I live in Germany and I can confirm that we have reached peak retard and are going even futher into the stratosphere.... I have a business trip tomorrow and I need to do a 1100km round trip in one day plus my meetings as I AM NOT ALLOWED TO STAY OVERNIGHT IN A HOTEL.
More like 180 years ago. This forced 700 Lutherans to sail to the US.
"Old Lutherans were originally German Lutherans in the Kingdom of Prussia, notably in the Province of Silesia, who refused to join the Prussian Union of churches in the 1830s and 1840s. Prussia's king Frederick William III was determined to unify the Protestant churches, to homogenize their liturgy, organization and even their architecture. The main effect was that the government of Prussia had full control over church affairs, with the king recognized as the leading bishop."
Supply chains deliberately shattered. National economies deliberately wrecked. Societies deliberately divided. Borders deliberately opened to invasion. Media deliberately misinforming. Medicine deliberately corrupted.
Malice afore thought. Globally executed.
Yeah. We’re getting thrashed. And it’s only beginning.
If everyone on this blog has a different idea of what "deliberately" means in this situation, that would probably be a good area of (careful) research.
You're always right on, but your last few lines --authoritarian fascism becomes its own constituency -- yes. Powerful and true. Nothing is clearer than "shots don't protect against omicron, but get your jab!" and "masks don't work, sorry ... but masks must be worn at all times." And so many people do not see it.
"It will not release its grip when it is wrong, it will tighten it" has been going on since the beginning--clearly the tail wagging the dog and a very clear indication that something much bigger is in the works. Even if the science and facts don't compute, they'll still plow their way through. This is still the most clear indicator that a much more ominous problem is afoot.
Ah, no. The Climate Change Wolf is in the wings, licking its chops. And even that isn't the full endgame, I'm sure. Anyway, never say the worst is here. It can make us too complacent. Or as Edgar says in "King Lear," "The worst is not, so long as we can say 'This is the worst.'"
This is why I get such a hoot reading all the naive people arguing online about 2022 and 2024 like any of that matters. The gangsters aren't giving up anything to mere elected officials.
Pondering absurdity topologies, often mistaken by "coincidences", this brings to mind the following passage of "Dead Funny - Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany" by Rudolph Herzog, Chapetr IV "Humor and Persecution", on the Nazis first national boycott of Jewish shops, doctors and lawyers, staged April 1st 1933:
"Jewish Germans came up with a number of jokes revolving around the boycott, the first nationwide anti-Semitic initiative carried out by the Nazi government.
One running theme—hardly a surprise—was the arbitrary nature of this state coercion.
Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much aware of the boycott’s inherent absurdity:
«A city on the Rhine during the boycott: SA men stand in front of Jewish businesses and “warn” passers-by against entering them.
Nonetheless, a woman tries to go into a knitting shop.
An SA man stops her and says, “Hey, you. Stay outside. That’s a Jewish shop!”
“So?” replies the woman. “I’m Jewish myself.”
The SA man pushes her back. “Anyone can say that!”»
The punch line played on the fact that it was usually impossible to tell the difference between gentile and Jewish Germans.
The boycott made it clear that the Nazis were serious about their promise to drive even fully assimilated Jews out of German society.
Germany’s relatively small Jewish minority was made into a magnet for racist resentments that were deeply anchored in the German social core.
In the copious propaganda that accompanied the boycott, Jews were made the scapegoats, however improbably, for a whole range of social ills, though in many rural regions of Germany there were no Jews at all—a fact that give rise to the following joke:
«Julius Streicher, the spokesman for the anti-Jewish boycott, received a telegram from a small town in northern Germany.
It read: “Send Jews immediately—stop—otherwise boycott impossible.”»
The boycott was the first of what soon seemed an endless series of anti-Jewish measures, minutely described in the diaries of Viktor Klemperer and other chroniclers of the time.
This is what infuriates me. When anyone points out the segregation, mandates and vaccine passports are just how the Holocaust started they are smeared and attacked for “trivializing” the Holocaust—and forced to apologize—like RFK, Jr. just was. I’m Jewish and I agree with everything he said at the rally in D.C. There is nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide. No way to earn a living.
Yup. Been saying since April 2020: you don't go to sleep one night in a democratic republic then wake up the next morning with troops goosestepping down the street.
I am currently reading Eric Metaxas' outstanding biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The discussion of the Nazis' attempt to co-opt and ultimately replace Christianity with a form of state paganism is disturbing in that so many within the church were willing to go along with it. So many parallels with our current levels of absurdity.
Interestingly, I came across the below linked article from 2018 in the NY Times by Ross Douthat heralding the possibility of a post-Christian form of paganism in the United States. COVID, with its dogma, rites, symbolism, and sacraments arguably has filled that post-Christian pagan void. Fauci is the pontifex maximus to borrow Douthat's phrase. Physical distancing, mask wearing, multiple rounds of vaccination, and condemnation of the unvaccinated as heretics are the rituals.
Look at how Fauci's pronouncements are reported in mainstream Lefty idiot farm sites like Yahoo. Note how 1) the focus is on the personality not the agency as a whole ("Dr. Fauci says" along side authoritative photos of him in front of a microphone); 2) the articles are utterly unquestioning--Yahoo is there as a relay device, never to probe or question a given pronouncement; 3) there is no analysis or comparison with past pronouncements ("this is what our Leader says now here, today"); 4) dissenters are tagged with labels ("right wing critics" "a handful of dissenting physicians" "anti vaxxers" or the like).
It's a pagan cult. It really is. As Hemingway said, "It's sort of what we have. Instead of God."
The pretense of journalism was a thing, as long as you didn't poke the wrong things. Now even the pretense is gone, it's just a charade 24/7.
That's how you know the present game has a short-term horizon. This is not a game where you expect to keep seeing the audience for decades, under the confines of the same system.
