“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” – H.L. Mencken
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”– Andrew Carnegie
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I’ve spent the last fourteen years pushing back against the establishment narrative, documenting the fake data published by government apparatchiks, and trying to open the eyes of as many people as possible to the propaganda utilized by the Deep State to keep the ignorant masses dazed, confused and distracted. The country is in deep trouble because what the majority believe regarding the economy, politics, religion, and culture just ain’t so.
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain
Since the start of this year I’ve found myself in a mental funk. I’m tired of the lies. I’m tired of incessant media propaganda. I’m tired of politicians. I’m tired of economic experts. I’m tired of hucksters touting their “the end is near” tale to sell me something. I’m tired of faux mainstream media journalists and their whining about Trump being mean and threatening the First Amendment.
They don’t know jack about the First Amendment, as they work for one of the six media conglomerates whose job it is to produce fake news supporting whatever narrative keeps their Deep State benefactors in power. Regurgitating lines written for them by corporate propagandists is not journalism and has absolutely no relationship to the First Amendment. Over the last decade the only place to find some truth has been the alternative media thriving on the uncensored internet. That’s why the establishment wants to regulate the internet.
The fake news blitz by a Deep State, flailing about trying to retain their power and wealth, has reached frantic proportions. The left wingers, egged on by Obama and funded by Soros, hold increasingly inane protests with themes like: wear a vagina hat to support feminazis; hug an illegal immigrant; everyone I hate is a Nazi; and women take another day off and no one notices. The traitorous neo-con warmongers like McCain, Graham, and Kristol see their enormously profitable never ending global conflict agenda at risk. The military industrial complex needs enemies. The left wingers and neo-cons have joined forces to utilize the fake Russian election intervention propaganda in a last ditch desperate attempt to derail the Trump presidency before it starts.
The relentlessness, bitterness, and blatant disregard for the truth exhibited by Trump’s vast array of opponents have made TV virtually unwatchable. I’ve found myself mentally checking out. Why waste mental energy debating hacks, mental midgets and paid trolls for the establishment? After spending years obliterating fake government statistics on a daily basis, I find continuing to do so is just mental masturbation with no ultimate satisfaction. Confronting left wingers and neo-cons is like wresting with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
I’ve always been an observer. I’ve been observing how certain both sides are regarding their positions on illegal immigration, Muslims, Russia, Obamacare, Supreme Court nominees, executive orders, jobs, taxes, climate change, school choice, oil pipelines the First Amendment, Second Amendment, the rule of law, and the Bill of Rights. I find it exhausting. We’re lost in a blizzard of lies. I’m not certain about anything. I will remain skeptical of everything uttered by all politicians, all government bureaucrats, all corporate executives, all central bankers, all media pundits, all religious leaders, all corporate paid journalists and especially Wall Street shysters.
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on “I am not too sure.” – H.L. Mencken
The dissonance between what I have been observing and what is being flogged by the establishment mouthpieces in the corporate mainstream media has never been greater. Some of my observations are anecdotal, others are based on real unadulterated truthful data, a few are based on simple common sense and the rest are based on my understanding of what happens during Fourth Turnings.
When you understand the cyclical nature of history you are not surprised when events lead to reactions among the masses which take the linear thinking status quo by complete surprise. The 2008 global financial implosion and the subsequent election of Donald J. Trump by the deplorable white silent majority completely blindsided the oblivious establishment, but were entirely predictable if you had studied previous Fourth Turnings throughout history.
I’ve been making a horrific sixty mile round trip commute into Philly for the last ten years. The average daily commute has been about two hours, as the entire route has been under some sort of construction for the entire decade. A fantastic one way commute is forty five minutes. I regularly have ninety minute commutes, and I’ve experienced a few which breached the two hour mark. It became immediately evident to me something changed as this new year got under way. My morning and evening commute has been consistently in the forty-five minute range for the last two months. There are less cars and trucks on the road. The question is why?
This only happened once before over the last decade – during the 2008/2009 recession. In a shocking correlation (especially for brain dead tax and spend liberals), when there are less jobs, there are less drivers on the roads going to work. I tried to think of other reasonable explanations for why traffic appeared to be contracting so dramatically. But lo and behold, certain data can’t be easily manipulated by the government. Gasoline demand is plunging, with the year over year trend crashing to levels last experienced during the 2001 recession. Gasoline demand was higher during the 2008/2009 crisis. Demand was higher when oil was over $100 per barrel. Based on this crash in gasoline demand, Goldman Sachs issued a report saying we should be in a recession.
Total miles driven are dramatically slowing down. It’s not because of electric cars or fuel efficiency, as the vast majority of the 17.5 million vehicles being hawked to the math challenged driving public (using low payment leases and six year 0% loans) are pickups, SUVs, or luxury sedans. The Fed induced and subprime debt fueled frenzy of vehicle sales (aka long – term rentals) has seen vehicle sales skyrocket from 10 million in 2010 to an all-time high above 17.5 million in 2016, while auto loan debt has soared from $700 billion to over $1.1 trillion during this same time frame. The truthfulness of the 17.5 million sales number may be in question, as dealer lots are stuffed with record levels of inventory. With a record number of cars in the hands of consumers, how could gasoline usage and miles driven crash?
More questions emerge to those with critical thinking skills. If the unemployment rate is really 4.8%, how could 40% of the employable population (102 million) not be working? This explains the lack of cars on the road during my commute. Obama and his minions jabber about the tremendous jobs recovery during his reign of error. In 2007 there were 122 million full-time workers among a working age population of 233 million, or 52.3%. After Obama’s eight year economic “recovery”, there are 125 million full-time workers among a working age population of 254 million, or 49.2%.
We’ve added 3 million full-time jobs in the last 9 years, and the captured mainstream media touts this as a success story. The deceitfulness – it burns. When 125 million full-time workers, of which 22 million are non-producing government drones, have to support 102 million non-working Americans, most living on the dole, you have a financially unsustainable paradigm. Trump’s slogan should be Make Americans Get Off Their Fat Asses and Work Again.
The explanation for the plunge in gasoline demand and miles driven is quite simple if you haven’t drunk the mainstream media kool-aid about the fantastic economy, low unemployment, and soaring consumer confidence. Americans drive their vehicles to work, to shop, and to eat out. Truckers are the backbone of our just in time big box retail society. If Americans are driving less, there are less people with jobs, less spending at bricks and mortar retailers, and fewer people eating out.
If truckers are logging less miles, retailers are ordering less inventory, manufacturers are selling less widgets, and the economy is contracting. The entire economic improvement narrative is based on soft data about feelings from consumer confidence surveys and dozens of other easily manipulated surveys. Propagandists are experts at convincing clueless dolts it’s raining when their government is actually pissing down their backs.
Despite government reports about expanding retail sales and strong holiday sales, real info from real retailers tells the true story. Major retailers have announced 1,500 store closings in the first two months of 2017, including:
- JC Penney – 140 stores
- Sears – 150 stores
- Macy’s – 68 stores
- HHGregg – 88 stores
- The Limited – 250 stores
- Abercrombie & Fitch – 60 stores
- Wet Seal – 171 stores
- CVS – 70 stores
Kohl’s, Target, Macy’s, Sears, and dozens of other retailers reported awful holiday sales. Wal-Mart was lauded for generating a 1% comparable store sales increase. There is virtually no store expansion by large retail chains. During the 2000 to 2007 period these chains were each opening hundreds of new stores per year. We are in the midst of a long term retail contraction which is just picking up steam.
The closure of these stores combined with rising interest rates are a toxic concoction for real estate mall developers. The Fed allowed them to extend and pretend for the last eight years. The jig is up. A wave of retail and mall bankruptcies is baked in the cake. The government reported retail sales growth is driven by Fed induced auto sales (leases and loans), home furnishing sales financed at 0% over five years, building materials stores offering 0% financing, Amazon and until recently restaurant and bar sales.
