I started to write about the precedents for the Trump indictment and related topics in the recent criminalization of political disagreement, but I couldn’t summon up the energy to keep going. I was boring myself, and I kept stopping. It took a couple of days, but I figured it out: I realized that I was treating a
The Gnostics believed some sizable percentage of people have no soul, no inner life, and nothing about them that transcends the purely material (hylics), and that seems to map on pretty well to the idea of NPCs. The folks who eat the bullshit and swear it's yummy sirloin steak, no matter how much of it they eat and no matter how badly their breath reeks of shit, just because their screens tell them the shit is actually steak, those folks are making me really think the Gnostics were right.
A scary thing to think these peeps will never be able to connect the obvious dots back to sanity. I'd rather blame their lack of mental fixtures & fittings, and wouldn't go out on a spiritual limb 🤔
The sparkle of paradox is the secret power behind the assertions like a man can be a woman, mutilating a child is affirming care and so on. The people who are impressed with sparkly things will always fall for bullshit, especially those engaged in defending the idea that they are very smart people.
Cooking at home and eating food we have grown ourselves has become such a pleasant pastime that we really look forward to it every day. I highly recommend it!
This is the bit from Orwell, about how the PTB can't persist in obscuring the truth "in ways that would impair military efficiency," if I remember the phrase right. We all know people who have died suddenly or become very ill after the corona shots, and for most of us, everyone or nearly everyone who has gotten the shots has caught corona at least once. We know that Trump was skanky with respect to women and unscrupulous when it came to eminent domain and real estate projects, but not a felon. We know that a boy is a boy, and that a teen boy can generally run faster than a teen girl. We know that our Edison lightbulbs (taken away from us lo these many years) aren't responsible for a snowstorm in Buffalo or a hurricane in Florida. (And whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? It was all the rage when I was 12.)
Unfortunately, the other thing we know is that people who profit from selling carbon credits and mRNA injections have pervaded the administrative state. I don't know what these people get out of persecuting Trump, but I'm sure it's something. Maybe it's distracting people from other potential presidents; maybe it's just reminding us that the tax code is a weapon that is always ready to be used.
I don't read the crap, and I don't follow the circus, but I am disheartened at the power the bad guys have. At least Trump can afford good legal representation. I wonder how much of the administrative state Bobby, Jr., would replace if he won. He seems unafraid of the bullies, and frankly, I'd like to keep DeSantis here. DeSantis also may not be cynical enough to strike at the root of the problem.
Yes. Hair spray was bad (CFCs?) and styrofoam Big Mac boxes were bad. Exhaling was OK. I do wonder (age 13 or 14) what happened to the spotted owl. The loggers were bad, and the owl was good.
Surely the taxpayer ought to be involved somehow... Hard to believe we're not funding some kind of counter-insurgency. USDA has permanent offices in my old county in PA, vainly chasing down every last spotted lanternfly. Anyone who has followed that saga--and sees that the feds believe it's possible to eradicate a flying insect that lays a kajillion eggs in the woods--could see just how dumb and evil the corona story was going to get.
Chloro-flouro carbons in refrigerants were supposedly the cause of the ozone layer hole. That’s why they came out with more ‘ecofriendly freon’. Also why techs had to capture the freon when they decommissioned auto and home air conditioners.
FYI incandescent bulbs are NOW being sold in home depot, walmart, and elsewhere -- thanks to Trump who made it possible for incandescents to be manufactured and sold again.
BUT buy all the halogen and incandescents you can before August 1, 2023 when they will no longer be sold anywhere in the United States of Tyranny.
Resident potatohead's minions will only allow useless LED bulbs to be sold after that date.
I understand your combat fatigue, writing as you do. But this indictment in NYC, is like the ones coming in DC and Atlanta. They are for socialist show trials. There's no there, there. Just made up words to explain made up charges. There will be more, I'm certain. The socialists have used this vehicle for over 100 years. So, defend Trump, his family, and any of his associates with your pen and sage comments, but remember, the charges are parodies of justice, empty words and phrases made to obfuscate and confuse, not seek justice. Keep up the great work and be a happy warrior (I know that's hard sometimes).
