A MAN’S GOTTA KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS

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As I’ve been observing the actions and justifications of men like Jerome Powell, Anthony Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden and Donald Trump during this self-inflicted global depression, I can’t help but channel the iconic American actor Clint Eastwood and his most famous role – Dirty Harry, when assessing whether they have an understanding of their limitations. If a man doesn’t know his limitations, he can ruin his own life.

When men in positions of immense power don’t know their limitations, they can ruin the world, destroying the lives of millions and propelling the world towards a catastrophic financial collapse and likely global conflict. Our benevolent leaders act as if they know what is best for mankind, when they are actually flailing about blindly, corrupted by their own power and wealth, leading us on a path to destruction, because their immense egos won’t allow them to humbly admit their dreadful mistakes and take corrective actions.

The second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force, came out in 1974, with Harry taking on vigilante cops in San Francisco. His lieutenant, played by Hal Holbrook, tries to keep Harry off the case of bad guys being executed by the lieutenant’s squad of dirty cops, using the logic that Harry posed a risk to society by not following proper police and justice procedures.

It’s funny how people in positions of power accuse others of doing what they in fact are doing themselves. In a condescending tone, the lieutenant boasts that he has never had to take his gun out of his holster as he has risen to a rank above Harry’s. The sarcastic response from Harry shows his contempt for those not willing to do the dirty work, keeping the streets safe from criminals:

“You’re a good man lieutenant. A good man always knows his limitations.”

At the end of the movie, after Harry has killed all the vigilante cops, the lieutenant pulls a gun on Harry and smugly tells him he will frame him for the murder of the cops. He then gets into the car Harry had been driving, not knowing Harry had activated a mailbox bomb and tossed it into the back seat. As he slowly drives away, the bomb goes off, killing the lieutenant. Another Dirty Harry happy ending. The movie ends with Harry saying:

“A man’s gotta know his limitations.”

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That phrase keeps popping into my mind lately. Watching the world burn while what amounts to leadership bloviates, lies, misinforms, and makes decisions which condemn the masses to a future of poverty, homelessness, violent upheaval, and an economy gutted by reckless central bankers and feckless politicians, is infuriating to critical thinking rational people. I’m constantly baffled by the lack of forethought regarding how actions taken today by leaders, to supposedly alleviate problems created by their previous solutions, will lead to long-term disaster.

I used to blame these decisions on stupidity and incompetence. But I now attribute it to malice of forethought, driven by greed, envy and a sociopathic desire for power and control over others. Those chosen to hold the key positions in government, central banking, and in the media are hand-picked and groomed by shadowy billionaire types whose agenda is to reap riches, hijack the financial system and exercise control over the population.

The year 2020 has revealed the type of men we’ve allowed to control our economy, our government and our lives. We have become a nation of willfully ignorant, technology addicted, moronic dupes, being led down a path to destruction by sociopathic egomaniacal traitors to our country. These men have a high opinion of their intellectual talents and arrogantly believe they know the answers to all the questions and confidently put forth solutions designed to benefit themselves and those they serve – not you.

This is not a new development for mankind. Greed, envy and desire for control have driven a minority of men throughout history. A sociopath has no empathy for other human beings. They have no conscience, therefore have no qualms about lying, stealing, sending men to their deaths for oil or destroying the lives of millions. Their hubris and arrogance always lead to their downfall because they are incapable of the self-reflection necessary to understand their limitations.

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There are three men, among many, who history will treat poorly when the story of 2020 is written (depending on who writes it). Anthony Fauci, Andrew Cuomo and Jerome Powell are men with high IQs, large egos, slaves to reputational accolades and used by the billionaires running this planet to implement their plans to control the world. Are they just pawns or active participants in the conspiracy to financially, politically, socially medically and militarily enslave the population of the planet through false narratives and financial engineering designed to impoverish the many and enrich the few?

It’s a question that reverberates through my mind constantly, as I watch in disbelief while these men continually do the exact opposite of what needs to be done to improve the lives of Americans and blatantly lie, misinform, and obscure the truth. Not being a sociopath, it is difficult for me to comprehend what drives men like these. It appears power to rule over others, admiration from the masses, corporate media enhanced status, wealth seeking, an over-inflated opinion of their intellectual talents and an inability to acknowledge their own limitations are their key traits. They have no second thoughts about sacrificing you at the altar of their gods – corporate billionaire oligarchs.

Anthony Fauci has been a government bureaucrat in charge of the U.S. infectious diseases department for the last thirty-six years. You can only last that long in one position by pleasing those who matter. In a rational world his performance over the last year would be considered disastrous, since his organization failed to see the pandemic coming, ignored it when the WHO and China conspired to cover it up, had absolutely no plans in place to combat it, downplayed the threat into early March, told people masks were useless (they are) before demanding the whole nation mask up, used the ridiculous Neil Ferguson model predicting 2 million deaths to convince the country to lockdown, has continuously provided conflicting advice, and has contributed greatly to the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression.

He is clearly a tool of the left as he is a big fan of Hillary Clinton and does the bidding of Bill Gates on the need for a vaccine for a flu that will not kill 99.9% of all Americans. He clearly loves the limelight, appearing on dozens of TV shows every week, as his bureaucrat ego grows in proportion to the accolades he receives from the corporate media and the sheep who worship at the feet of the lockdown cult. He portrays himself as a scientist following the facts. He wasn’t lying about masks back in March.

The CDC’s own literature prior to the pandemic said masks are useless in stopping the spread of viruses, because they are. If he was a real scientist following the data, he would humbly admit Sweden was right all along, with no lockdown, no mandatory masking, no school shutdowns, and developing herd immunity as the infection rate reached 20%. The vulnerable (old and those with pre-existing conditions) should have quarantined and the young and healthy should have gone on with our lives. He is too proud and agenda driven to ever admit he was appallingly wrong. His guidance during this pandemic has been as accurate as his pitching.

Yankees, Nationals kneel before anthem, stand during it; Fauci's toss off the mark

Fauci and his acolytes have convinced the masses masking protects them as a way to exercise control and conformity, testing the limits of governmental authority. Compliance with the tyrannical dictates of governors and health “experts” (who are uniformly unhealthy looking) is a test run for further mandates and forced vaccines. For doing his part on behalf of Gates and the other billionaire oligarchs, Fauci will reap riches, with book deals, positions on drug company boards, speaking fees at healthcare conferences and TV appearances.

Fauci’s inability to realize his limitations and/or his moral failing as a supposedly neutral scientist have led to death and economic destruction on a far greater scale than if he had admitted what he did not know and didn’t fear monger the nation into a complete shutdown. The suicides, riot death and destruction, undiagnosed cancer and heart disease deaths, mental health epidemic, millions of jobs lost and hundreds of thousands of small business closures are real blood on his hands.

Andrew Cuomo is a particularly vile character whose enormous ego is so inflated it convinces him to write a book in the midst of the pandemic about what a stupendous job he did by having the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in the nation, by far, and murdering thousands of nursing home residents by purposely directing infected patients back into the nursing homes. I wonder how a man like this can sleep at night, with that many corpses on his conscience. But there is the answer.

Sociopaths have no conscience. Cuomo is so arrogant and self-loving; he actually believes he’s done an outstanding job. He believes he’s earned his position of governor when he rode the coattails of his daddy’s name recognition. He married a Kennedy (who he eventually divorced) and asked journalists how it would play, before proposing. He is nothing more than an ambitious self-promoting climber, willing to do anything to get ahead. Some animals are more equal than others when it comes to masking.