Since I don’t go into malls or many retail establishments, and rarely eat at chain restaurants, my observations of retail and restaurant traffic are based on how full their parking lots are at peak hours. When the economy was in bubble mode prior to 2008, mall parking lots were jammed and you had a ninety minute wait to get a seat at Outback or Olive Garden. Today, you can get a parking spot at a big box retailer near the front door on a Saturday afternoon.
Malls are ghost towns, with Space Available as the hot new location. Except for peak dinner time on a Friday or Saturday (if then) there are no longer long waits to get a table at one of the struggling chain restaurants. We reached peak retail and peak overpriced restaurants a few years ago. The downward spiral, due to demographics, declining real income, and over-saturation, is irreversible.
As usual, with propaganda distributed by the government or industry organizations, they present a positive restaurant performance index based on false hope and delusional expectations. Restaurant chains like Applebees, Outback, Ruby Tuesday, Chilis, Buffalo Wild Wings and many other major chains have been reporting declining same restaurant sales. Industry comparable restaurant sales are lower than two years ago.
Outback’s parent company announced it will close more than four dozen locations of Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse. Ruby Tuesday is closing 100 locations. Despite government reports showing strong restaurant sales over the last eight years, annual traffic to U.S. restaurants has been flat or up just 1% since 2009, when there was a 2% drop in the wake of the Fed created financial crisis.
The “increase” in sales was generated by price increases of 2% to 3% per year. Now these chains are paying the price for high prices, shitty food, and poor service from their college graduate millennial staff. With higher taxes, soaring Obamacare costs, student loan and auto loan debt up to their eyeballs, and low paying service jobs as their career, even clueless millennials have gotten a clue – they don’t have the money to eat out four times per week.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows the majority of Americans have fallen further behind since 2009, with only the establishment and those leaching off the establishment profiting from the suffering of senior citizens and the former middle class. When real personal spending plummets at the highest rate since 2009, you just might be in the midst of a recession.
As consumer confidence surveys, ISM surveys and Fed surveys provide fake news about consumer and corporate feelings about a glorious future, the hard data tells the truth. How could households feel confident when real median household income fell by $558 in December and is down by $529 year over year? How could Obama and his lapdogs in the mainstream media pontificate about the record economic recovery when real median income is 2% lower than it was nine years ago?
How can anyone deny the average American household has been experiencing a depression since 2000, when real median household income is lower today than it was at the turn of the century? Do you think the lack of income growth over the last 17 years may have played a part in the deplorables electing Trump in November?
The corporate fake news media will continue to produce the false narrative as directed by their Deep State employers. The credibility of journalists can be summed up in two pithy sentences by Hunter S. Thompson.
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” – Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
In Part Two of this article I’ll show how the Deep State/establishment/ruling class/status quo have utilized their mastery of propaganda techniques to convince the masses inflation and debt are beneficial to their interests and why Trump’s election is the pushback by a citizenry who are beginning to awake and are mad as hell.
“Boy, was I dumbass.”
I feel ya, bro.
You have to wonder why the DeepState/MSM is so focused on Trump. Are they completely unaware that the real issue is the awakening of the producing class? He’s just a proxy for what’s simmering underneath and it’s a greater threat than they have ever faced before. Are they really that clueless?
Time will tell.
Oh, and excellent analysis, as usual.
On one side of the deep divide in the US is a loose coalition of extremely well organized and experienced groups from across the left including environmentalists, rights groups, left-wing communist organizations, feminists and anything that falls under the progressive banner. Add to this the MSM, elements of the Deep State, Democrats and academics.
On the other side is the average American whose culture, lifestyle, and livelihood has been steadily eroding. Other than the NRA, I can’t think of any group that might represent them. Then comes Trump, a figure they can rally behind. Hence, the importance of Trump to the other side. Destroy Trump and the coalition of average Americans falls apart. What they need is a grassroots Deplorable party to form.
The Deplorables Party. I like it. Plenty of vacuum to occupy. Occupy Vacuum.
From the libtards who realize something … but are still ‘tarded: Jimmy Dore.
Caught On Tape: Democratic Congressman Admits The Party Stands For Absolutely Nothing
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-08/caught-tape-democratic-congressman-admits-party-stands-absolutely-nothing
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I’m a handful of years behind you Mr. Quinn and I think much of your analysis is sound, but if you back up a bit you simply find a large out of control government at the crux of the problem. Too much entrenched political power, uninhibited, corrupt civil servants (sic) stealing from the citizens they’ve sworn to protect and using the mountain of money to propagate the malfunctioning machine itself. All this so they can follow the general road-map of (and do quick favors for) a tiny few influential elites who are utterly disconnected and disinterested in the fate of many who make up the populace and ultimately provide means to those few. As I’m sure you know is an age-old story, the rise and fall of empires.
What I’ve realized it that our entire paradigm is based on theoretical/ideological ideas about what our institutions COULD be. The problem is the humans that animate these ideas are flawed and always will be. When the society that these folks live in turn a blind eye to their crimes, as we had seen for the last few decades) it is like pouring gasoline on a campfire.
The H.L. Mencken quote in the middle of the article is somewhat expected from the man seeing as he is a well-known atheist. It is also somewhat ironic because in his pronouncement he is providing a his version of what his statement laments in the first place. I don’t blame him for part of his broad-brush analysis, because laws and rules, when designed by men, usually ends up designed as a benefit to the ones prescribing them. However, I think basic morality is a different thing altogether. The simple core of morality is ingrained in everyone who chooses to hold non-negotiable the ideas of truth, equal justice and love (when based in respect) as cornerstones. Any sustainable civil society MUST have it’s roots in these tenets or it will cease to exist in relatively short order. This is why globalism will enjoy such a short, messy and painful lifespan if I may make a prediction. Unfortunately, this is the time we live in so it gives rise to the analysis we see in this article.
With that in mind, (and also in opposition the Mr. Mencken), the more primitive among us would present the 10 Commandments as a very simple basis of morality . An uber-simple blueprint for a sustainable society, one that would have our Creator’s blessing. It does not try to build a giant edifice or control every aspect of life. It’s voluntary for those who would keep them. This is what our Creator gave the world at Mount Sinai, though very few see it that way. Morality from God, instead of men, is non-negotiable and beyond reproach. It cannot be easily twisted or repealed or de-funded or discredited. The laws are not convenient or popular in today’s declining decadent western society, or with Creator Haters masquerading as Atheists, like H.L. Mencken but they do help to define a simple morality. These laws have proven themselves in the early days of America, they could work again if we followed them today. Moreover doing the work to fix ourselves in accordance with the 10 Commandments is a far more noble pursuit than a faux-erudite painting of our destructive proclivities into 50 shades of gray while denying the obvious existence of an intelligent creator.
John Adams in a letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, 11 October 1798:
“we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Benjamin Rush in A Defence of the Use of the Bible in Schools, American Tract Society, 1820:
But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
Lysander Spooner
very intriguing thoughts; makes me think of how Russia tried to become capitalists, and were given “the formula”, but they failed cuz they didn’t have the morality or religious ethics that re required to make capitalism/democracy work.
I also think of how all of those progressive/leftwing groups you mentioned do not and cannot apply any of their actual values, ethics, morals, etc to their actions (if they have any), cuz they are required to adhere to “the party line”; thus, feminists are silent about females being murdered in the womb, about bill clinton’s having raped/sexually abused women, muslims’ treatment of women, and other such examples that supposedly go against their principles, but they MUST support democrats, abortionists, muslims, etc. etc. I find many examples of hypocrisy with them, and they are blind to it and instead are arrogant and prideful of their supposed “righteousness”
ablever11.blogspot.com
Azure – What is your point?
