location of the problem between the ears.
Excellent observation! It isn't just endocrine disruptors, though, atrazine is being put in the water and it lowers HUGELY testosterone levels. I remember reading years ago that some type of frog that was male was now making female hormones as well and IIRC was able to give birth to baby frogs.
Been one of my primary concerns for years. The EU banned it decades ago, because they were slightly less corrupt than we are. Know multiple women where I formerly lived in the corn belt who contracted breast cancer, likely from atrazine exposure (and none that I know outside of it, where I've also lived for decades).
Interesting fact: Bayer, the makers of atrazine (an estrogen mimic, which feeds breast cancer), also manufacturers the leading breast cancer treatment (tamoxifen), which is an estrogen suppressor. Gotta give 'em credit for covering their bases, as well as being a poster child for corporate psychopathy.
EXCELLENT info, thank you! I'm not surprised, they do seem to be good at covering their bases.
There are several species of frogs & lizards that can change their sex. It’s a physiological stopgap measure to insure continued reproduction. This, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with a confused Human…
This happened right after atrazine was added to the water.
Millions of women on birth control peeing into the waters. Can it all be filtered out?
Or... in the experience of at least one family member -- eating lots of phyto-estrogen rich soy products while pregnant.
Not kidding
Fake food=fast food
McDonald’s
And "professional" quack based. I spoke to a shrink who said it's a crime and child abuse.
It IS A Crime… and the doctors who prescribe & pharma who manufactures should be held responsible & accountable.
Yes, and estrogen happens to be a stress hormone. Along with Serotonin. Both of which many people are therapeutically increasing.
It very likely was a problem of both.
Guy was probably hung like a housefly and watched way too much porn.
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This man can surely turn a phrase. I never miss a post.
100% agree! 👍👏👏👏‼️
agreed! The author is a wonderful writer and clearly captures the essence of things.
One huge pretend is missing, which is especially poignant because it crosses over party lines into the disordered minds of some supporters of the Trump agenda.
Pretend that Israel, and not the jihadists fronted by Hamas, is genocidal.
True-- both sides are no doubt genocidal (or, in less politicized terms, "highly competitive" in the way that most cultures have been throughout history). But one side has been enabled in their goals far more than the other, and has thus had far more success in pursuing them. For the Palestinians, their genocidal dreams are largely unrealized. Israel's are now in plain sight for all the world to see.
Israel is at the glorious stage like the Wehrmacht after bombing Stalingrad into rubble.
Somehow the bright sun is in their eyes.
You see what is not there, and don’t see what is. That’s pretend, my friend.
Anyone who thinks *either* side operates with any degree of moral superiority is living in a world of pretend.
Except Israel really could wipe out the Palestinians and chooses not to. The other side wants to but is incapable of doing so. That is reality. Time to move the Palestinians back to Egypt since Egypt refused to take ownership back of the contested territories.
The Catholic and Orthodox Christians say they aren't going - they have announced they will refuse Israel's order to evacuate.
"Since Egypt refused to take ownership back" - ownership of the place Israel went to war to grab? It's the terminus of the proposed Ben Gurion Canal, Israel's alternative to the Suez.
I guess for you every day is Opposite Day.
A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest - Simon and Garfunkel
Tell us again, Cohen, about the marketing campaign and clinics of Teva Pharmaceutical, the sole producer of gender transition drugs worldwide.
They're located in Israel.
We're done being bullied by Jews, be they of the "left" or the "right".
At least you admit some big Jew kicked your ass now it's time to heal little chicken neck.
Says the Zionist stooge who is loyal to one nation only, just not ours.
They insist we keep receiving their many, many Blessings.
Yep Lugh got his ass kicked by a jew hahaha.
Fuckin' A.
Might one be Abiding Dude?
Mr. Veale----I agree it is a great paragraph but.....I wish he would have added one more----
Pretend that CO2 is not a plant food but is a danger to us all and create possibly the greatest hoax in modern times and FORCE taxpayers all over the world to pay untold $Trillions so the left can allow the supersmart "elites" to gain an unimaginable amount of power and to Pretend that windmills and solar panels can produce electricity cheaper than fossil fuels.
In my mind the MMGW scam this is even a greater marketing coup than Pretending men can become women.
Yeah, let's turn all of into rocks so the plants don't have to breathe that shit.
End Plant Cruelty Now!
I can still hear them screaming.
So says the vegetable.
Having studied forestry and soil science (and had a friend getting his PhD in atmospheric science), I feel I'm probably still aligned with the left on the cause if not on the solution here.
Yes, CO2 is undoubtedly an essential nutrient; trees are largely made up of it. However, plant growth is regulated by the nutrient that's most restricted -- which is rarely CO2. For example, adding n-p-k fertilizer doesn't make anything grow faster if you don't water enough. Or, if the temperatures are too low for growth.
So yes, CO2 is plant food -- but increasing the concentration in our atmosphere has not appreciably increased forest growth. In a marijuana grow tent where all other conditions and nutrients are abundant, I'm sure it can do wonders.
IMNSHO, we've already f'd ourselves with CO2, as is evidenced by the death of winter I've witnessed over my lifetime. Just waiting for the oven to warm up to the temperature we've already set it to (we've already surpassed the point of CO2 concentration at which palm trees grew in Canada).
The current CO2 level is about 400 ppm. Paleo records indicate ranges of 1200 - 4000 ppm with incredible plant/animal life but no increase in temperatures.
With such low current levels plants are actually starving as they evolved under much higher conditions.
See https://principia-scientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/paleo-graph.jpg
The science deists employed by the gov't have made up fables regarding many things as a form of controlling the pleb population. CO2 is simply a result of life on planet earth. The loony left has schooled kids to think it's 'poison' and the kids can't sleep at night. They truly believe they're polluters if they exhale.
Indeed, Yirgach, every ice core taken indicates CO2 levels follow temperature, rather than lead it. CO2 variation is the result, not the cause.
I've little doubt that life will persist and likely flourish at the CO2 levels we're creating. The important caveat being excluded from your paleo argument, however, is that humans did not exist then, and are not capable of surviving in such an atmosphere. We experience dramatic cognitive declines well below 1000ppm, as can be demonstrated in any laboratory.
Such a world was, and will again be a tropical paradise at the poles, where ice no longer forms even in winter.
BTW -- we surpassed 400ppm years ago. Currently at 425ppm and rising 2-3ppm/year. Pre industrial -- the level to which humans are best adapted -- was 280ppm.
