This is an excellent thought exercise and a lucid discussion of a great big orange fact hiding in front of all of us, perhaps the biggest and greatest orange fact ever.
To see what is right in front of us is the hardest thing, said somebody smarter than I.
I believe it, having experienced it up close. Look at the PPP and COVID emergency funding program SNAFUS at the US Small Business Administration - hundreds of billions in fraudulently obtained payments. They don’t even know how much was stolen.
"hundreds of billions in fraudulently obtained payments. They don’t even know how much was stolen."
So then the question becomes, what are we even trying to save? We want a republic but sadly a republic takes many making good choices. Based on the example you provided it seems like the majority of "citizens" are thieves..........
You're just repeating the same thing everyone says, its someone elses fault! And even if most people do not know right from wrong, as you assert, the same system you want to save is the same system that "indoctrinated" people from birth............
I’m 100% certain that whatever government we would come up with after a revolution will not even vaguely compare in quality to the post-CW Constitution.
And any mechanism we’d put it place to expunge cultural Marxism would inevitably be interpreted by future domestic opponents to permit OUR thinking to be expunged.
Please note that even at the height the 1950’s Red Scare, the government only outlawed Communist membership, not Communist THINKING, which is our current problem.
It’s a big beautiful fact. It’s so beautiful and big that you can’t see around it. They all know It’s the shiniest, and the most expensive. They said you can’t imagine that a fact could be this big, but it is.
I’m reinforcing is the fact is that Trump got to where he is because of the dysfunctional system we have, to Chris’ point. Trump is the Orange fact.
The fact that the whole world breathed a sigh of relief when he was elected, and then very obviously improved for almost four years until Nanzi’s bioweapon was released, proves that the orange factor is a big beautiful really beautiful best thing.
The classic contemporary graft example: The LA to SF High Speed Rail project.
Some years ago (2014? 2015?) I worked on it briefly (I do electric utility engineering) as my employer was a subcontractor. At the required orientation the rep for the primary contractor kept saying things like "if it gets built," and seem generally unenthusiastic and unmotivated.
Then I sat there for two weeks in Fresno doing absolutely nothing. At the end of my two weeks I tried to explain to my boss that I had done nothing billable. He all but directly told me to fake my timesheet.
No one intends to build the rail line. The contractors are openly, blatantly sucking up money with no intention of delivering. And to think of the private property that is being eminent domain'd for nothing, as well.
Last year Reason reported that the French high speed rail consultant pulled out, stating that their projects in North Africa were less corrupt.
And all this is right out in the open. Everyone on the project knows it's a joke. And they just got more money from the Biden administration. Unbelievable.
And while that project ferments, the Inflation Reduction Act appropriated billions more to another California rail boondoggle. The proposed Los Angeles to Las Vegas high speed rail project will start completely across a high mountain range from LA, and requires a 1-2 hour drive from the LA metro are to just reach its initial terminal in the desert. The thinking is that people will make that long drive just to board a train to complete the trip to Vegas, rather than just keep driving 3 more hours and then have to rent a car to get around upon arrival.
Cali is sui generis because it is both a one-party state and a Golden Goose with seemingly endless money and resources, plus every single person of influence, from your Hollywood TV writer to the owner of his media co to every single member of the press (and their owners) has the exact same belief system and knows to obey all the same dogma and never speak out of turn. (And this goes double for all of the many functionaries in the ruling Dem Party.)
We are well on our way here to becoming a new Brazil, a place ruled by a few connected politicians and their wealthy backers, with a small strata of wealthy aristocrats protected by armed guards and tall fences, with a miniscule middle class and a vast horde of poor people in nicer favelas, supported by their feudal lords.
And they always says, as Cali goes, the rest of America follows....
I've worked as a contractor for the feds, and it's nothing but a license to cheat. You might have to make a little bit that actually works, but the system is designed to suck federal dollars into the contractors' pockets, and everyone knows. Morale is always crummy but everyone has new SUVs.