Follow the money ? Love the attitude, Trump will save us all=refuse’s to show his tax returns=follow the money=get money out of politics=rebirth of ideas and freedom not controlled by billionaires=supporting political puppets=who is supporting Trump=back to his tax returns=what is your savior hiding ?
I consider myself a decent man. A man with many faults but at my core, decent. I’m a proud Christian warrior and have no qualms about praying aloud as I walk among others going about my daily affairs. Of late, however contradictory I’ve found myself praying that John McCain be revealed for the corrupt and loathsome human being that he is. I’ve followed politics since JFK became President. And in over half a century I’ve never seen a politician more vain, mean spirited and destructive of the public good than he. I don’t say this lightly of anyone but I believe him to be the personification of evil.
Don’t leave Lindsay Graham out of your summation, he’s just as vain and just as evil as McShitstain.
Don’t forget the ultimate evil neocon, Dick “Melakon” Cheney. Note the recently released photos of him watching 9/11 unfold on his office TV with scarcely contained glee. Had the 2000 election gone the other way, Joe Lieberman would have been the gleeful one. Bush and Gore were both empty suits (Gore’s was green), selected to follow the VP’s orders.
Also recall how the GOPe rallied to Lieberman’s side in 2006 to re-elect him to the Senate as an “independent” after his primary defeat — throwing their own nominee under the bus in the process.
“Confronting left wingers and neocons is like wrestling a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it.” the pig thrives on it. And if you refuse to get dirty with the ‘pigs’ or ‘progs’ they start to eat their own. Great article Jim, thats a lot to think about.
There is no reason to wrestle them at this point. They do more damage to themselves with their deranged and erratic behavior than debating them ever could. Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake. Let them melt down, don’t interfere. Treat them like you would treat your 4 year old during a tantrum.
This was a great post, Jim. I’ve seen the same thing at malls near me. We will sometimes take the kids to the local mall to let them run around in the play area when the weather sucks and we need to get them out of the house. Aside from eating lunch in the food court, we typically don’t really od any shopping. Even on a Saturday afternoon, it still seems empty. I have often wondered aloud to my wife how some of the stores in there even stay open.
“There is no reason to wrestle them (pigs) at this point. Absolutely. Americans are on the Titanic and it hit the iceberg 1:45 ago. They are still busy arguing who is at fault and waiting for the crew to fix the problem. I suggest using one’s limited resources (time, wealth, energy) on finding a way to build a life raft.
“I suggest using one’s limited resources (time, wealth, energy) on finding a way to build a life raft.”
Great. Out of what materials? That’s the question I ask.
Do I use up my scarce resources prepping for the Zombie Apocalypse (WROL)? Do I use them up for the end of the dollar by buying gold (which is in a significant downtrend these past days, I might add?) What do I do with what little I have?
I keep waiting for someone to offer me an insight I’ve not yet already considered for TWENTY TWO YEARS.
BB/DC- Only a fool hits the brick wall without a food supply of some sort. Gold will never be worth nothing. If you live in a large shitty you are doomed, so don’t bother.
You are the only person that will save YOU and your family IF the shit hits the fan, which may never happen.
Rice and beans DC, rice and beans.
Silver at $600? 1/3 of MSM resigns and flees due to pedo scandals? New energy technologies to emerge? Economic chaos starting this month?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFJUAf9afA
Another great article.
I have been in a similar funk for most of the same reasons you list. It has happened a few times before in my life but this time it feels worse. The weight of the propaganda seems suffocating once you are aware of it. Being treated like a lackwit really wears on a person.
Thankfully you are a man of action. Rather than stew about it like most people, you write pieces like this. It feels good to get a few things off ones chest while hopefully opening a few more minds in the process. Writing has been a great therapeutic tool for me and I’m grateful to have a place like TBP as an outlet.
May I ask what you typically listen to on your commute?
I usually listen to the WIP sports talk show or the Preston and Steve show on WMMR in the morning.
On the way home I switch between some music stations and the WIP sports talk show.
I also pass time yelling at other idiot motorists and the government drones who can’t time stop lights or fix potholes.
I used to plug my iPod in and listen to tunes, but my son accidentally wiped out my entire music catalog after the computer at home had been destroyed in a flood. Hundreds of my favorite songs wiped out. I was pissed that day.
Sorry about the loss of your favorite music lists.. No backup, of course..
I wonder if anyone has figured out how many thousands – nay, millions of gallons of gas cold be saved just by timing lights at intersections properly to minimize acceleration, intersection by intersection.
It’s mostly Pete Seeger.
“I wonder if anyone has figured out how many thousands – nay, millions of gallons of gas cold be saved just by timing lights at intersections properly to minimize acceleration, intersection by intersection.”
Next best thing is a hybrid. Engine turns off while your car sits at a light.
Did. With/for no real people.
The Internet of Things, IoT.
Start learning about Sogdo, Korea. Sogdo failure.
https://koreaexpose.com/songdo-no-mans-city/
http://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article1078
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/17/truth-smart-city-destroy-democracy-urban-thinkers-buzzphrase
In fact, perfect traffic light sync has been available for decades. I wan in downtown Houston on business in early 1979, and saw all the lights in a 7-block radius change within ~1 second of each other. Few cities will use it because they WANT screwed-up traffic — it creates more red light runners, and therefore more revenue. Many cities that install red light cameras then REDUCE the yellow light interval (often in defiance of state law) for the same reason.
Hey Jim…BFD
I have an external Hard Drive, 2TB, filled with Movies.
I can no longer access the movies – something bad happened. Do you have any idea the amount of time was involved? It was about 1,000 movies. I should have purchased a flash drive and saved a copy.
I use to get off at the Lansdale exchange a few years back (my office was in Lederach). Did they ever finish the work on the Extension? I always wondered what that shyster Chicago outfit Walsh was doing in the Philly market.
The bottom six miles of the NE ext work is done. The six miles from Lansdale down is still under construction. I think they plan on having it complete this Fall. It’s a six mile cattle chute with 18 wheelers crawling up your ass at 85 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone. Gets the blood pumping in the morning.
Been on the Blue Route many times, from Philly up to Scranton. You are right it is a cattle chute. Moved to TN 4 years ago, glad to be out of that rat race.
You can probably find nearly every song on YouTube and download them for free. I know for a fact, for example, that every Tammy Wynette song ever released is on YouTube except for one(“Hey Good Lookin'”-1967 duet with David Houston- blocked from viewing on YouTube in the USA only). The other over 500 songs she did are all freely available there. I got a lot of music at Pay Play http://payplay.fm/ for about $1 an album or 10 cents per song (depends on how much you fund your account with). It’s faster than downloading one song at a time on YouTube. Pay Play has a music sale event about every other month, too. I have never used any Apple product so I don’t know how it works for those.
Don’t know why anyone would downvote that, MadMax. I do the same thing for my MP3s–download them from YouTube and convert to MP3. Have to pick the best quality vids, however (HD or better audio).
I used to listen to Michael Savage on a local radio station on my commute home in the afternoons, but they took him of their “menu” at the beginning of the year, so now I go to an archive webpage of his shows and download them (commercials removed), and plug the USB into my car to listen.
Rise an excellent idea. I’d love to be able to listen to Savage on Morning commute. I might give it a go!
http://conservativestream.com/recorded-shows/savage.php
I hate to break it to all of you Michael Savage fans……..He is a Joo named Michael Weiner who was raised by Russian joo parents. He has an agenda, he is another in a long line of shills.
Suckers
So he is a Jew. Relevant how?
