By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
A few months ago, one of my offspring texted and asked if I had read or heard anything about the new Elvis movie that was playing in theaters at the time. When I said “no”, they responded back that they had seen the film, that it was very good, and these words: “I didn’t know Elvis was that big of deal back then”.
So allow me some latitude as I’m going somewhere with this…
In my mind, I thought: “Really? How could my kid not know? Elvis Presley was considered the “king of rock and roll”.
On the other hand, maybe it wasn’t so odd. After all, Elvis music was not played around my kids when they were growing up; and I, personally, have only considered the man, vaguely, as an American historical icon.
I considered my own cognitive associations involving Elvis:
– My dad had some Elvis gospel and Christmas albums.
– I have heard most of Elvis Presley’s songs at one time or another.
– I eventually learned that many Elvis songs were first performed by other musicians and blues singers.
– I had seen portions of various Elvis movies while surfing through TV channels, as well as some segments of an early 1980s (or late 1970s?) documentary which ran years later on HBO (or another premium cable TV channel like HBO).
– My sister-in-law was always a huge Elvis fan, even to the point of placing Elvis figurines and pictures in her home. She is fifteen years older than me and once when the topic came up, I asked her if she had ever seen the aforementioned documentary and the segment where Elvis was in the back of a limousine referencing his after-show “adventures” with a female fan the night before. My sister-in-law replied: “Yeah, I saw that too. I know he was like that but I don’t choose to remember him that way”.
– When I was in my early teens I would sometimes stay at my cousin’s house. He was my age and lived in a large American city. One day, during a week I was there, his older sister (i.e. my female cousin) and her two teenage girlfriends had tickets to attend an Elvis concert. They spent most of the day getting ready, trying on outfits, putting on make-up, and monopolizing the bathrooms. I remember my Aunt giving me a wide-eyed look of exasperation and exclaiming: “It mystifies me how those girls can spend seven hours getting ready for a two-hour concert!” And I’m fairly certain that was the first time I had ever heard the word “mystifies” spoken in a sentence.
– Then the relatively large impact on American society after Elvis died in 1977.
– And, finally, the bizarre performances of Elvis impersonators. I can understand why cover singers would perform some of the Elvis songs, but do they really need to dress, talk, and act like him too?
If that’s all that came to my mind when I thought of Elvis, then I suppose it is understandable that today’s young adults might not fully realize the emotional impact Elvis made on the generation(s) preceding mine.
A short time after the text exchange with my kid, I read that Elvis Presley’s previous wife, Pricilla, and his daughter, Lisa Marie, liked the film. I found that interesting and was actually a little surprised. In fact, I was now somewhat curious about the movie knowing it was produced and filmed in such a way that it earned the endorsement of Presley’s ex-wife and daughter.
After doing some cursory research on the film, I learned it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2002, it was released in the U.S. the following month, and was said to be a critical and financial success.
Knowing all that, but primarily upon the recommendation of my progeny, I decided I would see the film and asked my wife to join me when we found the time. Unfortunately, we never did find the time to see the movie in our local theater before Elvis had left the building, so to speak.
As luck would have it, however, National Cinema Day occurred over this past Labor Day weekend and a nearby theater was playing a re-release of the film. Even better, the tickets were only $3 each.
Sold. We saw the show.
However, I never expected the movie to be an ominous morality tale that is particularly pertinent to our current life and times.
The opening scenes showcased the sexual carnality of a couple dirty dancing to blues music and contrasted with the rapturous emotionalism at a gospel tent revival. In my view, the comparison was a metaphor demonstrating the duality dividing through the heart of not just young Elvis Presley, but within all individuals and societies.
Colonel Tom Parker was played by Tom Hanks who creepily performed the role of a parasitical carnival barker slowly draining the vitality of Elvis, who Parker perceived as the “Greatest Show on Earth”. Overall, however, the film portrayed Parker as a cleverly clownish carny milking the “marks” of their money at every opportunity.
Furthermore, if the revelations in the movie are accurate, then Parker was an indebted grifter operating under a false identity and, therefore, easily blackmailed by government agents and gangsters. As a result, he, in turn, gaslighted Elvis into becoming a never-ending meal ticket, first, as a controversial rock singer, later as a B-movie star and, eventually, as an overweight, burnt-out Vegas showman.
Elvis wanted to innovate and grow and make his own decisions, but Parker didn’t think these would be in his (Parker’s) best interests, so security dangers were manufactured. The threats allowed Elvis to be easily gaslighted into choosing safety over his own freedom; and all the while being drugged to mitigate his ever-increasing mental anguish.
The movie addressed the early childhood of Elvis through his death in 1977 and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were sympathetically addressed in the film, but NOT the murder of President John F. Kennedy. It wasn’t even mentioned once; neither was the controversy surrounding Presley’s courtship of Priscilla Beaulieu when she was only 14 years old; in spite of their relationship being a main element of the film.
Peculiar? Perhaps.
Regardless, throughout his career, Elvis lacked the insight and courage to free himself from Parker’s spell until, in time, the singer was transitioned into an obese and befuddled puppet caught in Parker’s financial trap.
Sound familiar?
In the same manner as Tom Hank’s portrayal of Colonel Tom Parker, establishment authoritarians around the globe have indebted themselves to central banking gangsters and have, in turn, gaslighted naive citizens into becoming drug-addled wage slaves lacking both the insight and courage to break free from their mental chains.
As a result, and similar to the Shakespearian tragedy of Elvis Presley’s life and death, it appears the direction and momentum of current world events are speeding toward a conclusion as inevitable as any snuff film.
For more than a century now, Americans have been gaslighted by materialistic carnival barkers into accepting all that glitters. And every Big Show must have a grand finale. Accordingly, since 2016, we seem to have entered America’s sordid Vegas years and just prior to the tragic ending.
The dreamweavers continually cast spells; and, for us, it is like watching a movie but with genuine consequences. Indeed, we have witnessed continuous gaslighting over the past several years: Russiagate, Ukrainegate, banana republic impeachment trials, Covid, the 2020 Presidential Election as the “most secure election in American history”, and the ensuing January 6th “insurrection”.
Now, American law enforcement institutions have been weaponized to the point of raiding the home of a former U.S. president.
The FBI invasion into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort occurred on August 8, 2022. Three days later, a suspect was shot dead after attempting to break into a Cincinnati FBI field office. According to the news headlines, the suspect’s name was Ricky Shiffer and, he definitely appeared to hit all of the right notes:
Officials are investigating Shiffer’s ties to the US Capitol riot and right wing extremism as he appears to have claimed that he was present in Washington on 6 January on Truth Social, a pro-Trump social media site.
Federal agents were already looking into Shiffer’s ties to the Capitol attack before the FBI standoff, the New York Times reports.
Shiffer also appeared to support Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election in 2020 and responded to social media posts by pro-Trump figures such as congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Jr.
His social media posts made reference to the FBI’s search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Monday.
– SOURCE
A few days afterward, I posted an article that stated “everything seen or heard in The Really Big Show® is a lie”.
The next day, in the thread of that post on another website, I speculated on the real reason behind the Trump raid as follows:
The FBI and DHS have observed since the Aug. 8 raid an increase in threats posted online that include a “threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of FBI Headquarters and issuing general calls for ‘civil war’ and ‘armed rebellion.’”
– SOURCE
So, it appears, after the Covid deception and the 2020 election debacle, increasing internet censorship, the re-energizing of the liberal base by SCOTUS reopening the abortion debate, rising inflation, billions to Ukraine, blue-collar workers taxed to pay for the gender studies degrees of woke Snowflakes, the Afghanistan debacle, invasion at the southern border, and MAGA candidates winning election primaries…. it has become quite clear as to why “Dark Brandon” officially declared war on 70+ million MAGA voters in his “red rant” address to the nation on Thursday, September 1, 2022:
The day after Biden’s diatribe, the propaganda machines were set for maximum output:
By Friday afternoon, posts on forums popular among white supremacists and far-right extremists called for the assassination of Biden, and named Jewish administration officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as potential targets. Declarations of civil war were also appearing, according to documents detailing some of the threats.
