“Folly is a child of power.” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense, and available information, is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function?” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
The term “folly” is particularly apt at this stage in the decline of the great American empire. Folly is defined as: criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct; an excessively costly or unprofitable undertaking. If ever a word captured the actions of American political leaders in the 21st Century and reflect the tragic downfall of an empire borne out of the ashes of the Second World War, it is the term “folly”.
For the last two decades I’ve been befuddled by the inane foolishness of our leaders, as they have driven the nation into a bottomless pit of debt at an astoundingly ridiculous pace, initiated military conflict across the globe, and in the last three years initiated anti-human policies guaranteed to destroy our economic system, depopulate the planet, increase human suffering, and turn the world into a techno-gulag where we will own nothing, eat bugs, and bow down to the commands of globalist overlords.
None of what is being jammed down our throats is based upon reason, facts, or common sense. Why do governments initiate policies destined to destroy the nations they have been entrusted to administer? Is it purely incompetence and stupidity, or is it purposeful and evil?
When I heard the term folly last week, it triggered a memory of reading Barbara Tuchman’s 1984 book – The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. After reading her Pulitzer Prize winning treatise on the opening days of World War I – The Guns of August – I immediately became a huge fan of her work. She had the ability to bring the boring dry facts of history to life with her vivid descriptions of events and making it interesting for the average person.
Her storytelling acumen was second to none. She made you feel like you were part of the story. I subsequently read her other Pulitzer Prize winning tome – Stillwell and the American Experience in China, along with The Zimmerman Telegram, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War – 1890–1914, and A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century. But it is her March of Folly book which captures the absurdity of our world at this time in history.
Tuchman addresses four instances throughout history when, paradoxically, governments pursued policies clearly contrary to their own interests. The first three were: the Trojans’ decision to move the Greek horse into their city, the failure of the Renaissance popes to address the factors that would lead to the Protestant Reformation in the early sixteenth century, and England’s policies relating to American colonies under King George III.
But Tuchman spent half of her 1984 book discussing the most recent government folly – the Vietnam War. Vietnam was still an open wound in the mindset of Americans, after the deaths of 58,000 U.S. boys, over 150,000 wounded in action, and the emotional and physical toll on those who came back haunted by what they saw and had to do to survive. This epic folly also resulted in the deaths of over 2 million Vietnamese. It appears the arrogant leaders of all empires fall into the trap of committing foolish acts out of hubris and overestimation of their intellectual and political power.
“The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the invention of a commitment which rapidly assumed a life of its own.” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
For an empire which only came into existence in 1946 through the destruction of Europe and Japan, along with agreement by the vanquished and the nearly bankrupt victors to elevate the USD as the currency to rule the world, an avalanche of folly has led us to near ruin. This path towards empire began shortly after Jefferson warned to not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt and Washington warned to not engage in foreign entanglements and costly alliances. Lincoln’s consolidation of Federal power, while pushing the nation further into debt, and setting a precedent of using military might to accomplish political ambitions.
As our industrial strength grew, imperialist tendencies continued to blossom, with the government and media (Randolph Hearst) joining forces to instigate the Spanish American war. After being elected on a platform of not getting the U.S. into World War I, Woodrow Wilson reneged on his promise and sent American troops to fight in a war we had no business entering. This after he had already handed the financial future of our nation over to a private banking cabal and set in motion the perpetual creation of debt and taxation which would eventually create the dynamics of collapse, now on our doorstep.
“The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Wilson’s global machinations and involvement in the vengeful Treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for WW2, where the supremacy of the American Empire began its ascension and power-hungry men put a final nail in the coffin of the idea of an American Republic of the people, by the people, and for the people. America has squandered any claim to being a virtuous and moral light in a darkening world. Instead, those who have degraded and discarded the Constitution over the last several decades have captured the levers of power within government and are inflicting their tragically foolish intrigues upon a world gone mad.
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Ever since Bretton Woods insured the USD would reign supreme across the globe, at the point of a gun, the American empire has expanded and bullied the rest of the world into falling in line. When bribery didn’t work, missiles and boots on the ground were employed. Not once in the seventy-eight years since WW2 has our nation faced a threat requiring the use of our military, but somehow our political leaders, at the behest of the military industrial complex, have intervened militarily more than 250 times in countries around the world.
Not one conflict since WW2 has been waged with a formal declaration of war as required by the U.S. Constitution. The Korean War, Persian Gulf War, Bosnia, Libya, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine have all been fought under the cover of UN Resolutions. Vietnam, Iraq, and the never-ending War on Terror were all authorized by Congress, without a formal declaration of war. Essentially, the U.S. president can bomb anyone he wants anywhere in the world, with no accountability to anyone.
Tuchman concentrated the majority of her book on the greatest folly of the American empire, until that point, the Vietnam War. The persistent aspects of folly all played a part in the disastrous outcome of that foolish bloody conflict.
“Their three outstanding attitudes – obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, illusion of invulnerable status – are persistent aspects of folly”. ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson, an arrogant power-hungry politician, listened to his soulless neocon warmongering Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and bloviating incompetent generals in using the fake Gulf of Tonkin attack as the motivation to broaden the war in Vietnam. Johnson saw the U.S. as the last bastion against the expansion of communism by the Soviet Union and China.
He and the military industrial complex, warned about by Eisenhower, saw themselves as invulnerable and able to defeat any foe. They found it laughable that a mighty military empire could be defeated by lowly peasants in rice paddies. He was so arrogant he thought he could even defy the law of economics which said you had to choose between guns and butter. He chose guns, butter, and his Great Society welfare state. These insane choices set in motion a tsunami of inflation, debt creation, and a never-ending cover-up operation to give the empire the continued appearance of stability and power.
As Johnson dropped tons of bombs, napalmed villages, sprayed agent orange to defoliate jungles while poisoning his own soldiers, and sent 550,000 young men into the swamps of hell on earth, the American public began to realize there was no vital strategic interest in Vietnam. He ignored the violent protests and growing discontent sweeping across the land, led by the youth of the country. McNamara realized the war was unwinnable and resigned in 1968.
Johnson followed by choosing not to run for reelection in 1968. But the nature of a folly once set in motion is to continue in motion. Despite knowing the war was unwinnable in 1967, the politicians, bureaucrats and generals sacrificed the lives of 38,000 American boys between 1968 and 1975, when the war officially ended. These boys were cannon fodder so their leaders could save face and not admit they had made a dreadful decision in fighting that war.
Weak men would rather let the awful murderous momentum carry-on rather than ceasing their folly. A lack of intelligent thought, use of reason, understanding the facts on the ground, a major dose of hubris, cognitive dissonance, and cowardliness in refusing to admit they were wrong, permanently damaged the reputation of the United States as a bastion of righteousness and integrity in the world. As usual, the only lesson learned from history is the leaders of empires never learn the lessons of why previous empires have fallen. As Tuchman noted, persistence in error is the ultimate folly.
“The folly consisted not in pursuit of a goal in ignorance of the obstacles but in persistence in the pursuit despite accumulating evidence that the goal was unattainable, and the effect disproportionate to the American interest and eventually damaging to American society, reputation and disposable power in the world.” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Since Tuchman wrote her book in 1984, those calling the shots in this empire of debt have committed far more horrendous acts of folly as we approach the denouement and fall of this short-lived military realm. And the rapidity of these foolish ventures has only accelerated as each foolish venture leads to far more foolish responses to try and cover-up the previous acts of foolishness. The lessons of Vietnam were not learned, as we intervened in the Iraq-Iran War on the side of Sadaam, because Iran overthrew the dictator installed by a CIA coup in 1953.
The CIA also armed Osama bin Laden and his Mujahideen groups to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War. Then a few years later Sadaam was our mortal enemy because he invaded Kuwait over a border dispute. And Osama’s Al-Qaeda fighters become public enemy #1 after being tagged as the perpetrators of 9/11, launching the War on Terror folly.
Then Bush Jr. and his neo-con puppeteers Cheney and Rumsfeld feigned the threat of Sadaam’s WMDs as an excuse for the disastrous Iraq War, where thousands of American soldiers were killed and wounded for nothing, and generations of new Muslim enemies were created by the mass slaughter of Iraqis. The lesson of the Soviet empire dying in Afghanistan was lost on the egotistical psychopaths who then proceeded to spend the next two decades sacrificing more young men fighting the Taliban, to then withdraw in shameful failure and hand the country back over to the Taliban, who then tortured and killed anyone who collaborated with the U.S. and again took away all the rights of women. Mission Accomplished, as Bush Jr. would say.
