In Part One of this article I detailed my inability to predict the timing of events during this Fourth Turning, while maintaining the catalysts of debt, civic decay, and global disorder continue to drive the world towards a cliff.
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“Every schoolchild will know what happened next, from the Oh-Ohs to the 2020s, as the Fourth Turning unfolded—but academics will surely debate how and why it came to pass. In his history, this great-great-grandson of today’s baby girl will reflect on what the Fourth Turning came to mean for his own time and generation. His history is not yet written. What will it be?” – Strauss & Howe
The Trump team is now poised to go on the offensive as this Constitutional crisis intensifies and hurtles towards a violent conclusion. Barr and Durham are busy building a case against the Obama administration and their illegal activities before and after the election. As the election approaches and Durham concludes his investigation, indictments handed down on Clapper, Brennan, Comey or any of the other conspirators would lead to turmoil not seen since the Civil War. No matter the result of the upcoming election, neither side will accept the outcome.
This country is irretrievably broken and there will be no compromise or negotiated agreements. With Virginia Governor “Blackface” Northam attempting to overturn the 2nd Amendment and forcefully confiscate lawfully owned firearms from his citizens a modern-day Harper’s Ferry confrontation could be in the offing. There are no viable political solutions to our current dilemmas. It’s just a matter of when and where the conflict goes hot and blood is spilled.
The domestic turmoil and disintegration of societal norms is a big enough risk by itself, but the international conflicts swirling across the globe add a particularly dire dimension to the twelfth year of this Fourth Turning. As we entered 2019 I thought the likely global recession would lead to further international tensions and possible military conflict. The flooding of the entire world with central bank produced liquidity has continued to shroud the deteriorating economic conditions in the U.S, EU, China and Japan.
If trillions of fiat had not been electronically pumped into the system during 2019, as the ruling oligarchs panicked at the thought of reality setting in, the global economy would have crashed, along with stock markets around the world. GDP only appears to be positive due to Fed money printing and the government running trillion-dollar deficits. They have managed to delay the inevitable crash, but they have only ensured it will be the worst in history.
I’ve found it fascinating how the various factions have reacted to the assassination of Soleimani and the subsequent reactions and over-reactions of the competing narratives. It provides a window into the thought processes of Republicans, Democrats, neo-cons, the left-wing media, Iranians, Iraqis, Israelis, Russians, and Chinese. Soleimani has been described as a brutal terrorist responsible for the deaths of over 600 American soldiers. He has also been given credit for defeating ISIS in Syria. We’ve been told he was beloved by the Iranian people. We are now being told he is despised by the Iranian people.
We were told this act by Trump would lead to World War 3. Shortly thereafter, the initial Iranian response was tepid, except for their military incompetence in shooting down a civilian airliner. Iraq’s response was to demand all American troops leave. Trump’s response was no, revealing we are actually an occupying force and not an ally of Iraq. Israel quietly foments discontent and turmoil across the region to keep the focus off itself. Russia and China support Iran economically and militarily in order to offset Americans dominance of the region. Confusion reigns.
The right is ecstatic over the developments since the assassination. Trump is on the offensive. The left-wing politicians and their media lackeys look like fans of terrorism and a teetering religious extremist regime. The goal of the neo-cons is for regime change in Iran, just as it was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Look how well that worked out. Everything we touch in the Middle East turns to shit. We were told taking out Sadaam Hussein and Gaddafi would lead to the glorious democratization of these nations.
Instead it turned them into dangerous, terrorist infested, hell holes where the population despises America. We were unsuccessful in creating ISIS to bring down Assad in Syria, with Russia and Iran doing the dirty work in destroying ISIS, and Trump taking credit. No one knows what happens if Khamenei and his regime are overthrown. But I’m sure the result won’t be what we were told it would be. Blood will spill and society will disintegrate just like every country we have “helped” achieve freedom.
It almost seems like that’s the plan. None of the guys running these Middle East countries are good guys. Of course, the guys running Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel are bad guys too, but we aren’t bombing them or assassinating their leaders. As has been clearly revealed during the ongoing coup attempt against Trump, the U.S. government/Deep State/Surveillance State is overflowing with bad guys doing bad things around the globe. Xi and Putin are brutal dictators who will resort to any tactic to retain power and enforce their will upon the world scene.
Essentially, the so-called leaders of this world are corrupt power-hungry arrogant oligarchs. The average Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Russian, Chinese, and American are decent people trying to make a living and enjoy some semblance of happiness during their short stay on this planet. It’s our “beloved” leaders who create turmoil, wage wars, steal the money of their citizens, exhibit hubristic pomposity in their actions, and wield far more power than the people should allow them.
Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills knows none of this is about freedom, democracy or doing the right thing. It’s about oil and it’s about the military industrial complex requiring enemies to keep the profits flowing. The tripe about America being energy independent is easily sold to a dumbed down willfully ignorant populace who believe any propaganda emanating from the boob tube. The shale “miracle” is just another delusion built upon easy money pumped out by the Fed. No one can make profits on shale oil at $60 per barrel.
The powers that be know the truth. That is why the Deep State promotes global disorder, particularly in the countries with the largest oil reserves – Venezuela, Iran and Iraq. By installing puppets in these countries, the oligarchs are trying to ensure a continued flow of cheap oil to power their military and keep their debt saturated Ponzi scheme alive. Keep rooting for the good guys, except they don’t exist. The world is filled with good people, governed and manipulated by bad people.
The year we have entered has all the makings of other historically important years which have fallen during the eighty-year cycles ending in a period of crisis. Eighty years ago we entered 1940, with World War 2 underway, the U.S. still experiencing the effects of the Great Depression, and 65 million future deaths over a five year period, as destiny and the generational configuration of the world assured the destruction of the existing social order.
Eighty years before World War 2 was the somewhat eventful year of 1860. The American experiment was about to go through the bloodiest most tumultuous five years in its history. Over 700,000 men, 8% of the fighting age males in the country, brutally killed in a no holds barred fight to the finish. The country would never be the same, as the Federal government assumed ever increasing power and states lost power. Eighty years prior was 1780 as George Washington and his ragtag army of farmers were on the verge of defeating Cornwallis and his professionally trained army. A new nation was about to be born.
2020 is destined to be an eventful year just by the fact it is a presidential election year. The result of this election will not be accepted by the losers. The months leading up to the election will be a circus. Propaganda, misinformation, and outright lies will be spread like manure. Of course, voting will not alleviate the issues which will continue to drive this Fourth Turning towards its climax – debt, civic decay, global disorder.
We have entered the extreme greed phase of this debt-based Ponzi scheme. The stock market is in the blow-off stage, where earnings, valuations, and rational thinking are meaningless. Momentum and a delusional belief in the infallibility of the Fed are all that matter. Who knows how far it will go, but fear will eventually rear its ugly head, and a cascading collapse will make a lot of useful investing idiots very angry for the third time in the last two decades.
