"Imagine if the US and EU were still aligned on the censorship-by-proxy strategy. Few people realize how close we were to global totalitarianism." —Michael Shellenberger
Few people realize how close we are to global totalitarianism. Musk is right now censoring my speech on X to cover for his buddies at Palantir who are violating the Fourth Amendment.
They aren't going to stop censoring now. It's more important than ever to them.
1) Because they have so many unfinished agendas that the adults in the room, non-censored, could harpoon.
2) Because if they don't keep censoring or suppressing the reach of sane voices, a "thermonuclear" truth bomb may detonate, go viral and start a cascade of other Truth Bombs, which would lead to ....
The masses going to Home Depot or their garage and getting their pitch forks.
That is the concern. Canada has been a gracious host so far, and I believe I have good options for humanitarian visas even among the 14 eyes. I'm hoping they will do a double take when they realize how dangerous the surveillance system really is.
The left is a death cult... Their intention is to destroy all of western civilization, and they were making pretty rapid progress on it until Trump came along...but the battle has just begun, and with useful idiots like Bondi talking about "hate" speech, the result remains in doubt...
The worship death and murder. Abortion is their means of child sacrifice to their idol gods. Hence the reason they froth at the mouth in anger to protect and preserve it. The left is the embodiment of pure evil among us.
The DOJ, like the courts where they make their living, cannot be reformed overnight. It's quite dangerous for James to be talking about military tribunals because that is something the country would not come back from. Even having the DOJ break precedent and prosecute judges for anything other than bribery or sex crimes is likely to backfire and be weaponized by the other side.
The good news is that the laws already passed by Congress intended a private right of action against judges who knowingly or recklessly violate the Constitution:
The pleading standard is quite high, especially for first movers, but federal judges who violate the Constitution can be sued as individuals in more impartial state courts:
Of course Norm Eisen and other figures such as Judge Boasburg are just the tip of the iceberg of corruption. I recently learned about t CIGIE: The Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency. This council coordinates and controls all the inspectors general.
Their power is in the refusal to investigate any whistleblower claims and other violations. No investigation, o possibility of finding criminal, seditious, or even treasonous activities. This council was created by the Obama administration and was voted into existence by congress, so it cannot simply be eliminated. It was perhaps a brilliant move in terms of gaining control and protection by the Obama administration. Petition your Congressmen and Senators to remove this organization. The current he had of CIGIE was an Obama appointee.
What do we do when those who are supposed to be the designated "watchers" aren't doing the watching?
I'm sorry, I've written my congressional "representatives" many times. Most of the time I get an auto-penned form letter with a response totally unrelated to my email. I've also called my congressional "representatives" and spoken to some young bimbo who's sleeping with the boss and registered my opinion. I'm sure that it is immediately related from my mouth to the "representative" by the bimbo intern. Yeah and monkeys are flying out of my ass right now.
The US Congress is a dismal and colossal failure and we all know it.
I get the same so it is rather demoralizing. Since we have onl6 one representative here in Vermont, it is rather hopeless. Rep. Becca Balint, a WEF Shill, usually starts off her reply: I am sorry we don’t see eye to eye…. Translation: I don’t give a rats patouti about your opinion, I have my marching orders and F you…. I write letters to papers in the locality that way more people might be inspired to become educated etc. and perhaps get involved. I don’t have an6 good solutions to the federal level, so if you do, pass them on.
When the two sides are diametrically opposed to each other about the role of government, the government ceases to have relevance. The 50.01% will have control for a short period of time. That is it. The political pendulum swings and wars have kept the USA viable through most of its history. The Bush RINO group removed the pendulum and Trump has started the removal of the MIC keeping us a war status.
So my question is, what reason does the USA have to exist, today? The 50.01% is not good enough. Differences of less than 5% is not enough. The question is, can the USA survive when one of the two sides wants to destroy the fabric of the country and there are no wars to rally the folks around?
The United States is a great big illusion, destroyed by political factionalism. We’ve been playing different iterations of Loyalists and Patriots since 1776. The common denominator is the human condition.