Pirate wires recently reported on it as well, it looks like they might be somewhat closer to clearing a lot of the land putting them in line for still opening... Never lol
Wonder how your state could get any worse and voila! The leg is banning football Most excellent im too tired to parent anyway, but be sure that bill has a graft-funded big corrupt politicjans after-school program or i WILL be forced to send my gardner to tbe town meeting with a cardnaord sign ill be just so angry
That is the exact true response we would receive. The fact that they lie, gaslight, and reverse everything to us isn't a sign of pure narcissism of the left. Huh-uh, nope, not at all.
Unfortunately, you may get the opportunity if the Dems produce another ballot count graph with a vertical blue line at 4:00am on Election Night. If it were to happen in my county (0% chance: 71% Trump in 2020), I might be tempted to fire bomb the County Election Commission office. Not suggesting that… But society’s anger should be directed at those who commit the crimes.
Have to disagree this is not one Chris's better sentences. Hitler had appear to many at a point in history. That being said I am a diehard fan of Chris.
Every post you make is well-written, edifying, AND funny. Hat trick! So, thank you! I found your column awhile ago bc of the algorithm - a substack suggestion - and it’s by far the best one of those I’ve gotten so far. I’m always happy to see a notification that you’ve posted.
Well written and succinct. As you point out, a well functioning society would not countenance Trump, nor all of the other bizarre creatures who populate our polity. The weird thing, he's better than all the rest, not even close. Things are coming to a head, with our entire republic collapsing around us. Bismarck pointed out that God watches out for drunks and the United States. We might be able to stumble along, somehow, and recuperate and rebuild. But I'm very skeptical, given the shear number and gargantuan sizes of the problems we face and the fact that the elites who govern and control all institutions to speak of, are all gangsters, morons, communists, or some combination of the three.
It is the willful destruction of our country so that they can build back better (because "they" are such geniuses). The redesigning of the whole world in their own image.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.” – Origin unknown
Hmmmm..... I look around and see that politicians do not live by the same rules as us lowly tax-payers, watch as Biden’s family goes on without punishment, stand astonished as a dim witted press secretary mocks the public with her obvious lies (ever notice the rate of her blinking? It is faster than the concord was!), and squirm as the CNN reporter is “all in” on the administration’s narrative, and I don’t believe the money is “un-accounted for” - they know EXACTLY where it is.
Amazing how every politician, including AOC, goes in with meager monies and becomes more and more wealthy as they stay. All, that is except, Trump and a few others who still see politics as a “public service” not a get rich quick scheme.
We the tax payers are financially supporting everything this administration has done, is doing, and will do - most of which is anti-Constitutional, anti- American, and illegal.
Why? Why is and how did a lying, ridiculous plagiarizing, dirty old man even BECOME president? How is it that a drug addicted, thieving, human trafficking, morally inept “civilian citizen” is now spending most of his time in and at the White House with the president of the USA, and rubbing elbows with the heads of other countries?
I oscillate between hope and despair for the country. Im guessing many here do as well. I’m thinking they (the Commies) always double down.
And now doubling down means worse stuff than stealing elections, political persecution in court and prison for wrongthink and COVID mass murder. Reading Emerald Robinson’s dot connecting substack today didn’t help. Some days I think we are headed for Antietam. If they want it, eventually they will bring it to pass. I’m not a soldier, but I may well be before this is settled.
The DoD spending 100 million and getting nothing for it is surprisingly not the worst outcome possible. A thing that happens a lot with leadership in the military and senior government employee leadership is the change of command. New leader, wants to make his mark, change things so he can take credit for effecting change (regardless of whether it’s necessary or even makes sense). What will end up happening is leadership gets sold on a an expensive service or contract for some shiny object and pays millions for it. Only problem is the last leader spent millions for a different service that does the opposite. So now you have the DoD paying two different companies gigantic amounts of money to undo each other’s work. Nevermind the administrative waste associated with mediating all of that. They’d be better off just burning our money in pits.
“...how do you explain the persistence of his appeal?”
