To answer your (rhetorical) question, it isn’t any different. The Nose-Ring People are un-redeemably brainwashed by their tribal leaders. Can’t think for themselves. They need, must have, someone lead them to the trough of propaganda they can’t survive without, repeating their mantras like parrots, hungry for a cracker from their handlers. In a generation or two their breed will have died out. Thankfully.
They are not "unredeemable." I think there comes a time, after enough head butts with reality where it becomes clear that what is continues to conflict with what they believe is.
Nose rings are also used to keep the young being weaned from sucking things they shouldn’t when removed from the mother. They will suck on anything, such as the umbilical of other young. Weaning is a natural part of growth. But nose rings are also used on pigs to discourage rooting, even though rooting is natural. Why would people want nose rings.
If we used animal models, then these are using media to advertise their beta profiles. Slaves, maybe, but serfdom might be more apt. Fealty is much more common in human history than its opposite.
In my experience it's only the bulls that get nose-rings because their hormones and musculature are such that they are liable to get a little crazeee and wreck stuff and hurt people without an enhanced means of keeping them under control. So yeah, 'safe space,' sort of thing. Snap a lead on 'er and we'll be fine!
Is it possible that the biological detritus floating about and sticking to the inside of each nostril somehow migrated its nasty, infectious self into her bloodstream and then took up residence in her two remaining brain cells as a low-grade but mentally incapacitating infection? Or, perhaps, a kill switch activated when a wayward molecule contained within the horrid Covid vaccine found a susceptible vessel possessing no ability to resist and began folding wildly, like Mad Cow disease prions until all that was left of that organ was nothing, not even the holes that had once made it resemble a wheel of Swiss cheese. This midwit seems to have entered this final phase.
:'( 26 yo in and out of hosp with heart problems. cancers. Recurrances of cancers. That's just what I heard about today (that I can remember - I'm thinking there was more) - kidney disease, blood pressure, anaemia.... (this is just talking to friends, a dinner of 6)
Also nuking reality for the left: Antifa/Vanilla ISIS's central command and control system was broken into and disabled. And separately, a complete list of names, addresses, and phone numbers of contributors to StopICE.net (which tracks suspected ICE vehicles) was exfil'd and sent to the FBI, DHS, ICE, and selected X users. StopICE.net itself was hacked to show meme pictures of Tom Homan and send text messages to all users telling them the FBI was on the way to their house. (The owner has since repaired the site but they're apparently so incompetent that it's become a running battle over who's controlling the thing).
Reddit is absolutely melting down about this. One user there said she was going to stop wearing her nose ring "to try and blend in", which is either a masterful troll or the least self-aware post in the history of social media.
This is the first time I have heard it as well. And in the wise words of a smart cat on the internet, someone will make a meme out of this and it will be brilliant , they probably done it already ,I'm usually the last to find these things out. Spend a lot of time Outdoors no phone
Out here in rural Australia, living off grid (literally and metaphorically), reality is the necessity of growing food, producing our own power, collecting and storing water.
Bushfires, floods, droughts, wild animals including kangaroos and snakes are our reality.
No "collective" out here.
No "nose ring girls".
Only individual agency.
Our joys are grounded in nature, not post-modernist victim group identities.
Very much so. Minnesota has 87 counties, and only 9 of them went to Harris in 2024. Unfortunately, one of them (Hennepin) contains Minneapolis, over a fifth of the state's population, and all the fraud we're just starting to learn about.
Many US states are that way. Illinois went 88/14 R/D by county in 2024, but Cook County has 40% of the state's population and a reputation for election fraud going back to the 1960s, so the D's control the state. The US isn't really red state versus blue state; it's blue urban islands surrounded by a sea of red.
Minnesota has had socialist leanings going way back, and Minnesota Nice made them an easy target for the supposed do-gooders and their "refugees." But there's always a big difference between urban and rural, and you can bet the people chasing ICE around didn't drive in from the farm to do it.
True. I live in one of the red Illinois counties. It’s very quiet. On No Kings day a tiny group of mostly women stood with makeshift signs around our fiberglass town mascot. Frankly, it was a spot on to the moment animal mascot. 🤣🤣🤣.
It has gotten worse in the last few decades. The counties surrounding Cook used to be called "the collar counties." DuPage, Will, and Kane. They were a GOP stronghold. Now they're blue. No idea how much of that is voter fraud... certainly a substantial portion. If we eradicated voter fraud completely, the Dems would never win again.
That’s happening in Rochester ny as well. Monroe county used to be firmly red, and the city was considered purple. Then the city turned black, and now the county is purple leaning blue.
Rockford News reported three businesses shut down in protest. Many comments said they would not visit those places.
Illinois is degrading by the week. The laws are favoring criminals. And Carville says Pritzker’s the best the Dems have for 2028. I dread when Democrats get back in power because they are already threatening us.
Yes. But Illinois has always been a crap state. I was born in it almost 78 years ago. Escaped once for a few years. The people around me are level headed and I could care less about the rest of the puddin’ heads. Not much I can do about it but pray.
I hear you. I’ve been here for forty years. It’s not been an easy place to make and keep friends. (I came fro upstate New York.) There’s a real culture of death here. And don’t get me started on how Pritzker took away counties’ rights to make ordinances for renewables.
I’ve always lived in small towns here. Champaign was the largest, while hubby went to uni of Illinois, so we don’t deal with big city life All my closer friends are democrats. I used to be one and now find I have no one to talk to about our current situation. Nobody. Not even my husband, so I come to Substack. It’s frustrating. I don’t really have the energy now to get out and make new friends. At our age there are different priorities. My hubby is not well, too big house, too much stuff, our kid is 1000 miles away, etc. But still, we live around some beautiful nature areas and still hike, camp and get out around us and to different areas out West like Wyoming. I love that state. My political action days are over. I was very active during Bush 2 but lost the will.
Rochester, buffalo and Syracuse have all turned into cesspools of filth. It’s sad, really. I’m from there originally as well. But a waterfront home in Florida a five mile boat ride to the Atlantic, cost 1/5 what a waterfront/icefront home costs in Rochester. Kind of a no brainer.
At least under Daly they prioritized the businesses and tourism. Chicago was a gorgeous place to live and a destination for tourists. Sinatra sang “My Kind of Town”. There were beautiful vacation spots and scenery. The mafia took care of the people even as they filled their own pockets and scratched one another’s backs. Cabrini Green was under control. I used to take the train from the Western suburbs to down town all the time. All gone. I wouldn’t set foot in the place now.
I think the right is insane to not take the threats made by D's of what they will do when in power seriously. Leticia James should be the flashing warning sign. Take them at their word. If they say they are going to round you up and put you in prison for supporting Trump/ICE, that they will seek the death penalty against you, stack the courts, do their will unto us when they get power next: BANK ON IT! They will. It's not just hyperbole, empty threats. They mean it. They mean a cultural revolution, struggle sessions, public executions, Little Red Book uprising that will seek and destroy any who are not one of them.
We have reached a them or us place in history. Either we take them out first. Or they will take us out next. Fact. Ugly, sad fact of it. They mean every word. And must NEVER be allowed to gain power again. Or we will have ourselves to blame for not acting preemptively when we still could...as we face the angry screaming mob with an insane, propagandized 18-year-old firing a bullet into our head. Them's the stakes.
Yes. We should definitely take them at their word. They are saying the quiet part out loud. I too am shocked the Republicans aren’t taking their words more seriously. I think the only thing that will save us is a wave of repentance, of the people crying fascist taking a hard look at the fascist in them.
Here in Illinois Raja is running for Durban’s seat. His ads are slick and expensive. Who is paying for it. I am not aware of any Republicans running for that seat.
I had a conversation with a retired cop. He told me that the current governor's grandfather was Al Capone's accountant and that the Hyatt hotel chain was started by laundering cash through real estate, namely the Hotel Hyatt in Los Angeles.
Hearsay evidence, of course, but it fits my general experience of Chicago, over and above the city's incompetent "professional" sports teams.
A political area is red if 50%+1 vote red, but it can contain a lot of blue. My neighborhood is mostly red but there are blue people a few houses away. In the early 2000s a Princeton math professor I know made a map based on vote totals in each district and most of the country was purple - a mixture of blue and red, just slightly left or right of center, with a few extremes.
Cook County, IL has been a center of fraud and crime going back to the 1920's at least. The last Republican mayor of Chicago was William Thompson who left office in 1931. He was also corrupt.
How far back in history do you want to go when it comes to civic corruption?
Other than some uneducated and ignorant youthful idiots not much “protesting” here in the middle of nowhere on California’s Central Coast. 240 miles to LA and 240 to San Francisco, so literally in the middle, an isolated enclave. The main problem is a college, Cal Poly, which attracts people that normally wouldn’t even have given the area a glance. Mark Twain would say that “there’s no here, here!” Cheers 👍🏼😎🏄🏽♂️
I’ll assume that your youth was a few decades back(like mine!) Poly has changed much since then, as most halls of higher education have. The applied motto of “learning by doing” has become difficult, as you’d imagine, especially post-covid 😬
Not necessarily. I live in "rural" New Mexico just north of Santa Fe. The women I know there don't wear nose rings, but they subscribe to exactly the same set of beliefs as expressed by the nose ring wearer. They post a lot of signs saying "resist". Too damn bad they didn't resist but instead complied with all the covid insanity.
I live in Missouri. All my friends are Trump supporters. My health care providers seem absolutely based and normal but after watching all the TokToks since poor Charlie Kirk was offed, I'm afraid to breathe a word around them about current events for fear I wouldn't leave their offices alive.
I'm afraid of the "leftists". There are very few open supporters of Trump around the liberal, blue state of NM. I'm not a Trump supporter but neither was I a kamala/biden supporter. If the pack sniffs out that you might agree with some of the stuff Trump did, definitely not all, they will attack. The Sierra Club is so corrupt and it has the state legislators in its pocket. They are on track for mandating electric vehicles in the 5th largest state with a lot of distance between cities. Our doctors are generally the dregs. NM is 49th in health. I don't know what benighted state is lower. I can hardly imagine.