But it was during Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama’s reign of error where acts of folly ratcheted up to a new level of deceitfulness and chaos creation. Both Syria and Libya were run by dictators who marched to their own drumbeat and did not bow to the imperial American empire. They had oil revenue, modern cities, and fairly secular societies, with little terrorism or radical Islamist influences. Obama, his neo-con advisors, and the military industrial complex needed chaos and war to keep their racket going.
A flailing empire faced with intractable economic decline needs foreign enemies to distract the masses and fill the coffers of the Deep State, as the nation circles the drain. Obama and his despicably evil Secretary of State Clinton created ISIS from the ashes of the Iraq War as the means to deposing Assad. He also funded the forces whose job was to overthrow and kill Muammar Gaddafi, along with pretending the humanitarian crisis in Yemen didn’t exist. These foolish actions have resulted in the inevitable blowback, a diminishing trust of the U.S. among nations, the deaths of millions, and the destruction of once thriving countries, leaving nothing but destruction and suffering in the wake of its imperial misadventures.
The greatest act of folly during the Obama administration was the CIA and Victoria (“Fuck the EU”) Nuland initiated Maidan coup in the Ukraine in 2014, toppling the democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych, and replacing him with a U.S. puppet Petro Poroshenko and his neo-Nazi allies. This coup was purposely conducted to diminish Putin’s influence in Ukraine, but set the stage for the tragedy still unfolding today and possibly leading to World War 3.
Putin’s response to the coup was to annex Crimea, so the Russian navy retained its Black Sea port, and support the Russian speaking rebels in the Donbas. Obama revealed his yellow streak by avoiding direct confrontation with Putin, but used the old toothless sanctions card to pretend he was hurting Russia.
The propaganda war has never ceased, with the Ukraine nazis shooting down an airliner and attempting to pin the blame on the Russians. For eight years the nazis had bombed and slaughtered Russian speaking civilians in Eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Biden crime family took advantage of the most corrupt country on earth by milking it like a dairy cow. Zelensky, a two-bit sitcom actor, was installed in 2019 by corrupt Ukrainian billionaire oligarchs and was given the task of provoking war with Russia by unleashing his nazi Azov legions in Donbas, slaughtering women, children, and other non-combatants. It worked. Putin’s invasion in February 2022 was meant to free the eastern provinces from the senseless slaughter and establish a new border between the Ukraine and Russia.
Both sides were at the negotiating table in March 2022 when in an act of supreme folly, the US instructed their UK lackey – Boris Johnson – to threaten/bribe Zelensky into turning hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into cannon fodder in order to further enrich the imperial empire’s military industrial complex and try to provoke Putin into a broader war, with the goal of deposing him. Of course, Putin is playing chess, while our pedo dementia patient in chief is playing checkers, but just wants some ice cream and his diaper changed.
There is one thing for certain. Foolish acts, foolish interventions, and foolish policies are enacted by fools and supported by fools. The history of government folly makes perfect sense when you realize mediocre men with small minds and a lust for power are drawn to politics and passionately inflict their idiocy on the masses who were too stupid or too apathetic to care about who they chose to lead them. The quotes below perfectly describe what has occurred since 2020.
A basement dwelling dementia patient with anger issues, who likes to touch children, collect his 10%, and eat ice cream was installed by the Deep State in a rigged election, as a means to destroy what remains of our society as part of a globalist Great Reset agenda. The same strategy was used to get a brain damaged galoot, whose IQ before the stroke was sub-100, elected as a senator from PA, despite his inability to speak a coherent sentence or comprehend a basic question. These are little minds running a “great” empire. We deserve what we get and we’re gonna get it really hard.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken
“A great empire and little minds go ill together.” – Edmund Burke
The nearly insane actions, decisions, illegal mandates, and squandering of taxpayer funds to enrich pharmaceutical mega-corporations and arms dealers to fight the annual flu and an undeclared war against Russia are either the acts of a madman or someone who has been captured by malevolent mercenaries and is doing their bidding for fear of the consequences to himself and his family.
Biden has been an incompetent, lying, gaffe machine during his entire 40 years in politics, but his dementia has made him the perfect patsy for the Deep State and globalist banking interests. Going back to the definition of folly – criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct – Biden’s actions and conduct most certainly meet the criteria. It seems no amount of failure and disastrous outcomes can shake Biden and his cronies from their senseless path of destroying the economy and cultural fabric of the nation, while provoking a global conflagration against two nuclear powers simultaneously.
Do they really believe the ridiculous Great Reset agenda based on climate change falsehoods, depopulation, global rule over the peasants by a few billionaire oligarchs, and artificial intelligence programs running the world? Has their ideology blinded them to facts, reason and a course which would be most beneficial to mankind? Or are these the desperate acts of people trapped by the folly of their predecessors, who feel obligated to keep marching the world off a cliff and into the abyss because they have no answers?
We know for a fact the national debt is $31.5 trillion and unfunded liabilities total in excess of $200 trillion and can never be honored. But the whole world is in the same boat, with total global debt exceeding $300 trillion and debt to GDP at 350%, up from 278% just prior to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. The “China Century” narrative will also prove false, as they owe one-third of that global debt figure.
There is no escape from this tsunami of unpayable debt. Central banks, trying to fend off hyper-inflation, have raised rates by 2% to 4%, which has increased interest expense on the debt by $3 trillion, on a path to $8 trillion. Facing this dire situation, politicians across the globe have insanely ramped up government spending, accelerating towards the cliff, disregarding the horrible consequences awaiting the citizens they are supposed to represent.
Are the covid scam, vaccine mandates, foreign interventions, UFO distractions, gender absurdity, wokeness tripe, and fake climate crisis all just engineered distractions to allow the perpetrators of this engineered demolition to continue their wealth pillaging operation until the last moment? In reality, no one will survive this debt induced folly if they trigger nuclear Armageddon because their psychopathic level of hubris blinds them to where they are driving this world.
As anyone awakened to the scam of political parties and media propaganda designed to distract and create fear knows, you won’t be able to vote yourself out of this predicament, put into motion 110 years ago. The options are few, as some sort of collapse is inevitable. The globalist Great Reset crowd want a collapse where they retain their wealth, power and control and you own nothing, eat bugs, live in a pod, and obey your masters.
Once the collapse is initiated no one knows how it will proceed. They will lose control of the narrative and the path of events. This is where groups of rational thinking patriots will have an opportunity to reverse some of the follies inflicted upon them during this century and regain some of the liberties and freedoms taken from them, while inflicting punishment upon those guilty of treason. Serious men will need to take serious measures to triumph during the coming crisis.
The choices will be between disastrous and unpalatable. There are no good choices left. A future of little or no government, with local communities of like minded people working together to live a purposeful life should be the goal. But, as Plato noted over two thousand years ago, the masses will remain ignorant and distracted by their technological gadgets, unable to see beyond the shadows and lies of a culture manipulated to keep them from thinking or comprehending how badly they have been exploited and oppressed by their foolish government leaders. The march of folly is perpetual.
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Dropped in to say hello! And am greeted with another wonderful and spiritually uplifting missive by the esteemed Admin! I am glad TBP is still on task.
Hope all are well.
Glad to see you are still among the living. I always worry when old timers disappear for extended periods. I was going to write a manufacturing article to lure you back.
I am fine. All good here. No toxic clouds, weather is fine.
I would comment/post but there are two issues. The first is that I have negative interest in covid/vax/etc. articles. I will stay away when I see them en masse. Your site, your decision, but I have extreme covid fatigue. It is just not for me, and it dramatically reduces the numbers of articles I am interested in. I just have gravitated away as a result. There are few articles up on that topic today, and so here I am. A black sheep wandering home.
The second is I am not happy that I haven’t been able to adapt to the new TBP. It was the Wild West, as we well know. We were all good, though combative, friends. I was disappointed to discover that some things I had said and done had had an impact on someone’s real life. It wasn’t my intent. I thought everyone understood this was not a real place, and when we hung up the gloves, real life kicked back in. It has given me great pause that people take things truly personally. I respect everyone that posts here, I really do. I would not wish anyone here ill. And I was disturbed that there were true hard feelings beyond just internet warring. I have been trying to come to grips with that.
LLPOH,
Covid, imo, has proven to be the biggest event in history save the birth of Christianity. Again, imo. Hence the articles. Has covid been written about more than the world’s financial condition?
You should stick around. The more the merrier.
For some reason, this article is one of my favorites all time.
