Also good for you this year: heart attacks, strokes, cancer, experimental gene therapy, puberty blockers, genital re-arrangement and a heavy diet of lies and soy.
Philosophically, death is the great equalizer. This is especially true if one doesn't believe in continued existence (souls, etc.) For sure, the day one dies all one's problems disappear either because "you" cease to exist, or else you are removed to another realm.
Many profound words have been written along those lines, but one of my favorite is from Roger Waters (Pink Floyd):
Oh, yes! And wasn't it wonderful, that Vogue cover shot of Zelensky and his wife? To think that they took time from their courageous ongoing struggle against tyranny to bring us such a gift. So brave, so beautiful! We need to give them more money. We must.
I was so inspired. I mean, how dare I complain about diverting my dollars for evil, climate-polluting and increasingly hard-to-find ground beef to Ukranian/free-world-supporting gasoline? I saw that cover and was all, wow, my life really IS plebian, and I am so grateful to be told how to live by the deep-souled sufferers who yet remain so beautiful, and so...visible...and so available for a Vogue photo shoot and so...unharmed by their 'war'...
Really bummed my tank is full right now. Just thinking about it makes me want to buy more. Maybe I'll get a gas can.
Remember after the basement dummy's inauguration - nearly every newspaper had the same headline - "Unity." Which is a bunch of BS. Every single problem the U.S. (and blue states) have is coming straight from Biden's pal Klaus Schwab's WEF and the UN. ALL of it. Look at the WEF web pages and look up UN Agenda 21.
I'm almost ashamed to admit that the built-in irony (?) of the word "journal-ISM" only just dawned on me the other day.
Though I guess like with many words these days, its definition could use an update - from being an 'ism' reflective of 'the act or practice of' to that more indicative of 'a doctrine, theory, religion, or basis for discrimination'. Especially with the TNI.
Oh, I already know how smarmy and corrupt it is. L.A. born Californian. I said over 2 years ago, that Trump's "best thing" was exposing fake news. Everyone *then* thought I was nuts. Not laughing now!! LOL
There seem to be two main groups. The group who REALLY learned, first hand, and are wide awake. Then there’s the group who THINK they know and are very far off reality. The second group also often believe that all dems are best and orange man bad. Which then tells you where they get news.
I read that the same international Public Relations behemoth that handled the Sacklers opiate campaign ( " Safe and Effective") , handled this job also .
Apparently they were impressed by the job they did.
Not to mention ‘mostly peaceful’. But the important thing is we all were masked and social distanced during the short downturn leading to green energy.
That pesky problem of the grid going kablooey if something like 2% more people get EVs - well heck, I'm sorry, but that's just nit-picking. They'll get it all sorted out in a jiffy.
Oh it’s not a problem. Cars are not for us plebs. We will walk and bike and own nothing. We used to be happy but then that got to be too much effort so now we just own nothing.
Oh the Bee, aren't they a delight? Such wit, and some good actors, too, in their videos. A friend wondered a while back - "I never knew Christians could be so funny". She's behind the times.
Dig into the history of the definition of "recession" though and you find that changing the definition is standard procedure. At one point I recall it was 4 quarters of negative GDP growth (meaning shrinking economic output). Then it based on consecutive quarters of negative growth RATE (meaning if the quarter over quarter rate of growth declined). I remember the definition changing around several election years ;-). So not a new trick.
I do recall the DNC making sure all candidates bragged about the "recession" of 2020 caused by the economic shutdowns of 2020. They needed badly to counter the economic good news of 2017 through to early 2020. Of course forcing factories to close wasn't the cause, it was the Trump economic policies! The "no recession" and "this is not inflation" denial doesn't seem to be working, the "what do you mean by 'sex'?" didn't seem to take either. Like with inflation, which the True Believers in The Party are certain is because of Trump's policies (abundant energy and widespread prosperity being clearly bad things), the recession will be spun first as a needed correction and then as Trump's doing. That's my prediction - y'all grade me later ;-)
Last week I read that the ice cream treat formerly known as the "Chocotaco" has been discontinued following pressure from some lobby that labeled it "cultural appropriation". Whoa. So this led me to try and ascertain what culture was being appropriated and by whom. Which led to a bewildering collection of search results on cultural appropriation and extreme pigeon-holing and isolation. I called an old friend, who's family name happens to be Taco (a middle-aged Jew). Apparently the immigration officer at Elis Island culturally appropriated something when he chopped off the last 4 syllables of the family name.
