I forgot my internet banking password and had to use my security question.
It was stupid to have 'what is your internet banking password?' as the question.
*.*
I was at the hardware store to get a duplicate of my car key made when the store clerk said, “You’re a model?”
It was exactly what a woman in her mid-30’s wanted to hear. “Well, no, I’m not,” I said, blushing. “But, I’m flattered that...“
He stopped me right there, pointed to my car keys and slowly repeated, “Year…and…model?”
*.*
It's been so hot in Seattle, the Space Needle is now officially sterilized.
So hot, I went fishing and the trout I caught was poached.
Scientists are saying that this Northwest heat wave is a once-in-a-thousand-year event. They better be right. I know where those scientists live.
So, after a once in a hundred years pandemic, followed by a once in a thousand year heat wave, heading into 2022's once every 10,000 years event I might have to buy comet insurance.
*.*
The soldiers are tired and lonely after spending weeks in enemy territory. To entertain them the Major called for this HOT number from the nearby town.
She came, danced and when the first dance was done, the soldiers went mad. They clapped for 5 minutes.
For her second number she stripped and danced in sheer bra and G strings. This time the applause went for 10 minutes.
The next number she danced topless, and this time the applause went on and on. The Major had to come on stage and ask them to quiet down for the grand finale.
For her last number, she was to strip completely and dance naked. The Major expected the soldiers to make enough noise to bring the roof down. But ten minutes later, there is no clapping and the dancer comes backstage.
The Major asks her, "What happened? How come there was no clapping this time?"
She replied, "Major, how do you expect those poor boys to clap with one hand?"
*.*
My wife always takes a run right after we have sex.
Some people.
You give them an inch and they take a mile.
Quote of the Times;
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Jefferson
Link of the Times;
https://www.rt.com/news/528745-austria-feminists-protest-media-rape/
Issue of the Times;
How Trump voters formed an ugly, and accurate, view of America’s ruling regime by Martyr Made
I’ve had discussions at this point with a wide range of Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent. I think I can extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people who were at the Capitol on January 6, and probably even that of Trump himself.
Most of these people believe some or all of the various theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc. But what you find when you talk to them is that, while they’ll defend those positions with information they got from Hannity or Breitbart or various other sources, they’re not particularly attached to them. If the theories were disproven, it wouldn’t disprove the fraud for them. That’s because there are far more important facts—actual, confirmed facts—that shape their perspective. Here they are:
A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
To begin with, the FBI and other intelligence agencies spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew this evidence was fake from Day One (see just for one example: this memo from July of 2016 by former CIA director John Brennan).
Many of the people who believe in fraud are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. To them, the intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (including falsified documents) is a big deal. Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. This was true with everyone, from Brennan and Representative Adam Schiff—who were on TV saying they’d seen clear evidence of collusion with Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn’t—all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was all fake. But we only learned key information—including that the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence—because of a court order. James Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.
At first, many Trump supporters were worried there must be some collusion, because every media and intelligence agency wouldn’t make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning. When that didn’t happen, they shed many illusions about their government.
We also know, as fact:
That the fraudulent Steele Dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign,
That the FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op,
That Steele’s source told the FBI the info was unserious, and
That they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying.
Trump supporters know this collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam. Then they watched as every institution—agencies, the press, Congress, academia—gaslit them for another year.
Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The Department of Justice, press, & government destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected administration throughout the whole affair.
This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naïve belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper.
The Lies
GOP propaganda still has many of these Trump supporters thinking in terms of partisan binaries. But a whole lot of them see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs. Jeb Bush election. It’s hard to describe to people on the Left, who are used to thinking of the American government as a conspiracy (see for example, Watergate, COINTELPRO, the Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc.) how shocking and disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and who are appalled when others don’t stand for the Anthem.
They could have managed that shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or government official, because they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the press is driven by ratings and sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they’d be all over the Jeffrey Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don’t know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc., would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it’s probably true. They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.
Trump supporters always claimed the media had liberal bias. Fine, whatever: they still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. They don’t think that anymore. It’s a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. Time magazine told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving—among others—leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution.
Then, throughout the summer, establishment governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn’t just the mail-ins: they also lowered signature matching standards, got rid of voter ID and notarization requirements, and much more. Forget the ballot conspiracies. It’s a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) and help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system.
At this point Trump people had lived through not only the collusion scam but also a fake impeachment. We now know that Trump’s request for Ukraine to cooperate with the Department of Justice regarding Biden’s financial activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine Attorney General at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. So Trump people expected shenanigans by now.
Then you get the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a “mistake“—but, ya know, the election’s over, so who cares? It hardly needs saying that if the New York Times had Don, Jr.’s laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the New York Times would not have been banned.
So now think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. And then the New York Post was banned for reporting on true information.
The reaction of Trump people to all this was not, “no fair!” That’s how they felt about Romney’s “binders of women” in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13 million more votes than in 2016—10 million more than Hillary Clinton. As election night dragged on, Trump supporters allowed themselves some hope.
But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.
The Aftermath
Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. Media and Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange—the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc.—but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!).
Everyone knows that, just as Don, Jr.’s laptop would’ve been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would’ve been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof.
Even the courts’ refusal to hear the fraud case gets nowhere with those who have seen these truths, because the opposition embraced mass political violence. Trump supporters say, with good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he’ll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house?
It’s a fact, according to Time, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were “protests,” but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too.
Trump voters knew the changes to election law were unconstitutional, it’s right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn’t see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn’t implied, it was direct.
The entrenched bureaucracy and security state subverted Trump from Day One. The press was part of the operation. Election rules were changed. Big Tech censored opposition. Political violence was legitimized and encouraged. And Trump was banned from social media. People are putting these things together into a very ugly—and quite accurate—account of how their country works.
Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them from getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost. It might’ve kept him alive.
News of the Times;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/new-video-black-clad-hoodlums-first-stairs-first-smash-windows-us-capitol-fbi-refuses-look-weird-huh/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/07/08/flashback-when-the-media-blew-off-joe-bidens-cancel-worthy-racist-comments-about-black-students-n1460470
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ignore-no-soliciting-signs-use-your-script-vaccine-door-knocking-documents-revealed
https://www.unz.com/article/34-black-on-white-homicides-june-2021-another-month-in-the-death-of-white-america-which-biden-is-bringing-to-a-suburb-near-you/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-china-bgi-dna-idUSKCN2ED1A6
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/covid_began_far_earlier_than_we_were_told.html
https://thenewamerican.com/revealed-the-average-covid-death-age-is-greater-than-average-lifespan/
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/white-privilege-new-hampshire-letter
https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/a-world-of-crack-urine-and-catatonia-welcome-to-washington-square-park/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/historic-catholic-church-burns-near-redberry-lake-1.6096132
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/creepy-andrew-weissmann-slips-inadvertently-shares-feds-spying-whoever-want-sharing-results-within-doj/
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/07/black-parents-abandon-public-schools.html
Ugly?
Coma?
I cut my dreadlocks off a few weeks ago.
And I haven't looked black since.
*.*
Wow.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
Of course, you heard they're working on one more of those movies.
Working title; "Indiana Jones And the Early Bird Buffett of Death."
*.*
McFarlane Toys has released a brand new, special edition action figure of the universally adored sports hero LeBron James. Unlike previous figures of LeBron, this one will feature realistic "flopping" action to immerse children in the NBA play experience.
"We wanted to make a toy that really captured what kind of player LeBron James is," said toy designer Richard Cringle. "When you press this little button on his back, or touch him at all, or get within 3 feet of him, he will flop dramatically on the ground and start crying."
The toy set will include a basketball, a knee brace, a tiny tube of Bengay, a cute little BandAid, and a flopping LeBron figure that will say all his famous catchphrases, such as:
"Owwweeee!"
"Ref! REF! REF! Did you see that? REF!"
"Waaaaaaaa"
"Defund the police!"
"My mom said you guys have to let me play!"
"You're next!"
"Hail President Xi, may he live forever!"
The new toy is expected to hit stores in the fall.
*.*
Top Five Summer Work Etiquette Violations:
Putting ice cubes under your armpits for a couple of minutes, then putting them back in the trays.
Any use of the phrase, "Hot enough for you?" In any language.
Putting your underwear in the coffee break refrigerator.
Lifting up your shirt while standing in front of the air conditioner vent.
Yelling out, "Geeze, it's hot" over 100 times an hour.
*.*
Lawyer: "Now would you please tell the Jury the truth; why did you shoot your husband with a bow and arrow?"
Defendant: "I didn't want to wake up the children."
Quote of the Times;
“One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.” – Hamilton
Link of the Times;
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/thomas-jefferson-vs-the-federal-reserve/
Issue of the Times;
The Coma Before the Storm by Kurt Schlichter
It’s beyond any reasonable dispute that the slack-jawed old pervert staggering through this punchline presidency is getting more senile by the day. All the while, his cackling understudy is biding her time everywhere but at the border, getting huffy at being questioned, and generally failing at a job historically assigned to morons as a role where they could do little damage. The only people who dig their hep jive – yeah, go on and believe the 79 percent approval numbers among people now paying $5 a gallon for unleaded – are the talking tubers of cable news. But even the tater thots of Brian Stelter, who is a potato, can’t dispel the growing sense of unease that watching these incompetent weirdos brings.
This epoch is the interregnum, a caretaker presidency presided over by a human asterisk who cares only about his post-lid bowl of mush and being wrapped in a shawl, set in front of the tee-vee, and allowed to watch his stories. The only thing moving less expeditiously than his bowels is his ridiculous legislative agenda, and all the prunes in the world aren’t going to help clear out that particular constipation, not with Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema refusing to commit ritual political suicide on the altar of coastal leftist dreams.
The progs were so close, just a vote or two away, to the unrestrained power they thought they could flex and thereby secure their control forever. But * is no Franklin Roosevelt. Nor is he Teddy Roosevelt. Nor Eleanor Roosevelt, though he could be if he really, really wanted to be. He’s not even Melvin Roosevelt. Instead, Grandpa Badfinger is a rickety joke, bumping elbows with his younger fellow-incompetents at the G7, wandering about mindlessly chasing moths until his ridiculous wife, with her ridiculous “Dr.”, wrangles him back into the hapless pack. You look at this sorry set of leaders of the formerly-free world and the vibe you get is “exhaustion.” There’s no energy, no drive, no hope. Boris Johnson, formerly a man, explained to a bored UK that that “nations coming out of the pandemic need to ‘build back better’ in a ‘greener,’ ‘more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way.’” Hack clichés are their solution, but these relics have nothing else. They are weak and stupid and they represent a spent elite that cares about nothing except just a little more time holding fast to their uncertain sinecures.
You can feel the tension beneath the surface, the sense that something is coming, a great changing. Oh, the elite at Davos fantasizes about a “Great Reset,” but they mean it literally – they want to reset the world back to how it was set when they were young and had energy and people hadn’t yet noticed that their venality and incompetence was matched only by their insanely inflated sense of their own abilities. But why would they be any better at pulling that off than they are at anything else? When the shattering disruption comes, they are the ones who will be disrupted, they and the whole post-War establishment our betters thought would last a thousand years and that won’t make it past 80. The elite aren’t, not even close, and we all know it now and we all sense that their Jenga tower o’ power can’t keep from toppling over even as they pull more and more blocks out of it, shredding norms (just this once – it’s always “just this once”) to keep their grip.
