By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
– Benjamin Franklin
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
– John Adams
I’m of the opinion that many today are throwing the “baby out with the bathwater” when they claim the conservative versus liberal (right vs. left) construct is phony, or bogus.
Conservatives have lost political ground because they have accepted the moral premises of the Political Left. However, liberals use deception to hide their real motives while, simultaneously, blackmailing conservatives by means of conservative values.
How typical was the mainstream media’s “poor immigrant children” narrative that played the emotional heartstrings of dummies everywhere, like violins.
In the immigration debate, as in the gun control polemic, liberals don’t actually care for the children; at least not in the ways they profess. They instead callously use the “children” as a means to consolidate their political power.
This explains why liberals never rejoiced for the offspring of lawless invaders when Trump signed the executive order to keep illegal immigrant families together. Instead, they claimed Trump “caved” before the [manufactured] “humanitarian and political crisis”. It’s also why children still attend schools in gun-free zones, while anti-gun protester David Hogg is protected by armed guards; because he’s more important than the other children now.
The Political Left consistently weaponizes the morality of conservatives against said conservatives; and whenever those on the right of the political spectrum accept the moral premises of the deceptive left, the progressive agenda moves “forward”.
Nevertheless, the value systems of conservatives and liberals are separate. This is why words like “freedom” and “rights” hold different meanings for each group.
In the example of the former, freedom and rights manifest as an outgrowth of natural law as defined in the whispers of John Locke. In the latter, these are processed according to the [Machiavellian] totalitarian’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s Will to Power.
The commonality of globalists, neocons, corrupt government officials, and tyrannical collectivists is demonstrated when they profess the moral superiority of their ideological positions and, simultaneously, abrogate timeless moral principles for their own benefit while telling us it’s for ours.
This is the heart of the matter. It is why decent Americans voted for Trump, flaws and all. He was elected in protest.
I had a friend text me the following rant that he saw on Facebook:
I still haven’t figured out why Hillary lost. Was it the Russian uranium deal? Was it Wikileaks? Was it Podesta? Was it her sexual predator husband? Was it her staff’s husband’s immoral pictures? Was it her subpoena violation? Was it the corrupt foundation? Was it the congressional lies? Was it the Benghazi scandal? Was it the pay for play? Was it the Travel Gate scandal? Was it the Haiti scandal? Was it the Whitewater scandal? Was it the Cattle Gate scandal? Was it the $15 million for Chelsea’s apartment bought with foundation money? Was it Comey’s investigation? Was it her husband’s interference with Loretta Lynch and the investigation? Was it stealing debate questions? Was it forensically deleting 33,000 emails? Was it the secret server in her house? Was it the Seth Rich murder? Was it calling half of the USA population deplorable? Was it the underhanded treatment of Bernie Sanders? Was it the Vince Foster murder? Was it the Jennifer Flowers assault? Was it the $800,000 Paula Jones settlement? Was it the lie about taking on sniper fire in Bosnia? Was it her husband’s impeachment for lying under oath? Was it the 6 billion $ she “lost” when in charge of the state department? Was it the 10 million she took for the pardon of Marc Rich? Or was it because she was the worst presidential candidate our country has ever had to choose from?
Gee, I just can’t quite put my finger on it, but it seems to be right in front of me.
Here was my reply:
That’s a great rant. But the reason we are likely doomed is this: After all that, she still won the popular vote.
We live in a land populated by the People of Walmart sustained by a steady diet of fake news, processed foods, electronic fairy tales, and antidepressants.
The trends (i. e. transitional revelations) are pointing towards war and global depopulation; exactly what the Technocratic Elite desire and right on schedule. Any attempt to divert from those outcomes would be akin to a flea trying to steer a dog like a horse.
– The D.C. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America shared a video on Facebook of activists booing and yelling at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at Mexican restaurant and calling on her to “abolish” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
– A year after the congressional baseball shooting that almost took the life of Rep. Steve Scalise and former Hill staffer Matt Mika, members of Congress expressed concerns for their safety as threats against them have skyrocketed.
– A plan to split California into three separate states earned a spot on the November ballot there.
– Because she works for President Trump, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and 7 of her family members were kicked out of a Virginia restaurant.
– Screaming “God is on our side”, California Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, implored her supporters to harass Trump administration officials in public spaces.
– Because “there are simply not enough police in D.C. or Virginia or Maryland to protect all Trump officials at their homes and when they go out to restaurants”, the president of the “influential” Crime Prevention Research Center urged officials in the Trump administration to arm themselves.
The mainstream media has engaged in an effort to turn Trump supporters into “Public Enemy # 1”; and now, even the politicians are warning of the forthcoming civil war.
Have you ever cautioned someone over inevitable consequences only to have them blaze ahead anyway? Then when you were proven right, your anger at their stupidity was righteous, was it not? Especially if any of the consequences affected you.
The Political Left today has extreme anger at those in America who voted for Donald Trump. It is because they believe Trump to be the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler who is currently in the process of destroying the Obama-nation.
Now imagine, if you will, how their anger will be magnified when Trump’s trade wars and tax cuts are blamed for the Next Great Depression.
Today, the Congressional Budget Office announced that growing U.S. budget deficits have pushed public debt to 78% of the nation’s gross domestic product. This, even as investors grow increasingly anxious over rising interest rates and bank stocks surpass their record “longest losing streak ever”.
Of course, the doubling of the national debt under Obama, or the Federal Reserve’s six (6) rate hikes since Trump’s election, will not be blamed.
Make no mistake: There WILL be a financial crash and Trump WILL be blamed. You can take that to the bank (pun intended). It’s only a matter of time.
After the crash, the support for Trump from the political right will fade like the light of day after sunset; while the vitriol of the left will rise and crash over the land like blue tsunamis under the full moon after an ocean quake.
All they have is hatred for Trump and his supporters now. It will only grow worse. And they are everywhere.
When The Office of the First Lady contacted the Secret Service after the actor Peter Fonda called for President Trump’s son, Barron, to be kidnapped and caged with pedophiles, I was reminded of a 1980’s movie, starring Tom Hanks, called “The Burbs”. The satirically comedic story told of a group of neighbors in the suburbs awakening to the actuality of satanic murderers living next door.
In “The Burbs” a clip was shown of the 1975 film, “Racing With the Devil” which, ironically, starred Peter Fonda as a vacationer who came across a secret society of Luciferian’s deeply entrenched over what appeared to be the entire state of Texas. My friends and I were underage when we snuck in through the back door of the movie theater to watch that film. Needless to say, it was a long walk home that night in the dark.
Indeed. The enemy is everywhere; and there can be no escape.
Therefore, the more I contemplate the concepts of morality and the future, the more I reconsider the old philosophical constructs.
Could the approaching “civil war” actually be spiritual in nature? Like a holy war?
The ancient prophet Jeremiah, by way of King James, phrased it thusly:
…Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk therein’.
– Jeremiah 6:16
There is no longer a dividing wall between hope and realism; liberty and chaos.
It is what it is. Nothing more, nothing less.
Prepare and, for those so inclined, pray.
Who said life was fair? And who was it again that promised you that rose garden?
Great rant there Doug. I still don’t agree that the only outcome of this failed experiment is open confrontation, but you wrote a very carefully crafted argument from the right. I too am arming up just like millions of others and I suspect that we are all doing it for the same reason. It’s a better safe than sorry thing.
I would offer that all wars are spiritual for those who have to fight them. They are financial for those who cause them to be fought.
And a Millennial Socialist Latino (28 years old) wins the Dem primary in New York. That’s what we have to look forward to. They’ll take over the reins of the Dem party and the whole country will be voting for socialists in the next decade. Welcome to the USSA. Great post Doug… Chip
Yes, identity politics is rapidly accelerating, and the only group that doesn’t vote its identity is white europeans. https://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/06/identity-politics-replacement-edition.html
Thanks, Rob. Please know I enjoyed your “30 Blocks” post as well.
Congrats Doug your post made ZH…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-27/lynn-there-will-be-financial-crash-and-trump-will-be-blamed
Chip
Thanks Chip. I’m always gratified to see the “ripples in the pond” effect; even in other languages:
http://forex-enligne-fr.com/lynn-there-will-be-a-financial-crash-and-trump-will-be-blamed/
https://princepsmilitiaecaelestis.wordpress.com/
Doug, I do believe this post has the best title of any post I’ve ever seen.
@ Gator,
They say the headline represents 80% of one’s advertising dollars. And with 123,370 current reads on Zero Hedge so far, there may be something to that; even though I think most people there likely clicked through to see who the hell “Lynn” was. Just another monosyllabic surnamed blogger like Quinn or Gore, I suppose.
On another note, a question for you: Do you think you will ever resurrect your Libertarian Question of the Day? I always found them to be mental protein.
Revelation, coming to country and planet near you.
In the closing statement , life is not fair is an absolute fact of life . As an American Citizen Free Born and of good report the one absolute I have every right to demand is absolute fair and equal treatment by all government levels . It is my duty to inform you such is not the case . Those responsible for the inequities thru lies and treasonous actions benefiting one citizen or group while ignoring or worse confiscating from one to enrich another is a high crime of the worst action by government ! Treason committed against an American citizen thru a confiscatory tax system should be punishable as a Capitol offense . We as Americans should be demanding justice at the end of a rope Nuremberg Style !
Rob, SGN, & Boat Guy,
As I’ve stated here before, this place is a “process” for me and a means to generate thought-provoking comments; even if for selfish reasons on my part.
Regarding one’s perspectives on “justice” – I think, perhaps, the final two questions of this piece could be the whole enchilada.
Uncola
The Burning Platform is a perfect place to develop and hone one’s understanding of what has, is and will take place. Our worldviews should be malleable and aspects not as rigid or rooted in emotions, but reason.
As Nietsche once wrote,
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the spirits which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.”(Dawn of Day)
This is not to say we shouldn’t stand for something, because if we don’t then we’re doomed to fall for anything.
