You got it! I’m surrounded by them. With due respect, they are some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met (common sense). And I’m not trying to be mean. I observe.
Ayn Rand was an individualistic sociopath; have she said that any social system will eventually slide into dictatorship, she'd would have been probably right... I suppose that is "baked in the cake" of the human nature.
These anti-social views were shared by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan, who were saying (and now they probably say the same in hell) that "there is no society, only individuals", because united as a society we are strong, while as individuals we are weak and would easily accept - I don't know - vaccine mandates?
Heck! - even the rich @$$holes figured that out when they created the crime syndicate named "The WEF".
Even you, libertate got that figured out, since you are part of our substack community :-)... Ayn Rand would have told you to keep the distance...
"Left" and "Right" notions are irrelevant anymore; classically, left was supposed to champion the interests of the working class, while left, the interests of their masters; nowadays, left AND right represent the interest of the copro-rat elites, thus there is no true left left...
Now, if we are going to redefine the left and right notions, we get to double speak; "liberatate" is slavery :P...
"Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme — useless eaters multiplying on OUR planet. Get the [bleep] out of our lawn, humans!"
I am French so I think I could clarify something: the French Revolution was NOT a people’s revolution. Meaning it wasn’t born amongst poor people.
The bourgeoisie of the time (freemasons mostly, bankers…) wanted to grab the power and used the poor people to make the revolution. They’ve manipulated the popular classes to achieve their goals.
They threw people some scraps of “power” to give them the illusion that poor people had gained something with it all.
That’s when the ruling class began deconstructing family, religion, faith, God. In France and everywhere else.
These people are still in power here and all over the planet, unfortunately: the leftists.
Most of what’s commonly taught about the French Revolution is NOT what really happened. Thankfully some honest historians are telling things as they really happened.
Actually, I think you’re referring to his “The Psychology of Crowds” (sometimes translated as “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”), which should be required reading for everyone! “The Psychology of Revolution” is different but definitely weaves in his understanding of mob psychology and violence.
The story of Marie Antoinette has already been re-written.
Years ago, I took a vacation in Paris, and toured Versailles. The tour guide talked about Marie. In her version, when Marie said "let them eat cake" it was because she didn't understand there was no food; she she thought they were out of bread and could substitute cake. It was a simple mistake by a clueless female.
Marie was an incredibly stupid, inbred and isolated woman, sold off into dynastic marriage at 14. She said stupid stuff, but there is a chance it was just stupid not malicious. The french probably know about it. She is still blamed for her husband's family really did.
Perhaps they're going to celebrate Marie Antoinette and pretend that the people loved her and carried her through the streets on their shoulders to show their adoration. Or they could pretend the French Revolution didn't happen. Oh wait... That could cause them problems in explaining other areas of history. Still, nothing ever joins up with leftist thinking.
it won;t be long anymore. Even my dad said something of the kind this morning, and if he says it, that means Everyone and Their Little Dog is fed up with it.
Among the more shocking and disturbing thing over the last two years has been the lack of empathy, many times venturing into callous disregard, of the laptop set towards the great unwashed who bore the brunt of the non-mitigating mitigations.
Without exception, everyone who has exhibited this in my personal orbit has been a Democrat and/or leftist.
Needless to say, my respect for this lot, never high to begin with, has descended into negative territory.
I think that is just the problem: they can see the problems their policies cause, or they can think they are correct. Given the choice, they always choose the latter. Once you can turn off empathy for others you never need to even make the choice because even if you notice the problems you can easily blame it on someone else's actions.
Their choice is based on morality. They think that they, the Anointed, are morally superior to us, the benighted. So, they do not see problems as such, and if they do, the problems are always explained away as someone or something else's fault.
It is imperative, above all else, that they must maintain belief in their own superiority. Evidence to the contrary does not fit that model and will be ignored.
Read Thomas Sowell's "Vision of the Anointed" -- or re-read it, if you already have. Well worth the time.
I think that choice is downstream just a bit of the choice I described. They want to choose that they are correct because being correct is what makes them the Anointed. If they could be wrong like the benighted masses they would lose all their moral authority and sense of worth.
So again, the choice is: recognize the problems or believe you are correct. If you want to still be part of the Anointed you can't admit error and you can't admit culpability, so you have to turn off the empathy and to the extent you recognize problems make them someone else's fault.
@Glenn- and he's considering running for governor again. No lie. That's how arrogant he is. Believe it or not, he was better than Hochul. I'm a NYer but not for long. We're meeting with the real estate agent next week, putting the house on the market, and RVing full time with a domicile address in Florida.
It makes me think of that famous experiment where people are told (falsely) by whitecoats in authority that they are administering shocks to unseen persons in the next room. They can hear their "victims" screaming but they keep on delivering the shocks, which are "increased in power" until they are supposedly lethal. Truly chilling.
Awesome, thanks for the link! I think if the study was done now, and included half men, half women, not all men from the 1960s, then there would be at least SOME who would say "no, enough" - but only if they were not paid for their time. The 40 men in this experiment were all paid for their time from a newspaper advertisement (equivalent of about $40 today). That means they were looking for money, and perhaps they saw it as a job, so maybe they were more willing to see the job through by shocking more people? Still, it's all a bit psychotic.
I personally would love to see the newspaper ad recruiting them - as that might make me more aware of the types of people who'd sign up for this in the first place. And a quick search brings it up here:
So they only wanted New Haven men between 20-50 who were to do a "scientific study of memory and learning". Ha!! It was nothing like that! So these men were not psychos who signed up for this...yet they still pushed those buttons...
But I liked this part written in the article:
"Later experiments conducted by Milgram indicated that the presence of rebellious peers dramatically reduced obedience levels. When other people refused to go along with the experimenter's orders, 36 out of 40 participants refused to deliver the maximum shocks."
So that tells me that if SOMEONE stands up and speaks out about stupid masks or dumb legislation or signing-in crap when others are around them, then our society may be in with a chance! MAY be...but I think it might depend upon what is deemed socially acceptable or not...shocking people is not the norm, but is wearing a mask or signing in somewhere deemed the 'norm' these days...??
This was also proven in the Asch Experiment. It is more about subject relation to group than subject relation to authority, but disturbing nonetheless...until you get to the variations: That conformity eroded when there was a) another 'actual' subject (not actor) and b) an actor who gave the true answer.
I have been inspired by maskless others in establishments 'requiring' them, during the darkest days of CA mandates, and I hope I inspired others aw well. This is our only hope, going forward.
I remember talking with a friend about vaccine cards, early on, and she said she would just do the black market thing and forge one/get a forged one. I said but that GOES ALONG with an untenable and fake rule--we have to visibly and audibly refuse.
I hope I have also been someone who has inspired many: I neither own a mask nor do I sign in anywhere. I just ignore the requests for stupid mask wearing or stupid signing in. I haven't even been bothered to get myself an 'exemption' for wearing a mask, even though I've written so many for other people. I even had a sign on my door asking my patients to take off their masks. Everyone complied.
But all the masking etc is ridiculous, Michele. I have stood up for what is reasonable everywhere I have gone. To me, it seemed to make little difference - but perhaps it has made a quiet difference, who knows.
I also never bothered to get a fake vaccine certificate. Agreed - it is going along with the tyranny. I just stand my ground and say "no", just like any little 2 year-old would (because any older and the concept of free speech starts getting beaten out of them with 'school' and 'government').
Isn't a lack of empathy the hallmark of a Sociopath...or a Narcissist...or even Asperger's/ASD...?!?!
