Spider: Why are you terrified of me?
Me: Well, the reasons I had are now all replaced by the fact that you can talk.
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Where does Christmas come before Easter?
The dictionary!
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The famous Olympic skier Picabo (pronounced Peek-A-Boo) Street is not just an athlete, she is a nurse. She currently works at the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital.
She is not permitted to answer the telephone, however, as it caused simply too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say,
"Picabo, ICU..."
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President Trump is now 6-foot 3-inches, weighing 224 pounds and 4.8% body fat.
We may lose him to the NFL draft.
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What's the best way to make Easter easier?
Put an "i" where the "t" is.
Quote of the Times;
"Ten years ago it would be unthinkable that El Salvador would be considered safer than Sweden. But now that has happened. Malmö is now ranked as dangerous as Baghdad. There has been almost daily bombing attacks in Sweden. Something went very wrong in my home country." - @PeterSweden7
Link of the Times;
Tulsi Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era 'Domestic Terrorism' Strategy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-exposes-alarming-biden-era-domestic-terrorism-strategy
Issue of the Times;
The Passion of the Christian by David Kupelian
"And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
– Mark 8:34-37
"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."
– Luke 9:23
"And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me."
– Matthew 10:38
Every Easter, many dazzlingly eloquent words are written and spoken about Christ's "Passion" – a singular historical event, graphically portrayed in films like "The Passion of the Christ," "Jesus of Nazareth" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told." That these screen depictions serve to powerfully rekindle many believers' gratitude for what Jesus endured for their sake is undeniable. But I wonder, how often does that appreciation for Christ's sacrifice ignite a fire in the belly of believers to "take up the cross" themselves?
But first things first. What in the world does "taking up your cross" really mean?
'I die daily'
In ages past, Christians dwelt a lot more on the concept of taking up the "cross" than they do these days. Today, the phrase "it's my cross to bear" is usually a self-congratulatory reference to the fact that we have to put up with a vexing medical condition, or a child in trouble with the law, or perhaps an overbearing, live-in mother-in-law.
Admonitions from the pulpit may not shed much more light. Oh sure, a well-intentioned minister will reverently read one of the scriptures cited above on "taking up the cross," and he might even briefly plug the ideal of self-denial. But too often this amounts to a polite nod to a notion that seems both archaic and almost irrelevant, or at least unattainable, and the pastor just moves on to more pleasant topics – like how grateful we are for Christ's death and resurrection.
It wasn't always so. Throughout past centuries, Christian philosophers and mystics dwelt at length on the crucial, life-and-death need for repentance, resignation, "mortification," the "crucifixion" of sin in man, and the "death of the carnal man" or of "the creaturely self" and so on.
The Apostle Paul said it most powerfully and succinctly when he wrote: "I die daily."
Unfortunately, much of what has been written in more contemplative eras about this inner transformation of man is highly poetic and allegorical – an attempt to use mere words to chart the narrow path that connects man's lowly estate with God's heavenly one. Although such archaic language may be profound, it's probably insufficient for Christians today, buffeted as we are on the outside by a voracious and atheistic secular culture, and on the inside by what is increasingly a simplistic and far less rigorous Christianity than that embraced by our forefathers.
Please allow me to take a stab at this, from a somewhat different angle – this command from Jesus Christ that each of His followers "take up his cross daily."
Killing the creature
What exactly is this "creaturely self" that Christian thinkers throughout the centuries have so colorfully warned we must "slay" or "crucify" if we're to inherit the Kingdom of God?
It's self-evident that we're all born with a troublesome nature called "pride." Basically, pride is the part of us that wants to be like God. It loves being praised, quickly puffs up with angry judgment over the real or perceived wrongs of others – and as a rule is oblivious to its own faults. Moreover, you can think of pride as a "life form" – a living, breathing "something" which, like any other life form or "creature," can be fed or starved. When it's fed, it grows and enlarges; when it is starved, it diminishes and dies – daily.
As our pride – our "sin self" – diminishes and dies through obedience to God, the direct result is that our good side, our true God-centered character and identity, enlarges.
We're not talking about matters of dogma here. Nor is this just a matter of outward behaviors and "works." So please don't e-mail me with arguments about "faith vs. works." This is about real change – about transformation – the mystical heart of the true Christian life, about "dying to the world." Not an archaic, poetic and hopelessly idealistic notion, but the very heartbeat of our everyday life, as we deal with stresses and problems ("trials and tribulations") in our lives.
Of course – and this is something of a divine paradox – as Christians, we know we can't save ourselves, and yet we are most definitely called to obedience. So, let's not slough off our responsibility to "die daily" by comfortably presuming on the unending mercy of God. His mercy is unending, indeed, but also balanced with justice, and these two seemingly contradictory qualities work together mysteriously and wonderfully toward our redemption, but only in the truly sincere human soul that doesn't tempt God.
A different kind of love
To understand what "taking up the cross" means, we have to understand why Jesus Himself had to suffer.
More pointedly, if our loving God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent – which He is – why then did His own Son have to be tortured and executed? Countless people throughout the ages have asked, "If God is love, why would he require his own son to endure such torture and death?" Indeed, many have judged God, concluding: "I could never worship a god like that."
Although we say "God is love," we don't really know what either one is, do we? "God" is beyond our comprehension – like understanding infinity. And "love" – well, we use that word to describe our "strong feelings" for anything and everything we're attracted to.
Let's talk about real love.
There's one element present in almost every authentic manifestation of real love among us human beings. And that is – are you ready for this? – suffering. From the ultimate expression of love – "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend" – to the simple act of being patient with others, love implies forbearance, longsuffering and kindness in the midst of problems.
Here's how Webster defines "patience": "the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, or anger."
Certainly, Jesus' words as he was dying on the cross – "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" – are the kindest, most patient words ever spoken.
Thus, patience is nothing less than the basic "cell" or building block of love for each other. The very idea of being patient implies suffering with grace. The recipient of your patience – say, your spouse or child – experiences that patience as love, just as they experience your impatience as a lack of love.
Still, why is love inextricably tied to suffering?
Just think: God is the architect of an awesome expanding universe involving heavenly bodies and distances and speeds and temperatures beyond human comprehension, as well as of a never-ending microscopic cosmos of orbiting particles and universes within universes, all too small for human eyes or minds to conceive. And yet, there's one thing the Creator of all couldn't just … create out of thin air. And that's love.
Oh sure, He loves us. But I'm talking about our love for Him and for each other – fulfilling Jesus' two greatest commandments. The only way God could "create" loving children was for us to have a choice: a choice to love Him, or to be our own god – literally, a choice to make something more important than our own lives, well-being and comfort – a choice to love, in other words – and to be able to demonstrate that love, which involves suffering.
After all, if I compel you to "love me," is it real love? Of course not. Love always involves a choice.
Jesus' teaching that there's no greater love than laying down your life for a friend doesn't only mean that you have to be willing to die for someone else by jumping into a lake to save them, or taking a bullet meant for them. Remember, Paul said, "I die daily." It's a different kind of "death" that's being called for. You have to be willing to let your pride-self die – for the sake of your "neighbor" – and particularly, for your family's well being.
Small example: If someone puts you down or treats you in a cruel or unjust way and you become angry and upset, you've simply failed to find God's love in that moment and to extend it to the offending person. All of us have fallen for this temptation over and over – I know I have many times. But if we are genuinely patient – that is, if we suffer the cruelty with grace, and resist the temptation to puff up with anger because our pride was offended – we can then respond to the other person with the energy and spirit of God's love.
So do I need to be a martyr?
Do an Internet search on the phrase "Take up your cross" and you'll discover sermon after sermon on the necessity of being willing to be tortured and executed for Christ.
"Are you living with a martyr's attitude, that is, willing to suffer and/or die for the cause of Christ?" asks one sermon on the topic. "We are to be Jesus' present-day martyrs, as millions in the past literally were proven to be by giving their lives for the cause of Christ."
Others regard the "take up your cross" reference as a call to the celibate, monastic life.
And of course there are lots of references to the conflict between man's "natural will" and God's will, and how they are at war with each other.
Indeed, "taking up the cross" has always been a common sermon topic. Most typically, listeners are admonished to visit the sick, feed the poor, put their spouse's desires ahead of their own, tithe and volunteer time for church work, and the like. And while these are all fine actions to take, the problem is, one can do all of them and still remain the same faithless, resentful, doubtful, guilt-ridden, but heavily compensated "nice" person. Worse, the approval and adulation we receive from others for our "good works" often serves to further blind us from seeing and repenting of our well-concealed sinful nature.
The point is, we're not so much in need of a behavior change as we are of a nature change. The "cross" Christ prescribes for us is an instrument of death. But just as He died to bring life, we are supposed to "die" to sin that we may share His life.
All of which boils down to this: The real "cross" we have to bear is that we have a fallen nature, which we need to understand and relate to properly — which allows God to change us.
Let's start with an obvious example – sex. Men in particular are born with a sexual nature that needs to be restrained. If not, men would want to express this drive virtually all of the time. Obviously, men need to control this "animal nature" or "creaturely self."
Likewise, what if somebody wrongs you so egregiously that you have an impulse to do him bodily harm? You better restrain that impulse too, right?
So much for the obvious. How about something more subtle?
Let's say we suffer from envious thoughts. To covet is to break one of the 10 Commandments. So how do we deal with these troublesome feelings? How do we "restrain" them? Certainly not by wallowing in them and indulging them. But also not by repressing them, or attempting to manufacture "good" thoughts and feelings in their place. The Christian answer might be to pray, but what form of prayer? Try this out: If you notice envious thoughts, just observe them – honestly, sincerely, without escaping or trying to change them or making excuses for them or justifying them or getting upset over them. Just see what you see, with poise and dignity – and quietly, wordlessly, cry inwardly to God for help. He will.
This is true transparency, which is resignation of your will to His. It calls forth the very process of regeneration, imperceptible though it may be to us.
Put another way, "dying" to the world is like fasting – but not from food. The real "fast" God desires is that we fast from evil thoughts, from anger, from envy, from lust, from greed and so on. He wants us to abstain from being irritated by provocations, from becoming impatient and angry toward others, from temptation of all sorts.
The truth is, we're never closer to God than when we're just plain quiet and still, aware of all of our defects in each precious moment, looking at ourselves first and foremost, without judgment or worry, and having quiet faith that God is there with us and that He will help us.
Shortly before His Passion and death, Jesus gave his disciples what He called "a new commandment" – namely, "That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." Of course, since He had previously brought forth the Old Testament commandments to love God "with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might" (Deuteronomy 6:5) and to "love thy neighbor as thyself" (Leviticus 19:18), how was this Last Supper commandment then "new"?
It was new because He was raising the bar to a higher standard. He was now asking us to love one another as He loved us.
We are supposed to live the way Jesus lived, and to suffer the way He suffered. (I said, the way he suffered – with love for each other through obedience to the Father – though obviously not to the extent He suffered.) And, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, that does not mean only sharing the Gospel of Christ's atoning death and resurrection with as many people as possible. We are called to a still higher standard – to live as He lived – or maybe to put it more aptly, to love as He loved.
Love and logic
In the classic story of "Ben-Hur," Judah, long-consumed by hatred and a desire for revenge against Masala for falsely condemning him as a galley slave and imprisoning his mother and sister, now lepers, witnesses the crucifixion of Jesus.
In the final unforgettable scene, Judah tells his betrothed Esther: "Almost the minute He died, I heard Him say, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
Esther, amazed, responds in a whisper: "Even then …"
"Even then," echoes Judah. "And I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand."
The real Passion of Christ must connect directly with our own internal programming and strengthen our own spirit, as it did in the story of "Ben-Hur." We too must die the death God has prescribed for us – the death of pride, the ancient compulsion to be our own god – that we may share the true life He prepared for us, and which His Son purchased so dearly for us.
One of the main reasons I'm a Christian is simply because it makes so much sense to me. If God wanted to demonstrate His love for mankind, how else could He do it? Go ahead, tell me! What could He do to demonstrate the depth of His love? Make mountains of pomegranates for everyone? Give everyone a great job and a big house and three luxury cars? Give us everything our proud little heart’s desire?
No, if God wanted to demonstrate His love for us, and at the same time provide us with the perfect, ultimate example of real love for our fellow man, what could be a more perfect expression of love than the willing suffering and death of His Son – Who while dying asked God to forgive His tormentors? The sheer beauty, logic and power of it is transcendent. If you're looking for love in this loveless world, that's it.
I know some will be offended by this message, as though by even mentioning and holding up the standard Jesus clearly demanded of His followers, I am somehow denying the sufficiency of His substitutionary death for all mankind.
But you see, there's something really wrong with today's Christianity. Over 70 percent of Americans consider themselves Christians, but our country's government, laws, culture and institutions, from its education system to its entertainment industry – are increasingly and overtly hostile to Christianity. Even Christian families all too often are falling apart. Clearly, we're missing something big.
So, can you handle a little tough love? Here it is: Just continually telling each other about Jesus' death and resurrection is not enough. It's not what He taught. Jesus didn't say, "Just talk about me and you'll be saved." Rather, He said: "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 4:17) And "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." (John 15:10) And "… he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." (Matthew 24:13 KJV)
So, while as Christians during the Easter season we reflect on the Messiah's suffering and sacrifice, the question is: What are we willing to suffer and sacrifice? Can we face our own sinfulness? It's the one enemy most of us don't really want to confront.
To take up our cross – to "lose our life" for His sake so that we "shall save it" – we need to repent. And we cannot repent without looking in the mirror and honestly facing the sin in our minds and hearts. To stand transparent before God so He can heal us through understanding and repentance may be as hard as watching Jesus being scourged and crucified, but watch it we must.
