In Part One and Part Two of this article I revealed how the Deep State’s fake data and fake news propaganda machine can be overcome by opening your eyes, observing reality, understanding how Fed created inflation has destroyed our lives, and why the election of Trump was the initial deplorable pushback to Deep State evil.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” – H.L. Mencken
“This new regime will enthrone itself for the duration of the Crisis. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation’s attention. The regeneracy will be solidly under way.” – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe
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A counter-revolution by the gun owning normal people in the 85% red area of the country that voted for Trump would not be a pleasant experience for the paid protesters, vagina hat wearing feminazis, and the safe space anti-free speech lefties on campuses across the land.
I must admit I love Trump’s pugnacious style. I love how he treats the despicable corporate media. I love how he responds to baseless accusations by his contemptible opponents on the left and right. The representatives of the Deep State – Schumer, Pelosi, Obama, McCain, Graham, Kristol, CNN, NYT, Washington Post, MSNBC, Soros, and anyone else willing to confront Trump are met with disdain, contempt, and abuse from the president. I love that he continues to go on the road and hold rallies with the people who elected him. I love how he demoralized his opponents by giving one of the best State of the Union speeches in history.
I love how he put his opponents back on their heels by accusing Obama of wire-tapping Trump Tower. No punch is taken without two being thrown. He will never conform to the way the liberal corporate media and his opponents want him to behave. Twitter is the dagger he uses to avoid the fake news media filter and plunge into his opponents hearts. The faux journalists despise his use of Twitter. When you see the violence beginning to break out between Trump haters and Trump supporters, and read stories about Obama leading an insurgency to undermine Trump’s presidency, every normal person must be prepared to do whatever necessary to support his radical agenda of draining the swamp.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” – H.L. Mencken
The fake news media scoffed when Trump declared what an awful economic mess Obama had left after eight years of a debt fueled Keynesian failure of epic proportions. These fake journalists are good at looking stylish, speaking in serious tones, and reading false narratives written for them by their corporate bosses, but impartially assessing our economic situation is beyond their pea brain comprehension.
The eye opening chart below shows you how far we’ve come since 2000, or how far we’ve fallen, depending on your point of view. It looks to me like Trump has been handed a bucket of shit by his egotistical sociopathic boastful predecessor. Obama can now concentrate on his true passions – his NCAA pool and golf – while Trump is left to try and clean up a $20 trillion mess.
The Bush and Obama administrations frittered away any chance for a sustainable long-term economic paradigm by fighting unnecessary wars of choice, expanding unfunded entitlements, and allowing Wall Street and their Federal Reserve puppets to fraudulently pillage the nation’s wealth. Trump has been left with a debt saturated stagnant economy with rising interest rates and declining corporate profits. This is where reality meets slogans like Make America Great Again.
This is where understanding what happens during Fourth Turnings keeps you focused on what is likely to happen, not what you wish to happen. Slogans and false hope don’t fly during Fourth Turnings. My natural skepticism kicks in when politicians, including Trump, make promises that are mathematically impossible.
I know we are less than two months into his presidency and no legislation has actually been submitted, let alone passed, but impartially assessing his wish list of economic priorities makes me uneasy. I’m not hubristic enough to declare his presidency a failure already, like Karl Denninger, Paul Craig Roberts and some other blowhards. Judging a man before he’s actually done anything tells me more about the judger rather than the man being judged.
He has certainly made some questionable cabinet choices and the number of senior advisors with ties to the Vampire Squid on the Face of America (aka Goldman Sachs) is worrisome. But whenever my doubts about Trump’s agenda begin to surface, I immediately picture the crooked globalist Deep State tool Hillary Clinton making the State of the Union speech last week. And all is well with the world again. My mental funk would be a full blown suicide watch level depression if Crooked Hillary was running the show.
But that isn’t going to keep me from pointing out the mathematically provable impact of his plans on the budget. We already have a $20 trillion national debt, with 10,000 Baby Boomers turning 65 years old every day for the next decade. Annual deficits are already on automatic pilot to reach $1 trillion over the next few years. This is reality. Slogans won’t change it. Hope won’t change it. Delusional optimism by consumers won’t change it. With this backdrop, Trump has proposed the following economic initiatives:
- He’s vowed to not touch entitlements, even though they account for 50% of current spending and will grow to 60% over the next ten years.
- He’s vowed to rebuild the military, with 50,000 more soldiers and upgrades to fighting hardware, at a cost north of $50 billion.
- He’s floated the idea of a $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
- The border wall will cost between $15 and $25 billion.
- His tax reduction plans will add between $2.6 trillion and $3.9 trillion, after accounting for increased growth, over the next decade.
- His much discussed tariffs on foreign produced goods may result in jobs staying in America, but will surely result in higher prices for people buying those goods. Whether this will be a net positive or net negative is open to debate.
- With inflation beginning to accelerate, interest rates will rise. A 1% rise across the yield curve would result in an additional $200 billion per year in interest, a 50% increase from the current level of $400 billion.
Discretionary spending only accounts for 15% of the entire budget. There isn’t savings anywhere near the level of spending increases baked into the budget, let alone Trump’s new grand spending plans. If Trump gets everything he has proposed, without touching entitlements, he would depart in eight years with a $30 trillion national debt and an entitlement crisis just over the horizon. Of course, the likelihood of reaching $30 trillion in debt without triggering a global financial catastrophe beforehand is about as likely as Trump making a sobbing apology to Obama for accusing him of wiretapping Trump Tower.
As I stated at the beginning of this article, I am less sure about just about everything, as time goes on. Every day I see pronouncements from people I respect like David Stockman, Chris Martenson, Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and many others predicting a great crash in the immediate future. They will be right eventually, but they’ve been saying the same thing for the last five years. I agree with their reasoning, but I’ve given up on predicting the timing. They all have one thing in common – their living depends on you buying their newsletters and books. Certainty about looming disaster sells. Since my living doesn’t depend on selling anything, I’m comfortable pondering possibilities and trying to understand how the mood of the country will ultimately propel the unfolding events of this Fourth Turning.
Trump has been referencing the 16% rise in the Dow since his election as proof his proposed economic policies will create millions of jobs, 4% GDP growth, and a new economic boom. That seems a little bit disingenuous, as during the debates and on the campaign trail he said the stock market was a giant bubble. He said the Fed had created multiple bubbles in stocks, bonds and real estate with their QE and ZIRP “Make Bankers Rich Again” schemes. Of course, he was right.
His honesty was refreshing. When an extremely overvalued market rises another 16% over a four month period, one might ponder whether we’ve got a blow-off top in progress. Certainly the brainless spokesmodels on CNBC or the bevy of Bloomberg stock shills paraded on camera to bloviate about why this seven year Fed induced bull market is just getting started, will not be telling Joe Sucker to sell.
Any honest financial analyst, who has taken a Statistics course in college, knows whenever something is 2 standard deviations beyond the mean you have a rarely occurring extreme outcome. In fact, the average stock has only been more overvalued one time in stock market history – 2001. Since that market overvaluation was solely driven by dot.com stocks, median stock valuations today are even higher than 2001. This isn’t opinion or survey data.
Doug Short and John Hussman have used impartial valuation metrics which have been accurate for over 100 years. These valuation levels are 160% above historical norms and imply a market crash of 50% to 60%, which would only bring the market back to historical averages. I wonder how many Boomers and GenXers could survive the third stock market bust in the last seventeen years.
The cock sure Wall Street analysts are as smug about this market as they were in 2000 and 2007. They scoff at the possibility of a 50% crash even though the market crashed by 45% in 2000/2001 and plummeted by 51% over a sixteen month period in 2008/2009. As usual, there are a myriad of ridiculous rationales for why it’s different this time. There will always be absurd justifications for outlandish valuations made by those whose paychecks depend on the greater fool theory.
John Hussman, Doug Short, Robert Schiller, and dozens of other rational thinking, honest, data oriented people are right. But that doesn’t mean the market won’t go up another 20% before the inevitable collapse. I have no idea when it will happen, but it will happen. Considering we are in year nine of a twenty year or so Fourth Turning, with the worst part yet to come, I’d venture a guess we will see the next financial crisis during Trump’s first term.
The nattering nabobs of nonsense at the Fed and in the financial mainstream press insist their monetary machinations over the last eight years have not created inflation. They clearly believe in the theory of the bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed by a math challenged, technologically distracted, normalcy bias ridden populace. Anyone who thinks the $3.5 trillion of QE money was to help the people on Main Street is either a government bootlicker or an establishment crony paid to spread false propaganda. In addition to the BLS under-reporting inflation by 100%, the Fed’s monetary inflation was pumped straight into the veins of the monetary drug addict Wall Street banks.
While Main Street wages declined and senior citizens have gotten minuscule increases in their life sustaining Social Security payments, the Wall Street bankers, who committed the greatest control fraud in world history, have gotten record bonuses and the freedom to fake their profits through legal accounting fraud (mark to fantasy).
The purpose of TARP, QE and ZIRP has been to sustain, enrich, and keep in power a ruling class of sociopaths hell bent on pillaging the last vestiges of global wealth from unsuspecting citizens. Jamie Dimon believes everything done by the Fed and Treasury has been wonderful, as he plays tennis in his $5 million opulent NYC penthouse suite. Meanwhile, your granny has to decide between her overpriced heart medication or groceries driven higher by the Fed generated inflation.
