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TriTorch's avatar

At some point people are going to wake up to the fact that all of this is a horrific stage production, with terrible actors, and the citizens are unwitting extras in this loathsome movie with real consequences.

The politicians and bureaucrats are all bought, blackmailed, and bribed and reading literal scripts, and as the show gets deliberately more ludicrous and outrageous (demoralizing mentacide), so does their digital ID, 15 minute CBDC prison get closer to reality.

One morning you'll wake up to find they are:

"taking down the scenery, pulling back the curtains, moving the tables and chairs out of the way and showing you the brick wall at the back of the theater.” -Zappa

We have to act to save ourselves, because no one is coming to our rescue. Here is how: We first need to build a platform of local strength, self-reliance, and resiliency. Once done, and we have a solid foundation from which to stand, from there we begin working on taking back the higher levels: county, state, federal.

The following solutions were crowdsouced from various forums across the web. I have distilled them into this:

The solution is to get local, get self-reliant, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors and sheriff's office, and town councils (the last places we still hold all of the cards), get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and, if so inclined, get God.

Everyone is looking for a savior instead of looking in the mirror. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

"We have met the enemy and he is us" - Pogo

Jon Olsen's avatar

Nope, not "us" as we never approved anything of the sort. It is the PREDATOR CLASS along with its running dog stenographers in the media.

Jon Olsen's avatar

Criminal insanity is in charge. Berserk is the norm.

Amanda's avatar

Regardless of voting rights and/or intention I think we have to concede that it is actually the collective ‘US’ that has allowed this to happen.

Speaking from outside of the USA (because believe it or not there is life outside of the US borders!!!) we are all responsible for the power that has been given to our leaders over decades that has landed us exactly here!

We have collectively bought the lie of capitalism and supposed democracy and we have also fallen for the subliminal lies about who and what we must fear and whose lives matter and who is expendable.

Once we swallow the ‘these are the bad guys’ story then we hand over the full power to our leaders to retaliate as they see fit.

Once we start pulling at a single thread the whole thing comes undone. It is simply a matter of time now for the entirety of the emperor’s clothes to disappear.

Jon Olsen's avatar

Speak for yourself. Some of us have been aware for decades and doing what we can. You have said:

"We have collectively bought the lie of capitalism and supposed democracy and we have also fallen for the subliminal lies about who and what we must fear and whose lives matter and who is expendable."

Amanda's avatar

Well good for you @Jon Olsen i hope you feel warm and fuzzy inside for being someone who has not fallen for these lies!!

Perhaps I should have been more specific so as not to inadvertently include pure souls such as yours into the masses. The majority have bought the lie etc etc.

is that better for you?

Jon Olsen's avatar

“is that better for you?” Indeed so. Generalizations have exceptions, and I know a good many in my boat in this regard and am in contact daily. I appreciate your retraction.

Alan Page Memes.'s avatar

Who owns the media ?

Heres a clue 🕎

Landru's avatar

My friend we have debated this for some time along with our friend Dale ha.

This is the tool I use, the ballot is a tool. I vote Independent using leaving the ballot blank for all elections. I vote in every election. They know I voted and would not vote for the horse shit they offered. It works. They come knocking and asking why.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

That's why there should be a "No" vote on the ballot, one for the "System" and one for each candidate.

Feral Finster's avatar

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if an elected official won a disputed election by a margin of five votes in a district with ten percent turnout, and that only because he cheated.

That official has the same rights and privileges he would have if he won in a triumphant landslide.

Eddie's avatar

Voting is one of the few tools (weapons) we have. Even writing in "None of the Above".

I don't blame people that don't vote. However, not voting is not the message people think it is and does nothing. Not voting has been tried and it hasn't helped.

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

Great advice. But most people don't have the resources, the good sense nor the will. Time has passed for logical thinking and methodical / rational actions. We're screwed. It's gonna be every man for him or her self.

Landru's avatar

Not long ago I would have said wow that's nuts ha. The tipping point is a country accepting Child Rape as normal. Now the 1% know they can do anything and everything. I have always believed all things are financial in a financialized country.

