Absolutely. My new litmus test for the primaries is to reduce the funding for the FBI, DOJ, NIH, CDC, DOE, ATF, and USDE (dept of Ed) by at least 80%. Reverse the $80billion for the IRS. The CDC should probably just be privatized. The FBI reduced by 95%.
In any event any candidate getting my money and vote in the primary must promise to send half the savings back to the states to perform the same functions at the state level in the form of block grants, and half goes towards tax rate reductions and paying down debt.
The only other alternative I would remotely consider supporting is one that relocated 85% of current DC based government jobs in those agencies across the country in a logical manner for the role, but also ensure these people work in actual communities all across the country. The DC swamp can only function in the DC bubble. It’s long past time to get out of this habit of having DC swamp rats with no experience trying to control industries and people they have zero understanding of.
Yes, local, accountable, skilled people. I'm staggered at how incompetent and bloated our federal government has become. The bureaucratic machine must be torn down, or it will continue to tear our country down.
I doubt this can be done at the level of the federal government. The states will need to get stronger and take back more powers, eventually proving how useless, corrupt and wrong federal agencies are. I'm continually amazed that anyone thinks there's a use for a federal bureaucrat telling us what to eat and how to educate our children, just as a couple examples.
That said, I agree, we need to elect candidates who are going to work to get rid of the alphabet agencies.
Amusing that unions were sold as a corrective to greedy capitalists -- necessary to counter greed. But where they find most representation is in the State bureaucracies.
Always about money, power, control. At least with capitalism we got some good products even though they too succumbed to the same money, power, control. What to do?:-)
About 9 years into my study of economics I became convinced 'capitalism' is a word that doesn't help. Our view of society is clearer if we classify everything primarily by function.
The realm of voluntary exchanges can be called 'the market' or 'the free market' or 'voluntaryism'. Any trade or employment falls under that.
The realm of coerced exchanges can be called 'the state' or 'policy' or 'regulation' or 'taxation' or 'fiat money' or 'the central bank' or 'extortion' or 'gangsterism'.
Does "capitalism" include a system whereby one priveleged class (or race?) is permitted to creat money out of nothing? That's not voluntary exchange, or the free market.
The enemy's most wicked spell is confusing our language.
That’s why block grants to the states could work. They can start out with a mixture of at home experts and former fed employees (hopefully the better ones) to hit the ground running. It’s no too distributive to the going concern of necessary functions, it lets the states fund their own university research which will result in a return to competing ideas and the scientific process, it places more enforcement in the hands of individual states.
Plus, once the states get the block grants, they will never, ever, give that funding back to the federal government. It’ll be all out war. The dysfunctional states are already dysfunctional. It won’t change that. But it will give the functional states options. Congress can punt regulations mostly back to the states with federal recommendations from a scaled down staff addressing far fewer issues - and only those issues of genuine national concern. We all know congress won’t actually legislate in our lifetime.
No block grants. Don't send the money to DC in the first place. Reduce federal taxes by at least half and send all functions back to the states that don't deal with National Defense, State Department, and little else.
Sending money to DC for it to be laundered, filtered, conditionalized, and have a huge percent of it stick to the 6 counties surrounding DC is non useful.
The Federal income tax (there are other federal taxes) is another scam perpetrated on The People.
Chapter 1 for purposes of this post - 16A followed 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank in the next breath / in a hurry. All pre-planned. Impossible to detail here.
Chapter 2 for purposes of this post - If you read Article 1 Sec 9 (paragraph 4) of the Constitution which has never been repealed (keep that in mind), 16A on the surface seems to directly contravene it. The Amendment did NOT cancel / cancel out / negate Art. 1 Sec 9. BOTH still stand as law.
Chapter 3 - If you are unsuccessful puzzling out the foregoing, no fault of yours. It’s a tangled tale. Well laid out / dissected in Cracking the Code: The Fascinating Truth About Taxation in America, by Peter Eric Hendrickson. As you might guess the feds don’t want the info known. The Hendricksons have been persecuted for years, Mar-A-Lago raid style and worse. Books available on author’s website
NO payment portal online. My guess, author has attempted online payment setup and been shut down, but I don’t know. Sole payment method is by snail mail, check or money order. I have ordered several times. Author very responsive. Most recent was 2 yrs or so pre pandemic.
The American People have been f’d for generations and it all started with the Federal Reserve. (Oracle Ed Dowd [maybe, maybe not] predicting the ponzi scheme will collapse under its own weight in the short run. Buckle up.)?
I can live in fantasy land, can't I? Technically if enough congressional legislators vote for it, and the president signs block grants into law, there is not much the agencies can do about it. Although I'll grant you there is slim to zero chance of that happening.
At the very least the people living off the taxpayer's dimes need to be located throughout the country funding those taxes, and not so many huddled in DC/ Northern VA. Last I looked, even including military and border patrol, somewhere around 30% of federal employees live and work between Norfolk and DC/ northern VA. That's 600,000 and pretty much all of several levels of "leadership" for most of these agencies.
I'm only going to vote for people in the primaries who are willing to try to reduce the size of the federal government and support block grants or dramatically slashed funding. In the general election I'm a pragmatist and I'm voting for the best option I actually get.
I hope so. I was somewhat ambivalent about another Trump run in 2024. Last week I thought it better he make endorsements and expand Truth into banking, payment processing, and regular media. Then they gave Trump the motivation that can only come from personal rage to drain the swamp. Now, I’m all in MAGA 2024. At the very least he’ll move a bunch of functions/ jobs out of DC and end the current tyranny of CDC, NIH, DOJ, USDE, and the FBI by slashing their budgets and firing the top three levels of leadership. Plus he’ll finish the wall and return our country to being a sovereign nation.
To update this I have moved squarely away from wanting Trump to run. It’s totalitarian to re-write history and his attacks on DeSantis are poor attempts to re-write Covid history. Trump has become obsessed with Trump and blind to the needs of the country. He has been relentlessly, and unjustly attacked, since 2015. His anger is valid. His want for revenge understandable. But it’s not what is best for the country, he probably can’t win, and someone needs to actually lead to save both Trump and our children’s shot at an actual future.
trump is just a pawn ... he never run the white house, except tweets at 3 am and yelling to the press ... i suppose same suspects want him back there, and they are pushing him and all this supports he gets. he is 80 years old WHY should he bother to work those long days ... does not make sense, except others pushing him there ...
Trump is most definitely not the “perfect” person to play a character roll in destroying the country. Not only is an old billionaire unmotivated to become a martyr to play a made up role for zero personal gain, but Trump also isn’t particularly charismatic, he spouts out whatever is on his mind with no filter, he never calls for violence, he doesn’t court the activists class, his actual policies are entirely moderate.
The fact that the 4th branch of government is trying to destroy the country because Trump is a threat to their power doesn’t say anything about Trump. All it says is the administrative state would rather destroy the country than lose their unconstitutional power to anyone, and they will act like ridiculous morons making the attempt. It wouldn’t matter who was trying to return power to the legislative bodies that the country was founded in vesting power in, they are going to attack absolutely anyone and everyone that wants yo stop the reallocation of money to the 4th branch of government and the industrial complexes they work hand in hand with.
The only way to stop the 4th branch is to fire 'em all -- something that I understand Trump has had some experience with 😁
If you leave a single head of the hydra, it will grow back. Getting rid of 95% of it is like getting rid of 95% of a cancer. It grows back and normally in a more aggressive, metastatic form.
So if it is Trump's calling to play Heracles in this modern incarnation of the old myth, so be it. I can't think of anyone better suited, warts and all.
I get the anger over vaccines although myself, husband, and kids are all unvaccinated. I would never take medical advice from a real estate guy turned politician. The food pyramid was still around when I was a kid in the 1980's/ 1990's so I learned long ago to ignore government "experts" on health. I was then an outdoor adventure guide in WV summers during undergrad when I learned to never, ever trust big pharma after seeing how opioids had destroyed lives and communities. Some parts of warp speed were good, and I see zero evidence that Trump would have ever even considered "vaccine mandates." It was Democrats fighting for totalitarian control, not Trump, so I am not going to hold him accountable for what Democrats did and big pharma lies. I do hold him accountable for not firing Brix and Fauci - evidence was clear he should have fired them and changed the messaging from the (political) "science" people.
I like DeSantis and find him to be very appealing as a candidate for countless reasons, but I don't think he's going to challenge Trump in the primary (I could be wrong). I'm also not sure he has the same passion to end some of the administrative state's powers after the regime tries to destroy his life for years. I see no other candidates with any follow through on the horizon. There is time, maybe one will appear.
I'd vote for Tulsi Gabbard whichever party she runs for. She has stayed tough opposing the surveillance state and government overreach. If she had been the nominee in the last election for Dems, she would have probably gotten my vote. I might also send her lots of books and studies on actual energy solutions - hopefully she's learned since her last run....... maybe/ hopefully she's met Michael Shellenberger since the swamp called her a Russian asset and ended her presidential bid.............
Such a pity that Tulsi is a moderate thus never could get past the well controlled primaries. Yang is similar and is in the process of created yet another third party that can't succeed if history is any guide.
Radicals were successful in deconstructing political parties via the primary process. Trump was a singular modern escape by being so confrontational. His ability to wield the press vaulted him past the party favorites so moderate voters elevated him. On the other side all the slots were full of acolytes spouting the same causes - mostly green new deal but we got the default, Biden.
You are absolutely correct. It seems the primary system is rigged to ensure the “neos” (neocons and neoliberals) who will expand the administrative state and enrich political cronies along with all the industrial complexes are set up to win...... and Trump was the anomaly. Those neo candidates ensure continued “reallocation” of taxpayer’s money to said cronies, activists, and industrial complexes.