Easy:
Like Trump or not, he offers the only reasonable chance of ascending from this miasmic hellhole the Left in general, and this current administration in particular, have put us in!
The choice isn’t even “Trump, or more of the same”...the choice is “Trump, or worse!”
Most Republicans probably just snickered at that comment. Just like I did. We just get blamed for everything bad that happens by the malignant narcissistic dumbocraps.
I think Trump's ascendence came because the Universe insists on balance—the yin and the yang, the good and the bad, the sane and the insane. Corporate greed, political corruption, questionable elections, academic insanity and irresponsible media require a 350 pound gorilla to jump on the opposite end of the seesaw to level things out or in a perfect world land with such thrust that the other five entities fly off into oblivion. So, if we want proof of how bad things have become, notice how much stronger and invincible Trump and the MAGA movement now are in order to level the playing field. It's not balancing left and right—it's balancing bad and good. Want Trump to go away? Shrink the evil influence of the Left.
In WA state over half a billion of unemployment insurance was stolen during COVID. The real people in need didn’t get their checks because the thieves used their real names. WA is controlled by dems, republicans called for an audit that never happened. The one local newspaper is an arm of the democrat party & won’t hold the Governor accountable. Nobody lost their job & the theft just faded from memory. The theft of taxpayer money is astronomical at both the state & federal level.
I met the Suzi LeVine, the troll who was in charge of that particular shitshow. I was on the TEDx Tacoma committee, and she was one of our speakers. Pedigreed and incompetent--which is redundant of course--but oh so vain.
After a $1/2 Billion mistake? She takes a job with the Biden Administration. Of course she does.
The US government is not our friend. Look up Gonzalo Lira. Our government did nothing to get him out and now he has passed. That is what our government thinks of us.
Yes, our government wanted him to die. He was in a Ukrainian prison for God’s sake. Is our government saying they have no influence in UKRAINE? After the billions of dollars we’ve given them? All Blinken had to do was call Zelenskyy and say,”Hey Vladimir, we need Lira freed.” It would have been that simple. Instead they leave Lira to die. Scandalous.
Newsweek, Yahoo News, and other MSM outlets have collectively called Gonzalo Lira “Pro-Putin” or “Pro-Russian.” This because he dared to criticize Zelenskyy and Joe Biden. More than likely, this is why Lira, a US citizen, was allowed to die in a Ukrainian prison with no help from the Biden regime.
Brings to mind a rushed & botched Afghanistan withdrawal that wound up arming the very "terr-ists" we were supposedly "fighting"...for TWENTY FRIGGIN' YEARS! Another massive federal accounting "feat" we've seen over & over. Fund both sides to fight bigly. Keep them fighting. Let's not forget 0bomba continued droning & assassinating in hundreds of places all over the world we were not "at war" with. It kept relations in the Middle East unstable and very ripe for the conflicts going on now, hyped up by the current Resident after a 4-year hiatus by the 2016 unexpected defeat of the Satan's sister.
Dirty, bribed politicians (on BOTH hyped-up, untrustworthy "sides") and the f-n' dishonest media--making zillion$, by running interference and profit schemes for the military industrial complex and their corrupted 3- and 4-letter federally funded agencies enabling the fraud.
Profit schemes for the MIC also brings to mind the fact the government's DOD and NIH coincidentally hold all the patents relating to both the "disease" (SARS-CoV-2) and the RECOMMENDED mRNA "vaccine" technology. The CDC recommending the "most vulnerable" take the shots (proven to kill), wear the masks (proven do not work)--and their captured state, regional and county health departments & school systems FORCED to parrot the propaganda, and issue MANDATES that "the government" cannot. Not because they "believed" it necessarily, but because through FEDERAL GRANTS and PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, these organizations had "agreed" to follow the recommended protocols in order to take trillions of dollars during the lockdowns (particularly ESSER funds)--before seeing the fine print. Yet when they get the fine print--several months AFTER they got 75% of the printed up money up front--it says they must "meet certain criteria and follow all federal protocols" OR they must pay back the funds they've already received (probably spent or committed) and forfeit the final 25% payment. The criminal syndicate controls the weapons and all messaging surrounding it. What could go wrong? Criminal genius, decades in planning.
