This is not about wringing our hands over Republican hypocrisy. And it not about blaming Republicans. It offers NO solution to saving our own democracy. It just explains the decay process, which in my opinion, is probably a part of any democracy, but I'd like to be wrong about that. Most everyone, not everyone, will say that democracy is fragile, and I think it is. In any system of government, the wealthy and the power hungry will always find ways to circumvent the system, democracies included.
I see us on a brink and I think collapse is imminent. This is not about voting Democrat or Republican. Those are not solutions. Maybe the problem is the constitution, or maybe it's people. The system is fucked, and it's not healthy to hide from that.
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From the New York times:
Some of the gravest democratic collapses, Mr. Ziblatt and his co-author, Steven Levitsky, found, occurred in 20th century South America, whose two-party presidential systems closely resemble that of the United States. And the downward spiral began, more than once, with the party in power twisting unwritten but important norms to take control of the country’s highest court.
In Argentina, the president’s party abused its power to replace Supreme Court justices, installing loyalists in three out of the court’s five seats. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez packed the court, adding a dozen new judges. Chile provides perhaps the most worrying example: Though the precise norm-breaking was different, it led to a cycle of escalation between the parties until the country â€" long seen as akin to the United States in its democratic longevity and stability â€" collapsed into violence and dictatorship.
Chile’s bloody fate was also the product of Cold War meddling and polarization that don’t exist in today’s United States. But the pattern is disturbingly familiar. One party violates those norms to give itself a structural advantage beyond its share of the vote. The other side follows suit. Eventually, the norms are gone and with it democracy as we commonly understand it.
Scholars have a term for this kind rule-twisting that exploits unwritten norms for short-term political gain: constitutional hardball.
Any politician faces a temptation to break unwritten norms for short-term gain. The expectation is that they’ll restrain themselves out of a belief that preserving the system is more beneficial in the long-term and that voters or their peers may punish them for drastic transgressions.
But when that logic fails and parties come to see hardball as worth the risk, it can, in extreme cases, set off a doom spiral that can be hard to recover from.
Imagine a baseball game where one team begins breaking rules and faces little consequence. This forces the other team into a difficult choice. It can continue following the rules in the hopes that its opponents will voluntarily give up their rule-breaking advantage. Or it can even things out with its own rule-twisting, knowing this might set of a cycle of tit-for-tat escalation until they’re not even really playing baseball anymore so much as just brawling in the outfield.
There’s a reason that fights over the nation’s high court are often what tip shaky democracies into outright collapse: It’s an opportunity for one team to appoint the umpires who oversee the game.
At one time I saw the courts as the epitome of the scales of justice. Who is it that holds that scales of blind justice? A goddess? I don't know if I've adopted a new perspective or if things have changed. That statue on the desk of the judge is just a symbol of something that doesn't exist. Did it ever? I don't know, but it's now a scam. Maybe it always was.
Yes, collapse is always imminent. Jeebus is coming to take up the banjo playing morons (sorry, not Mormons) from Birmingham Alabama. Can't happen soon enough ;-) I will celebrate when no Americans can vote or run for office anymore. All deplorables. The Founders were just dead White misogynists (right Mike CL?). We need the Chinese autocratic communism. Just like Greece needed the Macedonian autocratic monarchy of Phillip.
If one doesn't spend time in courts (most of us) it might be easy to idolize it, particularly if you believe anything you see on TV. Remember the FBI TV show? They weren't showing you how evil J Edgar was or how the deputy head of the FBI was Deepthroat.
Quote from: SGOS on September 23, 2020, 09:39:14 AM
At one time I saw the courts as the epitome of the scales of justice. Who is it that holds that scales of blind justice? A goddess? I don't know if I've adopted a new perspective or if things have changed. That statue on the desk of the judge is just a symbol of something that doesn't exist. Did it ever? I don't know, but it's now a scam. Maybe it always was.
Socrates?
Quote from: SGOS on September 23, 2020, 09:39:14 AM
At one time I saw the courts as the epitome of the scales of justice. Who is it that holds that scales of blind justice? A goddess? I don't know if I've adopted a new perspective or if things have changed. That statue on the desk of the judge is just a symbol of something that doesn't exist. Did it ever? I don't know, but it's now a scam. Maybe it always was.
Of course, it doesn't exist in that sense. It has never existed in that sense. Justice is the balance which is determined by the sum of standards you can provide for people in a society. The law, education, living standards, opportunities. Providing good standards for as many people as possible. That's justice.
The base is a
laicist (no, not secular), social state which is capable of producing a real
secular culture. No organised religion backed up by the state.
The understanding of 'freedom' is fundamentally flawed. People are not free to do most things with themselves or with their children.
Simple examples... Vaccination has to be mandatory. It's not freedom. No religious education under 18. It's not freedom. They can't drive until 18 and drink until 21 but they are allowed religion at 8?!
The problem is too much bullshit freedom while there is no real one in terms of what can be had.
I don't want to touch the elephant in the room. USA is the fortress of capitalism. You don't get to create that succes and greed culture and then surprise the lack of justice in any terms. And it's everywhere now.
Go back to sharia, you will like your seclusion and chador. It has been noted, by psychiatrists, that Westernized ME people are schizoid, it isn't possible to hold contrary cultures in your head at the same time. To be Western, you have to be raised ab inito in a Western culture.
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.†- Justice William O. Douglas
It isn't about giving more power to one party over another ... in that case, both parties of tyranny miss the whole point.
Can't wait for the basement dwelling Millennial losers establishing their Trot Soy-viet Union. Wakanda!
"Ancient Athens was both a democracy and an empire. that didn’t end well either though." ... this is Sparta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkWS9PiXekE
My answer to non-Western people and the quislings in the West who assist the Enemy! Athens lost to Sparta (with Persian help). Athens then lost to Macedon .. wasn't free again for over 2000 years. Liberals are weaklings, like Trots in the Left spectrum. Athens under Perlcles betrayed all of Greece, by forming their own empire. The Parthenon was built with misappropriated funds (see Bidens and Clintons).
If Turkey attacks Greece, then per Trojan War and Herodotus' theory of history, we must lay Turkey waste!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed
I am being driven into atheism in regards to this false god.
I guess, you expect some sort of a reaction from me, but I really have no idea what is that, Baruch? What are you talking about?
Turkey and Greece...blah blah isn't that your childhood, youth and and old age?
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 26, 2020, 03:12:30 PM
I guess, you expect some sort of a reaction from me, but I really have no idea what is that, Baruch? What are you talking about?
Turkey and Greece...blah blah isn't that your childhood, youth and and old age?
Nope, I am not that type. No reaction expected, particularly from someone as smart and mature at you are.
I do hope Erdogan behaves himself.
There are similarities of the current USA and Athens because Athens and current USA are very much a Oligarchy and a bad "Tyrant" now is in control. But at the same time the Current USA is much different from the Empire Athens was.
There are harsh similarities between Turkey today/Turkey 17 years ago and USA today/4 years ago, I just can't get how fast did that happen? I wish you could see beyond your made up identity and arrogance.
Quote from: Draconic Aiur on September 26, 2020, 04:12:36 PM
There are similarities of the current USA and Athens because Athens and current USA are very much a Oligarchy and a bad "Tyrant" now is in control. But at the same time the Current USA is much different from the Empire Athens was.
They are the same, they are not the same. I would hate to be born outside of Sparta, either way ;-) As the Spartan women used to say, the reason why Spartan women are free, is because they are the only Greek women who give birth to real Greek men ;-) Athens invented smooth talking politicians like Pericles. And traitors, like Alcibiades. And predators like Socrates (Alcibiades' old lover).
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 26, 2020, 04:32:01 PM
There are harsh similarities between Turkey today/Turkey 17 years ago and USA today/4 years ago, I just can't get how fast did that happen? I wish you could see beyond your made up identity and arrogance.
Turkish Arrogance ... give us Vienna or else! Polish Pride ... take that!
I am not an alpha-male, but I did sleep overnight at a Holiday Inn Express once ;-)
One of the frailties of democracy, is the fact that politics is inseparable from economics, and monetary theory is basic to economics ...