“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quantity of contradictions and nonsense it pours down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.” – William Hazlitt
As the daily chaos of our modern existence hastens towards its tumultuous denouement, the masses are too distracted by their iGadgets, non-stop social media trivialities, games of sport, and ceaseless propaganda from corporate fake news media, to understand they are being used and will bear the brunt of the coming storms. The system is rigged, but the riggers are arrogant, and their arrogance will be their undoing.
The continuation of the current lull in this greater depression is completely dependent upon an ever escalating level of unpayable debt and an ever increasing level of delusional belief by the willfully ignorant financial elite that there will be no negative consequences to their deceitful actions. I expect this bubble to burst during 2020, but I’ve been wrong for a long time, so my level of confidence in this prediction is low. I am soberly convinced my assessment for the remainder of this Fourth Turning in last year’s 2019 preview still applies:
Based upon history, the resolution will not be based on compromise, civility, reason, or peaceful means. The combustible combination of unpayable debt, civic anarchy, and global chaos are set to detonate, creating an era of maximum darkness, death, destruction, and decisions. Making America Great Again will require personal sacrifice, dreadful choices, survival skills, intelligent decisions, and the courage to win at all costs.
I don’t know what events will dominate the coming year, but I do know the intensity of hate and vitriol will increase. I do know military conflict in the Middle East will expand. I do know the political machinations in this country will surge as the election approaches. I do know the Deep State will do everything in their immense power to undermine Trump. I do know the Fed will QE and Trump will cheer every new stock market record. I do know I will be lied to and propagandized by the mainstream corporate media.
Lastly, I do know the risk of catastrophe rises as we approach the climax of this crisis. The outcome is uncertain, but the trials awaiting will surely test our strength and fortitude. I hope enough patriots will do the right thing and lead the country to a new beginning.
“The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. Thus might the next Fourth Turning end in apocalypse – or glory. The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattered or killed. Or America could enter a new golden age, triumphantly applying shared values to improve the human condition. The rhythms of history do not reveal the outcome of the coming Crisis; all they suggest is the timing and dimension.” – Strauss & Howe
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Pray for President Trump………says the Word!
No John the world says go to hell Trump and take the US with you.
Trump is the white Obama good luck with that.
wow, so how do you really feel?……………….if you think you can do better, run up there with’i dont know what day it is’ biden and ‘communist millionaire’ bernie or liz ‘pokahauntis’, or maybe you prefer ‘pennis buttplug’
or maybe you could realize they are all part of the same system, 2 sides of the same coin jackie chan
There is a bit of difference as we might see soon. Trump 2020. We already tried the rest and they suck. uniparty
You are into the left vs right thing. The article says unless we all come together we are ALL doomed.
If that is what the article says, it is an emotional turd with an intellectual sheen. This is a culling war. Believer Christians die first, and for once we all agree they should keep their faith no matter what.
I’m so sick of the ‘how you really feel’ put down as a substitute for intellectual integrity or truth. Your feelings are not the truth. You project as if you matter. You don’t. You insist you do. One day the police will eat you to feed their deserving families.
forget it dunno y – here they are just republican brain dead zombies stuck in left right paradigm – or worse, all they do is rant, no balls, just armchair or keyboard warriors.
After only several months, I learned that TBP’s admin
purges posts which are not to his liking.
Gone is the Hans & Franz SNL video
Gone is my statement that frackers are profitable
Gone is the Admin post incorrectly stating no frackers
are profitable
It appears that the Admin is rather vain to the truth
and a historical revisionist, when the facts do not suit him/her
I am sure that this rebuttal will be scrubbed as well.
Are you really as dumb as you appear? No scrubbing shithead. You’re just a blithering idiot.
A lone bright spot is this site. I for one, will stay glued to my computer getting the views and opinions of the people who contribute and comment on TBP as we all wade across the Crocodile River. Thanks for that Jim. My check is in the mail.
“A lone bright spot is this site.”
actually you may wish to consider how you’ll be functioning if most of the net, if not all of it, goes dark. imo you can expect it.
I pray daily the internet goes bye bye for good…..
Every website like this one needs to place it’s IP address at the top right on each page. THAT way, if the DNS servers go down (which is the “pull the plug” go-to despot’s tactic of choice), you should still be able to reach your fav website. Unless that is, ALL communications links are offline. But these days that would also take down most telephone service (since it’s mostly IP-based), and that may not be an option. So if you still have phone service, most likely the Internet backbone is still up.
WD, They don’t even have to take the DNS servers down; they only have to resolve hostnames to “dead” IP addresses, non-routable ones, or 127.0.0.1. China does this as part of the “Great Firewall”. They can also Balkanize the Internet by putting null routes in the config on BGP core routers.
I wouldnt worry too much about it. The current millennial generation is so dependent upon their phones and internet, so high strung and spazmoidal that a hugh portion of the population will simply go into shock or go insane and begin as much destruction as they can manage. This M gen is the most mentally unstable, babied, least adaptable generation in the history of mankind and their zombie repercussions will be felt and seen in every area they are located. It will be a mess of blood and crying… so odd when one thinks about it but its what happens when addictions are removed from an addict
A dark cyberspace matters not if you communicate face to face, or by strategically placed and encrypted notes or instructions. Old school will always trump the new high technology, just like old age and treachery will over come youth and ability. Food for thought folks.
I seems we are rather crossing the River Styx deeper into the bowels of Hell.
how about we all go tubing on the criptosperridium river sounds fun dont it…
Is that you rayray?
Heh…you reminded me of an Onion article from long ago about a Cryptosporidium festival in Georgia. The shirts pictured in the article are real, and I have one!
https://www.lakesuperiorstreams.org/general/info/csdaze.html
if i cant get out, i go further in…
If there can only be one, be the baddest son of a bitch in the valley. Amirite?
Crocodile River? As in tears? Or a river full of crocodiles?
A river full of crying crocodiles…
Whatsupwitdat?
we are apparently no more than visually arranged photon bits in a cleverly designed holographic universe whose creation was meant to degrade rapidly when the avatars begin to deviate from the game rules. maybe then the game rules involve morality as a cohesive force enabling the game to continue in stability, and lack of same causing disintegration, chaos, entropy.
“a cleverly designed holographic universe”
been listening to a lecture series on quantum theory. qt is impossible to comprehend, until you view it as just a computer simulation, then it’s quite easy to comprehend.
aristotle was right. when you get down to the basic construction of reality, you find not particles, but properties. just like class objects.
that is called aliasing, and it is caused by the lens i look through. In this case, computers. nothing in this universe is black and white, or even tri-stating. Its all grey matter. theres a reason its called theory.
It all seems like a simulation and game until one is bleeding out from a gunshot wound.
gonna be a whole lotta that goin’ around on the left and on the right ….
actually, no, most casualties on the right will be heart attacks and strokes and blown-out knees.
I resemble that remark gman lol
this is a good simulation…
Don’t forget “unfunded liabilities”!