The "tax us to death" while "maximizing profits while slowly killing us" scheme absolutely would not be possible without the criminal creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913--handing over control of our entire monetary system to PRIVATE BANKERS to manipulate, control and continually profit from. They fixed the system, took over education and dumbed down the public to not notice it. Addicted us to smart phone technology and social media, then used those same public-private partnerships to silence people pointing out what's actually happening.
Those loyalty rewards we earn for idolizing "convenience" so much that it trumps our own critical thinking ability and cedes personal sovereignty to big government just keep piling up...and the insanely wealthy get far richer.
(Truly, "the love of money is the root of ALL evil." We live it daily, but few so realize it.)
All those public-private partnerships are the heart of the thing, and the very beast the people warning us against fascism are fighting to protect. A great irony.
Lira wrote material supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine while RESIDENT in Ukraine. The U.S. arrested German sympathizers during WWII for similar public writings under the Sedition Act of 1918. These are not capital crimes, but Lira staying in Ukraine while writing his opinion is equivalent to Walter Donovan in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” drinking from a gaudy chalice and turning to dust. As the knight quipped “He chose…poorly.”
Agreed, that it was risky for him - he did not deserve to get tortured or not given the proper medical care. He is a US citizen and we (US) are funding this war for Ukraine.
I agree that he didn’t “deserve” his physical mistreatment. But how many times do people get what they deserve when confronting money & power? I agree with your original premise about this being emblematic of Democrats’ attitude about America & its citizens. Biden is the scorpion in the parable about the frog & scorpion crossing the river.
Because he's trying to save Democracy, whereas Trump's a fascist. Biden's such a good guy that governments all over the world pay him for his good deeds. This is why he's eligible to run for President, while Trump is not. Biden's loved in Ukraine. Trump only moved our embassy for Is'ril, while Biden's willing to "move" 2 million Palestinians.
This is an excellent thought exercise and a lucid discussion of a great big orange fact hiding in front of all of us, perhaps the biggest and greatest orange fact ever.
To see what is right in front of us is the hardest thing, said somebody smarter than I.
Very nicely done. One of your best posts.
And absolutely, both the milking and the bilking are truly epic -- hard to believe!
I believe it, having experienced it up close. Look at the PPP and COVID emergency funding program SNAFUS at the US Small Business Administration - hundreds of billions in fraudulently obtained payments. They don’t even know how much was stolen.
"hundreds of billions in fraudulently obtained payments. They don’t even know how much was stolen."
So then the question becomes, what are we even trying to save? We want a republic but sadly a republic takes many making good choices. Based on the example you provided it seems like the majority of "citizens" are thieves..........
No, they’ve been indoctrinated since birth in public schools to make stupid choices that defy logic.
You're just repeating the same thing everyone says, its someone elses fault! And even if most people do not know right from wrong, as you assert, the same system you want to save is the same system that "indoctrinated" people from birth............
I’m 100% certain that whatever government we would come up with after a revolution will not even vaguely compare in quality to the post-CW Constitution.
And any mechanism we’d put it place to expunge cultural Marxism would inevitably be interpreted by future domestic opponents to permit OUR thinking to be expunged.
Please note that even at the height the 1950’s Red Scare, the government only outlawed Communist membership, not Communist THINKING, which is our current problem.
Agreed
- WHAT IS AN “ORANGE FACT” ...???
It’s a big beautiful fact. It’s so beautiful and big that you can’t see around it. They all know It’s the shiniest, and the most expensive. They said you can’t imagine that a fact could be this big, but it is.
I’m reinforcing is the fact is that Trump got to where he is because of the dysfunctional system we have, to Chris’ point. Trump is the Orange fact.
Beautifully said. The Orange Factor. Orange is the New Truth.
The fact that the whole world breathed a sigh of relief when he was elected, and then very obviously improved for almost four years until Nanzi’s bioweapon was released, proves that the orange factor is a big beautiful really beautiful best thing.
