Just read JH Kunstler's 2024 predictions. Like Chris, he knows what time it is.
I live just outside of Joint Base Lewis McChord, nee Fort Lewis, and there are a number of training areas 'outside the wire'.
I have been running the trails and walking my dogs in those Tasks for the last 30 years. Last week I got a ticket for trespassing from a little weak man with a sliver of power in a particular area. He's a game warden. Thought he'd be worried about poaching--but no, he prefers to terrorize retired Soldiers on December 23rd.
For anyone who as served, he's your typical veteran who separated as an E3 or E4, likely got an Article 15, hates all officers, and is now a fat-ass with a scraggily beard. You know the type. He actually said to me (after he asked for my military ID as well), "Don't confuse your retired rank with my authority (when I never mentioned my rank or that I was retired)."
He is the male equivalent of Shenna whatsheruglyface in Maine.
Weak men with power are the most dangerous people in the world, always have been. This clown went from zero to eleven in a nano-second. He told me I was trespassing (in my car in a turnabout), I told him I was turning around. He said 'gimme your ID!', I said, "gimme your supervisor's number'. He won that battle, but will lose his job when I talk with Garrison Commander and Provost Marshal next week.
There is a dangerous energy in the air. We have been amygdala hijacked about every 3-6 months since March 2020. Most people are nearing exasperation--and the Leftists keep pushing. I'm convinced they want violence.
The Biden administration, and the Leftists during 2020 have been deliberately spreading kindling soaked in lighter fluid in every community for the past 3-7 years. It won't take much to light it off.
I think that is the 'air' we feel. We have been both over-stimulated, and at the same time never had a chance to calm down. Our collective blood pressure went from 110/65 to 150/105...but we've become normalized to it. We think we're fine--it is those crazies, not me.
There is no reserve before we blow an artery. Someone raises an eyebrow to someone at Office Depot, and a weapon is pulled. Adrenal fatigue as well.
They WANT us to start it. Then they can claim to be "protecting our democracy" when they attempt their hostile takeover/declare martial law. It won't be easy but our Constitutional Republic beats their democracy by a huge margin every time. Every. Single. Time.
Agreed Yuma. It is all projection. I probably do the same thing myself. Remember someone, could have been a teacher or coach, saying, "When you point the finger of blame, three fingers are pointing back at you." Pretty damn profound, but something I forget again and again and again...
Was leaving Costco in Aug 2020. Saturday afternoon, at busy 4-way intersection next to I5 entrance and Tacoma Mall. I witnessed a BLM 'mostly peaceful protest' erupt in the middle of intersection. Vehicles quickly parked in front of all cars, eliminating exfil routes. I immediately went to '3 vehicle with long-gun' mode. Got out of middle lane, into right lane, and this car blocked my right turn. One big fat black gal in passenger side, one skinny black dude with braids driving. I look up and there are 6-7 guys with long guns at the low-ready.
I look again at the driver, and I immediately think, "I'm gonna grab your pony tails and bash your face into this curb...then give you a curb stomp before punching your girl in the neck."-obviously unstable response--PTS type reaction--but it was real. I was ready to kill immediately. The protesters were filming it with their iPhone X's....drove up onto sidewalk & did the Batman & Robin two-wheel turn to get out of there.
Called 911. They said, Ok. We know about it...
Photographic negative of Broken Window Theory.
My concern now is that most of the population is suffering from some degree of PTS--trauma related hyper-activity. It is gonna take MAD restraint to keep us from responding with violence--but we must. We must demonstrate restraint. We must.
The British Empire wasn't an empire anymore, and military confrontation would have resulted in the british supporting different factions against one another to foment a massive war across the entire subcontinent between the dozens of nationalist groups Gandhi gathered under his umbrella.
Wasn't because he was a peacenik or something; it was because it seemed as the optimal strategy at the time.
Against the British Empire as it was before WW1, Gandhi's peaceful protests would have elicited the same response as if it had been tsarist Russia: bang bang, no more protestors.
I am not sure restraint is the best course. We are dealing with dangerous bullies who have been “ getting away with it” for far too long. Bullies need to he dealt with. Hard. Imo
Spot on. Very scary times ahead. I plan to stand up for Mom and myself and politely take no crap. I pray for the strength, bravery, and honor to do this. Lots of military/law enforcement in my family. I don't want to be the one who breaks that tradition.
I know I feel angry, upset and anxious...and peeved off that my own government is doing this to all of us. We're being locked in and lied to. When it blows up, it will be very bad. Very, very bad.
I need to go back to church! Mine imploded when the pastor left.
I don’t know. I can’t see us “turning the other cheek” and this getting fixed. The system ain’t gonna fix itself. Although I 100% agree that the globalists want us to be violent. Look what the govt did with bullshit Covid vs how the govt reacted to BLM/ANTIFA vs Jan 6? Completely partisan political bullshit. We start shooting and they lock everything down. Then shit gets to a place I never imagined being. Cause things then get medieval.
BINGO!!! They absolutely want the right to do something. I often fear that some misguided lower IQ types on our side (let's be honest, both sides have their share) will do something incredibly stupid, and that it will be the justification they're looking for to disarm the populace and ramp up the tyranny 100x... because, as you so aptly state, they'll be "protecting our democracy." 🙄 Every new indictment they file against Trump, and every new outrage like removing Trump from a state's ballot is the leftist puppet masters casting another lure into the right wing's pond...
Please don't take the bait, folks. Don't chomp on that shiny lure. Sadly, the people who most need to hear that message won't be found here, as this isn't a low IQ type of venue, but I'll say it all the same in hopes others echo it ad nauseum, until it eventually trickles down to the correct ears. Don't take the bait. VOTE like your lives depend on it, because they do.
American colonists had no representation in Parliament, which made it easier to look upon the slew of abusive laws as “foreign” and therefore well deserving of repudiation by force. In our case today, the people we’ve elected have done this to us, over and over, and yet we re-elect them repeatedly. Again I come back to Cassius in “Julius Caesar”:
Why do you assume that we have "elected" anyone? Further, what is an 'election' really when the ability to get real candidates on the ballot is completely controlled by private corporations aka political parties, of which there are only 2 viable?
It's time we stop denying the reality that we are as much ruled by an Oligarchy as the colonists of the 1700s.
We have an election coming up next November; one that is more deserving of the description "the most important election of our time" than at any other time in our nation's history IMO. If it goes anything like the 2020 election then the adage "...but screw me twice? shame on me" comes to mind. And at that point I'd be more more open to hearing discussions of... thinking outside the box.
Before anyone starts seriously thinking that "stupidity" is the answer, I'd also point out that there are many options that patriots can and should consider if '24 is stolen - options that aren't the kinds that lead to decades in federal prison (or worse). I read a comment earlier by someone who posed the question of what would happen if 10M+ of us marched peacefully on Washington. Would Biden hold true to his comments about F-16s? Would the PTB attack us? And if THAT happened, would that be the spark that would finally wake up certain high ranking members of our military as to how illegitimate, how unconstitutional, and how out of control our government has become? They're not all Mark Milleys.
My focus is on winning this next election, and I advise others do the same.
God bless you, BobbyG. What possible reason do any of us have to trust our democracy? Trump won and had both houses of congress and yet he couldn’t even get a wall built. Now, elections are rigged and the legal system has been weaponized to silence descent. On top of that, most voters lack a basic understanding of economics or the theory behind the founding principles of our government.
Actually, I think it would be a guerrilla war. A civilian army armed with rifles would not stand much chance against the battlefield surveillance tech possessed by the U.S. Army. A set-piece battle would be a loser.
We can do a lot more for a lot longer this way. Pitched battles 1) won't work for us 2) we're more effective in smaller groups. It will demoralize them because they will never know when/when not to expect us.
There will probably be traitors on both sides but even so, guerrilla battles will work better IMO. I hope we have snipers training...
We'll need lots like you. (I'm not in charge; it's just my own uneducated opinion.) Some training for lots of us would be good. I don't know anything about rifles and very little about handguns. (Two beginner classes) I feel that a lot more people, including me, need to get comfortable and competent with rifles and handguns.
See the novel Unintended Consequences (John F. Ross, 1996) for a model of how that might work. But the best thing would be for the bodyguards to wake up and realize what a small number of "global leaders" is pushing the poison that may already have injured them or their loved ones. It's why the "leaders" want robots and not humans guarding them.