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As with the other left-wing governors (Murphy, Wolf, Witmer, Newsome), Cuomo became intoxicated with the power he assumed during this pandemic. Governors are essentially figureheads during normal times. They rarely impact the day to day lives of their constituents. But, with the panic induced by medical “experts” and Trump buying into the end of the world scenarios from purposely faulty models, governors and mayors throughout the country assumed almost dictatorial power to control our lives, with threats of imprisonment or fines for not following their authoritarian decrees. They have had no legislative or judicial checks on their illegal mandates.

Cuomo was clearly inebriated with the attention he got from his daily briefings, copying Trump’s daily updates. He invoked a draconian lockdown, blamed the Feds for all his shortfalls, invoked fear among the populace rather than portraying the required stoicism, rational consideration of risks, and fortitude in the face of uncertainty. This maniacal blowhard has the gall to take a victory lap and ridicule other governors when his death count is twice any other state and three times as high as the states he has scorned.

Chart: The U.S. States With The Most Covid-19 Deaths | Statista

If this man was capable of self-reflection, he would be on his knees begging forgiveness from thousands of families for his fatal error of putting infected patients into nursing homes, sentencing thousands of seniors to death. Instead he glories in the accolades of the left-wing media, who ignore his disastrous decisions, and support his claims Trump is to blame. Even though lockdowns have proven to be the wrong solution, Fauci proclaims Cuomo’s actions as an outstanding response to the pandemic.

I guess destroying the economy of the world financial capital, presiding over a self-imposed mass death event, encouraging BLM and ANTIFA terrorists to riot, murder and destroy businesses, and treating the public like pawns in a political game, constitutes success in Cuomo world. Cuomo’s limitations are many and his talents few, but he would never admit it. Mencken’s words from decades ago have never been truer:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

That brings us to Jerome Powell, the man who sold the world. How could a man with such an undistinguished career of working as an underling on Wall Street and as a mid-level government bureaucrat, become the most important man in the world? As with his two predecessors, Yellen and Bernanke, they all had the mundane unimpressive careers of academics and bureaucrats. None of them distinguished themselves as brilliant thinkers or leaders. They fit Taleb’s description as IYI (intellectual yet idiot).

They all achieved “success” by playing the game, ingratiating themselves to the ruling class, and proving to be pliable tools to those pulling the strings. The reward for doing the bidding of the banking cabal and billionaire oligarchs running the Deep State is fame, media accolades, book deals, positions on boards, outrageous speaking “fees” (aka payoffs) and wealth they never dreamed of. Bernanke made more for giving a one-hour speech at a Bank of America conference than he was paid annually as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Bernanke didn’t allow the creative destruction of capitalism to put a recklessly corrupt organization like Bank of America out of business, and reaped riches for doing so. Powell knows who butters his bread and will be compensated handsomely for saving the Wall Street cabal once again, while throwing Main Street and senior citizens under the bus.

As you can see from the chart below, the Fed Funds rate averaged between 4% and 5% from 1990 through 2008. A senior citizen could get a similar return on a safe money market fund, to supplement their Social Security. But thanks to Bernanke, Yellen and Powell, rates have essentially been zero for over a decade. These actions have benefited their true constituency – criminal bankers, hedge fund managers, wealthy oligarchs, mega-corporations, and politicians.

They have impoverished the middle class, encouraged market speculation rather than capital investment and destroyed the retirements of low-income senior citizens. They are solely responsible for the greatest level of wealth inequality in history. They have created two bubbles (2000, 2008) with their easy money policies which burst, leading to widespread economic destruction. But those bubbles pale in comparison to the world destroying bubble they have created as the “solution” to their last bubble.

Effective Federal Funds Rate: 75th Percentile (EFFR75) | FRED | St. Louis Fed

Powell and his compadres have created a financial system so fragile that it couldn’t handle interest rates at 2.5%. By handle, I mean the stock market threw a tantrum and the spineless Wall Street lackey Powell did what he was told and started to cut rates in the summer of 2019. Something broke within the fetid rigged machinery of financial market chicanery in September, with overnight repo rates soaring to 10% – a level reflecting the true risk in the markets. Rates reflecting the true market risk are unacceptable to the powers that be. Powell was already doing the bidding of his bosses by lowering rates into the year-end and conducting stealth QE, while denying it was QE.

Powell is not a dumb man. He knows a country cannot run up it’s national credit card without negative consequences at some point – default, currency collapse, hyperinflation, civil chaos, global conflict. It would require a man of courage, fortitude and morality to stand up to the evil forces controlling the systematic pillaging of the nation. Powell is not that man.

His limitations are self-evident, as he has put the country on a path to destruction, while exacerbating the gulf between the Haves (Powell’s people) and the Have Nots (you and me). His monetary machinations have fueled the riots roiling the country, which is possibly exactly what his oligarch superiors desire. If the country is distracted by false narratives about systematic racism, with fighting in the streets, the systematic reaping of the national wealth can go on behind the curtain.

Jerome Powell.

Powell has made a mockery of price discovery by buying up one third of the mortgages in the country, billions in junk bonds of companies that should be bankrupt, and convincing unemployed Robinhood day traders that stocks only go up, because Powell will rescue them if stocks start to drop. After observing the clearly desperate actions taken by Powell to prop up his Wall Street puppeteers, under the cover of a pandemic, one must wonder whether he has been threatened to do so or actually believes his traitorous actions are beneficial to the country.

By lowering rates to zero, expanding his balance sheet by $3 trillion in a matter of months, enabling the Federal government to run $3 trillion deficits, and providing the fuel for an epic stock, real estate, and bond bubble, Powell is solely responsible for the banquet of consequences we will experience. Powell has pushed all his chips on the table. A man of much higher character and intellect than this cowardly Powell character explained what will happen seven decades ago:

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.  The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” – Ludwig von Mises, Human Action [1949]

When this Powell created bubble explodes, there will be many Dirty Harry type characters cracking a wry smirk and saying, “a man’s gotta know his limitations”.

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148 Comments
Cow Doctor
Cow Doctor
September 13, 2020 7:05 pm

Yep,
Prime examples of Lord Acton’s axiom…power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Cow Doctor
September 13, 2020 9:47 pm

Another appropriate Lord Acton quote: “It is not that a particular class is unfit to rule. It is that no class is fit to rule.”

Frank
Frank
  Cow Doctor
September 13, 2020 10:20 pm

Then you have people like Cincinnatus and Washington, who walked away from power.
One take on this quote that I like “Power attracts the corruptible”, and we have more examples of those kinds of people than we really need.
Which is why the two mentioned above should be held up as examples for future generations.

Wheat Chaf
Wheat Chaf
  Frank
September 14, 2020 1:10 am

Think back, if you will, and identify the most recent prominent person at the federal level who was actually trained in leadership. My nomination: General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Boy from small farm town in Kansas to West Point then to WWII: leadership exemplified. He could have spent the eight years from 1952 to 1960 doing just about anything else than being POTUS, but his sense of duty made the choice for him. The don’t make men like Ike anymore.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Wheat Chaf
September 14, 2020 8:42 am

You need to read more.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
September 18, 2020 5:35 pm

You need to learn how not to be a fucking tool

overthecliff
overthecliff
  Wheat Chaf
September 14, 2020 9:16 am

Eisenhower, the typical political tool.

David
David
  overthecliff
September 14, 2020 5:13 pm

Actually you are absolutely correct. I used to believe that there was something to his MIC speech schtick and then it hit me that not a damn thing changed once he did and he never repeated It… Hmmm…? Makes you wonder, eh? No… it was a big middle finger to the world… “See! I can tell you everything but you’re not going to do a thing about it… slaves!” A frat boy, in the club, double dare that proved they were in control and the sheep were only going to bleat and obediently walk to the slaughter house.