Vote Orange.
The classic contemporary graft example: The LA to SF High Speed Rail project.
Some years ago (2014? 2015?) I worked on it briefly (I do electric utility engineering) as my employer was a subcontractor. At the required orientation the rep for the primary contractor kept saying things like "if it gets built," and seem generally unenthusiastic and unmotivated.
Then I sat there for two weeks in Fresno doing absolutely nothing. At the end of my two weeks I tried to explain to my boss that I had done nothing billable. He all but directly told me to fake my timesheet.
No one intends to build the rail line. The contractors are openly, blatantly sucking up money with no intention of delivering. And to think of the private property that is being eminent domain'd for nothing, as well.
Last year Reason reported that the French high speed rail consultant pulled out, stating that their projects in North Africa were less corrupt.
And all this is right out in the open. Everyone on the project knows it's a joke. And they just got more money from the Biden administration. Unbelievable.
When it's abandoned, we should make it a national park. "Grift National Park." Children can play on the giant concrete pilings.
Except that all the people who "voluntarily" gave up their (mostly) farm land will never get it back.
Let’s give it to them. Fuckit. But they have to keep the illegals already there
Exactly!
Elites want to drive the middle class out of CA so that they can own it all!
lol. To be a ranger there, you have to slip somebody a brown paper bag with unmarked bills in it.
Children can BRIBE each other with cookies!
And while that project ferments, the Inflation Reduction Act appropriated billions more to another California rail boondoggle. The proposed Los Angeles to Las Vegas high speed rail project will start completely across a high mountain range from LA, and requires a 1-2 hour drive from the LA metro are to just reach its initial terminal in the desert. The thinking is that people will make that long drive just to board a train to complete the trip to Vegas, rather than just keep driving 3 more hours and then have to rent a car to get around upon arrival.
Unbelievable. Yet, believable.
Asinine?
Oops thanks Bandit
I just wanted to make sure I got the drift of the sentence.
👍🏼… ASS + NINE = Biden Inc. ect….
Cali is sui generis because it is both a one-party state and a Golden Goose with seemingly endless money and resources, plus every single person of influence, from your Hollywood TV writer to the owner of his media co to every single member of the press (and their owners) has the exact same belief system and knows to obey all the same dogma and never speak out of turn. (And this goes double for all of the many functionaries in the ruling Dem Party.)
We are well on our way here to becoming a new Brazil, a place ruled by a few connected politicians and their wealthy backers, with a small strata of wealthy aristocrats protected by armed guards and tall fences, with a miniscule middle class and a vast horde of poor people in nicer favelas, supported by their feudal lords.
And they always says, as Cali goes, the rest of America follows....
Shocking that something in Killifornia is a grift.
Yes, I know, grift is everywhere, but Killifornia does have multiple PhDs in it.
I've worked as a contractor for the feds, and it's nothing but a license to cheat. You might have to make a little bit that actually works, but the system is designed to suck federal dollars into the contractors' pockets, and everyone knows. Morale is always crummy but everyone has new SUVs.
No it’s designed to put a few bucks in contractors pockets so they keep quiet about the millions being laundered back into the pols pockets.
Just call it Covid Relief-Rail. Bingo!
Pirate wires recently reported on it as well, it looks like they might be somewhat closer to clearing a lot of the land putting them in line for still opening... Never lol
I was going to “correct” you that LA to SF are not the terminus points, and by the end, realized that’s part of your point. 👍🥲
Those of us outside CA
Wonder how your state could get any worse and voila! The leg is banning football Most excellent im too tired to parent anyway, but be sure that bill has a graft-funded big corrupt politicjans after-school program or i WILL be forced to send my gardner to tbe town meeting with a cardnaord sign ill be just so angry
"If you think Trump is obviously evil, how do you explain the persistence of his appeal?"
I imagine the general response from the Intelligensia is that it's because you're a deplorable ignoramus clinging to your guns and bible.
Doesn't give me much hope for introspection or dialogue.