CO2 levels are highly cyclical and have gone up and down many times over the ages without any humans around. BTW, humans also evolved at much higher levels. Both NIOSH and OSHA allow long term exposures of 5000 ppm, while NASA allows a 180 day exposure of 7000 ppm.
That's interesting (have any links?), because I've seen demonstrations of a 25% cognitive decline at 1000ppm. High CO2 concentrations greatly decrease the function of the lungs in humans.
"the death of winter" - now you have exposed yourself as ridiculous. Palm trees grew in Canada at 10x the amount of CO2 we have in the atmosphere now.
You're looking for validation, not understanding. You cannot name the political and financial maneuvers behind your straightjacket of faith, nor have even considered their existence. It would be hurtful to do so, I understand that and don't mean harm. Please forgive my tone if its sounds harsh - but Green dogooders will be the death of us.
(I am thinking of the spread of toxic solar farms and windmills across our disappearing farm and pastureland, and of corporate farming's pesticides, chemicals, and gmo choking the life out of our soils as chemtrails rain down toxins on the soil and the waters from above - this is the source of my ire.
The Greens are working furiously to sterilize the planetary surface - and blame our existence for their intended goal.)
This is the problem with the religious - they cannot conceive of religion's political underpinnings, even as they deftly maneuver within that landscape.
Forests are now "biomass" to be cut down and used for fuel. The future is the distant past. People can easily to be led to believe the exact opposite of what they used to believe - without changing the brand name. Michael Moore's magisterial film, "Planet of Humans" portrays this and dirty littler money grubbers that the big environmentalists are.
Ditto the Democratic Party - once the party of White Men and then later, at least the party of the Worker, now neither and devoted to our extinction.
Death of winter? You don’t live in Eastern Canada?
Currently residing in Duluth MN, formerly in Michigan and Washington state. It's no secret among Duluthians that winters are getting much shorter and milder; we could barely ski the trails for a few weeks last winter. The previous winter, basically failed to materialize at all -- producing one late season snowfall that was gone in a few days. In WA, I watched the snowline recede up the mountains just a bit each year and ski areas established in the (much cooler) 50's began to fail, as the lower glaciers shrank or disappeared (as is well documented by my former university).
Sure, it can still get cold at times -- especially when the failing arctic vortex opens up and spills southward, which is a regular occurrence nowadays. But... it never lasts more than a few weeks.
Next time it's cold in your neighborhood, check the satellite data on temps at the north pole. I remember doing that during the winter of 2014 in Michigan which was especially cold (for a few weeks). It was 36 degrees and raining at the north pole at the same time we were hitting -20F in southwest MI.
Rising temps are uneven; most of the rise occurs at the poles, not the tropics. The loss of the temperature differential between the tropics and poles (which drives the jetstream) has caused the jet stream to meander greatly north-south instead of running relatively strong east-west as it once did. That's what breaks up the polar vortex, both injecting warm temperate air into the arctic at the same time arctic air spills southward. I've watched it get worse and worse for decades now, after being a satellite imagery weather junkie in my college days.
You could be right. To tell the truth, I had only heard of a polar vortex about 10 or so years ago. I remember some long, cold winters in the forties. Now, the most snow I’ve seen recently (in southern Ontario) was in January 2024 and it lasted one whole month. I have not studied climate and weather patterns, but I strongly agree that some patterns are new and changing. I, therefore, agree with climate change. I do not, however, believe in MMGW nor do I think climate change is related to human activity. The whole CO2 debate is hogwash.
I firmly believe that most of the proposed solutions (electric vehicles, wind power, solar photovoltaic) are complete and utter hogwash, but after decades of studying this (I worked in a climate change lab in the early 90s) both professionally and personally, I've yet to see a credible argument that the underlying problem does not exist or is not man made.
My own take on the issue is that returning to a pre-industrial life is the only way forward. Industrial production is what created the problem, and cannot solve it imho. I believe this firmly enough that I spent about 16 years learning to live an agrarian lifestyle (farming and transport using horses, heating with wood harvested on our farm -- largely mirroring the Amish in my community).
I finally came to the conclusion that I was nothing more than a Don Quixote, and decided to burn fossil fuels with everyone else, once it became clear that I was not helping to set a trend of any sort.
It can easily be demonstrated that the molecular shape of CO2 traps heat energy by vibrating in ways that other atmospheric molecules (like N2) cannot. It is also well established that the warming we're seeing is consistent with what you would expect from adding "insulation" in the form of CO2 (night time lows have risen far more than daytime highs). It's also pretty easy to show that the amount of CO2 that's been added to the atmosphere is largely anthropogenic -- either through direct fossil fuel burning, agriculture (which causes soil carbon to oxidize and return to the atmosphere), or practices like deforestation.
No doubt, natural causes can change CO2 levels dramatically -- but there is no natural cause over the last century that anyone can point to as the culprit in our jump from 280 to 425ppm.
I'd be curious to know what your rejection of anthropogenic causes is based upon?
Earth changes are caused by the sun, not by people. Check out sun weather news on YT.
"IMNSHO, we've already f'd ourselves with CO2, as is evidenced by the death of winter I've witnessed over my lifetime. Just waiting for the oven to warm up to the temperature we've already set it to ..." ~ David Veale
I'd be interested in your thoughts about the following:
Armstrong contends that there is no direct correlation between CO2 and a rise in temperature.
"The core samples from EPICA Dome C ice core on the Antarctic Plateau establish that temperature rises first and CO2 level follow in a lagging manner."
Ice Core Samples Prove CO2 Levels Lag Behind Temperature Increases
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/ice-core-samples-prove-co2-lags-behind-temperature-increases/
Rising temps dramatically raise the oxidation of carbon from soils (primarily -- this is a huge effect) and vegetation, as well as dry out forests leading to more forest fires. So it doesn't surprise me in the least that the peak of CO2 often occurs *after* a sharp rise in temps.
I've yet to see anyone point to a non-anthropogenic source of atmospheric CO2 which would explain the rise we've seen from 280 to the current 425ppm.
Armstrong is not an idiot... but his website URL betrays where his focus lies -- and it's clearly not a focus on the natural world and it's functioning. There's no shortage of examples of smart people being duped by stories that tell them what they *want* to believe.
"I've yet to see anyone point to a non-anthropogenic source of atmospheric CO2 which would explain the rise we've seen from 280 to the current 425ppm." ~David Veale
Is the linked chart accurate?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Wards-Chart-CO2.jpg
... and your contention that the dramatic rise is a result of current human activity? Wouldn't the chart suggest that the cause is likely something else that has happened throughout time (and the current low is an anomaly)?
