MSM is the McDonald's of information diets. "Projection driven drama donkeys" pace and lead the stubborn misinformation mules. The trick for us is to show everyone else the emperor is naked - it's been an uphill battle, but momentum if finally on our side.
Can we get fries with that? The trick for us is actually to show everyone that the clothes had no emperor. Biden certainly was not calling the shots and his VP (vile post turtle) could not run anything but her mouth.
I am aware of the plans on the mRNA and the self replicating, also called self amplifying "vaccines" that are not really vaccines, but gene therapy - really gene modifying injections that have devastating consequences to so many who take them. I think a large majority on this substack are as well.
I also have lived in a rural area with many organic farms raising organically grown crops, market gardens, and organic dairies producing milk, creams and cheeses. All are aware of the GMO dangers and cross pollination from nearby farms. I have done maple syrup, harvested wild Ginseng from my property and and have studied wild edible plants since I was 18. I am now 73. My biggest sadness is the same anti-GMO organic farmers lined up in such numbers to take the Covid jabs becoming GMO - genetically modified organisms themselves. The biggest issue with edible plants is learning what is in your own bio-region because in hard times there may not be the ability to import or even afford things that come from other bio-zones or other countries. Problem 2 is being sure the wild plants aren't being contaminated by chemical runoff, from cultivated land and air born pollutants.
Haha! I remember that. Do you remember TOTUS (Teleprompter of The United States).
There were quite a few good memes about that one.
Most people don't understand how bad Obama really sounds when he's not reading something prepared for him. He is nearly always at a loss for words. Sometimes as bad as Biden. And yet, he was supposed to be a Harvard professor? And can't pronounce corpsman, he said (corpse-man).
Obama is a fraud and a puppet as much as Biden is. Perhaps sometime soon, we might get to see that brick wall at the back of the stage. It just might be for different reasons. I don't think Zappa was wrong about that.
I dunno. My mom seems to enjoy it as did my late father. I'm sure getting whipped into a rage by "credentialed" people who validate your hatred of a particular bombastic boor as being more than just petty and even escalate that to "you are actually a hero for hating this man because he is existential evil", it has got to provide a kind of cheap dopamine rush or something. Between the hate and rage and sense of moral superiority.
Actually one could eat reasonably healthy at McDonald's if you avoid sugary (hfcsy?) drinks and starches white bread potatoes. Probably could add the seed oils to the list but you've got to eat something. Please note that I am by no means claiming this is a healthy diet, merely that it is possible to make the best of a bad situation.
I think you're right about being able to claim "political retaliation".
But i also think incompetence must by its very nature conceal/hide. Incompetence breeds on itself in a progressive fashion. It effects the quality of people; the systems devised by these people degenerate, and eventually institutions become adversarial to the mission they were intended for.
They have slipped their leash and run amuck. And the further they move away from the mission, due to incompetence, the more they have to hide/conceal, and feel entitled to the extent they do not think we're worthy of their transparency.
grifts devolve into rule by rube and rubes do not know that the grift was a grift so they always take it too far and run it into a ditch because they really do expect rainbows and unicorns to pop out when they press the "end of the world" button.
They're trying to hide tge fact they make the"laws/regulations/mandates" for self-serving reasons to expressly pick the citizens pockets....and make the citizens want more "problems" the institutions "created" through incompetence/grift so they can disguise their involvement in the creation of the problem they intend to "fix" by some new surreptitious "solution".
Its sorta like the Morlocks in "Time Machine" who conditioned the Eloi to accept their fate, they tell us how important more government is for solving x,y,z problems by creating more problems with their "solutions". For example did we need Homeland Security? Because if we remember correctly the FBI did not do their jobs and everyone should have seen 911 coming, etc. etc.etc..
Furthermore they distract the masses who, like feeding sharks are givn tidbits of their plunder while they make the big heist where no one is looking. As long as people don't feel the pain, such as the big celebrities, who can afford the theft, theyll continue to proselytize like useful idiots to suborn what no other citizen or private company could ever afford and remain solvent.
Its all just culminating now after decades of this destructive feedback loop of grift and incompetence. And so the "cover ups" and cya must become more overt and desperate.
Much of this was brought about by the desire to actually prevent corruption. When I was young, with the exception of the military, the FBI, and maybe NASA, working for the government was what the least talented people did. The pay was low but at least you had automatic promotions until GS13, a 40 hour work week, and a decent pension when you retired. This obviously did not attract the best and the brightest, but it was designed to keep the overly ambitious out of the public sector. Instead of attracting those who were "dedicated to public service" it just filled the public sector with those who wouldn't make it in the private sector. Part of it was our fault as well. We often looked down on government employment, sometimes considering it only as a stepping stone to a more prestigious private sector job. I've often wondered why many European bureaucracies are able to function far more efficiently (until recently) than ours. I suspect it's the fact that government employment brings a far higher social status in places like Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, or Japan than it does in the US, making it a more acceptable career for competent individuals. Our American cultural disdain for government has resulted in bad government, through capture by the least competent. If your government is a dumpster for the "working incompetent", don't be surprised when you suddenly find you have a dumpster fire.
It might also be that we have the most useless aristocrats/elites in the history of mankind. Worse than the courts of Versailles.