"Meet The Mastermind Behind JPMorgan's Gold And Silver Manipulation "Crime Ring"" ... of course not just e-gold and e-silver are manipulated, everything in finance is manipulated. In a certain sense, democracy is a political free market. But if you don't have a real free market in the financial arena etc ... then that works counter to a political free market.
As public trust in media, education and elections dwindles then democracy itself becomes unsustainable .
https://youtu.be/1OqFY_2JE1c
Quote from: GSOgymrat on September 30, 2020, 05:52:24 AM
As public trust in media, education and elections dwindles then democracy itself becomes unsustainable .
https://youtu.be/1OqFY_2JE1c
Media officially since 2012 (and for many decades unofficially) is controlled by the government, for propaganda. So why should there be any public trust? If the MSM is entirely partisan, for party X, and everyone knows it (this was like newspapers years ago) and against party Y, why should members of party Y or Independents trust it?
Without the Internet (which went down at my place multiple times last night (thanks to Comcast not being able to handle the "debate" traffic?) I would have no alternative but to believe that Walter Cronkite is a Viet Cong agent, if DoD said so. According to pro-propaganda politics, we should still be fighting in Vietnam with LBJs corpse in the White House.
There is no reason to believe in free and fair elections, or that the American people are a free or fair people. Civil war is what we are getting. Elections only work, when violence is avoided, and orderly change of power happens. The US system is literally a peaceful coup every 4 years. This nearly didn't happen in the election of 1800, and led to the duel between Hamilton and Burr. But there are too many trillions of dollars of grifting at stake, and maniacs who must own the universe or die trying (typical since 3000 BCE) will double down until they destroy their own country (see Japan 1931-1945).
There's a reason we're in the situation we're in now. The simple fact is that Democrats and Republicans don't operate by the same rules. When Democrats want change, they trust the system to do what it's supposed to do. They believe in the marketplace of ideas, thinking that truth and justice will win out. By contrast, Republicans do not care how they get what they want. The ends justify the means. When we have a Democratic President, they make up their own rules and refuse to cooperate or compromise. But when there's a Republican in the Oval Office, anything less than total submission is called being an "obstructionist." Republicans expect Democrats to compromise while they refuse to budge.
There are only two ways for Democrats to respond. First, they can continue to play by the rules, and lose ground as Republicans abuse the system to get what they want. Take now, for example, when Republicans are stacking the courts in their favor, speeding up the nomination process to get a Republican in the seat DAYS before the election. This after they refused to even vote for an Obama nominee, on the grounds that a nomination shouldn't be made on the last year of a President's term. Let the people decide, they said. Funny how the rules change when convenient for them, huh? The GOP's lack of consistency or dignity puts them at a significant advantage here.
The second option is that the Democrats say enough is enough, take their gloves off, and start behaving like the Republicans do. They give up any pretense that the system will work itself out, and they do everything they can to increase their power. But if Democrats do that, then Republicans will point their fingers and say that they did everything the Republicans accused them of doing. They will justify the opinion too many people have already been fooled to believe: that Democrats are "just as bad." Additionally, even if we started playing by the same rules, the Republicans would have a several decades headstart. How long would it take for us to catch up, or even gain the advantage? We'd have to get insanely lucky and just happen to have a President in office when a seat is made available. The odds are stacked against the Democrats.
I honestly don't see any way that we can get out of this mess. I wish I could have some hope for the future to hold on to, but we're in a lose-lose situation here. We are absolutely fucked. It takes us forever to make any progress, and it only takes one term for Republicans to undo decades of hard work. Even if Biden wins, so what? Does Biden strike you as a man of conviction, who will push hard for positive change, who will do everything he can to fix our broken system? No. It would be a minor setback for Republicans as they work to repeal Roe v. Wade, increase "religious freedoms" (for fundamentalist Christians to take away everyone else's freedoms), and take rights away from marginalized groups. The Republicans will have their theocratic utopia, and any problems that inevitably arise from that system will be blamed on Democrats for not getting with the program.
Because American Republicans, like all right-wing and religious groups and governments in the world are self-entitled and move with the understanding that it is their natural right. That's the fundamental nature of that thought, that frame of mind, it is not corruption when they do it. The very reason they can't administrate a barn full of horse shit.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 02, 2020, 05:23:03 AM
Because American Republicans, like all right-wing and religious groups and governments in the world are self-entitled and move with the understanding that it is their natural right. That's the fundamental nature of that thought, that frame of mind, it is not corruption when they do it. The very reason they can't administrate a barn full of horse shit.
@Blackleaf - I miss Shiranu. So you have to be our angry young man ;-) Keep at it, eventually you will be the Establishment. Democrats behaving like Republicans? Are you unaware of Bill Clinton and Barak Obama? Hillary loves her some Goldman-Sachs. Wish Cavebear would post, he majored in political science.
Establishments are like that. We have had Establishment for 5000 years, with occasional peasant revolts/iconoclasms that change the deck chairs, but human nature hasn't changed in 5000 years. Of course New Soviet Man and Aryan Superman and now Eugenic Driven Evolution are there to attempt to make people stronger faster etc for a lot less than $6 million per person ;-) In the US, I was figuring back, we have an iconoclasm movement every 50 years, dating back to 1770. Next 1820, then 1870, then 1920, then 1970, then 2020. This is intergenerational biology at work.
Marxists in their pseudo-science think that we are evolving in political-economy to an omega-point (later turned into cosmic theology by Teilhard DeChardin). Once we get to true communism, the state will no longer be necessary. Marxism was the product of a German Jew misunderstanding the French Revolution (Peasant Revolt). The French, like the US, have continued to revolt. Including in 1968 against DeGaulle and now with the Yellow Vests, hmm about 50 years. Unless people start living for 100s of years, I see generation replacement as a permanent stop to ideas of cultural apotheosis.
If we did live that long, society would be "of the nursing home, for the nursing home, in the nursing home". Each generation starts over, and having learned of and rejected their parent's/grandparent's they screw everything up. My daughter follows the pattern as I did in my time. Civilization is torn down by one generation, then we spend the next two generations rebuilding it. This may well be healthy. The fall of the Roman Empire was a necessary super cycle, like a major forest fire, to clear out the dead wood. But the forest always grows back, as it should.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 02, 2020, 05:23:03 AM
Because American Republicans, like all right-wing and religious groups and governments in the world are self-entitled and move with the understanding that it is their natural right. That's the fundamental nature of that thought, that frame of mind, it is not corruption when they do it. The very reason they can't administrate a barn full of horse shit.
When you're doing the will of God, it can't be wrong. And that's what they believe: that they're doing the will of God. If they have to lie and cheat, then so be it, as long as abortion can be made illegal again.
Quote from: Blackleaf on October 02, 2020, 12:59:41 PM
When you're doing the will of God, it can't be wrong. And that's what they believe: that they're doing the will of God. If they have to lie and cheat, then so be it, as long as abortion can be made illegal again.
When you are doing the will of Karl Marx theory, winning is inevitable, but only Chinese communists have the Mandate of Heaven.
I don't wish for abortion to be made illegal. I want liberalism to be made illegal. The rest will fall into place.
Quote from: Baruch on October 02, 2020, 11:29:29 AM
@Blackleaf - I miss Shiranu. So you have to be our angry young man ;-)
You think Shiranu is an example of an angry American man?!
Marxist are not scientists. If you mean 'Marxist scientists' that is something else, and in theory it means the movements in resistance of any religion; in short any bullshit that's why you have any kind of modern medicine. Social sciences are not sciences, they're historical disciplines. There is your hint.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 02, 2020, 01:19:48 PM
You think Shiranu is an example of an angry American man?!
Marxist are not scientists. If you mean 'Marxist scientists' that is something else, and in theory it means the movements in resistance of any religion; in short any bullshit that's why you have any kind of modern medicine. Social sciences are not sciences, they're historical disciplines. There is your hint.
Marxism was billed as a science, for over 100 years. If neo-Marxism isn't even a science, it is just BS. Fabian Socialism is so gradual, it isn't worth bothering with. If you want change, kill some millions or even some billions, and you can have your free lunch utopia (based on fake physics).
Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFeXJkcKYaU
Also, if you like philosophy, I highly recommend subscribing to this guy.
Quote from: SGOS on September 23, 2020, 09:35:09 AM
I see us on a brink and I think collapse is imminent. This is not about voting Democrat or Republican. Those are not solutions. Maybe the problem is the Constitution, or maybe it's people. The system is fucked, and it's not healthy to hide from that.