I have a family member high enough up in DHS to have been offered a job in the situation room at the WH with a previous administration (which she declined). She said from day 1 the opposition from DC towards Trump was purely his threat to their very lucrative money trains. They wouldn’t have cared at all had another Bush won the R primary.
Gabbard represented a similar threat but not being independently wealthy, and the DC beltway insiders being effectively in complete control of Democrat political spending, she never really had a chance.
How do people keep falling for the “Russian spy” junk? MLK was murdered long before my birth and it was evident with him this “Soviet/ Russian” asset baloney was the intelligence community playbook. So much for people thinking “fool me once.”
I think without a corrupted process she would have won. She holds many populist positions, especially those relating to military force. She was moderate on most things. She beautiful, articulate, and has a perfect temperament. She’s actually a veteran which is a plus for commander in chief. She checks a bunch of identity boxes the left claims to promote. She was by far the best candidate, and no 100% WI nursing home voting rates or sketchy drop boxes or imaginary bursts pipes would have been needed for her to win the election.
I found Yang interesting. Ideas like universal basic income have been tried, and fail. Flat taxes actually encourage mobility and economic growth. His energy policies were a mixture of wacky and very good. He too would have been interesting. Any of them less destructive than Biden or other neo’s.
No Federal agency or bureaucracy or subcontracting 'private' corporation is operating legally unless it's explicitly authorized in the 30 Enumerated Powers of the US constitution.
One such legal function is the US Post Office. We would have to amend the constitution to remove that.
The rest are outright illegal. CDC? Illegal. DOE? Illlegal. FBI? Illegal. BLM? Illegal. NIH? Illegal. BATF? Illegal.
To be fair there were signatories of the constitution, like Hamilton, who wanted corruption and the unlimited State. Funny how Broadway makes a play celebrating him. But the constitution as written and accepted by the states was one of a limited central government, with 30 enumerated powers, and under the 10th Amendment - no other powers.
Oh please, you hate Trump and based on your comments it seems more likely you would rather live in poverty and freeze while starving to death than vote for him.
No president, no person, no thing could "keep out" a respiratory sars virus!! Get that straight before you proceed any further with your little "history" reflection..
Also, remember the wisest words of that time "The cure cannot be worse than the disease".
I had to read Yuri's quote twice to be sure it was correctly registered in my brain and I agree with him. "The Soviets had state-run media, we have a media-run state. "
The machinery of American government has been captive of Blue Blooded Banksters since the FEDERAL Reserve Act and then OSS/CIA created by Dulles pals at Brown Bros Harriman w mostly Yale Bonesmen to start. Decades and decades revolving door lobbying, legislative & oversight roles has left a shell of anything that might be a functioning state.
Booz Allen runs NSA and kids like Snowden and corps beyond FOIA are the heart of unaccountable power. We are fighting a transnational globalist managerial elite and for me the notion of Sovereign governments or functioning democracies is truly laughable in context of Covidian policies with Lockstep backdrop and pharma power overriding all regulatory safety mechanisms and suppressing treatments and dissent.
Absolutely. The U.S. Ministry of Truth is a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. government and is controlled 100% by U.S. government regulators. They--not the media, not the banksters, not the corporations--are in power. They are our rulers, and never forget it.
I'm having an interesting discussion on my stack today with the community about a particular wrinkle of this very topic- how much of this activity is calculated action, how much is simply noise in the right direction from supporters, etc. Join us if you wish.
The thing is, we always have. The recognition of this has just reached a tipping point. Hence the massive crackdowns currently being initiated by the ABC agencies. Textbook reaction to the plebes getting wise. Right now due to electronic media we have a plethora of alternative sources. But, you should have been around in the 60's, 70's 80's...if you wanted to find a source in the USA that was beyond state media (and wasn't some kind of leaflet or comic book or something) it was like being locked behind an 'iron curtain'. And for most people back then, that ignorance was bliss. While we faulted Russia for the exact same thing and imagined ourselves as 'oh so' superior. After all, we had the NYT's and PBS, etc.
Not really. The famous Rush media montages from years ago clearly demonstrated that the various media outlets were taking talking points from a centralized source. They would occasionally deviate slightly, only to convince people that they were still doing news.
For references to fully debunk your assertions I would point you reading the articles and referenced links on this substack. You definitely need to start with stats for cats.
The "Trump Voters" Covid deaths assertion has been fully debunked. It's actually old people and unhealthy people everywhere who died and rural areas skew older while more obese people tend to be poor and those are who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats - even in counites that voted for Trump- with those in the bottom quintile 3 out of 4 vote Democrat.
Florida has a vaccination rate in the top quintile and well above the national average and Florida still remains below NY in per capita deaths. NYC never avoided the Delta surge - it hit late because of seasonality but clearly pre-dated Omicron.,
You literally have no idea what you are talking about.
Yes!!! It shocks me that people seem to have missed this article. At the time it was published I watched and watched, but there was ZERO coverage, ZERO outrage. We all know about the Russia Russia Russia hoax of 2016 election interference, but that fabrication is still preserved by the media and politicians.
Yet here, this article outlines a 'cabal' (their word!) which 'secretly' worked to undermine the 2020 election. It proudly details all their efforts, from Zuckerbucks to skirting election laws in states like PA - in 2019 - well before anyone knew anything about COVID.
The hubris is so apparent - like a little kid who got away with something and just feels the need to tell someone. All the ways in which Trump was saying the election was being 'rigged' were scoffed at on one hand, but then backwardly used as their reasoning as to why those things were actually done. But I guess they stated "They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures." then it was all OK.
Ugh, this still infuriates me to no end. Every person mentioned in that article should be jailed - or more. To me it is literally an admission of treason and more insurrectionist than anything that occurred on Jan 6 - as some have said, the real Jan 6 insurrection occurred on Nov 3, 2020 - clearly according to this article it began much earlier than that.
The same people talk of saving so many lives because of Covid jabs. But their jabs and their policy shutting down the economy will likely kill 100 people+ for every 1 person who died from Covid. That is so much more than treason or insurrection. And they are going to kill so many more, because they believe they are the best and brightest who have ever lived, and will die before they give up power over the world.
LOL Nothing in that article says or even suggest that the election was undermined, it says the exact opposite, that it made the election fair and incorruptible.
Yeah, subverting, circumventing election laws, flooding the market with mail in ballots, blocking observations of the midnight count, destroying election records, very fair and credible.
Like I've been saying, the Woke activist has made an unholy alliance with Clinton and Obama neoliberals, the corporate media, Corporations generally, Big Tech, Military Brass and Intelligence community. Trump might not be able to win the election even if he won the election, these folks are so sure they on the good side of progress and history.
It's the system. If you want to participate and maintain your income and ability to climb the hierarchy, you must not question the system. Think for yourself and you will be cast out and canceled.
They got away with it cleanly. Democracy will continue to be saved again, and again. All the entrenched 2+ term republicans need to be kicked to the curb pronto. (Here is where I curse to myself......)
I'm remembering that claymation skit from Bill Hicks, Clinton walking into that boardroom full of old white guys smoking. I assume a version of that happens to everyone who goes to work in leadership in DC.
74 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Original 2020 Election Ballot Images
VoterGA’s Garland Favorito held a press conference today to discuss statewide evidence destruction in Georgia. Nearly 30% of Georgia counties are missing some or all of their ballot images. Interestingly, the Maricopa County audit also revealed 284K deleted or corrupted ballot images. In a press release, VoterGA summarized the details:
Atlanta, November 9, 2021 – VoterGA today announced that their ballot image analysis team determined 74 Georgia counties have been unable to produce all the original ballot images from the November 2020 election. The team obtained admissions from 56 counties that most or all of the images created automatically by the Dominion voting system for results tabulation have been destroyed. VoterGA volunteers made the determinations by submitting Open Records Requests (ORR) for the images to each county.
Ballot images are a critical aspect of election records that have long been required to be retained by federal and state law. Federal law requires a 22-month retention period for election records while state law requires a 24-month retention period for election documents which are generally considered to include those that are electronic. [USC 52 20701, O.C.G.A. 21-2-73]
The Dominion voting system automatically creates images for in-person voted ballots on compact flash memory cards. It automatically creates images for mail-in ballots on memory flash drives. The cards or drives are then manually uploaded to the county’s Election Management Server (EMS). Some densely populated counties also use high speed scanners that automatically transfer images directly to the EMS.
Counties admit non-conformance or evade ORRs
At least 28 counties admitted having no original images at all and 22 of those counties only had recount images that some claimed are the same as originals. Recount images don’t have original time stamps that can be used for audit purposes nor do they have original meta data that shows how votes were initially interpreted. The images can also be changed by tampering between scans and are therefore, invalid to audit an election.
VoterGA received emails from another 28 counties admitting they do not have a complete set of original images.Various counties were missing all in-person voting images, all absentee images, all Election Day images or a substantial portion of one or more of those groups.
Another 18 counties did not comply with repeated ORRs over a period of two months. Most simply did not respond but some frustrated the requestors by requiring exorbitant fees for images that most counties provided for around $25-$50. Fees requested by counties ranged from $0 to $1,700, which is too unnecessarily expensive to comply with ORR law. Six of those counties claim to have mailed images that VoterGA team members have not yet received. These images may also be incomplete or recount images only.
VoterGA showed written confirmation from former State Election Director Chris Harvey granting permission to erase in-person ballot images from the memory cards. “These violations are yet another glaring reason why Georgians cannot trust the Secretary of State’s office,” said Garland Favorito, co-founder of VoterGA. “We desperately need a multi-county audit of the 2020 election to resolve these serious problems before 2022.”
Stolen implies they planned it. What they did was use fake science to shut down the economy, and then wrote the rules as they went along regardless of existing law. "Safe and effective" is about as accurate as "the safest election in history." Like four years of Russia Russia Russia, anything goes to save democracy from Trump. Anything, including everything you claim Trump and his people are about.