But what comes next? Something big, but the question is “What?” The only thing for certain is that the people running things now won’t like it. It’s been said here many times that Donald Trump was not our last chance, but theirs, our final fair warning to our failed elite from back when, at some level, we still thought the ruling caste acknowledged that we normals had at least some theoretical right to participate in our own government. But such illusions, to the extent they had endured, got shattered last November. We heard for four years how the 2016 election had been hacked, stolen, whatever the hyperbole du jour was, and the minute they could proclaim His Asteriskness president questioning elections became treason. But we saw the cheating, and we saw the judicial and executive sleight-of-hand that changed the rules in ways a real Supreme Court would have objected to, and we saw the informal rigging of the election through the lies and covering-up of the professional, licensed, and registered janitors of narrative journalism.
Now it’s all about holding onto power no matter what the cost. The corrupt feds toss trespassers into solitary while letting Antifa/BLM scumbags walk. Their tech buddies desperately try to play whack-a-mole with the unapproved ideas that keep popping up. The garbage media celebrates noted onanists while it ignores the Snortunate Son’s latest entry on his CV of shame – he’s added racial epithets to his remarkable and remarkably unremarked-upon record of tapping the tills of Slavic oligarchs, tapping rando strippers, and re-imagining the classic 80s novel of coke-fueled excess as Bright Lights, Big Guy (who gets his 10%).
It can’t last. Maybe if these puffy clowns were pros they could keep their boots on our throats forever, but they don’t own boots – too cis – and their Guccis and Birkenstocks just don’t have the same heft. They are weak, and stupid, and they are not even cunning enough to ensure that the cops and military, who would be expected to provide their final protective fire when accountability comes to overrun them, are prepared to do their dirty work. They need a savage Praetorian Guard – who doubts they would turn the razor-sharp gladii of their legionnaires on the people if that’s what it took to keep power? – but instead they’ve driven the best LEOs out via defunding and persecution and they’ve turned the Army into a camo-clad Ivy League faculty lounge that, over the last couple decades, has won precisely the same number of military victories as an Ivy League faculty lounge.
You can see the signs and hear rumblings out there. You can feel the growing anger. We are flocking to Ron DeSantis and others who pick and poke at the status quo, while rejecting the Nikki!s and Asa!s and Kristi!s who still take the Chamber of Commerce’s calls. Change is coming, not just here but throughout the West. The smart set refused to see the signs or hear the rumblings. Part of the fun will be seeing the surprise on their smug, perpetually-masked faces.
And now the elite has reached peak zombie with President * literally stumbling through his tenure as the tongue-bath media not only praises the Emperor’s new clothes (and literally praises Dr. Empress’s tacky duds) but marvels at his ability to feed himself. Look for a 99% approval rating to come down the pike even as we’re told that the biggest threat to Our Democracy is those wicked insurrectionists and their insurrectiony ideas about normal people having a say in their own governance.
Tick tock.
It’s not clear what’s going to happen, but this mess is unsustainable and what happens next may get ugly. They aren’t just going to shrug and give up power any more than we’ll shrug and submit to the serfdom they have planned for us. So, enjoy this coma before the storm, because the storm is coming.
News of the Times;
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/frontlinenews/urgent-british-report-calls-for-complete-cessation-of-covid-vaccines-in-humans/
https://notthebee.com/article/the-san-fran-gay-choir-says-its-coming-to-convert-our-kids
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2021/07/can-we-flee-californicated-america.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/fbi-drops-thousands-pages-documents-murdered-dnc-operative-seth-rich-said-nothing/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/chinas_deal_with_montenegro_makes_sense_if_you_realize_its_not_about_money.html
https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/legal-lunacy-judge-tosses-gun-case-over-grand-jurys-lack-of-diversity/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758555/Armys-mental-health-tsar-faces-probe-claim-affair-wife-soldier-wanted-help.html
https://vdare.com/articles/34-black-on-white-homicides-june-2021-another-month-in-the-death-of-white-america-which-biden-is-bringing-to-a-suburb-near-you
https://nationalfile.com/gab-reveals-theyve-been-canceled-by-another-bank-torba-slams-financial-persecution/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/young-americans-need-to-appreciate-the-good-fortune-of-the-us/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/05/lockdowns-were-a-gift-to-big-biz-designed-to-kill-small-biz/
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/07/college-officials-should-be-responsible-when-they-violate-peoples-rights/
https://www.oann.com/president-trump-announces-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-youtube-twitter-and-their-ceos/
https://nationalfile.com/video-blm-mob-surrounds-breaks-into-new-jersey-home-of-man-now-criminally-charged-with-using-racial-slurs/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/michael-avenatti-nike/2021/07/08/id/1027955/
And I haven't looked black since.
*.*
Wow.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
Of course, you heard they're working on one more of those movies.
Working title; "Indiana Jones And the Early Bird Buffett of Death."
*.*
McFarlane Toys has released a brand new, special edition action figure of the universally adored sports hero LeBron James. Unlike previous figures of LeBron, this one will feature realistic "flopping" action to immerse children in the NBA play experience.
"We wanted to make a toy that really captured what kind of player LeBron James is," said toy designer Richard Cringle. "When you press this little button on his back, or touch him at all, or get within 3 feet of him, he will flop dramatically on the ground and start crying."
The toy set will include a basketball, a knee brace, a tiny tube of Bengay, a cute little BandAid, and a flopping LeBron figure that will say all his famous catchphrases, such as:
"Owwweeee!"
"Ref! REF! REF! Did you see that? REF!"
"Waaaaaaaa"
"Defund the police!"
"My mom said you guys have to let me play!"
"You're next!"
"Hail President Xi, may he live forever!"
The new toy is expected to hit stores in the fall.
*.*
Top Five Summer Work Etiquette Violations:
Putting ice cubes under your armpits for a couple of minutes, then putting them back in the trays.
Any use of the phrase, "Hot enough for you?" In any language.
Putting your underwear in the coffee break refrigerator.
Lifting up your shirt while standing in front of the air conditioner vent.
Yelling out, "Geeze, it's hot" over 100 times an hour.
*.*
Lawyer: "Now would you please tell the Jury the truth; why did you shoot your husband with a bow and arrow?"
Defendant: "I didn't want to wake up the children."
Quote of the Times;
“One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.” – Hamilton
Link of the Times;
https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/thomas-jefferson-vs-the-federal-reserve/
Issue of the Times;
The Coma Before the Storm by Kurt Schlichter
It’s beyond any reasonable dispute that the slack-jawed old pervert staggering through this punchline presidency is getting more senile by the day. All the while, his cackling understudy is biding her time everywhere but at the border, getting huffy at being questioned, and generally failing at a job historically assigned to morons as a role where they could do little damage. The only people who dig their hep jive – yeah, go on and believe the 79 percent approval numbers among people now paying $5 a gallon for unleaded – are the talking tubers of cable news. But even the tater thots of Brian Stelter, who is a potato, can’t dispel the growing sense of unease that watching these incompetent weirdos brings.
This epoch is the interregnum, a caretaker presidency presided over by a human asterisk who cares only about his post-lid bowl of mush and being wrapped in a shawl, set in front of the tee-vee, and allowed to watch his stories. The only thing moving less expeditiously than his bowels is his ridiculous legislative agenda, and all the prunes in the world aren’t going to help clear out that particular constipation, not with Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema refusing to commit ritual political suicide on the altar of coastal leftist dreams.
The progs were so close, just a vote or two away, to the unrestrained power they thought they could flex and thereby secure their control forever. But * is no Franklin Roosevelt. Nor is he Teddy Roosevelt. Nor Eleanor Roosevelt, though he could be if he really, really wanted to be. He’s not even Melvin Roosevelt. Instead, Grandpa Badfinger is a rickety joke, bumping elbows with his younger fellow-incompetents at the G7, wandering about mindlessly chasing moths until his ridiculous wife, with her ridiculous “Dr.”, wrangles him back into the hapless pack. You look at this sorry set of leaders of the formerly-free world and the vibe you get is “exhaustion.” There’s no energy, no drive, no hope. Boris Johnson, formerly a man, explained to a bored UK that that “nations coming out of the pandemic need to ‘build back better’ in a ‘greener,’ ‘more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way.’” Hack clichés are their solution, but these relics have nothing else. They are weak and stupid and they represent a spent elite that cares about nothing except just a little more time holding fast to their uncertain sinecures.
You can feel the tension beneath the surface, the sense that something is coming, a great changing. Oh, the elite at Davos fantasizes about a “Great Reset,” but they mean it literally – they want to reset the world back to how it was set when they were young and had energy and people hadn’t yet noticed that their venality and incompetence was matched only by their insanely inflated sense of their own abilities. But why would they be any better at pulling that off than they are at anything else? When the shattering disruption comes, they are the ones who will be disrupted, they and the whole post-War establishment our betters thought would last a thousand years and that won’t make it past 80. The elite aren’t, not even close, and we all know it now and we all sense that their Jenga tower o’ power can’t keep from toppling over even as they pull more and more blocks out of it, shredding norms (just this once – it’s always “just this once”) to keep their grip.
But what comes next? Something big, but the question is “What?” The only thing for certain is that the people running things now won’t like it. It’s been said here many times that Donald Trump was not our last chance, but theirs, our final fair warning to our failed elite from back when, at some level, we still thought the ruling caste acknowledged that we normals had at least some theoretical right to participate in our own government. But such illusions, to the extent they had endured, got shattered last November. We heard for four years how the 2016 election had been hacked, stolen, whatever the hyperbole du jour was, and the minute they could proclaim His Asteriskness president questioning elections became treason. But we saw the cheating, and we saw the judicial and executive sleight-of-hand that changed the rules in ways a real Supreme Court would have objected to, and we saw the informal rigging of the election through the lies and covering-up of the professional, licensed, and registered janitors of narrative journalism.
Now it’s all about holding onto power no matter what the cost. The corrupt feds toss trespassers into solitary while letting Antifa/BLM scumbags walk. Their tech buddies desperately try to play whack-a-mole with the unapproved ideas that keep popping up. The garbage media celebrates noted onanists while it ignores the Snortunate Son’s latest entry on his CV of shame – he’s added racial epithets to his remarkable and remarkably unremarked-upon record of tapping the tills of Slavic oligarchs, tapping rando strippers, and re-imagining the classic 80s novel of coke-fueled excess as Bright Lights, Big Guy (who gets his 10%).
It can’t last. Maybe if these puffy clowns were pros they could keep their boots on our throats forever, but they don’t own boots – too cis – and their Guccis and Birkenstocks just don’t have the same heft. They are weak, and stupid, and they are not even cunning enough to ensure that the cops and military, who would be expected to provide their final protective fire when accountability comes to overrun them, are prepared to do their dirty work. They need a savage Praetorian Guard – who doubts they would turn the razor-sharp gladii of their legionnaires on the people if that’s what it took to keep power? – but instead they’ve driven the best LEOs out via defunding and persecution and they’ve turned the Army into a camo-clad Ivy League faculty lounge that, over the last couple decades, has won precisely the same number of military victories as an Ivy League faculty lounge.
You can see the signs and hear rumblings out there. You can feel the growing anger. We are flocking to Ron DeSantis and others who pick and poke at the status quo, while rejecting the Nikki!s and Asa!s and Kristi!s who still take the Chamber of Commerce’s calls. Change is coming, not just here but throughout the West. The smart set refused to see the signs or hear the rumblings. Part of the fun will be seeing the surprise on their smug, perpetually-masked faces.
And now the elite has reached peak zombie with President * literally stumbling through his tenure as the tongue-bath media not only praises the Emperor’s new clothes (and literally praises Dr. Empress’s tacky duds) but marvels at his ability to feed himself. Look for a 99% approval rating to come down the pike even as we’re told that the biggest threat to Our Democracy is those wicked insurrectionists and their insurrectiony ideas about normal people having a say in their own governance.