Hi Wip! Hope you are well. Glad to see you!
I have nothing more to add re that. I truly am Covided out, and will leave you guys to it if that is what Admin wants to put up. It isn’t for me, at all.
What an absolutely delusional take. Did you take your schizo meds this morning?
Tomorrow may be very interesting.
Electronic Billboards in Moscow: “Preparing for Historic Day 02-21-2023 No Turning Back”
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Electronic Billboards in Moscow: “Preparing for Historic Day 02-21-2023 No Turning Back”
Electronic billboards in Moscow Russia are broadcasting war images with the message “”Moscow is preparing for tomorrow’s historic day. There will be no turning back. 21.02.23” Here’s video from Moscow:
ATTENTION!!! What are the Russians preparing for us on February 21? !!! ALERT !!!
I don’t know what it is that President Vladimir Putin has planned. Of course, all of us already know that, last week, the Russian government ORDERED all TV and radio stations in the country to carry President Putin’s speech to the Federal Assembly tomorrow. They were all told to expect it to be a one hour speech.
Never before in Russia’s history has government ORDERED the carrying of a Presidential speech live, on every TV and radio station in the country – because the country has twelve time zones and is so huge, the government allowed TV and Radio to cover past speeches as appropriate for each time zone. Not tomorrow.
So whatever is coming, tomorrow looks like it’s a doozy.
UPDATE 4:37 PM EST —
ATTENTION!!! What are the Russians preparing for us on February 21? !!! ALERT !!!
It was their latest missile test.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-believes-russia-conducted-satan-2-icbm-test-while-biden-was-ukraine
Some mothers do have them ..
When you’re alive, EVERYTHING is personal. You’re not responsible for how your word is received any more than they are responsible for how you presented that word.
IF your intent was to hurt, then you need to own that shit. IF NOT, then life is too short to worry over such minutia…IMHO.
The Covid stuff I get completely. We all know what happened…2+ years after the fact. In two more years we’ll have the truth of today, if we’re still here in two more years.
Bottom line: You do you. We’re all good with that. Most of us, anyway?
tRump, father of the jab. That’s what happened. MAGA! Yeah buddy! And I suppose tRump is still defending himself on that shit. I would not be caught dead at a stupid tRump rally. And the crowd chants , “tRump, father of the jab. Greatest since King Cyrus. We worrship you . Oh hail King tRump.”
Good to see you, Chief. I am reading T.R. Fehrenbach’s Comanches, that makes me think of you -he great red ass plains warrior and all the pleasant fisticuffs we’ve had -from time to time. Reading your comment about people taking post personal seems to be a projection of your own feeling. I thought you had thicker skin…apparently not. Don’t be a stranger, Big Dog… we’re all still one big happy family here. If you get gang-banged in the extreme, I’ll come to you defense…promise. Happy trails, bruh.
PS. How’s your Mandarin, coming …don’t dally , you’re going to need it.
“We … have to be clear that if there are any thoughts and efforts by the Chinese and others to provide lethal support to the Russians in their brutal attack against Ukraine, that that is unacceptable,” Thomas-Greenfield told CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ adding that it “would be a red line.”
Her words came as Blinken was meeting Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. There, the US diplomat told his Chinese counterpart that the US was “very concerned that China is considering providing lethal support to Russia,” Blinken told NBC’s Chuck Todd in the wake of the meeting.
“I made clear that that would have serious consequences in our relationship,” the state secretary added. He also claimed that the US was aware of Beijing providing Moscow with nonlethal assistance “over these past months,” adding that this aid allegedly goes “directly to aiding and abetting Russia’s war effort.”
https://www.rt.com/news/571746-us-draw-red-line-china/
Flash, thanks. I guess the blind cannot see. It’s fine for the US and NATO to provide “non lethal assistance” to Ukraine; but not fine for China to do the same for Russia. We’ve forgotten that when world war visits the whole world chooses sides. Then ….. “all at once”.
Are Howitzers, HIMARS, and Stinger missiles “non-lethal”?
Hi flash. I ain’t fat – I just have real thick skin. I have been searching for a kinder gentler me. Not sure I found that. But I am determined to be more measured in how I go about my world. My whole life I have tended to go from calm and polite to full on flamethrower mode the instant someone screws with me. It is part of my makeup. After the dust settles, I am generally happy to kiss and make up. I am trying to count to at least one before hitting the flame on switch.
Thanks for the offer to come to my aid. It means a lot. Not sure how this will help, but it is the thought that counts:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/belgian-shepherd-puppy-biting-leg-against-117858106
Mentioning Chinese , tuning into a few minutes of Dan Bongino today I seriously laughed my ass off the hypocrisies not only with Dan and his conservative whatever but that of the demons over on the left as well.
Dan expressed frustration with liberals he says are all in on Chinese nationals crossing the Texas border out of Mexico thinking they are something good when they are only interested in sabotaging US infrastructure of various nature.
Backtrack into the archives of hypocrisy, I waited a while hoping the broadcast would announce a call in number as I wanted to chime in and remind Dan how former Texas governor Rick Perry ushered in I assume Chinese nationals when he orchestrated the deal with the Chinese company, Huawei , in a Chinese set up in Plano , Texas. I wonder if Dan even understands that and could he say those Chinese landing in Plano did not have ideas of sabotaging as well? What is the difference even the 12 years or so ago when Rick expanded the Texas’ economy with a Chinese company?
Wonder why Dan did not mention the Plano deal?
Oh, those Huawei Chinese did not have to wade or swim the Rio Grande. They were given the red carpet treatment coming to Texas and probably thinking how stupid are these people, we’re gonna sabotage some US. Priceless!
You feeling OK, Loop ?
I was disappointed to discover that some things I had said and done had had an impact on someone’s real life. It wasn’t my intent. I thought everyone understood this was not a real place, and when we hung up the gloves, real life kicked back in.
That isn’t exactly true, is it?
You made a point of going after me personally, doxing me and helping bring back a slanderous lie from over a decade earlier in order to what?
Own it.
I absolutely believe in the things you say where it comes to business and your life experience, but you definitely have a choleric streak where you seem to enjoy hurting people with your words. You can’t be unaware of it.
Anyway, you are missed despite your irascible nature. Ignore the flu stories and post more about the ones you do enjoy, your perspective is valuable and clearly appreciated.
And this is a real place with very real people, trust me on that.
1) it was not my finest hour. Something I have regretted ever since.
2) I have a lot of flaws. Intentionally injuring someone without cause has never been one of them. Callous disregard however is, however.
3) irascible is putting it kindly.
Your good qualities far outweigh any flaws you may possess (and we all have them), and it is good to have you back, no matter what.
My youngest son wants to go on a walkabout through Australia, hopefully I will be able to send him your way for a visit when the time comes.
Wood be gud if uppity in Jersey or VaGinny & El are catching any of these last few comments.
There’s a lesson or two a-ha’s.
‘za fine line between experienced confidence and cocky, judgmental arrogance, and a few do crosseth it a bit too off 10.
It alienateth, and driveth away those not just with thin skin, but those too, who recognize vitriol when rec’d.
How is he with snakes? Spiders? Crocs? Sharks? Jellyfish? Octopi? Seashells? Big ass birds 7’ tall with 6” claws? 8’ lizards? Did I mention the most bad ass snakes on earth?
He will be fine. Aussie Sheilas will love him.
The second is I am not happy that I haven’t been able to adapt to the new TBP.
Adapt or die.
And you were one of the most abusive commenters on TBP, and I’ve been here over 10 years (not as long as you, likely).
I could withstand your rhetoric, but apparently some others could not.
Are you still going to write the article, Admin?
Good to see you are still among the living, LLPOH.
Thanks Leah.
Hey Llpoh just reading thru this sub-thread and concur, I have same reasons for stepping away.
And yeah, while not quite as irascible as you, in my opinion, I do wear, like you, on the words I say. And like you I am tired of COVID getting in the way. Tired that the whole thing was, and is, a zero sum game, where everything being lost is someone else’s gain.
Like you there isn’t much left to say. The few things left unsaid are counted to be captured perfectly by Admin like he has done today.
It is shame that you spend less time here though. Your words do have a weight that cannot be measured in the blues of the day.
If it matters I harbour no grudges. Reason being that I have always viewed you a wise elder who in the best traditions of native culture had the best intentions even though they may appear on surface in a somewhat caustic way . You and many others here have helped me move on from counting myself oppressed to being truly free at last. So thanks!
Let’s hope there aren’t two sunsets at the end of the day.