Another quite well documented essay on how to influence voters. I suppose the R'e have something similar. Technology allows exploitation of thought mainly via the press that now has become one-sided. The public seems less tolerant of the bias but we shall see.
The creation of phantom voters so that ballots can be created is quite subtle. That someone could decide the pattern is also remarkable. I can well understand why that might cause eyes to glaze over. Another one for Dr Frank.
I could show him Pulitzer Prize reporting on “the dossier” and he would say, see, it’s real, they got a prize for it or video of MSM saying the dossier had all been verified and he would say; see, all verified!:-)
Dr Brix last week was hauled in front of congress with some simple questions.
Congressman Jim Jordan: when the government told us the vaccinated could not transmit it (covid), was that a lie or a guess?
Dr. Brix : “i think it was hope”
when public health officials and agencies stridently told america that the covid vaccines would be a “dead end for the virus” and stop infection and spread, upon what did they base that claim and how did they get it so wrong?
Congressman Jim Jordan: was the government lying when they said this?*
Dr. Brix : i don’t know. i was not part of the taskforce discussions
They don't even pay a price. They don't see it as lying. The Anointed are free to do anything and everything they believe will advance their noble agenda.
"A: Most vaccines that protect from viral illnesses also reduce transmission of the virus that causes the disease by those who are vaccinated. While it is hoped this will be the case, the scientific community does not yet know if the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine or Comirnaty will reduce such transmission."
Thanks for all that you do ! I no longer tune into mainstream news outlets. They are so 'Captured' that it's pathetic. I get my 'news' from truly independent sources now. And you know... the quality of info is so much better ! Thanks again...
Buried inside the 2013 Defense Authorization Act, signed by Obummer in early January while he was on vacation in Hawaii, were provisions which rewrote the 1948 Smith Mundt Act. The original act, passed in the wake of what Hitler did with the media in WW2, was put in place to prevent the government from using the media to write or broadcast propaganda inside the country. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but that’s the essential gist. It also prevented using government money, i.e., tax dollars to entice the media to tell a narrative the government wanted people to hear.
The 2013 DAA reversed all those rules. As of January 2013 US citizens could be treated the same way citizens of other countries had been treated for decades. In other words, the US government could use the commercial media to deliver narratives and propaganda. And they could use tax dollars to fund that activity.
We now know, of course, that the US government spent 10s of millions of dollars (probably hundreds of millions) to pay various media and tech outlets to push the Covid narrative. We may never know how much they paid, or what leverage they used, to roll the suppression train down the tracks.
If you read the legislative history of the 1948 bill, you will find that Congress put the law in place to prevent the exact things that happened with Covid narrative. And it more or less survived intact for 65 years. Until Obummer essentially snuck the changes in to a 3000 page bill that nobody read.
All roads lead back to Prescott Bush. But all roads run right through Obummer.
You are welcome. Of course, you are not supposed to know. At the time, post WW2 Smith-Mundt was very important legislation. A statement, if you will, that what happened in Germany vis-a-vis the media, would not be allowed to happen here. But unless you got a degree in history (but maybe not) govt schools don’t teach real history. So you wouldn’t ever learn about it. On the off chance you did, well the annual DAA, (this year nearly a trillion dollars) is where they hide lots of stuff they don’t want you to know about. So there was no debate on the matter, no questions on what or why, likely most of the 535 had no idea the act was being gutted.
The full effect showed up beginning in March 2020 with two weeks to flatten the curve. The mind warping thought experiment is this (only works if you watched or read MSM, especially Feb 2020 through Feb 2021): the coverage you heard or read, the narrative that was being driven, was created, bought, and paid for by the government, aided by Pharma, the Medical profession, using your tax dollars. Essentially bending Federalism right back on top of the population, using our money to do it, and doing it ‘legally’ because the Smith-Mundt Act line of defense no longer existed. Exactly what Hitler did. Exactly. The 3rd Reich didn’t start with any of the things most people learned about WW2, yellow stars, rounding up the Jews, the death camps, or the invasion of Poland. It started with medical nationalism, using the medical profession and the media to plant the seeds, craft the narrative, then drive it home. Sound familiar? Cast in that light, and returning to those heady days of the wall to wall coverage, the picture of what was happening to us, versus what was being done to us, can be viewed with a lot more clarity.
Interesting piece of history and I can see the medical nationalism that you're describing here in the US. But, I also see it now in Western Europe, UK, Canada, Australia and even in Israel.
Still, I would guess that if medical nationalism was a necessary part of Hitler's Nazi government, it wasn't the only ingredient. And maybe, just maybe, medical nationalism doesn't always usher in Hitler.
On the other hand, if Trump (who is often called Hitler) returns to the White House in '24, maybe Democrats will blame it on the rise of medical nationalism and then turn on that like they did on free speech, freedom of movement, bodily autonomy, small business, attending school in person, safe spaces for women, breathing and sunshine.
Thank you. And yes you are totally correct. In that it was/is every western nation and not just the US. In my view, it has been all about economics and control and absolutely nothing to do with public health.
after reading just a small section of that, I'm convinced that American democracy as we used to know it is dead forever
also: the section at the end about the recent public health laws and the Covid emergency declarations are interesting. it seems that Edward Dowd's thesis that fraud will prove to be the undoing of Pfizer is just wrong. seems like investors/stockholders won't have standing to sue Pfizer. and the Federal Government won't sue Pfizer because it refuses to see that it is a victim of fraud.
Good info. But wait till you browse through UN Agenda 2030...
Also I heard that twatter is actually govt.owned. They have high losses every year from when they started, and are bailed out every time, no questions. And twatter, being the hub for lgbtQ and Q and msm propaganda promotion while being filled with bots for manipulation and all around censoring the truth is enough signs that it indeed is an op from the leading NWO band of parasites.
wait until you see the new WEF plan to use "subject matter experts" to inform AI driven misinformation and hate speech expression as a top down cross platform system that governs all media and social media.
hah, I was editing my inital comment. And yes, I have already seen the news on that.
Ill even quote a bit of it. from I.Chudov's substack:
"WEF's "Global Intelligence Collecting AI" to Erase Ideas from the Internet
The World Economic Forum is becoming a little concerned. Unapproved opinions are becoming more popular, and online censors cannot keep up with millions of people becoming more aware and more vocal. The censorship engines employed by Internet platforms, turned out to be quite stupid and incapable. People are even daring to complain about the World Economic Forum, which is obviously completely unacceptable.
So, WEF author Inbal Goldberger came up with a solution: she proposes to collect off-platform intelligence from “millions of sources” to spy on people and new ideas, and then merge this information together for “content removal decisions” sent down to “Internet platforms”"
Berenson has said he plans to sue the Biden regime for their fascism. I wish him luck, but somehow I'll be amazed if it progresses meaningfully.
I'm sympathetic to James Lindsay's observation that the exit from Twitter is a facilitator of touching more grass. The platform, to the extent that it offers more power to the Regime than the People, is a net loss for the latter.
Exactly. It's just an innocent question asked out of idle curiosity, along the lines of "ya think it's gonna rain this weekend?" You're very astute, Guyaka.
Love the article. We have a cabal of freaks who hate regular loving humans, and are obsessed with stealing and keeping power and misusing it against us.
You got in the way of that cabal and were cancelled without explanation.
So was I.
Now the WEF wants to move to the next step and have a WEF-operated platform-independent multi-site "censorship AI engine" that would identify wrongthink and hand "deletion orders" down to platforms. Great idea, right?
There exists a multitude of legitimate authority, from parents over children to the captain of your Thursday night bowling team. The problem comes when the scope of defined authority is exceeded. Checks and balances on authority are what need to be thriving, not authority itself. The right to question needs to be absolute.
I disagree. There is no existential authority vested in anyone or any being. Beings exert power, that's it. But no being is responsible for it's initial existence so it simply cannot assume any authority over another. One may not like that, it may not be comfortable but that's existence. Now, the degree that one exercises their power upon others in existence or agrees to defer their power, or acquiesce to another's power(ie agrees to some notion of authority) is another matter. But if it's not done with agreement, it IS coercion or force. That is an inescapable fact of existence. That society (parents, institution s etc .)and the universe at large imposes such agreements is inescapable and as a social animal we are inextricably bound by such matters. Obviously, that comes with costs and benefits which is why we don't always rebel against authority.
But in no way does that mean any authority is existentially qualified.
Your position would say we have authority over not even ourselves because we are not responsible for our existence! EVERY being has existential authority vested in itself, precisely because it exerts power. You mistake "all" for "none". You admit this when you call it "inextricable". Stop and imagine just for a minute a society where parents do "not" have authority over their children. Since beings exert power, someone will most definitely assume this authority. You have an obligation to exercise your proper authority properly or someone will exercise theirs improperly.
I don't have authority over you or anyone. I exert influence and power on others all the time and others do that to me. I'm not denying that. I have some power to guide my actions but is that authority over me. When I say 'im going to get up and exercise tomorrow' but then I don't who exactly is running the show? Which one of me is the authority? I have a certain amount of power to drive action, that's it. I don't call that authority.
And it's pointless to posit the idea that parents won't exert 'authority' over their children. They will continue to exert power, more or less, because that is the nature of existence.But maybe our problem here is that I use the word 'authority' to describe an agreement of the use of power. People assume 'authority' all the time but regardless of their justifications, it isn't existentially given unless it's in agreement. And not being in agreement doesn't mean it doesn't confer benefits.
As for obligations. I have none. I am not even obligated to exist. I simply choose to continue to exist and I choose to honor agreements I was party to because there are pros/cons to not doing so.
I don't need you or anyone else to agree. I am simply stating my observations on existence. You may not like my conclusions, heck I may not even like them but thats existence. Like gravity. That's a power I didn't agree to but i don't have much I can do about that one.
