They think they will be up against people like themselves, pussies and posers. They will find out that they are up against people who have a spine and are capable of doing Irishman Michael Collins' tactics on their sorry asses.
Love seeing all that "toxic masculinity" on display. "FEMA? We don't need no stinkin' FEMA!" (hat tip to Mel Brooks 😂) We will rebuild our own bridges!
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the link with the pics of NC men utilizing the materials at hand to rebuild some of the smaller bridges in their area. I will take another crack at it, but need to get going before church starts.
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. That being said, taxpayer monies should be used to help TAXPAYERS in the event of a disaster!
Watching and bristling. How dare these folks just getting on with getting things done without the help and permission of the federal and state governments! Trust me, someone is going to get punished for this!
I remember back a few years when disaster struck, people with means figured out what they could do and did it. When Texas flooded, the "Bayou navy" mobilized form southern Louisiana, trailered their boats to the flood zone, teamed up with truckers to get stuff to the boats and set about getting stuff done before FEMA figured out who would talk to the press (always the first decision).
Yesterday I heard about similar efforts in NC; the governor (at the urging of the administration) sent state troopers to stop the trucks and turn them around. They were actively preventing people with needed supplies from delivering. They stopped a team for Space-X from delivering and setting up communication equipment - reportedly because they'd been sent by Musk and Trump. a very different situation for sure.
Only government can do it. It must be "authorities" with "proper authorization" or chaos will ensure, you see. If people are not completely dependent (mentally) on government they might start to think for themselves....
One might ask how it has come to be that so many people actually believe that. So many will (blindly) accept the "free speech is bad" agenda. One might wonder, but not if you ask a middle school teacher, student, or look at their text books. For decades the curriculum (as approved by government) has been teaching this. Teaching that nothing good can happen without government doing it; that government control is better than everything else, that those who believe in freedom are dangerous outliers. And so we reap the crop those seeds have sown.
And reconsider the "greater good" of public education as it exists today. When I was younger I believed that raising the education level of more people was good for all of us. I still believe that, but I now can see (have experienced) the dangers in the idea. Like so many "seemed like a good idea at the time" situations, the execution is prone to corruption. The reason is the potential power there is in having control over education. The basic idea of making literacy common decayed into compulsory indoctrination.
I was listening the other day to a random news story stating that they need to "reconfigure" hurricane category guidelines because wind is really not the biggest threat, but the amount of water generated.
It sounds rational on the surface, except I think it's just a way to further "pathologize" hurricanes. They want to make each disaster sound far worse than it actually is. Then, of course, when those of us who have seen and experienced the same type of disasters (which can be bad) are called minimizers and denialists.
No, we aren't denying and minimizing, we just aren't going into fear and panic mode.
The only people who go against this bs are those who have to have a spine. And it doesn't take much. I am a self-owning puss. I have irrational fears out the wazoo, and so I recognize their BS for what it is. In the words of Peter Boyle from the movie "The Dream Team" "Don't mess with my psychosis."
There's a saying in special forces: just because your paranoid, don't assume they are not trying to kill you. a variation of another saying: the paranoid survive.
Depends on what is meant by swinging. If it's of the metaphorical type, then it may not look like flailing at all, but standing up to the intimidation. Could be simply giving someone the stink eye instead of capitulating. Do you know how much it bugs the s out of them to hear the word "no?"
I've been feeling a shift in the matrix - I'm sure all of us have to a degree. After all, I've found a voice on SubStack and I've bumped into many of you who have been murmuring the same thing on other SubStacks. I truly appreciate the leaders in this maturing endeavor - EGM, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Christopher Rufo - and so many others who I am not acquainted with.
Jefferson Smith said it best: "I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for, and he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them: Because of one plain simple rule: Love thy neighbor. And in this world today, full of hatred, a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. You know that rule, Mr. Paine. And I loved you for it just as my father did, and you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others."
It is a different forum than most.. I find people here more likely to respond to things with which they do not agree by having a conversation instead of just flaming. Make no mistake, some of the folks here have a sharp wit and won't resist a bit of slice and dice. It seems most folks here deal with it in good spirit. Some of the puns are painful, though. And occasionally (!?!) the sarcasm can get quite thick ;-)
Totally agree with you, Tiok. One of the pluses for me about SS is that I don't know who anyone is - real name used or not - I don't know where they live, don't know their age, political affiliation, their religious affiliation, ethnicity, Pepsi or Coke, .... The only thing I know about them is their comment in the Discussion Forums. I have encountered many of the same Commenters on other SSs with whom I've become acquainted. Their posts seem true to form across the Forum. I have come to like and enjoy many of them. I consider them my 'online friends'.
