In Part One of this article, I discussed the dramatic events that shaped 2020 and will continue to have a major influence on the direction of this Fourth Turning moving forward. The immense power of Mordor on the Potomac seems to be unassailable, but the little people still have a chance if they utilize their skills and intelligence to the utmost.
Now that Trump has been defeated and cast into oblivion by the forces of Mordor on the Potomac, those who have some knowledge about generational theory and the course of previous Fourth Turnings have lamented Trump is not the Grey Champion and they were misled by believing he was their hero. How could he be the Grey Champion if he lost? I do not profess to be an expert, as I am just trying to understand the underlying forces driving this Fourth Turning towards its climax, but losing a battle in a long war does not disqualify Trump as a Grey Champion. The Grey Champion character was born from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“Who is this gray patriarch? His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. That stately form, combining the leader and the saint…could only belong to some old champion of the righteous cause, whom the oppressor’s drum had summoned from his grave.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is not just one Grey Champion during a Fourth Turning, and their participation is generally as a lightening rod for change or the inspiration for younger generations to mobilize and fight the battles which ultimately decide the fate of nations and empires. Samuel Adams and Ben Franklin were Grey Champions during the American Revolution Fourth Turning. Their fiery rhetoric and ability to guide the younger firebrands were their contributions to the cause.
Both Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis were Grey Champions during the Civil War. One was assassinated before the conclusion of the war and the other was on the losing side, spending a couple years in a Federal prison after the war. FDR, Churchill, and Stalin were all Grey Champions during the World War II Fourth Turning. FDR died before the conclusion of the war and Congress implemented a two-term limit because he had become too powerful. Churchill was on the winning side, but the British empire disintegrated during his reign. Stalin, who had already murdered millions of his own people, presided over a despotic regime and immediately became the enemy of his former allies.
Anyone with a true grasp of history would acknowledge all these men had significant personality faults, huge egos, a determination to win by any means necessary (including breaking the law and flaunting the Constitution), and ability to mobilize forces to accomplish their goals. As we are in the thirteenth year of this Fourth Turning and Grey Champions always arise in the earlier stages, there is no doubt Trump was and still is one of the Grey Champions driving this ongoing Crisis towards its bloody climax.
He still has 75 million or so followers, with many of them motivated to go wherever he leads. Does this mean a new party which would destroy the Uni-party Republican/Democrat control over our government? Does it mean taking to the streets and confronting the BLM and ANTIFA domestic terrorists in armed combat? Or will he be convicted by the Senate, thrown in jail, and financially ruined by his failed attempt to defeat the Deep State – possibly spurring his followers to become radicalized – matching the narrative being pushed by the authoritarian leftist regime now in office?
Those who put their faith in Trump are currently in disarray. Some feel betrayed. Others are depressed. Some are just disappointed he was unable to drain the swamp. They believe he just was not up to the task. Some think he was installed by the Deep State to lure a segment of the country into revealing their allegiances so they can be de-programmed and/or forced to grovel for forgiveness by pledging allegiance to the permanent party run by authoritarian billionaire oligarchs.
The accusations and recriminations within the Republican party will surely tear it apart, especially if GOP Senators join Schumer and McConnell in convicting Trump of creating an insurrection. Of course, there are still diehard believers this is just part of the plan and Trump will emerge victorious over senile Joe and his Deep State handlers. Others hope he will run again in 2024, vanquishing his foes and once again making America great again again. It is unlikely that someone with Trump’s ego and desire for attention will just fade into the sunset. He will continue to be a lightning rod, impacting the future course of this Fourth Turning, as one of the Grey Champions.
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As I survey the landscape there are a few other major players who also fit the Grey Champion prophet archetype and will certainly play a key role in the forthcoming climactic scenes of this Fourth Turning. On the domestic front Bill Gates has emerged from the shadows during this scamdemic, using his immense wealth and power to push for global vaccinations with experimental DNA altering formulas never used on human beings before. His agenda coincides with Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset new world order.
The Clintons are both Boomers who have functioned as the Jeff Davis to Trump over the last four years, participating and leading the Deep State coup by pushing the Russiagate fabrications to distract from their traitorous criminal acts. Crooked Hillary is ecstatic over deposing Trump and now is leading the effort to bury him. At this stage of the Fourth Turning, it appears Gates and the Clintons are winning, as they have the complete backing of the Deep State, Silicon Valley billionaire tyrants, and the globalist billionaires like Soros.
The two Grey Champions who will most certainly play a part in the second half of this Fourth Turning, when blood is likely to be shed in vast quantities, are Vlad Putin and Xi Jinping. These ruthless dictators have no fear of losing an election or having to deal with a hostile media. The Deep State has been pushing conflict with Russia for Trump’s entire term and continue to push a nuclear power through NATO and vassals in the Middle East.
The intensifying engagements between China and Taiwan, with the U.S. sailing an aircraft carrier force into the South China Sea, and ongoing tensions over trade and spying, have ratcheted up the chances of armed conflict between these nuclear super-powers. Fourth Turnings always plunge into total war, with an inescapable conclusion as to who won and who lost. Defeat means total surrender. The only question is what Pearl Harbor or Fort Sumter moment kicks off the festivities in the foreseeable future.
Based on the first three weeks of this year and what appears to be on the short-term horizon, I am confident the term “detonation” will apply to this fateful year. The intensity level has already reached 10 but is headed up to 11.
As Fourth Turnings go the 80-year cycle would certainly argue for substantial conflict to erupt in 2021. In 1781, the Battle of Yorktown concluded with Cornwallis surrendering to General Washington and concluding the armed struggle of the American Revolution, insuring the birth of a new nation.
Exactly 80 years later in 1861, Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Lincoln needed to sneak into Washington DC to avoid an assassination attempt in Baltimore. Fort Sumter was attacked and surrendered to Confederate forces. The First Battle of Bull Run resulted in a resounding Confederate victory and led Lincoln to institute a draft and an income tax. Over 600,000 men died in the next four years.
Exactly 80 years later in 1941, while Hitler was riding roughshod across Europe and turning his attention towards Russia, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor after FDR cut off their oil supply to provoke an attack. Tens of millions died over the next four years. It is now exactly 80 years later. One must ponder what potential tragedy awaits our nation and the world?
With the elevation of a vacuous disorientated Trojan horse to the presidency, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings of their puppet, we are already experiencing many of the things Strauss and Howe warned about in their 1997 prophecy.
“Institutions will be increasingly bossy, limiting personal freedoms, chastising bad manners, and cleansing the culture. Powerful new civic organizations will make judgments about which individual rights deserve respect and which do not. Criminal justice will become swift and rough, trampling on some innocents to protect an endangered and desperate society from those feared to be guilty. Expect a loss of personal privacy. Fourth Turnings can be dark times for the free spirit: Just as one kind of official may have new authority to do something for you, another kind—some hastily deputized magistrate—may have new authority to do something to you.”
They were not predicting specifics but could decipher an outline of our future through the fog, by observing previous Fourth Turnings. The limitations of personal freedoms are being implemented by totalitarian politicians, with the Big-Tech surveillance censorship overlords used to enforce the directives of those running the show, while trampling on the 1st Amendment and the right of citizens to voice dissenting opinions. Those who have seized power are now criminalizing any view not fitting their approved narrative and painting all Trump supporters as white supremacists.
These threats of retribution, while concurrently peddling nonsense about national unity, have the potential to backfire and blow up in their faces. Instead of unity, the impeachment of a president no longer in office and attempts to provoke violence by Trump supporters in order to usher in the pre-written 20,000 page Domestic Terror Patriot Act 2.0 is pushing the country towards civil war. The misuse of justice and criminalizing the acts of those exercising their right to live their lives will ignite a firestorm threatening to spread across the nation, with unknown long-term consequences.
I will not pretend to know what comes next, but I am sure the three key factors driving this crisis since 2008: debt, civic decay, and global disorder will continue to coalesce into a lethal concoction, destined to sweep away the underpinnings of the American Empire, ushering in a new social order. I think the repressive measures being implemented by Pelosi, Schumer, despot Democrat governors, and government apparatchiks are a sign of weakness and fear. Their bluster, threats, fear mongering and denunciation of half the voters in the country, portray a precarious fragility, with a dangerous agenda built on a foundation of deception and delusion.
A madness is gripping the nation, a dismal realization nothing is right. Everything has a chaotic feel, as financial markets surpass bubble territory into uncharted waters; politicians threaten and accuse each other of treasonous acts; government overreach and dysfunction is laid bare for all to see; the Deep State has been exposed as their coup to take down Trump required them to step out of the shadows; a manufactured race war led by BLM and ANTIFA useful idiots at the behest of Soros and his ilk continues to fester; Russia and China continue to undermine U.S. hegemony; and the global debt Ponzi scheme has entered its blow-off road to ruin phase.
The only thing keeping these financial markets at these outrageously elevated levels is an irrational level of misplaced trust in their puppet Powell and his feckless Fed cronies. When, not if, these markets begin to cascade downward and greed turns to fear, an implosion of institutional and societal trust will remove the final underpinnings of this unsustainable financial paradigm.
The Wall Street QE addicts and their captured central banker drug dealers were able to exploit the concocted “Covid Crisis” as cover for an already imploding financial system with the injection of $4 trillion of heroin into their veins and the assurance of trillions more. Anyone using reason and rational thought knows this debt solvency fantasy is destined for a disastrous denouement. If it happens in 2021, this year will surely go down in history.