Thomas737
Thomas737
  Wheat Chaf
September 17, 2020 9:17 am

I remember Truman-“The buck stops here.” Eisenhower-“Beware the Military Industrial Complex.” JFK-“Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what can you do for your country.” Why does it seem like, since the death of JFK, that the presidency has become such a clown show? Now we get such gems as “That depends on what the the meaning of is is.” and “I have campaigned in all 57 states.”

RCW
RCW
  Cow Doctor
September 14, 2020 10:09 am

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” – Frank Herbert

Adrian
Adrian
  RCW
September 14, 2020 1:09 pm

Correct. The lineage of the original christian Emperor of Europe, Charlemagne, THUS of course became the typical narcissist/psychopath-magnet.
A contract with a narcissist/psychopath as e.g. a usufructuary governing a fiefdom, is TYPICALLY “not worth the paper it is written on” . As soon as the chance (to get away with it) arises, his part of the deal will be discarded.
*All* the European/Western jurisdictions are nowadays the result of/being build upon *psychopathic usurpation* of Imperial power.
Democracy or “democracy” is in fact just functioning as a “mask of sanity” for the underlying psychopathocracy.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest
September 13, 2020 7:09 pm

This kind of shit happens, when there aren’t, unlike in a Dirty Harry film, CONSEQUENCES for the corrupt individuals making the horrendous, and sometimes murderous decisions.

Auntie feels, and is sure hundreds of millions of Americans also, like Clint’s character did in High Plains Drifter at the barbershop: just leave me the fuck alone to live: get a shave and a bath (with no lilac water either.)

But NO. The arrogant yet incompetent toadies – front men and women – have to chase one down for mask wearing, tracing, compliance and the near constant insult of their own fucking stupidity that they wish to impose. In doing so destroy social living relationships; cause entire cities to descend into pandemonium; crash the nation and world’s economy as The Evil Fuckers make a killing in robbing the Central Banks.

This only stops when there are the gravest consequences for bad actions.

Vote Twice
Vote Twice
  Auntie Kriest
September 14, 2020 1:14 am

Personally, my favorite is the bank scene with the broken fire hydrant shooting water into the air and the bad guy lying bleeding on the sidewalk not sure if Harry is going to blow his brains out with his .44 in one hand and a hot dog in his other hand. Maybe it’s time we get a bad hombre like that running the country.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Vote Twice
September 17, 2020 11:59 am

We do in Trump!

10ffgrid
10ffgrid
  Vote Twice
September 18, 2020 2:06 am

Trump is that guy !

ursel doran
ursel doran
September 13, 2020 7:29 pm

Superb work Sir, as usual.
Another important factor is that the “Normal’s” cannot conceive of the monstrous Evil of the Sociopaths until it is to late. Examples abound through history. Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin,
Idi Amin, etc.

Our own list here, over the last few decades that I will not mention, as so many will argue against, as their crimes have been so well covered up by professional disinformation and media manipulation that their henious crimes are erased by and large. When Trump went to get the JFK assassination files released after all these decades, the CIA held them and told him to forget about it.

Gates absolute control of Fauci and the WHO for the Scamdemic push, along with the documentation of his vaccines killing children in Africa and India, certainly put him at the top of the list with Soros, et al, financing BLM for the riots and looting here, are just more examples.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ursel doran
September 14, 2020 6:59 am

Nobody ever believes that in their lifetimes there is making of a Pol Pot or a Hitler. For in their life and timeline they are the most enlightened and advanced tech so it could not be happening. That kind of stiff only happens in history books. People should wake up and realize their lives are tomorrow’s history. When we summarize the last 20 years since 9/11 it reads like a damn fiction. Recently our own fbi, special counsel mueller wiped clean 31 fbi phones “by accident”. If they are this fucking incompetent disband the asshats. If they did it purposefully disband and hang their sorry asses for treason. Either way the fbi must go. They are no longer needed in their current function as deep state assholes.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
September 13, 2020 7:33 pm

When looking at our leadership across the board, it’s obvious that someone gave Trust Fund Babies a country to play with instead of a Yacht.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Fleabaggs
September 13, 2020 9:16 pm

Bingo

Robert Gore
Robert Gore
September 13, 2020 8:33 pm

In private industry, or what remains of it, your Peter Principle rise is to your level of incompetence. In government, the incompetent just keep rising and rising, and the competent mostly quit in disgust. Good article.

ICE-9
ICE-9
  Robert Gore
September 13, 2020 9:27 pm

True example here. I once terminated a failing oil exploration program in the Gulf of Mexico on acreage we acquired in a corporate takeover that was proving unproductive. Company had spent most of its $1.7 billion for that non-existent reserves upside. I redirected the drilling rig to exploration on our company’s old legacy acreage and we found a good amount of oil and gas not recognized by our geophysical “experts”. Three months later I was out of work – it embarrassed finance who had put the acquisition together. Not the first time either I ever lost a job for delivering a success in the oil patch. With the quality of the executives in the oil patch today the shale disaster was just a matter of time – entire industry is nearly bankrupt now but same execs that engineered shale are still in place still pulling down $3 – $5 mil a year. Corporate world can burn in hell as far as I care now.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 14, 2020 12:52 am

and then there’s Dick Cheney.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ICE-9
September 14, 2020 2:39 am

I think you are lying.

mark
mark
  Anonymous
September 14, 2020 11:53 am

I think you are a coward to say that under Anonymous.

mark
mark
  ICE-9
September 14, 2020 11:44 am

ICE – 9

Have a similar story in retail.

I took over a failing regional company’s Loss Prevention division (employee theft & shoplifting), then worthless checks, customer & employee accident fraud, video rental fraud, inventory process (rampant with store and district manager fraud) exposed and stopped outrageous vendor delivery fraud, and hunted down a former cleaning crew brother team that morphed into a B&E ring that was successfully breaking into stores with a 2nd story Cash Office throughout the company.

After a three year run that literally saved the company from complete bankruptcy (I was told that by the CFO) I was ‘downsized’ along with 77 others in a buyout deal. A deal that never would have gone through if what I led had not been done.

I was told I was the 77th and there was great angst over my scrafice because of the above, but I was not one of the old guard VPs & Directors. Matter of fact many of them hated me because I took over areas they use to control, and exposed their incompetence. It didn’t matter that I had succeeded where they failed or what was best for the company and the 10,000 employees.

It’s a long story, but being downsized was one of the best events that ever happened to me as it led to me becoming an independent consultant, forming my own company, then more success and money in the next decade that I had made in the previous four.

Now here is the kicker. As an independent hired gun I worked mostly in privately held companies in the Vending/Food Service/Micromarket industry (the last cash intense industry left at the time) reporting directly to the owner(s). With no politics I developed a Blitzkrieg theft, fraud, and business abuse and lack of honest productivity program that saved a number of companies from looming certain bankruptcy. I was once told I was called the Jack Bauer of the Vending Industry by a company owner, and after working in about 30 companies by just showing up I could cut theft in half through fear and intimidation. I ended up cleaning house and throwing out the trash in 72 companies.

The only failure I had was with the largest vending company in the country…I could not cut through the layers of politics, management blockers, managers who hated change and protected thieves, slugs, liars, and their lazy friends or favorites. Their HR people were horrified at my methods, (legal – no blowback one time just a lot of terminations and prosecutions) no matter who or what I exposed.

