Written in December 2019. Reposted in honor of the 50th anniversary of the album
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
Brain Damage, Pink Floyd
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
Brain Damage, Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd’s 1973 Dark Side of the Moon album is considered one of the greatest albums of all-time. It stayed on the Billboard 200 charts for 937 weeks. Roger Waters concept was for an album that dealt with things that “make people mad”. The Dark Side of the Moon’s themes include war, conflict, greed, the passage of time, death, and insanity, the latter inspired in part by former band member Syd Barrett’s worsening mental state.
The five tracks on each side reflect various stages of human life, beginning and ending with a heartbeat, exploring the nature of the human experience, and empathy. The themes of this album are timeless and are as germane today as they were forty-six years ago, if not more relevant. The country and world are awash in conflict, driven by the greed of evil men. Decent, law abiding, hard-working, critical thinking Americans see the world going insane as the passage of time leads towards the death of an American empire.
Waters and Gilmour lyrics have always captured the falsity of the world, whether it be the music industry, the ruling elite, educational system, politicians, the military, or our own delusions that keep us from accepting the truth. Their cynicism about our world appeals to my natural inclination towards skepticism about mankind and those constituting the invisible government, controlling the levers of our society.
Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall capture the injustice, depravity, and degradation of our society into a toxic mix of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World, with an all- encompassing surveillance state, a populace amused to death by their electronic gadgets and oligarchs implementing every propaganda technique ever conceived in the warped mind of Edward Bernays.
I’ve found Pink Floyd lyrics to be inspirational in previous articles I’ve written over the years, including: Mother Should I Trust the Government, Comfortably Numb, and Hey You. I’ve selected the lyrics from a few songs on the Dark Side of the Moon album as a reflection of what I’m seeing in our world today.
Money
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team
No one can deny money is the primary driver of American society and a culture of greed and avarice has been promoted by those in power. The wanton materialism of the masses has been driven by the oligarchs, the financial industrial complex, and the media whores incessantly promoting products, services, and “unnecessary” necessities. The people of this country were far less materialistic in the early 70’s when this song was written.
The credit card was in its infancy. People paid cash for their purchases. Nixon closing the gold window and the proliferation of credit by the financial industry marked a terrible turning point for the country. Politicians were unrestrained from making promises on the backs of unborn generations. The national debt was $458 billion in 1973, after 184 years as an independent country. We create that much debt in about 5 months today. From $458 billion to $23.1 trillion in 46 years. Debt to GDP ratio up from 32% to 110%, all thanks to the Federal Reserve, their Wall Street owners, and the captured politicians in Washington.
It’s not money that makes the world go around, it’s debt. The concept of saving money until you have enough to make a desired purchase is inconceivable to today’s generations. Deferred gratification is an antiquated notion in our instant satisfaction society. Generations have been socially engineered in government schools and propagandized through the techniques of Edward Bernays by the corporate fascists to believe buying baubles, trinkets, gadgets and luxury automobiles on credit makes them wealthier, when it only makes them debt serfs.
Keeping up with the Joneses has been ingrained in their psyches through the conscious and intelligent manipulation of their minds by the unseen forces operating behind the curtain. Whether you call them the Deep State or the invisible government, they represent the true ruling power of the country.
Money, it’s a crime
Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it’s no surprise that they’re giving none away
Money and who controls it is the major storyline of our time. It truly is the root of all evil today, yesterday and tomorrow. Human nature never changes, so greed and material desires have always and will always drive the actions of some people. The most dangerous of these sociopaths are those with the highest IQs. The competing narratives about wealth inequality, the causes and the solutions are, hot and heavy as the presidential campaign heats up.
Both sides tell half-truths, which turn out to be great lies. The truth is true free market capitalism is the best method for wealth creation with the majority of a population willing to work. But the fact is we don’t have anything resembling free market capitalism. Instead we have a corporate fascist oligarchy, where a relatively small number of mega-corporations control all the major markets, exerting their near monopolistic control by bribing politicians and regulators to maintain their control, power and riches.
The socialist/communist Democrat presidential candidates and their intellectually challenged minions believe the solution to wealth inequality is to drastically increase taxes on the rich, which always results in higher taxes on the not so rich. Having 535 power hungry, low intellect, low morals, highly corrupt apparatchiks decide how to redistribute the wealth of the country has proven to be a disaster. The $23 trillion of debt and $200 trillion of unfunded welfare liabilities is a testament to their worthlessness and sleaze.
The military industrial complex, sick care complex, Silicon Valley tech complex, propaganda corporate media complex, and Wall Street cabal wield immense power and control over this country, funneling money from the taxpayers to the .1% at the top of the pyramid. These corporations destroy smaller competitors through regulatory capture and buying off political candidates. This unholy alliance between corporations and government is the definition of corporate fascism.
I’m all for lower taxes. Keeping more of the money I have earned is my preference. Government halfwits extracting money from my pocket to waste on wars in foreign lands, welfare programs as payoffs for votes, inefficient corrupt infrastructure projects, and tax breaks for mega-corporations so they can buy back their stock and enrich their executives, is not free market capitalism.
Reveling in stock market records on Wall Street enriching the .1%, while average Americans on Main Street struggle to pay for rent and basic healthcare, exposes the warped nature of our society. Those with critical thinking skills comprehend the Ponzi nature of our entire economic system, built upon a crumbling foundation of ever-expanding debt.
The repeal of Glass-Steagall set in motion a disastrous sequence of events which is still playing out today. Allowing Wall Street banks to combine traditional lending with the high-risk betting of investment banking, while also allowing six Too Big To Trust mega-banks to capture the majority of deposits, mortgage lending, credit card business, and auto loans, has created a heads they win tails we lose economic system.
These Wall Street shysters use their political power to control Congress and their ownership power to bully the spineless academics at the Federal Reserve into doing whatever they demand. They blew up the world in 2008 with their massive mortgage fraud scheme, demanded $700 billion of TARP through their Goldman Sachs Treasury Secretary, forced Congress – against the will of the people – to pass it, had their puppets at the Federal Reserve buy their toxic debt and provide unlimited free financing, and faced zero criminal consequences through their control of the regulatory agencies.
What was once illegal – a corporation buying back its own stock – has become the latest fraudulent scheme used to mislead the masses and enrich the oligarchs. The Wall Street banks lend hundreds of billions to mega-corporations at near zero rates. The executives of these mega-corporations then use the debt to buy back billions of their stock, therefore artificially inflating their EPS, driving the stock price higher as Wall Street banks provide positive propaganda spin, and the executives reward themselves with stock options and sell along the way, becoming filthy rich in the process.
Meanwhile, actual corporate profits are no higher today than they were in 2014, while the market is up 70%, propelled by easy money provided by the Fed. While the Wall Street banks borrow at near zero rates from the Fed, they charge the average American 17% on their credit card balance. The money piles up in bank accounts of the oligarchy, while the debt piles up on the backs of American taxpayers.
Us and Them
Us and them
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do
“Forward!” he cried
From the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
The Us versus Them theme has never been more obvious than today. The song uses war as the basis for examining the futility and stupidity of human conflict. But human nature lends itself to tribalism and war like behavior, as seen through the ages. When you witness the U.S. continuing to wage an eighteen-year war in Afghanistan, while fomenting civil war in Syria, Yemen, Libya, Ukraine and Venezuela, you have to wonder what threats to our safety and security these wars are protecting us from. The truth is these wars of choice aren’t protecting Americans from invasion or attack.
The never-ending war on terrorism was necessary to keep the military industrial complex satiated and enriched. The end of the Cold War threatened their immense profits. As Smedley Butler noted eighty-four years ago, war is a racket. Old men order young men to die on behalf of mega-corporations for oil and riches. The amoral arms industry sells to everyone, with their propaganda mouthpieces stirring up discontent throughout the world, so their killing wares are used up and replaced, with obscene profits generated by the deaths of innocents.
The Waters/Wright lyrics capture the unequivocal truth we are just ordinary people, with no desire to kill each other. I don’t hate Russians, Chinese, Syrians, or other Americans. The average person in this world is just trying to live their life, earn a living, support their family, and try to achieve some semblance of happiness during their short stay on this planet.
It is through the dumbing down of the populace via government school indoctrination and incessant fear propaganda pumped into their pliable brains by Deep State controlled media, creating phantom enemies and fake threats, that feeds the war machine with close to $1 trillion per year. War is good business. And young poor men are the cannon fodder, publicized as heroes, but actually nothing more than instruments of wealth extraction for the oil industry and arms dealers. Old rich men sentencing young poor men to death to keep the profits flowing.
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Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who?
Up and down
And in the end it’s only round and round and round
“Haven’t you heard
It’s a battle of words?”
The poster bearer cried.
There is a plethora of Us and Them scenarios currently in play. The song was geared towards traditional war where the leaders, safe in their luxury office buildings, sent young men to kill other young men, even though the young men had no particular issue with those they were killing. I’m reminded of Orwell’s 1984 where the enemy changed whenever Big Brother found it convenient:
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
The black and blue are now the red and blue, with Republicans and Democrats sworn enemies, with no chance of compromise on their positions. The country is divided as deeply as it was in 1860. The chatter about civil war grows louder. The upcoming presidential election results will likely not be honored by the losers. Civil chaos is likely to ensue. We have been witnessing the prologue to civil war for the last three years, as the Democrats refuse to accept the 2016 result.
Democrats will not accept Trump as president and have used every opportunity to thwart his every move. At first the resistance seemed genuine, as their beloved Hillary managed to lose an unlosable election due to her hubris and arrogant loathing for the deplorables in flyover country. Trump voters proved to be the silent majority. The Russians had nothing to do with his victory. Hatred of the establishment of both parties by a majority is why Trump is president. His victory has further revealed the true Us and Them.
The current impeachment farce, the defunct Russiagate sham, the Mueller travesty, and the never-ending stream of fake news from the left-wing media has exposed the truth about a Deep State. Only conspiracy nuts like myself talked about the Deep State five years ago. Not only does it exist, but it is openly flaunting its power by attempting a three-year coup against a sitting president.
These surveillance state manipulators of public opinion are THEM. They are the personification of evil. They want nothing less than complete control over all levers of government, industry, finance and media. These rogue traitors to the Constitution boldly flaunt their lawlessness on prime-time propaganda news networks, blatantly lying to America about their true intentions.
This truly is the battle of this century. Will a small cadre of unelected, unregulated, unaccountable thugs be allowed to use the massive power of the state to rule over the plebs, enriching themselves and their acolytes? Or will the people – US – regain control over the destiny of our country, through whatever means necessary? It is becoming quite clear to me, these evil men will not relinquish their wealth, power and control without a fight requiring a violent response by the deplorables.
The second half of the ongoing Fourth Turning is destined to be bloody, as this Federal Reserve created Himalayan mountain of debt collapses for the simple reason it can never be serviced or repaid. History has proven Ponzi schemes always end in disaster. Always.
In part 2 of this article I will tackle the themes of how our time on this earth can mean something if we choose to make a difference. See you on the dark side of the moon.
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Bravo!
Bravo indeed and Here, Here!
Great art takes many forms.
They all share a single trait.
Truth.
Well thought out article. Pretty depressing though.
In the final analysis, the Fed Gov is the primary source of all the problems. They’re the ones wasting our resources and becoming more totalitarian by the day. The states followed the Fed Gov’s lead and stupid became policy. The Fed Gov was the states backstop so the states figured that they could enact ridiculous policies and get away with it.
The $23T should just be defaulted on as it can’t be repaid honestly. Lots of people would lose their source of income, but that’s going to happen anyway.
Instead of voting for another administration, we should be organizing to get the states to secede en masse. Just cancel the Fed Gov. There’s enough state gov’t to handle day to day operations. Everything the Fed Gov has touched has turned to shit, so it’s time to just cut it off.
The military is worthless for defense. Just terminate 90% of it. Let the defense contractors go broke. Terminate all funding for overseas operations. Let investigators figure out who got rich screwing the population and claw back every dime.
Find out how all the politicians got rich by bullshiting us. Go after them.
But who’s gonna feed the FSA?
FSA?
Free Shit Army – term coined on TBP many years ago
Thank You
Damn newbies. gotta explain everything. Next it will be maroon.
The noobs are skipping Stucky’s guide for rank noobs. Can you believe Boot Spittle actually tried to troll HF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQrTGE4wwwA
*Extremely* irritating. Volumes of research material on this site and the n00bs want everything spoon-fed to them. Yet they don’t mind complaining about the silver-spooned Mills or the FSA, LOL.
“Pump the FSA full of lead! Wait, who is the FSA?” Keyboard warriors.
I kinda don’t mind the shoot first mentality. I mean, Blam! Blam! Halt! has a certain basic charm to it.
In The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the Bad says, “if you are going to shoot, shoot, don’t talk”. Seems like pretty good advice.
My dear missus gets all riled up at me when we watch movies. A bad guy gets hit on the head and goes down, and I start screaming at the TV “Hit him again! Hit him again!” Because how often do you see them get back up? Often, that’s what. So shoot, don’t talk, and hit ‘em again.
That’s it for sure. If you can’t kick’em when they’re down you had no business knocking them down in the first place.
Pretty sure it wasn’t “the bad” who said that. I wanna say it was “the Ugly”
and then that leads to explaining the difference between TBP’s “real Moran” versus the regular run-of- the-mill moran and with all the new maroons sprachening ze Englisch.
And that one chinese dude. dunno how we deal with that fucker
You have no idea how honored I feel to have my own name serve as a symbol of stupidity and ignorance.
It certainly keeps the ego in check. I know I’m a moran and so does everyone else. There’s a lot of freedom in that knowledge.
Carry on.
But, being the real TBP Moran would only be rivaled by one other…
Do we have a “real McCoy?”
How about a Hatfield?
Our platoon had both a Hatfield and a McCoy and yes, they were bunk mates and best friends.
Go figure.
If’n I wuz Billah’s Wife and I ain’t sayin’ I ever wuz or wuz’n but if’n I wuz I’d tell the Magster to give up tryin’ to outscramble the hardscrambled farmer!
But then el clan of the clamster might show up with stories about his wife and a sexy murlatto which may or may not be one and the same.
I’m not her though.
I knew BW, BW was my friend. You, sir are no BW
I miss Billah’s Wife.
Hatfield. McCoy. Bunk Mates. Best Friends. Hmmmmmmm………
The more I learn, the more I realize just how stupid I really am! LOL!
