Brumby's thoughts are also mine. Always been apolitical, was getting ready for my retirement, finally after decades we were financially stable...and then came 2020....ravaged our businesses, told us we were scum if we didn't get vaccinated (we didn't) and everyone here knows the rest. We all lived it. Now I write on Substack....strange days indeed.
I too abhor labeling. I consider myself a conservative libertarian. I have my beliefs but pushing them on others is just not what is appropriate. Hearts are changed when those of us who have experienced the grace of Jesus just reach out in love. It feels good to be an independent thinker.
There's a few of us running around, but I have to admit that 2020 surprised me by highlighting how few there actually are relative to how many liked to say they were.
Ah, we're still around here and there, RG, just not making waves everywhere I go. The old hippie contingent saw through all the deep state bullshit from the get-go and we're theorists, but hey, just calling a spade a spade.
As I was reading your comment I thought, "what if I write - 'I'm just a child of God'" and then I read your sentence about Jesus!! Thanks for the imprimatur.
Agree how the loud voices have shifted so far to the left and gives the appearance. Probably 1/3 of the population just goes along to get along with those loud leftist voices, so there is teeth behind the appearance. (When the appearance changes, the teeth will fall out.) Reminds me of Elon’s tweet with the stick figures. I was a Republican party member until the party left me in 2012, though had voted more like an independent on a couple occasions. MAGA is not a Republican party, imo, more a populist anti-establishment movement that fortunately is able to leverage machinery of one of the two major parties. Trump is smart, and knows how to establish leverage to create the conditions for solving problems, bringing people to the table, and making deals. And he is tough, persistent, and resilient. He deploys this all for the benefit of Americans. This is his superpower. The populist voices will not be denied. And the difference with populist movements of ages past: now we have memes.
Republican party left me too. I'm "unaffiliated". And I agree, MAGA is NOT a Republican party. It has become totally unrecognizable over time starting with Bush II, part 2.
I was talking to a friend yesterday; smart but a little too trusting of the government (I’ve been there).
I told her something. She said “I wasn’t aware of that. I do play attention to the news”.
I told her her could consider using FreeSpoke to see how the news is posted by each side, blue, red, and nonpartisan. MMS is not the, what? Best? Truth?
and ignoring it over the decades is what brought us to this point. hopefully we remain engaged and vigilant and not let complacency lead us astray again.
As the freedoms were pulled/twisted/eliminated, there was no choice for thinkers other than to be involved. I go back to “you didn’t build that”, and the disbelief has increased exponentially. So weary of labels and yet - perhaps the labeling and word crap (technical term) has hastened this heartfelt revolt? Agree 100%.
Ditto...I'm for treating people the way they deserve to be treated, on merit...And for treating felons the way they deserve to be treated, including speedy capital punishment...And with anyone who intentionally injures or tries to pervert children getting very short shrift...
Yup. Fifteen years ago I was a liberal-leaning moderate. My views haven't changed all that much. But now the establishment press says I'm ultra right wing. Funny that.
And the same here. Getting ready to retire, and now this bullcrap. “Oh, you thought America and the modern world was going along pretty darn well, and now you get to really savor your final (hopefully) decades doing all the things you didn’t have time or money to enjoy before? HAHAHAHAHA. Nope—You’re going to have to figure out a way to fight Leviathan and save your country from the corrupt cabal that you never even knew existed and was really running things.”
Same. Card carrying but uninvolved “liberal” until 2020. Now I’ve spent the last four years suing California government for school mask and jab mandates and illegal states of Covid “emergencies.” All I wanted was to be left alone.
As soon as they started with the lockdowns, I said OMG they will go on endlessly because now, if an official lifts restrictions, every death after that is going to be laid at their feet. They’ve set up a political quagmire.
RG , by me , some school districts allow kids to get educated on line . There are teachers that are assigned to the on line kids . They have never been back to school since Covid .
Yup, me too. When their noose got tighter and tighter, going from "it's optional" to "take it or get fired" to open discussion of going door to door to force-inject everyone, I bought a gun for the first time ever. I was inspired by a video of an old black man saying "If you come to my door to inject me, I will shoot you." He's 100% right.
There can be no negotiation about our right to protect our own bloodstreams from Pfizer and Pfauci.
We need to create nooses for them now. The most important thing we all can do to prevent a recurrence of the mandate nightmare is to publicly advocate hanging everyone who mandated the poison:
Ibtruly am an anti-vaxxer,and I say I despise those very few of us who vehemently abuse those folks who got the vax because they had a mandate. Yes, they could have lost their jobs( and some chose to),but how many are already living paycheck to paycheck? Looking at their children's faces,and knowing that those faces would lose their shelter and their food if those paychecks stopped??
Same here, I don’t blame anyone, coercion came in many different forms not just the gov’t mandate. So when people say we had a choice, a mandate is not a choice and not a choice when you take in the propaganda that it was gonna stop the spread, etc. I get so angry when someone says people had a choice and then say to me “you didn’t take it.”
My husband took three shots, then decided to retire and has heart attack three months after retirement. Is all very murky too long for all the details here. Ps. (3 stents, 15 years of good lab work because of low dose statins, plus stress test in 2020 no issues).
Yes, thankfully he was given time to get medical attention. He had 2 stents put in and the following year another stent. I’m sorry I should have been more specific.
Everyone should be aware of the Congressional Report just released on the COVID experiment. The current crooks in power spent almost $1 billion, hired a company ( so named in the report) to lie to us, pull psyops, & scare the bejesus out of much of the population. Look at the table of contents & at least read some of the report. https://x.com/drjbhattacharya/status/1849703925395697797?s=12
And.. you did everything right by planning for a nice retirement only to find there's a good chance all the money saved will barely last a year. Back to the salt mines with you! Or fight on the front lines so you can be put out of your misery quickly. Ugh -- right there with you! It's maddening but I hope it motivates people to fight.
Remember when we just lived our lives and did not think a lot about what is happening in Washington? News was only 1/2 hour long. Most of the federal debt was just leftover from WWII and what Europeans owed us. That world slipped away on us. Communism was the threat. Now we are the threat to their communism and some bullshit concept they call "stake holder capitalism". I would gladly go back to the time when a stake holder was the person who drove the stake into Dracula's heart.
Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 IMO - it's when the robber barons became the billionaires and money became the only currency in the game. Forget virtue, honor, morality... to be famous/extremely wealthy or to be linked to the famous/extremely wealthy was and is all that matters to so many. However, I sense a change in the wind - as EGM wrote earlier this year - "DNC: disinformation, narcissism, & coercion -- fighting disinformation like antifa fights fascism (and the impending implosion)"
Many of us knew: "....there is no longer an excuse for a lack of discernment. The bear has been poked. We are awake now, squinting into the sunshine, just a bit grumpy. We would have preferred to continue hibernating, but we realize we can no longer just keep sleeping our lives away." From a fellow unvaxxed citizen, regardless of the outcome, we are now an unstoppable force.