But turning off one's empathy is never a good solution in my books. Perhaps during wartime, or other traumatic events, it helps you get through the messiest parts, by not having to care. But come later on, geez, that's when it swallows you up...
Perhaps all these non-empathic people can't see what they are doing to Humanity (or just don't care...but hey, isn't that what lack of empathy is all about?!). But by not caring, one is part of the problem, not the solution. And we see it everywhere - from the lousy words of blatant money-grabbing corporate CEOs to the $2 Store worker who's jacked up their prices for cheap and nasty items and then says "Oh, everything's going up" with a smile...
When will people actually realise that they are in the middle of a horrible War and that their behaviour is alongside those who have willfully killed others in past wars because it was merely their 'job'? How far down the track of disaster and the desert of morals do people have to go before they wonder 'where am I, exactly?'...I guess for some there's a steep climb up outta there, but for most, they will dwell and die down there...
Very true. In the place of empathy, the Zoomerati shrieked about the greater good. I would call this fake empathy only Dr. Peter McCullough mentioned an even better term so I will steal his: weaponized empathy.
Just reinforces that both parties Democrat and Republican consider middle, lower middle and lower class deplorables. Simply widgets who can immediately and easily be replaced by the millions of immigrants entering the country. Smeared as white supremist, antivax, anti climate, useless eaters by any and all at the top of the pecking order irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion. We are as caste ridden a society as India but turn verbal cartwheels by the minute to hide, deny or obfuscate.
And they want us to pity them getting laid off during this tech meltdown. Lol... no.
I read one sob story about a lady who just lost all their access and that's how she knew she was laid off. Anybody with sense should be able to see that coming. If you're not getting face time in person with your boss then you're not a person. You're just a user account to be shut down when they need to start cutting.
when I noticed what was going on, I decided never ever to vote for a dem again, no matter how good they seem. The only ones standing up for the people in these 2 years have been a handful of reps
Hey come on, everyone here is being way too hard on Daly.
You can bet she's feeling quite a lot of internal pain and guilt at her good fortune. Guarantee her private conversations/therapy visits are all about the trauma she's experiencing, not feeling any pain when so many others are. I'm sure she felt a lot of pain and guilt when she was working from home, too, about how she wasn't feeling any pain and guilt, about the plight and health risks of the essential workers who were delivering her groceries. SHE'S A VICTIM TOO.
It's a hard row to hoe, being an elite. The level of complexity to their self-absorption and rationalization is just not something the average pleb could handle. WE'VE still got empathy! Let's take a moment and have some compassion.
The laptop class fails to realize it is the unwashed masses that allow them to live their cushy, work-from-home lifestyles. Who do they think delivers their groceries and Amazon packages? Who keeps their lights and internet on?
During COVID, there was an article in the New York Times telling people what a good idea it was to stay home and have their food delivered. Jefferey Tucker at AIER posted an article with a great reply (if I recall): "Delivered by whom? Apparently not readers of the Ne York Times!"
This point can't be made frequently or loudly enough. It is a major key to understanding the world's insanity over the last few years, and a prescription for avoiding it in the future. The faction that presents itself as representing the "downtrodden" are really the ones dong the downtrodding. They see themselves as the enlightened champions of their lessers, which would be great if those lessers only shut up and did what they were told. They have no empathy, no respect, no regard for those outside their bubble. And it has become too obvious for people to ignore any more.
Yes and no. Taken to excess, no amount of wealth will satisfy a miser, a drug for an addict (think of the scene in Scarface where he has a desk covered in cocaine), and so forth. Appetites out of control are a time-honored means to injure/kill oneself, be it by gluttony, power-lust, greed, and so on. Actually, you are in the minority (the happy ones, I'd argue) if you can honestly say to yourself that you have "enough," neither too little nor too much.
One of the very few things for which the Covid catastrophe has been helpful:
Forcing my family to reevaluate what is really important.
Our health, freedom to make her own choices, our faith, doing what we can now to make sure we have enough to get by when it all head south, helping and loving other people – or at least being willing to.
What doesnt matter as much: what everyone else thinks, getting or staying enrolled in that academic institution no matter what, maybe even losing our jobs, all of the “extras” we’ve gotten very used to…
As you often say, the best thing about free speech is listening to what people freely say outloud. The mask has certainly come off of the 'we care about the poor' in the last couple years. Now we blame inflation on poor people having money! It's really for your own good that you're broke, you see!
We care about the immunocompromised, however we decide to define them, because they'll give us no limits on how far we can push medical tyranny for their own good.
Eggs are high here, average is $5 - $7 per dozen. The cheapest butter is $6.99 a pound. It can go up to $12.99 a pound for the organic free range. Booze they will keep low in price, they want us to turn into compliant drunks.
Taco Bell is better. Went to Chipotle for the first time ever, last month. It was THE worst food I think I have ever had in my entire life! 2 people, cold, flavorless, nasty "food" = (a little more than) $31. AND the employees weren't even friendly!
Our Taco Bell on the other hand, while not very friendly either, the food is hot, has flavor, and there is more stuff making up the item, not just some dead rice with a tiny bit of meat and beans on top.
And here's a question for you: Since when is "guacamole" solely mashed avacados with no spices or veggies? 🤨
Maria’s, Bonita Springs, Florida, taco Tuesday….dollar tacos. Fresh tortillas, fresh food, finish the meal with a bag of beignets from the food truck. Wish I was there right now🥰🥰
Where do you live? Here in SW Washington the Chipotle's have been consistently good but prices are ridiculous and they're giving less and less food for the cost. Taco Bell is one grade above dog food, just fyi.
Thankfully, far from the West coast. Chipotle tastes worse than real dog food, which I'll probably have to eat to get through winter, and Taco Bell still beats both.
A friend's daughter worked there. I think it's pretty much the same as most fast food restaurants and some "real" restaurants. Everyone is better off cooking at home, but that gets old.
I've worked in many restaurants. Without a doubt better off cooking at home. That being said, I have solid faith in many of the locally owned places around, most especially the ones focused on locally sourced product. I avoid any corporate type restaurant for sure.
Retired Cook here, can confirm. Local is best. I only worked for locals when I did it, Chains bring in a lot of stuff frozen and such that contain stabilizers and such: case in point, alfredo "white" sauce. The real thing can only be made to order, there is literally no substitute without watering it down and adding gum emulsifiers to preserve texture...I will eat at home over a chain, I order food once every month or 2, local restarants, Thai, chinese, pho or bbq. I eat there when I'm craving food I cant duplicate.
I'm so sorry about your food problems. I'm sure it isn't easy. 🙁 --- I HATE to cook. That includes canned soup. I'm to the point I'm tired of eating, because it's the same thing over and over and over. (I can only cook certain things that others will eat. Any deviation and the food won't be eaten and the money has been thrown in the garbage.)
I bought one avocado a few days ago for $2.00! It was tasteless even with mounds of salt. We have cans and cans of beans stored because I do believe hard times are ahead.
Sadly, many children and adults under the age of 40 have no idea where or how their food is produced. And no one is proactively instructing them how to prepare for the worst. They will keep going to the food banks until the food runs out - and then the troubles begin in earnest.
How about 100 starving men? I read an interesting psych article that examined the idea of the "mindless zombie hoards". Apparently at a certain point in the starvation process, when your body has consumed all the other expendable parts, your brain starts to go at the last, and you really do enter a zombie-like state where even the taboo of cannibalism has no power to stop you. Jeezuz. Glad I live in deep country.
