by Uncola via TheBurningPlatform.com
I received a text from my kid at college today that said:
Reading the morning the paper and see that since Jan 26, George Orwell’s 1984 book has become the # 1 best seller on Amazon due to Kellyanne Conway coining the term “Alternative Facts” which they say is Orwellian. I still remember doing an analysis on that book. Crazy how it’s making a comeback.
Indeed. It is definitely crazy how it is making a comeback
Anyone who doesn’t have their head inverted way up into their rectum knows that Kellyanne was referring to the bias of the mainstream corporate media and the facts they choose NOT to tell; which is a form of censorship. Fortunately, I no longer have to worry about this kid who, in high school, did start to drift a little toward the land of snowflakes. It took a lot of effort to open the eyes of my young ones through the years, but today, they understand how a mere six corporations, and a little over 200 media executives, control 95% of all news and entertainment.
In truth, it is the bias of the mainstream media that is becoming increasingly Orwellian.
Consider the facts: The financial elite globalists want a New World Order. They own the American media, the politicians, and most of the bureaucracy that comprises the U.S. Government. The globalists must collapse the entity known as the United States of America in order to build their new, one world system from the ashes and Trump stands in their way because he is a nationalist populist putting America first.
What we are witnessing now in the daily headlines is a battle between the globalists and the political left against the Trump Administration, his deplorable supporters, and the alternative media which has been labeled “fake news” by the globalist ghouls and their corporate media shills. This is why both Trump and his close advisor, Steve Bannon, are publicly calling the mainstream media the “opposition party”.
The battles being fought by Trump and his advisors, including Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, the Deplorables, and the vanguards of liberty in the digital Fifth Estate, are actually part of a larger war; a struggle against political correctness, which is nothing more than “thought control” as delineated in Orwell’s 1984.
To accept the one world order in Orwell’s dark narrative, the protagonist, Winston Smith, was forced into believing that 2 + 2 = 5. To accept the New World Order in 2017, one must believe in man-made climate change; that Islam is a religion of peace; that black lives matter more than “all lives” and that gender is fluid based upon personal desire or plastic surgery.
“They are all lies. Don’t buy it!” is what I have told my offspring through the years. Political correctness is cowardice and this is why Trump won.
But, what about all of those people who have slipped through the cracks over the past several decades? What about those who did not have benefactors to teach them the right way to live; that they must work for what they want in life; that there is “no free lunch”; to do their chores; make good decisions; stay responsible; have good manners; respect their elders; don’t lie, cheat or steal and to, otherwise, obey the law?
Well, these are the people we now see rioting in the streets, on college campuses, and more recently, airports, all across America. Why? Because they want inclusion. They want immigration. It is what TV and movies have programmed into them. It has, in fact, become their great “cause” and their worldview is reinforced daily by what they see in the news.
Yet, they care not to measure the cost.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies:
…our best estimate is that in their first five years in the United States each refugee from the Middle East costs taxpayers $64,370 — 12 times what the UN estimates it costs to care for one refugee in neighboring Middle Eastern countries. The cost of resettlement includes heavy welfare use by Middle Eastern refugees; 91 percent receive food stamps and 68 percent receive cash assistance. Costs also include processing refugees, assistance given to new refugees, and aid to refugee-receiving communities.
But, really, why would college snowflakes, welfare queens, baby daddies, socialist professors, corrupt politicians, wrinkled hippies, flag waving violent rioters and an entire array of rainbow flag worshippers worry regarding the cost of anything in the land of the “free”?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Labor Force Participation Rate for Americans aged 16 and older stood at 62.7% as of December 2016 and the U.S. Census claims, the current population of the nation stands around 324 million. This means, subtracting the children and the elderly, approximately 100 million able-bodied Americans don’t work. Even liberal news outlets concur with this amount.
Also as of December of last year, there are approximately 66 million Americans drawing Social Security while the number of Americans on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, has been “hovering around 46 million” since 2011.
The national debt doubled to $20 trillion over the last eight years under Obama, but that didn’t stop him from openly lying about The Affordable Healthcare Act prior to its passing via strict party line voting, when Democrats controlled both the U.S. House and Senate.
Affordable? Healthcare? My ass. Let’s talk about “Orwellian”, shall we?
As Trump has begun to implement his election platform of placing “America First”, the media has gone “balls to the wall” to magnify the optics of chaos.
