In Part 1 of this article I pointed out how we have allowed ourselves to be cowed by authoritarian “experts” who have proven to be nothing but incompetent and wrong every step of the way, while the financiers have used the crisis once again to pillage the citizens as they did in 2008/2009.
The absurdity of shutting down this country based on academic death models that make economist and climatologist models look highly accurate in comparison, can be seen in the ludicrousness of the following chart. And realize we did this on purpose because of a virus that will kill .018% of the U.S. population. And most of those deaths will occur in several highly dense urban enclaves, with the rest of the country barely affected.
By shutting down the country the government has crushed virtually every business in the country and putting tens of millions out of work, with resulting crash in tax revenues at the Federal, State and Local level. At the same time, Trump and everyone in Congress have become Bernie Sanders socialists, except most of it is corporate socialism. The deficit was already on track to top $1.2 trillion, but with the $2.2 trillion stimulus package, and more to come, the deficit this year and next will approach $3 trillion.
“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
We have allowed ourselves to be led by assertive idiots and permitted psychopaths to dominate the highest levels of government and finance. These are truly evil men with evil intentions. Power, greed and control are what drive these people. During normal times, governors of states are practically figureheads, as all they do is pass more laws and increase your taxes. It’s when we face a man made crisis like we are experiencing today, the true authoritarian nature of these petty tyrants rears its ugly head.
The reprehensible tyrannical mandates and orders being made by mostly Democrat governors across the country is a disgusting display of fascism. Their mandates violate the Constitution, but are being enforced by their police state thug instruments of force. The police will do the bidding of those who pay them, with total disregard for the Constitution or your rights. Freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and 2nd Amendment rights are being shut-down.
Pastors are being thrown in jail for daring to hold religious services. Governors are threatening religious leaders on the holiest week of the year. Police are citing or arresting citizens for swimming in the ocean, jogging on beaches, playing wiffle ball in a park with their child, daring to get on a bus without a mask, and taking unauthorized drives. Drones are being used by government tools to intimidate and threaten citizens daring to venture out of their homes.
Karens all over the country are reporting their neighbors to the police for exercising in their yards. Google and the other corporate phone companies are doing their Big Brother best to surveille and report the whereabouts of their paying customers to the government. The only difference between our addiction to technology and slavery is that slaves know they are not free. Fauci thinks it would be a good idea that we have papers indicating whether we are immune to the Chinese virus. Gates wants the country shutdown for months, until he can create a vaccine to force upon the entire world. They want to control and monitor our every movement, because they know what’s best for us. Now move along to your assigned pod.
The time is approaching when we will need to separate the wheat from the chaff. This ongoing test of character will reveal the true nature of our political, financial, corporate, religious, and neighborhood leaders. You will be able to determine what type of person they are by whether they are willing to violate moral and ethical codes to achieve their objectives. It is times like these where your true nature is revealed.
So far, virtually every national leader, and most certainly Powell, Mnuchin and Congressional leaders, have failed this test miserably. They have confirmed we are run by one party, beholden to corporate and banking interests, and perfectly willing to destroy the livelihoods of the 99.9% to keep the 0.1% enriched and empowered. The ruling class has violated every moral and ethical code known to man, and will continue to do so until they are stopped through violent means. The chaff will need to burn.
Nothing captures the true nature of our society today better than this screen shot from CNBC. Relentless stock promoter Jim Cramer is celebrating the best week in the stock market since 1938, because the Federal Reserve provided trillions of free money to Wall Street banks, so they could artificially pump stock prices, even though GDP in the 2nd quarter will plunge by 30%, corporate profits will crash, unemployment will soar to 20%, and deficits will skyrocket towards $3 trillion.
This is the disconnect between our financialized economic system, where Wall Street banks will also take advantage of plunging oil prices to syphon up the assets of bankrupt fracking companies for pennies, while 17 million Americans don’t know how they are going to pay the mortgage, rent, utilities, property taxes or food bill next week. Welcome to our dystopian nightmare, brought to you by the corporate globalist fascist party of America.
The actions taken in the last month by your government and the unelected privately owned Federal Reserve have absolutely benefited mega-corporations, Too Big to Trust Wall Street banks, billionaire hedge fund managers, and Deep State authoritarians, while throwing bread crumbs laced with cyanide to small business owners, the working class, and senior citizens. You can be sure Jamie Dimon is still playing tennis while cooped up in his $20 million Park Avenue penthouse. As Leonard Cohen sorrowfully sang: Everybody knows the ship is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes.