Later that night at diner we pondered other food related cultural appropriations when we noticed "street tacos" on the menu along with burgers and fish and chip and other food items not normally considered Mexican cuisine. This is multi-cultural appropriate?
This led to ponder...the burger joint owned by the Korean family? What about a Pizza place owned by an Italian guy? (everyone knows Pizza originates in the US - either NY or Chicago depending on who you ask). It boggles the mind....
But really, anyone who politicizes a tasty ice cream treat is just broken.
The Economist has suffered a severe and well deserved downfall since Lynn Rothschild starting running it around 20 years ago. Look up her emails with Hillary--an abject partisan for whom no lie is too big just like the rest of these shysters.
Like the Murdoch boys running the WSJ. The news section is trying to be the NYT while the op-ed and a couple columnists try to keep the whole thing from tipping over into rampant socialist propaganda machine status...
Seemed to completely lose the plot more recently, though, around the time the Agnelli family acquired it. Can read like the Guardian on a variety of issues.
And utterly appalling on every phase of Covid - the editors disgraced themselves.
It continually fascinates me how truly accurate 1984 was...the first time I read it, in high school, I didn’t pay much attention to what was really going on with it. I remember my English teacher at that time said that in our lifetimes (meaning the students’ lifetimes) that we would all come face to face with virtually everything Orwell wrote about. She continually talked about government and media collusion, and how that would be “the downfall.” At the time, everyone just thought she was a crazy old teacher. In hindsight, however, as a 50 year old man...wow.
If you haven’t read it recently, I highly suggest you do. Quite scary in how accurate it is for our current time and state of affairs.
"The Road to Wigan Pier" is. In that book, the message is not wrapped up in a fable or a metaphor; it almost burns itself into your brain like arclight in pitch black darkness.
Thank you right back. One thing I'd recommend to remember when reading it, it is a period piece. Don't want to spoil anything, just keep in mind when it was written.
Whoa, your book club and mine (that I belonged to once, decades ago) are in different galaxies. They had a hostile takeover, gave up Laurie King for Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. Mmm, I'll pass. They can effing miss my gf carrot cake.
Heck yeah! Remember those old days when you'd buy a lottery ticket so you could daydream for a few minutes about all the cool frivolous stuff you'd get if you won...a new house for mom, a tractor with brakes, you know. Picked up a ticket last week and The Boss (wife) said "hey if we win we could afford another trip to the market!"
A pet peeve of mine (one of many): people who say "gas prices aren't high here, COMPARED TO [Sweden | Germany | wherever] !!!" as if we should be more like those absurd places. No, Bubba, we should be trying to fix the problem in THOSE PLACES TOO! DOH! We CAN and we SHOULD, but no these "intellectuals" can't abide the idea we could actually make the world BETTER instead of dragging it all down.
Remember during Obama when the articles would try to compare a gallon of gas to a gallon of white out, or other things like that? Because that’s totally comparable, I go through a gallon of white out regularly! It’s not that bad, people! The economy is booming! We told you it’s Booming!
I was told that a technical term that has been commonly used for decades to describe a list of things to be excluded, "black list", and the reciprocal term of things to be admitted (as in computer security), "white list", are no longer acceptable because they are not "inclusive language".
I suggested we replace "black list" with "excluded list". This was an acceptably "inclusive" term. Building the obvious irony of that, I pondered aloud "the specification of "inclusive language" is nothing more than a list of terms we can not include in technical documents" waiting for the laugh. The irony was lost on the wokedom.
They have no sense of irony, none, and little if any sense of humor.
I remember visiting the UK around the time of the Gulf War - 1991, was it? They had newly mandated language in the schools (I stayed with friends who had a small daughter). They had traded "blackboard" for "greenboard", and the old rhyme had become "Green sheep, green sheep, have you any wool?". Seen any green sheep lately? Absurd. I never thought such rubbish would come here. I was wrong.