I appreciate the fact that you mention the economic impact of the direction our country took, especially after 2020.
Yes. I took an early retirement but my husband is still working at an incredibly stressful job. All because our nest egg isn’t looking as secure as it once was. Also, we openly discuss the possibility that our two kids lives could be seriously impacted by whatever the hell it is that is coming down the pike and we want to be in a position to help them if necessary.
Camps for the non vaxxed, hold you down and forcible jab you. What that MEANS is that you are not a citizen, an independent person with God Given Rights to Freedom, Liberty and pursuit of happiness. no, you are instead A SLAVE. And so many many mindless did what they were told so they wouldn't lose what they had. And now we have people who are permanently asleep at the switch or doubling down. The rest even the jabbed embracers seem to be waking up to their folly...trusting the government. Government is only about promoting more of its self... not about the welfare of the citizen.
There is no baby to be thrown out with the bathwater. It is all bathwater now. The graceful, porcelain tub of America needs a scrub and polish, and a clean fill.
Feeling verklempt now. We had it all; we had built a shining city on the hill but didn’t realize how many hidden termites were busy destroying its foundations.
Exactly. Trump locked everyone down and threw money at Fauci et al. He gave a position promised to RFK jr to an industry shill. He could have put a Swedish-style protect the elders system in place. But he didn’t. He sold us out.
Biden's admin showed us the whole thing is run by a shadow government anyway.
Why do you need a president so badly? Especially one who oversaw the largest wealth transfer ever in US history, crushing the working class... and the pain is ongoing today.
How many of these children crying "Hitler" have ever read Mein Kampf, know when and where his party existed, or what he stood for? As the Great Gato says: when the Dems cry Hitler, they engage in an exercise of projection.
"12D Hitler" is the only way to explain why he didn't institute martial law and throw every progressive into camps during his first term. He's so crafty and patient, as a 78-year-old man, in his desire to destroy everything good in the world, that he will take four years just getting to know the terrain, while building up his defenses in the form of Supreme Court justices, and trying to resist an overheated response to the pandemic. So clever.
And then he will unleash his fascist, dictatorial, Hitlerian impulses by going after his enemies and building walls around the blue districts that bravely resist him, because there's nothing our current crop of consensus makers enjoy more than imagining they're the protagonists in a dystopian novel.
The irony is that at this point very few believe anything the AP or any of their ilk print or say. I imagine most of those who saw that headline saw through the headline and just laughed.
Thank you, Dr. Linda. To bitch about things on social media counts for nothing. Voting counts for everything. I felt compelled to become a precinct committeeperson and a pollwatcher, and my wife is an election judge. I encourage all who read this to step up. Look not to your right, nor to your left; it is on you that the continuation of this country depends.
I don’t know where you are, but in Maricopa County, it helps if you can find someone who’s already working and have him send your contact info to his recruiter; at least, that’s how I started a couple years ago.
Or go straight to your county elections dep’t. MC has started recruiting from the list from the GOP, but we had to push them to do so.
ok maybe this is more your style: identify as a snowball in Hell which is obviously systemically and environmentally challenged, purchase carbon credits and post this incessantly on your social media. wait for them to call you then rent a EV to drive to interview.
It ain't over until it's over. Don't get too tired Mickey!...:)
They have no concern about Kamala and totalitarianism.
Just think, she serves as the presiding officer for the joint session of Congress that will elect the president, having an unresolvable conflict of interest in both corrupting the process and outcome and engaging in shenanigans of her own.
She's an idiot. If she has a role as president of the Senate or Vice President, her handlers will have to tell her what to do. But your point is valid. A Trump win is now likely, and then watch these Mandarins tie themselves in knots trying to stay in power.
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone."
Yes. I've heard it floated she could refuse to confirm the election. Dispute it. No gov't and in that breach what might come? Military Law? More of the same. Remember the military is now run (higher levels) by the cabalists. It is not your neighbor, friend son, brother, uncle or relative in the forces anymore. AND what about those 8 million military aged males that came across the border? Interesting times my friend. Kent State, Black Panther, Bombings in public of Congress, high profile kidnapping (okay not that one much) any one recall all that Jazz that went down before? Joking but not. Methinks we are in for nasty weather cause there's a bad moon on the rise.
Lived in Kent - Went to school there. I say drop a few thousand of those male border crossers right in Kent and maybe it might wake up that sleepy liberal town (again?) We play "Bad Moon Rising" weekly in ukulele group... being one of a few conservatives in the group I have a whole different "take" on the song when I play it...
Great piece and well thought out creative analysis that most people are thinking but do not want to say. There are a lot of closeted Trump voters that I predict you will see come out in droves come election day
I am half way through the Rogan interview with Trump. This is the second video interview I have seen of Trump in the last two weeks, the first being the Flagrant YouTube channel interview. I am impressed. Trump is funny, articulate, sharp and spoke on a lot of topics off the cuff, albeit with a lot of weaving. But he is not cognitively declining.
He is the nemesis to dismantle the system and get the job done. I would say he has already started. The transparency is now so obvious what the left is doing it is laughable, and not in a comedic way.
Here's the new trick in PA. Run the application for an absentee ballot through the sorting machine backwards which prompts a postage missing stamp and then, being read on the wrong side there is no return address. Off to the undeliverable bin.
However, a union worker not knowing the drill, turned my wife's ballot over and saw the return address (as well as correct postage.. un-cancelled) and returned it to the return address.
We received it days before leaving for our vacation so we hand delivered it to the county seat voter services personally.
Now, two months later she has received her ballot and returned it while I have nothing but a denial of my request for another ballot.
For some strange reason our mail sent to voter services 1/2 mile from the post office gets trucked to Pittsburgh 100 miles away to be sorted, then trucked 100 miles back to my local post office to be given to a postal employee to deliver 1/2 mile away.
I wonder how many other absentee ballots died in the no postage bin in Pittsburgh?
If they were for Trump, it would be a lot. People need to vote in person. That is the only way you know your vote at least got there. After that you have no control.
Mail in ballot requested. Get ballot. Deliver in person to the office. Might help. I am one of those waiting to be the one who doesn't fire till I see the whites of their eyes.. meaning, they won't know which way I'm going to jump and thus won't be prepared with fake ballots. That's how Trump won against Hillary. She thought the cheat / steal was solid. They under counted came up short.