Agree 110%. They desperately want a pretext of violence, but to what end I’m unclear… Do they plan on invoking the Insurrection Act NATIONALLY to finally crush 50+% of the citizenry so they can just relax and get on with their agenda without that pesky dissent? Seems to me that would be the balloon going up that millions of former military could recognize as a legitimate call to arms.
Any violence will open the gates of gun confiscation. Anyone owning a registered weapon will be expected to turn it in and those who do not will be confronted by their local sheriff. It will be an ugly turn of events.
I don’t understand “registered guns” except in Illinois. I have bought guns in California, Texas, and Tennessee, and there has been no “registration.” The FFL does permanently maintain a copy of the ATF Form 4473 I filled out. No NICS check required b/c I have a concealed carry license.
I DO have 3 licensed NFA weapons (shortened barrels, handgrips on pistols etc). Debating whether to “unmanufacture” them and terminate the NFA licenses to get off the ATF’s books.
Maybe it’s a NJ thing. You need a “pistol purchase permit” to buy one. I assume there is a record of that request, as well as a record from the firearms dealer that it was submitted for a purchase. Not hard to marry it all up.
They totally want violence. Look at the cities - the Democrats in power (mayors and AGs) have released a lot of criminals since - some violent criminals. I think they want to use the violence to crackdown on citizen rights, especially the right to own a firearm. Because the media and Democrats and many Republicans conflate criminals with guns and citizens who have them for protection from the criminals with guns.
Once they outlaw private citizens having guns in America, the Globalists and Corporatists can do what they want to us. They can take private property and even bank accounts.
Amen brother. Retired Army here. Mostly disappointed and sometimes disgusted at our “vet bros”. I went to Ft Benning in the late 1980’s before the free trophy people showed up.
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Brilliant.
I still believe the military (2-20+ years) is the clearest path to maturity, the middle class, and the best benefit is immediate connection to the 1000s of veterans you will meet in a lifetime that our country has to offer.
I spoke to a company of Soldiers on 9/11 2021...weeks after the shitshow in Kabul. My biz was helping Veterans find jobs. I had to start by addressing the elephant in the room.
"How many of you served in Afghanistan?" There were only about 6 out of 70ish.
"I know how you feel. Here's my thinking. The Army is not the Pentagon. It is not those GO turds. The Army that matters is battalion and below. We still know how to make great men and women. Look to your left and to your right. These are the people that matter--and they're the only ones who have ever mattered. You can count on them. You can count on your NCOs, and your company grade officers.BG soandso(I knew the 1-star at the time--ARNG is intimate) is one of the finest human beings I've ever met. Do not let those turds make you quit. We still need you."
Citing Yeats’ profound “Second Coming” that describes all of civilization as a waste and that the world is about to be destroyed by evil is certainly suggestive of “explanation.”
Personally, I think the explanation is not found in Christian civilization, but in a much simpler analysis: “We get lazy when life is easy.”
Turns out this turd was an MP. A buddy of mine did a little research, also convicted of DV. I know those can be overblown, but in this case it does not surprise me. Turd. Hateful little man.
I'd call that turd a "small man in big pants." If he's short, that would explain his attitude. At least that's my experience with short men. Not all of them but most of them. They usually have a large chip on their shoulder and they're often total douche canoes.
You will NOT talk to the GC and you will NOT talk to the PM. That is a DIRECT ORDER. You will slowly count to ten, or have a beer, or do something else more better.
Funny. It was my buddy who said, "Bro, you gotta take him down. He's gonna shoot someone's dog or something worse. He's not fit to carry a weapon."
Part of the issue is we are supposed to register with this online 'iSportsman' registry online and 'check in', see if training areas are open, etc. Likely a push from IMCOM (installation management command--so it is nation/world wide).
When one of my running group was in contact with the project manager of this program, he discussed the initial run-in we had with this dude. She replied, "We've heard about him a lot..."
...To which I plan to discuss with the GC and PM. Gents, looks like now you're culpable. You've got a problem child you're not dealing with. Should I start with newspapers and social media?
I personally would suggest having your discussions before throwing that veritable hand grenade of going to the local media and to social media. Give this turd's command structure a chance to rein him in first before going over their heads. For all you know it may be just the thing they've been hoping for: their justification to properly deal with this particular turd and flush him down their toilet. But if you don't give them that opportunity and jump the chain of command so to speak, you may end up creating enemies for yourself when you did not need to do so.
If you discuss with them and they fail to act, then at that point expanding out to other means would be 100% justified, and your only other option would have been to do nothing at all, so by all means explore your viable options.
100% agree. The social media/media threat was more bombast in my head than actual COA.
As much of an anarchist as I was in the military, the only way to score is to be on the field. We need to work inside the system...until the system is irretrievably broken.
Probably right about needing enough ammo to fire him. He has a federal gig, and like you probably know, it is SO HARD to fire turds. We generally send them to be another NCO in the 3 shop, send them to range control...if only they could fail the PT test or get fat...
I do plan to use the 'he made me feel unsafe' (which is honest. Totally unhinged. I thought he was going to arrest me. Had dog in car, wearing running clothes...knew my wife WOULD KILL me...)
After one has tried every conceivable fix within the system and/or something is just too damn obvious to ignore:
o airplane 'near-misses' demonstrating FAA hiring is broken. Fire all HR personnel immediately and go back to merit testing.
o Claudine Gay at Harvard. Something is deeply, deeply corrupt. Stop hiring all Harvard grads immediately. Make the degree worthless to everyone.
o CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle. Fire Mayor, city manager, entire city council, chief of police and sheriff (but Seattle residents instead choose more of the same...let them rot in their own filth.)
Just more spaghetti on the wall...but good question. Happy New Year.
The only "help" for those who abuse power is to, as you just said, take the power away, though that's really helping the rest of us, not the ones drunk on their own power.
I'm of the belief that you can't fix people like this, nor should we try, but you can mitigate their potential to cause harm to others.
“Weak men with power are the most dangerous people in the world...”
And, surprise, we’re surrounded by the ratbastards. They are freaking everywhere. They couldn’t keep a job stocking a grocery store shelf (I have), but they are running cities, and states, and the Federal government.
May God help me, I keep wondering when Lexington and Concord will occur, and what will set it in motion. If you plot the current trajectory, it is 100% batshit crazy, at best. At BEST.
I went to PS 41 on 12th in Greenwich Village when (Obama's buddies) four Weathermen a few blocks away were making their bomb that blew them all up, and I promise I'm not lying: I was in 5th grade and I remember thinking "How did those people live in such a nice house (brownstone), something feels off here". Along those same lines, I think, I can't say for sure, but pretty sure that I was a 5th grader who also would've understood that a State Sec can't decide to shed somebody off a ballot, almost especially for the primaries of my opposing party, based on some fucking whim.
Sorry, I couldn't agree more but it is so fucking depressing that you actually have to explain this when it is so self-evident, and really, has been for years, at least since "Russia collusion."
I am retired Army National Guard (AGR, meaning I was full time). After Jan 6, many states sent Soldiers to DC, my state is one of them.
I remember talking with two leftists field grade officers (future Hayden, Milley, Austin types for sure) and they were so excited to go to DC and 'set those terrorists straight..'.
I was between crying and puking in my mouth.
The infection has sadly infected the military as well.
Had to leave WA State. After 30 years, couldn’t take the virtue signaling mobs. They were my neighbors... my kids even. It’s so strong there, there is no middle ground it seems. Can’t even think of the word.. ‘depressing’ doesn’t do it. Surreal neither.
I was saying the same thing at the beginning of the 'summer of love'. Can't go. We produce an event (Unleashedatstadiumbowl.org) as a fundraiser for our animal rescue. There is only one Stadium High--and I hope to build this race into a Bloomsday-ish event in Tacoma.
Born and raised in WA state and had to leave because it was getting too expensive around the 9/11 timeframe. Have had the occasional visit but would not move back as it is today. The WA that I miss is long gone. I notice that the few I still am on good terms there are all well south of Tacoma. And you are right. Definitely more than just depressing.
This has to be what pre-funny moustache man Germany felt like before they swerved. Or Stalin Russia.
The source of this energy is strange and difficult to pin down.