The institutions are completely inept and there's nothing that invites grift like incompetence. It's a feedback loop. But it'll eventually implode once there's nothing left to pillage.
That's because we eliminated the nobility as an institution. The Founders wanted to replace inherited nobility with meritocratic nobility, but the Jacobin mindset started taking hold in America at the turn of the 19th century. The Founders inherently accepted that the premise of Noblesse Oblige applied to anyone in power and saw no reason to expound upon it in detail. Nobility in general began to be considered evil, while the uneducated lower classes were pushed as the new foundation for our morality. With the end of institutional nobility came the end of Noblesse Oblige, and as low-born but talented individuals rose through the social hierarchy, they brought with them whatever notions of social responsibility they happened to be raised with. Hopefully a Christian background would temper any narcissistic tendencies, though sometimes it did not. 200 years after the start of the industrial revolution, our social elite have very little if any regard for social responsibility. In fact, most believe their social and financial positions to give them license to do whatever they please - just don't admit this to the unwashed masses. What they haven't figured out yet is just how unstable and degenerating this path is.
What you are saying is that we have always had examples throughout history. Versailles, the Russian court of the last czars back to the late Roman emperors. We failed to learn from history, but those that always work to gainsay the system did learn from history for their own advantage. The founders of our country tried to anticipate and shortstop this, but look where we are. "Of by and for the people. A republic if you can keep it." um hmmm?
I suppose it's possible that the useless aristocrats/elites in the courts of Versailles did this when their subjects had grievances they sought to redress:
They actually, 100%, without exception have contempt for the people they consider below them. Obama's "Bitter Clingers," Clinton's "Basket of Deplorables" comments weren't just off-the-cuff quips uttered by politicians getting carried away with their rhetoric. It's how they think, how they speak about us when they speak with 'friendly' aristocrats/elites. Who think and speak like them. We can't hate them enough. As we must resolve to correct *their* wrongthink.
NBC’s pathetic factor is immeasurable at this point and their apparent delusion that “we” will take them at their word is astounding. “ Nearly 100 former national security officials”… 1) how about a finite # instead of rounding up? And 2) I’m confident that “many” of those are the same 51 security experts who signed a letter confirming that Hunter’s Laptop was the work of evil Russians….the media has lost so much credibility with their willing complicity … politicians evaluating Gabbard’s qualifications would be fools to put any stock in this on going anonymously sourced fiction. I herald the day NBC and MSNBC pull their own plug.
There are generations of incompetence that beed culling. Many of these organizations have embraced the “do not hire anyone who is potentially more thoughtful or careful than you” mentality.
This will finally cause organizational failure. The organization, government, group is unable to complete any task.
I wonder if this behavior is what finally causes the fall of Rome and other examples that we can come up with. Your comment stimulated these thoughts with just my first cuppa. It was painful. : )
Great comment! Though, I am partial to the Skeksis in The Dark Crystal. "as such being arrogant, egotistical, and have little to no regard for life or even each other. Furthermore, despite having alliances in the castle, they will often plot or have a rivalry (such in the case of SkekSil and SkekUng) against each other inside or outside of the alliance, heavily suggesting the Skeksis to be deceitful and double-crossing.
The Skeksis live a hedonistic lifestyle as they only think of living in eternity while they maintain hold over their power."
Agree 1000%. Here I've been hoping DOGE would take apart DHS and the micro-agencies that suck up resources and obfuscate communication - not to mention that not a single IT system works interagency...
I also think that more and more people are beginning to understand this. As a result, the idea of DOGE is not something that the media can effectively attack -- because the media has always been the sales force for more government.
However, this time around, people are finally beginning to realize -- that they don't even know what those in government are actually doing! Why does the government need to employ so many people? That is to say, if they went away, would anyone really notice?
The true answer is no! Most of the positions held by these people are paper pushing nonsense rolls. It's like office space -- only most of the employees are in the basement -- and nobody even knows that they're getting paid. But the money keeps coming in so they just keep accepting it.
The whole charade is starting to become quite visible. Too much is piling on, and the "smart people" who were tasked with stopping these sorts of things from happening are ineffective -- so what the hell are they doing there?
my thought is that the current cardre who are needle-heading project cull-19 are likewise deluded into the truth of their own rhetoric and have 'rubed' themselves instead exposing the game in their having forgotten that the real purpose of the game was power and control even more than saving the planet from useless eaters. their progenitors/predecessors were far more 'wise' and cary and didn't lose track of the game's end.
curiously enough, it reminds of the small arc within the hunger games movie 1, in which the game mc became enamoured of the ratings and forgot that the real purpose wasn't the entertainment, and was instead the removal of hope. great scene here: 'hope is stronger than fear. a little hope is fine. contain it!'
Your second and third sentences rather neatly describe the public school situation. In my experience. On second thought, your whole comment reflects that industry.
You’re right that all of these lists of “experts“ opposing Tulsi or RFK etc. actually identify themselves as problems, culpable past or likely future, and there is also a lot of projection going on about who is at risk to the Republic. Makes me want to retort “I know you are but what am I?