I have been receiving adverts while watching video on major online service that state that voting records are now publicly accessible and warning/advising that your friends, family, etc can check if you vote but not your actual selection. has anyone heard this? I am in a battleground state.
I don't think their strategy with calling him Hitler and a threat to use the military is trying to win on November 5 anymore. I think they've conceded that. They're going to try to win between November 5 and January 20, by whatever means necessary, and this rhetoric is necessary to support, justify, or instigate whatever action they will take between E-day and Inauguration day.
My thoughts as well...I don't think there is any way they can make it look believable that Kammy/Timmy actually win, so they have abandoned her and are moving on to Plan B.
It's going to be 2000 and the "hanging Chad" debacle on steroids, and after the 2020 "Summer of Love" I admit that I am somewhat concerned about what may be unleashed to stop Trump from actually taking office.
Lead and beans, eh? Water Filters, check. Radiation pills, check. Food stash dehydrated and canned, check. Gasoline for car for short term (a month or so) check. Generator check. Cash out of bank, check (always have to keep some). Junk silver, check! Small amounts of course, nothing major. No ammo and no gun sadly. I think I missed the window on that one. Medications stashed (abx, aspirin, ibu, IVM and Fenbendy, Nitanizoxide ). Seeds and soil, check. Braced for impact, good idea of turmoil coming, check. Passport still good for 2 years, escape if needed? Yup, yup and thinking about that my friends as well. Seriously you may think its over kill but you just never know what might be inching round the corner. WWIII for certain if they can make it happen.
You mention many things that I should have, and some I don't. I envision it this way: be ready for when the police DON'T come, or even when the electricity doesn't work anymore. Most of us, most of the time, take these things for granted, and we shouldn't.
Practical stuff: Latrines, how to dispose of piss (get pine wood chips, pee in bucket spread to soil, makes excellent addition to soil (nitrogen), get nitrogen fixing crops (legumes). Also poop, how will you recycle that without the stink? Earth worms are essential for good soil. So are microbes (the good kinds). Water reclamation, with crops (of course they want to kill crops and probably are with plant viruses spreading and synbio infecting plants AND animals.. well. Its complicated. But yeah, at least TRY to figure it out and get on board with the IDEA of what you might need to do BEFORE it comes. Print things out (won't be internet) buy old books (invaluable when they purge the net as they HAVE been doing a la 1984). Because a total collapse is coming one in which they want you d.e.a.d and GONE OR moved to those 15 minute prison camps where you eat the bugs and never leave your pod... Matrix anyone?
I predict they might try...but if successful? What does that say about Dems and having Harris in office? Maybe they will celebrate it still...silly me.
A lot of our esteemed opponents have jumped off the small-d democracy train. It's way worse than it was a decade ago. They don't give a shit about free citizens voting in an election. They want power. We are now witnessing just WHAT they will do when they don't get the right result, and I for one am very concerned. I communicate with a relative who brings up all of the lawfare, as a reason for Trump not to be president. I told him: do you even read what you write? Should not the VOTE be determinative?
What cracks me up is, after 9 years, they STILL can not figure out that voting for Trump is really about voting AGAINST the government, elites, expertocrats and media.
They have no clue what the peasants "middle finger" is all about.
That is the most baffling thing about this. They are utterly clueless about the disdain they've engendered with their mismanagement and corruption. My contempt for our government, and how it squandered the Cold War victory, is beyond comprehension. Trump is my only way to express it.
Weirdly, he is the only peaceful way to address the situation. Will the Deep State accept the olive branch extended by the plebs? I have my doubts. Buckle up, Ryan.
The Democrats I know cannot fathom how someone can vote "for" Trump. I’ve been telling them "it’s not a vote "for" Trump, it’s a vote against the government systems. It’s a vote against how the people have been treated."
Ryan, there's a huge voting demographic that IS government, at all levels from local school districts, cities, counties, state govs and federal. And it's likely precious few that will vote for the candidate that threatens their rather well-paying livelihood and COLA-guaranteed retirement plans. Add to that the number of heavily-invested (and vested) beneficiaries of the wealthy worlds of the military industrial and pharma industries. Then there's big Ag... Add 'em up and you've got a Hell of a lot Harris/Walz votes.
The minute a government is created, its first order of business is self-preservation. I don’t mean "preservation of country/people," I mean preservation of whoever is running the show. The ink was barely dry on the constitution ratification documents when tax rebellions broke out all over the new states due to government over reach. Americans were always suspicious and skeptical about anything the government did…STFU and F*ck Off. But they loved their country. How did people lose that skepticism—and when did it start to happen?
I have a distinct desire not to be hyperbolic but I believe this piece, Bad Cat, will go down in history as the perfect encapsulation of the actual reality of the 2024 presidential election. Regardless of what happens, the dam of truth has burst and it feels pretty amazing to be on the right side of history. God bless America. And America, please bless God.
You are channeling Victor Davis Hanson, a little. I think Trump will win, and then I think I will be disappointed, in that he WON'T do a complete Mongol on the Beltway; some of it will remain standing, and inhabited by unelected Mandarins with political science degrees, who will continue to grift, parasitize and delay.
The British burned Washington DC to the ground in 1812. We should invite them back.
"The British burned Washington DC to the ground in 1812. We should invite them back."
I laughed out loud and then thought, you know what, this is right. The only qualification is that it would be the good old Brits under George II and not the current group who are only a small step above our friends to the north in Canada.
Thank you for the magnificent cat memes. I am encouraging friends to check out your Substack, and they help (always used with accreditation). Meanwhile, Sushi and I enjoy them greatly.
Thank you. It’s how I begin every discussion regarding the presidential race (or really any current politics). It simultaneously makes clear that it’s not a “cult of personality” or “Trump idolatry”, while concurrently indicating it most certainly is a deep resentment and contempt for the venal charlatans that are currently running the institutions.
Much like El Gato’s brilliant essay, it makes the point that Trump is our political vengeance personified for force feeding us ridiculously premised and dangerously misplaced priorities in governance.
Brumby's thoughts are also mine. Always been apolitical, was getting ready for my retirement, finally after decades we were financially stable...and then came 2020....ravaged our businesses, told us we were scum if we didn't get vaccinated (we didn't) and everyone here knows the rest. We all lived it. Now I write on Substack....strange days indeed.
Same.
I never even thought about politics until 16'.
I used to be considered a moderate...now I'm a FAR-FAR-FAR RIGHT ELECTION DENYING ANTI-THIS-N-THAT DOMESTIC TERRORISTS ULTRA NAZI conspiRACIST!
Funny how my position haven't changed, but the label has.
But, alas, i think that's what the "serf" revolt is all about.
I was actually a *gasp* fairly liberal Democrat.