This combustible amalgamation of unpayable debt, civic anarchy, and global chaos are poised to detonate in 2021, initiating a period of maximum darkness, death, destruction, and momentous choices. We are being propelled towards a climax which will mark the death of the old order and the birth of a new. The question is whether the new order will be better or worse for average Americans.
With the newly installed totalitarian regime in Washington DC, it appears they plan to implement full government control over every aspect of our lives, with the final eradication of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments as the stick and unlimited government checks as the carrot. Their classification and treatment of 75 million Americans as the enemy will accomplish the task of converting them into a real enemy.
There will be lone wolves who use violent means to fight back. Others will go Galt and starve the beast. Others may organize into like minded communities and dare the authorities to trample on their freedoms and liberties. It will be difficult to control 75 million angry, heavily armed, dis-enfranchised deplorables. The new regime is led by arrogant, hubristic, mediocre minded bureaucrats who are incapable of using anything but brutality to get there way.
Their grasp on power is fragile and a determined strategic minded resistance will hit them where they are weakest, sabotaging commerce, communications, the power grid, and their social media propaganda arm. At this point in 2021 it looks bleak for lovers of liberty, but the fight has just begun.
The coming deadly reckoning of this Fourth Turning will require tremendous courage, guile, personal sacrifice, dreadful alternatives, survival skills, intelligence, strategic thinking, and an audacity to win at all costs. Those still caught in the mindset of voting in good guys to change the outcome are delusional, as the outcome of this past election confirmed voting does not matter.
There are wealthy, powerful, sociopath, globalist oligarchs who constitute the real power in this world and unless they are confronted and defeated, the outcome of this Fourth Turning will result in a dark future for humanity and the final obliteration of our Constitution. There is no way to avoid the coming conflict. Sides must be chosen. You will not be able to sit this one out. They will come for you, whether you like it or not.
Based upon history, the ultimate resolution will not be based on compromise, civility, persuasion, or nonviolent means. Our world will be shaken to its very foundation and transformed in unknowable ways over the next decade. Winter has arrived with a ferocity born of the deceptions of powerful men, and we will need to marshal all our strength and fortitude to survive the coming tempests. The fury of the Crisis will eventually exhaust itself and result in a positive or destructive aftermath. History offers no guidance or assurances as to the outcome. That will be entirely up to us. Godspeed and good luck.
“If civic virtue is so frequently lost, it must be just as frequently regained. This is what happens in a Fourth Turning. While a Crisis mood renders societies newly desperate, it also renders them newly capable, which is why a saecular winter is to be welcomed as much as feared. As today’s Americans look ahead, the challenge is to marshal the coming season’s new public energies to achieve positive, not destructive ends. The better we ready ourselves collectively the more likely we will be not just to survive the Crisis but to apply its fury for good and humane purposes.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
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“Who is this gray patriarch?” Or might that be matriarch.(I’m only partially kidding.)
That’s a nonbinary bulldog!
Yellen was born in 1946, so from that standpoint she could be. Only problem is she inspires people to fall asleep when she speaks.
This vid will play
Janet Yellen has made at least $7m from speaking fees, records show
JANET YELLEN HAS MADE AT LEAST $7m from speaking fees, records show
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/01/janet-yellen-speaking-fees-us-treasury-secretary
What a farce, fake, phony country/government we are surrounded by.
She probably uses the same teleprompter operator as Biden.
SeeBee, I’ve heard the new generation teleprompters have voice recognition. If not read properly and with enthuiasm the new waker-upper feature is activated.
A taser, I hope?
Yes, right up the ying-yang.
Yellen is one of many party apparatchiks, she will do what she is told to do to push the agenda of cementing the NWO into place.
“One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Imagine a world where the elite are allowed to hunt the “others.”
Now, think about the Rwandan genocide.
I think the Clintons and Obamas watched that happen and took copious notes, setting a plan into motion (with the other Luciferian powers and principalities) which would stage the most heinous act of treachery the world has seen since Lucifer took one third of God’s Angels to hell with him.
We are watching Biblical prophecy play out, Mygirl. I truly believe there are no real coincidences.
(EC and I did not really meet at basic training in the USAF, but we might have bumped shoulders there and we shared a deep understanding of what it is like to be the lowest in the totem pole (youngest child, large family) and to grow up poor without knowing it. He, like I, had joined the USAF during the terrible recession/depression after Jimmy Carter was elected, to have a job and get some training. Both of us had taken the service seriously and been proud to be part of something we really believed in. At the time. We also had both grasped that it was a big game to the big brass and we were tin soldiers, not brass.)
Anyway, let’s talk about how they plan to get rid of us all. Because they really do want to exterminate us.
[U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the PBS news program Frontline: “The failure of Rwanda is 10 times greater than the failure of Yugoslavia. Because in Yugoslavia the international community was interested, was involved. In Rwanda nobody was interested.”]
https://www.history.com/topics/africa/rwandan-genocide#section_4
How do they keep the world from being interested? How could they distract the world from such a thing?
Think about it… (and realize I did write fiction a bit) localized EMPs and mass slaughter of “wrongthinkers.”
I just gave myself indigestion.
Prolly just needs a shot of adrenochrome….not to worry, a deal has been made to increase the aborted/murdered babies to maintain ample supply for both frolicing fun and trick shots for everyone….
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-====
The ChiCom flu was made for her.
STOP YELLEN!!
She’s more commonly referred to as a degenerate cunt.
Janet Yellen is Jewish. Jews are 2% of the US population. The probability that one Federal Reserve Chairman would be Jewish at random, without the collusion of a conspiracy to achieve that end, is 0.02, or 1 chance in 50.
Yellen’s predecessor in that office was Benjamin Bernanke, who also was Jewish. The probability that two consecutive Federal Reserve Chairmen would both be Jewish, were the choices random, would be 0.0004, or 1 chance in 2,500.
Benjamin Bernanke’s predecessor as Chairman of the Federal Reserve was Alan Greenspan, who also was Jewish. The probability that three consecutive Federal Reserve Chairmen would all be Jewish, were the choices random, would be 0.000008, or 1 chance in 125,000.
Source: David Sims
Not all TLPTB (L=Luciferian) are Jewish (real of fake) but all FED HEADS are Jewish.
Source: mark
Napoleon said: When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.
https://rense.com/general85/feddrec.htm
You are always welcome to apply for the job and show us what a great job you would do.
Hey Surak,
You’re a Vulcan Jelly Head, pull your head out of your Vulcan ass and get some basic understanding of who she really is and the pure evil she really represents.
Here is a basic primer know nothings about the FED like you should start with:
Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians’ secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You’ll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story – which it really is. But it’s all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It’s all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island is a “must read.” Your world view will definitely change. You’ll never trust a politician again – or a banker.
Janet Yellen without make up
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Surak…live long and wake the hell up!
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I recognize that gun! It is a Beeman Tempest in either .177 or .22, barrel cocking springer…
how does one slip a bitcoin into yellen’s jock strap?
While wearing gloves and masked using long tongs with Surak’s hands.
Rand Corp. study finds that $50 trillion has been stripmined by the Elites from the middle and working classes….https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-coming-revolt-of-middle-class.html…..with the help of creatures like Yellen…
Holy Hellenistic Pyrrhuis!
I hope my golden and silver parachute deploys???
Hey Surak…are you paying attention??? Janet has an anvil she wants to toss to you on the way down.
I read of2minds and saw this. The shit is about to hit, ain’t it?
Maggie,
Its got to be…this drum roll has to be turning into Wipe Out soon???
She’s wearing the jackboots that will stamp on your face… forever
Would Julian Assange fit the mold of a Grey Champion?
Nope. He was born in 1971. He’s Gen X.
Has to be someone born between 1946 and 1960.
Can’t be Biden either, born in 1942. Although he does have grey skin.
Biden is the Grey Douchebag.
Colostomy bag.
Strauss Howe defines Boomers as starting 1943. Are we really going to quibble over a year? The book isn’t the Bible.
the reality is boomers start at 46. the year after the war ended.
They’re wrong, it’s no earlier than ’45…
i thought boomers went to 64.
Strauss & Howe have a slightly different classification of generations than the government.
Correct. 1960-1946= 14. Not enough time. The blocks need to be closer to 20 years. Same for Millennials. They like to start at about
1985 and do a cut off at 2000. Not enough time. Needs about another 5 years.
I was wrong. Here are Strauss & Howe groupings:
Silent 1925-1942
Boom 1943-1960
Gen x 1961-1981
Millenial 1982-2004
https://www.lifecourse.com/assets/files/gens_in_history(1).pdf
Millennials, by definition, start in 2000…
It’s a mindset that transcends years.
No name,
Yea, there are exceptions to the rule…as a Boomer I was always a throwback to the Silents in many ways…however I also was not a Silent in my corporate career…there are many who merge with ‘traits’ of previous and post generations…but it appears to me the Strauss & Howe generational herd rules…rule…over the generational herds.
That said I believe every individual’s mindset does transcend the generations…but it is only about 10% outliers from the generational herd that seem to not to Moo…to the stampede direction of that generational herd.
The generations are big herds…with few individuals…but there always is…and always will be that 10%.
You are probably a 10%er from your comment.
I also believe this is the last 4th Turning…as it will be consumed by the Tribulation…and that will make all past 4th Turnings look tame.
But…plenty of others thought the same thing before me and were wrong…so we all will soon see.