I am confused; health care providers are not a monolithic group, the training does not require a political agenda. If they seem based, most likely they are based. Plenty of non progressive physicians, nurses , etc.
Lovely country, yes. But here are some statistics.
The crime rate in Espanola, NM is notably high. Here are some key statistics:
The overall crime rate is 13 crimes per one thousand residents, which is considerably higher than the national average.
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The 2020 crime index for Espanola was 330, which is 1.4 times higher than the U.S. average.
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The violent crime rate stands at 95.8, significantly exceeding the U.S. average of 22.7.
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These statistics indicate that Espanola has a serious crime issue compared to national averages.
Then there's this
Drug addiction seeped into the Española Valley after the Vietnam War as heroin, cocaine and other drugs flowed in from Mexico. Heroin settled in hard for years, tearing through families, ravaging livelihoods and scattering lean-tos and broken men beneath bridges. But over the last two years, the market has been taken over by fentanyl, which is cut with other substances and at times is so potent that it can take at least two doses of Narcan to revive an overdose victim.
It would be really fun if they made a movie about someone like you visiting a big city in the US, maybe New York, and all the Hijinx that would ensue from the differences in perspective.
Out here in West Texas, much the same. Even the nose/ringed, weird hair color people are relatively calm. Maybe Pol Pot was on to something: empty the cities. Except don’t murder the people evicted.
Divorced guy here. I went on a second date with this spunky gal yesterday. Took her kayaking on a local lake, beautiful afternoon. I pulled out my local parks pass for entry to the launch and she said, “good thing that’s not a national parks pass.” “Why?” Said I. “Because the new one has a picture of Trump on it. And if you deface it, it invalidates the pass.” Silence from me. “I hate him sooo much!” More silence. First time I saw the female Trump rage up close. One of my buddies has TDS but I just make fun of him then we have another beer. Was a decent date, good paddler which is hard to find…I should probably cut bait now. Once she sees the “Cats for Trump 2024” lawn sign on my garage wall she’ll bolt anyhow.
Sorry to hear that, but I gotta agree, thats a helluva red flag.
That sort of thing is keeping me from trying out the dating market post-widowhood. A nice mountain hike can get really long when the other person is spouting weird ass political bullshit at random stimuli.
charlie, I'm retired and picked up a very part time job last January taking care of plants (watering, etc) for banks and businesses in my area. I work with 2 other retired women. TDS syndrome has been rampant... they have no information. When one cheered the death of "the racist nazi" meaning Charlie Kirk I spoke up, loud and clear and said, "I'm pretty disgusted that you would cheer the death of anyone, and have you ever listened to him speak?" She said, "of course not! Why would I?" I said, "because I have listened to him speak often and none of what you are saying is true. You're forming your opinions because someone is telling what and how to think. You aren't a critical thinker, you are being lied to and led around by the nose." She had no reply, didn't hold it against me, I'd say we are quite friendly and I'm able to get in a few "truths" now and then. My point is, I'm really glad I spoke up. 🤗
I'm international. And people here don't want to go to the USA - not even for a holiday, as long as Orange Man Bad is in the White House. I'm like - you know - the Grand Canyon is still the same . . . Disneyland/world is still the same. . . . I'll bet you could go and not even meet the man!
I’m so glad you had this experience! With younger women, at least in my field (the arts, ugh), this kind of rebuttal would just get you labeled as the usual “fascist” or whatever.
Hubbs and I just moved to an old ppl neighborhood (not fenced in or such) single houses etc... and the guy across the street met a superb woman on some Christian Singles webpage.
We do live in Northern Virginia 35 miles west of the sewer.... and she did move up from North Carolina. I love her too now!
This almost exactly mirrors a date I had around 2024... even went kayaking, like you. We had a lot of fun. Ended up hanging out for hours...the political divide between us came up, but we had so much fun, we both just ignored it for a while.
I'll save you a lot of time... it won't work. The dynamic will be defined by how much you keep silent every time she subtly virtue-signals all the standard AWFL values. You can keep things diplomatic while you have a little fun.. but eventually you'll have to face the reality that she likely doesn't understand herself: she absolutely hates you.
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that. Problem is I cherish my fellowship with nature Sunday mornings. Great time to be out on the trails because everybody is at church. It’s a conundrum!
That's the one you kick out of your car and leave on the side of the road. Seeing as how you were on a lake, assuming the kayaks were solo I think paddling away would've been acceptable. And if the kayak was a 2-seater, then kicking her out of the kayak also would've been acceptable. F them and their holier than thou sanctimony that they expect us to cater to. Make them the pariah, we have to stop being ok being their victim.
As a fairly affluent, white, (sub)urban woman, I feel how I imagine regular black people must have felt during the BLM protests. "Please don't lump me in with the crazies!"
Of course, rarely does one stop to ponder why anyone ever thought it was a particularly good idea, or of possible problems that might occur downstream from even having legal...
J.J. Sefton from Ace of Spades calls them "self-gassing Jews". Inability to distinguish them from actual practicing Jews is what fuels the likes of Candace Owens.
Your writing has really been very helpful for my thinking. The CEOs of Substack have now put out a message in support of Don Lemon - and how dare we violate his First Amendment rights -
I am going to wait a day or two to see if there is blowback - but if not - I will be immediately cancelling all subs - and that will include yours. I want you to know this has nothing to do with you. This has everything to do with lawbreaking behavior being excused in our society.
Would it be more constructive instead to write back to the CEOs of Substack with a polite argument as to why Don Lemon's arrest is not a violation of the First Amendment? Lemon was arrested for participating in an unprovoked assault by an aggressive political group on a peaceful group that was not involved in politics. Would they equally support a 'journalist' who ran with the Ku Klux Klan and joined them in invading a Black church while it was in session, taking over the service to intimidate them and abuse them for their race, and who peppered the pastor with hostile questions during the disruption for the story he would report on the incident he caused?
If the CEOs of Substack are putting themselves on record as supporting Don Lemon on grounds of the First Amendment, then that is a good thing for those of us who read and post here. They may be misguided, or they may be smartly positioning themselves against leftist bullies. Either way, it seems to herald a principled continuation of their protection of freedom of speech on this platform.
Has gato's stuff REALLY been helpful to you? Have you actually READ any of it, including THIS article?
Gato publishes on Substack, Gato doesn't administer it. Unsubbing him or anyone else published here because of Management is akin to burning a phonebook because you don't like ads in the Yellow Pages.
This seems like backhanded virtue-signaling (to your tribe members, which include--uncomfortably for me--Gato's readers, too, I presume?) Maybe a moment of reflection is in order?
I didn't mean this to sound so harsh. It surprised me in its stark reflection of the material presented in this posting. Is this what "being triggered" feels like?
I have just decided that I am no longer going to tolerate things in life that are blatantly illegal. What Don Lemon does was against the law. Based on what I am seeing all over substack tonight - they may have dealt themselves quite the setback.
Virtue signaling? No - I don’t virtue signal. However, if you would like to look at a classic case of virtue signalling - just go to the substack CEOs post from earlier today - of course posted on deep Friday afternoon -
I saw what you mentioned about the Substack guys. I roasted them as best as I could. But, too many good people and posts for me to leave. I understand your position, but I’m thinking folks like you are needed here.
Although I don't plan to quit Substack, I can empathize. For a few years I was a paid supporter of an artist based on Patreon. Patreon did some kind of foolish censorship that I didn’t approve of. While it didn’t affect “my” artist, I sent them a sad Dear John letter telling them that I didn’t pay to support censorship and I was quitting their service and suggested they might do the same.
This has got to be a parody. You sound just like the folks gato writes about. It’s the SubStack handlers your beef is with, not the independents writers. Send your message directly to them.
Where were the first amendment rights of those who chose to gather peacefully in their place of worship? Being screamed at with bullhorns? Next they'll be defending someone entering a crowded theater yelling, "FIRE"
Check out Helen Andrews’ take on it. Can be found readily on the Internet. The idea is females have suddenly dominated academia, the justice system, the education system, and book publishing, and because of females’ natural bent, they tend to avoid hard law and tend toward empathic solutions, instead. (She says it much better than that)
Some (dissident) conservative bloggers opine that the female involvement in major power centers, indeed near-total domination of certain compartments, poses very serious societal risks, indeed perhaps even "national suicide" level ones. While I’ll be the first to admit I’m a card-carrying misogynist, far be it from me to say that women must be excluded form everything and their roles in society limited. If you want that, just hop a plane to a conservative Muslim nation. I AM saying (or more honestly, I share the opinion of the paleo-conservativew) that having power centers that are almost exclusively female invites all types of problems that do not occur if the same organization were male run. For reasons, you simply can’t run (say) a military command center, or even the boardroom of a corporation using the same values systems one would use to run a Montessori kindergarten. Folks, there are only so many offices we can put these “box tickers” into before they start encroaching into critical positions. You know, the ones where poor decisions have real-world consequences: profit and loss, safety vs. injury and death. Already in recent news we've had judges (female, if I'm not mistaken) that have refused to allow a suspect to be charged, or overturned a jury verdict in a criminal trial. I don't know their reasons, but is "I refuse to do this because it'd be mean!" sound reasoning for a legal system?
Pessimist that I am, I think we may already be too far down the road to prevent whatever disasters await us, and perhaps not in the too-distant future.
“Did you hear what that bitch Becky did over in the other office? Well, fuck her! I’ll show her up!”
I am a woman and I approve this message. Unfortunately. After all, who encouraged who to eat The Apple? Yeah, the one with the uterus. We are different in every way from men and have strengths in areas that they don't. Women will be whatever a man wants/needs them to be, until they get a ring on it. Then look out. If they were pretending to be something they are not, the duped man's life is about to become enslavement to the bat-shit crazy triangle shaped patch of fur with a mentally unstable body attached to it. Watch where you put your Mini-Me guys!!