That is the exact true response we would receive. The fact that they lie, gaslight, and reverse everything to us isn't a sign of pure narcissism of the left. Huh-uh, nope, not at all.
Beat me to it. I was planning to write something along the lines of, "Because his supporters are evil, too."
Yeah, unfortunately “... because... white supremacy!!!” is an impenetrable fortress that prevents the much needed introspection.
And the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the government trough.
I'm to the "we must use force" point. I gave up any small idea of persuasion or conversation.
I'm OK with using force. Not my first choice but at least it's honest.
Unfortunately, you may get the opportunity if the Dems produce another ballot count graph with a vertical blue line at 4:00am on Election Night. If it were to happen in my county (0% chance: 71% Trump in 2020), I might be tempted to fire bomb the County Election Commission office. Not suggesting that… But society’s anger should be directed at those who commit the crimes.
Have to disagree this is not one Chris's better sentences. Hitler had appear to many at a point in history. That being said I am a diehard fan of Chris.
Every post you make is well-written, edifying, AND funny. Hat trick! So, thank you! I found your column awhile ago bc of the algorithm - a substack suggestion - and it’s by far the best one of those I’ve gotten so far. I’m always happy to see a notification that you’ve posted.
Thanks!
I agree with KN, Chris. Bravo!
#Metoo
Well written and succinct. As you point out, a well functioning society would not countenance Trump, nor all of the other bizarre creatures who populate our polity. The weird thing, he's better than all the rest, not even close. Things are coming to a head, with our entire republic collapsing around us. Bismarck pointed out that God watches out for drunks and the United States. We might be able to stumble along, somehow, and recuperate and rebuild. But I'm very skeptical, given the shear number and gargantuan sizes of the problems we face and the fact that the elites who govern and control all institutions to speak of, are all gangsters, morons, communists, or some combination of the three.
I think we are Europe in the spring of 1914.
Danny Huckabee
It is the willful destruction of our country so that they can build back better (because "they" are such geniuses). The redesigning of the whole world in their own image.
Alternative explanation:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.” – Origin unknown
Hmmmm..... I look around and see that politicians do not live by the same rules as us lowly tax-payers, watch as Biden’s family goes on without punishment, stand astonished as a dim witted press secretary mocks the public with her obvious lies (ever notice the rate of her blinking? It is faster than the concord was!), and squirm as the CNN reporter is “all in” on the administration’s narrative, and I don’t believe the money is “un-accounted for” - they know EXACTLY where it is.
Amazing how every politician, including AOC, goes in with meager monies and becomes more and more wealthy as they stay. All, that is except, Trump and a few others who still see politics as a “public service” not a get rich quick scheme.
We the tax payers are financially supporting everything this administration has done, is doing, and will do - most of which is anti-Constitutional, anti- American, and illegal.
Why? Why is and how did a lying, ridiculous plagiarizing, dirty old man even BECOME president? How is it that a drug addicted, thieving, human trafficking, morally inept “civilian citizen” is now spending most of his time in and at the White House with the president of the USA, and rubbing elbows with the heads of other countries?
Media. The media. And the fools that believe it.
Great response
I oscillate between hope and despair for the country. Im guessing many here do as well. I’m thinking they (the Commies) always double down.
And now doubling down means worse stuff than stealing elections, political persecution in court and prison for wrongthink and COVID mass murder. Reading Emerald Robinson’s dot connecting substack today didn’t help. Some days I think we are headed for Antietam. If they want it, eventually they will bring it to pass. I’m not a soldier, but I may well be before this is settled.
Fifty/fifty. We'll know November 5th.
You mean AFTER election month?
I was waiting for you to say that! Lol
“I’m not a soldier…”
No one is, until he decides to stand up for something bigger than himself. The principal difference from a civilian is “will.”
Trump is a reaction. A symptom of a sick system. And yes, I will vote for him. Again!
