“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” ― George Orwell
The smell of tyranny is in the air. The level of propaganda, disinformation, and mistruth has reached astounding heights, as the ruling oligarchy/Deep State/globalist cabal are thrashing about violently because their frauds are being exposed on a daily basis. This shift to the tyranny of force has massive implications for everyone on the planet. When every quote from Orwell’s 1984 applies every day to everything swirling around us, you begin to realize we are in the midst of a dystopian nightmare that gets more ghoulish by the day
The last two years have been a fraud of epic proportions, conducted by a cadre of evil money titans, their financial, media, and medical apparatchiks, with the objective of tearing down our existing social and economic structure and “resetting” the world where they own everything and you own nothing, eat bugs, and provide the slave labor needed to keep society functioning. Of course, this will be after they dispose of tens of millions of useless eaters through their Covid/Vaxx scheme, global war, and mass starvation.
The past two weeks have denoted a remarkable transformation in the pushing of the fraudulent fearmongering narrative about a relatively non-lethal flu, vaccine mandates, masking and shaming those with the common sense to rely on their immune systems, to trying to provoke a world war over a border dispute with absolutely no relevance or strategic value to our country, other than to further enrich the military-industrial complex and the parasites and leeches in government, finance, media and war-making industry who live for and love war.
The shift has been effortless because the ruling Party, over the last two years, learned they could make the willfully ignorant and indoctrinated masses believe the most absurd story-lines with broadcast propaganda, social media influencing, and using highly compensated “experts” to lie, obfuscate, and say whatever they were paid to say.
And just like that, the pandemic was over and a war the U.S. and NATO provoked has shifted the focus of the willfully ignorant to a new boogeyman – Vladimir Putin (aka the unhinged madman Hitler reincarnation). Again, the plotline is eerily reminiscent of Orwell’s Two Minutes of Hate. The members of the Party participated in a public setting to watch the enemy of the state (Emmanuel Goldstein) on a film screen and loudly express their hate for the enemy du jour.
I can’t help but recognize the similarities to the last six years here in our very own dystopian empire of lies and propaganda. From 2016 through 2020 the face of Trump was on that screen, with the hatred of Hillary, her Deep State coup co-conspirators, the fake news media outlets, and the brain-dead liberal sycophants reaching historic levels of vitriol. Once Trump was eradicated, the Covid virus became the enemy on the screen, but the masses were infused with fear and incited to hate those who refused to fear this Fauci-created flu.
Orwell’s Two Minutes Hate: Terror Management and the Politics of Fear
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.” – Orwell – 1984
The Party needed a human face to hate. Once they began to roll out their Big Pharma clot shots, after falsifying their safety trial data and suppressing proven safe therapeutics like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, the face of hate became everyone who refused to be the research in this despicable medical experiment which has been an epic failure thus far, with the long-term deadly consequences only beginning to be revealed. The un-vaxxed (aka purebloods) have been treated like dirt, hated, de-platformed, banned, fired, and ridiculed.
The two minutes of hate has extended for a year. But our overlords have decided the time has come to change the channel of hate towards Putin, Russia, Alex Ovechkin, Russian vodka, Russian dressing, and anyone who points out the U.S. and their NATO lapdogs have provoked this conflict by surrounding Russia with military bases and missiles. A simple map shows why Putin felt it necessary to make a stand and confront his adversaries with a punch in the mouth.
Thus far the sanctions are toothless because neither Europe nor the U.S. can stomach the pain of being cut-off from Russian gas and oil. So, for the time being, they will settle for their media mouthpieces conducting two minutes of hate on a grand scale until someone does something stupid and hell on earth is unleashed across the globe.
I re stocked the Ivermectin from Amazon recently. I first bought the injectable solution before they made it hard to get. It can still be had, though. I got the “buy again” prompt , and jumped on another bottle. GAB AI has tons of ads for IVM, HCQ, and the vitamin packs.
Ghostsniper- Have another look at the prophylaxis dosage over at Barnhardt. Short version: two doses twice a a month. I do like my old pay schedule: 1oth (+11th) & 25th (+26). Then and add the zinc, D3 K2, C ,iron, and cannabis, and I’m hangin in for now.