Well we definitely agree on the evil of abuse of power. And I agree that authority is the agreement of the use of power. So since we all have power, we must come to agreements on the use of power, and vest that authority somewhere.
I'm no leftist, or advocating for government control. I'm on team freedom and we probably agree on more than we disagree. But I think anarchy is a reaction to bad government. Since we're all at least a little imperfect, government will always be so too, and we'll always need at least a little anarchy, but not the whole enchilada.
And I totally agree that no one has the authority to control, dictate, erase, silence, or otherwise hamper another's thoughts.
Haha, absolutely!! (Pun intended) That's why I said checks and balances must be always thriving, adapting to new environments like a living organism. There is no pat answer for sure. Better minds than mine have grappled with this for millennia.
Agreed. The fundamental problem is, and the Deep State is an excellent example (though there are others throughout history), raw power always wins. As Alinsky said, the question is not whether a goal is moral, only whether it is achievable. Morality is abstract; whether something can be done or not is concrete.
Checks and balances might evolve, but so does the serpent that is the Deep State. Its continued existence demands no less. Eventually it evolves to overwhelm anything in its way. Like a cancer. And that is where we are today.
I suppose the ultimate check on power is to simply eliminate the offending organization. That is really the only thing that can work. Fire 'em all, don't try to separate the 'good' ones from the 'bad' ones. At this point, anyone who has stayed must be presumed corrupt. Let 'em find new, hopefully productive, employment elsewhere.
Yeah, I'm a guy that believes the 2nd amendment allows me to own a tank or an F-15 if the government does. I got my eye on a little beauty for only a few hundred mil, lol.
You are absolutely right, Don. Evidence that the founders intended that is the 'letters of marque and reprisal' clause -- which allows Congress to contract with a private person to attack enemy shipping on the open seas. That would only be realistic if said person owned a warship of comparable power to the most powerful navies of the world. You know, with cannons and all. At that time, such a warship was the most powerful weapon system in existence, similar to today's aircraft carriers.
If there is something you want to say to me, say it. Cryptic messages implying you know mysterious truths that I don't, without naming them, is rude. You have no clue what I perceive or don't. And no clue what I've read and haven't.
How does that square with commandments, sharia and talmud and so on?
Which takes precedence: the religious rule or the freedom to not be governed by it?
If it is my freedom to produce and sell Mohammed-lookalike Real Dolls (tm), then the tenets and freedoms and right sof moslems as ordered by the Quran is being violated (idolators, apostates, and so on /must/ be killed); if they are to be allowed to practice their relgious tenets the way they are written, my freedoms are curbed.
So which one is it, and who's going to be arbiter of it, and by what means?
(The easy way out is of course a racially and culturally homgenous society. Good luck re-establishing or achieving that without violating the H*ll out of all libertarian principles.)
It doesn't need to square with any of it. People make a square out of it by imposition. I never said that was imposition was avoidable (through some idealistic government for example). Tyranny i.e. coercion of agreement is existential. People/groups can and will justify anything. The fact that one might agree with said imposition doesn't mean it's legitimate if others are being forced to 'agree'. One can choose how to act within that framework but that doesn't mean they have any existential right over anyone else and vice versa. I am not offering a societal solution for an existential problem. That would be silly.
Yes, and then the obvious truth comes to the surface, doesn't it?
That libertarianism either presupposes an ethnically homogenous nation, or chooses to ignore that requirement to not have to make an intellectually honest but counter-conditioning and counter-doctrical stand.
Which makes it rather worthless as a set of ideas since it ignores reality.
While i agree in concept, i disagree in details: the Alphabets and BlackRocks own the executive, most of the legislative and the judicial, and they coordinate their actions. If the other party was in the executive the same things would be happening. It's a lot worse than you think. Regards
Telling a lie requires telling more and more lies to maintain it, but only if you are questioned. Take away the ability to question and you can tell any lie you want with impunity.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." -- Joseph Goebbels
Yes, and everything he said is true until the last sentence. The truth should be the greatest friend of the state, and it would be if the state fulfilled its proper role. Only a state that seeks to subjugate its citizens needs to lie.
Which is, of course, what Goebbels was doing; and why truth was Hitler Germany's greatest enemy.
Your point is excellent: the state needs to fulfill its proper role with only enough power to do that which it must, by its nature, do exclusively -- provide for the common defense, most notably. Too bad that concept has been so shamelessly abandoned b the Deep State.
Apparently, it was my Substack url that was causing it to be disappeared, as it worked when he provided a screenshot without the url. Here is his tweet about it:
The Soviets had state-run media, we have a media-run state.
Absolutely. My new litmus test for the primaries is to reduce the funding for the FBI, DOJ, NIH, CDC, DOE, ATF, and USDE (dept of Ed) by at least 80%. Reverse the $80billion for the IRS. The CDC should probably just be privatized. The FBI reduced by 95%.
In any event any candidate getting my money and vote in the primary must promise to send half the savings back to the states to perform the same functions at the state level in the form of block grants, and half goes towards tax rate reductions and paying down debt.
The only other alternative I would remotely consider supporting is one that relocated 85% of current DC based government jobs in those agencies across the country in a logical manner for the role, but also ensure these people work in actual communities all across the country. The DC swamp can only function in the DC bubble. It’s long past time to get out of this habit of having DC swamp rats with no experience trying to control industries and people they have zero understanding of.
CeeDeeCee should be abolished. It’s abysmal & completely unnecessary.
100%
Same for Education. Utterly useless, unnecessary, and as we now know, destructive.
Yes, local, accountable, skilled people. I'm staggered at how incompetent and bloated our federal government has become. The bureaucratic machine must be torn down, or it will continue to tear our country down.
I doubt this can be done at the level of the federal government. The states will need to get stronger and take back more powers, eventually proving how useless, corrupt and wrong federal agencies are. I'm continually amazed that anyone thinks there's a use for a federal bureaucrat telling us what to eat and how to educate our children, just as a couple examples.
That said, I agree, we need to elect candidates who are going to work to get rid of the alphabet agencies.
The bureaucrats not only have civil service protection, they are unionized. Big mistake!
Why I don’t put much hope in “term limits;” the bureaucracy is constant and just waits out any threat.
Listen to these people; do they seems concerned with being fired?
Capitol Protest - Federal Employees Zoom Call Re: Breaking Windows Plans;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPXiz4m7nk&t=11s
As I recall, the left was recently freaking out over PDJT’s plaid to gut the bureaucracy so, yes, if he runs, it’s game on!
Amusing that unions were sold as a corrective to greedy capitalists -- necessary to counter greed. But where they find most representation is in the State bureaucracies.
Always about money, power, control. At least with capitalism we got some good products even though they too succumbed to the same money, power, control. What to do?:-)
About 9 years into my study of economics I became convinced 'capitalism' is a word that doesn't help. Our view of society is clearer if we classify everything primarily by function.
The realm of voluntary exchanges can be called 'the market' or 'the free market' or 'voluntaryism'. Any trade or employment falls under that.
The realm of coerced exchanges can be called 'the state' or 'policy' or 'regulation' or 'taxation' or 'fiat money' or 'the central bank' or 'extortion' or 'gangsterism'.
Does "capitalism" include a system whereby one priveleged class (or race?) is permitted to creat money out of nothing? That's not voluntary exchange, or the free market.
The enemy's most wicked spell is confusing our language.
That’s why block grants to the states could work. They can start out with a mixture of at home experts and former fed employees (hopefully the better ones) to hit the ground running. It’s no too distributive to the going concern of necessary functions, it lets the states fund their own university research which will result in a return to competing ideas and the scientific process, it places more enforcement in the hands of individual states.
Plus, once the states get the block grants, they will never, ever, give that funding back to the federal government. It’ll be all out war. The dysfunctional states are already dysfunctional. It won’t change that. But it will give the functional states options. Congress can punt regulations mostly back to the states with federal recommendations from a scaled down staff addressing far fewer issues - and only those issues of genuine national concern. We all know congress won’t actually legislate in our lifetime.
No block grants. Don't send the money to DC in the first place. Reduce federal taxes by at least half and send all functions back to the states that don't deal with National Defense, State Department, and little else.
Sending money to DC for it to be laundered, filtered, conditionalized, and have a huge percent of it stick to the 6 counties surrounding DC is non useful.
The Federal income tax (there are other federal taxes) is another scam perpetrated on The People.
Chapter 1 for purposes of this post - 16A followed 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank in the next breath / in a hurry. All pre-planned. Impossible to detail here.
Chapter 2 for purposes of this post - If you read Article 1 Sec 9 (paragraph 4) of the Constitution which has never been repealed (keep that in mind), 16A on the surface seems to directly contravene it. The Amendment did NOT cancel / cancel out / negate Art. 1 Sec 9. BOTH still stand as law.
Chapter 3 - If you are unsuccessful puzzling out the foregoing, no fault of yours. It’s a tangled tale. Well laid out / dissected in Cracking the Code: The Fascinating Truth About Taxation in America, by Peter Eric Hendrickson. As you might guess the feds don’t want the info known. The Hendricksons have been persecuted for years, Mar-A-Lago raid style and worse. Books available on author’s website
https://losthorizons.com
NO payment portal online. My guess, author has attempted online payment setup and been shut down, but I don’t know. Sole payment method is by snail mail, check or money order. I have ordered several times. Author very responsive. Most recent was 2 yrs or so pre pandemic.
The American People have been f’d for generations and it all started with the Federal Reserve. (Oracle Ed Dowd [maybe, maybe not] predicting the ponzi scheme will collapse under its own weight in the short run. Buckle up.)?
Glad to see someone else citing Peter's work. I have been filing fully informed returns since 2007. The book is eye opening and life changing.
YES!!!!
Any $$$ from the Feds has strings attached. We have to cut loose or drown
🎯🎯🎯
Turn it around: the states send a set sum to Washington each year.