“Corporate world can burn in hell as far as I care now”.

I second that emotion.

ICE-9
ICE-9
  mark
September 14, 2020 12:06 pm

This is why we speak of zombie companies. There’s really no innovation anymore and execs are just out for themselves as playing for time can get you another $10 mil, so why change anything? Cheap money just keeps the Kabuki Theater going.

niebo
niebo
  ICE-9
September 14, 2020 2:05 pm

…playing for time can get you another $10 mil, so why change anything?

XACTLY. Where there is no incentive to change . . . nothing will.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  mark
September 14, 2020 1:41 pm

Thanks for that personal story.

no jack london
no jack london
  mark
September 14, 2020 7:22 pm

Mark:

There are more grifters everywhere. I would really like to read about the kind of situations you encountered in your free lance and corporate career. Not personal dynamics but schemes, scams and low-life practices.

mark
mark
  no jack london
September 14, 2020 8:51 pm

no jack london,

Ok…most common schemes, scams and low-life practices in the Vending Industry (retail is similar but different, as is every business).

It’s a Theft ladder most climb with success…unless management knows what they are doing as far as controls and the company culture. The slugs, thieves, grifters often start at the bottom and work their way up, but some just cherry pick depending on the controls in place, and their level of parasite boldness.

9. Serious Serial Embezzlement (Sometimes to the point of bankruptcy)
8. Cash theft
7. Product theft
6. Parts theft
5. Property theft
4. Fuel theft
3. Unnecessary vehicle fuel waste and wear and tear abuse
2. Unnecessary product waste
1. Time/productivity theft

The most powerful common way to expose the above is covert GPS (real time is vastly superior to the units you have to retrieve and download) and overt fleet wide GPS is a huge prevention technology. But even with it, without someone investigating the grifters will grift.

Covert cameras are indisputable evidence and are the second most powerful tool.

Pre and post secret audits are focused sniper shots to expose most of the above.

All three together almost always work.

Also, secretly searching their company vehicles at night or over the weekends often produces all kinds of theft, drug, booze, and stolen cash/product/parts/property evidence.

You have to be able to top it all off with a witnessed and recorded interrogation to gain a confession and admission of the ‘first time’ and get all the dirty water out of their theft well…then hold a public hanging, in the company town square, during employee rush hour!

I once went into a company after doing a covert investigation, took out a dishonest employee and had him hauled away in handcuffs. It was a dead employee walking kinda arranged scene (I can be dramtic for impact). Then at a companywide meeting the next day I was introduced to all the employees…told them about the three tactics I was bringing in, and 22 employees resigned over the phone the next three days. Some of them were long term employees that no one suspected of anything.

There is one fact about the profile of grifters…there is no profile.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  mark
September 14, 2020 9:43 pm

I bet we know a lot of the same people Mark. My Dad was a National Supervisor for Canteen in the 50’s. Canteen is an interesting story because they wound up hiring political hack’s relatives in Shitcago when the fool O’Malley was in charge. The dim Dems ruined the place. They had some fool named Harry Creighton who was a former baseball announcer. In typical Dem fashion he fired anyone who knew more than he did, only it didn’t work like in ward politics because everyone knew more than he did and of course a business can’t operate if no one knows anything related to the business. The old man left in ’67 and started his own thing and lived the American dream pretty much.
Did you know Harry Stoner by any chance?

mark
mark
  Harrington Richardson
September 14, 2020 10:57 pm

HR,

I didn’t. My time was 2005 to 2015. However, I did get to meet many of the top management during that time. I also met some of the Compass people as well.

My main client base was in the Canteen Franchise world. I spoke at three of their owner meetings (many other industry conventions as well as at the Canteen puzzle palace in Charlotte) and attended the entire plush Owner gatherings as their guest, my wife loved them! I became good friends with some of the owners. It was a heady world for a mick/wop hired gun from Jersey. The Franchises were independent with unique cultures, and all of them let me cut lose on their bad guys & gals…it was a killing field for me. One four state company kept me on retainer for 8 years. They paid off my house!

The corporate side mostly brought me in for raging fire investigations, except for the last gig, and I could get no real traction after 8 months. I did bring them the top Key Control program in the industry, as I owned it. But, before that I had a blast with many big bleeding cases. I know where a lot of bodies are buried…because I put them there.

They had many great people, but big corporate culture is suffocating for a guy like me. I did go head to head with some Union guys in Philly once on their behalf…carried two guns and a knife after one ahhhhh….stare down meeting with three no neck Reps on a theft investigation. I couldn’t prove who did it…but I did figure out how it was being done…and was able to stop it cold…chain of custody issue.

I don’t miss the travel…but the hunts, puzzles, and confrontations were always fun and exciting.

Now, the last investigation I solved was how my white chicken Snowball was getting out of one of the runs.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  mark
September 14, 2020 11:17 pm

Very cool. It’s a shame you weren’t a DoD ISSO. You would have been great to have covfefe with every morning. I swear to God, Mark, you wouldn’t believe how stupid some people are even with clearances.

ICE-9
ICE-9
  mark
September 14, 2020 10:14 pm

I got a good one. We had to once deliver a suitcase full of money to the Sudharmono family in Palembang Indonesia in order to get control of an oil concession in South Sumatra. Back in the bad old days of Pertamina just before Suharto regime fell. Never knew freshly printed money was shrink wrapped until then. Comes in a big block of 1 billion (10,000 rupiah bills), then 10 more shrink wrapped blocks of 10 million each containing banded stacks of 1 million. Sudharmonos got one of the 100 million blocks and the company that skipped on its due diligence got a depleted oil field. Very heavy suitcase and no working elevators anywhere in that town.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  ICE-9
September 14, 2020 11:19 pm

I don’t have anything as exciting as youse guys. I built all types of systems that you all have heard about and likely used at one point, but that’s boring shit. It was much more enjoyable listening to my BIL when he was a trooper. Fuck me, the amount of stupidity that’s out there roaming free.

niebo
niebo
  mark
September 15, 2020 12:27 am

OT but heard this and thought of you, idk why. . .

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Robert Gore
September 14, 2020 6:04 pm

Meg Whitman kept rising … the old “rules” don’t apply to the preferred identities.

bigfoot
bigfoot
September 13, 2020 8:57 pm

“Powell and his compadres have created a financial system so fragile that it couldn’t handle interest rates at 2.5%. By handle, I mean the stock market threw a tantrum and the spineless Wall Street lackey Powell did what he was told and started to cut rates in the summer of 2019. Something broke within the fetid rigged machinery of financial market chicanery in September, with overnight repo rates soaring to 10% – a level reflecting the true risk in the markets. Rates reflecting the true market risk are unacceptable to the powers that be. Powell was already doing the bidding of his bosses by lowering rates into the year-end and conducting stealth QE, while denying it was QE.”

Admin is right on that this was the drop dead moment and few people know anything about the calamity of banks not trusting one another, not even overnight. A crash was inevitable without the Fed stepping in with billions of covering money, lowering already low rates, and “conducting stealth QE . . .”

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”

― Herbert Spencer

One can’t be sure that civilization can endure all the insults. Bad men and women are all about and active, but when the people kneel to them in vast numbers all over the world, one has to ask what that is out there in the mist riding in on us?