It was a guess based on what you wrote. It must be so heartbreaking for you. It is for my man, who remembers the time when California was truly the Golden State. He was raised in San Bernardino when it was nothing but olive and orange groves. A paradise. I am from Paradise (Hawai'i) and the changes there are such that I can barely go back for a visit. It too is heartbreaking. I have been in CA for thirty years and I've seen a lot of changes, not one of them for the better.
Inflation is good for me? nope. and neither is ukraine. nor the hopelessly laughable 'climate change'. nor evs. nor basically ANY thing else pushed by entrenched meander media.
The unified messaging across the media is both impressive and scary as fuck. The elites propaganda effort is incredibly well coordinated.
Also good for you this year: heart attacks, strokes, cancer, experimental gene therapy, puberty blockers, genital re-arrangement and a heavy diet of lies and soy.
NYT: “Why Dying Is Good For You”
Finally, a way to solve the problems associated with living as a human!
Yes, but how do we achieve equity and diversity with the act of dying? Discriminatory death disparity must be stopped!
Just change the definition of "death" and "dying." Problem solved.
I'm assuming sarcasm there...
Philosophically, death is the great equalizer. This is especially true if one doesn't believe in continued existence (souls, etc.) For sure, the day one dies all one's problems disappear either because "you" cease to exist, or else you are removed to another realm.
Many profound words have been written along those lines, but one of my favorite is from Roger Waters (Pink Floyd):
"Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend,
We were all equal, in the end."
It does help the planet very much!
I volunteer all of them to go first.
I like that idea. A lot.
😉
It solves chronic depression.
And you won’t get Covid or Monkeypox.
Truly a miracle cure!!
How dying can stop racism and climate change.
Was that lies and soy - or flies and soy?
You forgot bugs with that soy!
Don't forget no fuel!
Don't forget higher gas prices--the entire world's freedom depends on our paying those, remember!
I submit gladly, to save democracy!
Don't you feel so virtuous, now, too? Win-win!
Oh, yes! And wasn't it wonderful, that Vogue cover shot of Zelensky and his wife? To think that they took time from their courageous ongoing struggle against tyranny to bring us such a gift. So brave, so beautiful! We need to give them more money. We must.
I was so inspired. I mean, how dare I complain about diverting my dollars for evil, climate-polluting and increasingly hard-to-find ground beef to Ukranian/free-world-supporting gasoline? I saw that cover and was all, wow, my life really IS plebian, and I am so grateful to be told how to live by the deep-souled sufferers who yet remain so beautiful, and so...visible...and so available for a Vogue photo shoot and so...unharmed by their 'war'...
Really bummed my tank is full right now. Just thinking about it makes me want to buy more. Maybe I'll get a gas can.
dangerous gardening !! FFS
don’t forget the 🐛 bugs
The list goes on and on
Don't forget the bugs.
yes, they work together as a "team" to get the message out in unison and all the same verbiage
https://www.keywiki.org/Trusted_News_Initiative
NON trusted news!
Glad to see you reference the dreaded TNI - it bears repeating.....they are all in it together.
That reads like a supoena list for Aaron Siri , Del Bigtrees lawyer on Highwire
Remember after the basement dummy's inauguration - nearly every newspaper had the same headline - "Unity." Which is a bunch of BS. Every single problem the U.S. (and blue states) have is coming straight from Biden's pal Klaus Schwab's WEF and the UN. ALL of it. Look at the WEF web pages and look up UN Agenda 21.
Remember "journo-list"?
I'm almost ashamed to admit that the built-in irony (?) of the word "journal-ISM" only just dawned on me the other day.
Though I guess like with many words these days, its definition could use an update - from being an 'ism' reflective of 'the act or practice of' to that more indicative of 'a doctrine, theory, religion, or basis for discrimination'. Especially with the TNI.
Legal experts sucked most of the meaning out of words and replaced them with clauses that thrive in selective obscurity.
Yes
JournoList
https://keywiki.org/JournoList
Wow… 🤦♀️
I didn’t know anything about this
Thanks 🙏🏼 for the 411
Read "The Smear" by Sharyl Attkisson. That opened my eyes to the total coordination of the MSM by moneyed interests.