*I am editing this to say "some women" because there are exceptions to everything. I am a unicorn. And there are more of us out there, you just have to look. We tend to already be attached to men who intrinsically value who we are. If you are in the market for a good woman, might I suggest looking at her parents? Are they still happily married? Is she well adjusted? Did she hunt, fish and camp before you came along? Might be a keeper. If there is fake inside, chances are it shows on the outside, with the filler, lips, eyebrows and mandatory mani-pedis. Just an observation from the inside.
What you wrote is a lot of what Helen Andrews writes about. She's not implying that females are intrinsically evil, for one thing. She also stresses the average behaviors characterized as either "female" or "male" represents averages in distributions that overlap. The trouble with bringing this up, as an obvious fact (women and men, on average, behave differently) is it brings on the usual accusations of sexism, misogyny, etc. Well, I guess, bring it on!
For a simple, potent real world example there was a fairly serious flu epidemic in 1968. At that time, the Health Departments of all the major cities were led by men--I went back and checked.
When Covid hit what about the Health Departments in New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta? ALL led by women, every one of them. Think that might have had impact on issues like lockdowns, business closings which resulted in a different approach?
I have been saying for years that the femlib movement of the 60/70s was one of the most destructive things to happen to this country. The latest Klusterfuck Nation explains a view.
"Modern" women are the farthest thing from a safe space for men. They're the reason so many have given up on the idea of romance/love and joined the "men going their own way" movement. The biggest part of this is that women, and in particular those left of center, are far too dangerous to even get near, let alone fraternize with.
Agreed. Although there are plenty of crazy men, crazy women definitely outnumber them. Man or woman, if you are looking for a spouse, or a happy life, it is beyond stupid to jump into a relationship with someone you barely know. And many unfortunate souls have discovered that merely being adjacent to, or noticed by, a crazy person is enough to demolish your life.
Exactly! As another women listening to her rant, she seems unhinged and is pretty scary in my eyes! It's embarassing to hear these fellow females go nuts. Ranting against anyone who doesn't subscribe to the latest outrage regarding Trump or ICE or whatever has become the lefts' favorite pastime. It's getting pretty old and all of this venting is wasting valuable time and energy. None of these outraged individuals actually present possible solutions to the problems that we face as a nation. They just complain and do it loudly. Rinse and repeat.
I have a neighbor whose cats regularly use my garden as their litterbox. The side door opens, the cat climbs the fence, jumps down, heads for the garden and does it's business. One day, while prepping my garden, my hands hit a fairly fresh pile. And then a second one. And I lose it.
I bag them both, walk over to their front door and knock. No answer. I know they're there.
I go back to my yard and thumbtack the bag and a note to their side of the fence. Essentially saying I've tried chemicals, physical barriers (spikes on the fence and spiky branches in the garden, etc) and even motion activated sprinklers). I tell them to take care of their cats or I will.
The next day their daughter (I've never met her before, and didn't know her name) comes over, spouting psychobabble stuff, telling me I'm mentally ill, and that if I ever threaten her parents again, she will kill me.
Within minutes, I looked her up online.(property records, unusual last name, search engine) Yup, a child care worker.
Her dad comes over the next day, saying perhaps we've gotten off on the wrong foot. I said his daughter (and I named her) threatened me the day before. He asks, are you sure it's ____? I said yes, it's her. He was stunned for a second and then said, I told her not to come over here.
And yes the daughter is going for a psychology degree. I sometimes wonder how stable some therapists are. And it makes sense that there are a bunch of power hungry therapist wanna-be's at CPS.
That is quite a tale, and I fear such encounters are far too common in today’s society. I am sorry that you are forced to endure such an unsympathetic figure as your neighbor. Maybe her dad can rein her in. And and as for this woman training to be a psychotherapist that comes as little surprise. A lot of people get into the field in an effort to fix their own problems - or in an effort to fix other people’s problems in order to avoid dealing with their own.
I think to some degree it’s a generational issue. I wrote about this a few months back as the anti Trump/ Musk adult tantrums began picking up steam.
The only thing that gives me any comfort about the rabidity of Democrats is they are about to become the dog that catches the car. Their supporters are not mentally prepared for any kind of real military engagement and are so mentally ill or fragile, they will succomb immediately to severe PTSD without a shot fired from the other side. Any thoughts?
Many are already suffering from PTSD after the Pretti-Good deaths. You can find them freaking on social media. "All MAGA are NAZIS! All NAZIS must die!!!"
Right you are, Hansen1. Consider that the "elites" are stoking this division, nurturing the indoctrinating NGO's, organizing the Minneapolis color revolution. I remember reading during the Summer of Saint Floyd, there were pallets of bricks conveniently located to areas of riotors, and TikTok seemed to be helpfully informing/directing participants.
In my view, not in any way negating the psychosis of the turbulent faction, there is an underlying antagnast in the shadows that is organizing and feeding the frenzy of what can only be described as an attempted insurrection... The "Color Revolutions" that we have so often birthed in a number of the world's nations for the greater majority of this century (and before) have finally come home to roost. The radical left is nothing but a tool being used to further an aim... and the master craftsman wielding that tool is a topic of much speculation... if the truth of the matter is ever made public, it may very well surprise most people.
DataRepublican and her interpreter were guests at the recent WEF meeting in Davos and her writeup on the experience (on X) was enlightening. She said that there's not a big conspiracy or a top-down plan. Instead, the WEF types are all pretty dumb and have similar goals so it works more like an autopilot hive mind.
That has been my take as well. There doesn't need to be central planning when no one thinks for himself anyway, much as an ant colony is not acting on the orders of an all-powerful queen.
The queen ant lays eggs... that's what she does. She does not give orders. She's an insect, and does not possess the conceptual ability or language ability to be a leader or to give orders. Instead, the workers do what they do based on instinct and pheromones emitted mostly by other workers.
The media don't need to be directed by the Dems to support their agenda. They just do, because they believe the same things. Teachers in school, the same way. They all have the same set of opinions on everything, so it works in a decentralized way without any top-down management.
There are, of course, some exceptions to this, like when someone from the Biden administration called Zuckerberg to demand even more censorship of non-leftist viewpoints than they were already doing on their own. If they demanded that with Facebook, it is a certainty that they did so with all of the other social media as well, not to mention the legacy media. Even without that, the media would have continued to act as good leftist soldiers, giving the DNC 24 hours of editorial (propaganda) content each day, completely free of charge.
When any one news station gets ahold of what they consider a good talking point, they all begin mindlessly repeating it, not because it has been dictated from on high, but because it resonates with them all in the same manner. Generally, these talking points are very stupid and utterly devoid of any logic or rationality, but that works perfectly for those who possess no capacity for logic or rationality.
What you’ve just described is termed by one (alleged) historian I follow, “working towards the Führer”. Here’s a bone for Leftists: In this particular example, yes, it apparently really is an historical reference to Herr Adolph himself. I lack the knowledge of history to verify his claim, but it seems logical, and I’ll explain how it’s relevant to the topic:
Supposedly, the Nazis were not the highly organized, super geniuses that modern mythology makes them out to be. Wartime Germany, Mr. X claims, was actually a rather chaotic anarchic system that more or less ran itself. Far from Adolph overseeing everything top-down, there were various fiefdoms basically doing their own thing. Now, we’re getting closer to what “working towards the Führer” meant. All these underlings in various positions of power may have had great autonomy, but they were still highly committed to the ideals of the cause. In the absence of actual directives from higher up, they had to GUESS what higher ups wanted...and that’s what their organization did.
Anyway, Mr. X uses this historical analogy to explain what Leftists do a lot of the time. While it can surely sometimes be the case that a particular operation, or a set of operations, may indeed have been directed by a highly placed individual or small group, that may not even be the typical explanation. A lot of the behavior really is organic, or emergent behavior. Many of the radicals would be aghast if someone told them they were “working towards the Führer.” But they probably are, or think they are, working towards the goals of The Revolution.
I have an unusual supporting source for that. Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee has a chapter in his autobiography "My Effin Life" about what his family went through as Jews in WW2. For me, by far the most unexpected material he included was the actual paperwork involved with his grandfather being gassed. The Nazis literally had to file forms in triplicate for ordering someone's death. Looking at the scans of those documents really drove home the phrase "the banality of evil" like nothing else in my life before it.
The parallels to the modern American "deep state" where the bureaucracy is the actual government and mostly operates as a self-licking ice cream cone outside of direct control by the President or Congress are pretty striking as well.
They are malevolent by our standards because they want to destroy something we know to be good and valuable. They're stupid, though, so they think the thing they want to destroy is bad and worthless. They think they're the good guys because they're too dumb to realize that they are not. Stupidity, thus, causes malevolence, or at least what is considered malevolence by those not stupid.
There are some truly evil people who would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, but they would be powerless without teeming hordes of useful idiots to do the work. The people out there confronting ICE, for example, are useful idiots. They believe whole-heartedly that ICE is just like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, and that they are the good guys in this conflict. They "know" what they need to do without being told by any central authority, and that is to believe exactly what everyone else in the left believes, and to wage war on anyone and anything that opposes it. That's why they go out and throw riots when ICE agents try to enforce a duly-enacted law that is supported by the large majority of Americans, and that is very much like the laws that every other country in the world also has.
These leftists accuse Trump and ICE of violating the principle of rule of law by enforcing the law, and they accuse Trump of being anti-democratic by doing what he promised he would do if elected. If they had any sense, they would recognize the contradiction immediately, but they don't. They hear politicians like Tim Walz and the Clintons spouting these lies, and they swallow them whole. And since rioting in favor of the left generally carries no consequences, they feel entitled to go right out and riot whenever something bothers them, without having any kind of centralized command structure or shot-caller deciding what the minions should do.
100%. I hope a lot of readers find their way to your comment...
A lot of my Trump-supporting friends are convinced of an elite cabal plotting the destruction of Western society with resounding success... but it just doesn't pass the logic test. The American Left is largely incompetent... they can't do anything on a personal level - like change a spark plug or install a ceiling fan -, much less manage organizations successfully. So it doesn't plot that they're expertly engineering the downfall of society to their benefit. They're just retarded, doing retarded things that have been massively destructive for everyone, including themselves. It's as simple as that.