Republicans (the people) versus Federalists (the government) have swung back and forth since 1776. Jefferson against Hamilton for starters. Today we have the problem that the pendulum has been sitting on the Federalist side for too long without counter influence. The Bushes will be looked back on as the destroyer of Republican ideology as their promotion of the Federalist Deep State is the cause of what we are experiencing today. The RINO movement is the destroyer of the Constitution.
The 17th Amendment effectively eliminated the Republicans vs the Federalist argument. Abe Lincoln started it when he over threw the Constitution of 1788. Woodrow Wilson finished it off with the advent of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Income tax and turned the Senate into a glorified House of Representatives.
The question is, can it be avoided? History says no. The great American experiment of e pluribus unum is failing as reality and human weakness asserts themselves.
Ask yourselves, today, what is holding this country together? The NFL?
The NFL.... a rigged game. A couple of key calls of questionable nature by referees keeps the 'game' going. Something like a few key court decisions (judges) choosing winners and losers.
Exactly, isn’t the corruption of football, NFL and now NCAA, reflecting the country as a whole? Look at the NBA, where gambling corruption has become visible. Who would believe that the same situation is not going on in the NFL?
Money and power are the current state of evil in the country.
Excellent summation, JohnAZ. I will take your argument one step further. Government loses its relevance when it loses the confidence of the governed. The US government has long lost the confidence of the governed, just look at the approval rating of the US congress. Once the confidence of the governed is lost the government then has to resort to coercion and fear to exercise its authority. Once it has done that the lack of confidence from the people becomes anger and resentment and then out right rebellion.
Covid and the incompetence of all government during that debacle in the USA was the nail in the coffin for any confidence the people have in their government. The US congress is an utter joke and the people know it. The only ones who don't know it are the fuckers who are inhabiting the seats in Congress. They still think they are relevant because they keep getting invited to visit unwatched low ratings talk shows like Jimmy Kimmel. They have no understanding, no idea, just how hated and despised they truly are in the eyes of the people.
We have entered the anger and resentment phase of the death of the US "democracy." Time will tell when the people will finally throw this failed system of government into the trash bin.
Democracy always FAILS. It is nothing more than tyranny of the minority by the majority. Mob rules.
For this reason the founders of the USA didn't want this nation to be a democracy. It was a established as a democratic republic in order to prevent tyranny of the minority by the majority. Unfortunately, it has been corrupted into now being a system of tyranny of the majority by the minority and majority just sit there with there thumbs up their bums and do nothing about it.
I would never want to live in a pure democracy.
Besides, democracies have a life span of about 200 years. How is old is the USA's supposed "democracy?" We are way past due.
Frankly, I think the leftist loons are pushing for a civil war under the assumption that Americans are too soft and far gone to fight to protect their country. That is the primary reason for their assisted invasion of millions of military aged illegals, with voting a secondary benefit. Antifa and blm were insufficient in numbers thus the need for reinforcements which we now see on our streets and in our cities. Their hatred of Trump and all supporters is based on their being out of power and having their grifting and corruption exposed and cut off substantially. Just power-mad freaks that predominate in the Demoncrap Party and their useful idiot supporters. Truly evil and insane in their quest for ultimate and never-ending power. If you are not one of them, you are a target and need to plan and prepare for what they have planned, so arm and train for your own protection which you can hope you never need. However, hope is not a plan.
Too soft and far gone? Yes, BUT I propose that it is the fact that it is primarily the fact that due to the efforts of Europe and BRICS+, the folks that believe in the Constitutional Republic are becoming out numbered. Twenty years ago, could you have even imagined the city of New York being run by a socialist Muslim? Does Mamdani represent the new America? Is the 50.01% going to evolve into a socialistic USA? Right now, the nation is spinning to the Left, and the advent of AI, CBDC is only going to speed us up.
Speaking of Muslims running western metropoli, this year's London Christmas tree lighting by Ghenghis Khan (or whatever they call his honor the Mayor) was a hoot. They bought the ugliest tree in Norway and threw a few strands of lights over it. See it on YouTube. Not a deliberate sign of disrespect to Christians you say. LOL
I subscribe to the Dr. Phil school of "blunt speech" when it is required, and right now, it's a screaming necessity. Say it out loud. Say it whenever and however necessary, but say it. When I hear one of these cretins say "democracy," I substitute the word "regime."