Because pagans are basically cats. We aren't good at following societal dictates or religious dogmas. We aren't good at following. Period. Herding pagans is just like herding cats.
This is also why we haven't taken over the world. We're impossible to organize. 🤣
I don't know. Watching the zombified mask horde bearing similar expressions (judging by their eyes, of course) parading in perfect physically distanced cadence through Costco, I would argue that they are being herded by something.
In his book "Three men the Bummel", author Jerome K. Jerome remarked :-
"The German citizen is a soldier, and the policeman is his officer. The policeman directs him where in the street to walk, and how fast to walk. At the end of each bridge stands a policeman to tell the German how to cross it. Were there no policeman there, he would probably sit down and wait till the river had passed by. At the railway station the policeman locks him up in the waiting-room, where he can do no harm to himself. When the proper time arrives, he fetches him out and hands him over to the guard of the train, who is only a policeman in another uniform. The guard tells him where to sit in the train, and when to get out, and sees that he does get out. In Germany you take no responsibility upon yourself whatever. Everything is done for you, and done well."
And in the USA, we have the people who always want The Government to "do something" whenever there's a problem that individuals could probably fix faster, cheaper, and more effectively. So The Government comes in and does nothing except make more regulations that have no effect on the problem except to make two or three more problems.
Gosh, that sounds like California to me! I, personally, couldn't take it. I was getting into arguments and near fights just over the masks and disbelief in the myth making. I left. Moved to Mexico where they have no real infrastructure and enforcement of much of anything. I have no illusions of safety but at least I have a bit of distance and time. Funny thing is, I AM German. Just not a very good one.
Another book to read is by Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
I forgot to add that my wife is German (though she lives in the US now). The society is indeed as Jake Bullet describes, almost four square that way with a slight amount of "dissent." But they value order above all else. Look where it got them.
I have a long time friend who was married to a German and for a time, they lived in Germany. The adherence to rules and order drove her batty. She described seeing a person standing on a totally deserted street corner late at night. The light was red, and the person didn't cross the street until it turned green.
Some of them did, my old landlady in Kansas City did, she was part of the Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She shot ten Germans point blank in the eye to get their Schmeisser machine pistols, then her group used those Schmeissers to shoot a lot more Germans and get their guns. She and her buddies shot up an entire formation of Waffen SS. The Germans wound up divebombing the place until the rubble was no more than a yard high and was too hot to touch - you'd get burned. They got out through the sewers. Not bad for a 36 year old housewife, eh? And she told me this in German, serving me milk and homemade cookies when I went to pay the rent...
She apparently did have a reputation... but I always got along fine. Too bad the Holocaust Museum people interviewed her in English, they missed a lot of details... She also survived Auschwitz, a year of Russian occupation, made it to Israel in time to be amongst the group which dynamited the King David Hotel, British HQ in Palestine... very familiar with automatic weapons.
Then there is the story in the US where two patients one waiting for a heart transplant and the other needing a kidney transplant were taken off the list for not getting jabbed. This is the ‘new insanity’ of our society.
Yep, I'm waiting for the doctors to withhold abortions for those women who haven't been vaccinated. Wouldn't that highlight for the leftists the evil of withholding transplants and other treatments based on arbitrary and evil mandates? One would think so... which is why we won't see that happen. Abortions are sacrosanct.
The Absurdity of Fascism. At some point it reaches comedy and we literally have to laugh as that is our potent weapon. Fascists, even in their greatest absurdity, have no humour. They must be taken seriously to be effective. Which is why I love you, gato. Your humour is helping us stay sane!!
The original film version of "To Be or Not To Be", (which Mel Brooks re-made in the 1980s, and is one of his best films in my opinion) -- directed by German émigré Ernst Lubitsch (who also adapted the screenplay from a story by another European émigré -- Hungarian) -- was released in FEBRUARY 1942. We (the US, I mean) were less than a month out from landing our first forces in Europe and we were simultaneously treating the Nazis with mockery. Laughing at them in defiance; ridiculing their stupidity. It's a potent weapon.
“He was a very different and distasteful type … obviously, second-rate, who poured forth all the cheap and shoddy propaganda.… We could get nowhere with him because to every question we asked, there came a kind of gramophone record reply.”
right now at the top of the hour the little fascists in our “parliament” are discussing vaccine mandate. the german surpreme court unmasked themselves already a little while ago in regards to their role of defense: they’re gonna do nothing.
germans don’t like to hear it because they’re in two cults now and that’s hard to admit: the cult of guilt — the holocaust is holy — and the cult of covid. the problem is, now: you can only have one god.
my german fellows are such unbelievable dick heads i would not make a move would they all be on the brink of great suffering. i was running around giving flyers early on and what did they do in the country of goethe and einstein?
My bullshit detector klaxon has been ringing pretty much nonstop since the beginning of this dangerous farce.
The nonsensical absurdity is deliberate. How can it not be?
For me, perhaps the most glaring example is that one must face-diaper up when walking to one's restaurant table but can diaper down once seated. To this day here in the People's Republic of Silicon Valley eateries enforce this preposterous practice and people comply.
But of course, there are more.
Just this chilly, foggy morning driving my son to school entire families are walking by the side of the road, all masked up. Mommy and daddy giving the kids a ludicrous life lesson.
People in their cars, alone, double diapered.
A couple months ago I took an Uber to the airport. The driver had affixed a plastic barrier with duct tape between the front and rear seats. But had cut a hole in the middle so he could speak with his passenger(s) and be understood through the mask and the barrier!
I feel like I am living in some sort of insane clown world full of hysterical hypochondriacs, most of whom insist that everyone else engage in the same pathological behavior.
Can this benighted barbarian horde be brought back from madness?
If not, I truly fear for the future.
"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
This is maybe the only post of you, which I will not like. That's because I live in Germany and I hate it. You are f****** right. Need to leave the country ASAP.