Oh, I already know how smarmy and corrupt it is. L.A. born Californian. I said over 2 years ago, that Trump's "best thing" was exposing fake news. Everyone *then* thought I was nuts. Not laughing now!! LOL
Have to say, gaslighting a financial downturn isn't as impressive as musing how "maybe a small nuclear exchange wouldn't be so bad?"
The Unification Board is working overtime, prepping for Directive 10-289.
If only the citizens in the previously free countries weren’t so belligerently ignorant 🙄
There seem to be two main groups. The group who REALLY learned, first hand, and are wide awake. Then there’s the group who THINK they know and are very far off reality. The second group also often believe that all dems are best and orange man bad. Which then tells you where they get news.
Once Dems realize they're getting screwed too, they'll wake up. It's happening in CA.
Not fast enough.
I agree
Not fast enough & these idiots have Stockholm syndrome 🙄
I read that the same international Public Relations behemoth that handled the Sacklers opiate campaign ( " Safe and Effective") , handled this job also .
Apparently they were impressed by the job they did.
They have been told there will be refreshments afterward... possibly cake. So forgive their earnestness.
"short downturn" makes it sound like a cute haircut.
2 weeks to flatten the carbon
two weeks to 'bob' the economy...
More like a shave with a Dull & Dirty razor.
😹
🤣🤣🤣
🤣 That's the flat-top.
you guys are on fire!
Hey, don't know about you but I'm having a great day, just thinking about the Chinese shooting down Auntie Nancy's plane. A kitten can dream...
😌
Starting to seem like a crewcut, very close to the scalp.
stop it! That hurt (still laughing)...
What made the barber fear unlocking his shop?
Dread locks.
Groan.
Which hairstyle is forbidden for jews and moslems?
Pigtails.
Also: scalloped sideburns 🥳
🤣
Don't know about cute, but we're gonna get a haircut allright.
😂😂😂🙃
It's a "safe and effective" recession.
Not to mention ‘mostly peaceful’. But the important thing is we all were masked and social distanced during the short downturn leading to green energy.
No possible side effects, right?
Oh, mild starvation, peaceful death. Nothing to get upset over.
That pesky problem of the grid going kablooey if something like 2% more people get EVs - well heck, I'm sorry, but that's just nit-picking. They'll get it all sorted out in a jiffy.
Oh it’s not a problem. Cars are not for us plebs. We will walk and bike and own nothing. We used to be happy but then that got to be too much effort so now we just own nothing.
No sweat!
Oh yeah - no A/C. Yes, sweat.
Greatest physics trick in the history of the universe to transpose our world into daily editions of the Babylon Bee.
Oh the Bee, aren't they a delight? Such wit, and some good actors, too, in their videos. A friend wondered a while back - "I never knew Christians could be so funny". She's behind the times.
There's a lot that surprises me in life these days but if anyone had told me I'd find the Bee the only legitimate child of MAD Magazine...
Cracked Magazine was what I read. Much darker and funnier.
How you define "recession" has become the newest litmus test to determine whether or not you're a Good Person™.
There! Are! Four! Lights!
Nice gratuitous Shatner reference :-)
That was Jean-Luc Picard that said that.
Doh!
Yes it was The Next Generation.
geez my Friday afternoon grey cells are letting me down!
Yep, been there, done that.
The actor that played the Cardassian that prompted Picard to answer "there are four lights" died this week, https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/david-warner-tron-the-omen-dead-obituary-1387586/
It's a fantastic reference and I used it as a title for my post on misinformation, https://starkweather.substack.com/p/there-are-four-lights?r=b925w&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Yes. "Star Trek", but referencing "1984". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoDOazaijYY
Daily Trivia: Do people realize that Gene Roddenberry was a Rosicrucian? Which is why "Star Trek" is fraught with all the Big Questions.
🙌 Determination and guts! I want to be like that! I will be screaming that in the indoctrination camp.
Too funny.
Dig into the history of the definition of "recession" though and you find that changing the definition is standard procedure. At one point I recall it was 4 quarters of negative GDP growth (meaning shrinking economic output). Then it based on consecutive quarters of negative growth RATE (meaning if the quarter over quarter rate of growth declined). I remember the definition changing around several election years ;-). So not a new trick.