Rob – thank you. You are frequently on my mind, believe it or not. For a variety of reasons. I have always valued the perspectives you bring. Regarding grudges – hell yes it matters that we don’t harbour them. I only remember us falling foul over something or other once, and that is one of my few regrets over the years here. I behaved poorly – hard to imagine, I know!
And no, you are nowhere near as irascible as me.
Take care my friend. I will try to post more.
Yeah, I have also been wondering where you’d gotten off to. It’s good to see you back.
I have personally missed you.
Wonder from down under. Good to know you’re still vertical with a pulse.
P.S. Got back all my Social Security tax in 7 years.
Dammit! You telling me I’ve got to live 7 more years to break even?!
That sucks.
I’d prefer they gave me back all they’ve stolen from me up front, then pay me monthly out of the pile they stole from everyone else.
Could the reason they don’t do it that way have anything to do with them betting on you dying before you break even?
Wait…isn’t everything Gov’t does designed with my maximum benefit in mind?
I thought it was “FOR THE CHILDREN! Reeee!”
SS is on pace to be out of funds by 2033. Better collect all you can now if you’re eligible, even if you’re not at full retirement age but at least 62 y.o.
I put a pencil to it taking SS benefits at 62. I don’t feel like a bum. I never desired filing disability under false claims, quack doctors, lies , etc. I’d have to live to about 82 for a “break even” on SS benefits , tallying total fiat $$$ awarded from age 62-82 and total fiat $$$ from age 65 full retirement for me less COLA adjustments. That would be 2035. No way I could wait until 70 for the biggest monthly draw. I had to get out , had to get away from corporations, their diversity bullshit and working around queers plus a DFW metroplex population explosion, crazy bastards from California and elsewhere driving the public roads etc. In 2033 when the abuse of the system craters will it matter anyway. I know people in their upper 80’s that get around well. Then there are those that are bed ridden basically at even a younger age. It’s a roll of the dice and I’m ok as a wannabe farmer. I had to get out when the opportunity arose. It helps not to have shit load of debt.
Mentioning DFW, every time I go there to visit an aging 90 year old relative in a memory care center for four years , it takes me a couple days to “get over it”. That place sucks.
Sam will spend SS on the MIC.
Watch, demontard, republicOntard, dies not matter.
I liked the article, but will not tolerate inaccuracy and hyperbole. Although I think president Wilson was a petty dictator, it was the French who were responsible for the “vengeful Treaty of Versailles”. If I remember right, Wilson was against the brutal terms of the treaty. He was still a bad president.
You may be surprised at what you will tolerate if the Admin decides that your mouth has written a check your ass can’t cash.
That is a great line.
I plan to use it on people who think they are the smartest in the room.
I’m not sure I know what that means, nor do I care. If it’s a veiled threat of censorship for challenging a false narrative, then it tells me that this site is no different than the government-controlled media. People learn from debate, not censorship. Furthermore, I can back up what I state with reference to books written by historians. I do not need crude language or threats to make a point.
I love it when a newbie jumps up al. brave and such.
It was to point out that you puffed out your chest and went all “I will not tolerate such and such”, instead of saying something more respectful like “I have to disagree on this or that point”. That kind of attitude when Admin spent his time, effort, and money on this site is uncalled for.
Pull your fucking head in and show some respect. You won’t tolerate something that he posts? What an asshole.
Hey Loop, how is life down under? I was beginning to believe you were permanently down under….as in passed on. Glad you are still full of vinegar.
Hiya Bea! Nope, still above ground. I have been trying to stay out of trouble. Not always successfully. Hope someone has been keeping the monkeys in line.
I’m not sayin’ you and Stucky are slackers…..but you’re slackers. Big Dogs are not allowed to retire!
Anyway, glad to see your old crabby ass, keep posting. 🙂
And big balls are in Cowtown.
I appreciate the input, dying sun.
(A big HOWEVER)…Wilson’s physically appearing at the proceedings was wholly uncalled for and I think, made his agenda far more unpalatable for all concerned. A brazen megalomaniac, he.
Agreed the French had a “brutal” reparation in mind.
Admins quote atop your pronouncement is in fact, an honest statement.
Perhaps the book by Allan Nevins, “Henry White” might grace your library.
wilson was just a puppet, as usual with all “leaders” the
jew bankers were pulling his strings
14 points much?
He said involvement in, not responsible for.
Wilson sold it to the American people and became the groundwork for WWII. That’s a fact, not hyperbole.
Hi Folks,
WRT Woodrow Wilson, a young historian from Florida has done massive research on him from his childhood through his Princeton years and through his presidency. The podcast is called Dangerous History Podcast by C.J. Killmer. Here’s a link to the latest episode .
As you can ascertain, Killmer is no fan of Wilson but to me the depth of his analysis really brings home what a harmful tyrant Wilson was and how his legacy led inexorably to the situation we suffer under today. Longtime lurker, seldom a commenter.
any mention of col. house pulling wilsons strings ?
Whenever I am forced to drive over the fucking Woodrow Wilson Bridge in D.D.C (Demonic District of Controllers) I roll my window down and spit in disgust and yell out the window…reminding Woodrow of his death bed lament.
(Wife eye roll use to be the response…now she seems to enjoy it and always nods in agreement…God, I love that woman).
I admire the article because someone with real readership is writing truth without mincing words. Such bluntness is overdue. I would have enjoyed hyperbole, but I think Admin was admirably reserved without sugar coating anything.
I wonder if they are sending Biden to Poland to assassinate him and blame it on Russia.
Sounds reasonable.
and Jill has found a new guy.
Adultery has never been a good way to find a faithful spouse.
Blame it on the fucking tooth fairy! I’ll take anything!
pray that it does not happen & that biden finishes his term —
if he were killed he would be sanctified & the dems could push thru whatever they wanted —
They beatified that nigger Obama and HE’s still sucking wind. I don’t think death is the criteria for that “honor”.
I don’t see how he walks. And the lard-ass tRump is sort of amazing he can.
With BiteMe what people don’t see are the strings attached to him like those of a marionette. Explains how he even walks.
With tRump it’s the bloated ego similar to blow hard gas and not unlike the Macy’s Day Parade balloons filled with hot air. Curiously in the name of bloated ego on steroids , I ask has a tRump balloon ever appeared at Macy’s? I would not doubt it.
Biden just showed up in Ukraine to kiss Zelensky’s ass and confirm more cash to his account.
And to pick up his 10%.
From your keyboard to God’s ear!
jim,
very good article —
now a challenge 4 your readers,what 2 things could america do to avoid or survive what is coming our way ?
If people were to not pay taxes, that would get a lot of attention. Or a national strike. Something has to give.
That would result in you being killed by your own Gov’t. instead of someone else’s. If that is your object, it will work.
Yes. Something has to give. GOD Knows, something always does.
So, you think if tens or hundreds of millions of people stopped paying taxes and went on strike, the govt would kill them?
That is….. most illogical.
Your constructed “if” case is even more illogical.
My fanboy returns!
Nice to see you too!
We’re cash cows, bro. What do you do with a milk cow that dries up or a chicken that quits laying? Generally, you kill them and eat them.
If you’ve quit providing income to the Gov’t, you are no longer of any use to them. They may not eat you, but they sure as Hell will stop feeding you and/or housing you. They also have no problems with poisoning you or shooting you…anything to cut loose from the dead weight. Gov’t is a business and you are nothing but a commodity to them.
Lose your value and you’d better have really good reflexes and instincts.
You asked. That’s MY vision on the subject.
And, hey! Just wait until they RE introduce legal slavery in the form of Gov’t work farms. We can call Minnesota ” Siberia West”. Come for the freedom, stay for the gulags!
Just curious… how does one “stop paying taxes” when Federal and State income taxes are taken out of their paychecks automatically?? If you up your deductions to where you pay Zero$ throughout the year you’ll be creamed (and maybe pay a penalty) when 1040 time rolls around. Just asking the Sagacious on this site…
You can’t officially working for somebody else. You either have to work under the table or have a cash business or have no taxable income.
You can play a guitar on a street corner with a tin can for donations, “ordinances” permitting. No way “they” will track that. You could be living under a bridge counting that tin can and “they” still won’t bother you.
Simple, don’t work where you fill out a W-4. Of course if you lose a hand in whatever line of cash work you’re fucked. Those that operate by cash ain’t gonna do shit for you. It’s a fucked up system no matter what.
I have often proposed both!