Then I heard a radio interview with the author of the book Freakonomics about gun control and related stats.
Now I'm a horrible right-winger.
I always say I'm a classic liberal libertarian.
Probably the closest label...but i despise labeling.
I too abhor labeling. I consider myself a conservative libertarian. I have my beliefs but pushing them on others is just not what is appropriate. Hearts are changed when those of us who have experienced the grace of Jesus just reach out in love. It feels good to be an independent thinker.
Yeah. I have a lot of conservative values.
As far as classic liberal what I mean is a 1A absolutist, anti-establishment and anti-war.
Alas...where are those people.
Makes you think they never truly believed in any of it.
There's a few of us running around, but I have to admit that 2020 surprised me by highlighting how few there actually are relative to how many liked to say they were.
Ah, we're still around here and there, RG, just not making waves everywhere I go. The old hippie contingent saw through all the deep state bullshit from the get-go and we're theorists, but hey, just calling a spade a spade.
As I was reading your comment I thought, "what if I write - 'I'm just a child of God'" and then I read your sentence about Jesus!! Thanks for the imprimatur.
We are not jam jars but people always try to slap labels on.
*identifies as Apple Butter*
I got lazy with a tote of apples and discovered what happens when the peel gets cooked a real long time. That batch was not for gifting.
The black snails that winter in our dirt cellar always eat the labels off of the jars and bottles.
I've tried making labels from duct-tape, using a permanent marker. No dice, they managed to somehow loosen the tape to get at the glue on the back.
Don't know what the political meaning of that would be, though.
Swedish escargot. C'mon Rikard, if the Norwegians can eat lutefisk, you can devour those snails...
I saw Black Worms That Ate My Duct Tape open for The Kelly Bell Band in 2011.
This would be a great meme. Or tee-shirt. Or both.
Nice analogy or metaphor. I'm forgetting my grade school English classes!!
I used to describe myself that way too. Now I'm a proud reactionary.
Or a New Wave Freedom Fighter.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/reluctant-freedom-fighters
"classic liberal libertarian"
That's me.
"I'm libertarian because I don't know what right for anybody else."
- I thought this quote would be attributed to Penn Jillette but maybe not ...
I LOVE that quote! It says 'independent thinker' and 'humble' all at once.
I mean, liberal policies sound great until you're the one paying for them.
And anti-establishment.
I gotta lot of rebel in me. But fiscally I'm conservative.
Classic liberal in the sense of free speech and anti-war
Otherwise I agree
Fiscally Responsible, Socially Tolerant.
You do You. Just don't make may me support whatever it is, financially or spiritually, you want to do. Just do it.
Yup. Same
...and ffs don't impinge You Doing You upon a child and make me go to jail for trying to stop you...
I will have to get you a "deplorable" mug...have mine from a few years ago and drink from it frequently with gusto!
simply deplorable. shakes my damn head … cracks a smile with a twinkle in my eye.
Aw, you're not so horrible. Mrs. Pi Guy doesn't think so or she wouldn't BE Mrs. Pi Guy, now would she??
Guess not 😊💜
Of COURSE she wouldn't! After all, she still has the napkin.
Facts will do that to you.
Agree how the loud voices have shifted so far to the left and gives the appearance. Probably 1/3 of the population just goes along to get along with those loud leftist voices, so there is teeth behind the appearance. (When the appearance changes, the teeth will fall out.) Reminds me of Elon’s tweet with the stick figures. I was a Republican party member until the party left me in 2012, though had voted more like an independent on a couple occasions. MAGA is not a Republican party, imo, more a populist anti-establishment movement that fortunately is able to leverage machinery of one of the two major parties. Trump is smart, and knows how to establish leverage to create the conditions for solving problems, bringing people to the table, and making deals. And he is tough, persistent, and resilient. He deploys this all for the benefit of Americans. This is his superpower. The populist voices will not be denied. And the difference with populist movements of ages past: now we have memes.
Republican party left me too. I'm "unaffiliated". And I agree, MAGA is NOT a Republican party. It has become totally unrecognizable over time starting with Bush II, part 2.
See, and I'd say the Democrat party left me.
So those of us who are metaphorically HERE have hardly anyone speaking for us.
This is why there's so much unrest. Our R don't represent We the Little People.
Yes, MEMES!
Paw 5!!
The real “Me Too” movement.
The first one was a scam.
I am in the same boat.
this is a very big boat
Sure is! I like to think of it as an Ark for our time.
Getting bigger by the day.
I was talking to a friend yesterday; smart but a little too trusting of the government (I’ve been there).
I told her something. She said “I wasn’t aware of that. I do play attention to the news”.
I told her her could consider using FreeSpoke to see how the news is posted by each side, blue, red, and nonpartisan. MMS is not the, what? Best? Truth?
I hope she looks around
You are planting seeds.
Free Spoke? How do I access?
It's become a battleship fleet.
"We're going to need a bigger boat."
https://youtu.be/wB3g967rFLs?t=19&si=_hgHCgfH9aGz2iL-
the bigger the boat the more oarsmen we have to put on "RAMMING SPEED"!!!!!
STROKE STROKE STROKE!!!
I'm from the '70s but the early 1980s were still pretty darn good..
https://youtu.be/69fPof-ZTnU?si=oblPGttd_RzuVCaN
Hell 2016-2019 was good! Things were fun, spontaneous and CHEAP!!!
Yup. It just could no longer be ignored.
and ignoring it over the decades is what brought us to this point. hopefully we remain engaged and vigilant and not let complacency lead us astray again.
As the freedoms were pulled/twisted/eliminated, there was no choice for thinkers other than to be involved. I go back to “you didn’t build that”, and the disbelief has increased exponentially. So weary of labels and yet - perhaps the labeling and word crap (technical term) has hastened this heartfelt revolt? Agree 100%.
Thankfully, the Left, et. al. are so preachy. I think that is one of their most irritating qualities.
This made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
BTW. I had all the same crap happen with my biz.
As if, I didn't hate the government enough before that.
Now I have enough loathe going on to float an armada around.
If you still have a biz and you want it to flourish once more, shitcan your HR "department".
They have pissed a lot of people off...more, I bet, than they expected.
Ditto...I'm for treating people the way they deserve to be treated, on merit...And for treating felons the way they deserve to be treated, including speedy capital punishment...And with anyone who intentionally injures or tries to pervert children getting very short shrift...
Don’t forget deplorable.
Yup.
Yup. Fifteen years ago I was a liberal-leaning moderate. My views haven't changed all that much. But now the establishment press says I'm ultra right wing. Funny that.
I'm with you, Ryan!
RG. I just love your way with adjectives !
