Note how Team R and Team D squabble publicly over identity politics and wedge issues, but they are in private lockstep on the things that matter - keeping the billionaires happy and expanding the Empire.
It's their function - publicly show there's a "democracy" at "work" (we debate important issues, we're fighting for our constituents!), while privately do what needs to be done. The population of imbeciles swallows it happily.
Now that the Soviet Union is gone, and People Of Influence And Authority no longer have to toss the masses a bone or two, they would much prefer that we dissipate our energy on dreary arguments about cultural appropriation and how many LGTBQXYZPDQ+ can dance on the head of a pin, endless and endlessly performative struggle sessions, rather than raise uncomfortable questions about how the economic pie is sliced, why the humans are feasting on salmon and prime steak and the family pets must be content with off-brand dry kibble that smells musty.
Who’s Bastet? Interesting I bet. But I’m darn grateful for my house pet. Actually, house pal. I personally believe my Bingo (a Norwegian Forest cat) decided to live with me to teach me how to care for another living thing and to usher me to my parting. He is so smart. He was feral (like you 🤗) for the 1st year of his life. Many people in the neighborhood tried to adopt him but he ran away from them until he selected me. Now I show him how to be civilized—he’s a very fast learner—and he shows me how to be rid of rats! An incredible hunter. I am deeply honored by his choice.
Thank you. I’m going to look it up. I believe we used to learn from animals but somehow got too full of ourselves and too not feral t9 listen anymore. I’m starting to have a conscious contact with Bingo. I can be thinking about something else and he runs across my mind and a few seconds later, there he is. I’m working on opening my mind to him. He sits with me when I meditate so something’s working.
Wont be long now till when we end up with a Charlton Heston character shouting "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE" at this rate.. I have the strange feeling my cat wont mind after all he has no shame in eating field mice right in front of me.
Deep down you’re a predator. Get off your cute kitty butt and hunt. You call yourself “Feral” don’t you Finster? Get back to your roots. I suspect that you’ll find it immensely satisfying. And tasty!
These idiots seem to have no clue what just a pause of trade with China would do to the US economy, much less a frelling war. China has been accustomed to economic and social chaos every few generations for the last several thousand years. When its over they dust themselves off and continue being China. Our pampered and overly-armed populace couldn't survive without the constant flood of cheap crap from China, our banking system couldn't withstand the shock of China and Saudi Arabia not buying US debt, our industry would shut down overnight without the flow of parts and rare earth metals, and our agricultural system would go belly-up if it couldn't export food to China.
Do that and torches and pitchforks are coming your way, guys!
> Our pampered and overly-armed populace couldn't survive
And who exactly is that a problem for? You have America exactly backwards: like every state that has ever existed, it exists to protect property and to enforce lies about its own nature.
As for our agricultural system, we can eat food without China's permission, can't we? Property relations are not sacred; they are a mental illness.
Comrade SSP, Just curious, Do you farm, raise livestock or have a vegetable garden?
and Just a CYA to the Proggies in the Cities, Code Pinkers to Blmers and Antifers .....
"Deplorables" supply your Food from Gasp!!! the Red Neck Rural areas........
Lenin got one thing correct when he spoke of the "Useful Idiots" who weren't the Kulaks, but were the Agitators who the Commies quickly put in trenches full of their dead bodies.
Yes, I have. You clearly don't know just how much of a countryboy you're talking to, because you can't see me sharpening the knives and cleaning the sausage grinder while staring right through your dogma-bleating sheep-like self.
Comrade Stinky, you must forgive my ignorance, I just don't run into many Rural Commies. Were you left over from the hippy dippy communes of the 60's??? Inquiring minds are interested.
Sure, you and I can eat, but what happens to ADM, Tyson, DOW, Monsanto, etc. when they can't export to one of their largest customers? Like it or not, their operations provide the infrastructure used by the rest of the agricultural sector. Then there's the question of what does a farmer in Nebraska do when all the grain elevators are full of unsold harvest? Massey Ferguson and Deere take a hit when farmers can't keep up payment on their equipment or buy new, railroads and trucking companies have to cut back without merchandise to transport, the repercussions cascade throughout the agricultural sector and the entire economy.
Globalization has worked, no society is an island today. What affects Country A also affects Country B, and may be catastrophic for Country C. Unfortunately our "leaders" refuse to face reality and instead insist on attempting to rule the whole world as though nothing has changed.
They don't want to destroy China..They want to enslave them through economic control and infiltrate them to the point they become another vassal state like the whole of he EU has become.. People don't see how this slow steady burn has happened over a generation to install american puppets in every single country and as soon as some leader tries to go their own way the USA creates a color revolution and destroys them from the inside out and if that does not work lets the MIC have a go at flattening their "curve" and then jailing anyone who exposed that...
Globalization is just a con game to loot the wealth of nations via arbitraging differing wage scales. It the reason why we went from the World's biggest creditor nation to its biggest debtor nation in the 1980's.
even our military rellys on cheap electronics from china..they don't want to stop china from making them they want to enslave them like they have every other nation they have and if they can not subvert and control so they simply seek to destroy them and steal the resources.. Thats whats this is really all about HEGEMONY
No i never voted for any O..and why would you assume that?. habit?.. i never voted for trump either so don't knee jerk that assumption either.. i voted green but that's a pointless cause too now as they just sidestep it and its coopted now too.... Voting is pretending you have a say in a rigged game is is seen by me as the exercise of fools... i doubt you admit what fool you voted for though..
Caitlin's appeals to "we" is necessary and something to be admired, but the "we" who are capable of waking up and taking those actions are a minority. The obese mass of comfortable populace has so much inertia that it just slides down trampling anything that happens to be in its way. It doesn't steer, it doesn't know how, and it doesn't care.
The powers that be don't want any reform in the nation so they continue to prop up these aging dinosaurs to prolong their rapacious plunder of the nation. Try to upset their gravy train? You've got to be kidding. The American public have been blinded for too long to take any action. They are also being silenced by increasing censorship in the Media. It is a tragedy they are not even aware of it.
