I noticed Amy Winehouse died 10 years ago.
I reckon she looks better today than 10 years ago.
*.*
You think you’re having a bad day?
At least you didn’t lose to France at basketball.
*.*
My husband and I were dressed and ready to go out for a lovely evening of dinner and theatre.
Having been burgled in the past, we turned on a night light and the answering machine then put the cat out in the backyard. When our cab arrived, we walked out our front door and our rather tubby cat scooted between our legs inside, then ran up the stairs. Because our cat likes to chase our budgie we really didn’t want to leave them un-chaperoned so my husband ran inside to retrieve her and put her in the backyard again.
Because I didn’t want the taxi driver to know our house was going to be empty all evening, I explained to him that my husband would be out momentarily as he was just bidding goodnight to my mother. A few minutes later he hot into the cab all hot and bothered and said (to my growing horror and amusement) as the cab pulled away.
“Sorry it took so long, but the stupid bitch was hiding under the bed and I had to poke her ass with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off so I grabbed her by the neck and wrapped her in a blanket so she wouldn’t scratch me like she did last time. But it worked! I hauled her fat arse down the stairs and threw her into the backyard… she had better not shit in the vegetable garden again.”
The silence in the taxi was defining.
*.*
What has two butts and kills people?
An assassin.
*.*
I watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games with a group of mates and we decided to drink a small glass of sake every time we heard the word 'diversity' mentioned.
When I regained consciousness this morning, I discovered three of my friends had died.
Quote of the Times;
Can anybody believe that the Cleveland Indians, a storied and cherished baseball franchise since taking the name in 1915, are changing their name to the Guardians? Such a disgrace, and I guarantee that the people who are most angry about it are the many Indians of our Country. Wouldn’t it be an honor to have a team named the Cleveland Indians, and wouldn’t it be disrespectful to rip that name and logo off of those jerseys? The people of Cleveland cannot be thrilled and I, as a FORMER baseball fan, cannot believe things such as this are happening. A small group of people, with absolutely crazy ideas and policies, is forcing these changes to destroy our culture and heritage. – Trump
Link of the Times;
https://www.unz.com/article/mary-phagans-family-opposes-exoneration-of-sex-killer-leo-frank/
Issue of the Times;
Why the Left Has to Lie About American History by Scott Centorino
As the left vainly tries to deceive Americans into accepting the toxic reign of identity politics, they are forced time and again to contort American history and falsify heroic stories from our past because a truthful telling would reveal the mendacity of their narrative and the bankruptcy of their agenda. The forgotten tales of two Americans—both named James—are the perfect reminder of why.
Born in the 18th century, James Forten worked odd jobs along Philadelphia’s waterfront to support his mother and sister after his father died. By 1781, he was fifteen and old enough to volunteer to join the Continental Navy.
In his first taste of combat, he demonstrated his physical courage. But it took getting captured to demonstrate his moral courage.
A British warship, the Amphion, captured his ship’s crew off the coast of Virginia. The British captain quickly sensed his intelligence and made Forten a generous offer.
In exchange for freeing Forten from life as a prisoner of war, Forten would serve the British captain at his country estate in England.
Forten didn’t hesitate. He turned it down.
He told the British captain, “I have been taken prisoner for the liberties of my country and never will prove a traitor to her interest.” Instead of a comfortable life tutoring the captain’s sons, Forten re-joined his crewmates in a prison ship, waiting for freedom for himself and his country.
James Forten didn’t want comfort. He wanted to serve his nation.
Two centuries later, in 1961, Jim Zwerg joined his Fisk University classmate, John Lewis, to participate in bus trips through the Deep South to fight segregation.
These ‘freedom riders’ challenged the real Jim Crow, not what progressive activists today label as Jim Crow with shameful nonchalance. In a time of segregated drinking foundations, targeted fire hoses, and brutal killings, the real Jim Crow meant real risk.
Jim Zwerg accepted that risk gladly. He later said that “my faith was never so strong as during that time. I knew I was doing what I should be doing.”
When Zwerg’s Greyhound bus pulled into Montgomery, Alabama, the bus station appeared empty. Then the ambush came. From his window on the bus, Zwerg could see young white men outside holding baseball bats and chains.