After that they get to tax and spend however each state sees fit. Hell, that might even allow Illinois to escape bankruptcy.
Not a bad idea at all....
No disrespect NCmom, but the federal gov is not going to give block grants to the states to break the fed hold over the states/people.
IMO states need to take back all the control they can and severely limit the influence of the fed gov. money = power
Did your dad design ETA supercomputers?
I can live in fantasy land, can't I? Technically if enough congressional legislators vote for it, and the president signs block grants into law, there is not much the agencies can do about it. Although I'll grant you there is slim to zero chance of that happening.
At the very least the people living off the taxpayer's dimes need to be located throughout the country funding those taxes, and not so many huddled in DC/ Northern VA. Last I looked, even including military and border patrol, somewhere around 30% of federal employees live and work between Norfolk and DC/ northern VA. That's 600,000 and pretty much all of several levels of "leadership" for most of these agencies.
I'm only going to vote for people in the primaries who are willing to try to reduce the size of the federal government and support block grants or dramatically slashed funding. In the general election I'm a pragmatist and I'm voting for the best option I actually get.
He (his legal team really) figured out how to get "the power to fire" too late in his term. So bloody close...
That's one reason they'll stop at nothing to keep him out this time.
He not only has the extra motivation to get even, he has the know-how.
trump will do all that and drain the swamp !!
I hope so. I was somewhat ambivalent about another Trump run in 2024. Last week I thought it better he make endorsements and expand Truth into banking, payment processing, and regular media. Then they gave Trump the motivation that can only come from personal rage to drain the swamp. Now, I’m all in MAGA 2024. At the very least he’ll move a bunch of functions/ jobs out of DC and end the current tyranny of CDC, NIH, DOJ, USDE, and the FBI by slashing their budgets and firing the top three levels of leadership. Plus he’ll finish the wall and return our country to being a sovereign nation.
To update this I have moved squarely away from wanting Trump to run. It’s totalitarian to re-write history and his attacks on DeSantis are poor attempts to re-write Covid history. Trump has become obsessed with Trump and blind to the needs of the country. He has been relentlessly, and unjustly attacked, since 2015. His anger is valid. His want for revenge understandable. But it’s not what is best for the country, he probably can’t win, and someone needs to actually lead to save both Trump and our children’s shot at an actual future.
trump is just a pawn ... he never run the white house, except tweets at 3 am and yelling to the press ... i suppose same suspects want him back there, and they are pushing him and all this supports he gets. he is 80 years old WHY should he bother to work those long days ... does not make sense, except others pushing him there ...
Do not worship false idols. The 'swamp' will be drained one day, by the fire of heaven.
And I think we can guess what will deliver that fire.
will see it soon ...
Trump is most definitely not the “perfect” person to play a character roll in destroying the country. Not only is an old billionaire unmotivated to become a martyr to play a made up role for zero personal gain, but Trump also isn’t particularly charismatic, he spouts out whatever is on his mind with no filter, he never calls for violence, he doesn’t court the activists class, his actual policies are entirely moderate.
The fact that the 4th branch of government is trying to destroy the country because Trump is a threat to their power doesn’t say anything about Trump. All it says is the administrative state would rather destroy the country than lose their unconstitutional power to anyone, and they will act like ridiculous morons making the attempt. It wouldn’t matter who was trying to return power to the legislative bodies that the country was founded in vesting power in, they are going to attack absolutely anyone and everyone that wants yo stop the reallocation of money to the 4th branch of government and the industrial complexes they work hand in hand with.
The only way to stop the 4th branch is to fire 'em all -- something that I understand Trump has had some experience with 😁
If you leave a single head of the hydra, it will grow back. Getting rid of 95% of it is like getting rid of 95% of a cancer. It grows back and normally in a more aggressive, metastatic form.
So if it is Trump's calling to play Heracles in this modern incarnation of the old myth, so be it. I can't think of anyone better suited, warts and all.
too much kool aid ... 4th?
Nope. He had his chance. He failed. And he foisted the vexxine on us. Trump is not the answer.
Trump has done nothing to help his misguided fans rotting in prison for entering the capital building.
Is there a better answer? A better candidate?
I get the anger over vaccines although myself, husband, and kids are all unvaccinated. I would never take medical advice from a real estate guy turned politician. The food pyramid was still around when I was a kid in the 1980's/ 1990's so I learned long ago to ignore government "experts" on health. I was then an outdoor adventure guide in WV summers during undergrad when I learned to never, ever trust big pharma after seeing how opioids had destroyed lives and communities. Some parts of warp speed were good, and I see zero evidence that Trump would have ever even considered "vaccine mandates." It was Democrats fighting for totalitarian control, not Trump, so I am not going to hold him accountable for what Democrats did and big pharma lies. I do hold him accountable for not firing Brix and Fauci - evidence was clear he should have fired them and changed the messaging from the (political) "science" people.
I like DeSantis and find him to be very appealing as a candidate for countless reasons, but I don't think he's going to challenge Trump in the primary (I could be wrong). I'm also not sure he has the same passion to end some of the administrative state's powers after the regime tries to destroy his life for years. I see no other candidates with any follow through on the horizon. There is time, maybe one will appear.
I'd vote for Tulsi Gabbard whichever party she runs for. She has stayed tough opposing the surveillance state and government overreach. If she had been the nominee in the last election for Dems, she would have probably gotten my vote. I might also send her lots of books and studies on actual energy solutions - hopefully she's learned since her last run....... maybe/ hopefully she's met Michael Shellenberger since the swamp called her a Russian asset and ended her presidential bid.............
Such a pity that Tulsi is a moderate thus never could get past the well controlled primaries. Yang is similar and is in the process of created yet another third party that can't succeed if history is any guide.
Radicals were successful in deconstructing political parties via the primary process. Trump was a singular modern escape by being so confrontational. His ability to wield the press vaulted him past the party favorites so moderate voters elevated him. On the other side all the slots were full of acolytes spouting the same causes - mostly green new deal but we got the default, Biden.
A lot to fox in the system.
You are absolutely correct. It seems the primary system is rigged to ensure the “neos” (neocons and neoliberals) who will expand the administrative state and enrich political cronies along with all the industrial complexes are set up to win...... and Trump was the anomaly. Those neo candidates ensure continued “reallocation” of taxpayer’s money to said cronies, activists, and industrial complexes.
I have a family member high enough up in DHS to have been offered a job in the situation room at the WH with a previous administration (which she declined). She said from day 1 the opposition from DC towards Trump was purely his threat to their very lucrative money trains. They wouldn’t have cared at all had another Bush won the R primary.
Gabbard represented a similar threat but not being independently wealthy, and the DC beltway insiders being effectively in complete control of Democrat political spending, she never really had a chance.
How do people keep falling for the “Russian spy” junk? MLK was murdered long before my birth and it was evident with him this “Soviet/ Russian” asset baloney was the intelligence community playbook. So much for people thinking “fool me once.”
I think without a corrupted process she would have won. She holds many populist positions, especially those relating to military force. She was moderate on most things. She beautiful, articulate, and has a perfect temperament. She’s actually a veteran which is a plus for commander in chief. She checks a bunch of identity boxes the left claims to promote. She was by far the best candidate, and no 100% WI nursing home voting rates or sketchy drop boxes or imaginary bursts pipes would have been needed for her to win the election.
I found Yang interesting. Ideas like universal basic income have been tried, and fail. Flat taxes actually encourage mobility and economic growth. His energy policies were a mixture of wacky and very good. He too would have been interesting. Any of them less destructive than Biden or other neo’s.
yeah if turkeys had any say there wont be any thanksgivings ...
Who is?
Defund the Deep State.
The DoJ is the only agency named that should be allowed to continue.
All the rest should be dismantled.
Along with the IRS.
No Federal agency or bureaucracy or subcontracting 'private' corporation is operating legally unless it's explicitly authorized in the 30 Enumerated Powers of the US constitution.
One such legal function is the US Post Office. We would have to amend the constitution to remove that.
The rest are outright illegal. CDC? Illegal. DOE? Illlegal. FBI? Illegal. BLM? Illegal. NIH? Illegal. BATF? Illegal.
To be fair there were signatories of the constitution, like Hamilton, who wanted corruption and the unlimited State. Funny how Broadway makes a play celebrating him. But the constitution as written and accepted by the states was one of a limited central government, with 30 enumerated powers, and under the 10th Amendment - no other powers.
Oh please, you hate Trump and based on your comments it seems more likely you would rather live in poverty and freeze while starving to death than vote for him.
If by better you mean inflation, unemployment, recession, and depression, then I agree 100%.
No president, no person, no thing could "keep out" a respiratory sars virus!! Get that straight before you proceed any further with your little "history" reflection..
Also, remember the wisest words of that time "The cure cannot be worse than the disease".
Until 2020 no one expected elected officials to keep them safe from ever catching infections. Even truly deadly plagues were not blamed on kings .
No, it's still state-run media, it's just dressed the other way.
I had to read Yuri's quote twice to be sure it was correctly registered in my brain and I agree with him. "The Soviets had state-run media, we have a media-run state. "
The machinery of American government has been captive of Blue Blooded Banksters since the FEDERAL Reserve Act and then OSS/CIA created by Dulles pals at Brown Bros Harriman w mostly Yale Bonesmen to start. Decades and decades revolving door lobbying, legislative & oversight roles has left a shell of anything that might be a functioning state.
Booz Allen runs NSA and kids like Snowden and corps beyond FOIA are the heart of unaccountable power. We are fighting a transnational globalist managerial elite and for me the notion of Sovereign governments or functioning democracies is truly laughable in context of Covidian policies with Lockstep backdrop and pharma power overriding all regulatory safety mechanisms and suppressing treatments and dissent.
I don't know if I'd call most of those actors "media," but in principle you're absolutely correct.