Exactly. Totally unaware. I would dare anyone of them to prove after watching that 90+ year old in a wheelchair who has no idea where she is or what she is doing being told to vote "aye" for more money for the military that she is voting in their best interest or is she In fact a puppet doing what some warmongering piece of shit wants.
This post rang the gong of my childhood religious brainwashing resentment. When I look back on how Catholicism had me living in fear of burning in hell in childhood and even into adolescence, I want to go shout "wake the f**k up" at a roomful of priests. Such deep conditioning it was, that skepticism only trickled in languorously. And for all its faults, university put me in touch with enough skeptics, that I finally threw off the shackles. But curiously, it often feels that some lasting scars of that pattern of psychological enslavement to fables remain. Even the ultimate skeptical rejection of this rubbish may not clear brain networks of those traces of extended-term submission to a bias. "All in all, it's just another brick in the wall." Leave us kids alone!
You mean values? Agreed; people who are used to the "rule of law" or other social dissipative structures do tend to have a need for an overall "direction" and to devote themselves to whatever they come across that happens to fit that hole, but it's mostly because of a calculated lack of self-sufficiency and the internalization of commodity fetishism.
There is a thing called "locus of control." Some have an "internal locus of control," that is, they direct themselves. Others have an "external locus of control"; they expect someone outside of themselves to be the authority in their lives.
I'm thinking of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which proposes a progression through six distinct ethical perspectives as an invididual experiences society over time. NAFO and 4chan trolls exist at stage 1 (reward/punishment) and "free enterprise" neoliberals culminate at stage 2. The bourgeois tactically oscillate between stages 3 (personal authority) and 4 (general authority), while performing the rhetoric of stage 5 (social contract) and invoking the names of the recuperated martyrs who, for some curious reason, are the usual examples for stage 6 (autonomy).
I love this kind of myth busting info. Seth says Jesus was in fact just one representative of the Christ Consciousness on Earth and was not crucified. That another of the many messiahs running around at that time took his place and was crucified. He says Jesus was a great psychic and simply dematerialized so that he couldn’t be killed. This was because the effect that would have had on humanity and it’s consciousness would have been too awful for us to bear if he had let himself be killed by us. Even in pantomime, it’s taken a heavy toll on the consciousness of the West. Judeo-Christian theology is truly barbaric. I feel sorry for Jesus cuz his message was revolutionary.
I will say it out right the faster more of these Mass Murdering Sociopaths die off or drop dead on stage the more lives will be saved. Why should we show any type of remorse for a piece of shit who kills thousands or millions over a life time!? If there was a quick way to give every last one of them a heart attack the whole problem would be a lot smaller than it is right now. These Nazis and traitors mostly calling themselves democrats need to be put 6 foot under. Openly caught violating the constitution and then when court ordered to stop appeal the decision to go back to violating the constitution! These are just what I said Nazis and traitors.
We can shit in their game early by crushing their little baby Puritan performances of righteousness and preventing them from developing confidence in their voices. That is one of the reasons I've been advocating for an absolute rejection of moral discourse. Being deaf to manipulation is a good thing for people who don't want to be components in other people's delusions.
I fantasize about finding one of those UFO's and stealing it and fly it to DC and wiping out all this human dead wood... then to Langley and take car of those psychopaths too.. while i'm at it the dynastic family banking cartels.. Then the main stream media just for laughs...
As a big "The X Files" fan, I know that "The truth is out there!" But as a realist living in the dying Empire of the US A, I'm also pretty sure that the truth isn't out there in the US government or expressed by any of its aging, decrepit officials. It's not just Capitol Hill but all of Washington DC that is an assisted living facility for psychopaths. Time to lock them in their Alzheimer's wings and throw away the key.
Man I watched the "X Files" every week with a good friend. I think it was every Sunday it would come on? When did X Files come out - looking it up now. 1993 - so 30 years ago! Great series - with the smoking man in it too.
It would be nice to see some retribution for all the warmongers living their millionaire corrupt lives in DC. But methinks we may be going down on the Titanic along with these psychopathic mofos.
I try to remain optimistic, but it's tough. One thing the workers have going for them--we're smart and resourceful. The psychopaths will just sit on the Titanic and drink their champagne while we're organizing the orcas and putting our life jackets on and getting our life boats out...
So I liked your post, but from a 180 degree view. We probably agree on 80% or so on the current reality, but Less on "solutions". Fascinating Times for sure.
Yeah - how to remain optimistic. Not only with the state of the world, but trying to comprehend one's own existence - as the sand in your hourglass begins to run out.
"Que sais-je?" wrote Montaigne in 16th century France, and to my knowledge never wrote a jot about UFOs, or UAPs, as they've updated the extraterrestrial merch line. I am uncertain where I fall on the Spectrum, but I've driven many miles in the wide open spaces of the American West and never encountered anything resembling otherworldly, and have visited Devils Tower several times, including the Missouri Bluffs more recently, which are part of the same volcanic geological formation that gave rise to Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming. The best part of the 9-mile gravel road excursion to the Bluffs was climbing the twisting ridge and winding up in the middle of a bunch of wild horses looking awesome and just hanging out, doing their horse things, and didn't seem to care that some Hoosiers from nowhere just happened to arrive like Aliens, sampling the views and vistas so far from anywhere else on Earth it's hard to put into words...
Spent time in Utah up in the mountainish area where no cell phone or electricity was available.. just a fire and some beer and meat and watched a Galaxy through a pair of old binoculars for hours ... never saw a single alien or a space ship... does not prove anything but i'm not convinced until i sit down and talk bleep bleep bleep with one...