Emerson:

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance. Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long, that they have come to esteem the religious, learned, and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has, if he see that it is accidental, — came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him, and merely lies there, because no revolution or no robber takes it away. But that which a man is does always by necessity acquire, and what the man acquires is living property, which does not wait the beck of rulers, or mobs, or revolutions, or fire, or storm, or bankruptcies, but perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes. “Thy lot or portion of life,” said the Caliph Ali, “is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.” Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers. The political parties meet in numerous conventions; the greater the concourse, and with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hampshire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms. In like manner the reformers summon conventions, and vote and resolve in multitude. Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you, but by a method precisely the reverse. It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. He is weaker by every recruit to his banner. Is not a man better than a town? Ask nothing of men, and in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee. He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  bigfoot
September 13, 2020 10:21 pm

i’ve read a couple of convincing articles that the repo market collapsed b/c european banks are so close to insolvency that american banks would not make repo loans to them,thus necessitating the need 4 the fed to step in–
btw,i believe that the fed has completely unloaded all it’s repo loans–

bigfoot
bigfoot
  TampaRed
September 14, 2020 1:04 am

Right, it’s like arsonists starting fires around the edges of a dry wheat field and who have been met with dozens of supertanker planes that drowned out the attempts. These arsonists have stopped for now while the supertanker fleet grows ever larger and more rapidly than ever before in history as arsonists of every kind multiply. Fed balance sheet is now nearly $7 trillion, having grown $3 trillion this year so far.

Nobody
Nobody
  bigfoot
September 14, 2020 12:04 am

Yeah, all the while we could have had a Constitutional currency implementation like the Colonial Scrip where money entered into circulation without debt to build and maintain infrastructure.

The whole thing is crime.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Nobody
September 14, 2020 12:53 am

Some call it “financial engineering”.

niebo
niebo
  Anonymous
September 14, 2020 2:08 pm

“Racketeering” works, too

Known Associate
Known Associate
  niebo
September 14, 2020 10:39 pm

Nothing more or less that the cabal of counterfeiters, since 1913

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  bigfoot
September 14, 2020 5:16 pm

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

There is a lot of truth packed into those seven words.

ICE-9
ICE-9
September 13, 2020 9:15 pm

My experience gained from running with these groups of people back in the 1990s is that they really do believe in what they are doing to a religious fervor. That’s what makes them so frightening – they are the true believers in their own visions. And what is to stop them from this belief when their every action is either an exaggerated success, a neutral outcome framed into a smashing success, or a failure blamed on others. It really is a big club and these folks all have each other’s backs, and there is no failure in their world as they are never left to suffer the consequences of their visions.

nkit
nkit
September 13, 2020 10:25 pm

Very well written, Jim. You hit the nail on the head. We are ruled by sociopathic, malignant narcissists.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
September 13, 2020 10:27 pm

I’ve never seen you be so right and so wrong in one essay. I’ll probably get flamed for this but I’m just posting what I feel we are dealing with.

Ephesians: 12 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.

They are not sociopaths. They are worshiping Baal. They might not admit it, but it’s the truth. They are the sons of darkness.

By The Way
By The Way
  Mary Christine
September 13, 2020 10:32 pm

Only a sociopath would worship Baal.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Mary Christine
September 14, 2020 4:20 am

MC….

I’m all in with ya, there…..

Here’s fifteen minutes of Jared Kushner:

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——–====

Like Ice-9 said above: "they are the true believers in their own visions"

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  ordo ab chao
September 14, 2020 10:23 am

Creepy video, Ordo. Did you see the commemorative coin they are selling? It adds to the creep factor.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Mary Christine
September 14, 2020 2:21 pm

Anyone notice the syringe on the sword?

overthecliff
overthecliff
  Mary Christine
September 14, 2020 9:22 am

Those that call themselves Jews but are not are of the Synagogue of Satan.

Stucky
Stucky
  overthecliff
September 14, 2020 12:11 pm

Sooooooo …. the Jew stuff still makes it into the comment stream even when the article has nothing to do with Joos, eh?

OK then.

Some will like this song. Some won’t.

——-

In my country there is problem,
And that problem is the jew.
They take everybody money,
They never give it back.

Throw the jew down the well,
So my country can be free.
So my country can be free!

You must grub him by his horns,
Then we have a big party.
If you see the jew coming,
You must be careful of his teeth.
You must grab him by his money,
And I tell you what to do.

Everybody!

Throw…

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Stucky
September 14, 2020 1:42 pm

LOLLL. Oh God…I remember them throwing dollar bills at the bottom of the door to keep the Jew-turned-cockroaches out.

Panzerlied
Panzerlied
  Stucky
September 14, 2020 3:32 pm

Stucky – Thanks so much for posting this song, as it’s one of my favorites. I even sing it to my grandchildren before they go to bed. They get super excited at Easter, because instead of an Easter egg hunt, we have the running of the Jew – great fun, Sieg Heil!!!

Oh no, you must have stepped on one of the Jew lover’s toes to earn that down vote.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Panzerlied
September 14, 2020 9:51 pm

I gave you yours. Apparently I am not alone. You don’t have to be a Jew lover to recognize a seriously unbalanced poster.

Panzerlied
Panzerlied
  Harrington Richardson
September 14, 2020 11:24 pm

Harry -I see you have everything you need, except a keen sense of humor.

Uncola
Uncola
September 13, 2020 10:29 pm

I’ll just say I felt gratitude when I read the article. Thank you, Jim.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

JP
JP
September 13, 2020 10:35 pm
SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow
  JP
September 14, 2020 8:10 am

Always love me some sarcasm in the morning… LOL… Chip

Dirtperson Steve
Dirtperson Steve
September 13, 2020 10:36 pm

Thank you Mr Quinn. I have been a fan of Eastwood’s movies since I saw The Outlaw Josey Wales on HBO when I was still less than 10. There are many treasures in his movies if one pays attention.

I believe the limitations that are supposed to be put on those men are part of the long deceased Constitution. That document was to insure that men could not act outside of their limitation regardless of what those limitations were. But, lamenting about the Constitution is a fools errand and has been for a long time. Adapt and overcome is the game now. Find the flaws in their game and exploit them before the rules change again.

The movie I have been repeatedly drawn to as of late is Logan’s Run, also from the 1970’s. Maybe because I am just a few short years, actually months, from retirement. But I can’t help wonder if I am just like the characters whose time it was for Carousel that was sold with the hope of renewal.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Dirtperson Steve
September 13, 2020 11:08 pm

Maybe the only thing to stop bad men are good men with guns.

Nobody
Nobody
  Anonymous
September 14, 2020 12:00 am

Before all that is what’s called a grand jury.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Nobody
September 14, 2020 12:59 am

And an AG who pulls all the details together to launch a successful prosecution. Mr. Barr, where are you?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Dirtperson Steve
September 14, 2020 10:50 pm

The full ending of Logan’s Run would have been all of the people leaving their destroyed city starving to death because they didn’t have any means to hunt or obtain food.

Craven Warrior
Craven Warrior
September 13, 2020 11:53 pm

Excellent article. Other than Faucci, most of the rank and file don’t even know the other two him nimrods, particularly Jerome Powell. Most of this Covid joke is an attempt to cover up his mess.

Nobody
Nobody
September 13, 2020 11:57 pm

When looked at in proper context there is only one thing left to do. Part of Article 1 Section 10 of the US Constitution States No State shall… make any Thing but gold and silver coin a tender in the payment of debts.”
US Constitution also requires the feds to coin money.

Now there is quite a bit of case law around all of this tender issue but when examined to every detail one finds out that every single Judge who ever ruled on the paper money issue was already in violation of the rule because when they ruled they were already being paid in paper money. This means those ‘judges’ were already in breach of duty to the bounded Constitutional capacity. One can be in breach of a bounded entity while simultaneously speaking from that capacity. In the strictest terms of law this means that the entire tender issue puts everyone claiming the US Constitutional capacity in breach of duty. Furthermore, from the coinage act of 1792 it is a death penalty offense for an officer in the US to debase the coin.