Media has to be identified as a prime mover both left and right. These shows and movies that are coming out (eg. Leave the World Behind, Civil war.) Along with the 24/7 perception management /infotainment / “the news.” Absolutely insane, bare faced agitation propaganda with a healthy dose of race bait. Incredible.
Political class, they are simply on the take; all of them. Right and left. (I doubt they think in those terms)
People have seemed to become very shrill and surface level, no big picture thinking.
Tell me where this ends? I fear it’s time to find a high hill and a bag of popcorn, none of this ends well. And we are only getting warmed up.
Was in sauna at Y the other night. Talking with a black dude I hadn't seen in Y since COVID. We have that friendly gym relationship--what's your name again bro? You still at UW? No, must be done with school by now..friendly enough. Genuinely friendly.
He starts talking this DEI nonsense...probably 10 people in sauna. I can't take it and push back. Then he says something about 'when you were lynching us...' and I finally say, "bro, you can't say that shit."
'Who the fuck is you? Do you mean me? My family came from Norway/Sweden in early 1900s. Check the emotion beneath that assertion. It is grievance, envy, hatred--it is leading us towards war.'
He didn't know how to respond. But I'm like--I'm sick of it, and I've decided to politely but firmly push back on all the nonsense I see.
We are being played. Big time. It scares the crap out of me. BUT...I won't go down without trying to be a responsible adult in the room.
Quite obvious that the deep state compromised the military under Bush then Obama. Same with the cops. I think the whole Oathkeeper thing was an Op to highlight the ones that actually understood the constitution. Look at all the Flag officers Obama fired, and flag officers make generals. It’s a brilliant plan and well executed. I have to begrudgingly respect the enemy here.
My god you're articulate! I've had those same discussions with the same type, most of them totally unprepared for an opposing view on these matters, but I was half as articulate as you and 5% angrier, and not super proud later, but also wouldn't go back and not do it.
You're too kind. The more I've thought about it, the more I think we need to ask what is the emotion underlying it all. Psych 101 students learn anger is surface.
The first push back I said to him was, "Bro, whenever we start to blame others, we are stripped of our own agency, our own sovereignty. We have given away our ability to solve a problem, to act. We are left dependent upon those whom we blame."
I only know this from my own behavior over the years. Had monster for a step dad...I know exactly how to blame.
"...We are left dependent upon those whom we blame."
Brilliant. Fighting a political battle on behalf of millions of people is too daunting for any one person but keeping it personal/local makes an understanding between two or a few people more likely and beneficial.
I have no idea how to make young black men stay in school to get an education, work hard, marry girls they impregnate, avoid drug and alcohol abuse, or curb their violent behavior.
Just wait until people start disappearing as the snitch infrastructure sets itself up.
I believe we need to set parallel DEFENSIBLE communities as quickly as possible. Robust comms, food, friends, other tools that I probably do not need to mention etc.
Good luck all! See you on the other side :-) woot!
Well said Chevalisa. (autocorrect giving me grief w/ your name!)
Humor helps a lot. It disarms all of us. Interesting book I read years ago--Click (I think). It is about 'quickset intimacy', the term the authors use for that nearly immediate 'hitting it off' with someone.
They break down how this is created--5 rules. First one is 'show your belly first'. Be vulnerable first, and others respond in kind.
Makes me think of the 'neoteny effect' puppies, kittens, and babies have on us. Our hearts immediately melt. Might trigger the same neuronal responses...
What I can’t get is how none of these generals resign in protest. I know guys that were in units with Miley and said he was a stand up guy. How did he get so corrupted. I took an oath as an enlisted man and an officer, it meant something to me. Did it mean nothing to any of these traitors?
Hoover corrupted the politicians way before the internet or cellphones. Who knows what the NSA et al has on these guys, hell who knows what they have on me. I just can’t imagine not taking that oath we took seriously. I was a hard ass CIB wearing infantry NCO when I took the officers oath and I cried. Never took anything as serious as that. Never felt worthy of it to be honest.
Communication within the senior ranks of the military approaches the speed of light. The officers assessed as being insufficiently enthusiastic weren’t fired. They were told that no further promotions would be forthcoming and that future assignments would be on par with Ensign Pulver’s duties as Laundry Officer on the USNS Reluctant.
You only need to hear about a few solid senior officers being shitcanned (or choosing to retire) for what until yesterday were essential values to get the message that your career depends ENTIRELY on getting with the new program. Military officers are human…Who knew?
That is the first I've seen this. Frightening. The ARNG has its own nepotistic tendencies that maintain mediocrity. We did not have a General with a combat tour until 2016! A career's length of war, and yet our General Officers didn't seem to find a way to fight as 06s...
In 08 I was talking with a buddy--'...this dude Obama and his wife are filled with hatred. They mask it, but it is just below the surface.'
I cannot believe no one else saw it. It was so obvious.
Couldn't accept--probably until COVID, the absolute evil manipulation of the masses that was going on. Had read all the dystopian literature in high school (was a freshman in 1984, must have read it 2-3 times in high school), thought I'd recognize it.
Naive. Fox Mulder..."I want to believe."
It was the criminal withdrawal of Afghanistan that finally wiped all blindness from my eyes, and has left me bereft of all trust, belief, confidence in our government.
If you’d like greater insight into Obama’s motivations, watch Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016: Obama's America.” It explains that BHO is motivated by FIERCE “anti-colonialism,” which manifests not just as redressing the residual effects of political/judicial/economic oppressions of centuries ago, but in repudiating ALL current aspects of European civilizational thinking. This explains his sitting peacefully in a pew for 20 yrs listening to Jeremiah Wright’s unending jeremiad (pun intended) about every aspect of American civilization. I don’t know if Obama is overtly a racist, but it’s fair to say that if 2 white men agree on something, chances are that Obama will be opposed. Thus a normally mild-mannered black man on his porch in Cambridge who has a meltdown and refuses to cooperate with police investigating a suspicious person report is 100% OK, and the “police…acted stupidly.”
In 2008, 70% of whites and 61% of blacks rated race relations as “good” or “very good” in a Gallup survey. In 2016, those numbers fell to 55% and 49%, respectively. In 2018, the numbers were 54% and 40%. The black view of race relations declined 21 percentage points in 10 yrs despite having achieved the lowest black unemployment in U.S. history. From this we can deduce (a) that Obama poured sand into the gears of what had been improving race relations, and (b) the mantra about “perpetual omnipresent systemic racism” has flowed TO the black community and not FROM it. The Marxists and poverty pimps‘ race propaganda worked.
Started to read the Bible a few years ago. Jordan Peterson's 'Biblical Stories' lectures convinced me I had no idea what was in the Bible, so maybe I should investigate with curiosity instead of arrogance.
Some of the commentary about the serpent in Eden point out how clever and (my words) 'rhetorically gifted' he was.
I am NOT saying Obama is Satan, but I do think that we can all be convinced to do wrong, to fall to our lower selves, to nod our heads to evil thoughts/deeds when delivered in a well-stated rhetorical flourish. Obama totally believes the pablum that was shoved down his throat, and is a gifted speaker.
The entire post-modern set of ideas, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, critical theory, all of it--and those who pimp it (love poverty pimps BTW) are evil.
I can’t claim credit for “poverty pimps,” which came from a black leader >15 yrs ago. I regret I can’t remember specifically from whom I first heard it. But I’m glad it’s in common usage today by leaders like Glenn Loury, Larry Elder & many others.
Scrolling through here I came across your comment on "poverty pimps" and its origin and got curious.
Far as I could find doing a quick search using DDG, Tomas Sowell used it as early as 1998 in a poem called "The Poverty Pimp's Poem", but his brief explanation of the term in the accomanying article makes it seem as if the term is older and was already well-established in the 1990s.
The problems with welfare-programs and the welfare-trap(s) are certainly older, so it is possible the term is from the 1980s or even older.
There was an Atlantic article in the 1990s about the Army War College focusing on the alleged threat from "white supremacists" and the like. It was after Ruby Ridge and the Branch Davidian massacre. The late Sam Francis wrote a column about that article in The Atlantic which may still be available somewhere.
The political fairy tale that Trump led an insurrection, which clearly was prepared and ready to go before January 6, is more than just a dangerous political tactic. It is evil. Ask the family of Ashli Babbitt and the ordinary Americans whose lives have been ruined because they thought that Americans had the right to protest the verification of a contested election.
"The patience of the global political class for disagreement is narrowing, fast and hard."