I go to protests on a weekly basis but the politicians are dead set to push this apartheid and ze vakziiins on us all. The saddest thing is that apparently 60% of the Germans agree - who knows if that's really the case but it certainly feels like it is.
So sad that US is unreachable for me now in terms of legal emigration.
The official propaganda will always say that the majority goes along with the program. It's herding, herding people over the cliff. The government is homicidal and must be overthrown - or else it will kill the people off.
Sorry, it was a take-off on a slogan used by the Nazis. Above the entrance to some extermination camps they posted the phrase "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" (WORK WILL SET YOU FREE).
"Impfung" is the German word for "inoculation" or "vaccination".
Interesting/chilling to note that last year in Düsseldorf, the Rheinturm was lit up with the phrase "Impfen = Freiheit" (vaccination = freedom):
Thank-you very much! I had seen the "Impfen = Freiheit" (vaccination = freedom)" quote in a substack before. My German is very limited. (As is my Spanish and French.) I can pick out words here and there. Is impfung/impfen a verb? Therefore, the difference in spelling/pronunciation/action/meaning?
I was so stunned when I first saw a post showing the tower with those words, that I assumed it was a fabrication. So I looked it up, and discovered that it actually happened, which revealed to me the extent of the psychosis in Germany. The fact that the number of people needed to green-light that idea thought it was a good one is truly disturbing.
Again, thank-you very much! --- I agree, I'm appalled at how several countries around the world are acting. Germany doing it, breaks my heart. --- I have family roots in Germany (far back, early 1800s) on both maternal and fraternal sides. I have always identified with Germany because of it. English, too, on my fraternal side, but that ain't cool. 😉
I generally don't like associations of Germans with their fascist past, but here it is done with some humour (and it is 2022 not 2016), but most importantly the stakes are very high, and opponents of freedom are not playing fair at all, so this matches back. Mr Global has enlisted Merkel among his cult and Merkel and her followers, current administration, are acting in ways that call for this kind of response especially given that the cult is very powerful and has caused great harm.
I'm sure the CogDis Brigade has already warmed up a long-and-frothing or terse-and-smug ironclad dismissal of all observed contradictions, rhetorically unassailable while equally devoid of factual content, complete with a personal insult about the intelligence, morals, or belief system of anyone disagreeing.
There's no point in debating or discussing anything with anyone anymore. Just wait for when the broken robots start attacking instead of talking.
All the gains of the past few weeks appear to be crumbling before my eyes. We've come out the other side to where a pretense of accuracy isn't even there anymore.
I don't see how civilization survives this, long term.
That's right--they really don't care that the narrative has crumbled. There isn't even too much attempt to do damage control. It's full speed ahead. Biden just banned monoclonal antibodies, sending a clear message that along with banning ivermectin and HCQ, they simply want more people to die.
This insanity reminds me very much of cult-classic comedy show Brass Eye:
"Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact."
And to paraphrase:
"If you plot 'number of government anti-Covid measures' against 'what makes people stupid' versus 'intelligence of either party', the pattern is so unreadable that you might as well just draw a chain of PCR tests on sticks. And if you do that, an interesting thing happens: the word 'bullshit' starts flashing."
"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."
Here in WA state the regime just performed the ritual humiliation of local legend, GOAT NBA point guard John Stockton for refusing to mask up for the Gonzaga games. For rejecting "the science". His 30 year standing season tickets have been revoked.
Meanwhile every county in the state is in the "red zone" for covid transmission. That's where the science got us. But it's clearly not about that, it's about shaming the non believers.
This makes sense. In WA you are not exactly "Ground Zero" for the promotion of the narrative but are an important secondary source after Silicon Valley. Gates and Bezos are Seattle critters, with power comparable to Google. The initial target was New York for these reasons- the money capital of the world, public influence (like the most potent social media "influencer", LA & Hollywood also important and similar), proper northern hemisphere respiratory virus dynamics, HQ of news media.
With the concentration of money and power in the Seattle area, why would you expect your legislature not to be "owned?"
thats such a cute outfit, I just adopted two grey kittens and I would love to dress them up as obergruppengatos, where do I get a couple of these outfits?
Would that the Karens were silent. They are in full-blown support of mandates, lockdowns, driving their cars by themselves safely masked, agitating for exclusion of the "UnVaxxed" from medical treatment (excepting experimental chemotherapy), and Covid Concentration Camps.
The vaccines don't work to control the virus(es), but they will work to control population, via premature death and sterilization. Exponential growth is a thing and so is resource depletion. Do The Math... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZA9Hnp3aV4
"...A peaceful world, a healthy world, a breathable world, a clean world, a fair world: each should be regarded as a global public good whose provision depends on our ability to cooperate globally. Such a pressing necessity was made obvious with COVID-19: no global state exists to deliver a vaccine to the entire world, so the effort to vaccinate as many people as possible falls upon international organizations whose power is constrained by competing national interests and a patchwork of fragmented agreements and initiatives negotiated between 200 sovereign states. It doesn’t work. On 21 November 2021, the lack of global cooperation and the incessant bickering about burden sharing meant that only 54.7% of the world population was vaccinated. At the time of writing, the emergence and identification of the Omicron variant might prove to be a stark consequence of this failing...."
“...NZE2050 concern the conversion from fossil fuels to renewable energy, (...) [because they are not possible] in poor countries ... within the 30-year timeframe needed to address the climate challenge. (...) these countries need requisite energy to build their nations and to provide basic needs for their large unserved populations This cannot be circumvented or ‘leapfrogged’ by the technology-based methods inherent in NZE2050 – if global minority countries cannot implement CO2-reducing tech on a large scale, how could global majority countries achieve this?”
Answer: A vast forced transfer of wealth from developed countries to the undeveloped to build ineffective, virtue signalling wind & solar farms. Goal achieved: More poverty for the Western Proletariat and continued poverty for citizens in developing nations, i.e. a World Neo-Feudal corporate fascist state.
