This article quotes from David Samuels’ interview of Obama biographer David Garrow. Samuels says:
Obama’s hostility to American exceptionalism also seemed linked to his hostility to Israel, or more specifically to America’s identification with Israel, which finally resulted in his determination during his second term to reach his agreement with Iran—an agreement with the main objective of integrating that country into America’s security architecture in the Middle East, while limiting Israel’s power in the region.
In this view, Obama’s deal with Iran is directly linked to his disdain for Israel. His long (but publicly buried) association with black Jew-haters (Wright, Farrakhan) would go a long way towards explaining this otherwise inexplicable public policy. Why does Biden continue it?
For Samuels, “the easy explanation, of course, is that Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House. They hold the Iran file. Tony Blinken doesn’t.”
‘Hi, it’s me. – V1’ — some 15 billion miles from Earth a chip in Voyager 1 broke last November. 15 billion miles away was bad enough, but the ‘flight data subsystem’ (FDS) is at least 46 years old. Ever tried to fix a 46 year old computer—whilst it and you were here on Earth? Me neither.
The legendary probe had for months been transmitting gibberish back to Earth
Voyager 1 – the most distant human-made object in existence – has been sending back data from interstellar space for nearly 50 years after being launched in 1977.
However, in November a glitch occurred that made the spacecraft’s data about its environment and the health of its own systems unintelligible to the NASA scientists monitoring it.
NASA’s official Twitter account for the craft posted a light-hearted tweet in celebration: ‘Hi, it’s me. – V1’.
Apparently Voyager 1 is too far away to know that Elon stole Twitter from the progressives and renamed it X.
“…Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration…”
Got news for ye’: Joe Biden is not running any part of his administration.
wait it it merges with an alien cloud and comes back to earth, the subject of the first trek film (which I saw on an airplane, without head phones) in 1980
I think it’s way past warranty 5 billion miles out,
paolini, the fellow behind the eragon series, took some time in crafting the science behind his great opus of a space opera, part of the fractal verse, https://fractalverse.net/mathematics/
And just one more reason why “Biden” has had to resume funding “his” allies in Teheran (and Beirut)…funding so outrageously cut off by Trump….
“Hezbollah’s vast subterranean network in Lebanon is in a different league;
“With the help of Iran and North Korea, the terrorist organization has been working for 18 years on attack, strategic and booby-trapped tunnels.”— https://www.jns.org/hezbollahs-vast-subterranean-network-in-lebanon-is-in-a-different-league/
Barry M. you may be right. What Obama and crew aren’t running, Jill may be.
Kate: DOCTOR Jill, how dare you.
Damn it sharksauce! That’s exactly what I was typing.
Nope. My daughter has a real earned Ph.D. The Ed.D is not comparable.
I know you guys are kidding. If I were to call her by that title, it would be with scare quotes, “Dr.” Jill, since a reading of her essay (not a dissertation) for the degree shows she isn’t in fact academically qualified. Then again, neither is the last President of Harvard.
I am starting to get more and more pessimistic about the future.
The integrity of the voting process in the United States seems to have been irrevocably destroyed, leaving us with banana republic-like election outcomes.
The “mainstream media” is so heavily invested in the “progressive” outcome, that there is no longer anything resembling objective truths or actual facts being reported.
Eight years of Obama plus four years of “Biden” actively undermining America’s place in the world, combined with four years under Trump of the swamp thwarting anything he might try to do to reset it, has left us weak and pretty much a laughing stock. Which has strengthened Iran and its proxies, China and its proxies, and Russia and its proxies. (Not to mention Obam-iden ACTIVELY supporting Iran.
The “progressive” march through the institutions has destroyed education in the country from kindergarten through graduate education in the universities, leaving us with future “leaders” who are idiots, and a dumbed-down population voting for them.
The disdain that the denizens of the coastal megalopoles and Gang Green have of “flyover country” and Christians, coupled with the increasing power and influence they wield, has led to them actively decimating industry, agriculture, morals, and the quality of life. They kill jobs, they kill churches, they kill small farms, they kill small businesses.
What have I left out?
I used to think we could undo some of the damage that had been done over the decades. If not reverse it, at least mediate it.
Now, I think it is an inexorable slouching towards the end of the US as we once knew it.