Many nuggets of Truth with your assessment…although I’m less than a little certain of your take on Brand Trump.
@ Boat Guy
What you said reminded me of this quote
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/henry_ford_136294
“Trumps trade wars” smell like rotten Black Swan eggs.
Trust me. They’re great. Really.
How could the downvoters miss the irony?
Who is Sherbet Hoover? A guy who inhales frozen desserts?
I think it’s the new Ben and Jerry’s flavor
practice
It is not “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” to note the explicit fact that the “left vs. right” construct is a false one. There is nothing legitimate about government in any way, shape or form. The format and the procedures of the government are entirely irrelevant. A democracy is as equally illegitimate as a representative republic or a monarchy or a Politburo, in the exact same way for the exact same reason.
The only thing which can grant legitimacy to one or more people ruling over the affairs of one or more other people, outside the bounds of parents and their children, is a clear and explicit direct contract. Not an “implicit” or “implied” contract. Not a believed “social contract”. An actual, direct contract. Marriage, for example, properly witnessed.
There is indeed a crash coming to the United States, and it does seem to me to be highly likely to bring on the first civil war this country has ever faced. There will be people who want to bring on another “people’s” revolution, and there will be people who will resist that, and insist on setting up another illegitimate representative republic, and then we will start the entire drunken carnival of sociopathy all over again, ad nauseum, until humanity finally starts to learn from its mistakes — or just wipes itself out altogether. I’d like to see the former happen, but the latter seems to me to be vastly more likely.
I am referencing citizens and you are referring to government. If America was indeed a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, you would be Errorman Higs.
Although I am not completely wrong and you are not completely right, either – I still see differences between John McCain and Devin Nunes and believe voting has become a matter of degree; even if the final outcomes may be inevitable.
Thank you for the great comment, Airman. I salute you.
@ Uncola
Most of the current career politicians like McCain, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, and on and on are PRAGMATISTS like this quote from a real doucher, Maurice Strong who was the guy responsible for the U.N. Rio Earth summit
“I’M a SOCIALIST in IDEOLOGY, A CAPITALIST in METHODOLOGY ”
basically he is a fascist who promotes Big Business Monopolies for him and the cabal(both left and right) and a Communist where everything is leased and communal for the debt serfs which is all of us…left and right….
The “do as I say, not as I do” hubris because they are doing “God’s work” like Lloyd Blankfien infamously said.
That is what equity law is all about. We have entered [ mostly unaware ] into contracts with goobermint agencies etc. to perform certain acts “lawfully” and to be fined imprisoned and in some cases executed for not performing “up to code “.
Is “un-aware-ness” an element of Contract? 🙂
It evidences fraud which vitiates all contracts.
But-
“Those that are unaware are unaware of being unaware.” Merrill Jenkins
There is an underlying presence in this post, the ones written by Hollywood Rob, Southern Sage and the video provided by Scrabble this morning.. It is that the glue that holds everything in place has lost its tact. That the zigs and zags that control the narrative have made their course for some final stop.
A showdown of sorts.
A rocky shoal.
A place where only game left is finding the best outcrop to set camp on.
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There really are no good choices left.
I do not think there ever was a wall. That separation only exists in a sea that is dead and calm. When the inevitable storms arrive those ideals quickly lose their caché. The great unwashed majority have, since time immemorial, been counted on to show their true colours. One thing for certain is that when the waves churn and the rocky shoals come into view the unwashed Red Hen Maw with trade those ideas for a safe harbour. They have convinced themselves that somewhere there is a Zion safe from this Matrix. They have consoled themselves with the aid of intersectionality to be willing to wait to be documented and categorized for processing by those who really run the world.
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It feel some trepidation, but not much, as I watch it unfold. For a small part of me wishes it to be over with and done. I am tired of watching the Hot Dog Dance. It is time for the fucken thing to jump into the bun…
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The intermission is ovah! Time for main event… and the mustard tastes like shit…
MC pined in another thread that I have been acutely afflicted with a dark sense of humour. She is correct in making that diagnosis. I have concluded after much deliberation that the vast majority lack the code in their DNA for the drive to find the truth. Instead they cling to slogans and jingles. It is the reason why social media has such a magnetism. In those places people are free, a term used loosely, to browse their newsfeeds each morning. There they get their soma of outrage. One day it is a small child crying for her Mommy, the next who knows. Fixed in their dose they are then instant experts at the water cooler later that day when the inevitable calls for virtue and moral preening can be counted on to occur.
The whole spectacle ends up being a dogpile of stupid.
So it is that I have decided on a seat at the gallows. Maybe I can avoid a twisting fate. Maybe it ain’t meant to be. Like so many who have taken the red pill the odds are up in the air. One thing is for certain. Someday my Sister will show up at my door when the shit hits the fan. She will be there either to be saved or with the authorities to turn me in.
My fate rests in her hands.
My only comfort then will be saying “I told you so” as the next “Great Brown Hope” sends me away for a free holiday on the Black Sea..
I jest..
I ain’t going anywhere. I might be forced to barter with some silver and a little gold but I will do best to hold off the hangman. Even if it is just for a little while..
“Someday my Sister will show up at my door when the shit hits the fan. She will be there either to be saved or with the authorities to turn me in.”
We all have someone in our lives like that. Mine could be my daughter, who knows. That’s why CW’s are so terrible. When I was in treatment, I couldn’t read stuff like TBP, I needed escape. For some reason I chose a Civil War series about a women on the South side of the conflict. She went from a southern bell to a nurse in the hospital that was set up in Richmond. I think there is a museum and part of the original hospital still there. She must have done a lot of research about the medical situation back then. It was awful as she described it and I’m sure much worse to the people who experienced it. Not sure how this helped me escape but I ended up reading almost the entire 10 book series.
“Could the approaching “civil war” actually be spiritual in nature? Like a holy war?”
Interesting that you should ask this, Uncola, and that Admin posted the Ephesians 6:12 quote today.
12 because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.(LEB)
I keep hearing that verse quoted over and over lately. In the immortal words of Montoya:
Odin will be involved in this war.
“The trends (i. e. transitional revelations) are pointing towards war and global depopulation; exactly what the Technocratic Elite desire and right on schedule. Any attempt to divert from those outcomes would be akin to a flea trying to steer a dog like a horse.”
I love you like a brother Un but,
Horseshit.
The longer I take the 30,000-foot view of the playing field the more the world appears to be falling into a new paradigm that we have never seen before.
JC Collins perspective, as time progresses, becomes more prescient than I could have imagined.
I see turmoil ahead, I see pain for my nation financially, and pain for yours socially/legally but the gears that are in motion right now have switched from the great leveling/destruction of the west to what I am now referring to as the ‘great restructuring’.
Purveyors of doom will be disappointed in a decade when they see that what happened was a restructuring of world political/financial power and a cultural deradicalization of both the right and the left.
The new power is seeking equilibrium of the planet. We are headed towards a blend of nationalism for the masses tempered with internationalism for money and a blend of free markets and social safety nets that are more financially sustainable by way of reduced corruption. It is not a libertarian world that is being organized. But it’s also not a Marxist world.
How money and debt will be dealt with is unclear at this stage but the world of 2018 is already vastly different from the world of 2015. And it continues to change, without the escalation of violence (and arguably with a decrease), at a pace that is historically unusual.
Pass that joint this way bro.
RE: HORSESHIT?
22 Shocking Population Control Quotes From The Global Elite
“In fact, it would be very difficult to understate just how obsessed many members of the global elite are with population control. The United Nations puts out position papers about it, universities have entire courses dedicated to it, radical population control advocates have been appointed to some of the highest political positions in the world, and some of the wealthiest people on the planet get together just to talk about it. Those who believe in this philosophy are constantly talking about the need for “increased access” to abortion, contraception and other “family planning” services. But even with all of their efforts, the population of the world is still expanding and those who believe in this population control philosophy are getting nervous.”
“Many among the global elite believe that the growing world population is the number one problem facing the world. Many of them are absolutely convinced that overpopulation is the primary cause of “climate change”, is ruining our environment, and threatens to turn the entire globe into one gigantic third world slum.”
The late Jim Marrs’ book Population Control is a great read.
Most valuable quote from that link: Read what Gates says, specifically citing vaccines.
There’s way more vaccinations pushed by TPTB than when us oldsters got them in the 50’s & 60’s.
MFers! They tell us the vaccs are to ward off diseases to enhance life, and autism links are BS.
Notice how even the flu vaccine is encouraged and promoted more and more. It’s free!
And parents who have opted out get cited for child abuse, neglect, and endangering the larger groups of kiddies who took the shots.
Riggghhhtt…
Who is shitting who?
@ APOLLYON
Reminds me of this quote,
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation “(1988)
Prince Phillip
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/21/quotes-by-prince-philip
They live and breathe Thomas Malthus’ essays on the principles of population
“The new power is seeking equilibrium of the planet”-FM
Correct, third worldism for all. You can tell your “new power” to suck me dry and call me Dusty.
A year ago I would have agreed with you Barney.
I was calling what we were experiencing in the West “The Great Leveling” – we were being brought down to 3rd world standards.
I think that plan is being stopped at this stage. I think we are now entering a period of global restructuring – the old guard is being turfed and a multipolar system where sphere’s of interest are being carved out is being put in its place. This is not necessarily a backward event whereby our standards are lowered but rather a change where the possibility for regional improvement is introduced. In about a year we’ll see whether or not I’m correct. With the relatively brisk speed at which events appear to be unfolding, it won’t take long to see where this is headed.
MooFrancis, great comment. Unco, first, I didn’t vote for Trump in protest. I voted because he thought he was the guy who get the job done. I think most Trump supporters voted for that same reason. Competence, plain and simple. Second, I love what’s happening on this blog. I love to rail against dogmatic thinking, of any type. Reading the essays written by platform regulars, it’s amazing how much more flexible their minds are than the syndicated people Jim puts on here. With the exception of Buchanan. And I wouldn’t fret about the popular vote too much. If you take California and its voter fraud off the table, Trump won the popular vote by millions. And it won’t be close next time.