JWM
Dan PattersonMarch 5, 2022, 9:12 AM
I’ll add my dittos to the prescription; seems to be working.
Best to us all.
Admittedly, I’m just not watching much, there are so so many parts in motion. Little or no time to do proper due diligence. As bad as it sounds, I simply don’t care what’s happening in Ukraine, feels like slight of hand drills 24-7 365.
Na anytime govt and media seek to redirect our attention to one thing specifically.
The talk of WWIII, nuke war, has been achieved tonight. The Russians bombed a nuke reactor. My skepticism is red lining
I’m having a hard time believing it was Russians who bombed the reactor. Who REALLY benefits from this bombing, if accurate.
And where’s China, not a peep,,,,,, na theirs some seriously evil shit happening on every continent. Am told many countries in the middle of the night removed thousands and thousands of ATM machines! Again I’ve not done any research on this potential report yet.
Seriously bad shits happening by seriously evil peeps.
Tic Toc!
KCKMarch 3, 2022, 8:51 PM
Will there be an election in 2024? Hell, there wasn’t one in 2020, so let that percolate.
My own governor admitted he wants to keep his Covid powers because: Trump. That is some FUS right there.
If you feel like you’re being gaslit, chances are good that you are. Notice mental fatigue?
The SOTU was Trumpist in nature: Biden is going pop because his poll numbers are beneath basement level. Then, today, he is buying billions of dollars worth of Iranian oil. See this hand? See it? (headfake like Obama did)
ghostsniperMarch 4, 2022, 4:35 AM
Casey sed: “Notice mental fatigue?”
==========
That can happen if you let it.
I’m resisting, but it takes some modification.
TURN.OFF.THE.FUCKING.COMPUTER!
There’s a window right next to my desk, off to the right.
I turn my head 90 to the right and I’m looking out on our front yard, northerly.
About 8′ outside that window is a red barn bird feeder and a suet cage on a double shepherds crook, slammed with hungry yaps. 4 dif types of woodpeckers vying for the suet, and the BIG feeder has a constant parade of cardinals, jays, redwings, nuthatches, tit mouses, black caps, sparrows, and down on the ground is an array of mourning doves, bobbin’ and cooin’. Squirrels are hanging on the sides of trees waiting for an opportunity to launch through the air to the feeder and the brazen chipmunks just clamber up the hook and dive right in like mafia bosses. Across the road to the east the sun is rising and the day is beginning.
It’s a brand new day, similar to the one before, but slightly diff, and I have a full pallet of things to get done before the end of the day happens and I sit down finally to sup. First thing, I’m finishing building permit drawings and emailing them to Florida, on a single family residence that has been on and off the burner for 6 months. More than likely when the mail comes later there will be a fat check in there for a few thou and I’ll take a leisurely roll to the bank and off load it. That’ll give me a chance to catch up on some light recon.
Then I’ll be out in the workshop, all doors and windows wide open, moving stuff around and organizing. The big plan is to investigate a circa 1867 Miller’s Falls auger brace I bought on Etsy. It’s in good shape, considering it’s age, but I’m going to strip it down to the bones and soak the metal in rust remover and turn some TLC to the wooden parts, and do a general overall inspection. Still searching for a decent quality set of long, square tipped bits. Also going to address my new Lufkin 6′ folding rule that could use some graphite dust on all the joints. The idea is to increase my inventory of old skool tools and gain experience with them. Never know when the power will go out, forever, so it’s good to be prepared. Got wood timbers? I got the chisels, and they’re hungry for some mortise and tenons.
Kevin in PAMarch 4, 2022, 4:40 AM
“Will there be an election in 2024? Hell, there wasn’t one in 2020, so let that percolate.”
Percolate on this fact: There was an election in 2020 and it was stolen. Just because the echo chamber keeps repeating a lie (“there is no evidence that the election was stolen”) doesn’t mean it is true. The more important questions are: What have you done to fix that? What have you done to hold the perpetrators of the crime accountable?
It’s very easy to say all is lost, we are doomed and there is no hope. Sadly, that mindset has pervaded many an intelligent individual and I suggest that is the cause of your mental fatigue.
I believe that there are remedies.
Turn off your TV.
Get off of social media.
Get into meet-space and start to build parallel systems. You are an artist (a creative mind). Build something useful!
