Seems to me that most people check which way the gravy boat is sailing, and head that way. It is ever thus, probably since, like, a million years before the Bronze Age. But most people is not the same as all people. And the people who don't give a pickled cactus pad about prevailing winds and what other people think, if they have clear goals and if they can persist, they're the ones who shape the future.
Well it does suck to shape the future posthumously.
And I think that's the hole we're in. Right now is triage. The trophy comes after a generational battle that hopefully my kids win after we pass the torch.
I think we need to be honest with ourselves about that. If not, I believe that will be the determining factor of whether todays kids have a chance.
Here's what I'm noticing: a lot of people (and that includes myself) oftentimes do not say anything in conversations with the TDS-suffering covidians. I learned a long time ago, it's a pointless headache to get into it with them (they don't know how to think for themselves, they can't take in anything new, they just parrot MSM and devolve into calling anyone who doesn't totally agree with totally hating on T and totally lauding the jabs a right-wing conspiracy kook.) And they're so sure they're right about it all that when prompted to agree with them, and I make vague polite noises and move the conversation on to safer pastures, they seem to think I agreed with them!
So watch the other people-- who starts the conversation, and who makes polite noises and moves it on? A lot of them are not going to vote the way the TDS-addled covidians so blithely assume.
Karen Lynch - Yes. On top of that my husband of 52 years died in 2017. Then covid and I didn't get the shots. I had to divorce some of my "friends" because of their comments like, "just get the damn vaccine," "you are so infuriating," "you know better". Argh. I did not let those comments just pass. So pobre pobre me. I found out who my real friends are and I have made new ones. All is not loneliness. But sometimes I miss the spontaneous things we used to do. Most of my new acquaintances live 30 or more miles away. I don't drive at night.
What a pity pot, huh? Yesterday I went to a lamb roast by myself and then to a wine taste where I saw people I hadn't seen for 20 years. It was a pretty good day.
Thank you abundantly, my dear Ripple! Just yesterday, I did the same thing in a YouTube comments section. It drives me at least as batty as it seems to drive you.
There are a couple of others which baffle me. One is this:
It's not uncommon for people to begin a sentence in conversation with the placeholder, "Well," but Generation Z seems unanimously to think it's "Welp."
But the one which leaves me close to despair, and the sense that the election hardly matters with a population as ill educated as the one we seem to have, is this:
The common displacement of "have" by "of." At first, I thought that this was because people were dictating, their pronunciation was slurry, and "have" was being picked up as "of." For all I know, that is how it started. But it's spread like a staph infection, and I have come to believe that much of the country thinks, "I would of gone there," instead of, "I would HAVE gone there," is correct grammatically. If I am right, is there all that much to try to rescue anymore?
I knooowww, said in a Mike Birbiglia voice. I have been accused of being a grammar Nazi. When I'm in a hurry, I sometimes make a grammar error. Then I'm mortified. There, their, they're, your, you're. Ugh.
Ryan, it's struck me that all but the extremely old - above eighty if not ninety - have lived most of their American lives with an awareness that the country they grew up loving has been in sharper and sharper decline.
I guess it is just me. Even though I'm over 80, I never suffered from an excess of patriotism. I went to Catholic schools and had my fill of authoritarian control there.
It was a lot easier to understand life in the old days. I went to Catholic school from 1946 through 1959. I'm opposed to authoritarian control by anyone. Catholic schools seemed to have an excess of that at least where I lived. Those Irish nuns could be fierce. In high school we had an apologetics class that I credit with helping me to think critically.
So if they are business ‘leaders’ I’m going to assume they aren’t running the local burger joint, but rather are associated with larger entities. Let’s have some fun with the math.
There are 22,000 corporations in the US with 500+ employees. Each of those has a CEO. So that’s 90 ‘business leaders’ out of 22,000. But wait. It gets better. Figure each of those 22,000 has at least 4 other C-suite members who could be considered ‘business leaders’. Now it’s 90 out of 100,000. But it gets even better. Each of those corporations has a Board of Directors. Let’s just say the average is 7 members. That’s 154,000 plus the 100,000. 254,000.
So Caballa has the endorsement of 90 out of a possible 254,000. My calculator won’t show the percentage, it’s too low.
Then we could add in all the non profits, foundations, and maybe quite a few firms with less than 500 employees, that are pretty well known.
And she got 90.
Of course, this is the way her campaign is being orchestrated and a good demonstration of how the media tells only the part of the story you need to hear.
The so called "ordinary" people I'm surrounded by will vote for her. My poor bemused, brainwashed niece will vote for her. I think my gay nephew will vote for her. Not sure about my sister. Met a man who is a National Lab scientist who 'splained to me how she and the dems are the only choice. I didn't think I would vote this year, but I will vote for Trump.
Such brainless twits are best challenged by using their own brainlessness against them.
Engage and ask what they think her greatest political achievement has been so far.
Or which of her policies are they most excited about.
They'll have transient brain-freeze before recovering and saying "oh, there's so many".
But keep needling: "You must have a favorite, pick one".
And very soon you will get to "I know nothing about her past policies, or her future policies. I'm just voting for her because "first black female President".
We have a severe deficit of knowledge, discernment, or even curiosity, in half the country's adult population.
And they're being allowed to vote using the same logic as a 5 year old in a toy store picking a new Barbie. 😳
JT and Sez777 that is exactly what they say. They don't care about policy or logic or anything beyond their TDS. They admit it. They say they don't know anything about her, but Trump is worse. I ask them what he did. They say all he does is lie. I ask them how Biden/kamala have not been lying to them. They don't care and don't answer. The National Lab scientist admitted the Lab would be more likely to get their bomb and stripes in the sky funding from the dems than the repubs. They don't care about anything else.
I think my husband (RIP) would possibly not vote for him, but he avoided all the covid insanity, etc. by dying in 2017. Darn him. I'd love to have had his take on it all. He was one smart dude even tho he did have a PhD.
According to Alexa, its because she's the first female VP, that's why you should vote for her.....that video has gone viral. Amazon say "it's a software error"
They'll say things like, "I just think it's time we had a female President."
Terrifying.
Another one is that that scum, Walz, seems to have landed one with his tagging of Vance as "weird." He gave it a multiplier effect by repeating the vile lie about Vance and the sofa at his introduction speech. I don't think I have ever detested a public figure as I detest Walz.
It wouldn't be so bad if it were ineffective. I don't know where things stand now, but about a month ago, polls showed that the word The Dolt in the Street most associated with Walz was "weird."