All of this, in order to incite an army of flakes to riot across the nation against the perceived traitors to the New World Order. The Ministry of Truth (and Fake News) has discovered insurgents that have infiltrated the halls of power and have, in turn, have declared these enemies far worse than even Orwell’s “Emmanuel Goldstein” in 1984:
It is no wonder the rhetoric is becoming increasingly inflammatory.
Writing for Foreign Policy, Georgetown University professor and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Rosa Brooks, discusses three ways how Donald Trump’s opponents might remove him from office:
1.) Impeachment
2.) The 25th Amendment (via Trump’s entire cabinet turning against him)
3.) A Military Coup
Evidently, Ms. Brooks viewed the memo written by David Brock, the founder of (the George Soros funded), Media Matters, entitled “Democracy Matters: Strategic Plan for Action”. Therein, Brock outlines a four-year agenda to attack Trump and the Republicans:
The memo contains plans for defeating Trump through impeachment, expanding Media Matters’ mission to combat “government misinformation,” ensuring Democratic control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, monetizing political advocacy, using a “digital attacker” to delegitimize Trump’s presidency and damage Republicans, and partnering with Facebook to combat “fake news.”
Things are heating up so much in America today that many of the rich and powerful elites are making plans to escape the chaos now being promoted by the media and wrought by the political left. And, as the bacchanalian billionaires descend into their cavernous underground doomsday domiciles, the Twin Titans of Tech, Google and Facebook, have begun new strategies for censorship.
Oh, the irony! Liberals and the press continue to label Trump as Hitler and his supporters as Nazis while employing the exact techniques used by Hitler’s henchman, Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda:
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Of course, propaganda is most effective when it tells people what they want to believe. The Danish philosopher and theologian, Soren Kierkegaard, once claimed:
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
And the cosmologist, Carl Sagan, once claimed:
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.
I realize I have used these quotes before, but they definitely apply here once again, as we discuss the Orwellian appeal of archaic American Fourth Estate bullshit purveyors to the braindead and zombified masses now uprising in the public arena.
How should Trump’s deplorable supporters fight back? Is it even possible to take on an increasing percentage of brainwashed and unemployed Americans when most of those who voted for Trump are busy working at their jobs to feed their own families as well the families of those who are currently bowing down before Big Brother?
What should be done? Perhaps, more importantly, WHEN should the festivities begin?
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide watch the Superbowl. The year 2017 will be remembered as when the New England Patriots battled against the Atlanta Falcons. But, next year at this time, it won’t even matter. The real game to keep your eye on is the war between the genuine American patriots fighting against the truly ravenous, globalist predators from on high.
America First? Or, a New World Order?
It’s a bigtime Blitz to Score so maybe do a Hail Mary because there will be no Safety. And, keep in mind the big game is not fair. It will be much harder for the real life patriots to win because the referees are so blatantly biased.
It’s funny that the snowflakes do not see the irony of their behaviors by projecting them on their opponents. We live in the most Orwellian of times, 1984 looked so long away when he penned it, I hope we may recover from the coming tyranny. If not we will experience many more “two minutes of hate”!
Living in the Orwellian nightmare. Tonight on the news I saw the unemployment rate was 9.6%. Just a few months ago it was 4.7%. Can it be that the MSM has suddenly realized that the U6 report is the the more accurate measurement, but did not realize this back in October of 2016? Does the general population not have any remembrance of the unemployment figures of 4.7% just a few months ago?
Maybe the truth of the matter is they want to believe 9.6% because they want to hate president Trump? Deeper thought, may the general population in the book 1984 actually wanted to believe whatever the television told them. If this is the case, I don’t see education of the sports addicted masses to be a solution, as they could care less what the truth is. The only answer is a great reset, painful as it will be.
Not Sure: My explanation of the unemployment rate inconsistencies and how those inconsistencies are being reported is simple and concise. In fact, it can be summed up in just 2 words. “Affirmative Action.”
Ro,
you made me laugh wry humor person
Further thought on 1984. How did the general population come to regard newspeak as the truth? Was there not a generation preceding them that sought after the truth? I wonder if they also realized a reset was needed, but the television told them that a reset was just a few months away and the waiting generation eventually died off, waiting for the reset that never came? Will time favor the progressives?
@not sure – without getting into long, drawn-out explanations – it can be generalized as such:
– Educational system (indoctrination). Read John Taylor Gatto and the School Sucks Project for more on that.
– Media and entertainment.
– News and politics… which facilitates…
– Repeating a lie and repeating it often enough to be taken as truth.