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt-unfunded_liabilities.html
Pain is nothing more than a computer code dude
feel free to drink some hydro-chloric
“I expect this bubble to burst during 2020, ”
I hope and pray you are wrong on this one. If the bubble bursts before the election, Trump loses and we descend into chaos. With four more years there is a good chance Trump will rearm our judiciary paving a way forward.
yeah, like to see trump win and appoint more judges. but if total-voter-fraud doesn’t work then the left will turn to outright murder to get their way, and the judges won’t matter.
With four more years there is a good chance Trump will rearm our judiciary paving a way forward.
yeah, like to see trump win and appoint more judges.
These Judges are all compromised, you don’t get that power unless you are compromised.
Roberts ruling on Obama care= Compromised.
And Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself!!!
Per Uncola: Now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is about to preside over President Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.
Just like they did with JFK, which I remember as an Elementary school lad. Warren was blackmailed by LBJ to lead the sham commission investigating the murder. And yes Oswald was a patsy, and no, Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Politicians are also compromised both parties,Some more than others, this is what we have to wrap our heads around, we can’t move forward until we come to grips with this issue and yes Epstein didn’t kill himself after doing all that compromising.
CIA killed JFK.
Same CIA that’s trying to take Trump down.
Trump keep your eye on the grassy knoll.
Trust the plan. 420,000 indictments are awaiting warrants.
Yeah right. I beleeb dat homey.
One can only hope and pray such is the case.
You’re dreaming.
No…..not dreaming, wide awake, retarded and frenetically huffing farts.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TIjnmVkzOM4
Just remember, hinesite is 2020, with that in mind, i doubt it will happen now.
Well, either way we are going to descend into Chaos. Whether our Great President is reelected or not does not impact the absolute nightmare reality we, that is each of us, are going to have to come to terms with in our own homes, neighborhoods, cities, states and nation… the real nightmare will come when it comes pounding on our individual doors… pray, prep and protect….
another great, great couple articles, thank you.
The longer they draw this out the better. Just means the good guy:bad guy ratio gets stronger and in their arrogance, they don’t see it.
” the good guy:bad guy ratio gets stronger”
? not it’s not, the schools are churning out more propagandized snowflakes each year.
……as more people wake up dipshit.
oh, so that is a WOKE comment. i think the real woke is identified in the article or comments by the reference to to morality of the game. So is this your moral standing? the feeling i got during some sort of uncomfortable time frame seemed to point to me being nicer to folks because we all need each other. i hope i dont wake if to be woke means i feel the need to degrade others. maybe this is a bad dream in a holographic universe after all. Sometimes i hate it that ya’ll are my peeps…
Still waiting for my 13 yr old g-son to show me how you conjugate a verb. He gets good grades, but they don’t teach kids the important stuff any more. I think the teachers are eaten up with the smartphone, Fbook, Instag, selfie craze. And isn’t it amazing how many adult, half-way good-lookin’ female teachers want to diddle with their students? I can remember just a couple times I could have experienced that with a semi-hot teacher and a couple of definitely hot ones, but alas was not to be. My red-headed art teacher used to get close in my personal space. Funny what you remember, ain’t it?
Conju-what?
People don’t need to know or do anything anymore! … did you not get the memo?
Xusa me … gotta spend my gov-check on Amazon before the Chinese plastic becomes unaffordable.
West coast said,
They are more focused on test scores thanks to NCLB and school districts acting as competing fiefdoms for that $$ students provide with enrollment and attendance.
Teach to the tests and forget the rest.
What I see in these supposed “college prep campuses” is the trend of teaching to the LOWEST COMMON denominator.
Combine that with bullshit restorative justice discipline and classroom management procedures and you produce what we have in th the Millenials and gen Z!
Plato… there are not enough teachers to satisfy the demand. Just because green horns coming out of college with a teaching degree have that diploma; doesn’t mean they can teach.
The young children today have a high degree of attention and are eager to learn. The problem is lack of real teachers and our old way of learning.
We are intering into another realm of thinking and feeling. The flood of information coming to us through our gadgets is phenomenal. We need another method of assimilating this information that doesn’t put one in cognitive dissonance.
And I think this may be happening in the school system. Not cognitive dissonance in their social life but in their perceptions about the world around them.
Apparently, what follows are those who think I’m referencing the millenials…..????? For the record, the masses are slowly realizing the truth….very, very slowly for sure. And fuck you if you down arrow and don’t even comment.
Nice attitude. 🙂
You fuckin’ know it.
Dipshit. Knowning? Superficial awareness at best. But suppose you’re right. What will they do about it? n.o.t.h.i.n.g. That’s what daddy government is for. Hell, they’ll shoot their allies and themselves for the cause. Antifa is young white men who hate white men for being white. Can’t make this shit up.
BRILLIANT per usual Sir, another check on the way.
Further to the bubble in everything, especially in the Federal Reserves fear induced stupid “Stock Market Mania”, Doug Noland’s Credit Bubble bulletin for the new year is a MUST read for all.
The President of CITI bank prior to the 08 crash: “As long as the music is playing we will keep dancing.”
http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2020/01/weekly-commentary-issues-2020.html
Dude im outta dis stock market. Going all into bitcoin. Yay lmao
I’m still trying to wake people up. In the past couple weeks I have talked to two different couples. One couple are longtime friends the other are family, well 3rd cousin. I talked about Virginia, how Trump says one thing on the campaign trail and then does the opposite. I said that CW2 could become a reality.
Both of them said they would be dead before that comes to pass. In other words, I don’t care because I will be dead. I was floored. Admittedly, one couple is childless but still young (early 50’s) the other has a grandchild and a great grandchild. I said that I have children and grandchildren. I care about the country they will have to live in. But I said that unless they plan on dying real soon, they will see this come to pass.
It is appalling, isn’t it? It is as if they are washing their hands of their own future, even as represented in their progeny.
Is this a sign humanity has given up?
My neighbor, Cody Bob, has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Turned 80 just last month. He’s not operable and it has already spread.
They will meet with the oncologist Monday and discuss options. I’m trying to figure out how to bring up dog dewormer, but I already gave them the Zeolite clay. (I took the canisters from Karen’s cabinet. Bless her heart.)
She walks with Jesus now. (Owner/mother of Annie-Em’s)
Well, Maggie, I thought it was quite a selfish thing to say but at least I know where they stand.
It is awful how disconnected families have become from one another.
Any news of your daughter?
Or they have a $500k fully stocked and staffed bunker and you ain’t invited. Lmao never underestimate secrecy and disinformation.
Maggie, I’ve read about the doggie de-wormer also. Here’s a link to the guy’s website who used it to cure his cancer. You can show them the website and then let them decide.
https://www.mycancerstory.rocks/single-post/2016/08/22/Shake-up-your-life-how-to-change-your-own-perspective
Thank you so much… I was hoping someone would provide a link. I’ll send it to their daughter. Who lives a half mile down the road. Or the other daughter. A mile down the road.
I walked with Geneva yesterday and she said that they are at peace because God has taken good care of them and blessed them and will continue to do so, even if that means it is time.