Everyone has seen the stories about the majority of American households unable to handle an unforeseen $500 expense. How about both parents losing their jobs because Jamie and his fellow Wall Street shysters needed a manufactured crisis as cover for their criminality. I can picture the .1%ers channeling their best Mr. Potter and calling these people lazy discontented rabble who should have saved for a rainy day, when in reality these globalists shipped their jobs to China and convinced them to load up on debt to keep up with the Joneses.
You have to break a few million eggs to make a $6 trillion bailout omelet for the ruling class. Let them eat food bank scraps after waiting three hours in a modern-day soup line. At least gas is only $2.00 a gallon, which is very concerning to president Trump. Don’t you know poor Exxon Mobil is really struggling to make ends meet at that price?
I, along with many other like minded people in this country, have been stoically living our lives, prudently managing our affairs, working and saving, not being lured into the rigged markets, preparing for the challenges we saw ahead, and viewing everything spewed by politicians or media talking heads as nothing but hot air and propaganda.
I’ve hated the road this country has been on for the last twenty years, but with the actions taken by the Fed and government in the last few weeks, they have pressed down hard on the accelerator as if they want to take the country over the cliff and into the abyss below. What is the end game to these machinations and schemes? Do they have some master plan for a global world order, or are they just arrogant psychopaths flailing about trying to retain their wealth, status and power? Whatever the purpose, it is not going to end well.
I’ve been able to live my life without much interference from the surveillance state until now. When the State purposely destroys the economy, endangering my ability to earn a living, imprisons me in my home with threat of sanctions if I don’t obey, uses technology to monitor my movements, and then throws a couple grand of my own tax money back at me as compensation to shut up and submit to their shitting on my Constitutional rights, I’ve got a problem.
I’m not willing to sacrifice my liberty and freedoms for the safety and security of a corporate fascist oligarchy disguised as a government of the people, by the people and for the people. This farce has gone on for far too long. Once we acquiesce and surrender our liberty, it can never be recovered.
There are millions of well-armed angry Americans trapped in their homes right now. The powers that be have been able to maintain the status quo by providing plentiful manufactured toxic bread products and technological circuses for masses, keeping them sedated with anti-depressants and a myriad of mindless distractions. But, taking away their livelihoods, endangering their ability to put food on the table, requiring papers to travel on the roads, and mandating quarantines and curfews at the point of a gun, are a bridge too far.
Even docile sheep will start to bite if they are starving and cornered. I know many of us feel like we are tilting at windmills, but I believe the evil men who are dictating our fates and imprisoning us in their financialized world of fraud are weaker and more desperate than they appear. At a point in the near future a few heroes will summon the fortitude to push back and ignite the patriotic spirit that founded this country – liberty or death.
“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
With all of the incompetence and recklessness of the immense corrupt bureaucracy, ruining our lives, on full display, just as we saw in 2008/2009, what a perfect way to keep movements like the Tea Party and OWS from launching protests across the country – ban all mass gatherings “for our safety”. We know it is really about their safety. It’s almost too seamless.
Imprison people in their own homes, send them a few bucks, and force them to increase their credit card balance from $11,000 to $20,000 at 20% interest, while criminal Wall Street banks get free money from the Fed and greedy mega-corporations get bailed out en masse. The expected reaction from the prisoners is the normal wailing and gnashing of teeth about the injustice of it all, more people going Galt and retreating into their enclaves. Localism is a good thing, but there are authoritarian busybodies and control freaks in every neighborhood, so it is not the answer.
Nassim Taleb is a crotchety son of a bitch who enjoys taking down intellectual yet idiot (IYI) purveyors of bullshit and propaganda. He’s not a nice guy. Nice guys will not fare well during the coming trials and tribulations. His quote below struck a chord with me on multiple levels. Russian Roulette is a perfect analogy for everything happening in the world today. Our political and financial titans have been playing Russian Roulette with reality for decades. When you keep pulling the trigger with no negative consequences, you acquire a numbing sense of security.