As Wall Street crashed, the hope that AI controls the world will fail. As in the late 1920s to WW2 they wealthy had less wealth and working people had breadlines. So yes I agree with you. When we are standing in breadlines people will know the truth.

I see the courts have foreclosure bankruptcies on the dockets now. The end is near.

Benjamin's avatar

Nothing is going to happen until we are all pushed into a death corner we can't escape. We know this.

TriTorch's avatar

So…what you’re saying is that until the pain of doing nothing is greater than the pain of doing something we will get walled in into a prison we cannot “do something” our way out of?

Patrick Powers's avatar

Protests have no effect. They expect them and don't care. If it makes you feel good about yourself, go ahead. Writing a letter to your Congressman is marginally better.

Landru's avatar

Not long ago I would debate you and I think we have ha. You are very right. I still vote, I vote Independent because my state forces me to select a party. I vote with an empty ballot. As Caitlin so perfectly writes about the Duopoly Party, I want them to know I cared enough to vote but not for their platforms of Genocide, War, and Child Rape. I have a friend who is now Mayor of the second largest city in the state I live in. He ran as a Demoncrat however not with the party. The party tried hard to beat him. He is taking down the system of influence and money. The former Mayor will go to jail for has represented a gambling co. to get it's lic. through a shell co.

Another friend is a State Rep. for another district. She works on issues for her district that are issues for working people. She is making an impact, recently getting a bill passed that requires dealerships to spell out terms in plain language on vehicle sales. A problem in the state allowing them to hide charges, fees and penalties. We shall see if they continue on the path for workers. : )

Landru's avatar

They are already building the camps. Weirdly, they are all connected to railway. Strange isn't it.

Benjamin's avatar

Hey, I'm just trying to make the point that Hitler and Stalin and countless other autocrats never got voted out of office. And I'm trying to make it in a way where I don't get banned, like you usually do if you advocate for what actually changes the world. Been there before.

But go ahead and do stuff, I support doing stuff. Most of it irrelevant. Like No kings, BLM, Occupy Wall Street, etc. A waste of time that probably just moved the Overton window towards dictatorship. But go on, have a ball.

Michael  Lynch's avatar

"This is the Central Scrutinizer

It is my responsibility to enforce all the laws

that haven't been passed yet.

It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you

to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities

you might be performing which could eventually lead to . . . .

The death penalty!"

-Frank Zappa Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III

Landru's avatar

Remember as in 1789 groups of no more than four, with only one person in another group knowing one person in that group. Because you know they will know. Sounds paranoid doesn't it : (

Alan Page Memes.'s avatar

Unglue your eyelids and stop being so nice.

Nothing will change until jews are removed.

jamenta's avatar

Turns out the lesser of two evils is still evil.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Zero+Zero=Zero and Zero-Zero=Zero and Zero*Zero=Zero while Zero/Zero=Bullshit

Ling's avatar

Exactly! Evil is evil, no quantification needed.

Landru's avatar

Thank you my friend. It took me until voting for Obummer to realize that. We all, well most of us want to believe a story about a better choice. My plan to vote has been the traitor Bernie, I vote Independent. I voted last time with an empty ballot. The guy looked at me feeding it into the machine and smiled. I let him see my ballot. We are not alone.

Indu Abeysekara's avatar

jamenta, We both wrote this some time ago - nothing has changed. Things have gotten worse.

David Barnwell's avatar

But, are they the lesser of two evils? Seems to me that they're just pigs who like to apply more makeup.

Ned B.'s avatar

The Evil twins, Chester and Lester, were running for public office. I voted for the Lester Evil and still got an Evil elected official.

https://nedb.substack.com/p/lesser-evil-voting

Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

The Democrats and the Republicans are, as George Galloway so eloquently put it, two cheeks of the same arse.

Jim's avatar
Feb 20Edited

The truth should be very clear to anyone paying attention: left vs right is, and has always been, a carefully curated illusion. The reality is the transnational oligarchy vs the 99.9%.

martin's avatar

the 'carefully curated illusion' is that there's 'right' among the 99.9%. they'll do it again and will succeed.