The system is royally screwed. It's been on a downward spiral since the 80's. I don't know if collapse is imminent or not. Methinks Civil War is more imminent than collapse. And we must be ready. Not just ready to start loading guns, but to know what exactly we will be fighting for. The people (defined by the English language as the working class) against the wealthy and their lackeys.
The Constitution does have many flaws in it; as has been discovered by Trump, and republicans; it does need to be changed. Since this is the 21st year of me studying the Constitution, I started entertaining myself a couple months ago by rewriting the Constitution without the flaws thats the parasites have been taking advantage of. Nothing like a raging bull (Orange Chumpanzee) to show you where the fence is weak.
Liberal vs Conservative string got moved to the Enter The Darkness area. Aww. Just listen to your Radio Free Pravda while you still can ;-)
So just political science on this thread ...
"Nearly 50,000 Voters Receive Wrong Ballots In Ohio" ... oops, shambolic again
"Death To Free Speech In The Netherlands - Again" ... EU does what EU is
Tory dictatorship for UK, Dem dictatorship for the US. This is the new normal.
Re: The Frailty of Democracy
The most important characteristic of a democracy is the ability to delete a bad government. This is the price we pay for having a mediocre government most of the time. Each individual in a democracy will rarely get what they want. Tough shit, the alternatives suck more. Perhaps a true multiparty democracy would help bridge the valley between extremes, but I don't know how to get there.
Quote from: Cassia on October 11, 2020, 07:17:43 AM
Re: The Frailty of Democracy
The most important characteristic of a democracy is the ability to delete a bad government. This is the price we pay for having a mediocre government most of the time. Each individual in a democracy will rarely get what they want. Tough shit, the alternatives suck more. Perhaps a true multiparty democracy would help bridge the valley between extremes, but I don't know how to get there.
Military coup? As in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a bloodless coup led by traitors Benjamin Franklin (noted serial killer and traitor) and George Washington (noted whisky brewer and traitor)?
The current Constitution was designed for ... #1 avoid British Parliament foolishness (as revealed by the American Revolution), #2 avoid Italian Parliament foolishness (as revealed after WWII). The US was designed to be a 4 million people mostly agricultural country, with propertied White men running everything (because those were the only people who had a college education in law (not ministry or medicine)). Gentlemen like Jefferson.
True democracy was also stopped by that Constitution, because ... #3 avoid Athenian assembly foolishness (as revealed by ancient history). Government isn't Walmart, where you go to shop, find some government program you like, and charge it.
This is why some people are ethno-nats. Everyone should be the same race, same language, same social class .. to make up a polity. Bantustans like in Boer S Africa. Then democracy won't result in chaos, because natural group think. I think ethno-nats are pessimists. What is needed is dictatorship, not democracy. Bang heads together and shoot the outliers.
LOL. I'll go with the market sentiment. We have a priced-in Biden win and at least a generous Q1 fiscal stimulus money printing package (some disappointment and volitivity still possible because it's way late). A extraordinarily poor executive branch will be replaced. Trump and his fake Christian side-kick will go down as shit-stains in the history books.
Quote from: Cassia on October 11, 2020, 10:47:32 AM
LOL. I'll go with the market sentiment. We have a priced-in Biden win and at least a generous Q1 fiscal stimulus money printing package (some disappointment and volitivity still possible because it's way late). A extraordinarily poor executive branch will be replaced. Trump and his fake Christian side-kick will go down as shit-stains in the history books.
Maybe. Predictors end up eating glass shards from their broken crystal balls ;-( I hear in GB you can bet on anything. Can you actually bet on the Presidential race in Las Vegas?
"Pelosi’s 25th Amendment Panel moves U.S. one step closer to Politburo Communism" ... utopia soon, everyone in US to become Black gang banger. Wakanda!
"Where's the companion bill that protects the American people from 80 year old, criminally insane and delusional Speakers of the House?" .. rule of law and Constitution are dead. One Mafia gang against another Mafia gang. Not politics.
"ANTIFA RIOTERS AMBUSHED AND MASS ARRESTED AFTER BLM RATTED THEM OUT FOR BEING WHITE AND USING BLM" .. civil war within Democrat Blackshirts? Or are there moles in their ranks?
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.†- George Orwell
Some Dems calling for the de-Nazification of the US. How about lets kill all the communist traitors first?
“In the first of what will no doubt be a series of blockbuster voting rights rulings or opinions in this 2020 electoral season, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling to count mail-in ballots received within three days of November 3rd’s Election Day, even if they lack a legible postmark.†- a 4-4 ruling but not a bad decision anyway, Roberts again was the swing vote
"DoJ Finally Files Sweeping Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google" .. shadow boxing with the CIA
"Google Whistleblower Tells Veritas Search Engine Is "Skewing Results" To Benefit Democrats" ... soon to be Arkancided
"Crime Pays: Goldman Strikes $2BN Deal With DoJ To Avoid All Charges Tied To 1MDB" .. 1MDB was a giant financial scandal with Malaysia. Goldman will take their cost off of their taxes as a cost of business.
"UK Officer In Charge Of Submarine's Nukes Boarded "Staggering Drunk" While Clutching BBQ Chicken" ... not enough rum rations?
""New government of Sudan, which is making great progress, agreed to pay $335 MILLION to U.S. terror victims and families."" ... so much more successful than the State Department under Hillary
QuoteLOL. I'll go with the market sentiment. We have a priced-in Biden win and at least a generous Q1 fiscal stimulus money printing package (some disappointment and volitivity still possible because it's way late). A extraordinarily poor executive branch will be replaced. Trump and his fake Christian side-kick will go down as shit-stains in the history books.
The idea of a foreign force invading the US was shocking on 9-11, but I always knew it could and probably would happen at some time (put enough monkeys in a room with typewriters, and eventually...), you know how that goes.
Most of the US became hysterical after 9-11, leading to the invasion of a country that had nothing to do with it. I remember Bush saying, "They wanted to take away our freedoms." I don't know if that was their agenda. It may have been part of a bigger agenda, but the US was clearly a target. We haven't heard much from those guys since that attack. There have been a few bumbled bombings that made big headlines, but were of little consequence to the nation as a whole. Now that specific threat is a greatly diminished. But the fall of democracy is much farther along today, and our biggest threat comes from within. Our leaders appear to be loving it. It's been the fodder of their campaigns as they wring their hands and point fingers at our own people, while doing little that would help anyone but the very rich.
We have become distracted. Instead of becoming "great again" if we ever were to begin with, we have become petty, mean and ugly. We would hurt our fellow countrymen, rather than help them. We have done a lot of stupid things in the past, but I can't remember a time in my life where Washington, DC has been this dysfunctional.
I'm not betting on a Biden win. We are operating under new rules for democracy, and if Biden does win, I don't expect much. He may or may not make things worse, but I don't expect him to make things better. Democrats will be happy, and Republicans will be sad, but no one is likely to be better off when it's all said and done.
Where's that candidate that wanted to give everyone $1000 a month? I'm ready for a buy out. I'll cash it in and go on one last bender before the sun sets. And Washington can go ahead and do whatever it wants.
Yang yourself on Zoom and people will know ;-)
"CNN ANALYST SUSPENDED FROM MAGAZINE JOB FOR WHIPPING OUT HIS DONG ON ZOOM CALL" ... my grand-dad's business parter did the first porn broadcast on Earth. Dr Baker, a real nut job.
"University Of Chicago Faculty Demands Reparations" ... send the grad students home (they don't do undergrad there), then burn the faculty along with the buildings.
"an elite based in certain blue states disdains ordinary Americans" .. don't stop with the professors, burn the Elite in general
"San Diego School District Announces It Will Eliminate Grading Standards To "Combat Racism"" ... register your kids in Spanish, they never have to go to class, they all get As.
"LIBERALS JUMPING SHIP AND VOTING TRUMP AS DEMOCRATS GO INSANE, LEFTISTS CALL TO ABOLISH CONSTITUTI.." ... that pesky Bill of Rights, like freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom to arms. freedom of speech ... very annoying to the new Dictatorship.
"Facebook Whistleblower Exposes "Hate-Speech Engineering" Group, Staffed With Chinese Nationals; NYPost" ... a version of shadow banning ... you are all Chinese slaves now, get back to work at Foxconn.
