I wandered onto Facebook the other day and should not have. I learned who of my old friends are defending the indefensible and I would rather not know that. Man. The “orange man is Hitler” thing really broke some people. Hard.
Wanna watch dumb heads explode? Trump issues EO directing every single federal agency close their Facebook accounts. And BlueSky, if they have them. Direct them to maintain Twitter and...Truth Social accounts instead. Even Substack?
What law demands the federal government use Facebook for its communications? What congressional or judicial oversight could countermand his orders? Who first decided to open a Facebook account (or Blue Sky) at any agency? Etched in stone, forevermore?
About that Section 230 protection? If lefties oppose, sue to keep federal agencies on Facebook, claiming they are the public square, providing a public service then don't they step on their "private business making private decisions to censor" arguments?
It would be glorious! Especially the Truth Social directive to agencies! Sure, his opponents will howl that would benefit his personal business. But that's in a blind trust now. Just like Pocahontas and every other policymaker who claim their trades are made in blind trusts, they don't control them...right before they buy/sell on insider trading they know government is about to change the market valuation...allowing them to become multimillionaires on a few hundred thousand salary. Sure, the Truth Social federal agency directive would be challenged, just like government officials who stayed in his hotels. But so what? They cry and complain about everything. And holding up the mirror to their hypocrisy on full exhibit allows Trump to win that PR battle.
Yes, Trump could/should middle finger Zuck by closing official pages on FB. The battle that ensues would be comedic gold glorious! He has the power, not a flight of fancy.
Thing is, Zuck told Trump and the world he'd end censorship, do Twitter model. Not that I support Musk's "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach" model, but it's better than Twitter was or FB is. Zuck hasn't followed through. Trump just needs to say he won't support social media that censors, FB is still censoring, he's going to take away official federal support from platforms that censor. That's it. The justification for the EO right there. Easy-peasy. Heads: EXPLODE!!! I'm in love with the idea! LOVE! C'mon Trump, Baby! Do it!
The folks above are in a maze alright. But they can’t see the doors swathed in blinking color changing laser lights because they were ordered to another route.
Its just crazy. They are soooo full of hate. Goodness wouldn't that get old?!
If it wasn't so damn fun making fun of them i might go crazy.
I have this crazy kind of cognitive dissonance going on. On one hand I'm stoked the corruption and grift is being revealed. On the other hand I'm FUCKING PISSED!
I have a good covid vault as well. In the future I figured lots of people would forget. That is what humans do (sadly). Yeah FB is garbage. You can even be on it for the right reason (to inform) and they will make sure your experience sucks and doesn't really get to many people. Dump it.
I have been off FB since Feb of 2018. I am upset that more women have not moved to other sites, because there’s a wealth of information to share. I’m a homeschool mom and find I miss a lot of info not being on FB. I really don’t want to join but it’s where all the moms are with all their info.
I will add, I find it sort of funny that the same people (all lefties) who have been whining and crying every single day on FB that their account is being censored, shadow-banned, etc. have been doing that for at least TEN years. This to me seems insane. So they knew this was going on - the censorship. But they stay on the platform and continue to complain? I don't get it. Just leave. Get a substack. Change it up. But, no. They stay and whine. It's just silly. That's why I left.
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
This is what you do. I have been dropping truth bombs around covid that has them pissed. I love talking about the Amish and how they were the only control group that was allowed.
They can go down with the titanic. They have refused the life boats. I don’t care anymore. Something is deeply wrong with them and I don’t think it can be fixed. Ignore and Carry On. My new motto.
my little brother is completely broken but mostly ignorant. He is on Bookface and his page is all rants, no one responds, he must believe he is an influencer of some sort. Just hideous. Narcissistic
look up John De Leeuw - he is the one in New Hampshire standing around in his deck shoes on one of his three boats - possibly on his cell phone swearing at me for something I am doing with daddy's Trust that he claims his "financial advisor" counters. Like STFU , but I usually just respond with "John, are you okay?"
My sister’s FB feed looks like a Libs of Tik Tok “best hits”. It’s so ridiculous. No one comments or responds. I unfriended her years ago so we could remain civil. Very sad.
They never grow up. In elementary school if you ask the children, what can you do about poor people they will say let’s share everything we have with them.
By the time you are in college, you should start to realize that that doesn’t work. But then they inundate you with a lot of propaganda.
My TDS sister is very, very quiet lately. I’m actually kind of worried but Perhaps she has gotten a stronger benzodiazepine Rx. She really insulted me to my face once last year and when I got upset, she handed me one.
I'm generally not on social media, and any of my family that don't agree with me is too afraid to let me know it. "Don't get Uncle Skenny started." :>) Fire and brimstone for 25 years!
I cancelled my account. I use YouTube, X and Instagram on occation but FB is just a cesspool. The only thing I miss is the Marketplace as I have to sell some exercise equiptment and a rabbit run this weekend, but my husband still has an account he checks in on once and awhile so I'll just use his. My cousin actually called me last weekend to check in since I'm no longer there and that's an added plus. I'd rather talk for an hour with a friend or family member anyway. For people who can't bother to receive or give a call or FaceTime, they weren't real friends anyway.
When communicating via messenger I immediately tell who I am so as to be straightforward and we go directly to phone conversations so I never had any issues and sold an SUV there and bought a fireplace insert with no problems.
I was/am on instagram but I rarely comment bc I suddenly get banned for no reason. https:// www.instagram.com/ razzleberryrose2/ I have complained to them so many times with screen shots of their stupid annoying statements about how I am not following community guidelines. It is weird as hell. I have been very close to getting very profane but I realize they are just imbeciles
I broke up the link so just put it together if you want to see my hideous page
Yep I got banned then for telling people to be careful after vaccination because these shots didn’t mean you couldn’t still spread the disease. Then again right before the election for talking about how FEMA funds weren’t reaching North Carolina flood communities, despite living in a neighboring community and witnessing this first hand! I guess first hand, documented real life accounts are “online misinformation” when detrimental to Democrats winning elections.
Well Jen, you are obviously an anarchist. Just because you see and know something does not mean you can repeat it if it doesn't validate delicate feelings.
They were banning everyone for a while right after the “insurrection”. Remember, Trump and Parlor and AWS and all of that stuff. Apple was banning apps. It was nuts.
Most of them are back now but when I call it the “Great Purge of 2021” I’m not exaggerating.
probably one of the only politicians who is somewhat honest and trustworthy. At least in his writing. Might be different if he had been elected, but I doubt it. He seems like a real person, not a puppet played by others. And don't forget, they banned the president.
We're all just like the 1930s Germans. The pandemic showed me who my friends are and who are just fresh meat for the fear mongers. The tribe is all and facts matter very little to scared animals.
Well, unlike "the Germans" that everybody, seemingly, loves to point to/blame, those people (most of whom lived in the country) might have had a radio -- if they were lucky. Or a newspaper. And they were still recovering from a war that devastated their population and economy. How many knew in real time what was happening?
Compare that to today in the country whose people love to laud themselves as free and brave and oh-so exceptional. These people have in the palm of their hand the ability to communicate instantly, research instantly, compare data/info instantly...And what did they do?
I'd say the "American" people are far worse, far more to blame than "the Germans" for enabling the greatest crime in history. They could have stood as an example to the world of what it means to be free...and brave...and maybe just a little bit 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍. Instead?
Whoa! Hold on here. This may be the greatest financial crime in history but the comparison with the German populace in the early to mid 1930s is a bit over the top. At that time the Germans did nothing to stop their government in the treatment of the Jews and other minorities even when it was done in public. In fact they cheered it on. The “crime “ here is that too many people who were busy doing other things trusted their government and elected the pretty shiny politicians. These people are slowly waking up and once awake will act like scorned lovers. That will be the day when the corrupt leftist movement finally dies. Give it some time. DOGE is merely the auditor. The sheriff just got confirmed.