"When we simply run all of this through our correlation models, low and behold, a very obvious fact emerges. What we can ascertain from correlation models that will determine the cycles from all events is that there were major periods of volcanic eruptions which correspond to the Permian Extinction, Triassic Extinction, Jurassic Cretaceous Extinction, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction. This much we know does increase CO2, but it also throws ash into the atmosphere which reduces sunlight and creates a volcanic winter."
The Extinction Rebellion Propaganda Exposed
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/the-extinction-rebellion-propaganda-exposed/
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"Moreover, the 1930s saw the coldest period in modern history and that is when CO2 level rose the most. There was cooling, not warming. All the charts these people use are from 1850 forward. Historically, CO2 has been substantially higher well before the Industrial Revolution."
CO2 Rate of Change
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/co2-rate-of-change/
Nonsense.
So refute it then, preferably with some actual knowledge that I apparently lack. I'm always open to new information, but will state that this subject is one I've studied intently for decades now. I'm not shooting from the hip on this.
You displayed no actual "knowledge" in your post, just a pathetic try at credentialism.
Again, I say, NONSENSE.
If you have knowledge that I clearly don't, share it. In the absence of anything but name calling, I have to suspect that there's nothing to base your views on beyond feelings.
You are a fraud, Veale, a well practiced and well versed propagandist.
If you were authentic, you'd be cross-examining the many alternatives that vulture capital largely ignores.
Yes - my thoughts exactly - extend and pretend.
I hated the game of pretend, even when I was 5. And yes, it is a spot on perfect paragraph.
Perfect!
IDK, the word "pretend" suggests sort of a passive ignorance; something closer to premeditation and deliberate is more likely.
When you consider the fact that the military employed Lt Col Michael Aquino in Viet Nam - a satanist, who purportedly enjoyed the pillage of innocents too much, and influenced his colleagues, it's no wonder the process was repeated all over the world. This guy was groomed into the system and became a virtuoso at his schtick. Everything 'pretended' above fits perfectly into the psychopathology of satanism. They toy with their victims, gratified as they are driven into fear and chaos. Get it?
COV slurry injections destroys the immune system - elevated cancers and freak diseases. Tractor trailer loads of foreign insane criminals brought into the US to introduce significant crime into the population and then [the media] insists that we are racist if we don't welcome them; stress induced mental illness is inevitable. And, oh yes, elections have always been manipulated...follow the money. Voting just makes us FEEL fulfilled.
Because as we know that the sick require attention and all the spin off enterprises: big Med, Phm, illicit drugs (including legislation pushed to legalize escape substances), alcohol, tabaco, porn, etc. to cope with disease and stress, make the real big boys, money. Stress and mass psychosis turns the normal population into fearful, angry ppl. So, lets up the military budget to protect ourselves, they tell us, 'cause war is inevitable (n shucks, you folks don't need all that money).
And thus, the slow death of society...kinda like that frog in the water pot. The 'pretenders' are seating in gov't, voted in by US (right?), nicely paid off by their overlords to look the other way as they vote against SANITY. GOD IS SANITY.
Agree 100% with the article. Bravo.
But let's continue pretending Palestinians are not human beings.
Some are some are not.
Heavens forbid we should indict Israel-folk collectively like we do Palestinians.
Oh but they are and being targeted as well as drug through the mud pay attention to the narrative.
Amen
Agreed 👍
You know you are dealing with a bullshitter when they call it "gender affirming" instead of what it really is.... "Gender reversing."
Gender fuckery
Haha! That made me burst out laughing 🤣
And the dems like to call abortion “reproductive health”. Sounds better than murder.
We have to protect the health of our trans children!
Now let me get the scalpels...
As opposed to a BS'er it is a psychopath representing nearly every aspect of evil imaginable.
No it’s called mental illness and in a rational world many of them would be institutionalized.
They don’t even deserve rubber. Let’s nail spikes in the walls.
It’s our God-given right 🥰
If only their parents had used (er, employed?) rubbers!
Just an idea. Make it legal that no one will be considered legally trans until they have had their original sex organs, including gonads removed, or built up, whatever the situation is. Then a waiting period of hormonal balancing before they can act like their new gender.
The idea that men can just put on a dress and declare they are female is insane. But that is what so much is based on today. Put on a dress, and go into the female safe zones. What a joke. How many of these “women” just get off as voyeurs. Just like the doctors giving people handicapped plates during temporary problems like knee surgery and they just keep them forever.
Back in the mid-'50s when women were nurses, not doctors, I came across an extraordinary book "Woman Surgeon" by one Elsa K. LaRoe,. A plastic surgeon, Dr. LaRoe grew up and was educated during the Nazi period (later, although not Jewish, she fled Naziism for the U.S.) and her book is an eye-opener. She first chose her field out of a desire to help burn victims and did plenty of that during her long career. But over time, she encountered much else which she shares with her readers. The most shocking to my adolescent mind: transsexualism. "You'll meet the 'gay set', looking for a change in sex..." the cover blurb proclaimed. It was the first time I had ever heard the word "gay" used in a sexual context. She not only describes the trans subculture as it existed at the time but gives one particular example of a couple who wished to trade sexual organs and had even planned out the requested operation complete with diagrams. Sadly, she had to inform them that it was impossible.
How different today's response might be! Surely more than one surgeon could be found quite willing to proceed full speed ahead on such a groundbreaking project.
The book is difficult to find even on the Internet but I recommend it as a powerful stroll down Memory Lane to a time when the medical profession was very different from what it is today.
It's the general eupheminization of the language that is the ultimate incarnation of "political correctness". The only way this can work for them is if they can de-define core words. Also it's "opposite language". Denial (of biology) is "affirmation" (of delusion). Murder is "Reproductive rights". Countless other examples.
Anything other than “sexual mutilation” is pretend.
Well, it maybe enough that the insanity is ended. Cleaning up the mess may take much longer than we hope.
My favorite was "pretending that we needed congressional action thwarted by Republicans to close the border."
The current administration seems to be picking out things that can be done quickly to show the pretend world that was created.
But the long hard climb out of the hole dug over 20 or more years is going to be difficult. The populace may ot be prepared for that additional suffering.
I hope we can stay the course.
"...the insanity is ended." Don't start the celebration just yet, we haven't even reached peak crazy, let alone started careening down the other side.
It is insanity, but insanity can stick around. Or morph into other forms. Like Blackbird, I'm waiting for " peak " crazy, like another shoe dropping.