“Good times make men weakâ€
"Weak men create hard times"
"Hard times make men strong"
“Strong men create good times"
"Scott Baio slams 'Happy Days' reunion supporting Democrats, brands John Stamos a 'Marxist'" ... burn down Hollywood
"“Never let a good crisis go to waste.†Those were the words of Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, a book in which he describes Lucifer as the “very first radical.â€" ... any Satanists in the house?
"Economy-Crushing COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed To 100,000 US Deaths, New CDC Guidance Suggests" ... vs 200,000 over-count of Covid deaths, which are maybe only 20,000
"California City Begins Handing Out Free Cash To "Address Inequalities For Black People"" ... literally "straight out of Compton" ... where i took swimming lessons at the public pool circa 1967. This is mostly a Black suburb of LA, so who are they going to get the money from? Rooftop Koreans or non-English speaking Mexican immigrants?
'In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' - George Orwell
"Don't Vote For A Psychopath: Tyranny At The Hands Of A Psychopathic Government" ... psychopaths all the way down
Bret Weinstein, famous liberal professor, once oppressed at Evergreen State College, now banned from Facebook, because of the snowflakes.
"We are governed now in private, by entities that make their own rules and are answerable to no process. Disaster is inevitable. We are living it." - Bret Weinstein
Facebook claims it was a mistake, a flagging of a false account, and they have fixed the problem.
"YouTube Is Selling So Many Political Ads It Has Run Out Of Videos To Place Them On" ... why we have contentious elections, to make money for YouTube which makes money for Google which makes Dark Money for the CIA
"Americans Are Panic-Buying Military & Survivalist Gear Two Weeks Before Election" ... the Dem Black Shirts are coming ... (and they don't have condoms this time)
"No Signature Match? No Postmark? No Problemo! This Week In Ballot Shenanigans!" ... both parties want to rig elections in their own favor. Their policy statements are malarky. So ... looks like we can blame the irish, not the Russians.
"Top 10% Of Twitter Users Create 92% Of Tweets In US - And 69% Of Them Lean Left" .. roughly similar to here ;-)
"The Silent Majority did not suddenly go quiet. They were censored." - William F. Buckley Jr.
"THE GREAT RESET IS REAL, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM CALLS FOR GLOBAL RESET AND LEFTIST VALUES AFTER COVI.." ... Menshevik/Trotsky communism is utopia ... utopia ... not.
"Philadelphia Overrun By Rioting, Looting After Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Black Man" ... would they riot if a White man was shot?
"Most political philosophy is just an elaborate justification for theft and fraud..." ... true, that is what the intelligencia does for a living
"Student Newspaper Condemns Harvard Republicans For Endorsing Trump" ... aka The Citadel (old ante-bellum college) condemns students endorsing Lincoln
"Ten years after Assange’s brave act of journalism changed the world and exposed one of the crimes of the century, he sits alone in solitary confinement in a UK prison..." ... what governments do
""Can I Change My Vote": Voter's Remorse Sets In As Searches For Do-Over Spike" ... no, you did your civic duty, now let it go.
“Hillary Clinton is sick to her stomach for purging the government of traitors, incompetent bureaucrats, and establishment cronies?†... spoils system should be resumed every 4 years, end perpetual government employment
"Rep. Ilhan Omar Expects Biden To Pack Cabinet With 'Progressive Democrats'" ... no, with Somali Salafists married to their sibling
"WaPo Owner & World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Reportedly In Talks To Buy CNN" ... Monopoly man
"Sorority Apologizes For Congratulating Amy Coney Barrett" ... burn all the sororities
"In America, anyone can become President. That’s the Problem.â€" .. should have remained a crown colony ;-)
Quote from recent history of ancient Egypt ... "To be a member of the common people meant a life of subjugation, to be a member of the king's inner circle meant a life of fear" ... I see things haven't changed.
"CNN's "Not Even Pretending Anymore"" .. doesn't impact me. They could self identify as DNC or CCP. Haven't relied on cable TV news for 15 years.
““Shadow lobbyists†run rampant in the Swamp†… including elected officials and their family members
"'You're Gonna Bury All Of Us': Whistleblower Describes Brazen Biden-China Dealings In Explosive Interview With Tucker Carlson" ... no, the CIA ordered the Clintons, Bidens and Obamas to do what they did, or else
"Bobulinski says that "Joe Biden and his family is compromised," after describing dealings that included purchasing a portion of a Russian state-owned energy company." ... Bidens did nothing wrong, OMB
"I remember looking at Jim Biden in saying how are you guys getting away with this? Like, aren't you concerned? And he looked at me and he laughed a little bit and said. 'plausible deniability.'" .. with MSM it is complete deniability, MSM ordered by CIA, or be "Seth Rich'ed" ...
"In reality, Hunter Biden personally represented a top communist Chinese official in China’s purchase of a 14% stake in Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned energy company, per a Biden family whistleblower." ... every pol does this, every bit of the US is for sale to the highest bidder, if your property, business, and person is sold out, it is your fault you are too poor to compete with Chinese bidders. The US is the most communist nation, Russia and China are the most capitalist.
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"If the CIA told us anything about all the nefarious plots out there against the US, they’d have to kill us..." ... why they have unique plausible deniability
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.†- Lenin
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"National Guard Responds As 1000s Of Looters Ransack Philly In 2nd Night Of Chaos; Reporter Brutalized By "BLM Rioters"" .. they are all KKK in disguise, all Democrats are law abiding and pacifist tree huggers
""We're Going To Make Sure Trump Leaves": Leftists Plan To Storm DC After Election" ... still looking forward to the Death Ray deployment. Use it on Congress too ;-)
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"A Republican operative has been exposed by James O'keefe and project Veritas harvesting ballots, changing senior citizens votes, and offering gifts." ... ward healing 1960 Chicago style, but today
"DC'S K STREET & WHY THE ELECTION CHANGES NOTHING bevis and butthead" ... ALEC writes all our laws
"Van Full Of Explosives Discovered In Philly On Third Night Of Rioting" ... COINTELPRO? Or Soros?
"But what if normal Americans do not want to be lectured to? Perhaps real populism in America is simply letting people raise a family and grill in peace?" ... I want the PDS (Politics Derangement Syndrome) people exiled to Somalia
"Hunter Biden Documents Mysteriously Vanish From Overnight Envelope, Tucker Carlson Says" ... surprised Pikachu face!
“Many people are pushing a different vision that is grounded in hierarchies based on collective social and political identities rather than in the inherent and equal dignity of every person as an individual.†... otherwise we get tribal warfare
"...the Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to 9 days after Election Day..." ... ok, so just go to sleep for 10 days after the election ...
"TWITTER SUSPENDS CBP COMMISSIONER FOR SAYING THE BORDER WALL WORKED, STOPPING CRIMINALS" ... now to keep the Dems out ;-)
"JOURNALIST FURIOUS THAT FEDS ANNOUNCE ARRESTS OF BLM RIOTERS BECAUSE ITS HELPING TRUMP WIN ELECTIO.." .. salty tears
"FAMOUS JOURNALIST RESIGNS AFTER OUTLET CENSORS BIDEN SCANDAL, SLAMS THE LEFTIST CENSORSHIP IN NEWS" ... Greenwald is one of the few actual journalists, not DNC hacks
"Biden Campaign Accuses Facebook Of Favoring Trump After 'Glitch' Takes Down 1000s Of Ads" ... COINTELPRO. Dems had them taken down so they could provide cover for the Communist News Network and Socialist Networking ... blame Trump and Putin
"CNN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS "ADDICTS" AND CULTISTS, LEFTISTS CALL FOR "TRUTH" COMMISSIONS AFTER TRU.." .. says all the drugie sex-addled Californicators ;-)
"The Democrat party is full of corrupt grifters and the Republican party is full of Democrats" ... just like Labour vs Tories in GB
"Keep in mind that John Kerry's kid, Pelosi's kid, Romney's kid and Bidens kid ALL had positions on Ukrainian gas boards as well! They should ALL be behind bars!" .. not just the whole damn Biden family. Don't forget Chelsea being part of the Clinton Foundation, and Adam Schiff's daughter being married to Soros' son. Spawn of Satan tend to be little demons.