And the same here. Getting ready to retire, and now this bullcrap. “Oh, you thought America and the modern world was going along pretty darn well, and now you get to really savor your final (hopefully) decades doing all the things you didn’t have time or money to enjoy before? HAHAHAHAHA. Nope—You’re going to have to figure out a way to fight Leviathan and save your country from the corrupt cabal that you never even knew existed and was really running things.”
Same. Card carrying but uninvolved “liberal” until 2020. Now I’ve spent the last four years suing California government for school mask and jab mandates and illegal states of Covid “emergencies.” All I wanted was to be left alone.
Same. Same. Same.
I did "NAZI" any of the scamdemic totalitarianism coming.
But once Trump allowed the "15 day to slow spread" farce happen...I knew instantly we'd be in the fight of our lifetime.
As soon as they started with the lockdowns, I said OMG they will go on endlessly because now, if an official lifts restrictions, every death after that is going to be laid at their feet. They’ve set up a political quagmire.
And they just had to get Trump out of office.
Despicable what they did to children. Its evil and they don't even know it.
That's exactly what the government wanted!
These same wretches have legalised the permanent disfigurement of children, and worshiped at the alter of late-term abortion.
RG , by me , some school districts allow kids to get educated on line . There are teachers that are assigned to the on line kids . They have never been back to school since Covid .
And IMO what's worse is they didn't even care. 😡
I said the same thing when Inslee locked down WA State - he was never going to let it go. He held on to his "emergency powers" for 975 DAYS!!
Mrs. "the Knife"
What you did there, I zi it.
What is 'zi'?
Nazi = not see
Just leave us the hell alone....that's all we wanted.
Dag, totally THIS
Go Warriormom!!
Yup, me too. When their noose got tighter and tighter, going from "it's optional" to "take it or get fired" to open discussion of going door to door to force-inject everyone, I bought a gun for the first time ever. I was inspired by a video of an old black man saying "If you come to my door to inject me, I will shoot you." He's 100% right.
There can be no negotiation about our right to protect our own bloodstreams from Pfizer and Pfauci.
We need to create nooses for them now. The most important thing we all can do to prevent a recurrence of the mandate nightmare is to publicly advocate hanging everyone who mandated the poison:
https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-imposed-toxxine-mandates
Whether or not we actually do get justice, publicly speaking up in support of hangings helps to protect us all.
At least you're TRYING to put a spoke in their wheels. Good on ya.
All while battling health issues that may or may not have been caused by forced shots. Oh wait, “I was told last week, people had a choice.”
Ibtruly am an anti-vaxxer,and I say I despise those very few of us who vehemently abuse those folks who got the vax because they had a mandate. Yes, they could have lost their jobs( and some chose to),but how many are already living paycheck to paycheck? Looking at their children's faces,and knowing that those faces would lose their shelter and their food if those paychecks stopped??
No, I don't blame them.
Same here, I don’t blame anyone, coercion came in many different forms not just the gov’t mandate. So when people say we had a choice, a mandate is not a choice and not a choice when you take in the propaganda that it was gonna stop the spread, etc. I get so angry when someone says people had a choice and then say to me “you didn’t take it.”
My husband took three shots, then decided to retire and has heart attack three months after retirement. Is all very murky too long for all the details here. Ps. (3 stents, 15 years of good lab work because of low dose statins, plus stress test in 2020 no issues).
Pardon me for asking, Is he still with us?
Yes, thankfully he was given time to get medical attention. He had 2 stents put in and the following year another stent. I’m sorry I should have been more specific.
Yup...my eyes are wide open now!
Everyone should be aware of the Congressional Report just released on the COVID experiment. The current crooks in power spent almost $1 billion, hired a company ( so named in the report) to lie to us, pull psyops, & scare the bejesus out of much of the population. Look at the table of contents & at least read some of the report. https://x.com/drjbhattacharya/status/1849703925395697797?s=12
And.. you did everything right by planning for a nice retirement only to find there's a good chance all the money saved will barely last a year. Back to the salt mines with you! Or fight on the front lines so you can be put out of your misery quickly. Ugh -- right there with you! It's maddening but I hope it motivates people to fight.
Remember when we just lived our lives and did not think a lot about what is happening in Washington? News was only 1/2 hour long. Most of the federal debt was just leftover from WWII and what Europeans owed us. That world slipped away on us. Communism was the threat. Now we are the threat to their communism and some bullshit concept they call "stake holder capitalism". I would gladly go back to the time when a stake holder was the person who drove the stake into Dracula's heart.
We need more stake holders
I want more shareholders.
We were asleep. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We collectively allowed this totalitarian progression by naive trust.
Never again. We are awakened.
We liberate Paris, send them the Marshall Plan, they send us de Gaulle, Chirac, and Post Modernism. That's Class A hubris.
Funny how that works, ain't it.
Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 IMO - it's when the robber barons became the billionaires and money became the only currency in the game. Forget virtue, honor, morality... to be famous/extremely wealthy or to be linked to the famous/extremely wealthy was and is all that matters to so many. However, I sense a change in the wind - as EGM wrote earlier this year - "DNC: disinformation, narcissism, & coercion -- fighting disinformation like antifa fights fascism (and the impending implosion)"
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/dnc-disinformation-narcissism-and?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=148187682&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=b7jkn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Many of us knew: "....there is no longer an excuse for a lack of discernment. The bear has been poked. We are awake now, squinting into the sunshine, just a bit grumpy. We would have preferred to continue hibernating, but we realize we can no longer just keep sleeping our lives away." From a fellow unvaxxed citizen, regardless of the outcome, we are now an unstoppable force.
100%
I pray you're right.
We've been hibernating way too long IMO
I appreciate the fact that you mention the economic impact of the direction our country took, especially after 2020.
Yes. I took an early retirement but my husband is still working at an incredibly stressful job. All because our nest egg isn’t looking as secure as it once was. Also, we openly discuss the possibility that our two kids lives could be seriously impacted by whatever the hell it is that is coming down the pike and we want to be in a position to help them if necessary.
Exactly! The people in my family don’t understand this.
This is a 'me too' reply!
Many were awakened from their 'dogmatic slumbers' by the lurch into totalitarianism.
I for one don't want to go back there again.
Camps for the non vaxxed, hold you down and forcible jab you. What that MEANS is that you are not a citizen, an independent person with God Given Rights to Freedom, Liberty and pursuit of happiness. no, you are instead A SLAVE. And so many many mindless did what they were told so they wouldn't lose what they had. And now we have people who are permanently asleep at the switch or doubling down. The rest even the jabbed embracers seem to be waking up to their folly...trusting the government. Government is only about promoting more of its self... not about the welfare of the citizen.