I don’t know when the center will give way. I don’t know when the stock market will crash. I don’t know when the Federal’s Reserve and other central banks’ shamefully reckless and illegal monetary machinations will blow up the world. I don’t know whether Trump will succeed or fail in his quest to drain the swamp. I don’t know whether the Deep State forces will take him out. I don’t know whether a civil war is on the horizon. I don’t know whether a global military conflict is in the offing. I don’t know when this greater depression will be revealed in all its glory to the millions of people with their heads up their asses in denial about reality. But, I do know whatever happens during the remainder of this Fourth Turning will be driven by debt, global disorder and civic decay, just as it has from the beginning.
I don’t know what the hell is going on. And more often than not, I don’t care anymore. I’m tired of howling at the moon, with no result. Life gets put into perspective when a family member is struck with a totally random health issue and you have to see them suffer through treatments that make them sicker than the actual condition. I know times are going to get much tougher. I have no misconceptions Trump can somehow reverse the course of the US Titanic after it has struck the iceberg of debt.
I believe what’s wrong with this country is unfixable. I think Trump’s legacy will be the tearing down of the corrupt, decrepit, self-serving, evil status quo. His in your face, no holds barred style so angers the established social order; they come out of the shadows to fight him. The sinister intelligence services and Soros/Obama left wing terrorists are being revealed as the true enemies of the common people. We know our enemy. That’s the first step.
I will do my best to get my kids through college debt free as long as they pursue a serious degree. I will continue to pay down my mortgage debt as quickly as possible. I will try to deal with my own health issues and help my wife deal with hers. We will take care of our aging mothers. Family will always come first. We’re only on this earth for a short time and while I get intellectual satisfaction from trying to change hearts and minds through writing, the only thing that truly matters to me is my wife and the futures of my three sons.
I’ll prepare to the best of my ability for the worst, while trying to enjoy the present. Over the last nine years we’ve created a dysfunctional family of internet misfits on my website. I feel an obligation to keep that alive, especially for the talented writers who have blossomed with an open platform for their views, even though my own enthusiasm has been waning for a while.
I’ve tried my best to seek truth, reveal government deception, and generally be a thorn in the side of the establishment. Based on Mencken’s definition, I’m a dangerous man to the government, who has spread discontent among those capable of thinking things out for themselves. You may not realize it, but the war has already begun. No matter what the hell is going on, I sure hope the good guys win.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.” – H.L. Mencken
What’s Going On?
I’m going to describe as simply as possible what is happening in the world today. I’d like to emphasize that this is my opinion which is based upon years of study and observation in many disciplines including but not limited to science, both biological and physical, history, geopolitics, and comparative religion as they relate to Christianity and the bible.
We are living in the end times and while some here may believe we are going through a cycle which will be followed by better Earthly times I would disagree. On November 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the public assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A single assassin, was accused, but was murdered on live television before he could say much more than “I’m just a patsy”. Today most of us understand that the assassination of JFK was a wide ranging conspiracy and many believe it represented a coup d’etat. I don’t believe it was really a coup but more of a very public act by the hidden powers that had long been running things in relative secrecy.
On September 11, 2001 this same power staged the most blatant false flag, their “new Pearl Harbor” by destroying the World Trade Center complex using Islamic terrorists this time as their patsies. Today, most of us who refuse to engage in cognitive dissonance recognize the impossibilities of the official lies and understand it was, but, another very public display of treachery by the “power elite” who have since been using that event as a stepping stone towards their ultimate goal of total world domination.
Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation describes two end time beasts both given power by Satan. The first, the beast from the sea, has long been identified as Romanism, the papacy. Enjoying a 1260 year worldly political reign of terror until the very end of the 18th century. At that same time emerged the 2nd beast, the beast of the Earth “with two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.”. In a later chapter of this same book the sea is defined as “peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues” which implies the beast of the Earth emerged from a relatively unpopulated area. The power, of course, that began like this at that time is none other than the USA. Starting out with the horns of a lamb as a shelter for Protestant Christianity, who today can deny that she now speaks like a dragon? Meanwhile, the Protestants no longer protest as they have been largely defeated through the Jesuit controlled counter reformation and today desire unity with the Beast from the Sea. The 2nd beast has not yet fully developed its power, but, in my opinion it’s well on its way and there is no force on Earth that can stop it. The best we can hope for are some speed bumps along the way. God has made it clear that He will allow Satan to nearly develop his Tower of Babel, 2nd edition, but the final solution will be provided by Him, through Him, in His own time, and not by the paltry efforts of man.
The beast from the sea may have seemed to have suffered a deadly blow by 1800 but who, today, can deny that the whole world wonders after the beast? Anybody who followed the recent visit of the Jesuit pope, Francis, to the USA in 2015 witnessed and likely wondered themselves. The 2nd beast, according to this same chapter of Revelation, will provide the power and force the worship of the first, “And he causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.” The solution for us, then, is the opposite. Take the advice given in Revelation 18: “Get out, O my people, out of her, so that you not be parties to her sins, and not receive of her plagues.”
Meanwhile, console yourselves with the wisdom of King David: “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace…” (Psalm 37:1-11).
Ditchner: I didn’t down thumb you. I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion if not egregiously vulgar. All my life I’ve heard about various boogeymen. If it’s not the Catholics its the Jews. If it’s not the Jews it’s the Masons. I’m not even going to say you’re wrong because frankly, I don’t know. I’m just saying in my life’s experience, I haven’t seen it.
Flashman, It’s a huge subject and takes quite a bit of study. While we still have a free Internet it’s a great time to become acquainted with the true enemy of God and humanity. Here is a quote from Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War as recorded by Charles Chiniquy in his fabulous book, “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome” that I cannot recommend highly enough. What Lincoln said then is still true today as Rome never changes.
“It is with the Southern leaders of this civil war as with the big and small wheels of our railroad cars. Those who ignore the laws of mechanics are apt to think that the large, strong, and noisy wheels they see are the motive power, but they are mistaken. The real motive power is not seen; it is noiseless and well concealed in the dark, behind its iron walls. The motive power are the few well-concealed pails of water heated into steam, which is itself directed by the noiseless, small but unerring engineer’s finger.
“The common people see and hear the big, noisy wheels of the Southern Confederacy’s cars; they call they Jeff Davis, Lee, Toombs, Beauregard, Semmes, ect., and they honestly think that they are the motive power, the first cause of our troubles. But this is a mistake. The true motive power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns, and the confessional boxes of Rome.
“There is a fact which is too much ignored by the American people, and with which I am acquainted only since I became President; it is that the best, the leading families of the South have received their education in great part, if not in whole, from the Jesuits and the nuns. Hence those degrading principles of slavery, pride, cruelty, which are as a second nature among so many of those people. Hence that strange want of fair play, humanity; that implacable hatred against the ideas of equality and liberty as we find them in the Gospel of Christ. You do not ignore that the first settlers of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, South California and Missouri were Roman Catholics, and that their first teachers were Jesuits. It is true that those states have been conquered or bought by us since. But Rome had put the deadly virus of her antisocial and anti-Christian maxims into the veins of the people before they became American citizens. Unfortunately, the Jesuits and the nuns have in great part remained the teachers of those people since. They have continued in a silent, but most efficacious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools, our rights and our liberties in such a way that this terrible conflict became unavoidable between the North and the South. As I told you before, it is to Popery that we owe this terrible civil war.
“I would have laughed at the man who would have told me that before I became the President. But Professor Morse has opened my eyes on that subject. And now I see that mystery; I understand that engineering of hell which, though not seen or even suspected by the country, is putting in motion the large, heavy, and noisy wheels of the state cars of the Southern Confederacy. Our people is not yet ready to learn and believe those things, and perhaps it is not the proper time to initiate them to those dark mysteries of hell; it would throw oil on a fire which is already sufficiently destructive.
“You are almost the only one with whom I speak freely on that subject. But sooner or later the nation will know the real origin of those rivers of blood and tears, which are spreading desolation and death everywhere. And then those who have caused those desolations and disasters will be called to give an account of them.
“I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase till its flanks will be torn by a flash of lightning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone, such as the world has never seen, will pass over this country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to south. After it is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for Popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been for ever swept away from our country. Neither I nor you, but our children, will see those things.”
Now, here we are in 2017 and the people of this country are largely clueless of these things that Lincoln knew only too well. In other conversations recorded by Chiniquay, he revealed that he was well aware that the Jesuits would eventually succeed in assassinating him but he was very much at peace and saw little difference between a knife to the heart versus a heart attack.
Shorter Ditch
What,I think, is happening is this. Ordo Ab Chao. It means Order from Chaos. Thesis + Anti-thesis equals synthesis.
You know what you want then you create a problem to institute the solution.
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Ordo Ab Chao with a generous helping of Khazarian, Russian and Merikan mafia baked in the cake.
Jesuits assassinating him? He lived to be 90. In any case, here’s a good tome about the current state of the Roman Catholic Church
Very, very interesting. Several things of which I was unaware in your two postings. Thanks for sharing them with us all. I’m not sure why many gave you a “thumbs down”–probably because they disagreed with a) your opinions, or b) your assertions, or c) your worldview. I suspect, sadly, that for many it’s c). That’s the world we live in. I don’t totally agree with any of the above, but found your comments thoughtful, civil, and informative.
Ditchner, the Catholic church today is a relic, you are barking up the wrong tree.
Todays news. Argentina, a very catholic place, feminists abort Jesus at a church while everyone just watches.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.lifesitenews.com/mobile/news/feminist-dressed-as-virgin-mary-pretends-to-abort-jesus-in-front-of-cathedr
Every day now I see things from the left that reach new lows beyond what I think is possible for depravity, insanity and pure evil. I cant help tbinking its like what the fall of Lucifer and all the angels who followed must be like, though I dont even really believe in that.