Oh, Blackbird knows "peak" crazy alright.
Imagine believing that Indians are "Native Americans" instead of Whites. But he does.
It's the one-man telephone game stopping by on his lunch break!
I slice cold cuts with a hatchet just like Lola's.
Always the voice of reason.
"we haven't even reached peak crazy"
Hold the thought, we can revisit it in 2 -3 years, maybe 4, and re-assess.
In the intervening time, better strap ourselves in.
TRUE!!!
Sad to say that most of the populace believes 99% of the nonsense and lies they read or hear in the Fake News. "Where ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
Read my response to Gary Edwards. You are so correct.
As of now, it appears that Trump and the Republicans will lose the House of Representatives in the next election. I don't really care about the feckless Republicans, they certainly deserve to lose, but to have the Democrats back in control would probably mean another impeachment of Trump, which would once again cripple his administration. I support most of Trump's agenda, except his foreign policy of supporting Ukraine and Israel with money and bombs, but the Dems are just bad, if not worse on that front. The stupid party or the evil party, when they do something stupid and evil, it's called bipartisanship. Anyway, the insanity is far from over. The next election will be very telling. As MTG wonders, will MAGA come out and support Republicans without Trump on the ballot?
The Democrats are in disarray, short on money, on the wrong side of many big issues like immigration, DEI, gender ideology, and crime. They have no popular, positive proposals, no appealing national leaders. How are they going to win the midterms? I think Trump sees winning in 2026 as crucial to his legacy, so I expect him to go all-out with indictments regarding dozens of Democrat scandals over the next year.
PapayaSF-----I saw a meme today that should be on millions of billboards across the nation. It had 2 columns----The column on the left had a listing of Trumps accomplishments over his short time in office. The column on the right showed the Democrats proposals to solve our issues. It only had one item-----Hate Trump. I think that even the low info voters which are in the 10s of millions are sharp enough to understand that the Ds stand for nothing but craziness.
That sums it up. It’s increasingly difficult for Democrats to paint Trump as a “fascist” as a substitute for policy proposals and expect voters to go along.
Exactly!!!!!
Easy. Get the illegals voting. Or legalize them all like Bush wanted to do and Trump may do. You know he's not going to send them back, right?
Trump’s team knows Democrat election-stealing tricks. It will be much harder for them to do in 2026 and 2028. And illegals are already going back.
But doesn't the country remain about 50-50, and won't the usual "liberals" vote Democrat no matter what?
I think we’re beginning a big shift, sometimes called the Fourth Turning. Globalist progressivism is on the way out, and populist nationalism is rising. The Democrats have gone so far left that they are trapped, and Trump is turning the GOP into the party of the working class. Sure, there will be a core of “yellow dog Democrats” who will vote that way no matter what, but they are an aging and shrinking minority.
You are almost there. MAGA will be the start of a new party, after Trump. If it does not form and block the insanity of the Left, the country is lost. The people of MAGA will not support Republicans, they will support MAGA candidates.
My hope is that MAGA realizes they need to flush out the bums in the establishment Bush, Cheney RINO based GOP and create a new party, maybe Musk’s American Party. RINOs are worse than Dems, as being a traitor to the conservative cause because of TDS, is worse.
BTW, Putin is over-reaching right now, with intentions to take more territory in the Donbas to cement in the Russian corridor into Crimea. Does he want all of Ukraine? We will soon see, but IMHO, he is buying more problems than it is worth to take over the Ukrainian people. Donbas is Russian. Trump tried to reason with both sides. It backfired. Putin is not done yet. Trump knows that, and also knows that he has little to mediate with. Russia has BRICS+, a creation caused by the sanctions the USA and Europe put on Russia. Russia is learning how to speak Mandarin and Hindu and if things are not reversed and soon, the USA will become surrounded by BRICS+ and its influence will be reduced quickly.
Step 1. Stabilize Ukraine with Russia annexing the Donbas corridor into Crimea.
Step 2. China takesTaiwan with its wafer technology. This would affect Phoenix as Taiwan is building a fab here.
Just these two will totally change geo-politics. In the meantime, the insanity of the Ult-Left will destroy the USA as the BRICS+ globalists will continue to destroy Americana.
You folks up north? You think the USA should be knocked down? You are next along with your European allies. BRICS is after the West, not just the USA. Go ahead, root for China, I hope you can speak Mandarin.
I don't think a "new party" is such a good idea. Every time the Republicans go too far left, somebody starts yelling, "We need a new party!"
Well, we got a new party, the American Independent Party in 1968. It split, creating the American Party (not to be confused with Musk's America Party) a year later, then the Independent American Party in '72. Some say it later merged with the Constitution Party, originally formed as the US Taxpayers' Party in 1990...
A lot of time and effort wasted trying to create a new party.
Why not do CPR on the Constitution Party, rather than run off with Elon and give birth to yet another impotent upstart that will never get the attention it needs to grow up to a size that will allow it to take on the Uniparty juggernaut?
Or...
Take back the Republican Party. Unlike a new party, it does not need to be built, it just needs a serious cleaning. (Folks on the other side of the bus might consider doing the same with the Democrat Party.)
This is the way. Trump is remaking the GOP as the MAGA party.
I fear MAGA will go the way of the Dodo. Just like the TEA party did.
The Tea party is MAGA.
MAGA has Trump, and Trump wants a legacy. That will make all the difference.
Not really a new party, more like an acknowledgement that MAGA is not Establishment Bush-Cheney GOP. It needs to leave these traitors behind. MAGA is scooping up independents and moderate Dems also as the dems go Leftist insane. New Party!
Lincoln unified the original GOP four years after its creation. MAGA like the GOP in 1960, is its own identity, it is not the GOP. The country club GOP is dead.
The MAGAS are crazed idiots. The Constitution Party is sane if not brilliant. Someone who is gaga for Trump is not right in the head. They're worse than the Reaganites.
Never punch right. Purity spirals are for after the victory, when we can get to the truly serious work of denouncing each other.
Depends on which flavor or Propaganda one consumes.
Mainstream media still believes Hillary is running and winning.
/sarcasm off
Yup, the real polls show that the Libs are losing big time to Trumpian changes. The margin is increasing, that is why the Dems are in a panic now. They are really stupid though, thinking that the way to attack Trump is to go even farther to the Left. The election of 2026 may have the effect of driving the last nails into the Dem coffin.
Trump never came clean on the Vax or Epstein. Thus he will lose millions of votes.