Either or both would work. Getting people on board is another matter. And it would still lead to mountains of skulls. But that is the direction we are going regardless of whether it’s voluntary or not.
Yes a general strike but you have to get them off the couch, out of their underwear and turning off the TV. Never going to happen but they might get real angry and polish brass. It just seems to me American enjoy being played. I could be wrong here but out there there is a dearth of ….. That Word…. Apathy.
Seems apathy is quiet in style these days.
We’re well past apathy and into tyranny now. How long we stay in that quadrant of the cycle, no one knows, but we DO know that freedom always follows tyranny on the Wheel of Life.
I can’t write them out loud.
I frequently have that problem, Gayle😉
I have believed for a long time that there is only one event that would wake up the people of this country to the evils they must confront; that is blood in the streets, their blood, not merely some riot in Portland. When the blood is on your doorstep, THAT is when you will realize the need for action. In response to the question above, prepare yourself and those for whom you are responsible. Oh, and keep your head down and avoid crowds.
I have said hunger. If the flow of food is stopped, things will get very interesting. The blood will follow that event, which I hope never occurs. I have always been one wanting a peaceful resolution – think Gandhi type protests. Truckers could also sway things en masse pretty fast. But a general will would be required.
The people that are productive can fix this stuff almost overnight if they act. It could be done peacefully. The non-productive would simply be unable to move, eat, proceed with their non-productive lives. But my recent trip to the US didn’t fill me with hope. Folks generally were apathetic.
Tampa Red, we need to be in the streets like Vietnam era. We need to show Russia and the world that our government doesn’t represent us. Whatever we’ve got to lose, we’re going to lose it worse if we stay the course we’re on.
“…we need to be in the streets like Vietnam era.”
This isn’t the 70’s and unless you are with aunt-tea-fa or blockHeadsMatter, it will likely get your head bashed in or make you dead. Feel free to get it started and lead the way though.
Disavow the FED and all debts taken without our representation. Stop allowing corporations legal representation as people.
reinstate common law courts
We will not avoid what is coming. Theoretically there are a few things that could be done to avoid it, but they require an intelligent, informed populace, which we don’t have in America or anywhere else in the world. The NWO Great Reset will be implemented. But there are some smart individuals, most of whom will survive unless they are unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In fact many of them will prosper.
Lock and load.
1) Repent
2) Accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Emotionally and spiritually healthy persons have learned to curb their natural inclinations to lie, cheat, steal, murder,and otherwise cause harm to fellow humans. Neither do they aspire to boss a group of people around for their own self-aggrandizement; rather, there is a positive motive behind great leadership.
What we have in our political class is a motley crew of psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists, and possessors of assorted personality disorders including dementia. Just for starters, where would you place Nancy Pelosi and Lyndon Johnson on that spectrum? How about Colin Powell?
Unfortunately post modern culture cannot stimulate moral virtue because it can’t define it, so the crazy crowd can easily run amuck, and what more profitable destination to do so than DC? Meanwhile complacent and idiotic voters are no match for the machinations (pun intended) of the swamp creatures.
I wish Donald Trump would stop telling the folks at his rallies what a great and fabulous nation the United States is. That’s about the last thing the MAGA hordes need to hear. The lateness of the hour demands a great reset of reality, in other words Americans need to get their heads out of their behinds. Well, some sort of reset will happen when the electricity goes out, that’s for sure.
I think the entire population of our country is littered with people like that. So much so that people who comment here might be considered the insane ones.
Have to agree. I know some friends and family believe I’m nutty, and most here have expressed the same
LOL. The fam thinks I’m nutty, not the people here. Well maybe some.
🤣
Close to a 30 year friend recently told me…as we were talking about current events and what I thought what is coming soon:
“Yea…but a lot of people think you have been way out there for a long time.”
I knew exactly who he is talking about as it is not that big of a circle he and I are in (I have other circles). Self-perception is not a problem with me.
I then interrupted him with the abrupt but effective traffic cop stop hand signal…with direct unflinching eye contact saying in a low guttural voice”.
“And I was right”!
He took a deep breath, sighed…letting the air out, looked down…and got quiet. Because he knew I was.
As an example he debated with me for years against Chemtrails…then I would call him and say ‘LOOK UP’…and finally he actually went on:
Because of me he is somewhat prepped up, we have spent a lot of time together and our wives are close.
I have pressed him over the years to get ready for TSHTF, now I tell him famine is coming…and now he is listening.
I once paid him (many years ago) for computer work/favor with a bucket of freeze dried food…just to introduce him to the availability of food with a longer shelf life then him…but a shelf life that matched his children’s shelf life. I think that got his attention as I preach prep for family legacy in many ways.
He has some silver (I wish he had more) he could afford it. He has no real wealth and needs no gold, but he could use way more silver then the token amount he has.
He has increased his arms and ammo (he doesn’t understand ‘fire and ‘maneuver’ and the gear/mags you must have on your body to do both…but he has never been in the shit and never experienced it…so that is hard to convince him he is lacking in that critical prep…but he is well armed…but does not have enough ammo at all in my opinion.
I have no illusion how many perceive me…I couldn’t care less…especially at this point.
You might be nutty Gayle, but I’m with you — what you said in your 4 paragraph comment above is 100% spot on, and it shows by the unanimous agreement that you received from 41 Burners here.
Especially with regard to trump’s hyperbole about ‘Murica the Great. Just like his touting of the stock market, it always rang false to me — and in fact was based on his own previous statements (i.e. in the 2016 race he said the market was rigged; “MAGA” itself implies the US is currently sub-par). But he knows how to con and grift the plebs, that’s for sure…
Sad there are those that gullible.
I remember as a child these things that were rare were creeping into commonality until I became one of them and then was able to claw my way back out because nobody was going to save me but me and when I failed I cried out to God.
I do believe these traits are commonplace now, even if most would not meet some book diagnosis.
That is what MAGA is about. It’s funny mentioning the jab to a MAGAtard. Goes right over their head in denial.
I’ve never posted on a demontoad like forum. Do they exist or do demontoads only watch The View? MAGAtards are the most sensitive fucking hypocrites I’ve knowledge of in conservative political forums. It’s what keeps me laughing anyway.
Morality: The whole of moral law is fulfilled by love and we receive and give love through Jesus Christ who was perfect and so died for our sins that through Him we can have right relationships and thus be righteous.
I wish he would just go away, perhaps to Scotland where the Scottish Muslims are the good Muslims according to him.
To comment about the article some: one thing that amazes me re Australia is how they are still close to the Brits and the Yanks. The Brits used the Aussies as cannon fodder every chance they got, and yet they still are a member of the Commonwealth. I understand more the attachment to the US – the Aussies have this idea that the US will help them if China stirs up shit in the region. I am not so sure, but at least I understand it. And so Australia tags along whenever the US heads to whatever shithole they decide needs liberating next.
Seems to me the big players are all poking and prodding and looking for an excuse to go hot. This may end very poorly indeed.
“….and the band played Waltzing Matilda…..”
I’d be on the It’s purposeful and evil side, Admin. I still can’t get the picture of what Fleabaggs shared re Vietnam. That someone would cripple a man, put him out for a day of begging, and rinse repeat. Who am I to say? Are we really too far gone?
Leah,
Have you not seen “Slumdog Millionaire” or whatever that movie was titled? It depicted the same thing — organized crime thugs mutilating children to use as beggars. I’ve seen beggars in South Asia with somewhat similar injuries. Of course, I do not know if those injuries were obtained through unfortunate circumstances or were induced by evil fucks — but we should all know by now that there are people in this world that are evil enough to do that.
There’s always the lone wolf who would prefer to spend his final days hunting down pieces of shit like you in order to instruct them in the ways of pain and regret rather than watch reruns in a drug induced stupor. Hope you’re prepared for that contingency. You sure won’t see it coming. That much is clear from your pissy attitude.
My best friend actually beat a man to death (self defense) in a nursing home without ever leaving his wheelchair!
Fuck with the elderly and you may not live long enough to become one yourself.
I have no idea what happened here, but I was responding to an obnoxious anonymous asshole whose comment ridiculing the elderly no longer appears…leaving my comment without context.
Might as well remove it too. I can’t.
It’s the 5G stuff.
On old people, it was mentioned to me years ago an old man will shoot you!
Age has a way of making you look at life as a function of Quality over quantity.
There’s also the whole “bucket list” concept to deal with. Most people have gone their entire lives without ever seeing the inside of another human being. Sort of a weird item for the list, but there are some weird ass people out there with even stranger bucket lists.