A garden planted in pots won't feed you for very long. Read John Jeavons's book "How to Grow More Vegetables..." (Berkeley, Ten-Speed Press, 2002) It takes from 4,000 to 15,000 square feet of garden area to feed one person, the lower number using Jeavons's 'Grow Biointensive' method. And if you're new to gardening, it will take a while for you to learn the required skills.
John Jeavons is right down the road from me, merely a stone's throw. One of his disciples is a young friend of mine, Matt Drewno, who has published a booklet (#38) on growing for food and seed in as little as 1,000 square feet. The link would not post here but you can check out Matt's Victory Gardens interviews on YouTube.
What the description does not say is whether you can feed a person on 1,000 square feet. There are lots of worthwhile and practical things one can do with smaller gardens; but providing a person's or family's full nutritional requirements by gardening is a major endeavor.
That's if you're 100% dependent on your garden. You can cut your food costs by growing the more expensive veggies while buying dried beans, lentils, rice, oats, etc.
Correct. It all depends what sort of 'meltdown' is coming. If they cut off the fertilizer, soon you won't be able to buy dried beans, lentils, rice etc. At all, for any price.
Fertilizer wasn't sanctioned in the US. Actually, after making a lot of sanction noise & getting Europe to walk off the sanctions cliff, Biden quietly urged US companies to keep buying Russian fertilizer.
But then Blackrock and friends told the rails (UP, IIRC) not to ship it anywhere... the jury is still out on that one. Fertilizer was not 'sanctioned' in NL, CA, EI until a few weeks ago, either. A lot can happen in a short time.
Bingo. LMAO. A stupid hyena. In CA we say, "Que Mala." You think she's dumb? Biden's clearly dumb. Newsom's worse. If it weren't for voter fraud, none of the CA a-holes in Gov't. would be in power - Waters, Schiff, Pelosi, etc.
You're equating "Kommies" with the two largest cities, S.F. and L.A. I'm L.A. born and there are tons of conservatives here. The rest of the state is red. What you hear is biased news to "control" the red parts, making them think it's "hopeless" or "useless" which *is* a Communist tactic. Look up the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals (which Obummer and Hellary (not a typo) both adore.
I believe Trump would have won CA without the fraud. It's been awhile and I no longer have the links, but if you subtract off only the 'excess above expected' in the voter turnouts, IIRC around 7MM votes, and assume they went for Biden (because nobody has accused Trump of vote fraud), and Biden supposedly 'won' CA by 5.3MM -- Trump wins CA by 1.7MM. Game over, Trump has 4 more years, nobody cares what happened in AZ, NV, WI, MI, GA, PA.
L.A. born Californian here and it's DEFINITELY the real thing. People say "Commiefornia" for a reason which is distressing to us born here. CA has been corrupt for decades by primarily 3 families. Enter that as a search term on a non-google engine - you'll get a video showing Pelosi's father was Mob. We're being run by corruption now, U.S.-wide.
Read as much as you can from the WEF web sites. Every single thing that is "wrong" with the U.S. is on PURPOSE. I have hope that because people are waking up - the intentional destruction can be corrected and reversed. Voting RED is the only way.
I lived in L.A. for 17 years, left at the end of '18 and vowed to never set foot again. I saw the city's brief rise at the beginning of the century but by the time the first decade was over it began crashing and burning at a stunning rate. Garcetti should be hung by his cahones.
I'll go along with that. His whine about homelessness got him a 2nd term. Plus cheating. His first term, less than 30K homeless. Now, it's over 80K and they're called "unhoused neighbors."
Never "looked into" our $40 Mil the DWP stole, either, not that I expected him to. DWP has been corrupt for YEARS. (First-hand knowledge.)
Remember when the DWP got caught paying for bottled water for its employees? "We'll provide your water (and make you pay a pretty penny for it) but don't expect *us* to drink it."
Meanwhile the ancient water mains are blowing geysers all over town during a drought.
Yes, I do. It's all commie BS. Especially the watering. My gardener works in Beverly Hills, besides the 818. He said his customers want him to hose off the driveway, not use the blower.
Look online using a non-google search engine (like Brave) for Nick Federoff's article about
how lawns are good for the environment, eliminate greenhouse gases. Remember THAT ditty
from the 1960s, 1970s? Watch - it'll make a comeback from being on life support. LOL.
One thing I've been mentioning online (and getting banned) for two years now. Pretend in YOUR mind that the NWO/Great Reset/Fourth Reich/New Industrial Revolution...bla bla... IS happening because the Dems and RINOs are already IN the NWO. They sold us out a long time ago. Now, you know how urgent it is to fight back, oust them all.
Everything they do, have done, and plan to do - straight from the WEF web pages. ALL of it.
Wikipedia had this quote, about Pelosi's brother being the only one not convicted of raping a group of girls "father stared down the jury." That has since been removed - but I think a better term would be "glowered."
And the absolute feebleness of the purportedly conservative side is a wonder. Lots of performative masculinity but, you should pardon me here, not many stones in Congress.
Agreed, though he also taunted the Swamp a bit too much. I don't think he realized how deep and bipartisan it really is. To those who wallow in the murk, the designations (D) and (R) are largely meaningless.
That's because "We the people" Republicans are most likely Libertarians who just affiliated with the Republicans, at least briefly. Neither side appears to remember that the government was supposed to be by us. The fact that we have a saying "inside the beltway" is an indicator that it's not a government by us for us.
It's been the "Uniparty" for a long time. In the 1840's, D's had trouble getting over the election results and borrowed Andrew Jackson's nickname - "jackass" to represent the party. It stuck.
Wait until the real price of food hits. As this short video explains, calves and babies are just being born so the cost to raise them hasn't hit yet. When the prices catch up with the slaughter market in the fall (rendering of the animals), we could see $17/lb. chicken, $40-$50/lb. beef. Chipotle—and the rest of us—are going to be in a world of hurt.
I purchase most of my meat directly from farmers, and I'm hearing the same story over and over.
There is a remedy for those who have the courage and resolve to Come Out Of Her*. Pack up and leave, just go - leave the city, the suburbs, leave anywhere where there is a Chipotle or Taco Bell or a McDonald's. Find a place in the country, find a haven, grow a garden, raise livestock especially chickens, learn to hunt and fish, find a community of like-minded people. You can do this. You will have to learn new skills, it will be difficult, but you will emerge stronger and better for it. You will not be soft. And you will have a much better chance of escaping the coming meltdown.
*"Come out of her, my people, lest ye partake of her sins and receive of her plagues". Revelation 18:4 "Her" meaning Babylon. This line truly resonates with me, and I'm not even a Christian.
I'm not exactly Christian either, but have been interested in the Gospel of Mary Magdalen recently coming to light. One quote she attributes to Jesus, in answer to "Why do we become sick and die? is : "You fall in love with that which deceives you."
No wonder it was stricken from the Official Version.
I have never heard this - thank you!! Yes, can you imagine if all the Apocrypha had been included in the New Testament? The Gnostic Gospels? "If you bring forth that which is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." Those are the words of Jesus (I verily believe), left out of the Bible. And there you have it, psychiatry, in a nutshell. Oh, the lives that could have been redeemed and saved with these words! It is so tragic.
One advantage of beef cattle, and other range stock like goats and sheep, is that they can (and quite often do) get the majority of their diet from rangeland. Land too poor to support other uses, even grain (cereal) crops -- too little rain, too rocky, too steep; in the West often all of the above. In some parts of the world, this is the way range stock are raised 100%. Here most often they are moved to feedlots for the last 2-3 months to fatten them up and make them more palatable for Western tastes.