Please explain and provide evidence that Mr. Savage is part of a 5th cabal in the USA.
Those alphabet agencies work for us. Dollars are good, study hard get a good education, the answers are in the book. We are the brightest and the best. Food is always good for us. Vaccines are for our own good. We feed the world. America is good. I even thought they would take cancer out of cigarettes back then.
Does anyone think that Trump might be the one to join us together to flush us out? We aren’t going to go along to get along. Goats and sheep. Hey we may only have to read one post on the platform to make the red list. I will be the first to say the Donald is doing the greatest wonderfullest thing. We get school, and vac and climate exposure, but chemtrails are still there. Little “o” and hill and Billy ain’t in jail. Leakers haven’t been hauled out in cuffs yet. If things are as sordid as they are portrayed every body should be in peril every minute. If I said burn it down or whack somebody, I would probably get the short walk. Explain how do we drain the swamp without whacking snakes and alligators. People with eyes that see, understands “the truth isn’t matching the lies”.
There is a bit of truth that no one seems to understand. The United States is Washington, D.C. and the Island possessions; like Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, etc.
When did we become United States citizens? When we did, we lost our rights. The Constitution does not apply in the United States. It only applies to the United States of America. The US and the USA are not the same entities.
It’s hard to understand but try:
noconstitutionforyou.blogspot.com
In that we’re all in a confessional mood at the moment (Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been 50 years since my last confession…) I will admit that I hate millions of Americans. I mean that sincerely. I truly wish resent that I have to share space with them. I hate people who can be so easily duped by obvious assholes like W Bush and transparent phonies like Obama. I hate people who fall for that hope and change bullshit election in and election out. I hate people who go in hock up to their asses for shit they don’t need. I hate those who have no clue as to how badly their getting pooned but know enough about some football team to become it’s mascot. I hate people who mist up at the National Anthem (a ridiculous, dangerous song) but couldn’t identify the Bill of Rights if you shoved a copy up their ass. I always skip the Walmart People freak show on TBP at the end of the week. Too goddamn depressing. I could go on and on. One of my few joys though is reading the articles and especially the comments on TBP. I save it for that hour or so in the morning when all is quiet and I can savor every bit of it. And I especially love coming back to the comments I’ve made to see how many thumbs up or down I got. I’m gleeful when I have earned enough ups to be near the head of the class. That reflects my esteem for the people who participate in this site. Cold comfort but goddamn it but it helps keep me sane.
CC,
I know what you mean but try a reset. The hate is releasing
too much cortisol. Who cares about those people?
Take care of yourself, and yours, and anyone that matters to you.
If you’re going to get all rational on us…
Bless you Suzanna. I will take your advise to heart.
I couldn’t agree more. I drive a 17 year old car with 212,000 miles on it (well maintained, mind you) and the staff here at my office, who all make half or less than I do are driving brand new $35,000 and $40,000 cars. I haven’t had a car payment since 1990, unless you count the purchase price.
These people think everything’s hunky-dory and business as usual will continue indefinitely. Funny how the size of people has increased with the size of cars. I remember when a pickup truck was a useful tool. Now it’s a giant symbol of masculinity with sides so high, you have to do a clean and jerk to load a bag of cement in it. And the inside is like a 747. How about a radio and speedometer and metal dash?
I have a 2001 F-150 “Super Crew Cab” PU Truck. The thing was “Yuge” when I bought it in 2003. Next to the machines they are putting out today, it looks like a Tonka Truck.
I’ll bite. 1976 Suburban: AWD, 8 MPG. The good old days! (It’s older than I am, but not much!)
I have a 1980 Ford F-150 step side short box 4×4 I bought new in October of ’79. 4 speed with granny gear, posi, the 300 straight six, tilt wheel and the ultimate in 1980, the “beer can window.” Also has the AM-FM cassette option. I don’t think the cassette has worked since it ate an Eagles tape around 35 years ago when I hit a bump. Metal doors, crank windows, no carpet, no AC. Does have tinted glass. Still has the dimmer switch on the floor. Kids are always amazed by that.
This rig had a window sticker of $8,700. Today, they will give you two or three times that much off on one of those overloaded $65,000-$75,000 GMC’s with all those lights and 20″ wheels and leather steering wheels etc. and 10 mpg. They sure do ride nice though.
i have a 1981 version with a standard long box and no fancy beer can window. lol
I also drive a 1998 Camry with 286,000 miles on it. Mechanically sound as I do most of the repairs on it.
The financial day of reckoning is around the corner folks. I can feel it in my 65 year old bones.
“Since the start of this year I’ve found myself in a mental funk. I’m tired of the lies. I’m tired of incessant media propaganda. I’m tired of politicians. I’m tired of economic experts. I’m tired of hucksters touting their “the end is near” tale to sell me something. I’m tired of faux mainstream media journalists and their whining about Trump being mean and threatening the First Amendment.”
Me too.
Good article.
Don’t really have anything else to add right now, just wanted you to know I read it.
Another masterpiece Jim — this one seems to hit home even harder than some of those others did, and that’s saying something. You really know how to get the ole blood pressure & heart rate needle pegged. Great job!
Great analysis, Admin. The unvarnished truth has a tough time butting heads against the combined efforts of the Deep State to mislead, cover-up, paint over and otherwise keep the man on the street’s attention on what the Deep State wants them to be riled at, rather than the truth and what’s coming down the pike at them.
I’m still in FL, trying to pack out, deadline looming for the sale of the house, a very sick wife (she just spent a week in the local hospital) and how it will work out is a big unknown.. No sympathy needed – just positive thoughts for which I thank all the TBPers in advance.
At the moment, reading TBP is a high point in my day considering all else that’s going on!!
muck
Oh no Muck,
prayers for your wife.
Suzanna
Best wishes from here as well Muck. Hope your wife is feeling better.
Muck- Thoughts and prayers for you and Mrs Muck. So sorry to hear of her illnes. B
Godspeed, Muck.
All the best, Muck. Hate to see you leave FL, though. We need all the folks like you we can get.
Almost forgot great article
Admin: Good rant. The leftists’ overwhelmingness (is that a word?) is a tool, and all a part of the Prog’s plan to destroy this Republic and take over the world. I could see these things happening as a child when Kennedy was elected. Been depressed about the future of mankind ever since.
Your commute is a bummer. Too bad that you can’t find work a lot closer, but hen it probably wouldn’t give you time to think about things and develop articles like this.
Our Mennonite friends seem to have the answer to all of this.
A surf party?
miles,have you ever seen the rev billy live?funny as hell–
Admin,
Most of us will be in sympathy and in sync with you.
I remarked to my Mr. that something is wrong, (in 07), the clue
being that people were no longer repairing dings & bumps on
their cars. I asked him to consider parking our retirement funds,
(out of the market) but he felt it would be weird and awkward for
him, (in his company) and sure enough, 50% lost.
Thank you for your observations, because they can serve as our new clue.
We know the market is rigged, (phony values) but people stay in?
We know the “news” is fake, and propaganda, yet some watch and ponder it?
I contend most of us “awake” are still in a normalcy bias mode. We think it
“won’t be that bad.” My sin in this bias is the money/cash I hold in the bank.
Why don’t I just convert 90% to PM? I am in paralysis about it, that’s why.
The good thing I did was to persuade the Mr. (or he persuaded me) to sell the city
house and buy a country place outright. At least I am out of the fray. The Mr. is
in another city, living on his (our) boat, while he looks after his parents in their
last stage. My Mom is 3+ hours away. It will have to do for now.
Act now people, in whatever way you are comfortable doing. You don’t want to
be stuck in a lurch with no food and water saved away, and zero plan if you have
to evacuate. Check out George Webb’s series, and consider vault 7.