Also, remember how in the couple of days after Trump announced Vance, tens of thousands of women went to online forums to declare their herd instinct that Vance struck them as "mean?" I wonder what's become of that?
I haven't heard a word about a Vance/Walz debate, which disconcerts me because I have no doubt that in such a meeting, Vance would wipe the creep out.
He was comparing the 90 CEOs from the headline referenced in the OP to all 22K corps with over 500 employees. Basically, saying that out of 22K businesses ONLY 90 are endorsing Harris.
Cracks in the narrative. A growing distrust in our institutions that is only getting worse with each Mark Cuban, Dick/Liz Cheney endorsement, with each poll, new tactic—is drawing those ‘I’ll chose Y’ crowd further and further away from legacy power institutions.
Not totally there if you saw the immediate fire Tucker drew from Darryl Cooper’s interview.
To accept that the govt and many other previously respected (even glorified)institutions (medicine, academia, SCIENCE!, FDA, NIH, AMA, etc etc) lied to us about COVID, and yet not be maybe just a bit suspicious about ‘THE ENTIRE NARRATIVE’—seems cowardly and willfully ignorant.
When you see middle class gen z women who would, on camera, admit they wished Trump was shot in forehead and (separate video) would choose abortion over Democracy…
Trump must win the popular vote as well.
Doesn’t it feel all contrived & fake though? All of it. Which rational actor would honestly think Kamala has the chops to be POTUS.
The people who may actually believe this are so low functioning they do not understand how medicine works. They are the permanent underclass, incurious about life, because the bulb is simply too dim.
I only have one blue person in my life left that I can still talk to, although I am avoiding now as much as possible. They are of the over-educated variety and whatever fact is presented to them is twisted around until the approved party narrative is spat back at me. They somehow have a small, family-owned successful business that they think only another blue administration can let them continue to grow and thrive.
Where I can see them fitting into the blue box is a complete trust in approved narratives, talking points, and big gov data. Incurious about anything outside the blue box, because everything outside the blue box is false and misinformation. They only trust what the blue box tells them too. It is also very evident in their manner that ‘only respectable, honest, caring, and fair people’ believe in ‘the right things’. Even asking questions, let alone stating an opposing position is thus easily refuted by them as malicious untruths.
It feels very much like a religious cult to me at this point, and I stay away from engaging them directly as much as possible.
For me, I’m drawn to the fight. I fancy myself as some great orator, I guess. I attempt to use iron clad logic, that to me, seems well, iron clad. I usually walk away after a discourse that frankly sounds like two cats in a bag. Seems like all I do is loose someone that used to be a friend. Maybe I haven’t lost anything. I have too many friends anyway.
Your premise leads to the only logical explanation for anyone supporting Harris. They are Uber low information and seek renumeration from their “baby daddy “, the Biden/harris regime
I went to high school in CA 35 years ago too. I actually knew someone with the same name as you -so
Interesting! I idolized Reagan. I think there’s still hope too. If the cheating is even cut in half Trump will win. The alliance with RFK Jr and Tulsi G gives me hope.
Brian, everyone should have been revolted by the Carlson/Cooper interview. For a concise article about what a crackpot Cooper is, go to The Washington Free Beacon and read Andrew Roberts' interview. Cooper is as credible as a historian as H.P. Lovecraft would have been.
There will always be people whom I classify as "low intensity sociopaths" around. I believe that Cooper is one, and that yes, every decent person should denounce him. This isn't groupthink anymore than the near universal revulsion people have toward pedophilia is. Certain things are true: the Earth revolves around the sun, the world's largest ocean is the Pacific, and no, it's not that the German High Command had no idea how many Russian military they would capture, so it was poor planning, not intent, that "a lot of people were thrown into camps and many of them died," or however the assh*le phrased it, that was the Wehrmacht's plan for how they would deal with Russian prisoners of war.
Cooper's description of Jonestown is laughably daft, but the Democrats can't attempt to hang that around the Trump/Vance ticket's neck. If Trump gets through Tuesday evening without being asked about that interview, I will be shocked. ( For the Dems, anti - Semitism is cool, but Hitler? No, Hitler remains outcast. After all, Trump is Hitler, we all know that. )
Cooper was awful enough. But I can no longer take Tucker Carlson seriously. His having Cooper on at this time made me wonder fleetingly if he, Carlson, might have been "turned" by the KGB when he went to interview Putin. It's unlikely, I concede, but how could Carlson just sit there listening to "the most creative and original" historian in the United States as if he were St John gazing adoringly at Jesus? It has convinced me that Sean Hannity is not the only male bimbo who was ever employed by Fox News.
I've listened to nearly every podcast by Darryl Cooper created, I eventually subscribed because I felt guilty for listening to so much content for free.
I did not read Roberts' interview, I will later this week--but it will be hard to combat what I've listened to from Cooper himself. His podcast with Jocko called "The Unraveling" is also very good.
I disagree that Cooper is awful, or is a crackpot. I would argue that Cooper's own research has freed him from the mainstream narratives, not any nefarious plot nor any character flaw of Cooper. He's clever, self-taught, and has an incredible memory and ability to make history come alive.
I'd encourage you to listen to the first six of his podcasts, Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem before making any hard judgments--but to be fair--I've always been for the lunatic who's throwing rocks into the stained glass windows.
Brian, it may be age: I'm 72. Yikes, I remember when Eichmann was arrested, in 1960. It was probably then that I learned about the Holocaust. But you must have seen the films of the thousands of emaciated, somewhat decomposed bodies being plowed up in the camps. Eisenhower ordered those films made because he realized that it would be hard to convince the world of 1945, let alone of the future, that the Germans really had tried to exterminate all of the Jews.
I'm a sci fi fan to an extent, at least of Philip K. Dick. I enjoy the idea of non - reality realities, Potemkin Villages designed to fool and manipulate someone, which is the main plot line of the PKD novel, “Time Out of Joint.” But I think that God allows us the evidence of our minds and our senses because we are created in His Image. He wants us to learn.
C.S. Lewis pointed out that learning happens only if a student submits himself to the authority of a superior. This is true even of self or primitive education. There is a priceless anecdote from about 1959 of 18 year old John Lennon, 17 year old Paul McCartney, and 16 year old George Harrison taking a bus across town because they had heard about a kid who knew how to play a B7 chord, something which had eluded them to that point.