That might have been different if the vaxx and masks actually worked. Although the pandemic was, for all intents and purposes, over because of herd immunity prior to the pressure campaign to get those needles in our arms.
Pretty sure they'd have rounded us up in camps.
What happened in the US happened faster than what happened in Nazi Germany.
Exactly right. It’s not that people knew and ignored it; they didn’t know. Sure there were voices out there, but they were very few, and if you didn’t happen to run across any of them, you didn’t even have the opportunity to dismiss them as crazy. I grew up in the fifties and early sixties learning about our government and its three separate branches. I didn’t know there was an administrative state ostensibly in the executive branch but operating independently of presidential control. And then you get busy—college, jobs, marriage, children. Church if you’re a Christian. And you have no idea that the media have been captured and everyone is telling lies. You may be ignorant, but you’re not stupid. One day something gets through, and then the whole thing starts to unravel.
So we need to be patient and not criticize those slowly waking up to the truth for being somehow to blame. The only ones to blame are those who, with eyes tight shut and hands over ears, refuse to learn the truth.
No, there is not one page of anything in German, in Germany and Polish in Poland that says anything about a holocaust. The holocaust was made up 10 years after that. There weren’t even 6 million Jews there. And there are no bones or ashes at all. Planes have tried to find them with their radar. There was nothing!!!
Nothing look it up nothing there is no bones no ashes 6 million people did not die there !!!
In my opinion, this has been done intentionally. "Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
Here's the thing. I'm starting to realize that all those gullible people were ALWAYS that gullible - and I just couldn't see it. Now the curtain has been pulled back.
It's no fun to find out people you loved (especially family) are not who you thought they were.
But on the other hand, it means you can get on with living your own life in a way that you couldn't have when you were still blind.
I know what you mean. These people love being ruled over, they just want it to be by their guys. I'm reminded of the old Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. When Gloria Steinem--the quintessential icon of feminism--was asked how his behavior squared with her. And her answer was something like, well yeah, we know he's a scoundrel bad boy, but he's *our* scoundrel bad boy.
Ah....Gloria Steinem who was on the CIA payroll..,she and the other "ladies" created the problems which we have now with over-the-top controlling women and a surplus of beta males...their never-ending quest to make men more like women...a far cry from the original sales pitch for the femlib movement....I was an adult during the 60s and watched what they did...
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
The main problem is they've somehow come to think love of country is the same as love of government.
These people have no idea how checks and balances are supposed to work, etc. etc. They couldn't begin to explain to you want a Constitutional Republic is. Thats what happens when you don't learn civics and history.
We need to order them the dvd box set of Schoolhouse Rock so they can learn the basics of civics.
Did you see Stephen Miller's Govt.101 lesson a couple days ago? Two minutes and he could have begun with "settle down class, today we're going to see how American government is structured under our Constitution.. Mr. SCHIFF, no, you cannot be excused, SIT DOWN.." OK, I added that
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
Ask them to describe the difference between democracy and a Constitutional Republic.
All my liberal friends fail that simple test. All of them. It's scary.
And like your friends/family they should know the difference...because we were the last generation who were taught the basics...and why the difference matters.
True, most of the major city states in Classical Greek world had constitutions, but only a few were democracies. I believe the distinction is: Democracy = Voters vote directly on legislation. Democratic Republic or Representative Democracy = Voters vote for lawmakers, who intern vote on legislation.
I would offer this: is it deeper than that? Is the need to be seen as "loving" ruling their lives and the definition they use for the word "love" is errant?
If they consider the government as a reflection of themself, the expressor of love, then they would easily buy into the necessity of DEI, illegal aliens getting all their needs met by the government...you see how using the government as an extension of themselves is such a way could be a powerful undercurrent.
How to cure this psycological sickness so they can absorb Schoolhouse Rock?
Man, I have not been on that thing under my own name in YEARS for that very reason. Trump broke the shit out of Fakebook for me 1000% back in 2016 and covid flushed it down the toilet. I use my 17 year old dog as my facebook persona now and he has NO friends. He just goes on there once in a while to sell something, buy something, or hunt down an owner of a lost dog since they all come to his house for some weird reason. Probably all Fakebook whores. Or they can smell how smart his parents are. LOL
Our nephew does. He recently told my husband something very similar about his account. He described what his friends and family back home (NH) think and say and believe and get upset about -- and he is just shocked by it. "Can't believe it, Uncle D."
I can. That's why we left New England -- a foreign country -- and moved to our new country, Florida. Perfect? No. Vastly better in our neck of the woods? 100%
Perhaps? But this is not a new situation. "These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government."
I only created a FB account to monitor my kids’ accounts back when they were in high school 10+ years ago. I would happily delete it now except that many local businesses only have a FB page (instead of a website), so if I want to see the hours of the local nursery or this week’s vendors at the farmers market, I have to go to FB.
I deleted my Facebook account for that reason - and for surveillance, data harvesting, profiling and creating a digital twin of myself which AI monitors in real time for wrongthink.
Dumped FB once the people whom I was arguing with on international policy were suddenly public health experts. Suddenly everyone knew what R0 was and its significance (not).
That’s what I wanted to ask Cat. Was curious if any minds are being changed? At this point I doubt it. The people who voted for Harris after 4 years of JB are truly lost. The defunding of USAID May help in the long run though.
Yes—- not a word in the captured mainstream media apparatus about the billions, nay trillions of “misplaced” funds. The numbers alone are hard to wrap one’s head around. It is like the thief robbing you blind expecting you to worship him for robbing you blind because it’s the lifestyle you’ve been used to. Truly unbelievable.
It's quite amusing that they always try to flex how long they have been in the government while clear evidence shows that their dept. has progressively gotten worse since their tenure started.
Seriously. Like how can anyone defend The Department of Education?
My wife had a left leaning moderate over and this lady was having a meltdown her kids wouldn't learn anything without The DOE. This despite her always bitching about how the school and teachers don't care about the kids.
Sorta' like someone near here who was convinced that Biden was eminently qualified because he became a Senator in the 50s or whenever and had an extensive resume culminating in 8 years of "service" as Obama's VP. There are people who think that "Career Politician" looks good on a resume.....
It's astonishing, isn't it? The same people who said you were "afraid of change" while they flooded the country with illegal immigrants while attempting to make whites an ethnic minority for political purposes are SUPER freaked out that they might have to *gasp* update their resume and look for a real fucking job.
Those last couple of lines totally remind me of how trophy wives can extract totally unfair wealth from their ex once they have reached their use-by date.
I'm seriously worried that if these thieves really believe their end is coming, they will do some sort of Kamikaze move that leads to violence and escalates into civil war. Right now, they are freaking out over Trump's moves in the CIA, FBI, and the DOD. Trump might be expecting a possible coup attempt.
We have gone so fast from "the Deep State is a right-wing conspiracy theory" to "the Deep State is a necessary branch of government meant to keep the president--and by extension the voters--in check" that I think I have whiplash.
Round up all these criminals and start the interrogations. Anyone who fails a lie detector tests should go into a 72-hour straightjacked, one-on- one, counseling session conducted by Stephen Miller.
If they fail the interrogation based on Miller's assessment then put them in charge of a winter-only burger stand in Greenland
I’m only going to believe in real justice when people - & I don’t mean the small fry none of us have heard of - get arrested, perp walked & do hard time (or worse, if actions involve treason). Only actions will speak louder than words. No slaps on wrists, no stupid fines no matter how large, no mere resignations & then going away quietly to enjoy their millions & billions.
And of course that goes for everyone involved in the last scamdemic & apparently the new one they’re teeing up as we speak.