Aren’t TBP and FRA the same? Asking for $50?
What’s FRA? Nobody is asking you for nothing. Some give and some just take the credit for the site – look what us white people done. Preserving freedom and shit. Keep your $50, I’ll send some in for you.
Now that drew a chuckle from me! 🙂
The Free Shit Army will be fed with lead.
All the welfare recipients in the ghetto will start rioting the instant they feel their entitlements threatened. The good people with weaponry will provide them with a permanent attitude adjustment once the BS ‘law and order’ system breaks down.
Aoc.
Ned’s dead, fed with lead.
In Oz, Ned was a famous outlaw – Ned Kelly. Similar in fame, or even more so to Jesse James and Billy the Kid. He got hung, after a big shootout where he and his band caught a lot of lead. They cut off his head for study, and last I heard someone had stolen the damn thing and it couldn’t be found.
Llpoh.
Read about him. Neds dead is from pulp fiction.
As for hitting them again goes. Once you had one come back to life on you, they are never dead enough after that. People are like cats. Shoot a cat in the brain and give him 5 minutes.
Jim Cirillo was on a stakeout in a NYC jewelry shop that had been held up multiple times. When the stickup man came in, Jim came out of the back and blew him away with a .45. He shot him in the head. He was calling for the coroner and reporting one dead when the dude sat up, sneezed, and out of his nose popped the .45 slug as he said, “I ain’t dead!”
I think I would have crapped myself, shot him again, and explained it away as a fear of the undead.
The robber had to be from the Bronx.
Zed.
Flea will never see that reply, may he rest in peace.
Zed’s dead.
“All the welfare recipients in the ghetto…” How about the welfare recipients in rural areas? The ghetto inhabitant is the sterotypical welfare recipient, but in fact there are way more welfare recipients in rural areas than in urban areas. There are few dozen large urban areas in America, and yes, they do have high concentrations of welfare recipients. But there are thousands and thousands of small towns across America and the sum total of welfare recipients in those surpasses in number the welfare recipients in urban areas.
More welfare recipients in rural areas? I can pull anything out of thin air, how’s about some references?
I am not saying we are typical, but the average income in this county in the Ozarks, about a hundred miles from St. Louis… is $18,700. HOUSEHOLD income.
The food bank downtown is packed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There is a large number of people drawing a variety of disability (who knew a kid could be disabled who has a driver’s license and can get a hunting tag!)and/or public assistance.
There is a cycle of poverty in all segments of society. Even the hardworking ones. These are disabled people who will “work” for 10 dollars an hour cash and carry.
I too have lived in rural areas of America and seen the poverty first hand. The rural poor are screwed by both sides: 1. the liberals don’t care about them because they are not their precious POCs. Instead, they are “deplorables” inhabiting the flyover states rather than their precious big cites; 2. the right forgets about them because the right is focused on the sterotypical ghetto welfare queens.
Take a look at the Wikipedia poorest counties in America below. The poorest counties in America are not Los Angles County or Wayne County (where Detroit is). The poorest counties are almost exclusively rural. The list below is of the 50 poorest counties. If you extended that list to the 100 poorest, or 200 poorest, you would see that pattern extended right down the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States
The poor in the thousands of poverty-stricken towns in these hundreds of poverty-stricken counties outnumber all the ghetto welfare queens in the big cities.
And few on the left or the right gives a crap about them.
Thing is? Except for the occasional methhead, most of these young people are hardworking and willing to do some work. And, they are willing to work hard for themselves.
That nut with his house on the edge of our property is a good example. That is his .46 acre and he intends to populate it!
A lot of the rural poor are willing to work. Like you mention above though, I’ve known folks who choose the “disability” route instead of hard work. Problem in rural areas is that jobs are few. Many of them get around that by starting their own business. Hard worker but no jobs… start your own business!
It is interesting to compare urban and rural poor. One interesting thing I noticed and started commenting on in the past few years is how drug epidemics affected urban vs rural populations. When drugs like coke an crack moved into urban areas in the 90’s violence, murder, and gangs moved in too. When meth moved into rural areas in the 2000’s violence did not also move in. Crime like robbery and burglary increased, but the violence and gangs never move in a crips /bloods fashion.
Why the difference?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/six-charts-illustrate-divide-rural-urban-america
Anon.
A meth freak will steal your stuff and then help you look for it.
Funny because its true!
That’s funny because it is true.
So, you can live on 18k in the rural areas. The cost of living isn’t as high as the cities. I live around lots of single and double wides, a family will buy an acre and put a mobile home on it for less than 60k, impossible to do in the burbs. They often garden, raise chickens and work in town.
The great irony is that 54k is considered poverty….and…depending on where you live and the cost of living, that is poverty. No one ever talks about how much taxation causes poverty, how many taxes eat into earnings. Property taxes, car taxes, income taxes and all the hidden taxes and fees on things like phone and utilities, it all adds up.
I can buy a singlewide for about 20k. That gives me an instant house, no contractor, building fees, etc. needed. Acre of land is around 10k depending on where you go.
Where the real issue of poverty comes in is ignorance. I can cook, put food aside and eat well. That’s because I know how, I can cook and I know how to budget. I know how to sew, make soap, raise chickens, etc. I reuse and mend rather than throw stuff away. Lots of poor folk lack that knowledge and they’re the Walmart, ebt folk. They’re also in poor health due to poor diet, overweight and no exercise. The rural poor are often as ignorant as their city counterparts.
There was a program about Appalachia, covered different families and the healthiest family was run by a single black mother who gardened, had a milk goat and raised chickens. She worked her butt off and her kids were clean, healthy and bright.
Hey, Big Red, I thought you said you lived in San Antone. You live in the sticks?
Captain Pangloss said he grew up in WVa or Appalachia. He said the place was so poor, the blacks wouldn’t live there.
I refuse to live in a city. I live NEAR San Antonio. The sticks are rapidly being covered in subdivisions and strip malls here. Most depressing. Damn all developers to eternal hellfire.
Our 30 x 40 barn has now been foam insulated all the way to the rafters. The ceiling already has a layer of foam.
It is plumbed for a laundry sink, bathroom toilet and sink.
My husband just finished the texturing of the walls and painted them. With a roller because he doesn’t like splatter.
Our barn is now nicer than over half the homes in the county. I can’t show a single person other than my neighbor, Geneva, who is also a retired transplant from the flatlands. Shhhh. Don’t tell. They’ll banish us you know.
[Nobody, but nobody, around here textures and paints the walls of their barn.]
I was almost afraid to look… whew. Four counties from Missouri, but MINE ain’t on it. (Should be.)
Wow
Wow is right! GA and MS are among the states with less than 10 per 100 on that map! Looks like Louisiana has the lowest with California being the highest. Who knew?
Great map, but pay attention to what it is showing. this map is showing participation rates in the TANF program. It is not showing number of people in the TANF program. Look at the subtitle of the map -it is number per 100 poor families. So its a percentage. This map is showing that the highest rate of participation in TANF is in California where 65.5% of poor families participate in TANF.
We have red states with big blue cities, not red and blue states. Showing race and location of the welfare recipients would be enlightening as well.
So default on all of the debt, and simultaneously disband the military. Are you insane, or do you really believe we live in a world where there are no consequences?
Get rid of 90% of it. The 10% knows how the intricate weapons systems work. I propose the Swiss model that’s been working for them for a century. Take the weaponry and distribute it among the people that paid for it. No need for ‘professional’ scumbags.
When the SHTF, all people on a payroll are toast. Why should the amoral malingerers and murderers in the military be spared?
You can’t gut 90% of it in a 4G world without opening us (hence, the RoW) up to serious repercussions. Especially if you tell the global lenders to go pound sand. Words can’t describe how myopic this is.
I’m replacing loads of FSA types that haven’t had the guts to refuse to murder people in foreign lands for no good reason with the general population. A new military is maintained but with a change of crew. Let the military FSA types pound sand.
Think about it. The US is loaded with weaponry in the hands of decent people. Should anyone try anything, those folks will need to be reckoned with.
When the USSR fell, some of their internal docs came to light and their view was that attacking the US would be suicide as there would be a gun behind every blade of grass. There’s simply no need of the amoral military types as they’re what helped cause the current situation.
There is a huge difference between us and the USSR. Apples and…toilet bowl brushes. This is a book-level topic that Orlov has already partially tackled on a macro level, but I’m not sure at a military/logistical level.
First, when they collapsed, they didn’t strand their entire military OCONUS, leaving themselves vulnerable. Never fight a land war in Asia.
Second, the USA pre-WW2 was not made of the same guts (or lack thereof) as today.
Third, most important infrastructure in the USSR and its Soviet Republics were serviced by rail (specifically, the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow to Vladivostok near…who?). When they went down, they still had the ability to ship the bare necessities.
Need I go on? There are many moving parts here. No simple solutions. Yes, I’ve thought about it. Both personally and professionally, and yes, written papers on it. It is not fathomable to people how tenuous of a situation our nation is in right now. It cannot be understated.
I don’t think you understand how your own supply chain in the Caribbean would collapse. Nothing would be left untouched.
Who exactly is going to attack the US with people?
Who has the manpower and the ships/planes to land an invasion force?
If one did land, how would they hold something as large as the continental US?
Someone would have to be stupid to try an invasion.
If anyone wanted to hit the US, it would be with missiles. The 10% keeps US missiles operational. The rest is just useless window dressing and has been since WW-II.
In your “obvious solution”, you’ve already disbanded 90% of the military.
So there goes your infrastructure protection, all levels.
There goes your air defenses.
The guys stranded OCONUS? Be prepared for them to attack and subvert whatever remains of your logistics and FOLs overseas. They’d be well-trained mercs looking to just make ends meet in a world of America-haters.
And let’s not forget, no more border security unless you think you can pay them with toilet paper rolls. So now you have Reconquista from the south, ChiComs and Russians well situated in LatAm, etc. But I’m sure you already knew recent LatAm pre-positioning and govt. toppling wasn’t just for show, right?
They wouldn’t need to land an attack force. Just an occupying force with a bunch of unused barges when the Baltic Dry collapses to zero.
Yes, SAO, I have given this mucho thought over the decades. I haven’t always been a part-time farmer.
What infrastructure protection? The US is open to any yahoo that wants to destroy the electrical grid, poison the water, etc.
The US military is not in any way a defensive force. It is pure offense and that has put us in the current situation with non stop wars that are sucking the country dry.
You can look under your bed if you like, but the real enemy is the US military that has pissed off almost the entire world.
You have no fooking idea what you’re talking about with respect to infrastructure. Not trying to be a dick, you really just do not know. You just have not a hint of a clue at A) How troublesome our infrastructure is; and B) How our boys and girls in certain roles protect it on a daily basis.
Well, if I haven’t a clue, why not enlighten me. List the infrastructure they guard that I give a shit about.
Tell me how those useless slobs sit on their asses for 20 years, maybe murder a few people in ME, and then retire on a nice pension plus health care.
What infrastructure specifically do they protect but the useless bases they’re sitting on?
Sorry, not my job to teach you. I’m now a part-time farmer posting on TBP. I just gave you years’ worth of bread crumbs to research if you feel so inclined.
I’ll be there for my nation, CONUS, if/when it calls me. And it WILL NOT be using your tactics because despite my blather about FSA, I care about the average American.
I thought so.
I’m sure you did. 🙂 No doubt in my mind.
Hey open your mind just a wee bit….AOC knows what he is talking about….I liked the thinking…but the Swiss and the rest of the West don’t have militaries because we do…and we won’t tolerate them in any event…The US Military is an extraordinarily complex logistical supply nightmare as is our domestic supply chain for food, water, energy and mobility. What happens when a little snowstorm hits or a hurricane? SHTF….now what happens in a war? America has forgotten what this shit is like on our own soil….Keep thinking you are on the right track….so how do we live within our means and actually survive?
SAO?
I suppose my husband is one of those useless slobs of whom you speak (and I’m a disabled Vet now! final rating pending review).
The retirement pension isn’t all that nice, since it is 50% of base pay, taxable.
The disability rating from the Veterans Administration is much better, since that is nontaxable and is also UNFUNDED as part of my severance package when the USAF medically separated me. It was quite an unexpected “bonus” last year when I applied for a retroactive pension to see if it was a “real” thing and have discovered that it is indeed an entitlement supported by regulation. Now? Is that MY fault?
As for our military service?
We thought, at the time, that what we were doing while flying figure eight orbits or big oval patterns over various foreign locales was helping promote freedom and democracy throughout the world. Every deployment came with its own set of reading material, explaining the “enemy” and why we were against them wherever. My role in the surveillance business (AWACS) was pretty much as you described: Turn on, operate and maintain the radar system for ten hours, give or take a couple hours. Mostly, sit on my ass reading books, occasionally checking the radar system’s performance and sometimes wandering from the flight deck to the galley. Sometimes, I slept in the bunk beds outside the latrine in the back of the airplane.
As for the useless bases?
They are still there. Some of them are Superfund Environmental sites.
You were successfully propagandized. Congratulations!
Your decision to join the military wasn’t in any way related to a 20 years stint and then retirement, was it? You weren’t willfully blind to the atrocities committed so you could have an easy goof off job were you? You didn’t have to see the ants below that died when someone else pushed the button.
No one that joined the US military since WW-II has a clean conscience or clean hands. I hope you realize that you helped support the murder of people around the planet for profit. Major General Smedley Butler knew the score and publicized it before you were born. To claim ignorance or misguided belief doesn’t change the facts that people died with your help.
Give it up. You’re in way over your head.
I’m stunned, even for you. To group millions of people into one bucket is just…wow. Don’t act like you care about the “ants”. You’re in favor of pumping the FSA full of lead…what, are they going to be wearing John McClane sandwich boards through Harlem?
I do have a clean conscience though I suspect there are a lot of people who died “with the help of AWACS controllers” using the radar return data to advise warfighters who were carrying weapons of varying destructive capability.
It was our job. As I said, I believed what we were doing was both justified and necessary. Was I propagandized? Sure, but aren’t we all?
So, I still take pride in my service, as does my husband. But, we realize the military leadership has a completely different mission objective in mind than the one we believed to be worth our loyalty.
You were doing better, SAO, with your discussion technique. Don’t blow it.
He’s great at upvoting himself, so I do give him credit for that. 🙂
Soapy.
Just when I thought you were on your way to being tolerable.