He is not going to do chemo. He is stage 4 pancreatic.
Maybe they will see your email link as God intervening…..
Just read that whole blog, VV and if I had a loved one fighting cancer I’d sure want them to try this; sounds like it’s a potential (don’t want to say the word but) cure? At least for some!
I agree. I’m going to send the link to their daughter and also print out some pages to encourage them about the research up front. They can discover it is dog dewormer later. Years later, maybe…
MG that generation is old fashioned but sometimes directness makes sense.
“If there were a medicine out there that can cure polio, bronchitis, the flu, infection by taking a pill would you? Have you?” Imagine today taking penicillin would have saved tens of millions from the black plague. A simple pill.
Neighbor have you ever heard of viagra? Did you know it was made and on trial for symptoms non related to its primary use today? Part of medical science is trial and error. They are finding out some meds are better at curing things they never realize. (Use the scientific name of febrenezole) that they have found it encapsulates cancer cells and starves them. This was by accident from farmers using the dry pellet form to deworm their animals and numerous ones that were terminal with cancer started deworming in the Springtime only to find their cancer was cured by fall time. Eventually it was so prolific and worked so well within a tight nit community they realize the commonality must be some chemicals they used and they realized it was dewormer. The Uk has many white papers on these uses of fenrenezole and it is in many med journals its cancer curing effects. Not all cancers but some of the incurable ones for sure, like small cell lung, pancreatic cancers etc.
People like this deserve no quarters and no help in the time of need. They were warned and offered insight and made their choice. People it is time to realize some of your family are against you.
Actually, Mary, Trump has remained more true to his campaign pledges than any President in modern history. My range is Eisenhower forward, don’t remember Truman.
Western people are shit. The capacity for culture is gone. It would take a very propitious thorough cleansing to change that.
Late to the party and only had time to read parts 1 & 2 just now. Both fantastic articles.
I, too, have miscalculated the timing of the nation’s fatal convulsions. Personally, I thought the beginning of the beginning of the end was occurring around the time of the subprime crash and TARP followed by the passage of Obamacare. And the middle of the end ranging from around the time of Benghazi to Obama’s red line in Syria.
And, prior to Trump, I really thought 2016 would be the last U.S. election.
But, after being inspired by the courage of the writers here on The Burning Platform and elsewhere throughout the free blogosphere, I started my own WordPress gig as a tiny ongoing middle-finger flip to the (what I perceived then to be the certain) eventuality of President Harpy and her criminal cabal.
Obviously, I was wrong on that too.
Realizing what I now know, I might have made different business and investing decisions. But, as they say, hindsight is 2020. Literally.
But… no regrets; even amidst the long slow collapse, the Orwellian lies, and rumors of war. Because years early is better than seconds too late. In truth, I’ve actually been grateful for the delay. So this year has seen me up early and to bed late and I would not have it any different; except for having some more time to write. It is what is.
A year of living dangerously, indeed. Carpe diem.
But, as they say, hindsight is 2020.
I’m impressed. I’ve not heard that before even though it is obvious. So obvious even a tadpole might get it.
America’s end was placed in motion before we were born. What we see happening today was begun a century ago. For the marxtards, the long march through the institutions has been very real, and very steady. They have all their pieces in place, and they have stated their end goals openly. “Voting” will not save America. Interesting times, these are…
Totally agree. The Frankfurt School planned it all to a T. But in the end, the armed Scot-Irish spirit will prevail.
Glad I had a Scottish ancestor.
Aye, me too! Not far from Dundonald Castle in W Scotland.
When it comes to opposing the Left and the deep State, you have to ask yourself, what would Michael Collins do?
What would Tom do?
eric,
Yep. My first post on TBP was about the Frankfurter’s School of Betrayal. I too have Irish defiance (with some Scot blood lust) coursing through me.
Won’t be my first rodeo, probably be my last, so be it!
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.
Thanks for the tip on that book, I’ll look for it.
Bought the book on Amazon for $4.89. Shipping was about as much. Still pretty cheap. Thanks!
WestcoastDeplorable, Ultramaroon,
The author called me up in 82 or 83 after a friend of mine gave a friend of his copies of two short stories I eventually (the next year) had published, that he liked. He gave me some writing advice (that I took) and we talked about both being in Nam at the same time, in the same area, but in different battalions. I knew who he was at the time, the Secretary of the Navy, and we talked for about 20 minutes. He was extremely gracious and offered to put me in contact with two different magazine editors with cover letters to my stories. It was a powerful foundational boost to my ‘modest’ magazine/short story writing ‘side’ career that continues to today.
I tried to write a novel once but got lost in the dialogue. I think I’m destined to just crank out short stories, an occasional poem that Maggie & EC & Donkey & nebio & L like, and jokes on Friday Fail that nkit likes.
He lost me when he became a Democratic Senator, but he is an honorable man. Highly respected and regarded in the Marine Corps Nam Grunt world, those few of us left anyway. I have read most of his books. ‘Fields of Fire’ is one of the top 5 novels about being a Grunt in those two shitstorms…surviving the one in Southeast Asia, and then facing the never ending ugly one at home.
It’s a great read!
Unc.
But, as they say, hindsight is 2020. Literally.
AHHH!!! You stole my line!
I told a friend about a week ago that I was saving that comment until the end of the year, and if he heard it elsewhere, he heard it from me first.
Oh, well – you snooze you lose.
I was surprised… I guess we missed the Obvious.
Mag;
By the way – there was someone commented on Part 1 as TS. It warn’t me. I explained that maybe he/she/it should choose another moniker. Just to get the record straight.
check our hans (and franz)… he looks fun.
Uncola: I see the end coming soon. Two major events are happening next week. 1. The impeachment trial of President Trump 2. The second amendment confrontation in Virginia between the people and the Governing body of the State.
I believe these two events happening simultaneously is going to rock the nation. No one knows at this time what will come out of this but my gut feeling is that government as we now know it is going to end in a very dramatic way.
I hope you are watching the events of the next week and you would write one of your superb articles about it and post it on TBP so we can have a great discussion between all of us that comment on this great platform.
We all know the current government is swamped with corrupt people that serve themselves first. They can do this because the majority of the public have no idea how to change things.
We do all know that government has become dysfunctional at all levels to handle the problems affecting our society like crumbling infrastructure in overcrowded cities, lack of affordable housing for many, increasing poverty, lack of basic education, over regulation of all our activities, lack of moral judgment in the court system and most of all a lack of vision for our country in the 21st century.
I think if the senate trial of the President is open and televised across the nation; and that is a big IF, it is going to shock the public into realizing the true corruption that exists in the national government. I hope witnesses are called; especially ones called by the President, because people are really going to see by these witnesses testimony the corruption going on by the deep state and the representatives we elect to government.
It is ironic that along with the impeachment trial we have at the same time a confrontation going on between the people and the government in the State of Virginia; just next door to DC, over the second amendment, and people from all over the country are coming to Virginia to participate in this confrontation. What if these armed people descending on the capital of Virginia; after listening to the impeachment trials become so disgusted with the sham of this trial that they decide to march into DC and start cleaning house? Just a thought.