Mccain and Graham are class A douche bags. I cannot believe I voted for him some 10 years ago for president. And thats just it– the neocon Republicans are just as bad as the libs– I just don’t get it. Be that as it may, all one has to do is drive though any major city like the 30 blocks, or Cleveland, or Detroit, or Chicago and know that the REAL unemployment is more like 50%, not 4.9%. The only reason you don’t see it in NYC is that Manhattan is booming and all the unemployed are in the outer boroughs hidden away nicely from the fake news “journalists”.
Are you telling me the Catholic priests are in it for the altar boys? I thought that was just an ancillary benefit.
I get tired of the priest bashing as it seems mostly gratuitous. If anyone cares to research you will find that Catholic priests molest less than the clergy of other denominations. It is claimed Rabbis are the worst offenders, but that is still only one in 25. Kids are probably safer around most clergy most of the time, but sadly not always. In spite of it all Catholics seem to be the most hated group out there among the media.
Right on Jake.
You’re a fucking idiot, Jake. One molested child in a million is one too many. Don’t try to justify that behavior with statistics. Evil is evil, whatever the ratio is.
Why are you unwilling to call out who else is doing it and who the worst offenders actually are instead of this endless narrative that it is Catholic priests and no one else? Does misrepresenting make you feel good? Such meager ability to formulate an argument calls into question who is “a fucking idiot.”
Slavish devotion to such media driven memes just shows that the devotees watch way too much TV.
Jake wrote:
“…Catholics seem to be the most hated group out there among the media.”
The power of modern non-stop advertising combined with the Big Lie tactic is being used effectively to demonize the custodians of morality.
Result: the .edu edumacated mouth breathing public obediently head-nods along with the nightly news anchor babe—then they reinforce the message by repeatedly parroting the same misinformation to other mouth-breathers, as if it was their own analysis and conclusion.
Folks, we need to use our critical thinking skillz, and question everything that Big Media says by always asking: “Cui bono?”
Priests (and ministers, rabbis, Boy Scout leaders, etc.) represent our country’s received morality.
But if/when that morality is undermined and destroyed, the country goes straight downhill, and we become easy pickins’ for our morality-free enemies. And that is their unstated agenda—it’s not ‘for the children’, as they self-righteously assert.
Make sense? That’s your critical thinking mind at work …carry on, you’re on the right track.
And of course there are priests, rabbis, Boy Scout troop leaders, etc., who commit outrageously immoral acts. Prosecute them!
But don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. That’s exactly what the Left wants—to make us unsure of what’s right or wrong:
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity…”
So fight back! Publicly show them our moral self-righteousness: when we see ‘Black Lives Matter’ telling people to murder cops, or the ‘LBGTQetc.’ preverts being lionized in the media, bark back at them! Because they’re attacking our country’s morality. (Lena Dunham can do what she wants in private—but leave the rest of us out of it!)
We need to push back against Big Media’s promotion of immorality. Stand up to The Enemy! Their agenda is nothing less than the destruction of our exceptional country (after which they expect to pick up the pieces).
Because the end of Morality = THE END. (Yes, it is that serious.)
My big challenge is that my wife is a total believer in the prevailing mindset, has MANY friends in our NJ town that have inherited wealth or executive husbands who are “apparently” rolling in cash and can provide annual family trips to Disney and the Caribbean, and I finally did the in-depth analysis of our family spending for the past year to confirm my suspicion that we were spending more than I bring home.
Well, it works out to $1500 more per MONTH and she can’t understand why I’ve been “picking on her” to cut out buying every piece of crap toy my girls want when she takes them to ANY store, and in addition to the whole pot of coffee she drinks in the house, the 2-3 Dunkin Donut coffees she gets each day. And besides, why does she need to go get a job now that our kids are both in school? Why can’t I make more? And why don’t you sell that land and house we got a decade ago to have a lifeboat bugout location?
Well, I start talking about peak oil and the 4th turning, the gov’t and media lies, and her mind just snaps shut. “LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, the world isn’t ending, all my friends say you’re nuts, yadda, yadda”.
Fuckin rant not nearly over, but gotta get back to work.
Peaknic-
That sounds toxic.
I’ve got one of those. In the process of ridding myself of the garbage.
With 2 elementary-aged kids, that’s a non-starter for me. I KNOW the damage that will be done to them and I love them too much. And while I was in a mood yesterday, I am willing to take the heat for the ones I love (even if its coming from the wife). I just gets so frustrating that she’ll admit I was right, but only after years of fighting through her cognitive dissonance.
Peaknic, I believe that’s called being unequally yoked. It is a challenge isn’t it? Admin has his challenges – he’s going broke with the Philly soda tax – but he’s got himself a helluva woman in Avalon. Any wife who waits tables like she does is a down-to-earth person. They’re on the same program, which is huge.
My husband’s like this. After working on him for years, he now acknowledges that nothing is as it appears, but mostly still doesn’t want to hear it.
As far as money goes, if I asked him to go food shopping, he’d go to 7-Eleven.
Great article, I’ve said the same thing about restaurant traffic in our area this year but haven’t put nearly the analysis to it. As a possibly interesting aside… My medium sized suburban hospital in a “nice area” has run out of the weirdest things the last few years. Zofran – our most commonly used nausea drug. Out for a couple weeks. Reagent lab test to determine diabetic ketoacidosis – we gave up on that one and now we just make an educated guess based on other parameters. NORMAL SALINE – let me explain that this is the first med started in a code, to push everything else through. On ration for a month. And last night…iv tubing.. Yep. No ivs of any sort are happening without that. I’ve worked as a nurse for 19 years. At least 5 systems. First encountered actual shortages only about 5 years ago, definitely accelerating.
I got hit with something like this a few weeks ago – CVS couldn’t get 10 mg atorvastatin from the manufacturer for almost 2 weeks and finally had to resort to cutting 20 mg tablets in half! This was across the entire NE region. This may just be one of the most common scrips out there!
Ever read “Atlas Shrugged”?
A whole lot of fiction to take in, but something like that was happening to this big railroad concerning supplies. Didn’t end too well.
Hang in there Admin; it’s likely going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Yep. Kinda makes me sad to be forced to see a truth like that about my once beloved U S A. But keep spreading the truth you never know what good your doing.
Looking forward to part two. JQ hit this one out of the park and captured what many of us have been feeling.
Reading this is like watching the tide recede before a tsunami. Most people don’t understand what is about to happen. Forces of nature contract, similar to a cocked gun with the safety off, and once triggered, energy gives birth to velocity then velocity creates destruction via violent impact.
It’s never personal; it just feels that way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqpie0jP5kk
I share your disgust, disbelief and general ennui about the state of things. When I first “woke up” to reality I was certain that the world would end within the week. I mean, how could it possibly not? But, over the past 6 years or so, not only has the excrement not hit the air conditioning, but the global house of cards has grown exponentially. Grown beyond belief, beyond anything I could ever have imagined possible. What the hell is going on, indeed?
On a side note–and I offer this only as a constructive criticism (it is certainly grammar Nazi-ism at its finest)–when the object is countable, the correct adjective is fewer, ie. “fewer people eating out leads to less crowded restaurants.” I (and I fully blame my mother) found it slightly distracting in an otherwise brilliant article.
I imagine myself to be a grammarian, too. The word “fewer” is disappearing in favor of a universally applied “less.” Language is always changing, but why this change is occurring is a mystery to me. Blame the Russians.
I see “less” rather then “fewer” more and more often. I maybe should not care, but it’s just so much less accurate.
Example:
“less people”: shorter? skinnier? not as many?
“fewer people”: DEFINITELY not as many.
There are less people who aren’t stupid these days.