"No, it's still state-run media..."
Absolutely. The U.S. Ministry of Truth is a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. government and is controlled 100% by U.S. government regulators. They--not the media, not the banksters, not the corporations--are in power. They are our rulers, and never forget it.
I'm having an interesting discussion on my stack today with the community about a particular wrinkle of this very topic- how much of this activity is calculated action, how much is simply noise in the right direction from supporters, etc. Join us if you wish.
https://guttermouth.substack.com/p/low-effort-1623-something-to-think/
The thing is, we always have. The recognition of this has just reached a tipping point. Hence the massive crackdowns currently being initiated by the ABC agencies. Textbook reaction to the plebes getting wise. Right now due to electronic media we have a plethora of alternative sources. But, you should have been around in the 60's, 70's 80's...if you wanted to find a source in the USA that was beyond state media (and wasn't some kind of leaflet or comic book or something) it was like being locked behind an 'iron curtain'. And for most people back then, that ignorance was bliss. While we faulted Russia for the exact same thing and imagined ourselves as 'oh so' superior. After all, we had the NYT's and PBS, etc.
It's both. An unholy synthesis.
Not really. The famous Rush media montages from years ago clearly demonstrated that the various media outlets were taking talking points from a centralized source. They would occasionally deviate slightly, only to convince people that they were still doing news.
Your assertion is based on completely false and misrepresented data, readily available in the archives of this very substack.
For references to fully debunk your assertions I would point you reading the articles and referenced links on this substack. You definitely need to start with stats for cats.
The "Trump Voters" Covid deaths assertion has been fully debunked. It's actually old people and unhealthy people everywhere who died and rural areas skew older while more obese people tend to be poor and those are who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats - even in counites that voted for Trump- with those in the bottom quintile 3 out of 4 vote Democrat.
Florida has a vaccination rate in the top quintile and well above the national average and Florida still remains below NY in per capita deaths. NYC never avoided the Delta surge - it hit late because of seasonality but clearly pre-dated Omicron.,
You literally have no idea what you are talking about.
Literally every single one of these statements has been disproven.
Are you a time traveler from the past?
You're a boring troll. Keep simping.
Lol
But see, it's not stealing an election if we are saving democracy.
"it's for your own good."
"Of course it is for my own good if I don't comply and you put your god damn boot on my neck"
Time Magazine: The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Yes!!! It shocks me that people seem to have missed this article. At the time it was published I watched and watched, but there was ZERO coverage, ZERO outrage. We all know about the Russia Russia Russia hoax of 2016 election interference, but that fabrication is still preserved by the media and politicians.
Yet here, this article outlines a 'cabal' (their word!) which 'secretly' worked to undermine the 2020 election. It proudly details all their efforts, from Zuckerbucks to skirting election laws in states like PA - in 2019 - well before anyone knew anything about COVID.
The hubris is so apparent - like a little kid who got away with something and just feels the need to tell someone. All the ways in which Trump was saying the election was being 'rigged' were scoffed at on one hand, but then backwardly used as their reasoning as to why those things were actually done. But I guess they stated "They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures." then it was all OK.
Ugh, this still infuriates me to no end. Every person mentioned in that article should be jailed - or more. To me it is literally an admission of treason and more insurrectionist than anything that occurred on Jan 6 - as some have said, the real Jan 6 insurrection occurred on Nov 3, 2020 - clearly according to this article it began much earlier than that.
The same people talk of saving so many lives because of Covid jabs. But their jabs and their policy shutting down the economy will likely kill 100 people+ for every 1 person who died from Covid. That is so much more than treason or insurrection. And they are going to kill so many more, because they believe they are the best and brightest who have ever lived, and will die before they give up power over the world.
LOL Nothing in that article says or even suggest that the election was undermined, it says the exact opposite, that it made the election fair and incorruptible.
Why would there be outrage? It says the whole effort was to keep the election fair and credible, it makes no accusations of anything illegal.
Yeah, subverting, circumventing election laws, flooding the market with mail in ballots, blocking observations of the midnight count, destroying election records, very fair and credible.
Who on earth would accuse themselves of anything illegal?
Like I've been saying, the Woke activist has made an unholy alliance with Clinton and Obama neoliberals, the corporate media, Corporations generally, Big Tech, Military Brass and Intelligence community. Trump might not be able to win the election even if he won the election, these folks are so sure they on the good side of progress and history.
How did so many Stoopid people get so influencial?
It's the system. If you want to participate and maintain your income and ability to climb the hierarchy, you must not question the system. Think for yourself and you will be cast out and canceled.
Cunning.
He did win the election, just not the selection.
You should actually read that, it says the whole effort was to keep the election fair and credible, it makes no accusations of anything illegal.
Yeah, all criminals write glowing autobiographies, postmortems about how noble their crimes were.
Good for thee and not for me….
Sayeth the elites…
“but this time it’s different”
Doing it for “your own good”, maybe virtuous, but all that we are witnessing is being done for the “greater good”…
No one can argue with that…
And, if a few “cat paws” get broken in the process, well, that is the price of progress…
A very wise friend of mine, Dr. James DeMeo said, "The Nazis kill you for their own good, but the Communists kill you for your own good!"
Sadly it's completely true & where we are today, with the Government "minions" inside the USA..
They got away with it cleanly. Democracy will continue to be saved again, and again. All the entrenched 2+ term republicans need to be kicked to the curb pronto. (Here is where I curse to myself......)
I'm remembering that claymation skit from Bill Hicks, Clinton walking into that boardroom full of old white guys smoking. I assume a version of that happens to everyone who goes to work in leadership in DC.
https://youtu.be/B8IvKx0c19w
They even wrote about it;
Proudly. The actions of the true Anointed.
We had to burn the village to save the village
The election wasn't stolen.
74 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Original 2020 Election Ballot Images
VoterGA’s Garland Favorito held a press conference today to discuss statewide evidence destruction in Georgia. Nearly 30% of Georgia counties are missing some or all of their ballot images. Interestingly, the Maricopa County audit also revealed 284K deleted or corrupted ballot images. In a press release, VoterGA summarized the details:
Atlanta, November 9, 2021 – VoterGA today announced that their ballot image analysis team determined 74 Georgia counties have been unable to produce all the original ballot images from the November 2020 election. The team obtained admissions from 56 counties that most or all of the images created automatically by the Dominion voting system for results tabulation have been destroyed. VoterGA volunteers made the determinations by submitting Open Records Requests (ORR) for the images to each county.
Ballot images are a critical aspect of election records that have long been required to be retained by federal and state law. Federal law requires a 22-month retention period for election records while state law requires a 24-month retention period for election documents which are generally considered to include those that are electronic. [USC 52 20701, O.C.G.A. 21-2-73]
The Dominion voting system automatically creates images for in-person voted ballots on compact flash memory cards. It automatically creates images for mail-in ballots on memory flash drives. The cards or drives are then manually uploaded to the county’s Election Management Server (EMS). Some densely populated counties also use high speed scanners that automatically transfer images directly to the EMS.
Counties admit non-conformance or evade ORRs
At least 28 counties admitted having no original images at all and 22 of those counties only had recount images that some claimed are the same as originals. Recount images don’t have original time stamps that can be used for audit purposes nor do they have original meta data that shows how votes were initially interpreted. The images can also be changed by tampering between scans and are therefore, invalid to audit an election.
VoterGA received emails from another 28 counties admitting they do not have a complete set of original images.Various counties were missing all in-person voting images, all absentee images, all Election Day images or a substantial portion of one or more of those groups.
Another 18 counties did not comply with repeated ORRs over a period of two months. Most simply did not respond but some frustrated the requestors by requiring exorbitant fees for images that most counties provided for around $25-$50. Fees requested by counties ranged from $0 to $1,700, which is too unnecessarily expensive to comply with ORR law. Six of those counties claim to have mailed images that VoterGA team members have not yet received. These images may also be incomplete or recount images only.
VoterGA showed written confirmation from former State Election Director Chris Harvey granting permission to erase in-person ballot images from the memory cards. “These violations are yet another glaring reason why Georgians cannot trust the Secretary of State’s office,” said Garland Favorito, co-founder of VoterGA. “We desperately need a multi-county audit of the 2020 election to resolve these serious problems before 2022.”
Excellent recap.
And that was one state only.
Stolen implies they planned it. What they did was use fake science to shut down the economy, and then wrote the rules as they went along regardless of existing law. "Safe and effective" is about as accurate as "the safest election in history." Like four years of Russia Russia Russia, anything goes to save democracy from Trump. Anything, including everything you claim Trump and his people are about.
Blah blah blah. Trump just got caught breaking the law. There is no denying that. Biden won the election fair and square. Get over it.
Your tone and your language have the opposite effect you imagine.
Guyaka, you are only right between your own ears. Go therefore and be right!
What law?
https://twitter.com/annamericafirst/status/1557899089735520258?s=21&t=OfjYiHJ7K2V3G2vdIeyjpQ
Twitter says that tweet or site does not exist.
Good job linking up a tweet that doesn't exist.
Who Is Behind the Shadow Campaign “Fortifying” Our Elections? https://uncoverdc.com/2021/02/16/who-is-behind-the-shadow-campaign-fortifying-our-elections/
Another quite well documented essay on how to influence voters. I suppose the R'e have something similar. Technology allows exploitation of thought mainly via the press that now has become one-sided. The public seems less tolerant of the bias but we shall see.
“From The Pit” Conference
New York’s Voter Matrix: An Alternate Structure Within Voter Rolls
One expert said he saw this occur in the Middle East. He said the purpose was to "control elections. I never expected to see it in America."
BY ANDREW PAQUETTE AUGUST 13, 2022
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/08/new-yorks-voter-matrix-an-alternate-structure-within-voter-rolls/
The creation of phantom voters so that ballots can be created is quite subtle. That someone could decide the pattern is also remarkable. I can well understand why that might cause eyes to glaze over. Another one for Dr Frank.