I have this personal response for you which has little to do with this thread but it will reveal that I had to investigate this Satan's Doorknob who dared to acknowledge and respond to my unnecessary and vile yet coy and correct comment. I hit a squirrel once while driving a rental car during a leave from military service. I killed it dead, cried and buried it there at that desert highway rest area. Then later, upon returning to base, I signed out my rifle and tactically engaged in such responsibilities.
I think there are easily 100 experts who can rattle of whatever narrative they were spoon-fed into repeating. Go on pub med and look up any validation for the narratives and there you will find it.
Toward the average lefty, I'm merciless. I point out that the Democrats were the party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, Nazis, Communists, et al. The Republicans are just the party of weak, stupid cowards who haven't accomplished anything since they passed the civil rights act.
Modern democrats are the party of murdering babies, mutilating confused children, pro invasion, looting the treasury and rabid war mongers.
So I'm the bad guy because I want to protect the borders and the children?
I want everyone to be able to speak their mind, want to hear from all sides in order to decide the truth. That makes me the bad guy?
Of course they are screaming their lungs out all the while, because they can't bear to hear the truth.
Oh, by the way, Trump won in a landslide. How do you like democracy now?
According to a google (Associated Press) information just now, Trump won with 49.9% of the popular vote vs. Harris at 48.4%. Yes, I realize that the popular vote doesn't directly count, and via Electoral College Trump won bigly, but in my opinion at least, an edge of 1.5% of the popular vote scarcely can be termed a "landslide."
I am low on trust these days in just about every fold of my life. I’m okay with that. Although, it makes life slightly more tedious. More things to do and question.
That's the thing about critical thinking, it is tedious, so much easier to trust in the institutions to handle that. You can't investigate everything. I know very little about the Ukraine war, just know enough to know when I see the flag on someone's twitter profile, that is an indicator.
This is bookends with the latest from Reality Theology on the continued demand for ‘expert’ predictions which fail in higher proportion than random selection.
"if you cannot tell if something is a ploy or prevarication, assume it is and place little faith in it until you have reason to."
Cue the drones over New Jersey!
At this point, every story like this I assume to be setting the stage for blame to be assigned to a foreign "enemy" (Iran most likely) to start building the case for war. Take as an example the stories that Fox loves to pop up occasionally about Iranian "hit squads" targeting Trump. Really? If we know these hit squads exist, I presume that means we have some suspected members of said squads. So why aren't their pictures being displayed around the clock the way Luigi Mangione's was? Oh I know why, because the whole story is bullshit. BUT, should someone take a shot at Trump, hit or miss, you can bet that will be the leading speculation. "It's the Iranians, this is an act of war, time to send Johnny marching off to the sandbox to get us some Muzzies."
Wasn't it in Thomas Sowell's writing that I read that, insofar as the decision makers are isolated - by distance or time - from the results of their decisions, there will be a diminishing possibility that negative feedback can correct or adjust the decision making, and, thusly, a system whereby decisions are made *only* according to "vision" and "ideals" will be engendered (pun intended/not intended!) ? The larger the bureaucratic system, the more likely it falls to irrationality and religiosity, and the less likely it is that rational, individual actors within such a system might survive being rooted out as heretics. It matters not what organizing principles might be seeded at the outset, nor what tasks are imagined: all giant systems are destined to be mindless, automaton monsters. Gato and all critical thinkers must therfore continue to beat the drum of decentralization and individual agency-with-personal-responsibility - which of course is exactly what this piece is. Insofar as anyone gets drawn into endlessly debating ideals, we've lost our ability to solve the practical problems before us. I see more and more why those of action and leadership tend so often to appear as odd, aloof or alone. Systems spurn those they can't control...
Holy Shit, Curmudge! Here's a little projection of my own: can you imagine how fucked-up things will get if and when these broad blanket pardons become a thing? We will have come full-circle from the moment that we rejected the tyranny of the Crown, once again there will be a distinct class structuring with the government-as-aristocracy with all of the immunities and benefits of being above the common law.
Pre-pardons do seem like mrna vaccines for Culpability-19. They do not remain at the point of administration, they do not prevent transmission and they do not confer the same lasting protection as infection.
That will make the case for amending the Constitution to remove the pardon power, just as presidential term limits were established because FDR violated that tradition.
FDR was a shoe-in as long as WWII was underway, but the grim reaper stepped in with a 4-term limit. While the Congress was at it (asking too much here...) they should have set the same term-limits for themselves. I only hope that the same rejection of tradition-violation takes hold in respect to Biden's broad pardon schemes. Realistically, probably not even cooked up by Biden.
You are correct about the timeline insofar as our entry into WWII in December 1941. And FDR campaigned for his third term during 1940. However our involvement in WWII was unofficial since its beginning when the Wehrmacht marched across the Polish frontier on 1 Sept. 1939. I needn't attempt to describe here the depth of our involvement prior to Dec. 1941 but when FDR campaigned in 1940 the war was raging in Europe and the Japanese Empire was off and running in Asia, as well. Roosevelt was an extremely popular candidate throughout all four election cycles and perhaps the Great Depression was the single greatest driver (with FDR's New Deal) during the first three cycles. Another war in itself.
We would have watched the war in Europe from the sidelines, there was no public appetite for a replay of WWI. We entered the European theater because Germany, quite inexplicably, declared war on us after we declared war on Japan. FDR was more eager for the ruination of the British Empire than Nazi Germany was.