I had the exact same feeling after I “woke up” – there was no way these just-realized bubbles could get any bigger. And yet here were are, eight years later.
It feels like this scene from Spongebob:
Eight years?!
Try TWENTY TWO…and counting.
Twenty-four, if we start from “Crisis Investing for the Rest of the 90’s.”
Nothing has made sense, from a rational-analytical perspective, for over a generation. This is why I learned that the world as it is is produced by the collective insanity of people and there’s no hard-stop limit to how far that irrationality can run.
I THINK (THINK!) we’re in the last stages, but I’ve been wrong on that at least three times before.
“Over the last decade the only place to find some truth has been the alternative media thriving on the uncensored internet.”…….The elimination of this, along with disarming the populace, is directly in the liberal cross hairs.
Control of the courts is also in play. If/when the libs regain the presidency, all hell will break loose, revenge will be the order of the day. Conservative scotus justices will have a bounty on their heads.
Some more inconvenient HARD FACTS:
US Credit Card Debt Sees Biggest Drop In Over Four Years
by Tyler Durden
Mar 7, 2017 3:17 PM
The credit-card fueled spending spree came to a screeching halt in January, when according to the latest just released consumer credit data from the Fed, revolving credit tumbled by $3.8 billion. This was the first decline since February of 2016, and the biggest drop since December 2012.
On the other hand, the far more generous non-revolving, student and auto loans, rose once again, posting a $12.6 billion increase in January, bringing the total consumer credit increase to just $8.8 billion, one half of the $17 billion expected, and down materially from the revised December print of $14.8 billion.
ADMIN.
I think all of us grew up on similar fairy tales. My first enlightenment was forced on me exactly 50 years ago and I don’t recommend that route. The second one came after years of following the money when I realized we had not been misinformed but rather Mal-informed for at least several generations.
Thanks for cheering me up. Now my most pressing concern is have I reached PeakBeer? Scared to open the fridge door to find out. In your honor, I’ll put on the Doors. Like that other Jim says, ‘the future’s uncertain and the end is always near”. You deserve the Nobel Prize for crankin out this site,and commutating daily thru the Philthy DMZ. Sainthood is right around the corner, no doubt.
In my family, we eat out no more than once a month. And there’s only one restaurant we go to that I think makes edible food (Thai restaurant with sushi). The rest are uniformly way over-priced and the food is mediocre at best. Needless to say, as a family, we’ve learned to cook very well.
Dinner for two:
A gourmet steak from a real butcher: Maybe $15.00. A decent bottle of red: maybe $15.00. Salad and or veggies: Maybe $3.00.
So, total bill is $33.00 and NO TIP. Plus, you can eat naked if you want to.
Or, you can eat at TGI Fridays, eat a really crappy meal, and pay $60.00 – $75.00.
I ALWAYS eat at home!!
Admin
Thanks for the great analysis.
I try to go about my life while dealing with a chronic, low-grade rage about the world I live in. The happy alternative is complete detachment, but that feels like just handing everything over to evil. There is also the compelling vision of the slow-motion trainwreck that demands attention. I try to just accept the reality that we live in very troubled times, not peaceful ones.
Admin – these are the articles that drew and kept me at TBP for these several years.
Recently I announced I would be withdrawing, but would return to let you know of my decision, and am so doing now.
I have been dismayed at the antisemitism displayed in comments for some time, and it is rare a thread does not include such. I accepted it, grudgingly, as part of free speech.
However, I simply cannot support your decision to publish what I believe are hate-filled antisemitic article(s). It is your site, and you can publish, or not, whatever you want. That you choose to allow such article(s) to be published is nigh on impossible for me to understand, given it is your site, and you control the prime message. Allowing such messages prime placing draws in the Storm Front crowd, and its ilk, and in my opinion detracts from what you have long tried to do.
I cannot support TBP at this time given what I see transpiring.
I appreciate all you have done, and thank you. I wish you, and the many TBPers that I admire, the best.
I wish you wouldn’t do that Lloph but I do understand. Would like to add that what drew me here originally was the rhetoric of you and countless others. Take some consolation that your effort was worthwhile.
This blog in many ways is a reflection and chronicle of our times. The good and the bad. But at least it is honest and still much better that then the parsings of CNN or the ramblings of a bought and paid for government shill.
I have a great distaste for the antisemitism and yes I find the tone of many articles veering too often into blaming the Joos but I think it is better to discuss in open. Hiding it in closet as they do in my country of Canada gives their claims, I feel, an unrequited legitimacy.
Given the choice of living next door to ahmed or javontae I would choose Rachel and Lev any day of the week. When was the last time anyone other than a jew endowed a museum, art gallery, college, library or a worthwhile tv program etc? Shame on you people for envying ethnic collaboration for the greater good .
llpoh
Do you condemn the Israeli Jews for anti-Semitism when they persecute the Palestinians who have far more Semitic Jewish DNA than Israeli Jews.
Semitics make up a large group and Jews are just a part of that group.
To your credit at least you are leaving like you said unlike your buddy Anonymous.
Llpoh have you stopped to consider just what you’re asking of Jim, for to bow to your demands would mean CENSORSHIP. And if I understand his intent with this site it is for points-of-view to be aired no matter whether he or the crowd agrees or not.
That, my friend, is a paradigm shift onto a whole other track, so where does it stop?
If TBP went in that direction, it wouldn’t be long before no “fringe” opinions could be expressed; then what the hell is the purpose of the website?
I personally have no hatred of Jews but I sure as hell don’t like what Israel has done to the Palestinians. It’s called genocide.
llpoh
I wish you wouldn’t go. Those articles are not interesting to me, so I don’t read them. I post 15 to 20 posts per day, many of which I don’t agree with the author. I’ve championed TBP as a free speech zone, so I think I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t let long-time members post whatever articles they choose. They disappear in a day or two.
Think back to some of the foul things Smokey would say in his comments. There were many I thought went too far, but I never censored him. That’s what makes TBP fun and infuriating at the same time.
Your contributions to TBP have been invaluable and I would hate for you to leave. I’m already in a funk and this would push me further into it.
Admin – I know you have been in funk. I know you have championed free speech, and I for one have gone way too far on many occasions. Many, many occasions.
But I am truly unhappy to see hate-filled articles under the TBP banner. And make no mistake, the article I reference in particular would be most welcome on The Storm Front.
I do not understand it. I think it is disgraceful that long-term contributors would publish such things here. It shows incredible disrespect, in my opinion. Ample opportunity exists for them to comment to their heart’s content without drawing TBP’s banner into that realm.
I ask that contributors do not publish such articles on TBP. I ask them to remember what TBP is really about, and what message is being sent.
Thank you (and SSS) for your kind words. I honestly was not looking to be voted back “onto the island”. I could not just walk away from our long-term friendship, without explaining myself.
I will resume my position on the porch.
I had this nightmare that Dutchman became the lone big dog after LLPOH, Stucky and SSS went on hiatus. And, and, people were actually parroting his idiotic ideas. Kinda made me long for BW to apply a high colonic to old Dutchman, whom I can’t hate, since he has mice in his attic and the old lady ain’t too friendly either.
I called a couple of other posters shitheads last week over anti-Jew stuff they posted. They said what they wanted, I called them out as I wanted. Seems a civilized way to conduct ourselves. No one is injured and they got to know that everyone did not appreciate their views on that subject.
Atta-boy, Jake. Balls, don’t leave home without ’em.
I got quite a few down-votes for taking the wrong side on the hug-an-illegal issue. Wow! Now I know how the big dogs felt to kick ass and take no names.
Perhaps you can elaborate, unless you were one of the shitheads?