“On Gab, one user posted a series of violent threats accusing Biden of stealing the election,” according to a threat alert from Site Intelligence Group sent to law enforcement agencies and others on Friday. Trump and many of his supporters have long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 presidential election won by Biden was stolen from Trump due to widespread voter fraud.
Site Intelligence Group, which tracks online extremism activity, issued several threat alerts detailing calls for violence in response to Biden’s speech. The potential threats were posted in online forums tied to the Proud Boys, neo-Nazis and other extremist groups.
– SOURCE
As I have previously posted, and as others out here on the free internet have also speculated, it appears the groundwork for a big fat false flag has been laid – quite possibly, even a hit on Dark Brandon himself.
Or perhaps the FBI planted plans for a dirty bomb at Mar-a-Lago.
Whatever the false flag, would you be surprised if one (or more) took place soon? Me neither. The blame, of course, would be placed on MAGA “extremists” and it would simultaneously address multiple current problems for the globalist carnival barkers – especially if the psyop occurred prior to the U.S. Midterm Elections this fall.
Conclusion
In the end, the Greatest Show on Earth is not the one we see. It is, in fact, the gaslighting that emanates from behind the stage. Just as Colonial Tom Parker tricked Elvis into choosing safety over the singer’s better judgment, so, too, do modern-day carnies deceive the “marks” into playing their fool’s game.
In the latest film version of Elvis Presley’s life, and, seemingly, in reality, Elvis and Colonel Parker had a mutually dependent relationship rooted in the materialistic desires of greed and security. Parker gave himself credit for the success of Elvis and the singer, in response, considered the Colonel as a protector, of sorts, overseeing the minutia of the daily grind; and the devil was always in the details. In a twisted fashion, the two even appeared to have an affection for each other as Parker parasitically profited from the relationship and as Presley was “protected” (wink, wink) from threats near and far.
And when Elvis grew suspicious of Parker, that’s when the king of rock and roll fully realized exactly how owned he was: and the more Presley tried to pull away, the more Parker gaslighted. Of course, the gaslighting was only necessary because Elvis had free will; but the singer chose not to reclaim his surrendered natural rights out of fear, or complacency, or both.
In like fashion, American’s have experienced safety over freedom gaslighting on many occasions: In the last quarter-century alone, we’ve seen 911 and the War on Terrorists, Saddam and Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Evil Trump against Progressive America, mandates versus the COVID virus, the bully Putin invading Ukraine, and, now, the New Normal Americans against MAGA extremists.
Over and over, it’s always the same old trick dialectic: Love Big Brother and accept his protection from the imaginary Emmanuel Goldstein that is sneaking up from behind, or hiding just ahead, and around every corner, near and far, at home and abroad.
We’re caught in a trap. We can’t get out. And we can’t go on together with suspicious minds.
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The King of Rock ‘N Roll is dead…long live the (((Kingmakers)))….
Mom played Elvis 8-tracks in the house for a number of years.
Long Live Elvis.
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I’m suspicious about your scam… But then, If I didn’t have a suspicious mind, I wouldn’t have noticed the national governments plans to tyrannize us, or the very early plans of the communists to infiltrate and control our governments so they could tyrannize us.
Neither would I have ever suspected that the “communists” who seek and gain power are never really communists.
“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
You think they might have been happy with the glory and the fame…
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth – that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community – and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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The rules were precise and invariable. Money attracted money, accumulating always in the same places, going by preference to the scoundrelly and the mediocre. When, by an inscrutable exception, it heaped up in the coffers of a rich man who was not a miser nor a murderer, it stood idle, incapable of resolving itself into a force for good, however charitable the hands which fain would administer it. One would say it was angry at having got into the wrong box and avenged itself by going into voluntary paralysis when possessed by one who was neither a sharper nor an ass.
It acted still more strangely when by some extraordinary chance it strayed into the home of a poor man. Immediately it defiled the clean, debauched the chaste, and, acting simultaneously on the body and the soul, it insinuated into its possessor a base selfishness, an ignoble pride; it suggested that he spend for himself alone; it made the humble man a boor, the generous man a skinflint. In one second it changed every habit, revolutionized every idea, metamorphosed the most deeply rooted passions.
It was the instigator and vigilant accomplice of all the important sins. If it permitted one of its detainers to forget himself and bestow a boon it awakened hatred in the recipient, it replaced avarice with ingratitude and re-established equilibrium so that the account might balance and not one sin of commission be wanting.
But it reached its real height of monstrosity when, concealing its identity under an assumed name, it entitled itself capital. Then its action was not limited to individual incitation to theft and murder but extended to the entire human race. With one word capital decided monopolies, erected banks, cornered necessities, and, if it wished, caused thousands of human beings to starve to death.
And it grew and begot itself while slumbering in a safe, and the Two Worlds adored it on bended knee, dying of desire before it as before a God.
”
— J.-K. Huysmans, Là-Bas
for BL
“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul”
― Bob Dylan, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
Flash- Do you believe in your rock gods? I never lost my soul bud.
It’s a really big “Show” Flash, Elvis’ mother was a joo, therefore Elvis was a joo. Elvis wore the Star of David around his neck and sang the Christmas albums and hymns also.
reeeeeeeeeee…
Flash- I’m not the reeeee that buys Christmas and gospel albums produced by joos and sung by joos. How is it you never grasp the injustice of joos singing about Jesus to part you from your $$$? Who is the reeeeeeee here Flash, I never bought their albums…..never.
Do you have the Neil Diamond Christmas album yet? I’ll bet you do……
ha ha ha….. you hate ((( them))) for their music?
I’m guessing you don’t read Jewish authors either ?
Why would you read jewish authors except to monitor the propaganda? All they can do is mimic and degrade.
People seem to disagree. Name good jewish authors.
Ron Unz
David Cole
Henry Makow
Ayn Rand ( not my favorite. but I’ve read a bit )
Paul Gottfried
Samuel Huntington ?
That list is some damn faint praise.
“Good Jewish Authors”? think this is one. ‘Kept online’ but not much activity, last i checked. PLENTY of GREAT stuff. Think the symbols are Jewish.
IF HE says He’s one I WOULD believe Him. In the Classical sense.
Don’t you have a beerhall to go to, you inadequate t*rd?
For Gods sake. Christ was a as you name them ‘joo’. Just saying. And he even died for your sin of being an idiot.
Elvis Pressley’s mother was Choctaw from Mississippi, not an eevul joo, or even a regyoulah joo. Look out…behind you… it’s an EEVULL JOO.
Ahaha. Just kidding. You shoulda seen your face.
If you say so Ed, but most Choctaws don’t have the Star of David on their tombstone as does Elvis’ mother.
WTF…BL ? smh…
Presley’s father, Vernon, was of German,[11] Scottish and English origins.[12] Presley’s mother, Gladys, was Scots-Irish with some French Norman ancestry.[13] His mother and the rest of the family believed that her great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was Cherokee.[14][15][16] This belief was restated by Elvis’s granddaughter Riley Keough in 2017.[17] Elaine Dundy, in her biography, supports the belief.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley#1935%E2%80%931953:_Early_years
The a$$hole you are responding to, will now accuse you of “Photo Shoping” the grave stone.
It doesn’t take more than a quick search to see that there is another headstone with both a star of david and cross. Whether she was actually jewish or whether it was because Elvis had a fetish for jewish things (again, a quick search), I don’t know. It may or may not be symbolic that the actress who played his mother in this movie is jewish.
Then show it, asshole.
gladys presley star of david
https://www.startpage.com/
it’s not hard faggot
Note that Elvis was Pentecostal and they’re taught that Jews are the chosen and anything they do to bless Israel , God will bless them. Although, he did make a small headstone for his mother that had both the Six Pointed Star and the Cross , they’re is no evidence Elvis was Jewish .
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“We have photos of Elvis wearing the necklaces, and the headstone is on display at Graceland. However, lacking any documentation of a Jewish ancestor in Elvis’ past, I have to conclude that maybe he just liked the imagery. He had a lot of Jewish connections in his life, so he would easily have been exposed to the symbols. There was an orthodox Jewish family that lived upstairs from the Presley family that they were very close to. Elvis actually worked as a “Shabbos goy” for the family, which is a non-Jew that assists an orthodox family with simple tasks such as turning lights on and off or lighting the stove, tasks that observant Jews are forbidden to do on the Sabbath. A job he could not have done, and would not be allowed to do, if he was himself Jewish.