There is much more to all of this but to keep in short this is the angle that the American people, through our Grand Juries, can lawfully ndict every single government worker, starting with the ‘judges’ and prosecutors thereby removing ALL bar conspirators from presiding over the criminal cases against them. This move is the law abiding move, upholding the law to the EXACT letter. The people through our Grand Juries have just cause to indict EVERY GOVERNMENT WORKER, appoint special, non-bar, prosecutors and judges to provide over the criminal cases and juries have a path to issue them the death penalty. If the law where ACTUALLY upheld to the exact letter, EVERY ‘GOVERNMENT’ WORKER WOULD BE GIVEN THE DEATH PENALTY AND EXECUTED.

This is not hyperbole, this is how the protections of real law work. The divinely inspired law for government in the US had the solution the whole time and still has the solution. God didn’t leave you hanging with psychos in control, the lawless people left God’s law and now the real painful consequences are just beginning- you ain’t seen nothing yet. The fact that the solution is there and people are not executing justice means the people are the guilty party for not bringing known criminals justice- the crime of misprision. Guess who God assigned as Caesar here to carry divine providence? The People. That means everyone not working in the government is responsible for ensuring gov servants stay within their bounded duty, if you don’t do that then God burns you!

You will do it or you will face EXTREME misery for your lawless acts from divine justice.

Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze
September 14, 2020 1:41 am

One of your best Admin.

ottomatik
ottomatik
September 14, 2020 2:05 am

Excellent presentation with cunning character choice. A Hat Trick of depravity, all with the perfect back drop.
While reading the extensive listing of misdeeds I found myself yearning for Dirty Harry and his legendary 44 mag, to make an appearance.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
September 14, 2020 4:24 am

Mankind’s gotta know his limitations

“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Gen. 3:5

The grandpappy lie that started it all.

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<<———====

Ginger
Ginger
  ordo ab chao
September 14, 2020 7:12 am

Mankind will realize its limitation at the end of the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ here on Earth.

‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.’
Jeremiah 17: 9-10

flash
flash
September 14, 2020 5:32 am

Another inspiring read JQ. The thieves are getting bolder mainly because the people are becoming dumber. I blame soy, fructose corn syrup and public education.

For any interested . Who got what.

The 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (or CARES Act) provides hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance to large and small corporations whose operations have been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The public deserves to know which companies are receiving the assistance and whether aid is flowing to firms with a poor record of corporate accountability.

Covid Stimulus Watch answers those needs. It assembles CARES Act recipient data and combines it with information about each firm’s history of regulatory violations, previous government assistance, federal tax avoidance, and CEO and worker pay practices.

https://covidstimuluswatch.org/

Tom
Tom
  flash
September 14, 2020 7:37 am

Those of you looking to develop a list, go to this site. Click advanced search. Dial it in to your locale by using city or zip. Then explore the list. So far I found 3 shithead agenda pumpers in one town who should have received exactly zero dollars ever. Your tax dollars are funding massive fuckery.

flash
flash
  Tom
September 14, 2020 12:27 pm

I wonder if these loans/grants came with any stipulations like all your employees and customers must now wear face masks if you take this money, because after this money went out all corporations declared a no masks, no entrance mandate? I now have very few places left I can shop, because I’m not wearing the face diaper.

piearesquared
piearesquared
  Tom
September 14, 2020 3:52 pm

Flash, the main culprit is public education. The government indoctrination centers, which are euphemistically referred to as public schools, are the root cause of a very large percentage of our problems. We will never be able to solve those problems unless and until we have complete separation of education and state.

Tom, for the most part it isn’t tax dollars. It is money that the Federal Reserve has conjured up out of thin air. The Fed is printing astronomical amounts of money, which is going to hasten the collapse of the dollar and remove it from its status as the world reserve currency. Of course that is one of the main reasons for the COVID-19 scamdemic in the first place. The NWO is in the final stages of bringing in their one world government and cashless society. The scamdemic is the principal tool they are using to accomplish that. The vaccine(s), which will have ingredients to kill large numbers of people and nanotech to control the people that aren’t killed, endless printing of money which is then directed to their favored groups and industries, conditioning the sheeple to act like slaves, etc, are some of the tools they are using to accomplish their goals, and are all possible because of the scamdemic.

flash
flash
  piearesquared
September 14, 2020 7:09 pm

I agree. Public education is the bane of western civilization.
After getting all the mileage they could get out of the bullshit war on terror, the Bolsehvik and Zionist scum that control our criminal government havw upped the ante with their war on viruses.
Interesting video on the subject below. Worth a watch.
COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opAyJt94Kmo&ab_channel=corbettreport

Dirtperson Steve
Dirtperson Steve
  flash
September 14, 2020 8:30 am

My son works at a bank that was doling out these funds. Their job was to get money out the door not investigate the applications. The bank got a cut of the $ lent.

He knew there were lots of scammers in on the action. He found 3 “businesses” registered to the same address with nearly identical information. When he googled the address it was a small stripmall.

He took the information to his manager and was told, “It’s the government’s job to prosecute fraud. Our job is to get their money out as quickly as possible”

Eerily similar to The Sopranos episode where Tony gets involved in the Section 8 housing scam.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 14, 2020 6:49 am

I think its the 15MOF (15 minutes of fame) syndrome. Seriously think about it. The small hands little geek-assed Fauci would never have been known until covid. He never wants his fame to end. Has nothing else to do but with geek ego. The man was punked in highschool could pay to get laid in college. 100% little nerd. Now he feels some power. Nothing worse than a small procked powerless man being given some power….look at billy boy gates. Another nerd, or twitwad, or fakebook. All are little geeks. Revenge of the nerds….

niebo
niebo
  Anonymous
September 14, 2020 2:35 pm

Fauci was known to have had a hand in in the whole AIDS debacle, too, but he was not a household name (shoulda been):

“When the (inevitable) blowback from his colleagues and peers came, he accused the media and laypeople of “not understanding the language of science.” Even as a young scientist, Fauci had already become an expert in the D.C. sport of political deflection and denial. Fauci’s sloppiness led to months of AIDS hysteria where the public worried about entirely implausible casual transmission pathways. ”

https://humanevents.com/2020/09/08/from-aids-to-covid-the-political-capture-of-americas-public-health-establishment/

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  niebo
September 14, 2020 10:07 pm

Please do not notice just how closely Fauci resembles a rodent.

bigfootmm
bigfootmm
  hardscrabble farmer
September 15, 2020 12:25 am

Yes! I’m excited to tell you I have adopted your physiognomy theory as my own and Fauci has been “ratface” for months now. Thank you very much for revealing what I already knew but suppressed for reasons of indoctrination: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” What a lie.

TC
TC
September 14, 2020 7:08 am

It’s actual malice rather than mere incompetence that drives most of our “leaders.”

Nick
Nick
September 14, 2020 8:32 am

Every hospital in the world utilizes masks as a primary intervention to protect staff, visitors and patients from acquiring or spreading coronavirus (n-95 for airborne procedures and for patients on high- flow O2, level 3 or level 1 masks for all other times). So I’m curious, is the entire global medical community in on this conspiracy to take over the world?