So you didn’t get that WINDOW installed in your stomach that I recommended I see.
I can’t determine if he is as loony-bird as Hollywood Rob or if he’s a PSYOP. I go back and forth on it because both present themselves similarly so often, LOL.
SOA…I joined in 1969, USAF, to be a jet mech. I had been reading true war stories since jr. high. I had no clue about the Evil Fuckers pulling the strings of empire. So I was a Crew Chief on F-105 Thud fighter bombers. They dropped more tonnage on North Viet Nam than everything else except B-52s. I don’t regret it. You don’t know what you you don’t know, until you do. You do the best you can with what you got AT THE TIME. The grunts that pound ground (plenty of them here) didn’t join to support the Evil Fuckers that own MIC, they did it because they’re good old fashion patriots and they fought to protect their fellow grunts. The propaganda actually works. That’s why they use it. It starts in grade school and never stops. Truth Tellers are called Traitors or lunatics. “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.”
I know you’re one of the good guys. I appreciate your point of view. Give and take is good. Don’t take it personal even if it’s meant that way.
“List the infrastructure they guard that I give a shit about.”
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Nuclear power plants and nuclear armaments, for one…
Who has the money, people etc. to land an invasion force in the US? China. Why would they if all they have to do is wait?
They wouldn’t need to land what most people would consider a conventional invasion force. No reason to.
In the scenario (war games) the grid is down, people are in a confused state, struggling to feed themselves and heat their homes.
They are actually probably relieved to see relief organizations associated with the UN coming down the road with supply trucks.
No attack! Welcomed with open and hungry arms.
Who has the manpower? The enemy is within the gates.
After the power grid is down and communication is localized and controlled as much as possible, there will be no continental US. New regional/feudal boundaries will begin to form. (I never did get those radios out and charged… I need to do that.)
There is a terrible sense of loss oozing out of this essay, Admin. I hope you bring out the Deux ex Machina for part 2.
Day 43.
No body needs to attack the U.S. with troops…the right economic or political shock administered properly will get the polarized and divided states of Murika to eat ourselves.
80 minute history lesson shock
yup.
SaO – you are delusional.
And your comment isn’t worth spit.
SAO – you’re being rope a doped. DO NOT DESPAIR though. You do bring great commentary. Write some articles.
He has been doing well, but he got pulled back into bad habits by bad hobbits.
If I can get someone so flustered that they start cussing up a storm, I know they’re done for. I win. They don’t have the intellect, facts and truth on their side so they revert to childish behavior.
“First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Define “cussing up a storm,” please?
A profanity laced diatribe devoid of intellectual content. An empty rant full of words you wouldn’t want a small child to learn.
I can handle that… ask anybody around the place. Admin included.
I’ve been looking for this line of thinking. Thanks.
AOC.
You got through you’re hazing as a newby so now this is just a critique not an insult.
What you describe used to be my great hope and we still could have pulled it off in the 90’s if we hadn’t been thrown under the bus. It’s too late for that now. The lenders will get the US as payment for the debt we have piled up. We will get a visqeen tent in what will look like Calcutta. It’s all set up to go already. When the dust settles maybe some of our offspring can do something but this is going to last a long time. Fuel air bombs and germicide will remove any county sized pockets of resisters. Roundup will be sprayed on our crops. Small cells can avoid attention but not large militias.
If Trump were to take command of all the military right now and cancel washington there might be a chance because he would need us. I don’t see that happening. I’ll last as long as my supply of inhalers but I’ll go out praying for my dozens of neices and nephews, most of whom I’ve taught guerrilla warfare. Wish it could be otherwise.
Flea,
I’m under no delusion that we’re not fooked. We are, badly so. If we had taken our lumps in 2008, we could have at least kept the pain at ~-10% GDP and renegotiated the debt globally. That’s still depression-level.
If we do it right here, today, we could perhaps cap it at, say, 15%. But that would mean gutting Medicare/Medicaid and foreign wars. You’d still need the military to quell insurrection and uphold martial law in a dozen major cities.
I’ve just been down this entire thought experiment many times as many different actors. It never ends well for a 50 state Union.
Artie.
Sorry buddy, I put the wrong name on that reply. My cataracts are giving me fits tonight. Getting them removed soon. By the time i finished typing there had been several other replies in between.
I was replying to soa about wishing we could keep the whole country intact and salvage the debt that was still doable in the mid 90’s. I was joking about the lead.
No worries my friend. We’re always good. My eyes started going downhill rapidly at 39. I couldn’t even re-attach a razor blade to the handle this morning without my glasses.
If the states had maintained some regional control (state legislatures to appoint Senators), there would be a better system of regional coalition.
The best we can hope for is some sort of feudal system. I just hope the lawyers all get killed first.
Maybe we can help them by donating rope.
You all think you have an idea what would happen when TSHTF, but you have no real idea of what would play out. No one does.
Remember this: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Rise.
We don’t have to know exactly how it’ll pan out. We’re planning for the worst and hoping for the best and cutesy lines from Tyson won’t cut it.
If you don’t have a plan you’re gonna die.
Yes I am here in MT and ready….we agree on many things…why waste the precious moments we have left going level 10 hate on the small hats….They will suffer significantly in the shitstorm to come….they always do.
“When I was a child I had a fever and my hands swelled like two balloons, Now I have got that feeling once again” Comfortably Numb….
Hammer.
We’re cool.
And I know you trained them well!
Blessings, Flea. May your inhalers be miraculously replenished and your nieces and nephews be protected.
Maggie.
BTW. I answered your questions over on Merkels article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLY8YDWzrQ
Flea… have you checked into colloidal silver( 20-30 ppm) along with super saturated potassium lodide (don’t remember dosage)? It requires a nebulizer. We don’t want you checking out prematurely or suffering.
Tree.
Ain’t nothin left in there. Had a Cat Scan Xray and was read by a professional who used to read them for the courts during the War on tobacco. He said they are like swiss cheese now from chemicals. Big ping pong sized empty spaces so I just keep whats left loose enough to function at a slow walk. No biggie, there’s people in this world with real problems and I’m not one of them.
I really hate hearing this.
So sorry to hear that. My wife has severe, chronic asthma. It’s very worrisome. Very worrisome. Not much scarier than suffocating.
Tree.
The problem with suffocating is it takes too long. Too much time for me to worry that they won’t revive me till I’ brain dead.
The fucking Swiss model? What are you, a maroon? The Swiss live in the damn near impenetrable mountains, it suits all the warring nations to have a neutral country nearby, and there ain’t anything worth having in Switzerland (well, the bank vaults I suppose). That is the Swiss model.
But that said, the US has no business being a policeman to the world, and every American would be well served to be armed.
“The fucking Swiss model?”
Well, I wouldn’t be so negative. There much to be said about how the Swiss conduct themselves.
For centuries they’ve successfully refrained from meddling, forcefully or otherwise, in other countries’ affairs or imposing their culture or politics on other peoples. They have refused to join the EU. Though ethnically diverse, they are racially homogeneous, and immigration is strictly limited, difficult, and expensive.
The president serves a one-year term IIRC and functions more as a spokesman than a decision maker. Failure to pay a tax for any reason is not a violation of thc criminal code, and disputes are negotiated at the canton administrative level, not in a court of law. Cantons exercise a high degree of autonomy on economic, cultural, and quotidian matters.
The Swiss are armed to the teeth, their mountains honeycombed with armories and heavy ordnance tactically positioned along all avenues of approach, making it extremely costly for any land force to penetrate the borders.
Every able-bodied male citizen is at least a reservist, trains regularly, keeps his personal weapons at home, and open carries in public at will.
Until recently their banking system was the gold standard, so to speak. Many of their banks were traditional, small, family-owned companies , offering highly specialized personal services and storage facilities. Violating a customer’s privacy or disclosing his identity without permission is a criminal offense, rather than a mandatory service to Uncle..
The Swiss franc was backed by gold and was the internationally preferred currency for hedging against inflation and geopolitical risks. Admittedly, in the last decade or so, the Swiss have caved in to international pressure to weaken some of these advantages.
“…there ain’t anything worth having in Switzerland…”
Well, there is the Cern particle collider.
FWIW, from first-hand experience, I would say that Swiss engineering, especially chemical and mining, ranks among the most advanced worldwide.
Just sayin’.
They are not fucking scumbags. If they have a MOS of 11B they are the most valuable humans in our Country. Not that I disagree with most of what you say, but Infantry soldiers are NOT scumbags.
SAO, you are right that secession is the answer. I have been advocating that here and other places for a long time. I recently discovered and joined a Facebook group “Red-State Secession -> Political Divorce Secession Discussion Group” (facebook.com/groups/PoliticalDivorce) which is proposing a secession plan quite similar to one that I wrote and Admin posted for me here about a year ago.
Neither you or I are the first to conclude that the Fed Gov is way past its sell by date. It has no redeeming qualities; all negatives. Its monopoly status made it the prime target for take over right around 1913.
The USSR disappeared without a sound. The USA will go swinging. The owners of the country will either take their loot and vamoose or they will hold on once things seriously fall apart.
The future is butt ugly and the bulk of the population is unprepared mentally or in any other way to handle what comes next.
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” – Thomas Jefferson
And after the “red” states secede, where do those of us who still value freedom and liberty go? The secession can’t simply stop at a 50 state breakup.
MrLiberty, you are right that additional secessions would be even better, but I would be happy with simply dividing America between red and blue and being free of the behemoth in Washington DC. Unfortunately though, we will probably never even get that, unless we end up in a Mad Max situation.
The Red states will break up into a couple of geographic regions. E.g. My home in the American Redoubt (eastern WA/OR, ID, MT and WY will likely merge with Western Canada already seeking an exit from Ottawa. We need a port so Vancouver or Seattle/Portland get to come along whether they want to or not. Texas goes back to being TX (Then it will be 7 Flags not 6!), The South will see lots of drama as there is lots of mixed Red/Blue and the Northeast will go solid Blue. The Southwest will partially slide back to TX and the rest will be cartel land….The Midwest and Mountain South are up for grabs though the Mormons will make a failed effort at independence…but being landlocked it will suck.
Then the Pacwest….well they are truly screwed, cut off from the rest of the blue and highly vulnerable…the Chicoms might start there.
BTW we have lots of war plans anticipating this…..
Texas will and is sliding into Mexico…hola!
Texas will and is sliding back into Mexico…hola!
You found a facebook group. Fucking really. Maybe that’s your problem in the first place. Tells us alot about you.
Good for you, now you are thinking….Solutions are not so obvious are they….very few if any of the available solutions result in a peaceful resolution…..Who indeed will feed the FSA when the US defaults or defaults via the Zimbabwe solution (or Germany if you prefer as I know the Trogs do)?
Well, of course, some (pick your own %) will starve in the land of plenty, some will riot/loot and be killed and some will get their act together put down the meth/crack pipe and start making living….
The shitstorm is here….” mean old levee, taught me to weep and moan”….When the Levee Breaks…Led Zeppelin the levee is crumbling right in front of us….
How long before a coalition of the willing decides they have had enough of DC’s BS? Internal collapse, external invasion…yep and all the solutions suck ass but it is the best we got….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zuesse-why-second-american-revolution-necessary-entire-world
Marty.
I said on another article that the most merciful thing to do with the FSA, pussy palmed Hipsters and Troglakykes is take them to an open pit mine, tie two buckets to their hands and tell them to start walkin, get tired of walkin run awhile. No coal no supper. Those who pass muster can graduate.
Tough love is real love! There will be some who make it and become human beings again.
That debt can’t be paid at all, since the FRN ISnational debt! What’s your debit is their credit. The FRN was foisted on Congress because They knew it couldn’t be paid back from the beginning! “We” were scammed by these weasel CBers! Who’s buying all the US bonds that China is selling, as much as they can, as quickly as possible? The FRB…
Every dollar is a debt instrument. You are absolutely correct. Most people think it’s money.
The US started the steady march down hill when the Federal Reserve was instituted. It was a thieves bargain between the bankers and politicians to cheat the public and purchase votes with deficit spending which eventually becomes another monetized debt.
Everyone should read The Creature from Jekyll Island and understand how devious the bankers and political class have been for over a hundred years.
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe that there would be a revolution before morning.” – Henry Ford
AOC.
Every single digital dollar in the derivatives market has our name on it also. The only question will be where to form the line to claim ownership of us.
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His cataracts are getting to him…he means Soapy.
Did it again.
Not. Gonna. Happen. Until the 4th turning implosion, and the results may not be what your utopian libertarian philosophy portends. Reality My Friend friend from the Caribbean, how are ya going to “go after them” from there? Talk the talk, walk the walk…. as they say.
There’s no utopian libertarian philosophy behind this, and it’s what his philosophy conveys to me.
Well said SAO, as usual; couldn’t have put it better myself.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/betraying_the_constitution_who_will_protect_us_from_an_unpatriotic_patriot_act
This is why we keep coming…
That and we don’t have anything better to do:
“Haven’t you heard
It’s a battle of words?”
Well, I do have things that are better to do, according to my husband. However, when there is a good essay to read that helps me trudge through another rainy day, while clinging to my gun and my Bible (in that order), there is nothing more important to do.
Except say the novena. Day 43. Get up St. Jude. The bead counters are coming.
Very good stuff Admin!
I saw Pink Floyd at The Vet back in the 90’s. I’m too young to have seen them when Waters was part of the group. I think apart they are both OK but together they were outstanding. Waters is very much the philosopher while the rest are/were outstanding musicians.
Well, I gotta be honest, I never listened to radio, but I wouldn’t have anyway from a man with the name pink. That being said, you sure knocked that one out of the park and I say well done, yes sir, well done. Yeah, it’s going to get ugly alright and I look across the room at my old lever action .44 and think, I wonder if me and that old girl will have to make some noise before this is all over. I sure don’t want to, and will probably get slaughtered. But If they come for me, I can sure knock several of them on their ass before they realize I ain’t in to that white flaggin.
“Oh by the way, which one’s Pink?” Great album. As to the article? Ditto. Depressing and insightful. So what are the answers here?
Complex problems require critical thinking. We can’t just inflate it all away or default on all of it. Not without total, all-encompassing war, likely both internal and external. Nowhere would be untouched.
Opt out and starve the beast,
as much as possible, as many ways as possible, creatively.
Rebel, with a “No” more often.
There have already been some damn good posts, discussing ideas and tactics to adopt and broaden.