There is no baby to be thrown out with the bathwater. It is all bathwater now. The graceful, porcelain tub of America needs a scrub and polish, and a clean fill.
Ah c'mon...let's not throw the baby out with the BLOODBATH water...they were just trying to protect dEMoCrAcY!
::crazy-eyes twitching::
🤣
Can’t go back—once seen cannot be unseen.
Feeling verklempt now. We had it all; we had built a shining city on the hill but didn’t realize how many hidden termites were busy destroying its foundations.
Its a good thing Reagan had 8 years to arrest the insanity....or we'd have gone the way of Venezuela at this point.
Seriously, think about it.
Carter (Jimmy) was a prelude to Biden, his pessimism about America's future paved the way for Reagan.
Brumby's comment was entirely in line with my own beliefs.
I was fortunate enough to retire end of '18, and move to small town cottage country.
Like you, I researched the whole Covid thing, and decided not to vax in April 2020.
I remain unvaxxed and healthy.
Others, not so much...
🎯
I wrote this during that period and titled it Slaves Of Fear https://theblackknight.substack.com/p/slaves-of-fear-255
Same here.
Same. Never paid attention. Woke up in 2008. Saw Obama coming and just knew that the country was gone. I think it was God whacking me on the head.
He whacked a lot of us!
You may not be interested in politics, but politicians are surely interested in you.
Their problem is that they have made the people care, and they have awakened the Furies.
Go Trump!
Have you forgotten Papi Warp Speed's role during the Covid psyop?!
Exactly. Trump locked everyone down and threw money at Fauci et al. He gave a position promised to RFK jr to an industry shill. He could have put a Swedish-style protect the elders system in place. But he didn’t. He sold us out.
Wrong! See Cheryl Palen's comment above
Huh? No one's going to gaslight anyone here about Trump's handling of Covid.
Alas, no….is he completely trustworthy? No. Not in my book but what is the option? Komrade Kamala? No thanks.
Biden's admin showed us the whole thing is run by a shadow government anyway.
Why do you need a president so badly? Especially one who oversaw the largest wealth transfer ever in US history, crushing the working class... and the pain is ongoing today.
Because at this moment in time there isn’t an option for “none of the above”.
I've heard that bullshit line my entire life.
Ok. I am curious. What is your solution?
I forgot to add this one https://theblackknight.substack.com/p/moneypox
He's playing 12D Hitler dontcha know!
He's the worstest worst HITLER ever, bellowed these emotionally crippled cry babies!
I'm just waiting for them to start calling him Ultra Hitler for all the kids that didn't get their happy meals the day he "worked" at McDonald's.
It´s Groundhitler Day, every day.
I said the other day that maybe every day of our lives has been April's Fools Day...but we just didn't know it until The Scamdemic.
We should just roll the two days into one...that's perfect..lolol!
Let's call it Adolf's Fools Day!
Better. You're killing me today!
Woke enhancement: Adolf's Fools Month!
Let's do Adolfs Fools Day in June.
That way we get a one day break to recharge on Juneteenth!
Parity.
Its been more like a whole month. Are there any months left?
I suggest April for two obvious reasons. If already occupied, then Machtergreifung.
Now every day is Groundhog Day, same arguments, same attacks, endless lies. Same ending?
Also same vote-counting?
I'd say "Golf clap" but that sounds like a venereal disease golfers get.
"Groundhitler Day" - man, if you weaponise that gift for punning and wordplay, tremble will the heavens.
Erik to Rikard. Thank you for the kind words. I created a Groundhitler Day meme here: https://x.com/ErikHoffma35980/status/1850185186043900081
Made my wife laugh too, and that's not easy!
Lmao.
More of THIS!
Nicely done.
Nice
🤣
Love this—stealing it!
Now as meme: https://x.com/ErikHoffma35980/status/1850185186043900081
Ya gotta do Adolfs Day too!...;]
Here we go: https://x.com/ErikHoffma35980/status/1850209097762623986
Bill Murray with red nose and Charlie Caplin mustache.
How many of these children crying "Hitler" have ever read Mein Kampf, know when and where his party existed, or what he stood for? As the Great Gato says: when the Dems cry Hitler, they engage in an exercise of projection.
Looks like Trump has developed a big tent of multicultural Nazis.
If the polls are any indication of the trend of minorities joining Team Sanity, expect a cacophony of primordial blood curdling emotional ejaculations
Team Sanity. I like it.
I prefer Mango Mussolini.
"Mango Mussolini." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 LOVE it!
*stands, Opera Applause*
You forgot "He LIES!". 😂
. . . in wait!
Turbo hitler
Double turbo ultra mega h!tler with go faster stripes!
"12D Hitler" is the only way to explain why he didn't institute martial law and throw every progressive into camps during his first term. He's so crafty and patient, as a 78-year-old man, in his desire to destroy everything good in the world, that he will take four years just getting to know the terrain, while building up his defenses in the form of Supreme Court justices, and trying to resist an overheated response to the pandemic. So clever.
And then he will unleash his fascist, dictatorial, Hitlerian impulses by going after his enemies and building walls around the blue districts that bravely resist him, because there's nothing our current crop of consensus makers enjoy more than imagining they're the protagonists in a dystopian novel.
I mean, the setup could not have been scripted any better:
At least 75 people are sickened as the deadly McDonald’s E. coli outbreak expands
https://apnews.com/article/mcdonalds-e-coli-outbreak-quarter-pounder-a1ec3dc14636f5e713b15b32aedcd524
The irony is that at this point very few believe anything the AP or any of their ilk print or say. I imagine most of those who saw that headline saw through the headline and just laughed.
I'm old. I'm tired. My message to totalitarians, leftists, fascists, etc.: Don't mess with me. You've been warned.
It is the last warning. No more warnings, it’s action.
I went to vote early yesterday. I was in line for 1.25hr. I’m glad I did it.
Thank you, Dr. Linda. To bitch about things on social media counts for nothing. Voting counts for everything. I felt compelled to become a precinct committeeperson and a pollwatcher, and my wife is an election judge. I encourage all who read this to step up. Look not to your right, nor to your left; it is on you that the continuation of this country depends.
Filled out 3 requests to work the polls. Nothing. Called local Republican headquarters. No answer. I started this in July.
What do you have to do to be taken seriously?
I don’t know where you are, but in Maricopa County, it helps if you can find someone who’s already working and have him send your contact info to his recruiter; at least, that’s how I started a couple years ago.
Or go straight to your county elections dep’t. MC has started recruiting from the list from the GOP, but we had to push them to do so.
Sadly, I don't know anyone. I will try the county elections department. Thank-you for the direction!
Thank you for staying with it.