"Why Propaganda Is Vital In Upholding The Illusion Of A Democracy" ... "Democracy only exists if it is upheld, and if a citizenry fails to do so, it renders itself defenseless to an ever-creeping tyranny" .. the Elite never sleep
"Globalists are about Rulers and Serfs, deep personal debt enslavement, and endless wars to enrich themselves." ... aka Trots
"President Harry S Truman: “No man can get rich in politics unless he’s a crook.â€" .. last good Democrat. Carter was moral, but incompetent.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
"The state will wither away" - Karl Marx
"In 1969, Hillary Clinton wrote "'There Is Only the Fight ...': An Analysis of the Alinsky Model," a 92-page senior thesis at Wellesley College on the elder radical's tactics." ... Obama is a follower of Alinsky
"New research shows once again that it’s large firms and the 1%â€"not the “median voterâ€â€"who drive U.S. policy." ... always the Establishment
"War Does Not Determine Who Is Right, Only Who Is Left" â€" Bertrand Russell
"In Philly, 13 precincts voted 100% turnout and 99% Obama in 2012" .. normal politics in the US, but worse because until the year, the Dems weren't pro-criminal and pro-treason
Ambrose Bierce: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography." ... civil war is God's way of teaching American geography ;-)
"WE SO EASILY FORGET. ONCE THE CRY OF SO-CALLED PROSPERITY IS HEARD IN THE LAND, WE BECOME SO STAMPEDED BY THE SPIRIT OF MAMMON, THAT WE CANNOT SERVE THE DICTATES OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE NOTICE THAT THE ECONOMIC ORDER IS THE INVENTION OF MAN; AND THAT IT CANNOT DOMINATE CERTAIN ETERNAL PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE AND OF GOD. THE TEST OF OUR PROGRESS IS NOT WHETHER WE ADD MORE TO THE ABUNDANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE MUCH; IT IS WHETHER WE PROVIDE ENOUGH FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TOO LITTLE." - FDR
Mixed economy, not communism, not free drug culture.
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab quote .. "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, re-imagine, & re-set our World" !! ... hope the useful idiots enjoy their slavery. It gets hot out in the cotton fields and the whip of the taskmaster stings!
We should carry this to this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w&feature=youtu.be
What if a Presidential candidate conspired multiple times with foreign powers, prior to the campaign and during the campaign? What happens if a candidate is a war monger? What if a candidate is a senile criminal? These questions I have no answer for. Monkeys have to monkey. But no monkey should run for office or vote. We need a dictator monkey, we need Stalin.
Quote from: fencerider on October 07, 2020, 09:39:54 PM
The system is royally screwed. It's been on a downward spiral since the 80's. I don't know if collapse is imminent or not. Methinks Civil War is more imminent than collapse. And we must be ready. Not just ready to start loading guns, but to know what exactly we will be fighting for. The people (defined by the English language as the working class) against the wealthy and their lackeys.
The Constitution does have many flaws in it; as has been discovered by Trump, and republicans; it does need to be changed. Since this is the 21st year of me studying the Constitution, I started entertaining myself a couple months ago by rewriting the Constitution without the flaws thats the parasites have been taking advantage of. Nothing like a raging bull (Orange Chumpanzee) to show you where the fence is weak.
I'm curious to see your revisions. I was a PoliSci major, and did several courses on the Constitution (I thought I wanted to be a lawyer for a while, then I decided to remain human).
You were wise to avoid mutating into a lawyer-thing ;-)
There is no science to politics, just criminal science .. snare drum!
"It is one thing to know your opponents have no soul. It is quite another to watch in real time their depravity play out with gleeful disdain..." ... this applies to both parties. Hail meth pipes and little girls ;-)
"REASONING IS NO USE; FACTS THAT CONTRADICT PERSONAL PREJUDICES CAN SIMPLY BE DISBELIEVED â€" INDEED, THE FOOL CAN COUNTER BY CRITICIZING THEM, AND IF THEY ARE UNDENIABLE, THEY CAN BE JUST PUSHED ASIDE AS TRIVIAL EXCEPTIONS. WE SHALL NEVER AGAIN TRY TO CONVINCE A FOOL BY REASON, FOR IT IS BOTH USELESS AND DANGEROUS." DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ... I think if Bonhoeffer was in the US now, AOC would purge him.
"Record $1 billion worth of bitcoin linked to the Silk Road seized by U.S. government" ... the new free economy, to pay for illegal drugs and porn. Bitcoin etc were invented by governments, to act as honey traps for dumb crooks.
"As Delingpole explains in his column, “The Great Reset†merely represents a re-packaging of the old globalist agenda which has been stuttering over the last decade.
Namely, technocratic dictatorial rule by a tiny elite, the “green new deal,†the gradual abolition of private property, a guaranteed minimum wage that will see jobs replaced by robots, a crackdown on personal liberties and curtailing freedom of movement.
As we previously highlighted, the idea that the world will never return to normal post-COVID is being pushed by the establishment across the board.
A senior U.S. Army official said that mask wearing and social distancing will become permanent, while CNN’s international security editor Nick Paton Walsh asserted that the mandatory wearing of masks will become “permanent,†“just part of life,†and that the public would need to “come to terms with it.â€"
The only purpose of most people's lives is to provide slaves for the owners. Unchanged since First Dynasty Egypt. All Hail, the millennials Sino-Germanic Reich!
Democracy = you are free to agree to become a slave, but not free to not agree
"politics is war without bloodshed, war is politics with bloodshed" - Chairman Mao
"When Does A "Glitch" Become A Coup? It's Time to Regulate America's Fly-by-Night Voting Machine Monopoly" ... 3 unregulated companies control the whole politics of the US
But there was a Democrat Congressional investigation in 2019 which concluded ...“These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack.†... meanwhile DHS says there were no glitches, hacking or bad ballots (bureaucrats are so predictable).
"The Great Reset is 'crazy, kooky stuff' which aims for 'no private property by 2030'" ... aka Green New Deal/Revolution .. how is this not Trotsky-ism?
If you offer the voters free money, so they don't have to work for a living, then they will vote for you. And if they take enough of that free money, they won't show up for work. Because communism means that machines will magically make it possible for everyone to be work free.
"Central bankers, government officials and media collaborate to create data and policy to generate a pre-determined outcome for their benefit. They are in the ‘reality creation’ business..." ... voters are incapable of dealing with political-economics at any level.
"Weapons Of Mass Deception .. How politicians & marketers are hacking our psychological vulnerabilities..." ... calling Dr Freud's nephew and Goebbels ...
We don't need European politics, we need American (Western) politics. In Tombstone, the outlaws and the cooperating county sheriff were Democrats, the Earps were hired as city policemen, by Republicans ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MICPyrnGYwg
""What's really turned especially the Europeans, but also many of the Asians, is the fact that their personal private data is going to be owned 100 percent by the Chinese Communist Party," Robert O'Brien said." ... people worldwide will prostitute themselves for free Chinese drugs
"The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense" - Tom Clancy
"Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven" ... Paradise Lost
India journalism open when US journalism is closed .... regarding vote rigging by tabulating machines ... as previously approved for use by CIA/MI6 in foreign countries ...
https://greatgameindia.com/dominion-voting-systems-rigged-us-elections/
That puts the NM mail in ballots in question, since Dominion also controls those ;-( ... and I don't see the need for the ultimate tabulation to be done by a bankrupt company in Spain ...
https://greatgameindia.com/us-election-bankrupted-spanish-scytl/
Elections should have proper paper ballots, votes counted by local officials. by hand. Only if you are properly locally registered, and have local photo ID.
"Twitter Hires One Of The World's Most Respected Hackers As Its Head Of Security" ... this pattern has been problematic for years ... how can computer illiterate execs trust these people? Like putting a bank robber in charge of your bank ;-))
"The company that bought Dominion Voting Systems a few years ago has deleted their site" ... finding a rock to hide under, like the LinkedIn profiles of Dominion employees.
"European Leader Predicts COVID Hell Will Trigger Monumental "Populist Backlash" ... "warns that globalist integration is the only way to combat people rising up..." ... PM of Finland. Yes, time for the guillotines all over Europe, maybe even Britain. The EU couldn't put down a peasant revolt, they will need the Chinese Army to help them out.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on November 07, 2020, 11:59:03 AM
We should carry this to this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w&feature=youtu.be
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
What if Biden and Trump (aka controlled opposition) are implementing Skynet for Davos and CCP? You scifi folks love a hot dystopia, am'I right?