Our commonality is our desire to say something about the article and/or on one another's posts. What's left is simply their perspective/ideas of the subject at hand. Now that's something that puts us all on common ground and is a wonderful place to begin.
I have the BEST conversations in here with strangers!
At a time when one couldn't speak to the zombies around them, it was such a relief to come in here and find active, working brains, and solid personalities that aren't afraid of a little discussion!
I just said recently on another good Substack (here's Lil's weekly Saturday Morning Coffee from yesterday - https://lilliagajewski.substack.com/p/saturday-morning-coffee-october-12) how I wished a Mr. Smith would go to Washington, or a Job Programs Dave would suddenly have to stand in for the Prez who's on life support, would fight for US because they love us.
They aren't the leaders though. We are the leaders. Each and everyone of us, who, for whatever reason, asked "why?" when they were imposing restrictions. When did you first start to question things? Did a "leader" speak for you, or did you seek out someone simply to validate something you already knew? That's what I was doing. I wasn't looking for a leader, but simply one other voice out there in the hurricane of fear and panic to assert "you're not alone...and you're not wrong...the world has gone crackers."
For me, when I first was hearing about Covid, I was like that lone prairie dog head in a sea of cubicles poking his head up and looking around going "what again?" I went to grocery store on a Thursday night in mid March because I had to see it for myself and buy toilet paper. And there it was...a grocery store of people buying up and lining up lke it was about to snow in Georgia. I walked out of the store and bought my four roller of toilet paper a half mile down the road at the CVS.
People were in a tizzy. Because I don't listen to mainstream media, I had no idea the full impact of the propaganda. but there it was in full and glorious effect. They had roused the masses.The same folks who years before saying "orange man bad" said "novel virus fear" and many stampeded.
It is good to fight them on the web. It is also good to fight them in the streets. Precinct committeeperson, pollwatcher, election judge; the choice is yours.
That's where this thing is heading....the streets, no holds barred...Sad to say, as usual, you can vote yourself into the Whitmers of the World, but you have to shoot your way out...
He also caved into Brazil's censorship demands. He isn't going to save you. He couldn't even save his own son from the trans BS.
They have virtually all radio, print, TV and internet censoring and yet Substack and Rumble held out. When they close those we will still have the peer to peer TOR and Qortal networks.
If they could not win with 99.999% censorship and they couldn't then they can not win.
It doesn't have to be overtly ugly. Sometimes the best tactic is infiltrate and disrupt form within. Become a poll worker, a ballot watcher, or campaign volunteer. Ask a lot of questions, politely (and carefully - too many and you'll be outed) . Gather information. Share what you learn.
One of the most effective weapons against would-be rulers is the right questions. That's why they are so keen to stop the questioners. But it's the ultimate whack-a-mole: there's just too many ways to get around the attempts to control what people see and post.
A week ago there was a car traveling thru my very neighborly neighborhood which was being carelessly driven. After I allowed the car to cut in front of me at a 4 way Stop - no big deal, really - a few moments later, I see a plastic cup come flying out the driver's side window onto the street. Well, I went into orbit - in my head at least - and I followed that car trying to get a license number. The driver pulled over on a side street and I pulled up next to him and said, "Hey, first you didn't stop when you should have and then you throw a plastic cup out of the window?! Do you live in this neighborhood?" When he replied that he didn't I suggested he go back and pickup the cup.
His friend in the passenger seat piped up about how I shouldn't be telling them what to do. And then he pulled out - "That is RACIST!" At which point I said, "Don't even start with that stuff" - something I wouldn't have ever said before.
His next step was to tap on his phone and say, "I'm calling my attorney!" And I retorted, "My husband IS an attorney - so we can call that a draw!" By this time the driver was apologizing which I thanked him for. IMO - THAT was the right note for him to hit. Quite the long walk for that one line, I know, but in my book, well worth it.
You already know I dig your style, Jules, but yeah. I've had enough.
"plastic cup*
Me and Mrs. Pi went to DC a few years back to watch a Nats game and got a room near the stadium. We met up in the lobby with friends from the suburbs. We shared the elevator with three young people, one of whom, after popping a complimentary mint into her mouth, dropped the plastic wrapper onto the elevator floor at her feet.