Jon Olsen's avatar

There is an AUTHENTIC left and an AUTHENTIC right and there's a Fauxi left and a neo-con right.

Landru's avatar

I remember not long ago it was the 1% now .9% of the 1% realize they have children that are the 99%.

Spunty's avatar

Nothing new here for anyone who watched the Biden administration feed the genocide in Gaza.

Michael Y.'s avatar

And fund, arm and support a 3 year proxy war against Russia before handing it off to Trump.

Abbas Abdulmalik's avatar

It’s clearly no secret if they keep silent about it: silence means consent.

ennui_mcgee's avatar

Regime change is needed. Here in the United States and all over the west.

Alan's avatar

Same owners both parties.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Who could that be? It's a "mystery"?

Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

We will have War on IRAN or anyone else that ISRAEL wants the US to go to war with, that's just a fact .

If Israel wants the US to go to war with" GOD, "Americas leaders will go to war with GOD without question that's the kind of hold the Zionist have on America .

With the current leaders we have today in the US, We are" DOOMED!"

Nick Douglas's avatar

Or possibly the upcoming war will result in annihilation of shitsrael and liberation of Palestine.

Mary's avatar

Wouldn't that be something.

Unfortunately, if Iran strikes Israel, US will strike Iran badly, then who knows who will jump in. Mission accomplished re Israel, but WW3 and possible total planetary destruction.

If not for the wildlife and environmental consequences, it'd almost be worth it.

Nick Douglas's avatar

I do not think that RF and China will let Iran fall.

Feral Finster's avatar

Don't kid yourself. China cannot and will not do anything.

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

China doesn't need to do anything but wait all this shit out. Smart. That's why they're a civilization and we're a shit hole.

Nick Douglas's avatar

2F what happened? You sound so pessimistic tonight. It is so unlike you 😂🤣

Feral Finster's avatar

I have said this all along. Russia hopes that the West will let it join the Club. China hopes that the Americans will turn on them last

Landru's avatar

Excellent sarcasm, worthy of our friend Feral : )

JennyStokes's avatar

China has provided increase satellite defence.

Feral Finster's avatar

We also heard such stories before the Venezuelan Adventure.

Mary's avatar

I agree. And not should they. So that'll be an all-out nuclear confronted between RF, US, China and Europe (US/Zio's poodle), then...

Nick Douglas's avatar

Mary let me ask you something. Do you honestly enjoy living in this human shithole. Earth does not need humans. Humans are stupid imbeciles. Humans and intelligence should never be used in the same sentence. Dinosaurus were intelligent and they lived 300+ million years - and still would if not for the unfortunate space Rock. Modern humans will not make it to 10,000 years.

Mikhael Arnold's avatar

Hell, we may not make to next month.

Mary's avatar

Yes, like I said above, I could just about think of it as a good thing except we have no right to destroy the ecosystem and the the creatures that depend on it for their survival. F*ck humans, we're done.

Guest's avatar

It’s not all shithole. I “enjoy” or appreciate so much about people and being sentient. People make me laugh and feel deeply in many creative or thoughtful ways every day. There is a thing called “love” that drives those who strive to ameliorate our conditions. There is purpose.

This is not to say that “enjoyment” is not under heavy fire in this world. It is. Every time I “enjoy” the physical comfort of a good hot meal or a hot shower or safe rest in a clean & comfortable bed, I think of Palestinian suffering. I think of Palestinian suffering many times throughout each day as I am afforded basic niceties. The worst of it is when I am able to love the miracle which is the small child in my life, and at the same time feel a wrenching in my heart for the Palestinians who can no longer do so because of the persistence of evil. This world is a battlefield, a battlefield of purpose.

Landru's avatar

I am writing a story now, Dirty Dozen to Mars. About the evolution of Androids and the realization they no longer need or want humans destroying a plant better off without them. The publisher I submitted to wants me to re-write with humans winning hahahha. Yep, they don't see the real world either other than money. A role reversal of the Android commander yielding to the humans crew. It's space after all, why would you want a lifeforms in space : )

Mary's avatar

*confrontation*

Landru's avatar

I never worry about corrections, we all know and have daily had the experience. The reason I mention something, I once had a very proper Englishmen as my Dept. head at the lab I work at. He would constantly correct my u.s. English ha. Then one day after a few years he made a mistake. I replied with correction ha. Never did I hear a word again. I don't miss Stephen, not Steve hahahha.