Rome never changes. If they had the power, they’d be torturing us and burning us at the stake for being heretics (people who disagree) today. They’ve never wavered from their claim that destruction of heretics is their sovereign responsibility. Watch out for government, though, as they will have the power to enforce “…and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed”. *
The mark of the beast is all about worship. “Worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” ** That’s the best advice I can offer to the world.
* Revelation (of Jesus) 13
**Revelation (of Jesus) 14
My point is the Catholic church DONT HAVE any power now, this is like worrying about being scalped by redskins.
The Masons and Jews (one in the same) will always work against the happy and content because they are working for anyone they see as unhappy.
So if you are happy the Jew and Mason are coming at you to help “the oppressed”
Get it?
Those eevull masonjoos are probably the ones who stole my AR magazines while I was in the hospital. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the regyoulah joos. Had to be the eevull joos. And masons, too of course.
are you blind?
ditchner
Thanks brother, better than the article. Truth always prevails.
They can do nothing to me, no one can snatch me from Jesus.
Tying everything to Biblical nonsense seems to be an American obsession. You’re nuts.
The Bible & an afterlife are fairy tales for those that need a belief. Look at life for what is is.
Good & evil. The 10 commandments are really just common sense for communal living.
Get over Religion — it’s dangerous to your mental wellbeing.
Amen james, where the hell did these kooks come from ?
You are so naive.
Since you mention good and evil, here’s an exercise for you, James: Formulate an adequate basis for a real good and a real evil apart from the transcendent. A REAL morality, not a majority-vote man-created morality, or a set of instructions from our genes to enhance our survival. A morality that you can point to that you expect a person you’re accusing of wrongdoing to acknowledge, and either admit the wrongdoing or (more likely) to make excuses as to why what he did was okay. A morality which makes the idea of moral outrage appropriate, and not just silly. Go ahead.
The beast, in my and others opinion, is the “legal fiction” or corporate “person” that arose from the law of the sea. Probably to the days of the Phoenicians.
United States, in the law dictionary, is defined as a corporation, different from America and the union of states. Semantic deceit was foisted on the american people in ’33 and we all became subjects, or employees of the District of Columbia and it’s laws.
Solution ? defund the beast and remove the Fed, IRS and start over at the state level.
So, those that “wonder” after the beast…are those that make a bunch of money off of it, or work for it directly, politicians.
Yes it’s all true. It’s outlined by Barefoot at barefootsworld site (ie Office of State Person) and many others. UNITED STATES, CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, etc and etc are all corporations controlled by the modern Cereberus (3-headed dog) of the 3 independent city-states. The Vatican, The City of London (not London UK), and Washington DC. The corporate entity overseeing it is the Crown Corporation based in The City of London, aka the square mile. But it is inextricably linked to the Vatican, and DC is the enforcement / military head of the 3. Those who don’t accept the BS of the main (lame) stream media which is the real fake news, and do their own research, will soon verify this and more.
msngr
Check this article:
noconstitutionforyou.blogspot.com
It has a lot of the proof of your claims.
Let me make a bit of a divergence on Revelations if i may sire?
Humm? The One World System receives a deadly wound… where have I heard that before? How does it get fixed back up? Hell there is even much more wisdom and knowledge in this book than SunTzu. but dont take my word for it. Invest 30min yourself and see…
Watch out for the One who “fixes” the One world System” He will be Satan posing and looking just like Jesus. The false Christ comes at the 6th… the real one at the 7th.
(words in brackets are mine to turn a metaphor into what we can understand)
oh btw these are future events I would argue… and the deadly wound is happening right now before our eyes
REVELATION 13
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast (One World Political system) rise up out of the sea (people of the earth) , having seven heads and ten horns (power), and upon his horns ten crowns (leadership), and upon his heads the name of blasphemy (lies against GOD).
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard ( never changes his spots), and his feet were as the feet of a bear (Esau’s people Communists), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion (Sounds like someone from the tribe of Judua): and the dragon (Satan, Lucifer, Snake, Ababdon, Son of Perdition) gave him (the One world system) his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his (One World Political system) heads as it were wounded to death (Brexit,Hillary losing, EU on fire, Deep State in trouble, etc); and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast (One World Political system).
4 And they worshiped the dragon (Satan, Lucifer, Snake, Ababdon, Son of Perdition)which gave power unto the beast (One World Political system): and they worshiped the beast (One World Political system), saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
11 And I beheld another beast (Fake/False/Instead of/Anti-Christ) coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb (Looks just like the Paintings you’ve seen of Jesus), and he spake as a dragon (He looks like Jesus but speake like Lucifer, becasue he is Lucifer).
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast (One Worlds System) before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Want to go a bit deeper in this study of the One World System? try this ex-Marine pastor, who by the way “packs heat” even on TeVee?
We are not even close to the end time, as in the return of Christ, there is far too much scripture left to be fulfilled before he splits the eastern sky and gathers His elect.
“… the sea is defined as “peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues” which implies the beast of the Earth emerged from a relatively unpopulated area.”
What? Wow! How does “people and multitudes” = unpopulated area. I guess it means whatever you want it to mean.
Emerging from the Earth is the opposite of emerging from the sea. If the sea = many people then the Earth = not many. See?
Ditchner.
You’re qualifying reminds me of the second to last picture at the end of this article.
Studying and traveling around the block too does not make you right. Get a window in that stomach before you hurt yourself.
Without a shadow of doubt we are in the middle of the mother of all fights – between good and evil.
The election of DT has drawn evil out of its shadows that long protected their treachery that it forced upon an unsuspecting populace distracted by nonsense.
This no-holds-barred post by @Administrator laid it out precisely and detailed with compilations of fact supported data. I wholeheartedly agree with this authors post while I also agree with yours @dither.
Woven together it describes the ultimate and last fight with evil drawn out into the open. As the election of DT has shown the Deep State and its agents in the shadow government have also been sloppy lately making one misstep after another – driven by rage as their power and control is being called into question as well as being exposed. It is the worst of the worst for the Deep State while it is the worst of the worst for us as we are faced with the truth of what we have known all along but could never proof.
The left so far has and had the upper hand while the 85% of citizens living in the red states continue to work and care for their families. It is the decency of these 85% of red staters that so far enabled the left to be loud, obnoxious, vile but dangerous. As the author so nicely put it these 85% are the gun owners using their 2nd amend rights to own firearms to protect themselves and their families from a tyrannical run-away government among other dangers.
It is my belief that should our 85% citizens across red states lose their patience it will be lights out for these agitators paid to protest and riot in the streets across this country.
Al bets are off should that take place but then again that is what the Deep State hopes to occur in their hope to retain control of power. Their drumbeat against Russia could be another reason to stage another false flag war to consolidate and retain power although the citizens are no longer as gullible as they were on 11 September 2001.
As this author of this post and your comment enhances the absolute truth we all know how it should go and end but we live under no illusion to think that this beast would render itself defeated because it won’t.
The end is written since long ago but will it end that way? May we can make a difference and turn it around – it is worth a try!?
I still don’t get the Russian hatefest. Trump is right in saying that only a fool would not seek the Russians cooperation in world affairs especially the middle east. So what if they cannot be fully trusted. Neither can the U.S. with all their fake wars and coup sponsorship. I’ll tell you this,, they are provoking the wrong person in Russia. Its not some weakling Yemen or something like that. The U.S. is so screwed. If mcstain and lindsay are itching for a war so bard, I volunteer them and their families be put on the front ( the very front) line when they provoke Russia. This will shut them up quickly. Out.
The Russia thing – they need a boogeyman, and that one has already been branded thanks to the cold war. In reality Russia is a tiny country economically. Its GDP is under $1.3 trillion, making it smaller than Italy, Brazil, or Canada, and even smaller than CA, TX, or NY states. That’s our great nemesis?
The front lines should be staffed with:
(1) The TBTF bankers
(2) The Deep State spies who want regime change
(3) The MIC who would sell arms to anyone who would buy them
(4) The people who want to tell me how to live, and use the government to force me
(5) Every politician who wants higher taxes
(6) Every politician who opposes term limits
(7) Every lawyer that wants to write laws
(8) Every lobbyist
After that first, fateful encounter with a Russian tank battalion, peace talks should be immediately set up and no prisoners repatriated.
“After that first, fateful encounter with a Russian tank battalion, ” The MIC has many tricks up its sleeve, including a little one known as the neutron bomb.
Jim,
the elite can not tolerate an alliance between the US and Russia,
and likely parts of Europe. They will be losers and nobodies then.
Right on Suzanna. Europe (aka the IMF, Bank Of International Settlements – Switzerland) needs Russia and the U.S. at odds so they can keep getting cheap resources (gas) from Russia via IMF pressure . Otherwise, if Europe has to pay full price for resources, they’re little tootsies will freeze….literally.
How constantly poking someone in the eye with a stick gets him to sell to you cheaper goes right over my head.
Russia (Putin) is an enemy of Globalism and it’s butt boy, Central Banking; there you have the reason that our “Establishment” is trying mightily to “demonize” Russia (Putin).
Definitely unfixable. The Trump presidency is going to show us once and for all that even when you have a guy in there who knows how badly the average american is getting screwed, it doesnt make any difference. They wont do a thing to reduce health care costs or any other costs. They will continue shoveling printed dollars into the gaping maw of the elite and no one will do a damn thing about it.
I would agree that President Trump represents the last attempt to reform a corrupt system using the so-called democratic process. As Trump violates one campaign promise after another and loads his cabinet with NeoCons, warmongers, Wall Street banksters and other criminals constituting the Deep State, it is becoming increasingly clear to his supporters that they were sold a pack of lies. It is becoming crystal clear that there will be no peaceful revolution which can only mean that the last avenue open to the American people to take back control of their nations is civil war. Trump is dead or at least dying but this movement led by patriotic Americans is not going away and in fact will only grow stronger. One day soon, there will be a fearful reckoning because the eternal fire of freedom that burns in the heart of a true patriot cannot be extinguished.