Part of the purpose for the shit on the news is to blot out anything real that threatens to enter the discussion. The shit itself doesn't matter. What matters is that they fire the shit out in a continuous, high speed stream, just a tidal wave of yammering and idiot nonsense, so that you don't ever get the time to look outside of the Skinner box.
What we need to understand is that Leftists don't really believe that what they say is true, in the way that we have beliefs about what it true. THE LEFT LIE FOR EFFECT. The media stream is a strategy, and individual lies are tactics.
On a recent podcast with Larry Johnson, the podcast host speaking of how he met some Ukrainians that didn't even know that Ukraine was shelling Donbass areas for past decade.
That's what AI in charge of all information will do under RESIST Act. There will be ZERO way to get any information not sanctioned by the PTBs, short - maybe - carrying a USB stick around. So if New Hampshire is shelling Maine, but no one knows and no one can speak or hear about it, then did it really happen? A tree falls in the forest...
Alexander Mercouris recently (April 1, I thiunk) speaking about due process. Seems to me due process is the flip of violence. If the state monopolizes violence, then it must guarantee due process - in all forms. Otherwise rule of law turns into arbitrary rule of man. Totalitarianism. How did JFK put it? Those who make peaceful change impossible, guarantee violent change; I paraphrase.
This isn't only international or national. It's happening in our quaint legislature in Maine. It's happening at the medical boards. It's happening in school boards. Put the AIs in charge of all information and people lose their humanity.
That's where this AI thing goes. Musk and the several thousand AI scientists saying STOP won't be able to stop it. Besides, the program is already running. That much is clear. Tell me how this ends!
So stay off the internet? Damn. I really like this place. Also, a good reason to read printed material and not succumb to entreaties to “go paperless!”
Ok, so we all understand that we are being fed bad intel. How can we craft a lucid response to idiocy? Just asking, if someone has an answer, seize the day.
I don't read any of it, so in that way, I'm not making the problem worse by giving currency and credence to the propaganda machine. The problem is what's behind the machine. We would need to replace virtually everyone in government with someone who has Chris Bray's basic decency, and shut down various executive departments, to end the control mechanism of the actual things that *are* (BS drug approvals, control of commerce, etc., etc.).
Your opponents use a stronger more frequent noise to signal ratio than you do, which is why they've been winning more and more since the late 1960s/early 1970s.
While the interesting bits are always in the signal, it's the noise that counts.
That's why "leftys" always show up with bull-horns, vuvuzelas and such: they don't have to debate, have a counter-narrative orany cogent argument if they can drone and drown you out.
The american oppostion to today's political land-slide into outright authoritarianism are trying to duke it out using Queensberry rules, against an opponent that (quite sensibly) uses the "everywhere is a target - anything is a weapon"-school of fighting.
Long as you do that, you lose. Rules are for games and sports and formal competitions: in a struggle for supremacy, power is the only currency and power rests on the will to do whatever achieves victory.
That's why the "left" wins: they understand Will to Power.
Notice how the story changed from something people can verify - the vax prevents COVID - to something they can't: the vax reduces severe disease. A lot of people still believe that, but the number who demand "show me" has got to be growing.
By nature an optimist, I nevertheless doubt your hopeful assertion that "enormous manipulative apparatus, policing your perceptions and putatively guardrailing where your mind can go, cannot succeed."
I similarly insisted in March 2020 that government repressions could not last long, because people would reject COVID hysteria when virtually no one they knew suffered seriously, much less died, upon contracting the respiratory virus. Sadly, I was proven wrong. The government & media psy ops were astoundingly effective, terrorizing billions of people who had little to fear, some even to this day.
And when AI is ubiquitous, many will unquestioningly accept AI pronouncements as truth.
Unfortunately, they, for many, will accept their new AI Overlords.