Tick tock.
It’s not clear what’s going to happen, but this mess is unsustainable and what happens next may get ugly. They aren’t just going to shrug and give up power any more than we’ll shrug and submit to the serfdom they have planned for us. So, enjoy this coma before the storm, because the storm is coming.
News of the Times;
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/frontlinenews/urgent-british-report-calls-for-complete-cessation-of-covid-vaccines-in-humans/
https://notthebee.com/article/the-san-fran-gay-choir-says-its-coming-to-convert-our-kids
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2021/07/can-we-flee-californicated-america.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/fbi-drops-thousands-pages-documents-murdered-dnc-operative-seth-rich-said-nothing/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/chinas_deal_with_montenegro_makes_sense_if_you_realize_its_not_about_money.html
https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/legal-lunacy-judge-tosses-gun-case-over-grand-jurys-lack-of-diversity/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758555/Armys-mental-health-tsar-faces-probe-claim-affair-wife-soldier-wanted-help.html
https://vdare.com/articles/34-black-on-white-homicides-june-2021-another-month-in-the-death-of-white-america-which-biden-is-bringing-to-a-suburb-near-you
https://nationalfile.com/gab-reveals-theyve-been-canceled-by-another-bank-torba-slams-financial-persecution/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/young-americans-need-to-appreciate-the-good-fortune-of-the-us/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/05/lockdowns-were-a-gift-to-big-biz-designed-to-kill-small-biz/
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/07/college-officials-should-be-responsible-when-they-violate-peoples-rights/
https://www.oann.com/president-trump-announces-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-youtube-twitter-and-their-ceos/
https://nationalfile.com/video-blm-mob-surrounds-breaks-into-new-jersey-home-of-man-now-criminally-charged-with-using-racial-slurs/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/michael-avenatti-nike/2021/07/08/id/1027955/
Reserve?
People say that money is not the key to happiness.
But I always figured, if I have enough money, I could have a key made.
*.*
I had a really great with this really great lady I just met.
Well, it wasn't really a date-date, more like we ate dinner and saw a movie together.
Then the plane landed.
*.*
Lines:
So, the Queen of England is newly single and Bill Gates suddenly announced he's getting divorced, interesting...
Did you know the Flat Earth Society has members around the globe?
Parenting is basically an 18-year long episode of "Survivor."
Some of you are too young to know how it feels to take a ton of pictures and then find out two weeks later they all sucked.
Apparently, its rude to ask the parents of a kid on a leash if it was a 'rescue'.
Skilled workers are hard to find. That's why idiots are promoted to management.
There are two types of people in this world. Those who say, "Oh, big stretch" when a dog stretches, and sociopaths.
Onion rings are basically vegetable donuts.
Worry is a waste of creative thinking.
I finally got 8 hours of sleep. It was over 3 days, but still...
The best murder weapon would be a Tupperware container lid, because no one would ever be able to find it.
Dear Mother-in-law, please stop telling me how to raise my kids; I live with one of yours and I've seen your work.
The older I get, the more I find myself involuntarily hissing like a vampire when I walk into the bright sun.
Thank you for pretending not to see me when I was pretending not to see you.
*.*
Dentist warns his patient: “This might be a bit painful.”
Patient: “That’s okay, I can handle it.”
Dentist: "I'm sleeping with your girlfriend.”
*.*
What does a metal frog say?
Rivet.
Quote of the Times;
Ya, the Satanic pedophile elites who control every western country just shut down the world over a cold and rigged an American election while grooming your children with degenerate and anti-White propaganda, but let’s not get too radical in response here guys. – Torba
Link of the Times;
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/06/indiana-jones-american-epic-hero-stephen-klugewicz.html
Issue of the Times;
Even the Federal Reserve doesn’t believe the Federal Reserve anymore by Simon Black
More than twenty years ago when I was a young Army intelligence officer fresh out of the academy, my commander summoned me to his office one afternoon because he had a ‘special mission’ for me.
I was beyond excited.
My assumption was that it would be a clandestine assignment to lead one of our unit’s counterintelligence teams in the Middle East. Or perhaps it would be temporary duty as an aide to the commanding general who would be visiting soon.
It was none of the above.
Instead, my commander looked at me and said, “Lieutenant, I need you to plan our unit’s long-term budget for the next ten years, and I want it on my desk this afternoon.”
Huh?
Aside from the obvious disappointment of being handed such a lame assignment, I was dumbfounded that they would entrust something like budget planning to a 22-year old with zero experience in the matter.
But the task took me all of 15 minutes to complete. I looked at what our unit’s current budget was for that fiscal year… and then I spent a few minutes researching the inflation rate.
According to Yahoo (yes, this was so long ago that people still primarily used Yahoo instead of Google), the projected inflation rate was 2%.
So basically I just added 2% to our spending every year for the next 10 years, and poof, long-term budget complete.
That’s the day I learned how government financing works; quite often the people who come up with these numbers don’t have a clue what they’re doing and base everything on some very simple assumptions about the future.
A few weeks ago, the White House unveiled its own 10 year budget, which forecasts US federal spending into the early 2030s.
Similarly, they make their own assumptions about the future. In fact, they list key assumptions about inflation, interest rates, etc. on page 60 of their budget report.
This is really interesting… because the Federal Reserve-- i.e. the US central bank that is responsible for controlling inflation-- insists that they’ll keep inflation at 2% over the long term.
But apparently the White House doesn’t believe its own central bank… because the 10-year Biden Budget assumes an inflation rate that’s, proportionally, 15% higher than what the Federal Reserve promises.
This lack of confidence is pretty remarkable; think about it-- the US Treasury Secretary, who would have been instrumental in drafting the budget, used to be the Chair of the Federal Reserve.
So even the Fed’s own alumni don’t believe the Fed when they say that they’ll keep inflation at 2%.
And why should anyone believe the Fed? Inflation has been soaring, yet the Fed has been completely dismissive of it, claiming that inflation is ‘transitory’, i.e. it’s a temporary phenomenon that will eventually stop.
We’ve discussed this before-- there is some truth in that statement. But the real issue is far more complicated.
Let’s have a look at what inflation really is…
In simplistic terms, inflation is too much money relative to the amount of stuff in an economy. And ‘stuff’ literally means ANYTHING-- a loaf of bread, a brand new Tesla, services performed by your accountant, and even assets like Bitcoin, stocks in the S&P 500, real estate, etc.
There’s a finite amount of goods and services in any economy. There’s only so much property available, only so many loaves of bread that are baked. And there are only 500 companies in the S&P.
Similarly, there’s also a certain amount of money-- all the combined income and savings of everyone in the economy.
In a market-based economy, consumers and investors make choices about where all that money ends up; they choose to purchase loaves of bread, Teslas, or shares in S&P 500 companies.
And based on the laws of supply and demand, the prices for those goods, services, and assets will rise or fall according to consumer preference.
But then the Federal Reserve steps in… and arbitrarily expands the money supply. And by “expand”, I mean “flooded the economy with a supernova orgy of money.”
This is pretty much what the Fed has done ever since the LAST financial crisis in 2008; back then its balance sheet was about $800 billion. Today it’s $8 trillion-- 10x bigger.
This means that the Fed has stuffed enormous quantities of money into the economy over the past 12+ years… and especially over the last year.
Since COVID started, the Fed has doubled the size of its balance sheet and expanded the money supply more than any year in US history except for 1943. That’s really saying something.
So- let’s go back to our inflation definition: now there are trillions of dollars of new money in the system.
But at the same time, there’s a lot less stuff.
Countless businesses closed, others were forced to shut down, and workers have been paid to stay home.
All of those policies mean less stuff is being produced in the economy.
So-- more money, less stuff means that prices have generally been rising. That’s inflation.
Some of this really is temporary. Eventually most of those surviving businesses will open, and others will replace the ones which failed. So production will start to catch up.
But longer term, there are a lot of other factors to consider—
1) Tax policy. Remember, these guys want to raise taxes in the US, especially on investors and large companies. In fact their proposed corporate tax rate is 28%.
Yet they’ve just announced a proposal with other nations to set a “global minimum tax” of 15%. So they’re essentially creating a huge incentive for US companies to stop producing in America and head overseas for a lower tax rate. It’s genius.
2) Idiotic COVID policies. We’ve talked about this before-- COVID compliance is expensive.
Here’s a great example-- a lot of hotels are keeping a used room vacant for 24 hours after a guest checks out to ensure ‘proper ventilation’ before any new guest can stay in that room.
This means that hotels will never be able to operate at full capacity, which will cost them a ton of money. And ultimately those costs will be paid by consumers in the form of higher room rates. That’s inflation.
3) Incentives to NOT work.
This one is nuts; they give people money to NOT work. And then the government complains that the unemployment rate is too high… so they need to continue giving money to unemployed people!
It’s a never-ending cycle that creates major disincentives to produce, i.e. less stuff in the economy.
It’s even dumber than when the federal government gave money to farmers during the Great Depression to DESTROY their crops.
There are so many more examples and trends, each of which makes it more difficult to produce (i.e. less stuff) at a time when there’s more money flooding the economy. That causes inflation.
So it’s no wonder the White House is skeptical when the Fed claims that inflation will be 2%. There are simply too many forces that will keep inflation higher in the future.
News of the Times;
https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/Hillary-Violated-State-Department-Policy-to-Get-Convicted-Child-Traffickers-Out-of-Haiti
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-anat-kimchi-white-female-doctoral-student-researching-disparity-in-probation-sentences-randomly-murdered-by-black-male-in-chicago/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/07/03/actress-kirstie-alley-warns-hollywood-is-putting-society-on-a-path-to-accept-pedophilia-protect-your-children/
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/06/26/statewide-manhunt-for-othal-wallace-ends-saturday-morning/
https://summit.news/2021/06/25/3-dead-3-injured-after-attack-by-knifeman-in-wurzburg-germany/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/tragedy-food-deserts-causing/
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/06/26/report-united-states-ranks-last-in-media-trust/
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/06/the-chosen-jesus-tv-show/619306/
https://freebeacon.com/courts/white-males-absent-from-biden-judicial-slate/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwen-berry-blasted-for-anthem-protest-try-this-s-in-an-actually-oppressive-country
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-06-24-fbi-entrapment-exposed-research-document.html
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/see-white-privilege-gender-equity-indoctrination-plans-kindergartners/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/san-francisco-homeless-camp-costs-60000-tent-year
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/02/imaryland-sanctuary-county-twice-freed-illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-member-accused-of-trying-to-rape-15-year-old/
https://electionwiz.com/2021/07/04/exposed-biden-center-received-54m-from-china-after-launch-of-presidential-bid/
But I always figured, if I have enough money, I could have a key made.
*.*
I had a really great with this really great lady I just met.
Well, it wasn't really a date-date, more like we ate dinner and saw a movie together.
Then the plane landed.
*.*
Lines:
So, the Queen of England is newly single and Bill Gates suddenly announced he's getting divorced, interesting...
Did you know the Flat Earth Society has members around the globe?
Parenting is basically an 18-year long episode of "Survivor."
Some of you are too young to know how it feels to take a ton of pictures and then find out two weeks later they all sucked.
Apparently, its rude to ask the parents of a kid on a leash if it was a 'rescue'.
Skilled workers are hard to find. That's why idiots are promoted to management.
There are two types of people in this world. Those who say, "Oh, big stretch" when a dog stretches, and sociopaths.
Onion rings are basically vegetable donuts.
Worry is a waste of creative thinking.