I feel hopeless in trying to convince you that Cooper is a quack. For him to be right, hundreds of people would have had to have misunderstood Churchill to an absurd degree or deliberately misrepresented him with unknown intentions. As for German intentions, Hitler made quite clear in his appalling book, “Mein Kampf,” published in 1925, exactly what his intentions were not just for the Jews, the disabled, and other German “inferiors,” but for the Slavs: slavery if possible, murder if enslavement proved too much trouble.
I'm all for mavericks. I am delighted by people who have gone against the grain and been proven right, such as the two Australian doctors who insisted against the totality of medical orthodoxy in the 1980s that ulcers were caused by a bacterial infection, not by tension. But if I believed Cooper might be on to something, I'd have to think that most of the world had been trapped in a programmed, never existent reality for most of a century.
I've met Holocaust survivors. I have seen the faded ink of the branding on aged arms.
I may have said this here already, because I know I said it on Substack somewhere: Cooper first talked with Tucker Carlson about Jim Jones and Jonestown, and I was stunned by how wrong Cooper was about most of what he said about Jones and Jonestown. I don't want to go into details, but I grew up in the same neighborhood and in the same schools as Larry Schacht, who became Dr Laurence Schacht, the man who calculated exactly how much cyanide would be needed to kill nine hundred people. I was three years younger than he was, so I didn't know him, though I have been told by someone who did know him that he knew who I was. ( That is a weird feeling. ) I would never say I have made a “hobby” of Jonestown, but I do know a lot about it. The alarms within me started to shriek as I listened to Cooper talk about Jones/Jonestown.
About Tucker Carlson: he has been becoming more flagrantly irresponsible in recent years. It maddens me when he says, “We know the CIA killed John F Kennedy.” Such a statement is wildly irresponsible, and feeds the sort of mind which conspiracy theories are a magnet for. The best investigated and most thorough books about the Kennedy assassination, Vincent Bugliosi's “Reclaiming History” and Gerald Posner's “Case Closed,” obliterate any idea that the CIA had a hand in the JFK assassination.
Get immersed in this crap and eventually you'll believe that the entire Apollo space program was faked.
“Kamala Harris doesn’t need policy to win”. That’s all I need to hear. They’ve admitted that she can be brainless. So, just curious, WHY can she win without policy? Because we “like” her, she’s cute,? Is it because trump is hated? I must have been asleep during the lesson that stated you can “win”, just because? This is the height of arrogance and quite frankly the most ridiculous, pathetic crap I’ve ever seen.
In a sane world, pushing a person for president without that person having a policy would have that person mocked and scorned out of existence, with the mountain of derision a mile high. Instead, we live in alternative world of mass brainwashing and psychosis where the paper thin candidate is prodded forward gleefully by TPTB.
I think they feel a need for a fresh blank blue slate now that the previous blue version has worn its welcome out and it has the added bonus to them of not having orange hair. Besides, one must be ‘unburdened by what has been’ and as well, if there are stated policies, there would a lot of difficult questions to burdened with…
I'm surprised this hasn't been the number one discussion. The Putin endorsement WTF, Russia has always been the big bad enemy. This should have made every person think, but why? What's in it for them or for Putin? People in government want power, control and money. What better way than to have the work done for you from the inside.
Washington Post "The Russian government's covert efforts to sway the 2024 presidential election are more advanced than in recent years, and the most active ..."
CNN "The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence the 2024 US ..."
The Hill "Former President Trump on Saturday dismissed findings from the Justice Department about Russia's covert efforts to influence the 2024 U.S. ..."
So wait a minute, Putin endorsed Harris the party that is destroying the United States. Hasn't it always been said that Russia wants to destroy the United States? That's Harris's only achievement, destroying the United States.
I’m no Putin lover but I believe his “endorsement” was tongue-in-cheek simply because he followed that w/ how charming her cackle is & no one could hear that & call it that. On the surface it would seem obvious that he would prefer a brainless nitwit running the US (as has been for the past 4 years), but this administration has been so utterly feckless & incompetent w/ the world ablaze everywhere, & that makes them insane & very dangerous. I think even dictators do not want WWIII & would welcome long overdue sanity in addition to someone they might respect….
Besides, I have a pretty simple philosophy to guide me: anything this administration, DemoncRATs in general, “celebrities” & globalists are FOR, I am AGAINST & vice versa. That doesn’t mean Putin is a great guy or hasn’t done bad things. I never would have believed it, but same can be said about the US & many of our “leaders” (as well as other western countries). The UN is a globalist entity w/ the same WHO-WEF-etc agenda & when it broke its promise about keeping Ukraine out, Putin felt justifiably threatened. That’s my take on it anyway; could be wrong! But given the naked but phony hysteria & hatred of Russia (not to mention the billions spent @ the expense of OUR people, OUR borders, OUR defense, OUR sovereignty), I kind of think not.
100% agree, he's pointing out the fact that's she's a complete joke. I think it's hilarious that he wanted to put in a jab at her and mocking her supporter. But they won't see it that way because how the media will spin it. The lying has gone on for so long I wouldn't doubt lies were told just to create hatred and fear for Russia (USSR). Was the cold war really how it was told to us? I mean look how ridiculous it was for us students to practice a drill rolled up in a ball under your desk with hands over your head to protect you from a nuclear bomb attack.
I don’t think the media will be able to spin it because the Russian “endorsement” - even as a joke - was for HER. And the lame street media is ignoring it as a very inconvenient truth anyway. They’d be shrieking about it from here to past the election if Putin had said Trump. I don’t think it’s going to work to blame China or Iran either, simply because it’s irrefutable that Trump would be hard on all of them. Not that the presstitutes wont try
The fix is in, for sure. They have to go for broke; all of them, because the shit that will be exposed is monumental. So, there's that to contend with.
However, no one has any love, respect or trust of miscreants like The Cheny's, Bush or Pence. There isn't any trust, period.
My theory is all polls are for shit and Trump is going to win by a landslide. You all remember that I made this prediction. If I am wrong, then you can pile on!
None of the “mainstream “ polls are real, IMHO. They are probably oversampling Democrats on purpose. If you look at Rasmussen, his polls have been consistent for months, with Trump running ahead of Grampy Joe, when he was still alive, and ahead of Harris. The so-called polls have to be close so when they steal the election, the close polls will be part of the cover-up.
Precisely! Polls have always over sampled DemonCrats. I learned this in 2016. A group of us studied the sampling before the election and predicted a Trump win!
Not a soul outside our group believed us. My hubby thought I was insane! Watching the results (2016) was painful for hubby. I was cool as a cucumber.
I am not saying I will be in the same frame of mind this time!