I vascilate between thinking it’s all over due to political ramifications (eg UK ending mandates) and thinking “they” will ramp it up due to sunk political costs and the unending desire for societal control. Gato seems to think it’s the latter. Scary.
Germany has killed ~70,000 people already by shutting down most of its zero CO2 Nuclear power plants, replacing them with dirty coal, according to epidemiological data. That's almost as much as their 90,000 corona deaths and the coal deaths will continue long after corona and get worse due to more nuclear shutdowns. That doesn't count their constantly hyped climate change deaths that they CLAIM to care so much about.
Not shutting down the nuclear power costs nothing, easy-peasy, saving lives by just doing nothing. So they justify spending $trillions in debt money, shutting down an economy, draconian lockdowns, police state tactics, massive unemployment, supply shortages & economic deprivation in order to save ~23,000 extra covid deaths (vs Sweden low intervention method). Those are deaths largely of the very old, very sick or very old & sick vs coal pollution kills by lung disease, cardiovascular disease and cancers, a younger, healthier population. Now how is that rational?
The Truth About Safety of mRNA Vaccines Found in The European Medicines Agency's Document Titled "Comirnaty (COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine) Risk Management Plan"
mRNA "Vaccines" Are Gene Therapy. May cause Undesirable Side Effects That Could Delay Or Prevent Their Regulatory Approval According To BioNTech SEC Filing
The Truth About "Safe and Effective" mRNA "Vaccines" Hidden In Plain Sight
We don't need to play that game in Canada, here it's vaccine only. Two doses now, three doses later but we won't say when so you had better get it now.
I suppose that's what Germany will move on to in time, it will seem like a more rational thing to do. Besides, you know, stopping this madness once and for all.
Fascist tendencies never disappear from places where they are ingrained. They simply recede for a while, awaiting an opportune time to resurface. I like to think that, with sufficient perseverance, the end result is the “reward” ultimately realized by Col Landa.
I think very important understand the nature of the deception. As most or even all are really convinced of what they are doing. And I'm sure was similar WWII Germany.
- Theres a human capacity for this.
- There are erroneous ideas woven into our understanding. Starting a very long time ago.
- Plus good old fashioned disregard for others. And overriding concern for me me me.
Very good to understand this general failing, rather than:
- imagine a small group controlling all events, or
- completely write off anyone who is going along with this, or increasingly start to see them as essentially evil.
I live in Germany and I can confirm that we have reached peak retard and are going even futher into the stratosphere.... I have a business trip tomorrow and I need to do a 1100km round trip in one day plus my meetings as I AM NOT ALLOWED TO STAY OVERNIGHT IN A HOTEL.
This is insane. Check out my blog if you want
And just like 80 years ago...in Italy is about the same
More like 180 years ago. This forced 700 Lutherans to sail to the US.
"Old Lutherans were originally German Lutherans in the Kingdom of Prussia, notably in the Province of Silesia, who refused to join the Prussian Union of churches in the 1830s and 1840s. Prussia's king Frederick William III was determined to unify the Protestant churches, to homogenize their liturgy, organization and even their architecture. The main effect was that the government of Prussia had full control over church affairs, with the king recognized as the leading bishop."
Because you are unvaccinated?
No, because he refuses to wear pants.
Ha! I'm sure there's a German hotel somehwere where pants are optional.
Except on trouserless Wednesdays 😂
Oh thank heavens! I thought it was because he was black.
🤦♀️😄
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try an air B&B - a rented room, not a hotel. 1100 km is insane. (or take a tent and sleep rough)
Checking it out as we speak. Please return the favor - danke/merci/obrigado etc
But you're allowed on the plane?
You're hiding unvaccinated people under the floorboards, aren't you?
That really made me laugh. Thank you!
Supply chains deliberately shattered. National economies deliberately wrecked. Societies deliberately divided. Borders deliberately opened to invasion. Media deliberately misinforming. Medicine deliberately corrupted.
Malice afore thought. Globally executed.
Yeah. We’re getting thrashed. And it’s only beginning.
Strap in, mi amigos. Turbulence.
If everyone on this blog has a different idea of what "deliberately" means in this situation, that would probably be a good area of (careful) research.
Like determining what everyone’s definition of “is” is?
You're always right on, but your last few lines --authoritarian fascism becomes its own constituency -- yes. Powerful and true. Nothing is clearer than "shots don't protect against omicron, but get your jab!" and "masks don't work, sorry ... but masks must be worn at all times." And so many people do not see it.
Apparently, suspension of disbelief is a very important part of The Science.
Well said. Correcting your typo: The Science™
They live in their own little Twilight Zone and they are trying to force everyone else to live there too.
"It will not release its grip when it is wrong, it will tighten it" has been going on since the beginning--clearly the tail wagging the dog and a very clear indication that something much bigger is in the works. Even if the science and facts don't compute, they'll still plow their way through. This is still the most clear indicator that a much more ominous problem is afoot.
It’s past the ominous stage. The storm is here. The war is on. Now it is just a matter of intensity.
Ah, no. The Climate Change Wolf is in the wings, licking its chops. And even that isn't the full endgame, I'm sure. Anyway, never say the worst is here. It can make us too complacent. Or as Edgar says in "King Lear," "The worst is not, so long as we can say 'This is the worst.'"
This is why I get such a hoot reading all the naive people arguing online about 2022 and 2024 like any of that matters. The gangsters aren't giving up anything to mere elected officials.
Pondering absurdity topologies, often mistaken by "coincidences", this brings to mind the following passage of "Dead Funny - Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany" by Rudolph Herzog, Chapetr IV "Humor and Persecution", on the Nazis first national boycott of Jewish shops, doctors and lawyers, staged April 1st 1933:
"Jewish Germans came up with a number of jokes revolving around the boycott, the first nationwide anti-Semitic initiative carried out by the Nazi government.