The Prussians (i.e., before Germany) realized that to “move the masses,” you had to indoctrinate entire generations. And the only way to accomplish that was via school (with the supporting actors also mentioned).
I find societal manipulation fascinating. Not because of the sick concept itself – but that they could (and still can) accomplish it.
A major FLAW in humanity for sure.
PS – as a side note, read Technology Slavery by Ted K. Hold your opinions of the man aside – and you’ll realize it may very well be one of the most intelligent observational works in human history. He got it, and there is nothing like it in print today.
Have a nice weekend.
Why are some pages blacked out?
what do you mean blacked out?
We had basic trust, and we projected our honesty on to the newspeak,
peripheral players were too ashamed to talk about what they saw,
or decided to participate.
“It will be much harder for the real life patriots to win because the referees are so blatantly biased.”
Maybe it would help if Trump supporters, assuming Trump doesn’t engage war with whomever, wore Trump attire (tees, hats, etc.). This would let the opposition know they asre not going to roll over us.
The superbowl is a mirror of what we’ve become The new Rome. Corrupt and dysfunctional, greedy cynical fat,lazy and morally bankrupt. Yeat’s words from a 100 yrs ago keep turning in my head. When I read them as a kid I had no idea the of the effect they would have on me now. Like Orwell.’Turning and turning the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart ,the centre cannot hold. mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,the blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere. the ceremony of innocence is drowned, the best lack all conviction while the worst, are full of passionate intensity. Thanks Yeats. Thanks Orwell for envisioning this so long ago. Fxck the super bowl. the academy awards sitcom tv and all the rest of the lame rotting shxt of a dead empire, owned and run by fools. Ain’t watching that shxt no more.
@ Dennis Roe (Quoting William Butler Yeats)
I, too, enjoy that poem. In fact, I quoted it in one of the first (Uncola) blog posts I ever wrote; whereby I painted radical Islam as the “beast”.
When Yeats wrote:
“the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”:
This seems near prophetic when considering the lukewarm, effete western nations facing their Islamic and radical leftist / socialist / communist “enemies within”.
When he wrote “the centre cannot hold”, this could be referring to a falling morality of which we seem to be experiencing today in the “Christian” nations of the northern hemisphere.
Obviously, there are multiple interpretations of that poem, but I do find it interesting to contemplate.
Sir, FWIW I couldn’t agree more. Absolutely dead on comment. The new Rome indeed!!
“How should Trump’s deplorable supporters fight back?”
Queue Hardscrabble quoting Napoleon in 1….., 2….., 3….
“Never interrupt your enemy when he/she/xe/xer is making a mistake.”
-Napoleon
(The light on the horizon is that grammarly highlights xe/xer as incorrect pronouns)
Deplorables have nothing to worry about!Civilization ends without them.No food,Nothing gets repaired or built and lastly no real soldiers.
See Venezuela for confirmation of this….
FYI – for those of you that cannot see how replies to comments often get lost in the sauce above – see my reply to @not sure above. I’m curious about how others combine their generalizations about “why” society is devolving as it is today…
Hoboken,
See my February 3, 2017 at 10:54 pm response above to Dennis Roe. Falling morality?
Uncola –
Thanks for re-pointing that out. My apologies for not initially reading it.
However, I re-read it. And I think myself as well as other readers wouldn’t mind your “interpretation,” line by line to the poem you cited.
In other words – what is your 2017 translation for that eons-old poem?
What did it mean then, what does it mean now? How does it differ? How is it the same?
Not trying to ball-bust. Just looking for a line in the sand in terms of viewpoint. Otherwise you’re out on your own!
🙂
Ooooh. I like this assignment. In fact, it could even be a pretty cool stand-alone piece? Let me stew on it. I will be on the road today and some of tomorrow, so I will be “out of pocket” for comments (for the most part), but I’ll definitely be reading and thinking about it all.
Real discernment of our actual predicament is a rare commodity these days. But you have it in spades, my friend. You have been a perfect addition to TBP.
I have always enjoyed Football and Baseball growing up in middle class America got to go to games thanks to men in my family that participated in work functions that got them deals on good seats and myself as a Boy Scout , every season there were events that allowed me to go to several games each year , it was fun !