Thanks for the feedback!
….for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth….Genesis 8:21 (KJV)
And whose fault is that? Hmm…
Adam and Eve.
This is what public education gets you, folks.
Why? Greed.
Way to hijack a thread with so much drivel!
We need a seperate always open thread where people can catch up with each other…………..
This is bullshit while a country/society burns!
STAY ON TOPIC!
WE NEED SOLUTIONS!
Hello Eddie… I’ve not been on here in a while due to a lot of things including ice storms and power outage, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it reminded us we really are pretty self-sufficient out here in Podunk, Nowhere.
However, the insanity creepeth in even here, especially in the form of meth labs and ruined families.
I stopped using commercial feed a week or so ago. Was getting one egg a day from a Red hen I call the Keeper now. Started supplementing with meat scraps, dog food and sweet feed for goats. Day before yesterday, I found the stash in an old nesting box, so I do not know what exactly the “deal” was with the chicken feed, but it wasn’t good.
I always knew Nestle-Purina were evil, but didn’t grasp that they control all the feed companies. By the way, Nestle still uses child slaves in Africa to gather the cocoa beans.
Of course, SCOTUS is fine with that.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-nestle-in-child-slavery-case.html
Hi Maggie! We took back several bags of Purina last summer after discovering they were moldy. Use a combo of local and a different feed from Orschelins and table scraps. And while they slowed down in the winter they are really picking up production now.
I bought another half beef last month (total for weight and processing $1150ish for 350 lbs of meat plus 20 plus pounds of fat plus all of the marrow bones and bone scraps. A bit less than $3 a lb, but I was surprised it wasn’t more, even here.
I let the tongue and heart go to the other buyer of a half beef. The tongue just creepeth me outeth.
That’s a great price, stay close to that farmer.
His property is where our Pyr used to go pretend he had a better herd than a pack of rabbits.
Our Pyr likes to pretend the neighbors cattle are hers. I am looking for another one and was on the phone today with a lady who brought up on her own that hers does the same thing.
I’m old enough to remember seeing tongue as an everyday offering at the local grocery store meat counter. Never tried it, though. My mom was adverse to organ meat.
Some like it, some say it’s offal.
Good to see you back and OK — was wondering about you…
I couldn’t even think of buying meat from a grocer anymore. Half a beef is where it is at.
Thanks for the tips Ghost. I started making an effort to avoid Purina products for the goats, but I was skeptical about the chicken feed before you confirmed it.
Eddieeeeeeeeeee…you haven’t been around here too long, have ya?
Ya see them DV’s?
-It’s part and parcel of the commentary exchange at times.
“Left turn, Clyde.”
Get over it.
The next time a thread stays on topic will be the first. Just be thankful we aren’t bringing bat guano into the conversation.
Other people exist in this world who are not Eddie.
The writing is so good I feel like John Nash in the code breaking scene-
The older I get and the more I look at the patterns the closer I get to the belief that this isn’t a human struggle at all, but that we’re only part of something far larger that you can only sense but never fully understand.
Great piece that ought to be read by everyone but which will likely only be seen by a very (lucky) few.
In a just world you’d be the top editorial writer at the NYT.
While it’s true we can never fully understand it on this side of the Veil, we CAN understand it more completely than we presently do on this side of it. We simply choose not to. The implications are horrifying to the vast majority. It torpedoes their sense of self determination and self worth. It requires a realignment of the mind that some would call “warping” (forget those people) that requires a suspension of disbelief.
You and I have apparently accepted our small place in the multiverse, which is why we can say such things with certainty.
Farmer,
I’m with you on what a great piece of writing Admin puts out. It’s funny, I forward it to only friends who already get it; the ones that aren’t awake just don’t understand.
I’m always amazed Admin spits this out while doing a full-time corporate job. His employer must understand he’s got a rare talent on his payroll!
“In a just world you’d be the top editorial writer at the NYT.” True dat.
Admin is apparently a hard core type A personality and an Alpha wolf as well. If it were otherwise, the Betas would not follow and other Alphas would not listen.
NtroP,
Me too on Admin…this is the only place I have hung on the internet…the pace of the information is amazing and the free speech comments are past powerful and into defiant fearlessness.
You said: “I forward it to only friends who already get it; the ones that aren’t awake just don’t understand”.
There is some serious truth there buddy!
I have been so out spoken so long on the FED, so many FF’s, the lying deceptive history and the Truman’s World reality most don’t see, the truthful documented history of the Death Cult, yada, yada, yada, I knew many around me (not all) considered me past a tin foil hat and into a tall thick aluminum body suit wearer.
However, I have had positive awareness from what I presented to some (especially the books I recommended but mostly the same books I just sent them for free to read) leading to the TRUTH and practical a Prepper influence (especially spiritually) on more than a few…so there is that satisfaction…cuz we are just about at the time Prepping (in all ways especially Spiritually) is about to pay dividends.
Here is my latest recommendation and I will be sending it to many I love:
Are you an open-minded atheist or agnostic interested in studying the Bible for a greater understanding of history? Are you a Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, or new-age practitioner who would like a peek into the Bible to compare beliefs? Are you a Bible-believing Christian whose pastor refuses to go deeper on obscure, confusing, or generally misunderstood matters? Or maybe you hold a different worldview and would like the truth about the man known as Jesus?
If you have an open mind and the capacity to think critically, this book will cut through the gimmicks and falsities of the Bible. We will decode the Bible’s doctrines in an unfiltered, stimulating, and sometimes shocking way as we escape denominational teachings that distort the Biblical authors’ original messages. Prepare to be enlightened as we walk through complex parts of the Bible to gain a refreshing perspective on matters of salvation, healing, fear, death, the afterlife, creation, cosmology, fallen angels, giants, demons, unseen principalities, the coming apocalypse, Judgment, and much more!
If you have not read its precursor (I know many here have) here it is:
A scriptural review of Cosmology and Deception unlike anything you’ve ever read. Do you struggle with the complexity of a Most-High Creator, Angels, Demons, Earth and Space? This book will be an eye-opener by enhancing your worldview regarding our true Cosmology and the things that are intentionally hidden from us today. We will rebuild the Cosmos as described from all Biblical references describing the Creation of the Universe, and reveal a new understanding of how it all comes to an end. A great book for the curious and anyone interested in learning the misunderstood aspects of the Bible and other ancient texts!
I’m reading them thanks to your recommend. Incredibly demonic forces are all about us.
Almost done with ‘Confusion in Christiany’ what a read…confirming for me in most areas…but learned much, much more.
His personal story in the health section was amazing.
‘Confusion in the Cosmos’ is the only book I have read three times.
I had come to the book’s main conclusion before I read it…but it was the closer.
I gave it to two family members and three friends and they all were changed by it.
That is readily apparent when we learn our true natures, which makes me ever thankful for our Lord and Savior.
Mark, do you ever think that we don’t know and we are not supposed to know it all? I did learn a few interesting things from that Nephilim book you suggested, though.
Sorry Ken to be so late…just saw this.
I think what we end up knowing from the word depends on two things:
1. How much time we put into reading, and researching what is in the books. (I go past the cannon).
2. How we pray for knowledge, insight, and wisdom.
Pant like a deer for the Living Water!
The two books above are game changing.
Whew! I’m used to enjoying Admin’s content but this one is a humdinger. Here’s my takeaway: We can beat these delusional bastards.
The March of Folly accelerates
Remember this:
“Freedom is priceless, its worth fighting for, as long as it takes…” Biden in Ukraine
when your goobermint comes for you.
This offer only applies to the Ukrainians.
The fake air raid sirens were a particularly nice touch!
It saddens me to no ends to have to accept that our Nation, carved out of a savage wilderness by our brave ancestors, has been so thoroughly conquered by a usury bearing, anti-Christian , anti-American, suicidal alien death cult and apparently nothing outside of divine intervention can save our Republic from their cloven clutches.
Honestly , isn’t that wall crap idolatry?
World peace, they said…freedom ain’t free, bruh ….reeeeeee
Henry Kissinger’s Net Worth
As of 2022, Heinz Kissinger has an estimated net worth of $50 million.
In 1979, the New York Times said that he was expected to make $5 million from his memoirs. He was said to be the best-paid speaker on the circuit, and sources told the paper that the $400,000 they thought he made was too low.
Just lost one of the best people who can explain the spiritual war we are in.
The saddest news I’ve heard in a long time…not for Dr Heiser, but for those he leaves behind . Thanks for letting me know.
I guess we chalk another one up to “suddenly”?