God honors the sincere soul who, with quiet dignity, simply faces the darkness within and repents. This is the heartbeat of our life, without which there is no real life. Each of us has this moment-to-moment choice to make, whether to defend, excuse and enlarge our sinful, hell-bent nature, or whether to pick up our cross, deny our (wrong) self, and follow Jesus – first to death, and then to life.
News of the Times;
Another Fed Op?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/another-fed-op-former-cia-officer-says-ryan/
Harvard University: The Ivy League teaching remedial math:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/harvard-univ-the-ivy-league-teaching-remedial-math/
UConn med school drops mandatory ‘DEI-infused’ Hippocratic Oath:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uconn-med-school-drops-mandatory-dei-infused-hippocratic-oath/
This Nonprofit Got $22 Million in Government Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/center-for-innovative-public-health-research-minors-sex-toys-federal-funding
Woke, DEI-Obsessed Navy Vice Admiral Who Allegedly Refused to Put Up Trump’s Portrait:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/woke-dei-obsessed-navy-vice-admiral-who-allegedly/
Republicans pause Florida bill that gives stiffer penalties to cop killers because it might:
https://notthebee.com/article/pathetic-supermajority-republican-legislators-in-fl-pause-a-bill-to-impose-stiffer-penalties-to-cop-killers-because-it-might-disproportionally-affect-black-people-
USAID paid Czech groups to ‘wage war’ against Russia:
https://www.rt.com/news/615422-usaid-czech-novotny-interview/
Molestation and Murder of a 13-Year-Old Boy Unmasked as Illegal Alien:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/california-soccer-coach-charged-molestation-murder-13-year/
Ten Environmentalist Myths:
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/09/ten-environmentalist-myths/
How Deep the Fraud:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/how-deep-the-fraud.php
China Fires Child Slaves:
https://www.thewashingtonwick.com/post/08apr25b
U.K. Educators Rewrite History to Include Gender Ideology:
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/04/11/warning-uk-educators-rewrite-history-to-include-gender-ideology-nonsense-n4938818
High Tax + High Welfare + Low Defence = European Good Life Threatened by Trump:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/11/high-tax-high-welfare-low-defence-european-good-life-threatened-by-trump-n3801683
Democrat Massachusetts Lawmaker Arrested on Federal Fraud Charges:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/democrat-massachusetts-lawmaker-arrested-federal-fraud-charges-stunning/
Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts”:
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=55965
Passion?
Escalator?
I sat in my hair stylist's chair and said, “Make me look sexy!”
She then got drunk.
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How many telemarketers does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but they have to do it while you're eating dinner.
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Eight-year-old Sally brought her report card home from school. Her marks were good…mostly A’s and a couple of B’s.
However, her teacher had written across the bottom: "Sally is a smart little girl, but she has one fault. She talks too much in school. I have an idea I am going to try, which I think may break her of the habit."
Sally’s dad signed her report card, putting a note on the back: "Please let me know if your idea works on Sally because I would like to try it out on her mother."
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Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It’s actually 12: One to screw it in, one to excoriate men for creating the need for illumination, one to blame men for inventing such a faulty means of illumination, one to suggest the whole “screwing” bit to be too “rape-like”, one to deconstruct the lightbulb itself as being phallic, one to blame men for not changing the bulb, one to blame men for trying to change the bulb instead of letting a woman do it, one to blame men for creating a society that discourages women from changing light bulbs, one to blame men for creating a society where women change too many light bulbs, one to advocate that lightbulb changers should have wage parity with electricians, one to alert the media that women are now “out-light bulbing” men, and one to just sit there taking pictures for her blog for photo-evidence that men are unnecessary.
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A mother walks into her own bedroom and is surprised to catch her 10 year old daughter reading her diary. Startled, she just stands there.
"You were right mom," says the daughter. "Reading is fun."
Quote of the Times;
“The irony of the unelected Eurocrats who hate democracy, hate their own people, hate Christianity, criminalize free speech, and rule over their subjected people as the puppets of Clown World calling themselves “the free world” is satanic inversion at its most obvious.” - vox day
Link of the Times;
Commandant’s Professional Reading List (Foundational):
https://www.mca-marines.org/resource/commandants-professional-reading-list/
Issue of the Times;
The Great Transition by TheZMan https://thezman.com/wordpress/
Last week, Trump stunned the world by following through on what he has been promising since he came down the escalator in 2015. He imposed across-the-board tariffs on every country in the world—except Russia. The reason Russia was excluded is that they are already sanctioned to the maximum. The tariff knob does not go past one hundred, so they were not on the list. Every other country was hit with a tariff, even Israel, which should cause some people to rethink things.
This set off the Great Trump Stock Market Crash, which promises to continue this week as the rest of the world responds to the new world order. The old trading models no longer work, so the default fallback in these conditions is cash. The quants were working feverishly last week to update their models in order to find the bargains that will inevitably be sitting there, waiting for the lucky. The smart money thinks the floor is a twenty percent correction, followed by stability.
The yesterday men and the crazies are sure this is the Great Depression, because their history of the world starts in the 1930s. It is a stylized history, such that every modern event can be jammed into the 1930s, the 1960s, or the 1980s. Since they are sure Trump is secretly Hitler, this must be the 1930s—even though we have witnessed many stock market corrections in the last thirty years. The COVID crash, the mortgage bubble, and the dot-com bubble are easy examples.
In reality, what we are seeing is the long-overdue return to normalcy, where American economic policy is aimed at benefiting the American people, rather than abstract concepts from economics departments. If Canada has tariffs on American goods, then the United States should have tariffs on Canadian goods—unless it can be shown that the American people benefit in some way from the imbalance. The same is true for every other country in the world.
One of the weird things about decades of American trade policy is that it has created the same sense of entitlement as government racial policy. Just as nonwhites think they are entitled to be near white people without conditions, the world thinks it has a right to access the American market without conditions. This is most obvious in Europe, which has taken this lopsided arrangement for granted. They have also assumed they are entitled to American defense, while doing nothing in return.
The logic behind this arrangement has always been nonsense—but people love to believe in nonsense, especially their own. We see this with the free trade crowd, who are claiming tariffs will only harm the American people. If that were true, then the rest of the world should have been miserable for the last thirty years. Further, if that were true, then the rest of the world now has a chance to usher in a golden age for their people by eliminating their tariffs instead of raising them.
The truth of the matter is that all economic policy is about trade-offs—especially in global trade. This is why it is called trade, rather than “free.” Having a tariff-free relationship with Canada could make sense if the Canadian government could be trusted, as the American and Canadian economies are so similar. The same is not true for Mexico or Bangladesh. Trade is never just about money—it is also about culture and the national interests of the trading countries.
Of course, what we are seeing is not really about trade so much as it is about getting the American financial house in order. Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary and architect of the Trump economic policy, has made this clear. Normalizing American trade relations is just one arrow. Another is the mass reorganization of government that kicked off in January. For the first time in the life of anyone reading this, the size and scope of government will be reduced.
Another arrow is the changes in the tax code that are slowly working their way through both houses of Congress. The Senate passed its version of spending and tax cuts, so now it is on to the House. What is shaping up is a two-pronged approach: one is to put into law the cuts made by the DOGE boys, and the other is a radical revamping of the tax code to reflect the new economic approach. Removing taxes on tips and overtime, for example, is part of the Senate model.
What we are seeing is the most radical alteration to the American economic model since the 1980s. The reason for it is that the old model is unsustainable. As Bessent pointed out, there is a limit to borrowing. For a long time, the American model relied on creating unlimited credit money in the banking system and massive federal borrowing. We have reached the limits of this model. Now, that model threatens the integrity of the American economy, so changes must be made.
More important are the changes in how we think and talk about the economy. For the longest time, the economy has been treated as a god. Americans were expected to tolerate anything to please it. If the economy demanded Haitian cannibals in your town, you had to accept it. If the economy demanded that the quality of your hand tools decline, you just lived with it. If the economy required you to work two jobs to make ends meet, then you did it. The economy was a remorseless god.
This sort of thinking makes sense to an alien overclass that sees the United States as an opportunity to be exploited. It does not make sense if the ruling elite feels a connection and obligation to the people. Shifting from the old transactional model of economics to a nationalistic model requires a new language. Simply pointing at a graph that trends upward is no longer enough. The political class will now have to possess some economic literacy.
It is too soon to know if these changes can make it through Congress. The winners under the old exploitative model will not go quietly. No one knows if the American public will tolerate the pain that must come with the transition. It is not all bad news, though, so the pain may be limited. Energy costs are falling—crude is under sixty dollars a barrel. This could tame inflation enough for the Fed to cut rates. Low taxes and cheap energy will go a long way toward cushioning the transition.
In the end, Bessent is correct. America cannot continue to create credit in the financial system and borrow trillions to hire government workers. We either have an orderly transition back to a normal economy, or we have a disorderly transition. The name for that is collapse—and that is vastly worse than a stock market correction. This is the reason the economic elites are backing this move. They know that the people who suffer the most from failure are the elites.
News of the Times;
Man fakes anti-Semitic stabbing:
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/01/man-fakes-anti-semitic-stabbing-outside-michigan-synagogue.html
Rabbi Who Spread False Hamas Rape Claims Arrested for Child Molestation:
https://qudsnen.co/dallas-rabbi-who-spread-false-hamas-rape-claims-arrested-for-child-molestation/
Restaurant chain Hooters files for bankruptcy:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/restaurant-chain-hooters-files-for-bankruptcy/ar-AA1C2g1G
Our World of Universal Deceit:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/no_author/our-world-of-universal-deceit/
Musk warns of ‘real massacre’ in Western Europe:
https://www.rt.com/news/615297-musk-eu-migration-terrorism/
Islamist Found Guilty of Hate Crime in Bomb Scare Plot Targeting Christian Churches:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/islamist-found-guilty-hate-crime-bomb-scare-plot/
Minnesota food bank CEO steps down as legislators question her $721K salary:
https://alphanews.org/minnesota-food-bank-ceo-steps-down-as-legislators-question-her-721k-salary/
55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/07/survey-55-of-self-identified-leftists-say-killing-trump-is-justifiable/
Discovery of ancient garden beneath Jesus’ burial site:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/discovery-of-ancient-garden-beneath-jesus-burial-site-backs-up-biblical-account/ar-AA1C9YPM
EU must strip Hungary of voting rights:
https://www.rt.com/news/615280-eu-strip-hungary-voting-rights/
Remote Access Backdoor Discovered in Chinese Robot Dog:
https://cyberinsider.com/remote-access-backdoor-discovered-in-chinese-robot-dog-unitree-go1/
Social Media Explodes as Trump Drops Hilarious New Word:
https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/04/social-media-explodes-as-trump-drops-hilarious-new-word-panican/
In the Shadow of Alfred the Great:
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/in-the-shadow-of-alfred-the-great
Germany Wants Its Gold Back!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/alasdair-macleod/germany-wants-its-gold-back/
Chinese People Weren't Supposed to Know About This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Fucm9Bk0E
She then got drunk.
*.*
How many telemarketers does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but they have to do it while you're eating dinner.
*.*
Eight-year-old Sally brought her report card home from school. Her marks were good…mostly A’s and a couple of B’s.
However, her teacher had written across the bottom: "Sally is a smart little girl, but she has one fault. She talks too much in school. I have an idea I am going to try, which I think may break her of the habit."
Sally’s dad signed her report card, putting a note on the back: "Please let me know if your idea works on Sally because I would like to try it out on her mother."
*.*
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It’s actually 12: One to screw it in, one to excoriate men for creating the need for illumination, one to blame men for inventing such a faulty means of illumination, one to suggest the whole “screwing” bit to be too “rape-like”, one to deconstruct the lightbulb itself as being phallic, one to blame men for not changing the bulb, one to blame men for trying to change the bulb instead of letting a woman do it, one to blame men for creating a society that discourages women from changing light bulbs, one to blame men for creating a society where women change too many light bulbs, one to advocate that lightbulb changers should have wage parity with electricians, one to alert the media that women are now “out-light bulbing” men, and one to just sit there taking pictures for her blog for photo-evidence that men are unnecessary.
*.*
A mother walks into her own bedroom and is surprised to catch her 10 year old daughter reading her diary. Startled, she just stands there.
"You were right mom," says the daughter. "Reading is fun."
Quote of the Times;
“The irony of the unelected Eurocrats who hate democracy, hate their own people, hate Christianity, criminalize free speech, and rule over their subjected people as the puppets of Clown World calling themselves “the free world” is satanic inversion at its most obvious.” - vox day
Link of the Times;
Commandant’s Professional Reading List (Foundational):
https://www.mca-marines.org/resource/commandants-professional-reading-list/
Issue of the Times;
The Great Transition by TheZMan https://thezman.com/wordpress/
Last week, Trump stunned the world by following through on what he has been promising since he came down the escalator in 2015. He imposed across-the-board tariffs on every country in the world—except Russia. The reason Russia was excluded is that they are already sanctioned to the maximum. The tariff knob does not go past one hundred, so they were not on the list. Every other country was hit with a tariff, even Israel, which should cause some people to rethink things.
This set off the Great Trump Stock Market Crash, which promises to continue this week as the rest of the world responds to the new world order. The old trading models no longer work, so the default fallback in these conditions is cash. The quants were working feverishly last week to update their models in order to find the bargains that will inevitably be sitting there, waiting for the lucky. The smart money thinks the floor is a twenty percent correction, followed by stability.