Elvis surrounded himself with Jews in his personal and professional life. His best friend, George “GK” Klein, was Jewish. His “spiritual advisor” Larry Geller was Jewish and was said to have introduced Elvis to the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, and the chai symbol. Even Larry Geller confirmed that Elvis did not believe he was Jewish in his biography entitled Leaves of Elvis’ Garden:
“After a moment of silence, Elvis regained his composure and looked up from the Bible he was holding in his lap. ‘What’s wrong is… I’m not Jewish like you. Lawrence, the Jews are the chosen people. How can I be a channel and an inspiration, how can I attain the highest level and be of help to others if I’m not one of the chosen?'”
Elvis surrounded himself with many Jewish agents, songwriters, and hangers-on throughout his life. He was quoted as saying that he “didn’t want to miss out on heaven on a technicality,” so maybe he was just covering his bases.”
https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/article/was-elvis-jewish/
Elvis’ grandmother was a Tackett (jooish), she transmitted to Elvis’ mother who transmitted to Elvis. He is only a small part joo but that is still a joo. Elvis’ mother was strict about him keeping his jooish blood a secret when he became famous.
I guess you deny that Elvis wore the Star of David around his neck? Why would he do that?
PS- Kabbalah is Satanism. Does that not say jooish to you? You just proved Elvis was a joo controlled Satanist.
Apparently you read, but don’t comprehend , BL. There is no Jewish blood in Elvis’s ancestry…and even if there was, so fucking what? He was an entertainer and he entertained …and was good at it too.
https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/article/was-elvis-jewish/
Flash- I think I would like to release songs/albums sung in Hebrew…. for a goy to do such a thing (((they))) would have their heads explode. I’m going to market my goy/heeb albums (mostly about Hanukkah) to Israelis for 30 bucks a pop.
To make things even better I will use HUGE choirs of goy singers singing in Hebrew about Hanukkah, produced by goy to fund only goy. There is no dead messiah in this scenario but maybe you are going to one day catch on.
God…. YOU ARE F’N DENSE.
Your idiot speak is incomprehensible
Try again , Shi’thead
State of Israel
On stage, Jimmy Swaggart and the Pew Jumpers
Elvis is kin to Loopy….never knew.
Jesus, will you get over your idiotic Jew hatred.
ha ha ha..israel worshipping rapture tard weighs in, but can’t tip the scales toward common sense .
?
We are living The consequences of the new American dream.
Selfishness and sin without judgement.
No matter how far you make it in this world in the end there’s always righteous judgement and eternal consequence.
To proclaim otherwise is Satan’s greatest lie.
“Selfishness and sin without judgement.”
Human suffering is the self-inflicted judgment.
Notice how government is always asking people to weather the storm , they , with their greed , and powering mongering create. There’s always one more war, for the sake of freedom, to be won , into perpetuity.
UK Can ‘Ride out the Storm,’ Liz Truss Says in First Speech as Prime Minister
https://www.theepochtimes.com/uk-can-ride-out-the-storm-liz-truss-says-in-first-speech-as-prime-minister_4713627.html?utm_campaign=socialshare_gab&utm_source=gab.com
Upvote for Fred Eaglesmith song. Love his “Trucker Speed” too.
Fred is the real deal. Every one of his song is great.
And this kid…
This is what the Elvis ideal eventually degenerated into. I give you Dread Zeppelin…
This is a train wreck of a band. I listened to a couple more songs.
Elvis seems a symbol of American depraved idolatry.
My wife’s father wouldn’t let her and her sisters watch Elvis …too vulgar, said the greatest generation guy who bombed Dresden.
And then did you tell him to better “tribe up”?
He chose Uncle Schlomo as his tribe, and he burned his fellow Germans to death for the sake of the money lender’s revenge. He knew this better than I and suffered extreme mental anguish, until the day he died, for it.
He relived those fiery towering infernos, consuming fleas, concrete and steel alike, every night and no amount of alcohol could kill the pain.
Forget about running off to Russia . bruh .There’s a solution closer to home.
christian nationalism is the fakest thing ever
Faker than your heterosexuaity?
blood is thicker than holy water
See, I wondered a few days ago that you might be a Torba follower. I like his website from what I’ve seen, he seems to generally be on the right side of things (if it’s not just a marketing shtick).
But I’ve read enough bullshit like Galt’s Gulch or The Benedict Option, I don’t need another fairy dust “solution.”
Hell, even in Russia they (still!) have 10-20% completely brainwashed by Materialism/Perfectism; how do you think you’re gonna tilt the US towards more sanity – or sit this one out in the US?
Whatever. I tried a bit over half of my conscious (expected) lifetime to tilt the West a bit towards more sanity, now I can spend the rest of my days trying the same in the East. And probably achieve more over there, not for me but for them.
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Most of the regulars here seem to have now gone into full “lashing out in all directions” mode, which just shows they sense the inevitability, and the shortfall of their held up “solutions.”
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/our-entire-civilization-is-fake-and
Good riddance…be one less fag America doesn’t need.
keep on lashing, bruh
“Times” were different. I could give a rats about jelly donut Elvis. What I would hear from the old fogies was Elvis shaking those hips. And the girls were passing out over it.
He started out with his roots in church and gospel Music became enamoured with the things of this world and it all went downhill from there
What’s so tragic about Elvis is that he was literally one of if not the greatest single talent and performer of all time and look how he ended.
What is our greatest hearts desires and what have we done with the talents God has given us.
Good thing his life and death doesn’t parallel the birth life and looming death of the USSA at all
So you’re saying we’ll all die fat on the shitter?
I hope there’s at least be something good to read.
Yes, the country as originally founded will die fat, broke, drug addicted and on the crapper
It was here that Elvis was first exposed to the rich, Southern gospel that became a staple of his musical repertoire. According to Assembly of God minister, Brother Frank Smith, Elvis was fascinated with music and the prospect of learning to play the guitar.
Brother Frank taught Elvis how to make D, A, and E chords…all he needed to play “Ole Shep”. Today, visitors can experience the Assembly of God Pentecostal services of the 1940s through a rich multimedia presentation.
The plain, humble, wood-framed structure will greatly contrast with the lively and intense nature of the sermons and the music. Guests will experience the preacher walking about, the choir filled with the spirit, and the congregation swaying to the rhythm of inspiring praises.
Elvis never realized his dream of becoming a member of the Statesmen or the Blackwood Brothers gospel quartets, yet throughout the rest of his life, Elvis recorded many of the beloved songs of his youth, the emotional and uplifting music of the church.
The list is long of those with great talent who prematurely succumbed one way or another. Fame is a lot like wealth: we can wish ever so much for it but once we get there is often destroys us.
Assembly of God ..Pentecostal…have a lot of family in that denomination. Hard core servants of God …that and rapture tards too.
Seizing suddenly ,forcefully and taking up or removing to safety tards?
Harpazo tards?
Note to Admin Jim:
In the 3rd paragraph below the bullet-points in the article, I wrote the Elvis movie “premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2002“.
Obviously, that was a typo. Could you please change 2002 to 2022?
Thank you in advance.
Your comparison of Elvis and Colonel Parker’s relationship to what’s going on in society overall is excellent. Nice job.
I think Dwight Yoakum’s version of Suspicious Minds is the best, for what it’s worth.
Well done Doug. Very enjoyable read. We must be about the same age. I have about the same recollections of Elvis that you describe… Chip
Very nice, thought out article.
There is hope, and that lies in the fact not everybody is fooled by all this, though many of the world are living a life of delusion, and that has always been the case. A larger population, a larger amount of delusional people, more opportunity for the actions of these people to connect with your own personal life, and maybe swept up into it.
One needs to examine themselves.
‘ In them indeed is [f]the process of fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: You shall indeed hear and hear but never grasp and understand; and you shall indeed look and look but never see and perceive.
For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them.
But blessed (happy, fortunate, and [g]to be envied) are your eyes because they do see, and your ears because they do hear.’