Yes...as Mike Yeadon now has famously said "Your government wants you dead" and soon.
What to do about this? Reiner Fuellmich worked through the "court of public opinion" in Europe and the US....and guess where he is now? He was calm, he was reasonable, he interviewed the most knowledgable experts and scientists in every area he explored--lethal vaccines, illegal mandates, police overreach, phony elections etc etc. He broke no laws. He was handcuffed and escorted into a "high security" prison in Germany like a common murderer. In the meantime, murderers are running our societies..what do we do? SEE NO EVIL--HEAR NO EVIL--SPEAK NO EVIL...?
My opinion is this: It will get a lot worse. We haven't seen anything, yet.
I have no advice....who will ride to our rescue? I heard no one is planning on this....
Where does that leave us now? How do we protect our families?...
Vara Shrav said it like it is: NEVER AGAIN IS NOW...GLOBAL
Sadly, even the "Never Again" folks, including their Prime Minister, are now talking about their enemies as subhuman animals. But as someone once said, that slogan always was one word too long.
I agree. A “person” who rapes a woman so violently that her pelvis is broken, and then shoots her in the head while he climaxes, is NOT subhuman. He is a rabid animal in desperate need of rapid onset lead poisoning.
Fits nicely with their overarching goal to divorce all words from any objective meaning. A future where words mean precisely what they mean them to but only when they mean them to. I feel like someone wrote about this once...
Here’s the thing. If the government turns against the people, then by definition, to them you are insurrectionists. You might as well get used to it. Ah, but what are you going to do? They will not stop peacefully.
But it’s NOT stupidity; It’s absolutely intentional. These issues are “torpedoes” aimed at the “hull” of Western civilization. I believe the objective is to so torment the population that it’s attention is diverted from autocratic measures being introduced in response to “emergencies.” Canada is a perfect case. The law changes during Trudeau’s 8 yrs in power have been breathtaking. Canada’s moved from one of the most free democracies to one of the least.
“the FBI was censoring and spying on Floyd protestors”
100 nights of trying to burn down a Federal courthouse, but I don’t remember any “insurrection” charges. I DO remember 14K arrestees having all charges dropped.
Bellow's action in removing Trump from the ballot is unbelievably dangerous for all the reasons you point out. The SCOTUS needs to act immediately to shut this abuse of power down.
You are right. It is not about Donald Trump. It is about the ASSUMED non-constitutional powers that have been grabbed by unelected judges, by overzealous prosecutors (with too much discretionary powers) and a great number of people don't seem to care or even cheer this clearly undemocratic behavior. Our judiciary has been exposed as political partisans. The level of Outrage among rational clear-thinking folks of any political persuasion will be hard to contain and hopefully channeled into constructive political activism. Your analysis is, once again, spot-on.
“…powers that have been grabbed by…overzealous prosecutors…”
The OVERzealous are ready with a scythe to take care of citizens who stick their heads up to object. But don’t forget the UNDERzealous prosecutors whose objective is to further suppress the common man by eroding his quality of life and safety, and narrow his focus to merely keeping his family alive.
"...UNDERzealous prosecutors...eroding his quality of life and safety..."
Totally spot on and under recognized. This is the 'photographic negative of broken window theory' IMHO', and it is by design. Neuter the cops, take people's weapons, encourage criminal permissiveness via neglect of law...and Shazam! We are living a mash-up of all dystopian shitshows.
Add DEI brainwashing, and minority kids will come to the obvious conclusion, "Those rich white business owners owe me...so Ima gonna go take it!"
We've allowed this garbage [not us personally - we don't have cranial-rectal inversion problem] so how do we get it to landfills before it does any more damage? Is that even possible anymore? While we were being mostly well-behaved honorable US citizens, the children have been running amok and burning cities down. Unlike reality, science fiction has to make sense. This makes no sense whatsoever!
This is a point I have tried to make numerous times in the past few years. Imagine if it was not DJT who was being subjected to all these things. Is this not insanity? It seems to be a point that few seem able to grasp.
Just read JH Kunstler's 2024 predictions. Like Chris, he knows what time it is.
I live just outside of Joint Base Lewis McChord, nee Fort Lewis, and there are a number of training areas 'outside the wire'.
I have been running the trails and walking my dogs in those Tasks for the last 30 years. Last week I got a ticket for trespassing from a little weak man with a sliver of power in a particular area. He's a game warden. Thought he'd be worried about poaching--but no, he prefers to terrorize retired Soldiers on December 23rd.
For anyone who as served, he's your typical veteran who separated as an E3 or E4, likely got an Article 15, hates all officers, and is now a fat-ass with a scraggily beard. You know the type. He actually said to me (after he asked for my military ID as well), "Don't confuse your retired rank with my authority (when I never mentioned my rank or that I was retired)."
He is the male equivalent of Shenna whatsheruglyface in Maine.
Weak men with power are the most dangerous people in the world, always have been. This clown went from zero to eleven in a nano-second. He told me I was trespassing (in my car in a turnabout), I told him I was turning around. He said 'gimme your ID!', I said, "gimme your supervisor's number'. He won that battle, but will lose his job when I talk with Garrison Commander and Provost Marshal next week.
There is a dangerous energy in the air. We have been amygdala hijacked about every 3-6 months since March 2020. Most people are nearing exasperation--and the Leftists keep pushing. I'm convinced they want violence.
The Biden administration, and the Leftists during 2020 have been deliberately spreading kindling soaked in lighter fluid in every community for the past 3-7 years. It won't take much to light it off.
This game is serious.
bsn
"amygdala hijacked about every 3-6 months"
Exactly.
I think that is the 'air' we feel. We have been both over-stimulated, and at the same time never had a chance to calm down. Our collective blood pressure went from 110/65 to 150/105...but we've become normalized to it. We think we're fine--it is those crazies, not me.
There is no reserve before we blow an artery. Someone raises an eyebrow to someone at Office Depot, and a weapon is pulled. Adrenal fatigue as well.
bsn
🎯
They WANT us to start it. Then they can claim to be "protecting our democracy" when they attempt their hostile takeover/declare martial law. It won't be easy but our Constitutional Republic beats their democracy by a huge margin every time. Every. Single. Time.
Agreed Yuma. It is all projection. I probably do the same thing myself. Remember someone, could have been a teacher or coach, saying, "When you point the finger of blame, three fingers are pointing back at you." Pretty damn profound, but something I forget again and again and again...
Was leaving Costco in Aug 2020. Saturday afternoon, at busy 4-way intersection next to I5 entrance and Tacoma Mall. I witnessed a BLM 'mostly peaceful protest' erupt in the middle of intersection. Vehicles quickly parked in front of all cars, eliminating exfil routes. I immediately went to '3 vehicle with long-gun' mode. Got out of middle lane, into right lane, and this car blocked my right turn. One big fat black gal in passenger side, one skinny black dude with braids driving. I look up and there are 6-7 guys with long guns at the low-ready.
I look again at the driver, and I immediately think, "I'm gonna grab your pony tails and bash your face into this curb...then give you a curb stomp before punching your girl in the neck."-obviously unstable response--PTS type reaction--but it was real. I was ready to kill immediately. The protesters were filming it with their iPhone X's....drove up onto sidewalk & did the Batman & Robin two-wheel turn to get out of there.
Called 911. They said, Ok. We know about it...
Photographic negative of Broken Window Theory.
My concern now is that most of the population is suffering from some degree of PTS--trauma related hyper-activity. It is gonna take MAD restraint to keep us from responding with violence--but we must. We must demonstrate restraint. We must.
bsn
Mahatma Gandi used peaceful protests against the deeply moral British. The same tactic would not have worked with Hitler or Stalin. Just ask the Jews.
Wokesters will rationalize horrific crimes. I don’t think peaceful resistance will work. I hope I am wrong.
Gandhi used protests for two reasons:
The media climate at the time allowed for it, and
The British Empire wasn't an empire anymore, and military confrontation would have resulted in the british supporting different factions against one another to foment a massive war across the entire subcontinent between the dozens of nationalist groups Gandhi gathered under his umbrella.
Wasn't because he was a peacenik or something; it was because it seemed as the optimal strategy at the time.
Against the British Empire as it was before WW1, Gandhi's peaceful protests would have elicited the same response as if it had been tsarist Russia: bang bang, no more protestors.