This tells me that the two events will merge into one big powder keg that may well blow up into a civil war that no one anticipated.
Such is how conditions spiral out of control and history is made.
There are two types of people in our society. Conservatives and liberals. Conservatives want capitalism. Liberals want socialism. The problem is both sides don’t compromise. This shows in the political parties that represent the two sides. They are totally divided and the fight has finally led to the trial of our President on abuse of power and obstruction of the congress. How plain can it be?
Living dangerously is an appropriate title for this article. The author knows the dangers our republic is facing today.
We are indeed at the precipice of a great downfall of order in our country. God be with us.
Another Outstanding Post Jim.
It appears that there are two factions of power, planning on who will be the winners for the next 50-100 years.
The new money behind the Surveillance state, and their push towards happy sheep, driving EVs in a world controlled by their technology, using new electronic currency
Vs
The old money behind the Energy/MIC who seeks to maintain control of the current worlds petro regime.
I find it rather disturbing that the people who push Tesla have now basically created a company value that exceeds the value of GM, which makes no sense, but then nothing make sense these days.
There is a really interesting story about a company called CyberReason, which is run by former members of Israels version of the NSA (unit 8200), which seems to have taken over the cyber security of Lockheed Martin.
With friends like these…..
I agree with your prognostication on a war with Iran, post election,
this will probably be to inflection point of the turning.
Trump is compromised. He guaranteed the deep state if they take out the leftist losers on impeachment (which he would win anyways but he is always scared it seems of something) and guaranteed the deep state mic a war with iran or at least more conflict in the ME if they mange his re election. If he would back the 2nd amend and all,the Bill, of Rights more i would be a bigger fan. But like most egomaniacs its always about the, in the end
You haven’t read his book The Art Of The Deal, have you. If you had, you would know that Trump is a street fighter who never gives up. Trump scared? He loves — I repeat, LOVES — beating his enemies at their own game. Confrontation is the card he plays only when he has to. And he’s had to play it a lot.
Read the book….
Many of the people I met in NYC were like our President is. They get annoying sometimes, but that’s what we needed at this time in history. I heard Rabbi Jonathan Cahn call him “the modern Cyrus”. My wife called him “The Modern Saint Constantine”. I just call him…God-Emperor Trump!
Once again, will hindsight truly be 2020?
I fully believe this decade will be the one that brings us TEOTWAWKI.
For the Bible tells us so…
Be Rapture Ready.
Or be left behind.
Or be prepared in case you are wrong about rapture doctrine.
Already got that covered
Personally, I think it wishful thinking but not a make or break issue. I’m hopeful for a mid-trib ticket out, but am prepared to go the distance.
Going down the river to pray.
This was the advertisement that enticed my grandfather to purchase recently drained farmland in the biggest drainage project every undertaken in American History.
The photograph beneath the ad? taken when my father was a kid.
you see those numbers? you know what they are? was the man a natural born notetaker? he left a pile of cryptic notes that only mean something to a few of us.
Where he buried his guns and ammo. Yup
It doesn’t look like that now.
It is corn and beans as far as the eye can see…
Looks very flat too:)
good one
I love Alison Krauss’ bluegrass…love it! Especially the Gospel bluegrass.
I love everything she does… even this.
Try this one.
MC. Doesn’t matter. Live each day for Christ and the when or if of a Rapture becomes only an interesting side-note.
Hundreds of millions worldwide disappearing instantly only an interesting side note?
Eyes –
As far as personal application and how we face each day. What happens afterwards is no longer our concern.
Do you believe in resurrection? Of course you do. There are several in the Bible, the “rapture” is but one.
The books of the Bible were written in the form of a poem. These poems speak to us individually. I am sure what your take as to what the word rapture means is different than mine. It is the same with the resurrection.
The body belongs to the earth. Our soul belongs to God and the universe. What we do with our soul here in the material body will depend on where we go in the afterlife.
The great work is about developing our soul. If we don’t develop our soul then talk about resurrection or rapture means nothing.
For one to say, “I believe in the Resurrection” has no value unless one works for the resurrection. We were given a ready made brain and body by our creator for our adventure here on this planet. It is expected that we use these tools for the development of our soul. But our soul has one big problem that has to be overcome in order to reach rapture. It is tainted by ego. And this is what the great work is all about.
Remember the verses about the War in Heaven when Lucifer and a third of the angels were thrown down to earth? So here we have fallen angels and man existing together in earthly bodies where man has a soul and the fallen angels have no soul.
This is our dilemma today as in the past.
But our creator gave man something the angels don’t have. Our creator planted down in our subconscious a conscience to guide us. This conscience is guided by the Holy Ghost; which is also our comforter. Those who listen to their conscience and follow it will have protection as is stated in the 91st Psalm: He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
It is through our conscience that our creator guides us. Those that live under the law will be damned.
Look at the laws we live under today that were created by the fallen angels. Soulless men many of whom have taken up the profession of lawyer.
When you watch the impeachment trial next week watch these lawyers in action as they try to outwit each other and the american public. As you listen to your conscience during these proceedings you will see the spider web these lawyers have created for the purpose of deception.
Watch these creatures of deception as they play their grand game of ousting a president who was duly elected by the people.
The Christian churches never tell us about the fallen angels we live with and how to deal with them for the sake of our salvation. I think that is the downfall of the church today and why so many have turned away from religion.
Revelation did not stop with the new testament. We just stopped looking at it during this time in the history of man. We don’t listen to the prophets of our time.
Now that man is reaping the whirlwind of his hubris in lifting humanistic intelligence over that of our creator in our times we have set our own trap for destruction.
As many today think that rapture is near I have news for them. There will be no rapture for them. Why? Because rapture has to be earned and the Christian Church has failed to tell them how rapture is to be earned.
I am not judging here. Only stating the facts. The great work is a lifelong endeavor. For me, all I can say is Lord have mercy on me and my soul.
I met Kirk Cameron at the First Baptist Church in Moore Oklahoma in 2009. He really is a devout Christian and tours to magnify Christ’s voice.
But, he did promote the newest Left Behind book in the bookstores and would sign stuff purchased there to support the church’s ministries.
Does that count?
Maybe
Be ‘rapture ready’ –okay, another rapture-retard.
Never going to happen… you people (bible-tards’) are part and parcel to the problems in this country.
You spend more fucking time on your knees rather than actually doing something.
“Shinmen Takezo”? Maybe you’ve heard of Goju-Ryu…”hard-soft style”. When we pray, we are attacking. We are “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ”. We know this: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Praying is attacking. It’s the “soft” attack. Going kinetic is the “hard” attack”. We seek to be cleansed by the Holy Ghost, because “…the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.” We are not contributing to the problems in this country. We are holding back the flood-tide, by the grace of God. There will come a day when the Hagios Pneumatos will be withdrawn. Don’t be standing here flat-footed when that happens. God have mercy on you, brother!