But they haven't. Against the desperate effort to embed mRNA injections in our lives forever, current demand is effectively zero, and an overwhelming majority of parents never allowed the injection of the shit into their children. The battle wasn't won instantly, but it was won.
No, it wasn't won, Chris. Covid was just a tool to change society for the worse, and put the Marxist Vegetable into the White House. Those things happened. And mRNA is entering the food supply, plus Big pHarma got themselves a huge crop of forever-patients, thanks to the staggering number of injections taken.
They've been waging an unnamed War on Noticing for years, alongside the endless parade of Wars on Abstractions, all part of their War on Reality that ultimately reduces down to the level of a massive toddler tantrum.
Toddlers rarely get their way, and neither will they. That's inevitable, but the amazing thing is how rapidly it's destroyed their minds.
A quibble with your last phrase, "how rapidly it's destroyed their minds". You seem to be assuming that sufferers from that loathsome affliction we call "leftism", or "socialism" actually started out possessing minds to destroy. A supposition far from apparent by their behavior.
An attorney friend, who practices in NYS, had a number of things to say about it, including: "But, note the dates: ALL in 2017. Trump had already been sworn in and taken office. ALL his business holding[s] had been placed in a BLIND TRUST so that there would be no impropriety or improper dealing. Trump had absolutely NO INVOLVEMENT in the day to day of any of his businesses. It's a friggen huge stretch to charge him with felonies when he simply had no legal involvement in the business. THIS is what's likely to get the entire indictment tossed."
Don't know how much of that is true, just passing it along.
i heard Dershowitz, no fan of Trump but a fan of blind justice and the constitution, say that the only way DT can get a fair trial is with a change of venue. NY wants the privilege of saying it was first to have his head on a platter
Yes, and the jury won't need evidence as they are Manhattan based.
Bragg: "Trump is accused of traveling back in time and being the actual cause of the Holocaust using a magic space eraser to wipe goodness from the brains of the German people."
You’ve seen me write this before, Chris. You may ignore reality all you like, but reality never ignores you. In that vein, I’m headed out for a three-day hike. The trail doesn’t care, man. It just doesn’t.
There is NO accommodation to be made with these people. We need a national divorce, but more importantly, a way to keep them out once we separate. Without that, the rats fleeing the hell-holes they created will come back.
I read Boorstin's book last week, after hearing about it from David Zweig. This is very relevant: "Pseudo-events spawn other pseudo-events in geometric progression. They dominate our consciousness simply because there are more of them, and ever more."
What scares me is the folks who can't see that it's bullshit, no matter how absurd it gets. Another example:
White House Releases 11-Page Review of Biden Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Blaming Trump for Biden’s Bad Decisions
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/06/white-house-releases-11-page-review-of-biden-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-blaming-trump-for-bidens-bad-decisions/
The Gnostics believed some sizable percentage of people have no soul, no inner life, and nothing about them that transcends the purely material (hylics), and that seems to map on pretty well to the idea of NPCs. The folks who eat the bullshit and swear it's yummy sirloin steak, no matter how much of it they eat and no matter how badly their breath reeks of shit, just because their screens tell them the shit is actually steak, those folks are making me really think the Gnostics were right.
A scary thing to think these peeps will never be able to connect the obvious dots back to sanity. I'd rather blame their lack of mental fixtures & fittings, and wouldn't go out on a spiritual limb 🤔
Good analogy! Hollow/empty folks waiting to be filled with the latest "thing"...
The sparkle of paradox is the secret power behind the assertions like a man can be a woman, mutilating a child is affirming care and so on. The people who are impressed with sparkly things will always fall for bullshit, especially those engaged in defending the idea that they are very smart people.
Well I do like sparkly things. But I can still spot a fake.
I am cringing at going out to dinner and over hearing mask wearing people talk about it, gleefully blaming trump.
We rarely bother going out to dinner anymore.
Cooking at home and eating food we have grown ourselves has become such a pleasant pastime that we really look forward to it every day. I highly recommend it!