I might be kidding myself, but I don’t think this type of psychology has ever worked on me. Not as an adult, anyway. Got to have lots of peeps that see this for what it is. I hope…
As an experienced energy industry technical expert who has worked in the field for 40 years, I can say with confidence that in 2024 its perfectly possible to find seven people who talk with confidence about energy, agree with each other and yet are entirely full of shit.
Indeed. Maybe because of the internet there are lots more areas populated by Dunning Krugers, so if you dont already know your stuff, it could be easy to doubt yourself.
The Trump campaign should pay to show video ads of Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala and run that ad in every deep blue city in America. A majority of democrats would either change to team red or their heads would just explode in a massive fit of cognitive dissonance. Alternatively Dick could take Kamala dove hunting.
Like most people over the age of 60, my mother would always respond with the line "So if so and so decides to jump off a cliff, are you going to jump off a cliff too?" when I tried the "all the other kids" are doing it argument. That single line that I despised so much has served me well over my lifetime, Whenever I am told by the press that "everyone else is doing it", my level of skepticism raises exponentially. While I understand the protracted attempts (mostly successful unfortunately) to over ride that age old common sense, those of us who should need to know better, need to be reminded that there are a plethora of evil people out there trying to negate our ability to discern the truth.
Heard that line too much also but like you, it has made me pause and think. It also makes me reflect critically when told I should jump on the latest bandwagon instead of hurrying up to get on it before being left behind.
A quote I saw online somewhere about a year ago has stuck with me so I’ll pass it along: ‘Oh, what an opportunity we have to live a life of discernment!’
When I imagine myself taking the Asch test, I see myself thinking: "Huh, they're all lying for some reason. There must be a reason to lie that I'm not aware of -- some reward for lying or punishment for lying that somebody forgot to tell me about. Until I figure out what's going on, it's best to err on the safe side and say I agree with them, even though I don't."
This isn't cowardice or conformity. It's leveraging the knowledge of others. It's just like seeing the car ahead of you swerve suddenly -- maybe you don't immediately swerve, too, but you sure as hell slow down, look closely for an object in the road, and prepare to swerve if necessary.
When I first heard about it, my first thought was they were all crazy for some reason; say, were they all in some kind of strange cult? If I were there, I would agree with them until I could figure out what was really going on, for my own safety. I think your idea of them having a reason to be so invested in dishonesty is a great reason also, and quite relevant to our headlines today.
Even if the race is dead-even in the end, and Kamala Harris "wins" by a nose, perhaps with a big shift in the overnight count, the outcome of evenness against the uniform messaging implies an enormous collapse of social trust. Dead-even means the gatekeeping isn't working.
Ok, then what? We still loose. How do we make a comeback? They are in the process of blatant lie telling, to the point of absurdity. “ the moon is made of green cheese” “Russia collusion “. Etc
One thing I'm wondering about the polls, is how they are weighing how many more people consider themselves independents then 4 years ago. I genuinely don't think we know how many people like the Cheney's are going R to D, and how many people like Kennedy are going D to R. I'm looking forward to the election to find out.
Well after frog marching the majority of the American population through a two year humiliation ritual via Covid, with a color revolution thrown in for good measure, they feel pretty confident they can astroturf their way into the White House.
"So the moment in which every gatekeeping institution is endlessly pounding away on X IS THE ONLY RESPECTABLE OPINION, but half the country is narrowing their eyes and saying that we’ll stick with Y, thanks…
What does that imply? And what does it take to get there?"
It implies a stochastic resonance wave. And it's only getting stronger over time.
If the media, academia, the political establishment and corporate America are for X, then say no more...
Let's hear it for..."The Others"
Seems to me that most people check which way the gravy boat is sailing, and head that way. It is ever thus, probably since, like, a million years before the Bronze Age. But most people is not the same as all people. And the people who don't give a pickled cactus pad about prevailing winds and what other people think, if they have clear goals and if they can persist, they're the ones who shape the future.
Well it does suck to shape the future posthumously.
And I think that's the hole we're in. Right now is triage. The trophy comes after a generational battle that hopefully my kids win after we pass the torch.
I think we need to be honest with ourselves about that. If not, I believe that will be the determining factor of whether todays kids have a chance.
Yep, I think kamala is the next puppet face prez. I'm surrounded by folks who don't care about anything but orange man bad.
It’s a lonely place to be. I’m there myself.
Here's what I'm noticing: a lot of people (and that includes myself) oftentimes do not say anything in conversations with the TDS-suffering covidians. I learned a long time ago, it's a pointless headache to get into it with them (they don't know how to think for themselves, they can't take in anything new, they just parrot MSM and devolve into calling anyone who doesn't totally agree with totally hating on T and totally lauding the jabs a right-wing conspiracy kook.) And they're so sure they're right about it all that when prompted to agree with them, and I make vague polite noises and move the conversation on to safer pastures, they seem to think I agreed with them!
So watch the other people-- who starts the conversation, and who makes polite noises and moves it on? A lot of them are not going to vote the way the TDS-addled covidians so blithely assume.
You might be less alone than you think.
Life in Nazi America.
No shale, it's heavy.
I hope so!
Karen Lynch - Yes. On top of that my husband of 52 years died in 2017. Then covid and I didn't get the shots. I had to divorce some of my "friends" because of their comments like, "just get the damn vaccine," "you are so infuriating," "you know better". Argh. I did not let those comments just pass. So pobre pobre me. I found out who my real friends are and I have made new ones. All is not loneliness. But sometimes I miss the spontaneous things we used to do. Most of my new acquaintances live 30 or more miles away. I don't drive at night.
What a pity pot, huh? Yesterday I went to a lamb roast by myself and then to a wine taste where I saw people I hadn't seen for 20 years. It was a pretty good day.
Yes, a lot of us are in that position
A perfect example of why Republicans ultimately always loose. So depressing.
However, Trump is going to win if there are enough hacker blockers out there.
They ultimately always lose, not "loose". Sorry, that particular spelling error is so unfathomably common that I feel compelled to correct it.
Thank you abundantly, my dear Ripple! Just yesterday, I did the same thing in a YouTube comments section. It drives me at least as batty as it seems to drive you.
There are a couple of others which baffle me. One is this:
It's not uncommon for people to begin a sentence in conversation with the placeholder, "Well," but Generation Z seems unanimously to think it's "Welp."