I do recall the DNC making sure all candidates bragged about the "recession" of 2020 caused by the economic shutdowns of 2020. They needed badly to counter the economic good news of 2017 through to early 2020. Of course forcing factories to close wasn't the cause, it was the Trump economic policies! The "no recession" and "this is not inflation" denial doesn't seem to be working, the "what do you mean by 'sex'?" didn't seem to take either. Like with inflation, which the True Believers in The Party are certain is because of Trump's policies (abundant energy and widespread prosperity being clearly bad things), the recession will be spun first as a needed correction and then as Trump's doing. That's my prediction - y'all grade me later ;-)
Let me just give you an A now. Don't get cocky though - because everyone gets one.
What no more curves? Curves are probably rascist, straight lines are better. Wait... that's homophobic. Oh, forget it.
Last week I read that the ice cream treat formerly known as the "Chocotaco" has been discontinued following pressure from some lobby that labeled it "cultural appropriation". Whoa. So this led me to try and ascertain what culture was being appropriated and by whom. Which led to a bewildering collection of search results on cultural appropriation and extreme pigeon-holing and isolation. I called an old friend, who's family name happens to be Taco (a middle-aged Jew). Apparently the immigration officer at Elis Island culturally appropriated something when he chopped off the last 4 syllables of the family name.
Later that night at diner we pondered other food related cultural appropriations when we noticed "street tacos" on the menu along with burgers and fish and chip and other food items not normally considered Mexican cuisine. This is multi-cultural appropriate?
This led to ponder...the burger joint owned by the Korean family? What about a Pizza place owned by an Italian guy? (everyone knows Pizza originates in the US - either NY or Chicago depending on who you ask). It boggles the mind....
But really, anyone who politicizes a tasty ice cream treat is just broken.
The Economist has suffered a severe and well deserved downfall since Lynn Rothschild starting running it around 20 years ago. Look up her emails with Hillary--an abject partisan for whom no lie is too big just like the rest of these shysters.
Like the Murdoch boys running the WSJ. The news section is trying to be the NYT while the op-ed and a couple columnists try to keep the whole thing from tipping over into rampant socialist propaganda machine status...
I thought the rot had already set in with John Micklethwait. Point well taken though.
Seemed to completely lose the plot more recently, though, around the time the Agnelli family acquired it. Can read like the Guardian on a variety of issues.
And utterly appalling on every phase of Covid - the editors disgraced themselves.
I heard that Webster's just redefined "recession" as "a vaccine for racism".
Then I looked up "vaccine"...
Come on guys! I JUST got a breath after Jeff76's gem....really my side hurts!
The Economist…..that says it all. For readers who think they are clever, but not really.
Notice how they work it into every conversation.
It's always "worth the price" when other people pay for it.
Exactly.
Even better when we hate the people we think are going to pay for it.
💯
As many have said: "A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country".
I think The Economist is still suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
TDS broke the Economist, stick a fork in it
its only a short recession because all you useless eaters will be dead soon!
It continually fascinates me how truly accurate 1984 was...the first time I read it, in high school, I didn’t pay much attention to what was really going on with it. I remember my English teacher at that time said that in our lifetimes (meaning the students’ lifetimes) that we would all come face to face with virtually everything Orwell wrote about. She continually talked about government and media collusion, and how that would be “the downfall.” At the time, everyone just thought she was a crazy old teacher. In hindsight, however, as a 50 year old man...wow.
If you haven’t read it recently, I highly suggest you do. Quite scary in how accurate it is for our current time and state of affairs.
True dat. And Animal Farm also. I suggested that for a neighborhood book club selection. Received dirty looks all around.
His most important work though is neither.
"The Road to Wigan Pier" is. In that book, the message is not wrapped up in a fable or a metaphor; it almost burns itself into your brain like arclight in pitch black darkness.
I've never read it, now I shall. Thank you, Rikard!
Thank you right back. One thing I'd recommend to remember when reading it, it is a period piece. Don't want to spoil anything, just keep in mind when it was written.
Will do.
A "period piece" reminds me of an old chestnut from Art Linkletter, who loved to publish things kids said and wrote on tests in school.