Either Trump has said so himself or he has been advised that the ultimate “retaliation” or “revenge”against enemies foreign & most especially domestic, will be unmitigated success for our country & We the People. I don’t know if we can realistically expect everything government related or driven to be completely transparent, but such transparency / truth & rightness of the various missions are the best protection against the projection 💩 the left will try to throw on every wall. It seems a like most of his nominees share this, although there are at least several red flags & im sure some traitors will have wormed their way in.
If there is one principaled appointee uniquely experienced to lead the clean up of the mess left by some of these criminal politicians, that someone is Kash Patel. they will howl and gnash their teeth when he's confirmed.
Living here in the United Kingdom of hell, I have hardly met a person who,is pro Trump. They seem to take great joy in saying to me “what do you think of Trump”. Without a moment’s hesitation I tell them I love President Trump, I voted for him and thank God he won the election. That usually wipes the smirk off their sad British faces. Occasionally I will ask if they can tell me why they dislike President Trump so much. Could they give me examples of things he has done that make them dislike him so much. I hardly ever get an answer that makes any sense. But I really don’t care.
Also, the nhs has had to admit they misinformed the public when they said trans men’s breast milk is just as good as women’s breast milk. I celebrate every error, every bit of misinformation the nhs, UKHSA, MHRA spew. And especially throw a part when any of these agencies have to admit, they was wrong. Just wondering when they will have to open up about the recently approved drug added to cow feed called Bovaer.
No one with TDS can come up with any coherent explanation for why they hate him so much.
I myself can point to some plausible reasons, like his unstinting support for the death jabs, or his cozy relationship with the murderous Saudis. But they never come up with anything that makes sense.
I voted for Trump because the alternative was so much worse, but I'm not completely sold on him for the above reasons.
My favourite question to people is "Which of your information sources like radio, print, TV, internet or doctors, told you that the covid injections would not stay at the injection site but would go throughout your entire body?" and boy does that set them off.
I follow up with "Pfizer's own bio-distribution study was released in May of 2021 by a court granting the FOIA request. Funny your info sources didn't tell you that".
I carry the English PDF from Australia which includes it on my phone just to freak them out "Page 44/45, check it out".
Even that article has some false assurances, like:
"the mRNA and translated antigen protein are mainly localised at the injection site, distributed in liver and likely draining lymph nodes, and nearly completely degraded in 9 days."
Not true. The spike protein created by the mRNA jabs lasts for six months or more:
MSM is the McDonald's of information diets. "Projection driven drama donkeys" pace and lead the stubborn misinformation mules. The trick for us is to show everyone else the emperor is naked - it's been an uphill battle, but momentum if finally on our side.
Can we get fries with that? The trick for us is actually to show everyone that the clothes had no emperor. Biden certainly was not calling the shots and his VP (vile post turtle) could not run anything but her mouth.
You say Empty Suit? I give you Dirty Harry and the Empty Chair.
https://youtu.be/HvF1zkfg9iI?si=kImoYhNOeCH5NsJv
Loved it!
I am aware of the plans on the mRNA and the self replicating, also called self amplifying "vaccines" that are not really vaccines, but gene therapy - really gene modifying injections that have devastating consequences to so many who take them. I think a large majority on this substack are as well.
I also have lived in a rural area with many organic farms raising organically grown crops, market gardens, and organic dairies producing milk, creams and cheeses. All are aware of the GMO dangers and cross pollination from nearby farms. I have done maple syrup, harvested wild Ginseng from my property and and have studied wild edible plants since I was 18. I am now 73. My biggest sadness is the same anti-GMO organic farmers lined up in such numbers to take the Covid jabs becoming GMO - genetically modified organisms themselves. The biggest issue with edible plants is learning what is in your own bio-region because in hard times there may not be the ability to import or even afford things that come from other bio-zones or other countries. Problem 2 is being sure the wild plants aren't being contaminated by chemical runoff, from cultivated land and air born pollutants.
I will always be in love with Clint Eastwood! ❤️
Haha! I remember that. Do you remember TOTUS (Teleprompter of The United States).
There were quite a few good memes about that one.
Most people don't understand how bad Obama really sounds when he's not reading something prepared for him. He is nearly always at a loss for words. Sometimes as bad as Biden. And yet, he was supposed to be a Harvard professor? And can't pronounce corpsman, he said (corpse-man).
Obama is a fraud and a puppet as much as Biden is. Perhaps sometime soon, we might get to see that brick wall at the back of the stage. It just might be for different reasons. I don't think Zappa was wrong about that.
Well played, Pi.
That was great 🤣
You give her too much credit. She was at a loss for words most of the time, a broken record. Remember when the prompter went off? She could not speak.
Clever.
But McDonald's is tasty and you know it's not good for you. Not so for the MSM
Side note: I wear a Dexcom and no other QSR meal spikes my blood sugar as bad as McD's.
I dunno. My mom seems to enjoy it as did my late father. I'm sure getting whipped into a rage by "credentialed" people who validate your hatred of a particular bombastic boor as being more than just petty and even escalate that to "you are actually a hero for hating this man because he is existential evil", it has got to provide a kind of cheap dopamine rush or something. Between the hate and rage and sense of moral superiority.