But I had to grow up and now I see a bunch of millionaires and billionaires fussing about how they will split up the pie while my tax money funnels into supporting the stadium and all it takes to mill about it so a few times a year we can now pay a ridicoulis amount to go to a game have a beer and a sandwich and a family of four just dropped some serious cash . It’s fun to watch so I will on my chiniese big screen , while munching on snacks produced by companies that wave a flag and pay shit for wages to people who work all the hours they can and still qualify for food , medical and rent subsidies because the company they work for posted record profits to stockholders while the employees cannot afford to get sick . You mention the workforce in America that is idle , we’ll place jail sentences on these businesses that hire an illegal and jail sentences to those who allow it to go un prosecuted !
Now let’s dig up all the financial records from all the economic traitors over the last thirty to forty years bankrupt them and their families like what was done to American industry working families , recall all the wasteful military bullshit that Eisinhauer warned us about put our currency back on the gold standard and tell all holding federal debt to take a settlement or nothing you have 24 hours to respond !
Not Going to Happen huh ! I Know !
The snowflakes protests are misguided and poorly focused but insinuating that people refuse to work is true in some cases but most people just refuse to work for shit wages just to be taxed to fund a bunch of government wonks that retire in their 50’s while they work till they drop ! You see that was not the game in America but it is now and it’s the only game in town , now what are my super bowl box numbers ?
One thumbs down must be a business owner that hires illegals or a retired government employee ! You see I have a few in my family and they are shocked that private sector have no adequate benefit package as they shrug their shoulders and go from the condo near the grandchildren to the condo in Florida and as they drove away the conversation is about why nobody in the family can visit them in sunny Florida not once do they think about their three sons working their collective balls off to keep from sinking financially as they are taxed to cover the shortfalls they left behind mom retired at 52 and dad at 55 one from a federal job and the other from a county job ! Jealous you say not really : when someone sticks a gun in your face and takes what you work for and gives it to someone else and themselves that’s not Jelousy that’s being angry because the very system designed to protect you from that is committing the crime , you were once called a victim but not if government says it’s fair ! I know now comes the life is not fair , True I know but the one place I expect absolute fair and equal treatment is under the laws and actions of my government ! I must inform you , such is not the case !
Just added a thumbs up to what vodka said. Keen discernment is hard to come by These Days. Appreciate your time and effort.
Another excellent piece, Uncola, really solid work, especially for newbs.
The problems are manifold.
1) Breakdown of the family, especially multigenerational communitarian living arrangements.
2) Government indoctrination via public schools
3) Poor diet/pharmaceuticals
4) Lack of physical work
5) Urban living/mechanized schedules/interior workspaces- “human widgets”
6) Cyclical phenomenon (4th Turning)
7) Cultural exhaustion- the end of an era
8) The death of God- morality as a nebulous concept based on majority opinion rather than innate and Universal
9) Feminization of thought, the emotional as a basis for policy rather than the rational
10) Money over Meaning
There are more, certainly but these ten factors taken together assure the eventual disintegration and inevitable extinction of Western tradition and culture.
A good summation of the tenets of cultural marxism HSF. Trump may stall or even reverse some of these to some extent, depending on how long they let him live. This is especially true if he hangs on long enough to appoint 2 or 3 SC justices. But the big media guns have their hooks into too many indoctrinated sheep. It is so frustrating that so many believe what is actually the complete opposite of the truth.
This Fourth Turning outcome may well indeed come down to the result of Ucola’s Hail Mary. Maybe the inevitable extinction of Western tradition and culture will happen. But we will not go down without a fight dammit. Reading Admin’s pieces on Common Sense reminds me that the founders also played a game where the other team had extra men on both sides of the field and the refs were paid off. No one had much hope that the ragtag Americans could stave off their British masters. But they did. Maybe we can do the same. One can hope, because once that hope is lost, it is all over. Trump has given hope a new lease on life.
all well and good, and thanks!
but Trump can’t fix things, we have to fix things, but he can set us
up for some hope we can succeed. Without hope we will die.
Suzanna, I don’t want to argue with you, but there are things Trump must fix, before we can fix anything. Patience, our time will come.
Star,
of course you are entirely correct on that. There
are things we are unaware of, unproven ie, that only
Trump can fix.
Good summary.
“9) Feminization of thought, the emotional as a basis for policy rather than the rational”
Have been thinking about this one a lot lately. I think it is an issue that other civilizations before us have struggled with as displayed by some of the philosophical, artistic and religious symbolism that is evident in them. I also think it is the core of most of the other problems that we struggle with currently.