I like how you're linking up an article that says people worked to create an election that was fair, free, open, credible, and incorruptible.
I like how this low-energy idiot exposes himself with every post he makes.
You idiots can't read, that article make no allegations of anything illegal, it says just the opposite.
Calling people idiots; you appear at the 1:30 point in this clip; https://youtu.be/vZqr-1GJIAk
Precisely my point! Tripe written for the low info audience; you!
I could show him Pulitzer Prize reporting on “the dossier” and he would say, see, it’s real, they got a prize for it or video of MSM saying the dossier had all been verified and he would say; see, all verified!:-)
You should have read the article before you decided to post it. It says the opposite of what you think it says.
Yeah, meant for dolts to use as confirmation bias. Apparently, it worked.
I'm not the one who linked it up, you did, and that's literally what it says.
And it’s an MSM cover for the big steal.
CNN's Camerota Claims All Of Dossier Has Been Corroborated [VIDEO] http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/08/cnns-camerota-claims-all-of-dossier-has-been-corroborated-video/
Above censored but here is another version; https://youtu.be/u7AZtDcDSyo
Comey's confession: dossier not verified before, or after, FISA warrant
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/420408-comeys-confession-dossier-not-verified-before-or-after-fisa-warrant#.XAwxrB0BaNQ.twitter
Note: Watch Media Serially Lie About Steele Dossier Being 'Corroborated' https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/12/13/media-serially-lie-steele-dossier-corroborated/
12/16/2019
Comey: 'I Was Wrong' — F.B.I.'s FISA Abuse 'Was Not Acceptable' https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/15/comey-i-was-wrong-fbis-fisa-abuse-was-not-acceptable/
I also link to the above to show haw the leftists MSM lies. She says it’s verified so, good enough for you?
Look, impressive, huh, they got an award so it must have been true?
FLASHBACK: WAPO, NYT AWARDED PULITZER PRIZES FOR TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION REPORTS https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/24/flashback-wapo-nyt-pulitzer-prize-trump-russia/
Meanwhile;
New F.B.I. Notes Re-Debunk Major NYT Story, Highlight Media Collusion To Produce Russia Hoax https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/23/new-fbi-notes-re-debunk-major-nyt-story-highlight-media-collusion-to-produce-russia-hoax/
You forget the Birx / Jordan chat about hope:
Dr Brix last week was hauled in front of congress with some simple questions.
Congressman Jim Jordan: when the government told us the vaccinated could not transmit it (covid), was that a lie or a guess?
Dr. Brix : “i think it was hope”
when public health officials and agencies stridently told america that the covid vaccines would be a “dead end for the virus” and stop infection and spread, upon what did they base that claim and how did they get it so wrong?
Congressman Jim Jordan: was the government lying when they said this?*
Dr. Brix : i don’t know. i was not part of the taskforce discussions
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/birx-had-a-tough-day-in-congress
I saw that. my jaw hit the floor. unbelievable
Lying is not lying if it is for a good cause.
Lying: The price one pays to benefit the greater good.
They don't even pay a price. They don't see it as lying. The Anointed are free to do anything and everything they believe will advance their noble agenda.
True…
By definition, it ain’t lying if they say it…
Right! And a hundred different times they moved the goal posts.
I just can't believe people accepted that and kept going along with the nonsense.
FEAR
That word, hope, has been there in the legal FDA documents all along: https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-frequently-asked-questions
"A: Most vaccines that protect from viral illnesses also reduce transmission of the virus that causes the disease by those who are vaccinated. While it is hoped this will be the case, the scientific community does not yet know if the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine or Comirnaty will reduce such transmission."
Haven't the Feds pretty much suspended the Constitution via their neverending 'Emergency' declarations?
Yes. Yes, they have.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program
I agree with this statement.
It also includes the Federal Reserve imo.
Thanks for all that you do ! I no longer tune into mainstream news outlets. They are so 'Captured' that it's pathetic. I get my 'news' from truly independent sources now. And you know... the quality of info is so much better ! Thanks again...
agree. It's more affordable and efficient. I have never learned so much in such a short period of time.
agree!! come for the cats, stay for the passion, intellect, humour, ...!
Buried inside the 2013 Defense Authorization Act, signed by Obummer in early January while he was on vacation in Hawaii, were provisions which rewrote the 1948 Smith Mundt Act. The original act, passed in the wake of what Hitler did with the media in WW2, was put in place to prevent the government from using the media to write or broadcast propaganda inside the country. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but that’s the essential gist. It also prevented using government money, i.e., tax dollars to entice the media to tell a narrative the government wanted people to hear.
The 2013 DAA reversed all those rules. As of January 2013 US citizens could be treated the same way citizens of other countries had been treated for decades. In other words, the US government could use the commercial media to deliver narratives and propaganda. And they could use tax dollars to fund that activity.
We now know, of course, that the US government spent 10s of millions of dollars (probably hundreds of millions) to pay various media and tech outlets to push the Covid narrative. We may never know how much they paid, or what leverage they used, to roll the suppression train down the tracks.
If you read the legislative history of the 1948 bill, you will find that Congress put the law in place to prevent the exact things that happened with Covid narrative. And it more or less survived intact for 65 years. Until Obummer essentially snuck the changes in to a 3000 page bill that nobody read.
All roads lead back to Prescott Bush. But all roads run right through Obummer.
Most of everything bad ran right through Obummer, including the dementor-in-chief. In its case right through Obummer's basement.
Thank you for sharing that interesting history. I've never even heard of the Smith Mundt Act, or its reversal by Obama. Good grief.
You are welcome. Of course, you are not supposed to know. At the time, post WW2 Smith-Mundt was very important legislation. A statement, if you will, that what happened in Germany vis-a-vis the media, would not be allowed to happen here. But unless you got a degree in history (but maybe not) govt schools don’t teach real history. So you wouldn’t ever learn about it. On the off chance you did, well the annual DAA, (this year nearly a trillion dollars) is where they hide lots of stuff they don’t want you to know about. So there was no debate on the matter, no questions on what or why, likely most of the 535 had no idea the act was being gutted.
The full effect showed up beginning in March 2020 with two weeks to flatten the curve. The mind warping thought experiment is this (only works if you watched or read MSM, especially Feb 2020 through Feb 2021): the coverage you heard or read, the narrative that was being driven, was created, bought, and paid for by the government, aided by Pharma, the Medical profession, using your tax dollars. Essentially bending Federalism right back on top of the population, using our money to do it, and doing it ‘legally’ because the Smith-Mundt Act line of defense no longer existed. Exactly what Hitler did. Exactly. The 3rd Reich didn’t start with any of the things most people learned about WW2, yellow stars, rounding up the Jews, the death camps, or the invasion of Poland. It started with medical nationalism, using the medical profession and the media to plant the seeds, craft the narrative, then drive it home. Sound familiar? Cast in that light, and returning to those heady days of the wall to wall coverage, the picture of what was happening to us, versus what was being done to us, can be viewed with a lot more clarity.
Interesting piece of history and I can see the medical nationalism that you're describing here in the US. But, I also see it now in Western Europe, UK, Canada, Australia and even in Israel.
Still, I would guess that if medical nationalism was a necessary part of Hitler's Nazi government, it wasn't the only ingredient. And maybe, just maybe, medical nationalism doesn't always usher in Hitler.
On the other hand, if Trump (who is often called Hitler) returns to the White House in '24, maybe Democrats will blame it on the rise of medical nationalism and then turn on that like they did on free speech, freedom of movement, bodily autonomy, small business, attending school in person, safe spaces for women, breathing and sunshine.
Thank you. And yes you are totally correct. In that it was/is every western nation and not just the US. In my view, it has been all about economics and control and absolutely nothing to do with public health.
There's lots of stuff we've never heard of before.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program
after reading just a small section of that, I'm convinced that American democracy as we used to know it is dead forever
also: the section at the end about the recent public health laws and the Covid emergency declarations are interesting. it seems that Edward Dowd's thesis that fraud will prove to be the undoing of Pfizer is just wrong. seems like investors/stockholders won't have standing to sue Pfizer. and the Federal Government won't sue Pfizer because it refuses to see that it is a victim of fraud.
Good info. But wait till you browse through UN Agenda 2030...
Also I heard that twatter is actually govt.owned. They have high losses every year from when they started, and are bailed out every time, no questions. And twatter, being the hub for lgbtQ and Q and msm propaganda promotion while being filled with bots for manipulation and all around censoring the truth is enough signs that it indeed is an op from the leading NWO band of parasites.
wait until you see the new WEF plan to use "subject matter experts" to inform AI driven misinformation and hate speech expression as a top down cross platform system that governs all media and social media.
hah, I was editing my inital comment. And yes, I have already seen the news on that.
Ill even quote a bit of it. from I.Chudov's substack:
"WEF's "Global Intelligence Collecting AI" to Erase Ideas from the Internet
The World Economic Forum is becoming a little concerned. Unapproved opinions are becoming more popular, and online censors cannot keep up with millions of people becoming more aware and more vocal. The censorship engines employed by Internet platforms, turned out to be quite stupid and incapable. People are even daring to complain about the World Economic Forum, which is obviously completely unacceptable.
So, WEF author Inbal Goldberger came up with a solution: she proposes to collect off-platform intelligence from “millions of sources” to spy on people and new ideas, and then merge this information together for “content removal decisions” sent down to “Internet platforms”"
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/wefs-global-intelligence-collecting
WEF has it up too:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/online-abuse-artificial-intelligence-human-input
Berenson has said he plans to sue the Biden regime for their fascism. I wish him luck, but somehow I'll be amazed if it progresses meaningfully.