This is the bit from Orwell, about how the PTB can't persist in obscuring the truth "in ways that would impair military efficiency," if I remember the phrase right. We all know people who have died suddenly or become very ill after the corona shots, and for most of us, everyone or nearly everyone who has gotten the shots has caught corona at least once. We know that Trump was skanky with respect to women and unscrupulous when it came to eminent domain and real estate projects, but not a felon. We know that a boy is a boy, and that a teen boy can generally run faster than a teen girl. We know that our Edison lightbulbs (taken away from us lo these many years) aren't responsible for a snowstorm in Buffalo or a hurricane in Florida. (And whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? It was all the rage when I was 12.)
Unfortunately, the other thing we know is that people who profit from selling carbon credits and mRNA injections have pervaded the administrative state. I don't know what these people get out of persecuting Trump, but I'm sure it's something. Maybe it's distracting people from other potential presidents; maybe it's just reminding us that the tax code is a weapon that is always ready to be used.
I don't read the crap, and I don't follow the circus, but I am disheartened at the power the bad guys have. At least Trump can afford good legal representation. I wonder how much of the administrative state Bobby, Jr., would replace if he won. He seems unafraid of the bullies, and frankly, I'd like to keep DeSantis here. DeSantis also may not be cynical enough to strike at the root of the problem.
I remember the hole in the ozone layer. Good times, good times.
It's hard to hold in your head, but I think hair spray was the enemy, whereas various chemicals in our actual food and water are no problem.
Back then, it was OK to be CO2.
Yes. Hair spray was bad (CFCs?) and styrofoam Big Mac boxes were bad. Exhaling was OK. I do wonder (age 13 or 14) what happened to the spotted owl. The loggers were bad, and the owl was good.
We have owls in the woods here. Don't know what kind, never seen them. Maybe they identify as spotted owls.
You mean you haven't... spotted the owls? 🦉
(I'll toss myself out)
LOL
The spotted owl is still endangered, but by encroachment from the barred owl into its territory, not because of humans.
Surely the taxpayer ought to be involved somehow... Hard to believe we're not funding some kind of counter-insurgency. USDA has permanent offices in my old county in PA, vainly chasing down every last spotted lanternfly. Anyone who has followed that saga--and sees that the feds believe it's possible to eradicate a flying insect that lays a kajillion eggs in the woods--could see just how dumb and evil the corona story was going to get.
I recall a bumper sticker from that era:
"Spotted Owls Taste Like Chicken"
Chloro-flouro carbons in refrigerants were supposedly the cause of the ozone layer hole. That’s why they came out with more ‘ecofriendly freon’. Also why techs had to capture the freon when they decommissioned auto and home air conditioners.
I think DeSantis is a tarbaby, baby. Maybe Bobby Jr as Trump's VP?
If he is really working with the Bushes, I would agree. I hope it is not true.
By his supporters shall ye know him.
If? 🤣
Take Chris’ advice and read that article he highlighted.
FYI incandescent bulbs are NOW being sold in home depot, walmart, and elsewhere -- thanks to Trump who made it possible for incandescents to be manufactured and sold again.
BUT buy all the halogen and incandescents you can before August 1, 2023 when they will no longer be sold anywhere in the United States of Tyranny.
Resident potatohead's minions will only allow useless LED bulbs to be sold after that date.
I understand your combat fatigue, writing as you do. But this indictment in NYC, is like the ones coming in DC and Atlanta. They are for socialist show trials. There's no there, there. Just made up words to explain made up charges. There will be more, I'm certain. The socialists have used this vehicle for over 100 years. So, defend Trump, his family, and any of his associates with your pen and sage comments, but remember, the charges are parodies of justice, empty words and phrases made to obfuscate and confuse, not seek justice. Keep up the great work and be a happy warrior (I know that's hard sometimes).
Danny Huckabee
Just read a good article posted by Revolver News about how the deep state took out Nixon. It’s obvious they are doing the same to Trump. They’re relentless and ruthless. You can’t win. https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon
They never quit. Perhaps they CAN'T quit? The particularly repugnant mental illness with which they are afflicted may not allow them to quit.