"So, under the catspaw president “Joe Biden,” the FBI, CIA, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, the social media companies, and the White House itself worked sedulously to suppress the free expression of ideas, including the idea that they were all working to suppress free expression."
Classic example of FASCISM.
And--yes--Trump needs to invoke the Insurrection Act, because all the criminal mayhem we've been experiencing (still are) is an international war on our Republic.
The Europeans continue to paint Russia as the evil empire while expanding their brush to include the US, all while allowing the barbarians to take over their countries.
Why did Monroe do his doctrine? To keep the European powers out of the Western Hemisphere. To stop the control of autocratic governments that the Europeans lived under as a product of the Middle Ages. Europe has been trying to invade the Americas for centuries, trying to control them, they still are. Most of the global entities originate in Europe. Both world wars were mostly European with the USA getting involved before having the wars spillover here. Europe has been toxic for a long time.
Congress can also get rid of crap judges by passing a bill to eliminate their individual judicial seats. But it’s the most worthless, do-nothing, obstructive congress in history—so that’s not going to happen.
I have exhausted myself for fifty years trying to explain our dire situation to family, friends and any strangers that would listen. But people just don't want to hear negatives that might adversely impact their little lives of pleasure. The best thing to do is send them articles such as this. Kunstler has that way of expressing reality, sweetly and succinctly. And like this article, he is EXACTLY correct.
In reading "Mao" by Jung Chang, I learned there were a couple occasions when Mao's policies were so disastrous, the other CCP top leaders had to force him to back down. But Mao made note of his opponents and later got his revenge on each one.
The lesson: You cannot appease or coexist with something utterly evil. Like the deep state Globalists. They will crawl back and kill you, if you don't kill them when you have the chance. Go medieval on them, Donald!
Those who would otherwise be considered intelligent and yet continue to support the Left have not yet grasped the fact that the 'elite' are madmen/women addicted to power. Addicts will continue to reach for the next fix, knowing that it may kill them.
What needs to be understood is that the 'elite' are not rational human beings - the worst among them belong in insane asylums.
Time and again I run into people who believe themselves superior for having some piece of paper for sitting in a class far too long, but they have zero common sense and no real-life skills beyond whatever their major was.
The other caveat in this they are always "liberal" with what I would consider extreme views and fall for the Democrat party lines de Jour.
Critical thinking skills GONE, COMMON SENSE GONE, and always grousing about Republicans as the Dems destroy anything remotely passing as our precious Representative Republic.
So true, Ben. There are a lot of bitter, sad, hopeless young people, deeply in debt for a worthless degree. The lucky ones get to work at Gov. Pritzker's Cannabis Dispensaries.
Well, if Bondi doesn’t start arresting people, military tribunals are all that’s left to protect free speech- Western Civ. Pulling out of NATO on the understanding it was designed to protect, not prohibit, free speech, would be a step in the right direction. Yes, it would end that captive market for the MIC, but - what’s more important?
Norm Eisen wrote a color revolution manual called “democracy playbook”. Insane that he continues to openly orchestrate a coup: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/norm-eisen-color-revolution-playbook
Few people realize how close we are to global totalitarianism. Musk is right now censoring my speech on X to cover for his buddies at Palantir who are violating the Fourth Amendment.
They aren't going to stop censoring now. It's more important than ever to them.
1) Because they have so many unfinished agendas that the adults in the room, non-censored, could harpoon.
2) Because if they don't keep censoring or suppressing the reach of sane voices, a "thermonuclear" truth bomb may detonate, go viral and start a cascade of other Truth Bombs, which would lead to ....
The masses going to Home Depot or their garage and getting their pitch forks.
I think we are already there, J.E. Pendleton.
That is the concern. Canada has been a gracious host so far, and I believe I have good options for humanitarian visas even among the 14 eyes. I'm hoping they will do a double take when they realize how dangerous the surveillance system really is.