One running theme—hardly a surprise—was the arbitrary nature of this state coercion.
Despite the considerable horror they had felt when the SA men were bellowing crude anti-Semitic slogans, in retrospect the joke-tellers were very much aware of the boycott’s inherent absurdity:
«A city on the Rhine during the boycott: SA men stand in front of Jewish businesses and “warn” passers-by against entering them.
Nonetheless, a woman tries to go into a knitting shop.
An SA man stops her and says, “Hey, you. Stay outside. That’s a Jewish shop!”
“So?” replies the woman. “I’m Jewish myself.”
The SA man pushes her back. “Anyone can say that!”»
The punch line played on the fact that it was usually impossible to tell the difference between gentile and Jewish Germans.
The boycott made it clear that the Nazis were serious about their promise to drive even fully assimilated Jews out of German society.
Germany’s relatively small Jewish minority was made into a magnet for racist resentments that were deeply anchored in the German social core.
In the copious propaganda that accompanied the boycott, Jews were made the scapegoats, however improbably, for a whole range of social ills, though in many rural regions of Germany there were no Jews at all—a fact that give rise to the following joke:
«Julius Streicher, the spokesman for the anti-Jewish boycott, received a telegram from a small town in northern Germany.
It read: “Send Jews immediately—stop—otherwise boycott impossible.”»
The boycott was the first of what soon seemed an endless series of anti-Jewish measures, minutely described in the diaries of Viktor Klemperer and other chroniclers of the time.
The Third Reich did not begin with Auschwitz."
Q.E.D.
This is what infuriates me. When anyone points out the segregation, mandates and vaccine passports are just how the Holocaust started they are smeared and attacked for “trivializing” the Holocaust—and forced to apologize—like RFK, Jr. just was. I’m Jewish and I agree with everything he said at the rally in D.C. There is nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide. No way to earn a living.
Was just thinking the same thing. RFK Jr. shouldn't have apologized because he's absolutely correct.
Yup. Been saying since April 2020: you don't go to sleep one night in a democratic republic then wake up the next morning with troops goosestepping down the street.
I am currently reading Eric Metaxas' outstanding biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The discussion of the Nazis' attempt to co-opt and ultimately replace Christianity with a form of state paganism is disturbing in that so many within the church were willing to go along with it. So many parallels with our current levels of absurdity.
I read the Bonhoeffer biography a few years ago and loved it.
What a brave man in the face of evil.
Little did I know it would be relevant today.
We now understand.......
Interestingly, I came across the below linked article from 2018 in the NY Times by Ross Douthat heralding the possibility of a post-Christian form of paganism in the United States. COVID, with its dogma, rites, symbolism, and sacraments arguably has filled that post-Christian pagan void. Fauci is the pontifex maximus to borrow Douthat's phrase. Physical distancing, mask wearing, multiple rounds of vaccination, and condemnation of the unvaccinated as heretics are the rituals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/opinion/christianity-paganism-america.html
Look at how Fauci's pronouncements are reported in mainstream Lefty idiot farm sites like Yahoo. Note how 1) the focus is on the personality not the agency as a whole ("Dr. Fauci says" along side authoritative photos of him in front of a microphone); 2) the articles are utterly unquestioning--Yahoo is there as a relay device, never to probe or question a given pronouncement; 3) there is no analysis or comparison with past pronouncements ("this is what our Leader says now here, today"); 4) dissenters are tagged with labels ("right wing critics" "a handful of dissenting physicians" "anti vaxxers" or the like).
It's a pagan cult. It really is. As Hemingway said, "It's sort of what we have. Instead of God."
Remember when ‘journalism’ was actually a thing?
Unfortunately I don’t.
The pretense of journalism was a thing, as long as you didn't poke the wrong things. Now even the pretense is gone, it's just a charade 24/7.
That's how you know the present game has a short-term horizon. This is not a game where you expect to keep seeing the audience for decades, under the confines of the same system.
Well, I remember when it still felt it had to maintain a facade.
It seems like roughly 30% of us do. Guess that's not quite the tipping point on this one.
I still see COVID-ism as a form of monotheism.
Because pagans are basically cats. We aren't good at following societal dictates or religious dogmas. We aren't good at following. Period. Herding pagans is just like herding cats.
This is also why we haven't taken over the world. We're impossible to organize. 🤣
I don't know. Watching the zombified mask horde bearing similar expressions (judging by their eyes, of course) parading in perfect physically distanced cadence through Costco, I would argue that they are being herded by something.
Yes. Just not pagan gods. A State god would be monotheism IMHO.
As my Dad once said Germans are great people but if someone blows a bugle it all goes to hell.
In his book "Three men the Bummel", author Jerome K. Jerome remarked :-
"The German citizen is a soldier, and the policeman is his officer. The policeman directs him where in the street to walk, and how fast to walk. At the end of each bridge stands a policeman to tell the German how to cross it. Were there no policeman there, he would probably sit down and wait till the river had passed by. At the railway station the policeman locks him up in the waiting-room, where he can do no harm to himself. When the proper time arrives, he fetches him out and hands him over to the guard of the train, who is only a policeman in another uniform. The guard tells him where to sit in the train, and when to get out, and sees that he does get out. In Germany you take no responsibility upon yourself whatever. Everything is done for you, and done well."
And in the USA, we have the people who always want The Government to "do something" whenever there's a problem that individuals could probably fix faster, cheaper, and more effectively. So The Government comes in and does nothing except make more regulations that have no effect on the problem except to make two or three more problems.
Gosh, that sounds like California to me! I, personally, couldn't take it. I was getting into arguments and near fights just over the masks and disbelief in the myth making. I left. Moved to Mexico where they have no real infrastructure and enforcement of much of anything. I have no illusions of safety but at least I have a bit of distance and time. Funny thing is, I AM German. Just not a very good one.
Another book to read is by Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
What a frightening society.