The deep state would be powerless without the mindless minions.
People don't act like comic book villains who know they are villains, and who readily admit to being evil. Actual evil people think they are good... even those who make up the deep state. People will twist their views around in all sorts of ways in order to find a way to make themselves the good guys and to relieve the cognitive dissonance.
Most of the people who lead us, including members of the deep state, are very much stupid. They are malevolent to us, but in their own twisted worldview, they're the good guys. If they were less stupid, they would realize they are not. The percentage that know they are the bad guys, but who claim to be good in order to get others to help them do evil, I would say, is quite small. Most people are just too prone to groupthink and will readily delete any personal opinions to make room for the group opinion. They're empty-core people whose mind is software-defined, if you will.
To the empty-core individual, if the group says it's good, then it is good, because the empty-core person has no actual identity or mind until the group gives him one.
Even otherwise intelligent people can be stupid in this way. People who clearly demonstrate the ability to use logic in reason in some avenues of life will steadfastly refuse to question anything that threatens the existing identity that resides within their otherwise empty core. There's no one more stupid than an "intelligent" person with a bunch of college degrees to show how much indoctrination he has had to endure.
I mostly agree with your points. If you serve Lucifer and do evil, you do think it's good because the devil is your deity. But most of the "bad guys" know that they're doing evil, not good, and still choose to do it for money and power.
No organization is made up of leaders, it would implode. Finding blind followers who react to an environment (and how is that environment created?) does not refute the idea that there is affirmative leadership.
The WEF (in my estimation) is nothing more than a shit basket of self aggrandizing pompous asses on public display. They answer to the whims of a higher authority by doing their bidding for the sake of distraction. They perform their assigned rolls for the public's entertainment while the true seat of power surrounds itself in anonymity and is oblivious to the public eye.
Sorry for the delay; it's taken me a while to hunt it down. One reference: "...a 1999 book by two Chinese colonels called 'Unrestricted Warfare,' which called on the Chinese military to adopt unconventional methods and strategy in waging war, specifically both “financial” and “trade” war along with other forms of warfare..." from a 2/10/2010 Washington Times article by Bill Gertz. No actual link to the document, though. Subsequent Washington Times articles discuss other fields the Chinese military have developed as asymmetric warfare, e.g., cyber warfare and threats to the U.S. food supply. Most pertinent to our discussion is the one on TikTok:
"Chinese communist, military writings reveal plans for strategic influence operations through TikTok"
See Promethean Action for some theories. One of the CIA operatives in various past color revolutions is in position in MN. Somewhere else I read that there are 40k (?) ex CIA affiliated operatives who live in the US who know all about how to manage a color revolution. And since they are not IN the CIA they can’t be FOIA’d. Data Republican often follows the funding of the ones involved (eg in signalgate).
I, along with everyone else, am merely speculating... but it's my opinion that the power-central is a centuries-old multi-headed Leviathan located in the midst of a European island nation's capital city... first created by the Romans... And in light of several recent events, my belief in my speculation has only grown stronger.
There's plenty of studies bubbling up that demonstrate the link between liberal women and SSRI use, but the conversation that no one wants to have publicly (yet) is the long term effect of birth control on women. I have a hunch that being on something that drastically affects our hormones might factor into the anxiety riddled hard left turn that women have taken over the past couple of generations.
It's not just that we're meant to be having children, it's that taking a substance that effectively tricks our bodies into thinking its pregnant for an extended period of our lives can't be healthy for us, biologically or psychologically.
Underappreciated point. These hormones exaggerate emotion. Considering those most likely to take them tend towards the overwound end of the scale already...
I just looked her up, and the first line about her on the googles is "promotes conspiracy theories". I'm going to like her a lot. Thanks for the rec! :D
Our nose ring gal says the ring signals that she is a safe space. She then makes it clear that this safe space is reserved only for the woke. This sentiment is true of all hard core ideologies, but the adherents always think they are on the side of virtue. Is it any different when we hear that Islam is a peaceful religion?
What will the psychic toll on these neurotics from nearly 10 straight years of being fed morning outrage by their social network? When they cannot convert their circle to share their personal anger, some will be too unstable to punch themselves out.
Black pill: if you look up what this means, it means the facts you say will soon come to light will have no effect on them. Facts are irrelevant to a narcissist, it is 100% about seeing other people seeing you the way you want to be seen. Hence nosering theory prover. Hence the blow-ups when confronted with facts that don't show them how they want to see shown. See: narcissistic injury.
Rings are attached to noses of cattle and livestock in order for them to be easily led.
Why should it be different for humans?
Yes, symbols manifest real consequences in the real world. Donning a nose ring is announcing to the universe that you wish to be led.
Or just an idiot.
My vote is with “idiot”
And its also an announcement for attention. Ironically, these same people will set upon you if you embody the type of attention they do not want.
Yaaa, the he center nose rings most particularly.
To answer your (rhetorical) question, it isn’t any different. The Nose-Ring People are un-redeemably brainwashed by their tribal leaders. Can’t think for themselves. They need, must have, someone lead them to the trough of propaganda they can’t survive without, repeating their mantras like parrots, hungry for a cracker from their handlers. In a generation or two their breed will have died out. Thankfully.
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And yet, ironically, here I am, reading this content...
They are not "unredeemable." I think there comes a time, after enough head butts with reality where it becomes clear that what is continues to conflict with what they believe is.
Nose rings are also used to keep the young being weaned from sucking things they shouldn’t when removed from the mother. They will suck on anything, such as the umbilical of other young. Weaning is a natural part of growth. But nose rings are also used on pigs to discourage rooting, even though rooting is natural. Why would people want nose rings.
They're wonderful things to hold your snot when you have a bad cold. 😉😊😋
Ewww
Exactly how I feel about nose rings and the things that wear them.
It wasn’t intended as a riddle, but I will break form to turn it into one.
The difference between nose rings in animals vs humans is that the humans place the rings themselves - because they are already led.
The jewelry isn’t necessary for the dependent condition, but it is a sure indicator of a weak mind.
Me thinks this is an apt description.
FWIW, people with nose rings are not pleasant to the eye, but more importantly they are using it to display their enslavement.
If we used animal models, then these are using media to advertise their beta profiles. Slaves, maybe, but serfdom might be more apt. Fealty is much more common in human history than its opposite.
They are so repugnant. Even worse are the multiple chains and stuff.
Ugh!
When every looney woman has a nose ring they will need a new way to distinguish themselves: numbered ear tags.
QR....
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Some people have never been out of a city. They likely need to look up the definition of "stockyard" let alone "abattoir."
(The "OK" gave you away.)
A great observation!
And you can tell the ones that have volunteered to be lead around by the nose.
An apt comment from an appropriate screen name. How many fingers, Winston?
THERE ARE THREE LIGHTS - Picard.
I understand that it has also been used to indicate that the nose ring wearer is a slave. I guess they're slaves to their narratives.
In my experience it's only the bulls that get nose-rings because their hormones and musculature are such that they are liable to get a little crazeee and wreck stuff and hurt people without an enhanced means of keeping them under control. So yeah, 'safe space,' sort of thing. Snap a lead on 'er and we'll be fine!
The technique is dying out with more domestic breeds and breeding, and less taming of wild or free roaming stock.
Is it possible that the biological detritus floating about and sticking to the inside of each nostril somehow migrated its nasty, infectious self into her bloodstream and then took up residence in her two remaining brain cells as a low-grade but mentally incapacitating infection? Or, perhaps, a kill switch activated when a wayward molecule contained within the horrid Covid vaccine found a susceptible vessel possessing no ability to resist and began folding wildly, like Mad Cow disease prions until all that was left of that organ was nothing, not even the holes that had once made it resemble a wheel of Swiss cheese. This midwit seems to have entered this final phase.
"biological detritus floating about " is what I'm seeing more and more of these days.
:'( 26 yo in and out of hosp with heart problems. cancers. Recurrances of cancers. That's just what I heard about today (that I can remember - I'm thinking there was more) - kidney disease, blood pressure, anaemia.... (this is just talking to friends, a dinner of 6)
And now that I've read it, I can't unsee it!
I think you are overestimating her intelligence. I’d call her a midwit.
My fingers got ached of my eye! I meant to say…nitwit.
Transparency is nice though. I won't believe a word Israel says about Gaza until journalists are allowed in.
Any bull than can be led by the nose is definitely suffering Low T.
🤣 a steer
“She won’t wear a ring on her finger so no man can tie her down, but she wears one in her nose so he can pull her around.”
Two Girls in One by the criminally overlooked band The Pursuit of Happiness
Gotta steal that one!
Also nuking reality for the left: Antifa/Vanilla ISIS's central command and control system was broken into and disabled. And separately, a complete list of names, addresses, and phone numbers of contributors to StopICE.net (which tracks suspected ICE vehicles) was exfil'd and sent to the FBI, DHS, ICE, and selected X users. StopICE.net itself was hacked to show meme pictures of Tom Homan and send text messages to all users telling them the FBI was on the way to their house. (The owner has since repaired the site but they're apparently so incompetent that it's become a running battle over who's controlling the thing).
Reddit is absolutely melting down about this. One user there said she was going to stop wearing her nose ring "to try and blend in", which is either a masterful troll or the least self-aware post in the history of social media.
Vanilla ISIS is amazing.
Not my coinage, and I forget where I saw it first, but it *is* perfect.
If there's a problem, yo, they'll solve it.
And they've been taken down because Walz stopped, collaborated (with the feds), and listened (to Trump).
Anything less than the best is a felony.
Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know.
I hear that Seattle has decided that they don’t need no stinkin Signal Chat. They’ll just the Police.
In Minneapolis they're apparently going with some kind of ham radio setup, which is kinda interesting since that stuff's highly regulated by the FCC.