"My mom seems to enjoy it as did my late father."
I'm not judgy. I wish I'd picked Thunderbird, or Old Cesspool Bourbon. I should've aimed lower.
But, then again, De gustibus non est disputandum, I always say. L'Chayim!
QSR? What is that?
quick-served regret?
quality-sufficient rations?
Quick serve restaurant
👍
LOL
I was going to say it's more like the Budweiser of Info Diets.
Shhhhh….don’t tell 47….
SPAM
dear Laura: seek help stat
Damn Yuri…look what you did…everyone’s got something to say about it 🤣😘🥰
Actually one could eat reasonably healthy at McDonald's if you avoid sugary (hfcsy?) drinks and starches white bread potatoes. Probably could add the seed oils to the list but you've got to eat something. Please note that I am by no means claiming this is a healthy diet, merely that it is possible to make the best of a bad situation.
I think you're right about being able to claim "political retaliation".
But i also think incompetence must by its very nature conceal/hide. Incompetence breeds on itself in a progressive fashion. It effects the quality of people; the systems devised by these people degenerate, and eventually institutions become adversarial to the mission they were intended for.
They have slipped their leash and run amuck. And the further they move away from the mission, due to incompetence, the more they have to hide/conceal, and feel entitled to the extent they do not think we're worthy of their transparency.
grifts devolve into rule by rube and rubes do not know that the grift was a grift so they always take it too far and run it into a ditch because they really do expect rainbows and unicorns to pop out when they press the "end of the world" button.
They're trying to hide tge fact they make the"laws/regulations/mandates" for self-serving reasons to expressly pick the citizens pockets....and make the citizens want more "problems" the institutions "created" through incompetence/grift so they can disguise their involvement in the creation of the problem they intend to "fix" by some new surreptitious "solution".
Its sorta like the Morlocks in "Time Machine" who conditioned the Eloi to accept their fate, they tell us how important more government is for solving x,y,z problems by creating more problems with their "solutions". For example did we need Homeland Security? Because if we remember correctly the FBI did not do their jobs and everyone should have seen 911 coming, etc. etc.etc..
Furthermore they distract the masses who, like feeding sharks are givn tidbits of their plunder while they make the big heist where no one is looking. As long as people don't feel the pain, such as the big celebrities, who can afford the theft, theyll continue to proselytize like useful idiots to suborn what no other citizen or private company could ever afford and remain solvent.
Its all just culminating now after decades of this destructive feedback loop of grift and incompetence. And so the "cover ups" and cya must become more overt and desperate.
Just my two cents
Much of this was brought about by the desire to actually prevent corruption. When I was young, with the exception of the military, the FBI, and maybe NASA, working for the government was what the least talented people did. The pay was low but at least you had automatic promotions until GS13, a 40 hour work week, and a decent pension when you retired. This obviously did not attract the best and the brightest, but it was designed to keep the overly ambitious out of the public sector. Instead of attracting those who were "dedicated to public service" it just filled the public sector with those who wouldn't make it in the private sector. Part of it was our fault as well. We often looked down on government employment, sometimes considering it only as a stepping stone to a more prestigious private sector job. I've often wondered why many European bureaucracies are able to function far more efficiently (until recently) than ours. I suspect it's the fact that government employment brings a far higher social status in places like Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, or Japan than it does in the US, making it a more acceptable career for competent individuals. Our American cultural disdain for government has resulted in bad government, through capture by the least competent. If your government is a dumpster for the "working incompetent", don't be surprised when you suddenly find you have a dumpster fire.
Incompetent naturally aggregate in places where there are no expectations as to results. Academia, government are the drain filters of civilization.
And there follows grift like a moth to a light.
Well said.
It might also be that we have the most useless aristocrats/elites in the history of mankind. Worse than the courts of Versailles.
The institutions are completely inept and there's nothing that invites grift like incompetence. It's a feedback loop. But it'll eventually implode once there's nothing left to pillage.
That's because we eliminated the nobility as an institution. The Founders wanted to replace inherited nobility with meritocratic nobility, but the Jacobin mindset started taking hold in America at the turn of the 19th century. The Founders inherently accepted that the premise of Noblesse Oblige applied to anyone in power and saw no reason to expound upon it in detail. Nobility in general began to be considered evil, while the uneducated lower classes were pushed as the new foundation for our morality. With the end of institutional nobility came the end of Noblesse Oblige, and as low-born but talented individuals rose through the social hierarchy, they brought with them whatever notions of social responsibility they happened to be raised with. Hopefully a Christian background would temper any narcissistic tendencies, though sometimes it did not. 200 years after the start of the industrial revolution, our social elite have very little if any regard for social responsibility. In fact, most believe their social and financial positions to give them license to do whatever they please - just don't admit this to the unwashed masses. What they haven't figured out yet is just how unstable and degenerating this path is.
"...meritocratic nobility..."
Yes!
"It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles"
What you are saying is that we have always had examples throughout history. Versailles, the Russian court of the last czars back to the late Roman emperors. We failed to learn from history, but those that always work to gainsay the system did learn from history for their own advantage. The founders of our country tried to anticipate and shortstop this, but look where we are. "Of by and for the people. A republic if you can keep it." um hmmm?