Why plan properly for a potential pandemic when we haven’t had a really bad one for over a century? Why worry about debt accumulation when our glorious central bank geniuses can elevate the stock market to new highs by creating more debt and politicians can honor all their empty promises to voters by running multi-trillion-dollar deficits to infinity? Reality is vicious in the end. Our celebrated heroes of finance are going to realize too late; their seemingly low risk games will end with brain matter splattered on the wall. The question is whose brain matter.
“Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette – and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Russian Roulette analogy triggered another memory from my youth – one of the most iconic scenes in movie history from the Deer Hunter. Walken and De Niro are prisoners in a Vietcong prison camp where the sadistic soldiers force the American prisoners to play Russian Roulette for money. De Niro decides he’d rather die a man than cower under the thumb of his keepers. Knowing the risk is extreme, he demands they put three bullets in the gun, taking a chance he and Walken can pull the trigger with an empty chamber. They show the kind of guts and courage which once permeated this country. After their gamble pays off, De Niro turns the gun on his captors and blows them away in a hail of bullets. Walken can’t stop bashing in the skull of one of the dead sadists.
As the evil sadists running this virtual prison camp inflict more pain and torture upon the American people, reaping all the benefits and heaping all the anguish on our shoulders, some will summon their inner De Niro and Walken, and fight back. How many remains a question. Forcing men to grovel and beg will create a blowback they don’t anticipate. The masses have obeyed and allowed themselves to be led by the ruling class establishment for decades, so those in control have grown supremely confident there is not a bullet in the chamber this time. They run this prison camp and we will do what they say and keep playing their game. Until we don’t.
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to purchase a little temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Ben Franklin
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Unfortunately, our population is too divided now by differences in race, religion, cultural backgrounds, economic philosophies, etc., to oppose the coming enslavement in an effective manner.
That was the plan, after all, wasn’t it?
Voting should be hard…
Because voting is worthwhile and has consequences. Anything worthwhile has never been easy.
Let us pose questions of remote voting…
If voting were made so easy maybe by phone, even if by verified voters, would their vote come down to one likable tweet, one campaign commercial, one based on a single political group or narrative, one dictum of a campaign promise?
Would the ease of voting shorten the campaign road to just mere days before an election not allowing proper vetting of candidates?
How many verified mail in ballots of considerably older Americans were filed out by younger family and mailed in against the wishes of the elderly that may have different political beliefs based on knowledge and history? They have lived much longer, seen much more and may have a different perspective than even their younger family members.
How many parents would take the easy road and commandeer their 18 year olds ballot? Would the 18 year old have enough care? Would they even understand the political landscape? Do they have facts? Do they understand history enough to recognize tyrants?
They want gun laws and classes to own guns. Should we impose history classes to ensure enough exposure and knowledge of history to make proper decisions when voting?
Why would anybody not want verified voting? When I use the word verified I mean not just the person but their voting wishes without duress. In the privacy of ones home how much duress would an elderly person, dependent on younger family members, encounter if their voting wishes were against others in their own family? What could the consequences be? Would they fear repercussions? Would highly politicized younger family members threaten the elderly to vote a certain way?
There are already significant divides in households due to age, experience, education, and life learnings. With govt run schools that do not teach math or much of any history and lean well left the divide from elderly to young is already wide. Daily we witness people age to maturity and recognize how stupid they were and the many mistakes they made when younger. The old saying is “never trust anyone over 35” comes to mind. The foundation of that quote is one based on dissection and empowerment of young minds. One of rebellious in nature. How many young people would vote opposite of their parents simply out of short term rebellion. Parents today are threatened by their own kids in fear they would call DHS for some made up charge because a strict parent grounded a child and took away their iPhone. All while we see daily how really bad parenting goes purposefully unnoticed by DHR. We hear how schools being closed has caused an epidemic of children not getting the one good school meal yet DHR is silent against those parents. They tend to focus on good parents with lying children wrecking good families out of spite instead of protecting the most vulnerable and starving children that actually need their help.
Schools teach propaganda. How much have we heard during the Obama administration of school tests teaching white privilege or other popular narratives, by using test questions to infiltrate young minds? To teach them how and what to think. How To virtue signal.