This is the first time I have heard it as well. And in the wise words of a smart cat on the internet, someone will make a meme out of this and it will be brilliant , they probably done it already ,I'm usually the last to find these things out. Spend a lot of time Outdoors no phone
same. I use my phone to stream xm radio - always music, mostly classical
So mainly you listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, etc?
yeah, all of the old stuff. Absolutely
I absolutely love "tongue-in-cheek" humor. LOL!~
not metal in nose humor?
Nope! I see no humor in metal in the nose... ;)
I concur. Will be perpetuating.
I hear that Seattle has decided that they don’t need no stinkin Signal Chat, “observers”. They’ll just use the Police. Should be fun times.
Quite clever, unlike the nose ring Stepford rioters.
Given the composition of each group, I wonder who would be more upset with the comparison, ISIS or Antifa?
Believe it or not, it’s Trevor Noah’s coinage. So he was funny at least once.
Aw man. I'll still pretend it's Ian Schmidt's.
Noah was funny once? Credit where due, that's one more time than Colbert.
Did Trevor Noah write his own material?
A TV comedian write his own material? I'm gonna press X to Doubt on that one.
But he was the first guy to say "Vanilla ISIS" publicly.
As is Vanilla ICE, which probably captures the left's view of them.
Yeah. Absolutely.
I kind of want to sign up and make comments... something like, what should I do about my nose ring infection?
This makes me really happy
I suspect this is very much an urban phenomenon.
Out here in rural Australia, living off grid (literally and metaphorically), reality is the necessity of growing food, producing our own power, collecting and storing water.
Bushfires, floods, droughts, wild animals including kangaroos and snakes are our reality.
No "collective" out here.
No "nose ring girls".
Only individual agency.
Our joys are grounded in nature, not post-modernist victim group identities.
Very much so. Minnesota has 87 counties, and only 9 of them went to Harris in 2024. Unfortunately, one of them (Hennepin) contains Minneapolis, over a fifth of the state's population, and all the fraud we're just starting to learn about.
Many US states are that way. Illinois went 88/14 R/D by county in 2024, but Cook County has 40% of the state's population and a reputation for election fraud going back to the 1960s, so the D's control the state. The US isn't really red state versus blue state; it's blue urban islands surrounded by a sea of red.
Minnesota has had socialist leanings going way back, and Minnesota Nice made them an easy target for the supposed do-gooders and their "refugees." But there's always a big difference between urban and rural, and you can bet the people chasing ICE around didn't drive in from the farm to do it.
True. I live in one of the red Illinois counties. It’s very quiet. On No Kings day a tiny group of mostly women stood with makeshift signs around our fiberglass town mascot. Frankly, it was a spot on to the moment animal mascot. 🤣🤣🤣.
It has gotten worse in the last few decades. The counties surrounding Cook used to be called "the collar counties." DuPage, Will, and Kane. They were a GOP stronghold. Now they're blue. No idea how much of that is voter fraud... certainly a substantial portion. If we eradicated voter fraud completely, the Dems would never win again.
That’s happening in Rochester ny as well. Monroe county used to be firmly red, and the city was considered purple. Then the city turned black, and now the county is purple leaning blue.
Rockford News reported three businesses shut down in protest. Many comments said they would not visit those places.
Illinois is degrading by the week. The laws are favoring criminals. And Carville says Pritzker’s the best the Dems have for 2028. I dread when Democrats get back in power because they are already threatening us.
Yes. But Illinois has always been a crap state. I was born in it almost 78 years ago. Escaped once for a few years. The people around me are level headed and I could care less about the rest of the puddin’ heads. Not much I can do about it but pray.
I hear you. I’ve been here for forty years. It’s not been an easy place to make and keep friends. (I came fro upstate New York.) There’s a real culture of death here. And don’t get me started on how Pritzker took away counties’ rights to make ordinances for renewables.
I’ve always lived in small towns here. Champaign was the largest, while hubby went to uni of Illinois, so we don’t deal with big city life All my closer friends are democrats. I used to be one and now find I have no one to talk to about our current situation. Nobody. Not even my husband, so I come to Substack. It’s frustrating. I don’t really have the energy now to get out and make new friends. At our age there are different priorities. My hubby is not well, too big house, too much stuff, our kid is 1000 miles away, etc. But still, we live around some beautiful nature areas and still hike, camp and get out around us and to different areas out West like Wyoming. I love that state. My political action days are over. I was very active during Bush 2 but lost the will.
Rochester, buffalo and Syracuse have all turned into cesspools of filth. It’s sad, really. I’m from there originally as well. But a waterfront home in Florida a five mile boat ride to the Atlantic, cost 1/5 what a waterfront/icefront home costs in Rochester. Kind of a no brainer.
Yes, Illinois HAS always been a crap state. A state run by the mob.
At least under Daly they prioritized the businesses and tourism. Chicago was a gorgeous place to live and a destination for tourists. Sinatra sang “My Kind of Town”. There were beautiful vacation spots and scenery. The mafia took care of the people even as they filled their own pockets and scratched one another’s backs. Cabrini Green was under control. I used to take the train from the Western suburbs to down town all the time. All gone. I wouldn’t set foot in the place now.
I think the right is insane to not take the threats made by D's of what they will do when in power seriously. Leticia James should be the flashing warning sign. Take them at their word. If they say they are going to round you up and put you in prison for supporting Trump/ICE, that they will seek the death penalty against you, stack the courts, do their will unto us when they get power next: BANK ON IT! They will. It's not just hyperbole, empty threats. They mean it. They mean a cultural revolution, struggle sessions, public executions, Little Red Book uprising that will seek and destroy any who are not one of them.
We have reached a them or us place in history. Either we take them out first. Or they will take us out next. Fact. Ugly, sad fact of it. They mean every word. And must NEVER be allowed to gain power again. Or we will have ourselves to blame for not acting preemptively when we still could...as we face the angry screaming mob with an insane, propagandized 18-year-old firing a bullet into our head. Them's the stakes.
Yes. We should definitely take them at their word. They are saying the quiet part out loud. I too am shocked the Republicans aren’t taking their words more seriously. I think the only thing that will save us is a wave of repentance, of the people crying fascist taking a hard look at the fascist in them.
Here in Illinois Raja is running for Durban’s seat. His ads are slick and expensive. Who is paying for it. I am not aware of any Republicans running for that seat.
I had a conversation with a retired cop. He told me that the current governor's grandfather was Al Capone's accountant and that the Hyatt hotel chain was started by laundering cash through real estate, namely the Hotel Hyatt in Los Angeles.
Hearsay evidence, of course, but it fits my general experience of Chicago, over and above the city's incompetent "professional" sports teams.
I believe it
MN caucuses Feb 3. Show up.
A political area is red if 50%+1 vote red, but it can contain a lot of blue. My neighborhood is mostly red but there are blue people a few houses away. In the early 2000s a Princeton math professor I know made a map based on vote totals in each district and most of the country was purple - a mixture of blue and red, just slightly left or right of center, with a few extremes.
Same for Colorado.
Cook County, IL has been a center of fraud and crime going back to the 1920's at least. The last Republican mayor of Chicago was William Thompson who left office in 1931. He was also corrupt.
How far back in history do you want to go when it comes to civic corruption?
Other than some uneducated and ignorant youthful idiots not much “protesting” here in the middle of nowhere on California’s Central Coast. 240 miles to LA and 240 to San Francisco, so literally in the middle, an isolated enclave. The main problem is a college, Cal Poly, which attracts people that normally wouldn’t even have given the area a glance. Mark Twain would say that “there’s no here, here!” Cheers 👍🏼😎🏄🏽♂️
Cal Poly SLO - very fond memories of that place from my youth.
Its sister school in Pomona used to be fairly conservative by collegiate standards, but that was decades ago.
I’ll assume that your youth was a few decades back(like mine!) Poly has changed much since then, as most halls of higher education have. The applied motto of “learning by doing” has become difficult, as you’d imagine, especially post-covid 😬
Not necessarily. I live in "rural" New Mexico just north of Santa Fe. The women I know there don't wear nose rings, but they subscribe to exactly the same set of beliefs as expressed by the nose ring wearer. They post a lot of signs saying "resist". Too damn bad they didn't resist but instead complied with all the covid insanity.
I live in Missouri. All my friends are Trump supporters. My health care providers seem absolutely based and normal but after watching all the TokToks since poor Charlie Kirk was offed, I'm afraid to breathe a word around them about current events for fear I wouldn't leave their offices alive.
I'm afraid of the "leftists". There are very few open supporters of Trump around the liberal, blue state of NM. I'm not a Trump supporter but neither was I a kamala/biden supporter. If the pack sniffs out that you might agree with some of the stuff Trump did, definitely not all, they will attack. The Sierra Club is so corrupt and it has the state legislators in its pocket. They are on track for mandating electric vehicles in the 5th largest state with a lot of distance between cities. Our doctors are generally the dregs. NM is 49th in health. I don't know what benighted state is lower. I can hardly imagine.
Same in yoga classes; except your health is not at stake; just your well-being.
That’s not normal.
I am confused; health care providers are not a monolithic group, the training does not require a political agenda. If they seem based, most likely they are based. Plenty of non progressive physicians, nurses , etc.
I bought a ‘64 Chevy in Espanola 40 years ago. Lovely country up there. Salsa verde!
Lovely country, yes. But here are some statistics.
The crime rate in Espanola, NM is notably high. Here are some key statistics:
The overall crime rate is 13 crimes per one thousand residents, which is considerably higher than the national average.
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The 2020 crime index for Espanola was 330, which is 1.4 times higher than the U.S. average.
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The violent crime rate stands at 95.8, significantly exceeding the U.S. average of 22.7.
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These statistics indicate that Espanola has a serious crime issue compared to national averages.
Then there's this
Drug addiction seeped into the Española Valley after the Vietnam War as heroin, cocaine and other drugs flowed in from Mexico. Heroin settled in hard for years, tearing through families, ravaging livelihoods and scattering lean-tos and broken men beneath bridges. But over the last two years, the market has been taken over by fentanyl, which is cut with other substances and at times is so potent that it can take at least two doses of Narcan to revive an overdose victim.