Jesus speaking
Matthew 13: 14-16 Amplfied Bible Translation
The best book I have ever read about the impact of mass media on American culture and morality is The Rise of Selfishness in America by James Lincoln Collier. Collier is a music historian who originally set out to write a book about the history of jazz music but instead realized he was chronicling the decline of American morality and the rise of selfishness and narcissism so he changed direction on his project and produced the book with the link below. And it still contains a good overview of the history of popular music in the USA.
After reading this one can see that Elvis was just one aspect of a larger – and almost methodical and purposeful – program to destroy the cohesion of American society through the destruction of religion.
BTW I always remember in my grandparents home in Tennessee back in the late 60s / early 70s that Johnny Cash was The King.
And, it only gets worse.
Those are people with Down syndrome. Abuse of the mentally retarded. Sad, really.
They’re the only ones with a valid excuse for appearing as they do.
And will likely be spared a harsh judgment.
Quigley noted this in 1966.
Tragedy and Hope
by Carroll Quigley
https://archive.org/details/TragedyAndHope_501
I had read some time ago (can’t remember where) that back in the 1960s the UK think tank Tavistock invented British youth culture to destroy the Trades Union Movement and effect the country’s transition to a de-industrialized society. To do this the youth had to be separated and “alienated” from the adults and Tavistock used American rock ‘n roll as their model creating such things as The Rolling Stones (where one student named Mick Jagger was pulled from the London School of Economics to front the project) and later contracting The Beatles mid-career to their mission. Had there been a viable Trade Union Movement as the UK de-industrialized the people would have overthrown the monarchy.
There are strong connections between US military/CIA/ MK Ultra, American rock and roll and shitty modern art.
Ice- Tavistock invented/created Donald Trump. Mind control is a powerful thing.
Add in the vast array of “influencers” with tens in not hundreds of thousands of followers listening to every word coming from these teenage and early twenty ignorant shits, and this problem is magnified immensely,.
10/10
https://ia903009.us.archive.org/3/items/MichaelL.ChadwickGlobalGovernanceInTheTwentyFirstCentury2007/Michael%20L.%20Chadwick%20-%20Global%20Governance%20in%20the%20Twenty%20First%20Century%20-%202007.pdf
Rummaging through the grease stained popcorn bag this morning for bits of salty browned garlic bits it occurred how messed up the world is but how sweet it is.
I ain’t nothin but a hound dawg.
What a treat to read TBP. Major offerings from Admin,HSF and Uncola within a week. Gives us a lot to think about.
They gaslight because it works:
Most Americans see Trump’s MAGA as threat to democracy: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Per your article, I believe the setup for what is coming is clear for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
A major false flag is in the offing. The raid, the “threats” made by Drumpf supporters, etc. It will be a clear Reichstag / pre-Poland invasion (1939) moment to clamp down on those pesky MAGA folks. (I’ve grown to detest that term ‘MAGA’).
What a friggin’ perfect psyop of epic proportions. ‘Select’ a man like Trump to become POTUS to divide the right. Keep him around to keep the party going and to continue to ramp up the anti-MAGA movement and build it to a crescendo, all the while keeping ‘The Great Reset’ moving along until they are ready to trigger the final events that lead to their 2030 plans. Program about 30% of the population through isolation and fear until they are all have mass formation psychosis so they will do anything and listen to anything they are told.
Keep American Patriots in the gulag for going on 2 years for misdemeanor trespassing, not giving them a due process and letting POS criminals out of jail in 11 months (for a multitude of felonies) like the guy arrested last night in Memphis for killing 4 and wounding many more.
What a clusterf&*^k of epic proportions.
What I forgot to add is that I have multiple intelligent, well-meaning conservative friends that still seem to give Trump a pass on the poison/clot shot. They come up with some BS excuses like he still has some plan or they simple shake their head and say they don’t understand why but, he is still their man!
More mass formation psychosis?
People don’t seem to actually have that hard of a time with contradictions.
It seems that Trump got bagged by Fauci, the head jab salesman for Gates and big pharma.
IMHO, he got into office with the brutal fatal naive notion that like a corporation all the managers he had stuck on him actually had the interests of the country/corporation at heart.
Bolton et al and most of the others were selling their own agenda.
You don’t suck up to kikes for generations and go into office ‘naive’
besides being in showbiz
In retrospect, DJT should have opened an investigation into Hillary’s treasons on Day 1 of his administration. Instead, he sat back, let his opponents take the offensive, and never caught up. Pretty hard to project a favorable image with thousands of jackals nipping at your ankles.
Especially when the jackals are inside your own Cabinet.
Psychosis is right just like Elvis figurines throughout one’s house borders on idolatry.
Mentioning “conservative”, hannity cracks me up the little I happen to catch his talking out his ass radio program. On Wednesday he said conservatism works every time with the result being less spending and smaller government.
It’s the same form of contradictory thinking that gave Elvis a celebrity’s popularity pass for his character and judgement flaws. Moral relativism is a slippery slope and different people will have varying tolerance levels and limits when it comes to socially acceptable behaviors.
I truly think many people don’t truly sit down and examine the foundations for their individual beliefs because they’re prone to suggestion and outside influence that will corrupt their values and standards.
The article also shed some illumination on the Generation Gap, perceptual differences, and how tolerance for personal behavior has changed as time goes by.
All I have to say is time may pass, but God’s Word is eternal.
You too? Glad I’m not alone.🤮
We still don’t know the victims race!
Doug – great essay, as usual. Having lived in the greater Memphrica area for more than half my life, I have seen the Elvis phenomenon up close. I used to work about a half mile from Graceland and saw all the kooks who would come to town in August to celebrate his death anniversary. Traffic was so bad that that became a regular vacation week for me, just so we could escape the madness.
Re your comment, it is called pollaganda – using polls to drive the narrative and is crucial to help them cover up the next election steal.
When Yankee fags populate a Southern town….
Just outside of Ft. Worth, Texas. Yes you can Mess with Texas.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/08/29/antifa-armed-with-ar-15s-guard-kid-friendly-drag-show-in-texas/
the cops have certainly picked their side
There is only one proper and righteous corrective. A can of medieval.
Oh, it’s coming, ff
People might think America is different in this regard. It isn’t. If things get truly bad and the social order frays there will be vendettas settled. I saw this quite clearly in the aftermath of Tito’s decayed Yugoslavia.
This keeps me awake at night ….
Everyone watches the same electric jew. They listen to the same niggerized music with slightly different branding. Faggotry and transvestites are everywhere. Quit pretending this has to do with ‘yankees.’
Yes, it does have a lot to do with (((yankees))). Anyone can see who is behind it all; in fact, (((they))) brag about it.
Yes, and also according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, Hillary is going to win the election by 2,500%.
Of course, she will also get 150% of the black vote as usual. I’ve often wondered how the vote of 20% out of the 13% of Americans who are black can be such a potent segment of the national vote. The GOP bosses don’t wonder about that and they keep trying to gain their share of the black vote.
The modern GOP is infested and co-opted by garbage like Mitt Romney and Miss Lindsey Graham.
They’re Establishment doormats doing it for personal gain. The idea of “public service” is a sad joke, like military intelligence.
Any one naive enough to believe that modern politics can be a viable solution of positive change at this point in time needs to seriously consider their personal values.
It’s a den of vipers and thieves and needs to be rooted out, literally, by the intermediaries working by the Hand of God.
Sow the wind. Reap the whirlwind. It is happening as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow.
Very enjoyable read and loved how you were able to tie the two concepts (the Elvis story and our current quandary) together seamlessly.
I watched Baz Luhrmann’s film with the kids the other night and found it very enjoyable despite the obvious racial pandering and Tom Hank’s appalling interpretation of the Colonel- Werner Herzog would have killed that role had they cast him instead, but you get what you get.
I always found Elvis to be a tragic character throughout his career and I think that’s what his greatest appeal was. You just wanted to look out for the poor guy, always surrounded by parasites feeding off of him. He certainly had a good voice and he always seemed to be the kind of guy who’d give you the shirt off his back and most Americans of that era related to that kindness and generosity of spirit. As we have learned what can be a gift in some situations can be an Achilles heel in others. America was too kind, to solicitous, too generous not to attract the grifters and con men who prey on people who make the snow fall.
Congratulations on 200 very readable pieces, you’ve become quite a good writer, one of my favorite current essayists today.
How fake are the Southern accents? Yankees can never get the accent right.