Many here already have, and generously have shared their advice, tips, tricks, and strategies.
Keep ’em coming.
Studying and implementing helps keep the mind off the seemingly hopelessness of the battle.
Answer:
“The cancer will not be stopped from engulfing the entire world. In fact, the cancer already engulfed the entire world … unless you exclude a few individuals in the extreme boonies here and there (who are effectively disconnected and too far away from uncivilization to be easy to deal with).
The other way to answer the question is how I end most post, by reminded everyone of the basic facts, namely:
Humans are dumber than rocks. Literally.
Humans are a failed species.
Humans are doomed.
I’ll be a bit more specific this time, just for the hell of it. Not that doing so will help.
As long as humans do not distinguish blatant inherent fictions from non-fiction (as in… reality), humans will remain dumber than rocks and easily manipulated.
On the issue at hand in the above article, the most central and important inherent fiction is authority. The concept authority is inherent fiction. Not only does authority not exist, but also, authority cannot exist. No way exists for any human to have or gain “authority” over any other human being. To anyone who has even modest intellectual capacity, a few minutes (or hours or at most days) of honest thought provides plenty of proof of this.
Once a human understands authority does not and cannot possibly exist, it become obvious that all the following (and hundreds more) are also bogus inherent fictions that also cannot exist: law, legal, state, nation, official, government, corporation, organization, and so forth.
In other words, in pattern, all that exists are humans, other animals, other life forms (plants, bacteria, virus, etc) … and a big honking cold, mostly dark (but beautifully starlit) physical universe out there.
And what matters to human existence is how humans and animals behave, which most fundamentally and importantly categorizes them as predators, parasites, producers. A human who understands the above can grasp, understand, and know how to cope with the reality he finds himself in. Every other human is dumber than a rock, and thus so utterly and completely confused about reality (and fiction) that his mind and body are manipulated by the endless nonsense purposely spread by human predators and parasites in order to control the producers who produce all the goods and goodies they and producers need to survive, prosper and enjoy life. The producers are by far the most ignorant, largely because they’re so busy focusing on the reality the need to manipulate in order to create and produce the millions of goods and goodies they and their masters (predators and parasites) need to survive, prosper and enjoy life.
Humans will continue to be TOTALLY SCREWED as long as human producers keep aiding, sanctioning, funding, voting-for and obeying human predators and parasites. Always remember. Human producers all the real, physical goods that human predators and parasites apply to enslave, confuse and manipulate human producers. Since human producers are even dumber than human predators and human parasites … and only become even dumber as time passes … well, that’s why humans are screwed.
All human producers need to do is say NO MORE OF THIS BS … and do what all sane creatures with an IQ above 10 do … namely exterminate dangerous predators. Or when that happens to be a bit too dangerous in a current instance, at least avoid, evade and escape the predators and parasites, and do not give them any goods or goodies, which is what keeps them alive and makes their job of enslaving you easy.
Oh, never mind. It is too simple, and humans are too stupid.
Humans are dumber than rocks.
Humans are a failed species.
Humans are doomed.
For the infinitesimal number of humans who truly understand the above, the way to live is to move to the extreme boonies and set up a simple, self-sufficient life for yourself … so far away from uncivilization that all other humans live in that the predators and parasites don’t even know you exist, much less where.”
Well, let’s talk about those boonies. They’re scarcer with every passing day. Too many people and the sprawl is pushing into those boonies. Soon there won’t be anywhere to hide.
Alright then, please pardon my ignorance, it’s worse than I thought, it’s a whole group of men named pink. Hahahaha, the laugh is on me, and I am good with that. So I don’t know a darn thing when it comes to music, not nothing. If I posted a pic of me using a mule in the garden, which I still do, then everyone would say, oh I get it, he really is a dumb old fart.
Old Fart? Nah, hell, you are using a mule to plow? Dear Sir, in the coming excitement you will be light years ahead of the competition. I have a great fondness for mules, smarter than a horse, generally won’t founder himself and won’t work til it drops. Good common sense. Of course, a mule will hold a grudge and will kick someone ten years after the real or imagined slight.
Thanks Mygirl…maybe. A horse or mule wont pack the garden like a tractor and I just enjoy it. I use a double shovel between the rows and nothing like hearing them shovels slide through the soil without the noise of an engine, people don’t know what they are missing by ignoring the old ways. I log that way too, just quieter and slow, more my style. You are correct on the differences of a mule and a horse. A good mule is worth it’s weight in gold and when this all goes upchuck may prove to be more valuable. I can garden with her, pull firewood to the house or ride her town and she is an excellent alarm. If you see her standing alert, you better pay attention, somethings out there. Just my opinion, Thanks.
Tiny bit of livestock envy, I really wanted a mule but found them difficult to locate and knowing I had zero experience with them wouldn’t know a good mule from a stubborn one.
I do love gardening by hand though, nothing as soothing in this world as spending a couple of hours at ground level with the smell of rich soil all around you.
Amen.
Yes, Amen. Kinda bittersweet as the snow total tops 14 inches around here.
Shit, no, 22 inches, over the duck boots.
and fresh bunny poop to work into the soil for the winter…
HSF you need a few water buffalo. Gentle, kind and tasty. Look it up you can ride the damn things.
Mules and donkeys are death on coyotes and dogs stupid enough to get in the pasture with them. Donkeys are used around here as herd guards, lots of them, not too many mules as pasture ornaments out here. Sounds like your Jenny (Molly) is a keeper.
I’ve gone no-till for years. Great results.
Only way to go IMHO. In order to move forwards, we need to move backwards.
As usual, Jim, you hit a home run on several different topics. There was a reason Jefferson wanted to prohibit federal borrowing. It doesn’t matter if you use toilet paper or gold as money if the govt. has the ability to borrow with no intention of ever paying it back. It’s fraud, pure and simple.
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it’s constitution; I mean an additional article taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or any thing else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expences within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. but not so hard as ten wars instead of one. for wars would be reduced in that proportion. besides that the state governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-30-02-0398
That connection to music and good lyrics bridges good people, even if separated geographically.
Fond memories of the album with an instantly recognizable picture…the prism.
On a side trail, I kept thinking of what plays in my head when I hear the yutes grumble about the BS we endure in the corporate working world.
Welcome, my son.
Welcome to the machine.
“exerting their near monopolistic control by bribing politicians and regulators to maintain their control, power and riches.”
“Pathocrats”. Given power to control by any means, the populace. People who lack the Intelligence or strenght to make an honest living gravitate to the jobs and will kill to avoid collapse and be at the mercy of the populace.
Paraphrased from “Political Ponerology” by Andrew Lobaczewski.
The brilliance of Pink Floyd was that they saw through the veil and put it to their genius music and lyrics: imaginative, awful and predictive over the decades.
And in the 1985, Mike and The Mechanics also had a powerful terrible vision; looking over the event horizon and put it into song:
Scares the hell out of me every time I hear it.
Seems the serial downvoter is at it again, poor thing. You need a life little fella.
Absolutely perfect song for this article and the situation we face in the world today.
It seems like the admin ratchets up the tenor of his narrative as the situation gets more inflamed. The heat of this piece suggests the critical mass is now glowing red hot. It points to a tipping point.
I can’t wait to read part 2 though it may be terrifying.
Both sides tell half-truths, which turn out to be great lies. The truth is true free market capitalism is the best method for wealth creation with the majority of a population willing to work. But the fact is we don’t have anything resembling free market capitalism. Instead we have a corporate fascist oligarchy, where a relatively small number of mega-corporations control all the major markets, exerting their near monopolistic control by bribing politicians and regulators to maintain their control, power and riches.
What a great paragraph from a great essay. It’s one of my JQ favorites. Amidst the bleakness, you do note that most ordinary people have no desire to dominate, control, or kill other ordinary people. One of these days most people will realize that it’s the “ordinary” people who are humanity’s hope, not the “leaders.” They might even do something constructive about the leaders, like get rid of them.
I’ll post this tonight.
My father’s ancestors were Scots-Irish and Welsh. My mother was German. My paternal ancestors painted themselves blue and ran into battle naked…my maternal ancestors wielded battle axes and waged terror all along the coastal regions of unfortunate countries…Don’t ever discount the wrath of the Saxon or the German when the dander is roused enough. I will put my money on a good ol’ country boy over some puke in a mask pretending to be tough. I have seen the country boy in action….
So, you are Scots-Irish. No wonder you are so foul dispositioned. I know lots about the Scots-Irish. If there is a more volatile bunch, I have yet to encounter it. The only thing you hate more than each other (clannish bunch you are) is anyone else.
The Scots are one of the few to give the Romans an ass-kicking.
Proud Scotsman here….and yes we are a nasty foul-tempered bunch…..living a marginal existence in an impoverished land will do that to folk.
Mygirl.
the Scotch-Irish are not Irish. They are Scottish Protestant Lowlanders who were allowed to go to northern Ireland and dispossess the Irish from their land. They excelled at theft and murder so the brits then sent them to do the same thing to Llpoh’s Kin in Apalachia and then on to Texas and the Northern plains. Llpoh’s right about the disposition. If they ever could have quit fighting each other long enough, they would own England.
They were a rather fierce and cantankerous lot. I know who and what the Scots-Irish were and are. Are you aware of how many came and settled in this country? The Texans were largely Scots-Irish and many came from Kentucky as did many of my ancestors. They chased off the Comanche, think about that one.
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As to foul dispositions, seem ol’ Llpoh is doing a great job of calling the kettle black, Mr. Congeniality you ain’t, aren’t you the one who compares himself to a scorpion? Don’t forget the German, and the red hair….I am not of a placid temperament but I can be sweet and kind and compassionate. I can also lose my temper, I am not suicidal, I am homicidal when provoked. Unlike some commenting here, I’m honest about my temper and don’t pretend otherwise….hint, hint….also, if this is a weak attempt at baiting me….pfft.
Mygirl.
Yes I know, I just told you they went on to Texas and the northern plains. I just assumed you knew they hadn’t changed occupations when the arrived. The Comanche and Scottish Are two peas in a pod. You didn’t corner the market on feisty redheadedness on this site either. Mom was half Irish and Scottish but not Scotch-irish Schismatis. They didn’t renounce their faith till it was time to get on a boat to the New World. Dad’s family came over during the famine, changed names and religions and headed for Whitley county KY and Cambell County TN. My parents and all us kids are Redheaded and left handed and never met a fight or a bottle of whiskey they didn’t like.
As dour as you can be at times I think you might have a Norwegian Milkman in the lineage somewhere.
I get the redheaded part but what does left handed have to do with it? Do the two have to go together to make a volatile combination? You know, they used to think that us left handed people were demon possessed?
Hey I’m Scots-Irish and left handed…
who knew..
Don’t like whiskey but that could be due to the English and German DNA..
maybe..
Ever heard the expression; “beaten like a redheaded stepchild?” Don’t know about left handed and redheaded but both are recessive genes, and green eyes tossed in the mix? Think neanderthal.The fondness for whiskey is a fondness and weakness when it comes to the ‘drink’ and there are few Irish who can claim a dislike for the ale, whiskey, gin, beer, schnapps, vodka and mead.
Mygirl.
The 4 oldest had hazel and us younger three had blue eyes. Parents had brown eyes. Go figure.
Mary.
I was just making a point about the rarity of all nine of us being redheaded and left handed. The odds against it are huge considering both are rare. But left handedness is much more prevalent among redheads.
Seems to be more lefties today than when I was a kid.
My Dad and his sister were born in 1903 and 07 and had their hands tied behind their backs in school because of all the stories about lefties.
If you aren’t left handed you’re left out.
Was your mom old when she had kids? More left handed kids are born to women over 40 than any other age group. My mom was 41 when I was born.
I’m half French and the rest is English German. I like whiskey, beer and what else did My Girl list? Wine makes my head hurt. My hair was chestnut. You know, kind of a brown with red highlights. I really have to be pushed to get angry but it’s a bad idea to push me that much.
Mary.
25 to 45.
Why did I think 25 or 6 to 4.
Mary.
I think three of the older ones are not natural lefties. They are way too left brained. I was reading way back about some kids switching in early childhood for a number of reasons.
So what do you get if you are an Irish/French mutt who’s left-handed, and your wife is Scots-Irish and right-handed? 🙂
AOC.
A hot tempered, pickled Frog.
AOC.
Darned PC culture has ruined good comedy. Can’t even tell ethnic jokes anymore except here.
Did you know “How” is not an Indian word?
I agree. I was listening to Joe Rogan talk to Matt Taibbi the other day and he said that in a free society, comedy must be blind to PC or else the most sensitive issues aren’t dealt with in the public arena.
HAHAHAHA I like it. A constantly boiled frog.
AOC.
Pickled would refer to the Irish portion.
Wherever four Irishmen gather you’ll discover a fifth.
O’Brien asked his friend Paddy to pour a bottle of good Irish whiskey on his grave when he dies.
A week after the burial Father Murphy is walking through the cemetary and sees Paddy peeing on O’Brien’s grave and says, Goodness lad whatever ya be a doin. Paddy said, well father, me friend here asked me to pour a bottle o good Irish whiskey on his grave and I didn’t think he’d mind if I borrowed it first.
Omg, Flea! A hot tempered, pickled frog? That one really did make me laugh out loud!
Norwegian bachelor farmer in the woodpile….heh. My paternal grandmother had twelve kids, six were very tall, blond, heavyset and very fair. Five of them were small, dark haired and skinned and the last little fella, my father, was blond, of average height and medium skinned (didn’t really sunburn) Granny used to joke about the mailman….
Mygirl.
They also used to blame the Honeydew Dippers for the different child. They called them that because in the old day they didn’t have vaccume trucks to empty the septic tanks. Apparrently they were real ladies men.
I swear to God, I never gave it a second thought as to how to empty a septic tank without a vacuum truck. WOW.
AOC.
No welfare makes manure less fragrant.
Mygirl – you are obviously confused. I have a very pleasant disposition.
It is just that people make it their jobs to go out of their way to piss me off, and they are so damn good at their jobs. I really am innocent.
You are the sweetest most wonderfullest man out there and I really do understand about those other pissants who act as irritants and make you all unpleasant and stuff…they make me act bad too:)
That’s what I tell people when they ask about you. I say, to know him is to love him. Not in a gay way like Donkey, though.
I said…”and that ain’t gay.