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.†- St. Anthony the Great
Human beings in general are politically insane. This is why human beings should not be employed or allowed to vote.
Only highly trained Marxists can be employed or allowed to vote (see Lenin).
"SCOTUS Strikes Down Cuomo's Draconian Restrictions On Religious Services In New York"
“It is time â€" past time â€" to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques,†Gorsuch argued.
You can use abortion as a general birth control method, but you can't use Covid as a general religion control method ;-) Time to celebrate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SPXDAX4Ci8
Mafia Don: "Cuomo Calls Supreme Court Ruling On Churches 'Irrelevant'"
Jewish Don: Hold my chametz
Rules for rulers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Good political science ... consistent with Machiavelli ...
Middling dictatorships aka oligarchies use ... the people to coup the old ruler. It is easier to overthrow a democracy if you have declining standards of living. We saw this in the US in 2020. The Elites have watched this video and understand it.
Question if ... Cuomo locked down synagogues and churches, did he lock down mosques? No, the Shiites in NY/NJ have an annual religious memorial, which still happened under Covid, with no masks or masks down. Is DeBlazio an Iran supporter?
"News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.†- William Randolph Hearst
"Florida woman used fake dating profile to advertise 'free meth' at rival's home" .. list under "Why I Don't Support Feminism"
"Crime once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity" - Tacitus ... so now the R-Mafia is exposed, how desperate are they? D-Mafia, hold my ballots!
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - by Oliver Sacks ... case studies of insanity. Why should anyone allow nut cases vote or run for office?
"Regime change & color revolutions." ... speciality of Obama and Biden, brought to the US for the holidays ;-)
"UN Dubs Self 'Trusted' Pandemic News Source, Teams Up With World Economic Forum To Encourage 'New Social Norms'" ... the UN is run by China, the EU, Russia and Iran. The Congress of 1920 was right to keep us out of the League of Nations. To bad they weren't smart enough to keep us out of WW I and WW II ... two times of many that Europe tried to commit genocide against itself.
Snowflakes don't like Jordan Peterson's new book ...
“Jordan Peterson radicalized my fatherâ€
Translation: “My dad told me to grow up and get a job.â€
Con artists, technocrats, social engineers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
This was the movement, often confused with Nazis in the 30s and 40s ... but suppressed by Hitler and Stalin ... this is the basis, for the WEF utopian plans. It was founded more or less by three American engineers. This has evolved into Agenda 21 at the UN. This is a non-democratic organization.
Based on utopian socialism of Edward Bellamy and Veblen’s "Soviet of Technicians". They considered Nazis and Stalinists weren't utopian enough. The intent economically was to convert from a cash economy to an energy economy. This was revived after Nixon took the US off the gold standard, and replaced it with the Petro Dollar. At least in terms of oil, we have been under the control of Technocracy Inc from 1974 forward. One of the founders was H King Hubbert (peak oil theory) ... and I actually attended a lecture by him around 1973-74.
The Trilateralists are the new version, President Carter and Jeffrey Epstein were members of the Trilateral Commission (founded by David Rockefeller, Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski). President Carter was big on bringing a new technocracy (including Hubbert) into his administration.
The Great Reset is Fortune 500 runs the world. It is anti-democratic, anti-business. It is global oligarchy. Which was the plan for the 1930s, since clearly capitalism died in 1932. The Green New Deal is Soylent Green aka Comet Pizza. BTW. to is the cult, Christian Science, that doesn't believe that evil exists.
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Topdown political communism vs topdown corporate communism. The technocrats regard politicians as useful executive suite idiots.
Typical Silicon Valley Fascism ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvS2udf4pgI&list=PLcGKfGEEONaB4i7Rl9WgQcS7_WJVCwcsz
Rule by engineers/guilds vs rule by royalty, aristocracy, military or priests.
"When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty." - Gospel of Thomas
"Know yourselves" - Delphic Oracle
"If you tell a lie, and keep telling it, people will believe it" - Adolph Hitler (and every salesman ever)
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"US Billionaires Have Gained $1 Trillion Since The Pandemic Started" ... why a pandemic? Why the government reaction? Qui bono suckers!
"America's New Normal - Silent, Obedient Consent" ... fluoridated water
"The fundamental problems are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around; declining living standards among the general population; and a government that can’t cover its financial positions." ... same as every failed regime since the Egyptian Old Kingdom.
"Covid Lockdowns In NYC Have LARGELY Affected Jewish Neighborhoods" ... multiple red zones in NYC, but only Jewish neighborhoods shut down. Circumcise DeBlasio and Cuomo at neck level!
How can Giuliani fight Mafia, when DNC/RNC are the biggest Mafia of all?
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Report from 1956 on Chinese/NorK methods ... just like Covid suppression ...
https://i.redd.it/eab2e9nc30z51.jpg
US military bombing concentrations of enemies in Vietnam in 1965 (aka Dems/Repubs in 2020, all of whom are highly trained Marxists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyDW6UHPJx4
"Today, the objective of the media is not to offer news. It is to create strife... to pit one half of the electorate against the other. In doing so, the ruling elite have the justification to lock down the entire USA under martial law..." ... "...leadership’s “plan†is benign neglect: just send a monthly stipend of bread and circuses to all the disempowered, decapitalized households so they can stay out of trouble and not bother the elites’ continued pillaging." .. how do you like your fake democracy now?
Deep State psyops at the behest of the "owners" are fake governments with fake policies by fake politicians elected in fake elections.
"LIFE SEPARATES, DEATH UNITES" ... this is why capitalism is better than communism, unless you are pro-death like me.
"Throw the soy lattes in the harbor, boys!" ... 1773 in 2020 ... the liberals are the royalists now. Post Obama, they are the status quo.
The US has been a banana republic for most of my lifetime. Invest in bananas while you still can ;-)
"American Oligarchy: Top Spenders Won Nearly 90% Of 2020 Races" ... nothing new here
"Ivy League Librarians Demand A "World Without Policing"" ... "The group demanded that schools "explicitly name policing as the problem" while calling for the "complete abolition" of law enforcement..." .. librarians into burn, loot, murder? Who knew?
"When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil." - Thomas Jefferson
"gonzo - relating to or denoting journalism of an exaggerated, subjective, and fictionalized style." ... invented by Hunter S Thompson. This is why journalism is shit rather than Walter Cronkite. The MSM went from being a shill for the Establishment, to being part of the Establishment.
"The US Air Force’s Research Lab" ... "has recently signed a contract to test new software of a company called SignalFrame, a Washington DC wireless tech company. The company’s new software is able to access smartphones, and from your phone jump off to access any other wireless or bluetooth device in the near vicinity. To quote from the article today in the Wall St. Journal, the smartphone is used “as a window onto usage of hundreds of millions of computers,s routers, fitness trackers, modern automobiles and other networked devices, known collectively as the ‘Internet of Things’.â€" ... "Your smartphone in effect becomes a government listening device that detects and accesses all nearby wireless or bluetooth devices, or anything that has a MAC address for that matter..." ... don't worry citizen, if you aren't engaged in thought crime, you have nothing to worry about! NSA already listens to your cell phone calls, can listen if you have your cell phone on, even when not making a call ... this basically makes every cell phone into a "hot spot" to connect to all the rest of your electronic slave gear.
"Totalitarians never view themselves as totalitarian. Utopians believe fervently that what they are forcing upon others is for their own good." .. alcoholics don't think they are drunks ... rich people make people poor, for their own good (who is "own"?)
“The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.†â€" Karl Marx ... and Davos today
"You can bring a lefty to knowledge but you can’t make them think" ... BoJack
"Hacker demonstrates how voting machines can be compromised" ... CBS reporting in 2016. Back then, Republicans cheating = bad. Today, Democrats cheating = good. That is how partisanship runs.
"What government wants to do but cannot, it can require corporations to do for it." ... bill of rights doesn't apply to employers ;-)
"Federal agency paid a private company to access "location data mined from applications on millions of Americans' mobile phones."" ... DHS using mobile phone spam to spy on you (download that app now, fool! - Mr T).