I finally got 8 hours of sleep. It was over 3 days, but still...
The best murder weapon would be a Tupperware container lid, because no one would ever be able to find it.
Dear Mother-in-law, please stop telling me how to raise my kids; I live with one of yours and I've seen your work.
The older I get, the more I find myself involuntarily hissing like a vampire when I walk into the bright sun.
Thank you for pretending not to see me when I was pretending not to see you.
*.*
Dentist warns his patient: “This might be a bit painful.”
Patient: “That’s okay, I can handle it.”
Dentist: "I'm sleeping with your girlfriend.”
*.*
What does a metal frog say?
Rivet.
Quote of the Times;
Ya, the Satanic pedophile elites who control every western country just shut down the world over a cold and rigged an American election while grooming your children with degenerate and anti-White propaganda, but let’s not get too radical in response here guys. – Torba
Link of the Times;
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/06/indiana-jones-american-epic-hero-stephen-klugewicz.html
Issue of the Times;
Even the Federal Reserve doesn’t believe the Federal Reserve anymore by Simon Black
More than twenty years ago when I was a young Army intelligence officer fresh out of the academy, my commander summoned me to his office one afternoon because he had a ‘special mission’ for me.
I was beyond excited.
My assumption was that it would be a clandestine assignment to lead one of our unit’s counterintelligence teams in the Middle East. Or perhaps it would be temporary duty as an aide to the commanding general who would be visiting soon.
It was none of the above.
Instead, my commander looked at me and said, “Lieutenant, I need you to plan our unit’s long-term budget for the next ten years, and I want it on my desk this afternoon.”
Huh?
Aside from the obvious disappointment of being handed such a lame assignment, I was dumbfounded that they would entrust something like budget planning to a 22-year old with zero experience in the matter.
But the task took me all of 15 minutes to complete. I looked at what our unit’s current budget was for that fiscal year… and then I spent a few minutes researching the inflation rate.
According to Yahoo (yes, this was so long ago that people still primarily used Yahoo instead of Google), the projected inflation rate was 2%.
So basically I just added 2% to our spending every year for the next 10 years, and poof, long-term budget complete.
That’s the day I learned how government financing works; quite often the people who come up with these numbers don’t have a clue what they’re doing and base everything on some very simple assumptions about the future.
A few weeks ago, the White House unveiled its own 10 year budget, which forecasts US federal spending into the early 2030s.
Similarly, they make their own assumptions about the future. In fact, they list key assumptions about inflation, interest rates, etc. on page 60 of their budget report.
This is really interesting… because the Federal Reserve-- i.e. the US central bank that is responsible for controlling inflation-- insists that they’ll keep inflation at 2% over the long term.
But apparently the White House doesn’t believe its own central bank… because the 10-year Biden Budget assumes an inflation rate that’s, proportionally, 15% higher than what the Federal Reserve promises.
This lack of confidence is pretty remarkable; think about it-- the US Treasury Secretary, who would have been instrumental in drafting the budget, used to be the Chair of the Federal Reserve.
So even the Fed’s own alumni don’t believe the Fed when they say that they’ll keep inflation at 2%.
And why should anyone believe the Fed? Inflation has been soaring, yet the Fed has been completely dismissive of it, claiming that inflation is ‘transitory’, i.e. it’s a temporary phenomenon that will eventually stop.
We’ve discussed this before-- there is some truth in that statement. But the real issue is far more complicated.
Let’s have a look at what inflation really is…
In simplistic terms, inflation is too much money relative to the amount of stuff in an economy. And ‘stuff’ literally means ANYTHING-- a loaf of bread, a brand new Tesla, services performed by your accountant, and even assets like Bitcoin, stocks in the S&P 500, real estate, etc.
There’s a finite amount of goods and services in any economy. There’s only so much property available, only so many loaves of bread that are baked. And there are only 500 companies in the S&P.
Similarly, there’s also a certain amount of money-- all the combined income and savings of everyone in the economy.
In a market-based economy, consumers and investors make choices about where all that money ends up; they choose to purchase loaves of bread, Teslas, or shares in S&P 500 companies.
And based on the laws of supply and demand, the prices for those goods, services, and assets will rise or fall according to consumer preference.
But then the Federal Reserve steps in… and arbitrarily expands the money supply. And by “expand”, I mean “flooded the economy with a supernova orgy of money.”
This is pretty much what the Fed has done ever since the LAST financial crisis in 2008; back then its balance sheet was about $800 billion. Today it’s $8 trillion-- 10x bigger.
This means that the Fed has stuffed enormous quantities of money into the economy over the past 12+ years… and especially over the last year.
Since COVID started, the Fed has doubled the size of its balance sheet and expanded the money supply more than any year in US history except for 1943. That’s really saying something.
So- let’s go back to our inflation definition: now there are trillions of dollars of new money in the system.
But at the same time, there’s a lot less stuff.
Countless businesses closed, others were forced to shut down, and workers have been paid to stay home.
All of those policies mean less stuff is being produced in the economy.
So-- more money, less stuff means that prices have generally been rising. That’s inflation.
Some of this really is temporary. Eventually most of those surviving businesses will open, and others will replace the ones which failed. So production will start to catch up.
But longer term, there are a lot of other factors to consider—
1) Tax policy. Remember, these guys want to raise taxes in the US, especially on investors and large companies. In fact their proposed corporate tax rate is 28%.
Yet they’ve just announced a proposal with other nations to set a “global minimum tax” of 15%. So they’re essentially creating a huge incentive for US companies to stop producing in America and head overseas for a lower tax rate. It’s genius.
2) Idiotic COVID policies. We’ve talked about this before-- COVID compliance is expensive.
Here’s a great example-- a lot of hotels are keeping a used room vacant for 24 hours after a guest checks out to ensure ‘proper ventilation’ before any new guest can stay in that room.
This means that hotels will never be able to operate at full capacity, which will cost them a ton of money. And ultimately those costs will be paid by consumers in the form of higher room rates. That’s inflation.
3) Incentives to NOT work.
This one is nuts; they give people money to NOT work. And then the government complains that the unemployment rate is too high… so they need to continue giving money to unemployed people!
It’s a never-ending cycle that creates major disincentives to produce, i.e. less stuff in the economy.
It’s even dumber than when the federal government gave money to farmers during the Great Depression to DESTROY their crops.
There are so many more examples and trends, each of which makes it more difficult to produce (i.e. less stuff) at a time when there’s more money flooding the economy. That causes inflation.
So it’s no wonder the White House is skeptical when the Fed claims that inflation will be 2%. There are simply too many forces that will keep inflation higher in the future.
News of the Times;
https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/Hillary-Violated-State-Department-Policy-to-Get-Convicted-Child-Traffickers-Out-of-Haiti
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-anat-kimchi-white-female-doctoral-student-researching-disparity-in-probation-sentences-randomly-murdered-by-black-male-in-chicago/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/07/03/actress-kirstie-alley-warns-hollywood-is-putting-society-on-a-path-to-accept-pedophilia-protect-your-children/
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/06/26/statewide-manhunt-for-othal-wallace-ends-saturday-morning/
https://summit.news/2021/06/25/3-dead-3-injured-after-attack-by-knifeman-in-wurzburg-germany/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/tragedy-food-deserts-causing/
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/06/26/report-united-states-ranks-last-in-media-trust/
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/06/the-chosen-jesus-tv-show/619306/
https://freebeacon.com/courts/white-males-absent-from-biden-judicial-slate/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwen-berry-blasted-for-anthem-protest-try-this-s-in-an-actually-oppressive-country
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-06-24-fbi-entrapment-exposed-research-document.html
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/see-white-privilege-gender-equity-indoctrination-plans-kindergartners/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/san-francisco-homeless-camp-costs-60000-tent-year
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/02/imaryland-sanctuary-county-twice-freed-illegal-alien-ms-13-gang-member-accused-of-trying-to-rape-15-year-old/
https://electionwiz.com/2021/07/04/exposed-biden-center-received-54m-from-china-after-launch-of-presidential-bid/
Throwaway?
My roommate claims that he caught me with a sex doll.
This is completely untrue and slanderous. He caught me with a sex action figure.
*.*
A painting by Picasso that was stolen nine years ago during a heist at a Greek gallery has been found.
The gallery manager said, "I never thought to look in the fuvking rubbish bin".
*.*
Oneliners:
A retired husband is a wife's full time job.
Happiness is the place between too little and too much.
Circular arguments often make the rounds.
Even at a Mensa convention, someone is the dumbest person in the room.
When in doubt. . . mumble.
Money can't buy everything, but then again, neither can no money.
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
If a nickel knew what it is worth today, it would feel like two cents.
A lot of pessimists get that way from financing optimists.
When you have your head up your arse, 4 of the 5 senses do not work
I'd rather visit the zoo than most of my relatives.
If only the good die young then what does that say about senior citizens?
Commercial truck owners should be required to pay into a state windshield repair fund.
Don't attempt to run from the past, it is always behind you.
People like you are the reason people like me need medication.
*.*
Last month we had:
June 19th - Juneteenth, celebrating the freedom of the slaves.
June 20th - Fathers Day, children showing appreciation for caring fathers.
Potentially inconvenient having two such days on the same weekend.
Luckily, very few were celebrating both.
*.*
I took the wife out to eat.
"You always pray before dinner when we're at home.", she said.
"Here, the chef knows how to cook.", I replied.
Quote of the Times;
If only there were a flag every American could raise that represented liberty and justice for ALL. – Boebert
Link of the Times;
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2021/06/19/slave-stories-history-forgot-black-people-owned-slaves-too-n1455761
Issue of the Times;
Let’s Hold On to the Throwaway Society by John Tierney
Disposable products are sanitary, efficient, and environmentally sound.
For half a century, it’s been a term of disdain: the “throwaway society,” uttered with disgust by the environmentally enlightened. But now that their reusable tote bags are taboo at grocery stores and Starbucks is refusing to refill their ceramic mugs, they’ve had to face some unpleasant realities. Disposable products aren’t merely more convenient than the alternative; they’re also safer, particularly during a pandemic but also at any other time. And they have other virtues: the throwaway society is healthier, cleaner, more economical, less wasteful, less environmentally damaging—and yes, more “sustainable” than the green vision of utopia.
These are not new truths, even if it took the Covid-19 pandemic to reveal them again. The throwaway age began because of public-health campaigns a century ago to control the spread of pathogens. Disposable products were celebrated for decades for promoting hygiene and saving everyone time and money. It wasn’t until the 1970s that they became symbols of decadent excess, and then only because of economic and ecological fallacies repeated so often that they became conventional wisdom.
In a strange turn of events, the most affluent society in history suddenly turned into a mass of neurotic hoarders. Sifting through garbage for valuables, an activity formerly associated with the most destitute inhabitants of Third World shantytowns, became a moral duty in American suburbs. Greens campaigned for “zero waste” and a “circular economy” in which disposable products would be outlawed. They confidently predicted that the throwaway society was doomed, but if they’d known anything about its history, they would have realized that it was created for very good reasons—and that it will endure long after their lamentations are forgotten.
At the start of the twentieth century, American consumers were still living in what today’s greens would consider a state of grace. They carried their own baskets and cotton bags to the grocery store and brought home food wrapped in biodegradable paper. They didn’t use disposable towels in public bathrooms, which provided cloth towels attached to rollers. There were no Styrofoam cups for coffee and no plastic bottles of water. When people wanted water in a public place, they’d get it from the spigot of a drinking fountain by filling a tin cup chained to the fountain.