Iowahawk – ‘At this point, a Columbia degree is like a Gucci shopping bag that somebody used to collect dog shit for 3 weeks’
Iowahawk – ‘End occupation and colonialism now, give Columbia U back to the Lenape tribe and let them turn it into a casino’
well a generation ago it was entitled dauphins like miss maverick, meghan mcain and zbig’s dotty daughter, chained at the wrist to joe scarborough, who we lovingly call morning joke, but it’s gotten much worse since then,
the Treasury Drone who was nabbed in London was also a Columbia grad,
Yes, I often feel that way, as do a lot of people. I think it’s important to realize that we still don’t know the future. For example, what’s going on in the universities is both depressing and in a sense hopeful, in that perhaps it will wake more people up about it and not send kids to such schools anymore as well as not funding them.
Ghetto riots (1964–1969) – ‘159 separate incidents of violence and unrest over the long, hot summer of 1967 (the most destructive riots taking place in Detroit and Newark)
Republican National Convention in Miami, Fl., August 21-23, 1972 – cops were prepared to break some heads in that one. Turned out to be Fairly peaceful – not being able to stand the peace any longer, psyched cops ended up going into a protest park filled w/ protestors sleeping, and torn down a lot of tents ‘n stuff…
Neo said,
“Someone Else:
Yes, I often feel that way, as do a lot of people. I think it’s important to realize that we still don’t know the future. For example, what’s going on in the universities is both depressing and in a sense hopeful, in that perhaps it will wake more people up about it and not send kids to such schools anymore as well as not funding them.”
It’s important to remember that it will be a long, hard slog. It took many years to get to this point and it will take many more to get out of this mess.
Biden making the sign of the cross at a pro-abortion event in Florida — in favor of unlimited abortion on demand.
In fairness, rather than Biden blaspheming his faith, this may mean that he doesn’t know where he is and what he’s doing.
Is he evil or stupid yes
He profanes the holiest day of christian worship with this chimera foolishness
Re: The use of litotes in French
This one’s for AesopFan.
There was a great Monty Python skit titled “The Piranha Brothers” about a London criminal gang run by Doug and Dinsdale Piranha (based on the Krays for the inside baseball). Michael Palin as Vercotti, the sleazy mobster he’s played before, is being asked in an interview about the time he was called to a meeting with his boss, the notorious Doug Piranha.
_______________________________
Vercotti: I had to see… Doug.
2nd Interviewer Doug?
[Extreme close-up. Vercotti is noticeably grim and pale.]
Vercotti: Doug. [Vercotti takes a drink.] Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
2nd Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used… sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire. He was vicious.
Presenter: By a combination of violence and sarcasm, the Piranha brothers by February 1966 controlled London and the Southeast of England.
_______________________________
The Pythons are as comedic gods, so I had to know what arcane literary device litotes might be.
It’s not as complicated as the Greek sounds. It’s when a positive is stated in the negative in order to convey various nuances. The classic example is not bad — pas mal in French. (The French say pas mal a lot.) What does the speaker intend? Hard to say, anything from terrible to incredible. It usually includes how the speaker wants to be perceived in addition to the information imparted.
I’m reading a novel translated from English to French and I often notice the translator has turned a straightforward positive English statement into a French litotes. A great example I ran into yesterday:
_________________________________
English: I am glad that you care about what happens to me.
French: Je suis contente que mon sort ne vous laisse pas indifférent. (I am glad that my fate is not indifferent to you.)
_________________________________
Finally the bulb lit. The French really like litotes!
Because Obama is actually the one pulling the strings behind senile old Brandon??
}}} Nope. My daughter has a real earned Ph.D. The Ed.D is not comparable.
Especially not if you actually read her thesis… even a bit of it was laughable even in Ed College terms.
It’s important to remember that it will be a long, hard slog. It took many years to get to this point and it will take many more to get out of this mess.
Mongo:
No doubt good advice.
Though I would submit that “gradually, then suddenly” is a possibility and I suspect we are in the vicinity.
The hard left Democrats are way ahead of their skis.
Neo said we don’t know the future. We can’t prepare based on not knowing. We have to use the information available. Doing nothing is not an option. Many do not like what the logical ending of this is and, therefore, do not want to look it square in the face for what it is. That could be fatal.
Doing nothing is not an option.