The left is a death cult... Their intention is to destroy all of western civilization, and they were making pretty rapid progress on it until Trump came along...but the battle has just begun, and with useful idiots like Bondi talking about "hate" speech, the result remains in doubt...
The worship death and murder. Abortion is their means of child sacrifice to their idol gods. Hence the reason they froth at the mouth in anger to protect and preserve it. The left is the embodiment of pure evil among us.
Canker, my friend. Abortion is not murder.
Does having an abortion take an innocent human life?
https://www.truelife.org/answers/is-abortion-murder
Abortion Is Not Murder in the Eyes of the Law
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/unchartedterritory/103731
Granting an embryo the status of full legal personhood is, in reality, just another fraudulent way to suppress the decision-making of women.
Let's not go off on this tangent today please.
Don't approve of abortion ~don't have one!
The DOJ, like the courts where they make their living, cannot be reformed overnight. It's quite dangerous for James to be talking about military tribunals because that is something the country would not come back from. Even having the DOJ break precedent and prosecute judges for anything other than bribery or sex crimes is likely to backfire and be weaponized by the other side.
The good news is that the laws already passed by Congress intended a private right of action against judges who knowingly or recklessly violate the Constitution:
https://151farmers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/136-Harv.-L.-Rev.-1456.pdf
The pleading standard is quite high, especially for first movers, but federal judges who violate the Constitution can be sued as individuals in more impartial state courts:
https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2034&context=lawreview
The Tribunals will be the only way after eight years of Obummer playing with the courts he has ruined or justice system.
Of course Norm Eisen and other figures such as Judge Boasburg are just the tip of the iceberg of corruption. I recently learned about t CIGIE: The Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency. This council coordinates and controls all the inspectors general.
Their power is in the refusal to investigate any whistleblower claims and other violations. No investigation, o possibility of finding criminal, seditious, or even treasonous activities. This council was created by the Obama administration and was voted into existence by congress, so it cannot simply be eliminated. It was perhaps a brilliant move in terms of gaining control and protection by the Obama administration. Petition your Congressmen and Senators to remove this organization. The current he had of CIGIE was an Obama appointee.
Yes, when you write to your Congressmen and Senators, make sure you have your Caps Lock on. That way they'll know you are serious. Are you serious?
Thanks for this information. I’ll write my congressmen.
And wait for your auto-penned unrelated form letter response.
What do we do when those who are supposed to be the designated "watchers" aren't doing the watching?
I'm sorry, I've written my congressional "representatives" many times. Most of the time I get an auto-penned form letter with a response totally unrelated to my email. I've also called my congressional "representatives" and spoken to some young bimbo who's sleeping with the boss and registered my opinion. I'm sure that it is immediately related from my mouth to the "representative" by the bimbo intern. Yeah and monkeys are flying out of my ass right now.
The US Congress is a dismal and colossal failure and we all know it.
I get the same so it is rather demoralizing. Since we have onl6 one representative here in Vermont, it is rather hopeless. Rep. Becca Balint, a WEF Shill, usually starts off her reply: I am sorry we don’t see eye to eye…. Translation: I don’t give a rats patouti about your opinion, I have my marching orders and F you…. I write letters to papers in the locality that way more people might be inspired to become educated etc. and perhaps get involved. I don’t have an6 good solutions to the federal level, so if you do, pass them on.
They mean that 50.01% of the voters get to control the other 49.99%. Democracy was DOA the day it was invented.
When the two sides are diametrically opposed to each other about the role of government, the government ceases to have relevance. The 50.01% will have control for a short period of time. That is it. The political pendulum swings and wars have kept the USA viable through most of its history. The Bush RINO group removed the pendulum and Trump has started the removal of the MIC keeping us a war status.
So my question is, what reason does the USA have to exist, today? The 50.01% is not good enough. Differences of less than 5% is not enough. The question is, can the USA survive when one of the two sides wants to destroy the fabric of the country and there are no wars to rally the folks around?
The United States is a great big illusion, destroyed by political factionalism. We’ve been playing different iterations of Loyalists and Patriots since 1776. The common denominator is the human condition.