This “common cup” was the ultimate reusable product—much to the horror of public-health experts, who blamed it for spreading tuberculosis, pneumonia, diphtheria, meningitis, and other diseases. Alvin Davison, a biologist at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, analyzed cups from public schools and reported in 1908 that a single sip from a student left a residue of 100 dead skin cells and 75,000 bacteria. He used the scrapings from one school cup to induce fatal cases of pneumonia and tuberculosis in guinea pigs.
His article “Death in School Drinking Cups” provided support to “Ban the Cup” campaigns around the country. The first successful one was led in Kansas by Samuel Crumbine, a colorful doctor who had started his career in Dodge City (he was the model for Doc Adams in the long-running Gunsmoke television series) and went on to lead various public-hygiene crusades. The term “flyswatter” comes from a slogan he popularized, “Swat the fly” (which came to him while listening to the crowd at a baseball game urging a hitter to swat a sacrifice fly ball). After watching train passengers with tuberculosis and other diseases drinking water from a common cup, Crumbine got so upset that he threw the cup out the train’s window, and proceeded to persuade his colleagues on the state board of health to ban the common cup in trains, schools, and other public places in Kansas in 1909.
The ban left Kansans with a new problem: What were they supposed to use at a public fountain? Fortunately, as Crumbine later recalled, “Necessity proved to be the mother of invention.” Shortly after banning the cup, Crumbine was visited by a former Kansan named Hugh Moore, who brought with him samples of a product that his brother-in-law had invented: round paper cups that could be stacked in a dispenser next to a fountain. Crumbine’s endorsement provided crucial help to Moore in selling his product, originally called Health Kups and later renamed Dixie Cups.
It was the birth of the throwaway society, and Moore became its first great evangelist. He was an indefatigable promoter, and he wasn’t just selling cups. He had a genius for marketing fear. Later in life, he would launch another movement by publishing a pamphlet in 1954, “The Population Bomb” (a title later borrowed by Paul Ehrlich for a best-selling book) and founding the Population Crisis Committee. In 1910, Moore started a newspaper, The Cup Campaigner, filled with warnings from public-health experts and horror stories of respectable women and innocent children sickened by drinking from common cups. It was illustrated with cartoons showing unsavory-looking men sipping from metal cups and images of the Grim Reaper lurking at fountains.
Soon, dozens of cities and states had banned the common cup, and Moore had plenty of customers, starting with the railroads. The Erie Lackawanna Railroad featured disposable cups in an advertisement that depicted a character named Phoebe Snow, dressed immaculately in white as she drank from a paper cup. The ad was a paean to disposability:
On railroad trips
No other lips
Have touched the cup
That Phoebe sips.
Sales of disposable cups soared during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, a tragedy evoked long afterward in Dixie Cup ads with warnings like, “Now’s no time to flirt with Contagion!” The company expanded into making paper cups for ice cream and milkshakes, promoted with the slogan “Used but once and thrown away”—in hygienic contrast to the dirty glass from a soda fountain pictured in a 1930s ad with the headline “This Tainted Kiss Awaits Your Lips.”
Meantime, Moore and his competitors were promoting other advantages of disposable products. The invention of cup lids in the 1920s made it easy for people to carry off their drinks. Restaurants could serve customers more quickly and cheaply by using cups and plates that didn’t need to be washed and dried. Consumers were liberated from chores, as Life illustrated in 1955 with an elaborately staged photo for an article titled “Throwaway Living,” a phrase that wasn’t used in disdain. The photo showed dozens of disposable products—plates, cups, pans, towels, ashtrays, a napkin and tablecloth, a baby’s bib and diaper—apparently flung heavenward by two ecstatic parents and their child. “The objects flying through the air in this picture,” the magazine exulted, “would take 40 hours to clean—except that no housewife need bother.”
Disposability remained a self-evident virtue in the 1960s, when Bethlehem Steel advertised its new soda cans by showing photos of two women. One smiled as she tossed metal cans into the trash; the other looked miserable as she struggled to lug armfuls of empty glass bottles back to the store. The ad posed what, at the time, was a rhetorical question: “Why make hard work out of enjoying soft drinks?”
But before long, an army of activists and scholars was inventing one reason after another to make even harder work. The first popular objection to disposable products came in the 1970s, the decade of the first Earth Day and the “energy crisis” and best-sellers with titles like Limits to Growth and The End of Affluence. Scientists had supposedly determined that humanity was running out of oil and other natural resources, so it was everyone’s moral duty to conserve dwindling supplies for posterity.
The precious little petroleum remaining could not be wasted on frivolities like plastic plates. There weren’t enough trees left to keep making Dixie Cups for the growing population. Ecologically conscious college students banished paper towels from their dorm bathrooms, in favor of cloth towels. Crumbine would have been appalled—another of his pioneering victories in Kansas had been a ban on cloth roller-towels in public bathrooms—but the planet’s health took precedence over the public’s.
The picture became even bleaker in the 1980s, when journalists and environmentalists came up with another objection to throwaway products: there was nowhere to throw them away. The “garbage crisis,” caused by a supposed shortage of space in landfills, prompted municipalities across America to launch curbside recycling programs. Towns expected to save money by reducing the need for landfilling, whose cost was projected to soar as space became scarce, and they expected to make money by selling recyclables and turning “garbage into gold.” As the planet’s supply of natural resources dwindled, prices for the raw materials were sure to rise, and the stuff in trash would become “too good to throw away.”
But the dreaded landfill shortage never occurred—and it never made any sense, given how much open land there is in America and how little of it is needed to bury trash. Nor did the world run short of oil or other natural resources. Those gloomy predictions never made any sense, either—certainly not to economists who had bothered to study long-term trends. Some resources do become scarce at times, causing prices to rise, but entrepreneurs respond by finding new supplies or cheaper substitutes. As a result, the real prices for energy and other natural resources have been falling for centuries, especially compared with the cost of labor, which has been rising for centuries. The only resource becoming consistently more expensive is humans’ time.
These trends created the throwaway society: as people grew wealthier and raw materials got cheaper, they could afford to buy more products and throw them away in order to save their increasingly valuable time. And these trends doomed the fantasies of recyclers because their industry required increasingly expensive human labor to produce decreasingly valuable raw materials.
New York City confidently predicted that it would save money by starting a mandatory recycling program in 1992, but it took so much extra labor to collect and process the recyclables that the city couldn’t recoup the costs from selling the materials. In fact, the recyclables often had so little value that the city had to pay still more money to get rid of them. The recycling program cost the city more than $500 million during its first seven years, and the losses have continued to mount. A new study by Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute shows that eliminating the city’s recycling program and sending all its municipal trash to landfills could now save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually—enough money to increase the parks department’s budget by at least half.
Even those calculations underestimate the cost of recycling because they include only the direct outlays, chiefly the $686 per ton that the city spends to collect recyclables. But what about all the valuable time that New Yorkers spend sorting and rinsing their trash and delivering it to the recycling bin? For a New York Times Magazine article in 1996, I hired a Columbia University student to keep track of how much time he spent recycling cans and bottles and how much material he gathered in a week. Using those figures (eight minutes to gather four pounds), I calculated that if the city paid New Yorkers a typical janitor’s wage for their recycling labors, their labor would cost $792 per ton of recyclables—over $100 per ton more than what the city pays its sanitation workers to collect it.
As the economics of recycling worsened, cities in America and Europe found that the only viable markets for their recyclables were in poor countries, chiefly in China and other Asian nations, where processing recyclables was still profitable, thanks to lower wages and lower standards for worker safety and environmental quality. But as those countries have gotten wealthier, they’ve become reluctant to accept foreign trash. As bales of unwanted recyclables pile up in warehouses, towns have had to start sending them to landfills, and dozens of American municipalities have finally had the sense to cancel their recycling programs.
But most seem determined to persevere, even as they face huge budget shortfalls because of the pandemic. Now that the original objections to the throwaway society have proved false, green activists are relying on other reasons to keep making work for the rest of us.
One morning in 1996, I sat with a class of fifth-graders in Manhattan as they gazed mournfully at a photo of a supermarket package of red apples. It was part of a slide presentation by the director of environmental education for the Environmental Action Coalition, the guest lecturer at that day’s science class.
“Look at the plastic, the Styrofoam or cardboard underneath,” she told the class. “Do you need this much wrapping when you buy things?”
“Noooo,” the fifth-graders replied.
It was all so obvious to them, the fifth-graders as well as their lecturer. She was barely out of college, but she thought that she knew more about selling produce than supermarket executives and packaging engineers who had spent their careers studying this question. She was sure that plastic wrap and Styrofoam were wasteful and harmful to the environment because she had never seriously considered the alternative or wondered why those products were introduced.
To merchants and shoppers in the late 1920s, there was nothing wasteful about the revolutionary packaging material introduced by DuPont. Cellophane seemed miraculous because it was not only moisture-proof but also transparent. “EYE IT before you BUY IT,” DuPont advertised, and shoppers welcomed this new feature enabling them to judge the quality of produce and meat before they paid up. Cellophane kept things fresh much longer, an advantage advertised to everyone from homemakers to soldiers. During World War II, a DuPont ad showed a German soldier looking on enviously as American prisoners of war opened packages of cigarettes from home that were wrapped in cellophane: “The prisoners who have better cigarettes than their guards.”
Soviet citizens in the 1980s were similarly envious of Westerners’ new plastic grocery bags, which sold for $5 apiece on the black market in Moscow. The bags were coveted partly as a status symbol (a hard-to-get imported product) and partly because they were so light and compact. In a shortage-plagued economy, Muscovites never knew when a scarce item would suddenly become available in a nearby store, so they wanted to have an empty bag with them, just in case.
American merchants and shoppers switched from paper to plastic packaging because it reduced waste. Plastic was cheaper because it required fewer resources to manufacture. It required less energy to transport because it was lighter. Plastic took up less space in landfills than paper, and it further reduced the volume of household trash because it preserved food longer. The typical household in Mexico City, for example, generated more garbage than an American household because it bought fewer packaged products and ended up discarding more food that had spoiled.
But activists eager to find some reason to oppose disposable products have ignored these advantages. They blame America’s throwaway society for polluting the oceans with plastic, though virtually all that pollution comes from either fishing vessels or from developing countries with primitive waste-management systems—mostly the Asian countries that were importing plastic recyclables from America. Instead of castigating American consumers, environmentalists should blame themselves for creating the recycling programs that sent plastic to countries where it was allowed to leak into rivers. The best way to protect marine life is to throw used plastic into the trash, not the recycling bin, so that it goes straight to a well-lined local landfill instead of ending up in the ocean.
And instead of campaigning to ban plastic grocery bags, green activists should be promoting their environmental advantages. Banning them results in higher carbon emissions because the substitutes are thicker and heavier, requiring more materials and energy to manufacture and transport, and these paper bags and tote bags typically aren’t reused often enough to offset their initial carbon footprint. (See “The Perverse Panic over Plastic,” Winter 2020.) Greens may feel virtuous lugging groceries home in a paper or tote bag, but the shoppers choosing plastic are actually doing more to combat global warming and reduce consumption of natural resources.
They’re also reducing the risk of getting sick, just as Samuel Crumbine and Hugh Moore could have told them a century ago, and just as public-health researchers have been warning for a decade. Their studies have repeatedly shown that dangerous bacteria and viruses linger on reusable tote bags unless shoppers wash them regularly, which few bother to do. The Covid-19 pandemic finally forced some public officials to heed these warnings and allow the single-use plastic bags once again, but Greenpeace and other groups are still hoping to reinstate the bans once the pandemic is over. The reusable bags would be perfectly safe, they argue, if only people would wash them regularly.