But they can be consumed straight from the range, if needed. They're tougher than you're used to and they have a stronger, gamier taste depending on what sort of range they've been grazing. But range stock can provide a significant amount of protein with minimal management and minimal input of other feed.
You can't expect elites to trouble themselves with the issues of the little people. They didn't miss a paycheck during covid. Sure they're paying a bit more for things now then they used to, but it's hardly noticeable and all this inflation talk is no concern of theirs.
Out here in NorCal the bureaucrats get a gas allowance, and they just voted themselves a 25% cost of living wage increase. Must be nice. Some of them actually still eat beef, I'm told.
I don't eat much beef, usually chicken or turkey. (Yeah, I know, I'm still in big trouble.) Usually, the only "beef" I can afford is McDonald's. (And that's been for the last 38 years.)
Sure isn't, with their over inflated checks, for which they do actual work 2 hours a day, paid by the little people who can't afford food, heat, air, or gasoline.
So this is what it has come to; The arbiter of who has “enough” in the country made great by free enterprise and limitless potential is a lifelong bureaucrat who has never held a private sector job in her life while feeding at the trough of other people’s labors to the tune of nearly a half million dollars per year. Got it.
And she's not alone. According to https://www.federalpay.org/employees, the US gov't had 2,807,126 employees (2020 data) in 732 agencies making an average of $76,667.77 for a total of $215.22 billion dollars.
Keep it up, genius... Between this midwit and Mayor Pete's "they can just get electric cars," they're getting closer and closer to this generation's "let them eat cake."
Last time my sig oth and I ate a meal out was June of 2020. Scout's honor.
Our only restaurant was burned to the ground about that time. There are a couple of roach coaches here, and they charge $12 for what I'm told is a mediocre burrito.
Wife and I go out only occasionally, we like to cook too.
Most recent was last night, with sis and BIL to celebrate his birthday.
First time I've ever seen steak listed as 'market price.' $50 for an 8-oz filet. And this was not by any means the fanciest place in town, maybe 6-7 on a scale of 10.
A friend recently took his family of six out to dinner to celebrate a graduation. This was at a very famous top-shelf restaurant in Arcata, CA. The bill, for six of them, was over $400. I was without words. He's not a rich man. Well, I hadn't thought so...
Yeah. Remember when you got change back from your dollar at McD's?
Hell, now a dollar IS change.
n.b. 'The Golden Arches Supper Club' for several years in the 1970s kept the price of a hamburger, small fries and small Coke artificially low so they could still run that 'change back from your dollar' ad.
Perhaps they need to brush up on their history to remember what the "low-income consumers" did to Marie Antoinette.
To paraphrase Hayek, if leftists knew anything of history, they wouldn't be leftists.
In my experience, most of them don't know much of anything about anything, particularly things they purport to discuss.
Profound ignorance is among the foundational pillars of modern leftism.
You got it! I’m surrounded by them. With due respect, they are some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met (common sense). And I’m not trying to be mean. I observe.
“When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t believe in nothing, he believes in anything.” G.K. Chesterton
And “nothing” is the absence of God.
Modern US "leftism" is right wing.
Hardly.
"Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme — collectivism."
~ Ayn Rand, letter of March 19, 1944
Ayn Rand was an individualistic sociopath; have she said that any social system will eventually slide into dictatorship, she'd would have been probably right... I suppose that is "baked in the cake" of the human nature.
These anti-social views were shared by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan, who were saying (and now they probably say the same in hell) that "there is no society, only individuals", because united as a society we are strong, while as individuals we are weak and would easily accept - I don't know - vaccine mandates?
Heck! - even the rich @$$holes figured that out when they created the crime syndicate named "The WEF".
Even you, libertate got that figured out, since you are part of our substack community :-)... Ayn Rand would have told you to keep the distance...
Whether or not Rand was "an individualistic sociopath" or not has no relevance to the fact that what she said was true.
Nor does whether or not Reagan and Thatcher shared her "anti-social views".
Your use of two types of ad hominem rather than putting forth an actual counterargument is another unmistakable hallmark of modern leftism.
This, among numerous other reasons, is why leftists are the laughing stock of thinking people everywhere.
"Left" and "Right" notions are irrelevant anymore; classically, left was supposed to champion the interests of the working class, while left, the interests of their masters; nowadays, left AND right represent the interest of the copro-rat elites, thus there is no true left left...
Now, if we are going to redefine the left and right notions, we get to double speak; "liberatate" is slavery :P...
"Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme — useless eaters multiplying on OUR planet. Get the [bleep] out of our lawn, humans!"
~ Yuval Harari letter to WEF of May31, 2031
Well, if Ayn Rand said it :P...
I am French so I think I could clarify something: the French Revolution was NOT a people’s revolution. Meaning it wasn’t born amongst poor people.
The bourgeoisie of the time (freemasons mostly, bankers…) wanted to grab the power and used the poor people to make the revolution. They’ve manipulated the popular classes to achieve their goals.
They threw people some scraps of “power” to give them the illusion that poor people had gained something with it all.
That’s when the ruling class began deconstructing family, religion, faith, God. In France and everywhere else.
These people are still in power here and all over the planet, unfortunately: the leftists.
Most of what’s commonly taught about the French Revolution is NOT what really happened. Thankfully some honest historians are telling things as they really happened.
Agreed. Here's how it works.
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/how-the-few-control-the-many
Point taken, Christina. I believe Gustave Le Bon may have been one of the first to try and set the record straight in “The Psychology of Revolution.”
Absolutely! The title in French is “Psychologie des Foules”.
“Foules” meaning mobs.
Actually, I think you’re referring to his “The Psychology of Crowds” (sometimes translated as “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”), which should be required reading for everyone! “The Psychology of Revolution” is different but definitely weaves in his understanding of mob psychology and violence.
Yes! Sorry.
The Psychology of Crowds came to my mind because of the manipulation of the popular classes by the aspiring ruling class during the Revolution.
"let them eat chipoltle"...
Let them eat guac. Wonder what that upcharge will be? 🤨
Guac is free at Qdoba.
$2.60 two days ago. With inflation... might be double now.
Our so-called "education" system discontinued teaching history decades ago. But the guillotine solution did work - for a while.
It didn't stop working. We just imagined ourselves to be above it.
No kidding. Too busy pointing out white guys who did bad things. Not a hell of a lot on how history actually works.
No, it turned both the bad and the good into deli meat.
Yup. Bringing back the guillotine could serve as a wake-up call for all the modern MA's of the world, including Mary Daly.
People were guillotined for far less a few hundred years ago.
LOL
As I was navigating to the comments I was thinking " there must be some kind of let them eat cake analogy here..."
The story of Marie Antoinette has already been re-written.
Years ago, I took a vacation in Paris, and toured Versailles. The tour guide talked about Marie. In her version, when Marie said "let them eat cake" it was because she didn't understand there was no food; she she thought they were out of bread and could substitute cake. It was a simple mistake by a clueless female.
Riiiiight.
Marie was an incredibly stupid, inbred and isolated woman, sold off into dynastic marriage at 14. She said stupid stuff, but there is a chance it was just stupid not malicious. The french probably know about it. She is still blamed for her husband's family really did.
Perhaps they're going to celebrate Marie Antoinette and pretend that the people loved her and carried her through the streets on their shoulders to show their adoration. Or they could pretend the French Revolution didn't happen. Oh wait... That could cause them problems in explaining other areas of history. Still, nothing ever joins up with leftist thinking.
People did in fact adore La Reine Marie - for awhile. That's what needs to be remembered. Things change.