The Democrats never came clean on Obama’s illegal spying, Russiagate, Biden’s censorship regime, Biden family corruption, the true costs of illegal immigration, illegal DEI discrimination, USAID waste, CDC lies, crime, or gender madness. How many votes will that cost them?
They like all that. We don't cuz we're better than they are. That gives them the advantage in "democracy".
Voters, not votes. The votes will go wherever they are told.
As such is American politics. Back and forth. Republicans to Democrats. Democrats to Republicans. It is a tired old game and I am wearied of it. Americans keep voting the same way, keep doing the same thing over and over again and then sit there with their thumbs up their asses and wonder why nothing is changing?
Are they that stupid? Seriously. When will they awaken and realize we are governed by a Uniparty and that there really isn't any difference between the Republican filth and the Democrat filth? The end result of their actions are always the same. More war. More debt. Bigger gubmit. It never ends.
Let the Democrats have the House. The result is always the same.
"...which would once again cripple his administration".
Which would once again provide an excuse for Trump and his disciples for his lack of progress on anything he told us he was going to do if elected.
Think of Harris and you’ll realize that significant progress has been made.
No, just a different species of stupid.
Securing the border?
BB is just mad he is not getting free bird seed anymore.
I'll give Trump a point for that. The border situation is better now than it was under Biden, or likely would have been under Harris.
But I think to say that Trump has made "significant progress" is a bit optimistic and premature.
Trump still wants to import foreigners, just rich ones and smart ones - rather than helping to create the conditions so that Americans can become rich and smart. Adding more spice to the stew to hide the rot underneath.
His foreign policy is even worse than Biden's, and that was a low bar to crawl under.
Disagreeing with Trump makes me an imbecile and libturd? By a similar logic, I'm also an antisemite.
If people have to show IDs to vote, Trump/Republicans have already won the House.
They better. And he’s going to turn this into a referendum on him and saving America just like last year. Get ready.
"The stupid party or the evil party, when they do something stupid and evil, it's called bipartisanship"
Great phrasing!
Many of us liked the old Trump who wasn't a warmonger whore for Israel.
I’m not sure the Republicans will lose. Trump has plans for everything & he anticipates the slimy moves by the dems.
4 years out of the WH taught him a lot.
Believe it or not, I heard it on Bannon's war room. They had the Rasmussen polling guy on, and he said that's what the polls are showing. Rasmussen is one of the most accurate and pro Trump polling outfits.
"Polls" are the tool used to make us expect the intended result.
Wow! Did you even read what I wrote? Bannon's war room. Rasmussen.
Jeez.
Right, make MAGA expect to lose ....
I was on Breitbart earlier. Here are some of the headlines:
"Kim Kardashian Trashes Trump Illegal Immigration Crackdown from Italy"
"Hulk Hogan’s Wife to File Medical Malpractice Suit over WWE Legend’s Death"
"Dept. of Education: Colorado School District Violated Title IX by Replacing Girls’ Restroom with ‘All-Gender’ Facility"
"Rosie O’Donnell Fantasizes About Trump Dying in Trans School Shooter Rant: ‘It’s Coming to an End, He’s Not Doing Well’"
"David Hogg: Trump Is a ‘Damn Coward’ For Not Changing Gun Laws"
"Emma Stone: ‘I’m Coming Out and Saying It, I Believe in Aliens’"'
"Sting Sued by Former Police Bandmates over Unpaid Royalties"
"Melania Trump ‘Laughed’ at the Offer to Appear on ‘Vanity Fair’ Magazine Cover"
This is Breitbart, a conservative news outlet and this is the bull-shit they post as news. How many idiot Americans gobble this shit up and listen to the likes of an empty skull like Kardashian whose only claim to fame was a sex tape she posted on line years ago. My point? The insanity hasn't ended. It is still full-bore. Until the news starts ignoring these insane morons like David Hogg, who doesn't even know that Congress makes laws, not the President, we aren't going to progress. Or, until people stop listening to it. Yes, you are right, it is going to take a long time to dig out of this mess, if humanity is able to do so at least.
Don’t you see that they are SHOWING the left’s insanity.
Gary, the first step is to stop digging the hole. That is Trump. People expect him to undo the damage of 70 years of Left wing bullshit in a few years. It is not going to happen. It will take 70 more years of conservative American reversal to undo what the Dems have done. If Trump can maintain control of the Congress in 2026 and Vance or whoever gets elected in 2028, things will start to turn around. Right now? We are tied, just going into overtime.
"People expect him to undo the damage of 70 years of Left wing bullshit in a few years."
And therein lies the problem, JohnAZ. Trump is one man and by the Constitution he is only authorized to execute the will of Congress. Executive orders apply only to his administration and the agencies under his authority. Trump can't change a damned thing without a willing Congress. I've said it before and I will continue to say it again and again. Americans should be pissing razorblades in anger at the colossal failure that is the United States Congress. Instead of blaming one man, whether it be Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush or Clinton, they should be raging against their fucking Congress.
Congress IS the sovereign. Congress HAS the authority. Congress CONTROLS the purse. Congress IS fucking waste of space. Congress has FAILED its purpose and the people. It's well past time to re-think the US Congress, how Congress is selected and the true purpose of a representative.
RIGHT THE HELL ON!
Start with repealing the 17th Amendment.
Is that the amendment that turned the US Senate into a glorified House of Representatives and removed any representation of the individual states from the Congress?
YES, that's the one.
Congress is very compliant to the will of those who put them in office - the Donors.
Yes it is. Hence the reason for America to consider how our Congress is constituted. Elections are popularity contests, nothing more, and require large sums of money to get popular enough to win. Because of that campaign contributions are problematic. It doesn't work, Lugh. It's a failed system. It needs to be re-vamped, overhauled, abandoned, re-set. Anything.
Effing A, Cankerpuss. The Congress is still largely controlled by the Deep State, the arm of the Leftists. The Deep State is controlled by the DNC, the liberal bureaucracy, MIC, lobbyists, the cartels, all good little liberal gimme socialists.
This next election is so critical, it will shape the future of the country. How long does it take to effect change? That is how long MAGA needs to control DC.
You and I are in agreement, JohnAZ. I just don't believe that MAGA is going to result in the changes you and I are hoping for.
However, our choice is limited. The Leftist alternate is so repugnant. MAGA, at least, is pointed in the right direction,
Imagine this, Mamdani cancer spreading throughout the US cities? Then vote for MAGA.
Make that at least 60 years. More accurate would be to go all the way back to the Dem's great hero, FDR. He really screwed America and Americans.