I'm sympathetic to James Lindsay's observation that the exit from Twitter is a facilitator of touching more grass. The platform, to the extent that it offers more power to the Regime than the People, is a net loss for the latter.
berenson absolutely should sue them, but he should also be very careful that he doesn't accidentally "hang himself".
suing twitter is one thing; suing the biden cartel is quite another.
Obidein/Clinton/Soros cartel
LOL The WH asking why someone hasn't been banned isn't fascism or coercion. He will lose.
Exactly. It's just an innocent question asked out of idle curiosity, along the lines of "ya think it's gonna rain this weekend?" You're very astute, Guyaka.
Love the article. We have a cabal of freaks who hate regular loving humans, and are obsessed with stealing and keeping power and misusing it against us.
You got in the way of that cabal and were cancelled without explanation.
So was I.
Now the WEF wants to move to the next step and have a WEF-operated platform-independent multi-site "censorship AI engine" that would identify wrongthink and hand "deletion orders" down to platforms. Great idea, right?
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/wefs-global-intelligence-collecting
I believe that the future is bright however.
Attempts to muzzle speech are attempts to limit thinking.
No individual or group has any existential authority over another. No ifs, whens or buts.
How's that for a thought?
There exists a multitude of legitimate authority, from parents over children to the captain of your Thursday night bowling team. The problem comes when the scope of defined authority is exceeded. Checks and balances on authority are what need to be thriving, not authority itself. The right to question needs to be absolute.
I disagree. There is no existential authority vested in anyone or any being. Beings exert power, that's it. But no being is responsible for it's initial existence so it simply cannot assume any authority over another. One may not like that, it may not be comfortable but that's existence. Now, the degree that one exercises their power upon others in existence or agrees to defer their power, or acquiesce to another's power(ie agrees to some notion of authority) is another matter. But if it's not done with agreement, it IS coercion or force. That is an inescapable fact of existence. That society (parents, institution s etc .)and the universe at large imposes such agreements is inescapable and as a social animal we are inextricably bound by such matters. Obviously, that comes with costs and benefits which is why we don't always rebel against authority.
But in no way does that mean any authority is existentially qualified.
Your position would say we have authority over not even ourselves because we are not responsible for our existence! EVERY being has existential authority vested in itself, precisely because it exerts power. You mistake "all" for "none". You admit this when you call it "inextricable". Stop and imagine just for a minute a society where parents do "not" have authority over their children. Since beings exert power, someone will most definitely assume this authority. You have an obligation to exercise your proper authority properly or someone will exercise theirs improperly.
I don't have authority over you or anyone. I exert influence and power on others all the time and others do that to me. I'm not denying that. I have some power to guide my actions but is that authority over me. When I say 'im going to get up and exercise tomorrow' but then I don't who exactly is running the show? Which one of me is the authority? I have a certain amount of power to drive action, that's it. I don't call that authority.
And it's pointless to posit the idea that parents won't exert 'authority' over their children. They will continue to exert power, more or less, because that is the nature of existence.But maybe our problem here is that I use the word 'authority' to describe an agreement of the use of power. People assume 'authority' all the time but regardless of their justifications, it isn't existentially given unless it's in agreement. And not being in agreement doesn't mean it doesn't confer benefits.
As for obligations. I have none. I am not even obligated to exist. I simply choose to continue to exist and I choose to honor agreements I was party to because there are pros/cons to not doing so.
I don't need you or anyone else to agree. I am simply stating my observations on existence. You may not like my conclusions, heck I may not even like them but thats existence. Like gravity. That's a power I didn't agree to but i don't have much I can do about that one.
Well we definitely agree on the evil of abuse of power. And I agree that authority is the agreement of the use of power. So since we all have power, we must come to agreements on the use of power, and vest that authority somewhere.
I'm no leftist, or advocating for government control. I'm on team freedom and we probably agree on more than we disagree. But I think anarchy is a reaction to bad government. Since we're all at least a little imperfect, government will always be so too, and we'll always need at least a little anarchy, but not the whole enchilada.
And I totally agree that no one has the authority to control, dictate, erase, silence, or otherwise hamper another's thoughts.
And we can agree to that! 😁
Wow. Well said.
Checks and balances are inevitably gotten around. Remember Acton's maxim: power tends to corrupt. As certain as the sun coming up in the morning.
Haha, absolutely!! (Pun intended) That's why I said checks and balances must be always thriving, adapting to new environments like a living organism. There is no pat answer for sure. Better minds than mine have grappled with this for millennia.
Agreed. The fundamental problem is, and the Deep State is an excellent example (though there are others throughout history), raw power always wins. As Alinsky said, the question is not whether a goal is moral, only whether it is achievable. Morality is abstract; whether something can be done or not is concrete.
Checks and balances might evolve, but so does the serpent that is the Deep State. Its continued existence demands no less. Eventually it evolves to overwhelm anything in its way. Like a cancer. And that is where we are today.
I suppose the ultimate check on power is to simply eliminate the offending organization. That is really the only thing that can work. Fire 'em all, don't try to separate the 'good' ones from the 'bad' ones. At this point, anyone who has stayed must be presumed corrupt. Let 'em find new, hopefully productive, employment elsewhere.
Yeah, I'm a guy that believes the 2nd amendment allows me to own a tank or an F-15 if the government does. I got my eye on a little beauty for only a few hundred mil, lol.
You are absolutely right, Don. Evidence that the founders intended that is the 'letters of marque and reprisal' clause -- which allows Congress to contract with a private person to attack enemy shipping on the open seas. That would only be realistic if said person owned a warship of comparable power to the most powerful navies of the world. You know, with cannons and all. At that time, such a warship was the most powerful weapon system in existence, similar to today's aircraft carriers.
There is a will behind our oppression and you are far from percieving it. Read more banned things.
If there is something you want to say to me, say it. Cryptic messages implying you know mysterious truths that I don't, without naming them, is rude. You have no clue what I perceive or don't. And no clue what I've read and haven't.
How does that square with commandments, sharia and talmud and so on?
Which takes precedence: the religious rule or the freedom to not be governed by it?
If it is my freedom to produce and sell Mohammed-lookalike Real Dolls (tm), then the tenets and freedoms and right sof moslems as ordered by the Quran is being violated (idolators, apostates, and so on /must/ be killed); if they are to be allowed to practice their relgious tenets the way they are written, my freedoms are curbed.
So which one is it, and who's going to be arbiter of it, and by what means?
(The easy way out is of course a racially and culturally homgenous society. Good luck re-establishing or achieving that without violating the H*ll out of all libertarian principles.)
Diversity is our death. It is *their* strength. Who are they?
It doesn't need to square with any of it. People make a square out of it by imposition. I never said that was imposition was avoidable (through some idealistic government for example). Tyranny i.e. coercion of agreement is existential. People/groups can and will justify anything. The fact that one might agree with said imposition doesn't mean it's legitimate if others are being forced to 'agree'. One can choose how to act within that framework but that doesn't mean they have any existential right over anyone else and vice versa. I am not offering a societal solution for an existential problem. That would be silly.
Yes, and then the obvious truth comes to the surface, doesn't it?
That libertarianism either presupposes an ethnically homogenous nation, or chooses to ignore that requirement to not have to make an intellectually honest but counter-conditioning and counter-doctrical stand.
Which makes it rather worthless as a set of ideas since it ignores reality.
While i agree in concept, i disagree in details: the Alphabets and BlackRocks own the executive, most of the legislative and the judicial, and they coordinate their actions. If the other party was in the executive the same things would be happening. It's a lot worse than you think. Regards
Hence the need for anarcho-capitalism:
https://ia803108.us.archive.org/6/items/ObviousnessOfAnarchyJohnHasnas22/Obviousness%20of%20Anarchy%20John%20Hasnas-22.pdf
Agree...
Telling a lie requires telling more and more lies to maintain it, but only if you are questioned. Take away the ability to question and you can tell any lie you want with impunity.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." -- Joseph Goebbels
Kind of explains it all, doesn't it?
Yes, and everything he said is true until the last sentence. The truth should be the greatest friend of the state, and it would be if the state fulfilled its proper role. Only a state that seeks to subjugate its citizens needs to lie.
Which is, of course, what Goebbels was doing; and why truth was Hitler Germany's greatest enemy.
Your point is excellent: the state needs to fulfill its proper role with only enough power to do that which it must, by its nature, do exclusively -- provide for the common defense, most notably. Too bad that concept has been so shamelessly abandoned b the Deep State.
The supposed quote, after being tortured. Hm. Read more banned things.
Has anyone else experienced phantom posts on Facebook? CJ Hopkins tried to share our interview (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dissident-dialogues-cj-hopkins), and it showed up for a second but then vanished before people’s eyes as they scrolled to it or hovered over it.
Apparently, it was my Substack url that was causing it to be disappeared, as it worked when he provided a screenshot without the url. Here is his tweet about it:
https://twitter.com/CJHopkins_Z23/status/1557254997724864513
To get around the FB censorship, CJ reposted a screenshot with the clever preface, “Here's a cute picture of one of my cats …”:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02tWsgSr1jQE9Etp1JWCKwptKkot9Xu6mSq7fbq4kdphGiHL2qiocjFyt2qtVQdQcol&id=100017226753856
Well MAA, congratulations; it appears you're now officially disinformation! Wear the badge proudly. Not everyone is so exalted.
Thank you, Wild Bill! I do indeed. I can add it to my collection as it goes nicely with anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, and right-wing extremist 😸
Decentralization of everything...
This is the way.
“Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.”
- C.S. Lewis
In a concerted effort, this is what the government and media collusion are trying to do.
We must never forget there is a difference between a "Right" and a privilege.
The term "Right" has been corrupted, to the point of being useless, because of it's indiscriminate use.
This has become a de facto illness to our liberties that only We The People can recuperate it.
As someone with a journalism degree, I have become so saddened by my profession over the last few years.