"Obedience is not acquiescence. No one really loves Big Brother no matter how much you torture them. The longer you suppress the anger the worse it gets... Until it explodes..." ... there is resistance to the Great Reset in Argentina. Find a billionaire to suck off now, suckers!
You can't have democracy if there are no rules, the rules aren't followed, or the rules allow violence ...
"Portland Police Attacked In Broad Daylight After Antifa Erects New 'Autonomous Zone'" .. Sheriffs work for the Feds, not commie mayors.
"Klaus Schwab and his hench-people want to make the world safe for total totalitarianism..." ... Merkel said today, how Germany isn't as dictatorial as other countries. She has been Chancellor of Germany how many years?
"Melinda Gates Admits "We Hadn't Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts"" ... who made her Empress? She isn't even married to Emperor Xi.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâ€"for ever.†- 1984. 2020 is the new 1984.
"Chinese Money Launderer Called James Biden After FBI Arrest, Was Trying To Reach Hunter" ... Biden Tong/Triad
"Companies Linked To CA Gov Newsom Received Almost $3 Million In PPP Loans" ... best government money can buy
Political hate speech?
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.â€
Earlier this year an 11 year old boy killed himself with a gun while on a school zoom call in Cali. That is the real America.
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"Democrat DEMANDS Investigation Into News Organization That CAUGHT Him Being Compromised By China" .. Rep Eric Swalwell was busy leading the impeachment, while nailing a beautiful Chinese girl spy. I would like her to check out my wontons too! I bet Hunter didn't nail any beautiful Chinese spies when he was in Beijing with his Dad ... his Dad was busy smelling Chinese school girls. No doubt the FBI knew about this, and sat on the evidence as they did in the Hunter Biden scandal.
Is a Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the docket?
UK court with the assistance of a NYC Federal court intervenes ... "Former Bin Laden subordinate released after judge agrees he's too obese to survive coronavirus" ... was convicted of 1998 embassy bombing in E Africa that killed 224 people. Just another freedom fighter, not a terrorist!
"Socialists. "everyone is equal, but we're more equal than you". ;)" ... Animal Farm quoted
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.†- Margaret Thatcher
I want every American to lose all their income and property, so that Make Somalia Great Again.
"GEORGE SOROS LIVID AFTER MERKEL 'CAVES' TO HUNGARY AND POLAND" .. like his idol, Hitler, he needs to coerce Hungary and invade Poland
"NO PRIVACY, NO PROPERTY: THE WORLD IN 2030 ACCORDING TO THE WEF" .. sound wonderful, if you are a German Dalek
"MICROSOFT ASIA'S A.I. 'GIRLFRIEND' HAS A STATE-IMPOSED FILTER TO AVOID SEX & POLITICS" .. when Microsoft chips everyone, I can finally sleep at night, because all Internet posts will be boring. Microsoft's first attempt turned into a teenage girl Nazi.
"THE HOTTEST PLACE IN HELL IS RESERVED FOR THOSE WHO IN TIME OF NATIONAL CRISIS, OPT TO STAY NEUTRAL" .. Dante ... SCOTUS headed for a hot place
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson
"You're not a free citizen but a free range slave slowly being put back in the cage" ... free range slaves are like free range chickens ... and taste about the same ;-)
Just give it a fucking rest, Baruch. Your public mental masturbation does no one any good, least of all yourself.
Quote from: trdsf on December 13, 2020, 06:44:23 PM
Just give it a fucking rest, Baruch. Your public mental masturbation does no one any good, least of all yourself.
Give yourself a rest ;-) Physically, it is nighttime ;-))
"if an entire political faction needed to sacrifice all its principles, all its values and all its morality to get rid of Trump... what exactly was the point of getting rid of Trump?" ... maybe political people have no principles, values or morality?
"The age of Huxley’s Brave New World has degenerated into Orwell’s 1984 and Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago..." ... wish I was in the land of China ...
Precedent for martial law in the US prior to Lincoln ...
http://www.historiaobscura.com/andrew-jacksons-fine-and-the-place-of-martial-law-in-american-politics/
Basically established by precedent, regarding traitors and foreign invasion. This was the basis for Lincoln granting himself emergency powers.
"THIRTY FIVE PERCENT of ALL Us Dollars Were Printed In The Last Ten Months, Here Comes Hyperinflation" ... got Weimar? All this fake money is going to the Chinese stock market, and buying things from China. Adjusted traditional unemployment is over 25% ... was 35% earlier this year. Lockdowns should be permanent? It was for 3 weeks, so they told us ...
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" - Marcus Tullius Cicero
How did things end up for Cicero?
"If the people just accept their place as our slaves, we will make a wonderful world. It definitely won't end in the same way as all other times this has been tried." .. Patrician tyranny, Commoner tyranny ... it all ends badly.
"It wasn't contrived in a dark boardroom at the top of Mt. Doom?" ... the Covid Global Reset? Political/commercial serfdom isn't a new word for democracy.
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.†- Gen William T Sherman ... killing more Democrats every day
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." - George Orwell, "1984"
"CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR FACES REMOVAL FROM OFFICE AS PEOPLE FLEE PROVING DEMOCRATS POLICIES FAILED" ... y'all should have kept Schwarzenegger as governor, and worship Krum.
â€The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can’t read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearnâ€. - Alvin Toffler ... religious dogma and political ideology work against unlearning mistaken beliefs.
I think one of the greatest dangers to democracy is social media, specifically Facebook. Below is a recent article that expressed my concerns:
Facebook is a Doomsday Machine (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/)
... The social web is doing exactly what it was built for. Facebook does not exist to seek truth and report it, or to improve civic health, or to hold the powerful to account, or to represent the interests of its users, though these phenomena may be occasional by-products of its existence. The company’s early mission was to “give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.†Instead, it took the concept of “community†and sapped it of all moral meaning. The rise of QAnon, for example, is one of the social web’s logical conclusions. That’s because Facebookâ€"along with Google and YouTubeâ€"is perfect for amplifying and spreading disinformation at lightning speed to global audiences. Facebook is an agent of government propaganda, targeted harassment, terrorist recruitment, emotional manipulation, and genocideâ€"a world-historic weapon that lives not underground, but in a Disneyland-inspired campus in Menlo Park, California.
The giants of the social webâ€"Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram; Google and its subsidiary YouTube; and, to a lesser extent, Twitterâ€"have achieved success by being dogmatically value-neutral in their pursuit of what I’ll call megascale. Somewhere along the way, Facebook decided that it needed not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size. That decision set Facebook on a path to escape velocity, to a tipping point where it can harm society just by existing. ...
These dangers are not theoretical, and they’re exacerbated by megascale, which makes the platform a tantalizing place to experiment on people. Facebook has conducted social-contagion experiments on its users without telling them. Facebook has acted as a force for digital colonialism, attempting to become the de facto (and only) experience of the internet for people all over the world. Facebook has bragged about its ability to influence the outcome of elections. Unlawful militant groups use Facebook to organize. Government officials use Facebook to mislead their own citizens, and to tamper with elections. Military officials have exploited Facebook’s complacency to carry out genocide. Facebook inadvertently auto-generated jaunty recruitment videos for the Islamic State featuring anti-Semitic messages and burning American flags. ...
The website that’s perhaps best known for encouraging mass violence is the image board 4chanâ€"which was followed by 8chan, which then became 8kun. These boards are infamous for being the sites where multiple mass-shooting suspects have shared manifestos before homicide sprees. The few people who are willing to defend these sites unconditionally do so from a position of free-speech absolutism. That argument is worthy of consideration. But there’s something architectural about the site that merits attention, too: There are no algorithms on 8kun, only a community of users who post what they want. People use 8kun to publish abhorrent ideas, but at least the community isn’t pretending to be something it’s not. The biggest social platforms claim to be similarly neutral and proâ€"free speech when in fact no two people see the same feed. Algorithmically tweaked environments feed on user data and manipulate user experience, and not ultimately for the purpose of serving the user. Evidence of real-world violence can be easily traced back to both Facebook and 8kun. But 8kun doesn’t manipulate its users or the informational environment they’re in. Both sites are harmful. But Facebook might actually be worse for humanity. ...