Not that a wholly masculine world is great either (see Islam) but this push to the extreme side of the feminine in every aspect of our lives, the political, the academic and the social will be our undoing. It makes us weak and unable to cope with reality. There has to be a balance between the two.
Mom gets a popular women’s magazine, Family Circle, and
her magazines get passed on to me. She said she was “troubled”
by an ad. First page after cover was an IKEA ad with 2 men on the sofa…
one seated, the other perched on the back, arm around the other.
One was black, one was white. Appears the white was the wife in the
equation. I tore the page out, and tossed it. See Mom, fixed it.
Last, the parents accepted gays (2 couples of 12) and did not put people
down/call names. Mom is 91, and the ad bugged her. Xer. 🙂
Farmer,
You have put a lot on the table here and the replies so far,especially Foxy’s about feminism,are spot on.
You both are good writers & I would encourage you to not only turn them into stand alone articles but write them for a wider audience that can’t currently acknowledge reality the regulars on TBP can/do.
And btw,we also have on this site a number of “theologians.”I would encourage some of you guys to expound upon Farmer’s point about about religion.Whether you are an atheist or a believer,if you are honest you have to acknowledge the role that the Judeo-Christian traditions have played in Western society.
excellent on both of you, Uncola and HSF
Conway’s mention of ‘alternative facts’ made me wince but it was in the context of crowd size a ‘fake’ controversy ginned up by the media to create the appearance that protesting Trump was a bigger event than inaugurating him as president.
Beyond the obvious distinctions of workday versus Saturday and the fact that security concerns made attending Trumps inauguration a different matter than simply chartering a bus and being deposited at the Mall on Saturday, the media was lying and in a matter they know well. We do not measure AUDIENCE size in America by the number of people physically at an event but by the number of people watching. That is how the ‘media’ gets paid. Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd know full well nobody was ‘watching’ the vulgar speeches of has been singers and shrieking Rodhamites but many millions were tuned into to hear Donald Trumps inaugural speech. Its like the Super Bowl. Only 80,000 maybe at the game but the TV audience is 1000 times larger.
Mr. Uncola,
sorry could not read the entire article and comments.
I agree we should all be searching for the truth..
Here is a Pop Quiz:
1) who uttered the phrase “alternate truth”
2) who publicly stated that they wanted to “open the liable laws” against the media
3) who stated they where going to “drain the swamp”, yet surrounded themselves with the very people that where living in the swamp
4) Who publicly and purposely lied about the “Toledo massacre” ?
5) Who is trying to repeal Dodd-Frank?..so now Wall street is free to return to their systematic pillaging of the country?
6) Who has publicly advocated violence against opposition?
7) Who has unilaterally nullified, or created laws without the benefit of Congress? (this one has multiple answers)
Is it too much to ask that we keep vigilant regardless of our political preferences?
Just because you dislike one side you should not give the other side a pass or engage in moral equivalence.
I kinda like the First Amendment myself.
You are greasing the skids for a tajectory towards totalitarianism…
An interesting read. I hope I’m wrong but the reliance on Trump being our savior is a bridge too far for me. I always thought it would take a military coup to get us back to a free country. I no longer think so. If ever a divorce based on “irreconcilable differences” was in order it is today. And I think it’s going to be an ugly-mugly one at that.
CC, I get what you’re saying, two points. One, Trump isn’t a bridge too far, he’s the guy. He’s in the only position that counts. It’s real. Second, and more importantly, no need for divorce. The left is all about weakness. They’re about to learn weakness is no virtue. Defeat is more likely what they have coming. Counterfeiting money has allowed the ultimate expression of everyone gets a trophy. The first time the EBTers put that card in the slot and it tells them tough shit, they have about 48 hours until their world view starts changing dramatically. It’s coming. We’re going to be OK.
Like I said Star I hope I’m wrong. But 50 years of paying attention has made me a cynic.
WE are the ones to create change, Trump is the leader of the pack. 🙂
So you mean We are the ones we’ve been waiting for?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
we are and we are empowered
I live in washington state where a handful of counties populated by the feminine in and around seattle run the entire state…into the ground. We’re also a sanctuary city. The feminine/muslim/minorities here wield far too much power with impunity and whites (males) are subject to oppression. A councilwoman from seattle, who is muslim, is openly calling for mass insurection against trump and his followers, getting everyone’s panties in a snit. These sick people even advocate the assassination of our sitting president. They wear their sexism and racism like a crown here and are proud of it. I never thought I would live to see it but I live it everyday. Letting women vote imho was the beginning of our troubles. Just sayin’.