If you are talking about Baby Boomers, they were born between the years 1946 and 1964.
Are people really this obtuse and dim here to think ‘Grey’ in this context has anything to do with chronological age? No wonder we are doomed. Even the most ‘in the know’ are hopelessly blunted. The replies here are most depressing and even the author of the article & the Admin think it as well. ProTip: Grey has more than one meaning. Here to help…
It’s me….born in 1959 . Still have a little color in the hair so not a completely grey champion…but not so much hair anymore either .
gotta have hair -color doesn’t matter
So that would make you a Cover Boy for GQ Magazine?
People are left confused by events and the Psy-Op being waged on everyone. The real solution is a shift in consciousness by the masses. What is coming is largely known by those like the author who are intellectually honest. However, details are in flux because of the width and breadth of the situation. There will be things that happen that seem impossible. Most of the world thought the events of 2020 ‘impossible’ too.
As of this writing more people are waking. Yet not nearly enough people are either uncomfortable enough or ready for what enlightenment (third eye vision) looks like.
Too many want to keep the lifestyle they have grown lazy and spoiled in and bitch about the “system” being broken.
I’ve got news for you people: you are the system!
Amun Ra, Jaz!
Amun Ra….same as Amun Re…….as in Re-Set
After all, the pagan belief system of ancient Egypt is what this nation was modeled after.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<—-===
Jaz…Jaz…jaz…that was all in the black buddy…bull frigg’in eyes…
Thanks Mark, I know you are on the high road..
….”using anything but brutality to get there way.”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those drip off of Quinn’s quill…..
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—–====
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Seig Hiatal, Mein Furter
Maybe I should point out that the existence of a potential pattern does not mean it will appear now or this time. As we’ve all experienced, humans are pattern finding machines, frequently finding them where none actually exist.
Thanks for your input. Very helpful.
Ha!
Much like “Q,” I see many advocates of 4th Turning thinking ‘waiting’ for a person to show up … who may not.
Interesting observation….
I call it the Waiting for Superman syndrome. It is a force that influences many of us, but there are many on this site who have learned long ago that no one is coming to save them.
“No one is coming to save you; no one is coming to make life right for you; no one is coming to solve your problems. If you don’t do something, nothing is going to get better. The dream of a rescuer who will deliver us may offer a kind of comfort, but it leaves us passive and powerless. We may feel if only I suffer long enough, if only I yearn desperately enough, somehow a miracle will happen, but this is the kind of self-deception one pays for with one’s life as it drains away into the abyss of unredeemable possibilities and irretrievable days, months, decades.”
Nathaniel Branden
So he or you or both are saying God’s word because it did not happen yet is not true? A lie?
God’s work happens thru our hands, created as we are. Idle hands are the devil’s playground.
Don’t think sitting on one’s hands is an option. Try not extending your hands when you’re falling. Not possible.
I work for God and He doesn’t have to explain His plans or time tables to me for me to be useful to Him.
And so we beat on, boats against the current…
All I was trying to share is that waiting for something to happen gives us ample opportunity to make something happen.
Why many people seem to think that expecting a savior or deliverer to come is synonymous with in the meantime do nothing is beyond me.
To me true faith in a savior both in death and from death simply should be the catalyst for courage to speak, do and live without fear what needs to be done in the meantime regardless of circumstance.
I followed twitter daily only to pick up the Godfearing types who sat on their hands during the day and joined them together at night, 69Million of them, unfortunately.
Aye, Cap’n, it is up to each of us to be our own leader and the leader of as many who will rise to the challenge of simply living our lives and ignoring the death convulsions of the “system” that has been an illusion for evermore.
Peeps get too big for their britches and the Midas Touch they sold you on becomes the Fecus Touch and the whole thing turns to shit. Nothing new under the sun.
It was called the “Dark Ages” only by kings and popes, while the farmers and shopkeepers and blacksmiths and etc, were having the “unruled” liberty of their lives.
Bring it….
“the farmers and shopkeepers and blacksmiths and etc, were having the ‘unruled’ liberty of their lives”
yes they were. plague, crop failures, no dentists, no soap, passing armies requisitioning their crops, walking behind a plowhorse all day, .5 infant mortality rate, going through two to three spouses because the spouses keep dying off – oh yeah, grand old time.
“Bring it”
they will.
Aye gman, you may be mistaking the time of the last twitches of Kings and Popes for the time after their passing. It is the folly of Kings and their divine stupidity that led to the failures you describe.
We are now in the transition period and are truly being stalked by the ghosts of kings. Look at the current examples.
The books are being burned (except those that will be written by the remnant), the dissenters are being hunted (except those who have the skills to fade to grey and thrive), and the hubris of those that believe they are above nature is on grand public display.
Simply be with nature and be kind to those who have preserved some essential “technology” from the fall of Kings and your neighbor will pull your festering tooth, if you have something positive to trade.
Don’t worry gman…I’ll pull your festering tooth for free!
Known Associate…can I borrow your needle nose pliers?
Fourth Turnings don’t depend on one person. They are driven by the generational configuration that happens every 80 years. Think about the major players in the last Fourth Turning. You had FDR, Churchill, Stalin at the top, but I think Eisenhower, Patton, Tojo, Hitler, McArthur, and key Russian generals played a big part. And then the Hero generation who did all the dying.
It is nothing like the Q delusional bullshit.
Fourth Turnings are depressing. Nothing new under the sun, every generation screws up, turns stuff to crap, has a war or two and then goes back to the beginning. Wash, rinse, repeat. At least in reincarnation the soul who attains Nirvana ceases to be and becomes one with the great nothingness. The Myth of Sisyphus, Groundhog Day, and similar depressing tales. This entire topic is depressing, I shall offer a bit of respite…
History Repeats Itself
by Mark Twain
The following I find in a Sandwich Island paper which some friend has sent me from that tranquil far-off retreat. The coincidence between my own experience and that here set down by the late Mr. Benton is so remarkable that I cannot forbear publishing and commenting upon the paragraph. The Sandwich Island paper says:
How touching is this tribute of the late Hon. T. H. Benton to his mother’s influence:–‘My mother asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never gambled. I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being played. She admonished me, too, against liquor-drinking, and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have attained through life, I attribute to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and that I have adhered to it through all time I owe to my mother.’
I never saw anything so curious. It is almost an exact epitome of my own moral career–after simply substituting a grandmother for a mother. How well I remember my grandmother’s asking me not to use tobacco, good old soul! She said, “You’re at it again, are you, you whelp? Now don’t ever let me catch you chewing tobacco before breakfast again, or I lay I’ll blacksnake you within an inch of your life!” I have never touched it at that hour of the morning from that time to the present day.
She asked me not to gamble. She whispered and said, “Put up those wicked cards this minute!–two pair and a jack, you numskull, and the other fellow’s got a flush!”
I never have gambled from that day to this–never once–without a “cold deck” in my pocket. I cannot even tell who is going to lose in games that are being played unless I deal myself.
When I was two years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence. That I have adhered to it and enjoyed the beneficent effects of it through all time, I owe to my grandmother. I have never drunk a drop from that day to this of any kind of water.
MMMMMM Sandwich Island
drools
It’s exactly Q bullshit.
Hopium for someone else to lead the way instead of being being a grown ass man and leading your self.
Dumfuks not capable of critical thinking will never get it.
Look around. TBP is a tiny minuscule drop in the ocean of humanity. While we are closer than during GW Bush’s reign of terror we are still not even close to any major uprising.
Depressingly correct.
Leading ourselves is easy.
Leading others is a different story.
People think history is linear and in some ways I suppose it is. There is a reason why someone said history repeats or at least it rhymes.
Parallel universe s
So your contention is that evolution carefully adapted us into a pattern finding species that is incapable of properly identifying patterns?
Interesting take.
Having been a follower of the Fourth Turning for many years, it still continues to startle how true it has become. After so many dramatic changes in just the last year, surely now is the daily hurricane as we struggle to get a grasp on the future direction. Nothing seems off the table, including a rapid heavy handed tyranny.
Land sales continue briskly, as the somewhat desperate latecomers realize that the future in the city isn’t grand, and a little space may be so much better. It’s driven us locals nearly mad with the onslaught, and we hope that it’s not going to foul the nest.
As a follower of 4th Turning, I am dreading the time to come…..it seems surreal. I have even posited that nothing will happen…that the Leftist will steamroller us without much pushback. History says otherwise.
Martel, Look at it this way: if they did “steamroll” not many would want to live in their hellish ‘paradise
Given a choice between
1) what our aspiring Planetary Masters are planning to impose, versus
2) sending the entire world back to the 18th century, with attendant mass deaths…
I’d vote for the mass deaths. Even though I will very likely be among them.
“2) sending the entire world back to the 18th century”
more like the 8th century.
I have an optimistic streak.
Still, the government of France still burned people at the stake in the 18th century, so there’s that.
Then they lost their heads over guillotines…
what a hoot! thank you.
Great site! Thanks.
Nick took $from 401k for solar…some good stuff at grandpas.
The people of The Imperial State are likely weaker than they would like people to think. I believe that the world underwent an ongoing economic collapse back before February, and the satraps realized that was irreversible. and they were going to hang from lamp posts if they didn’t “respond”. They intend to continue collecting assets, and the 99% everyone else will lose everything they have to keep the Pax Imperium up and running. Once you have nothing left, they certainly don’t intend to keep feeding you. Let that sink in your heads, and plan accordingly.