I’m listening to a series in the mornings by Jeffress on just that topic. “TEOTWAWKI”…sounds like an Indian curse flung on us by Chief Seattle!
“It almost seems like that’s the plan.”
of course it’s the plan! geez.
The faces we see and voices we hear are but the front men. The true evil and power stays behind the scenes unheard and unseen.
The smart will prepare for the untold inevitable, whatever that might be.
Be the ant; not the grasshopper and may your preparations carry you through.
“No matter the result of the upcoming election, neither side will accept the outcome.”
I’d like to take credit for this conclusion, but of course everyone looking at our situation in the u.s. can see it for themselves.
if the united states does descend into non-functional chaos, what will be the effects on the rest of the world? starting with china of course – will they fall apart because they need those fiat debt dollars (my view), or will they just carry on?
China will rise. They no longer need the U.S., and indeed we are #3 on their “10 Inevitable Wars” list. The Chinese think of the future in terms of decades, and centuries, while America’s future is thought of in terms of the next fiscal year.
The people who want America dead have spent the last 40 years seeding China with technology. Their universities now produce more Engineering graduates per year, than the U.S. produces useful college graduates. China not only has excellent industrial espionage, they have made great strides in technology on their own.
The Chinese military is no longer just a few million Infantry troops, but developing into a very respectable, and world class force. The red Dragon is beginning to flex it’s muscles, and when the time is right, it will rise.
One long, continuous game of look here not here.
By default it was not just the Chinese making the multi-decade plan, they had plenty of long range planning assistance, from here, and general passivity also by design.
We have been sold out, knowingly, with malice aforethought.
“They no longer need the U.S.”
disagree. but either way one thing they definitely need is for their ponzi to continue – and it won’t. and it’ll collapse faster without fiat debt dollars coming in.
China is not omnipotent, or unbeatable. But, China has been here for a few thousand years already, and they will probably still be standing long after the U.S. has been destroyed. They may experience financial woes, who does not? For most Chinese that will not matter much, as they have little anyway. They have something few people on Earth have, that will get them through: a distinct racial consciousness, and sense of place and destiny. White people have certainly long ago given up what will carry China through. People disregard China at their own peril.
“China has been here for a few thousand years already”
normalcy bias. the china that lasted for a few thousand years – an agricultural society – is long gone, replaced by grid-reliant city folk who have no experience, training, tools, or space to support themselves independently. and that’s true for every advanced society on earth. when this all goes down there won’t be many people left at all.
“And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”
Great article. I ponder the 4th Turning discussions most. The ability of The PTB to perpetually kick the can down the road amazes and confounds me. As devils advocate, I wonder if it will ever actually hit, collapse, CW2, Rapture, Nuclear Apocalypse, etc…
It feels like this has been going on forever. Frustration.
If I recall correctly, the 4th Turning was to be from about 2005-2025, so make some popcorn and see how it all turns out. Patience, grasshopper.
I’ve learned a lot about the US Civil War in the last few years, some of it spurred by feedback I got from some of the old-timers here, years ago. I found out at least two of my GG grandfathers died in that war, one with Lee in the 1st Maryland campaign, just after Harper’s Ferry and 3 days before Antietam. Over a thousand joined in Columbia, SC when his regiment mustered in 1861. They were with Lee at Appomattox, too, all 71 who were left.
The thing is……that all that knowledge was completely lost. I only know this stuff because I know how to do research, and because of the internet. Those who lose the wars often lose everything. Even their own history.
This shit today is about the oil. I think Americans would be better off if we just owned it, instead of making up silly stories that don’t make sense. What do they take us for, idiots? Don’t answer that.
So many in this country are just that……incredibly misinformed people without much education and without any critical thinking skills. Easily stirred up by false flags and willing to waste every last dollar to defend American corporate interests. Support the troops. Tie a yellow ribbon on something. Pay higher taxes so we can build more drones and battle robot tanks and stealth bombers and who-knows-what else.
And now the masses are conveniently organized by social media into competing herds of fools. I try to steer clear of all of it. Not only are there no leaders who aren’t corrupt, there is no good SIDE to take in any of it. I’m in permanent hunker down mode.
Same time next year?
I hope we’re both still around.
Most people will always chose a comfortable lie of a narrative over the blunt ugly truth if they can, every time. Most people will strain to avoid waking up and facing reality, as long as possible. And, corrupted people are easily controlled people…
Hah! Got everyone to love me!
I don’t want to say too much…
The infrastructure for the Patriot Act was already in place in late ’99 and the project started in ’98. The infrastructure for Spicy Time was put in place just before the 2016 election. They were serious enough about it that crews were putting equipment on roofs in the middle of winter so it could be tested and ready to go.
Spicy Time didn’t come then, but I doubt they were wrong enough that it won’t be needed this time.
They never thought she would lose.
Steve,
The Clintons are evil. period.
Here’s another think that was being put in place for Hillary to become the first queen of the world. (Damn that Obama… he horned in on her Foundational change with his Hopium change).
By the time, Hill and Bill left the White House with all its contents, they’d put everything in place for her to set up a Global Alliance as president.
This media consolidation in advance of 5G ‘small cell’ ability was part of it, I believe.
https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/publications/2018/10/fcc-acts-to-remove-state-and-local-regs
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/LSB10265.pdf
Now, those are just links. I’ll post a teaser screen shot of each below. Is why I prefer screen shots to copy paste…
From Physicians for Safe Technology
Congressional Research
The meat of the matter, in my opinion. You cannot STOP them from putting a small cell tower near you. No one can stop 5G according to this very, very, very sneaky law.
You know why I think the “first overhaul of the FCC regulations” occurred on the Clinton’s watch? I think it was related to Hillary’s foray into medical expertise.
If there is a LAW allowing the Federal Communications Commissar to insist you have a small cell dish on your home or on a nearby post to collect all the signals from all the SMART appliances in your home, which by the way? makes life Oh So Convenient for you, doesn’t it?
Well, guess what? There’s a LAW that very well support the idea that every citizen requires a Chip ID, if the SCOTUS Scrotum decide that the Constitution supports a chip implant.
And that is what is called Mission Creep because I was just trying to figure out when the major changes in communications law occurred.
I hope someone else has time to look into this. What if the SCOTUS decides not being able to limit the advance of communications technology means you MUST be implanted to have citizenship rights?
What then?
Good, I hoped this posted earlier. Seriously, all these big data/power lines you see going up? (And our internet service provider local yokel technician who repairs and maintains our connectivity assures us it is true). Well, they all carry DATA and that means they are protected by the 1996 Federal Communications Act. You can’t STOP Them.
This act made the consolidation we suffer from today possible. It also decimated the Radio industry.
It is why all the entertainment is pure garbage and as for our kids? Garbage in/garbage out… most of them are walking, talking garbage collectors.
It also changes DNA in young cells. Read the physician’s report I posted above.