Yes. FDR had a major problem, technology just about destroyed the US economy in the 1920s as manual labor was being replaced by machines with the creation of a large amount of unemployed. How to feed these folks, and create jobs for them to do to keep them quiet. That faced FDR in 1932.
Sidebar - For all the believers in the Fourth Turning, we are facing exactly the same thing today with AI, almost exactly 100 years later.
So he socialized large elements of the country trying to get folks back into work and re-start the economy. It did not work and was a failure for socialism as the highest unemployment was in 1936. So what worked? Putting the USA on a war footing with first Lend Lease, then WW2. How to fix a depression, manufacture bullets, guns, planes, tanks, etc., send your unemployed overseas to reduce the excess (nasty thought). By 1945, problem solved?
Sidebar2 - It was deficit Federal spending that got the job done, with the country coming to a war stance economically. Until now, the Feds were in debt the maximum amount during the war. BTW, the critical thing here is that the US recovered because we built “bullets” during the war, ie disposables. Hmmm, just like cars in the 50s and 60s? Every year they re-tooled for the next look. Every two years, you traded in for a new car as cars degraded quickly. Were cars the disposables that kept the economy humming in the rust belt? Did the introduction of the reliable 100000 mile car of the 1970’s inspired by Japanese quality control destroy the disposable car industry and with it the Rust Belt? Hmmmm.
Oh, great ... let's save our asses by investing in a world war.
No? It is finding something that employs people, instead of destroying jobs. Ai is scary, as it destroys and does not create new jobs.
War defined as something that employs people ... that wins the internet today. Musk's guaranteed minimum wage would, longterm, do less harm to humanity.
It also kills off the surplus. War is now impossible without mutual annihilation, so what to do?
An idea that caught my eye for about ten seconds. If manufacturers use AI and robotics to replace humans, why not tax the machines and just pat UBI to the people? Why not?
Because humans derive satisfaction and self-pride from their work. The idea that sitting at home getting a minimum paycheck from the government is a boon doggie. Proof exists right now, the Rust belt. The government allowed car manufacturing to move overseas in the 70s and the decline of the work environment in the Rust Belt was the result. So what do we have, an area of drugged up drunks that just sit around talking about the good old days.
As I said, put people to work, not take away their jobs. A good start? High speed rail!!!! The super conservatives spend lots of money talking down the HSR project in California, Texas, Illinois, and Florida. That is a huge mistake. The hypocrisy is alarming, California will have a HSR for $128 billion dollars. That is petty cash in today’s world of government high finance. The maintenance will be costly? So will paying UBI or welfare to the folks that would not have the jobs. I despise Newsom, but on this subject, he is on the right side, IMHO.
Think 1950s, what was creating jobs? How about the Interstate highway system?
Stay the course? Really? FYI - here is "the course":
Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Trump brokering and providing Larry Ellison & Peter Thiel with a half a TRILLION of Rothchilds' fiat duckets falls into that last mandate. Ellison & Thiel are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
I shit you not.
That's crazy enough it doesn't need a response.
Best of luck with that doom and gloom outlook.
Your TDS sensor just went off, Gary.
Oh ... perhaps you "think" that Trump opposes the WEF ... while he "partners" with Blackrock CEO Larry Fink - the new WEF co-chair. Eh?
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When someone yells, "Fire!" do you get your ass moving ... or do you remain seated and call them names ("Doomer & Gloomer")?
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Facing reality is not doom and gloom, Gary. God has promised us that He wins so that's the complete opposite of doom and gloom.
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God bless you, Gary.
Oh come on Oscar, sit down.
Everybody Knows that Trump is a selfless savior who will do whatever is necessary to save God's Second Favorite People - and even our ungrateful neighbors - gathering us together in the protective embrace of Ol' Glory.
He got his goddamn ear shot off fer Chrissakes! What more do you want?!
Trump allocated five hundred billion on his first day in office for this. Look into it. It's true.
Mr. Edwards---- the sad and frightening thing is that the reason it is so hard to climb out of the hole our nation has dug is that many of our elected officials that have an R behind their name really like the other side more than the Rs so.... they say they are an R because in a lot of areas today you cannot get elected if you even hint that you secretly wish you could "come out" as a D.
A pox upon them all.
We must!!!
Yes, the Democratic Party has resorted to an agenda of lies for want of political solutions but, even more remarkable, is the fact that any significant portion of the public bought them, at least for a while.
In 1895 Gustave le Bon examined this phenomenon, as manifest during the French Revolution, in his book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. In 2022 Mathias Desmet formulated le Bon’s thinking as Mass Formation Psychosis in his book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism.
Out of politeness, most references to this phenomenon omit the crucial word, and just call it “mass formation,” but it truly is mass psychosis. Thankfully, it creates its own solution, by reaching such a point of absurdity that those in its thrall eventually are able to see reality beyond the smoke and mirrors.
As a useful exercise I propose that each of us make a list of the insults to reality that our nation is in greatest need of exorcising. Here’s mine:
1. That anyone should be permitted to vote without a photo ID
2. That unlimited numbers of illegal aliens should be encouraged to enter any sovereign country
3. That people who retain identifiably male or female genitals must be regarded as trans, if they wish to be
4. That biological men should be permitted to participate in competitive women’s sports
5. That biological men should be permitted to choose incarceration in women’s prisons
6. That others should be required to use non traditional pronouns to refer to people who identify as being of exotic gender
7. That terms like “mother” and “breast feeding” should be replaced by the vocabulary of trans propaganda
8. That any departure from woke propaganda speech should be subject to draconian punishment
9. That drag shows should be presented to school children
10. That others should be required to pretend that morbid obesity is admirable, beautiful, and not unhealthful
Welcome back to reality.
Speaking and living according to the truth is the first step toward setting us free.
You might be interested in the words and phrases the Democrats have determined undermine their ability to connect with voters. It's actually kind of funny in a tragic way: www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-something-i-said
Tragic indeed! The CCP back this Organization? Endowed by the Karl Marx Foundation? Some Woodstock Concert goer who ignored the, “The Brown Acid Warnings”?
Again? There was nothing wrong with the brown acid. I tested it out on my dog (who ended up in a 3-hour, long-distance phone call with Alan Watts) and myself (who then went out and did the brake job my dog was "too busy" to do).
That was just a psyop to make the kids have bad trips.
You can look at the Sun for as long as you want too. Just don't try crossing a busy street immediately afterwards.
