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    Winslow Homer Salt Kettle, Bermuda 1899   • Democrats Could Make Kamala Harris President Before Election (MN) • What If Kamala Harris Isn’t an Id
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 19 2024]

    #166835
    oxymoron
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    Winslow Homer Salt Kettle, Bermuda 1899 – Raul that watercolour is mental. I would love to paint like that.
    More of a Hundertwasser line-style canoodler myself.

    Jb-Hb. Your thoughts and ideas about art/music were a full meal if food was thought or vice-versa.

    I would like to say that complexity is good but needs balance like spices in cooking. You can’t throw everything at it. The Rick Beeto song was extremely dense chordally/harmonically but contained very basic bitch lyrics.
    The listener has to be considered. We provide a service not a job. We need them to come along but exhaustion is not the goal.
    Jazz has few if any words but high complexity groove/harmony.
    Country has banal harmony and rhythm but very dense narrative and storytelling often with plot twists and multi-layered messages.
    Classical has poor timing anchoring and literally no grove and depth of syncopated dynamics (at least where you feel it in your body) but obvious melodic and harmonic development.
    Funk has very complex interplay of syncopation and timing but naff lyrics.
    Rap has a heap of lyrics to digest so generally very simple themes and harmony.

    The key as you say is to stack. Simple flavours over depth and potential complexity.
    I like this stuff when I find it. James Blake, D’Angelo, Philip Glass,

    #166839
    poppie
    Participant

    Who is doing the counting? Yes. How many more are on the way? When do we run out?

    #166840
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukraine Must Pay Germany Back For Damage From Nord Stream Bombing: Bundestag Lawmaker

    Ah. It all makes sense now. I didn’t see that coming because it’s insane.

    So when Russia owns all Ukraine, they’re going to re-pay Germany who invaded them with Iron Cross tanks? Uh-huh. Oh btw, weren’t we supposed to have 3 different reports on this bombing, largest release of CO2 methane in history, from Sweden, Denmark, and…??? Where did those go? In the same appointment calendar as US Secret Service reports on killing Presidents?

    “Who’s doing the counting?
    • Illegal Border Crossings in US Miraculously Drop to Four-Year Low (Sp.)

    Trick question: nobody was ever doing any counting. We counted people we never saw or stopped? We count the people who are illegal and we don’t know about? Yes. Why not? They prove every other negative. Fact-free world.

    “Conservatives have mocked the party for “neutering” its voters.”

    How is this a mockery? This sounds strictly factual, and is itself beyond all parody. They “Mocked” “Said”. They “Attacked” “Said.” See why we use that now? “Democrats Viciously attacked and mocked by claiming, without evidence, that Republicans use the elephant as their mascot.” Yes, that’s the Opinion section. CNN closed their opinion section, and the universal comment was “The whole thing?” All CNN is the opinion section. And as here, NPR writers at RT. RT is as left-leaning as CNN and MSNBC, BuzzFeed and HuffPo, I guess.

    My question was really: did they get pregnant just for the convention, in honor of having an abortion? Everyone likes free stuff but that takes some will and advance planning!

    ““If Ms. Harris really believes in this price-fixing, she lacks the most basic understanding of economics..”

    No, it’s just Socialism. Armstrong goes apoplectic about it on his site about their “Economic illiteracy” since the 3rd Century, but what. THEY KNOW IT KILLS PEOPLE. That’s a GOOD thing, just ask them. THEY KNOW IT DESTROYS THE ECONOMY. That’s a GOOD thing, just ask them. The ones at the top aren’t subject to any of the problems from Socialism, just as Joe Stalin never stood in a line or had only one pair of shoes. Neither is anyone at that very rare level a “Socialist.” They are just rapacious liars who say whatever dumb s—t you want to hear to make you give them your money and all the guns. If that’s “Socialism”, then fine, could care less. I have to PRETEND to give you health care so you keep going and don’t riot, even though there’s only one aspirin per ward and the waiting list is 6-12 months (Hello Canada and UK)? Done. IDGAF what I have to tell you idiots so long as I steal and control everything.