If nothing else, I hope this draws attention to the Telecommunication Act of 1996 which has written into law that citizens and localities cannot STOP the spread of technology… 5G small cell towers on everyone’s home to monitor your every move.
Summary screenshots below…
Is this the same Scenario?
Is this the same scenario?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flying-monkeys-have-taken-over-asylum-impeachment-soleimani-pull-swamp
must be a bug in the comments https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flying-monkeys-have-taken-over-asylum-impeachment-soleimani-pull-swamp
I’m trusting the plan with everything I’ve got left to put into it.
That ain’t much.
another great analysis. thanks, jim
“The tripe about America being energy independent is easily sold to a dumbed down willfully ignorant populace who believe any propaganda emanating from the boob tube.”
It also emanates from radio yappers including Hannity and the whole bunch on the neocon Salem Radio network.
To be fair we are awash in NG . And I have heard some interseting theories on how the shale miracle is used to burn cash, freshly printed in copious quantities, also absorbing petro dollars no longer used for petro abroad.
Now this is interesting. Wonder if they are serious and if so would counties in Virginia take them up on it?
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/01/west-virginia-house-concurrent-resolution-8/
interesting indeed. John Mark’s take on it:
https://youtu.be/TFxavV2txSw
West Virginia just invited them to join! Some interesting history behind that.
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/01/an-excellent-idea.html
OOPS! Was reading comments UP from the bottom. 🙂
Incredible what is going on in our country.
A powerful one, two, I never have anything to argue with when I read Quinn, I always relax, and think,”yeah, what he said”.
Thank you, for all, and for the articles.
You RELAX????
My stomach gets tied up in knots and I go check the toilet paper warehouse.
I would rather hear the truth, my stomach gets knotted up in the presence of lies.
The same deep state that orchestrated the murder of a great man is also the same deep state that orchestrated Russia gate.
But what do you expect from the “normal nation” “American politics are no different than Hollywood it relies on the imagination” Assad the human Syrian leader.
The US is reduced to thieves, murderers and liars. How jew.
Yes the US is going down how far is now up to other countries willingness to rub your noses in it.
Yes the US is going down thanks for the modern history lesson.
Let’s not forget the Trumpet tried to pull a Ukraine on Iraq making him no better than Obama.
Last time the world got wrapped in the US election this time around it doesn’t give a fuck you’ll get no choice anyway.
This site is the best of America make no mistake about that but sometimes I think it should be called the burning bus.
The only thing now standing between Shit and The fan is Ignorance.
They both become un-usable.
good point… and the ignorance in the middle becomes ignorant and smelly.
Admin,
Fresh stats on the reality of inflation, vs the BLS government lies, manipulated for keeping the numbers down, to keep social security and other payouts as low as possible.
https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/medical-care-costs-soaring-out-of-control-HcrDGPmJ-02MvyeJYelyUQ
Yep, Admin hits the bullseye, again. Neither side is accepting a loss of this election. If the Dems win it will be Democide to the max (Bernie’s paid Staffer is far from alone). If Grey Champion Trump wins, it is the civil war, with the Left and Deep State going full insurgency….to wrest control of the US from the people who voted in Trump.
Remember it is not about Trump but about denying your right to select a leader not supported by the DeepState and the Left.
The China trade deal is a band-aid and temporary at best.
Now based on what we have seen so far, I am doubtful that Durham/Barr indict anybody of consequence….but one never gives up hope.
We on the TBP have seen this storm coming for a long time now…and it is here we can only hang on and ride it out…..
“Barr and Durham are busy building a case (No they’re not.) against the Obama administration and their (Treasonous High Crimes) illegal activities before and after the election.” Eat a hot round, you Cuckservative Inc. turd.
hypothetical for all the Trump bashers on this thread. if you had magical powers and could appoint any living American as President right now, who would you choose?
Joe Pesci! 1, I think he’s a good actor.2, He looks like a guy that can get things done. ht George Carlin
I like the( parachute a monkey from a plane flown by a deaf and blind pilot. First person monkey touches is President. You get to vote on what kind of monkey.
One hundred!
Congrats!
Thanks… I forgot and left the 100 in the name block and took several curtain calls for the achievement.
Hey, wear it loud, wear it proud.
“leaders who create turmoil, wage wars, steal the money of their citizens, exhibit hubristic pomposity in their actions, and wield far more power than the people should allow them.”
The latter part of this quote sums it up well. What is happening is what the people allow to happen. Most people buy into being a pawn of this system.
Whether it be by ‘keeping up with the Jones”, invested in a failing pension plan, personal debt slaves, selling their souls to be ‘monetarily rich’ or just being useful idiots. My forefathers (most recent, BOOMERS) were about as naive as one could be about how evil people are. They believed that Govt, organized religion, media and people in general were altruistic based on the the aforementioned own words.
I let bygones be bygones, yet these people (too many) still trust the Institutions that are ruing life. They just don’t want to admit to themselves how bad it really is. Change is hard, especially as you get older and set in your ways.
These corrupt leaders are simply complying with the Law Of Attraction; taking what is proffered by the people who would rather be slavish than truly be independent.
The solutions are obvious yet we have no mass movement in that direction… because of: blind faith, fear of change, apathy, ignorance.
I voted against Hillary as did many. However, even if Trump believed all the promises he made, he alone would not be able to change the dichotomy. He has kept more promises than any other candidate I’ve seen. He can’t bail water faster than the opposition pours in. At this point I have no expectations that Trump is going to fix anything.
God gave us a brain to figure things like this out, it’s not rocket science!
Those Iranian army dudes all look sinister.
Always unshaven and satanic looking, minus the horns.
The podium,press and printer……..wmd
“The nation could be ruined, its democracy destroyed, and millions of people scattered or killed.”
Bad people in charge of events finally tip over an country already ruined by universal unqualified democracy, scattering millions from their unsustainable decaying infrastructure?
Corbett’s New World Next Year predicted 2019 would be a year of weaponized narratives. And once upon a time Perkins wrote the rule book for the C_A to topple nations thru riots and uprisings now called ‘color revolutions’. Hasn’t one been brewing here instigated and fueled by the Worm-tongue Chattering Classes? Paid by billionaire pirates who hope to flee to their pirate coves and tax havens as soon as they – willingly or not – pull the trigger?
Karl Rove’s instructions to the chatterers.
Didn’t each of the prior 4th Turnings allow would-be emperors to consolidate control over a formerly freer people? Consolidating control by all forms of war? For example, the great depression + lawfare establishing Soviet style Collective Farming here? How will the next turning help centralize control? Or if it does, how will the remaining slaves even survive under the 10,000 year 1984+Cowardly New World Techno-Reich our Would-Be Rulers so fervently wish for?
” Barr and Durham are busy building a case against the Obama administration and their illegal activities”, HA HA HA.. When will they be done building their case, 2050??? Let’s face The Pres does not have the backup willing to take on the commie dems… Just whom is in his corner? Gowdy, Graham, who???? Unless we’re killing them and their children, THEY DON’T CARE….. Pick your targets and nut up….