My people were union and Democrat - until they spat in our face. And of course the Marxists took over the unions and became friends with the Corporations. It's almost as if they were never what they purported to be. They used to be against illegal immigrants, seeing them as so many scabs. But now!
Part of my take on Mathias Desmet’s thought on what would replace the fear driving mass formation, (yes, I’ll go with psychosis), was emergence of a greater fear, which he identified as awareness totalitarianism was on the rise in a serious manner.
If only reality were that simple.
This is only the start of the Great Unwind, the beginning of truth-telling. It's not going to flip overnight: truth isn't like a government-mandated Scamdemic. It's going to take time and multiple repetitions and fact-checking and official investigations and prosecutions to convince the Crazy that they are mistaken. They may still go to their deaths thinking they were right.
In the meanwhile, keep on keeping on: live in Reality and spread it around.
And live your best life. Don't let the bastards get you down.
That is all anyone can do. The beast is too big for any of us to slay. The train is in motion and has left the station and nothing can stop it except the forces of nature or God. Make sure you own house is in order. Live a good, clean, moral life. Love your spouse and your children. Be kind to and help your fellow man. Reject greed, envy and pride as much as you can. Those are things we can control. The world will unwind as it will or as it is intended. We can't stop it now.
Illegitimitus non carborendum.
Thanks for the Latin version!
And pray like your eternity depends on it. Because it does.
“Live not by lies”.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
But do two half-truths make a truth?
two wrongs don't make a right, but three do!
Says the guy who pushes untruths as truths.
Your almost as bad as full of shit phil.
Ben, people like Phil are why I am cautious about parts of Canada joining the USA. We have enough of a problem with the Leftist crazies on the coasts, do we need to add more?
My retort to people always begins with, "Well I live in reality and..."
The Great Unwind is what we were just talking about over coffee as I was reading through the comments.
Spot on!
Our country’s citizens have been living in a world of Unprecedented Underlying of Pretending from our government and their bought off Media for close to seven decades now.
We have generations of citizens who have never seen or would understand Reality if it rang their doorbell.
The Great Unwind will be as systemic as the Great Depression and WWII affected our parents and grandparents.
Our children and grandchildren’s children will be the arbiters of how we gotten ourselves out of this period of deliberate delusion and onto the pathway towards reality.
Our next 250 years will tell how we did and I pray that we are not the ones who stupidly fritted away the greatest place on earth for mankind.
"We have generations of citizens who have never seen or would understand Reality if it rang their doorbell."
The problem, WW, is most of us were born into and raised into this system. Our parents were born into this system and knew nothing different. What are they to do? This is all they know.
I stopped pretending in 2008 when BHO became POTUS. I am allergic to bullshit.
Bill Clinton was when I realized many things are not good.
Smacked with a good round of the Bush family and Barrack finished it off.
When they installed demented Joe Biden I was trying to figure out how so many people were blinded to the reality this guy was not even remotely all there.
When the presidential discourse was elevated to "boxers or briefs," it became apparent that "frat boys" were going to have their turn running the show. Well, they've run it aground.
The minute I heard his name I thought "He is a plant."
Wow.
Where are you on Blacks? The Founders never considered them or the Indians to be potential American citizens. Time has proven the wisdom of their pov.
Thanks and much appreciated James - absolutely one of the best and most important articles you've ever posted. Superb and spot-on.
To quote the movie Gladiator: "A people should know when they are beaten," to which Maximus responds "would you, Quintus? Would I?" I predict the Democrat rank and file will resist with a stridency that will make southern adherence to slavery seem like a marginal belief. Stripped of the veneer or performance, stripped of the external validation of in-group identity, these people will have truly nothing left to hang on to. The NPCs will quite literally fight to keep everyone playing the game because, if the game gets turned off, they cease to exist. The rise of the Mamdahnis of the world makes me believe the adherents to the politics of pretend aren't ready to give up.
I agree with your assessment. Anyone who thinks these lefties are reasonable just needs to go read the comments on a few lefty sites (or the bots' comments on X/Twitter, etc.).
These people are strangers to reality...
Rev, they are the conservative American’s worst enemy, worse than any foreign power, worse than NWO. They are the invasion of globalist socialist ideology into the American scene, the advance of Islamic control, the advance of Chinese control. All to satisfy the gimmes of society, which by the way, they have increased with the open border. Trump aside, they are still winning as long as the MSM favors them.
…will quite literally fight” which opens the real civil war/strife scenario
They are NOT "good people". By definition, Democrats believe in taking from the haves to give to the have-nots. That is theft. Theft is evil.
"TRANSPHOBIA" finally offed itself, replaced by TRANS-GRESSION.
Excellent play on words!
Great article, great analysis. Suggestion for everyone: Scrap “gender-affirming care” and call it what it is, “gender mutilation“ or “genital mutilation,“ if you prefer.
Remember when "trans" was the guy down the street that everyone knew "dressed up like a woman"? The guy down the street (often married) typically didn't hurt anyone. No one hated him or treated him badly. No one cared that he had this hang-up. We just thought he was odd. He didn't go on TV or social media to demand he get special "rights" for being odd. That guy playing dress up down the street left others alone and we left him alone, but we would also say hello if they walked by. "You do you, and I'll do me" was the policy.
"Trans" has always been a thing... for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Somehow, we all seemed to get along just fine... until "trans" became political and that ideology was pushed on the public. We not only have to walk on eggshells around anyone "trans", but we have to celebrate their quirkiness (and even participate in it if you really want to prove you aren't a "hater") and teach it to our children. Or, even go so far as to encourage our children to develop this mental illness in the name of love and acceptance. Every emotion, every pubescent struggle now means a young person was either "born in the wrong body" (impossible) or homosexual. We are no longer allowed to use the wise council many of us received from parents, other family members, or even some of our peers during the hell that is puberty, "You're just going through puberty and it sucks. I promise, things will get better, and if they don't, we're here for you."
That's not exactly true. Such characters as "the crossdresser next door" were regarded with suspicion of being mentally ill.
If my husband ever dressed up in my clothing, I’d have him committed. (If we can still do that!)
I think you pretty much have to exceed Jeff Dahmer in order to be committment-worthy today...
Yet women started dressing as men and few said anything. Have a plain looking girl in your family? Depressed that she can't attract men? Tell her to start wearing dresses.
If your husband did that, you definitely should keep your kids away from him.
You will never see it in this whacked out country, but a study of the kids of same sex marriages would be interesting.
I knew one he cross dressed as a kink I helped him move and saw some pictures of him cross dressed.
Old ugly as hell but otherwise seemed normal and sane.