@ Star,
A few short years ago, a thrice-married casino owner who spoke of grabbing someone’s daughter by her privates would NOT have been elected. BUT after eight years of fundamentally transforming America into the Obama-nation, the time was right. Even still, many held their nose to vote for the Orange One in protest.
I am reading a very interesting book now entitled “God and Donald Trump” by Stephen E. Strang. Strang is no journalistic lightweight and his reporting on Trump’s wooing of Evangelical Christian voters is pretty fascinating. I hope to finish it soon and write about it one day (or at least reference it).
Thank you for your comment. I respect your (Sensetti-similar) contagious optimism and, even though Admin has been pounding you of late, I remain a fan.
I don’t think you followed the Trump campaign, Unco. He wasn’t filling all those arenas up with people holding their noses. There were only three issues. Immigration, trade, and corruption. All the rest is smallball. If you understood that in that way, you would have a better understanding of a majority of Trump voters. He is not a fluke. He is not a protest. He is a fixer. I don’t think your mischaracterization is malicious, but I do think it’s a mischaracterization. the point of my comment wasn’t argue with you. I’m watching you evolve. And that’s a good thing. I’m just trying to give you more information.
Only three issues my fat ass. What about $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities, trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, and a military intervening in dozens of countries around the world? Smallball. Small minded is more like it.
Trump fills up some arenas with 10,000 people. Big fucking deal. He won because people hated Hillary more. Uncola is absolutely correct. If the market tanks before February, he loses the House. People vote their pocketbooks.
Solve the three problems I list, and you can solve the stuff that bothers you, Jim. The trade deficit is key to solving the debt. Taking globalization off the backs of American citizens is what Trump is about. We will be a lot better for it. Watch
If our trade deficit was zero it would not make a fucking difference regarding the $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities and the trillion dollar deficits he has locked in with his spending budget. Don’t try to peddle a narrative to me. I understand maff.
How come he just backed off on his Chinese tariffs when the stock market started to tank? Must be 36DD chess.
Star,
Trump would have been Romneyed had he not converted the majority of Evangelical Christian voters. Most of them favored candidates like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee in the primaries. After Trump became the candidate, a small percentage stayed home, the majority became enthusiastic “BetterThanHillary-ites” and a significant percentage (approx. 1/3) of those people became reluctant “BetterThanHillary-ites” (i.e. – protest voters) holding their nose in the polling booth.
This is why I said Trump “was elected in protest”.
I am only telling you why I wrote what I wrote; not trying to debate against your positions.
Of course, there are other ways to look at it such as most voters (including you) carrying the election because of the platforms you named (and not in protest).
Even so, in light of my discussion of “morality” in this piece – Trump was wise in wooing the evangelicals who are sometimes still called the Moral Majority. With them, I do believe Hillary’s corruption was the main impetus with immigration and trade representing slightly “smallerballs” in comparison to Trump’s “right to life” stance.
I wish your analysis all the best FM. You are a classy guy.
No such thing as equilibrium.
@ Francis Marion
You said,
“I see turmoil ahead, I see pain for my nation financially, and pain for yours socially/legally but the gears that are in motion right now have switched from the great leveling/destruction of the west to what I am now referring to as the ‘great restructuring’.”
I’ve said it a few times now…what you are describing is part of a global GLEICHSCHALTUNG
The Nazis used the word Gleichschaltung for the process of successively establishing a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of society. It has been variously translated as co-ordination,[2][3][4] Nazification of state and society,[5] synchronization,[6] and bringing into line,[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
The thought has crossed my mind.
Francis, I think you are dead on. And I have no idea how the spell checker turn you into mooFrancis on a different comment. Change is happening very quickly. President Trump is not dogmatic. I’ve said for years on this forum that if you think he’s going to punch your particular wish list, you’re going to be greatly disappointed. But when the smoke clears, he’s going to have set a lot of stuff straight, in particular the mechanism that we make decisions by in society. People are catching on at different speeds, which is fine. But I would recommend to all, don’t try and stuff it into your own myopic lens. Stand back and look at what he’s doing, and watch the ripple effects in the world at large. because those effects are massive, and they benefit us over everyone else. Francis you nailed it. It’s a reset. And the reset is simple. Globalization is fine. But it will not happen any longer on the backs of law abiding Americans. And Unco, we’re cool, I always read your stuff, even though I don’t comment on it often. All I’m asking is that you consider that Trump is not an accident or a mistake, and that he is the singular Flying Wedge that’s driving every bit of the change what’s happening in the world
I often wonder if it wouldn’t be possible to head off the looming civil war, by splitting the country into two or more pieces and letting the left go it’s own way on it’s parcel of ground and letting the right go it’s own way on it’s parcel of ground. I know it’s a peaceful solution and therefore a non-starter. There are many who believe that this war must take place, without really think through the consequences. I think it’s inevitable that the US will break up into regional blocs or the individual states will regain their sovereignty in the aftermath of the civil war. Why not split up now and avoid the war? The split is coming either way. We cannot continue to coexist.
Igor Panarin believed the U.S. would split apart by 2010,
Obviously this hasn’t happened yet, he failed to realize the tricks in the Central bankers bag to kick the can a while longer, but very plausible scenario.
Then there is the FEMA region map:
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Stalin used this decentralizing tactic by regionalizing power
In my work days travel route, a 45 minute drive there, then the same back, I must pass through parts of a city that is notorious for thuggery and high murder rates.
Those usually only occur at night, and deep in the decaying neighborhoods that exhibit blight that
drives the narrative of the city’s reputation.
But, on the busy main streets, B’s & W’s, and all other ethnicities see each other, and interact occasionally, with very few problems, if said interaction is kept to a minimum.
I’ve been a CPL holder for some 7 years now, and up until now, have practiced discretionary carry.
Meaning: I only bring it with me, for my workday travels through the ghetto, and when I’m going out in public with family and friends where I deem it smart to have protection, in a potential risk area.
Some would say that’s crazy, and I should carry all the time. Others: why carry? I’d call them crazy.
In the ‘burbs, where animals are not the dominant group, I relish the non-threat and choose to not lug it around, with it’s inherent responsibility.
In restaurants, I usually have it, and always face the door, in case the rare possibility of a lunatic coming in with guns blazing. Avoid gun free zones as much as possible.
I practice often enough, and hope that if the need arises, I’ll remember the drills…breathe, line up the fronts, and gently squeeze when the time is right, vs. spray and pray, and jerking the index finger.
Comment point:
If societal shit keeps racheting up, I foresee carrying way more often, and should probably consider carrying an extra magazine, too.
My concern is the potential for a flash point situation, where a flash mob takes on a herd mentality of lashing out against anyone who LOOKS white, old, conservative, and ‘probably’ a DJT supporter.
THAT’s where the trend appears to be heading, as we devolve more and more into divided groups of mutual hate and suspicion.
If the mid term Blue Wave fails, it could buy some time to plan further, or it could result in blood in the streets.
I believe the former; it will merely buy us some time, but things will still head negative.
If Trump doesn’t win a 2nd term, then the urgency factor will increase, and plan B will have to be initiated in earnest, as the country will surely start crumbling much more faster.
Knowing where to escape to, and hunker down, is of primary importance.
Those monkeys who’ve already achieved that, I salute you and wouldst that ye befriend me.
Southerners: Not all Yankees have risks to them. Some, like me, bring valuables to the table, if joining you could be considered. Come up with a test. If I can’t pass it, then I’d venture elsewhere.
God help us good men and women, when chaos ensues. I do pray, as an uncertain future looms.
I think you’ll find that if you have skills that are desirable and of value in a survival situation, medical, first responder, surgeon, dentist, veterinary, horticulture, construction, engineering, just generally good at working with your hands and a decent knowledge of tools and equipment. Have a strong back and a strong work ethic you’ll be welcome at most retreats that aren’t full up, unless you have annoying habits that piss normal people off like substance abuse, being an insufferable know-it-all, negative attitude, fomenting discontent and that sort of thing. Also not being fussy about the conditions and accommodations goes a long way. Ask yourself what resources can I bring to the table that would convince a homestead family to welcome me and mine. Bringing your own supplies of enough food to last several months, being in good physical condition and anything else that lightens the burden is a must. Being humble enough to follow orders and smart enough to listen and follow directions would also be a giant plus.
The “retreats” on the Walking Dead come to mind. No thanks… Chip
As a Rebel, most of us have Yankee relatives (some good and some not) and Conservative Yankee friends; I consider half of the folks in adjacent Leon County as Communist unfriends. State your friendly case and you are welcome; this is not the last Civil War. But just because we are farmers/ranchers, there is only so much food and ammo. You need to provide most of your own. I have bought a lot of large canvas tarps for the folks that arrive “naked” (without their own shelter). Ya’ll come, break bread, help defend God and Country.
We are on the cusp of the death of centralization, a trend of at least 500 years. The centralizers are riding a tiger they can’t possibly control. To hit your theme, Uncola, the decentralization wave will wash over the two great centralizers of morality—religions and government. For better or worse, individuals are going to have to figure out on their own what’s right and what’s wrong as the institutions that previously guided human behavior fail. It won’t exactly be anarchy, but it will be far different than what we’ve known before or know now. I have called it entropic atomization. Beyond that, I hesitate to make predictions. Anyway, your article is a good entree to think about these things and I’ll post it tonight.
Great comment. The wave is rising so fast right now it is hard to keep track of everything that is morphing. A LOT of political commentators in the MSM (especially up here) are now completely irrelevant as a result. They just don’t know it yet.
Communication and platforms like Twitter are transforming the political landscape because smart people have learned how to use these platforms to show the emperor for what he is.