The yesterday men and the crazies are sure this is the Great Depression, because their history of the world starts in the 1930s. It is a stylized history, such that every modern event can be jammed into the 1930s, the 1960s, or the 1980s. Since they are sure Trump is secretly Hitler, this must be the 1930s—even though we have witnessed many stock market corrections in the last thirty years. The COVID crash, the mortgage bubble, and the dot-com bubble are easy examples.
In reality, what we are seeing is the long-overdue return to normalcy, where American economic policy is aimed at benefiting the American people, rather than abstract concepts from economics departments. If Canada has tariffs on American goods, then the United States should have tariffs on Canadian goods—unless it can be shown that the American people benefit in some way from the imbalance. The same is true for every other country in the world.
One of the weird things about decades of American trade policy is that it has created the same sense of entitlement as government racial policy. Just as nonwhites think they are entitled to be near white people without conditions, the world thinks it has a right to access the American market without conditions. This is most obvious in Europe, which has taken this lopsided arrangement for granted. They have also assumed they are entitled to American defense, while doing nothing in return.
The logic behind this arrangement has always been nonsense—but people love to believe in nonsense, especially their own. We see this with the free trade crowd, who are claiming tariffs will only harm the American people. If that were true, then the rest of the world should have been miserable for the last thirty years. Further, if that were true, then the rest of the world now has a chance to usher in a golden age for their people by eliminating their tariffs instead of raising them.
The truth of the matter is that all economic policy is about trade-offs—especially in global trade. This is why it is called trade, rather than “free.” Having a tariff-free relationship with Canada could make sense if the Canadian government could be trusted, as the American and Canadian economies are so similar. The same is not true for Mexico or Bangladesh. Trade is never just about money—it is also about culture and the national interests of the trading countries.
Of course, what we are seeing is not really about trade so much as it is about getting the American financial house in order. Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary and architect of the Trump economic policy, has made this clear. Normalizing American trade relations is just one arrow. Another is the mass reorganization of government that kicked off in January. For the first time in the life of anyone reading this, the size and scope of government will be reduced.
Another arrow is the changes in the tax code that are slowly working their way through both houses of Congress. The Senate passed its version of spending and tax cuts, so now it is on to the House. What is shaping up is a two-pronged approach: one is to put into law the cuts made by the DOGE boys, and the other is a radical revamping of the tax code to reflect the new economic approach. Removing taxes on tips and overtime, for example, is part of the Senate model.
What we are seeing is the most radical alteration to the American economic model since the 1980s. The reason for it is that the old model is unsustainable. As Bessent pointed out, there is a limit to borrowing. For a long time, the American model relied on creating unlimited credit money in the banking system and massive federal borrowing. We have reached the limits of this model. Now, that model threatens the integrity of the American economy, so changes must be made.
More important are the changes in how we think and talk about the economy. For the longest time, the economy has been treated as a god. Americans were expected to tolerate anything to please it. If the economy demanded Haitian cannibals in your town, you had to accept it. If the economy demanded that the quality of your hand tools decline, you just lived with it. If the economy required you to work two jobs to make ends meet, then you did it. The economy was a remorseless god.
This sort of thinking makes sense to an alien overclass that sees the United States as an opportunity to be exploited. It does not make sense if the ruling elite feels a connection and obligation to the people. Shifting from the old transactional model of economics to a nationalistic model requires a new language. Simply pointing at a graph that trends upward is no longer enough. The political class will now have to possess some economic literacy.
It is too soon to know if these changes can make it through Congress. The winners under the old exploitative model will not go quietly. No one knows if the American public will tolerate the pain that must come with the transition. It is not all bad news, though, so the pain may be limited. Energy costs are falling—crude is under sixty dollars a barrel. This could tame inflation enough for the Fed to cut rates. Low taxes and cheap energy will go a long way toward cushioning the transition.
In the end, Bessent is correct. America cannot continue to create credit in the financial system and borrow trillions to hire government workers. We either have an orderly transition back to a normal economy, or we have a disorderly transition. The name for that is collapse—and that is vastly worse than a stock market correction. This is the reason the economic elites are backing this move. They know that the people who suffer the most from failure are the elites.
News of the Times;
Man fakes anti-Semitic stabbing:
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/01/man-fakes-anti-semitic-stabbing-outside-michigan-synagogue.html
Rabbi Who Spread False Hamas Rape Claims Arrested for Child Molestation:
https://qudsnen.co/dallas-rabbi-who-spread-false-hamas-rape-claims-arrested-for-child-molestation/
Restaurant chain Hooters files for bankruptcy:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/restaurant-chain-hooters-files-for-bankruptcy/ar-AA1C2g1G
Our World of Universal Deceit:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/no_author/our-world-of-universal-deceit/
Musk warns of ‘real massacre’ in Western Europe:
https://www.rt.com/news/615297-musk-eu-migration-terrorism/
Islamist Found Guilty of Hate Crime in Bomb Scare Plot Targeting Christian Churches:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/islamist-found-guilty-hate-crime-bomb-scare-plot/
Minnesota food bank CEO steps down as legislators question her $721K salary:
https://alphanews.org/minnesota-food-bank-ceo-steps-down-as-legislators-question-her-721k-salary/
55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/07/survey-55-of-self-identified-leftists-say-killing-trump-is-justifiable/
Discovery of ancient garden beneath Jesus’ burial site:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/discovery-of-ancient-garden-beneath-jesus-burial-site-backs-up-biblical-account/ar-AA1C9YPM
EU must strip Hungary of voting rights:
https://www.rt.com/news/615280-eu-strip-hungary-voting-rights/
Remote Access Backdoor Discovered in Chinese Robot Dog:
https://cyberinsider.com/remote-access-backdoor-discovered-in-chinese-robot-dog-unitree-go1/
Social Media Explodes as Trump Drops Hilarious New Word:
https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/04/social-media-explodes-as-trump-drops-hilarious-new-word-panican/
In the Shadow of Alfred the Great:
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/in-the-shadow-of-alfred-the-great
Germany Wants Its Gold Back!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/alasdair-macleod/germany-wants-its-gold-back/
Chinese People Weren't Supposed to Know About This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Fucm9Bk0E
Derkins?
How many jazz musicians does it take to change a light bulb?
...a one two a one two three four.
*.*
Just seen a burglar kicking his own door in.
I yelled, “What are you doing!”
He said: “Working from home.”
*.*
"We have your son," said the kidnapper.
"I don't have a son," says the woman.
"Then who just asked for warm milk and made us cut the crust off his sandwiches?"
"Oh God, you have my husband."
*.*
The longer my wife and I are married, the more annoying she says I am, and the more crime TV she's watching.
Those two can't be related.
*.*
Coffee, you're on the bench.
Alcohol: Suit up!
Quote of the Times;
Edward Griffin succinctly explains what the Federal Reserve System actually is: "It's a cartel. It's not a government agency, it has the appearance of it being a government agency. They went to great lengths to give it that facade... In it's essence, It's a cartel... They got together. They drew up the rules and regulations for their own industry.. To self regulate their own industry.. It's what cartels do. And then they sent it to congress and they took off the label off the top that said 'banking cartel' and they erased that and they said 'Federal Reserve Act.' Congress passed it into law. And that's why we think it's a government agency it's because if you don't obey the rules that they set down for their own industry you go to prison."
Link of the Times;
"Give Us Back Our F**king Money" - How Washington Stole Everything:
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/give-us-back-our-fuing-money-how
Issue of the Times;
Calvin vs. Susie by Alan Schmidt
My boys love Calvin and Hobbes, and throughout the day the household is inundated with dialogue lifted from the pages of the complete collection they ravenously read. As a dad who has warm memories of childhood reading these comic collections, seeing such a treasure being passed down fills my heart.
For those who have no soul, Calvin and Hobbes was a famous daily comic written by Bill Watterson in the 1980’s and 90’s. It follows the adventures of Calvin and his imaginary friend, Hobbes, a stuffed tiger and they make up adventures for themselves and work through everyday life as a kid. It’s universally beloved to this day, probably largely because the artist refused to license his creation to anyone for the sake of artistic integrity, keeping the purity of the comic intact, well, other than the peeing Calvin decal. This isn’t to say everyone shares the same opinion. I recently had a conversation with a woman about the relative virtues of the comic.
"Everything he does is immoral! Nothing in there teaches proper morals or virtue." She exclaimed.
Of course, it's true he acts like a rambunctious troublemaker throughout the comic, but the idea there was no redeeming qualities or virtues in his actions flummoxed me. Didn't he show a zest for life? Didn't his wild antics give vitality and spirit to his existence? Wasn't his often justifiable rebellion against authority figures something to be admired? Wasn't his wild imagination in the face of stifling conformity a good lesson in life?
As much as I tried to argue these points, all she could see was a wild kid who caused trouble to those around him, showed little empathy for others feelings, and immersed himself in violent and whimsical fantasies. She was at a loss how such behavior could mold him into a strong and capable man later in life. It was only a few days later that I realized where the disconnect was.
She was Susie Derkins.
This isn't meant as an insult. In the same way it's not an insult to say a gazelle has no understanding of the mind of a lion, or the peasant farmer will never understand the mind of a steppe warrior, the disconnect between their natural states is too vast. The brilliance in Watterson’s writing was to avoid turning her into simply a straight character or an annoying shrew, but creating a real foil the reader can also sympathize with. Girls like Susie can be wonderful additions to a society, and can also create the most repressive longhouse known to man when surrounded with like-minded people, where it becomes a battle to who can conform to authority the most for a pat on the head.
Susie has more of the qualities modern culture desires. She is an obsessive rule-follower, academic, follows all the social mores, and has aspirations to enter a respectable profession. Her only wish is to fit into the current mold of wider society. In the future, she will be a useful, though unimaginative cog in the wider culture. In itself, there is nothing wrong with this, and people like this often act like the glue that makes a community function. She's a genuinely caring person who simply wants to fit into the society she finds herself in. If she lived in a bizarro world where children got accolades in creating the perfect snowball, having the most overactive imagination, or knowing all there is to know about dinosaurs, she would spend her time trying to out-Calvin Calvin. She would never surpass Calvin, of course, since Susie relies on outside accolades to find her way, while for Calvin it’s in his veins.
We can contrast Susie with his babysitter, Rosalyn, a typical teenage mean-girl. She's selfish, cold, and uncaring for those outside her circle. She only babysits for the money, and there is none of the female warmth for children you would like to see. Her interest is only in bleeding Calvin's parents dry of cash. It's no coincidence the one time she tries to work a compromise with him when she volunteers to play Calvinball she has the happiest time with him. He accepts with adorable enthusiasm, as she is likely the only other person who ever offered to play. In the end, she has the easiest babysitting job she ever had, and finally gets the best of him, and actually seems to have fun. One would hope this episode made her see kids like Calvin in a new light as she enters adulthood. Even Rosalyn shows character development, and one can’t help but get the feeling she had fun.
Calvin, in contrast, has no fitting role in the world yet. He has an imaginary friend because his mind is worlds apart from all of his peers. His aspirations are wild and borderline megalomaniacal, and he spends his time in school dreaming of flying fighter jets, getting into life-or-death battles with distant aliens, or simply planning a convoluted scheme to get back at his enemies. His eyes are raw, unfiltered, seeing a land full of possibilities. As grandiose and impractical as his seven-year-old thoughts are, he sees potential in everything he encounters, eschewing any customary wisdom in favor of seeing hours of adventure in a small creek or even a simple cardboard box. It’s only a boy like Calvin who can be innovative enough to stash away a snowball in the freezer until the middle of summer to pelt Susie with, and in the heat of the moment miss her.
While the comic seems like a light and cheery look into childhood, there are very dark undertones. Like the main character in “Adventure Time” doesn’t realize he lives in a nuclear wasteland, “Calvin and Hobbes” is set in a world that has no place for a rambunctious boy. There’s an inherent loneliness permeating the comic from the title on, that Calvin only has an imaginary friend who understands what makes him tick.
Calvin never comes across a figure that can channel his energies toward finding his way in the world. Another recurring character, the bully Moe, is bigger, stronger, and dumber, and only serves to beat him instead of giving comradery. His teacher, Mrs. Wormwood, checked out of creating any sense of wonder in her classroom long ago and is going through the motions. She wants conformity, placing it even above learning. His mother doesn't understand the energetic boy she bore, though she loves him, and his father prefers to play games with his head and joke as opposed to being a true mentor.
Not that Calvin's dad detached as much as failed to expand outside his own comfort zone. He tries to teach him to ride a bike to share his own love of riding, but Calvin is dismissive. He tries to teach Calvin the joys of camping, but can't connect in that way. It's not that he doesn't try, but that he's as clueless as his wife about how his own child sees the world. One gets the idea that while it's implied he had a wild youth, he settled down as a patent lawyer and forgot what it was like to be a child. There’s the gentle touch that his parents, even if they rant in frustration as parents do, they genuinely love their kid, as seen when they rescue Hobbes a couple times from being lost forever. For all their flaws, a lot of children would kill to have parents like Calvin’s.
The most tragic episode in the comic happened when Calvin joined the school baseball team and the coach, who had little care for any of the kids and seeing Calvin had no clue how to play, simply put him in right field to get him out of the way. Unbeknownst to Calvin, his team finished defense and were set to bat, but he stayed in the outfield because he didn't know what to do. Then one of his teammates hit a fly ball, which Calvin caught to his great pride, until his teammates lambasted him for causing an out on his own team.
Calvin then went to his coach and sheepishly said he didn't want to play anymore, to which the coach said "okay, quitter." Calvin clearly had skill in catching that fly ball, and the coach crushed him without mercy. Mrs. Wormwood didn’t have the faculties to mentor Calvin, but that coach did. One gets the idea the school system has chewed up and spit out the adults running it to the extent they no longer see children, but pests that create work.