I hear she's set to co-star alongside Brie Larson and Nancy Pelosi in "The Marvels".
it won;t be long anymore. Even my dad said something of the kind this morning, and if he says it, that means Everyone and Their Little Dog is fed up with it.
As Fathermouth puts it, "the chickens are falling."
LOL!!
Among the more shocking and disturbing thing over the last two years has been the lack of empathy, many times venturing into callous disregard, of the laptop set towards the great unwashed who bore the brunt of the non-mitigating mitigations.
Without exception, everyone who has exhibited this in my personal orbit has been a Democrat and/or leftist.
Needless to say, my respect for this lot, never high to begin with, has descended into negative territory.
I think that is just the problem: they can see the problems their policies cause, or they can think they are correct. Given the choice, they always choose the latter. Once you can turn off empathy for others you never need to even make the choice because even if you notice the problems you can easily blame it on someone else's actions.
Their choice is based on morality. They think that they, the Anointed, are morally superior to us, the benighted. So, they do not see problems as such, and if they do, the problems are always explained away as someone or something else's fault.
It is imperative, above all else, that they must maintain belief in their own superiority. Evidence to the contrary does not fit that model and will be ignored.
Read Thomas Sowell's "Vision of the Anointed" -- or re-read it, if you already have. Well worth the time.
I think that choice is downstream just a bit of the choice I described. They want to choose that they are correct because being correct is what makes them the Anointed. If they could be wrong like the benighted masses they would lose all their moral authority and sense of worth.
So again, the choice is: recognize the problems or believe you are correct. If you want to still be part of the Anointed you can't admit error and you can't admit culpability, so you have to turn off the empathy and to the extent you recognize problems make them someone else's fault.
Sowell really is a national treasure.
Agreed, Doc. 🙏
I have his book, “Discrimination and Disparities”. I just watched a documentary on him a couple nights ago. I adore him!
I got a copy of that book several weeks ago, and had forgotten why I bought it by the time it arrived! lol. I will be pulling it out now!
Governor Cuomo perfect example of leading without empathy. Force covid patients into nursing homes at whatever human cost.
Don't forget Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan.
@Glenn- and he's considering running for governor again. No lie. That's how arrogant he is. Believe it or not, he was better than Hochul. I'm a NYer but not for long. We're meeting with the real estate agent next week, putting the house on the market, and RVing full time with a domicile address in Florida.
Congrats on your upcoming Escape from New York.
I escaped from Michigan in early 2020 and am in Ohio. It's not a militant red state, but 110% better than MI.
Good for you, nrighbor!
That guy has no shame.
None
It makes me think of that famous experiment where people are told (falsely) by whitecoats in authority that they are administering shocks to unseen persons in the next room. They can hear their "victims" screaming but they keep on delivering the shocks, which are "increased in power" until they are supposedly lethal. Truly chilling.
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-milgram-obedience-experiment-2795243
Awesome, thanks for the link! I think if the study was done now, and included half men, half women, not all men from the 1960s, then there would be at least SOME who would say "no, enough" - but only if they were not paid for their time. The 40 men in this experiment were all paid for their time from a newspaper advertisement (equivalent of about $40 today). That means they were looking for money, and perhaps they saw it as a job, so maybe they were more willing to see the job through by shocking more people? Still, it's all a bit psychotic.
I personally would love to see the newspaper ad recruiting them - as that might make me more aware of the types of people who'd sign up for this in the first place. And a quick search brings it up here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-26/a-milgram-experiment-advertisement-from-a-newspaper/3974340?nw=0
So they only wanted New Haven men between 20-50 who were to do a "scientific study of memory and learning". Ha!! It was nothing like that! So these men were not psychos who signed up for this...yet they still pushed those buttons...
But I liked this part written in the article:
"Later experiments conducted by Milgram indicated that the presence of rebellious peers dramatically reduced obedience levels. When other people refused to go along with the experimenter's orders, 36 out of 40 participants refused to deliver the maximum shocks."
So that tells me that if SOMEONE stands up and speaks out about stupid masks or dumb legislation or signing-in crap when others are around them, then our society may be in with a chance! MAY be...but I think it might depend upon what is deemed socially acceptable or not...shocking people is not the norm, but is wearing a mask or signing in somewhere deemed the 'norm' these days...??
This was also proven in the Asch Experiment. It is more about subject relation to group than subject relation to authority, but disturbing nonetheless...until you get to the variations: That conformity eroded when there was a) another 'actual' subject (not actor) and b) an actor who gave the true answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
I have been inspired by maskless others in establishments 'requiring' them, during the darkest days of CA mandates, and I hope I inspired others aw well. This is our only hope, going forward.
I remember talking with a friend about vaccine cards, early on, and she said she would just do the black market thing and forge one/get a forged one. I said but that GOES ALONG with an untenable and fake rule--we have to visibly and audibly refuse.
I hope I have also been someone who has inspired many: I neither own a mask nor do I sign in anywhere. I just ignore the requests for stupid mask wearing or stupid signing in. I haven't even been bothered to get myself an 'exemption' for wearing a mask, even though I've written so many for other people. I even had a sign on my door asking my patients to take off their masks. Everyone complied.
But all the masking etc is ridiculous, Michele. I have stood up for what is reasonable everywhere I have gone. To me, it seemed to make little difference - but perhaps it has made a quiet difference, who knows.
I also never bothered to get a fake vaccine certificate. Agreed - it is going along with the tyranny. I just stand my ground and say "no", just like any little 2 year-old would (because any older and the concept of free speech starts getting beaten out of them with 'school' and 'government').
Thanks for the great data, Robyn!
SCARY!
How are you doing, Renee?
I’m hanging in there! Thank you for asking. I have surgery on Friday, can’t wait-lol! God and his angels will be doing some overtime on that day. ✝️💜
That's it, thanks!
These people are generally known collectively as "Democrats".
Isn't a lack of empathy the hallmark of a Sociopath...or a Narcissist...or even Asperger's/ASD...?!?!
But turning off one's empathy is never a good solution in my books. Perhaps during wartime, or other traumatic events, it helps you get through the messiest parts, by not having to care. But come later on, geez, that's when it swallows you up...
Perhaps all these non-empathic people can't see what they are doing to Humanity (or just don't care...but hey, isn't that what lack of empathy is all about?!). But by not caring, one is part of the problem, not the solution. And we see it everywhere - from the lousy words of blatant money-grabbing corporate CEOs to the $2 Store worker who's jacked up their prices for cheap and nasty items and then says "Oh, everything's going up" with a smile...
When will people actually realise that they are in the middle of a horrible War and that their behaviour is alongside those who have willfully killed others in past wars because it was merely their 'job'? How far down the track of disaster and the desert of morals do people have to go before they wonder 'where am I, exactly?'...I guess for some there's a steep climb up outta there, but for most, they will dwell and die down there...
Unfortunately, people only seem to care about THEIR personal situation.
Cops: Have to do what the mayor says, or I'll lose my pension
Doctors: I have to do what the government says or I'll lose my license
Pharmacies: I have to give shots without informed consent because my job makes me
Teachers: I have to push CRT because if I don't, I could lose my job
I'm not sure who we are at war with at the moment. The globalists? The WEF? The central banks?
Or all those entities one in the same?
But we are at war.
I can't heart this comment enough.
Very true. In the place of empathy, the Zoomerati shrieked about the greater good. I would call this fake empathy only Dr. Peter McCullough mentioned an even better term so I will steal his: weaponized empathy.