Recently our gov’t convinced Twitter to shut down some parody accounts of our Environment Minister. Why would they do that? Because they are effective in changing the way the average voter views these people and their policies. The result is that more parody accounts spring up, thus exacerbating the original problem and bringing more eyes to the weaknesses of the ruling regime.
We no longer need the MSM to communicate ‘news’ or ideas. Information itself is being decentralized as we can go directly to the source ourselves and share the information amongst one another faster and more effectively than a paper or televised source ever could. And it’s happening globally.
Regime change in Iran, for example, will not happen with US boots on the ground but rather, by the exchange of information and by the demands of the Iranian people for a better life. The Iranian elite are not good people, but the Iranian people are. They will demand better and they will get it without US or even Israeli boots on the ground. Iran in the ME – like Canada in NA – must solve its own problems internally and once it does it can become a successful piece of its regional puzzle.
These people will be driven from public life one way or the other. It’s happening in real time:
Iranian Regime’s Supreme Pedophile Ali Kharmanei French kisses a little girl then says: “That was tasty”. To quote someone famous – These people are sick. And their time is nearly up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09plI1h-Mnc
@ Francis Mario & Robert Gore,
Although I admire your optimism(s) and want to respond to both of your excellent comments, I hesitate doing so for fear of appearing the cold-water-throwing pessimist; or even worse, a fatalist.
Therefore, at this time, I am fairly certain I will be writing an essay (hopefully soon) parsing the differences (i.e. walls) between pessimism, realism, and fatalism.
In the meantime, as you know, due to increasing online censorship and search engine dilution, I have been collecting and cataloging headlines daily in an effort to identify trends (i.e. transitional revelations). It is a pain in the ass, especially when traveling, but I won’t stop. Not yet.
Regardless, as you both may realize from my past essays, I am most interested to see who, ultimately, has the real power. And, unfortunately, as you will see in my June “transitions” piece that will be posted in early July, Big Brother appears to be winning.
Therefore, I question a few of your apparent premises.
FM says:
Robert says:
It could be that pockets of rising populism throughout the Orwellian West, color revolutions, and mass migrations around the world might continue to fragment the old borders into new economic regions.
At the same time, we are witnessing wealth being transferred from the West to Asia; the Marxist tiger under tight control.
It also appears that increased centralization (and control) is occurring via the power of technology. Even now there is social digital ranking being explored in China, not to mention surveillance, advanced weaponry, and the war on cash around the world.
As of this time, I have hope for Trump truly dissembling the New World Order as I, simultaneously, acknowledge the following:
1.) Economic Realities
2.) Political Realities
3.) Global Demographics
4.) Global Trends
5.) Past History
Although no wall of separation divides my hope from my logic, the dismantling of the Old Order is, in fact, occurring now and Trump appears to be expediting the process.
A post-industrial collapse will not provide a similar environment as during the ascendancy of industrial civilization. There will be rampant crime in both overpopulated and rural areas. Family will be pitted against family. Neighbor will rise against neighbor and battles will be waged over food and water.
Within the chaos, there will be debt-slaves screaming, in unison, for a return to order. It may be gang rule or little kings reigning over little fiefdoms at first. Or, perhaps, the power of technology might lift the curtain on the Biggest Brother Ever exiting Stage Left with stars in his eyes and a credit-card reader, drone, and killer-bot in his pockets.
Or not. Like Robert, I don’t like to make predictions. 🙂 So, right now, I’m just watching, extrapolating and journaling.
Thank you both for the conversation.
The government got the front door GPS coordinates of homes during the last census. I asked the census taker about it, and my friend’s wife worked on the software for storing the information.
“the power of technology might lift the curtain on the Biggest Brother Ever exiting Stage Left with stars in his eyes and a credit-card reader, drone, and killer-bot in his pockets.”
Right back at you.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-27/eu-globalists-and-chinese-communists-team-protect-new-world-order
I am placing this here for purposes of posterity:
It appears Brandon Smith is not a believer in decentralizing “entropic atomization” either?
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Brandon Smith GETS IT!
He is a smarty! As Maggie calls some of us.
And fits neatly into my comment above about a GLOBAL GLEICHSCHALTUNG or totalitarian synchronizing taking place…
AKA a true dystopian technocratic NEW WORLD ORDER
Uncola
My bachelor’s degree from a California State University was in Sociology,
My master’s degree (need to finish my thesis to earn it officially) is from American PUBLIC University, a branch of American Military U.
In all my studies i never was introduced to Joan Veon.
I found her from a referral by a a former cal State professor Dr. Eric Karlstrom
Both Dr. Karlstrom and Joan Veon are knowledgeable and I credit much of my growth with what I learned from them with God’s grace and will.
I highly recommend watching Veon’s videos on YouTube about the global power structure.
Maybe Robert and Southern Sage should too before they talk about a know American New World Order
Will check it out. Thanks Plato
I hardly characterize my vision as optimistic (from Uncola’s previous comment). Brandon Smith draws straight lines. Centralization has been the trend, ergo it will continue into some sort of global ubergovernment. History doesn’t move in straight lines. The people alive at the height of the Roman empire probably thought it would last forever, even as it began to crumble. It gave way not to a bigger, more powerful empire, but to the chaos of the Middle Ages, what might be fairly characterized as “entropic atomization.”
The world’s most powerful military hasn’t won a war of significance since 1945. One of the largest empires every built, the USSR, crumbled. The Middle East is already in chaos. Africa is Africa. The EU project is coming apart at the seams, its countries overrun by migrants and its governments de facto bankrupt, facing some of the ugliest demographics on the planet. China is a giant Red Ponzi. Russia may wear the cleanest dirty shirt; it has abundant real resources and little debt. The US is de facto bankrupt, riven by conflict, its only economic growth bought on credit. And this is before its financial markets crash and the world is engulfed in the most devastating debt deflation in history. Every income stream is pledge and every asset is mortgage. There are harbingers of the coming chaos everywhere, you just have to know where to look.
I would suggest that the cabal of central bankers, with their control of fiat currencies, fiat debts, and fiat hybrids like IMF special drawing rights and now, perhaps cryptocurrencies, are going to be completely overwhelmed when hundreds of millions, probably billions, of people who had been relying on imaginary economies, assets, and stores of value are suddenly confronted with the reality of complete economic ruin. It’s going to get savage, and “entropic atomization” is just a nice way of putting it. Think of the Middle East on steriods. Nobody is going to be able to outrun or “manage” that hell, not even Smith’s omniscent, omnipotent, and evil bankers.
Welcome to the Second Middle Ages. It’s already begun.
Robert
I agree with you. That’s why I find it difficult to write about something that is inevitable on a daily basis. Better to tend to my garden and read a book.
That’s probably the smartest comment on this thread.
@ Robert,
Rome is an excellent model that parallels the long, slow-motion decline of the Modern West.
However, today, there are no new geographical frontiers to facilitate the decentralization.
Moreover, as I stated above, I do believe modern technology will remain the tie that binds; a factor not present in any previous civilizational implosions or Fourth Turnings past.
It appears the main gates (i.e. access/check points) will be digital.
That said, I will also acknowledge the very real possibility of someone, or something, “pulling the plug” – so to speak. Like an EMT, all out nuclear war or some such similar technological devastation.
In that scenario, I would most wholeheartedly and enthusiastically embrace your theory of “entropic atomization” as an undeniable inevitably; especially in the immediate aftermath.
Of course, there also remains the possibility we will both be right at different times and/or in different geographical regions around world.
Regardless, I find the discourse gratifying and the extrapolations simultaneously challenging and satisfying.
As always, thanks for sharing your astute perspectives; even though you did forget to post this piece on your blog.
You know I always doublecheck, don’t you? ?
Well I’ll be damned, I did forget to post your article. I’ll do so immediately.
Okay, it’s posted. A response to your comment.
“It appears the main gates (i.e. access/check points) will be digital.”
Do you know how pathetically easy it would be to take down the grid in this country? If TPTB are counting on electricity-based security, repression, surveillance, and financial systems, probably a few thousand knowledgeable anarchists can render their plans moot. You don’t think there are people out there right now who don’t know the critical chokepoints and have the ideological motivation or would do it for a price? It won’t require EMT or nuclear devastation, we’ve lost chunks of the grid for appreciable lengths of time from wear and tear, forest fires, and bad weather. It couldn’t stand up to a determined attack. And don’t tell me the government will use the military to stop them. There are millions of miles of electric cables and thousands of installations it would have to guard. Our military has been unable to subdue determined Afghans for 17 years now.
Where does the wherewithal come from for the globalist order? If we have a financial collapse, economic activity and tax collections collapse. All governments “collect” now is their own phony baloney scrip. I’d say twenty-five million Americans who either couldn’t or wouldn’t pay their taxes or mortgages would bring the entire phoney baloney fractional reserve financial system to its knees, and consequently the governments that rely on debt and their own scrip for funding, which is most of them.
I’m glad I read your article, because it and the comments got me to drag out of the mental attic boxes I haven’t opened for awhile. Now that I’ve reopened them, it’s only reinforced my thinking. The future will be neither Orwellian or Huxleyian, it will be Randian, as depicted in the last part of Atlas Shrugged, i.e. chaos. I’m preparing accordingly.
Robert,
Although I do believe the “wherewithal” to be technology, in all truth, I do hope the grid is as fragile as you say.
A wellspring of multitudinous Galt’s Gulches proliferating throughout the world would be far preferable to the iron grip of an Orwellian Technocracy.
And this is why I said your vision was optimistic.
Thanks again for both the commentary and posting this piece on your blog.
Thanks for the great article. If Galt’s Gulches are set up, you have an invite into whichever one I land.
Robert
I enjoyed reading your response to Uncola.
Our power grid is very vulnerable. The federal government has done many studies on it and warned of its vulnerability as a national security risk.