The DoD spending 100 million and getting nothing for it is surprisingly not the worst outcome possible. A thing that happens a lot with leadership in the military and senior government employee leadership is the change of command. New leader, wants to make his mark, change things so he can take credit for effecting change (regardless of whether it’s necessary or even makes sense). What will end up happening is leadership gets sold on a an expensive service or contract for some shiny object and pays millions for it. Only problem is the last leader spent millions for a different service that does the opposite. So now you have the DoD paying two different companies gigantic amounts of money to undo each other’s work. Nevermind the administrative waste associated with mediating all of that. They’d be better off just burning our money in pits.
“...how do you explain the persistence of his appeal?”
Easy:
Like Trump or not, he offers the only reasonable chance of ascending from this miasmic hellhole the Left in general, and this current administration in particular, have put us in!
The choice isn’t even “Trump, or more of the same”...the choice is “Trump, or worse!”
Well said
Exactly 👏👏
I love him because he invented pussy hats.
Oh you shouldn’t have said that. Now NBC will pounce.
I thought only Republicans pounce.
Most Republicans probably just snickered at that comment. Just like I did. We just get blamed for everything bad that happens by the malignant narcissistic dumbocraps.
That's where I first heard it.
-- SOO TOOO TERRIBLY W R O N G , & SAD. . . & INAPPROPRIATE
Hell all we got from Clinton was oral sex.
Heard that on N BC too.
I think Trump's ascendence came because the Universe insists on balance—the yin and the yang, the good and the bad, the sane and the insane. Corporate greed, political corruption, questionable elections, academic insanity and irresponsible media require a 350 pound gorilla to jump on the opposite end of the seesaw to level things out or in a perfect world land with such thrust that the other five entities fly off into oblivion. So, if we want proof of how bad things have become, notice how much stronger and invincible Trump and the MAGA movement now are in order to level the playing field. It's not balancing left and right—it's balancing bad and good. Want Trump to go away? Shrink the evil influence of the Left.
Yeah, shrink evil and good looks normal.
In WA state over half a billion of unemployment insurance was stolen during COVID. The real people in need didn’t get their checks because the thieves used their real names. WA is controlled by dems, republicans called for an audit that never happened. The one local newspaper is an arm of the democrat party & won’t hold the Governor accountable. Nobody lost their job & the theft just faded from memory. The theft of taxpayer money is astronomical at both the state & federal level.
I met the Suzi LeVine, the troll who was in charge of that particular shitshow. I was on the TEDx Tacoma committee, and she was one of our speakers. Pedigreed and incompetent--which is redundant of course--but oh so vain.
After a $1/2 Billion mistake? She takes a job with the Biden Administration. Of course she does.
bsn
That’s right - the only media talking about the corruption at the time was watchdog Dori Monson RIP 🙏. Sure do miss him & his talk show -
WA turned off verification and once word got out in Lagos web cafes all that was needed was to enter "Evergreen College" as employer it was on.
WA got cleaned out early on!
I WONDERED why the stream of emails from Nigerian princes had slacked off for a while… 🥲
The US government is not our friend. Look up Gonzalo Lira. Our government did nothing to get him out and now he has passed. That is what our government thinks of us.
Yeah. Amazing. Our trusted allies.
Yes, our government wanted him to die. He was in a Ukrainian prison for God’s sake. Is our government saying they have no influence in UKRAINE? After the billions of dollars we’ve given them? All Blinken had to do was call Zelenskyy and say,”Hey Vladimir, we need Lira freed.” It would have been that simple. Instead they leave Lira to die. Scandalous.
After being tortured
Here is one of Lira’s videos, probably the one that sealed his fate. https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1745909716725710921
Tucker Carlson interviewing him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXJgtxa5YI
Newsweek, Yahoo News, and other MSM outlets have collectively called Gonzalo Lira “Pro-Putin” or “Pro-Russian.” This because he dared to criticize Zelenskyy and Joe Biden. More than likely, this is why Lira, a US citizen, was allowed to die in a Ukrainian prison with no help from the Biden regime.