America has the same problem Germany had in the 20s and early 30s.Jewish power completely dominated the Mass Media and the Banking Establishment by Controlling their currency. Until Uncool and the rest of white Ethnic Americans admit this then you are all just pissing in the wind. Elite Jews are the enemy .They hate white people.Period.
Bb, hate to burst your bubble, Jews are white people.
“…But, really, why would…an entire array of rainbow flag worshippers worry regarding the cost of anything in the land of the “free”?….”
Do NOT think for a second that Teh Gays are a monolithic group. I voted for Trump and there are many more like me!
I have two gay girlfriends that are more conservative than I am. Great ladies to talk to. There are a lot more of them out there than people think. There really are not pure monolithic groups of any block…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/02/04/tancredo-the-disgusting-media-double-standard-between-obama-and-trump/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
I just have one comment to make:
Snowflakes Melt.
Carry on.
First thing, stop watching professional sports. An absolute waste of time. Watching these overpaid thugs play a little boy’s game and paying for the opportunity to do so deadens the mind. Read, work out, go hiking, go the beach, climb a mountain……and get ready.
As I have said before, Trump is well-intentioned and is doing a tremendous job. He is fighting against the powerful forces of our destruction. The truth is that there is no way out of the abyss we are in without the use of ruthless power. Trump is no revolutionary. He had no idea what he was really getting into when he stated his campaign but he is opening his eyes now, thanks to the treasonous actions of the left and the wise counsel of people like Steve Bannon. Trump will eventually realize that the enemy will not be defeated in courtrooms, with writs and opinions, with campaign rallies and Tweets. The enemy will be defeated when Trump consolidates his position, purges the armed forces and bureaucracy of disloyal elements, facilitates the formation of the “civil defense force” Obama babbled about, and then goads the enemy into overplaying his hand.
At that point Trump will either strike hard, strike fast, and strike without mercy or pity, or he and America will be lost forever. There will not be another chance.
There is no place for the limp-wristed in this. The examples he will eventually have to follow are those of Franco in Spain, Pinochet in Chile, Mannerheim in Finland and a handful of other leaders who have successfully faced down Marxists criminals like those we see in the streets of San Francisco, in Federal courtrooms and the halls of Congress.
I can hear the shrieks of horror! EEEWWWWW! They were FASCISTS.
No, they were conservative military men who until the moment they were forced to act had never been involved in any political movement in their lives.
And they acted without pity or remorse. The ringleaders of the left – and this would include such human filth as that insane judge in Washington state, the Howard Dean’s, the Schumer’s, the John Lewis’s – would be unceremoniously hanged or shot, as examples. There would then be a nation-wide cleansing. Many more would be executed and millions (in the case of the United States) would be confined at hard labor for many years. Every last leftist would be rooted out of public life or exiled.
Sounds harsh? Sounds “un-American”? Sounds cruel?
If this is not done then you, my fellow patriots and TBP’er’s, will find out what harsh, cruel and un-American means if the left is ever again allowed to take power inn this country. You will curse yourselves – and your children and grandchildren will curse you – for having let slip our last chance.
When the moment comes, and it will come, do not let your hand tremble. Nobody gets out of this world alive and we are not getting out of this mess we have allowed to develop without bloodshed, pain and suffering. If you think differently you are dreaming. Move to New Zealand or Tahiti but don’t stay here. When the call comes it will be all hands on deck and no loafers allowed.
Great rant SS
Great post uncola. And excellent comments from the peanut gallery…
A need to believe and what to do. The problem for me is belief tends to imply some level of conformity and outside control.
Been thinking a lot lately about the underlying articles of persuasion as I see them. The codex that that rights my grant. No longer do folks wait for the ten o’clock news. Worse still nowadays the Winston Smiths of the world are writing it themselves.
RiNS,
I am not totally clear as to what you mean exactly in your comment above. But, there seems to be the seeds of a great stand-alone (exploratory) essay there that could deliver some excellent online discussion.
When one considers the concepts of “belief” and “persuasion” it calls to mind the following phase:
“If you don’t believe in something you will fall for anything”.
But that phrase could also be inverted to say:
“If you do believe in anything, you will fall for something.”
What then, is the foundation beneath each of the above postions? What are the underlying dangers?