"But _this_ time we'll put the right people in charge. You just watch!"
I suppose it's possible that the useless aristocrats/elites in the courts of Versailles did this when their subjects had grievances they sought to redress:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/10/22/93016517-14179409-image-a-41_1733869201440.jpg
Or perhaps they did this:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/secret-service-acting-director-ronald-94797859.jpg
They actually, 100%, without exception have contempt for the people they consider below them. Obama's "Bitter Clingers," Clinton's "Basket of Deplorables" comments weren't just off-the-cuff quips uttered by politicians getting carried away with their rhetoric. It's how they think, how they speak about us when they speak with 'friendly' aristocrats/elites. Who think and speak like them. We can't hate them enough. As we must resolve to correct *their* wrongthink.
Spot on FF, as usual
Seems we're getting close?
There’s a lot of competition for that honor in history.
NBC’s pathetic factor is immeasurable at this point and their apparent delusion that “we” will take them at their word is astounding. “ Nearly 100 former national security officials”… 1) how about a finite # instead of rounding up? And 2) I’m confident that “many” of those are the same 51 security experts who signed a letter confirming that Hunter’s Laptop was the work of evil Russians….the media has lost so much credibility with their willing complicity … politicians evaluating Gabbard’s qualifications would be fools to put any stock in this on going anonymously sourced fiction. I herald the day NBC and MSNBC pull their own plug.
There are generations of incompetence that beed culling. Many of these organizations have embraced the “do not hire anyone who is potentially more thoughtful or careful than you” mentality.
This will finally cause organizational failure. The organization, government, group is unable to complete any task.
I wonder if this behavior is what finally causes the fall of Rome and other examples that we can come up with. Your comment stimulated these thoughts with just my first cuppa. It was painful. : )
as the song lyric goes: "When eating comes too easy
Nothing makes you think
There's too much time to sun yourself
And too much wine to drink" (Linda Ronstadt – New Hard Times)
It should be more like
"If you don't work you die."
- Gods of the Copybook Headings
Great comment! Though, I am partial to the Skeksis in The Dark Crystal. "as such being arrogant, egotistical, and have little to no regard for life or even each other. Furthermore, despite having alliances in the castle, they will often plot or have a rivalry (such in the case of SkekSil and SkekUng) against each other inside or outside of the alliance, heavily suggesting the Skeksis to be deceitful and double-crossing.
The Skeksis live a hedonistic lifestyle as they only think of living in eternity while they maintain hold over their power."
Loved the Dark Crystal btw. Sounds like you like stuff right up my alley!
Fantastic Planet?
Agree 1000%. Here I've been hoping DOGE would take apart DHS and the micro-agencies that suck up resources and obfuscate communication - not to mention that not a single IT system works interagency...
I agree 100%.
I also think that more and more people are beginning to understand this. As a result, the idea of DOGE is not something that the media can effectively attack -- because the media has always been the sales force for more government.
However, this time around, people are finally beginning to realize -- that they don't even know what those in government are actually doing! Why does the government need to employ so many people? That is to say, if they went away, would anyone really notice?
The true answer is no! Most of the positions held by these people are paper pushing nonsense rolls. It's like office space -- only most of the employees are in the basement -- and nobody even knows that they're getting paid. But the money keeps coming in so they just keep accepting it.
The whole charade is starting to become quite visible. Too much is piling on, and the "smart people" who were tasked with stopping these sorts of things from happening are ineffective -- so what the hell are they doing there?
Exactly. Very well said!
Thanks!
That was a dollars' worth of two cents 😉
At least a full bushel of hay pennies.
Or a clipping of bitcoin.
So AOC was once a rube with training wheels and is now a fully qualified grifter? Or do I have that backasswards?
"because they really do expect rainbows and unicorns to pop out when they press the "end of the world" button."
The First Rule of The Eschaton is you don't go Immanentizing The Eschaton.
yes. great point, egm.
my thought is that the current cardre who are needle-heading project cull-19 are likewise deluded into the truth of their own rhetoric and have 'rubed' themselves instead exposing the game in their having forgotten that the real purpose of the game was power and control even more than saving the planet from useless eaters. their progenitors/predecessors were far more 'wise' and cary and didn't lose track of the game's end.
curiously enough, it reminds of the small arc within the hunger games movie 1, in which the game mc became enamoured of the ratings and forgot that the real purpose wasn't the entertainment, and was instead the removal of hope. great scene here: 'hope is stronger than fear. a little hope is fine. contain it!'
https://youtu.be/_e3wADQ7IXw
Your second and third sentences rather neatly describe the public school situation. In my experience. On second thought, your whole comment reflects that industry.
You’re right that all of these lists of “experts“ opposing Tulsi or RFK etc. actually identify themselves as problems, culpable past or likely future, and there is also a lot of projection going on about who is at risk to the Republic. Makes me want to retort “I know you are but what am I?
When the index finger points, three fingers point back....I see this so often of late.
Nice one! Spot on.
Thus the intractable integrity of the straight-hand salute pointing slightly upwards.
Alas, due to various unfortunate events, it had fallen out of favor somewhat by the mid 1940s.