Admiral Scott
Admiral Scott
  Nick
September 14, 2020 11:48 am

Every hospital (at least here in the States) follows the recommendations (commandments really) of the CDC. CDC has been corrupted, so there you go. About masks… the N95 is basically useless for civilians… why? Because to use them properly they must be fit tested, with NO leaks around the mask. No one outside of a hospital has their masks fit tested. ALL other masks (cheap fabric, bandanas, fashionable material and the like) are TOTALLY USELESS against a virus. So, as in days gone by… MASK THE SICK AND COMPROMISED AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE!!!!

ottomatik
ottomatik
  Nick
September 14, 2020 4:11 pm

No, but is hard to understand you with that totalitarian cock stuffed in your mouth.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Nick
September 14, 2020 5:01 pm

Wait a minute. How much experience do you or your family have in medicine? I don’t have any outside of being an unfortunate patron, but most of the women in my family do. The masks are there to prevent bacterial infection and proceeding sepsis. At least that’s my understanding from those RNs and NPs. My mother was a geriatric DoN and masks were critical with the elderly. Apparently there’s an antibiotic-resistant form of C. diff going around now.

Barring maybe N99s, masks have never been effective against viruses, and N99s are not cost-effective for an entire nursing home/hospital. Not sure where the hell you got that idea, but the way my mother explained it to me, think mosquitoes and chain link fences.

bigfoot
bigfoot
  Nick
September 15, 2020 12:38 am

Good grief, your science is as out of date as “Fat’s bad for ya!”

And Pasteur was a fraud.

Those masks are meant to offer confidence in the system that is a big, fat lie that kills god knows how many people every year.

“It’s the immune system, stupid.” Beef it up and you won’t be in a hospital unless you break a leg. Or go have a Big Mac and syrup and enjoy yourself while you can.

SoTexGuy
SoTexGuy
September 14, 2020 8:49 am

Great column. We’re done for if the avalanche of greed, incompetence and corruption can’t be stopped and reversed. We try to elect the right people yet once in office we can’t even recognize them.. Even, I’m sad to have to say Donald Trump. Here’s another corker from Remy.. Remy: I Like it, I Love it (Tim McGraw Parody)

suzanna
suzanna
September 14, 2020 9:50 am

Such an excellent presentation! is rarely written.
Bravo

Patricat
Patricat
September 14, 2020 10:42 am

History shows that when powerful men won’t recognize their own limitations, other violent men define their limitations for them in a rather final way.
It will be no different this time around. They will all meet bad ends. The sooner, the better.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird
September 14, 2020 10:52 am

Mortal life is short but what we do in this life sure marks what after life we can expect.

Forearmed
Forearmed
September 14, 2020 10:54 am

Let me tell you something my friend, you whine about their lies and control but then you use numbers in your graph that are total BS and the CDC knows it and you should too. After reading almost 2/3 of your article and came upon that graph with those appalling numbers I realized you also know those number are bull shit but use the graph anyway to give substantiation to your article

There is a big difference between dying “From” COVID-19 than dying “with” COVID-19. We don’t care if the infection rates are high because that does not equate to the numbers dying, which apparently everyone believes are the same. Only about 4% of those 165,000 supposed deaths actually died “From” COVID-19

There is a reason for those numbers my friends and it is the basis of control. when you keep people in fear for an extended period of time they become more malleable and controllable and I believe the exact purposed of this MASK WEARING IDIOCY !!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 14, 2020 11:16 am

The warning signs have been lighting up for over 40 years what has been done to average American working people and the BIG CLUB CIRCLE JERK of Wall Street to K-Street to Capital Street have engineered the greatest transfer of wealth from the majority to a minority of wealthy connected club members all bought and paid for by debt piled on average people and even the ones in diapers !
That is why when I hear any wonk politician or finance twerp exclaim the money to cover health care and retirement so those over that 65 mark could live out their days in modest comfort and dignity is just not there anymore !
I say : you got it for a cop and fireman , you got it for a school teacher and a congress staffer so in the fabled words of Pauly in Goodfellas FUCK YOU PAY ME !
The time is coming when those haves taking advantage of the have nots are going to start waking up with a crowd around them !

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest
  Anonymous
September 14, 2020 12:45 pm

Auntie thinks Nicky Santoro would know best how to treat the vile money-devouring scumbags on Wall St., K St. and Capital St.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzAS53gcDg

Stucky
Stucky
September 14, 2020 12:01 pm

After much thought, I have just three VERY PROFOUND things to say. Pay attention, folks.

1. Wow, that was some good shit!!!

2. Jeez, I sure missed a LOT of great articles like this during my hiatus.

3. I’m so fucken depressed now I’m thinking of blowing myself up.

=================

Bonus Observation

4. QUINN 2020 !!!!!!!!!!!!

Stucky
Stucky
  Administrator
September 14, 2020 12:18 pm

Indentured Servant, LLPOH, and Hope@Zero Kelvin

Man, oh man … that is the Holy Trinity right there!!

Arguably amongst the top 3 posters on TBP of all time. That’ no joke, either.

I wish you guys would come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Fuck fuck fuckity fuck!” — H@ZK when she got really angry.hahaha

Tim
Tim
  Stucky
September 14, 2020 12:15 pm

Don’t blow yourself up Stuck. That’d be bad.

Hey, here’s an idea: I just spent a long weekend in rural Oklahoma, camping with my son and some other guys. There are now about 50,000, plus or minus, legal ‘medical marijuana’ dispensaries. Apparently, the Okies have all decided to ride out the Fourth Turning by being stoned and mellow about it.

Roy
Roy
September 14, 2020 12:40 pm

COVID: Major case filed against Ohio governor and the state of Ohio for restricting freedom without legitimate justification

Adrian
Adrian
September 14, 2020 12:49 pm

You can see here in the reactions how people totally do not get the ‘alien mindset’ of psychopaths.

Power (and control) does not corrupt honest/honorable men, psychopaths crave (extraordinarily energetic like a machine and in pure evil ways a normal human being or simply a human being cannot imagine) for *power and control* (without conscience *going over dead bodies* , or gaslighting = the gruesome psychological equivalent of that, of honorable men, be it the Emperor himself) and then corrupt the power and control *they are (with their character and LOGICAL intelligence, since they are *moral/emotional morons* ) able to usurp* .

http://www.ponerology.com

The typical result: smoking ruins and mountains of dead bodies left and right and (of sorts) *in every realm* (like so) :

The Watchman
The Watchman
September 14, 2020 1:56 pm

Excellent article, Jim!!!!
Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

Bob Ona
Bob Ona
September 14, 2020 2:03 pm

I once read, I forget where, of a baboon troop who lost all of its alphas, a synonym for sociopaths, to bovine tuberculosis. The story goes that they, the alphas, were the first to eat some newly found tainted beef, being the sociopaths and all, and hence the ones to die. After the death of the sociopaths, the troop went on to live in harmony. The researcher stated with egotistic prowess that they would return to their normal hierarchical state within a year and so gave this troop, like any good, self-centered researcher to a lowly grad student. The student, reporting back diligently, told the researcher the troop had not digressed to its earlier state, and in fact, were living quite peacefully and with a sort of live and let live attitude. The researcher scoffed, “What bullshit,” and promptly went to study the problem for himself, discovering, much to his chagrin, that the grad student was correct. Dropping his ego in a bucket for a while, he studied the troop himself, wondering how they kept it so peaceful. Much to his surprise, he discovered the solution. A solitary alpha male baboon wondered into the troop, started thwarting his stuff, and BAM!—the troop instantly turned on him and literally tore him limb from limb. When the researcher went to study them the next day, they were back to their peaceful grooming, etc. Later, someone asked the researcher how we could improve society. “Simple,” he said, “kill the alphas!”