When contemplating this, I find myself questioning “truth”. Is there really a plumb line of separation between truth and falsehood? If so, is it universal, or is it relative? Or is it similar to considering the concept of “quality”, which may only be compared and, perhaps, only fully perceived when it is missing? (Cool book on this is: “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig).
Also, can one admit to a “higher power” that could be defined as “ANYTHING” greater than oneself? A group of people perhaps? The ocean? The universe? If yes, can that “higher power” reveal truth?
These are just a few of the things I think about…..
“Uncola”,
“If you don’t believe in something you will fall for anything”.
Chesterton,the British writer,an approximate quote,”The problem is not that man does not believe in God.The problem is that when he does not believe in God he will believe in anything.”
kinda sums up much of modern Western culture,doesn’t it?
A very good question to consider is this: Are we, like Forest Gump’s feather, floating by accident, or design?
Either way, a next good question could be this one: If believers perceive the design while unbelievers see the randomness, does this make either of them any less dogmatic?
I do want to make a comment about randomness versus design.
Folks who believe in higher power don’t have a monopoly on the quest for a Grand Unified Theory. Seems a trifle simplistic to make it binary choice when it is actually something most of us strive for.
I have always thought that the problem with God versus Science is the vanity of man sucks all the oxygen out of the room.
And if there is a controller xhe has quite the sense of humour. Mankind was given just enough brains to be stupid.
What I find to be so unique about mankind, is the ability to comprehend “time”. After this, design vs. randomness may become “choice” which, in turn, may bring “free will” into the equation? Not totally sure, but I do enjoy the contemplation of it all during the commercial breaks.
Besides, a fortune cookie once told me that “he who has both eyes on his destination has no eyes to see where he is going.” ?
Yeah
I had written quite a bit as I usually do then deleted most of it. Boiled it down to one sentence. The codex. Which oddly I inverted and quite on purpose. I did that wondering if you would pick it up. And you did! Very perceptive. I think you have seen what I was trying to propose.
As for the higher power, all poking aside, it doesn’t have the urgency that many implore me to give it.
There is a great stand alone piece. For sure.
I find as I get older that truth, like all the tumblr genders, is fluid and open to arbitrary course change.
I must applaud you, HSF, Stucky, of course Admin and the others here. You all have made the leap from 500 words to several thousand. For me I can’t seem to do that.
So many times I have asked myself what needs to go first.
Truth or Justice.
Or maybe it is neither.
In this quest for both, neither seems to be what is attained.
When my kids were young I used to tell them the only time we are “lost” is when we become afraid. Until then, we just may not know where we are, so, (calmly) attempt to figure it out.
I thought it was cool that you were contemplating “persuasion” as was I. Maybe we have Scott Adams to thank for that, ey? Regardless, it seems like, most times (especially in ‘Murica), everyone is always selling something. For, me it then becomes a question of the “why” behind the “what”.
In my “less cynical” moments, I tend to think people “share” because they “care”. Even so…, as always….., “buyer beware”.
Uncola, that was a kick ass essay [as usual] Don’t think there is much we can do at this point to head off the coming collapse. A hail mary is probably in our future as Trump seems prone to that sort of thing.
Its nice that you can share reflections on 1984 with your kid. The first book both our kids read was anthem, followed by animal farm. Both kids like to point out examples they see of all animals created equal, just some are more equal than others. I don’t know how all of you guys on this place are able to put out such large body of quality work,but its really great keep it up.
Stucky- I just got back from the doomstead, haven’t watched a Stooper Bowl in over 40 years.
Bite me.
I am doing opposition research Stuck! I watch the commercials and get my snacks during the football. I also had to see if Lady Gaga got political or had a nip slip. Nothing there, but, so far, it looks like Lumber 84, Budweiser and Coca Cola all favor shit-canning the U.S. Constitution in favor of open borders and ILLEGAL immigration. Good to know for future essays. I’m workin’ over here…
ahhhhhh ……. opposition research !!
Yeah. Ok. Uh-huh. Sure. Gotchya.
Lyin’ sako shit!
Too funny!!
I got weak-turned it on & watched 3 plays but then turned it off & played rummy with the wife & daughter.
I have just gone an entire season & not watched a single NFL game-the first time since I was 8 years old,in 1966.
Btw,who won?
I slept thru most of 2nd half. I figured that the Falcons had it in bag anyways. Seems Jesus plays for Pats!
Besides persuasion works better when folks are listening. Gotta say a great game and Gaga wasn’t bad either.