As you mentioned, it wouldn’t take an EMP or solar flare to knock out a large portion of it…you got me thinking of a story years back that took place in California…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
Crazy part of the story is the sniper aspect wasn’t even touched by the MSM for months after the blackout occurred…
Anyways, it just adds credence to your assessment.
For some reason though, I am reminded of the Phoenix on the back of the Dollar bill….that this old fractional reserve system is kaput, by design, and from its ashes will rise a new economic system and WILL be run by 5G and A.I. and block chain technology where everything tangible on Earth WILL be digitized and incorporated into it….
A major thinning of the herd and much weeping and gnashing of teeth must occur first.
Gradualism is allowing for construction and erection of the new system while old one is in its death throws.
The elite realize MOST won’t go for what they have planned so they will make things so terribly bad that we will be happy with whatever they offer,
Of course they will retreat into their DUMBS Deep underground military bases while it’s like Mad Max for awhile above ground and when enough carnage and death has transpired they will Rise like the Phoenix to be the saviors once again.
Or ALL of THIS is a distraction and smokescreen to take our attention away from the skies that are always obfuscated with a thin white haze so We fail to see the Nemesis system and our Sun’s binary twin, the brown dwarf star referred to as Planet X, the Destroyer passing through our inner solar system….
TALK about some anarchy, everyone not going to work, looking for a friend for the end of the world!
Nothing to see here, let’s just focus on the terrestrial issues…
As the instruction manual from the LEGO movie reminds us,
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
Platoplubius,
I think you’ve got the elite’s plan nailed. Whether they’ll be able to stay in their bunkers, unmolested by the rampaging hordes, remains to be seen. As noted political philosopher Mike Tyson once observed (in a graduate school class he taught), everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Robert,
I Like the Tyson quote…
this is why I carry around a small stone in my pocket with this etched into it,
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”
This truly is a spiritual battle above all else.
Peace
As an addendum to the fantastic commentary above regarding future extrapolations, I will again mention the concept of whack a mole. It’s how order is maintained in shitholes all over the planet; even sans technology.
Just something to consider and, perhaps, for which to prepare.
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Brandon has always been a skeptic with regards to Trump.
M C
Excellent comment. I’m on the fence and see both arguments have validity. Too bad we don’t have crystal balls to gaze into… Chip
That was a great comment Robert. My Wife is convinced that things are going to re-localize. I know that isn’t a word but still kinda sums up the coming revolution.
The information age is only half over.
Manufacturing is going to decentralize as well… Once 3d printing and CAD takes hold look out. The company I work for just bought a plasma/oxy fuel table. It is an amazing machine. There was a time when a contractor would have to beg steal and borrow at the Equipment Supply dealer for stuff like this. And all of it was made far, far away….
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…..in China
Now I can design it in morning with contractor and have it cut in afternoon. Sent to fabricator for welding the next day and on the machine the following..
I have a friend here in South Texas that is working with and repairing machines with this type of technology. Cheap to build and maintain with the computers and software that run them… Chip
I will get a picture of the part being made tomorrow. Pretty cool project to be working on.
SGN
Check it out. That part is made with 1.5 inch thick plate to give a sense of scale.
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So this is an example of what happens when information decentralizes. For now it only makes sense to use this technology on very large parts. Wal-mart is safe. Still when not if the cost of 3d printing falls into line all the plastic junk being sent here from China might just end up being made locally.
Which makes the current push by West to import all these low skill workers from 3rd world all the more baffling. The best course is to keep them over there cuz with automation we can do it ourselves…
Anyhoo just though I’d post. Pretty cool project…
Robert,
See my comment above
or don’t
Makes no nevermind.
“Make no mistake: There WILL be a financial crash and Trump WILL be blamed. You can take that to the bank (pun intended). It’s only a matter of time.”
WHAT?
” In essence he (Trump)is going to seize the assets of all the individuals AND ENTITIES involved in human trafficking, human rights abuses, corruption and activities that do harm to the economy of the USA. These assets will essentially be all of the wealth the deep state has been transferring from us to themselves. The amounts are staggering even if you exclude the possibility of the FED being one of the ENTITIES seized. Include the FED and my bet is that the total dollar denominated assets seized will easily exceed the entire US debt and deficit. That, in and of itself, will leave quite the conundrum for the FED bankers to explain will it not? Again it’s just too delicious for words. We’re going to seize their wealth and assets to rebuild the country, extinguish the debt and prosecute, imprison and execute the deep state scum that has bent over the human race for 8000 years. The only way that could be any more delicious is if they pipe CNN into their prison cells during the trial phase showing this happening in real time.Pie in the sky? Maybe, but to many who have been following along, there is little doubt. Now we watch the news.”
Sponsored by Anon Dream Kush
Diogenes.
Jiminy Cricket after a bag of Orange Kush singing when you wish upon a Trump.
735 trillskis in derivatives outstanding, 200 trill more in dream Kush benefits unfunded, 20t’s in debt and a dream Kush transition to a Golden age of worldwide ease and material comfort rolled in one Cheech Marin joint. What could go wrong.
Russia in 1917 might be too optimistic.
Beam me up Scotty.
Beautiful Fleabags
FM, said “I see turmoil ahead, I see pain for my nation financially, and pain for yours socially/legally but the gears that are in motion right now have switched from the great leveling/destruction of the west to what I am now referring to as the ‘great restructuring’.”
I don’t think so. Trump is…I don’t know what he is..but he is still just one man. The population does not have the will to go through any kind of pain. 2008 was nothing compared to what is ahead.
I got stuck in a Walmart yesterday during a tornado warning. The people were impatient for the 15 minutes we were stuck in the back of the store. Some of them refused to cooperate. And there were none of the “People of Walmart” there at the time. Just the usual normies, mostly. There was some damage from a tornado touchdown a few miles to the west, so it was no false alarm. What do you think they will be like when this pain happens? Marshall law is what will be required to keep the peace.
“so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect…”Matt 24:24
Mary C..
I think the correct spelling is martial law. I’m firmly in the same camp as you and diogenes. My reply to Ottomatic this morning on the Q-anons post sums it up for me and I’m now done discussing any more of these easy way out fantasies.
Ugh..I hate spelling errors, Flea. I will try to remember the proper spelling.
I think we should just spell it TROUBLE.
M C
Mary C.
I know you do.
Great article, thought-provoking comments. There are some 320 million people in this country. My experience is that it is very difficult to know how 320 million people are going to react to big changes. The same with 160 million, 40 million, even 10 million. I wouldn’t want to bet the farm on any particular course. I don’t think we can know. That being said, the real question concerns whether a significant portion of the population will rise up to defend liberty and justice. The people will decide that question and act (or not act) accordingly. My bet is that many surprises are in store.
“…the real question concerns whether a significant portion of the population will rise up to defend liberty and justice.”
middle-aged mad gnome; as I have stated on this site before, all TPTB have to do is turn off the electricity for a day or two and most ‘muricans will turn in granny to the rendering plant to get the air conditioning back on. To hell with liberty and freedom.
“Could the approaching “civil war” actually be spiritual in nature? Like a holy war?”
If a civil war does come it will be quite un-civil, and people ought to get it out of their imaginations that it will be like the one we had in 1861-1865. This modern day civil war will have no geographical boundaries. Your enemy will be living amongst you.
You say a state is red or blue? Sure, but only by the smallest of margins. Even solid blue NJ had 9 of 21 counties vote for Trump. When was the last time a POTUS won by even getting 55% of the vote? This modern civil war (if it happens) will be total carnage on every level from the largest cities to the smallest villages. And don’t think YOU will be safe in your little hideaway — there won’t be anywhere to run.
Perhaps we should stop hoping for CW2?
Most of the people I know who were hardcore Trumpeteers tell me they no longer watch any of the news outlets and feel all of this is smoke and mirrors. I don’t see people willing to die for DT and CW2 would fizzle out before it really got started by the provocateurs that always incite these things.
I’ll take my hideaway over Stucky’s any day should anything come about. 🙂
Black neighborhood in NJ, not a safe bet. Come on down Stucky.
Excellent point, Heir Stuckmeister. And, good to see ‘ya Bea. Good thoughts as well
Here here.
Indeed… Chip
Anonymous said “My concern is the potential for a flash point situation, where a flash mob takes on a herd mentality of lashing out against anyone who LOOKS white, old, conservative, and ‘probably’ a DJT supporter.
THAT’s where the trend appears to be heading, as we devolve more and more into divided groups of mutual hate and suspicion.”
Roy Potter talked about this. Don’t underestimate the left. They might be terrible at military type fighting and not very disciplined but what they are good at is organizing mobs like that in what seems like a moments notice. Black teens do this all the time in some very nice shopping and dining areas in Kansas City. Every summer they have to put in place a curfew for kids under 17 to help curb the problem and keep people from being afraid to go out. I think Matt Bracken has talked about this as well, particularly in his book of anthologies.
Edit: It’s 2.99 but worth the 3 bucks.
“Could the approaching “civil war” actually be spiritual in nature? Like a holy war?”
What does “spiritual war” even mean? I’m talking in practical terms that I can behold with my five senses …. not some Angelic Gabriel fighting Demonic Lucifer somewhere in space with spiritual swords. (Does an angel bleed if they get stabbed with a spiritual sword?) I do know that the talk of spiritual war will end the second you wind up with a bullet up your ass … at that moment it’s a physical war.
A holy war is the LAST thing we need. If war comes, then you ought to hope for an UN-Holy war.
You see … when you have a Holy War, then both sides believe that God is on THEIR side. This is the fucking worst possible thing that can happen. That type of war has been going on in the Middle East for thousands of years, and in America’s Civil War, as well. When God is on your side then it stands to reason that Satan is on the opposing side. And when one side is demonized, then the God side will do literally anything to defeat them. And then the next step, and it always happens, is that you go from a regyoulah war to a war filled with all kinds of atrocities … even attempts at genocide (just ask the Indians). I am telling you the truth … both sides ought to leave God OUT of their justifications.