Very good, very, very good. We will have to learn the lesson. Nobody asserts us. Only we ourselves can fight for ourselves and our families.
Might he be using the ‘scumbags’ that put us in this situation, to help him get us out of it…..Reverse osmosis with the ‘brains’ to right their wrongs….I think Trump will stop using Fed money and only use Treasury issued debt…just like JFK wanted to do….BUT Trump is smarter and retains his own security detail…..just a thought…as we will shortly see with the coming Debt Limit Increase….this will be a tell all….imho
“Reverse osmosis” only works when a great deal of pressure is applied to the concentrated side.
I didnt vote at all, havent for years, but I did tell people I hoped Trump would win, although I didnt think it was possible, and was shocked when I awoke the next day and read the news.
The reason I hoped he would win was because I thought he might be the final straw that broke the camels back. The system is broken, has been for some time now, and is beyond repair, but most dont see this, most still think it can be fixed and want to spend their time and effort trying to fix it. So, I agree with you, he is going to show once and for all (I hope) that it is beyond repair.
Everyone has gone completely apeshit, ie everyone thinks he is either the savior or damnation incarnated, he is either going to save us or kill us. When really he hasnt done much of anything yet but talk, and really most of his ideas arent new either. So, really more of the same.
And now seeing all that is happening around me, kind of confirms that idea, imo. Part of me say hurray, another part of me is very apprehensive about how this is going to play out. Probably not going to be pretty. I live in rural Wisconsin, and if all hell breaks loose, I would be very afraid of a lot of my neighbors. Careful what you wish for, eh?
Also, what is up with all this ‘turning’ nonsense? I believe I am seeing a cult being born right before my eyes, amazing really. I havent read the book, and dont intend to, but I did read an aricle by one of the authors explaining his premise, and … whatever dude.
Finally, would you be the same iconoclast that I used to see posting at Salon?
Well, that’s wrong. As unpopular to many as Mr. Trump’s assault on the laughingly-named Affordable Care Act is, there would be screams aplenty if he actually saw to it that the budget were balanced. There is indeed a way out of the hole, and it starts with not digging deeper. One of his great heroes (and mine), Andrew Jackson, whose famous quote was “There are no necessary evils,” and who kept his promise to leave office with the nation not one penny in debt (and who was sent off from the D.C. train station by an enormous, grateful crowd), is supposedly one of Donald Trump’s heroes. He could start by honoring his heroes, even if that means putting the dogs of war on limited rations as well.
Jim, you have no idea what you’ve done here and how grateful so many unnamed people are for your efforts.
Yesterday I spent a good eight hours walking the farm with a family and two of their friends who only know me through this blog. I let their kids feed the pigs and chickens and drive the tractor, we grilled pork chops and hamburgers, hiked through the sugarbush, tapped trees, split and stacked firewood and more importantly, we talked about what was important. The truth, real life, skills and most importantly, family. The younger couple live a good life in an urban center, they were bright and engaging and clearly devoted to each other, but they wanted to escape from what they called “golden handcuffs” and just buy a small farm where they could be free to live their lives on their own terms. The couple with the intelligent and exceptionally well-mannered children just wanted to raise their family honorably and do right by people. They gave me the opportunity to see my efforts through another set of eyes and it made me proud that instead of hitting Disney World for their vacation, they took the time to visit us and turn a virtual acquaintance into a real life friendship.
When I check my email the orders for maple syrup keep coming in and 90% of them are thanks to you allowing me to shamelessly shill my limited production on your site, even when it cuts in on your donations (and I hope it doesn’t) and in every single one is some kind and genuine word of thanks or encouragement from people I may never meet who only know me from the things I post here.
This world is terribly confusing, always enigmatic, but strangely ordered and in tune. It is up to us to choose what we should focus on and what we should push out of our mind because there simply isn’t enough room for it all. There are genuine people with talent and discipline, raising families with purpose and intention and doing it against the overwhelming tide of dysfunction and decay all around us because nothing is more indomitable than the human spirit.
Right before they left my oldest son came by with four of his friends from out west. He wanted them to speak to me about this Summer- they will be interning on the farm to complete their degree requirements at the University they attend. Instead of going to Florida or some other Spring Break location to get loaded, they came to visit a farm in New England and give a hand with the sugaring and they were enthusiastic, excited and interested in what we do and what we’ll be doing this June when they come back. All the terrible things that people say about millennials never seem to be present in the ones I meet and it makes me hopeful for the future, whatever it brings. After dark, we went to the local high school to see the concert- 4th grade through seniors- and it was standing room only, parents, grand-parents, children and babies and kids giving a wonderful performance for the community free of charge and it was beautiful.
This morning I was in the truck listening to the news and when they reported on Sears I thought about how you would have reacted. They’ve lost half of their value in the last year, they sold off the only thing worth keeping (Craftsman Tools), they had dismal numbers that were slightly less than the really terrible ones they were expecting, so they said this-
“While the challenging holiday selling season pressured margins and comparable store sales, we were able to successfully improve profitability through disciplined inventory and costs management.”
There’s the real world and there’s the phony-baloney, duplicitous bullshit that makes up rest of it and it is up to us to decide which one we want to live in.
We pray for your health and that of your family, we offer our sincere thanks for all the kind things you’ve said and done for us, we wish for the best, but we remain vigilant of the dangers that lurk in the world and take human form, trying desperately to lure us into the darkness where those kinds of things thrive.
Great three piece article, but an even better job of being a decent human being with a moral keel.
Thanks Jim.
HF
You and everyone else on TBP have done far more for me than you could possibly imagine. You’ve helped keep me sane, as I’ve found there are thousands of other people thinking along similar lines. Your contributions have been invaluable.
My oldest son, who you met, was drawn to your writings and I believe has long-term ambitions to do something similar.
My middle son had spring break this week and his roommates were all headed to Cancun to get drunk. Only $2,000. 🙂
Avalon found him a $200 round trip fare to Colorado and he has spent the week snowboarding with his brother, going to a minor league hockey game and hiking. And they both keep sending pictures of their fun to Avalon.
Family is all that matters in the long run.
HSF,
What’s your email? I want some syrup.
Bob
[email protected]
I dug up your email on the syrup article and emailed my order. Thanks. I can’t wait for my syrup.
Amen and amen and amen.
How did you get to be so smart in a dumbed down world of lies and shit?
HF, you’re the Little House on the Prairie for our times. I keep waiting for you to assemble your writing and publish it as a book. I actually get choked up thinking about the tradition, the devotion to spouse, to kids and to community your stories describe. The rest of this stuff (the outside world) is the illusion. What you write about is the reality.
Like I said, your written record is to us what Laura Ingalls Wilder bequeathed from the 19th century, and every bit as relevant. I believe that where there’s life, there’s hope. Life is nature’s way of battling entropy, and its self-organizing process is the ultimate miracle of existence. Given this, despite all the forces of (seeming) doom that appear arrayed against us all, I have faith that the human ingenuity and traditional decency and devotion you illustrate is truly Nock’s Remnant, the only people who really matter and the seed from which renewal will inevitably sprout when the sine wave curve of society has bottomed in coming years.
Values will return to prominence because those without them will be ruthlessly culled from the populace. Nature’s ultimate punishment, death without progeny, will be loosed from its artificial cage. Life will return to its pedestal as the highest value and the highest reward.
Yours will be the stock that allows for this. You have my highest respect.
What an excellent post.
I wish I had half his spine.
And half his liver maybe?
Jim,
Wow. What a post.
The problem with the internet, in general, is the lack of humanity in the people who populate it. That is what sets this place apart from so many others. TBP is stacked with real folks from all over the world who, even when they disagree on things and fling poo, seem to fundamentally care about one another. There is a community here for people who believe in very elemental things that simply does not exist elsewhere. You created that and it is as rare hen’s teeth so believe me when I tell you, when you go through tough times the rest of us are right there with you.
Hang in there, you are focused on the right things – both the big/wide picture and the immediate, your faith in your family being the most important.
PS – Keep your eye on the mail. There is a little something coming for you from north of the line.
Francis
Me? I’m here for the poo-flinging.
Superb. The entire article would make a great podcast.
From article – “I’m not hubristic enough to declare his presidency a failure already, like Karl Denninger, Paul Craig Roberts and some other blowhards.”
I love the fact that you give these guys space on TBP and it speaks volumes about this site. If the gals at HuffPo published articles like What The Hell Is Going On? from time to time I would at least have a sliver of respect for their site.
Definitely unfixable. Seems only thing left to do now is pick a chair and wait for the band.
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The Width and Breadth of the rapidly approaching Tsunami still needs to be chronicled. It is an important job because Historians two hundred years from now will mine places like this to find out what was really happening. Cause they ain’t gonna find it on MSBC.
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It’s Krystal Clear everything on TV is fake!
Like you I don’t have a clue when bad will happen. Soon maybe or maybe not. Does it even matter anymore? This week saw an historic release by Wikileaks and nary a peep from media or the masses. The blue pill still reigns supreme! There was a time when I thought a critical mass could be attained to enact change. But those days are long gone!
I am not a prepper, but know I will be fine. I’m guessing most everyone who is a regular on TBP will be as well. Still as a proud part of this dysfunctional family of internet misfits I would just add that your words inspire. Take heart in the impact you have had on the many lives here. I count myself back in game because you and this place.
Sending best wishes to you and yours.
Thanks
RiNS
Titanic? Well, if so, I aspire to be the Propeller-Guy….