But why should people spend their valuable free time washing tote bags when there’s a cheaper, more convenient, and environmentally benign alternative? It makes sense only for those who consider the throwaway society to be intrinsically sinful. They derive solace from reusing and recycling because it eases their guilt for being rich enough to afford so much stuff. If they want to perform these rites voluntarily, fine, but there’s no reason to force everyone else to do penance. Agonizing over what goes into the trash can is not a universal moral imperative—and it’s not exactly a sign of spiritual enlightenment, either.
It’s actually the most literal form of materialism: a single-minded devotion to preserving raw materials at the expense of more important things in life. Instead of decrying the throwaway society, we should be celebrating the prosperity that made it possible and the freedom that it provides. As crude and corny as the old Dixie Cup ads could be, they possessed a humanism sadly absent in today’s environmental sermons.
One ad in 1970 showed a bored young woman morphing into a glum middle-aged woman and then a despondent old woman as she stood over the kitchen sink washing a mountain of glasses. “Use Dixie Cups and the Best Years of Your Life Won’t Go Down the Drain,” it promised, and went on to calculate that the typical American mother had to wash 7,000 glasses per year.
“Do you enjoy spending all that time in hot water?” it asked, as it extolled the throwaway society’s alternative. “Think of it. You’ll have more time on your hands, and less dishwater. Time to spend with the kids. To make yourself a pantsuit. To live a little.” You may not yearn to make a pantsuit, but the rest of it still sounds pretty good.
News of the Times;
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-06-29-jj-ceases-opioid-business-following-230million-settlement.html
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/behind-vaccine-veil-doctor-cites-whistleblowers-inside-cdc-who-claim-injections-have
https://technofog.substack.com/p/when-the-fbi-framed-four-innocent
https://mishtalk.com/economics/swiss-reject-climate-change-with-zoomers-and-millennials-leading-the-way
https://americanmind.org/salvo/fully-oligarchic-luxury-californication/
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/06/22/california-to-use-federal-money-to-pay-all-back-rent-for-low-income-residents/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/open-borders-not-enough-joe-biden-now-flying-family-members-fake-refugees-county-not-even-approved-us-taxpayers-dime/
https://noqreport.com/2021/06/27/biden-quietly-signed-race-conscious-executive-order-that-will-destroy-americas-government/
https://www.usasupreme.com/two-black-teens-burn-mentally-ill-white-man-alive-and-kill-him-the-media-ignores-another-hate-crime/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/welcome-back-carter-joe-returns-inflation-america/
https://www.lifenews.com/2021/06/21/worlds-most-premature-baby-given-0-chance-to-survive-celebrates-his-first-birthday/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gov-signs-bill-permitting-college-students-record-professors
https://americanpatriotdaily.com/latest/clarence-thomas-gave-joe-biden-an-ultimatum-that-set-biden-up-for-a-big-defeat/
https://sandrarose.com/2020/10/cdc-reveals-hospitals-counted-130000-heart-attacks-flu-and-bacterial-pneumonia-as-covid-19-deaths/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-navy-loves-drones-and-good-reason-188340
This is completely untrue and slanderous. He caught me with a sex action figure.
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A painting by Picasso that was stolen nine years ago during a heist at a Greek gallery has been found.
The gallery manager said, "I never thought to look in the fuvking rubbish bin".
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Oneliners:
A retired husband is a wife's full time job.
Happiness is the place between too little and too much.
Circular arguments often make the rounds.
Even at a Mensa convention, someone is the dumbest person in the room.
When in doubt. . . mumble.
Money can't buy everything, but then again, neither can no money.
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
If a nickel knew what it is worth today, it would feel like two cents.
A lot of pessimists get that way from financing optimists.
When you have your head up your arse, 4 of the 5 senses do not work
I'd rather visit the zoo than most of my relatives.
If only the good die young then what does that say about senior citizens?
Commercial truck owners should be required to pay into a state windshield repair fund.
Don't attempt to run from the past, it is always behind you.
People like you are the reason people like me need medication.
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Last month we had:
June 19th - Juneteenth, celebrating the freedom of the slaves.
June 20th - Fathers Day, children showing appreciation for caring fathers.
Potentially inconvenient having two such days on the same weekend.
Luckily, very few were celebrating both.
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I took the wife out to eat.
"You always pray before dinner when we're at home.", she said.
"Here, the chef knows how to cook.", I replied.
Quote of the Times;
If only there were a flag every American could raise that represented liberty and justice for ALL. – Boebert
Link of the Times;
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2021/06/19/slave-stories-history-forgot-black-people-owned-slaves-too-n1455761
Issue of the Times;
Let’s Hold On to the Throwaway Society by John Tierney
Disposable products are sanitary, efficient, and environmentally sound.
For half a century, it’s been a term of disdain: the “throwaway society,” uttered with disgust by the environmentally enlightened. But now that their reusable tote bags are taboo at grocery stores and Starbucks is refusing to refill their ceramic mugs, they’ve had to face some unpleasant realities. Disposable products aren’t merely more convenient than the alternative; they’re also safer, particularly during a pandemic but also at any other time. And they have other virtues: the throwaway society is healthier, cleaner, more economical, less wasteful, less environmentally damaging—and yes, more “sustainable” than the green vision of utopia.
These are not new truths, even if it took the Covid-19 pandemic to reveal them again. The throwaway age began because of public-health campaigns a century ago to control the spread of pathogens. Disposable products were celebrated for decades for promoting hygiene and saving everyone time and money. It wasn’t until the 1970s that they became symbols of decadent excess, and then only because of economic and ecological fallacies repeated so often that they became conventional wisdom.
In a strange turn of events, the most affluent society in history suddenly turned into a mass of neurotic hoarders. Sifting through garbage for valuables, an activity formerly associated with the most destitute inhabitants of Third World shantytowns, became a moral duty in American suburbs. Greens campaigned for “zero waste” and a “circular economy” in which disposable products would be outlawed. They confidently predicted that the throwaway society was doomed, but if they’d known anything about its history, they would have realized that it was created for very good reasons—and that it will endure long after their lamentations are forgotten.
At the start of the twentieth century, American consumers were still living in what today’s greens would consider a state of grace. They carried their own baskets and cotton bags to the grocery store and brought home food wrapped in biodegradable paper. They didn’t use disposable towels in public bathrooms, which provided cloth towels attached to rollers. There were no Styrofoam cups for coffee and no plastic bottles of water. When people wanted water in a public place, they’d get it from the spigot of a drinking fountain by filling a tin cup chained to the fountain.
This “common cup” was the ultimate reusable product—much to the horror of public-health experts, who blamed it for spreading tuberculosis, pneumonia, diphtheria, meningitis, and other diseases. Alvin Davison, a biologist at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, analyzed cups from public schools and reported in 1908 that a single sip from a student left a residue of 100 dead skin cells and 75,000 bacteria. He used the scrapings from one school cup to induce fatal cases of pneumonia and tuberculosis in guinea pigs.
His article “Death in School Drinking Cups” provided support to “Ban the Cup” campaigns around the country. The first successful one was led in Kansas by Samuel Crumbine, a colorful doctor who had started his career in Dodge City (he was the model for Doc Adams in the long-running Gunsmoke television series) and went on to lead various public-hygiene crusades. The term “flyswatter” comes from a slogan he popularized, “Swat the fly” (which came to him while listening to the crowd at a baseball game urging a hitter to swat a sacrifice fly ball). After watching train passengers with tuberculosis and other diseases drinking water from a common cup, Crumbine got so upset that he threw the cup out the train’s window, and proceeded to persuade his colleagues on the state board of health to ban the common cup in trains, schools, and other public places in Kansas in 1909.
The ban left Kansans with a new problem: What were they supposed to use at a public fountain? Fortunately, as Crumbine later recalled, “Necessity proved to be the mother of invention.” Shortly after banning the cup, Crumbine was visited by a former Kansan named Hugh Moore, who brought with him samples of a product that his brother-in-law had invented: round paper cups that could be stacked in a dispenser next to a fountain. Crumbine’s endorsement provided crucial help to Moore in selling his product, originally called Health Kups and later renamed Dixie Cups.
It was the birth of the throwaway society, and Moore became its first great evangelist. He was an indefatigable promoter, and he wasn’t just selling cups. He had a genius for marketing fear. Later in life, he would launch another movement by publishing a pamphlet in 1954, “The Population Bomb” (a title later borrowed by Paul Ehrlich for a best-selling book) and founding the Population Crisis Committee. In 1910, Moore started a newspaper, The Cup Campaigner, filled with warnings from public-health experts and horror stories of respectable women and innocent children sickened by drinking from common cups. It was illustrated with cartoons showing unsavory-looking men sipping from metal cups and images of the Grim Reaper lurking at fountains.
Soon, dozens of cities and states had banned the common cup, and Moore had plenty of customers, starting with the railroads. The Erie Lackawanna Railroad featured disposable cups in an advertisement that depicted a character named Phoebe Snow, dressed immaculately in white as she drank from a paper cup. The ad was a paean to disposability:
On railroad trips
No other lips
Have touched the cup
That Phoebe sips.
Sales of disposable cups soared during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, a tragedy evoked long afterward in Dixie Cup ads with warnings like, “Now’s no time to flirt with Contagion!” The company expanded into making paper cups for ice cream and milkshakes, promoted with the slogan “Used but once and thrown away”—in hygienic contrast to the dirty glass from a soda fountain pictured in a 1930s ad with the headline “This Tainted Kiss Awaits Your Lips.”
Meantime, Moore and his competitors were promoting other advantages of disposable products. The invention of cup lids in the 1920s made it easy for people to carry off their drinks. Restaurants could serve customers more quickly and cheaply by using cups and plates that didn’t need to be washed and dried. Consumers were liberated from chores, as Life illustrated in 1955 with an elaborately staged photo for an article titled “Throwaway Living,” a phrase that wasn’t used in disdain. The photo showed dozens of disposable products—plates, cups, pans, towels, ashtrays, a napkin and tablecloth, a baby’s bib and diaper—apparently flung heavenward by two ecstatic parents and their child. “The objects flying through the air in this picture,” the magazine exulted, “would take 40 hours to clean—except that no housewife need bother.”
Disposability remained a self-evident virtue in the 1960s, when Bethlehem Steel advertised its new soda cans by showing photos of two women. One smiled as she tossed metal cans into the trash; the other looked miserable as she struggled to lug armfuls of empty glass bottles back to the store. The ad posed what, at the time, was a rhetorical question: “Why make hard work out of enjoying soft drinks?”
But before long, an army of activists and scholars was inventing one reason after another to make even harder work. The first popular objection to disposable products came in the 1970s, the decade of the first Earth Day and the “energy crisis” and best-sellers with titles like Limits to Growth and The End of Affluence. Scientists had supposedly determined that humanity was running out of oil and other natural resources, so it was everyone’s moral duty to conserve dwindling supplies for posterity.
The precious little petroleum remaining could not be wasted on frivolities like plastic plates. There weren’t enough trees left to keep making Dixie Cups for the growing population. Ecologically conscious college students banished paper towels from their dorm bathrooms, in favor of cloth towels. Crumbine would have been appalled—another of his pioneering victories in Kansas had been a ban on cloth roller-towels in public bathrooms—but the planet’s health took precedence over the public’s.
The picture became even bleaker in the 1980s, when journalists and environmentalists came up with another objection to throwaway products: there was nowhere to throw them away. The “garbage crisis,” caused by a supposed shortage of space in landfills, prompted municipalities across America to launch curbside recycling programs. Towns expected to save money by reducing the need for landfilling, whose cost was projected to soar as space became scarce, and they expected to make money by selling recyclables and turning “garbage into gold.” As the planet’s supply of natural resources dwindled, prices for the raw materials were sure to rise, and the stuff in trash would become “too good to throw away.”