Same thing here. Great stretch of Interstate roadway, I-15, between Salt Lake City and St George, actually starts south of Salt Lake, but the road sign warns you: No Services the Next 93 Miles. The other fun drive I know like this is HWY 12 from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana (sorry, had to mention the States), which is 70+ miles of No Services twisting and turning in a Northern Idaho valley wondering where is the Grizzly Bear Espresso Shack? Did I pass it? I can't even think when driving 45 MPH...
More people should experience the wilderness ..i think it really grounds you and the experience transcends the BS we are forced to suffer from the narrow minded lot
You know nothing about the "old-time hippie dippies," speaking as one who knows. We loathe the Democratic Party, but that is nothing to how much they loathe us.
I was one, I Know. Anti-War then Vietnam, Anti-War Now Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen.
democRats always had Commies in their ProgreSSive pants, but the Repubs has NeoCons so there was really No good Choices.
This current Feral DC gov is a Coup gov. Like it or not, Trump Won the 2020 Election. Now if Coup govs and Tyrannical FIB and DoInjustice is OK then forgetaboutit. CYA, conduct yourself accordingly. History does not bode well for our future.
$hillary is just anouther deep state spook they heaped on us as they do...shes in on it but not the leader..i suspect the financial dynastic DONS are head of that cartels..shes simply a level of sub don with a body bag count.
What explains this insolence and arrogance is that they are criminals on the run from a half century of atrocities and corruptions. If they have any hope of being credible in today's world, which they aren't and never can be, they have to lie their way out of it, which they can't because despotism just becomes more and more transparent as the despots become more desperate and tripping over their own lies.
In Washington "arrogance" is a piss poor substitute for intelligence as scarce as hen's teeth.
Arrogance is fear, fear of being discovered you are not who you say you are. Secrecy is arrogance's close accomplice.
What i have said for years was the abusive personality dynamic plays itself out domestically in the MICRO as well as the macro international and the public are the abused children of the dynamic.. i used to say the liberals where the enablers of abusive neocons but now both "parental authority figures have become the abusers)
Anybody who was paying attention to the jingoist fever that preceded the invasion of Iraq in 2003, should be very nervous right now.
The American State is designed for instantaneous military engagement, once the domestic mood is amenable, and the stage is being set. It is mind boggling the degree to which Europe is not standing up for sanity’s sake. Germany, in particular, appears to be deeply immersed in America’s pretensions.
But there are German leaders expressing their opposition to the war machine:
Throughout history, besides conversations at kitchen tables by regular people, there had always been some politicians expressing concerns about current developments publicly. But by then the machinery had already been put in place and their pronouncements were futile.
Similar things are happening right now. The fact there's internet and more "common folk" are screaming murder doesn't appear to make any difference. The inert, willing to be lead, majority overwhelms the alert few.
We're heading towards a disaster once again, which is nothing new. Normal, in a sense.
After the smearing marginalization of Sanders, followed by a lame, amateurish effort to convince their flock that the Russians had delivered Trump, it’s now RFKjr’s turn to get it from every side.
I think the right-wing are more comfortable with RFKjr than Bernie, because he’s not a socialist, and the DP has nobody credible to offer in place of Biden, who RFKjr is presently outpolling. Getting rid of Biden is key, because neither Trump nor RFKjr would facilitate the neocons’ global aspirations.
His prostrating before israel is a real concern for me..but then again they all have to kiss that mafia ring or wailing wall now don't they,, just like trump did.. Just like Sanders would Just like all of them do repugnantly.
That may be another reason why RFKJR may have more support across the political spectrum than Bernie had. I’m not all in on RFKJR, but whatever his policies are, I think his platform of transparency and unmetered communication is more critical right now, than any particular policy he is proposing.
Bernie tried to navigate the constraints that were in place, and didn’t seek to call attention to them, in part because he consented to his cage. RFKJR has not rejected big money, hasn’t acknowledged that Israel is an apartheid state, and hasn’t underscored the imperialist track that this country has been on historically, but he does oppose the Ukraine proxy war, and does rail against corporate control of the country. And he is being assaulted by the DP, so he is, almost by default, the embodiment of democratic principles.
Bernie "Sold out" for the $$$$ and his new mansions, like Obamy. democRat Grifters. Plenty of Repubs as well like Romney-Ryan even Faux Fox Newz is controlled opposition.
Tucker Carlson and James O'Keefe are exposing the rinoRats and democRats.
RFK,Jr is an American Foremost (First???) which is the new choice vs NWO Globalists.
Yes JFR Jr. has become a mixed bag. Grayzone's latest discussion about him was particularly hard to listen to, regarding his recent announced positions on Israel/Palestine. It's hard to ignore him though since he is the son of Bobby Kennedy - and what was not to admire about Bobby? Especially the way he went after Jimmy Hoffa.
But having been through the whole "lesser of two evils" game with Bernie Sanders running in the Democratic party - and then Sanders turning around at the end and telling us all to vote for Joe Biden - just as much a corrupt crook as Trump - yeah, I don't have the stomach to do something like that again. Yeah, I know, JFK Jr. has promised not to endorse Biden. But politicians make lots of promises when they're on the campaign trail. It's interesting how that works.
I have to admit that I saw Bernie’s endorsement of Hillary and then of Biden, as totally obligatory, and I think most of his devoted supporters probably had the same POV. I doubt that his endorsements swayed many voters who were ready to vote for him. I voted for Jill Stein, and wouldn’t vote for Hillary if I was paid.
There are some people who simply treat the world they are given as real because they don't know, and were never allowed to see, how power really works and how worlds are dubiously consensual hallucinations. Western history is self-important and holds no real lessons about "human nature", other than more support for the tendency of the stupidest shit to happen when humans are bidden to realize other humans' dreams.
"Willing to be lead" Is that a clever reference to Plato's _Republic_?
"... Plato's Republic..." - no. My education is not in soft sciences and I'm more into drawing conclusions based on observations and historical facts, as recorded by documents which may be questionable, of course.