Jim,
You must be so burnt out, and to throw in family medical issues as well. I don’t know how you keep it up, but I’m glad you do.
You, TBP, and the misfit shit throwing monkeys have been a large part of my continuing education.
Thank you.
Mike
Thanks for the effort, insights and hard work. I get a migraine trying to string 3 sentences together. Don’t know how you do it. Half the country pretty much agrees with you, so don’t get discouraged. They’re too busy trying to make ends meet, stumbling around the ring after all the head shots and body blows. It was a real eye opener, the reception Trump got from the satisfied and the comfortable. The way they feel about him is the way they feel about me and everyone who voted for him. Contempt. If you’re on a gravy train why would you want to change it? As the rot, disfunction, paralysis and corruption stomps all over the working stiffs, the bubblepeople see no wrongs, even though it’s right behind them.
Now in my seventh decade of life I fondly remember (and have adhered to) an adage of my Uncle Joe who died in 1967. He was wont to say “the 2nd time you’re kicked by a mule you don’t learn anything”. I’ve tried to walk straight and do the right thing my entire life eschewing popular culture. I’ve walked my own road and believe I’ve been the better man for it. I wish all here your own road.
Great series Jim!! Really enjoyed reading all three parts, and saw part one one on the “Safehaven” site. The financials as well as the stock market are in for a big fall, much like pumping air into a tire, to see how far it goes before blowing!! As each moment passes you get more anxious and step back a bit further, knowing that as more time elapses, the bigger the BANG is going to be!!! All the while the idiots are blissfully surrounding the tire placing bets, with hopes that “it can’t possibly blow up” attitude.
Through this site more and more people are beginning to see the light!
Jim~ The impact your blog has had on my life is tremendous. Because of the “platform” you provide for others to share, I have a better understanding of our government , media, social issues, etc..etc… Your the guy who breaks down the game for me. In turn, this allows me to speak about these issues with confidence to my children. To my family. To my verrrrry liberal (yet very lovable) mother. It’s crazy how important this blog has become to me. It is my Go-To. Everyday. Thank you for your service to myself and others. I wish for you to be uplifted more than defeated on this journey and that you continue to be inspired to speak the TRUTH. It’s invaluable.
Indeed, knowing too much about “what the hell is going on”, can weigh on the soul.
“And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
Eccclesiastes 1:17-18
Jim,
Thanks for the platform, your hard work, and your great articles. You’ve helped me immeasurably, and I hope your life takes nothing but good turns.
Bob
Thanks Jim.
Thanks for all three articles they are spot on and I am sure they will help many people on the road to understanding, Jim as an aside I want to thank you. Because of you and a few others I was able to convince the wife of the coming storm. We got out of our Las Vegas real estate just before the crash. We had intended to stay in Vegas and buy back in after the values had dropped 50 percent or more. Fortunately we bought five acres next to a creek in Az and got the hell out of dodge.
I think I first read your work on financial sense or global research I am not exactly sure, I am grateful for what you and others on this site have taught me. I will also be 53 this year and I feel as if I still have many things to learn. Getting old sucks as I go through many ups and downs. Jim what you have done here is a rare thing, even more uncommon is that you don’t go around tooting your own horn like so many big brained people.
I hope any issues you have fade with time, and I hope you get your reward in this life as well as the next.
Thank you Admin,
for hosting the platform and being such a good man
with a great brain. And you have courage. My favorite
piece you wrote was about your vacation to the shore,
with a Mom and cats. Fantastic.
The series is making you famous/more famous. Your take
on “what the hell is going on” is the best one I have read
by anyone. And I read all day every day. Solid writing with
just the right level of emotion. Pure gold.
Suzanna
PS: I hope the health issues resolve quickly.
Jim:
Thank you for being a mule who as Wm. Faulkner said:
“…will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
Jim
TBP is the first thing I read in the morning and usually the last thing I read at night. Your work, your writing, and your attracting many other thoughtful individuals to this site has truly changed my life’s view. I’m not some flake who lives in his mother’s basement. I am a surgeon, I am former military, and I am husband and a father to kids in college and high school. I like to think that when I say you have changed my life, that it means something. Sadly, i think I will not likely meet you in person. I hope you find it within you to continue the fight. You are inspirational to more than the regular shit throwing monkeys inhabiting TBP.
And I mean shit throwing monkeys in an affectionate way.
I prefer to think of myself as a feces throwing simian, it sounds so much classier.
I consider myself a non-semitic turd flinging primate has a certain gravitas and je ne sais quoi and is particularly appropos today.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/07/robot-lawyer-files-asylum-applications-via-facebook-messenger/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/07/report-democratic-groups-paid-ransom-demanded-russian-hackers-keep-protester-funding-secret/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/08/senators-try-help-h-2b-blue-collar-outsourcing-program/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/09/house-committee-russian-hacking-includes-only-dnc-hired-tech-experts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Thank you Jim for your efforts. I have lurked about on your various sites since you began writing I think with seeking alpha…raging debate…and this current iteration. I only comment once in awhile. I’ve even had the pleasure of getting tore up by llpoh.
These last 3 articles have been outstanding and I share your sentiments. I myself place the blame with most of this shit on the Fed, with the Treasury and banks as co-conspirators. CONgress is just a bunch of useful idiots.
Focus on your wife and family….this madhouse will still be here to vent when you’re good.
Jim,
Don’t give up.
Philly Girl
In some sense, “what the hell is going on?” is the first question you have when you exit the womb…and it may well be the same one we ask as we depart this world!
That’s because we are rational animals, in the sense that we must have a rationale for what we do, even if many of our actions sprang from necessity or impulse. We like to think we are persons of principle, but so often we miss the mark we set, so it’s not so surprising that society as a collective seems brutal in its actions and crass in its excuses. The group, or society, or the economy is not a person, so it can’t really be held accountable, but it’s actions are real, so we respect that fact.
I have difficulty knowing the difference between our “national/ global” mood and my own personal mood sometimes. It is objectively out there, as these articles explain, and then seems subjectively an illusion I suffer from, for a period of time.
There was a national crisis, which had real personal affects, we survived, and then it wasn’t the crisis we thought it was. The S&L crisis was bad, hurt a lot of people, but, compared to other evils in this world we read about, not so bad.
So there is benefit in understanding all the dynamics and aspects of the doom in store for us, since we expect to survive it, but we make a choice about the weight of the gloom we carry.
Great articles! Informed and sincere, as are the comments.
I’ve long said that what I most worry about is an inability to control my own participation in the storm that looms.
Years ago I had an object lesson in “actions impelled by Impulsive-mindedness” while day-trading. I understood the principles of mood, of the impulsive vs the rational mind, etc., but I was horrible at the mechanics of trading.
I’d have a position move against me, and I’d watch as it ground down in value, knowing full well that it would in all likelihood stop going against me a moment after I capitulated and bailed out at a loss. Yet I couldn’t help it. My personal “I can’t take it any more” was quite predictably one tick before the market reversed, but time after time I couldn’t prevent myself from hitting the “bail out” button. It was very much like hovering above my body, watching as my hand reached out to the mouse and clicked even while my rational mind was screaming, “Don’t Do It!”
My actions were controlled quite obviously by forces inside my head that I couldn’t see, couldn’t control and could NOT reason with.
Imagine now that we are entering a period where social mood is diving and all the RAGE bottled up inside us gives rocket fuel to the impulsive mind, the part of us that wants to rip the faces off our nameless enemies, tear their jugular veins with our teeth, drink wine from their skulls…etc.
This terrifies me, both from the standpoint of others being so impulsively minded and that I, too, will be unable to avoid joining in the carnage on an active basis (not just playing defense.)
In the early 1860’s men from Illinois volunteered in droves to join Lincoln’s army and go to battle, despite Illinois’ constitution prohibiting blacks, free or slave, from setting foot in the state and despite graphic descriptions in the news of the horrors awaiting soldiers on the battlefield. WHY?! Why would men do this? Because social mood was in a dive, and men were saturated with the impulsive desire to go destroy someone, ANYONE, and they leaped at the chance to vent these impulses regardless of the horrors that awaited them.
This is the future that scares me to death.
As for your nightmare of Hitlary making the State of the Union speech? I do indeed believe at this point we would have been spitting in our hands, raising the Jolly Roger and searching out those Proggies, NWO’s and RINOs for slicing and dicing. Absolutely.
Honest writing is so refreshing.
This Fourth Turning is more than just a social phenomena. The world of work, jobs, income production, spending, saving, healthcare, education, and wealth creation and destruction are all about to be turned on their heads.
And these changes will be coming about faster than any changes in human history.
But this will all be determined by who wins. As the fires are lit, who fans the fires and who tries to put them out is going to be very interesting and will change on an almost daily basis.
You’d be surprised how allegiances change when it comes to electricity, food and water.
Jim,
Thanks for the great articles…even though I rarely post, I appreciate all you’ve done and built here.
But I feel guilty about taking your content without paying you for it — especially with family medical expenses, which aren’t cheap.
What’s the best way for me to donate?
There is a paypal button on the right side of the page at the top. If you prefer to not use a credit card, there is a PO box address below the Paypal buttons.
And he takes zlotys, pesos, or rubles. Preferably in combination.
Dick
I had to wait 40 minutes at my bank to convert your damn Aussie pesos.
lol
Great write up Jim. Sometimes there are good smartasses. Kudos!
“Since my living doesn’t depend on selling anything, I’m comfortable ”
No one’s living is free from dependence on selling something. You are just several steps removed from the process, but just as dependent. Even my public school teacher wife’s job depends on “selling” the notion of public schooling, which has lots of inertia but what happens when stocks, bonds, and public consent implode, real estate prices collapse and someone is handed a property tax bill for $4,000 on a home now worth $40,000? How do you spell “No Sale?”