    This is the #Opposite of “Capitalism” – oh wait, just kidding. Under our “Capitalism” it’s Socialism for the Rich and Dog-eat Dog Competition for the Poors. This goes back to Cooledge and Hoover where he said he was shocked as Sect’y that EVERY SINGLE OLIGARCH came into his office for a free handout and “help” when the market dropped a tiny bit in ’21. He was like “Hit the road, you’re an f’ing millionaire, F no the People of the U.S. aren’t going to bail out Daddy Warbucks bc he has to sell one of his chauffeured cars.” Ah, they sure fixed that but good, didn’t they? Now Wall Street gets more bonuses in a collapse than the GDP of Iceland.

    They’re all missing that THEY DON’T ACTUALLY BELIEVE ANY OF IT. Duh. Neither “side”. “Believing” in anything is for the rubes, the muppets. Keeping your word is for morons. So instead hear “We’re going to steal the whole economy to hand it to 50 people.” And “If you resist, we’ll shoot you.” That’s the Harris message, and the DNC since 1994.

    In the same vein:
    “the harmful content which is spooking the European Commission is from far-right groups”

    Okay, since they don’t believe a word of it, why are “Far-Right” groups a threat? A: Because they will stop the (present) stealing. That’s why it’s more that they’re outsiders, using logic, and not at all the “Far-Right’s” political views which would be “Ultra Far-Left” in 1961. So conservative Germans would be down with gay marriage, total ecnomic control, and trans surgerty for children in 1961? Yeah, I don’t think so. The “Far Right” is the “Far Left. So your “far Left” is the “Far far far far far far far far Left.” Remember Trump-Hitler is pro gay marriage, pro gun control, keeping all social services.

    “Nevertheless, annual inflation had remained at over 3% before dropping to 2.9% this past July, the first time it has dipped below the 3% mark since March 2021.”

    Dipped just like border crossings, a day before the election. (In keeping with the traditional “Election virus”) Well sure we have prices falling now: housing and car markets are both crashing because there are no wages. So I’m glad she’s finally taking credit for the collapse. Right?

    “• US Budget Deficit Rises to All-Time High Under Biden (Sp.)

    What was that? 80% of our money was printed in the last 2 years? But that’ don’t cause inflation or nuthin’.

    “Polish Criminal Code that excludes criminal liability if a soldier guarding the border fires a weapon in order to protect their life or the life of another person, even if it is done in violation of the existing rules.”

    So it’s both legal and illegal at the same time? Excuse me, as a soldier, I’m not sticking my head in that noose. Make it LEGAL. And under ORDERS. I don’t know why they bother: walls and borders don’t work. That’s why Pelosi has one at her home AND at the Capitol Building.

    in the town of Johvi the monument of two SS veterans from the Second World War was taken out of the cellars of the museum, cleaned up and put on display again.”

    Meanwhile they are melting Robert E. Lee. And the statue fundraised by Frederick Douglass, FOR Frederick Douglass. It’s raycisss. Like Douglass I guess? …Just like so many, dozens of icons, as they are a perfect storm of ignorance and arrogance. Uncle Ben, award-winning 5-star chef? Erased, congratulations. Indian kids at a football game in red? Arrested, congratulations.

    “• The Baltic States And Finland Are Ruled By Nazis (Sonja van den Ende)

    Okay, great, true. Gut check: It’s 1940: So do you want to work for Stalin, or do you want to work for Hitler? Clock’s ticking, if you don’t pick one side, the other side will shoot you. They act like the USSR was a peaceful worker’s paradise a year after the Holodomor. Grow up.

    “He also says that Finland tried to cooperate with Russia after the Cold War (1991) but it didn’t work, because Russia is not a “normal” state that respects the law!”

    Yeah, I see that how hard you had it from 1991 til now. Russia is what took away your prosperity, world respect, and flagship Nokia. Oh wait, YOU did that, all that, yourselves, while Russia sold you wood, gas, and bought your phones. Same as how Russia stopped Medicare4All here and bailed out Wall Street.

    “tensions between Israel and the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah are a hair’s breadth away from a full-scale war amid back and forth border skirmishes,”

    If you’re wondering, they already won. That’s why no hurry. The Israeli port, one of two in the country, is completely closed for lack of traffic. That’s not only a money/profit loss, it’s a siege and embargo. When it’s slow enough – like Russia and see elsewhere – it also cannot justify a response, which means they just get sapped and strangled. Why hurry? So long as a few guys in Gaza alone have completely tanked the whole Israeli military, then when you finally take a swing, you can push them over with a feather.