Richard F Cook:
I would argue that doing nothing is always an option. We are besieged on all sides by so many threats that if we attempted to respond to all of them we would lose all effectiveness, if not our minds.
____________________________________
Well, Lawrence, if we’ve told you to do nothing, that’s usually the best thing.
–Claude Rains, “Lawrence of Arabia”
____________________________________
Reviewing the film, I’m inclined to agree with the evergreen M. Rains.
Huxley
If you want to survive doing nothing is not an option. Being besieged on all sides does not mean you do nothing. It may mean you prioritize and devoted resources to the fight you have the best chance of winning. And I fail to see how a movie quote is relevant.
Someone Else, “Welcome to the party pal!” as a grizzled NYC cop one cried.
Someone Else on our growing future pessimism:
“The integrity of the voting process in the United States seems to have been irrevocably destroyed, leaving us with banana republic-like election outcomes.
“I used to think we could undo some of the damage…Now, I think it is an inexorable slouching towards the end of the US as we once knew it.”
Neo and Mongo chime in to caution us about the unknown future.
Fine. But as an old hand pessimist on American decline politics, certain lines of pessimism have emerged and are more than probably — they ought to be expected.
Today’s newest manifestation is that the SJP Students for Justice in Palestine is repackaged BLM from 2020! It worked then to rig an election — “let’s roll” go these leaders of the useful idiots.
Matt Walsh is subbing for Ben Shapiro on his radio show. He shares an article from the Washington Examiner on their funding, and it shows no daylight between BLM funding and SJP: Wiesbach Foundation, Tides Foundation, Soros Open Society money.
And just as the Saint George Floyd riots and ‘protests’ were stages by tutored participants, so is to today’s Astro-turfed Palestine crusade.
Don’t be surprised to see these Brownshirt fascists repeat what was done in 2020, only these coming targets will be Jewish or Colonialist oppressing Zionists! And later Trump supporters. For certain.
Remarkably, a cohort of like-minded activists at Google were just summarily fired. (A one-off? Or back to stressed business business decision.)
This is a staging to grow an Antifa type Blackshirt movement to make us all afraid and paralysed into submission.
DO NOT BE FOOLED! Expect it. Prepare for it.
If you live in a city, organise your immediate neighbours for security. Use the existing crime threat before invoking the new BLM protests. What’s bin campus moves off, soon enough.
Prepare to police and patrol to keep out strangers.
Suburbanites scale differently because the ‘burbs are a car culture. You can organise neighbourhood watches.
And almost everyone has friends or friends of friends with rural vacation home or else a hobby farm further out. These locales are your best plan B, when the rioters move out of the city and your local fuzz are stood down by evil pols.
In rural places, practice shooting. Store emergency food and water. Pool your resources.
The riots and protests are just practice for the post-election mayhem that’s certain to occur.
Someone else is properly concerned with our corrupt, perverted, and rigged elections. The evil Bushites have controlled the RNC and actively not policed election security. They had no effort organised to combat this Dem primary tool until the new RNC Director changed that only last month.
Thus corrupt and rigged elections are coming. What come next is that the losing side will reject the election outcome — regardless of the facts
Already the failing Georgia “Fake Electors” lawsuits are now spreading to Arizona and Michigan and Nevada. This obvious orchestrated Law Fare will continue to grow, guaranteed to polarise the electorate.
What then? After the election? Protest and violence? The National Guard will be called out. Martial law or the threat of it will come.
We are certain to get a hotter version of the cold Civil War that was our originating Revolution.
We need to look past the secessionist Civil War. For example, that was a clear sectional oppression geographic with only border states in the thick of it.
By contrast, the movement for independence, marshalled by Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” turned protests like the Boston Tea Party into a galvanising movement. Unlike the Civil War, more families and neighbours were divided by the issues, just as FJB and DJT do today.
Back then, the popular division was roughly one-third for Independence, one-third loyalist to Great Britain, and one-third neutral or undecided. It was enough in the end, only barely — given loans, arms and men from Britains enemies.
Since a similar demographic from them applies to us today, we can also expect a low intensity conflict, post-election.
The American War for Independence claimed only 17,000 lives from a total population that was roughly a handful of millions.
Low intensity. Yes.
But because the dangerous and evil elites need purging from power if not life, and because irrational emotions are engaged, my hope is for a much greater and decisive conflagration.