I’m Scots-Irish as well. My family was in all the waves that got on a boat. Had family arrested for being part of the Fishing Creek Confederacy and involved with the Mollies.
I’ve always figured I’m just destined to rebel against authority. It has cost me many times in my career but it is just reflexive. I’m also fiercely loyal to those close to me.
I wonder if we, Scots-Irish, are over represented here?
That’s a good question… I wonder.
Exactly and don’t forget they sent us to the penal colony in OZ and then used us to conquer the world as troops in the UK military….I still am confused about how we kicked the Native Americans asses…I guess numbers and smallpox count in the end….The local tribes in MT are awesome physical specimens….terrifying and tough. I can’t imagine how scary it would have been to be a pioneer in “Indian Country”…
I’ve noticed that the people who post regularly on this site tend to have issues with authority, are independent to a fault, are intelligent (much smarter than the average) not inclined to accept the unacceptable or tolerate the intolerable, somewhat quick tempered and mostly probably loyal to those whom they deem worthy of said loyalty.
The indians did themselves in thru internecine warfare. Instead of banding together and fighting the common foe they fought amongst themselves and often went to work for the enemy to get even with other tribes. I’ve known several of the folks from the plains tribes and they are indeed powerful folk. Their undoing in most instances is booze and drugs.
I have several first hand accounts of encounters with the early settlers in Texas and the indians. Many were shot and scalped right outside their cabins, and sometimes the indians did it. There was old man Tonderes, he was murdered, buried and his killers dug him up and placed his corpse on his front porch because killing him wasn’t enough, apparently.
Mygirl.
The Scottish did themselves in with infighting as well. If they could have quit fight for 50 they would own England.
Mygirl – the Indians were done in by disease. Everything else is a distant second.
I don’t have issues with authority. Do you have issues with authority, LLPOH?
If you don’t have issues with authority then you haven’t been paying attention….I just can’t help myself…when any person tells me to zig…I automatically zag….somewhat dysfunctional but it is what it is.
Of course you don’t. Your wife rules the roost.
Are you dogging me, AOC? Because if anybody is liable to be pussy-whipped it would be a young pup like you who begs the old lady to at least give you a handjob.
LOL! I can’t decide what I should laugh harder at…calling me young, or assuming I can demand a handjob from my wife!
Nah, no issues with authority. I take all I can get.
….so apparently most of the commenters on this site are left-handed, red headed, Scots-Irish, French, bad tempered, borderline alcoholics, with anti-establishment tribalist tendencies, reprobates and heterosexuals. Whew!
My wife said that if I win the lottery, she isn’t bailing me out of jail. She says I’m eccentric enough to act on my stupid, puerile, Borat-like impulses.
I completely disagree with her. She’d bail me out of jail.
Who you calling borderline?
William Munny in Unforgiven said “We all got it coming.” Even ol’ Ned did who tried to give up the killin’ going on got it. Little Bill told him bad was coming, “Not gentle like before.” Karma, baby. All those bad men at the top and right down to the bottom will get it and the good guys won’t have to do a thing they already don’t do. Be a light unto oneself and take your just desserts even as you act the warrior/protector out of necessity and predilection. We may not see justice in this life or the next or the one after that, but justice is the end game for humanity.
I know you already know this. It’s just a reminder. It’s not that money is evil, no more than a gun is evil. Both are just tools. It’s the people behind the money. They love money so much they can never get enough of it and they want us to love stuff so much we will keep piling on the debt. It’s the only way they can create more money by convincing us we need more stuff.
I love they way you worked in the words to the album with your essay. Very creative.
She’ll be right, mate…
With…..without….
And who’ll deny its what the fighting’s all about?
“believe buying baubles, trinkets, gadgets and luxury automobiles on credit makes them wealthier, when it only makes them debt serfs.”
Most know the truth of this, and yet clamor for more.
Hard to imagine a solution for this, in this Age of debt. As a corollary, the age old phrase “Making Money”, has morphed and truly making money, is actually borrowing it, as that is how it springs to life, it’s borrowed.
“The Us versus Them theme has never been more obvious than today.”
I wrestle with this timeless Hegelian incantation, it should not have to be true, but nonetheless never fails to be true. A necessary component to every 4th Turning as well, reduction to dialectic is a precondition to the Crisis.
Progressing as predicted, it seems to be an unstoppable condition, that the architects are keenly aware of, an innate, inseparable human deficiency. We can always, easily be divided into Us and Them.
As always, thank you for the excellent work and I eagerly await the next, always eagerly awaiting the next.
Ode to Jim via Kickstart my heart…
When he started this blog
All we needed, needed was a laugh
Years gone by…
I’d say he’s kicked some ass
When I’m enraged
Or hittin’ the stage
Admin’s essays rushing
Through my veins
And I’d say Jim’s still kickin’ ass
Ooo, ahh, kickstart my heart
Hope it never stops
And to think, he did all of this…
To wake the dead….
An epic article. For sure. And the tracks on the album do lend themselves to current circumstances.
This was the money shot for me:
So true and not just because most people don’t pay cash anymore, but because every dollar is, in fact, debt. It means the more that is printed the more that is owed. It’s like the trap was set in 1913 and since then Americans have been frogs swimming in a sea of green; gradually approaching the boiling point. Slowly at first until suddenly.
The heat is turned up in the kitchen and Americans will soon drown in an inflationary vortex to the sounds of bubbles bursting. Hell, it’s already happening.
Since the financial trap was first set, the progression has been steady. Like clockwork.
Which calls to mind three more tracks from the Dark Side of the Moon: Time, Brain Damage, and Eclipse.
Looking forward to the next installment – albeit with an admitted more than a modicum of dread.
Pi, Mark and Flea,
Boom
“It is through the dumbing down of the populace via government school indoctrination and incessant fear propaganda pumped into their pliable brains by Deep State controlled media, creating phantom enemies and fake threats, that feeds the war machine with close to $1 trillion per year. War is good business. And young poor men are the cannon fodder, publicized as heroes, but actually nothing more than instruments of wealth extraction for the oil industry and arms dealers. Old rich men sentencing young poor men to death to keep the profits flowing.”
But you already knew that.
Marks not here. Who’s this?
Read much? Who are you?
Donkey,
In relation to your post and Admins powerful article to me everything, I mean everything, traces back to the KISS principle. Keep it simple stupid – it’s the Luciferian Banksters.
The Luciferian Banksters who fund and control the international Bolshevik’s and the Zionists who seem to be fighting for control of the emerging NWO are the enemy, the evil, the power:
“Behind school indoctrination and incessant fear propaganda pumped into their pliable brains by Deep State controlled media, creating phantom enemies and fake threats that feeds the war machine.”
In no particular order:
They are behind the Georgia Guidestones, Chem trailing & DEW cooking people alive in their beds and cars, The CIA – The Vatican & the Mafia becoming the greatest drug dealing unholy alliance in the history of the world, the Everything Bubble, Epstein and all that implies, all the FF wars and the horrors and massive deaths that implies, most of the shooting FF to beat the drum to disarm the American people one of the greatest threats they face, The Club of Rome and the Climate Change hoax, The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the corruption of American foreign policy since the 1920’s, Antifa, Hollywood, and since 1965 flooding the US with low IQ 3rd world people to demographically weaken us, the creation of derivatives and suppression of Precious Metals, the gender/gay perversions being shoved down our throats, they fund the various radical Think Tanks and Foundations with our own wealth that they have stolen from us, the flooding of Europe with Muslims…shit I could go on and on…
It is all traced back to the Luciferian Banksters who worship their god.
It’s all coming to a head, and if you want to know how it turns out read and study the book, because I believe we all are going to have a front row seat to unfolding prophecy.
Got a big To Do list today buddy, but I’ll pop in and out for coffee and snacks and check back with you.
HANG ALL THE BANKSTERS ON TV!
I read a little bit of your link last time and I gathered the real jews were negroes. So, if they are the real jews, then they killed Christ. Not something to be proud of. But wait, there’s more, if they were jews but now they are Christians, then haven’t we come full circle and the world can end now? How is it the wise people who were at one time the chosen ones came to be so intellectually deficient? I mean, rap wasn’t even their invention.
???
The confession of a former Luciferian, the other articles in the link were all about blacks and how they were the real jews. I thought you read it?
I see said the blind poster…I didn’t read the other articles.
But, seeing how you brought it up – I thought the ‘Conclusion’ on ‘Confessions of an Ex Luciferian’ shed a lot of light on the Jew back and forth on the Platform that Burns.
Not all Jews are Luciferians (probably a small number) – but all Luciferians are Demonic…and not all of them are Jews.
https://abasikibebunda.wixsite.com/abasikibebundanews/single-post/2019/08/09/Confessions-of-an-Ex-Luciferian-Jew
CONCLUSION: CABALIST BLACK MAGIC
The Illuminati control the mass media and use it to induct us into their Cabalist nightmare. We become what we contemplate: violence, greed, lust (pornography,) homosexuality, and the occult. Art and entertainment are designed to remove us from historical reality. Does anyone believe the Oscar nominated Lincoln, written and directed by Illuminati Jews, tells us the true story? The real story, mankind’s possession by a satanic secret society, is never told.
Mass media-control allows them to perform their magic tricks: conjure wars, demolish iconic skyscrapers or murder children.
Jews need to disown the Satanists in their ranks or they will take the blame. (This applies to all groups.) The days when Jews can pretend anti-Semitism is an irrational sickness are over.
Like my past self, most people are unwitting collaborators. Often, they are idealists. But it’s never too late to acknowledge they were duped, and face reality.
Well played sir, well played.
Anonymous,
I’m usually lurking sooner or later.
When you ask a regular who everyone knows, ‘Who’s This’….anonymously doesn’t that seem rude?
Does to me.
Mark/Donkey.
That was a joke I couldn’t resist. It was from a Cheech and Chong skit.
Ha!
You got me Flea.
Hold on I hear a knock on the door…Somebody looking for Dave.
Flea, you da man.
I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd since I was 15 and I can still remember the very first time I heard them on the radio, how I rode my bicycle to the record store and bought the album and how when my father came home from work I made him sit down and listen to it from beginning to end like he’d done with me a thousand times before with Mozart and Bach so he could understand me. I continued to follow them my entire life, their albums creating a soundtrack to huge swaths of my life, sometimes center stage, other times fading into the background, but always remaining fixed, like the North Star in my consciousness. I know it was in part the simple mastery of the instrumentation, the swelling sound and ethereal tone that flows through everything they have ever done, but there was always something more to it, a thread that ran through it all. The lyrics were easy to follow but there was always some depth to them that you could never get to, something would come up that would convince you of their genius- like Money played to The Wizard of Oz- and then ten years later you’d suddenly “get” what Wish You Were Here was really about, even though you thought you knew before. It never fails to capture my attention no matter how often I have heard it.
I’m getting off topic somewhat, but I wanted to find a way of saying thank you for this- I know I share a great deal of similar generational, ethnic, and regional consanguinity with you Jim so I am able to follow your line of thinking and understanding quite well, but this really helped me understand one of my all time favorite pieces of music in a very different way, as a manifesto. I wonder, after reading this, if even they were completely aware of what they were writing, if they fully grasped how important their vision is to understanding the world we live in and it’s complex and at times frustrating combination of beauty and truth as well as perfidy and degradation. Profound is the closest word I can think of that fits.
This was a profound piece.
What he said, but in Ozark lingo.
We were partial to Stairway to Heaven.
” but this really helped me understand one of my all time favorite pieces of music in a very different way, as a manifesto. I wonder, after reading this, if even they were completely aware of what they were writing, if they fully grasped how important their vision is to understanding the world we live in and it’s complex and at times frustrating combination of beauty and truth as well as perfidy and degradation. Profound is the closest word I can think of that fits.”
Because you write so much better than me I’m just going to say “ditto”.
A friend and I were lucky enough to land a couple of free tickets to see them when I was 15. It was right before the album went into general release but they were touring to bump start the release. It was a smaller venue (about 3000) and were only a few rows back from the stage. I bought the album and listened over and over until I knew all the lyrics by heart. I never really understood what they were trying to say until now. And I agree that we don’t know whether they even fully understood the vision they were projecting.
HSF, you listened to Floyd since you were 15 yet you joined the military?
I’m a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
Nah, you’re the wise owl.
Does the hoot owl hoot?
That’s a good skit.
Look, here’s a pirated video. No harm done, right?
Most times you don’t get to know what you don’t know until you do. Especially true when you are that young and still thinking you know it all.
Why is that a question? I listened to Floyd when I was 15, but was stoned out of my mind. I’m retroactively concerned.
Uncloa , this one of your best . Dark side of the Moon sums up life even more then it ever did to me. I was never a fan of the band . Dont own any of their records but I still remember the songs from that album . Where I lived they played them around the clock. I was glad when in 1975 Boston come out with their first album. Finally something new . Looking forward to part two.
Check your six pardner.
Animals is my fave!
It Is, for me, the Requiem for this fourth turning…
Pigs (three different ones). JHC I feel like I just smoked a doobie in high school. Really I mean it man. Holy Shit I am dizzy.
The Cover art on album circumscribes the demise of the Western World..
Battersea has been developed into something new. It is now nomoar than a facade of what was once the beating heart of Industrial London. A place where fireworks has replaced real work..
It would make a good essay….
https://batterseapowerstation.co.uk/
In a Public Relations/Advertising class, I once learned that Avon Industries had some real success in the 1990s marketing their makeup line to poverty-stricken women in South and Central America. The women, living in shacks and hovels, would go into debt to AVON to stockpile the makeup, believing wearing it made them successful… and they tried then to sell makeup door to door to other subsistence farmers.
That’s how we exported a complete loathing for the American business model, which is intended to force our way of doing things down everyone’s throat, like it or need it or not.
Admin mentioned early in the essay that
Thought it worth mentioning… Is AVON still in business as a makeup company?
Avon is alive and well. My rural family members couldn’t get make-up and perfumes and such locally, not the ‘fancy’ stuff anyways, only source for most cosmetics was the Five and Dime. I have fond memories of the smell of Coty face powder, Pond’s cold cream and Avon Skin so Soft. Avon also came out with some great packaging, little cars and glass roosters and other odd and sundry items. Said items are collectibles for some.
https://www.avonworldwide.com/
Skin so soft is the best chigger repellent!
My neighbor, in reference to making money by any means, constantly tells me ” you got to get it , man !”
