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Open thread 10/4/2024

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  • ghostsniper October 4, 2024, 8:05 AM

    Them ain’t no Honeycrisps.

    Look like they’re ready for the press.

  • John A. Fleming October 4, 2024, 10:26 AM

    яблоки!

    • ghostsniper October 4, 2024, 10:33 AM

      Сидр!

  • ghostsniper October 4, 2024, 10:43 AM

    I am thinking about the days following November 5th, when the egregious edifice for malfeasance the Uniparty has constructed is likely to be grinding toward a conclusion in counting (or more likely miscounting) the votes – legitimate and otherwise.

    When a winner is declared some days or weeks later, half of this country is going to be the most obdurately pissed off this nation has ever experienced – at least since the First Civil War.

    If Trump miraculously overcomes the colossal chicanery arrayed to keep him out of office the opposition will be less emotionally disciplined and more likely to commit impulsive acts of mayhem. If the Uniparty wins the opposition will be less spontaneous, but more serious in intent. A demographic that includes many more hunters and ex-soldiers will have experience and skill sets better suited for planned operations. Neither scenario is to be hoped for.

    Either way, it would be fatuous to suppose that the opposing sides can possibly be reconciled by the new regime. How do we, as individuals, expect to react to the election’s outcome, and to those who cannot accept it? I know I would/will loathe a new Uniparty administration and expect the very worst, up to and including the complete demolition of any vestige of democracy and the imposition of a totalitarian state.

    Most of my friends are well-meaning old-fashioned liberals, who would/will be thrilled with a slightly black, woman president (as they were thrilled with Obama) and just as oblivious to the inevitable betrayal that will follow. When they realize that the Virus X Pandemic Lockdown is permanent and that their shiny new plastic CBDC card enslaves them to the wishes of the ruling class it will be too late to resist its total control of the lives of all of us.

    My relationship with those liberal friends, who have conscientiously absorbed the official Narrative crafted for them by the Uniparty is extremely delicate these days. Their credulity is no harmless foible; it is enabling the destruction of this nation. If their side is declared the winner I will be unable to keep from feeling contempt for their complicity. If they smirk and gloat over winning, I will necessarily despise them, along with the despotic regime they have put in power.

    They already bitterly resent my refutation of their beloved narrative, and may well hate my guts if Mr. Trump prevails. In that event, there can be no reconciliation, no pretending that they are still “good patriotic Americans.” They will have applauded the destruction of our civil liberties, embraced every sort of falsehood, and pitched in to help construct the prison in which we nearly found ourselves permanently incarcerated.

    Those who think this nation was truly reunited after the Civil War have never lived in the south. Many Southerners never willingly rejoined the union, but just lived their lives in occupied territory. It’s arguable that the only actual benefit of Lincoln’s having preserved the Union was to avoid having a permanently hostile state at its southern border.

    There are currently active secessionist movements in twelve US states, in addition to regional secessionist sentiment in much of the country. After the next Inauguration Day will you want to share a country with those who have trashed everything this nation once stood for? There is much to think about.

    First comment @:
    https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/october-surprise

    • DT October 4, 2024, 3:27 PM

      I’ve already passed the Rubicon with most of my former liberal friends; many of decades standing. They can not take the slightest criticism of The Narrative and have nothing but contempt for those that don’t follow the Guiding Light. “Friends” that hold you in contempt? Naw …

      “How can you support a whore and a gay pedophile for the highest office?”
      “Trump is a Nazi!”

    • Casey Klahn October 5, 2024, 3:07 AM

      Interestingly, I turned on AD this morning to write down a thought (fear) that I had when I poured my coffee. I wonder if, when Trump “loses,” and especially if there is obvious stuff like polling ceases in swing states…if he loses, will they immediately arrest him?

  • DT October 4, 2024, 3:20 PM

    Y’all realize Nov 5 is Guy Fawkes Day …

  • Helen Kitchen October 4, 2024, 5:51 PM

    None of you know me but I want to update everyone on Olive. She lives with my son (I am Jeff’s significant other) because I have a severe cat allergy. Our area of the Appalachian mountains has been devastated by Hurricane Helene and Olive has once more shown her resilience. She snuck out of the house and reappeared today. First a fire, then a hurricane. She truly is a special lady.

    • ghostsniper October 4, 2024, 7:18 PM

      Thank you for the update Helen and I hope ya’ll can manage in spite of the criminal gov’t.

  • ghostsniper October 5, 2024, 6:38 AM

    I mean despite the glowing reports of how the SideWhore is doing oh-so-well and beating OrangeManBad in a blowout, IRL they know their collective asses are fried. THAT I think is going to be the October Surprise.

    Go read the whole thing then come back here and comment.

    https://bigcountryexpat.com/index.php/2024/10/05/mostly-peaceful-extrajudicial-killings/

  • John the River October 5, 2024, 9:02 AM
  • ghostsniper October 5, 2024, 2:28 PM

    80 days
    if we last that long

  • ghostsniper October 6, 2024, 8:55 AM
  • ghostsniper October 6, 2024, 2:37 PM

    Anyone But Americans
    ================
    If you didn’t understand that America is a nation governed by a wicked foreign elite, you sure do now.

    https://voxday.net/2024/10/06/anyone-but-americans/

  • DT October 6, 2024, 3:48 PM

    Tick-tock, tick-tock

  • Casey Klahn October 7, 2024, 4:01 AM

    Helene looks bad, doesn’t it? I’m convinced it is and I’m trying to keep an open mind about did the FEMA fuck up as bad as numerous voices are saying, or not. I understand that national guard and even active duty helicopters are filling the skies in the Southern States in the wake of the hurricane. Individuals, citizens groups, first responders, Samaritan’s Purse are BTTW (first word is Balls) for helping.

    All I can say about FEMA, whatever has happened up til now: they need to have a come to Jesus moment and flip the on switch for action. They ain’t out of money; that’s bullshit. This is the beginning of the fiscal year in government land. Perceptions are important. People done lost their faith in federal agencies, and IMO the feds have really stepped in it this time. It’ll hurt Harris in the polls. Did God deliver an October Surprise? Nobody knows how that works, but it’s a hard fact that the South just took a huge hit of devastation. Harris needs to go down there in her blue pantsuit, wearing a hard hat, a la Dukakis in the army tanker helmet, and at least give a care. That she hasn’t done this, that I have seen yet, tells you everything about that stoopid witch.

    OK. Calming down…

    • DT October 7, 2024, 4:30 PM

      We’ll get to see how things change – or not – if Florida gets hit with Milton. I suspect a major difference in response. If FEMA all of a sudden “finds money” (it is the new fiscal year) and the media blasts the airwaves with pictures of FEMA In Action (including cameos with the Obullshit outfit), people may forget about Helene.

  • ghostsniper October 7, 2024, 6:34 AM

    “Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control. . . . —Hillary Clinton

  • DT October 7, 2024, 4:31 PM

    That dirty-word, dirty-word, dirty-word pimple of pus should be squeezed out of existence.

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