Yes, Facebook is an evil Capitalist conspiracy, and we must destroy Capitalism ;-) To accomplish utopia we need mass violence.
Facebook is a tool of the CIA, same as Google/Youtube and Wikipedia. but then you and I are entirely in favor of every nefarious scheme of the Deep State, are we not? including the fact that democracy is fake?
Yes, if only we remove all public access to public produced media (rather than elite produced, like the people who cheered the Vietnam War). We only need 3 TV stations, and shoot that traitor, Walter Cronkite!
"WE NEED EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND INEQUALITY OF OUTCOME" ... yes, only communist party members benefit in the ideal society ;-)
“When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity†... so atheists have to be communists ;-)
"Dems are for war and the Liberals are for fascism" ... not a good look (what if Jefferson Davis and John Brown made a baby together?)
Joe Biden warns the US about election fraud by voting machine in 2007, the current Joe Biden is a body double?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcN7A2WHr0k
"Rich Millennials Plot The End Of Civilization" ... "Modern civilization will not perish unless it does so by its own act of self-destruction..." ... this is why the Royal Navy was good at getting rid of annoying young people, by giving them an involuntary service career.
"Maoist Mitch and Beijing Biden can't wait to work together again" .. McConnell's wife is a daughter of a major Red Chinese shipping company.
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“Everything the State says is a lie and everything it has, it has stolen.†- Nietzsche
"To keep track of our brave new American world is easy... Just consider everything said to be bad by the "Animal Farm" media before Nov. 3 as now good. And remember that everything said to be good two months ago is now actually bad..." ... Edward Bernays, Joseph Goebbels etc.
"By using testing as a form of mass-surveillance we have set ourselves up for a never-ending cycle of lockdowns..." ... yep. Every new strain every few months will lead to new lockdowns and new releases of revised vaccine. A perfect scheme of medical totalitarianism.
"Let’s dispense with the obscenity that expressed intentions excuse all crimes and consequences..." ... bend over and love your slavery
"We think we're powerless because we don't have wealth and power over others, but nothing could be further from the truth..." .. that is what the Elite think, I don't think the poor have this unhappy fantasy
"This is classic CIA-level misdirection from what was more likely a Chinese or, dare I say it, homegrown operation for the very purpose of blaming the Russians to tamp down the anger and confuse the MAGA crowd..." ... more COINTELPRO from the usual US suspects, in the latest cyber-crime.
""Immediate Gratification" - Bias Is Real!" ... "A human’s rationality is bounded. Cognitive abilities are limited and emotional biases, plentiful. As a result, few recognize their deficiencies and depend on mental shortcuts to rise above information overload..." ... sheeple gotta sheep
"This has been a year of astonishing policy failure. We are surrounded by devastation conceived and cheered by intellectuals and their political handmaidens..." ... incompetence vs malice, you and Napoleon decide.
"Yes, we must embrace CNN and the "official narrative." ... "Because the "Conspiracy Theory Accusation" and the "Controlled Opposition Accusation" are always true." ... "No one ever lies... ever... nothing is fake." ... clown world
"They pay lip service to lofty ideas like liberty, responsibility, and equality but they genuinely believe that they are more equal than the rest of us. Their great-souledness and high social position shield them, for example, from the presumption that lying is wrong..." .. every loser ever.
“No public interest is served by maintaining an unconstitutional policy when constitutional alternatives are available to achieve the same goal..." both R and D understand that the ends justify the means, the Constitution is toilet paper.
"All Major Western Media Outlets Take "Private Dinners", "Sponsored Trips" From Chinese Communist Propaganda Front" ... MSM are traitors
"Unable to stand up to a China in which they invested so many hopes, the American establishment turns to Russia - a nation with one-tenth China’s population and one-tenth of its economy, and no army or navy to match Beijing’s - as its adversary of choice..." ... LARPing elite love Russia too, they just can't do it publicly.
"Chinese Submarine Drone Discovered Near Gateway To Indian Ocean" ... helping the Chinese military to develop was such a good idea
"In Soviet America, people WITHOUT mask are suspicious." ... everything in communist POV is upside down
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"The Great Reset/Davos crowd wants to transform our world into a green utopia, ruled by those who fervently believe they are more intelligent than those they rule, because they equate ill-gotten wealth with intellectual superiority..." ... utopia for them, hell for you
"Negative bond yields were once considered to be “economic lunacy.†Now they are economic normalcy..." .. this is called deflation. And partly driven by inflated stock prices ... when stocks go up, money moves out of bonds.
Corrupt the money, corrupt the people ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjrvsTf6ew
The original "bit" coin. To test its purity.
Paper money is based on the tyranny and dishonesty of government. In colonial Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin usually had the contract to print Pennsylvania colony paper money. The colonial administration spent the paper money for its own expenses, forcing people to accept it. Then the colonial administration required property taxes, and required tax payers to pay their tax in these same colonial notes. Thus forcing taxes and forcing circulation of the money that the colonial administration had brought into existence out of nothing. In the life of his contract, Benjamin Franklin printed over $350 million worth of notes, in today's money. And his fee was to take a small cut of this counterfeiting, an accessory to a crime.
"Imagine spending three years building a narrative around Russian collusion to the point where nothing else in the media gets any attention in order to impeach the Dark Lord of Orangeness and no one even remembers it a year later." ... the Boomers of 1965-75 were total losers ... the Millennials of 2015-2025 are total losers.
"Are the general public being kept prisoners in their own homes whilst the moneyed elite are off having holidays via their private jets?" ... intelligencia with books in the background, never read except Karl Marx. Politicians with books in the background, never read because they are illiterate. Pol Pot approves of today's world.
"How To Triumph In 2021 Or Die Trying" ... "...the goal of hard work and paying one’s way in life has been reduced to a game for suckers. Stealth taxation through currency debasement has turned workers into chumps. Small business owners who believe in doing things themselves have been made out for fools..." ... abuse more drugs, engage in more unprotected group sex, join the extinct species.
"UK Judge Rules Julian Assange Can't Be Extradited To US" .. but kept forever by MI6. Will he get Novachok from Putin (actually Doris)?
""The White House" - Homeless Woman Shows Off Skid Row Mansion " ... woman in LA, proof the US has no poverty, just people who choose to live on the streets because it is healthy ;-)
"DEMOCRATS NOW OPENLY FOMENTING DUMPING BEIJING BIDEN FOR HARPY HARRIS" .. I love Kamala's new name!!
Morning fellow slaves, how is Uncle Tom doing today?
"Since the world’s first CCTV camera was installed in Germany in 1942, the number of surveillance cameras around the world has grown immensely. In fact, it only took us 79 years to go from one camera to nearly one billion of these devices." ... so not just the VW Bug is Nazi ;-) Who has the most CCTV per capita? "The United States has 15.28 CCTV cameras every 100 individuals, followed by China with 14.36 and the United Kingdom with 7.5. Other top 10 countries include Germany with 6.27 cameras per 100 individuals, Netherlands 5.8, Australia 4, Japan 2.72, France 2.46 and South Korea 1.99." ... South Korea among advanced countries, is the least evil.
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"Did Kamala Harris Plagiarize Martin Luther King Jr.?" ... don't know, but the non-African-American, non-Republican, non-pistol toting, non-Christian sacks of shit, don't carry Martin's torch.
"In truth, elected leaders do not seek to serve the public but to dominate them. Invariably, their recommendations for change will be whatever transfers greater power to themselves..." ... when will the sheeple ever tire of being cucked?
"Lies do not get censored or cancelled. The truth does." ... who you can't talk about, is who rules you
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell .. and I am a Stalinist
"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." - CS Lewis ... Progress into 19th century bohemian drug culture.
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." ... controlled opposition, everyone is a CCP whore
"India and Mexico vote in person with VOTER ID!" ... US is clown world
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"The United States is rapidly becoming a theocracy" .. woke theocracy ... the Puritans were crazy Cromwellians. The Abolitionists were crazy Puritans. The Dems today are ... just crazy (Karl Marx died for your drugs).
So ... a nation of total depravity, by total depravity, for total depravity? I won't miss it. I told my mom, in 1975, what I thought the US was all about, when she asked me what I thought the Vietnam War had been all about, I invented the original Black Pill. Sorry I told her. Didn't believe it myself, but the last 12 months prove what I have believed off and on for 45 years.