I forgot to add that my wife is German (though she lives in the US now). The society is indeed as Jake Bullet describes, almost four square that way with a slight amount of "dissent." But they value order above all else. Look where it got them.
It certainly explains why their primary instinct is authoritarian.
I have a long time friend who was married to a German and for a time, they lived in Germany. The adherence to rules and order drove her batty. She described seeing a person standing on a totally deserted street corner late at night. The light was red, and the person didn't cross the street until it turned green.
My dad used to say ( and at the time I was horrified):
“ if every jewish person would have picked up a gun and used it , the outcome might have been different.”
Evil does exist and we all have hard choices ahead….
PS. I pray a lot !
Some of them did, my old landlady in Kansas City did, she was part of the Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She shot ten Germans point blank in the eye to get their Schmeisser machine pistols, then her group used those Schmeissers to shoot a lot more Germans and get their guns. She and her buddies shot up an entire formation of Waffen SS. The Germans wound up divebombing the place until the rubble was no more than a yard high and was too hot to touch - you'd get burned. They got out through the sewers. Not bad for a 36 year old housewife, eh? And she told me this in German, serving me milk and homemade cookies when I went to pay the rent...
Guess that let you know how missing a rent payment might go. Lol!
She apparently did have a reputation... but I always got along fine. Too bad the Holocaust Museum people interviewed her in English, they missed a lot of details... She also survived Auschwitz, a year of Russian occupation, made it to Israel in time to be amongst the group which dynamited the King David Hotel, British HQ in Palestine... very familiar with automatic weapons.
What a fantastic story! Good on her!!!
This woman is my new hero. Such guts. I admire her greatly.
American here. Lived in Germany for years. Passport shows 70 visits lifetime (I'm old.)
I have German friends, that I love and respect.
Your dad was right. I just don't understand how this happens.
I’m German Chinese….imagine how I was raised! Jk
My mom (the German) was a rebel. My parents ended up in Canada….Communist Canada now. Fitting end.
I'm glad your mom was a rebel. I wish my Mom had been one. Maybe I would feel better about being one.
"It will not release its grip when it is wrong, it will tighten it.".....Just so frightening! WTF do we have to do to get these people to go away!
Yes well worded last section that should recirculate many places.
It's pretty obvious, and it's unpleasant, it will take fighting and killing. "When you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." - Curtis LeMay
I don't know that they will.
I would like to know too
Then there is the story in the US where two patients one waiting for a heart transplant and the other needing a kidney transplant were taken off the list for not getting jabbed. This is the ‘new insanity’ of our society.
Not insanity. Malevolence.
Please forgive my pedantic comment, but we’re seeing a campaign of evil.
Funny how just a few short years ago, the left was claiming health care was a right. What they meant was "..........as long as you agree with us."
Yep, I'm waiting for the doctors to withhold abortions for those women who haven't been vaccinated. Wouldn't that highlight for the leftists the evil of withholding transplants and other treatments based on arbitrary and evil mandates? One would think so... which is why we won't see that happen. Abortions are sacrosanct.
I'm waiting for non-consensual mandatory abortions :/
Yep. Just like the Chinese. When your body is no longer yours to decide what to do with, things get ugly quickly.
Apparently the problem with Nazis experimenting on the Jews is that they weren't experimenting on EVERYBODY.
Well, I think we are finding out that if you have been jabbed, you are also likely to be sterile...
The Absurdity of Fascism. At some point it reaches comedy and we literally have to laugh as that is our potent weapon. Fascists, even in their greatest absurdity, have no humour. They must be taken seriously to be effective. Which is why I love you, gato. Your humour is helping us stay sane!!
The original film version of "To Be or Not To Be", (which Mel Brooks re-made in the 1980s, and is one of his best films in my opinion) -- directed by German émigré Ernst Lubitsch (who also adapted the screenplay from a story by another European émigré -- Hungarian) -- was released in FEBRUARY 1942. We (the US, I mean) were less than a month out from landing our first forces in Europe and we were simultaneously treating the Nazis with mockery. Laughing at them in defiance; ridiculing their stupidity. It's a potent weapon.
https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1486318711946588161?cxt=HHwWgsC9icy_u6ApAAAA
I love J.P. and Joe.
It see if I can find both films. Thanks for the recommendation.
The tangled science graphic is just priceless. Thank you for all of your wonderful posts, bad cat!
“He was a very different and distasteful type … obviously, second-rate, who poured forth all the cheap and shoddy propaganda.… We could get nowhere with him because to every question we asked, there came a kind of gramophone record reply.”
—“Darkness over Germany,” Amy Buller
Sounds like Fauci.
WEF logic through and through.
right now at the top of the hour the little fascists in our “parliament” are discussing vaccine mandate. the german surpreme court unmasked themselves already a little while ago in regards to their role of defense: they’re gonna do nothing.
germans don’t like to hear it because they’re in two cults now and that’s hard to admit: the cult of guilt — the holocaust is holy — and the cult of covid. the problem is, now: you can only have one god.
my german fellows are such unbelievable dick heads i would not make a move would they all be on the brink of great suffering. i was running around giving flyers early on and what did they do in the country of goethe and einstein?
nothing. piss around.
Seems like some don’t like playing the game anymore.
Gates, Fauci, and Daszak charged with Genocide in International Criminal Court Filing
https://theagingviking.substack.com/p/read-this-before-that-booster-shot
When single-minded nonsense meets German tenacity and documented efficiency you can expect comedy (unless you are living here)
My bullshit detector klaxon has been ringing pretty much nonstop since the beginning of this dangerous farce.
The nonsensical absurdity is deliberate. How can it not be?
For me, perhaps the most glaring example is that one must face-diaper up when walking to one's restaurant table but can diaper down once seated. To this day here in the People's Republic of Silicon Valley eateries enforce this preposterous practice and people comply.
But of course, there are more.