Boy, that’s some sad numbers…
Taos, per chance?
Espanola. I've lived here for 53 years. Now I'm too old to move.
I know where you live…. Small community in some of the most beautiful in the world!
It would be really fun if they made a movie about someone like you visiting a big city in the US, maybe New York, and all the Hijinx that would ensue from the differences in perspective.
Maybe call it "Kangaroo Dundee"!
great idea!
🤔😳😬😄
Out here in West Texas, much the same. Even the nose/ringed, weird hair color people are relatively calm. Maybe Pol Pot was on to something: empty the cities. Except don’t murder the people evicted.
It’s not just an urban phenomenon, but a wealthy, mostly white, over “educated,” urban phenomenon.
… unfortunately emotional white liberal women 😬
Lucky you
It is a blessed existence.
Even with the snakes!
Divorced guy here. I went on a second date with this spunky gal yesterday. Took her kayaking on a local lake, beautiful afternoon. I pulled out my local parks pass for entry to the launch and she said, “good thing that’s not a national parks pass.” “Why?” Said I. “Because the new one has a picture of Trump on it. And if you deface it, it invalidates the pass.” Silence from me. “I hate him sooo much!” More silence. First time I saw the female Trump rage up close. One of my buddies has TDS but I just make fun of him then we have another beer. Was a decent date, good paddler which is hard to find…I should probably cut bait now. Once she sees the “Cats for Trump 2024” lawn sign on my garage wall she’ll bolt anyhow.
Cut and run. Change your number. Don’t delay.
Sorry to hear that, but I gotta agree, thats a helluva red flag.
That sort of thing is keeping me from trying out the dating market post-widowhood. A nice mountain hike can get really long when the other person is spouting weird ass political bullshit at random stimuli.
charlie, I'm retired and picked up a very part time job last January taking care of plants (watering, etc) for banks and businesses in my area. I work with 2 other retired women. TDS syndrome has been rampant... they have no information. When one cheered the death of "the racist nazi" meaning Charlie Kirk I spoke up, loud and clear and said, "I'm pretty disgusted that you would cheer the death of anyone, and have you ever listened to him speak?" She said, "of course not! Why would I?" I said, "because I have listened to him speak often and none of what you are saying is true. You're forming your opinions because someone is telling what and how to think. You aren't a critical thinker, you are being lied to and led around by the nose." She had no reply, didn't hold it against me, I'd say we are quite friendly and I'm able to get in a few "truths" now and then. My point is, I'm really glad I spoke up. 🤗
I'm international. And people here don't want to go to the USA - not even for a holiday, as long as Orange Man Bad is in the White House. I'm like - you know - the Grand Canyon is still the same . . . Disneyland/world is still the same. . . . I'll bet you could go and not even meet the man!
What a bookend to the nose ring comments!
Yes!!!
I’m so glad you had this experience! With younger women, at least in my field (the arts, ugh), this kind of rebuttal would just get you labeled as the usual “fascist” or whatever.
Oh, she holds it against you, alright. She’s just biding her time to zap you. They never forget…
Hubbs and I just moved to an old ppl neighborhood (not fenced in or such) single houses etc... and the guy across the street met a superb woman on some Christian Singles webpage.
We do live in Northern Virginia 35 miles west of the sewer.... and she did move up from North Carolina. I love her too now!
you should paddle fast, very fast away from this one.
What Ruth said. Cut your losses now and RUN.
My wife refers to this phenomenon brilliantly: “Trump Tourette’s.”
It can strike at any time.
This almost exactly mirrors a date I had around 2024... even went kayaking, like you. We had a lot of fun. Ended up hanging out for hours...the political divide between us came up, but we had so much fun, we both just ignored it for a while.
I'll save you a lot of time... it won't work. The dynamic will be defined by how much you keep silent every time she subtly virtue-signals all the standard AWFL values. You can keep things diplomatic while you have a little fun.. but eventually you'll have to face the reality that she likely doesn't understand herself: she absolutely hates you.
awww so sorry. There are great women out there.
Go to church, lots of conservative women!
Yeah I’ve been thinking about that. Problem is I cherish my fellowship with nature Sunday mornings. Great time to be out on the trails because everybody is at church. It’s a conundrum!
Oh my I might want to check out those NP passes. Although it is sure to cause a family argument or two. Oh well.
dratz, I have a NP pass (free for oldsters?) but mine does not have President Trump on it.
The new one does. I looked it up. He’s on there with George Washington. It’s kinda tacky to be honest, but it’s nothing to cry about.
That's the one you kick out of your car and leave on the side of the road. Seeing as how you were on a lake, assuming the kayaks were solo I think paddling away would've been acceptable. And if the kayak was a 2-seater, then kicking her out of the kayak also would've been acceptable. F them and their holier than thou sanctimony that they expect us to cater to. Make them the pariah, we have to stop being ok being their victim.
As a fairly affluent, white, (sub)urban woman, I feel how I imagine regular black people must have felt during the BLM protests. "Please don't lump me in with the crazies!"
Similarly, if you meet a legal black immigrant, don't ever get them started on the subject of American blacks. (Actually do, it's hilarious).
Of course, rarely does one stop to ponder why anyone ever thought it was a particularly good idea, or of possible problems that might occur downstream from even having legal...
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Or how about a conservative / religious Jew and the commie Jews who support Hamas?
It seems we all have our evil dopplegangers.
J.J. Sefton from Ace of Spades calls them "self-gassing Jews". Inability to distinguish them from actual practicing Jews is what fuels the likes of Candace Owens.
Try harder Paula, you can do it! 😉
Ditto :)
Just FYI gato malo -
Your writing has really been very helpful for my thinking. The CEOs of Substack have now put out a message in support of Don Lemon - and how dare we violate his First Amendment rights -
I am going to wait a day or two to see if there is blowback - but if not - I will be immediately cancelling all subs - and that will include yours. I want you to know this has nothing to do with you. This has everything to do with lawbreaking behavior being excused in our society.
Would it be more constructive instead to write back to the CEOs of Substack with a polite argument as to why Don Lemon's arrest is not a violation of the First Amendment? Lemon was arrested for participating in an unprovoked assault by an aggressive political group on a peaceful group that was not involved in politics. Would they equally support a 'journalist' who ran with the Ku Klux Klan and joined them in invading a Black church while it was in session, taking over the service to intimidate them and abuse them for their race, and who peppered the pastor with hostile questions during the disruption for the story he would report on the incident he caused?
If the CEOs of Substack are putting themselves on record as supporting Don Lemon on grounds of the First Amendment, then that is a good thing for those of us who read and post here. They may be misguided, or they may be smartly positioning themselves against leftist bullies. Either way, it seems to herald a principled continuation of their protection of freedom of speech on this platform.
No
I am done
You should contribute some blowback. Might encourage others.
I’ve done my part on that. First thing after reading the post.
Has gato's stuff REALLY been helpful to you? Have you actually READ any of it, including THIS article?
Gato publishes on Substack, Gato doesn't administer it. Unsubbing him or anyone else published here because of Management is akin to burning a phonebook because you don't like ads in the Yellow Pages.
This seems like backhanded virtue-signaling (to your tribe members, which include--uncomfortably for me--Gato's readers, too, I presume?) Maybe a moment of reflection is in order?
I didn't mean this to sound so harsh. It surprised me in its stark reflection of the material presented in this posting. Is this what "being triggered" feels like?
I have just decided that I am no longer going to tolerate things in life that are blatantly illegal. What Don Lemon does was against the law. Based on what I am seeing all over substack tonight - they may have dealt themselves quite the setback.
Virtue signaling? No - I don’t virtue signal. However, if you would like to look at a classic case of virtue signalling - just go to the substack CEOs post from earlier today - of course posted on deep Friday afternoon -
All of his best stuff is free anyway. I appreciate him for that.
I think the CEO of substance needs to read this piece by Jeffrey Mead. https://substack.com/@thejefferymead/note/p-186370882?r=u27tx
Canceling our substack authors seems counterproductive but you do what works for you.
Freedom of assembly- the church -is also a human right.
I say this as a normie pagan who doesn't want these types up in their grill either.
Don Lemon, Candace Owens, you have gone full Geraldo Rivera. I only hope you are flushed twice as fast.
ProTip: Don't go full Geraldo Rivera. *
* At the same time Danny Casolero was dead in a bath tub for real investigative reporting.
I saw what you mentioned about the Substack guys. I roasted them as best as I could. But, too many good people and posts for me to leave. I understand your position, but I’m thinking folks like you are needed here.
Although I don't plan to quit Substack, I can empathize. For a few years I was a paid supporter of an artist based on Patreon. Patreon did some kind of foolish censorship that I didn’t approve of. While it didn’t affect “my” artist, I sent them a sad Dear John letter telling them that I didn’t pay to support censorship and I was quitting their service and suggested they might do the same.
This has got to be a parody. You sound just like the folks gato writes about. It’s the SubStack handlers your beef is with, not the independents writers. Send your message directly to them.
Where were the first amendment rights of those who chose to gather peacefully in their place of worship? Being screamed at with bullhorns? Next they'll be defending someone entering a crowded theater yelling, "FIRE"
I wonder if Bill Rice has seen this....... 🤔
Glad someone is finally pointing out the gaping gender sieve to all of this. It really is quite startling.
Check out Helen Andrews’ take on it. Can be found readily on the Internet. The idea is females have suddenly dominated academia, the justice system, the education system, and book publishing, and because of females’ natural bent, they tend to avoid hard law and tend toward empathic solutions, instead. (She says it much better than that)
The Longhouse is no basis for a system of government.
Or for a less serious take look up Adam Corolla's rant about gyno-fascism. Maybe it will be ridicule that sabotages the insanity.