Same with Vance, Hesgeth, etc. They all went to the same elocution school. The way they speak is as far from Woke as Taylor Swift is from Mozart. Great stuff!
Maybe hook them up to Musk's Neurolink and tell them we can read their minds. It might not be true, but it will surely freak them out. How about a job as a polar bear monitor in Alaska, Greenland, and our 51st state - Canada. Lots of field work. If you think that the Arctic is hospitable during the summer, you've never been there.
I don't have any hope of all the thousands of dollars the state has stolen from me being returned but it's a nice story. I suppose we'll see.
I do hope that Elizabeth Warren is the first one to have her personal bank records published and the source of her millions exposed. I've had enough of that screechy harridan-harpy hybrid.
Remember how critically important it was for the leftists to get ahold of Trump’s tax returns back in 2016-17??? Warren et. al. are about to find out that two can play that game.
They’ll walk away with millions. Meanwhile I’m seeing a lot of those on the right, cheering as Bob who’s retired military now federal worker, cheer as he’s removed from his position.
It’s an ad that will be run by democrats in the mid-term. And they’ll use the rights own tweets in these ads to show the independents that the right hates retired military and veterans.
It's like Christmas every day, I can't wait to wake up and see what's in my inbox. My narcissistic boss avoids me like the plague because he doesn't want to hear "I told you so" I've been 100% correct on every topic and he cannot stand being wrong. Life is grand!
But will Pfizer & pals be forced to return to the US taxpayer all the money they have gotten from over-charging and colluding with captured agencies?
Somehow, I doubt Elon Musk and DOGE, even if he wanted to, will be allowed to audit private capitalist corporations that made off like robber barons from co-operating with the DNC and the Obama/Biden White House, even if it would come out that their business dealings were just as corrupt as USAID.
Or how about going further back to '08? How about a fully transparent public audit of how the American taxpayer was forced to save the banks and the profits of capitalists in the banking, mortgage and housing sector?
I agree - but even getting the question asked, in public and on record, would be a good test of character for him and DOGE.
I'll have to assume the reason the American press and DNC-affiliated pundits aren't lobbying those kinds of question at him is because they know that no matter any potential dirt from Musk's various wheelings and dealings (when he was Obama's darling chum f.e.), their own side is at least thrice as dirty.
Also, can we just start to change OUR MINDSETS now? Why are we all in victim mode and fear mode? This is not who we are supposed to be as God's children. And even if you don't believe in God, this is not who humans are designed to be (IMHO). We are not sheep. We should be self-determined. We should be good, and follow the Golden Rule. That in itself is powerful! To be truthful, not to STEAL, CHEAT and LIE. Those things are what the weak do. If we are morally strong, then we say "no" to the cheaters and liars, and murderers, and we refuse to give them OUR money. Let's do that.
Edited to add, just after I posted this I got an email from Tucker Carlson that opened: "Citizens are free to say what they think. Subjects aren’t."
I wish it was, because it's definitely how I feel. The problem with the worship is that it's dangerous. Makes you wonder if Trump's offhanded comment in 2016 about shooting someone on 5th Avenue and still having support was actually accurate.
What's really maddening is the purists who can't get their minds around the idea that it's possible to like a lot of what's happening and still be leery of Musk and the other technocrats that Trump has surrounded himself with. These are the people who think Musk loves free speech because he bought Twitter, as opposed to thinking (as I do) that Musk is an opportunist who bought Twitter to take advantage of OUR love of free speech.
Kolyma refers to Soviet attic death camps, I looked it up. I agree.
JHH offered that as a funny quip. Not me. I believe we need to have Nuremberg type show trials. I think the next three years should be dedicated to the prosecution of the thieves because if you don’t prosecute them, it will happen again and in short order.
Name one US president that wasn’t uniparty apparatchik? Reagan was a complete douche bag. Probably Carter but he was mega wimp. Trump stands alone.
Likely correct, a single generation corrective, but if there are consequences for say use of government positions to pillage the country, then it could become the norm.
I am a regular scroller on FB. I’ve not posted anything political since the Obama years. The last 4 under Dementia Jo Jo I kept quiet …and I will still keep quiet; even though it’s getting harder and harder reading my Lib friends’ posts about oligarchy and dictatorships and lamenting that the mandatory covid vaccine is being forced off college campuses(fucking 5 yrs later!!!). They absolutely nuts and clearly in denial. It’s amazing to see.
Ask them who ran the Executive Branch for the last 4 years while JB was napping... And then ask them who the "Oligarchy" is and where they went on January 21st... Sit back and watch heads explode...
A better analogy than the cheating boyfriend would be the people screaming "traitor" at Edward Snowden instead of asking what the hell the Charlie Ingrid Apple is doing monitoring everyone's communication and when are some of those cretins going to start doing hard time.
"the fact that the US government has been an invisible college of criminals for who knows how long is the issue of our time and we the people are not interested in changing the topic."
My Washington career began on Capitol Hill with Church/Pike Committees. It was clear Congress was too beholden to special interests and technology looked like the way to give transparency to spending and I moved to Beltway Bandit contracting networks. By the time Bush Sr. was elected it was too corrupt for me to take part and decades since the powers DOGE is wielding has been a dream that seemed impossible outside a Hollywood film.
Too many have grown too fat on theft and grift and schemes that are self serving and it's glorious to listen to them squeal like the old Wall Street adage finally come to its final truth.. bulls make money, bears make money and pigs get slaughtered.. time for pork BBQ for change.
I'm in the middle of reading "The Last Honest Man" about the Church Committee. The story is pretty interesting, although it's clear the book's author is still on the Agency payroll. A limited hangout of a book if ever there was one.
All the focus is on Church Committee findings while my mentor Hon. Otis G. Pike the House counterpart who got Kissinger to destroy plausible deniability for Nixon is still largely classified and relegated to dustbin of history.
My own censorship far less dramatic but 2020 Twitter ban that came with no warning and no appeal is still in place but that was most likely about challenging mRNA TRANSFECTIONS as investigational vaccines the fraud that takes decades old bench tool and resets IP for "novel use" voila a cash cow and criminal malpractice on par with lobotomy another Nobel Prize winning crime of human experiments.
Thanks for that link to the Pike article, PD. This short paragraph really hits home for me, because it's where I've arrived in the last 5 years:
"As Pike put it, in Watergate the American people were asked to believe that 'their President had been a bad person. In this situation they are asked much more; they are asked to believe that their country has been evil. And nobody wants to believe that.'”
Dear reader, you know better thanks to our goodly author, but look around: your spouse, your neighbor, your friends, likely your children, are they not the very the dingbats described here in. What does that protend? Dare you speak of this phenomenon: will you tell them? Are you prepared to be disowned?
The narrative battle space is phosphorescent with energy right now. We’ve been holding our tongues for a long time. Has that time come to an end? Dare you?
Should we confront our loved ones? If not now when? If not you who?
In my experience, people generally learn from personal experience, not from information coming from a perceived adversary. So far, I have not persuaded anyone of anything in the political arena.
I personally think the lower dimensions of the iceberg are going to be completely impossible to ignore. Let them come to the light on their own.
OK, it’s my question so I’m going to expound on it and declare victory: Jennifer is correct. Jennifer’s version is all we have.
You see my question was a provocation - like yelling fire in a crowded theatre. The provocation : I was forcing you to face the fact that your circle of friends and loved ones are idiots. Lol!
The truth is your loved ones are not able to comprehend, if they were able they would not be the way they are and most importantly you can’t change that fact by argument, as Jennifer said. The second truth is that you have to live with that because that is what we are: humans are overclocked chimps. Humans are capable of knowledge if we fall in with the right people, like this author lucky for us, he is well calibrated in his judgement and very adroit in his communication. Other people fall in with the wrong crowd because they are stupid and you being smart and making a smart argument, will not change that.