Republicans (the people) versus Federalists (the government) have swung back and forth since 1776. Jefferson against Hamilton for starters. Today we have the problem that the pendulum has been sitting on the Federalist side for too long without counter influence. The Bushes will be looked back on as the destroyer of Republican ideology as their promotion of the Federalist Deep State is the cause of what we are experiencing today. The RINO movement is the destroyer of the Constitution.
The 17th Amendment effectively eliminated the Republicans vs the Federalist argument. Abe Lincoln started it when he over threw the Constitution of 1788. Woodrow Wilson finished it off with the advent of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Income tax and turned the Senate into a glorified House of Representatives.
Rally around CW2.0.
The question is, can it be avoided? History says no. The great American experiment of e pluribus unum is failing as reality and human weakness asserts themselves.
Ask yourselves, today, what is holding this country together? The NFL?
The NFL.... a rigged game. A couple of key calls of questionable nature by referees keeps the 'game' going. Something like a few key court decisions (judges) choosing winners and losers.
Exactly, isn’t the corruption of football, NFL and now NCAA, reflecting the country as a whole? Look at the NBA, where gambling corruption has become visible. Who would believe that the same situation is not going on in the NFL?
Money and power are the current state of evil in the country.
We have it in form already. Just waiting for the shooting (a very broad category of violent upheaval) to begin.
Excellent summation, JohnAZ. I will take your argument one step further. Government loses its relevance when it loses the confidence of the governed. The US government has long lost the confidence of the governed, just look at the approval rating of the US congress. Once the confidence of the governed is lost the government then has to resort to coercion and fear to exercise its authority. Once it has done that the lack of confidence from the people becomes anger and resentment and then out right rebellion.
Covid and the incompetence of all government during that debacle in the USA was the nail in the coffin for any confidence the people have in their government. The US congress is an utter joke and the people know it. The only ones who don't know it are the fuckers who are inhabiting the seats in Congress. They still think they are relevant because they keep getting invited to visit unwatched low ratings talk shows like Jimmy Kimmel. They have no understanding, no idea, just how hated and despised they truly are in the eyes of the people.
We have entered the anger and resentment phase of the death of the US "democracy." Time will tell when the people will finally throw this failed system of government into the trash bin.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner, as they say.
Democracy always FAILS. It is nothing more than tyranny of the minority by the majority. Mob rules.
For this reason the founders of the USA didn't want this nation to be a democracy. It was a established as a democratic republic in order to prevent tyranny of the minority by the majority. Unfortunately, it has been corrupted into now being a system of tyranny of the majority by the minority and majority just sit there with there thumbs up their bums and do nothing about it.
I would never want to live in a pure democracy.
Besides, democracies have a life span of about 200 years. How is old is the USA's supposed "democracy?" We are way past due.
Frankly, I think the leftist loons are pushing for a civil war under the assumption that Americans are too soft and far gone to fight to protect their country. That is the primary reason for their assisted invasion of millions of military aged illegals, with voting a secondary benefit. Antifa and blm were insufficient in numbers thus the need for reinforcements which we now see on our streets and in our cities. Their hatred of Trump and all supporters is based on their being out of power and having their grifting and corruption exposed and cut off substantially. Just power-mad freaks that predominate in the Demoncrap Party and their useful idiot supporters. Truly evil and insane in their quest for ultimate and never-ending power. If you are not one of them, you are a target and need to plan and prepare for what they have planned, so arm and train for your own protection which you can hope you never need. However, hope is not a plan.
Too soft and far gone? Yes, BUT I propose that it is the fact that it is primarily the fact that due to the efforts of Europe and BRICS+, the folks that believe in the Constitutional Republic are becoming out numbered. Twenty years ago, could you have even imagined the city of New York being run by a socialist Muslim? Does Mamdani represent the new America? Is the 50.01% going to evolve into a socialistic USA? Right now, the nation is spinning to the Left, and the advent of AI, CBDC is only going to speed us up.
Speaking of Muslims running western metropoli, this year's London Christmas tree lighting by Ghenghis Khan (or whatever they call his honor the Mayor) was a hoot. They bought the ugliest tree in Norway and threw a few strands of lights over it. See it on YouTube. Not a deliberate sign of disrespect to Christians you say. LOL
Did you see that the city of Portland lit their “Tree” refusing to call it a Christmas tree? Anti-Christian sentiment is alive and well here.