You really want an Un-Holy war. It would end after two battles. It would go like this;
– Democrat General: … “We just killed 795 Republicans including women and children in the Battle of Redbeets, Iowa!”
– Republican General: … “Oh, yeah? Well, we just killed 795 Democrats including women and children in the Battle of Stinkpot, NJ!!”
– Democrat General: … “Jeebus H Krist! What the fuck are we doing??”
– Republican General: … “Hell if I know. This is nuts. How about I go kill Nancy Pelosi, and you go kill Paul Ryan, and then we all go home?
– Democrat General: … “It’s a deal!”
In parsing the morality aspects, I think that’s what I meant Stuck. A spiritual war where (as you say) “both sides believe that God is on THEIR side”. That’s pretty much what Maxine Waters said, right?:
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Right that!?! Maxipad Waters can’t even know God. God would never be on the side of hate. She must be referring to her god… Satan.
Game. Set. Match. Tony wins the whole enchilada. Both sides can’t be correct. Only one side can be “right”.
So said the writers of old:
Now turn in your answers to the last two questions of this essay to Admin, and you will receive your results back shortly.
Stuck you have more than five senses. You also have a sense of balance, a sense of acceleration, a sense of hunger, a sense of thirst, a sense of thermoception which is the ability to discern changes of temperature, a sense of proprioception which is knowing where various parts of your body are in space and time, like where your feet are as you are walking without watching them. I’m sure there are many others, but I digress.
I agree wholeheartedly that people who are eager for a civil war ought to be careful what they wish for. Pain and misery are not something sensible people wish upon themselves, regardless of how romantic the notion may be. As for the Holy war, I think Voltaire nailed it when he said, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”.
Outstanding! I love it when commentators display a brain at work rather than merely regurgitating and repeating YoBoisms and Wippisms. I love the smell of reasoning in the morning!
EC
C’mon, Stuck. When folks want to nuke parts of America from space just to be sure, then we know that the Hitlerian dream of total war rules the minds of these folks. Good thng we are going to have a space force to accomplish all that.
He did astounding miracles, even making fire flash down to earth from the sky while everyone was watching.
(1) All wars descend into savagery and spawn atrocities; some wars’ atrocities are better publicized in history, that’s all.
Recently in Mexico City they unearthed a temple complex that the Maya (Aztecs? one or the other) built in prehistory for those parts. Piles and piles of skulls, from victims whose beating hearts were ripped from their chests; then the corpse was beheaded, and the skulls flensed and en-poled (?) for display. I imagine if we had a history from their neighbors, the Maya would be cited for plenty of atrocities.
(2) The leftists don’t believe in God, or they could never rip living fetuses from their wombs. Not that I am in charge of deciding that foolish girl-women should bear a lifelong penalty of involuntary parenthood (or even shotgun marriage!) for a moment of lust-inflamed stupidity. But leave that alone; let’s say they believe in Gaia instead of God, and that the planet demands a 4/5 reduction in human population to allow the ecosystems to recover from factory farming, overfishing, etc. How do you plan to argue them out of it?
The consequences of the rapidly-approaching civil war are the same as the Northern Invasion; each person must choose for themselves, whether they will live (or die) in slavery or live (or die) in freedom; and you may have to abandon your brother, sister, parents or friends in order not to have to kill them yourself. THAT was a hard, bitter choice to make; just read a few diaries from either side from the 1860’s and you will see. But this is a constant, perpetual choice; do you have the right to make someone else die for your beliefs?
THAT’S what it boils down to; if you believe in letting people make their own choices (one way or another, they have to, is my belief) then you must allow them to make the WRONG choice, if that’s how they feel. If you DON’T believe in letting people make their own choices, then you probably have already made your own; and you probably already believe in making someone else die for your beliefs (“White people, hurry up and go extinct already!”). In that light, the oncoming CW2 is both inevitable, and required; those who CANNOT, WILL NOT leave you alone to live the way you want to will make it necessary.
You cannot choose for them, and you cannot allow them to make choices for you that you do not believe in. Once you decide, Will I choose for myself or allow dictation of all my actions by others? you have pretty much made the choice that matters. Choose, then live with the consequences of your choices.
@ James
Much wisdom in your comments. Much love!
Is wisdom what that is? I would have said plain common sense, but I thank you for the compliment.
Living six decades teaches those who can learn. Usually painfully, by trying the wrong thing the first six times, in my case; but after having exhausted all the bad alternatives, I follow Churchill’s description of Americans.
Having had at various times various delusions, now I generally want just be left alone to pursue my own interests, without needing permits, endless taxes, endless regulations and limitless interference. It’s a small dream, but my own.
@ James
You would think it’s common sense wouldn’t you and I would tend to agree with you.
What a wonderful dream that u dream for as well!
But like George Carlin said,
“It’s the AMERICAN DREAM, because you have to be ASLEEP to believe it!”
Reminds me of the movie THEY LIVE
Gotta have the right sets of glasses to see what some see as mere common sense it appears.
We truly do live in extraordinary times
“let’s say they believe in Gaia instead of God, and that the planet demands a 4/5 reduction in human population to allow the ecosystems to recover from factory farming, overfishing, etc. How do you plan to argue them out of it?”
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I, too, enjoyed your comments James. Setting aside the little matter of paragraph breaks, I’m starting to wonder if we might even be related.
On another note, does anyone else think that Grizzly Bare also seems a…. little…., shall we say…, familiar?
I have posted here before as Joe Bauers AKA Not Sure. Turns out there is another Not Sure so I thought it best to find a new handle. Your 4/5 reduction scenario drives home my point that those who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit atrocities. Fuck you.
Actually, welcome. Perhaps the perceived familiarity was merely a result of you fitting in so well.
Peace for now.
Yes, Peace. I just get worked up a bit when I see intelligent people being set up as sheep dipped patsies like Lee Harvey Oswald and they swallow it hook line and sinker. This talk of civil war and the desire to get on with it is beyond foolishness. Hasn’t it occurred to you that the man behind the curtain who pulls the levers is trying to goad you all into doing something rash and extremely stupid? When your political ideology has been discredited for all time, when everyone you know is dead, locked up or wasting away in a refugee camp, when everything you’ve worked for your entire life is destroyed, when there’s nothing left of your home but a pile of smoldering embers, get back to me and tell me again why it was necessary.
War is hell. Noone wants war except those who believe they will benefit and they are legion. So there’s no escape. The points are that it is what it is and who said life was fair?
The oligarchs benefit. The oligarchs are the only ones who benefit. They always have. War is hell. Most folks don’t really grasp the horror of it unless they’ve experienced it. I’m not sure if you are aware of these oligarchs, but they are the guys who own every-fucking-thing. The guys George Carlin told you about who have this club, and you ain’t in it. They own the banks, hell they own all the money. They own all the large corporations that matter. They own the cops. They own the courts. They own the prisons. They own the military. They own congress. They own the White House. They own your state, county and municipal governments They have a firm grip on the levers of power. They are your enemy, not these screeching harpy useful idiot leftists. You will never defeat the oligarchs by going toe to toe with them. That’s what they want. That’s what they are trying to provoke. They want you out in the open, doing something that they can use to justify your elimination. When you start shooting the screeching useful idiot leftists they will not turn a blind eye and let you triumph. They will squash you like a cockroach.
Grizz, I can appreciate a couple of your points, and wanted to add my 2 cents.
Maybe you’ll see this; maybe not, since this thread is getting long in the tooth, and some don’t check back in, after a time lapse, to review follow-up comments.
First, you responded on the suggested qualities to possess, for consideration of entry, as a Yankee into the southern areas if relocating in a crisis. Your suggestions made sense.
Second, on your reply to Uncognito…above. I found myself thinking: You owe nobody an explanation, but I can relate, in a couple of ways.
Others do it too, when someone critiques or questions to explain. It’s a defense.
Others have posted under a different moniker, for their own reasons. The effects?
I sense, and have had confirmation around here that some find that unworthy of respect or a response, especially if posting as an Anonny.
When alternate moniker use is discovered, detected, or suspected (Arlo Guthrie?, lol) irrespective of the motive, it seems to be accepted and allowed, for the most part.
Admin is aware who is who, and some other sharp BDR’s in this space can ID the different monikers and recognize that X is Y, and occasionally comments as Z.
There’s at least one BDR who has done it, and if ok for them, then ok for others, imo.
Newbies don’t get the same consideration though. Gotta earn your stripes or ropes here before taking such measures. A reason we see so many Anonymous comments.
Writing style offers clues, for wondering minds, as Uncognito and some sharp others are keenly aware.
All that said, I do respect those that always use and post under the same moniker.
They are usually the best contributors. I’m not there yet.
They, IMO, have the strength of their convictions, and opine as they wish, and care not who might object. They worry not, what others think about their opinions and stances.
Others might have legit reasons to post using alter egos.
Doesn’t matter, as long as Admin doesn’t get torqued up enough to lay down new rules for posting, insisting authors use a single, fixed name, or by disallowing Anonnies.
The only way to enforce that would be IP address recognition, and use the ban hammer.
Until demanded otherwise, the option for anonymity exists for now. Cowardly?
If some object, or think that’s weak, their opinion is allowed. C’est la vie.
Compare it to our various emotion states at given times, on different topics.
At times we can be kind, cruel, funny, smart, stupid, intimidated, confident, cautious, sympathetic, or any other.
It all depends on the state of mind at the time, plus the expected reactions.
Multiple comments via the single moniker can reveal things some don’t want widely known, so privacy or semi-privacy can perhaps be mildly achieved with the use of different nom de plumes.
Gotta go, Joe. Duty calls.
Ideas over monikers and avatars, I say!