The police had left. Their protection had abandoned the area.
But Zwerg stood up from his seat anyway, walked down the aisle, and got off the bus.
The crowd did what it came to do. It smashed Zwerg’s face with his suitcase, pinned his head down, and methodically knocked teeth out of his mouth. He only regained consciousness two days later. Newspapers published pictures of his bruised face and shocked the nation.
James Forten and Jim Zwerg shared courage, a sense of purpose, and a love for the promise of America.
But these attributes have seeded the American experience for centuries. What makes their stories so special, aside from their common name and age?
You might have guessed that James Forten and Jim Zwerg did not have race in common. One was white. One was black.
But it might surprise you to learn that James Forten, the Revolutionary War sailor, was black and Jim Zwerg, the civil rights activist, was white.
For each, their race made them singular targets in their time.
Every time James Forten sailed into a southern port, he risked seizure for chained slavery. Forten’s acceptance of that risk for the sake of the American cause as it existed then would befuddle the woke mob today, addicted as they are too crude and distorted history, as exemplified by the 1619 Project.
Jim Zwerg, on the other hand, knew the mob in Montgomery would treat him more harshly than his fellow passengers.
The stories of these two brave men do not conform to the identity politics narrative that has taken over our culture.
Remembering these tales—and others like them—can help bring our culture closer to Martin Luther King’s ideal, in which every individual is treated as a unique person with dignity and a soul that transcends their ethnic or racial identity.
If the antidote for tribalism is individualism, individuals like James Forten and Jim Zwerg show us the way.
News of the Times;
https://electroverse.net/arctic-summers-were-warmer-back-in-the-1950s-60s/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/gary-g-kohls/the-covered-up-crimes-of-vaccine-maker-pfizer-just-another-too-big-to-fail-american-corporation/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/15/malthusian-myth-busting-easter-island-edition/
https://rumble.com/vjx7fs-tucker-why-is-lunatic-mark-milley-still-in-charge-of-the-military.html
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/michigan-gov-whitmer-stripped-emergency-powers/
https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/isaiah-stokes-who-appeared-on-law-and-order-indicted-for-brazen-nyc-murder/
https://www.wnd.com/2021/07/crime-statistics-skewed-transgenders/
https://www.pollution.news/2021-05-20-wisconsin-liquify-dead-flush-sewers-food-farms.html
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3304811/google-admits-recording-converstations-assistant/
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/20/accused-murderer-set-free-after-st-louis-county-prosecutors-fail-to-show-up-but-found-time-for-mccloskeys-1106327/
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/now-they-are-saying-that-the-republican-party-is-the-1-national-security-threat-to-the-united-states-of-america/
https://vdare.com/articles/national-data-yes-the-border-influx-is-disastrous-but-june-jobs-data-shows-american-worker-displacement-immigrant-workforce-population-on-rise-too
https://www.wnd.com/2021/07/biden-blurts-anti-gun-agenda/
https://resistthemainstream.org/donald-trump-responds-to-cleveland-changing-mlb-team-name/
https://www.oann.com/dhs-cancels-2-texas-border-wall-projects/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-did-china-buy-airstrip-texas
American?
Giant?
I went to the paint store to get thinner.
It didn't work.
*.*
While using the step ladder, someone asked me "Why do you need that ladder?"
I replied, "I never knew my real ladder. This is just my step ladder, but he raised me nevertheless."
*.*
Local homeless man Bobby Duphrane has not picked up his white privilege check in months. As a result, he has been forced to beg for money to buy food to eat and is forced to sleep vertically on park benches.
“I see Bobby in the park every day. He clearly hasn’t showered in the last couple months and he reeks of alcohol,” Beverly Black, who works nearby, said. “I can’t believe he hasn’t just picked up his white privilege check!”
Duphrane’s story isn’t rare. Millions of destitute and homeless people across the country haven’t picked up or cashed their white privilege check all year leading to a ballooning repository of white privilege capital in Washington DC.
As of the time of this writing, the white privilege repository has climbed to $4.3 billion in unclaimed funds.
“People, just go to the local white privilege office and pick up your check. It’s not hard! Your ancestors paid the price to give you a life of luxury. You should take advantage of it!” Black said.