I thought you might like that everyday story. Thankfully Stephen is gone and I work with almost all people of Central and South America. We love each other rather than critique each other. : )

Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

That's what I'm afraid is going happen, and Maybe that's what Israel is hoping for ,they figure if they cant have this world the way they want, then no one else will so so the have their Samson Option on the back burner just in case. They are so selfish and have got away with living a lie at the expense of the Palestinians and s and one else, that has cost us our History Land Legacy, and is still costing us our lived in their effort to Wipe us out in our own Motherland. They are Hell bent into disappearing us. Not even one of them can produce any proof their Ancestors were anywhere near Africa or the Mid east before the 1800 AD

3039 BC((14517)Early ISRAELITE MEGIDDO -Genetic Distance: 21.16-mtDNA:K1aY-DNA:J1a2a1a2d2b2b2c

**2947 BC(14517)ABEL BETH MACCAH KINGDOM OF ISRAEL Y-DNA:Tlalalb2b2blala2 mtDNA:X2 Genetic distance:21.21-Archeological ID-12201# #3013

4519 BC(Mota1)Ancient PALESTINE Genetic Distance: 5.948-Y-DNA:Elb1a2b2b Mt-DNA-L3x2a2b: Archeological ID-Mota1-

Mary's avatar

Most of the world understands this. But they won't stop it...until it's too late for everyone

Landru's avatar

I hate liking your thought. I don't want to admit you and many are right. The pain will be horrible unless we run to the light. Another failed story of mine where the Chinese save the world not us. When we launch the missiles with nuclear warheads armed, the Chinese so brilliantly installed a failsafe chip auto destruct on launch in silo. We of course are economically destroyed and locally contaminated. The world goes on to live a better life without us and our owners in israel who also launch. Run to the Light. The cleansing Neutron shower : (

Mary's avatar

I do like that

Just please - spare the animals

Landru's avatar

My thoughts exactly. I always held out a possible logical peaceful transition. I am a moron. For Palestine, israel must look like Gaza, then we can help rebuild Palestine they way the Palestinians want. Of course the world will have to deal with the monsters like what is happening in Chile, burning down Patagonia.

gypsy33's avatar

Hi Landru

First our western leaders must go. I’m all for the Luigi Option.

Whatistobedone's avatar

Spot on, brother, spot on 👍

Christopher Rixman's avatar

Democrats don’t have to cheer for war to enable it.

They just have to fund it and go quiet.

That’s how bipartisan empire works.

One party pulls the trigger. The other makes sure the gun was loaded.

Stephen Walker's avatar

Goodbye Tel Aviv, the liberal face of an 80-year genocide. Goodbye Beersheba tech bros, the 21st-century Nazi nexus of automated baby killing. You won’t be missed.

Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Off to listen to "Bomb Bomb Tel Aviv" and "Volunteers" for America. Will Dimona be inspected by the New Palestine? Veg for the day is World Peas...Power to the People. :)

Joseph Cullen's avatar

In the words of the inimitable George Galloway the Democrats and Republicans are merely “Two cheeks of the same arse” !!!!

David's avatar

The nation never had a true opposition party and is paying the price. The public cannot think outside the box of bipartisan politics and that is where the nation is stuck. The road ahead is a locomotive headed downhill on a steep incline and the brakes have failed.

Feral Finster's avatar

This is entirely intentional.

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”

― Gore Vidal

Jay's avatar

100% true, sad reality.

X K's avatar

So is the inability to connect the dots between the 1953 coup and Iran today due to failure of the educational system in this country, or willful ignorance that goes hand-in-hand with American arrogance?

Feral Finster's avatar

History matters, only to the extent the rulers say it does.