But the one which leaves me close to despair, and the sense that the election hardly matters with a population as ill educated as the one we seem to have, is this:
The common displacement of "have" by "of." At first, I thought that this was because people were dictating, their pronunciation was slurry, and "have" was being picked up as "of." For all I know, that is how it started. But it's spread like a staph infection, and I have come to believe that much of the country thinks, "I would of gone there," instead of, "I would HAVE gone there," is correct grammatically. If I am right, is there all that much to try to rescue anymore?
I knooowww, said in a Mike Birbiglia voice. I have been accused of being a grammar Nazi. When I'm in a hurry, I sometimes make a grammar error. Then I'm mortified. There, their, they're, your, you're. Ugh.
Well in any event one does shape the future posthumously, whether intentionally or not. So, I figure, might as well as be intentionally.
Ryan, it's struck me that all but the extremely old - above eighty if not ninety - have lived most of their American lives with an awareness that the country they grew up loving has been in sharper and sharper decline.
I guess it is just me. Even though I'm over 80, I never suffered from an excess of patriotism. I went to Catholic schools and had my fill of authoritarian control there.
I went to Catholic school until I was 18. I much prefer the life I had then to this kind of sick life we have in America now.
It was a lot easier to understand life in the old days. I went to Catholic school from 1946 through 1959. I'm opposed to authoritarian control by anyone. Catholic schools seemed to have an excess of that at least where I lived. Those Irish nuns could be fierce. In high school we had an apologetics class that I credit with helping me to think critically.
Yes. The world is not ending...just the grand illusion
You are applying strong logic and consensus to your statement. I agree. Seems like a good position.
So if they are business ‘leaders’ I’m going to assume they aren’t running the local burger joint, but rather are associated with larger entities. Let’s have some fun with the math.
There are 22,000 corporations in the US with 500+ employees. Each of those has a CEO. So that’s 90 ‘business leaders’ out of 22,000. But wait. It gets better. Figure each of those 22,000 has at least 4 other C-suite members who could be considered ‘business leaders’. Now it’s 90 out of 100,000. But it gets even better. Each of those corporations has a Board of Directors. Let’s just say the average is 7 members. That’s 154,000 plus the 100,000. 254,000.
So Caballa has the endorsement of 90 out of a possible 254,000. My calculator won’t show the percentage, it’s too low.
Then we could add in all the non profits, foundations, and maybe quite a few firms with less than 500 employees, that are pretty well known.
And she got 90.
Of course, this is the way her campaign is being orchestrated and a good demonstration of how the media tells only the part of the story you need to hear.
They all want to make my puke.
The so called "ordinary" people I'm surrounded by will vote for her. My poor bemused, brainwashed niece will vote for her. I think my gay nephew will vote for her. Not sure about my sister. Met a man who is a National Lab scientist who 'splained to me how she and the dems are the only choice. I didn't think I would vote this year, but I will vote for Trump.
Such brainless twits are best challenged by using their own brainlessness against them.
Engage and ask what they think her greatest political achievement has been so far.
Or which of her policies are they most excited about.
They'll have transient brain-freeze before recovering and saying "oh, there's so many".
But keep needling: "You must have a favorite, pick one".
And very soon you will get to "I know nothing about her past policies, or her future policies. I'm just voting for her because "first black female President".
We have a severe deficit of knowledge, discernment, or even curiosity, in half the country's adult population.
And they're being allowed to vote using the same logic as a 5 year old in a toy store picking a new Barbie. 😳
Good points, all…but you’re forgetting one singular motivational factor: Orange Man Bad
JT and Sez777 that is exactly what they say. They don't care about policy or logic or anything beyond their TDS. They admit it. They say they don't know anything about her, but Trump is worse. I ask them what he did. They say all he does is lie. I ask them how Biden/kamala have not been lying to them. They don't care and don't answer. The National Lab scientist admitted the Lab would be more likely to get their bomb and stripes in the sky funding from the dems than the repubs. They don't care about anything else.
“I would vote for the devil himself over Trump.” Words from my husband. It’s a lonely place.
I think my husband (RIP) would possibly not vote for him, but he avoided all the covid insanity, etc. by dying in 2017. Darn him. I'd love to have had his take on it all. He was one smart dude even tho he did have a PhD.
AND they seem to have complete amnesia that she's currently in office and has been second in command for 4 years - yet "it's time for a change".
SMH
I pointed that out to my niece. She said we can't talk about it. So there you are.
According to Alexa, its because she's the first female VP, that's why you should vote for her.....that video has gone viral. Amazon say "it's a software error"
Lol. Alexa is a die-hard Democrat. She even comes preloaded with TDS. 😁
I suspect Siri leans the same way. Girrrl power!
(or powered Girrrl in this case).
They'll say things like, "I just think it's time we had a female President."
Terrifying.
Another one is that that scum, Walz, seems to have landed one with his tagging of Vance as "weird." He gave it a multiplier effect by repeating the vile lie about Vance and the sofa at his introduction speech. I don't think I have ever detested a public figure as I detest Walz.
It wouldn't be so bad if it were ineffective. I don't know where things stand now, but about a month ago, polls showed that the word The Dolt in the Street most associated with Walz was "weird."
Also, remember how in the couple of days after Trump announced Vance, tens of thousands of women went to online forums to declare their herd instinct that Vance struck them as "mean?" I wonder what's become of that?
I haven't heard a word about a Vance/Walz debate, which disconcerts me because I have no doubt that in such a meeting, Vance would wipe the creep out.
Yes, the corporate media like to run headlines without context. And without irony.
And most people don't seem to read much, if anything, past the headlines.
Good points
Caballa! Best name for her yet. I was going with Obamala, but I may need to switch.
I’m not sure what type of math that is exactly. 22k companies that each have a CEO is 22k CEO’s. Sorry, but it gets weirder from there.
He was comparing the 90 CEOs from the headline referenced in the OP to all 22K corps with over 500 employees. Basically, saying that out of 22K businesses ONLY 90 are endorsing Harris.
The noun is “business leaders.”
As Sasha Stone says of the media, you really can't hate them enough.
What does this imply?
Cracks in the narrative. A growing distrust in our institutions that is only getting worse with each Mark Cuban, Dick/Liz Cheney endorsement, with each poll, new tactic—is drawing those ‘I’ll chose Y’ crowd further and further away from legacy power institutions.
Not totally there if you saw the immediate fire Tucker drew from Darryl Cooper’s interview.
To accept that the govt and many other previously respected (even glorified)institutions (medicine, academia, SCIENCE!, FDA, NIH, AMA, etc etc) lied to us about COVID, and yet not be maybe just a bit suspicious about ‘THE ENTIRE NARRATIVE’—seems cowardly and willfully ignorant.