Susie Derkins, on the other hand, has the world catered to her sensibilities. She loves school because she loves the accolades she receives from authority figures. Her aspirations, whether they are having kids or being a girl-boss, are catered to and considered mature. Whenever she gets harassed by Calvin, authority figures immediately swoop in to defend her. It's not her fault the world she was born into gave her more advantages and comfort, and there's nothing wrong with her taking advantage of it. She’s just in a protective bubble, and has no understanding of what is required to keep her small world turning.
In a way, the comic showed the stark realities of being a young boy trying to find his way. He is surrounded by types like Susie Derkins, who can't help but be Susie Derkins. The real failure happens in the men who should have been there for him, channeling his energies toward finding a place in the world, and pushing back against the busybodies and scolds who want him to act more like a pliable, conformist little girl.
There is a strong separation between the worlds that are conducive to these two personalities, which largely personifies how people make their way in the world. Before the age of one size fits all hyper-efficiency and panopticon-level surveillance, both would thrive. Elders understood that giving rambunctious children room for adventure that channels into productive ends later in life, whether it be the military, exploration, or entrepreneurism. Most admins once understood they didn't ask about hazing rituals to enter a group as long as it didn't get out of hand. They once knew to turn a blind eye to whatever partying the boys were doing in the woods as long as they drove sober. They once understood the balance between being socially acceptable and stifling the passion and energy of young men who will become the next great leaders.
We live in a one-size-fits-all world designed to cater to the Susies of the world, and then act surprised when people who don't fit that mold can't function. Putting the Susies in charge, tragically, contrary to giving them fulfillment, have made them miserable along with everyone else. Deep down, the Susies of the world don't want to live in their own strict, conformist world, but the exciting wonderland of Calvin.
In the comic Susie is always curious to know what Calvin is planning, and even invites her to her parties. One would think that she would avoid a boy who threw water balloons and snowballs at her with malicious glee, but she comes back for more. As much as she hates getting picked on by Calvin, and regardless of how much he makes her life frustrating, she gets drawn into his world. Like someone who watches the vast wilderness outside the prim and proper village, she can’t help but be curious about what lies out there, and what strange and untamed adventures await. She’s not a person who can forge a path on her own, though. She needs Calvin for that.
Whenever they play, Susie insists on quaint and domestic settings, dealing with events she thinks mature adults deal with, whether it be a doctor’s visit or a new baby. She’s practicing for her foreseen role in life, while Calvin grows frustrated with the inanities of the scenarios, consistently making their games go completely off the rails and leaving both angry and dejected. The truth is Calvin needs Susie too. Those are the mundane aspects of civilization that he will eventually need to protect if he wants to become a man.
Despite all their fighting, the Calvin and Susies of the world need each other for culture to thrive, and we need to find a way to make it happen.
News of the Times;
Trump Starts Undoing JFK’s Worst Mistake:
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/04/01/trump-starts-undoing-jfks-worst-mistake/
West Point disbands 12 student groups:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/west-point-disbands-12-student-groups-following-trumps-dei-executive-order/
Jury finds CNN liable for $5 million in damages in defamation trial:
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/jury-finds-cnn-liable-5-million-defamation-trial-against-us-navy-veteran
US Army's Joint Light Tactical Vehicles Never Passed Required Armor Testing:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-armys-joint-light-tactical-vehicles-never-passed-required-armor-testing
Report Your Family For Wrong Think:
https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-advice-compass-conspiracy-theories-reporting
Women Talk More Than Men After All:
https://www.sciencealert.com/women-talk-more-than-men-after-all-and-by-quite-a-lot
Armed police raid home, seizing electronic devices over a meme insulting to migrants:
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/germany-armed-police-raid-home-seizing-electronic-devices-over-a-meme-insulting-to-migrants
Italy Hands Out 110% Free Home Renovations:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/italy-hands-out-110-free-home-renovations-guess-what-happened
Corrupt Utah Judge Freed Fire Chief Charged with Child Exploitation; Now Both Arrested:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/utah-judge-freed-fire-chief-charged-child-exploitation/
Coast Guard Stops Boat Packed with Mexican, Chinese Illegal Aliens:
https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/02/coast-guard-stops-boat-packed-with-mexican-chinese-illegal-aliens-near-u-s-shores-watch/
Dr. Birx Admits Young and Healthy People Didn’t Need COVID Vaccine:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/dr-birx-admits-young-and-healthy-people-didnt-need-covid-vaccine/
Why is YouTube boosting anti-US, pro-Chinese communist propaganda?
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5155350-youtube-promoting-pro-china/
Gab refuses request to identify user:
https://www.noticer.news/gab-refuses-australian-government-request/
National Diversity Council Files for Bankruptcy — Employees Stole Millions:
https://www.cf.org/news/national-diversity-council-files-for-bankruptcy-employees-stole-millions/
Chinese Drugs Are Flooding the World: ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGE393xias
...a one two a one two three four.
*.*
Just seen a burglar kicking his own door in.
I yelled, “What are you doing!”
He said: “Working from home.”
*.*
"We have your son," said the kidnapper.
"I don't have a son," says the woman.
"Then who just asked for warm milk and made us cut the crust off his sandwiches?"
"Oh God, you have my husband."
*.*
The longer my wife and I are married, the more annoying she says I am, and the more crime TV she's watching.
Those two can't be related.
*.*
Coffee, you're on the bench.
Alcohol: Suit up!
Quote of the Times;
Edward Griffin succinctly explains what the Federal Reserve System actually is: "It's a cartel. It's not a government agency, it has the appearance of it being a government agency. They went to great lengths to give it that facade... In it's essence, It's a cartel... They got together. They drew up the rules and regulations for their own industry.. To self regulate their own industry.. It's what cartels do. And then they sent it to congress and they took off the label off the top that said 'banking cartel' and they erased that and they said 'Federal Reserve Act.' Congress passed it into law. And that's why we think it's a government agency it's because if you don't obey the rules that they set down for their own industry you go to prison."
Link of the Times;
"Give Us Back Our F**king Money" - How Washington Stole Everything:
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/give-us-back-our-fuing-money-how
Issue of the Times;
Calvin vs. Susie by Alan Schmidt
My boys love Calvin and Hobbes, and throughout the day the household is inundated with dialogue lifted from the pages of the complete collection they ravenously read. As a dad who has warm memories of childhood reading these comic collections, seeing such a treasure being passed down fills my heart.
For those who have no soul, Calvin and Hobbes was a famous daily comic written by Bill Watterson in the 1980’s and 90’s. It follows the adventures of Calvin and his imaginary friend, Hobbes, a stuffed tiger and they make up adventures for themselves and work through everyday life as a kid. It’s universally beloved to this day, probably largely because the artist refused to license his creation to anyone for the sake of artistic integrity, keeping the purity of the comic intact, well, other than the peeing Calvin decal. This isn’t to say everyone shares the same opinion. I recently had a conversation with a woman about the relative virtues of the comic.
"Everything he does is immoral! Nothing in there teaches proper morals or virtue." She exclaimed.
Of course, it's true he acts like a rambunctious troublemaker throughout the comic, but the idea there was no redeeming qualities or virtues in his actions flummoxed me. Didn't he show a zest for life? Didn't his wild antics give vitality and spirit to his existence? Wasn't his often justifiable rebellion against authority figures something to be admired? Wasn't his wild imagination in the face of stifling conformity a good lesson in life?
As much as I tried to argue these points, all she could see was a wild kid who caused trouble to those around him, showed little empathy for others feelings, and immersed himself in violent and whimsical fantasies. She was at a loss how such behavior could mold him into a strong and capable man later in life. It was only a few days later that I realized where the disconnect was.
She was Susie Derkins.
This isn't meant as an insult. In the same way it's not an insult to say a gazelle has no understanding of the mind of a lion, or the peasant farmer will never understand the mind of a steppe warrior, the disconnect between their natural states is too vast. The brilliance in Watterson’s writing was to avoid turning her into simply a straight character or an annoying shrew, but creating a real foil the reader can also sympathize with. Girls like Susie can be wonderful additions to a society, and can also create the most repressive longhouse known to man when surrounded with like-minded people, where it becomes a battle to who can conform to authority the most for a pat on the head.
Susie has more of the qualities modern culture desires. She is an obsessive rule-follower, academic, follows all the social mores, and has aspirations to enter a respectable profession. Her only wish is to fit into the current mold of wider society. In the future, she will be a useful, though unimaginative cog in the wider culture. In itself, there is nothing wrong with this, and people like this often act like the glue that makes a community function. She's a genuinely caring person who simply wants to fit into the society she finds herself in. If she lived in a bizarro world where children got accolades in creating the perfect snowball, having the most overactive imagination, or knowing all there is to know about dinosaurs, she would spend her time trying to out-Calvin Calvin. She would never surpass Calvin, of course, since Susie relies on outside accolades to find her way, while for Calvin it’s in his veins.
We can contrast Susie with his babysitter, Rosalyn, a typical teenage mean-girl. She's selfish, cold, and uncaring for those outside her circle. She only babysits for the money, and there is none of the female warmth for children you would like to see. Her interest is only in bleeding Calvin's parents dry of cash. It's no coincidence the one time she tries to work a compromise with him when she volunteers to play Calvinball she has the happiest time with him. He accepts with adorable enthusiasm, as she is likely the only other person who ever offered to play. In the end, she has the easiest babysitting job she ever had, and finally gets the best of him, and actually seems to have fun. One would hope this episode made her see kids like Calvin in a new light as she enters adulthood. Even Rosalyn shows character development, and one can’t help but get the feeling she had fun.
Calvin, in contrast, has no fitting role in the world yet. He has an imaginary friend because his mind is worlds apart from all of his peers. His aspirations are wild and borderline megalomaniacal, and he spends his time in school dreaming of flying fighter jets, getting into life-or-death battles with distant aliens, or simply planning a convoluted scheme to get back at his enemies. His eyes are raw, unfiltered, seeing a land full of possibilities. As grandiose and impractical as his seven-year-old thoughts are, he sees potential in everything he encounters, eschewing any customary wisdom in favor of seeing hours of adventure in a small creek or even a simple cardboard box. It’s only a boy like Calvin who can be innovative enough to stash away a snowball in the freezer until the middle of summer to pelt Susie with, and in the heat of the moment miss her.
While the comic seems like a light and cheery look into childhood, there are very dark undertones. Like the main character in “Adventure Time” doesn’t realize he lives in a nuclear wasteland, “Calvin and Hobbes” is set in a world that has no place for a rambunctious boy. There’s an inherent loneliness permeating the comic from the title on, that Calvin only has an imaginary friend who understands what makes him tick.
Calvin never comes across a figure that can channel his energies toward finding his way in the world. Another recurring character, the bully Moe, is bigger, stronger, and dumber, and only serves to beat him instead of giving comradery. His teacher, Mrs. Wormwood, checked out of creating any sense of wonder in her classroom long ago and is going through the motions. She wants conformity, placing it even above learning. His mother doesn't understand the energetic boy she bore, though she loves him, and his father prefers to play games with his head and joke as opposed to being a true mentor.
Not that Calvin's dad detached as much as failed to expand outside his own comfort zone. He tries to teach him to ride a bike to share his own love of riding, but Calvin is dismissive. He tries to teach Calvin the joys of camping, but can't connect in that way. It's not that he doesn't try, but that he's as clueless as his wife about how his own child sees the world. One gets the idea that while it's implied he had a wild youth, he settled down as a patent lawyer and forgot what it was like to be a child. There’s the gentle touch that his parents, even if they rant in frustration as parents do, they genuinely love their kid, as seen when they rescue Hobbes a couple times from being lost forever. For all their flaws, a lot of children would kill to have parents like Calvin’s.
The most tragic episode in the comic happened when Calvin joined the school baseball team and the coach, who had little care for any of the kids and seeing Calvin had no clue how to play, simply put him in right field to get him out of the way. Unbeknownst to Calvin, his team finished defense and were set to bat, but he stayed in the outfield because he didn't know what to do. Then one of his teammates hit a fly ball, which Calvin caught to his great pride, until his teammates lambasted him for causing an out on his own team.
Calvin then went to his coach and sheepishly said he didn't want to play anymore, to which the coach said "okay, quitter." Calvin clearly had skill in catching that fly ball, and the coach crushed him without mercy. Mrs. Wormwood didn’t have the faculties to mentor Calvin, but that coach did. One gets the idea the school system has chewed up and spit out the adults running it to the extent they no longer see children, but pests that create work.
Susie Derkins, on the other hand, has the world catered to her sensibilities. She loves school because she loves the accolades she receives from authority figures. Her aspirations, whether they are having kids or being a girl-boss, are catered to and considered mature. Whenever she gets harassed by Calvin, authority figures immediately swoop in to defend her. It's not her fault the world she was born into gave her more advantages and comfort, and there's nothing wrong with her taking advantage of it. She’s just in a protective bubble, and has no understanding of what is required to keep her small world turning.
In a way, the comic showed the stark realities of being a young boy trying to find his way. He is surrounded by types like Susie Derkins, who can't help but be Susie Derkins. The real failure happens in the men who should have been there for him, channeling his energies toward finding a place in the world, and pushing back against the busybodies and scolds who want him to act more like a pliable, conformist little girl.
There is a strong separation between the worlds that are conducive to these two personalities, which largely personifies how people make their way in the world. Before the age of one size fits all hyper-efficiency and panopticon-level surveillance, both would thrive. Elders understood that giving rambunctious children room for adventure that channels into productive ends later in life, whether it be the military, exploration, or entrepreneurism. Most admins once understood they didn't ask about hazing rituals to enter a group as long as it didn't get out of hand. They once knew to turn a blind eye to whatever partying the boys were doing in the woods as long as they drove sober. They once understood the balance between being socially acceptable and stifling the passion and energy of young men who will become the next great leaders.