Really good summary of where we are now. I can almost concur 100 % were it not for this: ” Xi and Putin are brutal dictators who will resort to any tactic to retain power and enforce their will upon the world scene.”
Xi is simply the designated organ of the Party. He has little ambition of his own, but reflects the self-preservation mode of that Party. China, although involved in foreign commercial excursions, is primarily non-empire minded. Putin came from the same kleptocracy that has ruled since the monarch was assassinated.
Russia has become crime. But it would not be correct to assign more than a leadership role for protecting what is still Russian in Russia to him. Again, national preservation prevails, and is tacitly more pro-American (trad.) than China.
But, all in all, very well done.
Agree. I did not agree with with the Xi/Putin assessment either but thought the rest was spot on. Xi I don’t know much about. But Putin I have followed and studied for quite some time and IMHO is one of the world’s greatest statesmen… Chip
I’ll just throw this out there.
There are so many examples it would take all day to detail them, so I’ll just use Trump.
Trump, Deep State, financial fuckery, spiritual agenda, Fourth Turning, social upheaval; at the end, it’s all mind-set on how to deal with the reality in our collective faces. This is my opinion, so take it for what’s it’s worth to you.
Whether Trump is sincere and really wants to clean things up, or at the other end of the spectrum, he is completely sold out and just getting things ripe for the big hammer drop, means jack shit. Doesn’t matter, there’s bloodshed on a grand scale coming one of these days. The general what is easy. The specific details and the when is almost impossible to know. What it means to me personally is a continued opportunity to prepare for whatever I can recognize as coming my way. Whether it hits this afternoon or 30 years from now.
For me, that means Trump is a means to my ends. The longer he holds off the wolf, for whatever reason, the more arrows I can build and the more I can prepare mentally and emotionally. The forces and tides of our present situation have been centuries in the making, and are finally global in scale. When the match finally melts through the ever-expanding room-sized balloon, we will find that it has been filled with hydrogen. We all know what happens when flame hits hydrogen.
Global Hindenburg, anyone?
I have my beliefs and I act on them as well as I know how. There is nothing else.
TS, I believe that as well.
TS, Jaz,
Count me in.
“…indictments handed down on Clapper, Brennan, Comey or any of the other conspirators…”
This is said in jest, no?
Call me jaded. I DO NOT believe there is a rule of Law in this country. There is a rule of Thuggery, which is applied to the non-political class. The Gang protects its own.
I have butterflies in me belly like a kid on Xmas eve. Oh boy, I can’t wait. It is finally happening. Yay! My knees are older but my mind wiser and sharper and my resolve more cynical to ward off bullshit faster. Seems This has taken much longer than I expected and I will now play a different less physical role than I had assumed, but I am ready to do my part to make America great again in the rebuilding phase. As well as provide directions to specific countries, from losers who continue to want socialism or communism.
Thanks Jim.
Color me skeptical though as I do not believe there is any intention of prosecuting Comey et al.
I am pretty damn jaded at the moment, and have almost zero hope of anything positive happening anywhere. My greatest hope is that shipments of Scotch and bourbon to Oz do not run through the Straits of Hormuz. That would really piss me off.
The debt problem will be delayed until after the election. The spending and corruption is astounding.
I feel a depression coming with all the negative stuff on the media it looks like people are doing Rules for Radicals stuff and trying to bring the country down. That was a good article.
I’m very doubtful about fixed 80-year cycles. Why not 78-year or 85-year cycles? And why are such important events as 1913-1917 omitted?
I do think there are cycles, but I doubt they are very regular, since so many driving mechanisms are involved.
I have always wondered why WW1 is not included in the Theory. I have researched it and have found nothing. Am I missing something like the Fool that I am?
You’re not missing anything. The data is fit to the proposition. The theory has it’s critics, and I don’t think the authors claim it’s timing is infallible. Wilson did campaign on staying out of the World War and then didn’t, so one could suppose the people were not driving their own demise at the time, but that’s reaching a bit. Could say bankster war is big business and adds crisis chatter. I think the theory only applies to a people of a certain type, of a certain sort of culture. We should not suppose this applies to blacks in Africa or reds in the New World before Columbus. It may cease to apply to Western whites if they have deteriorated in quality enough.
History for the masses is what’s remembered by the masses from experience. After enough people forget the consequences of reality, the assume a benevolent universe and trigger the same situation. A lifetime is about 80 years. A what point the voices of sanity from experience are inconsequential is one question. The point thereafter at which some trigger is triggered is another. With imprecision we suppose a ‘lifetime’. 78 and 85 are close enough to 80 for the theory. The theory is not perfect and could be called a hypothesis, but it’s a pretty damn good one as a rule of thumb for Western men.
The article is only partially correct. The losers will not accept the results of the 2020 presidential election ONLY IF TRUMP WINS. Republicans didn’t like the 8 years of Obama — but we didn’t throw the most prolonged toddler sandbox tantrum in human history. Grow up, already, liberals, and get over yourselves. You’re not that great!!
They won’t change. That leaves you.
“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
The Lord will enter into judgement with the [old men] of his people, and the Princes thereof: for ye (they) have
eaten up the vineyard; the spoil (theft) of the poor is in your (their) houses.
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.”
Isaiah 3: 12,14,15
THE LORD says MICROSOFT IS GOING TO SHUT DOWN,that means the day is coming your screen will go black and it won’t be coming back up,THE PROPHETS are being told to switch to LINEX,or at least download a copy to install on your conputer when the windows system stops operating,YOU’LL be glad you did…
What’s your confirmation? Links? Names of the Prophets speaking about this? Is this a personal revelation, with conviction?
To boldly use ‘The Lord says’ demands transparency and accountability, and a sober description of your sources.
Linux
Arizona, you’re going to freak, but this error just popped up on my PC at work:
I think Civil War starts January 20th in Virginia.
Democrats are continuing to go full Stalinist.
120 million gun owners with 400-660 million firearms and you think you can take them. Gun sales continue to surge. Citizens aren’t buying guns to turn them in.
RiNS, your energy post was also removed.
Your Admin was a new title = SCRUBDADDY.
Did you wander onto this thread in your sleep?
I detailed my inability to predict is a great way to start your same old shit…I haven’t a clue what a fourth turning is would be better. Emigrate to Nova Scotia
Well?
Do ya?
Two Hundred!
Well done, and…
Your welcome!
I figured you might grab the brass ring before I got back here. Minutes count in this high-stakes prestige round.
Having said that – I used to bird-dog bull elk to my nephew. He was all impressed with his skills until Dad told him I was doing it on purpose. Just sayin’. 😉
But he still needed to shoot straight and get it on the ground.
But, if you work hard, hike well, and swing that shotgun, perhaps you’ll experience that quiet road when the day is done, there’s a bird in the vest, the dog is all panting-happy, and a bull elk calls from the timber wishing you farewell.
There’s nothing quite like that moment in a hunter’s journey.
Reminded me of something I read…