Mattias Desmet (Mass Formation Psychosis & author of “Psychology of Totalitarianism”) would agree with you 110%.
As would solsenitzen. Except he would spell his name correctly
WTF?
I am not sure restraint is the best course. We are dealing with dangerous bullies who have been “ getting away with it” for far too long. Bullies need to he dealt with. Hard. Imo
I couldn’t agree more.
Spot on. Very scary times ahead. I plan to stand up for Mom and myself and politely take no crap. I pray for the strength, bravery, and honor to do this. Lots of military/law enforcement in my family. I don't want to be the one who breaks that tradition.
I know I feel angry, upset and anxious...and peeved off that my own government is doing this to all of us. We're being locked in and lied to. When it blows up, it will be very bad. Very, very bad.
I need to go back to church! Mine imploded when the pastor left.
We stopped attending when our church fell in line with all the lockdown demands. 🤨
I don’t know. I can’t see us “turning the other cheek” and this getting fixed. The system ain’t gonna fix itself. Although I 100% agree that the globalists want us to be violent. Look what the govt did with bullshit Covid vs how the govt reacted to BLM/ANTIFA vs Jan 6? Completely partisan political bullshit. We start shooting and they lock everything down. Then shit gets to a place I never imagined being. Cause things then get medieval.
Medieval would be a blessing compare to what’s coming.
Unwinding the PTS out, one body at a time. Fundamental.
BINGO!!! They absolutely want the right to do something. I often fear that some misguided lower IQ types on our side (let's be honest, both sides have their share) will do something incredibly stupid, and that it will be the justification they're looking for to disarm the populace and ramp up the tyranny 100x... because, as you so aptly state, they'll be "protecting our democracy." 🙄 Every new indictment they file against Trump, and every new outrage like removing Trump from a state's ballot is the leftist puppet masters casting another lure into the right wing's pond...
Please don't take the bait, folks. Don't chomp on that shiny lure. Sadly, the people who most need to hear that message won't be found here, as this isn't a low IQ type of venue, but I'll say it all the same in hopes others echo it ad nauseum, until it eventually trickles down to the correct ears. Don't take the bait. VOTE like your lives depend on it, because they do.
But when is "stupid" smart?
Pretty sure our Founders would've smartly chose "stupidity" at this point.
I fear we've coddled ourselves into believing democracy is the ONLY thing that saves our republic.
American colonists had no representation in Parliament, which made it easier to look upon the slew of abusive laws as “foreign” and therefore well deserving of repudiation by force. In our case today, the people we’ve elected have done this to us, over and over, and yet we re-elect them repeatedly. Again I come back to Cassius in “Julius Caesar”:
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Extend that thought about no representation and laws being felt as foreign influence.
What are all western nations striving for, ever since Bush Sr and Clinton opted for gloablism as the driving principle?
A global legal framework beyond democracy and elections, so that no matter what people in any nation vote for, nothing ever changes.
What is that, if not foreign laws and no representation?
If the global system then fails to deliver the material standards required to keep us docile... only hungry dogs hunt, after all.
@john
Why do you assume that we have "elected" anyone? Further, what is an 'election' really when the ability to get real candidates on the ballot is completely controlled by private corporations aka political parties, of which there are only 2 viable?
It's time we stop denying the reality that we are as much ruled by an Oligarchy as the colonists of the 1700s.
We have an election coming up next November; one that is more deserving of the description "the most important election of our time" than at any other time in our nation's history IMO. If it goes anything like the 2020 election then the adage "...but screw me twice? shame on me" comes to mind. And at that point I'd be more more open to hearing discussions of... thinking outside the box.
Before anyone starts seriously thinking that "stupidity" is the answer, I'd also point out that there are many options that patriots can and should consider if '24 is stolen - options that aren't the kinds that lead to decades in federal prison (or worse). I read a comment earlier by someone who posed the question of what would happen if 10M+ of us marched peacefully on Washington. Would Biden hold true to his comments about F-16s? Would the PTB attack us? And if THAT happened, would that be the spark that would finally wake up certain high ranking members of our military as to how illegitimate, how unconstitutional, and how out of control our government has become? They're not all Mark Milleys.
My focus is on winning this next election, and I advise others do the same.
I love the idea of a 10 mil person march. Even if it just ended up being 1 mil.
I betcha that could happen with the right funding and organization.
What a message that would be. And it wouldn't just be for the Dems. Gets me excited thinking about it.
I agree with everything you said
God bless you, BobbyG. What possible reason do any of us have to trust our democracy? Trump won and had both houses of congress and yet he couldn’t even get a wall built. Now, elections are rigged and the legal system has been weaponized to silence descent. On top of that, most voters lack a basic understanding of economics or the theory behind the founding principles of our government.
Americans are armed to the teeth. Very hard to disarm everyone. In a civil war, it will be very risky to be rich.
I hope so. But it will be ugly. 1860-65 ugly.
Actually, I think it would be a guerrilla war. A civilian army armed with rifles would not stand much chance against the battlefield surveillance tech possessed by the U.S. Army. A set-piece battle would be a loser.
We can do a lot more for a lot longer this way. Pitched battles 1) won't work for us 2) we're more effective in smaller groups. It will demoralize them because they will never know when/when not to expect us.
There will probably be traitors on both sides but even so, guerrilla battles will work better IMO. I hope we have snipers training...
Some yes, but all I can personally offer is my “Expert Rifleman” rating.
We'll need lots like you. (I'm not in charge; it's just my own uneducated opinion.) Some training for lots of us would be good. I don't know anything about rifles and very little about handguns. (Two beginner classes) I feel that a lot more people, including me, need to get comfortable and competent with rifles and handguns.
Best strategy may be armies of one, with zero communication to others. Perpetual, ubiquitous surveillance precludes partners.
A fair comment. I’m reminded of the Whitmer kidnap “conspiracy” in which over 50% of the conspirators were FBI assets or agents.
However, sole actors begins to smack of Muslim suicide bombers.
See the novel Unintended Consequences (John F. Ross, 1996) for a model of how that might work. But the best thing would be for the bodyguards to wake up and realize what a small number of "global leaders" is pushing the poison that may already have injured them or their loved ones. It's why the "leaders" want robots and not humans guarding them.
Bingo.
“I'm convinced they want violence.”
Agree 110%. They desperately want a pretext of violence, but to what end I’m unclear… Do they plan on invoking the Insurrection Act NATIONALLY to finally crush 50+% of the citizenry so they can just relax and get on with their agenda without that pesky dissent? Seems to me that would be the balloon going up that millions of former military could recognize as a legitimate call to arms.
Their goal is to shift the center of power from the US and US dollar to BRICS and the Middle East.
The fuckers talk about it all the time. Go look at the shit that Blackrock and Vanguard leadership actually SAY.
Any violence will open the gates of gun confiscation. Anyone owning a registered weapon will be expected to turn it in and those who do not will be confronted by their local sheriff. It will be an ugly turn of events.
I don’t understand “registered guns” except in Illinois. I have bought guns in California, Texas, and Tennessee, and there has been no “registration.” The FFL does permanently maintain a copy of the ATF Form 4473 I filled out. No NICS check required b/c I have a concealed carry license.
I DO have 3 licensed NFA weapons (shortened barrels, handgrips on pistols etc). Debating whether to “unmanufacture” them and terminate the NFA licenses to get off the ATF’s books.
You think you can get off a government gun list. That's funny.
LMAO!!
No, but I can dream.
Maybe it’s a NJ thing. You need a “pistol purchase permit” to buy one. I assume there is a record of that request, as well as a record from the firearms dealer that it was submitted for a purchase. Not hard to marry it all up.
They totally want violence. Look at the cities - the Democrats in power (mayors and AGs) have released a lot of criminals since - some violent criminals. I think they want to use the violence to crackdown on citizen rights, especially the right to own a firearm. Because the media and Democrats and many Republicans conflate criminals with guns and citizens who have them for protection from the criminals with guns.
Once they outlaw private citizens having guns in America, the Globalists and Corporatists can do what they want to us. They can take private property and even bank accounts.
I agree it won’t take much. Then they have the justification they want.
Amen brother. Retired Army here. Mostly disappointed and sometimes disgusted at our “vet bros”. I went to Ft Benning in the late 1980’s before the free trophy people showed up.
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Brilliant.