We live in a one-size-fits-all world designed to cater to the Susies of the world, and then act surprised when people who don't fit that mold can't function. Putting the Susies in charge, tragically, contrary to giving them fulfillment, have made them miserable along with everyone else. Deep down, the Susies of the world don't want to live in their own strict, conformist world, but the exciting wonderland of Calvin.
In the comic Susie is always curious to know what Calvin is planning, and even invites her to her parties. One would think that she would avoid a boy who threw water balloons and snowballs at her with malicious glee, but she comes back for more. As much as she hates getting picked on by Calvin, and regardless of how much he makes her life frustrating, she gets drawn into his world. Like someone who watches the vast wilderness outside the prim and proper village, she can’t help but be curious about what lies out there, and what strange and untamed adventures await. She’s not a person who can forge a path on her own, though. She needs Calvin for that.
Whenever they play, Susie insists on quaint and domestic settings, dealing with events she thinks mature adults deal with, whether it be a doctor’s visit or a new baby. She’s practicing for her foreseen role in life, while Calvin grows frustrated with the inanities of the scenarios, consistently making their games go completely off the rails and leaving both angry and dejected. The truth is Calvin needs Susie too. Those are the mundane aspects of civilization that he will eventually need to protect if he wants to become a man.
Despite all their fighting, the Calvin and Susies of the world need each other for culture to thrive, and we need to find a way to make it happen.
News of the Times;
Trump Starts Undoing JFK’s Worst Mistake:
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/04/01/trump-starts-undoing-jfks-worst-mistake/
West Point disbands 12 student groups:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/west-point-disbands-12-student-groups-following-trumps-dei-executive-order/
Jury finds CNN liable for $5 million in damages in defamation trial:
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/jury-finds-cnn-liable-5-million-defamation-trial-against-us-navy-veteran
US Army's Joint Light Tactical Vehicles Never Passed Required Armor Testing:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-armys-joint-light-tactical-vehicles-never-passed-required-armor-testing
Report Your Family For Wrong Think:
https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-advice-compass-conspiracy-theories-reporting
Women Talk More Than Men After All:
https://www.sciencealert.com/women-talk-more-than-men-after-all-and-by-quite-a-lot
Armed police raid home, seizing electronic devices over a meme insulting to migrants:
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/germany-armed-police-raid-home-seizing-electronic-devices-over-a-meme-insulting-to-migrants
Italy Hands Out 110% Free Home Renovations:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/italy-hands-out-110-free-home-renovations-guess-what-happened
Corrupt Utah Judge Freed Fire Chief Charged with Child Exploitation; Now Both Arrested:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/utah-judge-freed-fire-chief-charged-child-exploitation/
Coast Guard Stops Boat Packed with Mexican, Chinese Illegal Aliens:
https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/02/coast-guard-stops-boat-packed-with-mexican-chinese-illegal-aliens-near-u-s-shores-watch/
Dr. Birx Admits Young and Healthy People Didn’t Need COVID Vaccine:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/dr-birx-admits-young-and-healthy-people-didnt-need-covid-vaccine/
Why is YouTube boosting anti-US, pro-Chinese communist propaganda?
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5155350-youtube-promoting-pro-china/
Gab refuses request to identify user:
https://www.noticer.news/gab-refuses-australian-government-request/
National Diversity Council Files for Bankruptcy — Employees Stole Millions:
https://www.cf.org/news/national-diversity-council-files-for-bankruptcy-employees-stole-millions/
Chinese Drugs Are Flooding the World: ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGE393xias
Reprisals?
The top 3 most hated foods in America are tofu, liver and anchovies.
That explains why no one has ever stolen my tofu, liver and anchovy sandwiches out of the fridge.
*.*
In the U.K., Millie the house cat just celebrated her 30th birthday, making her the oldest-living cat in the world.
When asked about her secret to a long live, the owner's husband said, "Well, it's because I'm a dog guy."
*.*
Husband: For Pete’s sake, can’t you keep one lousy check book straight?!?
Wife: Now, hold it a darn second! I got myself a pocket computer and I meticulously added every deposit and subtracted every check! So I don’t believe you when you say I made a mistake!
Husband: Oh yeah? I’ll bet you money that you’re overdrawn!
Wife: Okay, how much do you want to bet?!?
Husband: Sixty-three dollars and twenty-seven cents!!
*.*
Megyn Kelly has launched her own podcast network, called the MK Media Network.
No idea what the MK stands for...
*.*
Crow's feet. Bags under the eyes. Eyes a little red.
Yep, they're all there.
Quote of the Times;
“If you’re not involved, you are irrelevant. There’s nothing wrong, or even negative, about being irrelevant. You’re not a problem, you’re simply not a factor at all. For better or for worse, you don’t matter any more than some random individual in Ghana or Myanmar.” – Vox Day
Link of the Times;
“People Are Being Killed Every Day” in Syria as EU Showers Money on HTS Terror Regime:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/graphic-warning-people-are-being-killed-every-day/
Issue of the Times;
High Treason and Collaboration in Europe by Hans Vogel
At the end of the Second World War, savage reprisals were taken against those who had worked with or for the Germans. Many who had collaborated were left unharmed, and many who were killed for being collaborationists were not guilty. Therefore, to say the least, it was a very rough and totally arbitrary settling of accounts. The victims, it was asserted, were punished for collaborating with the Germans and for treason and high treason.
In France, at least 100,000 people were murdered, often in the most beastly way, for having been a real or imagined collabo, as collaborationists were called in France. The perpetrators, usually self-described “resistance fighters,” were never made to answer for their crimes and remained unpunished. The postwar outbreak of violent revenge in France has no equal in modern European history. In Western Europe, Belgium comes in second, with thousands of people killed by both “resistance fighters” and hastily appointed officials. At least 700,000 files (for an adult population of a little over four million) were made for collaboration with the Germans. Tens of thousands were convicted, many were sent to state dungeons or to do forced labor in the coal mines. All were deprived of their civil rights. In the Netherlands, more than 100,000 people were sent to concentration camps taking the place of Jews, resistance fighters and dissidents.
Pierre Laval, leader of the French government from 1940 to 1944, known as the “Vichy government,” was dragged before a kangaroo court, sentenced for high treason and executed by firing squad. The leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB), Anton Mussert, was also sentenced to death for high treason by a kangaroo court and shot. Both were among the small number of European political leaders killed for what countless others had done also but were not punished for. Other notable figures were Norway’s Vidkun Quisling and Slovakia’s Jozef Tiso. Belgium’s most hunted “collaborator,” Léon Degrelle, who made it to general in the Waffen-SS, managed to escape to Spain at the very last moment.
Neither collaboration nor treason were well-defined from a legal point of view. Moreover, with a consistent application of the definitions observed by the authorities, the courts and their minions, so many people would have had to be shot, thrown in jail or sentenced to do forced labor that all of “liberated” Europe would have become a depopulated hellhole. Nevertheless, on this point (as well as on most other issues) both the collective Western historical narrative as well as the various national historical narratives have duly constructed and maintained a version of history that does not take into account any nuances.
What official history (such as taught in the educational system and presented in the media) fails to mention is that some of the most enthusiastic “collaborators” were left untouched after 1945. The reason? They were usually quite rich, powerful and well-connected, such as Frits Fentener van Vlissingen, the single most powerful Dutch businessman, sitting at the boards of all the major Dutch firms. He was appointed president of the state commission set up to purge Dutch business from Nazi collaborators (!).
Now, as regards those war years when the Germans occupied much of Europe, what precisely was collaboration, what was considered treason, what high treason?
Collaboration was considered to be doing work for the Germans, doing business with them, or even having an affair with a German soldier. However, after France the Netherlands and Belgium all surrendered to Germany in the spring of 1940, under international law (the recognized rules of warfare) the Germans then actually constituted completely legitimate power there, albeit with local variations. This meant that it was absolutely neither illegal nor morally wrong to work for or with them and to do business with them. Soon after their governments and armies had surrendered, and their governments and many political leaders had fled to England, Europeans under German occupation realized that in order to live they needed to work, and that often meant working for and with the Germans. Millions of others from those occupied nations went to work in Germany, where salaries and labor conditions were better. That is until the English and Americans began to bomb German cities.
Hundreds of thousands of Europeans joined the Wehrmacht and the SS. From Western Europe, these include 25,000 Dutch, 20,000 French and almost 20,000 Belgian SS volunteers. What few still fail to realize is that even joining the German armed forces did not constitute a clear-cut case of “collaborationism,” since many did so out of a genuine desire to fight communism. Many Europeans loathed Soviet communism and were prepared to risk their lives to prevent a Soviet takeover of Western Europe, which at some point seemed a very real possibility.
Ever since the postwar purges and wave of revenge, a core element of the official narrative has been that as the Germans left, all who had collaborated with them needed to be punished as a requisite for social and economic reconstruction. Anyone who takes the trouble to check the facts will conclude this is a fairy tale. Today the concepts of collaboration, treason and high treason are exclusively mentioned in connection with the German occupation during the Second World War. These are never mentioned with respect to other, comparable historical events, such as the French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe. Between 1793 and 1815, the French occupied much of Europe, enjoying widespread “collaboration” from all social levels of the occupied nations. Yet after Napoleon left the stage, no one in Europe was accused of collaboration, treason or high treason and no one was punished for it. The same goes for other wars in Europe during which a victorious enemy occupied a defeated nation, except the Second World War.
High treason is, of course, a special case, if only because by definition only a very small number of people are able to commit it. One has to have access to classified government info, or be physically near the highest levels of bureaucracy or government. After all, according to Roman Law, where the concept of perduellio (high treason) originated, it is an attempt to oust or kill the highest state officials and thus bring down the national government or the head of state. Treason in wartime is the act of doing things that are detrimental to one’s country, benefiting enemy interests. In peacetime it is doing things detrimental to one’s country, benefiting foreign interests.
If the theory and practice of postwar European treatment of collaborationists, traitors and high traitors were applied to present-day circumstances, what would the result be? Are there any suspects of high treason, treason or collaboration?
Well, yes there are! In the first place, anyone serving his country in a high or official national capacity should and is, in the first place, to be expected to defend the interests of his own nation and his fellow citizens, that is, the people he represents. Acting NATO Gensec Mark Rutte, for instance, when he was prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024. Rutte was also intimately associated with the World Economic Forum as a so-called Young Global Leader.
So whose interests did Rutte represent during all that time? Whose interests does German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock represent, another Young Global Leader? What about Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, also a Young Global Leader? What about Young Global Leaders Emmanuel Macron and former PMs David Cameron (UK), Matteo Renzi (Italy) and Leo Varadkar (Ireland)? The official WEF site boasts: “Aligned with the World Economic Forum’s mission, we seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest. We are united by the belief that today’s pressing problems present an opportunity to build a better future across sectors and boundaries.” (my emphasis).
Therefore, the global public interest is given precedence over national interests and this is even stated as the official policy of those who have become a Young Global Leader. If that does not constitute treason, or even high treason, one should wonder what does. If postwar purge criteria are applied, it sure as hell is treason, and the perpetrators deserve to be tried and sentenced. Perhaps even to a firing squad, but that decision should be left to a judge.
Besides these and hundreds of other high traitors all over Western Europe serving the interests of the WEF, the WHO and other NGOs to the detriment of many of their fellow citizens, for instance by going to WEF meetings, there are countless collaborationists, again according to the criteria established and applied in the immediate postwar period. These collaborationists, again according to the standards established eighty years ago, include people working at lower levels for dozens of NGOs, usually in projects directed or coordinated by USAID, which is being dismantled because it is a criminal organization.
They also include the tens of thousands of members of NATO armed forces (all volunteers today!) taking part in the illegal US-led campaigns and expeditions against Yugoslavia, Serbia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan. What precisely is the essential difference between what they did and the wartime SS volunteers? They may consider themselves lucky they were never made to answer for their actions and that they are still alive instead of having perished in a wave of vindictive public anger.
Now that Donald Trump has started the fight with the evil monster called Globalism, there is a good chance that Europeans may join him. At any rate, it is about time that the criminals leading the various EU regimes and their minions (such as the presstitutes working for the MSM) are made to answer for the terrible crimes they committed, not the least of which is to have forced their fellow citizens to take anti-Covid jabs.
Comparing the orgy of vengeful violence against “collaborationists” and traitors at the end of the Second World War with the carelessness with which so many of our contemporaries collaborate, aiding and abetting war crimes and committing all sorts of crime, yet another glaring contradiction is added to the many that surround us already.
Like so many others, this contradiction also results from a combination of mindless exaggeration and intentional blindness. The postwar settling of accounts was woefully outrageous. Moreover, the ease with which so many today are committing crimes for which they really should be punished is conditioned by a systematic distortion of history: all Germans were supposedly bad, while all the Allies and “resistance fighters” were supposedly good.
Now that especially the Germans in the original Federal Republic have duly internalized and accepted their eternal guilt and responsibility for all the crimes committed during the Second World War, the descendants of especially the Western Allies seem to believe they can do whatever they like and get away with it. They are all descendants of the very people who were instrumental in unleashing the dogs of war in 1939.
Today, that same War Party is clamoring for a war with Russia. As a matter of fact, the whole world can now see they are committing the worst kind of treason: pushing for a war that most constituents absolutely do not want.
Some people never learn.