Some (dissident) conservative bloggers opine that the female involvement in major power centers, indeed near-total domination of certain compartments, poses very serious societal risks, indeed perhaps even "national suicide" level ones. While I’ll be the first to admit I’m a card-carrying misogynist, far be it from me to say that women must be excluded form everything and their roles in society limited. If you want that, just hop a plane to a conservative Muslim nation. I AM saying (or more honestly, I share the opinion of the paleo-conservativew) that having power centers that are almost exclusively female invites all types of problems that do not occur if the same organization were male run. For reasons, you simply can’t run (say) a military command center, or even the boardroom of a corporation using the same values systems one would use to run a Montessori kindergarten. Folks, there are only so many offices we can put these “box tickers” into before they start encroaching into critical positions. You know, the ones where poor decisions have real-world consequences: profit and loss, safety vs. injury and death. Already in recent news we've had judges (female, if I'm not mistaken) that have refused to allow a suspect to be charged, or overturned a jury verdict in a criminal trial. I don't know their reasons, but is "I refuse to do this because it'd be mean!" sound reasoning for a legal system?
Pessimist that I am, I think we may already be too far down the road to prevent whatever disasters await us, and perhaps not in the too-distant future.
“Did you hear what that bitch Becky did over in the other office? Well, fuck her! I’ll show her up!”
I am a woman and I approve this message. Unfortunately. After all, who encouraged who to eat The Apple? Yeah, the one with the uterus. We are different in every way from men and have strengths in areas that they don't. Women will be whatever a man wants/needs them to be, until they get a ring on it. Then look out. If they were pretending to be something they are not, the duped man's life is about to become enslavement to the bat-shit crazy triangle shaped patch of fur with a mentally unstable body attached to it. Watch where you put your Mini-Me guys!!
*I am editing this to say "some women" because there are exceptions to everything. I am a unicorn. And there are more of us out there, you just have to look. We tend to already be attached to men who intrinsically value who we are. If you are in the market for a good woman, might I suggest looking at her parents? Are they still happily married? Is she well adjusted? Did she hunt, fish and camp before you came along? Might be a keeper. If there is fake inside, chances are it shows on the outside, with the filler, lips, eyebrows and mandatory mani-pedis. Just an observation from the inside.
What you wrote is a lot of what Helen Andrews writes about. She's not implying that females are intrinsically evil, for one thing. She also stresses the average behaviors characterized as either "female" or "male" represents averages in distributions that overlap. The trouble with bringing this up, as an obvious fact (women and men, on average, behave differently) is it brings on the usual accusations of sexism, misogyny, etc. Well, I guess, bring it on!
For a simple, potent real world example there was a fairly serious flu epidemic in 1968. At that time, the Health Departments of all the major cities were led by men--I went back and checked.
When Covid hit what about the Health Departments in New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta? ALL led by women, every one of them. Think that might have had impact on issues like lockdowns, business closings which resulted in a different approach?
I have been saying for years that the femlib movement of the 60/70s was one of the most destructive things to happen to this country. The latest Klusterfuck Nation explains a view.
everything that happened in the 60's was a disaster.
Aw, I was married in 1964. Til death did we part. He died in 2017. So not everything was a disaster.
oH I am so sorry. No the 60s was okay for many of us
They do neglect to add the fact that it's insane women AND gay men.
Not that you can tell the difference much of the time. 😖
I think that's what the pronouns are for maybe, trying to tell the difference. Usually it just confuses things more though.
She’s a safe space? For whom? Terrorists, communists and criminals? The sexually twisted and perverted? Scary. What a horrible way to live.
"Modern" women are the farthest thing from a safe space for men. They're the reason so many have given up on the idea of romance/love and joined the "men going their own way" movement. The biggest part of this is that women, and in particular those left of center, are far too dangerous to even get near, let alone fraternize with.
Agreed. Although there are plenty of crazy men, crazy women definitely outnumber them. Man or woman, if you are looking for a spouse, or a happy life, it is beyond stupid to jump into a relationship with someone you barely know. And many unfortunate souls have discovered that merely being adjacent to, or noticed by, a crazy person is enough to demolish your life.
Exactly! As another women listening to her rant, she seems unhinged and is pretty scary in my eyes! It's embarassing to hear these fellow females go nuts. Ranting against anyone who doesn't subscribe to the latest outrage regarding Trump or ICE or whatever has become the lefts' favorite pastime. It's getting pretty old and all of this venting is wasting valuable time and energy. None of these outraged individuals actually present possible solutions to the problems that we face as a nation. They just complain and do it loudly. Rinse and repeat.
I wonder if eff everything nose ring woman is also a nurse?
At this point the memes are creating themselves.
If not a nurse then a school teacher. You know, a member of the "helping" professions.
I have a neighbor whose cats regularly use my garden as their litterbox. The side door opens, the cat climbs the fence, jumps down, heads for the garden and does it's business. One day, while prepping my garden, my hands hit a fairly fresh pile. And then a second one. And I lose it.
I bag them both, walk over to their front door and knock. No answer. I know they're there.
I go back to my yard and thumbtack the bag and a note to their side of the fence. Essentially saying I've tried chemicals, physical barriers (spikes on the fence and spiky branches in the garden, etc) and even motion activated sprinklers). I tell them to take care of their cats or I will.
The next day their daughter (I've never met her before, and didn't know her name) comes over, spouting psychobabble stuff, telling me I'm mentally ill, and that if I ever threaten her parents again, she will kill me.
Within minutes, I looked her up online.(property records, unusual last name, search engine) Yup, a child care worker.
Her dad comes over the next day, saying perhaps we've gotten off on the wrong foot. I said his daughter (and I named her) threatened me the day before. He asks, are you sure it's ____? I said yes, it's her. He was stunned for a second and then said, I told her not to come over here.
And yes the daughter is going for a psychology degree. I sometimes wonder how stable some therapists are. And it makes sense that there are a bunch of power hungry therapist wanna-be's at CPS.
That is quite a tale, and I fear such encounters are far too common in today’s society. I am sorry that you are forced to endure such an unsympathetic figure as your neighbor. Maybe her dad can rein her in. And and as for this woman training to be a psychotherapist that comes as little surprise. A lot of people get into the field in an effort to fix their own problems - or in an effort to fix other people’s problems in order to avoid dealing with their own.
I think to some degree it’s a generational issue. I wrote about this a few months back as the anti Trump/ Musk adult tantrums began picking up steam.
https://newconsiderist.substack.com/p/the-minivan-generation-grows-up
The only thing that gives me any comfort about the rabidity of Democrats is they are about to become the dog that catches the car. Their supporters are not mentally prepared for any kind of real military engagement and are so mentally ill or fragile, they will succomb immediately to severe PTSD without a shot fired from the other side. Any thoughts?
Many are already suffering from PTSD after the Pretti-Good deaths. You can find them freaking on social media. "All MAGA are NAZIS! All NAZIS must die!!!"
The elites are laughing at the civil war being created, rather than the revolution that’s needed against the deep state and the swamp.
You'll never get the Progressive retards to see it.
That’s an eternal truth right there.
Right you are, Hansen1. Consider that the "elites" are stoking this division, nurturing the indoctrinating NGO's, organizing the Minneapolis color revolution. I remember reading during the Summer of Saint Floyd, there were pallets of bricks conveniently located to areas of riotors, and TikTok seemed to be helpfully informing/directing participants.
It’s gotten even more sophisticated since then. The sad part(among many!) is how unaware the sheeple are of how they’re(we all are!) being played.
Hansen1 - like. my like button doesn't work. Thanks sub stack.
I’ll like his comment on your behalf.
Thanks.
Yet they are the Socialist Workers Party.
Since it spans the continent, the National Socialist Workers Party; in its previous incarnation, NSDAP, the D being for Deutsche, of course.
The D is for douche...
Yes, or Dumbsh*t...dullard, dolt, dimwhitted, I could go on.
Most NAZIs carry. 😉😊😋🤣🤣🤣
In my view, not in any way negating the psychosis of the turbulent faction, there is an underlying antagnast in the shadows that is organizing and feeding the frenzy of what can only be described as an attempted insurrection... The "Color Revolutions" that we have so often birthed in a number of the world's nations for the greater majority of this century (and before) have finally come home to roost. The radical left is nothing but a tool being used to further an aim... and the master craftsman wielding that tool is a topic of much speculation... if the truth of the matter is ever made public, it may very well surprise most people.
DataRepublican and her interpreter were guests at the recent WEF meeting in Davos and her writeup on the experience (on X) was enlightening. She said that there's not a big conspiracy or a top-down plan. Instead, the WEF types are all pretty dumb and have similar goals so it works more like an autopilot hive mind.
I don't believe that.
Neither do I.
Nope. Me neither
That has been my take as well. There doesn't need to be central planning when no one thinks for himself anyway, much as an ant colony is not acting on the orders of an all-powerful queen.
The queen ant lays eggs... that's what she does. She does not give orders. She's an insect, and does not possess the conceptual ability or language ability to be a leader or to give orders. Instead, the workers do what they do based on instinct and pheromones emitted mostly by other workers.
The media don't need to be directed by the Dems to support their agenda. They just do, because they believe the same things. Teachers in school, the same way. They all have the same set of opinions on everything, so it works in a decentralized way without any top-down management.
There are, of course, some exceptions to this, like when someone from the Biden administration called Zuckerberg to demand even more censorship of non-leftist viewpoints than they were already doing on their own. If they demanded that with Facebook, it is a certainty that they did so with all of the other social media as well, not to mention the legacy media. Even without that, the media would have continued to act as good leftist soldiers, giving the DNC 24 hours of editorial (propaganda) content each day, completely free of charge.
When any one news station gets ahold of what they consider a good talking point, they all begin mindlessly repeating it, not because it has been dictated from on high, but because it resonates with them all in the same manner. Generally, these talking points are very stupid and utterly devoid of any logic or rationality, but that works perfectly for those who possess no capacity for logic or rationality.