Your loved ones will figure it out or not. You have zero chance of changing that and a high probability that you will create a war: “lest we forget “.
I must add the point of remembrance Day - lest we forget - is to remember how we got ourselves into war in the first place, so as to avoid killing another young generation.
We always forget . Overclocked chimps. Tough luck.
Set boundaries and pray for their eyes to be opened to the truth. We're meant to love everyone; doesn't mean we have to like them or roll over and validate their idiocy.
I agree, but the MIL/DIL relationship is oftentimes prickly and inflaming just adds more spikes. I guess it’s in my own best interest to not post when I know it will be problematic. I do post in areas that she and I are not connected (like here, for instance.) …and yes, I do pray for her.
"I guess it’s in my own best interest to not post when I know it will be problematic."
Yes. As much as it pains us to watch shrews be shrews, it's often best to just back off and not engage or bait their toxicity.
A few of my coworkers are those shrewish projection units we're all having to navigate right now, and what got most of them to shut up and leave me alone was smiling sweetly and informing them that I don't discuss politics in the workplace because my mother raised me with manners and courtesy.
I tried and my DIL crybullied me. I did remove my Elizabeth Nickson post because I want to try to preserve that relationship, but I think I was wrong to do it.
Connie is right, the destruction wrought by this is fearsome and not worth it. Don’t tell your loved ones. They need to figure it out on their own. if you step forward to tell them, you will ruin your life.
Here is a quotefrom Oscar Wilde:
“ if you want to tell people the truth make them laugh otherwise they will kill you”.
Holding your tongue is rarely a good idea. If they didn’t know where you stood then you’re going to have a hard time now that they’re loaded for bear against the sea change. At this point may take a delicate operation. As gato has wisely advised, “you get to keep the rights you will fight for, and the fight must be early and instant.” This is where tongue-holders fail.
Lacking a proper relational foundation in the first place, yes, there’s a risk of alienation. But it’s how you find out who loves you. Truth is a refining fire and a lot of false friends and family have been burned flat out of a lot of lives in the past few years.
"tell them an enemy is out to get them or that a crisis impends and they will rally around any flag" describes Canada now. The Trump Tariffs threat are in response to Canada's unsecured borders. Instead of recognizing that fact, Canadians now are rallying around the flag and behind the leader that was hell bent on making Canada a post nationalistic state a couple months ago. It is hard to watch.
I wandered onto Facebook the other day and should not have. I learned who of my old friends are defending the indefensible and I would rather not know that. Man. The “orange man is Hitler” thing really broke some people. Hard.
I have to stay away from Fakebook these days. Too maddening. They don't get it at all. They will continue to blame the messenger.
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
Hunter S. Thompson
Wanna watch dumb heads explode? Trump issues EO directing every single federal agency close their Facebook accounts. And BlueSky, if they have them. Direct them to maintain Twitter and...Truth Social accounts instead. Even Substack?
What law demands the federal government use Facebook for its communications? What congressional or judicial oversight could countermand his orders? Who first decided to open a Facebook account (or Blue Sky) at any agency? Etched in stone, forevermore?
About that Section 230 protection? If lefties oppose, sue to keep federal agencies on Facebook, claiming they are the public square, providing a public service then don't they step on their "private business making private decisions to censor" arguments?
It would be glorious! Especially the Truth Social directive to agencies! Sure, his opponents will howl that would benefit his personal business. But that's in a blind trust now. Just like Pocahontas and every other policymaker who claim their trades are made in blind trusts, they don't control them...right before they buy/sell on insider trading they know government is about to change the market valuation...allowing them to become multimillionaires on a few hundred thousand salary. Sure, the Truth Social federal agency directive would be challenged, just like government officials who stayed in his hotels. But so what? They cry and complain about everything. And holding up the mirror to their hypocrisy on full exhibit allows Trump to win that PR battle.
Yes, Trump could/should middle finger Zuck by closing official pages on FB. The battle that ensues would be comedic gold glorious! He has the power, not a flight of fancy.
You guys are killing me today. Gato has some of the best and funniest commenter's
Thing is, Zuck told Trump and the world he'd end censorship, do Twitter model. Not that I support Musk's "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach" model, but it's better than Twitter was or FB is. Zuck hasn't followed through. Trump just needs to say he won't support social media that censors, FB is still censoring, he's going to take away official federal support from platforms that censor. That's it. The justification for the EO right there. Easy-peasy. Heads: EXPLODE!!! I'm in love with the idea! LOVE! C'mon Trump, Baby! Do it!
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
Philip K. Dick
The folks above are in a maze alright. But they can’t see the doors swathed in blinking color changing laser lights because they were ordered to another route.
Lolol. That is so perfect. Simple but no simpler
Its just crazy. They are soooo full of hate. Goodness wouldn't that get old?!
If it wasn't so damn fun making fun of them i might go crazy.
I have this crazy kind of cognitive dissonance going on. On one hand I'm stoked the corruption and grift is being revealed. On the other hand I'm FUCKING PISSED!
Well yes, it is old. So I stay off. Why even bother yourself?
No doubt. My wife and me had a FB account for our neighborhood when we were still in CA before moving to Florida.
The entire point was to try and educate the neighbors on how terrible the lockdowns, school closures, the spirit of fear and masking was for children.
We were relentlessly and hysterically barraged with nonsensical rants about how we were not empathetic and science deniers.
I saved all the messages for posterity so that people wouldn't think I was making it up.
I have a good covid vault as well. In the future I figured lots of people would forget. That is what humans do (sadly). Yeah FB is garbage. You can even be on it for the right reason (to inform) and they will make sure your experience sucks and doesn't really get to many people. Dump it.
It was pointless to even try to educate people during covid. FB censors, puts you in jail, then shadow-bans forever so very few even see you!
I'm mostly on X now.
I have been off FB since Feb of 2018. I am upset that more women have not moved to other sites, because there’s a wealth of information to share. I’m a homeschool mom and find I miss a lot of info not being on FB. I really don’t want to join but it’s where all the moms are with all their info.
I will add, I find it sort of funny that the same people (all lefties) who have been whining and crying every single day on FB that their account is being censored, shadow-banned, etc. have been doing that for at least TEN years. This to me seems insane. So they knew this was going on - the censorship. But they stay on the platform and continue to complain? I don't get it. Just leave. Get a substack. Change it up. But, no. They stay and whine. It's just silly. That's why I left.
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
Gustave Le Bon
This is what you do. I have been dropping truth bombs around covid that has them pissed. I love talking about the Amish and how they were the only control group that was allowed.
They can go down with the titanic. They have refused the life boats. I don’t care anymore. Something is deeply wrong with them and I don’t think it can be fixed. Ignore and Carry On. My new motto.
Same.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Right here with you ! It’s so much fun watching them squirm their way forward.
my little brother is completely broken but mostly ignorant. He is on Bookface and his page is all rants, no one responds, he must believe he is an influencer of some sort. Just hideous. Narcissistic
That's exactly what Fakebook craves.
We might have the same brother lol.
look up John De Leeuw - he is the one in New Hampshire standing around in his deck shoes on one of his three boats - possibly on his cell phone swearing at me for something I am doing with daddy's Trust that he claims his "financial advisor" counters. Like STFU , but I usually just respond with "John, are you okay?"
On siblings here, you win.
Lmfao 😂 me too
He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother. I’m tired of carrying him, he’s a total idiot!
My sister’s FB feed looks like a Libs of Tik Tok “best hits”. It’s so ridiculous. No one comments or responds. I unfriended her years ago so we could remain civil. Very sad.
They never grow up. In elementary school if you ask the children, what can you do about poor people they will say let’s share everything we have with them.