Stop whining about what happened and make something happen!
You assert that you are a Christian. Good. Now, throw away despair and have faith in God. He wants you to resist these evil bastards.
Dan PattersonMarch 4, 2022, 4:57 AM
And do what? Resist how?
I have answers to those questions but the result is heads in baskets.
The links are informative and interesting. And in a world where they would work we wouldn’t need them. But I could be mistaken; those are methods that could bear fruit in a generation or three.
Kevin in PAMarch 4, 2022, 7:54 AM
So, Dan, if I understand your response, what you are saying is that all is lost and the only answer is to start chopping heads. That is your call. So, go for it. See where it leads. I choose to not accept that as the only “solution”. I am willing to make the effort to begin the process of turning things around. One step at a time. Perhaps you are correct that it will take “a generation or three”. Are you unwilling to even try? Seems to me that’s what you are saying. And if that is what you believe you have lost by surrendering before you have even begun. Best of luck with that.
Here is hope. Are you aware that there are many in the political class that see the writing on the wall and they are resigning rather than seek reelection? Are you aware that there are many Americans that have been alarmed and awakened and are willing to resist, each in their own way?
By no means do I suggest that I have all the answers, but America was made great by some very creative people working with others to affect change. Defeatism is the enemy you must overcome to begin making things better…..or you could just commit suicide and take the easy way out. Again, good luck with that. I suspect that you progeny may piss on your grave for refusing to try.
Dan PattersonMarch 4, 2022, 12:40 PM
Just what I expected, another sneering lecture from you; I’ll put it over here in the piss pot with the rest of them.
And no, you don’t understand my response but I honestly do understand yours. And you are correct that optimism not defeatism is a powerful tool. One step at a time is what got us where we are and that is possibly a path for correction. Possibly. But the parties must all be looking at least at the same horizon if not the same compass heading. We are not there and polite debate has only provided compromise toward the opposing side. Tea Party, anyone?
No the United States was not formed from debates with the Crown, it was formed from the remnants of shot and shell. We are no different now than during the tyranny of the English except in manner of dress and technology; the elite and unelected govern over the rest and no your vote doesn’t count if they don’t want it to. Sit down, peasant.
Those deciding against re-election are a possible source of optimism, and if the leadership of the GOPe can be shoveled out the door then there could be movement.
There must be something in the way I write that invites assholes to become conversational bullies like you’ve become. I need an editor to help me locate that nugget and dispose of it.
Now then smartass, about your shitty comment about suicide, specifically mine. Read this and let me know your thoughts.
Posted elsewhere June 2021:
“… I was my own worst enemy to my success and happiness and did not realize it until years later. But I finally listened to myself and to other lost souls and misfits through the years, and that buffered and strengthened me despite the unanswerable questions and emptiness, an emptiness no one can possibly understand if they’ve not tasted the muzzle and considered the cure and thought it an answer. Some friends and family have and it is an eternal inconsolable sadness that I could not, or did not, intervene. If you’ve done that you know what I mean, but there are only a very few survivors of that damnable test.
Alone one winter afternoon with the barrel in my mouth I heard the click of the firing pin against a failed primer.
I have not written about that until just now; I’ve never told anyone about the specifics or the time and it has lain unread in my library until now. My apologies to family and friends for the ill-timed revealing of that horror but there really is no good time, is there?
Let’s leave the emotional debris of that event and the personal consequences of managing the event solo for another time. Likewise we’ll leave the trauma of spilling the beans about that long episode tonight in a separate envelope in a shoebox on the closet shelf. We can talk later.”
Do you still think it wise to show your ass to someone like you did to me? I have that shotgun in my closet, a .410 Stevens Model 39B and it rests in a place of honor as a reminder. I get that you didn’t exactly mean what you wrote literally, I see your point in raising the rhetorical stakes as a challenge to my point.
But damn, boy. Can you not stfu once in a goddam while and stop pretending you are the smartest ass in the room? You might be, but then again… Preening and crowing about your own wisdom is something some of us learned not to do long before our big teeth came in, but maybe some of us need to be reminded.
“Again, good luck with that.” What a bitch move on your part.
Shit, Dan. Glad the primer failed. God said “No.” He saved you for something.