Dr Heiser lost a 2 year battle against pancreatic cancer. Hardly what I would call suddenly. He was still putting out videos and doing his weekly bible study podcast up until the last several weeks.
The Rockefellers handpicked and groomed the Kissinger imp…they will all soon have their own separate dark corners of hell…just in front of the lawyers and next to the pedophiles.
Lyndon will be waiting.
the Kissinger imp … also mentored a young Klaus Schwab
Oh yea DS…one possessed human mentoring another possessed human.
This is why I think they never brought back the draft. As long as the cannon fodder was voluntary they could get away with their illegal wars.
Great summary of the past 110 years. Something I can send to some friends who still have their heads in the sand.
Mary,
I think you are right about the draft.
I have many friends in different stages of waking up…but only a few with their eyes all the way open.
The enemy has managed to kick the can down the road much, much further than I ever thought possible…but now I can see there almost is no more road…and the can has become a barrel!
I’m afraid I have to agree, Mark
I have a slightly different take.
TPTB learned from the Vietnam domestic public opinion disaster, that they need to control the “free press.”
Russia/Ukraine shows they succeeded in that, wholesale.
They could tomorrows re-introduce the draft, and even if some serious, enduring protests would come out of it, it would be completely ignored/covered up by the MSM, and therefore the majority of the population would not think them [protests] to be large and real.
See yellow vests in France, for reference.
Are you trying to say the press wasn’t complicit in the Gulf of Tonkin?
Are you stupid?
The MSM (including press) completely hushed up the anti-Vietnam protests, back then??
It also helped some of us realize we were glorified mercenaries.
It is purposeful and evil….an ancient plan being executed by legions of archons and kosmokrators instructing the skin suits of the lost.
‘ye shall be as gods’
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum
Looking for a new breed of men sent down from heaven. The son of perdition will enter and be loved by all, seemingly saving the world from its own destruction….but that will be false as well.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus
Ordo ab cha…good to read you my brother!
Best wishes!
A very long wait at the carpal tunnel doctor’s office awaits me and I look forward to reading this while I’m there. Perhaps commenting.
I still miss EC and hope Bea Attitude is still here to pester once in a while.
Hands are important tools.
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/bidens-change-nuclear-policy-weakens-deterrence
Deception such as the world has never seen.
Mags- I’m still here, old and worn, but here.
Glad you did a shout out, are you having trouble getting bottled water or mineral water in podunk? Nada to be had here thanks to the great train wreck psy-op in E.P., Ohio.
Good luck at the carpal tunnel doc, he might try to stick some C-19 poison in your arm. 🙂 Seriously, be safe….. The VA is a meat grinder.
MAGGIE!
Good to read you my sister!
BL is right about the VA grind…they have broken some teeth/gears on me.
Our well is 400 feet down into the St. Francois Aquifer and our two creeks come from mountains to the north and west.
I also have a Big Berkey water filter, which was a lifesaver when we lost power and actually had to use our collected water for everything. 250 gallons doesn’t last long, but we made it through without having to start manually pumping from the well. But, we coulda if we hadda.
Fortunately, we still qualify for Veteran’s choice… I get to pick my local doctor from a list of those approved. The doctor will bill for 30K and accept 7K. Is a cray cary world.
Curious how you plan to pump from 400′ down when the power is out? My wells are that deep and I don’t know of a good solution.
I have a couple extra new pumps (plus a few of the old ones for parts / repair. the one that is on it now is only a couple years old), and several ways to generate power (and there certainly is the option to power the pump with an engine running on NG from the gas well if all else fails). Not that I don’t have backup options, as well an old school cement or sandstone walled (not sure which, have as yet to get down in it to look that close) cistern with a hand pump.
Of course, I would have to still be alive, as there is not many around that have the know how to get er done, but that might surprise me too.
https://www.waterquip.com.au/files/Southern_cross_info%20for%20website.pdf It’s a Dry land but 400 feet down is sweet water. Also they last for 100- 150 years with basic maintenance, which takes 20 minutes once a year
Correction…would put the generator on it.
I might get around to installing my RO, if I didn’t have my Big Berkey conveniently next to the sink sprayer.
I had a carpel tunnel flair up recently and got it to calm down with CBD balm and some specific exercises my chiropractor recommends.
I am hoping to do something other than surgery for it, but Nick had great luck his procedure.
I also have a pinched nerve in my elbow, he said.
Am old.
Did some chores, put in two blueberry bushes, then extended the chicken’s free range wanderings in a pasture with a new fence, played puppy soccer with my buddy…and somewhere in that activity strained a groin muscle…ouch!
Just my body reminding my mind the physical limitations of the advancing years.
“Well you know, that you’re over the hill, when your mind makes a promise that your body can’t fill!”
Lowell George, Little Feat
All wars are resource wars, Vietnam was tungsten. Worlds largest deposit in S.V. when it was played out the war ended.
all wars are bankers wars
fify
Storable food and barter items like sanitary feminine needs sanitizer stuff and of course alcoholic beverages.
The precious metals like lead and brass I’ll keep under wraps
Are the covid scam, vaccine mandates, foreign interventions, UFO distractions, gender absurdity, wokeness tripe, and fake climate crisis all just engineered distractions
Yes and as Llpoh stated, many of us have reached peak fatigue. I no longer watch the news and seldom look at an article about Convid or Ukraine.
The good news is Spring is almost here and with it time to plant, getting me out of this chair and into nature.
Life, like God is GOOD.
BTW – Excellent essay, Jim.
Trying to cheer me up???
It’s the “Hidden Hand”, Admin. They always use morons and sociopaths to do the puppet show. You keep looking at black magick to have honorable qualities where they will never exist. Why?
Albert Pike carried the famous letter to Mazzini in 1871 that outlined the plan for three world wars. Two down and one to go EXACTLY as outlined in the letter. Each WW description in detail carried out to the letter by moron puppet actors in WWI and WWII. The current cast of puppets don’t even hide the jooish/satanic side of the operation. Mazzini was what you might call the founder of modern day mafia. Today, I can’t think of a country that is not controlled by a criminal cartel/mafia.
There is no great mystery here, we know who pulls the strings and we understand how a death cult machinates the meat grinders of war. It has all been explained here hundreds of times.
Without a doubt BL.
The Biden Regime never fails to orchestrate an avenue to circumvent the U.S. Constitution and betray the American people. A bombshell report from the Epoch Times Saturday reveals the Regime is about to surrender America’s sovereignty to the World Health Organization (WHO) and give them full control over future pandemic policy.
Again,they try and force shots on you,be the dog!
…and just like that, the room seemed to visibly shrink…
Control of your health, food , energy, movement. An interlocking grid / prison.
NEW – Second World War-style rationing of petrol, household energy, and meat could help to “fight climate change,” British “scientists” now recommend. – @disclosetv
Without stating all the details of history, law, and statutes that permeate both federal and state code, why do you suppose the Framers of the Constitution incorporated Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 & 16 as a power exclusive to the people themselves?
I do not know why JQ is not reprinted everywhere in the English speaking world.
fate has not yet willed it so?
ZH has a pretty large readership, these days, and this was over there. It will be seen by more people than watch CNN in a week.
While unfortunate it happened also sad seems to be memory holed/forgotten to a degree.
20 years ago today we lost a hundred brothers and sisters in the rock world and many more injured in the Station Nightclub Fire,with the band Great White headlining(their guitarist also died that night).
I was going to go to the show but me friend who had the tix had to back out,was late in day and though he would have given me tix could not find anyone to go(dodged a bullet I guess!).
They opened with me favorite from them”Desert Moon”,and so probably would have been right up front.
I though personally hate Dee Snider he did a great job putting together benefit shows which Tesla took part in among others,this included some folks from the country music world as well.
So,perhaps in Tuesday Tunes we have some Great White and will leave this tune here in remembrance of me fellow rock and rollers who died.
Embrace Thought Crime.
Gab.com/ShootyMcBeardface
British Counter Terrorism Thinks Reading Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Carlyle, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, George Orwell, and Joseph Conrad May Produce Terrorists
https://archive.ph/5RQ0d
Translation: They don’t want you to understand inalienable rights or morality or liberty or heroism…or the true evil nature of leftist tyranny.