News of the Times;
"Beyond Reasonable Doubt":
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/beyond-reasonable-doubt-former-mi6-head-told-boris-johnson-covid-19-was-engineered-wiv
How USAID squandered billions:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/opinion/how-usaid-squandered-billions-in-haiti-and-around-the-globe/
Germany to combat ‘conspiracy theories’:
https://www.rt.com/news/613416-germany-advice-center-conspiracy-theories/
Ex-Obama Adviser Jailed as Pedophile:
https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-obama-adviser-jailed-pedophile-took-stuffed-animals-condoms-meet-little-girl-9/
Ultra-processed foods provide nearly half of calories for Canadian children:
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/02/04/canada-ultra-processed-food-canadian-children-study/5521738678521/
Washington Post Cartoonist Arrested For Possession of Child Pornography:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/far-left-washington-post-cartoonist-arrested-possession-child/
Democrat Official Arrested on Child Sex Crime Charges:
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/01/25/democrat-official-arrested-on-child-sex-crime-charges/?feed_id=36159&_unique_id=6795500a65130
Former CBI scientist Missy Woods, accused of mishandling DNA:
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/former-cbi-scientist-missy-woods-accused-of-mishandling-dna-charged-with-102-felonies
Stonewall, UK's Largest Trans Rights Organization, Turned Out to Be a USAID Front:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/24/stonewall-uks-largest-trans-rights-organization-turned-out-to-be-a-usaid-front-n3800132
Vegan Transgender Extremist Zizian Cult Linked to Multiple Murders:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/vegan-transgender-extremist-zizian-cult-linked-multiple-murders/
Montenegro’s Scandal-ridden Chinese Road:
https://thediplomat.com/2024/01/montenegros-scandal-ridden-chinese-road/
The Imperial Russian Navy in the American Civil War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=zW0sPVrgUTI&t=1241
Is "Someone" Fiddl'n With the German Navy?
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/is-someone-fiddln-with-the-german
Remember How Pope Francis Is Pro-Illegal Immigrant?
https://www.westernjournal.com/remember-pope-francis-pro-illegal-immigrant-turns-catholic-charities-taken-billions-shelter-grants/
Bishop Has Taken Millions of Money From USAID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtPgM5Uz0s
That explains why no one has ever stolen my tofu, liver and anchovy sandwiches out of the fridge.
*.*
In the U.K., Millie the house cat just celebrated her 30th birthday, making her the oldest-living cat in the world.
When asked about her secret to a long live, the owner's husband said, "Well, it's because I'm a dog guy."
*.*
Husband: For Pete’s sake, can’t you keep one lousy check book straight?!?
Wife: Now, hold it a darn second! I got myself a pocket computer and I meticulously added every deposit and subtracted every check! So I don’t believe you when you say I made a mistake!
Husband: Oh yeah? I’ll bet you money that you’re overdrawn!
Wife: Okay, how much do you want to bet?!?
Husband: Sixty-three dollars and twenty-seven cents!!
*.*
Megyn Kelly has launched her own podcast network, called the MK Media Network.
No idea what the MK stands for...
*.*
Crow's feet. Bags under the eyes. Eyes a little red.
Yep, they're all there.
Quote of the Times;
“If you’re not involved, you are irrelevant. There’s nothing wrong, or even negative, about being irrelevant. You’re not a problem, you’re simply not a factor at all. For better or for worse, you don’t matter any more than some random individual in Ghana or Myanmar.” – Vox Day
Link of the Times;
“People Are Being Killed Every Day” in Syria as EU Showers Money on HTS Terror Regime:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/graphic-warning-people-are-being-killed-every-day/
Issue of the Times;
High Treason and Collaboration in Europe by Hans Vogel
At the end of the Second World War, savage reprisals were taken against those who had worked with or for the Germans. Many who had collaborated were left unharmed, and many who were killed for being collaborationists were not guilty. Therefore, to say the least, it was a very rough and totally arbitrary settling of accounts. The victims, it was asserted, were punished for collaborating with the Germans and for treason and high treason.
In France, at least 100,000 people were murdered, often in the most beastly way, for having been a real or imagined collabo, as collaborationists were called in France. The perpetrators, usually self-described “resistance fighters,” were never made to answer for their crimes and remained unpunished. The postwar outbreak of violent revenge in France has no equal in modern European history. In Western Europe, Belgium comes in second, with thousands of people killed by both “resistance fighters” and hastily appointed officials. At least 700,000 files (for an adult population of a little over four million) were made for collaboration with the Germans. Tens of thousands were convicted, many were sent to state dungeons or to do forced labor in the coal mines. All were deprived of their civil rights. In the Netherlands, more than 100,000 people were sent to concentration camps taking the place of Jews, resistance fighters and dissidents.
Pierre Laval, leader of the French government from 1940 to 1944, known as the “Vichy government,” was dragged before a kangaroo court, sentenced for high treason and executed by firing squad. The leader of the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB), Anton Mussert, was also sentenced to death for high treason by a kangaroo court and shot. Both were among the small number of European political leaders killed for what countless others had done also but were not punished for. Other notable figures were Norway’s Vidkun Quisling and Slovakia’s Jozef Tiso. Belgium’s most hunted “collaborator,” Léon Degrelle, who made it to general in the Waffen-SS, managed to escape to Spain at the very last moment.
Neither collaboration nor treason were well-defined from a legal point of view. Moreover, with a consistent application of the definitions observed by the authorities, the courts and their minions, so many people would have had to be shot, thrown in jail or sentenced to do forced labor that all of “liberated” Europe would have become a depopulated hellhole. Nevertheless, on this point (as well as on most other issues) both the collective Western historical narrative as well as the various national historical narratives have duly constructed and maintained a version of history that does not take into account any nuances.
What official history (such as taught in the educational system and presented in the media) fails to mention is that some of the most enthusiastic “collaborators” were left untouched after 1945. The reason? They were usually quite rich, powerful and well-connected, such as Frits Fentener van Vlissingen, the single most powerful Dutch businessman, sitting at the boards of all the major Dutch firms. He was appointed president of the state commission set up to purge Dutch business from Nazi collaborators (!).
Now, as regards those war years when the Germans occupied much of Europe, what precisely was collaboration, what was considered treason, what high treason?
Collaboration was considered to be doing work for the Germans, doing business with them, or even having an affair with a German soldier. However, after France the Netherlands and Belgium all surrendered to Germany in the spring of 1940, under international law (the recognized rules of warfare) the Germans then actually constituted completely legitimate power there, albeit with local variations. This meant that it was absolutely neither illegal nor morally wrong to work for or with them and to do business with them. Soon after their governments and armies had surrendered, and their governments and many political leaders had fled to England, Europeans under German occupation realized that in order to live they needed to work, and that often meant working for and with the Germans. Millions of others from those occupied nations went to work in Germany, where salaries and labor conditions were better. That is until the English and Americans began to bomb German cities.
Hundreds of thousands of Europeans joined the Wehrmacht and the SS. From Western Europe, these include 25,000 Dutch, 20,000 French and almost 20,000 Belgian SS volunteers. What few still fail to realize is that even joining the German armed forces did not constitute a clear-cut case of “collaborationism,” since many did so out of a genuine desire to fight communism. Many Europeans loathed Soviet communism and were prepared to risk their lives to prevent a Soviet takeover of Western Europe, which at some point seemed a very real possibility.
Ever since the postwar purges and wave of revenge, a core element of the official narrative has been that as the Germans left, all who had collaborated with them needed to be punished as a requisite for social and economic reconstruction. Anyone who takes the trouble to check the facts will conclude this is a fairy tale. Today the concepts of collaboration, treason and high treason are exclusively mentioned in connection with the German occupation during the Second World War. These are never mentioned with respect to other, comparable historical events, such as the French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe. Between 1793 and 1815, the French occupied much of Europe, enjoying widespread “collaboration” from all social levels of the occupied nations. Yet after Napoleon left the stage, no one in Europe was accused of collaboration, treason or high treason and no one was punished for it. The same goes for other wars in Europe during which a victorious enemy occupied a defeated nation, except the Second World War.
High treason is, of course, a special case, if only because by definition only a very small number of people are able to commit it. One has to have access to classified government info, or be physically near the highest levels of bureaucracy or government. After all, according to Roman Law, where the concept of perduellio (high treason) originated, it is an attempt to oust or kill the highest state officials and thus bring down the national government or the head of state. Treason in wartime is the act of doing things that are detrimental to one’s country, benefiting enemy interests. In peacetime it is doing things detrimental to one’s country, benefiting foreign interests.
If the theory and practice of postwar European treatment of collaborationists, traitors and high traitors were applied to present-day circumstances, what would the result be? Are there any suspects of high treason, treason or collaboration?
Well, yes there are! In the first place, anyone serving his country in a high or official national capacity should and is, in the first place, to be expected to defend the interests of his own nation and his fellow citizens, that is, the people he represents. Acting NATO Gensec Mark Rutte, for instance, when he was prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 to 2024. Rutte was also intimately associated with the World Economic Forum as a so-called Young Global Leader.
So whose interests did Rutte represent during all that time? Whose interests does German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock represent, another Young Global Leader? What about Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, also a Young Global Leader? What about Young Global Leaders Emmanuel Macron and former PMs David Cameron (UK), Matteo Renzi (Italy) and Leo Varadkar (Ireland)? The official WEF site boasts: “Aligned with the World Economic Forum’s mission, we seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest. We are united by the belief that today’s pressing problems present an opportunity to build a better future across sectors and boundaries.” (my emphasis).
Therefore, the global public interest is given precedence over national interests and this is even stated as the official policy of those who have become a Young Global Leader. If that does not constitute treason, or even high treason, one should wonder what does. If postwar purge criteria are applied, it sure as hell is treason, and the perpetrators deserve to be tried and sentenced. Perhaps even to a firing squad, but that decision should be left to a judge.
Besides these and hundreds of other high traitors all over Western Europe serving the interests of the WEF, the WHO and other NGOs to the detriment of many of their fellow citizens, for instance by going to WEF meetings, there are countless collaborationists, again according to the criteria established and applied in the immediate postwar period. These collaborationists, again according to the standards established eighty years ago, include people working at lower levels for dozens of NGOs, usually in projects directed or coordinated by USAID, which is being dismantled because it is a criminal organization.
They also include the tens of thousands of members of NATO armed forces (all volunteers today!) taking part in the illegal US-led campaigns and expeditions against Yugoslavia, Serbia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan. What precisely is the essential difference between what they did and the wartime SS volunteers? They may consider themselves lucky they were never made to answer for their actions and that they are still alive instead of having perished in a wave of vindictive public anger.
Now that Donald Trump has started the fight with the evil monster called Globalism, there is a good chance that Europeans may join him. At any rate, it is about time that the criminals leading the various EU regimes and their minions (such as the presstitutes working for the MSM) are made to answer for the terrible crimes they committed, not the least of which is to have forced their fellow citizens to take anti-Covid jabs.
Comparing the orgy of vengeful violence against “collaborationists” and traitors at the end of the Second World War with the carelessness with which so many of our contemporaries collaborate, aiding and abetting war crimes and committing all sorts of crime, yet another glaring contradiction is added to the many that surround us already.
Like so many others, this contradiction also results from a combination of mindless exaggeration and intentional blindness. The postwar settling of accounts was woefully outrageous. Moreover, the ease with which so many today are committing crimes for which they really should be punished is conditioned by a systematic distortion of history: all Germans were supposedly bad, while all the Allies and “resistance fighters” were supposedly good.
Now that especially the Germans in the original Federal Republic have duly internalized and accepted their eternal guilt and responsibility for all the crimes committed during the Second World War, the descendants of especially the Western Allies seem to believe they can do whatever they like and get away with it. They are all descendants of the very people who were instrumental in unleashing the dogs of war in 1939.
Today, that same War Party is clamoring for a war with Russia. As a matter of fact, the whole world can now see they are committing the worst kind of treason: pushing for a war that most constituents absolutely do not want.
Some people never learn.
News of the Times;
"Beyond Reasonable Doubt":
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/beyond-reasonable-doubt-former-mi6-head-told-boris-johnson-covid-19-was-engineered-wiv
How USAID squandered billions:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/opinion/how-usaid-squandered-billions-in-haiti-and-around-the-globe/
Germany to combat ‘conspiracy theories’:
https://www.rt.com/news/613416-germany-advice-center-conspiracy-theories/
Ex-Obama Adviser Jailed as Pedophile:
https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-obama-adviser-jailed-pedophile-took-stuffed-animals-condoms-meet-little-girl-9/
Ultra-processed foods provide nearly half of calories for Canadian children:
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/02/04/canada-ultra-processed-food-canadian-children-study/5521738678521/
Washington Post Cartoonist Arrested For Possession of Child Pornography:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/far-left-washington-post-cartoonist-arrested-possession-child/
Democrat Official Arrested on Child Sex Crime Charges:
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/01/25/democrat-official-arrested-on-child-sex-crime-charges/?feed_id=36159&_unique_id=6795500a65130
Former CBI scientist Missy Woods, accused of mishandling DNA:
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/former-cbi-scientist-missy-woods-accused-of-mishandling-dna-charged-with-102-felonies
Stonewall, UK's Largest Trans Rights Organization, Turned Out to Be a USAID Front:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/24/stonewall-uks-largest-trans-rights-organization-turned-out-to-be-a-usaid-front-n3800132
Vegan Transgender Extremist Zizian Cult Linked to Multiple Murders:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/vegan-transgender-extremist-zizian-cult-linked-multiple-murders/
Montenegro’s Scandal-ridden Chinese Road:
https://thediplomat.com/2024/01/montenegros-scandal-ridden-chinese-road/
The Imperial Russian Navy in the American Civil War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=zW0sPVrgUTI&t=1241
Is "Someone" Fiddl'n With the German Navy?