Just this chilly, foggy morning driving my son to school entire families are walking by the side of the road, all masked up. Mommy and daddy giving the kids a ludicrous life lesson.
People in their cars, alone, double diapered.
A couple months ago I took an Uber to the airport. The driver had affixed a plastic barrier with duct tape between the front and rear seats. But had cut a hole in the middle so he could speak with his passenger(s) and be understood through the mask and the barrier!
I feel like I am living in some sort of insane clown world full of hysterical hypochondriacs, most of whom insist that everyone else engage in the same pathological behavior.
Can this benighted barbarian horde be brought back from madness?
If not, I truly fear for the future.
"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
~ Theodore Dalrymple
What kind of hammer does a cat use for hitting nails squarely on the head?
A claw hammer, of course.
Thanks for the straight shooting, Gato.
And just to conclude:
“You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!” 🎸 🎶
This is maybe the only post of you, which I will not like. That's because I live in Germany and I hate it. You are f****** right. Need to leave the country ASAP.
I go to protests on a weekly basis but the politicians are dead set to push this apartheid and ze vakziiins on us all. The saddest thing is that apparently 60% of the Germans agree - who knows if that's really the case but it certainly feels like it is.
So sad that US is unreachable for me now in terms of legal emigration.
Legal immigration? Does anyone come in that way any more? You get way more benefits if you just swim the river.
Does not apply to white people. Check your privilege.
Put on blackface like Justin Trudeau. Say you identify as a black from Haiti.
am I white enough as south-east european ? It's a close call I guess ...
The official propaganda will always say that the majority goes along with the program. It's herding, herding people over the cliff. The government is homicidal and must be overthrown - or else it will kill the people off.
Impfung macht frei.
impfung uber alles.
California über alles.
Because it's cat-chy, like virus.
or perhaps because you too are a DK's fan?
Not to ruin the party but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq0wEgvl75I
Impfung? That word I don't know. Make free, I got.
Sorry, it was a take-off on a slogan used by the Nazis. Above the entrance to some extermination camps they posted the phrase "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" (WORK WILL SET YOU FREE).
"Impfung" is the German word for "inoculation" or "vaccination".
Interesting/chilling to note that last year in Düsseldorf, the Rheinturm was lit up with the phrase "Impfen = Freiheit" (vaccination = freedom):
https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1372147007826067462
Thank-you very much! I had seen the "Impfen = Freiheit" (vaccination = freedom)" quote in a substack before. My German is very limited. (As is my Spanish and French.) I can pick out words here and there. Is impfung/impfen a verb? Therefore, the difference in spelling/pronunciation/action/meaning?
Impfen is the verb, Impfung the noun.
I was so stunned when I first saw a post showing the tower with those words, that I assumed it was a fabrication. So I looked it up, and discovered that it actually happened, which revealed to me the extent of the psychosis in Germany. The fact that the number of people needed to green-light that idea thought it was a good one is truly disturbing.
Again, thank-you very much! --- I agree, I'm appalled at how several countries around the world are acting. Germany doing it, breaks my heart. --- I have family roots in Germany (far back, early 1800s) on both maternal and fraternal sides. I have always identified with Germany because of it. English, too, on my fraternal side, but that ain't cool. 😉
I generally don't like associations of Germans with their fascist past, but here it is done with some humour (and it is 2022 not 2016), but most importantly the stakes are very high, and opponents of freedom are not playing fair at all, so this matches back. Mr Global has enlisted Merkel among his cult and Merkel and her followers, current administration, are acting in ways that call for this kind of response especially given that the cult is very powerful and has caused great harm.
Canada.
I'm sure the CogDis Brigade has already warmed up a long-and-frothing or terse-and-smug ironclad dismissal of all observed contradictions, rhetorically unassailable while equally devoid of factual content, complete with a personal insult about the intelligence, morals, or belief system of anyone disagreeing.
There's no point in debating or discussing anything with anyone anymore. Just wait for when the broken robots start attacking instead of talking.
All the gains of the past few weeks appear to be crumbling before my eyes. We've come out the other side to where a pretense of accuracy isn't even there anymore.
I don't see how civilization survives this, long term.
That's right--they really don't care that the narrative has crumbled. There isn't even too much attempt to do damage control. It's full speed ahead. Biden just banned monoclonal antibodies, sending a clear message that along with banning ivermectin and HCQ, they simply want more people to die.
This insanity reminds me very much of cult-classic comedy show Brass Eye:
"Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact."
And to paraphrase:
"If you plot 'number of government anti-Covid measures' against 'what makes people stupid' versus 'intelligence of either party', the pattern is so unreadable that you might as well just draw a chain of PCR tests on sticks. And if you do that, an interesting thing happens: the word 'bullshit' starts flashing."
“The closer the collapse of an Empire, the crazier its laws”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."
Alphabet vs the goddess lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QQuD62RxrU
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Nahhh the greatest trick the devil pulled was that the devil is someone else, whether real or imaginary.
https://drsambailey.com/covid-19/why-nobody-can-find-a-virus/
Boot meets neck
Here in WA state the regime just performed the ritual humiliation of local legend, GOAT NBA point guard John Stockton for refusing to mask up for the Gonzaga games. For rejecting "the science". His 30 year standing season tickets have been revoked.
Meanwhile every county in the state is in the "red zone" for covid transmission. That's where the science got us. But it's clearly not about that, it's about shaming the non believers.
This makes sense. In WA you are not exactly "Ground Zero" for the promotion of the narrative but are an important secondary source after Silicon Valley. Gates and Bezos are Seattle critters, with power comparable to Google. The initial target was New York for these reasons- the money capital of the world, public influence (like the most potent social media "influencer", LA & Hollywood also important and similar), proper northern hemisphere respiratory virus dynamics, HQ of news media.
With the concentration of money and power in the Seattle area, why would you expect your legislature not to be "owned?"