With recent developments regarding the left screaming for Trump to shut down the economy and lockdown the States these same people are now saying Trump has no right to reopen them. They want the Governor’s of the States to now have that power. What if the virus models highly predict 45 days after reopening infections begin to rise and 45 days later it becomes epidemic? Would the right timing of reopening allow for just enough time for the crisis to be full blown as to allow a shoddy but speedy and unverified attempt at remote voting? Right before the election. Using the crisis opportunity to shoe in bad policy?
Voting is serious matter and should be protected. Anyone who wants to bastardize the sanctity of voting is complicit in narratives with political motives, outright compromised, or dumber than a cabbage. Anyone that understand voting goes well beyond their entire lives, their current favorite candidate. They should recognize they have an obligation to see the unseen the unforeseeable. They must think critically of how corrupt people or politicians could use such a system to bring in dictatorship or tyranny from any party, even their own. They must put in backstops, restrictions, guarantees, and serious repercussions to enshrine the righteous vote.
Too many people are too narrow minded beyond their own motives today to comprehend such measure are needed. The political bodies known this and will use them to further their own greed of power and money to gain election or reelection.
Therefore, voting should not be easy. It should weigh heavy on our minds for decades for we get what we want sometimes and do not know what we wanted in the past is what we despise in the future. Voting should have consequences. It should have affects to teach us. Unfortunately allowing a first time voter at 18 does not have a history on that voter of potential consequences for they do not know or understand history. These are our most compromised voters. Should we have bipartisan history classes to allow first time voters, just like licenses for guns? Both, after all, are Constitutional rights.
Voting is serious and should not be made easy. It should weigh on peoples minds as an important process that affects their future.
OUT … OF … THE … PARK! Chip
Epic series of columns, Jim.
My takeaway from this episode is that we should expect more regulation on behavior and limitations on freedom from here forward. Especially as relates to the 2nd Amendment. The populace at large have shown themselves (us) to be far more compliant and docile than could have been imagined by TPTB. And here we stand, the all-powerful “people”, naked as the tide moves out…
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/7point5-million-small-businesses-are-at-risk-of-closing-report-finds.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain
Ya, shits fucked up but………………….
play this song over and over,
fuck ya
same guy(front man) wrote this song
and now for something completely different:
test
The stats never showed a pandemic.
HOW MANY FINGERS AM I HOLDING, WINSTON?
drop anyone online that didn’t know this. TBP is one of the only places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhierE7LZhU
“THE ROAD TO PERDITION IS PAVED WITH EVIL INTENTIONS”
for some people here, the road to perdition is paved with anything that is “not me”. and they’ll oppose “not me” to the death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzRbq9XJ7mA&t=2s
Wakey Wakey
The tyrants are real, let the tilting begin.
“They have confirmed we are run by one party, beholden to corporate and banking interests, and perfectly willing to destroy the livelihoods of the 99.9% to keep the 0.1% enriched and empowered.”
Jim (and many others), your analysis is completely wrong. The ratio you gave is 999 to 1. That is roughly 330,000 oppressors and 329.7 million victims. That ratio would not have held this far into subjugation.
What you cats don’t want to accept is that this subjugation is good for millions of Americans. It would not hold like this otherwise. Dare ask yourselves what sort of person would this decline be good for. Sure, the bureaucrats and thugs of state, but there are lawyers, human resources staff, women’s studies majors, welfare mom’s, and happily emasculated men like geeman.
The tranny thing leading PA’s medical response is not a single step into madness. The Bible is very clear that women should learn about piety and godliness in silence and should not be heard in church and should teach no man. Think of how far we are from a decent reference point on what good social order is! It is hard to feel what sound social norms are because we are incredibly removed from those experiences by many generations.
No strategy or problem solving means shit if you don’t understand the problem. If there are rank-and-file people who forcefully oppose, there will be rank-and-file people who will forcefully reinforce that state as if their lives depend on it. Why? Because if feels like it does to them and because to some extent it really does. They will never function at a level comparable to the dominant white man of yore without daddy government creating a perverse inversion of social value and values. A plague must be a plague to the bitter end.
You are not seeing 90% of the opposition. Such mistakes of cognition will soon be fatal. Women are very aware of raw power, and the Karens are everywhere. Woman will always bet on the strongest horse of the moment, and women see the state still as the undisputed king of power. Wives are agents of the state. Men are cowered by pussy and the Bible (at least in name by certain interpretations). You know it’s true. I am providing sound counsel. Let history be your guide. The Roman Republic did not recover. The Dutch Republic did not recover it greatness but did salvage something (I don’t know the deets including the time scale). The Wiemar Republic did not recover.