That's scary...so only Dems are "working" (and I use the term loosely) the polls??? Yikes...but I figured as much.
I don't know. Maybe, but maybe they have Republicans from other election cycles that are working the polls. `\_(•_•)_/`
The Dems creep me out!
That is ridiculous. Sounds like something fishy is going on. 🤔
register with the other Party
Not a snowball's chance in Hell.
ok maybe this is more your style: identify as a snowball in Hell which is obviously systemically and environmentally challenged, purchase carbon credits and post this incessantly on your social media. wait for them to call you then rent a EV to drive to interview.
Bravo! I think there are many ppl who did just as you did. I've looked into it but, alas, I won't be able to participate this year.
I stood in the rain at 7:50 a.m. last week to vote so I could get in and get out.
Good job, well thought out! We haven’t had rain for many weeks
Yeah, The Great Drought of 2024. I'm so sick of no rain. The last really good rain we had was the by-product of Helene.
"Well, now his friends are warned."
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/16czwed/headshot_is_warning_shot/
Saved!
I like it.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It ain't over until it's over. Don't get too tired Mickey!...:)
They have no concern about Kamala and totalitarianism.
Just think, she serves as the presiding officer for the joint session of Congress that will elect the president, having an unresolvable conflict of interest in both corrupting the process and outcome and engaging in shenanigans of her own.
Nothing would surprise me at this point.
She's an idiot. If she has a role as president of the Senate or Vice President, her handlers will have to tell her what to do. But your point is valid. A Trump win is now likely, and then watch these Mandarins tie themselves in knots trying to stay in power.
it's the handlers who worry me. They have been taking us down since they got Barack elected.
Bingo
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone."
🎵Doo DOO Doo doo 🎶
And on this comment, I have hit my allowable time limit in the Comments. Glad to have ended on you, Pi. Night.
'Night, Julie
Yes. I've heard it floated she could refuse to confirm the election. Dispute it. No gov't and in that breach what might come? Military Law? More of the same. Remember the military is now run (higher levels) by the cabalists. It is not your neighbor, friend son, brother, uncle or relative in the forces anymore. AND what about those 8 million military aged males that came across the border? Interesting times my friend. Kent State, Black Panther, Bombings in public of Congress, high profile kidnapping (okay not that one much) any one recall all that Jazz that went down before? Joking but not. Methinks we are in for nasty weather cause there's a bad moon on the rise.
Lived in Kent - Went to school there. I say drop a few thousand of those male border crossers right in Kent and maybe it might wake up that sleepy liberal town (again?) We play "Bad Moon Rising" weekly in ukulele group... being one of a few conservatives in the group I have a whole different "take" on the song when I play it...
Exactly!
This made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
Yeah.
*clinks Old Guy glass with Mick*
You're sure going to show those totalitarian fascists by voting for Papi Warp Speed!!!
🙄
Great piece and well thought out creative analysis that most people are thinking but do not want to say. There are a lot of closeted Trump voters that I predict you will see come out in droves come election day
I am half way through the Rogan interview with Trump. This is the second video interview I have seen of Trump in the last two weeks, the first being the Flagrant YouTube channel interview. I am impressed. Trump is funny, articulate, sharp and spoke on a lot of topics off the cuff, albeit with a lot of weaving. But he is not cognitively declining.
He is the nemesis to dismantle the system and get the job done. I would say he has already started. The transparency is now so obvious what the left is doing it is laughable, and not in a comedic way.
It's not the lack of voters for Trump that I fear. It is cheating with the machines and the phony ballots.
Here's the new trick in PA. Run the application for an absentee ballot through the sorting machine backwards which prompts a postage missing stamp and then, being read on the wrong side there is no return address. Off to the undeliverable bin.
However, a union worker not knowing the drill, turned my wife's ballot over and saw the return address (as well as correct postage.. un-cancelled) and returned it to the return address.
We received it days before leaving for our vacation so we hand delivered it to the county seat voter services personally.
Now, two months later she has received her ballot and returned it while I have nothing but a denial of my request for another ballot.
For some strange reason our mail sent to voter services 1/2 mile from the post office gets trucked to Pittsburgh 100 miles away to be sorted, then trucked 100 miles back to my local post office to be given to a postal employee to deliver 1/2 mile away.
I wonder how many other absentee ballots died in the no postage bin in Pittsburgh?
If they were for Trump, it would be a lot. People need to vote in person. That is the only way you know your vote at least got there. After that you have no control.
Mail in ballot requested. Get ballot. Deliver in person to the office. Might help. I am one of those waiting to be the one who doesn't fire till I see the whites of their eyes.. meaning, they won't know which way I'm going to jump and thus won't be prepared with fake ballots. That's how Trump won against Hillary. She thought the cheat / steal was solid. They under counted came up short.
The only problem with waiting is remember how some people were not able to vote because the “machines were malfunctioning.”
I have been receiving adverts while watching video on major online service that state that voting records are now publicly accessible and warning/advising that your friends, family, etc can check if you vote but not your actual selection. has anyone heard this? I am in a battleground state.
I've seen that a bunch too
While jokingly I call it non-voter suppression I do feel it is an attempt to discern who is un-stung.
I’m wondering that about Philadelphia.
For sure.
🙌 Amen!
I don't think their strategy with calling him Hitler and a threat to use the military is trying to win on November 5 anymore. I think they've conceded that. They're going to try to win between November 5 and January 20, by whatever means necessary, and this rhetoric is necessary to support, justify, or instigate whatever action they will take between E-day and Inauguration day.
My thoughts as well...I don't think there is any way they can make it look believable that Kammy/Timmy actually win, so they have abandoned her and are moving on to Plan B.
It's going to be 2000 and the "hanging Chad" debacle on steroids, and after the 2020 "Summer of Love" I admit that I am somewhat concerned about what may be unleashed to stop Trump from actually taking office.
Whereupon: ammo, water and MREs.
Lead and beans, eh? Water Filters, check. Radiation pills, check. Food stash dehydrated and canned, check. Gasoline for car for short term (a month or so) check. Generator check. Cash out of bank, check (always have to keep some). Junk silver, check! Small amounts of course, nothing major. No ammo and no gun sadly. I think I missed the window on that one. Medications stashed (abx, aspirin, ibu, IVM and Fenbendy, Nitanizoxide ). Seeds and soil, check. Braced for impact, good idea of turmoil coming, check. Passport still good for 2 years, escape if needed? Yup, yup and thinking about that my friends as well. Seriously you may think its over kill but you just never know what might be inching round the corner. WWIII for certain if they can make it happen.
You mention many things that I should have, and some I don't. I envision it this way: be ready for when the police DON'T come, or even when the electricity doesn't work anymore. Most of us, most of the time, take these things for granted, and we shouldn't.