*.*
Farmers Brown & Jones had adjoining farms for years and didn't get along at all.
One night after supper, Farmer Brown knocked on Farmer Jones's door. When Farmer Jones answered the door, Farmer Brown said, "I know we don't talk often, but I wanted you to know that our mule just died today."
Farmer Jones replied, "I'm certainly sorry to hear that, but I am wondering why you came over here to tell me?"
"Because," Farmer Brown said, "you're always supposed to notify the next of kin."
*.*
After finishing our Chinese food, my husband and I cracked open our fortune cookies.
Mine read, “Be quiet for a little while.”
His read, “Talk while you have a chance.”
Quote of the Times;
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - Washington
Link of the Times;
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/07/anti-solomonic-decision-uk-shows-cruelty-daniel-greenfield/
Issue of the Times;
China: Fragile Giant by James Rickards
I’ve made many visits to China over the past thirty years and have been careful to move beyond Beijing (the political capital) and Shanghai (the financial capital) on these trips.
My visits have included Chongqing, Wuhan (the origin of the coronavirus outbreak), Xian, Nanjing, new construction sites to visit “ghost cities,” and trips to the agrarian countryside.
My trips included meetings with government and Communist Party officials and numerous conversations with everyday Chinese people.
These trips have been supplemented by reading an extensive number of books on the history, culture and politics of China from 3,000 BC to the present. This background gives me a much broader perspective on current developments in China.
In short, my experience with China goes well beyond media outlets and talking heads.
An objective analysis of China must begin with its enormous strengths. China has the third-largest territory in the world, with the world’s largest population (although soon to be overtaken by India).
China also has the fifth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, with over 280 nuclear warheads. This is about the same as the U.K. and France but well behind Russia (6,490) and the U.S. (6,450). China is the largest gold producer in the world at about 500 metric tonnes per year.
Its economy is the second-largest economy in the world — behind only the U.S. China’s foreign exchange reserves (including gold) are the largest in the world.
By these diverse measures of population, territory, military strength and economic output, China is clearly a global super-power and the dominant presence in East Asia. Yet, these blockbuster statistics hide as much as they reveal.
China’s per capita income is under $12,000 per person compared to per capita income of about $64,000 in the United States. Put differently, the U.S. is only 38% richer than China on a gross basis, but it is 500% richer than China on a per capita basis (of course the massive economic fallout from the coronavirus will have an impact).
China’s military is growing stronger and more sophisticated, but it still falls short against the U.S. military when it comes to aircraft carriers, nuclear warheads, submarines, fighter aircraft and strategic bombers.
Most importantly, at under $12,000 per capita GDP, China is stuck squarely in the “middle income trap” as defined by development economists.
The path from low income (about $5,000 per capita) to middle-income (about $10,000 per capita) is fairly straightforward and mostly involves reduced corruption, direct foreign investment and migration from the countryside to cities to pursue assembly-style jobs.
The path from middle-income to high-income (about $20,000 per capita) is much more difficult and involves creation and deployment of high-technology and manufacture of high-value-added goods.
Among developing economies (excluding oil producers), only Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have successfully made this transition since World War II. All other developing economies in Latin America, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East including giants such as Brazil and Turkey remain stuck in the middle-income ranks.
China remains reliant on assembly-style jobs and has shown no promise of breaking into the high-income ranks.
To escape the middle income trap requires more than cheap labor and infrastructure investment. It requires applied technology to produce high-value added products. This explains why China has been so focused on stealing U.S. intellectual property.
China has not shown much capacity for developing high technology on its own, but it has been quite effective at stealing such technology from trading partners and applying it through its own system of state-owned enterprises and “national champions” such as Huawei in the telecommunications sector.
But the U.S. and other countries are cracking down on China’s technology theft and China cannot generate the needed technology through its own R&D.
In short, and despite enormous annual growth in the past twenty years, China remains fundamentally a poor country with limited ability to improve the well-being of its citizens much beyond what has already been achieved. And that has serious implications for China’s leadership…
China’s economy is not just about providing jobs, goods and services. It is about regime survival for a Chinese Communist Party that faces an existential crisis if it fails to deliver.