I first approached ontology from the computer science angle so I am sympathetic to that position. In _Republic_ the myth of meritocracy was introduced with the metaphor of the strivers having "gold in their veins". A little mediaeval alchemy later and the pun is dead.
Many cant see the infiltration of the EU by operation puppets (as i call it) controlled by the CIA all happened a very long while ago..they are ten steps ahead at any given time ... they can always find some willing ladder climbing little shit to take the reins ..just like they got Ziolensky his gig..
I believe that a lot of the idiocy in the American public is caused by the patriarchal, hierarchical religion they believe, namely, Christianity, which expects its believers to check their common sense at the church door. They are trained to be gullible from childhood.
Government run public schools and church are obedience training systems,, Then thy go on to be institutionalized by "higher" education at a university (indoctrination) that seeks their agreement to worship and protect the status quo to "get ahead" in a system of predatory capitalistic models ...greed is good after all right?
Universities teech "Capitalism"??? Try Bolshevik Wokeism. Free Speech isn't even tolerated at "Free Speech" 60's Berkley. It's All about Conformity to Leftist Ideology started in the 60's and got ProgreSSively more Authoritarian. JFK wouldn't be Allowed in the democrat party of today, He Cut Taxes, and was murdered for attacking the CiA and NWO War in Vietnam.
Elected democRats today love money laundrying thru Ukraine, Open Borders for Sex trafficking of children, Drugging via Fentanyl, Pot, Psych drugs, and Get your Fauci Bill Gates death VaXXXes.
What you miss is that YES university despite how you see it as a woke cultural enclave still teaches the paradigm of predatory capitalism model's and anything that supports and covers up for the status quo as the end all be all of their entire existence ... woke culture is another form of collaring people into mindless subservience to the system that is NOT any free market as you would think to call it while ignoring all its corrupt manipulation of the system to drive profits to only the investment class....LEFT RIGHT is actually the same monster..
I cling to the Constitution and a Republic not a Demoncrazy. I clearly state rinoRat along with democRat in most of my postings, and have an Active substack on actual news that I re-post with some personal commentary. We/Me/You lost a truly Free Market with the Oligarchs of the earlier 1900's, ..Rockefellers, Vandebilts, DuPonts, Morgans, etc That now Are All Socialist ProgreSSive Foundations pushing the NWO mother WEFers plans for this USSA, a "Republic" no longer.
I have even on this article stated the illusion of the Left/Right paradigm. It's Liberty vs Tyranny. EnForced Feral Coup DC gov over States that want to retain their Constitutional Rights.
Read the Bill of Rights, We/Me/You are down to the Last Two Amendments, the 1st & 2nd and those Two are under Active Subversion and overt attack.
10th or 9th Amendment are museum pieces, 4th is a farce, easily rubber stamped by judges.
Even Secret "FISA" Court is lied to and "Mislead" by the FIB and DoInjustice. "Mislead" is questionable probably Colluded is more accurate.
President Trump has every Right to question the 2020 sElection as many democRats have done in the past. 1st Amendment is being destroyed by Herr Jack-boot Smith as the attack dog of Merrick Garland and the Obamaites. The Bushies Concur. Deep Statists Rule. CYA, Comrade, Welcome to the USSA.
I don't have any disagreement with you there.. next time you want to put me in with any of these factions remember i'm insulted by the mere thought of any association of the kind..
I always looked at Trump as a ridiculous character Exaggeration of a human being because hes the product of some bizarre frat boyish business man culture indoctrination i always found so cringe worthy (most Americans succumbed to the capitalist mind fuck game they suffer from) but i have to be in awe of the despicable nature with how the democRATS and neoliberals and neocons went after him.. No matter who he is or who they think he is (mostly manufactured demonizing bull shit) they have reveled themselves to be the depth of duplicitous ASSHOLES.. The witch hunt is obvious..the LYING deceit injustice and behavior of the democrats are to their own ruin..
He has been the worst treated President in history of the USA and not by the people by his own government and anyone that does that kind of thing to undermine someone that vehemently is pretty despicable on their own merit no matter how bad trump is their LYING is palatable...
"Capitol Hill is an assisted living facility for psychopaths. It’s where people who receive sexual gratification from dropping military explosives on civilians go to wait for the sweet embrace of death. The whole place smells like night terrors and urine."
:D :D Caitlin Johnstone is like Maureen Dowd, but, you know, not a hand wringing Liberal. Actually good.
Note how Team R and Team D squabble publicly over identity politics and wedge issues, but they are in private lockstep on the things that matter - keeping the billionaires happy and expanding the Empire.
It's their function - publicly show there's a "democracy" at "work" (we debate important issues, we're fighting for our constituents!), while privately do what needs to be done. The population of imbeciles swallows it happily.
In "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" the role of the president was not to wield power but to distract attention from power.
Just enough fiction there to keep it out of the non-fiction section.
From something I wrote elsewhere:
Now that the Soviet Union is gone, and People Of Influence And Authority no longer have to toss the masses a bone or two, they would much prefer that we dissipate our energy on dreary arguments about cultural appropriation and how many LGTBQXYZPDQ+ can dance on the head of a pin, endless and endlessly performative struggle sessions, rather than raise uncomfortable questions about how the economic pie is sliced, why the humans are feasting on salmon and prime steak and the family pets must be content with off-brand dry kibble that smells musty.
Good questions. Lots of kibble comes from dead animals collected from vets and ground up to make “food” for your pet.
Thank Bastet that I am not a house pet.
Who’s Bastet? Interesting I bet. But I’m darn grateful for my house pet. Actually, house pal. I personally believe my Bingo (a Norwegian Forest cat) decided to live with me to teach me how to care for another living thing and to usher me to my parting. He is so smart. He was feral (like you 🤗) for the 1st year of his life. Many people in the neighborhood tried to adopt him but he ran away from them until he selected me. Now I show him how to be civilized—he’s a very fast learner—and he shows me how to be rid of rats! An incredible hunter. I am deeply honored by his choice.
