Guest Post by Paul Rosenberg
As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our prosperity, our comfort, our medicine, our sense of importance.
Soon enough we learned that the system was also stupid and perverse, but we found a way around that contradiction by blaming one segment of the system or another: The Blues or the Greens or the Red are the problem; it could not, must not, be that the system itself is the problem.
Then came 2020, and the system revealed its true face.
I suppose I should be fair and add that the system wasn’t always as rotten as it is now, but regardless, it wasn’t able to prevent the rot that overtook it.
2020, In A Nasty Little Nutshell
The system would like everything except the daily outrages (one for the Blues, one for the Reds) to go down the Memory Hole. So I think it’s important to recap the revelations of 2020:
The system decreed who could work and who couldn’t. This was not done democratically; it was done by edict. “Democracy” did nothing to stop it.
People were arrested for going to church or synagogue. This was the real disgrace of the police forces. Are there any orders from their paymasters they won’t enforce upon us?
Political gangs roam the streets, beating, threatening and burning. Make no mistake, these are covertly authorized political gangs, serving political ends. This vile tactic goes back to ancient Rome at least, where gangs of thugs beat opponents in the streets.
“Science” said one thing then the opposite, supporting whatever power wanted. Not every scientist, but more or less the entire grant-seeking, position-seeking complex showed themselves to be without integrity; they said and did whatever power wanted them to do.
Mass media was as a fear delivery system. They were devoted to capturing eyeballs with fear and monetizing outrage. Journalistic integrity was a joke at best.
Social media silenced thousands of dissenters, purely at the behest of political power. This was no less that the suppression of speech. (If you want to profit from becoming the public square, you have to act like a public square.) Free services have always been parasites, but these have shown themselves to be sycophantic to the point of fascism.
The mandatory school system, around which millions of families had arranged their lives, was ripped away in an instant.
Hate was legitimated. Political loud-mouths and televised faces have treated hate as the voice of justice, instead of the disease it is. Millions have joined in the barbarity, pretending that hate is actually duty, honor, and truth.
More could be added, but this is quite enough to make my point: The system is not what we were taught it was, and 2020 has revealed that quite well.
The System Doesn’t Deserve Us
By referring to “the system” and “us,” I’m dividing the world into two parts, and so I should be clear on what those parts are:
Us refers to producers: the people who grow food, transport it, process it, build machines, provide medical care, and so on. Everyone from the construction worker to the small business owner to the cleaning lady is a producer, and deserve great respect for what they do. We owe all the comforts of our lives, and frequently our lives altogether, to these people.
The system refers to the entire governmental complex that takes our money and couldn’t survive without it. It also includes everything that couldn’t be what they are without them: Central banks, government school systems, businesses that live on government connections, television networks, social media behemoths, and more or less everything high and mighty.
What I’d like is for the producers of the world to become clear on the fact that we don’t need them. Everything they “do for us” is done with our money, which they take from us by force and fraud.
And let’s be honest about this: The system is a violent, corrupt and control-obsessed entity. Millions of us would choose other arrangements if we could, but the system forbids them. Forcibly.
We should also understand that this has happened before. Here, to illustrate, is a passage from historian C. Delisle Burns on the real reason Rome collapsed:
Great numbers of men and women were unwilling to make make the effort required for the maintenance of the old order, not because they were not good enough to fulfill their civic duties, but because they were too good to be satisfied with a system from which so few derived benefit.
The system is not worthy of our labor and treasure. Whether or not it once was (and if so, when) no longer matters.
2020 has made this much clear. It’s time to drop our child-training and look at the world like the adults we’ve become.
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This is .gov at its finest. .Gov will do everything it can to garner more and more power. It is a cancer that destroys the body politic along with itself until there is no more body politic.
Do not fear, however, some men are inherently evil and will eventually instill the rule of the thug over the helpless. It has always been this way and it will always be this way until Satan is vanquished by our father Yahweh.
Well said None Ya Biz – when people wake up to this truism maybe we will make progress.
Does anyone know where I can rent/purchase the movie “They Live”?
It was on youtube at one point don’t know if it’s still there
The photo in the article depicts one of the “aliens” in the movie They Live. It’s a primer on how this takeover took place and how most are totally unaware that “they” even exist. A must watch movie to open your eyes to actually see how the game is played.
The system is working perfectly for those who are reaping the benefits from the top of the pyramid. That’s how it was designed by those who view the American people as cattle to be corralled, branded and used as a commodity. That’s why any major corporations has a “human resources” department. They’re not kidding; you are just an expendable resource to use up and dispose of when depleted.
It’s just one big club – and you ain’t in it. – in memory of George Carlin.