When you see middle class gen z women who would, on camera, admit they wished Trump was shot in forehead and (separate video) would choose abortion over Democracy…
Trump must win the popular vote as well.
Doesn’t it feel all contrived & fake though? All of it. Which rational actor would honestly think Kamala has the chops to be POTUS.
The people who may actually believe this are so low functioning they do not understand how medicine works. They are the permanent underclass, incurious about life, because the bulb is simply too dim.
bsn
I only have one blue person in my life left that I can still talk to, although I am avoiding now as much as possible. They are of the over-educated variety and whatever fact is presented to them is twisted around until the approved party narrative is spat back at me. They somehow have a small, family-owned successful business that they think only another blue administration can let them continue to grow and thrive.
Where I can see them fitting into the blue box is a complete trust in approved narratives, talking points, and big gov data. Incurious about anything outside the blue box, because everything outside the blue box is false and misinformation. They only trust what the blue box tells them too. It is also very evident in their manner that ‘only respectable, honest, caring, and fair people’ believe in ‘the right things’. Even asking questions, let alone stating an opposing position is thus easily refuted by them as malicious untruths.
It feels very much like a religious cult to me at this point, and I stay away from engaging them directly as much as possible.
Your second paragraph is a perfect summation of the thinking.
And interesting that it was also exactly the same behaviours we saw in the Covax enthusiasts.
That’s because it most definitely is a cult; and I say an atheistic, secular religion.
For me, I’m drawn to the fight. I fancy myself as some great orator, I guess. I attempt to use iron clad logic, that to me, seems well, iron clad. I usually walk away after a discourse that frankly sounds like two cats in a bag. Seems like all I do is loose someone that used to be a friend. Maybe I haven’t lost anything. I have too many friends anyway.
Your premise leads to the only logical explanation for anyone supporting Harris. They are Uber low information and seek renumeration from their “baby daddy “, the Biden/harris regime
Win the popular vote? Not possible if California is in the Union
California was a red state when I was in high school 35 years ago. It’s possible. It’s very possible. The left overplay their hand.
bsn
I went to high school in CA 35 years ago too. I actually knew someone with the same name as you -so
Interesting! I idolized Reagan. I think there’s still hope too. If the cheating is even cut in half Trump will win. The alliance with RFK Jr and Tulsi G gives me hope.
Trump won 48 states last election. They still stole it.
The unquestioned acceptance of the narrative is the current highest value of the "Question Authority" generation.
Resist, ask questions.
That was a very good interview, btw.
Gotta agree 100%
Brian, everyone should have been revolted by the Carlson/Cooper interview. For a concise article about what a crackpot Cooper is, go to The Washington Free Beacon and read Andrew Roberts' interview. Cooper is as credible as a historian as H.P. Lovecraft would have been.
There will always be people whom I classify as "low intensity sociopaths" around. I believe that Cooper is one, and that yes, every decent person should denounce him. This isn't groupthink anymore than the near universal revulsion people have toward pedophilia is. Certain things are true: the Earth revolves around the sun, the world's largest ocean is the Pacific, and no, it's not that the German High Command had no idea how many Russian military they would capture, so it was poor planning, not intent, that "a lot of people were thrown into camps and many of them died," or however the assh*le phrased it, that was the Wehrmacht's plan for how they would deal with Russian prisoners of war.
Cooper's description of Jonestown is laughably daft, but the Democrats can't attempt to hang that around the Trump/Vance ticket's neck. If Trump gets through Tuesday evening without being asked about that interview, I will be shocked. ( For the Dems, anti - Semitism is cool, but Hitler? No, Hitler remains outcast. After all, Trump is Hitler, we all know that. )
Cooper was awful enough. But I can no longer take Tucker Carlson seriously. His having Cooper on at this time made me wonder fleetingly if he, Carlson, might have been "turned" by the KGB when he went to interview Putin. It's unlikely, I concede, but how could Carlson just sit there listening to "the most creative and original" historian in the United States as if he were St John gazing adoringly at Jesus? It has convinced me that Sean Hannity is not the only male bimbo who was ever employed by Fox News.
Bobby,
I've listened to nearly every podcast by Darryl Cooper created, I eventually subscribed because I felt guilty for listening to so much content for free.
I did not read Roberts' interview, I will later this week--but it will be hard to combat what I've listened to from Cooper himself. His podcast with Jocko called "The Unraveling" is also very good.
I disagree that Cooper is awful, or is a crackpot. I would argue that Cooper's own research has freed him from the mainstream narratives, not any nefarious plot nor any character flaw of Cooper. He's clever, self-taught, and has an incredible memory and ability to make history come alive.
I'd encourage you to listen to the first six of his podcasts, Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem before making any hard judgments--but to be fair--I've always been for the lunatic who's throwing rocks into the stained glass windows.
bsn
Brian, it may be age: I'm 72. Yikes, I remember when Eichmann was arrested, in 1960. It was probably then that I learned about the Holocaust. But you must have seen the films of the thousands of emaciated, somewhat decomposed bodies being plowed up in the camps. Eisenhower ordered those films made because he realized that it would be hard to convince the world of 1945, let alone of the future, that the Germans really had tried to exterminate all of the Jews.
I'm a sci fi fan to an extent, at least of Philip K. Dick. I enjoy the idea of non - reality realities, Potemkin Villages designed to fool and manipulate someone, which is the main plot line of the PKD novel, “Time Out of Joint.” But I think that God allows us the evidence of our minds and our senses because we are created in His Image. He wants us to learn.
C.S. Lewis pointed out that learning happens only if a student submits himself to the authority of a superior. This is true even of self or primitive education. There is a priceless anecdote from about 1959 of 18 year old John Lennon, 17 year old Paul McCartney, and 16 year old George Harrison taking a bus across town because they had heard about a kid who knew how to play a B7 chord, something which had eluded them to that point.
I feel hopeless in trying to convince you that Cooper is a quack. For him to be right, hundreds of people would have had to have misunderstood Churchill to an absurd degree or deliberately misrepresented him with unknown intentions. As for German intentions, Hitler made quite clear in his appalling book, “Mein Kampf,” published in 1925, exactly what his intentions were not just for the Jews, the disabled, and other German “inferiors,” but for the Slavs: slavery if possible, murder if enslavement proved too much trouble.
I'm all for mavericks. I am delighted by people who have gone against the grain and been proven right, such as the two Australian doctors who insisted against the totality of medical orthodoxy in the 1980s that ulcers were caused by a bacterial infection, not by tension. But if I believed Cooper might be on to something, I'd have to think that most of the world had been trapped in a programmed, never existent reality for most of a century.