"What is a period dress?" "A period dress is a dress covered in little dots."
Oh thanks...I'll look that up!
Whoa, your book club and mine (that I belonged to once, decades ago) are in different galaxies. They had a hostile takeover, gave up Laurie King for Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. Mmm, I'll pass. They can effing miss my gf carrot cake.
I thought about doing a book club substack. How fun would that be?!
BTW I think the evidence is abundant that Orwell was a time traveler. Probably your English teacher too ;-).
The cover story is that Orwell was a keen observer of history, and based his so-called fiction on the past. Plausible? or time travel? you decide..
I bought the hat and the teeshirt: Make Orwell Fiction Again.
(found it on amazon)
He was also devilishly handsome. ;)
With a sharp sense of humor!
It's for your own good! Now just lay back and enjoy it. Think of England, or do your grocery list in your head until it's over...
Heck yeah! Remember those old days when you'd buy a lottery ticket so you could daydream for a few minutes about all the cool frivolous stuff you'd get if you won...a new house for mom, a tractor with brakes, you know. Picked up a ticket last week and The Boss (wife) said "hey if we win we could afford another trip to the market!"
A pet peeve of mine (one of many): people who say "gas prices aren't high here, COMPARED TO [Sweden | Germany | wherever] !!!" as if we should be more like those absurd places. No, Bubba, we should be trying to fix the problem in THOSE PLACES TOO! DOH! We CAN and we SHOULD, but no these "intellectuals" can't abide the idea we could actually make the world BETTER instead of dragging it all down.
Remember during Obama when the articles would try to compare a gallon of gas to a gallon of white out, or other things like that? Because that’s totally comparable, I go through a gallon of white out regularly! It’s not that bad, people! The economy is booming! We told you it’s Booming!
White out is racist! No, it's anti-racist! It's...something.
I did a lot of it in my youth, you know those white out parties, when you're in college.
I gave it up when I turned 40, my liver was acting up. Now I might have a glass at a wedding.
I was told that a technical term that has been commonly used for decades to describe a list of things to be excluded, "black list", and the reciprocal term of things to be admitted (as in computer security), "white list", are no longer acceptable because they are not "inclusive language".
I suggested we replace "black list" with "excluded list". This was an acceptably "inclusive" term. Building the obvious irony of that, I pondered aloud "the specification of "inclusive language" is nothing more than a list of terms we can not include in technical documents" waiting for the laugh. The irony was lost on the wokedom.
They have no sense of irony, none, and little if any sense of humor.
I remember visiting the UK around the time of the Gulf War - 1991, was it? They had newly mandated language in the schools (I stayed with friends who had a small daughter). They had traded "blackboard" for "greenboard", and the old rhyme had become "Green sheep, green sheep, have you any wool?". Seen any green sheep lately? Absurd. I never thought such rubbish would come here. I was wrong.
Exactly.
So you understand. Compared to Europe and Ukraine and people who’s cars run on white out you don’t have it so bad. Stop complaining!
Didn't know you lived in California!
I was born here and have lived most of the last 63 years here.
But what's become of the state in the last 3 decades is not my fault!
It was a guess based on what you wrote. It must be so heartbreaking for you. It is for my man, who remembers the time when California was truly the Golden State. He was raised in San Bernardino when it was nothing but olive and orange groves. A paradise. I am from Paradise (Hawai'i) and the changes there are such that I can barely go back for a visit. It too is heartbreaking. I have been in CA for thirty years and I've seen a lot of changes, not one of them for the better.
We’ll own nothing!
And we’ll be happy about it!
*Happy currently out of stock
They dropped the "happy" part now.
You mean the groceries we wish were available?
any day now the ama will be coming out with it's opinion; "the silver linings of myocarditis"
These people...... gatito bueno. boggles the mind.
We are living in scary clown times
Inflation is good for me? nope. and neither is ukraine. nor the hopelessly laughable 'climate change'. nor evs. nor basically ANY thing else pushed by entrenched meander media.
You have suffered too much prosperity, hope, and freedom.
Thank goodness that we have such wise and benevolent leaders now to fix all that...
shouldn't take much longer to eradicate all those things.