I have this personal response for you which has little to do with this thread but it will reveal that I had to investigate this Satan's Doorknob who dared to acknowledge and respond to my unnecessary and vile yet coy and correct comment. I hit a squirrel once while driving a rental car during a leave from military service. I killed it dead, cried and buried it there at that desert highway rest area. Then later, upon returning to base, I signed out my rifle and tactically engaged in such responsibilities.
Of course the underlying assumption is that these 100 experts actually have names and social security numbers and they are not AI generated.
When I see such a number I immediately ask if the 50 intel leaders who were debunked as outright liars were the first 50?
We should be asking for the names.....lol
I think there are easily 100 experts who can rattle of whatever narrative they were spoon-fed into repeating. Go on pub med and look up any validation for the narratives and there you will find it.
👏👏 I’m feeling fortunate that I found you on Substack. Well said!
You should have been here during the Covid vax fraud.
Refusing to play along drives them bonkers.Confronting their accusations with undeniable truths frustrates them and enrages them.
In the matter of trust, it's remarkable when you whittle away the untrustworthy from your life, how few and far between are those you can trust.
But that's a place to start.
Thank you Bad Kitty.
Yup. And there's only one thing they despise more than disobedience; disrespect.
Toward the average lefty, I'm merciless. I point out that the Democrats were the party of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, Nazis, Communists, et al. The Republicans are just the party of weak, stupid cowards who haven't accomplished anything since they passed the civil rights act.
Modern democrats are the party of murdering babies, mutilating confused children, pro invasion, looting the treasury and rabid war mongers.
So I'm the bad guy because I want to protect the borders and the children?
I want everyone to be able to speak their mind, want to hear from all sides in order to decide the truth. That makes me the bad guy?
Of course they are screaming their lungs out all the while, because they can't bear to hear the truth.
Oh, by the way, Trump won in a landslide. How do you like democracy now?
Right on. Cheers!
And their usual game is ad hominem, gaslighting, and projection.
According to a google (Associated Press) information just now, Trump won with 49.9% of the popular vote vs. Harris at 48.4%. Yes, I realize that the popular vote doesn't directly count, and via Electoral College Trump won bigly, but in my opinion at least, an edge of 1.5% of the popular vote scarcely can be termed a "landslide."
That’s the funny part that makes them consummate snowflakes!
I am low on trust these days in just about every fold of my life. I’m okay with that. Although, it makes life slightly more tedious. More things to do and question.
Once you get to base level by discarding all who aren't worthy, it gets easier as you go along. Like an exercise program or a successful diet change.
The more you question the more you learn.
Best.
Eventually we end up here: https://www.facebook.com/bestboybenson/posts/the-more-doggy-friends-the-better/804389598559482/
Yup. Me,too!
"Although, it makes life slightly more tedious."
The upside is that you probably have a lot less "Clean-up in Aisle 5" events.
That's the thing about critical thinking, it is tedious, so much easier to trust in the institutions to handle that. You can't investigate everything. I know very little about the Ukraine war, just know enough to know when I see the flag on someone's twitter profile, that is an indicator.
This is bookends with the latest from Reality Theology on the continued demand for ‘expert’ predictions which fail in higher proportion than random selection.
Lots of people need a real job.
"continued demand for ‘expert’ predictions which fail in higher proportion than random selection."
Dag. I job I was just built for. *updates CV*
even cooler than meteorology!!
"if you cannot tell if something is a ploy or prevarication, assume it is and place little faith in it until you have reason to."
Cue the drones over New Jersey!
At this point, every story like this I assume to be setting the stage for blame to be assigned to a foreign "enemy" (Iran most likely) to start building the case for war. Take as an example the stories that Fox loves to pop up occasionally about Iranian "hit squads" targeting Trump. Really? If we know these hit squads exist, I presume that means we have some suspected members of said squads. So why aren't their pictures being displayed around the clock the way Luigi Mangione's was? Oh I know why, because the whole story is bullshit. BUT, should someone take a shot at Trump, hit or miss, you can bet that will be the leading speculation. "It's the Iranians, this is an act of war, time to send Johnny marching off to the sandbox to get us some Muzzies."
Good advice - don't let anyone get you out of your own boat and keep your hands firmly on your own steering wheel.
It requires self-efficacy, positive self-image, critical thinking skills, and low levels of respect for authority.
Speaking for myself, the latter one at least.
Wasn't it in Thomas Sowell's writing that I read that, insofar as the decision makers are isolated - by distance or time - from the results of their decisions, there will be a diminishing possibility that negative feedback can correct or adjust the decision making, and, thusly, a system whereby decisions are made *only* according to "vision" and "ideals" will be engendered (pun intended/not intended!) ? The larger the bureaucratic system, the more likely it falls to irrationality and religiosity, and the less likely it is that rational, individual actors within such a system might survive being rooted out as heretics. It matters not what organizing principles might be seeded at the outset, nor what tasks are imagined: all giant systems are destined to be mindless, automaton monsters. Gato and all critical thinkers must therfore continue to beat the drum of decentralization and individual agency-with-personal-responsibility - which of course is exactly what this piece is. Insofar as anyone gets drawn into endlessly debating ideals, we've lost our ability to solve the practical problems before us. I see more and more why those of action and leadership tend so often to appear as odd, aloof or alone. Systems spurn those they can't control...