“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”
-Tommy Smothers
What the hell is going on? Answer: we live in a Fake World with Fake Governments, Fake Leaders, Fake Policies, Fake Economy, Fake Banks, Fake Monopoly Money, Fake Interest Rates, Fake Markets, Fake Science, Fake Statistics, Fake News…just about Fake Everything as far as the eye can see created by very powerful entities. The key is to understand who has the power to create this Fake World of modern enslavement that we live in because only by understanding the forces controlling us can we reclaim our sovereignty, freedom and economic independence.
Bravo wdg !
When I started posting here Admin. would roast my backside almost daily for stating that it is all a lie, he would say that when I looked in the mirror I would doubt it was me looking back.
Slowly but surely, some of the TBP community caught on and started the journey out of the matrix. It is difficult to deal with leaving the comfort of the lies, the comfort of the construct. The adult version of finding out that there is no Santa Claus and Christmas is a marketing tool. It will make us all stronger and wiser to see through the deception.
For me it has been a 20 year painful voyage of discovery. And just when I thought I had hit rock bottom and it could not get any worse…I found out that in fact I had a long way to go. I feel that I am now closer to the truth but now I want all the traitors pulling strings from behind the curtain totally exposed, brought to justice and when convicted of high treason and crimes against humanity…hung.
@wdg, the simple fact that people are figuring out how much fake shit out there is a good thing. Next step is to crush it, as your ending sentence says in your 5:01 comment above.
A great piece as usual Admin.
Feeling too some burn out as well and can’t seem to find the energy for rants. Could be post election lull. Who knows.
Or maybe just resigned to watching water receed out of bay knowing full well that soon the great waves of Tsunami will return.
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The nature of my job in construction is a forecaster for what is coming soon. Not what is here now. There has been a very troubling and significant slowdown in last six to eight months. Though it is bad now, I think and have grounds to fear that it is going to get much worse.
Great analysis and the sentiments expressed by Admin seem widely shared, and not just by the readers of this blog.
Admin’s timeline of disillusionment coincide with mine, although the Iraq War was the end of the line for me. It started with Waco and ended when Scott Ritter, the American member of the UN weapons team investigating Iraq for WMD, was constantly ignored, ridiculed, and then pilloried by the MSM, when he demonstrated time and time again that the WMD were non-existent. Then, the falsehood perpetrated by Colin Powell at the UN- a bold faced lie – was the impetus for the invasion.
Of course, Ritter was absolutely correct, but to this day the MSM still promotes the Iraqi WMD hoax, and also insists that Iraq had something to do with 911, which they didn’t.
Before Iraq, however, Waco should have proven to everyone that the US Government had become lawless and deadly. Of course, at that time it was headed up by the head criminal psycopath and deviant, Bill Clinton. When the tea leaves on FUSA are read, his presidency will be the milestone when the US government was taken over by a global criminal racket, which still persists to this day.
Bill Clinton, depraved criminal psychopath that he is, was their dream candidate – so compromised that he could be compelled to do anything, not that he needed much encouragement when money and sexual abuse are involved.
So over the last 25 years we have witnessed, like a slow drip steadily getting worse, the normalization of delusion, dysfunction, deviancy, and depravity. We suffer rule by idiots, criminals, and psychopaths who are intent on destroying this great nation to maintain power and continue their criminal looting of the people.
When is enough, enough?
Llpoh should stick around to remind us when the US government became lawless and deadly.
Right on Rider. “…Waco should have proven to everyone that the US Government had become lawless and deadly.”
EVERYONE – Not just the few of us who haven’t forgotten the murder of Randy Weaver’s family just the year before.
Hi. I hope everyone is doing well. I’d like to promote a website: History’s Observer. It was created to educate but also has editorial content. It connects past to present in a lot of the articles, so far.
I am a former teacher in Philly. About a year ago, I spoke, through comments, to the owner of the Burning Platform and read the posts on occasion, when I can.
Thanks for the content in this site. Very insightful. I hope you like historysobserver.com
Fantastic article — I share so many of the same sentiments.
The MSM has belched up the Russian boogeyman for months now. However we have proof that there has been no collusion between Trump and Russians. Just a few days ago, Trump stated that Obama had wiretapped the Trump Towers. Now the MSM has surrounded Trump, yet again, demanding proof. It is there before them — they will not mention it: the accusations of Russian involvement with Michael Flynn were leaked from those same wiretaps that Trump learned of.
There is a coup happening before our very eyes. We have members of both the NSA and CIA that are involved in top-level surveillance with EVERYONE in America — Trump and his administration are but a small portion of those under surveillance and being monitored.
The CIA is directly involved in this coup — we have historical evidence of this in more than fifty countries in the past fifty years. Now they are focusing on America so they can overthrow our Constitutional Republic for their form of ‘democracy’ — their banana republic.
We are witnessing the takeover of our Constitutional government. We are also witnessing the takeover of our American culture. This is predicted in The Fourth Turning.
Lots of violence without rule of law.
Kill someone elses kids, good to eat.
Then eat your own.
Hard to watch. This is what happens when land, title, and money wash out to sea.
What are you going to do? Invoke fire from heaven, and suck the ashes?
Try not to initially answer llpoh’s comments, Admin (your call, of course). I’d like to take a crack at them. In the meantime …….
“Since the start of this year I’ve found myself in a mental funk.”
—-Admin
Well, me too, except mine started last June when FBI Director James Comey announced, against FBI policy, that the Bureau would not pursue charges against Hillary Clinton, when the case against her for mishandling classified government information was iron clad. You knew about my mental implosion over this horrible decision since I shared it with you in private channels.
Your “mental funk” will not go away quickly, but mine is starting to subside nearly 9 months later. Just starting. I encourage you to soldier on as best you can. If you don’t, your opponents will have won, and another truth-teller in the Wilderness of Lies will go missing in action.
“I simply cannot support your decision to publish what I believe are hate-filled antisemitic article(s). …. you control the prime message. Allowing such messages prime placing draws in the Storm Front crowd”
—-llpoh, highly edited by me
“I do not censor.”
—-Admin, as he has repeated dozens of times since he founded TBP
Well, the wealthy Choctaw Indian and the headstrong Irishman running TBP, after all these years, are finally are at loggerheads. Llpoh complains, in essence, that TBP can do better. What exactly is “doing better” than a lack of censorship?
I agree with you, llpoh, 100% on some of the anti-Semitic articles and comments posted and made on this site. 100%. They make me cringe. If my Jewish friends, and they are numerous, knew I visited, commented, and submitted articles here, they might be aghast or shocked. I don’t know, nor would I care. I am what I am, and I am not anti-Semitic.
As an American Indian, you have been through the worst face of American society, llpoh. So have the Jews. Let if go and take comfort that, because of the odious comments and articles that you have read here, there is work we all must do to dispel and shut down the hatred. It’s out there. TBP exposes it.
Thanks SSS. Please see above. I have resumed patrolling the porch.
I don’t post much these days – here or at other sites – but I’m still reading and learning and your writing continues to impress and I am grateful. Thank you.
I’m finding relief in being creative – not necessarily in things people purchase but to please me and mine. My latest is a Wilhelm Reich Orgone energy accumulator which required a heavy duty industrial strength sewing machine, galvanized screening and lots of wool blankets!
As someone who came from the left I have been appalled at the poor manners of “friends” who feel free to say whatever negative comments they want about Trump voters but are incapable of looking in the mirror or rationally discussing the faults of the left/Dems.
But to that point I made an effort to find an analogy and this past weekend I think it struck home, so here goes: If we, as a Nation, were a computer, we are getting ready to experience the worst sort of hard-drive crash and loss of data/operations imaginable – and the left has been busy polishing the screen of fingerprints.
I also don’t think the left understands that the far Right hates Trump as much as they do and that they are now bed-fellows with the likes of the Koch brothers. I try to point that out whenever possible.