It’s an illegitimate regime that will remain in power only so long as it provides jobs and a rising living standard for the Chinese people. The overriding imperative of the Chinese leadership is to avoid societal unrest.
News of the Times;
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-man-buttless-rainbow-monkey-costume-literacy
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/denver-blm-leader-accused-sexually-abusing-62-children-resumes-duties-school-board/
https://www.menofthewest.net/a-short-sermon-on-hate/
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/07/14/41-of-baltimore-high-schoolers-have-a-gpa-below-1-0-n402274
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9779781/Climate-change-Just-25-mega-cities-emit-52-cent-worlds-urban-greenhouse-gases.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-numbers-record-number-americans-died-drug-overdoses-during-2020
https://archive.ph/DNMpw
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/hollywood-sex-grooming-gang-les-moonves-harvey-weinstein/
https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/15/south-africa-supply-chain-on-brink-of-collapse-as-country-descends-into-total-race-war/
https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/02/15/the-samizdat-remains-the-same-n253477
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-York-takes-conservative-approach-counting-16311428.php
https://www.menofthewest.net/every-villain-a-sob-story/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/paging-greta-china-release-10-million-tonnes-highly-polluting-coal-reserves
https://notthebee.com/article/basketball-player-uses-nationally-televised-cbs-interview-to-show-of-his-free-the-uyghurs-t-shirt-and-i-bet-you-can-guess-how-much-coverage-this-got-from-the-mainstream-media
https://mishtalk.com/economics/sick-of-westie-whites-blatant-anti-white-anti-asian-racism-in-schools
It didn't work.
*.*
While using the step ladder, someone asked me "Why do you need that ladder?"
I replied, "I never knew my real ladder. This is just my step ladder, but he raised me nevertheless."
*.*
Local homeless man Bobby Duphrane has not picked up his white privilege check in months. As a result, he has been forced to beg for money to buy food to eat and is forced to sleep vertically on park benches.
“I see Bobby in the park every day. He clearly hasn’t showered in the last couple months and he reeks of alcohol,” Beverly Black, who works nearby, said. “I can’t believe he hasn’t just picked up his white privilege check!”
Duphrane’s story isn’t rare. Millions of destitute and homeless people across the country haven’t picked up or cashed their white privilege check all year leading to a ballooning repository of white privilege capital in Washington DC.
As of the time of this writing, the white privilege repository has climbed to $4.3 billion in unclaimed funds.
“People, just go to the local white privilege office and pick up your check. It’s not hard! Your ancestors paid the price to give you a life of luxury. You should take advantage of it!” Black said.
*.*
Farmers Brown & Jones had adjoining farms for years and didn't get along at all.
One night after supper, Farmer Brown knocked on Farmer Jones's door. When Farmer Jones answered the door, Farmer Brown said, "I know we don't talk often, but I wanted you to know that our mule just died today."
Farmer Jones replied, "I'm certainly sorry to hear that, but I am wondering why you came over here to tell me?"
"Because," Farmer Brown said, "you're always supposed to notify the next of kin."
*.*
After finishing our Chinese food, my husband and I cracked open our fortune cookies.
Mine read, “Be quiet for a little while.”
His read, “Talk while you have a chance.”
Quote of the Times;
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - Washington
Link of the Times;
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/07/anti-solomonic-decision-uk-shows-cruelty-daniel-greenfield/
Issue of the Times;
China: Fragile Giant by James Rickards
I’ve made many visits to China over the past thirty years and have been careful to move beyond Beijing (the political capital) and Shanghai (the financial capital) on these trips.
My visits have included Chongqing, Wuhan (the origin of the coronavirus outbreak), Xian, Nanjing, new construction sites to visit “ghost cities,” and trips to the agrarian countryside.
My trips included meetings with government and Communist Party officials and numerous conversations with everyday Chinese people.
These trips have been supplemented by reading an extensive number of books on the history, culture and politics of China from 3,000 BC to the present. This background gives me a much broader perspective on current developments in China.
In short, my experience with China goes well beyond media outlets and talking heads.
An objective analysis of China must begin with its enormous strengths. China has the third-largest territory in the world, with the world’s largest population (although soon to be overtaken by India).