Dan PattersonMarch 4, 2022, 4:55 AM
The United States ceased being serious, being populated and led by adults, sometime around 1970. The national focus became less about maintenance of home and hearth and more about satisfying ones prurience, avoiding responsibility, and doing your own thing. Art imitated life and we can look back at the empty-headed and sugar-coated imitations, but only do so if you have a strong stomach.
And here have arrived with a flourish, with an installed Vice President completely unable to function. Wherever she goes disaster follows. Words tumble around in her head and she thinks she is being smart when some of them fall out of her mouth. The words don’t make sense to cogent adults, but to say so brands us as racist because, well because fuck you is why. No one takes that moron seriously, least of all Russia.
Affirmative action selections have consequences. Remember obama, or whatever his name really is? A nation of adults who function as individuals under a free society, would never fall for the con game being run out of DC since just after the summer of love. But here we are. All in. Since we have all reverted to being kids let’s just go Wheeeeeee! and enjoy the ride.
Many of us were secure in our belief the empty suits that now crew the ship of state would be put to bed on election day never to see the light of day. Brother were we ever mistaken. Not enough of us planned on stemming the tide of slime from the likes of Abrams and whomever else pulls the strings, and now the installation of sappers cannot be overturned; it’s Constitutional to destroy the Constitution, you know. Just ask the Libertarians; they can explain to you how we can vote our way out of this. Vote harder.
The Biden-Obama puppetry campaign focused on eliminating fracking, reducing our use of oil products, and an assortment of gibberish and nonsense. We were to read between the lines about the social unrest, international tension, and deepening confusion resulting from the purposeful detachment from the Constitution, I guess.
Tom HylandMarch 4, 2022, 5:14 AM
Can’t say enough for the good value and benefit of bird seed. I have rabbit ears and only turn on the TV maybe 3 or 4 times a year for some rare documentary. The bird feeder is by far the superior entertainment center. Every human I used to know… folks who spend over 2K yearly on cable… have been vaxxed and stupified by the radiating gaslight cyclops which sucked out their brains and replaced it with their own poop. More birds thank you.
jdMarch 4, 2022, 5:58 AM
Agree with you, Tom, although unfortunately we must
soon “table” ours because we have orders from the Condo Association,
one of the downsides to downsizing. There are more but there are
pluses too as there are in the two sides of everything.
Loved re-reading “The Wheatfield”” yesterday, Gerard. Sure hope
you have your writings stored on paper too.
I might take him seriously if he used proper capitalization. I had to read thousands of essays in my 27 years in the classroom with exactly that sort of poor grammar. Now retired, I am not going to subject myself to it any longer.
I’m not sure exactly which sides slinging more bullshit these days. I just know, we will make our own minds up, not these knuckleheads who think they speak for us.
Propaganda works both ways.
gwMarch 4, 2022, 2:18 PM
Are the Globalists using the Ukrainians as a human shield? Is this just a substitution of Russia for COVID as the next global evil to support further totalitarian evolution in the West? Sound ridiculous? So did Russiagate.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
The Burning Platform asks WILL THERE BE A 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION? – The Burning Platform and gives a long, long answer.
The last two years have been a fraud of epic proportions, conducted by a cadre of evil money titans, their financial, media, and medical apparatchiks, with the objective of tearing down our existing social and economic structure and “resetting” the world where they own everything and you own nothing, eat bugs, and provide the slave labor needed to keep society functioning. Of course, this will be after they dispose of tens of millions of useless eaters through their Covid/Vaxx scheme, global war, and mass starvation.
The shift has been effortless because the ruling Party, over the last two years, learned they could make the willfully ignorant and indoctrinated masses believe the most absurd story-lines with broadcast propaganda, social media influencing, and using highly compensated “experts” to lie, obfuscate, and say whatever they were paid to say.
Orwell’s Two Minutes Hate: Terror Management and the Politics of Fear
The Party needed a human face to hate. Once they began to roll out their Big Pharma clot shots, after falsifying their safety trial data and suppressing proven safe therapeutics like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, the face of hate became everyone who refused to be the research in this despicable medical experiment which has been an epic failure thus far, with the long-term deadly consequences only beginning to be revealed. The un-vaxxed (aka purebloods) have been treated like dirt, hated, de-platformed, banned, fired, and ridiculed.