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/is-someone-fiddln-with-the-german
Remember How Pope Francis Is Pro-Illegal Immigrant?
https://www.westernjournal.com/remember-pope-francis-pro-illegal-immigrant-turns-catholic-charities-taken-billions-shelter-grants/
Bishop Has Taken Millions of Money From USAID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtPgM5Uz0s
Red?
SNL turned 50 Saturday night.
It's now eligible for AARP.
*.*
My girlfriend isn't talking to me because apparently I ruined her birthday.
Not sure how I did that...
I didn't even know it was her birthday!
*.*
The teacher asked Little Johnny if he knew his numbers.
“Yes,” he said. “My dad taught me.”
“Good. So what comes after eight?”
“Nine,” answered Little Johnny.
“And what comes after nine?”
“Ten.”
“And what comes after ten?”
“The Jack.”
*.*
Top 5 Signs You're Not Getting Along with your Wife:
When asked, "Who's the Voodoo doll for?," she never responded.
She announced a new "Sex Tariff".
You feel a cold front moving in and it's 75-degrees outside,
Your clothes from the closet on the front lawn again.
New book in the kitchen, "Cooking with Arsenic".
*.*
The profession with the highest divorce rate is dancers.
The second things get rough in the marriage, it's not unusual for one of them to just waltz away.
Quote of the Times;
"The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread."
- John Swinton, editorial writer for the New York Sun, formerly chief editorial writer for the New York Times, 1883
Link of the Times;
Over 75,000 Canadians Died Waiting for Health Care:
https://mishtalk.com/economics/since-2018-over-75000-canadians-died-waiting-for-health-care/
Issue of the Times;
Discrediting Our Cause by James Delingpole
“I was all ready to believe that 9/11 was an inside job but then someone mentioned Flat Earth”, said no one ever.
Actually, that’s probably not true. I’m quite prepared to concede that somewhere out there might be at least one person so intellectually spavined, so crippled with insecurity, so prey to groupthink as to have fallen for the logical fallacy that if a person thinks A then they must perforce be wrong about B.
But I don’t believe that’s the way most of us think. Not even dyed-in-wool Normies.
Try this analogy. I call it the Hitler/dogs fallacy.
It’s 1937 and for some unfathomable reason, you’ve been invited for the weekend at the Fuhrer’s lovely mountain retreat in Berchtesgarten. Hitler, you notice, is very attached to his German Shepherd whom he has taught to do all sorts of charming tricks: right paw, left paw, lie down, roll over and pretend you’re dead, etc.
Now, as it so happens, you’ve been thinking of getting a dog yourself. “Would you recommend a German Shepherd?”, you ask your host, in your immaculate German. “Oh yes,” replies Hitler. “Stimmt! They make excellent guard dogs; they are very loyal; but as you can see, despite their reputation for fierceness they can also be very gentle.”
Over this same weekend you’ve chatted to the Fuhrer about all manner of other topics besides dogs: motorways, VWs, vegetarianism, Jews, Bolsheviks, the Stab in the Back betrayal after the First World War, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, degenerate art, etc. Some of this stuff you agreed with him on. Some of his opinions you found a bit iffy.
But I ask you this: did the fact that you disagreed with Hitler on certain issues prevent you from taking him seriously on certain other ones?
My suspicion is not. Few of us - none of us, I would even dare say - is quite that basic. When making a decision about this or that issue any number of factors come into play. Sure, prejudice towards a person’s apparent belief system or their character may play a part in that decision making process. But it’s not necessarily the deciding factor. If it were, none of us would ever have said the thing which we have all said at one time or another: “I never thought I’d hear myself agreeing with Piers Morgan but…”
Anyway, I haven’t quite finished with my tasteless Hitler analogy, much as some of you might wish it. I’ve made the main point, which is that just because Hitler is Hitler doesn’t mean he’s wrong about dogs. But there’s another subsidiary point I wish to make which I believe will cast further useful light on the topic in hand.
So, you get home from Berchtesgarten, and announce to your wife/girlfriend: “We’re getting a German Shepherd.”
“Oh so we’re taking advice from Hitler now are we? Literally advice from Adolf Hitler? Are you mad??”
But you know - as indeed does your partner, if he/she were being strictly honest - that this is just a ploy.
Maybe they’re pissed off that you were invited to Berchtesgarten and they weren’t. Or they’re simply not into the idea of a getting a dog. The Hitler thing is merely a handy excuse that enables them to sidestep the real issue.
And so it is that well-worn line that one hears so often these days from fairweather Awake types - I call them the ‘purple-pilled’ because though they’ve taken the red pill more or less they still want to keep one foot in the blue-pilled camp for old times’ sake - that there are some conspiracy theories out there which are simply beyond the pale. They are so silly, these more outré conspiracy theories, that even to talk about them just discredits ‘our’ cause.
“Oh they do, do they?” I like to ask these purple-pilled arbiters of truth. “And who exactly gave you the authority to declare, Ex Cathedra, which conspiracy theories are legitimate subjects for open-minded consideration and which ones are so self-evidently ridiculous that one can safely dismiss them without so much as a cursory glance?”
Never once have I found any of these purple-pilled types able to give me a satisfactory answer. That’s because there isn’t one.
If you accept - as all the red-pilled must because it is the foundation of Awake awareness - that the world as it has been sold to us is a tissue of lies, half-truths and deceptions, then it naturally follows that everything we think we know about the world is potentially fallacious.
Note that qualifier ‘potentially.’ I’m certainly not suggesting that everything is a lie - because that would mean that there is no such thing as truth. Of course I believe in truth, for it is an expression of the divine, and seeking out that truth is one of our holiest missions. But you’re never going to attain that truth unless you first adopt a position of humility. This means acknowledging that you don’t know everything and being prepared to reassess all the things you thought you knew to be true.
I am now in my late fifties and for most of my life there were various things I believed with absolute certainty: that man had landed (several times) on the moon; that JFK was assassinated by a lone gunman called Lee Harvey Oswald; that the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg; and so on.
More recently, I have to come to realize that the official narrative on all these events has holes in it even bigger than an iceberg through a reinforced steel hull.
I achieved this new understanding by the simple process of looking at the evidence. It was hard won knowledge, as knowledge which contradicts the official version of events invariably is. You’re up against a vast, intricate, well-funded system of organized deception. You are not, for example, just going to be able to type into Google ‘Did man really land on the moon?’ because the algorithms are going to be weighted in favor of telling you that man did. So is the publishing industry. So is the entertainment industry - ‘Giant steps are what you take…walking on the moon’, etc. So are all the ‘respectable’ academics and other ‘expert’ talking heads. Yet, put in the hours and you’ll get there in the end because, as the Earl of Oxford and his scriptorium once so famously put it, the truth will out.
No matter how great the obstacles which have been erected, by conspiratorial design, to prevent you attaining that truth, there’s really only one guaranteed to prevent you from succeeding. That obstacle is the little voice in your head that says: “No, I’m not going to go there. I already know what I know. I don’t need any pesky new evidence which might shake my belief system to its foundations. I’m happy where I am, thank you very much.”
This is how Normies think. They are unwilling to take the first step on to what Neil Kramer calls the ‘Staircase of Disbelief’ because they understand, if even only on a subconscious level, that once they have done so they can never turn back. It’s not outlandish conspiracy theories they fear. It’s ALL conspiracies - for they understand instinctively that this is a zero sum game.
But for anyone of even slightly of a red-pilled persuasion that way of thinking is no longer intellectually tenable. If you have accepted the truth of even one conspiracy theory, no matter what it is, moon landings, JFK, whatever, then you have abnegated the right to declare any other conspiracy off limits.
The reason for this is simple. You have already acknowledged that there are forces out there so corrupt, powerful, devious, entrenched and malign that they have happily and gleefully lied to you about something really big. And if they happily and gleefully lied to you about one really big thing, who are you to say that they haven’t happily and gleefully lied to you about lots of other really big things (and small things) too?
Yes, sure, you can be agnostic about this or that other ‘conspiracy theory’. But what you can no longer do is be dogmatic about its falsehood - at least not until you’ve put in the necessary research, and perhaps not even then.
What usually happens to the purple-pilled when this logical sloppiness has been pointed out to them is that they retreat to their second line of defense.
“Well even if no viruses/flat earth/Paul is dead happen to be true we just shouldn’t go there because it just frightens off the Normies and we need to focus on the issues that matter.”
But this line of defense is at least as weak as the first.
It presupposes that there are commonly agreed ‘issues that matter.’ But there is no such common agreement - as we saw, inter alia, during the ‘Pandemic.’
In the name of pragmatism and unity - ‘Let’s not frighten the horses’, ‘We need to build a broad coalition’, etc - the resistance movement was hijacked by a claque of suspiciously well-organized activist groups like Together which declared that certain areas of discussion should be off limits.
Apparently, it was OK to campaign on issues like ‘vaccine mandates’ and the importance of bodily autonomy. But questioning the safety or efficacy of these ‘vaccines’, or the malign nature of the corrupted institutions pushing them, or the agenda behind the ‘vaccines’, was deemed a step too far because such ‘unproven conspiracy theories’ might alienate potential allies.
So much for the theory behind the strategy. Let’s examine what happened in practice. Here we are, two or three years on, and despite copious evidence - excess deaths, for example - that those purveyors of ‘unproven conspiracy theories’ were right in every detail, still they cannot get a hearing anywhere in the mainstream media. Nor can they get a hearing in what you might call the Officially Designated Alternative Mainstream Media: gatekeepers like GB News, Triggernometry, Spiked, Unherd, the Daily Sceptic, Talk Radio, Together, anyone connected with Nigel Farage etc which continue to make lots of faux-principled protestations about the iniquity of lockdowns, the importance of bodily autonomy and freedom of choice but still, even now, remain at best squeamish and evasive on more ‘contentious’ subjects like vaccine injury.
In other words, far from uniting the resistance, the broad front ‘pragmatism and unity’ strategy has divided and neutralized that resistance by luring a significant portion of it into containment pens. All those people out there who have sensed that something is wrong and are now eager for guidance on what it is are being led into a trap by the abovementioned Judas Goats. That trap, essentially, is a state of controlled ignorance: “Yes, you are quite right to worry your pretty little heads about immigration, government incompetence and not having to wear a mask or have a jab if you don’t want to. But don’t be bothering yourself about kill shots, 15 minute cities or Central bank digital currency. If any of these were a problem we’d tell you about it. Meanwhile, here’s a piece we’ve just commissioned from an anonymous ‘expert’, explaining why the threat posed by CBDCs is totally overrated…”
All this, I believe, was by design and not by accident. They faked the Moon Landings, assassinated various presidents, and initiated any number of wars. You’d need to be suffering severe cognitive dissonance to imagine that these same diabolical, sadistic, perma-lying control freaks are too flaky to take precautions against all those dissidents who threaten to expose their schemes. Controlled opposition, Judas Goats, gatekeepers: these are all tried and tested methods of capturing resistance movements and leading them astray. So too are handy phrases like “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” and - the subject of this article - that oft-repeated line about how we shouldn’t engage with this or that conspiracy theory because it ‘discredits our cause.’
Now obviously I’m not suggesting that all the people who wheel out that hackneyed ‘discredits our cause’ phrase are working for the enemy. Many of them, I’m quite sure, do so in the belief that they are imposing a measure of discipline, common sense and pragmatism on the resistance movement. But however good their intentions may be, what they are actually achieving when they parrot that phrase is doing the enemy’s work for him. I suppose if I wanted to be rude I could characterize the people who betray their own cause in this way as ‘useful idiots.’ But instead, on this occasion, let me be uncharacteristically tactful. The people who, in good faith, trot out the ‘discredits our cause’ line are not bad people or stupid people. They’re just people who haven’t quite thought things through properly. But maybe, now that they’ve read this, they will…
News of the Times;
Controllers Spill Beans On FAA:
https://conservativebrief.com/air-say-89499/
Microsoft Drops USAID-Funded NewsGuard:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/microsoft-drops-usaid-funded-newsguard-after-ted-cruz-starts-digging
Foolproof Ways To Avoid Getting Deported:
https://babylonbee.com/video/foolproof-ways-to-avoid-getting-deported
Warrant executed for ‘child pornography’ at Texas Modern Art Museum’s LGBTQ exhibit:
https://revolver.news/2025/01/warrant-executed-for-child-pornography-at-texas-modern-art-museums-lgbtq-exhibit/
LGBTQ activist teacher in Missouri charged with child sex crimes:
https://thepostmillennial.com/lgbtq-activist-teacher-in-missouri-charged-with-child-sex-crimes?utm_campaign=64494
Washington Dems Push Bill to Keep Parents From Knowing About Sexual Assault:
https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/02/washington-dems-push-bill-to-keep-parents-from-knowing-about-sexual-assault-on-students-watch/
California university cancels CRT activist's webinar:
https://www.campusreform.org/article/california-university-cancels-crt-activists-webinar-campus-reform-report-/27385
The Case Against Females as Patrol Cops:
https://www.unz.com/article/the-case-against-females-as-patrol-cops/
Homogenous group strategies:
https://nitter.poast.org/RokoMijic/status/1872103437707739200
How Not to Socialize:
https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/how-not-to-socialize
The pope barks up the wrong tree:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/the_pope_barks_up_the_wrong_tree.html
Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Under Fire After $339 Million “Disappeared”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/exclusive-democrat-arizona-governor-katie-hobbs-under-fire/
21 campus hate crime hoaxes uncovered in 2024:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/there-were-21-campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-uncovered-in-2024/
Dies From Aneurysm After Giving Up On ‘Six Hour’ ER Wait:
https://decensored.news/adam-burgoyne-death-canada-vaccinated-age-39/
China’s Debt Now Surging $1 Trillion a Month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efRgjYcELko
It's now eligible for AARP.