China also has the fifth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, with over 280 nuclear warheads. This is about the same as the U.K. and France but well behind Russia (6,490) and the U.S. (6,450). China is the largest gold producer in the world at about 500 metric tonnes per year.
Its economy is the second-largest economy in the world — behind only the U.S. China’s foreign exchange reserves (including gold) are the largest in the world.
By these diverse measures of population, territory, military strength and economic output, China is clearly a global super-power and the dominant presence in East Asia. Yet, these blockbuster statistics hide as much as they reveal.
China’s per capita income is under $12,000 per person compared to per capita income of about $64,000 in the United States. Put differently, the U.S. is only 38% richer than China on a gross basis, but it is 500% richer than China on a per capita basis (of course the massive economic fallout from the coronavirus will have an impact).
China’s military is growing stronger and more sophisticated, but it still falls short against the U.S. military when it comes to aircraft carriers, nuclear warheads, submarines, fighter aircraft and strategic bombers.
Most importantly, at under $12,000 per capita GDP, China is stuck squarely in the “middle income trap” as defined by development economists.
The path from low income (about $5,000 per capita) to middle-income (about $10,000 per capita) is fairly straightforward and mostly involves reduced corruption, direct foreign investment and migration from the countryside to cities to pursue assembly-style jobs.
The path from middle-income to high-income (about $20,000 per capita) is much more difficult and involves creation and deployment of high-technology and manufacture of high-value-added goods.
Among developing economies (excluding oil producers), only Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have successfully made this transition since World War II. All other developing economies in Latin America, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East including giants such as Brazil and Turkey remain stuck in the middle-income ranks.
China remains reliant on assembly-style jobs and has shown no promise of breaking into the high-income ranks.
To escape the middle income trap requires more than cheap labor and infrastructure investment. It requires applied technology to produce high-value added products. This explains why China has been so focused on stealing U.S. intellectual property.
China has not shown much capacity for developing high technology on its own, but it has been quite effective at stealing such technology from trading partners and applying it through its own system of state-owned enterprises and “national champions” such as Huawei in the telecommunications sector.
But the U.S. and other countries are cracking down on China’s technology theft and China cannot generate the needed technology through its own R&D.
In short, and despite enormous annual growth in the past twenty years, China remains fundamentally a poor country with limited ability to improve the well-being of its citizens much beyond what has already been achieved. And that has serious implications for China’s leadership…
China’s economy is not just about providing jobs, goods and services. It is about regime survival for a Chinese Communist Party that faces an existential crisis if it fails to deliver.
It’s an illegitimate regime that will remain in power only so long as it provides jobs and a rising living standard for the Chinese people. The overriding imperative of the Chinese leadership is to avoid societal unrest.
News of the Times;
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-man-buttless-rainbow-monkey-costume-literacy
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/denver-blm-leader-accused-sexually-abusing-62-children-resumes-duties-school-board/
https://www.menofthewest.net/a-short-sermon-on-hate/
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/07/14/41-of-baltimore-high-schoolers-have-a-gpa-below-1-0-n402274
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9779781/Climate-change-Just-25-mega-cities-emit-52-cent-worlds-urban-greenhouse-gases.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-numbers-record-number-americans-died-drug-overdoses-during-2020
https://archive.ph/DNMpw
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/hollywood-sex-grooming-gang-les-moonves-harvey-weinstein/
https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/15/south-africa-supply-chain-on-brink-of-collapse-as-country-descends-into-total-race-war/
https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/02/15/the-samizdat-remains-the-same-n253477
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-York-takes-conservative-approach-counting-16311428.php
https://www.menofthewest.net/every-villain-a-sob-story/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/paging-greta-china-release-10-million-tonnes-highly-polluting-coal-reserves
https://notthebee.com/article/basketball-player-uses-nationally-televised-cbs-interview-to-show-of-his-free-the-uyghurs-t-shirt-and-i-bet-you-can-guess-how-much-coverage-this-got-from-the-mainstream-media
https://mishtalk.com/economics/sick-of-westie-whites-blatant-anti-white-anti-asian-racism-in-schools
Ugly?
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
It was stupid to have 'what is your internet banking password?' as the question.
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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?”
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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.
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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?"
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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
Coma?
I cut my dreadlocks off a few weeks ago.
And I haven't looked black since.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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/
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