Close timing. When they started pumping ‘Repo’ money into the financial system starting September, 2019 you can bet they were working to shore up their quicksand asap. BTW, it didn’t work.
Supposedly, there’s only $1 of credit available for every $3 required just to tread water. They’re going to take control of every penny of that $1, and if 2/3rds of everyone else is dead, then they’ve solved their problem.
Bad Brad…you are correct sir!
Many here have said that exact same thing including me.
They had to rush in the Plandemic (it was waiting in the wings) and then the Lockdown to slow down the VELOCITY of the international FIAT CURRENCIES and buy time…and they did…but….
The last official act of government: Loot the Nation.
In “Atlas Shrugged” there is a scene where the “Looters” are discussing how screwed they are in terms of what is left to steal. While basically agreeing most of the country has been stripped bare, one says “there’s plenty of pickings left in Oregon and California.”
Those are the people who stole the election, have forbidden us to discuss it, and want to put us on hate watch or terror watch lists. After they have ruined everything, they will even want the “pickings” that remain like scrap metal and sell it to China.
the gig was up back in 2008, when the banking system exploded. thats when net energy slipped off a several year plateau (somewhere between 2005 and 2008 we hit peak oil) and the real economy not only stopped expanding, but began ever so slightly contracting. we might count more barrels of oil since then in the stats but the net energy available from them is less than 2008.
they managed to keep the wheels on far longer than many thought possible, with ever-wilder fantasies, lies, and tyrannical impositions. the green religion was an attempt to buy more time by getting the masses to reduce their consumption willingly. not enough bought it far enough to make a dent. 2020 was a new strategy, a fake pandemic to deliver a massive beat-down to the economy of the little people without them rising up and burning it all to the ground… in other words a controlled demolition to forestall chaotic collapse. well, they likely bought themselves a couple more years breathing room and think they will use that to cement an electronic totalitarian prison regime on the whole world. theyre certainly going full speed ahead on that.
them hanging on to keeping things at all in order is their hope and the doom of the rest of humanity. the hope of humanity and the doom of the monsters, is chaos catching up with them and events getting out of anybody’s control. the more it spins out of control, the more a thousand independent centers of smaller, more local, lower energy, lower complexity, order can reemerge. the longer things somehow are held together, the more tyrannical this nightmare gets.
They have just shit all over the military. I wonder how that’s going to work out?
I saw that pompous fatass Milley in his Ranger beret posing with Biden yesterday. This guy is one of “them.” He is just confirming it daily.
>>>the hope of humanity and the doom of the monsters, is chaos catching up with them
I find myself a bit shocked when I realize that chaos may be our best option.
If you obey us, you’ll live a while longer. If you seriously rebel, we both die now. So far, it’s working well enough….
Trump fulfilled his promise to “drain the swamp”. He definitely did that. It’s the people’s job to get rid of the monsters it exposed.
Which is just about everyone in Washington DC…
I once had a first edition “Fourth Turning” and even wrote a few articles here referencing from that book. Now, it’s gone. Probably was put into a donation pile or I loaned it to someone and forgot.
But what I’m trying to recollect now are Strauss & Howe’s exact words on the G.C. I recall the reference as possibly being either a nondescript catalyst (like Hawthorne’s old man making a move at just the right time) and/or a messianic strongman – but both/either as being born into the Hero Generation.
Regardless, my contention in my past article here was that if Trump were real he would have taken real measures (as president) to dislodge the illegitimate Biden/Harris Administration – like the EO on foreign interference on U.S. Elections. That would have made for a real civil war worthy of a genuine Grey Champion.
But what remains to be seen now, is if Trump will leverage his support to continue affecting national/global events, or if he will be hounded into oblivion by The Collective or if he was one of them all along.
Jim writes above:
Some of the concerns I have are these:
1.) What separates this Fourth Turning from the past ones is the modern technocracy’s system of panoptic surveillance and digital might
2.) Each American Fourth Turning was more powerful than each one prior
3.) The younger generation seems to embrace collectivism, the lack of privacy, and is addicted to technology.
4.) A primary Grey Champion of this Fourth Turning may be either imitation grade and/or with dark motives … whoever they may be. And it could be anyone chosen by The Borg given the power of the Modern Technocracy to generate narratives, cast spells, and spin dreams.
Buckle your seat belts and hold onto your hats.
Thank you, Jim, as always, for your articles and for the yeoman’s work you and TMWNN do here daily.
Let me suggest the final grey champion will be the false messiah, man of perdition, antichrist or first beast of Revelation 13.
Due to arrive by around 2025 and who will deceive multitudes.
No, this level of dystopia won’t be able to stagger along for another 4 years.
Swimmer, I want to believe that.Yet, many said that yesteryear. We shall see the lengths the will go to in order to maintain power.
This level of dystopia definitely won’t. The Antichrist is the one that pulls it all together worldwide at the backside of it until he doesn’t.
I am always surprised at how long they can kick the can down the road and manipulate the digital herd.
Then you have a year like 2020 and it seems as though 100s of years worth of change occur in 1.
2020 is the year that 100 years of accumulated compounding debts suddenly couldn’t be refinanced anymore.
“this level of dystopia won’t be able to stagger along for another 4 years”
parts of it, some regions, will.
Complex global plans take time & patience. Once all 99% serfs are sufficiently desperate, they’ll be glad to accept NWO Technocratic solutions!
Slavery is Freedom 2025!
World Financial Stabilization Board:
https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P131020-1.pdf
“Enhancing Cross-border Payments: Stage 3 roadmap” Oct 13, 2020
Actions and timelines charts Start 2020 – 2025 End per IMF, World Bank, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
The World Bank:
http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/993371585947965984/pdf/World-COVID-19-Strategic-Preparedness-and-Response-Project.pdf
The World Bank Covid-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response …
Covid program start date: Apr 2, 2020
Covid program end date: 31-Mar-2025
SWIFT Int’l Banking Payments System:
https://www.swift.com/standards/iso-20022/iso-20022-programme/timeline
“Timeline | SWIFT – The global provider of secure financial new approach impacts SWIFT cross-border digital payments and diminish cash transactions 2020 – 2025.
BIS:
Bank of Intl Settlements 2025 deadline:
The WEF gov-corp Great Reset roadmap timeline is following the EU Covid 2019-2022 program timeline to a tee.
Vaccine, ID2020 unique digital identifer, CommPass travel pass, then UBI – S.B. Banking For All Act & HR 6666 Contact Trace Treatment Act.
Download it before Cass Sunstein, the WHO’s new propoganda minister removes it.
https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/vaccination/docs/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf
2019-2022 Roadmap for the implementation of actions – European Commission
ROADMAP ON VACCINATION
We are all just CDRLs now.
CDRL is contract deliverable in gubmint speak.
It is people who never learn from the stone age to this rather unfortunate legal weed “Stoned Age.” The technology is insignificant as evil has wielded a rock or club the same way evil today wields the Kalashnikov or the nuclear weapon.
I mention this from time to time but if you have not seen it, try to watch the HG Wells movie, “Things To Come.” An interesting film in which the actors play the same part, with different “technology” over and over from ancient times to an ending involving a space launch escape. From around 1937 it is quite the eye opener.
I quit the nefarious weed many years ago, my resolution was based on the realization that the weed was used as a crutch to escape reality. I may have to rethink that decision.
I suspect the legalizing of weed coincides with the timeline.
Huxley called it Soma.
wells was a fabian – the globalists of his time – and his works are even by his own admission a propaganda effort to convince people of the inevitability of the ‘world government’ he never stops yammering about. if you read between the lines in his ‘history’ you get a realization of what an evil piece of s**t he was. all of humanity’s ills according to him stem from liberty and sovereignty, and those ills will be cured, according to him, by a world government..
Watch the film and report back.
The sad truth is, world government is already here and has been here for decades.
Joan Veon (RIP) lifelong research on the United Nations and the supranational exoskeleton of global governance is truly seminal. A true patriot!
I’ve watched this video countless times and still come back to it as a great source to understand how “interdependent ” nations have been engineered to be.
This is why if someone with some real balls came in and said we are junking the FED and going to print our own money, all the other central banks of the world would sell the dollar and collapse our economy like has been done to many other countries over the past decades. Turkey comes to mind recently.
This is why I knew Trump was full of shit from the beginning and just a useful idiot to get a bunch of semi educated aging baby boomers who were taught civics classes unlike Gen Xers, Millenials and Gen Zers were. Trust the government, trust the plan! Indeed!
I am listening/watching this now. I’m hooked.
I’m at 1:25… public private partnership… this is fascinating in hindsight, isn’t it? Is there a written transcript?
Yep, and “The War of the Worlds” was his script for the first mass media “FALSE FLAG”, courtesy of his globalist butt boy Orson Welles. Wells, Welles?
If only someone had described what might happen if we lose control of the media.
But no one ever did.
Nope.
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb64.htm
Dirty bombs? Nuclear blackmail? We’re talking about a cabal likely worth trillions. There can be no doubt they have several aces up their sleeves. To this day, even the Pentagon hasn’t come clean on the cruise missile that struck them on 9/11. Someone may likely have to decide how many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of U.S. citizens are worth sacrificing in order to truly drain the swamp.
That’s funny. I wonder what all those pieces of an American Airlines 757 were doing scattered on the lawn outside Pentagon?