I've met Holocaust survivors. I have seen the faded ink of the branding on aged arms.
I may have said this here already, because I know I said it on Substack somewhere: Cooper first talked with Tucker Carlson about Jim Jones and Jonestown, and I was stunned by how wrong Cooper was about most of what he said about Jones and Jonestown. I don't want to go into details, but I grew up in the same neighborhood and in the same schools as Larry Schacht, who became Dr Laurence Schacht, the man who calculated exactly how much cyanide would be needed to kill nine hundred people. I was three years younger than he was, so I didn't know him, though I have been told by someone who did know him that he knew who I was. ( That is a weird feeling. ) I would never say I have made a “hobby” of Jonestown, but I do know a lot about it. The alarms within me started to shriek as I listened to Cooper talk about Jones/Jonestown.
About Tucker Carlson: he has been becoming more flagrantly irresponsible in recent years. It maddens me when he says, “We know the CIA killed John F Kennedy.” Such a statement is wildly irresponsible, and feeds the sort of mind which conspiracy theories are a magnet for. The best investigated and most thorough books about the Kennedy assassination, Vincent Bugliosi's “Reclaiming History” and Gerald Posner's “Case Closed,” obliterate any idea that the CIA had a hand in the JFK assassination.
Get immersed in this crap and eventually you'll believe that the entire Apollo space program was faked.
“Kamala Harris doesn’t need policy to win”. That’s all I need to hear. They’ve admitted that she can be brainless. So, just curious, WHY can she win without policy? Because we “like” her, she’s cute,? Is it because trump is hated? I must have been asleep during the lesson that stated you can “win”, just because? This is the height of arrogance and quite frankly the most ridiculous, pathetic crap I’ve ever seen.
In a sane world, pushing a person for president without that person having a policy would have that person mocked and scorned out of existence, with the mountain of derision a mile high. Instead, we live in alternative world of mass brainwashing and psychosis where the paper thin candidate is prodded forward gleefully by TPTB.
I also agree.
Agree. Thank you
I think they feel a need for a fresh blank blue slate now that the previous blue version has worn its welcome out and it has the added bonus to them of not having orange hair. Besides, one must be ‘unburdened by what has been’ and as well, if there are stated policies, there would a lot of difficult questions to burdened with…
Glitterpuppy, it’s all that JOY she’s spreading - can’t you FEEL it???
I do kinda wonder how Russia Russia Russia is going to work out since Putin has endorsed her…. 😂
I'm surprised this hasn't been the number one discussion. The Putin endorsement WTF, Russia has always been the big bad enemy. This should have made every person think, but why? What's in it for them or for Putin? People in government want power, control and money. What better way than to have the work done for you from the inside.
Washington Post "The Russian government's covert efforts to sway the 2024 presidential election are more advanced than in recent years, and the most active ..."
CNN "The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence the 2024 US ..."
The Hill "Former President Trump on Saturday dismissed findings from the Justice Department about Russia's covert efforts to influence the 2024 U.S. ..."
So wait a minute, Putin endorsed Harris the party that is destroying the United States. Hasn't it always been said that Russia wants to destroy the United States? That's Harris's only achievement, destroying the United States.
I’m no Putin lover but I believe his “endorsement” was tongue-in-cheek simply because he followed that w/ how charming her cackle is & no one could hear that & call it that. On the surface it would seem obvious that he would prefer a brainless nitwit running the US (as has been for the past 4 years), but this administration has been so utterly feckless & incompetent w/ the world ablaze everywhere, & that makes them insane & very dangerous. I think even dictators do not want WWIII & would welcome long overdue sanity in addition to someone they might respect….
Besides, I have a pretty simple philosophy to guide me: anything this administration, DemoncRATs in general, “celebrities” & globalists are FOR, I am AGAINST & vice versa. That doesn’t mean Putin is a great guy or hasn’t done bad things. I never would have believed it, but same can be said about the US & many of our “leaders” (as well as other western countries). The UN is a globalist entity w/ the same WHO-WEF-etc agenda & when it broke its promise about keeping Ukraine out, Putin felt justifiably threatened. That’s my take on it anyway; could be wrong! But given the naked but phony hysteria & hatred of Russia (not to mention the billions spent @ the expense of OUR people, OUR borders, OUR defense, OUR sovereignty), I kind of think not.
100% agree, he's pointing out the fact that's she's a complete joke. I think it's hilarious that he wanted to put in a jab at her and mocking her supporter. But they won't see it that way because how the media will spin it. The lying has gone on for so long I wouldn't doubt lies were told just to create hatred and fear for Russia (USSR). Was the cold war really how it was told to us? I mean look how ridiculous it was for us students to practice a drill rolled up in a ball under your desk with hands over your head to protect you from a nuclear bomb attack.
I don’t think the media will be able to spin it because the Russian “endorsement” - even as a joke - was for HER. And the lame street media is ignoring it as a very inconvenient truth anyway. They’d be shrieking about it from here to past the election if Putin had said Trump. I don’t think it’s going to work to blame China or Iran either, simply because it’s irrefutable that Trump would be hard on all of them. Not that the presstitutes wont try
Excellent point. I can’t wait
The fix is in, for sure. They have to go for broke; all of them, because the shit that will be exposed is monumental. So, there's that to contend with.
However, no one has any love, respect or trust of miscreants like The Cheny's, Bush or Pence. There isn't any trust, period.
My theory is all polls are for shit and Trump is going to win by a landslide. You all remember that I made this prediction. If I am wrong, then you can pile on!
None of the “mainstream “ polls are real, IMHO. They are probably oversampling Democrats on purpose. If you look at Rasmussen, his polls have been consistent for months, with Trump running ahead of Grampy Joe, when he was still alive, and ahead of Harris. The so-called polls have to be close so when they steal the election, the close polls will be part of the cover-up.
Precisely! Polls have always over sampled DemonCrats. I learned this in 2016. A group of us studied the sampling before the election and predicted a Trump win!
Not a soul outside our group believed us. My hubby thought I was insane! Watching the results (2016) was painful for hubby. I was cool as a cucumber.
I am not saying I will be in the same frame of mind this time!
You can't trust the polls because of exactly Mr. Brays premise.
I am very, VERY surprised this video is still on YT.
Flipping the vote 51/49. "They'd never see it".
https://youtu.be/Q9BiVJucsM4?feature=shared
If it weren't for TDS it would be a landslide akin to Reagan in 84'.