“Springtime for Hitler in Germany” …
thats such a cute outfit, I just adopted two grey kittens and I would love to dress them up as obergruppengatos, where do I get a couple of these outfits?
Reading a book by dr. Vernon Coleman, yes a doctor, he says medicine is not science but guesswork. I think I trust him LOL
https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html 2nd opinion doctors testify at US senate hearing 1-24-2022
Yet there are always “special exceptions” for the ruling elite. And the Karens stay silent.
Would that the Karens were silent. They are in full-blown support of mandates, lockdowns, driving their cars by themselves safely masked, agitating for exclusion of the "UnVaxxed" from medical treatment (excepting experimental chemotherapy), and Covid Concentration Camps.
They don't have a clue!
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/
The vaccines don't work to control the virus(es), but they will work to control population, via premature death and sterilization. Exponential growth is a thing and so is resource depletion. Do The Math... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZA9Hnp3aV4
Thanks for the close up look at this crazyiosity.
Check out the Klaus Schwab's WEF sequel to "The Great Reset" = "The Great Narrative":
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Klaus%20Schwab%2CThierry%20Malleret%20-%20The%20Great%20Narrative%20%28The%20Great%20Reset%20Book%202%29.pdf
A few gems of their propaganda:
"...A peaceful world, a healthy world, a breathable world, a clean world, a fair world: each should be regarded as a global public good whose provision depends on our ability to cooperate globally. Such a pressing necessity was made obvious with COVID-19: no global state exists to deliver a vaccine to the entire world, so the effort to vaccinate as many people as possible falls upon international organizations whose power is constrained by competing national interests and a patchwork of fragmented agreements and initiatives negotiated between 200 sovereign states. It doesn’t work. On 21 November 2021, the lack of global cooperation and the incessant bickering about burden sharing meant that only 54.7% of the world population was vaccinated. At the time of writing, the emergence and identification of the Omicron variant might prove to be a stark consequence of this failing...."
“...NZE2050 concern the conversion from fossil fuels to renewable energy, (...) [because they are not possible] in poor countries ... within the 30-year timeframe needed to address the climate challenge. (...) these countries need requisite energy to build their nations and to provide basic needs for their large unserved populations This cannot be circumvented or ‘leapfrogged’ by the technology-based methods inherent in NZE2050 – if global minority countries cannot implement CO2-reducing tech on a large scale, how could global majority countries achieve this?”
Answer: A vast forced transfer of wealth from developed countries to the undeveloped to build ineffective, virtue signalling wind & solar farms. Goal achieved: More poverty for the Western Proletariat and continued poverty for citizens in developing nations, i.e. a World Neo-Feudal corporate fascist state.
I vascilate between thinking it’s all over due to political ramifications (eg UK ending mandates) and thinking “they” will ramp it up due to sunk political costs and the unending desire for societal control. Gato seems to think it’s the latter. Scary.
This would be a darkly funny novel, meanwhile scratching head wondering when people are going to ‘get it.’ Why can’t I put this book down?
Germany has killed ~70,000 people already by shutting down most of its zero CO2 Nuclear power plants, replacing them with dirty coal, according to epidemiological data. That's almost as much as their 90,000 corona deaths and the coal deaths will continue long after corona and get worse due to more nuclear shutdowns. That doesn't count their constantly hyped climate change deaths that they CLAIM to care so much about.
Not shutting down the nuclear power costs nothing, easy-peasy, saving lives by just doing nothing. So they justify spending $trillions in debt money, shutting down an economy, draconian lockdowns, police state tactics, massive unemployment, supply shortages & economic deprivation in order to save ~23,000 extra covid deaths (vs Sweden low intervention method). Those are deaths largely of the very old, very sick or very old & sick vs coal pollution kills by lung disease, cardiovascular disease and cancers, a younger, healthier population. Now how is that rational?
Love the "G" armband instead of the swastika LOL
The truth about these bioweapon vax is in their own documents, nobody is reading
Dr. Michael Yeadon: THIS MUST STOP! Pfizer Documents Show FDA Knew of Death Risk
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-michael-yeadon-this-must-stop
The Truth About Safety of mRNA Vaccines Found in The European Medicines Agency's Document Titled "Comirnaty (COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine) Risk Management Plan"
Welcome to the Medical Inquisition
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-safety-of-mrna-vaccines
mRNA "Vaccines" Are Gene Therapy. May cause Undesirable Side Effects That Could Delay Or Prevent Their Regulatory Approval According To BioNTech SEC Filing
The Truth About "Safe and Effective" mRNA "Vaccines" Hidden In Plain Sight
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/mrna-vaccines-are-gene-therapy-may
💖💚💞💚💕 your kitty 🐈⬛ memes!!! Keep ‘em coming!!!
We don't need to play that game in Canada, here it's vaccine only. Two doses now, three doses later but we won't say when so you had better get it now.
I suppose that's what Germany will move on to in time, it will seem like a more rational thing to do. Besides, you know, stopping this madness once and for all.
Unfortunately it's so true
And now imagine living in this madhouse! The absurdities don’t end there… I just published a special issue of my letter!
Fascist tendencies never disappear from places where they are ingrained. They simply recede for a while, awaiting an opportune time to resurface. I like to think that, with sufficient perseverance, the end result is the “reward” ultimately realized by Col Landa.
We are maaaaad...
https://www.hessen.de/sites/hessen.hessen.de/files/2022-01/2g-plusregeln_2101_v5.pdf
I think very important understand the nature of the deception. As most or even all are really convinced of what they are doing. And I'm sure was similar WWII Germany.
- Theres a human capacity for this.
- There are erroneous ideas woven into our understanding. Starting a very long time ago.
- Plus good old fashioned disregard for others. And overriding concern for me me me.
Very good to understand this general failing, rather than:
- imagine a small group controlling all events, or
- completely write off anyone who is going along with this, or increasingly start to see them as essentially evil.