While they were talking (loudly and crudely, I must note) I bent down and picked up the wrapper, and looked her straight in the eye as I slipped it into my pocket. And she said, I totally swear, "Oh no you di-in't.
Our floor beeped and we walked out. Anthony said, "That was brutal!"
I hate that total lack of respect for everything and everyone.
*presents arms* You have my Torch and my Pitchfork.
A neighbor’s 21 year old son loves to drive through our very quiet neighborhood at around 45mph with some loud exhaust (or whatever makes a car very loud). I finally had it one day because my kids were out playing (as usual) and I became scared he would hit them.
He refused to say he’d slow down, told me to get off his property (I had followed him to his house), and then told me “that JUST might happen” when I told him he may hit one of my kids.
I was so upset that day. He did not care he lived in a nice neighborhood and needed to slow down.
Oh, I have employed the 'get off my lawn' phrase more than once in the last couple years but it IS in jest, in my most 'angry old man' voice, and to only those whom I know. 😂
If he's right, the woke progressives are going to be so culturally crushed that they'll never be a threat again. They're evil demon-possessed monsters who get off on hurting people, so remember that when we win.
I hope Gato is correct and, if he isn't correct, I hope to share the same gulag with him.
They’re gonna need a bigger gulag
They can try...but i don't think they understand we're all going down swinging.
They think they will be up against people like themselves, pussies and posers. They will find out that they are up against people who have a spine and are capable of doing Irishman Michael Collins' tactics on their sorry asses.
Are they not watching what citizens of NC are capable of on their own???
Very good point.
...and you're convinced that there is no nanotech in the rain?
Love seeing all that "toxic masculinity" on display. "FEMA? We don't need no stinkin' FEMA!" (hat tip to Mel Brooks 😂) We will rebuild our own bridges!
https://people.com/helene-survivors-in-hard-hit-nc-town-roll-up-their-sleeves-to-rebuild-8724696
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the link with the pics of NC men utilizing the materials at hand to rebuild some of the smaller bridges in their area. I will take another crack at it, but need to get going before church starts.
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. That being said, taxpayer monies should be used to help TAXPAYERS in the event of a disaster!
Watching and bristling. How dare these folks just getting on with getting things done without the help and permission of the federal and state governments! Trust me, someone is going to get punished for this!
I remember back a few years when disaster struck, people with means figured out what they could do and did it. When Texas flooded, the "Bayou navy" mobilized form southern Louisiana, trailered their boats to the flood zone, teamed up with truckers to get stuff to the boats and set about getting stuff done before FEMA figured out who would talk to the press (always the first decision).
Yesterday I heard about similar efforts in NC; the governor (at the urging of the administration) sent state troopers to stop the trucks and turn them around. They were actively preventing people with needed supplies from delivering. They stopped a team for Space-X from delivering and setting up communication equipment - reportedly because they'd been sent by Musk and Trump. a very different situation for sure.
Only government can do it. It must be "authorities" with "proper authorization" or chaos will ensure, you see. If people are not completely dependent (mentally) on government they might start to think for themselves....
gotta be dependent on them...no free thinkers and doers allowed!
One might ask how it has come to be that so many people actually believe that. So many will (blindly) accept the "free speech is bad" agenda. One might wonder, but not if you ask a middle school teacher, student, or look at their text books. For decades the curriculum (as approved by government) has been teaching this. Teaching that nothing good can happen without government doing it; that government control is better than everything else, that those who believe in freedom are dangerous outliers. And so we reap the crop those seeds have sown.
Another reason to disband the dept of education- it was sweet being an educator before they got their hands into things
And reconsider the "greater good" of public education as it exists today. When I was younger I believed that raising the education level of more people was good for all of us. I still believe that, but I now can see (have experienced) the dangers in the idea. Like so many "seemed like a good idea at the time" situations, the execution is prone to corruption. The reason is the potential power there is in having control over education. The basic idea of making literacy common decayed into compulsory indoctrination.
I am glad I retired...I wouldn't able to be quiet about some of the weird crap that is going on in schools today...
Point well taken!! Who needs FEMA?
FEMA should be renamed FEMHA: Federal Emergency Moral Hazard Agency
I was listening the other day to a random news story stating that they need to "reconfigure" hurricane category guidelines because wind is really not the biggest threat, but the amount of water generated.
It sounds rational on the surface, except I think it's just a way to further "pathologize" hurricanes. They want to make each disaster sound far worse than it actually is. Then, of course, when those of us who have seen and experienced the same type of disasters (which can be bad) are called minimizers and denialists.