By the time you are in college, you should start to realize that that doesn’t work. But then they inundate you with a lot of propaganda.
They make people insane.
Ditto
My TDS sister is very, very quiet lately. I’m actually kind of worried but Perhaps she has gotten a stronger benzodiazepine Rx. She really insulted me to my face once last year and when I got upset, she handed me one.
I'm generally not on social media, and any of my family that don't agree with me is too afraid to let me know it. "Don't get Uncle Skenny started." :>) Fire and brimstone for 25 years!
Drain it dry!
I cancelled my account. I use YouTube, X and Instagram on occation but FB is just a cesspool. The only thing I miss is the Marketplace as I have to sell some exercise equiptment and a rabbit run this weekend, but my husband still has an account he checks in on once and awhile so I'll just use his. My cousin actually called me last weekend to check in since I'm no longer there and that's an added plus. I'd rather talk for an hour with a friend or family member anyway. For people who can't bother to receive or give a call or FaceTime, they weren't real friends anyway.
Haha I just responded above that my dog has his own account for this very reason! Love marketplace when I want to buy something big that is preowned.
I would do this but assumed it wouldn’t be considered trustworthy. If this is common practice and won’t effect sale I’ll do it!
When communicating via messenger I immediately tell who I am so as to be straightforward and we go directly to phone conversations so I never had any issues and sold an SUV there and bought a fireplace insert with no problems.
I did get my Christmas tree for really cheap on there!!!
I was/am on instagram but I rarely comment bc I suddenly get banned for no reason. https:// www.instagram.com/ razzleberryrose2/ I have complained to them so many times with screen shots of their stupid annoying statements about how I am not following community guidelines. It is weird as hell. I have been very close to getting very profane but I realize they are just imbeciles
I broke up the link so just put it together if you want to see my hideous page
I’m the guy that got kicked off of WSJ for answering a guy with a “?” Yep.
Ditto!
I gave up Facebook back during the Great Purge of 2021 after they banned Ron freaking Paul. I felt that was a line too far and I quit.
It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I don’t miss it one bit.
Yep I got banned then for telling people to be careful after vaccination because these shots didn’t mean you couldn’t still spread the disease. Then again right before the election for talking about how FEMA funds weren’t reaching North Carolina flood communities, despite living in a neighboring community and witnessing this first hand! I guess first hand, documented real life accounts are “online misinformation” when detrimental to Democrats winning elections.
Well Jen, you are obviously an anarchist. Just because you see and know something does not mean you can repeat it if it doesn't validate delicate feelings.
they banned Ron Paul!?
They were banning everyone for a while right after the “insurrection”. Remember, Trump and Parlor and AWS and all of that stuff. Apple was banning apps. It was nuts.
Most of them are back now but when I call it the “Great Purge of 2021” I’m not exaggerating.
probably one of the only politicians who is somewhat honest and trustworthy. At least in his writing. Might be different if he had been elected, but I doubt it. He seems like a real person, not a puppet played by others. And don't forget, they banned the president.
I've never had a Facebook account.
We're all just like the 1930s Germans. The pandemic showed me who my friends are and who are just fresh meat for the fear mongers. The tribe is all and facts matter very little to scared animals.
Well, unlike "the Germans" that everybody, seemingly, loves to point to/blame, those people (most of whom lived in the country) might have had a radio -- if they were lucky. Or a newspaper. And they were still recovering from a war that devastated their population and economy. How many knew in real time what was happening?
Compare that to today in the country whose people love to laud themselves as free and brave and oh-so exceptional. These people have in the palm of their hand the ability to communicate instantly, research instantly, compare data/info instantly...And what did they do?
I'd say the "American" people are far worse, far more to blame than "the Germans" for enabling the greatest crime in history. They could have stood as an example to the world of what it means to be free...and brave...and maybe just a little bit 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍. Instead?
Whoa! Hold on here. This may be the greatest financial crime in history but the comparison with the German populace in the early to mid 1930s is a bit over the top. At that time the Germans did nothing to stop their government in the treatment of the Jews and other minorities even when it was done in public. In fact they cheered it on. The “crime “ here is that too many people who were busy doing other things trusted their government and elected the pretty shiny politicians. These people are slowly waking up and once awake will act like scorned lovers. That will be the day when the corrupt leftist movement finally dies. Give it some time. DOGE is merely the auditor. The sheriff just got confirmed.
That might have been different if the vaxx and masks actually worked. Although the pandemic was, for all intents and purposes, over because of herd immunity prior to the pressure campaign to get those needles in our arms.
Pretty sure they'd have rounded us up in camps.
What happened in the US happened faster than what happened in Nazi Germany.
Exactly right. It’s not that people knew and ignored it; they didn’t know. Sure there were voices out there, but they were very few, and if you didn’t happen to run across any of them, you didn’t even have the opportunity to dismiss them as crazy. I grew up in the fifties and early sixties learning about our government and its three separate branches. I didn’t know there was an administrative state ostensibly in the executive branch but operating independently of presidential control. And then you get busy—college, jobs, marriage, children. Church if you’re a Christian. And you have no idea that the media have been captured and everyone is telling lies. You may be ignorant, but you’re not stupid. One day something gets through, and then the whole thing starts to unravel.
So we need to be patient and not criticize those slowly waking up to the truth for being somehow to blame. The only ones to blame are those who, with eyes tight shut and hands over ears, refuse to learn the truth.
You weren't supposed to know! "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
Felix Frankfurter
No, there is not one page of anything in German, in Germany and Polish in Poland that says anything about a holocaust. The holocaust was made up 10 years after that. There weren’t even 6 million Jews there. And there are no bones or ashes at all. Planes have tried to find them with their radar. There was nothing!!!
Nothing look it up nothing there is no bones no ashes 6 million people did not die there !!!
Imagine if we had a DOGE-type body investigate the Holocaust(TM). Now that would blow a few minds.
Kern, do you mean to relegate the "COVID" operation to just a financial crime?
No its Financial crime to Germans.
In my opinion, this has been done intentionally. "Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
Benjamin Disraeli
Yep. Lost a lot of friends but gained a lot of new ones too.
this is the hardest part - realizing how incredibly gullible so many normies are. I don't want to be tied to their stupidity.
It's even harder when they're family.
True. I at least have hope for my family.
Definitely
These things seem to happen by design. "There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public."
Gore Vidal
Here's the thing. I'm starting to realize that all those gullible people were ALWAYS that gullible - and I just couldn't see it. Now the curtain has been pulled back.
It's no fun to find out people you loved (especially family) are not who you thought they were.
But on the other hand, it means you can get on with living your own life in a way that you couldn't have when you were still blind.
I know what you mean. These people love being ruled over, they just want it to be by their guys. I'm reminded of the old Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. When Gloria Steinem--the quintessential icon of feminism--was asked how his behavior squared with her. And her answer was something like, well yeah, we know he's a scoundrel bad boy, but he's *our* scoundrel bad boy.
Ah....Gloria Steinem who was on the CIA payroll..,she and the other "ladies" created the problems which we have now with over-the-top controlling women and a surplus of beta males...their never-ending quest to make men more like women...a far cry from the original sales pitch for the femlib movement....I was an adult during the 60s and watched what they did...
I’ve been speaking against it since the 70s and have been trying to fight it for 50 years.
I can’t believe there was finally a break.
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Theodore Roosevelt
Yeah, people I respected as movers and shakers as cowards and thoughtless (incapable of critical thought). I don’t understand why people post on FB.
The main problem is they've somehow come to think love of country is the same as love of government.
These people have no idea how checks and balances are supposed to work, etc. etc. They couldn't begin to explain to you want a Constitutional Republic is. Thats what happens when you don't learn civics and history.
We need to order them the dvd box set of Schoolhouse Rock so they can learn the basics of civics.