Don’t forget, we’re all in this together – and other such bullshit they try to cram down our throats:
Like the boat? It’s owned by a nice Jewish fellow by the name of David Geffen.
A multi-billionaire by virtue of poisoning the minds of an entire generation of youth via the degenerate music his company produced and distributed.
Yep, and the idiots bought it, Auntie. “Show me the child, and I will show you the man or woman.” Or something like that…..
I’m sure you meant Jewish faggot.
Carly Simon must have been pretty dense back then thinking she was his girl friend. The “apricot scarf” and all that.
That is the ugliest yacht I’ve ever seen.
Doug
Sterile comes to mind.
Oh my, yacht connoisseurs. Since when? Jealousy is so….blatantly obvious. I’d live on that yacht in a heartbeat if I had the money….
Jealousy? Because we criticised an ugly sterile yacht. As a matter of fact I am a yacht connoisseur. I’ve been all over the Med, up and down both coasts and on 4 ships, so I’ve seen plenty of fine yachts and this one is sterile.
Are you the TBP speech police, telling us what we can talk about? Did you consult Admin to see if there was even a job opening for TBP mind reader. You apparently believe you can read minds if you can detect jealousy from such a simple statement.
Ah, so now you’ve added yacht expert to all your other skills? How many yachts do you own?
Piss off you dumb bimbo. I said I’ve seen beautiful yachts all over the world and in particular the Med which is synonymous with “Beautiful Yachts”.
The one in the picture is sterile looking unlike the puss that oozes out of your festering soul.
You have this problem. You always have to be right, regardless and if anyone dares to call you on your absolutism you fall back on nastiness and vile commentary, just like a spoiled child throws tantrums and tosses shit. The only pus that oozes from anything here is the pus that oozed from your keyboard. Get a grip, you thin skinned pussy.
You’re the one who got nasty. I was minding my own business talking to Doug and you come on with you usual ugly bile. Piss off bimbo.
Um, you are commenting on the internet, where everyone can see and respond. If you want to visit exclusively with Doug then maybe you do it more privately, like get a room?
Never forget that the “aliens” in Carpenter’s film were what might now be called Deplorables. This was his vision of Reagan supporters.
Um, a jew wrote this article, did you catch that little factoid?
“The year the system showed its real face” or . . . the year the “system” got/continues to get its EVIL face EXPOSED?
But it needs to be recognised as such, Jai Seli, The bulk of the mindless masses are unaware of this condition but I am sure they will stir in time when they discover that their fun and leisure has been removed permanently.
Time to shrug.
Been saying this for a decade. Now maybe men will listen.
In the end, it sounded a bit like the income inequality BS I keep hearing. I will agree that wages haven’t kept up with inflation. yeah, The system has some big problems. Soon it will go bankrupt and a lot of changes are coming.
Hear, Hear!!!
My second career is as a budding scientist
““Science” said one thing then the opposite, supporting whatever power wanted. Not every scientist, but more or less the entire grant-seeking, position-seeking complex showed themselves to be without integrity; they said and did whatever power wanted them to do.”
This is why I am kind of stuck now. I am not sure where to go from here, because the directions of my scientific inquiry were never going to very compatible with the above and I don’t have enough time left to waste it trying to “fight the system”.
I can think of several other ways to make this world a better place before I go. I don’t think the world is stable enough to be focused on life science technology.
I spent nearly 22 years in the Marines and an additional 20 years supporting the military. If at any time during those 42 years years you had told me my government would initiate martial law on conflicting medical opinions (and be honest, that’s what blue state and city leaders have done for seven months), I would have called you a fool.
Oh, and NYC just initiated another complete lockdown, starting Wednesday, of all public and private schools, all indoor and/or outdoor dining, all nonessential businesses and employees, etc., for nine NYC zip codes. And another governor shut everything down through January. Seriously, January?!
Besides being an utterly disturbing year, 2020 has been truly eye opening. Disgustingly, eye opening.
All Marines are riflemen. You will know what to do and when.
Yep…I have made two concessions/improvements since my miss spent yout in my o331 ‘Mother Green Killing Machine’ days…I put bi-pods on my M1A…and I have added knee pads to facilitate dropping down to prone.
I don’t bounce as high as I use to.
But 7.62 is still my round.
This article delivers a very clear explanation of the situation. Impressive. Well done.
This article is telling everyone to Go Galt.
You didn’t mention one of the largest segments of the Progressive population: the Career Welfare Maggots and Useful Idiot Revolutionaries.
Amen.
Excellent article. Yes, the System is showing us just how ugly it really is. Let´s take the intelligence “community”, please. I was part of it for a long time. I was fortunate. I worked with good people, did nothing I would not be ashamed to tell the whole world, and through a miracle avoided being drawn into the Swamp (I managed to stay overseas almost the entire time and did not have to deal with the lizard people at the top).