I'm feeling fairly confident Trump wins with 290'ish electoral votes.
That's a relative landslide in today's current environment.
From your lips to Gods ears!
Okay! I am betting it’s over 290
Ryan-290
Kat- over 290
Are you in, Ryan?!
296 for the over/under and I'm in for bragging rights.
If it lands on the line, you win.
Deal!
I hope you get to spike the football!
Damn straight, my friend 💯😎💜🙏
Man, I hope you’re right. If we win, then comes the fun just trying to hold on
And stay off the streets the morning after.
If they lose they riot.
If they win they riot.
Tolerance, equity and inclusion comin' in hard, either way.
I laughed at the candid camera skit , but seriously, your right Chris …
Psychology of conformity runs deep …thus the Bioweapon psyops .
I might be kidding myself, but I don’t think this type of psychology has ever worked on me. Not as an adult, anyway. Got to have lots of peeps that see this for what it is. I hope…
Read about that in one of my first psych classes. Was an eye opener.
Yes
As an experienced energy industry technical expert who has worked in the field for 40 years, I can say with confidence that in 2024 its perfectly possible to find seven people who talk with confidence about energy, agree with each other and yet are entirely full of shit.
You know, that shit can be processed into fuel.
That would include the entire “climate change “ snake oil salesmen
I think is becoming the case in many fields, very unfortunately.
Indeed. Maybe because of the internet there are lots more areas populated by Dunning Krugers, so if you dont already know your stuff, it could be easy to doubt yourself.
I don't know about you, but I always follow the lead of Darth Vader- excuse me, Dick Cheney, and his spawn Liz.
The Trump campaign should pay to show video ads of Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala and run that ad in every deep blue city in America. A majority of democrats would either change to team red or their heads would just explode in a massive fit of cognitive dissonance. Alternatively Dick could take Kamala dove hunting.
Unfortunately, I think the importance of this is lost somewhat on those who are too young to have lived through those years.
Right. “ who is that brave patriot?”
I was definitely undecided until they weighed in. Now I’m definitely voting the VIBE ticket!
Lol! Yep. Me too
Lolol!
Or the “weird” ticket. Kinda like “fetch” in Mean Girls - they tried mighty hard but just couldn’t make “weird” stick.
Like most people over the age of 60, my mother would always respond with the line "So if so and so decides to jump off a cliff, are you going to jump off a cliff too?" when I tried the "all the other kids" are doing it argument. That single line that I despised so much has served me well over my lifetime, Whenever I am told by the press that "everyone else is doing it", my level of skepticism raises exponentially. While I understand the protracted attempts (mostly successful unfortunately) to over ride that age old common sense, those of us who should need to know better, need to be reminded that there are a plethora of evil people out there trying to negate our ability to discern the truth.
"Whenever I am told by the press that "everyone else is doing it", my level of skepticism raises exponentially. "
Funny.. I reach for my wallet and my pistol.
Groups multiply force and divide responsibility. A big enough group has no responsibility at all. We call that a target rich environment.
I’m thinking m203.
lol I was raised by a mother who used to say the same thing... and it's served me well too.
Heard that line too much also but like you, it has made me pause and think. It also makes me reflect critically when told I should jump on the latest bandwagon instead of hurrying up to get on it before being left behind.
A quote I saw online somewhere about a year ago has stuck with me so I’ll pass it along: ‘Oh, what an opportunity we have to live a life of discernment!’
Thank you for logical thought that brings us to sound reasoning
When I imagine myself taking the Asch test, I see myself thinking: "Huh, they're all lying for some reason. There must be a reason to lie that I'm not aware of -- some reward for lying or punishment for lying that somebody forgot to tell me about. Until I figure out what's going on, it's best to err on the safe side and say I agree with them, even though I don't."
This isn't cowardice or conformity. It's leveraging the knowledge of others. It's just like seeing the car ahead of you swerve suddenly -- maybe you don't immediately swerve, too, but you sure as hell slow down, look closely for an object in the road, and prepare to swerve if necessary.
When I first heard about it, my first thought was they were all crazy for some reason; say, were they all in some kind of strange cult? If I were there, I would agree with them until I could figure out what was really going on, for my own safety. I think your idea of them having a reason to be so invested in dishonesty is a great reason also, and quite relevant to our headlines today.
If Dick and his family are endorsing it, it probably ain't good.
But all the polls say it’s a dead even race. What is one to do?
Even if the race is dead-even in the end, and Kamala Harris "wins" by a nose, perhaps with a big shift in the overnight count, the outcome of evenness against the uniform messaging implies an enormous collapse of social trust. Dead-even means the gatekeeping isn't working.
Lol, like I told one of my kids the other day I need to start adding a sarcasm emoji to all my comments.
It was very droll, sorry
Okay, I was a finance major. Sucked at language stuff. Had to look up droll.
“Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.”
I will take it as a compliment 😁.
You might be better off just adding a serious emoji for the few comments that need it
Ok, then what? We still loose. How do we make a comeback? They are in the process of blatant lie telling, to the point of absurdity. “ the moon is made of green cheese” “Russia collusion “. Etc
We still lose, not "loose". It's so bizarre how common this particular spelling error is.
"Dead even" (or Kamalatoe winning,) would rather demonstrate that the Dominion "voting" machines are working...
As well as the overnight ballot delivery trucks.
One thing I'm wondering about the polls, is how they are weighing how many more people consider themselves independents then 4 years ago. I genuinely don't think we know how many people like the Cheney's are going R to D, and how many people like Kennedy are going D to R. I'm looking forward to the election to find out.
I am constantly bombarded with kamala voting stuff. I think they collect stats from people who respond to those things as well as polls.
Well after frog marching the majority of the American population through a two year humiliation ritual via Covid, with a color revolution thrown in for good measure, they feel pretty confident they can astroturf their way into the White House.
But you have to give a fuck what this crowd of pathetic, bought off, pervert ridden morons thinks...
My default is to go the other way. The group is never correct.
Yes; if everybody is thinking alike, it tells me nobody is thinking.
"So the moment in which every gatekeeping institution is endlessly pounding away on X IS THE ONLY RESPECTABLE OPINION, but half the country is narrowing their eyes and saying that we’ll stick with Y, thanks…
What does that imply? And what does it take to get there?"
It implies a stochastic resonance wave. And it's only getting stronger over time.
https://markbisone.substack.com/p/spook-central-part-2
Just read your comment on stochastic resonance. Thanks