He sounded like him, maybe Elvis faked his own accent?
The Mempfrica accent is something on the line of a person trying to speak with a mouth full of marbles. I can never understand white folks from that area of TN. Middle TN is more to the typical southern accent.
Too many Delta negroes blue gumming the accent. ;0
Can you describe the distinction between a blue gum and a pecan head ?
That is “peanut head” Flash, any real southerner would know that. (eyebrow lifted) Are you a Yankee in sheep’s clothing ?
You wouldn’t know a Southern if he planted a logging boot in your fat ass….peanut head… I’ll have to rethink my 1/2 tard assessment now.smh.
I think we can both agree on burr head….right? I grew up in the deep south son, never heard pecan head, did a quick survey of other deep south folks and they never heard of pecan head either.
Pecker head?
Buck- There is a term, Peckerwood used to describe guys with red hair.
peckerhead (plural peckerheads)
(chiefly US, derogatory) A dickhead: an unpleasant, stupid or mean person.
My family is LA….Lower Alabama. You don’t get no deeper than that…son.
That explains a great deal Flash.
Long live the memories of Kenny Stabler.
I went to MSU from North Jackson in 1970 and had a hard time understanding white Delta accents initaly.
Ever heard Virginians talk …can’t makes head nor tales of that gibberish.
Elvis was born Tupelo, Mississippi and learned to play the guitar and sing gospel in a Pentecostal church. You can’t fake that.
Have you ever attended worship service at a Pentecostal church…. one sermon from Pentocostal preacher and you would drop that bullshit panty-ism where you found it…
one sermon from a pentecostal preacher and you’d have to strap me down like in a Clockwork Orange
Demons leaving you body would leave you so limp that you’d have to be peeled off the floor.
It’s just too theatrically gay.
I would go to a megachurch to see what it is like, but that is just because there was a musician years ago whose day job was putting in sound systems and he talked all about the tricks they use to manipulate people.
I’ve never heard of a Pentecostal mega-church. The small churches, I assure you, fake nothing.
I wasn’t saying they were the same, just continuing on the idea of theater. Though the first US megachurch was pentecostal.
“The small churches, I assure you, fake nothing.”
lol
Aren’t they into prosperity preaching aka monetary idolatry?
Don’t some of them work with snakes?
Joel Osteen wants you bubbe.
Send Joel $1000 and he promises you’ll receive ten times that but not from him.
One of Trump’s religious advisors, a big one, Paula White, same way. Rub the TV screen and send Paula $1000…
Thank you, Hardscrabble. As always, I enjoy your perspectives and your words mean a lot to me.
I will admit the film was very well made; and the nuanced display of Colonel Parker’s self-deception was excellent (as well as the acting in all of the roles).
Exhausted Elvis singing at the end was quite poignant, and it was a fine tribute. In spite of his human shortcomings, he was a talented guy and a gifted singer.
And knowing Colonel Parker lived out his final days in various casinos spending his vast fortune in slot machines was, to me, just another metaphor.
Thank you again for posting your perspectives and kind words.
They watched old ‘heat of the night’ episodes to get them just right.
“Bubba, hand me dat der night stick so issa can go hit sum po black folks down inna da bottoms, where we whites force them to live”
Been in the Chief’s house many times.. Porterdale Ga. Chief wasn’t there though.
It has quite the history…built in the 1700s as a Indian territory trading post /fort. The guy who owned it during the War of Northern aggression lost it because he was a Yankee sympathizer.
OMG Flash …. is the Old Porterdale Hotel still there? Back in my younger years, we would go there to eat Sunday dinner and the food was top notch.
I don’t know anything about the town…I’ve only been in that one house , in Porterdale.
It sits on a hill. overlooking on a creek, with a mill across the creek , which the Yankee sympathizer, built and had seized by the CSA.
There is a separate house next door where the servants lived, who were summoned by a bell wired to the big house.
When he said stick with me I was thinking “Really? Ok I’ll hang in there” and it worked really well but he has a way of analyizing movies like no one else can.
I had no idea that Elvis was this big, either. Really. Maybe by age I could be your daughter, Doug.
In the 1980s, it was quite amusing because it seemed like every month there were Elvis sightings all over the USA. At a mall, in a restaurant, etc. The tabloid newspapers such as the national enquirer would regularly have photos of “Elvis” on their covers.
Like mexicans seeing mary everywhere.
This isn’t surprising because Mexicans are everywhere. Where do you live?
God and Jesus. Holy Ghost!
I see Mary in my toast!
The kids, when small, would laugh themselves sick when the landscaping trucks loaded with a bunch of laborers showed up at a local house to cut grass. I’d declare UFO’s and aliens were real, and they’d understand the dark humor.
Kids ain’t dumb. When one-third to a half of the students in our local elementary schools are Spanish-speakers they make the connection.
I was never all that interested in Elvis when he was alive. I graduated HS the year he died and was too deep into the world of horses and barn chores after school to have much time for anything else. I did see the movie and left quite depressed. I saw a young man who worked hard to leave the poverty into which he was born, saw his amazing talent, his passion on stage (and off) and sadly, I saw the people around him suck him dry until he had nothing left to give.
I don’t think his excesses and weakness for willing women were worse than any other rock star since he blazed that trail. I’m not saying it was right, but I’m not the judge.
Your comparison of his life and what’s happening today in America is quite interesting. I do agree there are parallels and if we aren’t careful we will have the same tragic ending. They have sucked the middle class dry and are making it almost impossible to survive. Evil forces are putting things into place right now that could easily bring down our country completely if we don’t stop them. They simply don’t care as long as they get what they want. I do believe we are at a very perilous time and I hope people have found Jesus…
The “vampires” are real. Stealing energy and willpower, figuratively and literally – but only if we allow it. The lack of an image in a mirror, terror of a crucifix, and blood-drinking – all metaphor, but quite descriptive, nonetheless.
They look like us, but in fact, behave differently because they live by different standards. They’ve been allowed to become a problem because we’ve ignored what’s kept them in check.
“Pa. IS …”?
“Commonwealth” Code for everyone gets poorer over Time. Until…
Let’s not forget the most humorous song about Elvis – Gorge Jones “Yadadabadoo, The King is Gone And So Are You”.
Great take on our dying society.
Fine tribute here.
The area of Memphis were Elvis lived is not a no-go zone for Whites. Memphis has become Somalia on the Mississippi. Memphis should hire kumbaya m to appeal to morality in Memphis. Gangz be bad and stuff. We’re all the same…reeeeeeee
Memphis Thug Livestreams Himself on Facebook Murdering Strangers at ‘Random’
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63324
Missing Memphis mother found dead: What we know about Eliza Fletcher’s murder
Here’s a look at the timeline and what we know so far about the abduction and murder of the woman who went missing while jogging near the University of Memphis.
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/crime/missing-memphis-teacher-jogger-mother-eliza-fletcher-murder-found-dead/522-99c452fd-7d49-464e-bc24-cf0d5f994531
Memphis ranked No. 1 most dangerous city
https://www.wjhl.com/news/memphis-ranked-no-1-most-dangerous-city/
For years Memphrica has been the #2 most dangerous city has has been trying as hard as they can to become #1. Now, it is a point of pride for many to keep the city at the top of the hot steaming pile. They elected a new DA who took office this month and I suspect he will make George Gascón look like piker. Only time will tell as he has been handed two cases in his first week in office that will let all see how much he really believes his pre-election stance on “reimagining” the criminal justice system.
ha ha ha….and the last thing she gave me was the bird. George was a national treasure.
ROP Possum
Thank you Uncola for all 200 wonderful articles, you are a splendid writer and I enjoy each and every one that you bring.
This article highlights something that I find to be a huge problem almost daily. The younger generations have no knowledge of things which have shaped their world, I have run across some who truly believe that microwave ovens were around in the early 20th century in households. I usually chuckle when I hear them spout out these thing which to them are (their) reality.
I wrote yesterday that when you gaslight too much, humans no longer respond as we see in the Chinese “Let It Rot” movement . We are all sick of the gaslighting and chaos.
There is nothing worse than Elvis B-movies unless you count current politics and global evil actors and vampires.
So you can watch only old re-runs of Andy Griffith and Bonanza or are those shows products of the ebil Joo too?