Once I get to believing I cannot get more pessimistic and depressed, the Admin shows me I there are many more levels of pessimism and depression to come. Outstanding.
In any event, I think the US is broken. The printing presses simply cannot keep running. The police state will eventually backfire. The corruption will become intolerable. It cannot end well.
And I think China could do something to crash the economy – embargo shipments to the US (even for a short time), dump US paper, etc. would cause immediate crises.
You are correct, however the Chinese dumping US paper would ignite a daisy chain explosion of capital (debt based) around the world. I wrote a lot about it 10-12 years ago and have gotten a little rusty on it but the essential problem is that country A owes country B who owes country C and when one of them is touched off it will go BOOM BOOM BOOM default, default, default, especially in Europe. It will all happen in about 48 hours start to finish. In other words, like the ammo situation, if you don’t have Gold and Silver now, you won’t get it when country A goes blooey.
Gold no and silver probably no. The direction is all toward electronic money. FDR took away all the gold. The new plan is to do the same along with silver, so no common serf can have or hold any. If caught with either of them, just be ready to head to jail or the concentration camp as a criminal.
The direction is to fracturing the internet, crypto money is not going to be the thing.
Cryptocurrency? Right! Then they crash the internet and your bitcoins are worthless.
“Once I get to believing I cannot get more pessimistic and depressed, the Admin shows me I there are many more levels of pessimism and depression to come. Outstanding”
Well, you just picked the wrong time to quit sniffing glue….
At least I never gave up bourbon. That will be the day I fall of the twig.
LOL, 100 proof BiB sour mash or corn whiskey, made with little or no rye in it, is the only way to go!
I prefer a bit of rye bite in mine, but I am not real picky re that. Sour mash is not really a flavor thing – it was developed as a means to prevent infections in the fermenting wort, as it increases ph (sour mash uses a bit of the dunder from the previous distillation – the remnants of the previous ferment after the alcohol is extracted – which is very low ph, which prevents most bacteria from growing in the ferment.). Sour mash developed because hygiene was so poor in the distilleries, and they would lose a lot of sweet mash to infections as a result. That is no longer really an issue.
Sweet mash does not use dunder, and is made from fresh water, corn, barley, rye and yeast, perhaps a bit of wheat. If you keep the environment really, really clean, sweet mash is magnificent. There are a number of distilleries making sweet mash bourbon, and it is generally excellent.
I am a bit of a bourbon afficionado. Might I recommend Four Roses small batch or single barrel as good drops.
Garrison Brothers – Hye, Texas
Alcohol kills your brain cells. Weed protects brain cells and makes you think more deeply. People who get drunk are summer than potheads.
LSD is the absolute best for smart people.
i’m thinker than you drunk i am.
any chronic weed smokers that I have met are very dim bulbs.
Especially if they started smoking before their early 20s
Even heavy binge drinking and long-term alcohol abuse don’t actually result in the death of brain cells. Instead, alcohol damages the dendrites located in the cerebellum and reduces the communication between neurons. Researchers discovered that alcohol use not only disrupts communication between neurons; it can also alter their structure. One thing it does not do, they found, is kill off cells.
https://www.verywellmind.com/does-drinking-alcohol-really-kill-brain-cells-2794887
Thought experiment: if alcohol kills brain cells, how much does it take? Does 5 drops kill brain cells? Does one shot? Two shots? That kind of introspection led me to investigate and find the truth.
Mellow Corn Straight Corn Whisky 50% alcohol
That scene is classic. I’ve been know to say that a time or two.
..Or read a funny parody of our wonderful reality. I like the reference to Network the movie. Also of note the link to the play stupid games… in the article, WOW!
“China could do something to crash the economy – embargo shipments to the US (even for a short time), dump US paper, etc. would cause immediate crises”
both in the u.s. and in china. not to mention everywhere else.
Correct. China has done something to crash the economy – Covid. Real or Hoax doesn’t matter, it’s working as part of the Central Banker fake-out plan to slow the world economies to a crawl to slow down the inevitable hyperinflation that has been bubbling under radar for years. A worldwide Depression the likes of which has never been seen will kill more that a 4th Turning. They are buying time with Covid, that’s all it is, to try and let the air out slowly rather than the all at once boom.
I think the US is broken too. Apart from small pockets of like minded, decent people, it is overwhelmingly fake. Fake food, fake healthcare, fake gov’t, fake entertainment, fake educations, fake news, fake markets. I don’t see it lasting much longer. There is very little “glue” holding anything together, not even a shared culture or religion. The only thing most Americans seem to be united behind is numbing themselves (with food, video games, cell phones, porn, drugs, alcohol, shopping, etc) enough to keep from going mental in a crazy world.
It would not take much effort by China to push this jalopy over the cliff.
It would not take much for 600 million Chinese to be doing the doggy paddle:
http://rembautimes.com/2020/07/25/breaking-news-simulation-of-3-gorges-dam-collapse-released-on-social-media/
&f=1&nofb=1
We can dream, can’t we?
I knew Trump was/is a grey champion. There’s never just one.
powerful
Great pair of essays, Jim. it is always interesting and informative when you put fingers to keyboard. While at the local library today, I checked on The Fourth Turning to see if it was available. There are 3 copies, all of which are checked out and 6 people on the waiting list. A 1-1/2 yr ago, there was always one or two on the shelf at any time. It seems the people of the little (pop 50,000) community are starting to wake up.
“80 years later in 1941, while Hitler was riding roughshod across Europe and turning his attention towards Russia…”
Oh, yeah… that evil Hitler, I guess his country WASN’T filthy with subversive communists or the Bolsheviks weren’t murdering millions in Ukraine or invading Finland or subverting Poland and otherwise drawing the noose tighter around Germany or ANYTHING like that. No, that darn Hitler was just riding roughshod across Europe… SMDH
Go fuck yourself nazi lover. Did I insult your savior douchebag?
These fuckwits always set low standards, then fail to meet them. Amazing the gross stupidity of some of the posters, swimologist amongst their numbers.
Given the gross idiocy of these sorts, this turning will be both black and long.
You can’t have any dialogue with idiots, but sometimes they can understand insults you hurl at them.
I have found that to be true. Even idiots get the gist of “get fucked”.
Only lies need to be shielded. The Truth welcomes it.
Let’s pile on some more!
How dare
– don’t they know [unipolar] hegemony is our god given right?
And even though we [pretend to] realize everything our media now tells us are lies, it cannot be applied -or just considered- backwards in time too, as that would undermine the ‘Russkis evil’ and ‘Chinks evil’ simplifications in our thinking… and we have to be the good guys in this play, just by our own definition!
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I noted some days ago, in less in-your-face terms, that China and Russia are too smart to play the patsy in this Fourth Turning, like Japan fell for last time. (Thanks for the “after FDR cut off their oil supply to provoke an attack” mention, still a rarity these days!)
Currently I’d put my money on India [as the patsy], as Modi already demonstrated he is a sociopath (or worse) towards his own people.
india and the pakis launching at each other would be perfect, if you’re that kind of psychopath…
Had not Imperial Japan invaded China, murdering millions…mostly civilians? Just a question
So that’s why FDR cut off Japan’s oil supply, three years later?
(How could I ever have doubted FDR had only the best for all people at heart! I repent, I repent!)
Now do go extrapolating that comment. World events and reactions by governments, can move at a snail’s pace. Even Stalin sought accommodation with Hitler.
I got the same BS pushback (amazingly) by merely suggesting in my Godless Nightmare article here on TBP (maybe my best but who would believe moi) that there really were quite a number of Jews that were expunged as part of Hitlers solution. You cant deal with mushheads.
There were and millions more from a least a dozen nations that Germany invaded.
Always with the insults and never with a coherent argument… hence the down arrows.
Come up with a countering argument sometime, dumbass, or just be consigned to your fatal dumbassery.
Blow me. You’re consigned to being an anonymous douchebag bloviating on my blog.
Swimmy
One word – tactics. Now is not the time or place to assault that hill.
Murder By Injection. A must read.
Read “REICH AND WRONG” by Mike Walsh.
Speaking of Nazis, the Chinese learned a lot from the Nazis. I rarely recommend a Trunews show because they can be painfully long but last night’s Trunews talks about what the Chinese learned from the Nazis, what they could be planning and why. And how we could be living through that very plan right now. Based on a speech the Defense Minister gave in 2003. The Chinese are out of room and need “living space”. They feel entitled to America because they believe the native Americans are the descendants of their ancestors who migrated here thousands of years ago. They will not go along with the so called “Great Reset” because they know the plan is to eliminate the Chinese (not in the speech but based on a global meeting Trunews discusses later in the show after about the 50 minute mark). The speech is very long and the transcript is posted below the show episode if you don’t want to listen to it.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/chinese-general-pla-must-kill-all-americans-with-biological-weapons
tyranny and tyranny, next!
Admin you sure give a guy a lot to think about. We will be faced with a lot of difficult and maybe horrifying choices. I think it will be a gigantic domestic quarrel. We can only guess what will set it off.
I just finished reading part 1 & part 2 back to back. “ Honey, have you seen my .45?”
You certainly have the gift of the pen, Jim. I can’t argue with any of it, especially the dumbed down masses. It was in my face today as I went to the grocery pharmacy to witness everyone but me, and a couple others, in face diapers (some with double masks). There was also a small line of elderly folks waiting to get the Covid shot. I felt like screaming at them to “WTFU! It was never even tested on the elderly”.