No, we aren't denying and minimizing, we just aren't going into fear and panic mode.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The only people who go against this bs are those who have to have a spine. And it doesn't take much. I am a self-owning puss. I have irrational fears out the wazoo, and so I recognize their BS for what it is. In the words of Peter Boyle from the movie "The Dream Team" "Don't mess with my psychosis."
There's a saying in special forces: just because your paranoid, don't assume they are not trying to kill you. a variation of another saying: the paranoid survive.
Yup. Agree.
Well armed people who have a spine.
And shoo_ing
Depends on what is meant by swinging. If it's of the metaphorical type, then it may not look like flailing at all, but standing up to the intimidation. Could be simply giving someone the stink eye instead of capitulating. Do you know how much it bugs the s out of them to hear the word "no?"
I refuse to roll over and expose my stomach...
Figure of speech.
Y'all don't have to worry about entertainment. I've just started taking harmonica lessons and should be pretty good by The Time Comes.
I've been feeling a shift in the matrix - I'm sure all of us have to a degree. After all, I've found a voice on SubStack and I've bumped into many of you who have been murmuring the same thing on other SubStacks. I truly appreciate the leaders in this maturing endeavor - EGM, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Christopher Rufo - and so many others who I am not acquainted with.
Jefferson Smith said it best: "I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for, and he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them: Because of one plain simple rule: Love thy neighbor. And in this world today, full of hatred, a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. You know that rule, Mr. Paine. And I loved you for it just as my father did, and you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others."
It is a different forum than most.. I find people here more likely to respond to things with which they do not agree by having a conversation instead of just flaming. Make no mistake, some of the folks here have a sharp wit and won't resist a bit of slice and dice. It seems most folks here deal with it in good spirit. Some of the puns are painful, though. And occasionally (!?!) the sarcasm can get quite thick ;-)
Totally agree with you, Tiok. One of the pluses for me about SS is that I don't know who anyone is - real name used or not - I don't know where they live, don't know their age, political affiliation, their religious affiliation, ethnicity, Pepsi or Coke, .... The only thing I know about them is their comment in the Discussion Forums. I have encountered many of the same Commenters on other SSs with whom I've become acquainted. Their posts seem true to form across the Forum. I have come to like and enjoy many of them. I consider them my 'online friends'.
Our commonality is our desire to say something about the article and/or on one another's posts. What's left is simply their perspective/ideas of the subject at hand. Now that's something that puts us all on common ground and is a wonderful place to begin.
I have the BEST conversations in here with strangers!
At a time when one couldn't speak to the zombies around them, it was such a relief to come in here and find active, working brains, and solid personalities that aren't afraid of a little discussion!
Completely agree, JC.
I just said recently on another good Substack (here's Lil's weekly Saturday Morning Coffee from yesterday - https://lilliagajewski.substack.com/p/saturday-morning-coffee-october-12) how I wished a Mr. Smith would go to Washington, or a Job Programs Dave would suddenly have to stand in for the Prez who's on life support, would fight for US because they love us.
They aren't the leaders though. We are the leaders. Each and everyone of us, who, for whatever reason, asked "why?" when they were imposing restrictions. When did you first start to question things? Did a "leader" speak for you, or did you seek out someone simply to validate something you already knew? That's what I was doing. I wasn't looking for a leader, but simply one other voice out there in the hurricane of fear and panic to assert "you're not alone...and you're not wrong...the world has gone crackers."
For me, when I first was hearing about Covid, I was like that lone prairie dog head in a sea of cubicles poking his head up and looking around going "what again?" I went to grocery store on a Thursday night in mid March because I had to see it for myself and buy toilet paper. And there it was...a grocery store of people buying up and lining up lke it was about to snow in Georgia. I walked out of the store and bought my four roller of toilet paper a half mile down the road at the CVS.
People were in a tizzy. Because I don't listen to mainstream media, I had no idea the full impact of the propaganda. but there it was in full and glorious effect. They had roused the masses.The same folks who years before saying "orange man bad" said "novel virus fear" and many stampeded.
I would never be good at the game of werewolf.
It is good to fight them on the web. It is also good to fight them in the streets. Precinct committeeperson, pollwatcher, election judge; the choice is yours.
That's where this thing is heading....the streets, no holds barred...Sad to say, as usual, you can vote yourself into the Whitmers of the World, but you have to shoot your way out...