Brings to mind a rushed & botched Afghanistan withdrawal that wound up arming the very "terr-ists" we were supposedly "fighting"...for TWENTY FRIGGIN' YEARS! Another massive federal accounting "feat" we've seen over & over. Fund both sides to fight bigly. Keep them fighting. Let's not forget 0bomba continued droning & assassinating in hundreds of places all over the world we were not "at war" with. It kept relations in the Middle East unstable and very ripe for the conflicts going on now, hyped up by the current Resident after a 4-year hiatus by the 2016 unexpected defeat of the Satan's sister.
Dirty, bribed politicians (on BOTH hyped-up, untrustworthy "sides") and the f-n' dishonest media--making zillion$, by running interference and profit schemes for the military industrial complex and their corrupted 3- and 4-letter federally funded agencies enabling the fraud.
Profit schemes for the MIC also brings to mind the fact the government's DOD and NIH coincidentally hold all the patents relating to both the "disease" (SARS-CoV-2) and the RECOMMENDED mRNA "vaccine" technology. The CDC recommending the "most vulnerable" take the shots (proven to kill), wear the masks (proven do not work)--and their captured state, regional and county health departments & school systems FORCED to parrot the propaganda, and issue MANDATES that "the government" cannot. Not because they "believed" it necessarily, but because through FEDERAL GRANTS and PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, these organizations had "agreed" to follow the recommended protocols in order to take trillions of dollars during the lockdowns (particularly ESSER funds)--before seeing the fine print. Yet when they get the fine print--several months AFTER they got 75% of the printed up money up front--it says they must "meet certain criteria and follow all federal protocols" OR they must pay back the funds they've already received (probably spent or committed) and forfeit the final 25% payment. The criminal syndicate controls the weapons and all messaging surrounding it. What could go wrong? Criminal genius, decades in planning.
The "tax us to death" while "maximizing profits while slowly killing us" scheme absolutely would not be possible without the criminal creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913--handing over control of our entire monetary system to PRIVATE BANKERS to manipulate, control and continually profit from. They fixed the system, took over education and dumbed down the public to not notice it. Addicted us to smart phone technology and social media, then used those same public-private partnerships to silence people pointing out what's actually happening.
Those loyalty rewards we earn for idolizing "convenience" so much that it trumps our own critical thinking ability and cedes personal sovereignty to big government just keep piling up...and the insanely wealthy get far richer.
(Truly, "the love of money is the root of ALL evil." We live it daily, but few so realize it.)
All those public-private partnerships are the heart of the thing, and the very beast the people warning us against fascism are fighting to protect. A great irony.
Lira wrote material supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine while RESIDENT in Ukraine. The U.S. arrested German sympathizers during WWII for similar public writings under the Sedition Act of 1918. These are not capital crimes, but Lira staying in Ukraine while writing his opinion is equivalent to Walter Donovan in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” drinking from a gaudy chalice and turning to dust. As the knight quipped “He chose…poorly.”
Agreed, that it was risky for him - he did not deserve to get tortured or not given the proper medical care. He is a US citizen and we (US) are funding this war for Ukraine.
I agree that he didn’t “deserve” his physical mistreatment. But how many times do people get what they deserve when confronting money & power? I agree with your original premise about this being emblematic of Democrats’ attitude about America & its citizens. Biden is the scorpion in the parable about the frog & scorpion crossing the river.
Note: leaked EMA documents likewise revealed that for some reason, the drug regulators were not provided with any genotoxicity data by Pfizer.
So, my question is: Joe Biden is everything that they say Trump is. Why couldn’t America stop HIM?
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C’mon man! You know because - the thing.
Because it is a failed system. Corrupted by an ignorant, self absorbed, publicly educated electorate hooked on the promise of free stuff.
Because he's trying to save Democracy, whereas Trump's a fascist. Biden's such a good guy that governments all over the world pay him for his good deeds. This is why he's eligible to run for President, while Trump is not. Biden's loved in Ukraine. Trump only moved our embassy for Is'ril, while Biden's willing to "move" 2 million Palestinians.
Because media always protects Democrats and universities are filled with communist professors