I subscribe to the Dr. Phil school of "blunt speech" when it is required, and right now, it's a screaming necessity. Say it out loud. Say it whenever and however necessary, but say it. When I hear one of these cretins say "democracy," I substitute the word "regime."
"So, under the catspaw president “Joe Biden,” the FBI, CIA, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, the social media companies, and the White House itself worked sedulously to suppress the free expression of ideas, including the idea that they were all working to suppress free expression."
Classic example of FASCISM.
And--yes--Trump needs to invoke the Insurrection Act, because all the criminal mayhem we've been experiencing (still are) is an international war on our Republic.
Well put, Robert. Satan doesn't play nice. If we want save freedom on earth neither can we.
The Europeans continue to paint Russia as the evil empire while expanding their brush to include the US, all while allowing the barbarians to take over their countries.
They are hell bent on extinction.
Why did Monroe do his doctrine? To keep the European powers out of the Western Hemisphere. To stop the control of autocratic governments that the Europeans lived under as a product of the Middle Ages. Europe has been trying to invade the Americas for centuries, trying to control them, they still are. Most of the global entities originate in Europe. Both world wars were mostly European with the USA getting involved before having the wars spillover here. Europe has been toxic for a long time.
Congress can also get rid of crap judges by passing a bill to eliminate their individual judicial seats. But it’s the most worthless, do-nothing, obstructive congress in history—so that’s not going to happen.
America and Americans are bound by nothing but an abstract political vocabulary that few understand.
Muns: That is so pithy and true, a great observation.
I have exhausted myself for fifty years trying to explain our dire situation to family, friends and any strangers that would listen. But people just don't want to hear negatives that might adversely impact their little lives of pleasure. The best thing to do is send them articles such as this. Kunstler has that way of expressing reality, sweetly and succinctly. And like this article, he is EXACTLY correct.
In reading "Mao" by Jung Chang, I learned there were a couple occasions when Mao's policies were so disastrous, the other CCP top leaders had to force him to back down. But Mao made note of his opponents and later got his revenge on each one.
The lesson: You cannot appease or coexist with something utterly evil. Like the deep state Globalists. They will crawl back and kill you, if you don't kill them when you have the chance. Go medieval on them, Donald!
That's a funny story because I'm suing Musk and X Corp in Bastrop County, Texas, for violating the Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the First Amendment after they had me preemptively shadow banned on X: https://substack.com/@jpendleton/note/c-181455091?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=4rsiu
How did they know who I was? Could it have something to do with a lawsuit in DC involving a connection to Palantir Technologies?
Maybe Norm Eisein will hire you and you can go for class action.
The case was filed as a potential class action but it's still early for certification.
Those who would otherwise be considered intelligent and yet continue to support the Left have not yet grasped the fact that the 'elite' are madmen/women addicted to power. Addicts will continue to reach for the next fix, knowing that it may kill them.
What needs to be understood is that the 'elite' are not rational human beings - the worst among them belong in insane asylums.
Time and again I run into people who believe themselves superior for having some piece of paper for sitting in a class far too long, but they have zero common sense and no real-life skills beyond whatever their major was.
The other caveat in this they are always "liberal" with what I would consider extreme views and fall for the Democrat party lines de Jour.
Critical thinking skills GONE, COMMON SENSE GONE, and always grousing about Republicans as the Dems destroy anything remotely passing as our precious Representative Republic.
So true, Ben. There are a lot of bitter, sad, hopeless young people, deeply in debt for a worthless degree. The lucky ones get to work at Gov. Pritzker's Cannabis Dispensaries.
Democracy has been defined by the great American seer, HL Mencken as "two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner."
Given the players in this ongoing drama, I can think of no better epigram for our situation.
Well, if Bondi doesn’t start arresting people, military tribunals are all that’s left to protect free speech- Western Civ. Pulling out of NATO on the understanding it was designed to protect, not prohibit, free speech, would be a step in the right direction. Yes, it would end that captive market for the MIC, but - what’s more important?