To LLPOH: Perhaps – during these trying times – all manner of reasoning comes to the fore. People are hurting, people are scared, people are pissed. I didn’t appreciate it either but on a website such as Admin’s I have no doubt the Trolls are working overtime – both in providing content and to responding in a manner that encourages even more.
My two cents.
Your commute sounds identical to mine in terms of time and variances.
But I quit trying to gauge the economy based on traffic years ago when I realized the more important factor was social and political stability. I measure that in pop-tart and filling sales.
Lately I’d say some of the anxiety has subsided. Trump has alleviated some of those concerns continent wide. For now.
As for being young and dumb at one stage I think you’re in good company here.
Are we fighting the right fight?
I don’t think so. My guess is that’s the funk. Here are three things that I see as unavoidably funkable in today’s culture:
1. False government. Starts with Nimrod, but runs straight until today. Frankly, when Israel rejected God as their king and fell prey to the host of symptoms that Samuel enumerated, we were lost. It’s gotten worse from there. Now the US is promoting a wall, nuclear proliferation, stronger armies; the list goes on and on.
2. False religion. I’m not sure where to attribute this: Ishmael or when Israel didn’t eradicate people God said should have been exterminated. My opinion is that religion is what you do, not whom you send your money to. Catholics, Jews, Islam, all mostly false religion: an attempt to subvert people to a cause.
3. “The root of all evil is the want of money.” Interesting statement, but combine it with the myth of compound interest, or any exponential growth scenario, it’s clear to me that hubris encourages governments to attempt to regulate the medium of exchange. In a small case look at Birmingham and the button makers until they were regulated.
Just a work in progress, I’d love to have conversations with anyone on these principles. And in a bigger sense, I’m sure my view is too narrow, please expound! 🙂
I think that every religion holds its God to be the perfect ideal, but I am just informed that he (what- in a careless moment?) created a bunch of people that had to be destroyed by the more perfectly made ones: ” False religion. I’m not sure where to attribute this: Ishmael or when Israel didn’t eradicate people God said should have been exterminated.”
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
The LOVE of OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY is the root of all evil.
IFIFY.
Money is the engine of capitalism. Honest money, that is, money that can only be acquired by producing something that a willing person will buy for more than the cost of the total inputs (no cheating by dumping costs onto others.) Only with money can you choose to save (AKA not consume every iota of what you produce) and then exchange that past productivity (in the form of money) for what is being produced NOW.
Money allows not only avoiding the mismatch of barter but also temporal mismatch (i.e., put time between production and consumption.) Without money, how in hell am I to still live once no one will hire me for work?
I do tire of people claiming the problem is “money” per se, and not avarice…which amounts to wanting to unjustly take other people’s money (time, product, property, work, etc.) by force or con artistry.
PS: Fiat money (and central banking) are VAST criminal enterprises that allow the monetary authority to rob everyone blind, deaf and dumb.
Much better said, thanks Barnum.
Admin – re being in a funk, that stuff comes and goes. For me, it generally relates to not having challenges in front of me. What can I conquer next? My kids have flown the nest, largely, my career goals are no longer an issue, what shall I do what shall I do. Right now I am building a big vegetable garden. I am searching out old-fashioned varieties at the moment, that largely disappeared when the family veggie garden became a thing of the past.
Personally, I need a challenge. I search them out, and it helps me overcome the blues.
We could use more of the old you – fiery and tornado-wild. Kick some ass. You’ll feel better. Really.
Start your book – you have enough material now to write your best-seller.
Llpoh
The funk does come and go. This one is mostly tied to health issues with Avalon.
Something will come along to fire me up.
The book will have to wait for retirement. I couldn’t run the website, work the job, and write a book. Not enough time.
Admin – sorry to hear that re Avalon. I will keep a good thought for her. Things happen most unexpectedly.
My biz partner’s 48 yr old son just had a major heart attack. Life and good health are precious things.
Masterpiece – i printed this one out hardcopy!
SSS says:
March 7, 2017 at 7:12 pm
“I simply cannot support your decision to publish what I believe are hate-filled antisemitic article(s). …. you control the prime message. Allowing such messages prime placing draws in the Storm Front crowd”
—-llpoh, highly edited by me
“I do not censor.”
—-Admin, as he has repeated dozens of times since he founded TBP
Well, the wealthy Choctaw Indian and the headstrong Irishman running TBP, after all these years, are finally are at loggerheads. Llpoh complains, in essence, that TBP can do better. What exactly is “doing better” than a lack of censorship?
I agree with you, llpoh, 100% on some of the anti-Semitic articles and comments posted and made on this site. 100%. They make me cringe. If my Jewish friends, and they are numerous, knew I visited, commented, and submitted articles here, they might be aghast or shocked. I don’t know, nor would I care. I am what I am, and I am not anti-Semitic.
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You are an admitted admirer of the war criminal Netanyahu. You have no credibility on this issue. If your Jewish friends share your views of the criminal zionist regime then they are fucking neocon traitors. You, I know are not a traitor; you are just a dumbass on this issue.
What will it take for you fucks to learn to differentiate between anti-semitism and israel-first, zionist neocon traitorous scum? Neither you nor Llpoh have any excuses. I think you are both simply old fucks who become intellectually lazy.
Stormfront is a bullshit smokescreen. Yes of course I have seen anti-jewish rants on this site are beyond reasonable discourse. Consider it a warning. There will be a lot more of it if people don’t get their heads out of their ass and start treating Israel as the malicious parasite that it is. Be leaders, make the case now before it’s too late.
Many Jewish critics of Israel, famous (such as Noam Chomsky and Norm Finkelstein) and many more non-famous critics cannot visit Israel. The “law of return” is bullshit unless you buy into the entire encyclopedia of innocent exceptionalism ideology. And here are you two, SSS and Llpoh, who want to bring this censorship and exclusionism here too. Well fuck you for that. Fuck you both. A thousand dicks up your ass (I love arab profanity…so poetic). Fuck Israel too.
Z – yawn.
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Let us know if you ever get a second trick.
Good article Admin.
Thoughts and prayers to you and Avalon also.
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I come here a lot and I never post. In fact I never post anywhere. Usually. I feel the need to post as I feel your pain. Er pain or jolt into reality. A reality that has become more prevalent. Some days I just feel old watching these youngsters who swallowed the kool aid. They probably don’t know what that is/was. In any case I love to come here and read what people post as it helps me to feel like there are others who get it.
Except for the commute and being 58, I could have wrote every word of this. Every freaking word…
Love your site, buy everything I can through your Amazon link. I can’t tell you enough how much the truth lifts my soul. I needed this after the last few weeks I’ve had.
yo – my next door neighbor raises the little bastards. Some of them are mean little shits. Careful what you wish for.
Llpoh, We are not worthy of your intelligence and insight. I think you would find kindred spirits here:
http://events.weeklystandard.com/
Z – yawn. By “we” you mean you. I know you are dumb as a bag of hammers, but hellfire, even a hammer manages to hit a nail now and again. You must have pock marks all over your face from trying to feed yourself with a fork. Stick with a spoon boy, afore you put out your other eye.
Llpoh
Llpoh, a very uncreative and puerile response. I am disappointed. I understand however. It’s a bitch when reality is not your friend.
Llpoh- It would be a sad day if you left for good. I don’t think you will as you can’t divorce yourself from the site. This place is like crack to the crackhead.
Get over your butthurt and come on back, I always read your posts. What do ya say? 🙂
“This place is like crack to the crackhead.”
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I think you’re on to something, B. Admin’s webmaster must be deploying some kind of high-tech subliminal hypno wizardry that has me addicted.
Nah…I just like it here.