Egyptians worshipped Bastet the Cat Goddess. Cats presumably taught them this.
Thank you. I’m going to look it up. I believe we used to learn from animals but somehow got too full of ourselves and too not feral t9 listen anymore. I’m starting to have a conscious contact with Bingo. I can be thinking about something else and he runs across my mind and a few seconds later, there he is. I’m working on opening my mind to him. He sits with me when I meditate so something’s working.
Wont be long now till when we end up with a Charlton Heston character shouting "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE" at this rate.. I have the strange feeling my cat wont mind after all he has no shame in eating field mice right in front of me.
Try them, you might like them!
Deep down you’re a predator. Get off your cute kitty butt and hunt. You call yourself “Feral” don’t you Finster? Get back to your roots. I suspect that you’ll find it immensely satisfying. And tasty!
I don't know why, but I like this. Why deny who we really are?
Where do you think I got my breakfast from?
🐁
Don't forget the most important group of people on planet Earth: the trillionaires who comprise the Crown Council of 13.
Sounds like an infantile heroic myth, the likes of which has done nothing but keep us enslaved to some dead guy's imaginary friend.
Both main parties are the same: the both love war and want the "credit" for it.
These idiots seem to have no clue what just a pause of trade with China would do to the US economy, much less a frelling war. China has been accustomed to economic and social chaos every few generations for the last several thousand years. When its over they dust themselves off and continue being China. Our pampered and overly-armed populace couldn't survive without the constant flood of cheap crap from China, our banking system couldn't withstand the shock of China and Saudi Arabia not buying US debt, our industry would shut down overnight without the flow of parts and rare earth metals, and our agricultural system would go belly-up if it couldn't export food to China.
Do that and torches and pitchforks are coming your way, guys!
> Our pampered and overly-armed populace couldn't survive
And who exactly is that a problem for? You have America exactly backwards: like every state that has ever existed, it exists to protect property and to enforce lies about its own nature.
As for our agricultural system, we can eat food without China's permission, can't we? Property relations are not sacred; they are a mental illness.
Comrade SSP, Just curious, Do you farm, raise livestock or have a vegetable garden?
and Just a CYA to the Proggies in the Cities, Code Pinkers to Blmers and Antifers .....
"Deplorables" supply your Food from Gasp!!! the Red Neck Rural areas........
Lenin got one thing correct when he spoke of the "Useful Idiots" who weren't the Kulaks, but were the Agitators who the Commies quickly put in trenches full of their dead bodies.
Yes, I have. You clearly don't know just how much of a countryboy you're talking to, because you can't see me sharpening the knives and cleaning the sausage grinder while staring right through your dogma-bleating sheep-like self.
Comrade Stinky, you must forgive my ignorance, I just don't run into many Rural Commies. Were you left over from the hippy dippy communes of the 60's??? Inquiring minds are interested.
There used to be a lot of rural commies.
"Used to Be" could be the key phrase. None where I live and None are welcome either.
It's as if he never heard about the Patrons of Husbandry because his state's textbooks preferred to love on oligarchs.
Sure, you and I can eat, but what happens to ADM, Tyson, DOW, Monsanto, etc. when they can't export to one of their largest customers? Like it or not, their operations provide the infrastructure used by the rest of the agricultural sector. Then there's the question of what does a farmer in Nebraska do when all the grain elevators are full of unsold harvest? Massey Ferguson and Deere take a hit when farmers can't keep up payment on their equipment or buy new, railroads and trucking companies have to cut back without merchandise to transport, the repercussions cascade throughout the agricultural sector and the entire economy.
Globalization has worked, no society is an island today. What affects Country A also affects Country B, and may be catastrophic for Country C. Unfortunately our "leaders" refuse to face reality and instead insist on attempting to rule the whole world as though nothing has changed.
They don't want to destroy China..They want to enslave them through economic control and infiltrate them to the point they become another vassal state like the whole of he EU has become.. People don't see how this slow steady burn has happened over a generation to install american puppets in every single country and as soon as some leader tries to go their own way the USA creates a color revolution and destroys them from the inside out and if that does not work lets the MIC have a go at flattening their "curve" and then jailing anyone who exposed that...
Globalization is entirely enabled by cheap fossil fuel. And it didn't 'work', it was forced onto us and most other countries via the barrel of a gun.
Globalization is just a con game to loot the wealth of nations via arbitraging differing wage scales. It the reason why we went from the World's biggest creditor nation to its biggest debtor nation in the 1980's.
even our military rellys on cheap electronics from china..they don't want to stop china from making them they want to enslave them like they have every other nation they have and if they can not subvert and control so they simply seek to destroy them and steal the resources.. Thats whats this is really all about HEGEMONY
Biden can only pick his nose; top positions (including military) are picked by his handlers.
Biden is still Obamy's Puppet........ picking Proggies and Wokester Idiots
Find out who Obamas puppet masters are,,,then you might be able to disassemble the great western cartel
Didn't You vote for the "O"??? I know the NWO controls the USSA, both RNC & DNC.
More personal liberty is the answer nor more Feral Gov Enforcement as so many here advocate, via violent force btw.
No i never voted for any O..and why would you assume that?. habit?.. i never voted for trump either so don't knee jerk that assumption either.. i voted green but that's a pointless cause too now as they just sidestep it and its coopted now too.... Voting is pretending you have a say in a rigged game is is seen by me as the exercise of fools... i doubt you admit what fool you voted for though..
Caitlin's appeals to "we" is necessary and something to be admired, but the "we" who are capable of waking up and taking those actions are a minority. The obese mass of comfortable populace has so much inertia that it just slides down trampling anything that happens to be in its way. It doesn't steer, it doesn't know how, and it doesn't care.
The powers that be don't want any reform in the nation so they continue to prop up these aging dinosaurs to prolong their rapacious plunder of the nation. Try to upset their gravy train? You've got to be kidding. The American public have been blinded for too long to take any action. They are also being silenced by increasing censorship in the Media. It is a tragedy they are not even aware of it.
