Comments on: Open thread 9/7/2024

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:16:48 +0000

P.P.S.–Speaking of Trump’s security, nowadays I’d also have a frequency analyzer handy, checking to see if some part of the electromagnetic spectrum might be being focused on the Donald.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:07:07 +0000

You really want to know what a Harris-Nutz regime will be like?

Have a gander at how Labour’s Starmer and his tovarich ogres have so assiduously hijacked the UK and are turning it into a Totalitarian morass.
(I suppose one COULD argue that at least the Tories were incompetent…. Moreover, it SHOULD prompt one to take a more tolerant view of just how Macron is trying to walk back his own sheer stupidity…but for how long will he be able to keep his foolish finger in THAT dyke…?)

File under: “Biden”, Act III? (or IV, depending on how yer counting…)

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:34:07 +0000

P.S. Years ago, on a tour of England, we stayed at London’s Millennium Mayfair hotel, on Grosvenor Square, and had a couple of beers at their bar.

A couple of weeks later, this hotel was the site of what was apparently a Russian assassination attempt on of a former KGB officer named Litvenenko, which employed radioactive Polonium–as I remember, in his tea service–and it was eventually tracked all over the hotel, which I read was closed for quite a while for decontamination.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:18:04 +0000

Take a look at this long discussion with Eric Weinstein, especially the first part, in which Weinstein says that “the powers that be”–the people and institutions which actually run the world, and this country–are quite content with how things currently are, and with the illusion of democracy which they have created.

They don’t want their arrangements disrupted, and “will not let” (an uncontrolled, free agent, a disruptor like) Donald Trump, become President.”*

These powers that be have thrown everything that they can think of at him –including, so far, one assassination attempt–and he’s still in the race, even apparently growing stronger.

If I were Trump, forget the Secret Service, I’d make sure that, in addition, I was guarded and surrounded 24/7 by my own security force, and that everything I ate or even touched, came in contact with, even the atmosphere in the rooms I would be in, would be thoroughly checked for toxins beforehand.

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRYXhU4kxM&t=7011s

By: Brian E

Brian E — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:20:42 +0000

Hyper-liberal is not a bad description.

By: Dax

Dax — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:15:26 +0000

” … there’s questionable value in repeated accusations of Kamala being a Communist …”

Just after I dreamed up Khmerla Rouge?? 🙁

Seriously, maybe Trump’s strategy should be to simply enumerate his commonsense policies and their results, and contrast them with Biden/Harris’ radical policies and their results.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 01:20:34 +0000

I never called Kammy a Communist, and I’m not suggesting that would be a good strategy

Brian E:

I didn’t mean to say you did. I was just jumping off from your comment.

Here’s a Spiked article examining the roots of Woke and how it has mutated quite far from the traditional left, socialism and communism:
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Sure, the broad creed [Wokeism] that has broken into the mainstream over the past decade co-opted a lot of radical theory during its earlier development, including the thought of 1960s icons such as Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault – indeed, the latter bequeathed the theory of power being invisible and ubiquitous.

But wokery, Kaufmann insists, is fundamentally a form of hyper-liberalism, an extreme egalitarianism. It is less a cast-iron ideology and more a soft religion. This explains why some of its claims can seem so bizarre – because that’s how the tenets of religions usually appear to outsiders and non-believers.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/08/where-did-wokeness-come-from/

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:16:10 +0000

Says Eric Weinstein, “learn the truth and take yourself off the board.”

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:14:17 +0000

when she speaks of the ‘climate crisis’, well that means that fracking most go, she seemed to entertain that fracking was unhealthy to children, but Nigerian and Venezuelan crude is fine, defunding the police she hasn’t averted from there, her staffers are in favor of banning gas stoves,

an irony about the Independent, who owns it a Russian oligarch, ex kgb? his father was expelled from Britain in the 70s, the Huffington Post that Breitbart helped set up, from the divorce settlement that Arianna had with the Humble oil heir, product of the Indonesian crude that Pat Brown helped secure, father of Jerry,

By: T J

T J — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:03:42 +0000

My online Google news feed offer stories from HuffPo, The Independent (London), and elsewhere. The brief summary allows me to get a feel for their takes on Trump.

Viscous and hellaciously speculative, are the words that come to mind. “Unhinged rant” is ascribed to him in reaction to Kamala’s pushback, or something. The Independent assures us that people close to Trump see him in spiraling decline. Projection much?

What a swamp the “news” has become. But not here, dear online friends. Not here. Thanks.