Cabinet maker who did really good work.
If you met him, you would never have guessed he cross dressed.
Weird comes in all flavors and sizes to my knowledge he never harmed anyone.
Ben, they are making a move to take over starting with the kids. Just like the Chinese, the Muslims, the zealot Blacks, all enabled by the Democrats party.
IMO, the Dems, a few years back, set an agenda to gain total control by getting the allegiance of all the Gimme groups and the sum total would outweigh the basically White majority in our majority control politics. They almost succeeded.
Crime of the Century when they went after the kids.
CDC has chemically targeted our children too and call it Vaccines.
The war on children has many faces.
The days of ignoring these harms hopefully are numbered!
Good news, WW. RFK, Jr. led CDC is removing the recommendation of Vaxxing (Covid) kids, along with pregnant females. The medicos are going nuts as their medical autocracy is being challenged. Go Bob.
A remarkable instance that supports your idea: one of Ernest Hemingway's sons was a transvestite, an MD whose proclivities were well-known and evidently 'overlooked' and tolerated. The author of the fine non-fiction book "Hemingway's Boat" details that story in brilliant and compassionate prose.
Orthodox psychology - now almost extinct being replaced by the Cult - taught that gender dysphoria usually disappeared on its own by the late teens or early 20's.
The Cult is funded by the Globalists, the International Bankers. Now ask yourself, Why.
Since you mentioned Mayor Frey, and having observed him over the past several years, have you ever seen a more pathetic quisling? Can you not imagine him shivering in terror awaiting a delegation from Berlin or Moscow visiting his occupied village in a bygone era?
Yes, the Democrat party is and has always been the party of delusion, destruction, devastation and death, and will be until it is crushed into powder, and tossed deep into the sea of oblivion.
But that realization sparks another: where has the Republican Party been during all this political and societal upheaval? During COVID? During the Jan 6th Op? During the “Summer of Love”? During the invasion of our country by armies of illegals? During the transing of our kids? During the obstruction and perversion of law by rogue judges?
Totally AWOL, that’s where.
Until Trump, all this crap and more has been moving along with only the weakest of opposition, holding “hearings”, or going along to get along.
The fact that sooo much of Trump’s agenda requires the ACTION of Congress to see it through to fruition, to codify it, and to rectify the decades of corruption and abuse the country has suffered under Democrats, does not give one comfort.
And if Republicans don’t sweep the midterms, and allow Democrats to get another foothold on power, all will be for naught.
They need to feel the heat of a thousand suns coming from their citizenry, and the dreadful fear of God deep in their souls that they best get with program, or God have mercy on us all.
The Republican Party is nothing more than rehearsed vocal opposition to the Democrat Party. For this reason I hate Republicans more than Democrats. Democrats are open about their evil. Republicans are hypocrites and liars.
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
I do not see many fruits from the Republicans that tell me they are very different from the Democrats.
War? Republicans keep waging war just like the Democrats. Doesn't matter if the war is legal or not.
Debt? Republicans keep increasing the debt ceiling and spending money we don't have. Trump is increasing the national debt as I write this. No change there.
Taxes? Need I say more?
Constitution? What have the Republicans done recently to bring the Federal leviathan back under the original mandates of the US Constitution? Yeah, that's right, about as much as the Democrats have.
Government Reduction? What have the Republicans done to reduce the size of the government, return federal authority to the individual states, keep government out of the lives of the citizens? Yeah, that's right, about as much as the Democrats have.
When one casts off the tribal mentality and looks at the fruits of their labors one will quickly see that there is no difference in the political parties. It's all lip service. It's all designed to confuse and delude the people. Nothing more. We have been played. We have been duped. We are the losers.
Indeed…notice Trey Dowdy…
They were banking their UniParty USAid Grift and their Share of the 37 Trillion in Government Spending!
Another topnotch essay. One quibble: can we please add to the list of lies "catastrophic global manmade climate change?"
This has been, for decades, perhaps their most pervasively successful science, commerce, freedom and civilization-destroying whopper in their quivver.
Few of us escaped being duped in one way or the other over the years.
Mr. Kunstler, wouldn't you agree that this particular jig is up, too?
1000% that this lie needs to die.
Do you think Blacks are as smart as Whites? They're not. Science has known this for more than a hundred years. But our Civilization is obsessed with human equality and can't deal with this fact so instead, they Lie. Many special interests enable this lie and penalize those who speak the Truth openly.
While there are differences in the mean IQ scores of races, if you conclude that therefore a white person will have a higher IQ than a black person you do not understand what these statistics mean. A percentage of black people will fall above the mean white IQ score; a percentage of white people will fall below the mean IQ score.
The answer used to be -- and should be again-- to stop using racial categories to decide who gets what job, position, benefit, etc. This is a divide and conquer strategy that we keep falling for. Look at the individual not the collective.
BTW, Asians score higher than whites. Does this mean the comic Margaret Cho is smarter than you? Maybe but for for your sake I hope not.
In sum, I have read Thomas Sowell, and you are no Thomas Sowell.
And neither am I.
Yeah, we're talking averages. Don't use my imagined inability to understand statistics to avoid the truth. In fact, 87% of Blacks fall below the White average of 100. And by definition, 50% of Whites do. And American Blacks are only this smart because of the input of White genes. The Black average here is 85. The pure Black African average is around 70, varying a bit lower or higher by area.
In summary, Whites are smarter than Blacks. If you can't get that, then you don't understand how to read statistics but only how to fool yourself with them. Congrats, that's what the Elite want.
The leftists who treat druggies, criminals, illegal aliens, and sex perverts like heroes or martyrs are not just fools, they are profoundly evil. The sooner the rest of the U.S. citizenry figures that out, the better it will be for all of us. Some of those leftists may eventually realize just how evil their whole mantra and beliefs actually are, but, sadly, many--if not most--will not. Just like devout Fascist/Socialist Nazis and Communist/Socialists, the totally brainwashed and un-reformed American Socialists will eventually face complete isolation from normal American society. Their destructive danger and malice to a free Republic will be neutralized.
Yes, evil, like the evil that St John warned us about in the Revelation, leading up to the Anti-Christ. It is happening, just look around and remember that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the same thing the dems are worshipping. Hmmm.
The parents and doctors of Robert should be held liable for his insanity and the horrific murders he committed on Wednesday. Send them away for a very long time.
Only conservative parents whose kids shoot people get punished .... these parents will be coddled and sympathized.... Any word or update on the parents of Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Yes, parental liability would fix a lot.