Exactly. Totally unaware. I would dare anyone of them to prove after watching that 90+ year old in a wheelchair who has no idea where she is or what she is doing being told to vote "aye" for more money for the military that she is voting in their best interest or is she In fact a puppet doing what some warmongering piece of shit wants.
It’s not just the age that is a problem. The country has no shortage of psychopaths such as DeSantis that are much younger.
Gruesom Newsom, too???
This post rang the gong of my childhood religious brainwashing resentment. When I look back on how Catholicism had me living in fear of burning in hell in childhood and even into adolescence, I want to go shout "wake the f**k up" at a roomful of priests. Such deep conditioning it was, that skepticism only trickled in languorously. And for all its faults, university put me in touch with enough skeptics, that I finally threw off the shackles. But curiously, it often feels that some lasting scars of that pattern of psychological enslavement to fables remain. Even the ultimate skeptical rejection of this rubbish may not clear brain networks of those traces of extended-term submission to a bias. "All in all, it's just another brick in the wall." Leave us kids alone!
> extended-term submission to a bias
You mean values? Agreed; people who are used to the "rule of law" or other social dissipative structures do tend to have a need for an overall "direction" and to devote themselves to whatever they come across that happens to fit that hole, but it's mostly because of a calculated lack of self-sufficiency and the internalization of commodity fetishism.
There is a thing called "locus of control." Some have an "internal locus of control," that is, they direct themselves. Others have an "external locus of control"; they expect someone outside of themselves to be the authority in their lives.
I think that's what you're talking about.
I'm thinking of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which proposes a progression through six distinct ethical perspectives as an invididual experiences society over time. NAFO and 4chan trolls exist at stage 1 (reward/punishment) and "free enterprise" neoliberals culminate at stage 2. The bourgeois tactically oscillate between stages 3 (personal authority) and 4 (general authority), while performing the rhetoric of stage 5 (social contract) and invoking the names of the recuperated martyrs who, for some curious reason, are the usual examples for stage 6 (autonomy).
Who runs the Education Teechers Union ??? Leftist Bolsheviks promoting Trannie surgery for children. Pure Insanity.
I love this kind of myth busting info. Seth says Jesus was in fact just one representative of the Christ Consciousness on Earth and was not crucified. That another of the many messiahs running around at that time took his place and was crucified. He says Jesus was a great psychic and simply dematerialized so that he couldn’t be killed. This was because the effect that would have had on humanity and it’s consciousness would have been too awful for us to bear if he had let himself be killed by us. Even in pantomime, it’s taken a heavy toll on the consciousness of the West. Judeo-Christian theology is truly barbaric. I feel sorry for Jesus cuz his message was revolutionary.
I will say it out right the faster more of these Mass Murdering Sociopaths die off or drop dead on stage the more lives will be saved. Why should we show any type of remorse for a piece of shit who kills thousands or millions over a life time!? If there was a quick way to give every last one of them a heart attack the whole problem would be a lot smaller than it is right now. These Nazis and traitors mostly calling themselves democrats need to be put 6 foot under. Openly caught violating the constitution and then when court ordered to stop appeal the decision to go back to violating the constitution! These are just what I said Nazis and traitors.
Problem is there is a slightly younger generation all trained up and ready to fill their shoes.
Indeed that is the problem.
We can shit in their game early by crushing their little baby Puritan performances of righteousness and preventing them from developing confidence in their voices. That is one of the reasons I've been advocating for an absolute rejection of moral discourse. Being deaf to manipulation is a good thing for people who don't want to be components in other people's delusions.
I fantasize about finding one of those UFO's and stealing it and fly it to DC and wiping out all this human dead wood... then to Langley and take car of those psychopaths too.. while i'm at it the dynastic family banking cartels.. Then the main stream media just for laughs...
As a big "The X Files" fan, I know that "The truth is out there!" But as a realist living in the dying Empire of the US A, I'm also pretty sure that the truth isn't out there in the US government or expressed by any of its aging, decrepit officials. It's not just Capitol Hill but all of Washington DC that is an assisted living facility for psychopaths. Time to lock them in their Alzheimer's wings and throw away the key.
Man I watched the "X Files" every week with a good friend. I think it was every Sunday it would come on? When did X Files come out - looking it up now. 1993 - so 30 years ago! Great series - with the smoking man in it too.
It would be nice to see some retribution for all the warmongers living their millionaire corrupt lives in DC. But methinks we may be going down on the Titanic along with these psychopathic mofos.
I try to remain optimistic, but it's tough. One thing the workers have going for them--we're smart and resourceful. The psychopaths will just sit on the Titanic and drink their champagne while we're organizing the orcas and putting our life jackets on and getting our life boats out...
So I liked your post, but from a 180 degree view. We probably agree on 80% or so on the current reality, but Less on "solutions". Fascinating Times for sure.
Yeah - how to remain optimistic. Not only with the state of the world, but trying to comprehend one's own existence - as the sand in your hourglass begins to run out.
Honestly im so glad i'm old enough to die soon enough before this really gets dark..sadly my son will have to face it
"Que sais-je?" wrote Montaigne in 16th century France, and to my knowledge never wrote a jot about UFOs, or UAPs, as they've updated the extraterrestrial merch line. I am uncertain where I fall on the Spectrum, but I've driven many miles in the wide open spaces of the American West and never encountered anything resembling otherworldly, and have visited Devils Tower several times, including the Missouri Bluffs more recently, which are part of the same volcanic geological formation that gave rise to Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming. The best part of the 9-mile gravel road excursion to the Bluffs was climbing the twisting ridge and winding up in the middle of a bunch of wild horses looking awesome and just hanging out, doing their horse things, and didn't seem to care that some Hoosiers from nowhere just happened to arrive like Aliens, sampling the views and vistas so far from anywhere else on Earth it's hard to put into words...