But the dreaded landfill shortage never occurred—and it never made any sense, given how much open land there is in America and how little of it is needed to bury trash. Nor did the world run short of oil or other natural resources. Those gloomy predictions never made any sense, either—certainly not to economists who had bothered to study long-term trends. Some resources do become scarce at times, causing prices to rise, but entrepreneurs respond by finding new supplies or cheaper substitutes. As a result, the real prices for energy and other natural resources have been falling for centuries, especially compared with the cost of labor, which has been rising for centuries. The only resource becoming consistently more expensive is humans’ time.
These trends created the throwaway society: as people grew wealthier and raw materials got cheaper, they could afford to buy more products and throw them away in order to save their increasingly valuable time. And these trends doomed the fantasies of recyclers because their industry required increasingly expensive human labor to produce decreasingly valuable raw materials.
New York City confidently predicted that it would save money by starting a mandatory recycling program in 1992, but it took so much extra labor to collect and process the recyclables that the city couldn’t recoup the costs from selling the materials. In fact, the recyclables often had so little value that the city had to pay still more money to get rid of them. The recycling program cost the city more than $500 million during its first seven years, and the losses have continued to mount. A new study by Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute shows that eliminating the city’s recycling program and sending all its municipal trash to landfills could now save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually—enough money to increase the parks department’s budget by at least half.
Even those calculations underestimate the cost of recycling because they include only the direct outlays, chiefly the $686 per ton that the city spends to collect recyclables. But what about all the valuable time that New Yorkers spend sorting and rinsing their trash and delivering it to the recycling bin? For a New York Times Magazine article in 1996, I hired a Columbia University student to keep track of how much time he spent recycling cans and bottles and how much material he gathered in a week. Using those figures (eight minutes to gather four pounds), I calculated that if the city paid New Yorkers a typical janitor’s wage for their recycling labors, their labor would cost $792 per ton of recyclables—over $100 per ton more than what the city pays its sanitation workers to collect it.
As the economics of recycling worsened, cities in America and Europe found that the only viable markets for their recyclables were in poor countries, chiefly in China and other Asian nations, where processing recyclables was still profitable, thanks to lower wages and lower standards for worker safety and environmental quality. But as those countries have gotten wealthier, they’ve become reluctant to accept foreign trash. As bales of unwanted recyclables pile up in warehouses, towns have had to start sending them to landfills, and dozens of American municipalities have finally had the sense to cancel their recycling programs.
But most seem determined to persevere, even as they face huge budget shortfalls because of the pandemic. Now that the original objections to the throwaway society have proved false, green activists are relying on other reasons to keep making work for the rest of us.
One morning in 1996, I sat with a class of fifth-graders in Manhattan as they gazed mournfully at a photo of a supermarket package of red apples. It was part of a slide presentation by the director of environmental education for the Environmental Action Coalition, the guest lecturer at that day’s science class.
“Look at the plastic, the Styrofoam or cardboard underneath,” she told the class. “Do you need this much wrapping when you buy things?”
“Noooo,” the fifth-graders replied.
It was all so obvious to them, the fifth-graders as well as their lecturer. She was barely out of college, but she thought that she knew more about selling produce than supermarket executives and packaging engineers who had spent their careers studying this question. She was sure that plastic wrap and Styrofoam were wasteful and harmful to the environment because she had never seriously considered the alternative or wondered why those products were introduced.
To merchants and shoppers in the late 1920s, there was nothing wasteful about the revolutionary packaging material introduced by DuPont. Cellophane seemed miraculous because it was not only moisture-proof but also transparent. “EYE IT before you BUY IT,” DuPont advertised, and shoppers welcomed this new feature enabling them to judge the quality of produce and meat before they paid up. Cellophane kept things fresh much longer, an advantage advertised to everyone from homemakers to soldiers. During World War II, a DuPont ad showed a German soldier looking on enviously as American prisoners of war opened packages of cigarettes from home that were wrapped in cellophane: “The prisoners who have better cigarettes than their guards.”
Soviet citizens in the 1980s were similarly envious of Westerners’ new plastic grocery bags, which sold for $5 apiece on the black market in Moscow. The bags were coveted partly as a status symbol (a hard-to-get imported product) and partly because they were so light and compact. In a shortage-plagued economy, Muscovites never knew when a scarce item would suddenly become available in a nearby store, so they wanted to have an empty bag with them, just in case.
American merchants and shoppers switched from paper to plastic packaging because it reduced waste. Plastic was cheaper because it required fewer resources to manufacture. It required less energy to transport because it was lighter. Plastic took up less space in landfills than paper, and it further reduced the volume of household trash because it preserved food longer. The typical household in Mexico City, for example, generated more garbage than an American household because it bought fewer packaged products and ended up discarding more food that had spoiled.
But activists eager to find some reason to oppose disposable products have ignored these advantages. They blame America’s throwaway society for polluting the oceans with plastic, though virtually all that pollution comes from either fishing vessels or from developing countries with primitive waste-management systems—mostly the Asian countries that were importing plastic recyclables from America. Instead of castigating American consumers, environmentalists should blame themselves for creating the recycling programs that sent plastic to countries where it was allowed to leak into rivers. The best way to protect marine life is to throw used plastic into the trash, not the recycling bin, so that it goes straight to a well-lined local landfill instead of ending up in the ocean.
And instead of campaigning to ban plastic grocery bags, green activists should be promoting their environmental advantages. Banning them results in higher carbon emissions because the substitutes are thicker and heavier, requiring more materials and energy to manufacture and transport, and these paper bags and tote bags typically aren’t reused often enough to offset their initial carbon footprint. (See “The Perverse Panic over Plastic,” Winter 2020.) Greens may feel virtuous lugging groceries home in a paper or tote bag, but the shoppers choosing plastic are actually doing more to combat global warming and reduce consumption of natural resources.
They’re also reducing the risk of getting sick, just as Samuel Crumbine and Hugh Moore could have told them a century ago, and just as public-health researchers have been warning for a decade. Their studies have repeatedly shown that dangerous bacteria and viruses linger on reusable tote bags unless shoppers wash them regularly, which few bother to do. The Covid-19 pandemic finally forced some public officials to heed these warnings and allow the single-use plastic bags once again, but Greenpeace and other groups are still hoping to reinstate the bans once the pandemic is over. The reusable bags would be perfectly safe, they argue, if only people would wash them regularly.
But why should people spend their valuable free time washing tote bags when there’s a cheaper, more convenient, and environmentally benign alternative? It makes sense only for those who consider the throwaway society to be intrinsically sinful. They derive solace from reusing and recycling because it eases their guilt for being rich enough to afford so much stuff. If they want to perform these rites voluntarily, fine, but there’s no reason to force everyone else to do penance. Agonizing over what goes into the trash can is not a universal moral imperative—and it’s not exactly a sign of spiritual enlightenment, either.
It’s actually the most literal form of materialism: a single-minded devotion to preserving raw materials at the expense of more important things in life. Instead of decrying the throwaway society, we should be celebrating the prosperity that made it possible and the freedom that it provides. As crude and corny as the old Dixie Cup ads could be, they possessed a humanism sadly absent in today’s environmental sermons.
One ad in 1970 showed a bored young woman morphing into a glum middle-aged woman and then a despondent old woman as she stood over the kitchen sink washing a mountain of glasses. “Use Dixie Cups and the Best Years of Your Life Won’t Go Down the Drain,” it promised, and went on to calculate that the typical American mother had to wash 7,000 glasses per year.
“Do you enjoy spending all that time in hot water?” it asked, as it extolled the throwaway society’s alternative. “Think of it. You’ll have more time on your hands, and less dishwater. Time to spend with the kids. To make yourself a pantsuit. To live a little.” You may not yearn to make a pantsuit, but the rest of it still sounds pretty good.
News of the Times;
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-06-29-jj-ceases-opioid-business-following-230million-settlement.html
https://www.worldviewweekend.com/news/article/behind-vaccine-veil-doctor-cites-whistleblowers-inside-cdc-who-claim-injections-have
https://technofog.substack.com/p/when-the-fbi-framed-four-innocent
https://mishtalk.com/economics/swiss-reject-climate-change-with-zoomers-and-millennials-leading-the-way
https://americanmind.org/salvo/fully-oligarchic-luxury-californication/
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/06/22/california-to-use-federal-money-to-pay-all-back-rent-for-low-income-residents/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/open-borders-not-enough-joe-biden-now-flying-family-members-fake-refugees-county-not-even-approved-us-taxpayers-dime/
https://noqreport.com/2021/06/27/biden-quietly-signed-race-conscious-executive-order-that-will-destroy-americas-government/
https://www.usasupreme.com/two-black-teens-burn-mentally-ill-white-man-alive-and-kill-him-the-media-ignores-another-hate-crime/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/welcome-back-carter-joe-returns-inflation-america/
https://www.lifenews.com/2021/06/21/worlds-most-premature-baby-given-0-chance-to-survive-celebrates-his-first-birthday/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gov-signs-bill-permitting-college-students-record-professors
https://americanpatriotdaily.com/latest/clarence-thomas-gave-joe-biden-an-ultimatum-that-set-biden-up-for-a-big-defeat/
https://sandrarose.com/2020/10/cdc-reveals-hospitals-counted-130000-heart-attacks-flu-and-bacterial-pneumonia-as-covid-19-deaths/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-navy-loves-drones-and-good-reason-188340
Expertise?
Telling your suitcase there's no vacation this year can be tough.
Nothing worse than emotional baggage.
*.*
Each year, a lawyer takes his holidays at an out of the way, country hotel.
With each visit, he continues his affair with the hotel owner’s daughter.
On his visit this year he finds out she has given birth to twin boys.
“Why on earth didn’t you tell me?” said the astonished lawyer.
“You know I would have married you and provided for the babies.”
The woman replied, “That may be so. But when I told my parents I was pregnant, we talked over the options and decided it was far better to have a couple of bastards in the family than a lawyer".
*.*
In a development that many are calling the most stunning and brave thing to ever happen in the world of sports, a WNBA point guard has come out as heterosexual.
The player, Megan Frederickson, has been playing for the Portland Fire for the last four years. She's broken many records over her short career, becoming the first player to score three baskets in a game, the first player to go over sixty seconds without a total air ball, and the first player to play a whole game without bursting into tears. She even got a record twelve fans to tune in to one of her games.
But now, she's shattering her most significant barrier yet, becoming the first out heterosexual player in the league.
Frederickson came out to her fans and teammates in an emotional video posted to TikTok Thursday.
"I was staring at myself in the mirror and I suddenly realized I just can't hide who I am anymore," she said. "I have to be true to myself. I can't pretend to be a lesbian anymore just because it's what's expected of me. I'm sick of this homonormative culture in this league. It's time for me to really be me."
Frederickson's wife is broken up but says she understands and supports the player's choice to live out her truth in a heterosexual relationship.
CNN is currently combing through her social media history looking for old racist tweets.
*.*
A mother asked her small son what he would like for his birthday.
"I'd like a little brother," a boy said.
"Oh my, that's such a big wish," said the mother. "Why do you want a little brother?"
"Well," said the boy, "there's only so much I can blame on the dog."
*.*
The fact that germs enter my body without my consent is wrong.
And to be honest it makes me sick.