I guess as the effects and deaths begin to come in it will be blamed on that pesky African or UK mutation.
With the 4th Turning likely going into high gear this year, I’m glad that I’m in the winter of my life and not starting out.
i HAVE 2 BOYS 6 AND 7, THE America they see will be completely opposite of what we grew up in. We are homeschooling as we don’t want them consumed by the brainwashed masses and turned into tools of the STATE. It grieves my heart to have eyes to see what is coming…..
If I had young kids, I’d try hard to raise them in some other country. Not that other countries are less repressive than New America, but some (e.g. Oz and NZ) tend to be less violent. I did raise a son here, but that was long ago…
We’re here in Switzerland and homeschool too, Erick. Things are crazy in the US but you have two advantages (from what I can see from here): a) a lot of space to hide and some sane parts like Texas, and b) a lot of people fighting back. Here the sheep just do exactly as they are told, and most of Europe is the same.
So, how to protect as much of the retirement fund as possible?
Cash in a bunch of it, taxes be damned?
Dig a deep hole and bury it? Assuming the government doesn’t devalue it or make cash illegal?
Use it to buy physical gold and hide it? How to spend it when times get desperate?
On the cusp of retirement with more questions than answers and a nagging fear that no matter what I choose I’m doomed.
Those aren’t really the bars of your cell you’re seeing. Those are to keep you safe from Terr’ists.
Yes, mostly. Your Fed dollars are destined to become worthless. It’s a matter of time and that’s not likely gonna be measured in YEARS. I hid my money in numismatics and rental property and I just sold my last rental.
“no matter what I choose I’m doomed”
that’s the plan.
maybe skip retirement.
>>>So, how to protect as much of the retirement fund as possible?
Very much depends on your individual situation. FWIW, I had a large IRA, 90% of which I distributed over three years (after attaining the age when such can be done penalty-free), with the remaining 10% converted to a Roth IRA on the outside chance that the US government might honor its word that Roth plans will not be further taxed.
The tax bill was horrendous, of course, but at least the pain is over, and the IRS no longer holds a partnership interest in my retirement plan. Unfortunately, if I told you where those funds are now, I’d have to kill you.
What nobody is thinking about is that if there is secession and you move to a S State, no SS checks you Traitor. So another country may be best option because the insanity of the American Left may be without worldwide peer.
Tangentially, if you ever choose to give up US citizenship, your follow-on residency and citizenship determines whether you can continue to receive SS benefits. If this is important to you, go to the SSA webpage and look up ‘payments abroad’ for exhaustive details.
FWIW, some foreign countries are quite advantageous for a US retiree; in Australia, a former American citizen can not only continue to receive SS benefits indefinitely, but the benefit payments are also exempt from Australian tax.
Alas, in most ‘second and third world’ nations, a former American loses all claims to SS benefits, Chile and a rare Caribbean island or two being exceptions to this rule.
My path is to go full Galt and convince as many as I possibly can to come with me. I’ve given it a lot of thought and it is Atlas Shrugged for the win. That said, I’m not convinced that these klowns can even keep the lights on. You can see this in Xiden’s immediate attack on energy production which he started day one.
It was our industrial might that built our infrastructure and it requires industrial might to be maintained. By laying waste to our energy production and driving heavy manufacturing out of the country, these worthless dullards have all but guaranteed our fall. Our only consolation is that the woketards will die first and hopefully enough of them perish and perish fast enough to allow the rest of us a path to rebuild.
It is going to be an epic shitshow.
In that case, perhaps the anti-borg would most resemble Ragnar Danneskjold.
My hero! The guy who did spit in his hands and raise the Black Flag. Anybody have a used gunboat for sale? An Arleigh Burke class destroyer only driven by a little old lady on Sundays?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/investing/robinhood-free-trading-fractional-shares/index.html
Voting against Clinton and Biden does not make one a “follower”.
https://genius.com/Nathaniel-hawthorne-twice-told-tales-the-gray-champion-annotated
Pearl Harbor:
” In 1979 the NSA released 2,413 JN-25 orders of the 26,581 intercepted by US between Sept 1 and Dec 4, 1941. The NSA says “We know now that they contained important details concerning the existence, organization, objective, and even the whereabouts of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force.” (Parker p 21) Of the over thousand radio messages sent by Tokyo to the attack fleet, only 20 are in the National Archives. All messages to the attack fleet were sent several times, at least one message was sent every odd hour of the day and each had a special serial number. Starting in early November 1941 when the attack fleet assembled and started receiving radio messages, OP-20-G stayed open 24 hours a day and the “First Team” of codebreakers worked on JN-25. In November and early December 1941, OP-20-G spent 85 percent of its effort reading Japanese Navy traffic, 12 percent on Japanese diplomatic traffic and 3 percent on German naval codes. FDR was personally briefed twice a day on JN-25 traffic by his aide, Captain John Beardell, and demanded to see the original raw messages in English. The US Government refuses to identify or declassify any pre-Dec 7, 1941 decrypts of JN-25 on the basis of national security, a half-century after the war.”
” History is written by the Victors in front of an audience that dares not laugh “
FDR was just another pawn Selected Resident…with bad legs…just another charsmatic front man liar carnival barker.
https://newspunch.com/six-former-us-presidents-warn-about-invisible-shadow-government/
I have family and friends who have snickered behind my back for years about historical realities I shoved into clear view 15 years ago…two of whom just don’t want to even confront the truth…even though they are actually starting to believe me…they just can handle the truth…yea…yea…I’m Jack Nicklinson on trial with the talented Scientologist cross examining me.
For those with relatives who diligently drink the Kool-Aid, I suggest giving them a copy of “JFK: Why He Died, and Why It Matters”, published about 12 or so years ago. It will get them to consider the FACT that not all conspiracy theories are hogwash, but just might represent… the truth.
Read Michael Collins Piper’s “Final Judgement” I and II. Kennedy was making it difficult for Israel to pursue their nuclear weapons program. That and hedging on the incipient Vietnam War meant a unholy alliance between the Mossad and military/industrial/intelligence complex. Crossed too many lines. That and silver certificates, of course.
“A madness is gripping the nation, a dismal realization nothing is right.”
Spot on, so many people I know, left and right, talk about their uneasiness. I hope when the storm hits a lot of those on the left will allow their morals to see this is not a fight between neighbors, friends, relatives, but a fight against new masters that will choose which district you will live in.
Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
I’ve seen no evidence leftists have morals. usually that informs why they’re leftists.
Most I know are fools or psychopaths.
>>>fight against new masters that will choose which district you will live in.
Klaus Schwab tells us that 30% of the workforce will have to be “reassigned”.
I wonder if this collective sense of unease might actually be a factor in so many people buying into the Covid hoax. Covid gives them a name for the mysterious confusion in their lives and also a sense of fighting back against it, even if both are just illusions and not addressing the real problems.
Your wondering is on target.
Oh, contraire, sir, i think you do. You are beating all around it. It’s cry-bullyism at its purest:
The sociopaths/globalists will continue to push and push and push and cajole and irk and poke and denigrate and mock and marginalize and prod and insult and push and thump and trip and bump and censor and silence and confiscate and arrest and persecute until actual freedom loving people HAVE NO RECOURSE but to FIGHT, at which time (THEY get the CW they damn well want) they will shriek that they are the victims of horrific violence and terrorism, JUST LIKE THEY DID ON JANUARY 6, and there will be no ends to the lengths they will go to destroy everyone who does not bow before their NEW godless Babel.
Plan accordingly.
“they will shriek that they are the victims of horrific violence and terrorism”
in every generation.
They are keeping the Guard in DC into Spring at least, so our capitol city will continue to look like a third world shithole capital.
The claim is the new superty duper patriotic Biden Homeland Security Defartment is convinced people like us are going to launch some sort of enormous military style assault. They have no group or groups identified, no names, targets, nothing. But they are sure it’s coming!
There may be a lot of nuts running around loose, but I am fairly certain they are all working for the Biden government. They are making statements that we are getting crazier and more out of control by the minute(David Plouffe). I look around and most of us are fairly pissed but unlike them we have work to do. I see only Antifuqueres and other Democrat filth still burning, looting, fire bombing, assaulting police and so forth. Maybe THEY are the ones preparing an attack? Best be careful. That might be “racist.”
They are ramping up a propaganda campaign to portray us as Huns and Visigoths in order to make some kind of preemptive assault on the Deplorables. They want this bad. What fools they are.
HR,
I have posted for a long time I believe a serious Civil War is not just a WIN/WIN for TLPTB…(L= Luciferian) no matters how it goes…that is why they won’t stop pushing, shoving, fanning the flames, then pouring gasoline on the flames until it flares up and consumes the country.
This stolen election was a taunt…just another taunt in a long conga line of taunts. They shoved it in our faces for the 6th to happen…it fits the script.
The balkanization and reduction of the U.S. as a superpower is all that they want in the next four years…it does not matter to them what is left after the river of blood stops flowing…matter of fact the more blood…on both sides…the better, as long as the U.S. no longer stands in their way for their NWO…now called the Great Reset…its a WIN/WIN!
Yes…you are right…their Flying Monkeys and Orcs will be devastated (useless idiots anyway, and then TLPTB won’t have to kill most of them later)…but so will the Disunited States of American be dead or dying…that is their short term tactic.