Did you see Stephen Miller's Govt.101 lesson a couple days ago? Two minutes and he could have begun with "settle down class, today we're going to see how American government is structured under our Constitution.. Mr. SCHIFF, no, you cannot be excused, SIT DOWN.." OK, I added that
Yes. Total smack-down. I must've watched it 5 times.
Just glorious. I feel like i could do the same shit day after day to them.
I mean the MSM is indeed a target rich environment...
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
Theodore Roosevelt
They used to know. I was in Civics class with them. : (
Ask them to describe the difference between democracy and a Constitutional Republic.
All my liberal friends fail that simple test. All of them. It's scary.
And like your friends/family they should know the difference...because we were the last generation who were taught the basics...and why the difference matters.
The term is “democratic republic.” Both that and a democracy can have a constitution.
No. The united states is a Constitutional Federal Republic.
Am I interpreting your post incorrectly?
True, most of the major city states in Classical Greek world had constitutions, but only a few were democracies. I believe the distinction is: Democracy = Voters vote directly on legislation. Democratic Republic or Representative Democracy = Voters vote for lawmakers, who intern vote on legislation.
I would offer this: is it deeper than that? Is the need to be seen as "loving" ruling their lives and the definition they use for the word "love" is errant?
If they consider the government as a reflection of themself, the expressor of love, then they would easily buy into the necessity of DEI, illegal aliens getting all their needs met by the government...you see how using the government as an extension of themselves is such a way could be a powerful undercurrent.
How to cure this psycological sickness so they can absorb Schoolhouse Rock?
True 'dat. They worship government when it is used to oppress those that don't agree.
Man, I have not been on that thing under my own name in YEARS for that very reason. Trump broke the shit out of Fakebook for me 1000% back in 2016 and covid flushed it down the toilet. I use my 17 year old dog as my facebook persona now and he has NO friends. He just goes on there once in a while to sell something, buy something, or hunt down an owner of a lost dog since they all come to his house for some weird reason. Probably all Fakebook whores. Or they can smell how smart his parents are. LOL
Never had a Facebag account.
Our nephew does. He recently told my husband something very similar about his account. He described what his friends and family back home (NH) think and say and believe and get upset about -- and he is just shocked by it. "Can't believe it, Uncle D."
I can. That's why we left New England -- a foreign country -- and moved to our new country, Florida. Perfect? No. Vastly better in our neck of the woods? 100%
I keep saying MA and above should secede. Hell, I'll donate to that
Add CT to that list
The Transnational captured MSM is the Transnationals primary weapon for empty minds. It also will be exposed.
Perhaps? But this is not a new situation. "These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government."
Theodore Roosevelt
I only created a FB account to monitor my kids’ accounts back when they were in high school 10+ years ago. I would happily delete it now except that many local businesses only have a FB page (instead of a website), so if I want to see the hours of the local nursery or this week’s vendors at the farmers market, I have to go to FB.
I deleted my Facebook account for that reason - and for surveillance, data harvesting, profiling and creating a digital twin of myself which AI monitors in real time for wrongthink.
Dumped FB once the people whom I was arguing with on international policy were suddenly public health experts. Suddenly everyone knew what R0 was and its significance (not).
That’s what I wanted to ask Cat. Was curious if any minds are being changed? At this point I doubt it. The people who voted for Harris after 4 years of JB are truly lost. The defunding of USAID May help in the long run though.
I've done the same with a number of broken brained FB 'friends'. Can't have a nuanced discussion whatsoever, just had to block them.
Yes—- not a word in the captured mainstream media apparatus about the billions, nay trillions of “misplaced” funds. The numbers alone are hard to wrap one’s head around. It is like the thief robbing you blind expecting you to worship him for robbing you blind because it’s the lifestyle you’ve been used to. Truly unbelievable.
It's quite amusing that they always try to flex how long they have been in the government while clear evidence shows that their dept. has progressively gotten worse since their tenure started.
"You've been stealing from us and all the problems you are supposed to fix are getting worse!" "But, I've been doing it for a very long time!"
Seriously. Like how can anyone defend The Department of Education?
My wife had a left leaning moderate over and this lady was having a meltdown her kids wouldn't learn anything without The DOE. This despite her always bitching about how the school and teachers don't care about the kids.
to be a leftist the one absolute requirement is to refuse to fairly evaluate cause and effect
Sorta' like someone near here who was convinced that Biden was eminently qualified because he became a Senator in the 50s or whenever and had an extensive resume culminating in 8 years of "service" as Obama's VP. There are people who think that "Career Politician" looks good on a resume.....
Yup. But the minute they're treated like us mere non-civil servant peasants they cry....oPprEsSiOn!
If this was a merit system, they’d get LESS pay year over year because of lack results. Well, perhaps fired?
It's astonishing, isn't it? The same people who said you were "afraid of change" while they flooded the country with illegal immigrants while attempting to make whites an ethnic minority for political purposes are SUPER freaked out that they might have to *gasp* update their resume and look for a real fucking job.
"Afraid of change". OK.
Those last couple of lines totally remind me of how trophy wives can extract totally unfair wealth from their ex once they have reached their use-by date.
I'm seriously worried that if these thieves really believe their end is coming, they will do some sort of Kamikaze move that leads to violence and escalates into civil war. Right now, they are freaking out over Trump's moves in the CIA, FBI, and the DOD. Trump might be expecting a possible coup attempt.
We have gone so fast from "the Deep State is a right-wing conspiracy theory" to "the Deep State is a necessary branch of government meant to keep the president--and by extension the voters--in check" that I think I have whiplash.
it's the dream of woodrow wilson: rule by unaccountable technocrat.
Did you mean Edith Wilson?
but Wilson did such a bang up job of settling WWI!
And of Thiel, Musk, Ellison, O'Neill and the rest of the Silicon Valley misfits.
Round up all these criminals and start the interrogations. Anyone who fails a lie detector tests should go into a 72-hour straightjacked, one-on- one, counseling session conducted by Stephen Miller.
If they fail the interrogation based on Miller's assessment then put them in charge of a winter-only burger stand in Greenland
I’m only going to believe in real justice when people - & I don’t mean the small fry none of us have heard of - get arrested, perp walked & do hard time (or worse, if actions involve treason). Only actions will speak louder than words. No slaps on wrists, no stupid fines no matter how large, no mere resignations & then going away quietly to enjoy their millions & billions.
And of course that goes for everyone involved in the last scamdemic & apparently the new one they’re teeing up as we speak.
100%: Adam Schiff, Brennan, Strzok, Page, Fauci, Birx...my God, the list is endless!
Hillary!
YESSSSSSSSS! And Kerry & NObummer & Brennan & Comey & Powers & Rice & Bush & all the sordid rest
Last one out of Congress, lock the doors please!
Biden's pardons = no perp walk/hard time, correct? Lookin at you Schiff
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wow. That Stephen Miller is something else! That is one scary guy. Loved his treatment of the press!
Same with Vance, Hesgeth, etc. They all went to the same elocution school. The way they speak is as far from Woke as Taylor Swift is from Mozart. Great stuff!
yeah, but they're no KJP, right? hahaaa
Another great Stephen Miller CNN takedown: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1891941681122959810
Excellent comment on Taylor swift . The distance you refer to could only be calculated in light years. Bravo to you
Very matter of fact and even keeled
He's had years to strategize, saw the "immigration" scam way back. He's FAFO
Lol! Ryan, getting interrogated by Stephen Miller would definitely scare the crap out of me!😬
Lololol. 🤭
Maybe hook them up to Musk's Neurolink and tell them we can read their minds. It might not be true, but it will surely freak them out. How about a job as a polar bear monitor in Alaska, Greenland, and our 51st state - Canada. Lots of field work. If you think that the Arctic is hospitable during the summer, you've never been there.