This will be the epitaph on the gravestone of the great American Experiment. THEY HAD TO GET IT!
I never thought I’d be nostalgic for the 70s .
200.00 for used work trucks, always available .
6 to 8,000.00 for new muscle car.
No forced auto or health insurance.
125.00 per month rent .
Well paying jobs in construction and manufacturing for the asking.
Great music .
Pot 75.00 a pound.
Low maintenance hippie chicks asking for nothing but life and love.
College cost with room and board running an average 2275.00 year.
River and wilderness access not fenced against public use.
Very few cop wannabe heroes and none shooting people for sport.
Those were the days… and we didn’t even know it.
Which led to this… was there ever a voice like Karen Carpenter’s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t97I-pBIEk
I’m with you 100% on Karen Carpenter. Angelic.
The documentary is intersting… discusses Richard’s addiction to Queluudes for years, blinding the family to both his lack of enthusiasm and what should have been OBVIOUS to everyone about her but was NOT.
Why the Anorexia, I wonder? Was she an early victim of the obsession with thinness in young girls?
We don’t hear much about Anorexics these days, do we? Have they been outweighed by the obesity epidemic?
Maggie.
Odd that the OBVIOUS was the first thing I picked up on watching the first video you put up and I knew nothing about them until yesterday watching the video. I was so far out in orbit during that period I thought Bono was the name of another Cher tour and Lynyrd Skynyrd was a dude.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was a dude. He was one of the bandmate’s gym teacher.
Donkey.
I thought the band name was a dude. I didn’t know it was the name of a band.
Are you sure about the name. I was watching the history of them on Muscle Shoals Documentary and it sounded like alman just came up with it out of nowhere. Good doc. at any rate. Aretha and others got started there.
Flea,
Well, the name was taken from Leonard Skinner (the gym teacher)…
From Wiki…
“Forby Leonard Skinner(January 11, 1933 – September 20, 2010) was an American high school gymteacher, basketball coach, and businessman from Jacksonville, Florida. He is known in popular culture as the namesake of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.”
There is an R.E.O Speedwagon story that is better.
My wife says REO is a chick band. I say she is full of it. I love Kevin Cronan, good old stuff.
I watched it as I have always loved her voice, tone, and emotion. I listen to a radio station that plays her music all the time. I didn’t know any of the details of her life, it was interesting and sad.
I saw her once at a co-ed charity soft ball game, playing catcher in Metuchen NJ, she was rail thin. She drew a big crowd and played well.
Too bad she married a putz, he looked like he woke up French kissing the mirror. Maybe with real love she could have overcome? Sounds like he just poured gasoline on her fire.
And a great drummer!
She was that Uncle Ho…she was that.
Great article, Jim linked on my website
https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
“how our time on this earth can mean something if we choose to make a difference.”
if it doesn’t involve jesus then it’s not likely to turn out well.
and
These two statements, tongue-tied together, rattled around, and translated into a single thought reads something like
“These old, rich, evil bastard vampire manipulators of perception [of the world entire] control the levers of life and death, of government, industry, finance, media; they ‘honor’ those who, willing and obedient to the point of bloodshed (their own and others), submit to become the extractors, while the rest are but the extracted. Either way, whether complicit or not so much, in the end, to THEM, all US are fodder.”
. . . maybe a bit over-simplified BUT illustrative of the only valid (ugly) solution that remains: in order to maintain control, the “godlets” have to eliminate a whole lot of “slaves”.
Great article, sir, as always.
Holy shite.
Dark Age may be unavoidable. Smoke ’em if you got ’em!
Hahahaha. Better to owe it to them than cheat them out of it. Fuck ’em.
Oh, yes, this,this, this whatever it is is absolutely unsustainble, but I doubt that sustainability was ever the point. I consider instead that the point was to allow the serfs to dream/mine/build/produce/create/innovate/invent/program their own destruction while the godlets feed us poisoned air, water, food, inflate the fiat currencies to (ever more) worthlessness to rob us of our livelihoods,then tax what remains after we die so that our children never inherit financial independence, and never achieve it otherwise (for the most part), and, when time comes to reveal the brick wall at the back of the room (as it were), all who remain “loyal” to their system will be shackled into Chinese-style “ghost city” high-rises while the “elite” have the rest killed with robocops, robodrones, robosoldiers, and robotanks that we designed/built in exchange for the worthless paper that they printed into existence. No, their goal is to trade nothing for everything, and, given their way, they will have it . . . for worthless (post-1982) pennies on the (post-1971) “depegged” dollar.
THEM are devils. Their only “hope” for us is servitude. The utter FAILURE on so many levels (education, a prime example) cannot possibly be an accident
“Again this issue is about paper promises that can vanish rather than tangible and hard assets. Derivative bets are not a zero sum game and have far reaching consequences in the real world.”
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4046338-derivatives-explode-like-bomb
“All in all, there are over $1 quadrillion* worth of derivatives outstanding. The problem with this is the “tail” is bigger than the dog.”
* or:
“In fact, if we add-in ‘the hidden debt’ that does not get counted on the financial ledgers, the actual total world debt is $2.5 quadrillion. This debt comes from people or governments that gambled more money on the risk that they would gain all the money back they put at risk plus more. But it turns out that this money that was gambled was not well spent and will never be paid either.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5926213/
2.5 quadrillion/7 billion raises the debt per to . . . $357,142 and some change.
So, they have pocketed their trillions in profits, and will hang us with the losses. And we wonder why the government continues to pass draconian surveillance laws and why they push for disarmament. The godlets who own them want to be protected.
This is your best article EVER. I know I’ve said that before. But, I really mean it this time …. probably because Dark Side of the Moon is certainly one of my top 3 albums of all time.
I am really really truly looking forward to part 2.
—1). I am sick and tired of everything in this sick and depraved culture. My attitude? Fuck this world, I wanna get off.
—2). As such, I no longer really give a damn about making a difference …. why bother? As if my lame old ass really could make a difference in the first place.
—3). As such, I am embracing and planning to be an ISOLATIONIST. I really do want a small cabin in the woods … a really isolated place …. where my interaction with this culture and humanity in general is kept to a bare minimum. GET OFF MY LAWN …. if you know what I mean.
Please convince me there is a better way. lol lol 🙂 God bless you, Jim.
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Ms Freud update.
Today is a big day. They’ve been trying to wean Ms Freud off the respirator the past five days. Leaving for the hospital in a couple minutes. Hoping that today is the day they take her off the machine and put on a trach collar. That would be a huge step. Ms Freud is getting really sick and tired of all this shit …. yesterday she wouldn’t even let me give her a kiss on the lips. Not kidding.
You are in my thoughts and prayers, Stucky. And, the rest of them are prayin’ too.
I hated being attached to machines. I hated the beeps, whirs and groanings of doors and other creaking machines in the distance. I asked my Nick to not deposit me in a hospital again. He ignored me.
I am thankful for my almost complete recovery from last year. What an ordeal. Am proof miracles happen. Am praying Ms. Freud gets a miracle, too. She’s got a Nick, so the ingredients are there!
I have much love for you Stuck and that ain’t gay.
Sounds gay to me.
I have much love for you also El Cicero (…is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. His influence on the Latin language was immense: it has been said that subsequent prose was either a reaction against or a return to his style, not only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th century.) and that ain’t gay either.
Yes, but HF would merit that appellation. I’m more of a Sancho Panza.
Cicero is who came to mind when deciding what to use for the “C”. When you’re on, you are every bit a Cicero. The Latinese angle didn’t hurt either. 🙂
I didn’t know who Sancho Panza was so I looked it up. Lol
EC…..You are more of a Rocinantes or perhaps a Dapple. Those were two important characters in the tale as well.
Sure, Dulcinea.
Ah yes, the lovely but never seen Dulcinea, a Guinevere of honor and beauty and large besoms.
You make me sound shallow, where is she described as having large knockers? You must be thinking of the Hollywood production.
Not shallow, surely.
She had nice melons in the play I saw when I was 20 or so. So that means Cervantes thought she had nice tits. Isn’t that how it works?
A Spanish lady has to have large bosoms. Especially in an Opera…
Thought you were Scots/Irish?
I am and I fer sure don’t sing opera so rest assured that ain’t me in that video. It’s some tata’s for EC, poor chile’s suffering from misreading about subdivisions or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yrxVJ_90k
One of the sexiest songs every crooned by a crooner.
I think I will go out to the barn and take some pictures of my husband and some fat white rabbits.
Be careful you dont trip…
I think the world of Latin and E European women. Always stopped my heart, left me speechless. Not that they compare to my beautiful wife, who is Whitey ginger. But other than my wife, nothing ever compared to Colombians and Latvians for me.
I thought they just had to be large women.
Now that’s my kinda woman.
Rooting for you, sir.
Rooting for you too..
and if it matters what you have said and what you stand for matters to me..
You have made a difference..
Is the best any of us can hope for.
Is why I passed the coonskin on to other hands.
I stirred the bucket all I want to. For now.
You keep stirring, Nova Scotia.
I didn’t throw out my ladle. Just letting the kettle simmer a while.
Will do Mags….
Still have your ladle and will soon enough get back in the game.
Spending my energy by saying prayers for
Ms. Freud, Suzie and of course Stucky!
Hoping they are all well and getting better..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrf0CgTuVU
If you say three nice things about me, I will contribute 50 dollars in your name to a good cause.
Maggie may or may not be BW but she does a great impression. She is fun, smart and delightfully naive at times despite her pretensions to worldliness. And the other two nice things are a juicy pair o’ tits.
She is fun, smart and delightfully naive at times despite her pretensions to worldliness.
That’s worth fiddy. Stop there.
Now, say nice things about Yokes so he’ll send more money too.
Good luck, Stuck. Hope it goes well with Mrs Freud.
Re getting away – I have been telling you for at least a decade to get out of that shithole state you are in. It is bad for your soul.
I don’t blame her for being sick and tired of being sick and tired. It does get to be tiring. She will let you kiss her again. Sometimes when we womynz have a bad day we take it out on the ones we love the most because we trust our other halves and know they will still love us when we are cranky.
I had to play this one (and mean it) a time or two last year.
As long as you didn’t play Layla.
Never cared much for Layla.
Funny story? When Nick and I were… hmmm…. shacked up? in the permanent party dormitory in Iceland (very few women assigned there), the guy who lived in the adjoining room and shared the bathroom gave us the Eric Clapton 24 Nights cassettes and told us to play them.
Loudly.
Hahahahaha! We laughed and laughed.
Heyyyy Maggie Maeeeeee, I did a year in Iceland . May ’72-’73. Loved it.
Hey, Tree Mike… you AF or Squid? Were you remote or at Keflavik?
MarBar on Kef? Top of the Rock? Hello Viking Mall!
LOVED whiteouts… LOVED. Remember walking to the chow hall holding to the cable against 60 mph gusts! Awesome!
Air Force. Keflavik. It was a little orphan squadron of F-102 Delta Darts that my dad built in the ’50s in San Diego. Last active duty station for 102s. Bush the Jr. was flying them in the Tex Air Guard at the time. The agreement we had with Iceland required any B1rd stationed there to die, stay there. The Bone Yard was very interesting. The AWACs were Connies. There were more Marines than AF. There were about 5000 total troops there. About 150-170 AF.
Well, hello there Tree Mike! I have Connie photos! It may take a bit, but believe it or not, some of my old instructors were Connie guys. And, one of them, a former Chief Master named Ken Parent (my Godfather in the USAF was named “Parent”… how is that for karma?) is still living and would probably actually love to chat with you. Not here though… I’ll be back.
How fun is this?
My reply to your last post yesterday didn’t go through, apparently. For an old guy this qualifies as fun. Of course you have pictures of Connies, Picture Girl. I rode one from San Diego to New Mexico around 1960. I was thrilled shitless! Look forward to future comms.
So hard to determine ‘the day the music died’
This was part of a rare collection of talented, original and thoughtful lyrics brought to life in music
They were ‘knights in white satin’ meaning to bring forth their thoughts using their trade
Excellent, this what keeps us coming back.
If we really want self government and not to be run we really are going to have to be more responsible to ourselves
I know this will go over everyones head,BUT how stupid you are, or you’ve allowed your government to become is fine,ITS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY who will suffer because of it,THEN theres the Fly in the ointment,FOREIGN COUNTRIES,who have the sense GOD gave a goose,THEY got tired of being pushed around, looted and robbed and their families murdered by BULLIES,SO they bought those weapons of mass destruction we all hear about,LIKE THE IRANIANS who bought 3,000 MULTI-TIPED NUCLEAR WAR HEAD “ICBM’S”that will reach any country on earth,without much warning,only minutes,THE RUSSIANS were glad to sell them to any and all buyers,STUPIDITY in your country is fine, till you start doing EVIL to countries who have weapons like this,then you have to draw a line THAT you do not allow your government to cross.. or you get turned to ash by those who have such weapons,AND YOU CAN’T FIGHT OFF A DOZEN COUNTRIES WHO ARE ATTACKING YOU ALL AT ONCE,Right now america has a dozen countries who ARE POISED TO BLOW america off the map,IF THE MEN IN AMERICA DO NOT STAND UP AND TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY from your police gangs,military,banks,AND POLITICIANS,you are going to be attacked and BOMBED,the death toll will be hundreds of millions,I suggest you chose wisely,you don’t have much time to make corrective measures,yes there will be a lot of blood on the sidewalks,BUT nothing compared to what there will be if america is attacked by foreign nations,WHO will have one thing in mind,KILL EVERYONE who can be found..now its you and your family who pay the bill..IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO HAPPEN..its going to if you stay asleep and let these criminals keep going,ITS TIME TO REEL THEM IN…
Take off those rainbow shades, buddy.
Ok, the Iranians probably bought a couple of dozen nuke devices at most from Pakistan….they definitively did not buy 3,000 nuclear armed intercontinental nuclear missiles! That is just cray-cray!
Paragraphs are your friend, use them and writing becomes more legible.
I think you mean “intelligible”.
You are welcome.
But I agree re paragraphs.
Big Red and LLPOH, get a room.
It was more fun when she was being a bitch and he was being all sanctimonious, pompous and shit.
Your talking about the woman I love and LLPOH is not that bad despite the reputation, Maggoo.
I thought it was well worded.
I think it was just an outback handish comment… he knows he is pompous, doesn’t he?
CEE Dog.
Oh! So I wasn’t alone in my suspicions?