Quote of the Times;
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. – Jefferson
Link of the Times;
https://nypost.com/2021/06/14/north-korean-defector-slams-woke-us-schools/
Issue of the Times;
The suicide of expertise by Glenn Reynolds
Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?”
According to Foreign Affairs magazine, Americans reject the advice of experts so as "to insulate their fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong.” That’s in support of a book by Tom Nichols called The Death of Expertise, which essentially advances that thesis.
Well, it’s certainly true that the “experts” don’t have the kind of authority that they possessed in the decade or two following World War II. Back then, the experts had given us vaccines, antibiotics, jet airplanes, nuclear power and space flight. The idea that they might really know best seemed pretty plausible.
But it also seems pretty plausible that Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?” Not only have the experts failed to deliver on the moon bases and flying cars they promised back in the day, but their track record in general is looking a lot spottier than it was in, say, 1965.
It was the experts — characterized in terms of their self-image by David Halberstam in The Best and the Brightest — who brought us the twin debacles of the Vietnam War, which we lost, and the War On Poverty, where we spent trillions and certainly didn’t win. In both cases, confident assertions by highly credentialed authorities foundered upon reality, at a dramatic cost in blood and treasure. Mostly other people’s blood and treasure.
And these are not isolated failures. The history of government nutritional advice from the 1960s to the present is an appalling one: The advice of “experts” was frequently wrong, and sometimes bought-and-paid-for by special interests, but always delivered with an air of unchallengeable certainty.
In the realm of foreign affairs, which should be of special interest to the people at Foreign Affairs, recent history has been particularly dreadful. Experts failed to foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, failed to deal especially well with that fall when it took place, and then failed to deal with the rise of Islamic terrorism that led to the 9/11 attacks. Post 9/11, experts botched the reconstruction of Iraq, then botched it again with a premature pullout.
On Syria, experts in Barack Obama’s administration produced a policy that led to countless deaths, millions of refugees flooding Europe, a new haven for Islamic terrorists, and the upending of established power relations in the mideast. In Libya, the experts urged a war, waged without the approval of Congress, to topple strongman Moammar Gadhafi, only to see — again — countless deaths, huge numbers of refugees and another haven for Islamist terror.
It was experts who brought us the housing bubble and the subprime crisis. It was experts who botched the Obamacare rollout. And, of course, the experts didn’t see Brexit coming, and seem to have responded mostly with injured pride and assaults on the intelligence of the electorate, rather than with constructive solutions.
By its fruit the tree is known, and the tree of expertise hasn’t been doing well lately. As Nassim Taleb recently observed: “With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers.”
Then there’s the problem that, somehow, over the past half-century or so the educated classes that make up the “expert” demographic seem to have been doing pretty well, even as so many ordinary folks, in America and throughout the West, have seen their fortunes decaying. Is it any surprise that claims to authority in the form of “expertise” don’t carry the same weight that they once did?
If experts want to reclaim a position of authority, they need to make a few changes. First, they should make sure they know what they’re talking about, and they shouldn’t talk about things where their knowledge isn’t solid. Second, they should be appropriately modest in their claims of authority. And, third, they should check their egos. It doesn’t matter what your SAT scores were, voters are under no obligation to listen to you unless they find what you say persuasive.
And you know what makes you less persuasive? The kind of contempt displayed by Foreign Affairs. If expertise is dead, it’s because those who claimed it overplayed their hands. It’s not the death of expertise, so much as a suicide.
News of the Times;
https://fee.org/articles/we-just-got-even-more-proof-that-stay-at-home-orders-lethally-backfired/
https://summit.news/2021/06/16/video-joe-rogan-warns-whats-happening-in-mexico-could-easily-happen-here-due-to-defunding-of-police/
https://www.infowars.com/posts/high-school-student-exposes-mental-impact-of-crt-teachings-made-me-feel-like-horse-st-like-worthless-scum-undeserving-of-living/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/hillary-clinton-campaign-official-founder-org-end-sexual-violence-children-arrested-child-rape-charges-sentenced-13-yrs-prison/
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17658
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-law-requires-florida-students-to-be-taught-about-the-evils-of-communism_3870014.html
https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/when-everything-is-racism-nothing
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/germany-right-wing-extremist-who-threw-burning-bottle-at-families-on-playground-was-actually-a-muslim-migrant
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/18/is-it-racist-to-confront-a-suicide-bomber/
https://www.theblaze.com/news/eric-clapton-musician-friends-gone-covid-vaccine
https://rumble.com/vissad-midwife-ends-the-term-birthing-person-in-one-amazing-minute.html?mref=23gga&mc=8uxj1
https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-sinister-agenda-behind-california-water-crisis-looming-food-supply-catastrophe/5747504
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meet-one-chipmaker-entire-world-now-depending
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/06/24/nih-yes-a-chinese-scientist-asked-us-to-delete-his-data-from-early-wuhan-covid-samples-and-we-did-n398722
https://national-justice.com/louisiana-another-fbi-agent-arrested-raping-small-children
Nothing worse than emotional baggage.
*.*
Each year, a lawyer takes his holidays at an out of the way, country hotel.
With each visit, he continues his affair with the hotel owner’s daughter.
On his visit this year he finds out she has given birth to twin boys.
“Why on earth didn’t you tell me?” said the astonished lawyer.
“You know I would have married you and provided for the babies.”
The woman replied, “That may be so. But when I told my parents I was pregnant, we talked over the options and decided it was far better to have a couple of bastards in the family than a lawyer".
*.*
In a development that many are calling the most stunning and brave thing to ever happen in the world of sports, a WNBA point guard has come out as heterosexual.
The player, Megan Frederickson, has been playing for the Portland Fire for the last four years. She's broken many records over her short career, becoming the first player to score three baskets in a game, the first player to go over sixty seconds without a total air ball, and the first player to play a whole game without bursting into tears. She even got a record twelve fans to tune in to one of her games.
But now, she's shattering her most significant barrier yet, becoming the first out heterosexual player in the league.
Frederickson came out to her fans and teammates in an emotional video posted to TikTok Thursday.
"I was staring at myself in the mirror and I suddenly realized I just can't hide who I am anymore," she said. "I have to be true to myself. I can't pretend to be a lesbian anymore just because it's what's expected of me. I'm sick of this homonormative culture in this league. It's time for me to really be me."
Frederickson's wife is broken up but says she understands and supports the player's choice to live out her truth in a heterosexual relationship.
CNN is currently combing through her social media history looking for old racist tweets.
*.*
A mother asked her small son what he would like for his birthday.
"I'd like a little brother," a boy said.
"Oh my, that's such a big wish," said the mother. "Why do you want a little brother?"
"Well," said the boy, "there's only so much I can blame on the dog."
*.*
The fact that germs enter my body without my consent is wrong.
And to be honest it makes me sick.
Quote of the Times;
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. – Jefferson
Link of the Times;
https://nypost.com/2021/06/14/north-korean-defector-slams-woke-us-schools/
Issue of the Times;
The suicide of expertise by Glenn Reynolds
Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?”
According to Foreign Affairs magazine, Americans reject the advice of experts so as "to insulate their fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong.” That’s in support of a book by Tom Nichols called The Death of Expertise, which essentially advances that thesis.
Well, it’s certainly true that the “experts” don’t have the kind of authority that they possessed in the decade or two following World War II. Back then, the experts had given us vaccines, antibiotics, jet airplanes, nuclear power and space flight. The idea that they might really know best seemed pretty plausible.
But it also seems pretty plausible that Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?” Not only have the experts failed to deliver on the moon bases and flying cars they promised back in the day, but their track record in general is looking a lot spottier than it was in, say, 1965.
It was the experts — characterized in terms of their self-image by David Halberstam in The Best and the Brightest — who brought us the twin debacles of the Vietnam War, which we lost, and the War On Poverty, where we spent trillions and certainly didn’t win. In both cases, confident assertions by highly credentialed authorities foundered upon reality, at a dramatic cost in blood and treasure. Mostly other people’s blood and treasure.
And these are not isolated failures. The history of government nutritional advice from the 1960s to the present is an appalling one: The advice of “experts” was frequently wrong, and sometimes bought-and-paid-for by special interests, but always delivered with an air of unchallengeable certainty.
In the realm of foreign affairs, which should be of special interest to the people at Foreign Affairs, recent history has been particularly dreadful. Experts failed to foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, failed to deal especially well with that fall when it took place, and then failed to deal with the rise of Islamic terrorism that led to the 9/11 attacks. Post 9/11, experts botched the reconstruction of Iraq, then botched it again with a premature pullout.
On Syria, experts in Barack Obama’s administration produced a policy that led to countless deaths, millions of refugees flooding Europe, a new haven for Islamic terrorists, and the upending of established power relations in the mideast. In Libya, the experts urged a war, waged without the approval of Congress, to topple strongman Moammar Gadhafi, only to see — again — countless deaths, huge numbers of refugees and another haven for Islamist terror.
It was experts who brought us the housing bubble and the subprime crisis. It was experts who botched the Obamacare rollout. And, of course, the experts didn’t see Brexit coming, and seem to have responded mostly with injured pride and assaults on the intelligence of the electorate, rather than with constructive solutions.
By its fruit the tree is known, and the tree of expertise hasn’t been doing well lately. As Nassim Taleb recently observed: “With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers.”
Then there’s the problem that, somehow, over the past half-century or so the educated classes that make up the “expert” demographic seem to have been doing pretty well, even as so many ordinary folks, in America and throughout the West, have seen their fortunes decaying. Is it any surprise that claims to authority in the form of “expertise” don’t carry the same weight that they once did?
If experts want to reclaim a position of authority, they need to make a few changes. First, they should make sure they know what they’re talking about, and they shouldn’t talk about things where their knowledge isn’t solid. Second, they should be appropriately modest in their claims of authority. And, third, they should check their egos. It doesn’t matter what your SAT scores were, voters are under no obligation to listen to you unless they find what you say persuasive.
And you know what makes you less persuasive? The kind of contempt displayed by Foreign Affairs. If expertise is dead, it’s because those who claimed it overplayed their hands. It’s not the death of expertise, so much as a suicide.
News of the Times;
https://fee.org/articles/we-just-got-even-more-proof-that-stay-at-home-orders-lethally-backfired/
https://summit.news/2021/06/16/video-joe-rogan-warns-whats-happening-in-mexico-could-easily-happen-here-due-to-defunding-of-police/
https://www.infowars.com/posts/high-school-student-exposes-mental-impact-of-crt-teachings-made-me-feel-like-horse-st-like-worthless-scum-undeserving-of-living/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/hillary-clinton-campaign-official-founder-org-end-sexual-violence-children-arrested-child-rape-charges-sentenced-13-yrs-prison/
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17658
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-law-requires-florida-students-to-be-taught-about-the-evils-of-communism_3870014.html
https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/when-everything-is-racism-nothing
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/germany-right-wing-extremist-who-threw-burning-bottle-at-families-on-playground-was-actually-a-muslim-migrant
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/18/is-it-racist-to-confront-a-suicide-bomber/
https://www.theblaze.com/news/eric-clapton-musician-friends-gone-covid-vaccine
https://rumble.com/vissad-midwife-ends-the-term-birthing-person-in-one-amazing-minute.html?mref=23gga&mc=8uxj1
https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-sinister-agenda-behind-california-water-crisis-looming-food-supply-catastrophe/5747504
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meet-one-chipmaker-entire-world-now-depending
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/06/24/nih-yes-a-chinese-scientist-asked-us-to-delete-his-data-from-early-wuhan-covid-samples-and-we-did-n398722
https://national-justice.com/louisiana-another-fbi-agent-arrested-raping-small-children
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