Heksenfluit, met doodshoofd en rattenpoot /// Witch’s Flute of Human Femer and Rat’s Foot. 
Gerard Van der Leun
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I’m thankful that despite pressure I somehow managed to avoid the vaccine- so I guess I’m a pure blood.
#Me Too – and a good supply of Ivermectin
Same here.
I took another slug of the Iver on the 1st. (once monthly for the past year)
Everything is normal here, easing into spring.
I’m a “pure blood” as well. I have not been sick for years. I daily take a range of supplements: C, D, B and so on.
Yep, no vax and still truckin’ along just fine.
Ditto. Although I only personally know one other adult who didn’t get vaxxed. We’re definitely in a minority.
Same here.
No Vax. Won’t mask.
I re stocked the Ivermectin from Amazon recently. I first bought the injectable solution before they made it hard to get. It can still be had, though. I got the “buy again” prompt , and jumped on another bottle. GAB AI has tons of ads for IVM, HCQ, and the vitamin packs.
Ghostsniper- Have another look at the prophylaxis dosage over at Barnhardt. Short version: two doses twice a a month. I do like my old pay schedule: 1oth (+11th) & 25th (+26). Then and add the zinc, D3 K2, C ,iron, and cannabis, and I’m hangin in for now.
JWM
I’ll add my dittos to the prescription; seems to be working.
Best to us all.
Admittedly, I’m just not watching much, there are so so many parts in motion. Little or no time to do proper due diligence. As bad as it sounds, I simply don’t care what’s happening in Ukraine, feels like slight of hand drills 24-7 365.
Na anytime govt and media seek to redirect our attention to one thing specifically.
The talk of WWIII, nuke war, has been achieved tonight. The Russians bombed a nuke reactor. My skepticism is red lining
I’m having a hard time believing it was Russians who bombed the reactor. Who REALLY benefits from this bombing, if accurate.
And where’s China, not a peep,,,,,, na theirs some seriously evil shit happening on every continent. Am told many countries in the middle of the night removed thousands and thousands of ATM machines! Again I’ve not done any research on this potential report yet.
Seriously bad shits happening by seriously evil peeps.
Tic Toc!
Will there be an election in 2024? Hell, there wasn’t one in 2020, so let that percolate.
My own governor admitted he wants to keep his Covid powers because: Trump. That is some FUS right there.
If you feel like you’re being gaslit, chances are good that you are. Notice mental fatigue?
The SOTU was Trumpist in nature: Biden is going pop because his poll numbers are beneath basement level. Then, today, he is buying billions of dollars worth of Iranian oil. See this hand? See it? (headfake like Obama did)
Casey sed: “Notice mental fatigue?”
==========
That can happen if you let it.
I’m resisting, but it takes some modification.
TURN.OFF.THE.FUCKING.COMPUTER!
There’s a window right next to my desk, off to the right.
I turn my head 90 to the right and I’m looking out on our front yard, northerly.
About 8′ outside that window is a red barn bird feeder and a suet cage on a double shepherds crook, slammed with hungry yaps. 4 dif types of woodpeckers vying for the suet, and the BIG feeder has a constant parade of cardinals, jays, redwings, nuthatches, tit mouses, black caps, sparrows, and down on the ground is an array of mourning doves, bobbin’ and cooin’. Squirrels are hanging on the sides of trees waiting for an opportunity to launch through the air to the feeder and the brazen chipmunks just clamber up the hook and dive right in like mafia bosses. Across the road to the east the sun is rising and the day is beginning.
It’s a brand new day, similar to the one before, but slightly diff, and I have a full pallet of things to get done before the end of the day happens and I sit down finally to sup. First thing, I’m finishing building permit drawings and emailing them to Florida, on a single family residence that has been on and off the burner for 6 months. More than likely when the mail comes later there will be a fat check in there for a few thou and I’ll take a leisurely roll to the bank and off load it. That’ll give me a chance to catch up on some light recon.