That last meme is a screamer! LOL.
I don't have any hope of all the thousands of dollars the state has stolen from me being returned but it's a nice story. I suppose we'll see.
I do hope that Elizabeth Warren is the first one to have her personal bank records published and the source of her millions exposed. I've had enough of that screechy harridan-harpy hybrid.
And her tax returns.
Remember how critically important it was for the leftists to get ahold of Trump’s tax returns back in 2016-17??? Warren et. al. are about to find out that two can play that game.
Indeed.
Goose/gander. LOL.
Harpy!
Yes Mary. You hit the bullseye.
That's an insult to both Harridans and Harpies.
I can't disagree.
Honestly it's remarkable how much Kat grew on me over the past year or so. But this is what happens when you can't be bothered to change the channel.
But anyway. I've never seen a swearing in as filled with joy and laughter as Kash's yesterday. You'd almost think you weren't in DC.
And Howard Lutnick's, too. I'd had to be reminded who he is. You want the definition of "indomitable" you got it in that guy.
We sure did have to wait a long time for that Hope and Change, didn't we?
Let us know when the guilty actually get what they deserve. We all see it, holding them accountable doesn’t seem to happen.
Nick Appel, holding people accountable, seems to be completely absent from our world.
True; but big change is in the air.
yep, I can get a whiff of it.
Still, I am waiting for the smell from hanging bodies at the gates to the realm.
If you arrest one, the rest will know what is coming. There will be MEGA arrests by MAGA at the same time.
They’ll walk away with millions. Meanwhile I’m seeing a lot of those on the right, cheering as Bob who’s retired military now federal worker, cheer as he’s removed from his position.
It’s an ad that will be run by democrats in the mid-term. And they’ll use the rights own tweets in these ads to show the independents that the right hates retired military and veterans.
This is a great time to be alive, especially after watching the bad guys win for decades.
No longer any point in coddling their demented supporters. Just walk away from the deranged Karens, they can not learn.
I'm dying for the thermonuclear bomb of the Epstein files being airburst over D.C.
It's like Christmas every day, I can't wait to wake up and see what's in my inbox. My narcissistic boss avoids me like the plague because he doesn't want to hear "I told you so" I've been 100% correct on every topic and he cannot stand being wrong. Life is grand!
They are teasing news tonight on that front.
Its like being a kid and every day is Christmas eve.
It's better! because that was then and this is now!
Can't be dumped on a weekend. We want it dropped on monday morning so they have to talk about it all week.
I can hardly wait to hear the excuses
But will Pfizer & pals be forced to return to the US taxpayer all the money they have gotten from over-charging and colluding with captured agencies?
Somehow, I doubt Elon Musk and DOGE, even if he wanted to, will be allowed to audit private capitalist corporations that made off like robber barons from co-operating with the DNC and the Obama/Biden White House, even if it would come out that their business dealings were just as corrupt as USAID.
Or how about going further back to '08? How about a fully transparent public audit of how the American taxpayer was forced to save the banks and the profits of capitalists in the banking, mortgage and housing sector?
Somehow, I doubt that's ever going to be thing.
I doubt Elon would want to go there for fear it would open his companies up to the same treatment when the party in power flips.
I agree - but even getting the question asked, in public and on record, would be a good test of character for him and DOGE.
I'll have to assume the reason the American press and DNC-affiliated pundits aren't lobbying those kinds of question at him is because they know that no matter any potential dirt from Musk's various wheelings and dealings (when he was Obama's darling chum f.e.), their own side is at least thrice as dirty.
Also, can we just start to change OUR MINDSETS now? Why are we all in victim mode and fear mode? This is not who we are supposed to be as God's children. And even if you don't believe in God, this is not who humans are designed to be (IMHO). We are not sheep. We should be self-determined. We should be good, and follow the Golden Rule. That in itself is powerful! To be truthful, not to STEAL, CHEAT and LIE. Those things are what the weak do. If we are morally strong, then we say "no" to the cheaters and liars, and murderers, and we refuse to give them OUR money. Let's do that.
Edited to add, just after I posted this I got an email from Tucker Carlson that opened: "Citizens are free to say what they think. Subjects aren’t."
That's it in a nutshell.
The weak also allow themselves to be drawn into cults, which is what I'm seeing from too many of my fellow Trump supporters.
Was it you who said TDS is annoying, but TWS (Trump Worship Syndrome) is as well? I liked that.
I wish it was, because it's definitely how I feel. The problem with the worship is that it's dangerous. Makes you wonder if Trump's offhanded comment in 2016 about shooting someone on 5th Avenue and still having support was actually accurate.
What's really maddening is the purists who can't get their minds around the idea that it's possible to like a lot of what's happening and still be leery of Musk and the other technocrats that Trump has surrounded himself with. These are the people who think Musk loves free speech because he bought Twitter, as opposed to thinking (as I do) that Musk is an opportunist who bought Twitter to take advantage of OUR love of free speech.
I'm leery of Mump (me & a friend's name for Trump/Musk) but I still enjoy watching the fallout. Especially because there is nothing I can do about it.
Solution:
1) Clawbacks from those who amassed wealth from these criminal programs.
2) Kolyma-style punishments for all responsible.
3. Dip your sack in glitter and then slowly drag it across their face, and make them "wear" it all day.
Instead of "Harry Bolz" we'll rename them "Tee Bhagz"
RG that is terrible: LMAO!
dude. you keep "winning the internet for today"
I'm really trying to get kicked off gatos board. But I think he gets a kick out of me making a fool out of myself.
Oh well...let it all "hang" out...lol...;)
Good one!
LOL mental image that one. I can’t stop laughing.
Kolyma refers to Soviet attic death camps, I looked it up. I agree.
JHH offered that as a funny quip. Not me. I believe we need to have Nuremberg type show trials. I think the next three years should be dedicated to the prosecution of the thieves because if you don’t prosecute them, it will happen again and in short order.
Name one US president that wasn’t uniparty apparatchik? Reagan was a complete douche bag. Probably Carter but he was mega wimp. Trump stands alone.
Two things about Nuremburg:
A: The nazis who wanted a one world government were brought to the US and look at us now.
B: Those trials did not stop the evil side of human nature that, when combined with the Nazi influenced Americans, resulted in our current condition..
Other than that, I am in agreement. The ramifications of such an event is one generation only, imo.
Likely correct, a single generation corrective, but if there are consequences for say use of government positions to pillage the country, then it could become the norm.
We were thinking Solovetsky but Kolyma works.
I am a regular scroller on FB. I’ve not posted anything political since the Obama years. The last 4 under Dementia Jo Jo I kept quiet …and I will still keep quiet; even though it’s getting harder and harder reading my Lib friends’ posts about oligarchy and dictatorships and lamenting that the mandatory covid vaccine is being forced off college campuses(fucking 5 yrs later!!!). They absolutely nuts and clearly in denial. It’s amazing to see.
Ask them who ran the Executive Branch for the last 4 years while JB was napping... And then ask them who the "Oligarchy" is and where they went on January 21st... Sit back and watch heads explode...
They would never see it as such. Waste of time, honestly
They never have an original thought. Every single time it’s regurgitation of media/govt talking points. Facebook Diarrhea!
My kingdom for someone on the left who thinks before they post. I could at least respect that.
A better analogy than the cheating boyfriend would be the people screaming "traitor" at Edward Snowden instead of asking what the hell the Charlie Ingrid Apple is doing monitoring everyone's communication and when are some of those cretins going to start doing hard time.
You just strained my poor, flaccid brain trying to come up with CIA.
"the fact that the US government has been an invisible college of criminals for who knows how long is the issue of our time and we the people are not interested in changing the topic."