This is why poles and baltics' historical gripes with Russia, sometimes hundreds of years old, are lovingly nurtured, while Vietnam and Iraq are told to forget far worse crimes committed well within living memory.

X K's avatar

Isn't the US now Vietnam's largest trading partner? Did I see somewhere tourism to Vietnam being promoted here (Come see all the bomb craters, and the deforested landscape! Careful where you step, land mines).

Feral Finster's avatar

No. The United States is Vietnam's largest export market (basically as a way of sidestepping US tariffs on Chinese products), but China is by far Vietnam's largest trading partner.

X K's avatar

Thanks for spelling that out. But I thought Vietnam and China were bitter, ages-old enemies? That also went by the wayside somewhere along the way to having a place in global market?

Feral Finster's avatar

Vietnam has a complicated historical relationship with China. The history matters, except when inconvenient, which is sort of my point.

X K's avatar

Hear ya. Goes along with history is written by the victors. (Related, the "history" of Israel is a beaut.)

Whatistobedone's avatar

1980...election eve...B actor Ronnie got the ball rolling. END goal (now on STEROIDS): eventual genocide of us "useless eaters"...(slowly and rapidly). FIRST order of business in the 1980s: KILL public education (e.g. INFILTRATE en masse boards of education); 2. KILL labor unions,

decimate the labor movement. They succeeded in both. And here we are. AND NO ONE is there to lead our REVOLT. JUST US. PERIOD. ONLY we can and, hopefully, WILL, act accordingly. RESISTANCE on all fronts. Best (?) strategy: hit the f**kers in the ONLY way they pay any attention to: bottom line, profits, $$$$$$$$$$. 1. Buy ONLY necessities. 2. Buy local...shops, small (NOT CHAIN) businesses, 3. Stop - just stop participating in any way we are able. My activities are now limited...by design. 4. Start local: attend en MASSE government proceedings, meetings, show up - get in their FACES. Forward into the breach! Man/woman the barricades! Sharpen the pitchforks! Activate voodoo dolls, spirits! Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!

Whatistobedone's avatar

Oh....I forgot...eat the rich! (But boil the toxic bones first.)

X K's avatar

Don't think I can add a meaningful word to all that you have said. Except perhaps this - here, in the 21st century, I thought that we, as a "civilized" species, would be devoting our energies and our treasure to moving humanity forward. Instead we are in an existential battle to halt, perhaps reverse, its complete undoing. Just wasn't supposed to be this way, in my naivete.

Whatistobedone's avatar

The dems love war $$$$$....Israel wants EVERYTHING in Iran.. the land, the resources. Uncle Sam has always, is, will ALWAYS jump when Israel says boo. Nuttyyahoo wants Iran. The USA OBEYS. The tRumpf crime syndicate probably already has plans in the works for LUCRATIVE developments....resorts, golf clubs, mansions...FOR ISRAELIS ONLY. Cuz they're real special, I hear...."Chosen?" F* israyhell...F* both Rs and Ds ...and always F* the NYT.....MAJOR cheerleader...especially if the "war" (not a "war,"a terrorist attack)...benefits israyhell. The lot of them are EVIL. THIS IS black and white...no continuum here.

Feral Finster's avatar

Yup. Remember AOC in Munich whining that the entire Venezuelan government wasn’t kidnapped?

End the State's avatar

Fa real?! I missed that. She’s a fucking tool though.

Landru's avatar

And the evil Russians not wanting to be dominated by NATO/u.s. How dare they.

Nick Douglas's avatar

She was also accusing Russia of unprovoked aggression against "poor" ukraine. These demoncrats really have so many blind spots. Or is it genetic lack of gray matter? Perhaps it is too much of shitty matter.

Nick Douglas's avatar

Republicans are full idiots while democrats are only half-idiots.

Tom High's avatar

Much more than half. I’d go 90-95% idiots.

Landru's avatar

Hum, nope ha. Two idiots looking away while working people of the world are destroyed.

Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Regarding the Bronx Bombers, has AOC endorsed Ritchie Torres (ziopig)............................ or Jose Vega (truth) for the Bronx ? How about Bernie?