Spent time in Utah up in the mountainish area where no cell phone or electricity was available.. just a fire and some beer and meat and watched a Galaxy through a pair of old binoculars for hours ... never saw a single alien or a space ship... does not prove anything but i'm not convinced until i sit down and talk bleep bleep bleep with one...
Same thing here. Great stretch of Interstate roadway, I-15, between Salt Lake City and St George, actually starts south of Salt Lake, but the road sign warns you: No Services the Next 93 Miles. The other fun drive I know like this is HWY 12 from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana (sorry, had to mention the States), which is 70+ miles of No Services twisting and turning in a Northern Idaho valley wondering where is the Grizzly Bear Espresso Shack? Did I pass it? I can't even think when driving 45 MPH...
More people should experience the wilderness ..i think it really grounds you and the experience transcends the BS we are forced to suffer from the narrow minded lot
Loved it, including the title !!
Hillary rules the White House – not Biden.
Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland – they have been and are Hillary Clinton’s closest officials.
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US State Security thought police is – everywhere:
https://substack.com/inbox/post/135498765
Nuland worked for G-Dub too. It’s the war uniparty. HRC is a loathsome psychopath without a doubt though. “Gutsy”!
I am still amazed at the old time hippie dippie democRats loving the FIB and Pantygone as long as they push tyranny in "Our Demoncrazy"
You know nothing about the "old-time hippie dippies," speaking as one who knows. We loathe the Democratic Party, but that is nothing to how much they loathe us.
I was one, I Know. Anti-War then Vietnam, Anti-War Now Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen.
democRats always had Commies in their ProgreSSive pants, but the Repubs has NeoCons so there was really No good Choices.
This current Feral DC gov is a Coup gov. Like it or not, Trump Won the 2020 Election. Now if Coup govs and Tyrannical FIB and DoInjustice is OK then forgetaboutit. CYA, conduct yourself accordingly. History does not bode well for our future.
I spit at genearly.substack.com
All "movements " are cooped in their infancy..
It’s her hubby, Kagan that is keeping her power. It’s an Israeli cabal in MHFO.
$hillary is just anouther deep state spook they heaped on us as they do...shes in on it but not the leader..i suspect the financial dynastic DONS are head of that cartels..shes simply a level of sub don with a body bag count.
Department of Stateless and Open Borders DHS.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/page/3/
Winkin, Blinkin and Nod.
Sigh.
Victoria Nuland a Bushie-Obamaite NWO demon
What explains this insolence and arrogance is that they are criminals on the run from a half century of atrocities and corruptions. If they have any hope of being credible in today's world, which they aren't and never can be, they have to lie their way out of it, which they can't because despotism just becomes more and more transparent as the despots become more desperate and tripping over their own lies.
In Washington "arrogance" is a piss poor substitute for intelligence as scarce as hen's teeth.
Arrogance is fear, fear of being discovered you are not who you say you are. Secrecy is arrogance's close accomplice.
What i have said for years was the abusive personality dynamic plays itself out domestically in the MICRO as well as the macro international and the public are the abused children of the dynamic.. i used to say the liberals where the enablers of abusive neocons but now both "parental authority figures have become the abusers)
The entire DC Swamp is one big psycho ward for the insane and the retarded. They prove it every hour of every day.
Anybody who was paying attention to the jingoist fever that preceded the invasion of Iraq in 2003, should be very nervous right now.
The American State is designed for instantaneous military engagement, once the domestic mood is amenable, and the stage is being set. It is mind boggling the degree to which Europe is not standing up for sanity’s sake. Germany, in particular, appears to be deeply immersed in America’s pretensions.
But there are German leaders expressing their opposition to the war machine:
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/germany-ukraine-nord-stream-sevim-dagdelen/
Throughout history, besides conversations at kitchen tables by regular people, there had always been some politicians expressing concerns about current developments publicly. But by then the machinery had already been put in place and their pronouncements were futile.
Similar things are happening right now. The fact there's internet and more "common folk" are screaming murder doesn't appear to make any difference. The inert, willing to be lead, majority overwhelms the alert few.
We're heading towards a disaster once again, which is nothing new. Normal, in a sense.
After the smearing marginalization of Sanders, followed by a lame, amateurish effort to convince their flock that the Russians had delivered Trump, it’s now RFKjr’s turn to get it from every side.
I think the right-wing are more comfortable with RFKjr than Bernie, because he’s not a socialist, and the DP has nobody credible to offer in place of Biden, who RFKjr is presently outpolling. Getting rid of Biden is key, because neither Trump nor RFKjr would facilitate the neocons’ global aspirations.
His prostrating before israel is a real concern for me..but then again they all have to kiss that mafia ring or wailing wall now don't they,, just like trump did.. Just like Sanders would Just like all of them do repugnantly.
That may be another reason why RFKJR may have more support across the political spectrum than Bernie had. I’m not all in on RFKJR, but whatever his policies are, I think his platform of transparency and unmetered communication is more critical right now, than any particular policy he is proposing.
Bernie tried to navigate the constraints that were in place, and didn’t seek to call attention to them, in part because he consented to his cage. RFKJR has not rejected big money, hasn’t acknowledged that Israel is an apartheid state, and hasn’t underscored the imperialist track that this country has been on historically, but he does oppose the Ukraine proxy war, and does rail against corporate control of the country. And he is being assaulted by the DP, so he is, almost by default, the embodiment of democratic principles.
Bernie "Sold out" for the $$$$ and his new mansions, like Obamy. democRat Grifters. Plenty of Repubs as well like Romney-Ryan even Faux Fox Newz is controlled opposition.
Tucker Carlson and James O'Keefe are exposing the rinoRats and democRats.
RFK,Jr is an American Foremost (First???) which is the new choice vs NWO Globalists.
Yes JFR Jr. has become a mixed bag. Grayzone's latest discussion about him was particularly hard to listen to, regarding his recent announced positions on Israel/Palestine. It's hard to ignore him though since he is the son of Bobby Kennedy - and what was not to admire about Bobby? Especially the way he went after Jimmy Hoffa.