Then I’ll be out in the workshop, all doors and windows wide open, moving stuff around and organizing. The big plan is to investigate a circa 1867 Miller’s Falls auger brace I bought on Etsy. It’s in good shape, considering it’s age, but I’m going to strip it down to the bones and soak the metal in rust remover and turn some TLC to the wooden parts, and do a general overall inspection. Still searching for a decent quality set of long, square tipped bits. Also going to address my new Lufkin 6′ folding rule that could use some graphite dust on all the joints. The idea is to increase my inventory of old skool tools and gain experience with them. Never know when the power will go out, forever, so it’s good to be prepared. Got wood timbers? I got the chisels, and they’re hungry for some mortise and tenons.
“Will there be an election in 2024? Hell, there wasn’t one in 2020, so let that percolate.”
Percolate on this fact: There was an election in 2020 and it was stolen. Just because the echo chamber keeps repeating a lie (“there is no evidence that the election was stolen”) doesn’t mean it is true. The more important questions are: What have you done to fix that? What have you done to hold the perpetrators of the crime accountable?
It’s very easy to say all is lost, we are doomed and there is no hope. Sadly, that mindset has pervaded many an intelligent individual and I suggest that is the cause of your mental fatigue.
I believe that there are remedies.
Turn off your TV.
Get off of social media.
Get into meet-space and start to build parallel systems. You are an artist (a creative mind). Build something useful!
Seek remedies. For example;
https://precinctstrategy.com
and
https://bondsforthewin.com
Stop whining about what happened and make something happen!
You assert that you are a Christian. Good. Now, throw away despair and have faith in God. He wants you to resist these evil bastards.
And do what? Resist how?
I have answers to those questions but the result is heads in baskets.
The links are informative and interesting. And in a world where they would work we wouldn’t need them. But I could be mistaken; those are methods that could bear fruit in a generation or three.
So, Dan, if I understand your response, what you are saying is that all is lost and the only answer is to start chopping heads. That is your call. So, go for it. See where it leads. I choose to not accept that as the only “solution”. I am willing to make the effort to begin the process of turning things around. One step at a time. Perhaps you are correct that it will take “a generation or three”. Are you unwilling to even try? Seems to me that’s what you are saying. And if that is what you believe you have lost by surrendering before you have even begun. Best of luck with that.
Here is hope. Are you aware that there are many in the political class that see the writing on the wall and they are resigning rather than seek reelection? Are you aware that there are many Americans that have been alarmed and awakened and are willing to resist, each in their own way?
By no means do I suggest that I have all the answers, but America was made great by some very creative people working with others to affect change. Defeatism is the enemy you must overcome to begin making things better…..or you could just commit suicide and take the easy way out. Again, good luck with that. I suspect that you progeny may piss on your grave for refusing to try.
Just what I expected, another sneering lecture from you; I’ll put it over here in the piss pot with the rest of them.
And no, you don’t understand my response but I honestly do understand yours. And you are correct that optimism not defeatism is a powerful tool. One step at a time is what got us where we are and that is possibly a path for correction. Possibly. But the parties must all be looking at least at the same horizon if not the same compass heading. We are not there and polite debate has only provided compromise toward the opposing side. Tea Party, anyone?
No the United States was not formed from debates with the Crown, it was formed from the remnants of shot and shell. We are no different now than during the tyranny of the English except in manner of dress and technology; the elite and unelected govern over the rest and no your vote doesn’t count if they don’t want it to. Sit down, peasant.
Those deciding against re-election are a possible source of optimism, and if the leadership of the GOPe can be shoveled out the door then there could be movement.
There must be something in the way I write that invites assholes to become conversational bullies like you’ve become. I need an editor to help me locate that nugget and dispose of it.
Now then smartass, about your shitty comment about suicide, specifically mine. Read this and let me know your thoughts.
Posted elsewhere June 2021:
“… I was my own worst enemy to my success and happiness and did not realize it until years later. But I finally listened to myself and to other lost souls and misfits through the years, and that buffered and strengthened me despite the unanswerable questions and emptiness, an emptiness no one can possibly understand if they’ve not tasted the muzzle and considered the cure and thought it an answer. Some friends and family have and it is an eternal inconsolable sadness that I could not, or did not, intervene. If you’ve done that you know what I mean, but there are only a very few survivors of that damnable test.
Alone one winter afternoon with the barrel in my mouth I heard the click of the firing pin against a failed primer.