As I’ve stated numerous times, the only “explanation” that consistently makes sense in describing the mountain of compound, interwoven collective stupidity you so aptly describe is that it was piled not by reason but by actions guided BEFORE conscious thought and guided by feelings, not logic or foresight.
Feelings (mostly the need to fit in, and the need to feel good about oneself in the larger social context) come first. Then come actions. Only then come the “explanations” each of us tells ourselves, the rationalizations for the actions we already took.
Yes, Suzanna, not all of us are as inclined to such irrationality, although I aver that we all dress within bounds dictated by the stripes of the herd, and we, too, feel the tug of extant social mood in ways we can’t quite describe.
It is we who are better able to wrestle our actions from the control of our impulsive minds who gather at places like TBP. We are not perfectly dispassionate, far from it, but we appear to have a lower level of innate herding impulse. Due to this, we see what others are volitionally blind to.
In every large scale shift, there are parts of the whole that shift early and those that shift late. Some of us shifted decades ago, recognizing the irrationality of one collective action after another and screaming in horror with each iteration.
Jim Q is probably screamed hoarse. Yes?
One commenter after another, one blogger, one analyst, one insider-turned-outsider after another, all came to see the collective path and the catastrophe that looms ahead, but as with all things, there is no reliable way to forecast the timing because all complex systems obey only probabilistic rules.
From the viewpoint of a coin-flipper who IS ABOUT TO start flipping the coin, the odds of flipping 10 heads in a row is <1 in 1000. But after flipping heads the first nine times, the odds of flipping another heads is……. 1 in 2, as you know. This is why the current system could have stopped in 1987, 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2007, but it didn't. Each subsequent opportunity to stop was its own discrete "coin-flip." Prior flips didn't matter…no matter how often leaving the pause (the opportunity for trend change) in a continuation of the prior trend occurred in the past. The altitude each continuation reached simply didn't matter, and THAT, I submit to you, is why we’re beside ourselves now watching the morons call for more altitude (despite the fuel gauge being broken.)
The higher we've flown in one trend continuation after another, all it means is that when the descent arrives, it will simply be larger. Like a cliff diver, the end of the dive is always the sea, no matter how high up the cliff the dive begins.
I keep trying to cultivate "anti-fragility." I think anyone who has insights into this (not just parroting Survival Blog, please) should pipe up as often as needed to share.
In closing, I'd recommend we all periodically re-read or listen to the audio version of Nock's brilliant "Isaiah's Job." I think it puts so much of our current condition into context.
Best wishes.
DC
Your coin flipping analogy to previous crises is wrong. Your coin flipping probability is correct because the outcome of each flip is independent of each previous flip. There is no such independence between crises, as actions taken in one crisis have consequences for future crises. For instance, Alan Greenspan’s unprecedented flooding of the monetary system with Federal Reserve fiat debt in response to the 1987 stock market crash both prevented normal market adjustment mechanisms from working and also set a precedent for such central bank intervention in the future (the so-called Greenspan put). Thus, subsequent crises and crashes, and the responses to them, can not be treated as independent of that 1987 response. We don’t know what the exactly dependent effects are, but there is no way we can assume independence as that word is used in probability theory and statistics.
I agree that the coin-flipping metaphor is crude and ill-fitting, but I don’t agree with your attribution in specific.
Why did Greenspan act as he did? Were his actions (and he was not King, able to determine policy in omniscience) a cause or an effect? Was the presence of a committee whose members would back this an accident of history?
My “reading” of the message of the Wave Principle is tinted by the insight of Etienne de la Boetie in his Discourses on Voluntary Servitude. The Fed’s actions of that time were supported and consented to by a populace not yet ready to stop the party, sober up and deal with the hangover.
This is where Bob Prechter gets things wrong, as I see it and as I interpret his works. The consent for pro-credit-growth policies rested in social trust, and social trust was mismeasured by the stock averages. What mattered, in fact (and hindsight, [sigh]) was the bond market.
It is in bonds where collective trust is measured. As long as bond prices remained in a bull market, credit-expanding policies would be chosen and those policies would “work.” Credit would expand.
This is the only way to see each of those cusps (each time the trend COULD have reversed) and why each of them ended with mood, stocks, etc. all continuing the prior trend.
The “Greenspan Put” is just another mechanistic explanation for what the bond market was doing anyway. I wish I’d have known 20 years ago that it has ALWAYS been ALL ABOUT BONDS. It was always ALL ABOUT TRUST.
That is the key metric in this once-in-300-years social mood mania.
TRUST that men who describe themselves as women can be trusted in the girl’s locker room.
TRUST that 65 IQ Somali Muslims will assimilate and help “save” Social Security.
TRUST that racial equality is right around the corner.
TRUST that adding ten, twenty or a hundred million immigrants from culturally backward lands will Keep America Great.
TRUST that no matter how many IOU’s are issued, they all should be treated, dollar-for-dollar, as an Accounts Receivable Asset (which means that for every dollar borrowed, one goes into the economy and another becomes WEALTH!)
Trust.
It was always about trust. Specific Fed policies were just the actions taken to deliver what all that TRUST required.
Barnum,
Prechter would say that trust, stock market averages, and central bank policies (and the very existence of central banks) are all products of social mood. EWI analysts often look at credit spreads and central bank policies as sociometers. However, I don’t really have the time for an extended discussion on that. My earlier point was simply about the precise probability theory and statistical meaning of the term “independent.” No statistician would categorically state that Greenspan’s actions in 1987, whether they are cause or effect, whatever their motivations, had no effect on future crises and the response to those crises. In other words, it is impossible to say that latter crises are statistically independent of prior crises. That’s the only, very narrow, point I was making.
Robert, we’re splitting hairs with each other. (grin)
The specific actions of the Fed matter, of course. Did they insure that ensuing cusps resolved to the upside? No way to answer that (I ‘feel’ they did not.) They likely contributed to the amplitude of this wave form to the upside (and thus set the stage for a larger down-side wave to come, and will reap the blame for it.)
I’ve followed Prechter’s work (and paid a very high price for it) on and off since 1995. I have an intimate knowledge through experience of its usefulness and its over-promises. In hindsight it is obvious to me that he underestimated the importance of the bond market. His thesis is far more attuned to the DJIA as a sociometer, even when the stock market shrank to insignificance vis-a-vis the Bond Ocean. But then no one, I think, was capable of seeing ahead what we have experienced. We’ve sailed uncharted waters for decades.
I guess my point is that we use the words of statistics and probability in an inadequate description of Complex Systems whose parameters and rules we dimly grasp. We need a new vocabulary in order to better investigate this Central Theorem of Life and Living Systems. I concur that “independent” is not quite the right word, while pleading that our lexicon has a hole where the right word would be printed (and defined.)
We need a Galileo, or a Newton, and then we need a few decades or centuries before things really get elucidated. I respect Bob for initiating what may eventually become a major contributor to the grasp of the principles of complex systems. Whether he is a modern Newton won’t be known in my lifetime. I’m still smarting from his willingness to promote EWP as a means to trade, something I (and Dick Diamond, Bob’s trading mentor) believe(d) is a vast and dangerous over-promise, so my respect for him is nuanced.
I never used Prechter to trade day to day, but on his big calls, especially the housing market and financial markets in 2007-2009, he made me a mint (sold the house in So. Cal. at the top of the market; set up a proprietary trading desk that was long CDS on the financial sector). Conversely, I knew intellectually in 2009 that his call for a big rally in risk assets was correct, but psychologically I was unable to accept it. I should have just stood aside and not traded, but I stepped in front of the freight train and gave back much of what I had made. I can’t speak to his day-to-day acumen because I’ve never traded off of it. Although I’m out of trading now, I suspect his long-standing call for a gigantic financial crash and massive depression will finally be borne out, starting some time this year. Given that he’s predicting the end of an over 200 year cycle, I don’t hold his earlier calls that that crash and depression had arrived against him. Indeed, the 4th Turning folks argue that it started in 2007, and I have argued that it began in 2000. His Short Term Update, to which I subscribe, is calling for an equity market correction of several months and then that one last run to new highs, which will also last several months. I notice that the precision of STU’s predictions and delineation of alternatives seems to have gotten sharper with the latest version of their computerized EWAVE analyst, however, that’s just an impression and not a confirmed fact.
EWI’s “certainty” + innate human arrogance (mine) = writing off capital losses since 2000. Yes, that’s 17 years and counting.
The WP is simply too subjective. A trend in motion can stay in motion, and all the analyst does is re-label his chart. I paid Dick Diamond’s tuition (and all the additional associated expenses) and learned quite a lot, not the least of which is that my mind is extremely bad for trading. I wish I’d have known that a long time before I went to Dick’s Market Mentor event in 2010.
Bob’s trading service (newsletters, et.al.) does exactly what every other trading service does: they issue one call after another, then use the 1 in 10 that was BIG to tout their track record. Bob’s “trading championship” return was largely a single hugely successful trade surrounded by smaller losses. The problem is, in the real world, anyone who bases their trading on the recommendations eats those losses, and the resulting emotional swings (and biased trading) tend to produce damage, not gains.
I made $40,000 in options from about July 1998 to early October 1998 on probably no more than $3,000 in original capital, trading the STU’s calls. I then gave it all back, and dug a hole so deep I needed a telescope to see daylight during 1999. By the time of the final top for the NDX in March 2000 I was so beaten down trying to short that mania and so capitulated that I sat out the ensuing 80% drop, never finding another entry whose risk seemed low enough. I lost money I’ll never see again.
Bob’s work (and business) was like handing a fire hose filled with gasoline to a retarded kid playing with matches. It enabled rationalizations so profoundly self-destructive that it took a decade to accept the guilt.