All I can say is, please participate in this, our last "free" election. As to the rest, I have three words: water, ammo and MREs.
But Elon Musk was RIGHT. And his endorsement the most consequential of this election cycle.
He also caved into Brazil's censorship demands. He isn't going to save you. He couldn't even save his own son from the trans BS.
They have virtually all radio, print, TV and internet censoring and yet Substack and Rumble held out. When they close those we will still have the peer to peer TOR and Qortal networks.
If they could not win with 99.999% censorship and they couldn't then they can not win.
In fairness to Elon, losing his son to the trans movement was a large part of why he chose to buy Twitter and fight against the "woke mind virus".
interesting theory.
And his purchase of Twitter blew a hole in the wall that was hiding much of the deviousness & duplicity that has been going on for the last 10 years.
You must not try to post “hateful content” very often :)
It's just so hard NOT to sometimes. 😉
Yep...
It doesn't have to be overtly ugly. Sometimes the best tactic is infiltrate and disrupt form within. Become a poll worker, a ballot watcher, or campaign volunteer. Ask a lot of questions, politely (and carefully - too many and you'll be outed) . Gather information. Share what you learn.
One of the most effective weapons against would-be rulers is the right questions. That's why they are so keen to stop the questioners. But it's the ultimate whack-a-mole: there's just too many ways to get around the attempts to control what people see and post.
Or even just Pointing and Laughing at them in the Grocery Store.
A week ago there was a car traveling thru my very neighborly neighborhood which was being carelessly driven. After I allowed the car to cut in front of me at a 4 way Stop - no big deal, really - a few moments later, I see a plastic cup come flying out the driver's side window onto the street. Well, I went into orbit - in my head at least - and I followed that car trying to get a license number. The driver pulled over on a side street and I pulled up next to him and said, "Hey, first you didn't stop when you should have and then you throw a plastic cup out of the window?! Do you live in this neighborhood?" When he replied that he didn't I suggested he go back and pickup the cup.
His friend in the passenger seat piped up about how I shouldn't be telling them what to do. And then he pulled out - "That is RACIST!" At which point I said, "Don't even start with that stuff" - something I wouldn't have ever said before.
His next step was to tap on his phone and say, "I'm calling my attorney!" And I retorted, "My husband IS an attorney - so we can call that a draw!" By this time the driver was apologizing which I thanked him for. IMO - THAT was the right note for him to hit. Quite the long walk for that one line, I know, but in my book, well worth it.
"Well, I went into orbit"
You already know I dig your style, Jules, but yeah. I've had enough.
"plastic cup*
Me and Mrs. Pi went to DC a few years back to watch a Nats game and got a room near the stadium. We met up in the lobby with friends from the suburbs. We shared the elevator with three young people, one of whom, after popping a complimentary mint into her mouth, dropped the plastic wrapper onto the elevator floor at her feet.
While they were talking (loudly and crudely, I must note) I bent down and picked up the wrapper, and looked her straight in the eye as I slipped it into my pocket. And she said, I totally swear, "Oh no you di-in't.
Our floor beeped and we walked out. Anthony said, "That was brutal!"
I hate that total lack of respect for everything and everyone.
*presents arms* You have my Torch and my Pitchfork.
I am so with you and Mrs. Pi on this. These young'uns have been riding roughshod over this country for too long!!
A neighbor’s 21 year old son loves to drive through our very quiet neighborhood at around 45mph with some loud exhaust (or whatever makes a car very loud). I finally had it one day because my kids were out playing (as usual) and I became scared he would hit them.
He refused to say he’d slow down, told me to get off his property (I had followed him to his house), and then told me “that JUST might happen” when I told him he may hit one of my kids.
I was so upset that day. He did not care he lived in a nice neighborhood and needed to slow down.
I hate that I've become that old geezer who gets mad at hoons (Aussie word for thrill drivers), barking dogs, and GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
But everyone else in the world seems to be in their own selfish bubble, completely unaware of the causality of their actions.
Oh, I have employed the 'get off my lawn' phrase more than once in the last couple years but it IS in jest, in my most 'angry old man' voice, and to only those whom I know. 😂
Well, I know it's playing the long game but saw this and thought it rang true:
"Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What. you see in others, exists in you."
I hope that is true!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If he's right, the woke progressives are going to be so culturally crushed that they'll never be a threat again. They're evil demon-possessed monsters who get off on hurting people, so remember that when we win.