*.*
My girlfriend isn't talking to me because apparently I ruined her birthday.
Not sure how I did that...
I didn't even know it was her birthday!
*.*
The teacher asked Little Johnny if he knew his numbers.
“Yes,” he said. “My dad taught me.”
“Good. So what comes after eight?”
“Nine,” answered Little Johnny.
“And what comes after nine?”
“Ten.”
“And what comes after ten?”
“The Jack.”
*.*
Top 5 Signs You're Not Getting Along with your Wife:
When asked, "Who's the Voodoo doll for?," she never responded.
She announced a new "Sex Tariff".
You feel a cold front moving in and it's 75-degrees outside,
Your clothes from the closet on the front lawn again.
New book in the kitchen, "Cooking with Arsenic".
*.*
The profession with the highest divorce rate is dancers.
The second things get rough in the marriage, it's not unusual for one of them to just waltz away.
Quote of the Times;
"The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread."
- John Swinton, editorial writer for the New York Sun, formerly chief editorial writer for the New York Times, 1883
Link of the Times;
Over 75,000 Canadians Died Waiting for Health Care:
https://mishtalk.com/economics/since-2018-over-75000-canadians-died-waiting-for-health-care/
Issue of the Times;
Discrediting Our Cause by James Delingpole
“I was all ready to believe that 9/11 was an inside job but then someone mentioned Flat Earth”, said no one ever.
Actually, that’s probably not true. I’m quite prepared to concede that somewhere out there might be at least one person so intellectually spavined, so crippled with insecurity, so prey to groupthink as to have fallen for the logical fallacy that if a person thinks A then they must perforce be wrong about B.
But I don’t believe that’s the way most of us think. Not even dyed-in-wool Normies.
Try this analogy. I call it the Hitler/dogs fallacy.
It’s 1937 and for some unfathomable reason, you’ve been invited for the weekend at the Fuhrer’s lovely mountain retreat in Berchtesgarten. Hitler, you notice, is very attached to his German Shepherd whom he has taught to do all sorts of charming tricks: right paw, left paw, lie down, roll over and pretend you’re dead, etc.
Now, as it so happens, you’ve been thinking of getting a dog yourself. “Would you recommend a German Shepherd?”, you ask your host, in your immaculate German. “Oh yes,” replies Hitler. “Stimmt! They make excellent guard dogs; they are very loyal; but as you can see, despite their reputation for fierceness they can also be very gentle.”
Over this same weekend you’ve chatted to the Fuhrer about all manner of other topics besides dogs: motorways, VWs, vegetarianism, Jews, Bolsheviks, the Stab in the Back betrayal after the First World War, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, degenerate art, etc. Some of this stuff you agreed with him on. Some of his opinions you found a bit iffy.
But I ask you this: did the fact that you disagreed with Hitler on certain issues prevent you from taking him seriously on certain other ones?
My suspicion is not. Few of us - none of us, I would even dare say - is quite that basic. When making a decision about this or that issue any number of factors come into play. Sure, prejudice towards a person’s apparent belief system or their character may play a part in that decision making process. But it’s not necessarily the deciding factor. If it were, none of us would ever have said the thing which we have all said at one time or another: “I never thought I’d hear myself agreeing with Piers Morgan but…”
Anyway, I haven’t quite finished with my tasteless Hitler analogy, much as some of you might wish it. I’ve made the main point, which is that just because Hitler is Hitler doesn’t mean he’s wrong about dogs. But there’s another subsidiary point I wish to make which I believe will cast further useful light on the topic in hand.
So, you get home from Berchtesgarten, and announce to your wife/girlfriend: “We’re getting a German Shepherd.”
“Oh so we’re taking advice from Hitler now are we? Literally advice from Adolf Hitler? Are you mad??”
But you know - as indeed does your partner, if he/she were being strictly honest - that this is just a ploy.
Maybe they’re pissed off that you were invited to Berchtesgarten and they weren’t. Or they’re simply not into the idea of a getting a dog. The Hitler thing is merely a handy excuse that enables them to sidestep the real issue.
And so it is that well-worn line that one hears so often these days from fairweather Awake types - I call them the ‘purple-pilled’ because though they’ve taken the red pill more or less they still want to keep one foot in the blue-pilled camp for old times’ sake - that there are some conspiracy theories out there which are simply beyond the pale. They are so silly, these more outré conspiracy theories, that even to talk about them just discredits ‘our’ cause.
“Oh they do, do they?” I like to ask these purple-pilled arbiters of truth. “And who exactly gave you the authority to declare, Ex Cathedra, which conspiracy theories are legitimate subjects for open-minded consideration and which ones are so self-evidently ridiculous that one can safely dismiss them without so much as a cursory glance?”
Never once have I found any of these purple-pilled types able to give me a satisfactory answer. That’s because there isn’t one.
If you accept - as all the red-pilled must because it is the foundation of Awake awareness - that the world as it has been sold to us is a tissue of lies, half-truths and deceptions, then it naturally follows that everything we think we know about the world is potentially fallacious.
Note that qualifier ‘potentially.’ I’m certainly not suggesting that everything is a lie - because that would mean that there is no such thing as truth. Of course I believe in truth, for it is an expression of the divine, and seeking out that truth is one of our holiest missions. But you’re never going to attain that truth unless you first adopt a position of humility. This means acknowledging that you don’t know everything and being prepared to reassess all the things you thought you knew to be true.
I am now in my late fifties and for most of my life there were various things I believed with absolute certainty: that man had landed (several times) on the moon; that JFK was assassinated by a lone gunman called Lee Harvey Oswald; that the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg; and so on.
More recently, I have to come to realize that the official narrative on all these events has holes in it even bigger than an iceberg through a reinforced steel hull.
I achieved this new understanding by the simple process of looking at the evidence. It was hard won knowledge, as knowledge which contradicts the official version of events invariably is. You’re up against a vast, intricate, well-funded system of organized deception. You are not, for example, just going to be able to type into Google ‘Did man really land on the moon?’ because the algorithms are going to be weighted in favor of telling you that man did. So is the publishing industry. So is the entertainment industry - ‘Giant steps are what you take…walking on the moon’, etc. So are all the ‘respectable’ academics and other ‘expert’ talking heads. Yet, put in the hours and you’ll get there in the end because, as the Earl of Oxford and his scriptorium once so famously put it, the truth will out.
No matter how great the obstacles which have been erected, by conspiratorial design, to prevent you attaining that truth, there’s really only one guaranteed to prevent you from succeeding. That obstacle is the little voice in your head that says: “No, I’m not going to go there. I already know what I know. I don’t need any pesky new evidence which might shake my belief system to its foundations. I’m happy where I am, thank you very much.”
This is how Normies think. They are unwilling to take the first step on to what Neil Kramer calls the ‘Staircase of Disbelief’ because they understand, if even only on a subconscious level, that once they have done so they can never turn back. It’s not outlandish conspiracy theories they fear. It’s ALL conspiracies - for they understand instinctively that this is a zero sum game.
But for anyone of even slightly of a red-pilled persuasion that way of thinking is no longer intellectually tenable. If you have accepted the truth of even one conspiracy theory, no matter what it is, moon landings, JFK, whatever, then you have abnegated the right to declare any other conspiracy off limits.
The reason for this is simple. You have already acknowledged that there are forces out there so corrupt, powerful, devious, entrenched and malign that they have happily and gleefully lied to you about something really big. And if they happily and gleefully lied to you about one really big thing, who are you to say that they haven’t happily and gleefully lied to you about lots of other really big things (and small things) too?
Yes, sure, you can be agnostic about this or that other ‘conspiracy theory’. But what you can no longer do is be dogmatic about its falsehood - at least not until you’ve put in the necessary research, and perhaps not even then.
What usually happens to the purple-pilled when this logical sloppiness has been pointed out to them is that they retreat to their second line of defense.
“Well even if no viruses/flat earth/Paul is dead happen to be true we just shouldn’t go there because it just frightens off the Normies and we need to focus on the issues that matter.”
But this line of defense is at least as weak as the first.
It presupposes that there are commonly agreed ‘issues that matter.’ But there is no such common agreement - as we saw, inter alia, during the ‘Pandemic.’
In the name of pragmatism and unity - ‘Let’s not frighten the horses’, ‘We need to build a broad coalition’, etc - the resistance movement was hijacked by a claque of suspiciously well-organized activist groups like Together which declared that certain areas of discussion should be off limits.
Apparently, it was OK to campaign on issues like ‘vaccine mandates’ and the importance of bodily autonomy. But questioning the safety or efficacy of these ‘vaccines’, or the malign nature of the corrupted institutions pushing them, or the agenda behind the ‘vaccines’, was deemed a step too far because such ‘unproven conspiracy theories’ might alienate potential allies.
So much for the theory behind the strategy. Let’s examine what happened in practice. Here we are, two or three years on, and despite copious evidence - excess deaths, for example - that those purveyors of ‘unproven conspiracy theories’ were right in every detail, still they cannot get a hearing anywhere in the mainstream media. Nor can they get a hearing in what you might call the Officially Designated Alternative Mainstream Media: gatekeepers like GB News, Triggernometry, Spiked, Unherd, the Daily Sceptic, Talk Radio, Together, anyone connected with Nigel Farage etc which continue to make lots of faux-principled protestations about the iniquity of lockdowns, the importance of bodily autonomy and freedom of choice but still, even now, remain at best squeamish and evasive on more ‘contentious’ subjects like vaccine injury.
In other words, far from uniting the resistance, the broad front ‘pragmatism and unity’ strategy has divided and neutralized that resistance by luring a significant portion of it into containment pens. All those people out there who have sensed that something is wrong and are now eager for guidance on what it is are being led into a trap by the abovementioned Judas Goats. That trap, essentially, is a state of controlled ignorance: “Yes, you are quite right to worry your pretty little heads about immigration, government incompetence and not having to wear a mask or have a jab if you don’t want to. But don’t be bothering yourself about kill shots, 15 minute cities or Central bank digital currency. If any of these were a problem we’d tell you about it. Meanwhile, here’s a piece we’ve just commissioned from an anonymous ‘expert’, explaining why the threat posed by CBDCs is totally overrated…”
All this, I believe, was by design and not by accident. They faked the Moon Landings, assassinated various presidents, and initiated any number of wars. You’d need to be suffering severe cognitive dissonance to imagine that these same diabolical, sadistic, perma-lying control freaks are too flaky to take precautions against all those dissidents who threaten to expose their schemes. Controlled opposition, Judas Goats, gatekeepers: these are all tried and tested methods of capturing resistance movements and leading them astray. So too are handy phrases like “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” and - the subject of this article - that oft-repeated line about how we shouldn’t engage with this or that conspiracy theory because it ‘discredits our cause.’
Now obviously I’m not suggesting that all the people who wheel out that hackneyed ‘discredits our cause’ phrase are working for the enemy. Many of them, I’m quite sure, do so in the belief that they are imposing a measure of discipline, common sense and pragmatism on the resistance movement. But however good their intentions may be, what they are actually achieving when they parrot that phrase is doing the enemy’s work for him. I suppose if I wanted to be rude I could characterize the people who betray their own cause in this way as ‘useful idiots.’ But instead, on this occasion, let me be uncharacteristically tactful. The people who, in good faith, trot out the ‘discredits our cause’ line are not bad people or stupid people. They’re just people who haven’t quite thought things through properly. But maybe, now that they’ve read this, they will…
News of the Times;
Controllers Spill Beans On FAA:
https://conservativebrief.com/air-say-89499/
Microsoft Drops USAID-Funded NewsGuard:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/microsoft-drops-usaid-funded-newsguard-after-ted-cruz-starts-digging
Foolproof Ways To Avoid Getting Deported:
https://babylonbee.com/video/foolproof-ways-to-avoid-getting-deported
Warrant executed for ‘child pornography’ at Texas Modern Art Museum’s LGBTQ exhibit:
https://revolver.news/2025/01/warrant-executed-for-child-pornography-at-texas-modern-art-museums-lgbtq-exhibit/
LGBTQ activist teacher in Missouri charged with child sex crimes:
https://thepostmillennial.com/lgbtq-activist-teacher-in-missouri-charged-with-child-sex-crimes?utm_campaign=64494
Washington Dems Push Bill to Keep Parents From Knowing About Sexual Assault:
https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/02/washington-dems-push-bill-to-keep-parents-from-knowing-about-sexual-assault-on-students-watch/
California university cancels CRT activist's webinar:
https://www.campusreform.org/article/california-university-cancels-crt-activists-webinar-campus-reform-report-/27385
The Case Against Females as Patrol Cops:
https://www.unz.com/article/the-case-against-females-as-patrol-cops/
Homogenous group strategies:
https://nitter.poast.org/RokoMijic/status/1872103437707739200
How Not to Socialize:
https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/how-not-to-socialize
The pope barks up the wrong tree:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/the_pope_barks_up_the_wrong_tree.html
Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Under Fire After $339 Million “Disappeared”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/exclusive-democrat-arizona-governor-katie-hobbs-under-fire/
21 campus hate crime hoaxes uncovered in 2024:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/there-were-21-campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-uncovered-in-2024/
Dies From Aneurysm After Giving Up On ‘Six Hour’ ER Wait:
https://decensored.news/adam-burgoyne-death-canada-vaccinated-age-39/
China’s Debt Now Surging $1 Trillion a Month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efRgjYcELko
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