Some other mentions of the word: Folly
Pro 13:16
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
Pro 14:24
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Pro 15:21
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Pro 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
I’m grateful for the fine writing, Admin, as well as the quotes from Tuchman. I too have read her Stillwell (Vinegar Joe) account and am pleased to know of her other works to add to my collection. Perhaps seek out her, ” Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour”
Pennsylvanians near East Palestine say they’ve been forgotten across state lines
90.5 WESA | By Oliver Morrison
Published February 20, 2023
“Nobody in Pennsylvania seems to be cooperating with us people. We hear all kinds of stuff going on with attorneys and people in Ohio, getting information,” he said. “But here, I’m right here and don’t hear nothin’. Nobody comes to see me or anything.”
“Nobody from Pennsylvania, as far as the government or anything, has come out here that I know of,” Hostetter said. “We’re in a different world out here. They’re leaving us out. And this is serious. We want to know how bad it really is.”
I feel a lot of states will be queuing up before this fiasco even begins to be dealt with.u
If you undeniable proof that NATO is losing the war, you simply need to look at their behavior in supplying arms and ammunition’s. All NATO members including the US have admitted that they have overextended themselves and are now low on both equipment and ammunition, and yet they are dipping deeper and deeper into their stockpiles to support Ukraine.
This behavior is often seen among losing gamblers and is referred to as “doubling down”.
Doubling down is never done when winning, it is a act of desperation employed when losing, in an irresponsible attempt to turn a loss into a gain.. If you want to know the truth, never listen to what they say, only watch what it is they do……
Makes you wonder where all the trillions and trillions of dollars went, doesn’t it?
I have been suggesting for a couple decades now that a good part of it is going into space and dumbs. Black projects for sure, and no doubt much going into deep pockets. Why repair infrastructure on the surface when there will be little need of it?
Very impressive work. I admire your clarity.
I offer no apologies for bringing our Father into this discussion. What is the goal of satan? What is the goal of the WEF, NWO, George Soros, Bill Gates & the rest of the puppeteers behind the curtain? Answer to both: destruction of God’s creation, ie-humankind. Name me one action not of this genre by the aforementioned. From Vietnam to Covid to Palestine, Ohio to Marberg to H5N1 to lusting for nuclear war with both Russia & China we indeed have a death wish and it’s coming to a head very soon.
No apologies needed…I agree…and all the West’s power (obviously the West’s power centers have been taken completely over and are run by TLPTB – L=Luciferian) have come through their demonic fiat currency…and that will soon be dealt with.
God is going to use the bad guy BRICKS to destroy that demonic fiat power base (sound familiar – see below…different story same ending coming).
Looks to me like London, DC, and the Vatican are in for a shock when their over reach and hubris is dealt with and they are put back onto God’s prophetic timetable.
Yea, they are doubling down on their double downs…so what…remember this arrogance…nothing new under the sun.
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
This is the interpretation:
MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Good pic. Those people were totally freaked out by the hand writing on the wall.
Daniel 5 says Belshazzar abused the items taken from the Temple in Jerusalem resulting in a message from God appearing on a wall.
This and the talking donkey in Numbers 22:28 always give me a chuckle. Since only God is great, these accounts are great.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Balaam-donkey.html
Yea buddy!
(I have known some talking donkeys).
Sigh. I was going to fast from ethanol during Lent (pre-Vatican II Catholic). After reading this walk down memory lane (MOS 11B20), I think a shot of Korbel brandy and a MGD back will still be my daily routine. Life is a vale of tears. Bleib ubrig.
It’s still the 28th in Texas. Can you eat meat now?
So the whole world is in the same sinking debt boat. This begs the question, if all the countries (governments)
in the world have nothing but debt, who , really is the debt owed to? Since the actual currencies extant don’t remotely approach this number to whom does all the interest, given value by the services and labor of the masses
go to?
We all know (((who)))…
Foolishness of our leaders? Lol, no, it’s pure malice. The talmud directs jews to destroy amalek, and that’s what they are doing, brick by brick.
I think Admin knows this, and knows that most of his readers here understand ((who)) is behind the veil. But I think he also knows that some don’t know, but perhaps may be inclined to investigate further if so inclined.
My thoughts more or less. Wise and well-meaning rulers and governments can sometimes be hijacked or blackmailed by extremely evil individuals or groups of individuals (e.g. bankers) who either care about nothing else besides wealth and power or have been brought up on twisted religious narratives which teach them it is given to them to exploit the rest of humanity, and who seek to exploit the said rulers or governments for their own nefarious ends. Contemporary author and analyst Ron Unz has argued that this could very well be what happened to America.
It’s a sad world we live in.
I finally carved out enough uninterrupted time to read this superb article and to fully appreciate it and give it the attention it deserves. Even after that, I shall read it again some time because, surely, I have missed some aspects.
As I have written before, I print selected articles and keep them in multiple binders for posterity. Maybe somebody will find them in our abandoned house some day, if they survive the fires and bombs that will sweep the world.
I have come to believe that they would make a great backbone of our homeschool curriculum, spanning history (as this one), finance, philosophy and ethics. In fact, if our children will never read anything other than the 4 binders I have, they will be better educated than most.
Bravo!
What say we name DaCulprits, eh?
(After reading this, you might also want to read the related pieces from DaLimbraw Library referenced below this article – details how ‘The War on Terror’ is NOT what it’s called – CL)
by Dragan Filipovic for the Saker blog
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare – Sun Tzu, ‘The Art of War’
https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/10/under-satans-banner-vineyard-of-saker.html?m=0
Want More? – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/12/satans-wars-christians-killing.html?m=0
The American empire will fall because of the weak character of it’s citizens. TPTB have been testing you to see how much shit you will eat and you all failed. If you will tolerate them putting a dress on your sons, Normalization of PEDO shit, spraying you like insects and jabbing poison darts in you then you’ll tolerate anything.
In contrast the Afghan cave dwellers fought off TWO super powers. Let that marinate in your brain.
All today. This rate can’t be random.
Explosion & Industrial fire #Medley Florida.
Coal Train derail with HAZMAT response , Nebraska
Brooklyn lumber warehouse on fire.
West Virginia alloy plant fire.
@rawsalerts
Putin is a dumbass that has made America the Saudi Arabia of LNG while making himself Xi’s gimp. If Putin gets out of line the ball gag is going back in. 😉
Wish my royalties reflected that.
Nice,this article hit Hedge today and TBP mentioned,tis growing legs!
Even better news,four days till “Cocaine Bear”!
Just perusing the comments at Zerohedge and saw this one
Of course there was a detractor, too, who said
I guess if your gonna be a detractor, be creative😁
Well some minds think alike. Early this morning I posted to Facebook, stating that were she still alive Tuchman would be preparing additional chapters to TMofF.
the BEST article that I’ve read in a long long time – shared it with my liberal family members & friends in hopes of finding common ground – excellent work – thank you for sharing
Damn, just damn. The Sons-of-Bitches and their dollar bill.
I was trying to post the pic of the dead GI’s in the article. Sad situation all that.
The Leader of the Free World just went on an excellent adventure to Ukraine and proceeded to piss himself…
Not the Grey Leader needed for this Fourth Turning
p.s. forgot to fill out fields.. hope everyone is enjoying the show..
RiNS
The only time I have ever seen red piss like that is after my step brother and I ate beats. And having been a medical lab technician in another life, I have seen a lot of piss. Maybe his frozen tomato sauce cubes are thawing out and he started his period?
So whatever leaking is worse than piss…
Zelensky certainly doesn’t seem to eager to cuddle with joe right then. He’s probably thinking “I told him to shit that out before we left the flat.”
Reminds me of a time me, mom and the daughters went to the gas station to get ice-cream or pop or something. Just something we did while they were in high school.
So we are parked on the side of the building and can pretty much see the whole lot with people coming and going and pumping gas etc, while we are eating our ice cream, and this car pulls up next to the pumps right in front of the entrance and the driver gets out comes around the car and goes inside and as he does the passenger door opens, some gal leans out and vomits and then shuts the door and the driver comes out and they take off (no gas, must have went in for cigs or something). Probably weren’t there for 2 or 3 minutes at tops.
So I’m thinking that was already worth the price of admission for the day, when this younger guy pulls in on the furthest side from the station door and heads for the station and I say watch this, this dude is going to step right in that puddle of puke.
Sure enough, not a care in the world or any situational awareness he steps right in it and keeps right on going, never even knowing he stepped in it and tracks it all the way into the station. So we are rolling.
So I says, now watch he is going to step in it when he comes back, and we a howling so hard we are shaking the van as he comes out, and sure enough he steps in it again, turns and looks at us laughing, looks down and finally figures out why.
Yep, the ice cream paid for itself that day.
Truthfully it is probably a marker for where he was supposed to stand.