A recovery for us would require a fresh reset, if you know what I mean. I don’t think you understand the scale of refreshing ain’t-that-fresh freshness required. Christians are inherently universalists. White men are inherent sympathizers. You folks have not tasted hate and indifference enough to develop the emotional palate necessary to savor the process of winning. You folks champion and cultivate the opposite. With flyover country such as that far more than you, don’t be a hero. Only massive fortuitous attrition can save the few worthy of post-Industrial civilization. In short, it will take a miracle just to have an opportunity that would require more balls and self-importance than white American men had 50 years ago, as second wave feminism headed to victory. Let the shallow end of the gene pool fracture into its most lethal enemy. For now survival is victory. As much as this lockdown bothers me, it hurts the snowflake scum far worse. Finally, we are winning by attrition. Let the cities hold the brass ring. They must self-deliver and we must let them. The Left is our greatest weapon. All we must do is manifest great humility to the point of political invisibility. Is that not the strength of Christians? At some point refreshing freshness will be appropriate. I doubt the so-called conservatives will be wise enough to recognize that point or cruel enough to found any freedom above the animals. I really should take up video games. Any recommendations?
fortnite?
W.H.O. owned by Bill Gates. Head guy a KNOWN African Communist Criminal. What did it cost to buy them and what are they doing for him. Cancel them totally and NEVER give them another dime of the Peoples money.
We can’t cancel our involvement in world governance. Those in the know want us out of the UN, IMF, World Bank, NATO. I suppose the WTO. But we can’t. We can’t do shit.
Well said, written and emoted Jim. I post about once or twice a year, and have done so for at least 11 years.
Throughout the geographic and temporal world, it has only been the white man who is willing to fight for individual liberty, and common law. From our British brethren and the Magna Carte, to today, waving our atrophied and denigrated Constitution, itself reeling from Semitic usury.
From the 1965 Immigration Act, voted on by weak men, Kennedy and Johnson, who all benefited from having their elected leaders brains blown out by Mossad and the CIA (each, Rothschildean constructs). The demographics would not change, came the lies from that wandering tribe, expelled 109 times.
How do we survive the coming, concurrent demographic and economic winter? We do not. We fight like warriors, sacrifice and martyr because we have slept on our watch, and we secure the existence of our people.
Hail Victory.
I agree except for the ‘we’ that slept on our watch. Many of us who understand what you said have less comfort and more pain for trying to cooperate, inform, etc. with white people who, quite frankly, deserve extermination. I did not just say all white people deserve extermination. Those who do not cannot be set free without elimination of shallow-end white.
“As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.” — Robert Gore, April 23, 2020
The most vital urgent and DEEP understanding everyone needs to RE-learn is that psychopaths typically are not physically violent crazies but always stealth predators (exploitative deceivers, which explains why the public has been fed a MISLEADING understanding of psychopaths). And then… the most vital urgent and DEEP understanding everyone needs to gain is that a network of manipulating psychopaths ARE governing big businesses (eg official medicine), nations and the world (the evidence is irrefutable) and that, therefore, the Covid Scamdemic is a VERY DESTRUCTIVE WAR AGAINST NON-RULING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE — you and I. But that’s only ONE part of the equation that makes up the destructive human condition.
It is NOT just a matter of “draining the swamp” at the top and we’re back to our former (sick) “normal.”
The true, WHOLE, but “politically inconvenient” and “culturally forbidden” reality is more encompassing because “the swamp that needs draining” on a psychological and behavioral level is over 90% of people anywhere. Study (NOT briefly scan) “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” at https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
Without a proper understanding, and full acknowledgment, of the true WHOLE problem and reality, no real constructive LASTING change is possible for humanity.
Then … SPREAD THOSE DEEP TRUTHS FAR AND WIDE… and DO the RIGHT THING.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell
This is the third reference to Perdition I’ve seen in a week.
I don’t know why someone commented on this old, but very relevant post by Admin, but I’d like everyone to take a look at this documentary that just popped up on my sidebar…
Am watching now to see what the media spin is… are they aiming for another Ruby Ridge?