My experience matches yours. Democrat, leftist, and most often either bureaucrats or in academia. They are either heartless or clueless or both.
the rich
Just reinforces that both parties Democrat and Republican consider middle, lower middle and lower class deplorables. Simply widgets who can immediately and easily be replaced by the millions of immigrants entering the country. Smeared as white supremist, antivax, anti climate, useless eaters by any and all at the top of the pecking order irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion. We are as caste ridden a society as India but turn verbal cartwheels by the minute to hide, deny or obfuscate.
The new comers aren't as tame as the natives.
That "lack of empathy" has evolved (devolved?) into contempt. Massive contempt. Freely, and frequently, expressed.
Well, then... it's mutual.
And they want us to pity them getting laid off during this tech meltdown. Lol... no.
I read one sob story about a lady who just lost all their access and that's how she knew she was laid off. Anybody with sense should be able to see that coming. If you're not getting face time in person with your boss then you're not a person. You're just a user account to be shut down when they need to start cutting.
when I noticed what was going on, I decided never ever to vote for a dem again, no matter how good they seem. The only ones standing up for the people in these 2 years have been a handful of reps
Hey come on, everyone here is being way too hard on Daly.
You can bet she's feeling quite a lot of internal pain and guilt at her good fortune. Guarantee her private conversations/therapy visits are all about the trauma she's experiencing, not feeling any pain when so many others are. I'm sure she felt a lot of pain and guilt when she was working from home, too, about how she wasn't feeling any pain and guilt, about the plight and health risks of the essential workers who were delivering her groceries. SHE'S A VICTIM TOO.
It's a hard row to hoe, being an elite. The level of complexity to their self-absorption and rationalization is just not something the average pleb could handle. WE'VE still got empathy! Let's take a moment and have some compassion.
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Michele, I'm noticing you've got quite a sardonic sense of humor. And I like that.
You know, it reminds me of someone. Me.
LOL thanks--I really enjoy reading your comments, so, back atcha!
The laptop class fails to realize it is the unwashed masses that allow them to live their cushy, work-from-home lifestyles. Who do they think delivers their groceries and Amazon packages? Who keeps their lights and internet on?
During COVID, there was an article in the New York Times telling people what a good idea it was to stay home and have their food delivered. Jefferey Tucker at AIER posted an article with a great reply (if I recall): "Delivered by whom? Apparently not readers of the Ne York Times!"
even worse. who will repair the plumbing ? who will fix clothes ? who will do the gardening ? they forget the 'dirty' work needs to be done, too.
This point can't be made frequently or loudly enough. It is a major key to understanding the world's insanity over the last few years, and a prescription for avoiding it in the future. The faction that presents itself as representing the "downtrodden" are really the ones dong the downtrodding. They see themselves as the enlightened champions of their lessers, which would be great if those lessers only shut up and did what they were told. They have no empathy, no respect, no regard for those outside their bubble. And it has become too obvious for people to ignore any more.
Because it is all being done on purpose!
People who steal can always have enough.
They've been doing that for decades - "officially." BOTH sides of the aisle. Kissinger and Klaus Schwab were and are BFFs.
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
~ Tom Lehrer
Same with Obama.
Ah yes, the Drone Ranger.
This is probably my favorite image from Obama's reign:
https://www.madmagazine.com/sites/default/files/MAD-Magazine-Drone-Ranger.jpg
Lmao!
Thanks - as a kid, I read the occasional Mad.
Schwab is Kissinger's protege. For real.
Yes and no. Taken to excess, no amount of wealth will satisfy a miser, a drug for an addict (think of the scene in Scarface where he has a desk covered in cocaine), and so forth. Appetites out of control are a time-honored means to injure/kill oneself, be it by gluttony, power-lust, greed, and so on. Actually, you are in the minority (the happy ones, I'd argue) if you can honestly say to yourself that you have "enough," neither too little nor too much.
One of the very few things for which the Covid catastrophe has been helpful:
Forcing my family to reevaluate what is really important.
Our health, freedom to make her own choices, our faith, doing what we can now to make sure we have enough to get by when it all head south, helping and loving other people – or at least being willing to.
What doesnt matter as much: what everyone else thinks, getting or staying enrolled in that academic institution no matter what, maybe even losing our jobs, all of the “extras” we’ve gotten very used to…
Amen! You have “eyes” to see. You are blessed-everyday.
As you often say, the best thing about free speech is listening to what people freely say outloud. The mask has certainly come off of the 'we care about the poor' in the last couple years. Now we blame inflation on poor people having money! It's really for your own good that you're broke, you see!
We care about the immunocompromised, however we decide to define them, because they'll give us no limits on how far we can push medical tyranny for their own good.
Best part was how many people suddenly decided they were immunocompromised, too.
Well, it made you a lot more interesting a person all of a sudden than it did three years ago.
Instead of “let them eat cake” the new saying is “let them eat Taco Bell”
At least Taco Hell didn't go through the e-coli scares that Chipotle did a few years back. That cost them millions in lost business.
I had sympathy for them then. Wow, was that misplaced. I’ve only eaten there once and I’m glad they have had little of my money.
Taco Bell isn't cheap anymore. Dog food prices are on the rise!
My cats food is $12 more a case than a year ago… $24 NOW $36. Yet booze and eggs are same price.
Eggs are high here, average is $5 - $7 per dozen. The cheapest butter is $6.99 a pound. It can go up to $12.99 a pound for the organic free range. Booze they will keep low in price, they want us to turn into compliant drunks.
Taco Bell is better. Went to Chipotle for the first time ever, last month. It was THE worst food I think I have ever had in my entire life! 2 people, cold, flavorless, nasty "food" = (a little more than) $31. AND the employees weren't even friendly!
Our Taco Bell on the other hand, while not very friendly either, the food is hot, has flavor, and there is more stuff making up the item, not just some dead rice with a tiny bit of meat and beans on top.
And here's a question for you: Since when is "guacamole" solely mashed avacados with no spices or veggies? 🤨
Maria’s, Bonita Springs, Florida, taco Tuesday….dollar tacos. Fresh tortillas, fresh food, finish the meal with a bag of beignets from the food truck. Wish I was there right now🥰🥰
Sounds good, but I'm not even close to Fla. 😒
Where do you live? Here in SW Washington the Chipotle's have been consistently good but prices are ridiculous and they're giving less and less food for the cost. Taco Bell is one grade above dog food, just fyi.
Street tacos are much better than either
Not if there aren't any in your area.
Make your own! They’re easy.
I usually want quesadillas. Then I run into having to make something else for my sig other. Therefore, it's easier to buy food. 😒
Street tacos FTW!
Agreed! Nothing like authentic.
Much more value at a place like Don Taco. A $10 burrito from there is still two meals, whereas I can now eat Chipotle's $13 burrito in one sitting.
Thankfully, far from the West coast. Chipotle tastes worse than real dog food, which I'll probably have to eat to get through winter, and Taco Bell still beats both.
You do not want to know what went on in the Taco Bell I worked at as a teenager!
A friend's daughter worked there. I think it's pretty much the same as most fast food restaurants and some "real" restaurants. Everyone is better off cooking at home, but that gets old.
I've worked in many restaurants. Without a doubt better off cooking at home. That being said, I have solid faith in many of the locally owned places around, most especially the ones focused on locally sourced product. I avoid any corporate type restaurant for sure.