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Uninvolved, deciding matters with a serious soccer game – futbol – is more civilized than killing people. I seem to recall the idea was proposed in the bible by a certain Goliath; he said if anybody would go mano a mano with him and win, the Philistines would serve the winners.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth
Thank you Joe. I do very much appreciate a place where I can chime in without signing up or logging in. I also appreciate most of the long time contributors. I admire Mr. Quinn for his most excellent writing, analysis and some of the sharpest commentary on the internet. He gets whats going on in the world as good or better than anyone I read, and I read a lot. This is a fairly high intelligence crowd compared to most boards. I’ve been reading here off and on for several years, so I have a bit of a feel for the community if not a great familiarity with everyone. I get what you’re saying about various emotional states at given times. I’m off-grid without AC and it’s hotter than a well diggers ass out here. I’m sure that has some effect on my emotional state along with several other factors that don’t need going into.
Thank you for the complement concerning my recommendations. It was informed by issues I’ve had with friends and family who have come to visit, or refused to visit, but are looking for a refuge when things get dicey. The biggest problems I’ve had with people who come out claiming to want to help is that they are of no help. They either don’t want to, or are physically or mentally incapable of doing anything useful. Without fail I’ve never had anyone out here who didn’t decide that I needed them to do my thinking for me. They analyze the plan come up with an alternate that invariably is an idea that I’ve already had and discarded, usually because of time or financial constraints. I’ll explain to them why I’ve rejected those ideas one by one, but they persist in coming up with an alternate plan than what I’ve already decided on and put into motion. It’s like, if it ain’t my idea and my plan I’m not going to help, which would be fine if they had some kind of qualifications that made their ideas more valid, but they don’t. The house is well under construction. I’m not changing the design, but thank you for your input. I need someone to grab the other end of the board and help get it set into place not someone who wants to tell me why everything I’m doing is wrong, which is especially annoying coming from someone with zero experience. What I’ve had is folks who expect me to cook for them, clean up after them and wait on them without lifting a finger to contribute, so I’m maybe a bit jaded with “help”. My ex told me to get the place built and she’ll stay behind and wait until it’s done and then come out. She didn’t want to contribute time or money. My current girlfriend isn’t much better. Neither one can see their self spending a hot day outdoors, or being indoors without AC. Both of them told me I was nuts preparing for TEOTWAWKI, downsizing my lifestyle, getting out of debt, reducing my overhead to as near zero as I can get and still enjoy cold beer and the internet. I think the current GF might be starting to see the value in it. Haven’t spoken to the ex in years, so don’t know what she’s thinking. She’s an idiot. Voted for Obama twice because of “women’s issues”.
Anyway, my door, such as it is, is open to folks who don’t want to transform the neighborhood into the shithole they just left, folks who aren’t determined to prove they are smarter than I am, folks who are capable and willing to help out around the place without whining about the conditions. I do gotta say it’s still pretty rustic living. The solar electric covers the basics and that’s it. Small refrigerator, lights, satellite internet and a laptop. The plumbing is still in the bucket phase. Pipes will be coming someday. Have a 320 sq. ft. temporary house I’m living in until the main house is finished. It’s hot. Inside and out. Winter is better, as a have a wood stove to make inside comfortable. I’m not anxious for help. I’m making progress and I will get to a comfortable state eventually, and I’m not really worried about how long it takes. If the crap starts hitting the fan I will probably be thinking differently, wishing for additional hands and eyes for security purposes if nothing else. There’s some things I don’t tolerate. If you don’t respect me or my property I won’t have you. If you embarrass me in my community or stir up shit I won’t have you. If you attract the attention of law enforcement I won’t have you.
I’m on a beautiful mostly wooded 50 acres in southern Missouri Ozarks. I’m not a native here, nor a southerner. I’m originally from the Rocky Mountains and got fed up with the masses of migrants to the area and I don’t mean just the illegals either. Californians, Texans, East coasters, you name it they flooded in from everywhere. Anyway, I made my escape, and love it here. Things get better every year. I started out living in a tent, and am looking forward to moving into a real house sometime next year. The deer hunting here is fabulous.
@Uncognito
I almost wrote something very similar to what you wrote about their God they worship…
Paganism, Gaia worship and ultimately the Prince of the power of the air….
Remember George Dubyas inauguration speech?
“The angel riding in the whirlwind and directing the storm”
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1464.cfm
Can’t we get the divorce without the war?
The piece made Zero Hedge and this great rant was posted in the comments:
https://mobile.twitter.com/B754344255/status/1012148076801417216/video/1
We got a good soaking rain, sitting here reading through this and listening to the sound of it falling on the bluestone gives me hope.
Whatever comes, comes, we either deal with it or live in denial, but anyone that actually believes that this correction comes without a violent climax simply does not understand human beings as a species.
This is what we do.
It is the purifying fire of our very existence, this steel against steel comeuppance and we not only deserve it, deep down in our very DNA, we desire it.
One of your very best, Doug. And great comments all around.
Found this interesting call to arms from some leftist history professor.
They certainly are itching for a confrontation.
Scary, and the dude’s handle “Nuke Middle America” says it all. At the end he posted “Civil War NOW” so I guess there are leftists out there ready to rumble… Chip
Wow, cut off the cities and they are done. You gave me an idea for an essay. I think we can learn much more from the Bleeding Kansas conflict than we can from the larger national CW. It will take me a while.
I grew up in the area. You can find out so much more about it than you can from the internet or one sided accounts. I will use one of those one sided accounts though. You may have much more to add after you read the John Brown book you were talking about.
I have lived on both sides of the state line. Each side has their own accounts. There is still a “Border War” mentality but it’s mostly about sports. Still, it lurks in the backs of their minds. On the Missouri side, you see the Stars and Bars flags everywhere.
From the comment section:
“You have to understand these are power people, it’s the only thing they think about, care about, or act about. So…who’s in charge? Who captures the focus? Who sets the rules? Who decides the agendas and what games we play? And it doesn’t matter who REALLY has the power, because in reality either the people or the Army always has the real power; from narcissistic sociopath’s view, it’s all about whose court you bow in. Do you go see Don Corleone, or do you ignore him? That’s the alpha and omega of power with narcissists: who’s getting the attention is the important person, they are the one in control.
Playing this game means they already lost, but are so stupid, they don’t realize THEY are the ones giving Trump all his power. The media 24/7 TrumpTrumpTrump!!! What’s the meta on that message? TRUMP is the one who’s important, TRUMP has the power…which he doesn’t. He probably doesn’t control 20% of the executive yet. But by doing this, they’re making all the other important people, businessmen, agents, diplomats, got to Trump’s court and treat him like the king. Aye caramba! Stimpy, you eeediot! But they can’t help it. It’s not Trump’s ego that’s running things…it’s THEIRS. In fact, THEY have the power, not him, but being the trust-fund brats they are, being defied for the first time in their life so unhinges them, it’s so unfamiliar when they’ve robbed, cheated and murdered their way to the top, never had to act on real merit, that they don’t know what to do when actual gamesmanship, tactic, and merit is called for. …Basically, he’s running them around on their ego, the ego of a narcissist sociopath, which believes — MUST believe — that THEY are smarter, and everybody else is an idiotic fool, bumbling before their greatness. That’s what makes it a mental illness, that like a psychosis, they’ve live completely disconnected with reality that we ALL have strengths and weaknesses, people above and below us.
Is that not what we read in the paper 12x a day? That Trump is an idiot, and got a billion dollar empire in one of the world’s premier shark tanks, knocked off 15 candidates, and destroyed one or possibly two political parties, and possibly the mainstream media because he’s “just lucky”, but really he has the IQ of a fruitcake and watches Sharks on the Discovery Channel all day? Yup. And so long as they think he’s an idiot…and he keeps feeding them all the idiotic misdirected nonsense, misspelling “Cofefe,” that keeps them in a useless lather…they never take the game seriously. ‘Cause he’s an idiot, right? How hard can it be? Like Macron, who went home last time crowing how Trump does whatever he says…just before he didn’t. At all.
Seriously, does Trump LOOK like a guy who follows orders and does what he’s told? Perhaps this rebellious personality trait has come up in the papers before? Nope. He went home and said “Trump’s in my pocket, ’cause I’m awesome sauce.” 100 times in a row. You’d think when Trump has run the same pass play from pre-season to the payoffs, one of these other geniuses might catch on, but you’d be wrong. He MAY have another trick in the bag, but we’ll never find out because so far they’ve fallen for the SAME. DARN. TRICK. for 2 1/2 years in a row. ONE trick. And HE’S the dumb one. OMFG.
He’s going to lose the empire? That’s the whole POINT of Trump, and the (Marine) Generals that put him into office. They know the attempt at world domination by what St. Reagan called “The Crazies in the Basement” has failed and the U.S. will collapse if it pushes further on this front. It arguably already collapsed, but they won’t report it. Therefore, the America First wing is attempting the best fallback to the borders as a pariah state, salvaging what they can. And that’s over the dead bodies of the Neocons, the Clintonista’s, the Bush cartel, and the empire maniacs like Soros and Brennan. That’s why they have a bankruptcy/restructuring expert in office.
The POINT is to lose the empire. It always was. No one in the U.S. wants an empire or ever wanted one, not among the people anyway, that’s why they had to lie, lie, lie about it every day the hidden state was pushing for it, and come up with ever less plausible reasons for it. The people, the businessmen, the soldiers would never tolerate it. Maybe that’s why they can’t understand his plan, because to them, the plan must always be MORE power, MORE money, MORE dictatorship, where a return to the Constitution–should we ever get one–will reduce the size and power of government so substantially as to make empires, dictators, fascism — indeed any repression of the people — impossible.
Woo Hoo I’m riding that Trump train all the way to the end of the line!
be·tray·al
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the action of betraying one’s country, a group, or a person; treachery.
de·lu·sion
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an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.
Dio, do you also post at theconservativetreehouse.com?
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diogenes says:
March 25, 2018 at 10:23 pm
All “racist” means is “guilty of Noticing Things that certain groups would prefer you hadn’t.”