Legible is correct. I meant what I wrote.
Legible: n, capable of being read or deciphered, especially with ease, as writing or printing; easily readable.
intelligible: Intelligible definition is – capable of being understood or comprehended.
You are welcome.
I’m gratified that you also appreciate paragraphs.
Legible refers to quality/ability to read the handwriting or print, per the definition you posted. The printing was fine – it was the way it was presented that was the problem, rendering it unintelligible. You slightly misused the word.
And he reels her in again!
LLPOH’s got Big Red lapping milk off his finger. It’s disgusting to see her fall so easily.
If you can’t read what was written (printed or otherwise) it is illegible.
Mygirl.
Lou’s the original paragraph Nazi.
Flea – that is indeed correct. Folks that post ten thousand words in one continuous stream shit me.
It is just that MyGirl is such an easy fish to lure. I cannot resist.
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8292617728/h9BFF1A34/
L.
That was fast. Hope you have an escape route ready.
You love me, admit it.
you didn’t take offense at all when I suggested you could be sanctimonious and pompous, did you… I told EC it was more of a Outbackish compliment.
“In part 2 of this article I will tackle the themes of how our time on this earth can mean something if we choose to make a difference.”
I look forward to reading. There are spiritual answers to our earthly problems; the biggest problem being mans desire for his own answers.
1 Corinthians 1:21 KJB… “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”
There’s something in there somewhere about people perishing for lack of knowledge. Somewhere.
Good one, Maggito! You are a sharp red rope.
You can stop saying nice things.
Sometimes I can’t follow your logic but today, it’s clear that you dunked on GCP. Incidentally, I may not get a chance to use this elsewhere but I thought Trump’s negotiating the trade war (which he says will take longer so I need to get reelected, okay?) is just a lot of dribbling, he might as well set it to music – Sweet Georgia Brown.
Dog.
Careful with the Donnie bashing. Tampa’s here today, you’ll throw him off his meds.
I thought me and Trumpa Red were bros until I said something not so fawning about Sir Orange. Right away he went for the jugular, called me gay and stuff.
EC.
Same here. Hardly talks to me now.
You don’t suppose? Do you? It’s a straight run from Mar a Lago to Tampa and he does have that extra trailer at the back of the park.
Not that that would make him Gay or nothin. Just sayin.
It worked. Maggie sent the $50. Now you can be mean again.
See? That’s the kind of talk that gives people the wrong impression about me. I’m oodles nicer than LLPOH on a good day. I will send mine and cheapskate doug’s $50 via snail mail.
A rottweiler is nicer than LLPOH.
That’s probably why Big Red likes him, they always go for the bad boys.
Gee, nicest thing anyone’s ever said about me. I am all choked up.
Or, you could be a LOT nicer to me. I’m supposed to be reimbursed for my disabilitiness to 2013. I will let you know. I was told it is “by regulation.” Entitlement correlates to but is not necessarily causal to roach infestation.
If I could think of a good followon line I’d add it.
My understanding is you only get back pay to the date you filed. If I had filed back in ’80 I would’ve collected a chunk of change.
Well, get this… I filed the original claim January 2013. I was granted 0% service connection for the scar for the hernia repair. Upon review (due to my application last October), they found what they call “an egregious and unmistakeable error” in giving me service connection for the SCAR but not for the actual surgical repair with contract bid mesh from the early 1990s.
Thus, the VA is recalculating just how disabled I really am. Dale Graham says it should work out to more than 15 grand.
Thus, the hot tub and sex machine for the barn. Semper Fi Dog!
(Am teasing. We will get the hot tub no matter what. What I’m calling a sex machine is actually one of those inversion tables for Nick’s sciatic nerve problem. Use your imagination.)
No need. You already told us how you rubbed CBD oil on his, ahem, sciatic nerve. Let’s keep this down, we have yutes like AOC here, he might get ideas. It gets better, AOC – by the time they are grannies, they are the ones doing the seducing.
That was for the prostate issue. Cured.
LOL yutes. Don’t be going Yankee on me, I have too much respect for you, sir.
Go ahead and drop the respect, I’m only 64. Heck, I’m younger than flea.
You’re only 64% of a Fourth Turning saeculum??? Not even 2/3s of the way there. Yute.
Do the math, Yute.
Four generations of 20 years. Coyote is wiser and older and closer to the end than he appears to be…
Good God. So am I.
Well, I’ve seen the argument of a long human life – a saeculum – being anywhere from 80-100 years. I always deferred to the latter.
Think of Granny Clampit and Mr. Farquar, Mrs. Drysdale’s father.
Why, a dab a that vaniller extract behind her ears could drive that old man plumb crazy.
Close but no cigar, Monica.
Let me get this straight – you want me to move into your barn?
Let me get this straight.
That’s what she said.
I’m not sure how she applied the oil to the prostate, delicacy demands not knowing. No wonder old Nick refused to be taken further advantage of.
Well that settles it then…Llpoh and EC will move into Maggies barn and experiment with rubbing CBD oil on (something something) for prostate problems while soaking in the hot tub and stretching out on the sciatica table. Sounds like loads of fun….no pics though, please.
Oh, dear… you know there will be pictures. With rabbits.
Mygirl.
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.
Easy to be funny when the source material is so rich and fulsome, the material writes itself.
As long as Llpoh makes sure both of EC’s hands aren’t on his shoulders…
AOC.
I think those tables are for hanging upside down. As per Maggie at 2:02 pm “Use your imagination”. It all sounds broke backish to me.
I can’t get that ungodly image out of my head now.
It is bad isn’t it. I think I need to get a job or something if it’s come to this.
Anon.
That’s hysterical.
LLPOH, first let me say that you have always been a lighthouse for many a staggering derelict who has lost his moral compass. You have held the hand of people who confessed their mistakes. You are kind and generous to a fault. Although I do not mean that you have any faults at all. It isn’t your fault that people have chosen to take shortcuts by lying, stealing and acting dishonestly, you have provided plenty of guidance.
It is with a profound sense of shame and regret that I mention this vile comment above. You deserve better treatment on this illustrious site. I can only hope that you will, and I know you will, forgive Big Red. Here is a song you can listen to as you calm your just rage.
EC, that’s embarrassing.
I couldn’t agree more. I don’t know what we did to deserve that abuse. Then again, she made it clear she doesn’t like me or Maggie either. Oh well.
What Donkey said. Egads man.
She is sick, did you read the filth she wrote? You want me to put up with that, ok but don’t attack LLPOH without provocation.
So many rabbits, so little time.
Oh what a song!
EC: wait, wait, I meant no harm….I realized that you and Llpoh were receptive to one another and I was only attempting to smooth the way forward…CBD oil is evidently very powerful…
You know that he has gone flaccid for the recruiting effort, don’t you?
All over the place…
A really strange place for your comment to land, gcp. I think it was one of God’s little jokes.My screen now says this:
With big fat white rabbits.
Big Fat White Rabbits? Really? EC and Llpoh and fat white rabbits and CBD oil and….Now I REALLY must insist on no pics…well, on second thought, EC and Llpoh and the CBD oil and….nope, never mind, no pics. Nope, nope, nope…not now, not ever….
And an upside down table, according to Flea. Sounds very Brokeback like he said. Yeshua forgive them, they indeed know what they are doing in that tent. Or barn.
Et tu, Brute?
Our major problem is explained in here.
TPTB control the MSM and therefore the narrative of lies.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/12/could-america-survive-truth-commission.html
ursel doran
For years ‘Civil War 2’ was free on the net, I posted it a number of times…now it has been taken down. Here is the link that worked for years:
https://archive.org/details/CivilWar2/page/n1
For those who haven’t read it …it was written in 1996 and has been about 80% accurate in its predictions.
The final prediction was Civil War 2 breaking out after the 2020 election.
That sucks, Mark. I kept meaning to read it. That’s what I get for waiting.
TLPTB (L for Luciferian) are sifting through the internet and constantly removing vids and articles that don’t fit their narrative.
Maybe someone had it saved and can repost it under a different link?
Am on the pdf cyber trail… if you can’t find it through the front door, go find the academics who cited it in their research. I’ll do a query on JSTOR (Journalism Storage Online) and see what I come up with.
Maggie’s face is on the case!
stop it…
By Jove, I think I found it! with a new link to the pdf.
Outstanding Maggie!
Why don’t you present it on the “new” civil war topical post… you have read at least some and can give an idea of why we should read it… “K?”
https://www.resist.com/Onlinebooks/CWII.pdf
?
Thanks for finding that, Maggie. I downloaded it.
I was just telling someone about some of my written notes to sources disappearing this last month. Hidden center of supreme command for instance. Lots of Eustace Mullins videos etc.
The day I can’t access TBP, is the day I FREAK!
Otherwise…..
Rooty 2 and the FSA all the way.
I’m going to bed. It’s been a long day. The article about the 14 year old who committed suicide freaked me out. I have a 14 yr old grandson who is dealing with a lot and I worry about him because he “seems fine”.
I just want to say I’m glad Admins essay has nearly reached 300. It should. It’s his house..so to speak. Keep it up. Only 19 to go. Oh and throw in a few bucks if you can. It seems like this is the way it goes at the end of every year.
In younger days I indulged in some herbal to relax and kick back with Pink Floyd in my head..like being outside at night in the Big Bend and looking at the stars to infinity, never see stars like that except out in the lonely places, the far away places where people aren’t. The wind blows and sighs in the brush, small animals scurry and slither, little murders happen swiftly and quick and God looks down and shrugs….
Atlas Shrugged. Jesus Wept. God Spoke.
Jim, I am saving up for a Xmas donation for you but I have to fix my Paypal thingy first and they are not being helpful.
Great article Jim, and all well said thank you, but is anyone apart from our lovely TBP family listening? The book is quite revealing I am told, recommended to me by one of my readers in Venezuela I think:
Looking forward to Part 2
A war that is civil sounds just fine. Let’s knock this house down and build a new one.
Gilmore is a Luciferian
Jim, we were just spinning some old vinyl last week, and Dark Side of the Moon was in the pile, along with Steppenwolf Monster, Some early Rush and more apocryphal lyrics. Our mission was to remember how little things have changed since we were young men and women in the 70s…
Thanks for another dose of true memories, let us not allow them to be drowned in Fake News!
Garage band complete with washing machines and dryers?
Loved it Jim. EXCELLENT! This…
“The Waters/Wright lyrics capture the unequivocal truth we are just ordinary people, with no desire to kill each other. I don’t hate Russians, Chinese, Syrians, or other Americans. The average person in this world is just trying to live their life, earn a living, support their family, and try to achieve some semblance of happiness during their short stay on this planet.”
That’s the truth right there. And the elites cannot allow that. (((They))) must be in control… Chip
Excellent article focused on the symptoms…but not the cause…since the critical factors are not mentioned – God and Bolsheviks (or neo-Bolsheviks today in the US and throughout the western world) which are related since the absence of one has facilitate the growth of the other. In fairness, these may be covered in Part II. The two quotes below from the great Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who lived through the debts of depravity and extermination of ~60 million under Bolshevism in Russia, which has similarities with what is now taking place in the US and throughout the western world, are concerned with these factors. G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis provide insight into how societies that have abandoned God collapse into ruin which is what we are seeing today.
“You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.”
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
‘Tis a shame this isn’t the very first post in the comments.
wdg.
I think he omitted God and the Bolshies on purpose so as not to derail the topic before it ever got off the ground. They hated Germans with an equal passion.
I remember reading “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot” by Russell Kirk. The title is a bit misleading because the mind that Russell Kirk was talking about was the British and more generally the European mind that spawned Christian Western Civilization and the nations built by the European people. As someone with a Scot/Saxon genetic heritage, I could identify closely with and relate to Kirk’s conservative mind. Since then, I have been thinking about the minds of other peoples on this planet. For example, the Japanese mind, the Chinese mind, the Black African mind and of course the Jewish mind. They are all different and molded over long periods through the randomness of genetic variations that respond to environmental and societal conditions. I would like to see a book on the Jewish mind because it is clearly very different from a western mind and has spawned which is to me an alien “religion” known as Talmudic Judaism.
Wdg.
Alien indeed. RH- bloodlines and high but narrowly focused I.Q.
As for the heritage of the conservative mind. I’m convinced it’s necessary to preservation whereas frequent outcrossing is genetically predisposed to destruction by liberalism.
Flea, OT but every time I hear this song I think of my father and now you and Mark. Jerry Cantrell wrote it for his father, a Nam Vet they called Rooster who apparently had 9 lives. Probably not your genre of music, but I included the lyrics for you as well. Saw AiC perform it this year on a tour with Korn.
Ain’t found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere, mmm
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere, mmm
Here they come to snuff the rooster, oh yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain’t gonna die
No, no, no oh, you know he ain’t gonna die
Here they come to snuff the rooster, oh yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain’t gonna die, oh
No, no, no oh, you know he ain’t gonna die
Walkin’ tall machine gun men
They spit on me in my home land
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy, mmm
Got my pills ‘gainst mosquito death
My buddy’s breathing his dyin’ breath
Oh God please won’t you help me make it through
Here they come to snuff the rooster, oh yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain’t gonna die
No, no, no oh, you know he ain’t gonna die
Got my pill against mosquito death. Quinine tablets.
AoC, Flea,
I wrote this not long after I was home. I suspect any Grunt who’s company was ever fed into a major on going firefight in any war will relate.
INSTINCTS OVERPOWER REASON
The jungle air
pants on my face
like the breath of a tired dog
my body sags
under the burden of the Grunt
as we hump on and on and on
my courage and fears
start to fight for control
and I know I’m not brave
as suddenly we hear it!
Different rifles crack, stutter and spray
grenades thump and mortars pop then pound
machine guns spit in staccato bursts
choppers rip through the air
like an obscene orchestra tuning up
the sounds of insanity point the way
the sergeant a crouched maestro
his baton arm waving us on
as we grimly snake through the green tunnel trail
to the place
where men kill men
The jungle is kaleidoscope shades of a green sea
and for a fleeting moment
my courage is sucked under
as closer and louder
the sounds of combat and the cordite bite in the air
attacks my senses
with surging adrenaline and sickening fear
I take the M-60 off my shoulder
and cradle it in my arms
as the inevitable order is passed down the line
“GUNS UP!”
the three of us dart forward
instincts overpower reason
and the jungle air
pants on my face
like the breath of a fearful beast
I really can’t fathom what you guys went through. Why haven’t you written an article like Flea did for TBP? I would like to read it.