I still believe the military (2-20+ years) is the clearest path to maturity, the middle class, and the best benefit is immediate connection to the 1000s of veterans you will meet in a lifetime that our country has to offer.
I spoke to a company of Soldiers on 9/11 2021...weeks after the shitshow in Kabul. My biz was helping Veterans find jobs. I had to start by addressing the elephant in the room.
"How many of you served in Afghanistan?" There were only about 6 out of 70ish.
"I know how you feel. Here's my thinking. The Army is not the Pentagon. It is not those GO turds. The Army that matters is battalion and below. We still know how to make great men and women. Look to your left and to your right. These are the people that matter--and they're the only ones who have ever mattered. You can count on them. You can count on your NCOs, and your company grade officers.BG soandso(I knew the 1-star at the time--ARNG is intimate) is one of the finest human beings I've ever met. Do not let those turds make you quit. We still need you."
bsn
https://poets.org/poem/second-coming
Yeats was justifiably disillusioned by the carnage of WWI (written in 1919).
I think this analysis better explains our current political morass:
"Eight Stages of a Democracy"
1) Bondage to Spiritual Faith
2) Spiritual Faith to Great Courage
3) Great Courage to Liberty
4) Liberty to Abundance
5) Abundance to Selfishness
6) Selfishness to Apathy
7) Apathy to Dependence
8) Dependence back to Bondage
Sir Alexander Tytler – 1787
Who said anyone was trying to explain our current political morass professor?
Citing Yeats’ profound “Second Coming” that describes all of civilization as a waste and that the world is about to be destroyed by evil is certainly suggestive of “explanation.”
Personally, I think the explanation is not found in Christian civilization, but in a much simpler analysis: “We get lazy when life is easy.”
Yeats! Excellent poem. For those afraid of links (like me):
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
As an aside, I’ve found that almost to a man, guys like that warden were never combat arms.
Turns out this turd was an MP. A buddy of mine did a little research, also convicted of DV. I know those can be overblown, but in this case it does not surprise me. Turd. Hateful little man.
bsn
I'd call that turd a "small man in big pants." If he's short, that would explain his attitude. At least that's my experience with short men. Not all of them but most of them. They usually have a large chip on their shoulder and they're often total douche canoes.
He's my height or taller than me!!! Here is where I insert laughing emoji!
Happy New Year!
bsn
Please oh please keep us posted! I'm hoping his supervisor rips him a new one!!🤣🤣🤣 <-- There. Did it for you!
Thanks Yuma. Had a long talk with the Chief yesterday. It was a positive discussion. I'll need to figure out how to use emojis!!
bsn
You will NOT talk to the GC and you will NOT talk to the PM. That is a DIRECT ORDER. You will slowly count to ten, or have a beer, or do something else more better.
Funny. It was my buddy who said, "Bro, you gotta take him down. He's gonna shoot someone's dog or something worse. He's not fit to carry a weapon."
Part of the issue is we are supposed to register with this online 'iSportsman' registry online and 'check in', see if training areas are open, etc. Likely a push from IMCOM (installation management command--so it is nation/world wide).
When one of my running group was in contact with the project manager of this program, he discussed the initial run-in we had with this dude. She replied, "We've heard about him a lot..."
...To which I plan to discuss with the GC and PM. Gents, looks like now you're culpable. You've got a problem child you're not dealing with. Should I start with newspapers and social media?
bsn
I personally would suggest having your discussions before throwing that veritable hand grenade of going to the local media and to social media. Give this turd's command structure a chance to rein him in first before going over their heads. For all you know it may be just the thing they've been hoping for: their justification to properly deal with this particular turd and flush him down their toilet. But if you don't give them that opportunity and jump the chain of command so to speak, you may end up creating enemies for yourself when you did not need to do so.
If you discuss with them and they fail to act, then at that point expanding out to other means would be 100% justified, and your only other option would have been to do nothing at all, so by all means explore your viable options.
BobbyG,
100% agree. The social media/media threat was more bombast in my head than actual COA.
As much of an anarchist as I was in the military, the only way to score is to be on the field. We need to work inside the system...until the system is irretrievably broken.
Probably right about needing enough ammo to fire him. He has a federal gig, and like you probably know, it is SO HARD to fire turds. We generally send them to be another NCO in the 3 shop, send them to range control...if only they could fail the PT test or get fat...
I do plan to use the 'he made me feel unsafe' (which is honest. Totally unhinged. I thought he was going to arrest me. Had dog in car, wearing running clothes...knew my wife WOULD KILL me...)
Happy New Year!
bsn
"𝑊𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚...𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛."
This can be applied to a far more serious problem looming over all of our heads! Well said, brother. I couldn't agree more.
I wish you the best of luck on dealing with this d*ck-cheese.
Happy New Year to you as well, Brian!
How does someone recognize when "the system is irretrievably broken."?
Brian,
Good question. My stab:
After one has tried every conceivable fix within the system and/or something is just too damn obvious to ignore:
o airplane 'near-misses' demonstrating FAA hiring is broken. Fire all HR personnel immediately and go back to merit testing.
o Claudine Gay at Harvard. Something is deeply, deeply corrupt. Stop hiring all Harvard grads immediately. Make the degree worthless to everyone.
o CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle. Fire Mayor, city manager, entire city council, chief of police and sheriff (but Seattle residents instead choose more of the same...let them rot in their own filth.)
Just more spaghetti on the wall...but good question. Happy New Year.
bsn
The turd is human. Take the power away but kindly point him in the direction of help.
The only "help" for those who abuse power is to, as you just said, take the power away, though that's really helping the rest of us, not the ones drunk on their own power.
I'm of the belief that you can't fix people like this, nor should we try, but you can mitigate their potential to cause harm to others.
Sometimes people are just a-holes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Human turds....lol.
We discovered a lot of those during covid, right?!
“Weak men with power are the most dangerous people in the world...”
And, surprise, we’re surrounded by the ratbastards. They are freaking everywhere. They couldn’t keep a job stocking a grocery store shelf (I have), but they are running cities, and states, and the Federal government.
May God help me, I keep wondering when Lexington and Concord will occur, and what will set it in motion. If you plot the current trajectory, it is 100% batshit crazy, at best. At BEST.
May God help us all.
Longer than 7 years. Started with BHO.
Launching your political career in Dorn and Ayers living room, INSURRECTION
Right?
No, no, no. That's REVOLUTION, don't you see? Big, big difference.
*inhales thirty-foot bong*
While playing the skin flute
And singing "Imagine" over a Zoom call from my palatial estate.
Underneath a rainbow unicorn chandelier from the Harvard gift shoppe.
Dining on ethically sourced mung beans harvested by Chinese slave kids.
Served on kiln-dried mud plates decorated with Palestinian war slogans and wood cutlery.
Sniffing on fair trade ethically sourced booger sugar before engaging in Senate hearing room buggery.
You guys are all sick and twisted Constitutionalists.
I like that in a person.
30 ft – is that the length of the tube or the cubic ft capacity of the bowl?
Seek help, Mark...
ROFLMAO!!!
Amazingly, that’s the one thing that’s NOT insurrection!
Not a smidgen
Right???
I went to PS 41 on 12th in Greenwich Village when (Obama's buddies) four Weathermen a few blocks away were making their bomb that blew them all up, and I promise I'm not lying: I was in 5th grade and I remember thinking "How did those people live in such a nice house (brownstone), something feels off here". Along those same lines, I think, I can't say for sure, but pretty sure that I was a 5th grader who also would've understood that a State Sec can't decide to shed somebody off a ballot, almost especially for the primaries of my opposing party, based on some fucking whim.
Even a 5th grader knew.
Pretty cool story
Garbage in the living room, garbage out of the living room.
Sorry, I couldn't agree more but it is so fucking depressing that you actually have to explain this when it is so self-evident, and really, has been for years, at least since "Russia collusion."
DID PUTIN TELL YOU TO SAY THAT
Hey, you made me laugh!
https://gal.patheticcockroach.com/picture.php?/132
Really hilarious stuff in there! Many thanks, Chris!!
Some good ones in there! Thanks for 10 minutes of some pretty solid laughter.
🤣🤣🤣
https://gal.patheticcockroach.com/index.php?/category/14
My new screensaver!
LOLz 😆
Just had another deeply depressing thought.
I am retired Army National Guard (AGR, meaning I was full time). After Jan 6, many states sent Soldiers to DC, my state is one of them.