For in this end game for their international 500 million ‘last useless eaters standing/slaves’ serving them as the survivors…in their Hunger Games utopia…American gun owners, the largest land army in the world, must destroy itself…or at least fracture…and then be abled to be devoured one balkanized region at a time.
Yep…the commie manifesto is a Cookbook…and the Luciferians are really tall with big heads.
Muh (((Luciferians))).
Sat Cong Colonel…works every time.
Damn straight, brother.
Good for one reason. They will miss Homer’s warning and the reason Odysseus was condemned by the gods to wander twenty years before returning to Ithaca: “For the Greeks were haughty and cruel in their victory.” Dementia Joe and his crowd have been way too haughty and cruel all things and facts considered and hopefully they will earn Heaven’s rebuke as well, and soon.
brilliant s/
I hear Maya Angelou was a much better writer.
But, but, but muh Hitler!!
They tried that shit once……The Tower of Babel…there are lessons in that Old Book…..
“The balkanization and reduction of the U.S. as a superpower is all that they want in the next four years”
well at this point that’s inevitable, to get that all they’d have to do is wait twenty years. why the push for four?
It’s obvious, TLPTB are possibly overreaching and bum rushing U.S., and possibly well before God’s prophetic timing of their brief 7 years of control…before the end of the begining…that gives me hope.
“They are making statements that we are getting crazier and more out of control by the minute”
for them, “out of our control” == “crazy”.
….at which time (((they))) get the CW…
there- fixed it for ya.
I C what U did there
Is Trump finished?
I’ve often wondered whether a person could effect the most damage inside the system or outside. He had 4 yrs to learn the lay of the land and pick his battlefield. Don’t count him or his influence out. And he does have powerful allies.
You nailed it.
Mr G … you and Mr. Lyon are the Hari Seldon’s of the net….
Just remember “THEY” are set up and guarded by just doing my job party connected LEO’s . That blue line will not break ranks and risk that 20 to 30 year retirement the steady uninterrupted pay check confiscated from what’s left of working Americans . Certainly a minority will answer the call to freedom and liberty but the majority will use the Nuremberg excuse of following orders . THEY will follow orders and will search , seize , arrest and yes even kill us !
The war is on and fuel , power , water and especially food will be the first things restricted to control the great unwashed !
Millions of pounds of potatoes and other food buried and intentionally destroyed in the bread belt of America recently , remember the cattle and chickens destroyed and Covid was and is the excuse due to an inability to transport and process it’s shaping up to be a war on American Citizenry .
The big THEY will starve us and kill us do not ever doubt that !
2020 proved ‘thin blue line’ is complete fiction. The right would do well to understand cops are there to enforce the mafia’s law, not the Const.
Anon, re the LEO’s, yes–some will and some won’t. Re “fuel, power, water, food”: Get more. Remember, siege warfare is older than written history and it’s much more effective against the megopoli.
Dystopian societies come and dystopian societies go. This one will go by a million cuts. Thus, some simple rules for the coming total asymmetric conflict: Choose your battles well whether they be big or small–your time and your ground. Live to see another day!
Growing up we used to sing a little song to add some levity to our chores. I never guessed it would become a new battle cry. Should be sung with determination and enthusiasm.
“Clean up, clean up; everybody everywhere.
Clean up, clean up; everyboby do their share”
Sand in the gears. Start small… and the sky’s the limit!
If you know anything about Strauss-Howe you know the Millenials win. How can that basic premise elude all you old geezers?
Biden is the grey champion. Every day he rolls back more Trumpism and every day the American people like him more.
You guys are the Confederates.
I’ve often wondered why more people don’t realize this very real probability. A desire for a given outcome does not make it happen. The “new social order” may well be socialism. It sure was in 1946. Much more socialist than in 1929. Just my humble opinion.
Great 2 part piece. Lots of thinks to think.
I’m reasonably sure, our external enemies are rooting for a civil war so we go down and don’t drag anyone down with us. The internal enemies want to socialize our pain with the rest of the world. I have no idea who will win. It doesn’t look like much fun.
No doubt history moves in cycles.
The word is about, there’s something evolving,
Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving…
They say the next big thing is here,
That the revolution’s near,
But to me it seems quite clear
That’s it’s all just a little bit of history repeating. . .
Actually, you’re the Nazis. You’re also the useful idiots so you’re too stupid to see it.
“You guys are the Confederates”
you guys are the draft dodging northerners.
Would rather be a Johnny Reb than a member of The Axis.
“BIDEN IS THE GREY CHAMPION”
“EVERYDAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE HIM MORE”.
Awww…COME ON MAN…give us a name ‘No Name ass wipe’…we need to really know who you pretend to be you little commie twerp troll.
So which is it? WWII, CW or 1776? If you read the 4th Turning and Generations you know there was no Civic/Hero Gen in the CW. If you read Generations you know that S/H point to a poss. Silent Gen President in the 4th Turning esp. at the peak and compared them to James Buchanan. As for the Hero Gen “winning” they won in RW and WWII because of their Nomadic/Prophet Gen leaders. They didn’t get a real say in things till 10-15+ years post crisis.
You know actually reading the books helps.
I am not sure you aren’t a Tory?
Naw…someitguy…he is little commie twerp troll…probably has a degree in political basket weaving science .
Where’s your sarc tag?
Critical listening.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJB… “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
Believe and be saved.
Mornin, GCP…
I listened to the first one in the pm….I forget but think it was right at 4 min. when the message began (the second one at 6:50). I just finished the second one.
His method of delivery is somewhat distracting to me in the way he breaks off/interrupts the verses with questions like ‘what’, seemingly to keep his audience engaged?. IDK
First video: linear, wheel or cycles, beginning from the end…..
His was more of a secular description of the 4th turning variety, whereas the vision I keep throwing out there is a description of a cyclic procession covering thousands of years…
Second video: again, I find it interesting it included Solomon, David, Goliath, offer of Solomon’s armor….etc. His message was pertinent delivered 4 months into the plandemic, and seems to have missed an excellent opportunity to tie in the relevance to present day’s rampant genetic engineering….unless he does not ‘buy’ into that theory (fact imho)
I would have further discussion about several of his points in both videos if I had found myself with the opportunity of being there in person…FWIW.
The third video, message begins at 11:45. I haven’t listened to it yet, but it was the one I wanted to see what he had to say, so I’ll be startin it here shortly.
Vaya con Dios
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-====
" Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling centuries begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven."
—Virgil, Eclogue IV
Hahaha….I came back to edit, but for some reason I didn’t have that option. When I typed the comment a few minutes ago, I was cleaning these cheaper little readers, clicked over to the video to specifically get the date to make my point, and when I made out the ‘J’, I ASSumed it was July…..(but still makes my point somewhat stronger post vax announcements)
More symptoms of O.L.D………back to the last one.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-==== when gods once again comingle with men
There's no protection from going dark in this world, only by entering the Way, the Truth, and the Light…….
Morning sir ordo! That annoys me as well. He’s a high school history teacher and I’m sure he picked the habit up there. If I were listening live I’d shout an answer each time he said “WHAT?”! That’d put a quick end to either me or the habit… 😉 The overall message is in fact critical to our times and anyone can understand it. He does know about Gen 6. Our focus should be salvation from this evil world.
GCP….
Yes, I finished the third one early this morning, got side tracked a while. I’ve saved that video because I want to look a bit further into the Gen 8 9 10 position as he relates it to the establishment of man ruling over man.
For now, in a nut shell, I believe there is considerable more having to do with “no other gods before me” …….Babel..etc.
I take for granted, many times, that most anyone who has ever ventured into scriptural study, would get the change from law to Grace….
On that Stucky thread about moral dilemma- I have never considered that Bible to be a book about ‘moral’ lessons. I’ve always viewed the entire book as the work of the Holy Spirit, through chosen men, to tell the story of why/when/how/who Jesus Christ is, and to show mankind that One and only threshold of reconciliation….
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—–====
Live peaceably with all men…as much as lieth within you.
By the end of some of the conversations I've been having with the county health admin., the hospital admin., and city/county elected 'officials, there isn't much lyin within me….but a whole lotta lyin/manipulatin has been thrown my way…lol
What a pleasant read. The intensity intensifies…..
Excellent article, Jim as was part 1. Both linked as usual!!
Loved the Mordor/DC picture as I am a Tolkien fan!
May use as it as my IMAGE FOR THE DAY @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Keep up the great work! Sincerely
“The question is whether the new order will be better or worse for average Americans.” The answer to this question is yes. The real question is… what side of the line of demarcation do you reside?
I think that when the sides completely coalesce we will see brand new leaders and the installed leaders emerge. I also don’t think this will all happen in 2021. There’s too much hope left for it to be that fast. I think thathe year of happenings will be 2022 and onward when the Democrats “win” supermajorities. Sure, they will try to usher the “Brave New World” now but they have enough of the opposition right now that will see the dangers of sweeping gun ban bill, for example. I’m not calling for the voting here, far from it. But they are scared now, although they are drunk on their power at the same way. Wait until you see what happens in 2022. They will refuse to understand exactly why they won and will feel as if they have unlimited power and can do as they please. This is when shtf imo. This is when being organized in small groups and united, determined and with small time leaders will be most useful. Basically what I’m trying to say is that we still have the time needed to organize and unite. All of the liberty minded individuals have to at least try to organize or we are a toast after 2022
We don’t need a Grey Champion, we need people with energy…Trump and Giuliani totally botched the vote fraud appeals, probably because they are too old..Trump’s appointments, in general, have been horrible…Then Trump sailed off into the sunset, leaving his supporters on the hook…
World Financial Stabilization Board:
https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P131020-1.pdf
“Enhancing Cross-border Payments: Stage 3 roadmap” Oct 13, 2020
Actions and timelines charts Start 2020 – 2025 End per IMF, World Bank, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
The World Bank:
http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/993371585947965984/pdf/World-COVID-19-Strategic-Preparedness-and-Response-Project.pdf
The World Bank Covid-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response …
Covid program start date: Apr 2, 2020
Covid program end date: 31-Mar-2025
SWIFT Int’l Banking Payments System:
https://www.swift.com/standards/iso-20022/iso-20022-programme/timeline
“Timeline | SWIFT – The global provider of secure financial new approach impacts SWIFT cross-border digital payments and diminish cash transactions 2020 – 2025.