    That’s just your classic Sun Tzu, the battle is decided before it’s fought.

    ““it may take another four or five years before [the CBDC] is actually implemented.”

    Yes, the European Commission will have it “On tap” when “Then a Miracle happens” and there’s an “Emergency”. Then Wow! Muchly! We have this CBDC on tap! Right here!!! Who knew, and better use it. We didn’t plan nothin’. Russia made us do it.

    “YouGov released a study showing that almost half of the British population thought Starmer was doing a poor job in dealing with mass unrest.”

    He can fix that. He’s going to make sure the other half hate him too.

    “The protests escalated into clashes with police and riots after rumors that the attacker was a refugee.”

    NPR writers at RT (Sputnik). I guess it wasn’t a rumor then, was it? They consider that essentially the same thing except by pure technicality, as do I. That is to say, the British people were right, and you’re infuriating them by splitting hairs. Still, nobody has told me if he’s a citizen or not, or whether they have some sort of birth-citizenship. My guess not, or they’d say so. It would be super PR to say “He’s just a black British citizen, born and raised, you racist f—ks.” They don’t, so he isn’t. Same as you can tell who did the crime by the — lack — of wanted photos. What was that “Person of same age, some ethnicity, some location, who may be wanted for some crime” they posted last year? Yes, he was an Afghan national, on camera, with photos. But I wouldn’t want to misgender it and ya know: maybe solve the crime or somethin’. Much more tolerant to let him get away and strike again. Victims are only afghans, never British shopowners who go to work. Even if they’re Pakistani or Nigerian.

    If you “work” you own something. That makes you the oppressor class, you Capitalist bigot! Only people who don’t work, the “Working class” need help. Wait, what? Nevermind. Words have no meanings, so thoughts do not either.

    #166841
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Who is doing the counting? Yes. How many more are on the way? When do we run out?”

    Interview yesterday wanted to ask: “Soooo…is there ANY level of migrants that is too high? We have 100k at the DNC Chicago right now, should we put 1M people in the stadium instead? 3 Million? Why not and where’s the line?”

    It’s really amazing we have to act this out in pantomime so people can get it. And the still don’t. THe Programming is too high. Ask any college kid, I have: there IS no level, because the “level” is reality, while the “theory” is social censure. So long as you will be mildly socially censured for even admitting there is a level in theory, they will keep the gates open.

    #166842
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Good Morning Duh’merica!

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    #166843
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Yes!

    #166844
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies

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    #166845
    Oroboros
    Participant

    It’s not a Banana Republic so much as an Ice Cream Cone to the forehead

    #166846
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #166847
    Oroboros
    Participant

    They’ve run the country for four years without a “president”

    They are Satan’s Spawn

    You can’t do diddly squat about it.

    Your Commander in Buttplug with Ice Cream

    Hail Caesar!

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    #166848
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Global Majority sees this clear as day.

    At least half of Duh’mericans don’t.

    The half that don’t couldn’t find their own asses if they were looking for it with both hands!

    Hahahahahahaah!

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    #166849

    The Subsidy Effect: If you “give” some people $25,000 to buy a house, the cost of all houses will immediately rise $25,000.

    From a comment on ZH, a I propose changing tax day to October 30.

    #166850
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #166851
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Cosmic Irony

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    #166852
    zerosum
    Participant

    Controlling the message with lies.

    Say Pro-Palestinians
    Say Anti-Jew
    Say anti sematic
    Say illegal occupations, demonstrations
    Say illegal

    Don’t say approved
    Don’t say Peace
    Don’t say Peaceful
    Don’t say Ceasefire
    Don’t say Genocide, Murder,

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    Controlling the message with Deep fake video episodes

    Example
    Colbert/Trump video episode
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    Controlling the message with An opinion piece
    Examples
    Making Kamala Harris president before the election.
    Biden could even enter the Democratic National Convention and say “I’ve had it. I’m done. I am resigning from my office and going back to Delaware.”
    “Democrats might invoke the 25th Amendment to make Harris president”

    All you have to do is use AI and special effects to make fake crowds supporting fake polls and faker ads to sell everyone on the idea that this woman is what Americans want to rule them over this…
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    Controlling the message with the media releasing “fact check”-style articles

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    Controlling the message with censored speech

    The EU wants to police the internet and, like the U.S., has a series of new rules in place which will effectively allow it to shut down those on social media whose content does not correspond with its own narrative.