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Bob Ona
September 14, 2020 4:01 pm

All the voibiage to tell us you’re a gay beta who hates his mother.

Monger
Monger
  Bob Ona
September 15, 2020 12:07 am

Look at the alpha/beta/gamma rat study… wolf/sheep/watch dog, alpha’s have proclivities detrimental to the sheep, only gammas are able to defend against there aggression

BUCKED/BUY MORE AMMO
BUCKED/BUY MORE AMMO
September 14, 2020 2:32 pm

Right now my limitation are 700 yards in distance and anything related to BLM/ANTIFA/Covid 19

Wuzacon
Wuzacon
September 14, 2020 2:33 pm

I have been thinking a lot about the Stockdale Paradox lately.

Admin, thank you for providing the brutal truth on this site. It is a critical part of the puzzle to make it through to the other side.

With optimism for the future, thank you.

Kate
Kate
September 14, 2020 2:40 pm

If only it could be the 70’s again with no cell phones to track you and a stolen car with a Saturday night special in your pocket you could let know the untouchables that they are not as untouchable as they think they are. Oh wait! It can still be done! No phone and a stolen car with a good semi.

niebo
niebo
September 14, 2020 3:01 pm

Quote Stucky: “That was some good shit. . . ”

I was raised on the spaghetti westerns that set Eastwood up for his ‘Malpaso’ production company; after he established it, he worked for himself and never became a pawn in Ho’wood, which, to me, is THE coolest thing about him.

I used to blame these decisions on stupidity and incompetence. But I now attribute it to malice of forethought, driven by greed, envy and a sociopathic desire for power and control over others.

AGREED!

THEY want to KILL the rest of us. NOTHING else explains the maelstrom.

Monger
Monger
  niebo
September 15, 2020 12:09 am

“they are going to get us all killed” was my outlook in the 90s, now it’s “they are trying to get us all killed”

luke2236
luke2236
September 14, 2020 4:22 pm

(((shadowy billionaire types)))
There, fixed it for ya.

David
David
September 14, 2020 5:08 pm

The fact of the matter is that corrupt people are attracted to the reins of power. Nobody who minds his own business makes it their “business” to lord over you unless they’re in the business of destroying you and enriching themselves.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
September 14, 2020 5:41 pm

About the only thing I watch these days are YT videos of people looking for arrowheads or metal detecting, I know, boring as hell.

The more I watch them the more “suggestions” I get from YT. 3 or 4 days ago there was a clip from the Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales- the part where he meets with the Indian to make peace or fight him, so I watched it. Next one that played automatically was a clip from Unforgiven where he enters the saloon to kill Little Bill.

Next day Admin had both quotes on the daily quotes, one after the other.

So I’m wondering, was that just random chance? That within 12 hours two exact clips would be promoted to me and the next day Admin would randomly post both of them? Some kind of weird synchronicity, or was it based on the websites I read and the tracking data somehow being linked?

Either way, strange to see that similar ideas are floating around in the same sphere, at the same time.

“Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”
― Clint Eastwood

bigfootmm
bigfootmm
  hardscrabble farmer
September 15, 2020 1:00 am

If I may say so, there are no accidents and no coincidences. What you got was a message that you are on the right track to discovering what you are. Should you like to delve into what you are and are not, begin with “Man and Woman and Child” by Harold Percival. Read Part Five first. It’s about The Garden and sex. I think you are available to a great awareness, but who am I? I’m only working on the answer.

The most important question: What is it that is conscious and knows that it is conscious?

Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2
Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2
  bigfootmm
September 16, 2020 11:40 pm

I like sex and I like gardening. Who are you, Eckhart fucking Tolle? There is no bad and no good, it is what it is, what a crock of shit. Ya, I read his bogus book.

Inquiring Mind
Inquiring Mind
  bigfootmm
September 22, 2020 5:40 pm

Smells like a Q Op.

Blather
Blather
September 14, 2020 6:17 pm

You guyz have written thousands of these column and yet I have to see not one announcement that those responsible for what they have done to Trump, this country, their Constitution, and the American people have been HANGED for their crimes.

That’s the only column I am looking forward too and the only column you should write in how and why we can arrest these WATS and then the dates of their hangings.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Blather
September 14, 2020 10:06 pm

They were waiting for you to fill the void. Get off your ass and get some rope. They can’t do everything.

Blather
Blather
  Harrington Richardson
September 16, 2020 1:09 pm

Wut about you? I can’t do everything either.

bigfootmm
bigfootmm
  Blather
September 15, 2020 1:07 am

Ah, Grasshopper, did you not know you are the world?

When you change, the world changes.

When you see what is, what is changes.

What happens, then, when tens, hundreds, thousands of minds change?

Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2
Diaperless in NH ILuvCO2
  bigfootmm
September 16, 2020 11:43 pm

Palease. Individuality rules brother. Buddhist pablum.

ursel doran
ursel doran
September 14, 2020 7:11 pm

What happens when people in positions of power are sympathizers to the cause or part of that same ‘organization’ themselves?

What is a ‘safe zone’?

Why are riots conducted in specific [D] controlled locations?

What happens when elected officials [governors/mayors] handcuff the officers instead of criminals?

What happens when elected officials [governors/mayors] refuse to call in the national guard or other federal assistance?

Sacrificing the lives and well-being of the community for a calculated political gain [or other]?

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/man-arrested-for-starting-at-least-7-brush-fires-along-i-205/283-a659a1ed-db3b-4f03-9583-a9fee05a5033

Does ANTIFA fear prosecution?

Would they continue to operate if they did?

What organized group(s) are bailing out rioters within 24-hours of arrest?

What happens post bailout?

Do charges remain enforced or dropped by DA?

Prosecutor won’t act on low-level Portland protest arrests

DA: will not act re: “low-level’ arrests

Have all refusal to bring charges been related to “low-level” arrests?

Sympathizer?

Other?

What happens when prosecutors, board of county commissioner members, volunteer firefighters, etc. are sympathetic to the cause?

What happens if the organization [ANTIFA] itself is aware?

Infiltration not invasion.

ursel doran
ursel doran
September 14, 2020 10:21 pm

Oregon folks put up signs for the arsonists and looters.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/you-loot-we-shoot-oregon-wildfires

John
John
September 14, 2020 11:39 pm

Here you go Jim. Folks are needed in all 50 states to prepare for the big changes to come. All you have to do is volunteer and commit your time like many others are already doing.

https://civiliandefenseforce.org/join-a-unit/

AL Tru
AL Tru
September 16, 2020 9:02 am

Trump is the hood ornament. The Generals are driving.
14th Amendment. Section 3
” aiding and abetting the enemy ”
11-3-2020

Trump2020202420282032
Trump2020202420282032
September 17, 2020 2:01 pm

Donald Trump is proving his capabilities are far beyond any mere “man”. You had better get ready to accept that he will perform miracles.

Rise Up
Rise Up
September 18, 2020 10:08 am

The mask mandates are a precursor to a mandatory vaccine, without which you will be denied basic necessities such as entering grocery stores, banks, and virtually all public spaces.

1984 is here.

EdM
EdM
September 18, 2020 12:23 pm

You are undone by an inflated sense of your place in the pecking order. You may make some good points, but their validity is obscured by hyperbole & misuse of the language (ie. fetid). Waaay too many appeals to intelligence and IQ. This is not the only talent to bring to bear when employing comon sense.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 18, 2020 4:10 pm

You completely left out Trump. The idiot with the biggest limitations of all.