WE NEED A serious and violent bloodletting PURGE. What’s more likely to come will simply prolong the pain, the slow and ugly death of the embers of Americanism.
They say ”careful what you wish for….” as a warning against hoping for dire consequences. Well, I look and say YES to this scene, however horrifying it will be. It is necessary.
But it’s not now what’s on the table. Too few have the courage of their convictions and what is required to faithfully fulfil them.
There was a week or two ago news story on Oklahoma adopting an anti-immigrant law just like Texas has. With a man advocating for a compact of states to do likewise and defend us against the Biden replacement invasion at the state level. But too many “Red” states have Dem urban cesspool regions for that.
This would sketch out a path for agitating secession. But I haven’t heard anything after then. I wish this was a movement because solidarity is decisive for any successful results.
So, adjust your expectations. Organise your neighbours and friends. Have a Plan B refuge. Collect emergency food and water, blankets and fire, if not generators. It won’t be unprecedented but will continue these precedents, mostly.
From that sad, dejected, and pessimistic decline perspective, anything better will be a surprise.
If you want to survive doing nothing is not an option. Being besieged on all sides does not mean you do nothing
Richard F. Cook:
To live, even to survive, one is always doing something. Of course. However, one is still doing nothing about a vast number of things.
I inform myself. I discuss with others. I vote. I do some activist things. I work to make my immediate environment better. I help others when I can. I keep myself healthy, growing and happy.
However, I notice that those who are keen to raise the Do Something flag usually have only One Thing in mind. And they have a problem with others who aren’t doing that One Thing.
I am from the left and the left kept me constantly terrified so I would Do Something too. I’m done with that.
This article quotes from David Samuels’ interview of Obama biographer David Garrow. Samuels says:
In this view, Obama’s deal with Iran is directly linked to his disdain for Israel. His long (but publicly buried) association with black Jew-haters (Wright, Farrakhan) would go a long way towards explaining this otherwise inexplicable public policy. Why does Biden continue it?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/more-wisdom-from-the-book-of-garrow.php
‘Hi, it’s me. – V1’ — some 15 billion miles from Earth a chip in Voyager 1 broke last November. 15 billion miles away was bad enough, but the ‘flight data subsystem’ (FDS) is at least 46 years old. Ever tried to fix a 46 year old computer—whilst it and you were here on Earth? Me neither.
Apparently Voyager 1 is too far away to know that Elon stole Twitter from the progressives and renamed it X.
“…Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration…”
Got news for ye’: Joe Biden is not running any part of his administration.
wait it it merges with an alien cloud and comes back to earth, the subject of the first trek film (which I saw on an airplane, without head phones) in 1980
I think it’s way past warranty 5 billion miles out,
paolini, the fellow behind the eragon series, took some time in crafting the science behind his great opus of a space opera, part of the fractal verse,
https://fractalverse.net/mathematics/
And just one more reason why “Biden” has had to resume funding “his” allies in Teheran (and Beirut)…funding so outrageously cut off by Trump….
“Hezbollah’s vast subterranean network in Lebanon is in a different league;
“With the help of Iran and North Korea, the terrorist organization has been working for 18 years on attack, strategic and booby-trapped tunnels.”—
https://www.jns.org/hezbollahs-vast-subterranean-network-in-lebanon-is-in-a-different-league/
Barry M. you may be right. What Obama and crew aren’t running, Jill may be.
Kate: DOCTOR Jill, how dare you.
Damn it sharksauce! That’s exactly what I was typing.
Nope. My daughter has a real earned Ph.D. The Ed.D is not comparable.
I know you guys are kidding. If I were to call her by that title, it would be with scare quotes, “Dr.” Jill, since a reading of her essay (not a dissertation) for the degree shows she isn’t in fact academically qualified. Then again, neither is the last President of Harvard.
I am starting to get more and more pessimistic about the future.
The integrity of the voting process in the United States seems to have been irrevocably destroyed, leaving us with banana republic-like election outcomes.
The “mainstream media” is so heavily invested in the “progressive” outcome, that there is no longer anything resembling objective truths or actual facts being reported.