BIS:
Bank of Intl Settlements 2025 deadline:
It was cold today, 10 degree F. plus 10 mph wind. I ran my dog to preserve my sanity. I created a monster by exercising him and then hunting him nearly every day. He is an engine with a smile. I watch with no amusement, but with some curiosity as our society seizures. Don’t give a damn ’bout no trumpster lection plan, lined my slugs up in a row. I still call myself a non -practicing anarchist. My Honey says she’s a card carrying anarchist. We have issues like all couples. Groundhogs day is nearing. It’s my favorite holiday.
Administrator, the wealthy are not to be defeated but reconciled with. An expanding economy needs money. The rich have the money. Money creates the economy and facilitates contracts. Money facilitates employment.
So in America we decided to give up production to create wealth and weasel all types of financial derivatives to create wealth that is fictitious to fraud all the world. Now it is coming to a crashing end.
We are a society of children that have grown old. What is coming down the pike is a major jolt of reality. So far it has come slowly but now it is going to accelerate in certain areas of the country. Many people are falling through the cracks and it is only going to get worse.
Maybe we ought to look at the word equality and ask ourselves what this word means? Are all people equal in their ability to look at life around them and put into words their assessment of what is going on around them? Are all people equal in their mechanical abilities; their administrative abilities? What does equality really mean?
We are watching the collapse of our economy but not equally everywhere. The country may split up. So What. For people who want freedom this would be a blessing. For those who want to be slaves in this system it would be doom.
No one can say they know what is coming out of this turning as it is going on. But one thing for sure… those are preparing will get through it and those who have not prepared I don’t even want to talk about their fate.
Dear sir, you have laid these snakes out for what they are for a long time now. Even the reptiles. And they are really probably jumping around in glee for what is going on right now; like a large part of the population in mindless conformation going along with what Gov is feeding them.
So be grateful that you live with your eyes open. In life everything is food for something else. With eyes open and a reasoning mind one can avoid being food for something else. An individual mindset is something fast disappearing in the American cities. The collective hive mind is rising.
The collective mindset is not creative. It cannot be because in all it’s functions it gravitates to the lowest common denominator.
The Left will talk of race and gender all day long to divide and conquer people and institutions. But the end game is Equality as you note. Equality for the Left is only one thing: Money in the bank. The Left is more fixated on money than the worst Robber Baron.
It’s scary to see how crazy you bunch are, and you don’t even realize it.
There was the keyboard before you and the empty space of the reply box and this was all you could come up with?
“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
Give it a little time…you’re going to get way more scared. And you will realize it.
Naw…pepe will be too busy watching TV, and wondering why his arm is starting to burn after that jab he just got.
Excellent article, thank you!!! It is amazing to see this all play out in real time.
Is it possible for the Gray Champion to be someone who invented something that is heavily influential on the 4th turning, instead of a figure actively participating in/leading the turning himself? Because this is the first 4th turning where we have had the internet, and it is rewriting rules in many ways. And it was invented by Boomers, who fit the Gray Champion bill. Just wondering.
So . . . u mean that Al Gore could be “our” Gray Champion?
/sarc off
Well, he is gonna save us from the dreaded ManBearPig, so there is that, LOL 😉
Spot on right up to the point of “American exceptionalism.”
1. USSR collapsed broke and American vultures swarming the carcass.
GREY saviour was Putin. Russia is now a stable free nation and Debt a none issue. Tons of gold.
2. China smashed by Mad Mao …Then millions and millions of families raised out of poverty.
Chinas new leadership does what it takes to turn a disaster into success. Does not start wars but will total destroy the US west coast in a war. Old mate will doo the east coast.
America continues to Lie Steal and Cheat ..whoops …..then the curtain falls but American exceptionalism does not notice. (That’s everyone including their open citizens.)
Europe is dancing the five step, tango…..ready to bolt for the exit.
The good old Brits are preparing to beg for food, Chinese take away or Vodka and fries. The “GB” now stands for Grand Betrayal.” It will happen, they know when killing, starving and stealing from Brown folks and Asians is no longer an option.
America is incapable of seeing “self” in the mirror. The America homosexual crowd, now wants to legalise peadophilia . So mass killing of the un born, some born….selling body the parts and blood. Now it wants it legal to F*ck the kids. Its all too much for the human unit to comprehend.
Keep on keeping on …..printing the {$} paperback, it ain’t over until you choke on your own vomit.
To think I spent three years at University studying American History and was so impressed and thrilled with a nations desire and struggle for freedom, and the pursuit of happiness.
I was born in the Pilgrim Hospital, Boston England, the families that boarded the Mayflower in Plymouth, came from my home town. So I feel entitled to my own “free” opinion…”Blood nut,” can shove his woke censorship.
Ha!
I love staccato bursts of fire…walking your rounds in so you can see where your hitting…then cut loose when on target…most everyone fires too high…good shooting.
I suspect that the ChiComs attacking Taiwan is the most likely global event that will precipitate a global crisis. The Xiden administration will not be able to continue to do business as usual with the ChiComs. Economic collapse is looming. Declaring 75 million americans to be suspect domestic terrorists is the fuse to a powder keg. The left is playing with fire and they’re going to get burned.
If they mean to punish Trump, they must tread with care, lest he becomes a ‘man with nothing to lose’.
It appears to me that we should be looking for the horns and especially the “Little Horn ” .
Soon robert…soon…
Always )))them(((
https://reformationcharlotte.org/2021/01/29/nine-high-profile-us-catholic-bishops-sign-statement-declaring-god-approves-of-homosexuals/
I had one wealthy friend growing up. His Father owned a bar/nightclub, a liquor store, and a motel.
They were Catholic.
My friend made liquor deliveries to connected individuals after HS. His Dad had a list of ‘special’ delivery customers.
Once my buddy brought a bottle of scotch to the Rectory late one night, and the Priest answered the door, taking the bottle, and paying for it.
Over the Priest’s shoulder a woman dressed in a leather bondage outfit was seen walking accidently in view by my buddy.
It ruined him spiritually, he always talked about it…he was of those that ended up confusing phony religious people with God.
Roman Catholic Bishops are the one group most likely to be tolerant of homosexual behavior… possibly exceeded only by the College of Cardinals.
Nice piece, Jim.
I, too, am a big disciple of “The Fourth Turning” book. Time to dust off my copy and re-read it again (it’s been 7 years since I read it the first time). You quote passages I had long forgotten that are so eerily ringing true now.
“There will be lone wolves who use violent means to fight back. Others will go Galt and starve the beast.”
The latter applies to me more than the former, as I am an aging boomer. My plan to starve the beast is to take out a reverse mortgage this year with a huge equity line-of-credit (which can used for anything I want and is a non-recourse loan, never having to be paid back!), retire from a 6-figure job I’ve had for 20 years, survive on an annuity and a livable SS payment that will so drastically reduce my income that I will have ZERO tax liability. My state (Virginia) does not tax Social Security income or on annuity payments less than $12k/yr. To top that off, I live in a county that forgives property tax if your income is less than $50k/yr.
I’ve already accumulated enough toys to keep me busy, paid for my son’s college, and have significant savings to outlast my time on earth, while ensuring my spouse will have sufficient financial resources when I die until her end comes.
The only thing I need is more popcorn to watch this thing come crashing down…and maybe more ammo.
In the book of Revelation, Babylon the great will fall in a single 60 minute time frame. When the crash comes, it will be violent and swift.
The big reset will be the economy.
The economy is a house of cards, which was exposed this last week by the crazy kids over at wall street bets on reddit. When the deep state decided to destroy their favorite gaming store, the kids revolted and won (so far) by buying the stock in a frenzy and destroying some big time hedge funds along the way.
The biggest event in the kids life was not 911, it was the economic crash of 2008. Either them, or many people they know lost their homes to foreclosure.
Or they had to live on top ramen for years. They heard their parents scream that the crooks on wall street who caused the crash, got bailed out. While them or their friends got thrown out. Onto the street.
And suddenly the kids found a way to get even. The hedge funds are screaming real pain over the short squeeze. Now the kids have found a new squeeze, silver, which is heavily shorted by the hedge funds. In the last 48 hours the kids have raided every silver dime in the country and monday could be another bad day for the street.
There is hope. The kids are leading us. Lets tag along for a while.
Rainman…
I am so there!
The amount of unwanted advertisement and un-related ‘stuff’ on this site leave me not desiring to use it.
Then don’t.
Bernie Sanders….Budget Director.
Says all USSANS need to know…from both sides of the burning platform.
Onward to the harvest we so “richly” have earned.