Retired Cook here, can confirm. Local is best. I only worked for locals when I did it, Chains bring in a lot of stuff frozen and such that contain stabilizers and such: case in point, alfredo "white" sauce. The real thing can only be made to order, there is literally no substitute without watering it down and adding gum emulsifiers to preserve texture...I will eat at home over a chain, I order food once every month or 2, local restarants, Thai, chinese, pho or bbq. I eat there when I'm craving food I cant duplicate.
It doesn't get old when you have serious allergies and/or food intolerances. Cooking at home never felt so good!! :-D
I'm so sorry about your food problems. I'm sure it isn't easy. 🙁 --- I HATE to cook. That includes canned soup. I'm to the point I'm tired of eating, because it's the same thing over and over and over. (I can only cook certain things that others will eat. Any deviation and the food won't be eaten and the money has been thrown in the garbage.)
I was A & W…
I bought one avocado a few days ago for $2.00! It was tasteless even with mounds of salt. We have cans and cans of beans stored because I do believe hard times are ahead.
This should be the Fed's new tagline below its name on its website. https://www.federalreserve.gov/
I’m wearing my END THE FED sweatshirt right now.
“let them eat Taco Bell” - What a nauseating thought. Or act!
Time for more people to plant gardens either in their yards or in pots. It ain't gonna get any better for a long long time.
Sadly, many children and adults under the age of 40 have no idea where or how their food is produced. And no one is proactively instructing them how to prepare for the worst. They will keep going to the food banks until the food runs out - and then the troubles begin in earnest.
"A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food." - Pearl S. Buck
A guy I know told me his grandfather told him about the depression, that there is nothing as scary as a starving man coming to your door.
How about 100 starving men? I read an interesting psych article that examined the idea of the "mindless zombie hoards". Apparently at a certain point in the starvation process, when your body has consumed all the other expendable parts, your brain starts to go at the last, and you really do enter a zombie-like state where even the taboo of cannibalism has no power to stop you. Jeezuz. Glad I live in deep country.
And there's a lot of "food" on the road between the walking dead and HRH Mary Daly.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-food-bank-shuts-its-doors-after-running-out-of-food-supplies-its-heartbreaking/ar-AA10eK7W
A garden planted in pots won't feed you for very long. Read John Jeavons's book "How to Grow More Vegetables..." (Berkeley, Ten-Speed Press, 2002) It takes from 4,000 to 15,000 square feet of garden area to feed one person, the lower number using Jeavons's 'Grow Biointensive' method. And if you're new to gardening, it will take a while for you to learn the required skills.
John Jeavons is right down the road from me, merely a stone's throw. One of his disciples is a young friend of mine, Matt Drewno, who has published a booklet (#38) on growing for food and seed in as little as 1,000 square feet. The link would not post here but you can check out Matt's Victory Gardens interviews on YouTube.
This link should work:
http://www.growbiointensive.org/Enewsletter/Summer2021/booklet38.html
What the description does not say is whether you can feed a person on 1,000 square feet. There are lots of worthwhile and practical things one can do with smaller gardens; but providing a person's or family's full nutritional requirements by gardening is a major endeavor.
That's if you're 100% dependent on your garden. You can cut your food costs by growing the more expensive veggies while buying dried beans, lentils, rice, oats, etc.
Correct. It all depends what sort of 'meltdown' is coming. If they cut off the fertilizer, soon you won't be able to buy dried beans, lentils, rice etc. At all, for any price.
Fertilizer wasn't sanctioned in the US. Actually, after making a lot of sanction noise & getting Europe to walk off the sanctions cliff, Biden quietly urged US companies to keep buying Russian fertilizer.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/us-quietly-urges-russia-fertilizer-deals-to-unlock-grain-trade
But then Blackrock and friends told the rails (UP, IIRC) not to ship it anywhere... the jury is still out on that one. Fertilizer was not 'sanctioned' in NL, CA, EI until a few weeks ago, either. A lot can happen in a short time.
It still doubled in price this summer.
May I have a refund on this simulation? It's not what I ordered.
Of course! Please e-mail blackhole@simulation.net, and we'll get back to you...........shortly.
I had you in mind as I typed...
Hey, it's what happens when it's mail-in voting only - 2000 Mules to install 1 jackass. LOL
None of us ordered this!
A jackass and a hyena.
Bingo. LMAO. A stupid hyena. In CA we say, "Que Mala." You think she's dumb? Biden's clearly dumb. Newsom's worse. If it weren't for voter fraud, none of the CA a-holes in Gov't. would be in power - Waters, Schiff, Pelosi, etc.
Like everything else Kommifornia has exported everything bad to the rest of the country.
You're equating "Kommies" with the two largest cities, S.F. and L.A. I'm L.A. born and there are tons of conservatives here. The rest of the state is red. What you hear is biased news to "control" the red parts, making them think it's "hopeless" or "useless" which *is* a Communist tactic. Look up the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals (which Obummer and Hellary (not a typo) both adore.
I believe Trump would have won CA without the fraud. It's been awhile and I no longer have the links, but if you subtract off only the 'excess above expected' in the voter turnouts, IIRC around 7MM votes, and assume they went for Biden (because nobody has accused Trump of vote fraud), and Biden supposedly 'won' CA by 5.3MM -- Trump wins CA by 1.7MM. Game over, Trump has 4 more years, nobody cares what happened in AZ, NV, WI, MI, GA, PA.
Guilt by association. `\_(•_•)_/`
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This is not simulated Socialism I'm afraid, it's the Real Thing.
L.A. born Californian here and it's DEFINITELY the real thing. People say "Commiefornia" for a reason which is distressing to us born here. CA has been corrupt for decades by primarily 3 families. Enter that as a search term on a non-google engine - you'll get a video showing Pelosi's father was Mob. We're being run by corruption now, U.S.-wide.
Read as much as you can from the WEF web sites. Every single thing that is "wrong" with the U.S. is on PURPOSE. I have hope that because people are waking up - the intentional destruction can be corrected and reversed. Voting RED is the only way.
I lived in L.A. for 17 years, left at the end of '18 and vowed to never set foot again. I saw the city's brief rise at the beginning of the century but by the time the first decade was over it began crashing and burning at a stunning rate. Garcetti should be hung by his cahones.
I'll go along with that. His whine about homelessness got him a 2nd term. Plus cheating. His first term, less than 30K homeless. Now, it's over 80K and they're called "unhoused neighbors."
Never "looked into" our $40 Mil the DWP stole, either, not that I expected him to. DWP has been corrupt for YEARS. (First-hand knowledge.)
Remember when the DWP got caught paying for bottled water for its employees? "We'll provide your water (and make you pay a pretty penny for it) but don't expect *us* to drink it."
Meanwhile the ancient water mains are blowing geysers all over town during a drought.
Yes, I do. It's all commie BS. Especially the watering. My gardener works in Beverly Hills, besides the 818. He said his customers want him to hose off the driveway, not use the blower.
Look online using a non-google search engine (like Brave) for Nick Federoff's article about
how lawns are good for the environment, eliminate greenhouse gases. Remember THAT ditty
from the 1960s, 1970s? Watch - it'll make a comeback from being on life support. LOL.
One thing I've been mentioning online (and getting banned) for two years now. Pretend in YOUR mind that the NWO/Great Reset/Fourth Reich/New Industrial Revolution...bla bla... IS happening because the Dems and RINOs are already IN the NWO. They sold us out a long time ago. Now, you know how urgent it is to fight back, oust them all.
Everything they do, have done, and plan to do - straight from the WEF web pages. ALL of it.
Wikipedia had this quote, about Pelosi's brother being the only one not convicted of raping a group of girls "father stared down the jury." That has since been removed - but I think a better term would be "glowered."