Practical stuff: Latrines, how to dispose of piss (get pine wood chips, pee in bucket spread to soil, makes excellent addition to soil (nitrogen), get nitrogen fixing crops (legumes). Also poop, how will you recycle that without the stink? Earth worms are essential for good soil. So are microbes (the good kinds). Water reclamation, with crops (of course they want to kill crops and probably are with plant viruses spreading and synbio infecting plants AND animals.. well. Its complicated. But yeah, at least TRY to figure it out and get on board with the IDEA of what you might need to do BEFORE it comes. Print things out (won't be internet) buy old books (invaluable when they purge the net as they HAVE been doing a la 1984). Because a total collapse is coming one in which they want you d.e.a.d and GONE OR moved to those 15 minute prison camps where you eat the bugs and never leave your pod... Matrix anyone?
It’s not overkill. This is what any sensible person is doing.
✔️ ✔️✔️
Scary but true.
Another assassination attempt?
I predict they might try...but if successful? What does that say about Dems and having Harris in office? Maybe they will celebrate it still...silly me.
A lot of our esteemed opponents have jumped off the small-d democracy train. It's way worse than it was a decade ago. They don't give a shit about free citizens voting in an election. They want power. We are now witnessing just WHAT they will do when they don't get the right result, and I for one am very concerned. I communicate with a relative who brings up all of the lawfare, as a reason for Trump not to be president. I told him: do you even read what you write? Should not the VOTE be determinative?
Amen. Trump is the embodiment of a middle finger. And I am prepared to thrust it in the establishment's face for the third time.
Same.
What cracks me up is, after 9 years, they STILL can not figure out that voting for Trump is really about voting AGAINST the government, elites, expertocrats and media.
They have no clue what the peasants "middle finger" is all about.
That is the most baffling thing about this. They are utterly clueless about the disdain they've engendered with their mismanagement and corruption. My contempt for our government, and how it squandered the Cold War victory, is beyond comprehension. Trump is my only way to express it.
Weirdly, he is the only peaceful way to address the situation. Will the Deep State accept the olive branch extended by the plebs? I have my doubts. Buckle up, Ryan.
THE BAFFLING will continue!
But as you say we need to ride deep and dig in our spurs.
On the one side we have The Great Awakening, on the other, The Great Baffling.
That's a perfect way of putting it.
It's the last and final speciation of hominids!
Stay frosty.
I can’t help but remember what it’s like to get back in the saddle after being out for a while.
It’s very uncomfortable for a while but I always glad I did it
No, they won’t.
The Democrats I know cannot fathom how someone can vote "for" Trump. I’ve been telling them "it’s not a vote "for" Trump, it’s a vote against the government systems. It’s a vote against how the people have been treated."
I've told people that love of government and love of country are diabolically opposed...but they don't get what a true patriot is.
They're apopletic and left it disbelief that anyone could not trust the government.
Love of government is conditioning for love of gulags.
Ryan, there's a huge voting demographic that IS government, at all levels from local school districts, cities, counties, state govs and federal. And it's likely precious few that will vote for the candidate that threatens their rather well-paying livelihood and COLA-guaranteed retirement plans. Add to that the number of heavily-invested (and vested) beneficiaries of the wealthy worlds of the military industrial and pharma industries. Then there's big Ag... Add 'em up and you've got a Hell of a lot Harris/Walz votes.
I didn’t think about that, but you are right. I have several friends who work for the government.
And actually, a lot of women work for the government. Very interesting comment you have there.
The minute a government is created, its first order of business is self-preservation. I don’t mean "preservation of country/people," I mean preservation of whoever is running the show. The ink was barely dry on the constitution ratification documents when tax rebellions broke out all over the new states due to government over reach. Americans were always suspicious and skeptical about anything the government did…STFU and F*ck Off. But they loved their country. How did people lose that skepticism—and when did it start to happen?
I just read recently that America did not at all want a federal government, but it was forced on them and the tax was forced on them as well
Sickening
They didn’t do anything about it then They felt helpless to do anything about it. I guess their lives were ok and they didn’t want to rock the boat
So unfortunately, all of us are suffering now
Great point!
The one(s) who DO understand the dynamics are the WEF operators behind the curtain.
This is for sure true
“do you want to burn the existing system to the ground and is this an appropriate agent of retribution to do it?”
Yes
I have a distinct desire not to be hyperbolic but I believe this piece, Bad Cat, will go down in history as the perfect encapsulation of the actual reality of the 2024 presidential election. Regardless of what happens, the dam of truth has burst and it feels pretty amazing to be on the right side of history. God bless America. And America, please bless God.
Fantastic piece, put my thoughts on Trump, and the system, into words far better than I ever could.
As a Canadian, I feel it's much the same dynamic here in the case of Pollievre vs The Turd.
Yes Castro is hardly a choice
You are channeling Victor Davis Hanson, a little. I think Trump will win, and then I think I will be disappointed, in that he WON'T do a complete Mongol on the Beltway; some of it will remain standing, and inhabited by unelected Mandarins with political science degrees, who will continue to grift, parasitize and delay.
The British burned Washington DC to the ground in 1812. We should invite them back.
"The British burned Washington DC to the ground in 1812. We should invite them back."
I laughed out loud and then thought, you know what, this is right. The only qualification is that it would be the good old Brits under George II and not the current group who are only a small step above our friends to the north in Canada.
The 1812 war was another war We didn’t do very well in, but pretend we won.
Great point. I remember as a kid being taught how "the Americans won World War I".
I totally agree!
Isn't it funny that in the presidential race between Harris and Hitler, neither the LA Times nor The Washington Post will endorse Harris?
Starting to hedge their bets...
Yes. This word. This emotion. This way not to let the rage eat our kishkes, but theirs. This is exactly, but exactly, why I will cast my vote.
Almost perfect Trump meme mash-up in the picture above. Only the rescued kittens from Ohio are missing.
Thank you for the magnificent cat memes. I am encouraging friends to check out your Substack, and they help (always used with accreditation). Meanwhile, Sushi and I enjoy them greatly.
I vote for Trump because he’s hated by all the right people.
Spot on. Pithy and precise.
Thank you. It’s how I begin every discussion regarding the presidential race (or really any current politics). It simultaneously makes clear that it’s not a “cult of personality” or “Trump idolatry”, while concurrently indicating it most certainly is a deep resentment and contempt for the venal charlatans that are currently running the institutions.
Much like El Gato’s brilliant essay, it makes the point that Trump is our political vengeance personified for force feeding us ridiculously premised and dangerously misplaced priorities in governance.
Fantastically written again! Knocked another one out of the park.