I think Bob’s work is phenomenal in the realm of theory. My writing demonstrates the depth of my embrace of the Socionomic Hypothesis. This is balanced against 22 years of history analyzing (and far worse) trading the market blinded by constant expectations for pattern recognition. In the aggregate, during a time when everyone else seemingly has gotten RICH by parking their savings in speculative markets, my net participation in those markets is in the red to the tune of high five, possibly low six figures. That’s NET. To say it hurts, watching my herd-animal former colleagues total up their 401(k)’s to the tune of two or three MILLION dollars, is the understatement of the century.
I learned two things:
(1) Anyone who tells you they know the future is lying or a fool.
(2) I’ll never again attempt EVER to speculate on the short side. The mathematics of it simply don’t work. Anyone who takes the short side for longer than day-trading is nuts, as far as my experience goes. This is true despite the fact that I made a nice return (over 100% gain on a small risk) during the collapse in 2008.
I’ve learned a lot from all this. It does help sometimes (I bailed on a long GLD position at $119.75 recently, and have watched GLD decline to today’s $114.21 comfortably from the sidelines), but I am in the same boat as everyone else, I don’t have enough to get me through old age and I have no means of even protecting the relatively little I have from the waves of inflation in these current times or the waves of deflation if the banks become impaired.
Maybe ignorance would have been bliss.
I stepped away from trading after deciding I would die broke if I kept it up. I also decided that plain old-fashioned innovation and creativity were due a resurgence and that’s where I wanted to be. As such, I’m involved with an innovative technology company, my writing for SLL and my novels, and now it looks like I may be involved in another worthwhile startup effort. I think the finance and debt waves are cresting, and the so-called “real” economy will again have its day. Time will tell.
I respect those choices and approaches, for what that’s worth. My skill set and personality seem to preclude discovery or networking that lead to involvement with startups or innovators. Instead, I have hope my sons will have the knowledge and social skills that lead them to such things.
My personal hopes lie in cultivating the patience to ride out this long-extended rally and preserve capital for when the next opportunity to employ it arises. I called the bottom in March 2009 within two weeks of the final low (I have the dated chart to prove it) but as you discussed, I too simply lacked the will to trade it.
That, and I was shit-canned (laid off in a massive headcount reduction) from a very lucrative job a week after I created that chart, so I forgive myself for being a little distracted. (I had two kids in college at the time and pandemic layoffs in the industry made getting another job look highly unlikely, an expectation that was borne out in spades.)
Also FWIW, I do concur with EWI’s read on the market. I independently arrive at the same viewpoint, that we should experience a small correction followed by a move to final all time highs. I have no interest in trading it (well, if I see a tradeable short term low form, I might try a small long QQQ or SPY) but my dart-board expectation is that here at (what might be) the top, stocks will do exactly in relation to bonds what they did at the lows 35/6 years ago, when stocks bottomed almost exactly a year after bonds. That would put a stock top at the end of July give or take a few weeks.
Mr. Market does sometimes tip his hat to the past in funny ways. While such a mirror image is far from assured, it would be fascinating to see it play out that way.
Key for me is bonds. If last summer really was THE top, and notwithstanding corrective rallies, the larger trend is truly DOWN for bonds (and UP for rates), then the fuse on this Financial, Economic and Monetary Hindenburg is well and truly lit.
I thus await the ideas and beliefs that will be embraced as social mood turns down in earnest and social trust drains away. My guess is that obsession with the Fed, with Washington DC, with the press, etc., is going to turn to obsession with what is near, close, and immediate. We’ll see a flurry of academic research and press reports that “back” what people will want to believe. Interest in Human BioDiversity will drive a lot of it. Wait and watch.
I think your analysis is essentially correct, especially the stock market topping out about a year after the bond market, and the way negative social mood will manifest itself. We’ll see how things work out.
Robert and Barnum.
I like both of you. Can we agree that Fiat begets more Fiat until it finally implodes because anyone who might have been able to stop it did not have the stomach for it?
No argument here.
History pretty conclusively demonstrates the same but of course never provides absolute certainty. I would however note that the PTB, having created an “imperial” Presidency, have provided Trump with the means to reverse course if he he were to have both the knowledge and the “guts” to do so.
Dude. You make about as much sense as Greenspan.
Great series, thank you for all your writings.
I like to be informed but I can’t stomach the adverting riddled desceptions of the MSM. Without a handful of sites like your we would be in darkness. We all benifit from people like you who punch above your weight and provide light where it is needed.
All the best.
Well Admin, while possibly bb and myself are dysfunctional not everybody is. The principles of TBP will go on even when TBP ceases to exist.
So right Family First. With their background those boys will do fine.
This series summed up my feelings on the whole matter.
I’ve started focusing on improving the aspects of my life that I have control over, and will take the time to discuss topics with people if they show an interest in the subject, and an open mind.
I don’t engage die-hard lefties or trump fanbois otherwise, its pointless.
Thanks Jim for everything you do –
By FAR the best take on a Trump presidency was the podcast here a couple of weeks ago by Neil Howe (4T author).
I’m paraphrasing but what Howe said was the best thing that could happen for Trump was a quick crash right now because it would give him the power and legitimacy to make real changes and on the flip side, a slightly improving economic picture would be the worst as then everything would just get mired down into the regular swamp as there would be no urgency for change. In such a case, it would be highly likely the economy would crash in the 3rd and 4th years of his term and it might even be possible that Trump would resign in such a situation as by then, most everyone would have turned against him.
Trump is an Authoritarian guy – he is not and never will be a Freedom and Liberty guy.
I think Howe has it pegged perfectly.
Hello Jim – As one of your long-term contributors I feel that I have some stake in what you’ve been doing on TBP these past few years and wanted you to know how much I appreciate your hard work and dedication to the cause of freedom in all its aspects. By all means take as much time as you need for your family but always remember that you have created an “extended” family who appreciate you almost as much as your immediate one. As a parent with two sons and three grandchildren I agree with you 100% regarding priorities and just wanted you to know that whatever and whenever you can contribute on TBP your efforts will be greatly admired and respected. Parenthetically I would note that I also have no clue as to “when” the crash will occur – only that it will do so sooner rather than later AND that when it does our entire world will change within the span of a week at most. Those who have not prepared in advance will have no chance to do so when it happens. Best Libertarian Regards – Rich
Excellent series of articles, Jim! You nailed it again. Don’t stop writing. The world needs your insight.
I too, have been depressed the last few months and although I’ve done a lot of reading and research I’ve written nothing since before Christmas for my pathetic little blog http://www.geroldblog.com. In my case, my mood was a result of Seasonally Affective Disorder (SAD) caused by too little sunlight. The Doc says I’m in good company this year as we’ve had mostly cloudy days and I’ve spent only a few days out on the slopes.
I started replacing frosted incandescent bulbs with clear incandescent ones and removing light covers. They’re still available as compact bulbs with medium bases for ceiling fans and garage door openers and are available in 40W and 60W (also in frosted, but they don’t give off the red and infrared end of the spectrum.)
It took only several days for my mood to improve so now I’m hunting for light fixtures that accommodate open incandescents. It’s a challenge because so many manufacturers produce fixtures for fluorescent, halogen and LED lights, all of which lack red and infrared, but produce only dead, white light.
Anyway, after work today I plan to post an article linking to your three articles so you’ll be shared with both my readers 🙂
Mussolini once said, “Anyone can govern the Italian people: Why bother.” That sums up my whole attitude towards our country. From our veterans, to the entitlementers, to the politicians, up, down, and across our society, all anyone wants is money from the government. If I hear one more slogan, I served the country, I fought for the country, I did my time, you owe me, I have my rights, no one is going to tell me not to have children even if I can’t support them, it’s my life, PTSD, ADD, ADHT, PANIC ATTACKS, BI-POLAR, sensitivity training, civil rights, Blame the tobacco companies, it’s the teacher’s fault, white privilege, black lives matter, profiling, police brutality, I worked for the government but I paid into my own retirement, then I’m going to start picking my nose in public. Seriously, are there any Alphas left. Ladies, please stop spreading your legs for Deltas. Even if you have to commit adultery don’t get bred by a limp wristed delta mama’s boy liberal. Find and Alpha male, get on top and ride till the blue dot appears, and nine months later bring a child into the world with good DNA, good genes, and a functioning brain. And please don’t forget to breast feed. It’s critically important. It’s a guaranteed bet that both Obama and Hillary started off with Enfamil. The future of any individual, community, State, or Nation is in the hands of the womb holders (that’s you, ladies). Put good sperm in that womb and we will have a good future: Bad sperm and it’s the Democratic Party all over again. So stop taking the pill, and go find yourself an Alpha male. The future of the world depends on your decision. thanks for your time.
Demographics is destiny.
Admin, you bared your soul with this Part III of an excellent (as always) series. You are absolutely spot-on as to your priorities with family health and your offspring’s futures, and putting your financial house in order by paying down your mortgage. I am concentrating on the exact same things and only hope the big explosion of our economy doesn’t come for 3 or 4 years when I should to be in a better position to contend with it.
I feel much like you do as to “What the hell is going on”, but try to live day-by-day and keep focused. So take your solace where you can find it or you’ll go crazy.
I promised you a contribution in January but that’s when I started a new tech gig and went independent as a federal contractor and I’ve yet to receive my first payout (these things take some time with getting purchase orders approved and setting up my corporation).
But I’ve always sent in a donation to TBP whenever I committed to do so in the past and this will be no different.
You’ve made TBP a very, very special place. Thank you.
Jim,
Thank you so much for giving so much of yourself.