Trump can't win ... And we ALL lose!
Part of the purpose for the shit on the news is to blot out anything real that threatens to enter the discussion. The shit itself doesn't matter. What matters is that they fire the shit out in a continuous, high speed stream, just a tidal wave of yammering and idiot nonsense, so that you don't ever get the time to look outside of the Skinner box.
Exactly!
What we need to understand is that Leftists don't really believe that what they say is true, in the way that we have beliefs about what it true. THE LEFT LIE FOR EFFECT. The media stream is a strategy, and individual lies are tactics.
"It worked, didn't it?"
- Senator Harry Reid
100%.
YES!
Yes, yes, yes.
On a recent podcast with Larry Johnson, the podcast host speaking of how he met some Ukrainians that didn't even know that Ukraine was shelling Donbass areas for past decade.
That's what AI in charge of all information will do under RESIST Act. There will be ZERO way to get any information not sanctioned by the PTBs, short - maybe - carrying a USB stick around. So if New Hampshire is shelling Maine, but no one knows and no one can speak or hear about it, then did it really happen? A tree falls in the forest...
Alexander Mercouris recently (April 1, I thiunk) speaking about due process. Seems to me due process is the flip of violence. If the state monopolizes violence, then it must guarantee due process - in all forms. Otherwise rule of law turns into arbitrary rule of man. Totalitarianism. How did JFK put it? Those who make peaceful change impossible, guarantee violent change; I paraphrase.
This isn't only international or national. It's happening in our quaint legislature in Maine. It's happening at the medical boards. It's happening in school boards. Put the AIs in charge of all information and people lose their humanity.
And this Jonathan Turley:
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/defamed-by-chatgpt-my-own-bizarre-experience-with-artificiality-of-artificial-intelligence/
That's where this AI thing goes. Musk and the several thousand AI scientists saying STOP won't be able to stop it. Besides, the program is already running. That much is clear. Tell me how this ends!
So stay off the internet? Damn. I really like this place. Also, a good reason to read printed material and not succumb to entreaties to “go paperless!”
Dead on.
Ok, so we all understand that we are being fed bad intel. How can we craft a lucid response to idiocy? Just asking, if someone has an answer, seize the day.
I don't read any of it, so in that way, I'm not making the problem worse by giving currency and credence to the propaganda machine. The problem is what's behind the machine. We would need to replace virtually everyone in government with someone who has Chris Bray's basic decency, and shut down various executive departments, to end the control mechanism of the actual things that *are* (BS drug approvals, control of commerce, etc., etc.).
Your opponents use a stronger more frequent noise to signal ratio than you do, which is why they've been winning more and more since the late 1960s/early 1970s.
While the interesting bits are always in the signal, it's the noise that counts.
That's why "leftys" always show up with bull-horns, vuvuzelas and such: they don't have to debate, have a counter-narrative orany cogent argument if they can drone and drown you out.
The american oppostion to today's political land-slide into outright authoritarianism are trying to duke it out using Queensberry rules, against an opponent that (quite sensibly) uses the "everywhere is a target - anything is a weapon"-school of fighting.
Long as you do that, you lose. Rules are for games and sports and formal competitions: in a struggle for supremacy, power is the only currency and power rests on the will to do whatever achieves victory.
That's why the "left" wins: they understand Will to Power.
Exactly
As I write, my working presumption is:
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU THINK THE LEFT IS LYING, IT'S LYING MORE THAN THAT.
And so far I'm always right.
Notice how the story changed from something people can verify - the vax prevents COVID - to something they can't: the vax reduces severe disease. A lot of people still believe that, but the number who demand "show me" has got to be growing.
By nature an optimist, I nevertheless doubt your hopeful assertion that "enormous manipulative apparatus, policing your perceptions and putatively guardrailing where your mind can go, cannot succeed."