Unfortunately, the “community” was filled with morons who swallowed the Establishment bullshit hook, line, and sinker. They actually saw psychopaths like John Brennan and Comey as some kind of loyal “public servants”, instead of the leftist Democrat operatives they really are. They were (and are) so stupid that they see a (largely) imaginary “Russian threat” but are completely oblivious to the treasonous mob that is attempting to destroy the American republic forever. Their heads are stuck so far up the Deep State´s ass they ignore the fact that the Democrat´s are completely in the pocket of insane Leftist ideologues who are driving the country towards civil war. Instead, they focus on Trump´s hair style and react with horror at his efforts to defuse tensions in the Middle East, rein in the disloyal bureaucracy, end the useless wars, neuter the military politicians and perfumed princes, stand up to China´s punking of America, and concentrate on rebuilding what is left of America. These pompous jerks ignore our burning cities (burning because Leftist billionaires are secretly financing all of it) and mutter gibberish about “civility” and our precious “allies”, not one of which (with the exception of the Brits, the Danes, and a handful of others) would waste the life of a single one of their soldiers on our behalf. Worst of all, they refuse to accept what is now crystal clear: The Deep State mounted an illegal coup to remove the president.
Let me give a perfect example. There is a guy named John Sipher, a retired intelligence officer; I have never met him but know his type – his actions and words speak for themselves. He has a website called The Sipher Brief, which is populated by Swamp Creatures like Sipher himself. To give you an idea of the kind of guy who infests the upper reaches of the CIA (Sipher was in the Senior Intelligence Service, the upper ranks of the Agency – no great honor if you ask most Agency employees what they think of the average SIS officer – and how many knee pads they wore out to get there), Sipher brags about his articles appearing in Lawfare, the NYT, The Atlantic (!), Politico, Slate, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. He also appears on CNN (of course), NPR (too funny), MSNBC. and, for Christ´s sake, the BBC. Get the picture? This clueless dolt is one of the bottom feeders in Washington who is still flogging the deadly “Russian threat” when everybody who understands the world knows perfectly well that this particular “threat” is just a boogeyman used to justify redundant weapons systems and pointless military excursions in eastern Europe and elsewhere. He is, in short, a go-to gasbag for the forces wrecking out country.
Sipher´s most despicable work has been done in furthering the Russia hoax against Trump. He has tirelessly pushed this narrative, now completely exposed as the fraud it was from the start, a criminal fraud by the way, which may well land many of Sipher´s chums in prison. Now that the truth is out in the open, has he apologized? Has he accepted that he was a credulous dupe who betrayed the American people and his president, on behalf of a gang of sickos like Hillary Clinton, Obama, Brennan, Comey, Lisa Page and her butt boy boyfriend, and all the rest?
Of course not.
Glad I got to give you at least a little peek at the sort of human garbage that inhabits the Swamp. Remember John Sipher.
Glad I got to give you at least a little peek at the sort of human garbage that inhabits the Swamp. Remember John Sipher.
Yes, but are those swamp dwellers all Jewish? According to many commenters here, it’s the Jews and only the Jews who are out to destroy the country. So does the fact that the the majority of the swamp dwellers are gentiles destroy their contention? Nope.
Their answer is that they are Shabbos goys. Hillary and Bill aren’t jewish and they are so deep in the Swamp they have gills. Then again, Chelsea married a Jew so that explains it all. John Brennan was educated by Jesuits. Clapper is Episcopalian, they are both deep swamp creatures and….they aren’t technically Jewish. Lots of Shabbos goys running around. Go figure.
Those folks who see a Jew in every pot and behind every curtain are also seriously anti-Trump.
No, they most certainly are not all Jewish. In fact, most of the Jews are far too clever to fall for the gibberish that passes for conventional wisdom and Establishment PC thought, even though they may pretend to. People like Sipher, Paul Ryan, Romney, Jeff Flake, Comey, Brennan, and the rest 100 percent non-Jewish and 100 percent idiots who actually believe this rubbish.
These guys would have you believe my late friend Bob, the Jewish appliance repair man was plotting to take over the world.
The bimbo lies like a commie.
What we said is the very top echelon of the NWO like the 5 Rothchild families in Europe are Kabbalist Jews.
I’ve never seen anyone on TBP so willing to lie and distort what we say and never bring any real evidence to disprove our claims. All because we disagree with you and refuse to be cowed by your Alinsky tactics.
I hear people say the .Gov is going bankrupt. Please tell me how an institution aka .Gov that cannot produce any wealth, gets all its funds from stealing from the productive and/or borrowing currency against future theft from the productive is anything but bankrupt, financially and morally?