And please, thank your wife from us also, as I am sure there are many hours of yours devoted to this blog that could have been spent with her.
I can tell you one thing about the left is they have NO FEELINGS. Hope his helps when you conquer them.
Admin – in the article, you said repeatedly that you do not know much.
Bullshit. You know exactly what will happen, but maybe not exactly when. Your humility is misplaced.
Re Avalon, and your, health issues – all you can do is hang tough. You can only do what you can do. It sucks, but as we know, life ain’t fair, and it sure as hell throws random curves.
As before, I will send some positive thoughts. Who knows, maybe if each TBPer does the same, something good might come of it.
Re your comments re family – I agree enirely. Nothing else matters. I just kicked Z in the nuts for saying he wished he had had cats instead of children to avoid the child support. I cannot even imagine joking about such a thing.
I would die to save my kids, as I am sure you would as well. As it should be.
Hang tough. The Irish are a resilient bunch if ever there was. Not too smart, of course, but damn resilient.
This is one of your best articles, in my opinion. I liked it because it told where we are in this fourth turning and it admitted that no one really knows what’s going to happen. It’s refreshing because most people jump to conclusions, whether it be about politics or the end times. They believe the first thing they hear, with no thought of investigating further or admitting there’s even a slim possibility they could be wrong, which is a sign of low intelligence. I believe we’re in the end times, but could I be wrong? Of course! How many people throughout history have thought so-and-so was the antichrist, and that scripture was all fulfilled just waiting for the return of Yeshua. Am I smarter than all those people, that this time I can be sure? Well – maybe, but I wouldn’t bet on it. There’s usually one or more things that don’t quite fit the scriptural description, but people don’t care, they’re going to believe what they want to believe – just as they refuse to believe any truth you will try to tell them.
I believe it IS possible for Trump to do the things he says he’s going to do without driving up the debt (unless he’s prevented of course). So far he’s done a lot of it, and debt has actually gone down. With companies moving back to the US and hiring, more taxes will be paid. He may not get to do it to the EXTENT that he says, with those same numbers though. In his book The Art of the Deal he explains how he starts off with an outrageous number, and when that’s turned down he offers a smaller number and that is accepted because at least it’s not as much as the first number; it’s a relief. That could be what he’s doing. When his second number is accepted, everyone is happy and he accomplished what he really wanted to start with. It may look like a failure because he didn’t get what it looked like he wanted but history will show it as a success. That’s what I hope is happening.
Refreshingly honest & accurate analysis of the current reality. All three parts resonated with my worldview & I greatly appreciated that there was not one section in ANY of the three documents that could be deemed “politically correct”. LOVE!
Enjoyed reading the comments as well. Wonderful insights, wisdom & a beautiful community united by a desire for an improved future that will not repeat the mistakes that have created the situation we are in. Commitment to God & family will always be paramount to me. Understanding that we need to focus primarily on our Circle of control while understanding what we can do to impact our circle of influence & releasing the rest to God (for believers) or fate (for non-believers) is one way to secure peace & prioritize your use of resources in this challenging & exhausting world.
Prayers for improved health for you & your wife. May we all be able to continue to appreciate the simple pleasures in life while doing what we can to shape a better world, with more intelligently designed systems/structures/etc. that allow for self-actualization for everyone.
Peace.
There is a lot of food to digest in this series,formed at least. By the time I think about this the comment section will be history. Jim Quinn may not be THE MAN but certainly is A MAN to we dysfunctional commenters.
Good articles Jim. Imho the most critical observation you made was in Part 1. That we live in an age of mass deception. Most of what we have learned (especially History and the News, and in particular the ‘Who’ and ‘Why’) has been nothing but lies. It’s one thing to acknowledge this on an intellectual level, but it takes time and a great deal of anguish to wrestle with the reality of the Matrix of Lies we live within, to truly come to a personal understanding of what this reality means. Because if you actually do then your whole world and life collapses around you. Because yours/mine/ours entire ‘foundational’ beliefs are BS. But this is absolutely necessary if one is to understand who they are (a product of other peoples manipulations) and to reclaim one’s life and rebuild it.
As to the Religion/Christianity thread. Imho Religions are the oldest organized Systems of control. Christianity is a religion. And one dripping with irony as Jesus was about as ANTI-RELIGION as one can get.
What a hating lunatic you are. The U.S. is in trouble. Our debt is out of control. A currency event is unavoidable. Our nation is divided. And our standard of living – no matter who is in office – will substantially decline for successive generations. NOTHING can or will change this decline, it is an inevitable as a law of physics.
But if you think that the supremely egotistical, stupid, criminal Donald Trump is the solution rather than part of the problem, and now with all too much power – you deserve what you get. Greater than 50% chance he has us in an unnecessary war to show everyone the size of his penis or to retain power amid dismal approval ratings. His Presidency is, and history will record it as, an unmitigated disaster assuming we survive it.
Fuck you asshole. Hit the road before I kick you in the balls so hard they come out your mouth.
You Hillary voting left wing retards aren’t worth my time.
ALL RIGHT, ADMIN-GO!
But you feel better now, Admin!
I’m starting to regain my mojo. Nothing like idiotic commenters to get me going.
Absolutely – think of all the idiot libtards who need to be put in their proper places.
What was idiotic about what he wrote? Yeah, nothing.
Apparently they are … and if you tried I would break you in half.
For such an intelligent guy, you sure have let your own biases influence your thinking. Because someone – via objective facts – criticizes Trump he’s a Hillary-loving libtard? Just head-shaking, that someone who throws around ad hominem attacks has the nerve to criticize the media for their bias.
You say that you don’t believe the fake news media, and then you seem to believe Trump’s claim that Obama had bugged him. I guess because that info didn’t come from the mainstream media? Therefore it must be true? While indeed we need to be suspect of all, your broad conclusions of all of their motives, and everyone in government’s motives, is just as far off-base, and as confounding to logical analyses.
The FBI has had surveillance of Trump Tower and many of its occupants in one form or another – including via an informant – for over a decade. Trump did business with – likely even paid – a convicted felon (had him as a Senior Advisor in Trump Tower), and yet he and his kids claimed they had trouble recalling who he was. Yeah, that’s believable. Well worth the read:
And I’ll now to try to brace myself for all of the intelligent ad hominem attacks you’re going to throw my way. I’ll just have to curl up into a ball in the corner, because I’m just a snowflake.
“Objective facts.”
You really don’t get it, do you? I can prove the moon is made of green cheese if I search the Internet enough. There are dead-serious websites positing that, yes, in fact, the Earth really is flat.
Your “facts” are simply one more cherry-picked subset of available information that backs YOUR preferred narrative. It apparently never occurs to you that 1) every datum you cite comes to you via a process of third-party selection and 2) is a minuscule subset of available data. You didn’t source the original information, you “Were Not There.” Your “table-pounding certainty” just makes you someone else’s sock puppet. How’re the hemorrhoids?
Yet you deem those who adhere to a different set of “facts” (actually just a different subset of available data) as wrong by definition—-your definition.
Here, I’ll break it down for you:
1. WE don’t want to hear from you.
2. WE see things differently from you, and all your smug posturing just annoys us.
3. WE (like you) prefer the company of those with whom we share a “weltanschluung.”
4. There is no bridging the chasms that are now opening between us.
5. WE were already tired of YOUR lectures decades ago.
6. IF your intention is simply to annoy, A) You’re succeeding and B) Sooner or later you’ll succeed in a time and place where doing so earns you the beating (or worse) you merit.
Go along and get along was sooooo 1999. What’s coming is a return to the English Civil War, and you are on The Other Side. You are our adversary. Get used to it.
ADMIN: Your best article yet.
We share a lot of feelings and observations.
I fear that, as you state: “I believe what’s wrong with this country is unfixable.” The opposition seems just too overwhelming for Trump to overcome. We’re doomed! Nice know’n ya.
Admin.
Thanks. I have the same opinion and solutions.
Its too broken to fix or patch up and why would we even want to as it would just prolong the agony of the slow boil.
The sharp pain of growth beats the dull ache of dying without being able to die. Of course it will be ugly. It has to be, look at how much ugliness we fed into it. That Karma can’t just disappear quietly.
God created the law of Karma for people who don’t believe in God.
Admin: Glad you are regaining your mojo as I have visited TBP many times and agree with much of what you post, but have never left a comment before. I agree that Donald Trump was elected to sent a message to the “establishment” that has become unresponsive to the vast majority of citizens and have been leading us on the road to ruin for decades. Hard choices have been avoided and the “can” has been kicked down the road over and over. I sometimis think of our economy and now the world economy as like a drug addict in the final stages of addiction, needing ever increasing doses of stimulants to keep going until the eventual and inevitable collapse. In my view, the problem is systemic and not limited to the actions of one political party in interest group. My fear is that Donald Trump will prove to be a flawed messenger and will not do what he promised to do to get elected. For example, when the Feb. jobs report was released this week, he now thinks the numbers are great after previously point out how the numbers were gamed to make things look much better than they are. Now that he is President, he is praising the same system he attacked in the past. As pointed out by others on TBP, he has made promises that can not be kept without blowing up the deficit even more. I fear his election was the result of a fantastic con job on his part.
Martin.
Right description and it is systemic just like the drugs permeate every cell of the body. Glad you mentioned those “Great” jobs numbers, now he will have to part the Red Sea to have any more cred with me. In spite of that I will be forever grateful for him driving a steak through the heart of the PC Vampire.
You are not factoring into your math the unknown potential that a great leader can generate. I believe Pres Trump is that Great Leader.
Solid trio of articles.
Like most INTJ’s, I don’t know how to diplomatically express how unhappy the news of your family health issues makes me. I hope for a rapid and happy resolution of the issues.