I have not written about that until just now; I’ve never told anyone about the specifics or the time and it has lain unread in my library until now. My apologies to family and friends for the ill-timed revealing of that horror but there really is no good time, is there?
Let’s leave the emotional debris of that event and the personal consequences of managing the event solo for another time. Likewise we’ll leave the trauma of spilling the beans about that long episode tonight in a separate envelope in a shoebox on the closet shelf. We can talk later.”
Do you still think it wise to show your ass to someone like you did to me? I have that shotgun in my closet, a .410 Stevens Model 39B and it rests in a place of honor as a reminder. I get that you didn’t exactly mean what you wrote literally, I see your point in raising the rhetorical stakes as a challenge to my point.
But damn, boy. Can you not stfu once in a goddam while and stop pretending you are the smartest ass in the room? You might be, but then again… Preening and crowing about your own wisdom is something some of us learned not to do long before our big teeth came in, but maybe some of us need to be reminded.
“Again, good luck with that.” What a bitch move on your part.
Shit, Dan. Glad the primer failed. God said “No.” He saved you for something.
The United States ceased being serious, being populated and led by adults, sometime around 1970. The national focus became less about maintenance of home and hearth and more about satisfying ones prurience, avoiding responsibility, and doing your own thing. Art imitated life and we can look back at the empty-headed and sugar-coated imitations, but only do so if you have a strong stomach.
And here have arrived with a flourish, with an installed Vice President completely unable to function. Wherever she goes disaster follows. Words tumble around in her head and she thinks she is being smart when some of them fall out of her mouth. The words don’t make sense to cogent adults, but to say so brands us as racist because, well because fuck you is why. No one takes that moron seriously, least of all Russia.
Affirmative action selections have consequences. Remember obama, or whatever his name really is? A nation of adults who function as individuals under a free society, would never fall for the con game being run out of DC since just after the summer of love. But here we are. All in. Since we have all reverted to being kids let’s just go Wheeeeeee! and enjoy the ride.
Many of us were secure in our belief the empty suits that now crew the ship of state would be put to bed on election day never to see the light of day. Brother were we ever mistaken. Not enough of us planned on stemming the tide of slime from the likes of Abrams and whomever else pulls the strings, and now the installation of sappers cannot be overturned; it’s Constitutional to destroy the Constitution, you know. Just ask the Libertarians; they can explain to you how we can vote our way out of this. Vote harder.
The Biden-Obama puppetry campaign focused on eliminating fracking, reducing our use of oil products, and an assortment of gibberish and nonsense. We were to read between the lines about the social unrest, international tension, and deepening confusion resulting from the purposeful detachment from the Constitution, I guess.
Can’t say enough for the good value and benefit of bird seed. I have rabbit ears and only turn on the TV maybe 3 or 4 times a year for some rare documentary. The bird feeder is by far the superior entertainment center. Every human I used to know… folks who spend over 2K yearly on cable… have been vaxxed and stupified by the radiating gaslight cyclops which sucked out their brains and replaced it with their own poop. More birds thank you.
Agree with you, Tom, although unfortunately we must
soon “table” ours because we have orders from the Condo Association,
one of the downsides to downsizing. There are more but there are
pluses too as there are in the two sides of everything.
Loved re-reading “The Wheatfield”” yesterday, Gerard. Sure hope
you have your writings stored on paper too.
If you’re not already, you need to follow this guy: https://substack.com/profile/32715357-el-gato-malo.
His latest-https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/if-i-were-going-to-conquer-you?s=r
I might take him seriously if he used proper capitalization. I had to read thousands of essays in my 27 years in the classroom with exactly that sort of poor grammar. Now retired, I am not going to subject myself to it any longer.
Does he think he is e e cummings?
Free bloods, and we will vote in 2024.
I’m not sure exactly which sides slinging more bullshit these days. I just know, we will make our own minds up, not these knuckleheads who think they speak for us.
Propaganda works both ways.
Are the Globalists using the Ukrainians as a human shield? Is this just a substitution of Russia for COVID as the next global evil to support further totalitarian evolution in the West? Sound ridiculous? So did Russiagate.
Not one thing has changed on my mountain, nothing, nada. Read the nonsense reported by MSM you would think the sky’s falling.
Thought I recognized you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uASQgLwaIs