What you’ve just described is termed by one (alleged) historian I follow, “working towards the Führer”. Here’s a bone for Leftists: In this particular example, yes, it apparently really is an historical reference to Herr Adolph himself. I lack the knowledge of history to verify his claim, but it seems logical, and I’ll explain how it’s relevant to the topic:
Supposedly, the Nazis were not the highly organized, super geniuses that modern mythology makes them out to be. Wartime Germany, Mr. X claims, was actually a rather chaotic anarchic system that more or less ran itself. Far from Adolph overseeing everything top-down, there were various fiefdoms basically doing their own thing. Now, we’re getting closer to what “working towards the Führer” meant. All these underlings in various positions of power may have had great autonomy, but they were still highly committed to the ideals of the cause. In the absence of actual directives from higher up, they had to GUESS what higher ups wanted...and that’s what their organization did.
Anyway, Mr. X uses this historical analogy to explain what Leftists do a lot of the time. While it can surely sometimes be the case that a particular operation, or a set of operations, may indeed have been directed by a highly placed individual or small group, that may not even be the typical explanation. A lot of the behavior really is organic, or emergent behavior. Many of the radicals would be aghast if someone told them they were “working towards the Führer.” But they probably are, or think they are, working towards the goals of The Revolution.
I have an unusual supporting source for that. Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee has a chapter in his autobiography "My Effin Life" about what his family went through as Jews in WW2. For me, by far the most unexpected material he included was the actual paperwork involved with his grandfather being gassed. The Nazis literally had to file forms in triplicate for ordering someone's death. Looking at the scans of those documents really drove home the phrase "the banality of evil" like nothing else in my life before it.
The parallels to the modern American "deep state" where the bureaucracy is the actual government and mostly operates as a self-licking ice cream cone outside of direct control by the President or Congress are pretty striking as well.
Silva, you seem to believe more in the prevalence of stupidity than in the preponderance of malevolence. In my own belief system, that's reversed.
They are malevolent by our standards because they want to destroy something we know to be good and valuable. They're stupid, though, so they think the thing they want to destroy is bad and worthless. They think they're the good guys because they're too dumb to realize that they are not. Stupidity, thus, causes malevolence, or at least what is considered malevolence by those not stupid.
There are some truly evil people who would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, but they would be powerless without teeming hordes of useful idiots to do the work. The people out there confronting ICE, for example, are useful idiots. They believe whole-heartedly that ICE is just like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, and that they are the good guys in this conflict. They "know" what they need to do without being told by any central authority, and that is to believe exactly what everyone else in the left believes, and to wage war on anyone and anything that opposes it. That's why they go out and throw riots when ICE agents try to enforce a duly-enacted law that is supported by the large majority of Americans, and that is very much like the laws that every other country in the world also has.
These leftists accuse Trump and ICE of violating the principle of rule of law by enforcing the law, and they accuse Trump of being anti-democratic by doing what he promised he would do if elected. If they had any sense, they would recognize the contradiction immediately, but they don't. They hear politicians like Tim Walz and the Clintons spouting these lies, and they swallow them whole. And since rioting in favor of the left generally carries no consequences, they feel entitled to go right out and riot whenever something bothers them, without having any kind of centralized command structure or shot-caller deciding what the minions should do.
100%. I hope a lot of readers find their way to your comment...
A lot of my Trump-supporting friends are convinced of an elite cabal plotting the destruction of Western society with resounding success... but it just doesn't pass the logic test. The American Left is largely incompetent... they can't do anything on a personal level - like change a spark plug or install a ceiling fan -, much less manage organizations successfully. So it doesn't plot that they're expertly engineering the downfall of society to their benefit. They're just retarded, doing retarded things that have been massively destructive for everyone, including themselves. It's as simple as that.
You're speaking of the mindless minions, not the Deep State.
The deep state would be powerless without the mindless minions.
People don't act like comic book villains who know they are villains, and who readily admit to being evil. Actual evil people think they are good... even those who make up the deep state. People will twist their views around in all sorts of ways in order to find a way to make themselves the good guys and to relieve the cognitive dissonance.
Most of the people who lead us, including members of the deep state, are very much stupid. They are malevolent to us, but in their own twisted worldview, they're the good guys. If they were less stupid, they would realize they are not. The percentage that know they are the bad guys, but who claim to be good in order to get others to help them do evil, I would say, is quite small. Most people are just too prone to groupthink and will readily delete any personal opinions to make room for the group opinion. They're empty-core people whose mind is software-defined, if you will.
To the empty-core individual, if the group says it's good, then it is good, because the empty-core person has no actual identity or mind until the group gives him one.
Even otherwise intelligent people can be stupid in this way. People who clearly demonstrate the ability to use logic in reason in some avenues of life will steadfastly refuse to question anything that threatens the existing identity that resides within their otherwise empty core. There's no one more stupid than an "intelligent" person with a bunch of college degrees to show how much indoctrination he has had to endure.
I mostly agree with your points. If you serve Lucifer and do evil, you do think it's good because the devil is your deity. But most of the "bad guys" know that they're doing evil, not good, and still choose to do it for money and power.
I believe they are dumb. But I don’t think they are top tier powers either. They’re about as useful as middle management.
Why not both?
No organization is made up of leaders, it would implode. Finding blind followers who react to an environment (and how is that environment created?) does not refute the idea that there is affirmative leadership.
DR said nobody there was a leader, so if there actually is a leader he/she wasn't in attendance.
A) Nobody D.R. met. Not the same.
B) it is also possible that leadership lies offsite. The G3P (Global Public-Private Partnership) model already assumes this to be true.
The WEF (in my estimation) is nothing more than a shit basket of self aggrandizing pompous asses on public display. They answer to the whims of a higher authority by doing their bidding for the sake of distraction. They perform their assigned rolls for the public's entertainment while the true seat of power surrounds itself in anonymity and is oblivious to the public eye.
Need we look further than the People's Liberation Army document concerning the unconventional warfare they intended to employ against the U.S.?
I wasn't aware of any such document... can you provide a link, please.
Sorry for the delay; it's taken me a while to hunt it down. One reference: "...a 1999 book by two Chinese colonels called 'Unrestricted Warfare,' which called on the Chinese military to adopt unconventional methods and strategy in waging war, specifically both “financial” and “trade” war along with other forms of warfare..." from a 2/10/2010 Washington Times article by Bill Gertz. No actual link to the document, though. Subsequent Washington Times articles discuss other fields the Chinese military have developed as asymmetric warfare, e.g., cyber warfare and threats to the U.S. food supply. Most pertinent to our discussion is the one on TikTok:
"Chinese communist, military writings reveal plans for strategic influence operations through TikTok"
Bill Gertz
The Washington Times
Thursday, August 1, 2024.
I will hunt some more from other sources.
Thank you! I'll take an in-depth look.
At: gatestoneinstitute.org, there is an article
"China's 'Unrestricted Warfare' Against the US"
by Lawrence A. Franklin
December 20, 2023,
which has a link "unrestricted warfare" to a page that I can't get to but perhaps you can.
Who do you think is the master craftsman?
See Promethean Action for some theories. One of the CIA operatives in various past color revolutions is in position in MN. Somewhere else I read that there are 40k (?) ex CIA affiliated operatives who live in the US who know all about how to manage a color revolution. And since they are not IN the CIA they can’t be FOIA’d. Data Republican often follows the funding of the ones involved (eg in signalgate).
I, along with everyone else, am merely speculating... but it's my opinion that the power-central is a centuries-old multi-headed Leviathan located in the midst of a European island nation's capital city... first created by the Romans... And in light of several recent events, my belief in my speculation has only grown stronger.
I can't figure this out, Anthony, though I can tell your clues are good ones. Do you mind specifying?
It's not the Royals... it's higher up the food chain than that... much higher... I was speaking of the City of London and the Bank of England...
King of England
Duh. Thank you, Andrew.
I had to think about it for a bit too.
There's plenty of studies bubbling up that demonstrate the link between liberal women and SSRI use, but the conversation that no one wants to have publicly (yet) is the long term effect of birth control on women. I have a hunch that being on something that drastically affects our hormones might factor into the anxiety riddled hard left turn that women have taken over the past couple of generations.
Yes. Women are made to have babies. Not having them deranges the female animal.
BTW I think more people would get that if they had livestock. This is universal among mammals.
It's not just that we're meant to be having children, it's that taking a substance that effectively tricks our bodies into thinking its pregnant for an extended period of our lives can't be healthy for us, biologically or psychologically.
p.s. Hey, thanks for the restack! :D
I would agree.
Underappreciated point. These hormones exaggerate emotion. Considering those most likely to take them tend towards the overwound end of the scale already...
Ironically, what it turns them into is its own kind of birth control.
Dr. Kelly Brogan - psychiatrist - goes on a bit about this. Birth control is the first crime. Then SSRI's.
I just looked her up, and the first line about her on the googles is "promotes conspiracy theories". I'm going to like her a lot. Thanks for the rec! :D
I'm not sure - don't quote me on this - but I believe she is married to the Health Ranger guy....
Interesting hypothesis
Our nose ring gal says the ring signals that she is a safe space. She then makes it clear that this safe space is reserved only for the woke. This sentiment is true of all hard core ideologies, but the adherents always think they are on the side of virtue. Is it any different when we hear that Islam is a peaceful religion?
Jeffrey Marsh says the same thing about safe space.
I will leave it up to the viewer as to whether the space he offers is truly a safe and inclusive one.
What will the psychic toll on these neurotics from nearly 10 straight years of being fed morning outrage by their social network? When they cannot convert their circle to share their personal anger, some will be too unstable to punch themselves out.
Daily outrage will have a physical toll, too, as their cortisol doesn't know how to turn off.
It appears that the lit fuse has gone inside the box. Any time now.
Spoiler alert: It's narcissism.
Black pill: if you look up what this means, it means the facts you say will soon come to light will have no effect on them. Facts are irrelevant to a narcissist, it is 100% about seeing other people seeing you the way you want to be seen. Hence nosering theory prover. Hence the blow-ups when confronted with facts that don't show them how they want to see shown. See: narcissistic injury.
Spot on.