I remember talking with two leftists field grade officers (future Hayden, Milley, Austin types for sure) and they were so excited to go to DC and 'set those terrorists straight..'.
I was between crying and puking in my mouth.
The infection has sadly infected the military as well.
bsn
Had to leave WA State. After 30 years, couldn’t take the virtue signaling mobs. They were my neighbors... my kids even. It’s so strong there, there is no middle ground it seems. Can’t even think of the word.. ‘depressing’ doesn’t do it. Surreal neither.
Susie,
I was saying the same thing at the beginning of the 'summer of love'. Can't go. We produce an event (Unleashedatstadiumbowl.org) as a fundraiser for our animal rescue. There is only one Stadium High--and I hope to build this race into a Bloomsday-ish event in Tacoma.
Happy New Year!.
bsn
Born and raised in WA state and had to leave because it was getting too expensive around the 9/11 timeframe. Have had the occasional visit but would not move back as it is today. The WA that I miss is long gone. I notice that the few I still am on good terms there are all well south of Tacoma. And you are right. Definitely more than just depressing.
This has to be what pre-funny moustache man Germany felt like before they swerved. Or Stalin Russia.
The source of this energy is strange and difficult to pin down.
Media has to be identified as a prime mover both left and right. These shows and movies that are coming out (eg. Leave the World Behind, Civil war.) Along with the 24/7 perception management /infotainment / “the news.” Absolutely insane, bare faced agitation propaganda with a healthy dose of race bait. Incredible.
Political class, they are simply on the take; all of them. Right and left. (I doubt they think in those terms)
People have seemed to become very shrill and surface level, no big picture thinking.
Tell me where this ends? I fear it’s time to find a high hill and a bag of popcorn, none of this ends well. And we are only getting warmed up.
Buckle up.
Buckle up is right DEK. None of this ends well.
Was in sauna at Y the other night. Talking with a black dude I hadn't seen in Y since COVID. We have that friendly gym relationship--what's your name again bro? You still at UW? No, must be done with school by now..friendly enough. Genuinely friendly.
He starts talking this DEI nonsense...probably 10 people in sauna. I can't take it and push back. Then he says something about 'when you were lynching us...' and I finally say, "bro, you can't say that shit."
'Who the fuck is you? Do you mean me? My family came from Norway/Sweden in early 1900s. Check the emotion beneath that assertion. It is grievance, envy, hatred--it is leading us towards war.'
He didn't know how to respond. But I'm like--I'm sick of it, and I've decided to politely but firmly push back on all the nonsense I see.
We are being played. Big time. It scares the crap out of me. BUT...I won't go down without trying to be a responsible adult in the room.
bsn
Quite obvious that the deep state compromised the military under Bush then Obama. Same with the cops. I think the whole Oathkeeper thing was an Op to highlight the ones that actually understood the constitution. Look at all the Flag officers Obama fired, and flag officers make generals. It’s a brilliant plan and well executed. I have to begrudgingly respect the enemy here.
My god you're articulate! I've had those same discussions with the same type, most of them totally unprepared for an opposing view on these matters, but I was half as articulate as you and 5% angrier, and not super proud later, but also wouldn't go back and not do it.
Fred,
You're too kind. The more I've thought about it, the more I think we need to ask what is the emotion underlying it all. Psych 101 students learn anger is surface.
The first push back I said to him was, "Bro, whenever we start to blame others, we are stripped of our own agency, our own sovereignty. We have given away our ability to solve a problem, to act. We are left dependent upon those whom we blame."
I only know this from my own behavior over the years. Had monster for a step dad...I know exactly how to blame.
bsn
"...We are left dependent upon those whom we blame."
Brilliant. Fighting a political battle on behalf of millions of people is too daunting for any one person but keeping it personal/local makes an understanding between two or a few people more likely and beneficial.
I have no idea how to make young black men stay in school to get an education, work hard, marry girls they impregnate, avoid drug and alcohol abuse, or curb their violent behavior.
That’s great!
Just wait until people start disappearing as the snitch infrastructure sets itself up.
I believe we need to set parallel DEFENSIBLE communities as quickly as possible. Robust comms, food, friends, other tools that I probably do not need to mention etc.
Good luck all! See you on the other side :-) woot!
Confrontation is the antidote.
I agree BW. Without malice.
bsn
Without malice. And anytime we can offer a little empathy before pushing another agenda.
Fact: our nation was born on the backs of black folks.
We are not responsible, but we are stand ins.
If we can offer up some empathy, it goes a long way.
No, the nation was not born on the backs of black people. While slavery is wrong the nation was not built by indentured sharecroppers in the south.
Well said Chevalisa. (autocorrect giving me grief w/ your name!)
Humor helps a lot. It disarms all of us. Interesting book I read years ago--Click (I think). It is about 'quickset intimacy', the term the authors use for that nearly immediate 'hitting it off' with someone.
They break down how this is created--5 rules. First one is 'show your belly first'. Be vulnerable first, and others respond in kind.
Makes me think of the 'neoteny effect' puppies, kittens, and babies have on us. Our hearts immediately melt. Might trigger the same neuronal responses...
Happy New Year.
bsn
You and I know that Obama gutted the officer corps much like Stalin did, except Obama didn’t kill them off.
He merely killed their souls.
I didn't really know at the time--and did you see the link John posted below? Insane.
bsn
I saw it after you’d commented. I knew that already. I was in from 85-97, and then from 2011-2021.
That started in 2011 under Obama, purging general/flag/field grade officers deemed (during interview) as being insufficiently enthusiastic about DEI.
https://rense.com/general96/listof.html
What I can’t get is how none of these generals resign in protest. I know guys that were in units with Miley and said he was a stand up guy. How did he get so corrupted. I took an oath as an enlisted man and an officer, it meant something to me. Did it mean nothing to any of these traitors?
Mustang myself. Heard the same from one guy who worked with Milley.
Greed? Future stock options with Ratheon?
Fear? I think it’s probably a combination of both. I’m considering following in Bray’s example and publishing some of my own thoughts on Substack.
First article would be the difference between valor and courage. I believe valor will always exist, but we are in a dearth of courage.
bsn
Hoover corrupted the politicians way before the internet or cellphones. Who knows what the NSA et al has on these guys, hell who knows what they have on me. I just can’t imagine not taking that oath we took seriously. I was a hard ass CIB wearing infantry NCO when I took the officers oath and I cried. Never took anything as serious as that. Never felt worthy of it to be honest.
"publishing some of my own thoughts on Substack."
Please do.
Communication within the senior ranks of the military approaches the speed of light. The officers assessed as being insufficiently enthusiastic weren’t fired. They were told that no further promotions would be forthcoming and that future assignments would be on par with Ensign Pulver’s duties as Laundry Officer on the USNS Reluctant.
You only need to hear about a few solid senior officers being shitcanned (or choosing to retire) for what until yesterday were essential values to get the message that your career depends ENTIRELY on getting with the new program. Military officers are human…Who knew?
Ensign Pulver’s duties as Laundry Officer on the USNS Reluctant!!!
CLASSIC!!!
bsn
👍🤣. It was that, or Waste Receptacle Maintenance Officer at Thule AFB.
John,
That is the first I've seen this. Frightening. The ARNG has its own nepotistic tendencies that maintain mediocrity. We did not have a General with a combat tour until 2016! A career's length of war, and yet our General Officers didn't seem to find a way to fight as 06s...
In 08 I was talking with a buddy--'...this dude Obama and his wife are filled with hatred. They mask it, but it is just below the surface.'
I cannot believe no one else saw it. It was so obvious.
Couldn't accept--probably until COVID, the absolute evil manipulation of the masses that was going on. Had read all the dystopian literature in high school (was a freshman in 1984, must have read it 2-3 times in high school), thought I'd recognize it.
Naive. Fox Mulder..."I want to believe."
It was the criminal withdrawal of Afghanistan that finally wiped all blindness from my eyes, and has left me bereft of all trust, belief, confidence in our government.
bsn
If you’d like greater insight into Obama’s motivations, watch Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016: Obama's America.” It explains that BHO is motivated by FIERCE “anti-colonialism,” which manifests not just as redressing the residual effects of political/judicial/economic oppressions of centuries ago, but in repudiating ALL current aspects of European civilizational thinking. This explains his sitting peacefully in a pew for 20 yrs listening to Jeremiah Wright’s unending jeremiad (pun intended) about every aspect of American civilization. I don’t know if Obama is overtly a racist, but it’s fair to say that if 2 white men agree on something, chances are that Obama will be opposed. Thus a normally mild-mannered black man on his porch in Cambridge who has a meltdown and refuses to cooperate with police investigating a suspicious person report is 100% OK, and the “police…acted stupidly.”
