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 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.
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?
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...
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?
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?
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.
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...
except what if they are feeding you what someone is feeding them? In bizarro world, it's a bit like asking a child of a cult member to discern the truth
Point being that you are able to discern the character of those you are closest to. Not that even those people are necessarily trustworthy but that you have a better chance of seeing who/what they really are because you interact with them frequently. You choose who to trust from that group, too. Eyes open.
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.
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!
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That was great 🤣
I will always be in love with Clint Eastwood! ❤️
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.
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.
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.
Shhhhh….don’t tell 47….
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SPAM
dear Laura: seek help stat
Damn Yuri…look what you did…everyone’s got something to say about it 🤣😘🥰
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!"
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...
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.
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.
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’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!
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.
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!!
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.
"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...
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.
"trust your family. trust your friends"
except what if they are feeding you what someone is feeding them? In bizarro world, it's a bit like asking a child of a cult member to discern the truth
Point being that you are able to discern the character of those you are closest to. Not that even those people are necessarily trustworthy but that you have a better chance of seeing who/what they really are because you interact with them frequently. You choose who to trust from that group, too. Eyes open.
Exactly
The C-Band of NATO is always watching us, and tied to SpaceX and Starlink, regardless of what Tulsi does.
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.
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.
It's too bad that Penn eventually being a mark for the trick.
I was always considered the Amber Heard poop story misdirection for the Ghislaine-Maxwell trial