The Wire
And the absolute feebleness of the purportedly conservative side is a wonder. Lots of performative masculinity but, you should pardon me here, not many stones in Congress.
Larry Elder said it best - that "Trump gave Republicans balls." Unfortunately, it's we-the-people Republicans, NOT those elected.
Agreed, though he also taunted the Swamp a bit too much. I don't think he realized how deep and bipartisan it really is. To those who wallow in the murk, the designations (D) and (R) are largely meaningless.
That's because "We the people" Republicans are most likely Libertarians who just affiliated with the Republicans, at least briefly. Neither side appears to remember that the government was supposed to be by us. The fact that we have a saying "inside the beltway" is an indicator that it's not a government by us for us.
It's been the "Uniparty" for a long time. In the 1840's, D's had trouble getting over the election results and borrowed Andrew Jackson's nickname - "jackass" to represent the party. It stuck.
He didn't have balls himself, much less to distribute.
Oh, Elder's a RINO, of that I'm quite sure.
Even a designation like that is meaningless. They're all businesspeople. That's it.
Chipotle provides salmonella boosters for its most loyal customers. Stock up on Chipotlaway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHsR65IRW_8
Wow! How out-of-touch can you be?
Remember Pelosi bragging about her$20k freezers filled with gourmet ice cream back after the '08 collapse?
Because they''re not out of touch. They're mocking us.
Because it is all being done on purpose!
Wait until the real price of food hits. As this short video explains, calves and babies are just being born so the cost to raise them hasn't hit yet. When the prices catch up with the slaughter market in the fall (rendering of the animals), we could see $17/lb. chicken, $40-$50/lb. beef. Chipotle—and the rest of us—are going to be in a world of hurt.
I purchase most of my meat directly from farmers, and I'm hearing the same story over and over.
https://twitter.com/UltraLandlord/status/1554338346431877124?s=20&t=2r6jerTAYTz0HhXd5pUX1g
There is a remedy for those who have the courage and resolve to Come Out Of Her*. Pack up and leave, just go - leave the city, the suburbs, leave anywhere where there is a Chipotle or Taco Bell or a McDonald's. Find a place in the country, find a haven, grow a garden, raise livestock especially chickens, learn to hunt and fish, find a community of like-minded people. You can do this. You will have to learn new skills, it will be difficult, but you will emerge stronger and better for it. You will not be soft. And you will have a much better chance of escaping the coming meltdown.
*"Come out of her, my people, lest ye partake of her sins and receive of her plagues". Revelation 18:4 "Her" meaning Babylon. This line truly resonates with me, and I'm not even a Christian.
I'm not exactly Christian either, but have been interested in the Gospel of Mary Magdalen recently coming to light. One quote she attributes to Jesus, in answer to "Why do we become sick and die? is : "You fall in love with that which deceives you."
No wonder it was stricken from the Official Version.
I have never heard this - thank you!! Yes, can you imagine if all the Apocrypha had been included in the New Testament? The Gnostic Gospels? "If you bring forth that which is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." Those are the words of Jesus (I verily believe), left out of the Bible. And there you have it, psychiatry, in a nutshell. Oh, the lives that could have been redeemed and saved with these words! It is so tragic.
Indeed. Thanks for the other as well. Sins of omission have always been with us.
Chipotle will just tell us to eat their fucking bug burrito....
Come try our all new Burrito de Cucaracha!
Bugrrito…there fixed it for ya ;-)
Ah, si! And let's not forget Tacos de Chapulines! Crunchy!!
Oh I needed that! Haaaaa! Feels good to laugh!
At that point it's ¡adios!
Surprise! It's crickets!
One advantage of beef cattle, and other range stock like goats and sheep, is that they can (and quite often do) get the majority of their diet from rangeland. Land too poor to support other uses, even grain (cereal) crops -- too little rain, too rocky, too steep; in the West often all of the above. In some parts of the world, this is the way range stock are raised 100%. Here most often they are moved to feedlots for the last 2-3 months to fatten them up and make them more palatable for Western tastes.
But they can be consumed straight from the range, if needed. They're tougher than you're used to and they have a stronger, gamier taste depending on what sort of range they've been grazing. But range stock can provide a significant amount of protein with minimal management and minimal input of other feed.
We eat 100% grass-fed. And local from the Amish. They're a little insulated, so that may help us out.
Especially if you're long time customers. But things can still get pretty bad, I hope and pray it all works out for you.
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We're a drop off for one of the farmers, so we're on a first name basis.
Yes. You can't beat community and friends in a crisis.
I just want to make extra sure: are you *positive* these aren't from Babylon Bee articles?
You can't expect elites to trouble themselves with the issues of the little people. They didn't miss a paycheck during covid. Sure they're paying a bit more for things now then they used to, but it's hardly noticeable and all this inflation talk is no concern of theirs.
Out here in NorCal the bureaucrats get a gas allowance, and they just voted themselves a 25% cost of living wage increase. Must be nice. Some of them actually still eat beef, I'm told.
I don't eat much beef, usually chicken or turkey. (Yeah, I know, I'm still in big trouble.) Usually, the only "beef" I can afford is McDonald's. (And that's been for the last 38 years.)
Sure isn't, with their over inflated checks, for which they do actual work 2 hours a day, paid by the little people who can't afford food, heat, air, or gasoline.
Bandit, all I can say is that they'd better enjoy it while they still can. Their time is coming, and the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
When the time comes, for many it'll be a fall of just a few feet. "A short drop and a quick stop," I think the British used to say 🧐
I hope God's still listening to you. 🙌
From your lips, to God's ears, my friend.
So this is what it has come to; The arbiter of who has “enough” in the country made great by free enterprise and limitless potential is a lifelong bureaucrat who has never held a private sector job in her life while feeding at the trough of other people’s labors to the tune of nearly a half million dollars per year. Got it.
And she's not alone. According to https://www.federalpay.org/employees, the US gov't had 2,807,126 employees (2020 data) in 732 agencies making an average of $76,667.77 for a total of $215.22 billion dollars.
Keep it up, genius... Between this midwit and Mayor Pete's "they can just get electric cars," they're getting closer and closer to this generation's "let them eat cake."
grabbing a meal in the drive-thru at Whataburger these days and handing them a $10 bill...their hand stays out waiting for the rest.
"Here's your Build Back Burger"
Made with insect protein
Yeah, so you should probably think of packing your lunch. Cheaper & healthier. <:0
Last time my sig oth and I ate a meal out was June of 2020. Scout's honor.
Our only restaurant was burned to the ground about that time. There are a couple of roach coaches here, and they charge $12 for what I'm told is a mediocre burrito.
Fortunately, I really love to cook.
Wife and I go out only occasionally, we like to cook too.
Most recent was last night, with sis and BIL to celebrate his birthday.
First time I've ever seen steak listed as 'market price.' $50 for an 8-oz filet. And this was not by any means the fanciest place in town, maybe 6-7 on a scale of 10.
A friend recently took his family of six out to dinner to celebrate a graduation. This was at a very famous top-shelf restaurant in Arcata, CA. The bill, for six of them, was over $400. I was without words. He's not a rich man. Well, I hadn't thought so...
Yeah. Remember when you got change back from your dollar at McD's?
Hell, now a dollar IS change.
n.b. 'The Golden Arches Supper Club' for several years in the 1970s kept the price of a hamburger, small fries and small Coke artificially low so they could still run that 'change back from your dollar' ad.
JUST IN: Fed President Mary Daly has said:
"My hubris is bigger than yours"