Me thinks they were, but there were some ‘good ones’ way back when. Try The Fugitive.
Thank you, BL. I appreciate it very much.
So I typed a rather long reply an hour ago and accidentaly hit the back button before I hit post🙄. I’m going to try to recreate it. Someone pull me back from the edge if you think I’m about to go over but I have a theory bouncing around in my head.
The left has been threatening to put Trump in jail for one reason or another since 2016 and now there is the raid and more threats to indight him and more jail threats. If they didn’t want to keep Trump in the spotlight all the Demorats and the media (but I repeat myself) had to do was completely ignore him and he would have probably faded away into the sunset on the golf course. But no it’s Trump 24/7. I think this is a Q phenomenom for the left. Keep them fired up and sort of on a leash (for now) with the arrest threats. The Dark Brandon speech brings Trump in the spotlight even more. Personally I don’t see Trump being arrested but maybe some more of his followers will be made an example of.
Meanwhile there is a small minority of people who believe Trump is THE Anti-Christ. Seriously. Have a looksee at this thread. He makes a good case but I’m sketpical. If he is re-elected in 2024 I might reconsider. If there is a 2024.
Then there is Trump’s base who just seems to ingore the fact that he locked us down and rushed in an experimental injection that is killing people. He still draws more people for his rallies than Brandon does. Maybe he has been chosen to “win” in 2024 so he can finish off the conservatives.
Btw, Doug, I had to smile that it’s not merely a false flag dead ahead but a “big fat false flag” 😁
One recent example of false light vs darkness.
Mary- I posted the “Tavistock Created Trump” article link above in this thread. The dark and light thing is spot on.
We must however stay focused on the fact that “They” are genociding our people, nothing matters past that fact and to keep playing this sick game of good guy/bad guy is beyond me.
It works. That’s why they keep it going. The fact that way more people are dying than usual is totally ignored. They keep the focus away from that. This morning I was listening to a Gonzalo Lira youtube livestream on my phone with Dr Peter McCullough and someone else I never heard of but right when they got into that very thing about the rise on all cause mortality my phone (which was several feet away from me) switched to a completely different recorded stream and the livestream had disappeared. I was wondering why he even tried to talk about anything like that knowing how screwtube is.
Kids having heart attacks on the football field and having huge clots pulled from their legs gets talked about without even questioning why something like that would happen.
I have a personal theory on how and why clots are being formed, what they consist of, and how it’s related to the shots. The mortuary findings of embalmers, data cited from spectrographic analysis of clots showing the presence of carbon and sodium, and insurance industry information that highlights an increase of death makes me suspicious there is a huge cover-up in the pharma industry and media about what’s really in those shots.
Interesting article on Tavistock. I’m familiar with the institute enough to know it is evil but never really did a thorough deep dive.
Mary- A deep study of Tavistock and who is behind it all is a must. But what do I know, according to Stucky and Flash…I iz retarded.
How can you defeat the enemy if you don’t know who they are?
Joe and Jane 6-pack and half of TBP will kill you for trying to tell them.
They don’t want to defeat the real enemy.
A truer word has never been spoken Flea, they just don’t want to know they live in a manipulated construct of lie piled on top of lies.
I have prayed that you will get better and hang in with us here Flea, EC was my best friend and it still hurts to lose him. Don’t want to lose my sidekick.
Over 5 years ago I think it was now, they told me I only had a year left. 3 if I moved to the low desert in AZ. Farmer said I would live lots longer. A year ago after 3 close calls less than a week apart they said there’s nothing more they can do for me in the ICU and said I should do in home hospice for my last 6 months if even that much.
My hospice Dr. Used to read my echo cardiograms from the cardiologist and he said I’m like the old Timex watch. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking.
I’m playing with house money for a long time.
Stick around till the end, Fleabaggs. And please go read that Twitter thread Mary Christine posted above. Trump is the guy. Once he comes back, we have 3.5 years (plus a little) to the end of this age and the return of THE KING.
Also — the Lord (in his strange and mysterious ways) asked me why the hell I rebuffed your rebuke of my language the other night and gave me to understand I should elevate correcting my filthy speaking to a MUCH higher place on the list than where I’d had it. This I will do. Sounds like He might have been speaking though you the other night!!!
Thanks, brother.
ha ha ha…you’re often right, and often full of shit. We’ll agree on 1/2 retarded , then ?
BTW, FWIW, he might be Jew, but Neil Diamond sux DDD …he no David Lee Roth
Flash- I can agree that you are half retarded…sure. I don’t think Neil Diamond sux, he has a far better voice than most. That is not my beef, I think you understand what I am saying here. 🙂
What is “Tavistock” ?
Is it this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavistock_Institute
LTL, Can’t really remember but You’ll have a WHALE of good time…
http://whale.to/index.html
Right on, M.C. In my above article where I referenced a “dirty bomb” found at Mar-a-lago, I italicized the words “dirty bomb” for a reason: Because it can be taken literally, or figuratively.
As we’ve seen before, anything can, and probably will, happen in an election year.
In a previous article, I also once speculated on watching for the left hook as a right jab appears from out of sight.
In other words, if the next chosen leader of the “free” world cleaned the swamp for real, it would be very hard not to jump on that train.
Maybe for real should be in quotes? I think far too many people would jump on that train. I’m exhausted from all the drama.
You can find Trump identified as the Antichrist in many places throughout Scripture, MC. He’s the guy. I’ve been sounding that alarm here on these boards for about three years now. Not many takers so far, but that’s about to change. Bigly. And indeed, it already is changing.
He is described perfectly in the Bible, and even named by Christ.
That’s some funny shit right there!! Stop fucking with people. You are spreading bullshit, and you know it. NTTAWWT
I’ll issue an apology if you prove Trump was “even named by Christ”. Book, chapter, and verse.
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John 14:30
I will not speak much more with you, for the Ruler of the World is coming, and he has nothing in Me…
GOOGLE IT FOR YOURSELF STUCKY:
Donald is a baby boy name mainly popular in the Christian religion and its main origin is Gaelic. The meaning of the name Donald is Ruler of the World.
John 5:3
I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
Tell me, Stucky…
…who has come in his own name? Can you think of any other man in history who better fits that description than the one who plasters his name all over everything? Take as long as you like…
I knew Donnie Wahlberg was up to no good…
EPIC FAIL!!!
YOU said Trump was “NAMED by Christ” named by Christ.
And you provide this as proof ??? ….
” will not speak much more with you, for the Ruler of the World” is coming, and he has nothing in Me…”
Weak Sauce …. hahahaha!! You would only be correct if the verse said …
“will not speak much more with you, for Donald Trump” is coming, and he has nothing in Me…”
You see …. THAT is “naming” the Antichrist.
That’s as good as you’ll get. The US is named too, but it isn’t in English the way simpletons would like. Rather, it is done in complete description — the Hammer of the Earth… the hindermost of the nations… etc. etc.
Trump is described perfectly in prophecy, but we have to actually pay attention when we read.
You can lead a horse to water…
I’m sure even you are aware that Christ and the authors of Scripture weren’t speaking in English. The window of opportunity for dismissing these things is closing. Pay closer attention to the details.
Fine. We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
A couple final closing thoughts.
1. Reading the Bible as if it was today’s newspaper will lead to egregious errors in interpretation … especially when it comes to prophecy.
2. I am amazed that you “Antichrist Identifiers” aren’t deterred by the fact that literally HUNDREDS of people have been identified as THE antichrist over the past 2,000 years …. and y’all have been wrong each and every time …. yet, y’all still keep at it because yeah, fer sure, THIS time you’re correct!
“Trump is described perfectly in prophecy”
Didn’t know ‘Too Dumb’ was in The Bible?
Epic Fail #2.
There have been thousands and thousands of “Donalds” in world history. You picking the Orange man is arbitrary.
Personally, I think it’s the Donald below … he actually defeated the Nazis.
Let’s keep this simple, fella.
Go into the Bible and find me ONE prophecy about this man which does not fit Trump to the letter, like a glove, and across the board.
One.
If you knew these prophecies backwards and forwards, you would be left with no doubt.