My poem is a common experience AoC…nothing special about my Grunt time or me. Many of the men in my family were in combat in three wars, before me, all the men every single one (both sides) were in the service. Three of them with Purple Hearts.
I throw a poem out every now and then, I’ve been published a few times.
The lines:
“Walkin’ tall machine gun men
They spit on me in my home land”
Got to me, my MOS was 0331 (M-60 machine gun) and I almost killed a guy I grew up around who got in my face in a local bar in 70.
That song has true grit.
Please write your experiences. It is important to relay this information, to get it permanently etched somewhere.
Yeah, it’s a hard song. Jerry loves his father for sure…weird to see him this year so gray haired and in his 50s, to be honest. I don’t know where the time went.
I salute you Mark!
Aoc.
I can’t claim that I knew what I was experiencing at the time. I think but don’t know that’s why they call it Post Traumatic. I my case I was born that way. I focus on doing something to the exclusion of anything else. When it done, then I involuntarily review the film in my head and feel it. I don’t cry over the death of someone close to me until a year later and then it suddenly comes out.
My mom always said I had a one track mind and the only way you could change it was to cut my head off.
I hesitate to say it on an open forum but I welcomed being over run. I’m glad they miscalculated and had to pull back but there was a strange sadness. For the first time in my life I was truly alive in a way that I can’t explain and spent the remaining 10 months longing for a rerun. The down time was excruciatingly boring in between being shot at.
Eleanor Roosevelt supposedly read the stories about what our soldiers faced during the Island campaign and suggested that the men who survived the assault might need a separate place to live, away from civil society.
She couldn’t imagine anyone being able to live a normal life after having to kill as they had been forced to kill.
War is savage, or at least it was back when it was done in hand to hand combat.
Which reminds me… I poke fun at EC regarding the ongoing issues with Veterans Administration policy, but I am happy to say that I have seen a tremendous amount of improvement in treatment and in service to veterans. However, the amount of fraud and waste is probably increasing exponentially, as well, since policies generous to any segment of the populous tends to attract the malingerers.
I know a former drone operator who is disabled due to PTSD. He’s a mess, but I think it was the booze and all the pills.
I had a hard time reading your story because it was so real. It is extremely important we get y’all’s stories out there, possibly even on a continuous basis. I couldn’t think of a better forum than this one but as my wife would tell me, WTF do I know. 🙂
“as we grimly snake through the green tunnel trail
to the place
where men kill men”
God help us, Mark. Our country is on that green tunnel trail, isn’t it?
Day 45. of 54.
We are Maggie. It appears unavoidable, they will not leave us alone. I started my manhood in war at 19, turning 70 this week I will probably eventually end it in a war there will be no rotating home from, no avoiding.
My water, food, shelter, farming preps etc. to survive the Everything Bubble explosion and dollar collapse are one thing, but my defensive and maybe forced offensive Civil War 2 war preps leave me grim, but determined. Its my Wife, Daughter, Son in Law and Grandson, Nephews (who are like sons to me) and their families, I fear for…and who I am determined to protect as best I can.
Don’t Thread on Me.
http://oathammo.com/shotgun
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What if part of your purpose in this life is to write your story in blog posts so that history is not repeated, or at least to provide futurity with a catalog of solutions?
My father still hasn’t forgiven the far-left of yesteryear for what they did and I think the far-left and SAOs of today trigger him in a PTSD sort of way, if’n you follow.
I told him, and he agrees, that the right philosophy of a good Christian is to oppose needless war, but to take good care of the vets given the reality that politicians aren’t good Christians. If the despicable military haters don’t wanna take care of the vets, then they should quit bellyaching and quit creating the injured vets in the first place! Instead, what do they do? RUN AWAY AND BELLYACHE!
This is a good place to write for posterity. Anywhere else, they censor and cancel people for having an opinion they don’t approve of. Get your wallets out and donate to a good cause, TBP.
To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterior.
Women do that.
Yes, I meant posterity actually. Thanks!
AOC.
Mybe on a blog where some control can be exercised but on here it would be too easy for the towel boys at the Officers Beach in Rota Spain to play Rambo. Too many
B_Rads with 50 man companies operating off mom’s couch while she’s out turning tricks to support his whale like torso.
AoC,
I had two 5,000 word short stories, one fiction, one my story, published in a 1980’s Newspaper magazine called ‘National Vietnam Veterans Review’, – ‘Boy Warriors and Bamboo Jungle’ and ‘Welcome Home Sucker’. NVVR was a popular Nam Vet publication in the 80’s (long gone) especially after the Wall went up, and my writing reached the audience that most mattered to me, thousands of Nam Vets.
The fiction story ‘Boy Warriors and Bamboo Jungle’ caused a stir with some Nam Vets because of its O. Henry surprise ending some didn’t like, but it was one of the points of the story, and even though it was fiction much of it was my story ain HS and in combat as well.
Also in the 80’s some of my poems were featured in a poetry anthology called: ‘The Long Ascending Cry, Poems by Vietnam Veterans’.
I have a 25 poem collection called ‘My Country is Blind and so is my Rage’. Many of them have been published separately, and I’ve shared the collection with many Nam Vets over the years.
I got a phone call out of the blue in 1984 from Jim Webb, who was Secretary of the Navy at the time. He is one of the most decorated Marines of the war and he called me to say he liked my stories. Turns out they were handed to him by a Nam Vet I had never met, just being passed around. That was gratifying as he wrote ‘Fields of Fire’ one of the top Nam Grunt novels about the war.
Then I reached a point where I said all I had to say…everything was vomited out and I was done writing about Nam. Then my business writing career (manuals) and business magazine writing career was started, and goes on to this day. So my Nam writing birthed a major component of my career and livelihood.
It was all 1970’s therapy, writing saved my life as I went into a serious tail spin in 75 when the South fell facing it was all for nothing. I was extremely pissed off at everyone but Nam Vets who went through the same bullshit. As I researched the war, and then the Fed, the JFK hit, etc. etc. etc. I found my country is still blind but my rage isn’t any longer as I know who the real enemy is.
I think this can be said by all Veterans of all wars, as God did not create us to do what we do to one another in war: “Not everyone who lost his life in Vietnam died there – Not everyone who came home from Vietnam ever left there”.
If you’re interested in any of my writings, ask Admin to send me your e-mail, your Dad will relate to it. Nothing special or uncommon about my Grunt experiences, but I have put them on cathartic paper.
You are a real keeper. Am glad to have you on the short list.
Wdg.
You might enjoy this 30 min. video on Bitchute.
“Insight into the white mind and Caucasian culture” part 2. By Frank Raymond on the Based Bollard channel. First time I ever heard this very practical take on it.
The Culture of Critique is a pretty good one if that’s your interest.
Thank you wdg
To predict the future is fairly simple, just look over your shoulder. History will never lie to you, however brutal and uncomfortable it may be. I learned that truth long ago while reading the Bible. Ecc. 1:9
My absolute favorite. Thank you, that triggered memories of a very good chaplain I haven’t spoken with in years. Why is it this wisdom is embraced by so few philosopher kings in history, yet it should be obvious to all? Marcus Aurelius said the same thing and look who followed him.
Excellent, especially the detailed and accurate assessment that America is already socialist (fascist) system. One small error that you might find of interest. It’s a matter of perspective, and a mind shift. This will help to complete our understanding of what’s happened.
“…tax breaks for mega-corporations…”
Corporations don’t pay taxes, they collect them. They are unpaid agents of the State Internal Revenue Code. The cost of (sales, manufacturing, etc.) taxes is a pass through to the end buyer of the product or service, as is the associated cost of collecting the tax. And now we have, I pray, a more complete picture. This how you know that socialists claiming to want to raise taxes on corporations are simply taxing you more. That a corporation would lose money from the goodness it’s heart, it has no heart, it’s a corporation, is ridiculous. (And a corporation should want to make money, no money – no payroll.o As the Holy Bible, the lyrics, and you rightly state; it’s the love of money.)
OT, but to my point, same with FFLs. Unpaid agents of the State collecting personal firearms purchasing data. It’s a matter of perspective.
Thanks.
Certainly one of my favoritester albums! Ah, 1973, 55 mph, inflation, remembering when the credit card was a rare thing to carry, if you had one it was likely a store card or from an oil company. Back then they were called “charge plates”, before the newspeak “credit” came into vogue. A more accurate term would be DEBT card.
Us and them…Syria, Libya, Russia, Iran, Iraq et al are not our enemies, they are us. They are however the enemies of (((them))), who can rightfully be charged with creating most modern wars, as the demon Rothchilds wife boasted. The love of money being the root of all evil, is there any other group in history demonstrating a love of riches extending back through the centuries, and creating false and divers measures as well?
400!
She’s back! Say goodnight, Mags.
Goodnight Mags.
I just grabbed 500 as well. Tried to link Jerry Reed with “When you are hot, you are hot” but for some reason, you tube won’t link today.
We need more donations.
I own a manufacturing biz that employs about 50. I’ve been in business for over thirty years. Barely survived the last “You Didn’t Build That” asshole. And now DJT’s got my shit kicking again. He just bitch slapped most of Europe today protecting the American Tax Payer. So I follow this shit over from Western Rifle Shooter and find some retard who thinks the highly Libtard band Pink Floyd holds the secret to the universe in their lyrics that they wrote when they were stoned out of their minds. Are you really that stupid? Get a job stoner.
Stoner.
He has two jobs. This one and his day job plus a family. How did you manage to stay in business living in your head. Get a window in your stomach so you can see where you’re going.
It seems like every asshole has a manufacturing biz nowadays. So who is this asshole who calls himself B_Rad? Doesn’t sound like a conservative. He isn’t even sure how many people he has working for him. He doesn’t call it a business, it’s a biz. I wonder what kind of business that is, a pot company manufacturing bong pipes?
There is nothing wrong with a well-constructed bong.
Did you bother to READ it or are you just blowing off steam?
I doubt very much whaz hiz name? B Raz or whatever? Anyway, where was I? I think I smoked too much fer sher. Oh yeah, I doubt he read it.
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
Blow me douchebag.
“Get a job stoner” made me laugh like hell.
Talk about missing the mark.
The regular Mark or the TBP Marc?
Why Jim, I didn’t know you were a retarded Libtard. Why have I been reading you all of these years???
Illegitimi non carborundum. Words of wisdom from my grandfather. You’re a good man.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/PS439G/readings/mason_fett_1996.pdf
I’m trying to find a book MM (the other one) referenced to MC. This one is NOT it but take a peek at this political science crap and then realize that the CLINTONS bought into this “social science” on equal par with “hard science and mathematics.” Really.
Clinton supposedly said of the Ivy League team he put together that there had not been such intellectual power in the place since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Which was catchy and probably not accurate. The Adams family put some smart men there, too. And Abigail was a fine quilter.
How’s that for Malarkey?
If Clinton said it he stole that line from JFK – either way what a putz and globalist tool he is.
Good find! Thanks, I will read this later (company).
The link is probably only useful for its literature review. Am hoping you will see something that triggers a name to look for.
Believe it or not, there is already academic research out on Marvel Comics Civil War 2.
Which makes 1996 seem absolutely obsolete.
Maggie.
Right. In fact it’s the only thing I came up with so far but they use civil war II instead of 2.
Hey, I actually FOUND it, I think. Chittum is the author.
Oh, I remember he actually said “I’m stealing this from JFK, but I have to say I have the finest intellectual minds… blah blah blah…”
And intentional plagiarist.
Whoa sonny, ain’t no leftist libtards here, you obviously know jack shit about the band and are just shooting off your mouth, making yourself look stupid.
Rad
Did you even read the article or did you just look at the pictures..
500
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Is supposed to be Jerry Reed’s When you hot, you hot!
I have Reed’s greatest hits…I bet he was a lot of fun to hang around with.
I could tell you a story about a dude I met in Houston who claimed to have known him. Of course, that dude told me he was driving through California in the 1960s and had a one night stand with Debbie Reynolds.
Could be true. Both.
It could happen…I worked with a guy older than my Father for years in the 70’s, stand up, modest man, who told me about a cross country train ride he had during WW2 that turned into an unexpected tryst with a beautiful passenger…Marlene Dietrich’s daughter…Maria Riva.
I think it was one of the highlights of his life. By the look on his face when he told me the story…I knew it was true.
There was a gal on my crew from Mayfield, Kentucky. She used to go to honky-tonks from Paducah to Louisville and she claimed to have slept with Hank, Jr. and at least two of his band members. She was a cute little Southern gal who charmed the pants (sometimes literally) off everyone around her.
During late night post-flight girl talk (if she didn’t get lucky in the bar; I was married so was never lucky. Haha… so was she but different) she asked me bluntly one time how many men I’d had relations with. I’d never counted, but to make her happy (she was charming in an Ellie Mae gone bad sort of way) I counted up by naming them, then stumbled, saying… shit… I can’t remember that guy’s name.
She laughed and laughed. Then, with her blue eyes sparkling, she tossed her curls across her forehead and scalp, exposing her slender neckline against the ruffles of her very sensuous nightgown.
I shrugged, letting my old ratty T-shirt fall around my own shoulders, as if I had anyone else to name after the guy I couldn’t even remember.
She leaned toward me, confidently and confidantly, and whispered, “Honey, I gotta tell you something. I’ve screwed ten times as many guys as you have and most of them I never even KNEW their name.”
I am not sure if she is quite as proud of that now that she has several children, but I do believe she probably had her way with Hank, Jr. She was cute as all get out.
Bea Lever knows what I mean. Is hard to call some of these country gals like her a slut.
This Reed was better:
This is hysterical! https://dailystormer.name/new-bond-trailer-looks-awesome-except-for-the-black-bitch/
I hardly hear their songs played any more. I wonder if they will be playing their songs in 50 years…probably not. I was not impressed by their music, although their stories were cool.
I wish people who write these often excellent articles would please stop referencing pop groups. Rock and popstars are NOT rebels, no matter what fancy lyrics thy write. They are employes of the record and music industry, the most capitalistic industry on Earth.
Dark side of the moon are my favorite articles of all time. Can you believe that they were written before the C debacle? Who would’ve known then that the 4th turning would take a bloody turn THAT way?
It’s fun to read through threads from old posts and see comments from people who are no longer here, either because they passed on (Flea, EC) or moved on.