Eight years of Obama plus four years of “Biden” actively undermining America’s place in the world, combined with four years under Trump of the swamp thwarting anything he might try to do to reset it, has left us weak and pretty much a laughing stock. Which has strengthened Iran and its proxies, China and its proxies, and Russia and its proxies. (Not to mention Obam-iden ACTIVELY supporting Iran.
The “progressive” march through the institutions has destroyed education in the country from kindergarten through graduate education in the universities, leaving us with future “leaders” who are idiots, and a dumbed-down population voting for them.
The disdain that the denizens of the coastal megalopoles and Gang Green have of “flyover country” and Christians, coupled with the increasing power and influence they wield, has led to them actively decimating industry, agriculture, morals, and the quality of life. They kill jobs, they kill churches, they kill small farms, they kill small businesses.
What have I left out?
I used to think we could undo some of the damage that had been done over the decades. If not reverse it, at least mediate it.
Now, I think it is an inexorable slouching towards the end of the US as we once knew it.
post script to that silly salon piece
https://twitter.com/VDAREJamesK/status/1782925084111392964
ah thats conforting, not
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1783193327715627183
Missing the Good Ol 60/70’s?
Iowahawk – ‘At this point, a Columbia degree is like a Gucci shopping bag that somebody used to collect dog shit for 3 weeks’
Iowahawk – ‘End occupation and colonialism now, give Columbia U back to the Lenape tribe and let them turn it into a casino’
well a generation ago it was entitled dauphins like miss maverick, meghan mcain and zbig’s dotty daughter, chained at the wrist to joe scarborough, who we lovingly call morning joke, but it’s gotten much worse since then,
the Treasury Drone who was nabbed in London was also a Columbia grad,
I think she is as well
https://twitter.com/RogerSeverino_/status/1783148874955112866
approved overwhelmingly by the possums
newton’s second law I think
https://twitter.com/KMGGaryde/status/1783206516327121293
Someone Else:
Yes, I often feel that way, as do a lot of people. I think it’s important to realize that we still don’t know the future. For example, what’s going on in the universities is both depressing and in a sense hopeful, in that perhaps it will wake more people up about it and not send kids to such schools anymore as well as not funding them.
Miss the 60/70’s yet?
Counterculture of the 1960s
Anti-War Protests of the 1960s-70s
Ghetto riots (1964–1969) – ‘159 separate incidents of violence and unrest over the long, hot summer of 1967 (the most destructive riots taking place in Detroit and Newark)
1968 Democratic National Convention protests
Republican National Convention in Miami, Fl., August 21-23, 1972 – cops were prepared to break some heads in that one. Turned out to be Fairly peaceful – not being able to stand the peace any longer, psyched cops ended up going into a protest park filled w/ protestors sleeping, and torn down a lot of tents ‘n stuff…
Neo said,
“Someone Else:
Yes, I often feel that way, as do a lot of people. I think it’s important to realize that we still don’t know the future. For example, what’s going on in the universities is both depressing and in a sense hopeful, in that perhaps it will wake more people up about it and not send kids to such schools anymore as well as not funding them.”
It’s important to remember that it will be a long, hard slog. It took many years to get to this point and it will take many more to get out of this mess.
Biden making the sign of the cross at a pro-abortion event in Florida — in favor of unlimited abortion on demand.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1783122439456616672
In fairness, rather than Biden blaspheming his faith, this may mean that he doesn’t know where he is and what he’s doing.
Is he evil or stupid yes
He profanes the holiest day of christian worship with this chimera foolishness
Re: The use of litotes in French
This one’s for AesopFan.
There was a great Monty Python skit titled “The Piranha Brothers” about a London criminal gang run by Doug and Dinsdale Piranha (based on the Krays for the inside baseball). Michael Palin as Vercotti, the sleazy mobster he’s played before, is being asked in an interview about the time he was called to a meeting with his boss, the notorious Doug Piranha.
_______________________________
Vercotti: I had to see… Doug.
2nd Interviewer Doug?
[Extreme close-up. Vercotti is noticeably grim and pale.]
Vercotti: Doug. [Vercotti takes a drink.] Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
2nd Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used… sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire. He was vicious.
Presenter: By a combination of violence and sarcasm, the Piranha brothers by February 1966 controlled London and the Southeast of England.
_______________________________
The Pythons are as comedic gods, so I had to know what arcane literary device litotes might be.