In 2008, 70% of whites and 61% of blacks rated race relations as “good” or “very good” in a Gallup survey. In 2016, those numbers fell to 55% and 49%, respectively. In 2018, the numbers were 54% and 40%. The black view of race relations declined 21 percentage points in 10 yrs despite having achieved the lowest black unemployment in U.S. history. From this we can deduce (a) that Obama poured sand into the gears of what had been improving race relations, and (b) the mantra about “perpetual omnipresent systemic racism” has flowed TO the black community and not FROM it. The Marxists and poverty pimps‘ race propaganda worked.
Started to read the Bible a few years ago. Jordan Peterson's 'Biblical Stories' lectures convinced me I had no idea what was in the Bible, so maybe I should investigate with curiosity instead of arrogance.
Some of the commentary about the serpent in Eden point out how clever and (my words) 'rhetorically gifted' he was.
I am NOT saying Obama is Satan, but I do think that we can all be convinced to do wrong, to fall to our lower selves, to nod our heads to evil thoughts/deeds when delivered in a well-stated rhetorical flourish. Obama totally believes the pablum that was shoved down his throat, and is a gifted speaker.
The entire post-modern set of ideas, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, critical theory, all of it--and those who pimp it (love poverty pimps BTW) are evil.
bsn
Agree completely.
I can’t claim credit for “poverty pimps,” which came from a black leader >15 yrs ago. I regret I can’t remember specifically from whom I first heard it. But I’m glad it’s in common usage today by leaders like Glenn Loury, Larry Elder & many others.
Scrolling through here I came across your comment on "poverty pimps" and its origin and got curious.
Far as I could find doing a quick search using DDG, Tomas Sowell used it as early as 1998 in a poem called "The Poverty Pimp's Poem", but his brief explanation of the term in the accomanying article makes it seem as if the term is older and was already well-established in the 1990s.
The problems with welfare-programs and the welfare-trap(s) are certainly older, so it is possible the term is from the 1980s or even older.
https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/06/the-poverty-pimps-poem/
Chose the above because the page from 1998 looked as if it was still 1998, if you see what I mean.
There was an Atlantic article in the 1990s about the Army War College focusing on the alleged threat from "white supremacists" and the like. It was after Ruby Ridge and the Branch Davidian massacre. The late Sam Francis wrote a column about that article in The Atlantic which may still be available somewhere.
The political fairy tale that Trump led an insurrection, which clearly was prepared and ready to go before January 6, is more than just a dangerous political tactic. It is evil. Ask the family of Ashli Babbitt and the ordinary Americans whose lives have been ruined because they thought that Americans had the right to protest the verification of a contested election.
Important take from this essay:
"The patience of the global political class for disagreement is narrowing, fast and hard."
Yes...as Mike Yeadon now has famously said "Your government wants you dead" and soon.
What to do about this? Reiner Fuellmich worked through the "court of public opinion" in Europe and the US....and guess where he is now? He was calm, he was reasonable, he interviewed the most knowledgable experts and scientists in every area he explored--lethal vaccines, illegal mandates, police overreach, phony elections etc etc. He broke no laws. He was handcuffed and escorted into a "high security" prison in Germany like a common murderer. In the meantime, murderers are running our societies..what do we do? SEE NO EVIL--HEAR NO EVIL--SPEAK NO EVIL...?
My opinion is this: It will get a lot worse. We haven't seen anything, yet.
I have no advice....who will ride to our rescue? I heard no one is planning on this....
Where does that leave us now? How do we protect our families?...
Vara Shrav said it like it is: NEVER AGAIN IS NOW...GLOBAL
Sadly, even the "Never Again" folks, including their Prime Minister, are now talking about their enemies as subhuman animals. But as someone once said, that slogan always was one word too long.
I agree. A “person” who rapes a woman so violently that her pelvis is broken, and then shoots her in the head while he climaxes, is NOT subhuman. He is a rabid animal in desperate need of rapid onset lead poisoning.
I miss the days when the people could choose who can be President.
I think you just insurrectioned
If we elect the cadaver in chief again, we're likely done voting for a long time.
No one should believe we are voting our way out of this.
He wasn't elected in the first place.
... and then they came for me...
Yep. The thing I have always feared the most.
If everything is insurrection, nothing is insurrection.
Fits nicely with their overarching goal to divorce all words from any objective meaning. A future where words mean precisely what they mean them to but only when they mean them to. I feel like someone wrote about this once...
Here’s the thing. If the government turns against the people, then by definition, to them you are insurrectionists. You might as well get used to it. Ah, but what are you going to do? They will not stop peacefully.
"Preventing us from kicking you in the face is insurrection."
You perfectly stated this. I’m saving it because I couldn’t present it this well. It’s fuckin asinine that it’s even a thing.
FUCKING asinine. It's amazing it's come to this.
Agreed.
One of the most depressing aspects of living through the collapse of the best civilisations ever built, is how fucking dumb *everything* is.
*Deeply* stupid people, revving the engines and driving the ship into the most *obvious* icebergs... over and over again.
So much of the chaos is just amplified stupidity. And we're stuck in it, like a tornado.
I'm so tired of being bossed around, boxed in, taxed to death, squealed at ...by utter, utter morons. Very demoralising!
But it’s NOT stupidity; It’s absolutely intentional. These issues are “torpedoes” aimed at the “hull” of Western civilization. I believe the objective is to so torment the population that it’s attention is diverted from autocratic measures being introduced in response to “emergencies.” Canada is a perfect case. The law changes during Trudeau’s 8 yrs in power have been breathtaking. Canada’s moved from one of the most free democracies to one of the least.
It's always good to remember that the FBI was censoring and spying on Floyd protestors as well as anti-lockdowners.
"Funny fact about a cage, they're never built for just one group
So when that cage is done with them and you still poor, it come for you
The newest lowest on the totem, well golly gee, you have been used
You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too (Oops)"
“the FBI was censoring and spying on Floyd protestors”
100 nights of trying to burn down a Federal courthouse, but I don’t remember any “insurrection” charges. I DO remember 14K arrestees having all charges dropped.
Bellow's action in removing Trump from the ballot is unbelievably dangerous for all the reasons you point out. The SCOTUS needs to act immediately to shut this abuse of power down.
They have already proved themselves to be spineless, they will pass.
You are right. It is not about Donald Trump. It is about the ASSUMED non-constitutional powers that have been grabbed by unelected judges, by overzealous prosecutors (with too much discretionary powers) and a great number of people don't seem to care or even cheer this clearly undemocratic behavior. Our judiciary has been exposed as political partisans. The level of Outrage among rational clear-thinking folks of any political persuasion will be hard to contain and hopefully channeled into constructive political activism. Your analysis is, once again, spot-on.
“…powers that have been grabbed by…overzealous prosecutors…”
The OVERzealous are ready with a scythe to take care of citizens who stick their heads up to object. But don’t forget the UNDERzealous prosecutors whose objective is to further suppress the common man by eroding his quality of life and safety, and narrow his focus to merely keeping his family alive.
"...UNDERzealous prosecutors...eroding his quality of life and safety..."
Totally spot on and under recognized. This is the 'photographic negative of broken window theory' IMHO', and it is by design. Neuter the cops, take people's weapons, encourage criminal permissiveness via neglect of law...and Shazam! We are living a mash-up of all dystopian shitshows.
Add DEI brainwashing, and minority kids will come to the obvious conclusion, "Those rich white business owners owe me...so Ima gonna go take it!"
All by design.
bsn
We've allowed this garbage [not us personally - we don't have cranial-rectal inversion problem] so how do we get it to landfills before it does any more damage? Is that even possible anymore? While we were being mostly well-behaved honorable US citizens, the children have been running amok and burning cities down. Unlike reality, science fiction has to make sense. This makes no sense whatsoever!
This is a point I have tried to make numerous times in the past few years. Imagine if it was not DJT who was being subjected to all these things. Is this not insanity? It seems to be a point that few seem able to grasp.