Nope. Never heard of it.
The financial problems facing this country were initiated 105 years ago but how can I explain this to someone who can’t remember what happened last week? The folly and illusion of a two-party system is little more than pay to play and musical chairs; the people being paid all kick the can down the road with the hopes they will be long gone before the bottom falls out. The social problems and differences all boil down to personal responsibility and those who espouse such a life style and those who hate it.
I believe that which can not continue must end; with that being said though, I have been surprised for quite a long time that things have continued to stagger along for as long as they have. For many, this all seems to be a game of sorts when it is deadly serious and the possible consequences are of an existential magnitude. Civility is dead now and things are deteriorating into a hating contest after being a liar’s contest for many years; I try to remain hopeful but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do.
I do not know how this will all end but I firmly believe what we are witnessing now can not continue as it is. I would guess the odds are about even whether we see a renewed second Republic or slide into totalitarian socialism; either way it goes, I expect our population will be greatly reduced.
There’s a spiritual side of ever war . These leftist are guided by a Marxist idolatry which is one of the doctrines of demons mentioned in the Bible.These leftist will do the bidding of their father ( they will murder )which will manifest in the physical world.
Alot of good comments .I don’t think there is anything else to add.I got my preps but as Stucky said there will be nowhere to hide from what’s coming.
Stucky is right when he says each side will claim that God is on their side.
13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Joshua 5:13-14
The manufactured and mockingbird instigated Summer of Hate 2018 is starting to heat up in Murika
Man arrested for throwing chicken dung at restaurant that kicked out Huckabee Sanders
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/394322-man-arrested-for-throwing-chicken-dung-at-restaurant-that
Of course he was wearing a red MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat!
The fabric is unfraying at the seams!
It’s no big deal. He was just giving them some shit. That’s all.
Good one! Sorta like we are fed daily by the mockingbird legacy media
Hey Plato,
You ever listened to Joel Skousen?
@ Diogenes
Name sounds vaguely familiar bit can’t say that I have, at least honestly like I try to be
I Don’t believe everything he says ( a bit of a bible thumper), but he has some interesting ideas. Would be interested on your take, as it seems that you and I have a bit of knowledge on the new world order.
Just reading the headline of the video…first thoughts(I’ll try and watch video later this evening and get back to you )
From a source who I was introduced to several years back when I believe a disrupt and diffuse operation began in earnest on me,
This source told me TRUMP was picked to win the presidency before Trump even entered the Republican primaries….His words, “They found their guy ”
He said that there would be NO WWIII because Trump’s appointment, but he DID say there would be another MAJOR war and that it WOULDN’T be in the middle east….
I assumed it would be North Korea because of my belief that both Koreas would be unified…
But I’m thinking he was referring to the United States and a fomented, manufactured civil war …
This is based off of countless other conversations that he and I had in person.
I think the plan is to make the PUBLIC believe WWIII is IMMINENT until the plug on our economy is pulled and then we eat each other and relinquish our hegemony to China and Russia within the framework of the UNITED NATIONS, BIS, WORLD BANK AND IMF
Diogenes
this is now the 4th time that I’ve typed tried to answer your question about the linked video…
I think his assessment of Isis Al-Qaeda Syria Iraq and Libya are spot-on.
His assessment of Russia and China developing their own version of a new world order to combat the anglo american new world order, in my opinion, is incomplete and does not take into consideration and the disposition of the Czar of Russia into the the Rothschild Central Banking cartel
a book entitled “None dare call it conspiracy” and Joan Veons years of research and work on the global power structure fuel my beliefs in this regard. I think this is the narrative being peddled to the masses and what will be taught in future history books, however incorrect it is.
Some of Veon’s work here
I love her speech here
https://youtu.be/RkuXjW3KZrU
His views about a nuclear strike are suspect as well however his analysis of Russian and Chinese military technology is fairly accurate from my research.
Considering all of the hoopla and government reports about our failing infrastructure and the weakness of our power grid makes me think that an EMP burst is a more plausible Black Swan event of course blamed on Russia and China’s buddy in the region North Korea especially considering what transpired at Super Bowl 50 in San Francisco when reports that a North Korean satellite flew directly over the stadium during the game.
Maybe this is why the narrative that we need a space force As Trump put it is being peddled now so that Trump can say, “Look , I told you so,” if or when this event this Black Swan occurs
Couldn’t you hear Trumps arrogant ass saying something like that?
He wrote the book “Strategic Relocation” that I also linked in my “Baby Steps” prepper article. FYI
Hey Uncola,
What do you think of Skousen’s idea that Russia & China will eventually have a nuclear strike on the US and that the US will absorb the first strike before striking back?
Normally I would just label it guess work, but with him it’s hard to say. He seems to have a lot of inside info that, to me, makes perfect sense; although I have no way of vetting it with 100% certainty.
“All they have is hatred for Trump and his supporters now. It will only grow worse. And they are everywhere.”
Everywhere? I think we have them beat for land area:
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Except wheat and chaff don’t separate by voting? Quite the contrary. Even a few rotten eggs will ruin a perfectly good omelet.
I believe Stucky said it best in his comment above:
Exactly! That’s what I found in my few minutes of research on the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
We look back and draw lines but it wasn’t so much that way.
M C
Yep.
No sane person wants a civil war (or equivalent, elites trying to maintain control they never really had by punishing the idiots who voted for them, mostly). But they will not, CAN NOT leave us alone!
I have made it nearly sixty years without being forced to kill anyone. I doubt I’ll reach 70 that way.
Too many stupid people.
Too many people who think socialism is a viable system, or even worse, communism.
Too many people howling for blood that have never been in a real fight, or even many fistfights.
Too many people who think they can buy a gun and be CAPABLE with it, overnight.
Too many people who think they can push, forever, and gain, forever, without opposition.
Too many incompetents who want to lead, incapables who want power and authority, insane who want to teach us how to think.
It cannot, will not end well – but it will end. How it rebuilds is up to us.
Well said, here here.
Here, here is widely regarded as a misspelling, although it is a common one, and there are ways to logically justify its use. But for what it’s worth, hear, hear is the original form (the Oxford English Dictionary cites examples going back to the 17th century) and is the one listed in dictionaries. English reference books mention here, here only to note that it’s wrong. – Grammarist
Thank you for the correction
Noted for future reference
@Uncola…Was man created in the image of God or in the image of the Devil? Who is this Lucifer, the morning star? Could it be the lower nature of man? And what is man? A creature of “function” “being” “will.” In the unconscious state, “a machine,” in the conscience state “an individual”?
When we step back and look at man (ourselves) in a historical perspective we are a developing organism with not one brain; but three, all working with different functions in one body. Each brain controls one function as: thinking, emoting and moving.
In our day and age man’s attention is caught up in the technical noosphere captivating our thinking brain while our emoting and moving brains go without nourishment. As a result we have become unbalanced.
I believe there is higher intelligence that controls the order in the universe. It sets the patterns of our existence. What appears to us as chaos in our limited capacity of development, appears as a developing unfolding pattern of potential energy to the higher intelligence responsible for the maintenance of the universe.
The Lords Prayer spells out the plan of man’s development. It starts out as “Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be thy name”. This says a lot. We are acknowledging the creator of our being that resides in a different dimension than our physical senses can take us. We are acknowledging with our spirit the spirit that created us. Our bodies belong to the earth and to the earth they will return when we have exhausted it’s limited material life.
“Thy kingdom come, thy Will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven” This says that GOD has a plan for us that is WILLED for our development When man has been fully developed according to GOD’s Will then we will be ready to conform our Will to God’s Will and then assume our responsibility to maintain the Biosphere and Hydrosphere according to the plan of creation.
“Give us this day our daily bread” Those that listen to their inner conscience receive their daily bread while those that don’t live by inferior law that causes them confusion, insane thoughts, anxiety and depression.
“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others who trespass against us” This is a pattern instructed for us by our father in heaven to follow for our own development of Love for each other as brothers & sisters. We are “seeds” in development and not all seeds will develop. We need to understand this and not condemn those that are not developing because of their circumstances. Remember the parable of the sower? We need to develop tolerance and patience for those who are not progressing according to the pattern.
“Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” It seems that the material state is not our eternal destiny in the universe so our sensuous state in the body is only temporary. Our senses limit our perceptions to material things. Since the major happenings in the universe is energy transformations a constant state is not a reality. Our sensual interpretation of sense information tempts us to believe the material as permanent and this temptation leads to the evil we see around us facilitated by the possession of money. Very few have the ability to use money without creating evil.
“For thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen”. This is self evident when one takes the time to contemplate God.
Our problems of today are a result of man following his own Will rather than the Will of God. In our current age our minds are mesmerized by our technological gadgets that have captured our attention. But this state will pass as all energy transformations pass in the universe.
Religion as it is today has not kept up with the development of the human mind. The higher intelligence that guides the universe needs to be explained in new ways. The human mind of today is not the same as it was 2000 years ago. It needs new thought and new logic. The knowledge contained in the fruit of the “tree of good & evil” is binary,.e.i. polar that requires only two terms. It is obsolete in the development of man. I think man may be ready for the knowledge of the “tree of life” which is multi-term beginning with the triad.
We are at the end of time of good & evil and ready for the next phase of our development. What looks like the chaos we are observing today is the breakdown of our currently outdated systems and structures which needs to happen before the next level begins. Remember you cannot pour new wine into old bottles. For those not ready for the transition the road is going to be rough. But for the faithful it is going to be exciting. Remember the 91st psalm.
Glory to God
There are many assumptions to unpack in that comment, Thunder, and I’ll mull them over.
In the meantime, when you say….
I wonder if replacing “mind” in the former paragraph with “experience” would be more accurate; and if, perhaps, your latter paragraph implies a wrong turn of sorts?
You’ve given me more to contemplate in my travels. Thanks for that