I similarly insisted in March 2020 that government repressions could not last long, because people would reject COVID hysteria when virtually no one they knew suffered seriously, much less died, upon contracting the respiratory virus. Sadly, I was proven wrong. The government & media psy ops were astoundingly effective, terrorizing billions of people who had little to fear, some even to this day.
And when AI is ubiquitous, many will unquestioningly accept AI pronouncements as truth.
Unfortunately, they, for many, will accept their new AI Overlords.
But they haven't. Against the desperate effort to embed mRNA injections in our lives forever, current demand is effectively zero, and an overwhelming majority of parents never allowed the injection of the shit into their children. The battle wasn't won instantly, but it was won.
No, it wasn't won, Chris. Covid was just a tool to change society for the worse, and put the Marxist Vegetable into the White House. Those things happened. And mRNA is entering the food supply, plus Big pHarma got themselves a huge crop of forever-patients, thanks to the staggering number of injections taken.
They've been waging an unnamed War on Noticing for years, alongside the endless parade of Wars on Abstractions, all part of their War on Reality that ultimately reduces down to the level of a massive toddler tantrum.
Toddlers rarely get their way, and neither will they. That's inevitable, but the amazing thing is how rapidly it's destroyed their minds.
A quibble with your last phrase, "how rapidly it's destroyed their minds". You seem to be assuming that sufferers from that loathsome affliction we call "leftism", or "socialism" actually started out possessing minds to destroy. A supposition far from apparent by their behavior.
but how many people will die as a result of toddlers playing before they finally don't get their way
An attorney friend, who practices in NYS, had a number of things to say about it, including: "But, note the dates: ALL in 2017. Trump had already been sworn in and taken office. ALL his business holding[s] had been placed in a BLIND TRUST so that there would be no impropriety or improper dealing. Trump had absolutely NO INVOLVEMENT in the day to day of any of his businesses. It's a friggen huge stretch to charge him with felonies when he simply had no legal involvement in the business. THIS is what's likely to get the entire indictment tossed."
Don't know how much of that is true, just passing it along.
i heard Dershowitz, no fan of Trump but a fan of blind justice and the constitution, say that the only way DT can get a fair trial is with a change of venue. NY wants the privilege of saying it was first to have his head on a platter
"They" will just say it was planned that way to provide plausible deniability...
Yes, and the jury won't need evidence as they are Manhattan based.
Bragg: "Trump is accused of traveling back in time and being the actual cause of the Holocaust using a magic space eraser to wipe goodness from the brains of the German people."
Jury: "Guilty"
I believe the left needs to convict Trump of only one felony in order to stop him from running for President.
If Dershowitz is correct and a conviction is overturned on appeal, it will be loo late and the election of 2024 will be over by then.
Oh, silly me! What am I thinking? The damned election of 2024 is already over; the Democrat "won." 🙄
Felony convictions do not prevent a candidate from running for president. A treasonous socialist ran from jail decades ago. No problemo.
Thanks for the clarification. 👍🏼 I confused that with the impeachment conviction the crazies were chasing.
You’ve seen me write this before, Chris. You may ignore reality all you like, but reality never ignores you. In that vein, I’m headed out for a three-day hike. The trail doesn’t care, man. It just doesn’t.
There is NO accommodation to be made with these people. We need a national divorce, but more importantly, a way to keep them out once we separate. Without that, the rats fleeing the hell-holes they created will come back.
Yes, as a red stater my lovely lake town is filling up with ex-New Yorkers who keep trying to bring their policies with them.
Yuck. Sorry to hear that.
Chris, I'm having trouble believing you actually live in Pasadena with all this "people won't believe it's shit when they taste it" talk.
I live in SOUTH Pasadena, which is the command center of the Jonestown compound. Masking still at 20%. Road trips. I take road trips.
Great post. Everything is psy-op and propaganda. It’s all very….Soviet.
I read Boorstin's book last week, after hearing about it from David Zweig. This is very relevant: "Pseudo-events spawn other pseudo-events in geometric progression. They dominate our consciousness simply because there are more of them, and ever more."