But having been through the whole "lesser of two evils" game with Bernie Sanders running in the Democratic party - and then Sanders turning around at the end and telling us all to vote for Joe Biden - just as much a corrupt crook as Trump - yeah, I don't have the stomach to do something like that again. Yeah, I know, JFK Jr. has promised not to endorse Biden. But politicians make lots of promises when they're on the campaign trail. It's interesting how that works.
I have to admit that I saw Bernie’s endorsement of Hillary and then of Biden, as totally obligatory, and I think most of his devoted supporters probably had the same POV. I doubt that his endorsements swayed many voters who were ready to vote for him. I voted for Jill Stein, and wouldn’t vote for Hillary if I was paid.
There are some people who simply treat the world they are given as real because they don't know, and were never allowed to see, how power really works and how worlds are dubiously consensual hallucinations. Western history is self-important and holds no real lessons about "human nature", other than more support for the tendency of the stupidest shit to happen when humans are bidden to realize other humans' dreams.
"Willing to be lead" Is that a clever reference to Plato's _Republic_?
"... Plato's Republic..." - no. My education is not in soft sciences and I'm more into drawing conclusions based on observations and historical facts, as recorded by documents which may be questionable, of course.
I first approached ontology from the computer science angle so I am sympathetic to that position. In _Republic_ the myth of meritocracy was introduced with the metaphor of the strivers having "gold in their veins". A little mediaeval alchemy later and the pun is dead.
Many cant see the infiltration of the EU by operation puppets (as i call it) controlled by the CIA all happened a very long while ago..they are ten steps ahead at any given time ... they can always find some willing ladder climbing little shit to take the reins ..just like they got Ziolensky his gig..
I believe that a lot of the idiocy in the American public is caused by the patriarchal, hierarchical religion they believe, namely, Christianity, which expects its believers to check their common sense at the church door. They are trained to be gullible from childhood.
Government run public schools and church are obedience training systems,, Then thy go on to be institutionalized by "higher" education at a university (indoctrination) that seeks their agreement to worship and protect the status quo to "get ahead" in a system of predatory capitalistic models ...greed is good after all right?
Universities teech "Capitalism"??? Try Bolshevik Wokeism. Free Speech isn't even tolerated at "Free Speech" 60's Berkley. It's All about Conformity to Leftist Ideology started in the 60's and got ProgreSSively more Authoritarian. JFK wouldn't be Allowed in the democrat party of today, He Cut Taxes, and was murdered for attacking the CiA and NWO War in Vietnam.
Elected democRats today love money laundrying thru Ukraine, Open Borders for Sex trafficking of children, Drugging via Fentanyl, Pot, Psych drugs, and Get your Fauci Bill Gates death VaXXXes.
(Yes, Repubs have issues on the VaXXXes)
What you miss is that YES university despite how you see it as a woke cultural enclave still teaches the paradigm of predatory capitalism model's and anything that supports and covers up for the status quo as the end all be all of their entire existence ... woke culture is another form of collaring people into mindless subservience to the system that is NOT any free market as you would think to call it while ignoring all its corrupt manipulation of the system to drive profits to only the investment class....LEFT RIGHT is actually the same monster..
I cling to the Constitution and a Republic not a Demoncrazy. I clearly state rinoRat along with democRat in most of my postings, and have an Active substack on actual news that I re-post with some personal commentary. We/Me/You lost a truly Free Market with the Oligarchs of the earlier 1900's, ..Rockefellers, Vandebilts, DuPonts, Morgans, etc That now Are All Socialist ProgreSSive Foundations pushing the NWO mother WEFers plans for this USSA, a "Republic" no longer.
I have even on this article stated the illusion of the Left/Right paradigm. It's Liberty vs Tyranny. EnForced Feral Coup DC gov over States that want to retain their Constitutional Rights.
Read the Bill of Rights, We/Me/You are down to the Last Two Amendments, the 1st & 2nd and those Two are under Active Subversion and overt attack.
10th or 9th Amendment are museum pieces, 4th is a farce, easily rubber stamped by judges.
Even Secret "FISA" Court is lied to and "Mislead" by the FIB and DoInjustice. "Mislead" is questionable probably Colluded is more accurate.
President Trump has every Right to question the 2020 sElection as many democRats have done in the past. 1st Amendment is being destroyed by Herr Jack-boot Smith as the attack dog of Merrick Garland and the Obamaites. The Bushies Concur. Deep Statists Rule. CYA, Comrade, Welcome to the USSA.
I don't have any disagreement with you there.. next time you want to put me in with any of these factions remember i'm insulted by the mere thought of any association of the kind..
I always looked at Trump as a ridiculous character Exaggeration of a human being because hes the product of some bizarre frat boyish business man culture indoctrination i always found so cringe worthy (most Americans succumbed to the capitalist mind fuck game they suffer from) but i have to be in awe of the despicable nature with how the democRATS and neoliberals and neocons went after him.. No matter who he is or who they think he is (mostly manufactured demonizing bull shit) they have reveled themselves to be the depth of duplicitous ASSHOLES.. The witch hunt is obvious..the LYING deceit injustice and behavior of the democrats are to their own ruin..
He has been the worst treated President in history of the USA and not by the people by his own government and anyone that does that kind of thing to undermine someone that vehemently is pretty despicable on their own merit no matter how bad trump is their LYING is palatable...
"their LYING is "palatable"??? I don't want to misunderstand your communication. "Palatable? is confusing in the context above.
"Capitol Hill is an assisted living facility for psychopaths. It’s where people who receive sexual gratification from dropping military explosives on civilians go to wait for the sweet embrace of death. The whole place smells like night terrors and urine."
:D :D Caitlin Johnstone is like Maureen Dowd, but, you know, not a hand wringing Liberal. Actually good.