Another thing the Bible does is teach us how to understand the timeline. The Apostles were LOOKING for Christ even before they found Him because they understood the timeline. We should be looking for the Man of Lawlessness right now because the Bible makes it clear that NOW is the time of the end. All who came before and proclaimed various things about the end, over the past centuries and millennia, were in error.
SEVEN DAYS is the timeline, as God counts time.
And we’re now at the end of the Sixth Day.
Do with this what you will. Some of us know because we’ve allowed the Bible to do the teaching.
Trump is the guy.
100 percent.
“People Who Believe…”
Conservative. Liberal. Democrat. Republican. ANY way ya slice/dice?
🎵Left, Right
🎵Right, Left
NO Biggie. AS LONG AS YA…March!
Change the cadence? Doesn’t matter. You MUST ‘Break Stride’. At the VERY Least? Do Not be on the bridge, WHEN It Collapses.
Remember all his life tRump is the victim. Something in the water in Queens, a mother in denial and possibly Norman Vincent Peale.
John Hagee would likely say tRump is a victim. Boo, hoo, there’s a tear in my beer.
Most people are unaware of this, but Queen Celine successfully traveled back to 1968 to do a duet with King Elvis. Together they do a very nice, if somewhat ironic tribute to communism. (Ironic since commies don’t play nice with monarchs):
🤣 The vid links done be..Transposed
To me it feels more like the time of false flags is coming to an end.
It’s not a false flag anymore, if the majority deosn’t believe anymore that (any) one party is totally innocent…
With things like the US now openly (?) admitting they helped to sink the Moskva, the difference between a false flag and an open act of aggression shrinks to peanuts.
Very, very insightful.
Many rock icons started out playing black blues music (Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton).
The EPIX 4-part series “My Life as a Rolling Stone” documents this, as do other music documentaries.
Rock ‘n Roll morphed from the “blues”.
I have never understood the fascination with Elvis, much like the other ‘stars’ of the past. I don’t really have anything to say about the article, but
“The opening scenes showcased the sexual carnality of a couple dirty dancing to blues music and contrasted with the rapturous emotionalism at a gospel tent revival. ”
That sounds more like a comparison than a contrast.
Anon,
Is it possible to have one without the other?
Instead of getting into a philosophical argument over something this minor, I’ll just point out that that words basically mean opposite things.
“Minor”? But, But,…thought Your side was ALL in?
Doing MAJOR Things. With “Minors”. Across The Board?
Whoops, *that the words. Or those words. Whichever it is. I care about the meaning of words but grammar isn’t my thing.
More like a synonym trying to disguise itself as an antonym…
Comment number 70!!!
Lol
You are, indeed, one of a kind Herr Stuchenmeister
Unc, thanks for the reminder of the touch of Southern culture in American music that’s sorely lacking in ‘Murica today. I miss the old South I grew up in and regardless what Identity Dixie thinks, nothing is going to bring it back. I think I will sit and listen to Elvis the rest of the day. It was a better time.
“Performing” & gaslighting, kinda synonymous, no? Both sides to the tango.
“Can’t cheat an honest man” & cowardice of command chains ain’t ever honest. And if the man is in fact a manchild, well, face the music: that kid is~ alllll those kids are ~ caught in a trap (& never haven’t been). Welcome to real life among the social animals.
Bottom line for “performers” is & has always been “if you want to play, you gotta pay.” And they do. Chains of quid pro quo are linked gatekeepers – & thse gates swing in both directions. “I let the Wine Stain bed me & now I’m a starlet.” Whose the gas & whose the lighter? It’s one dynamic duopoly – one more roly-poly, one a lot less so, at least outwardly.
Sad, this species, but not my problem. This reality’s a problem, to be solved to the best of individual ability … but this reality’s solution does not involve changing this reality. And them that are about holding back, or diverting, or transforming the tides, are bic lighters, too. A lotta’ butane is totally lunar-ized; cuckoos nest is this place.
I’ll go on with my suspicious mind, the b(ic)lighters will go on with their arson. Que sera.
Pure. O’ Peal. Extant thread? Attempted. Poof! Nevermore. Someotherplacetime.
Poof ipso facto proof o’ impure o’ puree. Attempts put in a wordprocessor are evermore. Pretty much.
evermoretrudat but the article
Doug
A fine article as usual and I’ll put it on SLL tonight. My comments here address the Elvis movie, which I was looking forward to but found a complete disappointment.
Unethical managers and agents taking advantage of naive entertainers and athletes is commonplace. It is not what made Elvis’s story unique. What made Elvis a transcendent superstar was his music and his magnetic appeal. For a movie about Elvis, there was surprisingly little music. I can’t recall a single Elvis song that was reprised in its entirety, particularly in the 1950-early 1960s when he rocketed to superstardom, captured his generation, and helped kick off rock and roll. Instead, we’re treated to endless Tom Hanks, who I didn’t find to be a particularly interesting character.
My template for this kind of film is Bohemian Rhapsody. Although Freddy Mercury’s AIDS and his crooked fixer were featured, they weren’t central. That was reserved for Queen’s story and music and Mercury’s part in them. The movie, unlike Elvis, gave audiences what they came for in a movie about musicians–music and the musicians’ story. The scenes at Wembley were a highpoint.
Nobody watched Bohemian Rhapsody for the inside scoop on Queen’s management. I was hoping to get a lot more Elvis and music and a lot less Tom Parker in a movie about Elvis.
A VERY interesting take, Robert, that reminded me of the old maxim as follows: “Keep your expectations low and you’ll never be disappointed!”
But, if it’s any consolation, the Wikipedia link on the movie embedded into my article says the latest Elvis film “is the second-highest-grossing music biopic of all-time behind Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
So it seems you may have a good point. 🙂
Thank you for posting the piece on your Straight Line Logic site. As always, it is very much appreciated
Quoting Ray Wylie Hubbard paraphrased “Keep your expectations low and your gratitude high and you’ll have a good day.”
Comparing an Elvis movie to the current clusterfuck called America?? WOW!! That’s quite a s-t-r-e-t-c-h. Only Uncola could do this. A valiant effort …. but, I ain’t buying it.
I’d buy it if Elvis were compared to Dementia Joe. Both were blessed with only mediocre talents, yet somehow rose to the top, … and then fucked it all up. Surely, you can see that’s accurate.
Uncola won’t agree. Judging from the first half of the article I wouldn’t be surprised if Uncola actually prayed to Elvis from time to time. Such idolatry can cloud one’s better judgement. 🙂
Stir it bubbe 🙂
I tried. Didn’t work. Oh well …onward and upward!
I’m detecting some projection going on over there, Stuck. So just come clean. It’s OK. We won’t hold it against ya 🙂
You were supposed to point out that ALL of the director’s movie SUCK! monkeypoxed dick and that Luhrmann is a JOO name.
Great metaphor for Unkle Shmuel fer sure, Doug.
“suspicious”? there’s nothing suspicious about the left. they demand our slavery or our extermination, and they’ll settle for nothing less. those are the rules they’re setting and they insist upon them. the only answer is in kind.
You really did simplify things. “Safety over freedom”. COVID writ large.
When the Communists consolidate their power by rigging the next couple of elections and it dawns on a critical mass of honest, hard working, Christian Americans that America no longer exists where do we go? The migration from Socialism to Freedom started 30 years ago with Californians moving to TX, UT and every other non Socialist state. Same with New Yorkers moving to FL. Where do we go when the Federal Government has been captured by the Communists? The Communists that run CA and NY can implement Socialism but not Communism for now. We still have the Constitution and the SCOTUS and some semblance of law and order.
What happens when all opposition is swept away by “mail in ballots” and Antifa and BLM are allowed to destroy every city, not just majority idiot cities? It’s no accident that Brandon and Obama have purged the US Military. I don’t think it’s realistic to stand and fight against the US Military, even if it is manned by thugs and trannies. I think our future is going to have to be immigration to a third world country somewhere, build an enclave at first and fully functioning decent society as the long term goal.
Or we could just kill them all.
Where do we go? I don’t plan on running off elsewhere … I sort of like it here.
Selco might have the answer to that one.
An amazing man said:
“Nothing is transient. Restitutions are inevitable. All prices must be paid. All collections will be made.”
I enjoyed the movie. This piece was great!
No doubt it’s jut me, but when I think of Elvis, the movie Bubba Ho-tep comes to mind.