It’s not as complicated as the Greek sounds. It’s when a positive is stated in the negative in order to convey various nuances. The classic example is not bad — pas mal in French. (The French say pas mal a lot.) What does the speaker intend? Hard to say, anything from terrible to incredible. It usually includes how the speaker wants to be perceived in addition to the information imparted.
I’m reading a novel translated from English to French and I often notice the translator has turned a straightforward positive English statement into a French litotes. A great example I ran into yesterday:
_________________________________
English: I am glad that you care about what happens to me.
French: Je suis contente que mon sort ne vous laisse pas indifférent. (I am glad that my fate is not indifferent to you.)
_________________________________
Finally the bulb lit. The French really like litotes!
Open Thread so non-derailment:
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/04/24/us-long-range-missiles-make-their-combat-debut-in-ukraine-and-put-all-russian-forces-under-the-gun-n2173262
All Russian forces in Ukraine, aka Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporhizia (sic?) can now be targeted.
Time will tell.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/katherine-mahers-color-revolution
One of the interesting twists with the krays was in the great bank job and some british lord or minister
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/why-true-crime-is-a-hard-job-to-pull-off-1.899121
}}} Why does Biden continue it?
Because Obama is actually the one pulling the strings behind senile old Brandon??
}}} Nope. My daughter has a real earned Ph.D. The Ed.D is not comparable.
Especially not if you actually read her thesis… even a bit of it was laughable even in Ed College terms.
It’s important to remember that it will be a long, hard slog. It took many years to get to this point and it will take many more to get out of this mess.
Mongo:
No doubt good advice.
Though I would submit that “gradually, then suddenly” is a possibility and I suspect we are in the vicinity.
The hard left Democrats are way ahead of their skis.
Neo said we don’t know the future. We can’t prepare based on not knowing. We have to use the information available. Doing nothing is not an option. Many do not like what the logical ending of this is and, therefore, do not want to look it square in the face for what it is. That could be fatal.
Doing nothing is not an option.
Richard F Cook:
I would argue that doing nothing is always an option. We are besieged on all sides by so many threats that if we attempted to respond to all of them we would lose all effectiveness, if not our minds.
____________________________________
Well, Lawrence, if we’ve told you to do nothing, that’s usually the best thing.
–Claude Rains, “Lawrence of Arabia”
____________________________________
Reviewing the film, I’m inclined to agree with the evergreen M. Rains.
Huxley
If you want to survive doing nothing is not an option. Being besieged on all sides does not mean you do nothing. It may mean you prioritize and devoted resources to the fight you have the best chance of winning. And I fail to see how a movie quote is relevant.
Someone Else, “Welcome to the party pal!” as a grizzled NYC cop one cried.
Someone Else on our growing future pessimism:
“The integrity of the voting process in the United States seems to have been irrevocably destroyed, leaving us with banana republic-like election outcomes.
“I used to think we could undo some of the damage…Now, I think it is an inexorable slouching towards the end of the US as we once knew it.”
Neo and Mongo chime in to caution us about the unknown future.
Fine. But as an old hand pessimist on American decline politics, certain lines of pessimism have emerged and are more than probably — they ought to be expected.
Today’s newest manifestation is that the SJP Students for Justice in Palestine is repackaged BLM from 2020! It worked then to rig an election — “let’s roll” go these leaders of the useful idiots.
Matt Walsh is subbing for Ben Shapiro on his radio show. He shares an article from the Washington Examiner on their funding, and it shows no daylight between BLM funding and SJP: Wiesbach Foundation, Tides Foundation, Soros Open Society money.
And just as the Saint George Floyd riots and ‘protests’ were stages by tutored participants, so is to today’s Astro-turfed Palestine crusade.
Don’t be surprised to see these Brownshirt fascists repeat what was done in 2020, only these coming targets will be Jewish or Colonialist oppressing Zionists! And later Trump supporters. For certain.
Remarkably, a cohort of like-minded activists at Google were just summarily fired. (A one-off? Or back to stressed business business decision.)
This is a staging to grow an Antifa type Blackshirt movement to make us all afraid and paralysed into submission.
DO NOT BE FOOLED! Expect it. Prepare for it.
If you live in a city, organise your immediate neighbours for security. Use the existing crime threat before invoking the new BLM protests. What’s bin campus moves off, soon enough.
Prepare to police and patrol to keep out strangers.