Never trust anyone who pays no price for being wrong or lying to you.
Holy Shit, Curmudge! Here's a little projection of my own: can you imagine how fucked-up things will get if and when these broad blanket pardons become a thing? We will have come full-circle from the moment that we rejected the tyranny of the Crown, once again there will be a distinct class structuring with the government-as-aristocracy with all of the immunities and benefits of being above the common law.
Pre-pardons do seem like mrna vaccines for Culpability-19. They do not remain at the point of administration, they do not prevent transmission and they do not confer the same lasting protection as infection.
That will make the case for amending the Constitution to remove the pardon power, just as presidential term limits were established because FDR violated that tradition.
FDR was a shoe-in as long as WWII was underway, but the grim reaper stepped in with a 4-term limit. While the Congress was at it (asking too much here...) they should have set the same term-limits for themselves. I only hope that the same rejection of tradition-violation takes hold in respect to Biden's broad pardon schemes. Realistically, probably not even cooked up by Biden.
FDR broke the precedent before we were involved in the war. But the voters are the ones to blame (and the Republicans for their joke of a candidate).
You are correct about the timeline insofar as our entry into WWII in December 1941. And FDR campaigned for his third term during 1940. However our involvement in WWII was unofficial since its beginning when the Wehrmacht marched across the Polish frontier on 1 Sept. 1939. I needn't attempt to describe here the depth of our involvement prior to Dec. 1941 but when FDR campaigned in 1940 the war was raging in Europe and the Japanese Empire was off and running in Asia, as well. Roosevelt was an extremely popular candidate throughout all four election cycles and perhaps the Great Depression was the single greatest driver (with FDR's New Deal) during the first three cycles. Another war in itself.
We would have watched the war in Europe from the sidelines, there was no public appetite for a replay of WWI. We entered the European theater because Germany, quite inexplicably, declared war on us after we declared war on Japan. FDR was more eager for the ruination of the British Empire than Nazi Germany was.
My only objection is your use of the future tense.
Either Trump has said so himself or he has been advised that the ultimate “retaliation” or “revenge”against enemies foreign & most especially domestic, will be unmitigated success for our country & We the People. I don’t know if we can realistically expect everything government related or driven to be completely transparent, but such transparency / truth & rightness of the various missions are the best protection against the projection 💩 the left will try to throw on every wall. It seems a like most of his nominees share this, although there are at least several red flags & im sure some traitors will have wormed their way in.
If there is one principaled appointee uniquely experienced to lead the clean up of the mess left by some of these criminal politicians, that someone is Kash Patel. they will howl and gnash their teeth when he's confirmed.
Dick Minnis removingthecataract.substack.com
Living here in the United Kingdom of hell, I have hardly met a person who,is pro Trump. They seem to take great joy in saying to me “what do you think of Trump”. Without a moment’s hesitation I tell them I love President Trump, I voted for him and thank God he won the election. That usually wipes the smirk off their sad British faces. Occasionally I will ask if they can tell me why they dislike President Trump so much. Could they give me examples of things he has done that make them dislike him so much. I hardly ever get an answer that makes any sense. But I really don’t care.
Also, the nhs has had to admit they misinformed the public when they said trans men’s breast milk is just as good as women’s breast milk. I celebrate every error, every bit of misinformation the nhs, UKHSA, MHRA spew. And especially throw a part when any of these agencies have to admit, they was wrong. Just wondering when they will have to open up about the recently approved drug added to cow feed called Bovaer.
I have had that same experience many times.
No one with TDS can come up with any coherent explanation for why they hate him so much.
I myself can point to some plausible reasons, like his unstinting support for the death jabs, or his cozy relationship with the murderous Saudis. But they never come up with anything that makes sense.
I voted for Trump because the alternative was so much worse, but I'm not completely sold on him for the above reasons.
Fair enough.
My favourite question to people is "Which of your information sources like radio, print, TV, internet or doctors, told you that the covid injections would not stay at the injection site but would go throughout your entire body?" and boy does that set them off.
I follow up with "Pfizer's own bio-distribution study was released in May of 2021 by a court granting the FOIA request. Funny your info sources didn't tell you that".
I carry the English PDF from Australia which includes it on my phone just to freak them out "Page 44/45, check it out".
https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/foi-2389-06.pdf
Even that article has some false assurances, like:
"the mRNA and translated antigen protein are mainly localised at the injection site, distributed in liver and likely draining lymph nodes, and nearly completely degraded in 9 days."
Not true. The spike protein created by the mRNA jabs lasts for six months or more:
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/09/12/covid-jab-spike-protein-remains-six-months-after-jab/
You may recall how "50 intelligence experts" duly assured us that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian fabrication, knowing full well that it wasn't.
Doesn't matter, the story was suppressed until after the election was already safely in the bag. It worked.
No reason to think that the same stunt won't work again.
The comment about seeding the chatterboxes is invaluable to me. That shouldn’t happen.
I will keep that in mind when I start to respond consciously or unconsciously to a bit of “information”.
I may read “nudge” for another weapon.
Frankly these 100 national security "experts" deserve a Trump gulag. Their fear must be granted..
I do not assume that these 100 experts actually exist.