Yikes, it’s 20 years old. HTFDTFH
When asked who was the greatest voice she ever heard, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa replied: ‘Without doubt the early Elvis.’ (Half quote marks because this is my recollection and probably not a truly precise quote.)
Oh yeah, this whole debacle would be much better if Joe, the Ho, and Hunter could sing and shake a booty.
“Viva, Lost Wages, Viva, Viva, Lost Wagesss…”
Good piece, Doug. Got me to thinkin’…a dangerous pastime, I know.
I haven’t been posting here for a while, just lurkin and spend more time on Twitter of all places of late. Rots the brain, it does, so my attention span is complete shit so I’m not sure if I can remember my points. Let’s see what I can get down:
One thing about waking up to the true nature of things (rot and corruption in the system, fiat currency boondoggle, cultural decay, Fourth Turning, collapse of empire, etc) we tend to see everything through that lens. Not saying there’s anything wrong with that, just the simple fact of it. The notion of collapse is never really off my mind…sometimes it’s on the back burner, but it’s always simmering away. I can almost picture you watching the movie and at some point, probably early on, a light bulb went on…”shit, this is a damn-near perfect analogy for our current predicament,” followed immediately with “I could write an article about this.”
Speaking of Twitter, I was scrolling through just before I read your piece, and Keith Wiener (Finance/Economics guy, Founder/CEO of Monetary Metals and a generally brilliant dude–worst I can say is he may have a bit of an Is v. Ought issue in his philosophy) said “in a (Tyranny) no one is free.” He said Feudal System, but I think its true for any totalitarian State. The common people are obviously no free. But what of the low level Party thugs? Sure they get some goodies and have some license, but that is mostly license to commit atrocity, easily the darkest, most corrupted form of “freedom” imaginable. Outside of that, they have zero real freedom, step one toe out of line or even be suspected of such and they get stomped by the very system they facilitate. So what about higher ups in the Machine of State? Hell, they have less real freedom than that. Luxuries and even more license, but always looking behind you for the dagger, wondering if your usual driver really is sick or is already in the trunk and you are about to join him. And for the people at the very to, well its all a life and death game that MUST be played both perfectly and ruthlessly. No freedom there. Its a terrible, lose-lose-lose-some-more game that we humans insist on playing over and over again.
The same could almost certainly be said for celebrity as well. I missed the cultural phenomenon of Elvis, but honestly he’s a bit of an oddball, generationally speaking. He was merely the vangard for the Boomer cultural revolution of the sixties. For my generation it was the early nineties. The tragic figures I think more of are Cobain and Chris Cornell, but shit there as was also Bradley Nowell, Shannon hoon, Layne Staley, Scott Weiland, a dozen others. Only Eddie Vedder, Billy Corgan and one could say Billy Joe Armstrong made it through.
Jordan Peterson said something very interested on Lex Fridman’s podcast….that the thing that really destroys celebrities–besides booze and drugs and hectic schedules and the general angst of the truly creative–is the lack of push-back from people. No one tells them they are acting badly. It’s a lack of resistance….a lack of struggle. We’re built for it, man. What’s the one thing that is required in a story? The only literal (pun intended) requirement? Conflict. Struggle.
We spent hundreds of thousands of years struggling together in small groups (tribes) for survival in a harsh environment. We strive for comfort and ease, but it is the struggle that fulfills us.
If this collapse continues on its present course, much struggle awaits us.
I always enjoy reading your take on things, Drud. Thank you.
Speaking of Billy Corgan, I wrote a piece back in 2019 (linked below) speculating on him (and Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower, and JFK, too) lol
Thanks Doug.
I remember that article. No idea what to make of it.
Crazy to think how long ago 2019 was…in many ways.
Time has, indeed, passed and the speculations in that “circus” article appear to have held up (i. e. passed the test of time.) Unfortunately.
Me too, Drud. I have a small echo chamber I follow and everytime I’m ready to shut down my account someone posts something useful..lol!
One example that at one time might have ended up on There I Fixed it.com
Yes, just another man.
Does that mean America is doomed to die on the toilet? Seems fitting America is in Late-Stage Elvis, complete with gaudy clothing, a severe addiction (to cheap credit), terrible diet choices, and an array of mooching sycophants hanging around.
It means that people who focus on entertainment in lieu of reality are retards doomed to dystopia. Mass Media is a self inflected wound. Avoid it whenever possible.
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Not worth looking at comments on TBP anymore. Practically every article’s comments posted have a hundred miles of shit posts by Fuck Face flash. . .Whaaaa ! Pay attention ! fucking ass wipe
In the middle fifties, my dad was courting my mom in Little Rock.
Yes I’m an Elvis baby.
I still have my dad’s entire collection of 45’s. He was young courting and knew all about Elvis very early on. I have the first three Sun Record 45’s
The very first printing of the very first 45 had a misprint, the catalog number was printed upside down. Only a handful were sold, estimated, before they were recalled to get replaced or relabeled. My dad had to have been there the day they went on sale.
Magnificent article except for one exasperating flaw: the repeated misuse of the word “gaslighting” when what is meant is deception or manipulation.
“Gaslighting” refers only to a very specific type of deception: deception aimed at convincing the target that he or she is insane.
I am seeing this word misused constantly these days, and as a result, the true meaning of the word is being lost. Actual gaslighting — convincing a person to doubt their own sanity, their own perception of reality, so that one feels as if one is lost, without escape, in a carnival funhouse of warped mirrors — is a horror, and a form of torture.
Mass deception, as awful as it is, is not always gaslighting. Indeed, most people who fall for mass deceptions think they are perfectly sane, and that the dissenters, such as us here at TBP, are the crazy ones! It’s only gaslighting if the deceivers are convincing you that YOU are the crazy one.
I wish people would watch the classic movie from which the word “gaslighting” originally came, in order to grasp the unique, horrifying type of psychological manipulation that is gaslighting:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)
“one exasperating flaw:”
Thank You. For Your time and Efforts. Words do have meaning or something like that. THIS term, like So-so, many. B.S. MULTIPLE Results supporting Your Assertions. (think that’s the Word 🤣)
“Absolutely”. Wondered aloud to myself why it gained SUCH a “Following”.
ONLY 4 syllable word they know? DOES have it’s place. Absolutely.
Simple as possible. Wording. Less ambiguity. WORTH one last pass on this article for Your post. DO ‘remember’ supporting” BIG Words. Possible to convey whole sentences/ideas with one. Esoteric to be sure. WILL add Your thoughtfully provided Movie Link/reference To the Movie”File” for later research/viewing.
No need ta respond from a sense of sensed manners. Prolly won’t see it unless the “Count” appreciates appreciably. Anyhow.
“Gaslight original meaning – Search
Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as making someone question their own reality. The term derives from the title of the 1944 film Gaslight. The term may also be used to describe a person who presents a false narrative to another group or person, thereby leading them to doubt their perceptions and become misled, disoriented or distressed. Oftentimes this is for the gaslighter’s own benefit. Normally, this dynamic is possible only when the audience is vulnerable, such as in unequal power relationships, or fearful of the losses associated with challenging the false narrative. Gaslighting is not necessarily malicious or intentional, although in some cases it is.”
I cannot imagine any possible scenario in which gaslighting is not malicious or intentional. It psychological CRUELTY to lie, mislead and manipulate a person into doubting reality.
Definition of gaslighting
Colonel Parker psychologically manipulated Elvis over an extended period of time in ways that caused Elvis to second-guess his instincts and desires by, in fact, altering the singer’s perception of reality that resulted in confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of his emotional and mental stability, plus an unhealthy dependency on the perpetrator (i e. Colonel Parker).
But I do see your point and will admit that I’m not completely wrong but you’re not totally right either.
My guess is they’ll 25th or My Pillow NurembergJoe in October, making the midterms about misogyny, racism and “finishing what Lunchbucket Joe began,” appoint Buttplug as the veep, then find a crazy white guy to play a white supremacist at Dealey Plaza for Horizontal.
Hey congrats on getting to 200 articles, that is quite a feat! You have become an amazing writer.
The trap has been set and now the trick is not getting caught.
Time is getting close to shoot the TV and let the clock run out.
Thank you, Rob. I appreciate it. Good to see ya