Suburbanites scale differently because the ‘burbs are a car culture. You can organise neighbourhood watches.
And almost everyone has friends or friends of friends with rural vacation home or else a hobby farm further out. These locales are your best plan B, when the rioters move out of the city and your local fuzz are stood down by evil pols.
In rural places, practice shooting. Store emergency food and water. Pool your resources.
The riots and protests are just practice for the post-election mayhem that’s certain to occur.
Someone else is properly concerned with our corrupt, perverted, and rigged elections. The evil Bushites have controlled the RNC and actively not policed election security. They had no effort organised to combat this Dem primary tool until the new RNC Director changed that only last month.
Thus corrupt and rigged elections are coming. What come next is that the losing side will reject the election outcome — regardless of the facts
Already the failing Georgia “Fake Electors” lawsuits are now spreading to Arizona and Michigan and Nevada. This obvious orchestrated Law Fare will continue to grow, guaranteed to polarise the electorate.
What then? After the election? Protest and violence? The National Guard will be called out. Martial law or the threat of it will come.
We are certain to get a hotter version of the cold Civil War that was our originating Revolution.
We need to look past the secessionist Civil War. For example, that was a clear sectional oppression geographic with only border states in the thick of it.
By contrast, the movement for independence, marshalled by Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” turned protests like the Boston Tea Party into a galvanising movement. Unlike the Civil War, more families and neighbours were divided by the issues, just as FJB and DJT do today.
Back then, the popular division was roughly one-third for Independence, one-third loyalist to Great Britain, and one-third neutral or undecided. It was enough in the end, only barely — given loans, arms and men from Britains enemies.
Since a similar demographic from them applies to us today, we can also expect a low intensity conflict, post-election.
The American War for Independence claimed only 17,000 lives from a total population that was roughly a handful of millions.
Low intensity. Yes.
But because the dangerous and evil elites need purging from power if not life, and because irrational emotions are engaged, my hope is for a much greater and decisive conflagration.
WE NEED A serious and violent bloodletting PURGE. What’s more likely to come will simply prolong the pain, the slow and ugly death of the embers of Americanism.
They say ”careful what you wish for….” as a warning against hoping for dire consequences. Well, I look and say YES to this scene, however horrifying it will be. It is necessary.
But it’s not now what’s on the table. Too few have the courage of their convictions and what is required to faithfully fulfil them.
There was a week or two ago news story on Oklahoma adopting an anti-immigrant law just like Texas has. With a man advocating for a compact of states to do likewise and defend us against the Biden replacement invasion at the state level. But too many “Red” states have Dem urban cesspool regions for that.
This would sketch out a path for agitating secession. But I haven’t heard anything after then. I wish this was a movement because solidarity is decisive for any successful results.
So, adjust your expectations. Organise your neighbours and friends. Have a Plan B refuge. Collect emergency food and water, blankets and fire, if not generators. It won’t be unprecedented but will continue these precedents, mostly.
From that sad, dejected, and pessimistic decline perspective, anything better will be a surprise.
If you want to survive doing nothing is not an option. Being besieged on all sides does not mean you do nothing
Richard F. Cook:
To live, even to survive, one is always doing something. Of course. However, one is still doing nothing about a vast number of things.
I inform myself. I discuss with others. I vote. I do some activist things. I work to make my immediate environment better. I help others when I can. I keep myself healthy, growing and happy.
However, I notice that those who are keen to raise the Do Something flag usually have only One Thing in mind. And they have a problem with others who aren’t doing that One Thing.
I am from the left and the left kept me constantly terrified so I would Do Something too. I’m done with that.
Related?
“Anti-Israel protesters at NYU admit they have no idea what they’re protesting: ‘I wish I was more educated’ “—
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/us-news/clueless-columbia-student-at-nyu-rally-why-are-we-protesting/
Just do it?
(On the other hand, knowing what you’re doing would seem to be a real impediment at times…)
+Bonus (from the “It Never Ends” File)…
“Hamas Terrorists Vow to Not Stop War Until It Gets a State”—
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/hamas-terrorist-propaganda/2024/04/25/id/1162371/
Huxley
You do you. Being static is still not an option.
Being static is still not an option.
Richard F Cook:
Which is something I never said.
You do you too. (Isn’t that really a non-obscene way to say FO?)