My Washington career began on Capitol Hill with Church/Pike Committees. It was clear Congress was too beholden to special interests and technology looked like the way to give transparency to spending and I moved to Beltway Bandit contracting networks. By the time Bush Sr. was elected it was too corrupt for me to take part and decades since the powers DOGE is wielding has been a dream that seemed impossible outside a Hollywood film.
Too many have grown too fat on theft and grift and schemes that are self serving and it's glorious to listen to them squeal like the old Wall Street adage finally come to its final truth.. bulls make money, bears make money and pigs get slaughtered.. time for pork BBQ for change.
I'm in the middle of reading "The Last Honest Man" about the Church Committee. The story is pretty interesting, although it's clear the book's author is still on the Agency payroll. A limited hangout of a book if ever there was one.
All the focus is on Church Committee findings while my mentor Hon. Otis G. Pike the House counterpart who got Kissinger to destroy plausible deniability for Nixon is still largely classified and relegated to dustbin of history.
https://todayinclh.com/?event=house-suppresses-pike-committee-report
https://web.archive.org/web/20140205000335/http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/
My own censorship far less dramatic but 2020 Twitter ban that came with no warning and no appeal is still in place but that was most likely about challenging mRNA TRANSFECTIONS as investigational vaccines the fraud that takes decades old bench tool and resets IP for "novel use" voila a cash cow and criminal malpractice on par with lobotomy another Nobel Prize winning crime of human experiments.
Thanks for that link to the Pike article, PD. This short paragraph really hits home for me, because it's where I've arrived in the last 5 years:
"As Pike put it, in Watergate the American people were asked to believe that 'their President had been a bad person. In this situation they are asked much more; they are asked to believe that their country has been evil. And nobody wants to believe that.'”
Dear reader, you know better thanks to our goodly author, but look around: your spouse, your neighbor, your friends, likely your children, are they not the very the dingbats described here in. What does that protend? Dare you speak of this phenomenon: will you tell them? Are you prepared to be disowned?
The narrative battle space is phosphorescent with energy right now. We’ve been holding our tongues for a long time. Has that time come to an end? Dare you?
Should we confront our loved ones? If not now when? If not you who?
Advice, please.
In my experience, people generally learn from personal experience, not from information coming from a perceived adversary. So far, I have not persuaded anyone of anything in the political arena.
I personally think the lower dimensions of the iceberg are going to be completely impossible to ignore. Let them come to the light on their own.
OK, it’s my question so I’m going to expound on it and declare victory: Jennifer is correct. Jennifer’s version is all we have.
You see my question was a provocation - like yelling fire in a crowded theatre. The provocation : I was forcing you to face the fact that your circle of friends and loved ones are idiots. Lol!
The truth is your loved ones are not able to comprehend, if they were able they would not be the way they are and most importantly you can’t change that fact by argument, as Jennifer said. The second truth is that you have to live with that because that is what we are: humans are overclocked chimps. Humans are capable of knowledge if we fall in with the right people, like this author lucky for us, he is well calibrated in his judgement and very adroit in his communication. Other people fall in with the wrong crowd because they are stupid and you being smart and making a smart argument, will not change that.
Your loved ones will figure it out or not. You have zero chance of changing that and a high probability that you will create a war: “lest we forget “.
I must add the point of remembrance Day - lest we forget - is to remember how we got ourselves into war in the first place, so as to avoid killing another young generation.
We always forget . Overclocked chimps. Tough luck.
Totally agree. It’s impossible to strike up a convincing conversation with a unabashed zealot
Exactly!
Set boundaries and pray for their eyes to be opened to the truth. We're meant to love everyone; doesn't mean we have to like them or roll over and validate their idiocy.
I agree, but the MIL/DIL relationship is oftentimes prickly and inflaming just adds more spikes. I guess it’s in my own best interest to not post when I know it will be problematic. I do post in areas that she and I are not connected (like here, for instance.) …and yes, I do pray for her.
"I guess it’s in my own best interest to not post when I know it will be problematic."
Yes. As much as it pains us to watch shrews be shrews, it's often best to just back off and not engage or bait their toxicity.
A few of my coworkers are those shrewish projection units we're all having to navigate right now, and what got most of them to shut up and leave me alone was smiling sweetly and informing them that I don't discuss politics in the workplace because my mother raised me with manners and courtesy.
But you leave the joy of combat unfulfilled.
Dump them. It hurts to see them crazy, but they can only recover if they choose to.
Once they are out of your life, you can heal.
They may never.
Its cheaper to keep her! Can't bail now, I'll just make a lawyer richer.
You know what's wrong with marriage, honey? You got all the pussy but half the money. - Beth Dutton, Yellowstone
Sorry to hear that. Good luck!
I tried and my DIL crybullied me. I did remove my Elizabeth Nickson post because I want to try to preserve that relationship, but I think I was wrong to do it.
Connie is right, the destruction wrought by this is fearsome and not worth it. Don’t tell your loved ones. They need to figure it out on their own. if you step forward to tell them, you will ruin your life.
Here is a quotefrom Oscar Wilde:
“ if you want to tell people the truth make them laugh otherwise they will kill you”.
Though I don’t agree with her on everything, she is a bold one and has learned to do the “dance” to get her point across. https://youtu.be/kdN0NMcNinI?si=Zq3ZHU1nAeZ2zs3E
Great quote! Thank for sharing. Just now learned a bit more about it . . . .
> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/17/truth-laugh/
I don’t know. I may be wrong as well. I try to temper my responses most of the time. I don’t back down but I try to keep the door open.
I am going to send this critical, well thought out post to a young adult that I recently had a conversation with. Gato has more skill than I have.
Holding your tongue is rarely a good idea. If they didn’t know where you stood then you’re going to have a hard time now that they’re loaded for bear against the sea change. At this point may take a delicate operation. As gato has wisely advised, “you get to keep the rights you will fight for, and the fight must be early and instant.” This is where tongue-holders fail.
Gaye, well said, the point of no return.
If people take your advice, marriages will end and families will be destroyed. Do I overstate it?
Lacking a proper relational foundation in the first place, yes, there’s a risk of alienation. But it’s how you find out who loves you. Truth is a refining fire and a lot of false friends and family have been burned flat out of a lot of lives in the past few years.
Oh, at this point, I’m guessing there’s no love lost on her part.
Yet, upon reflection, there really isn't a loss, just liberty - perhaps even peace.
I think it was Epictetus: "fire tests gold, misfortune brave men" or Seneca
They're going to be mugged by reality. It's gonna be a tough wake up, but I think it's going to happen.
YES!
Godspeed Karloff
"tell them an enemy is out to get them or that a crisis impends and they will rally around any flag" describes Canada now. The Trump Tariffs threat are in response to Canada's unsecured borders. Instead of recognizing that fact, Canadians now are rallying around the flag and behind the leader that was hell bent on making Canada a post nationalistic state a couple months ago. It is hard to watch.
Canadians are a sheep-like people. Their smothering, passive aggressive, smug, “niceness” pretty much makes them impervious to reality.
I’m a recovering Canadian (37 years clean). I know.
Utah is the Canada of the US
Colorado is the Cuba of the US. The busy little commie beavers over in Denver are now trying to effectively ban scary AR 15s.
haha. that's funny ;-) (phoned in from the range)
The Californication has only begun.
Really? Interesting…
“Utah” is to the “US” as “Canada” is to…?
I don’t follow. Also a Utahn and super grateful to be back after 20 years in the PNW.
There is a lot of ridiculousness here, but I would argue that there are many places where passive aggressive tendencies are much worse.
The massive gaslighting campaign by the media is a sight to see. It's truly repulsive.
It IS hard to watch. Right along with slurping up media reports from the same media that's spent years lying to us so egregiously