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    Controlling the message with History is being rewritten/buried
    Examples
    • The Baltic States And Finland Are Ruled By Nazis (Sonja van den Ende)
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    Controlling the message by the news media Ignoring that the extreme weathers that are destroying world infrastructures
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    #166853
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Project Depopulation is Burning Up the Track Babe

    Chicago Demonrat National Convention

    “The average Democrat man is masked, vaxxed and rendered infertile via Planned Parenthood abortion food truck,”

    What would a Demonrat Convention be without an abortion food truck?

    Like a fish without water?

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    #166854
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Vasectomy Mobile will primarily be sterilizing Black Men in Chicago

    For FREE

    Think about that

    Hahahahahaha!

    #166855
    Oroboros
    Participant

    It’s easy to get paranoid in an Empire of Lies populated by a Cabal of Spies

    That being said, there’s nothing funnier than getting an Olympic Gold Medal in Paranoia©

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha!

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    #166856

    Data are skittles
    Unicorns fart
    Up in the rainbow cloud.
    Democrats piddle;
    Lala’s a tart
    Leading the idiot crowd.

    #166857
    jb-hb
    Participant

    the difference between capitalism and communism?!

    with communism, it’s ripped off with benefits!

    The Communists themselves already declared that Capitalism delivers all the things to the working class better than Communism. THEY already cried uncle on that one.

    Quite a lot of interesting ideas could have come out of that realization. Progression, growth, something brilliant and new, and USEFUL, helpful.

    But they completed “Capitalism is delivering the goods….”

    with

    “…and that’s WRONG.”

    You having the goods, such as medical care, was not actually their true desire. All along, they were not actually coming to help.

    #166858
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Caption This:

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    #166859
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Amelie was a very funny movie.

    Too bad Paris is a Big Shity now

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    #166860
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet is so awesome. I’ve seen all of his films. One can give Alien 4 a miss, but all the French language stuff is just great.

    #166861
    those darned kids
    Participant

    hahaha, yesterday i said if these “demo”crats were commies, at least people would get free health care!

    ¡vaya locura!

    i wonder what would happen if they put a few of them units at texas border.

    humans is dumb

    #166862
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “so that’s how a hypersonic missile works!”

    #166863
    those darned kids
    Participant

    neither capitalism nor communism can ever be put into practice.

    all we’ll ever have is: trytokeepyourheaddownandstayoutofthewayofthepsychopathsism.

    humans is dumb.

    #166864
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Hezbollah Has $150 Bln in Israeli Infrastructure in Its Sights

    IsRealHell can be destroyed

    Bibi can do it

    IsRealHell is one psychopath from ceasing to exist

    #166865

    On the idea that Biden quits and Kamala becomes potus, all kinds of bad things can happen. Monkeypox emergency, 1st and 2nd amendments emergency, scotus emergency, gas stoves emergency, white supremacist emergency…
    And all of these will require everybody to stay indoors and vote on their smart phones all through Sept and Oct, counted by [your choice here].

    Or she could declare herself emergency forever president until democracy is saved.

    #166866
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #166867
    jb-hb
    Participant

    capitalism happens anytime someone is willingly paid for something they did or made while not under coercion or deception.

    If capitalism doesn’t work, you died decades ago.

    #166868
    Oroboros
    Participant

    He’s on Jeffery’s naughty list

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    #166870
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kamala “Cringe” Harris tells a Pennsylvania football team:

    “You will be undefeated even if you don’t win every game”

    “You may have lost in the 4th quarter, but wait until they count the mail in ballots’

    #166871
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    “The Subsidy Effect: If you “give” some people $25,000 to buy a house, the cost of all houses will immediately rise $25,000.”

    Which is exactly what happened in the UK when the government introduced the ‘Help to Buy’ scheme under which the Government would lend first time buyers up to 40% of the value of a property (interest free over 5 years) for use as a deposit on purchase. Naturally, since this did nothing to increase the supply of properties in high demand areas, prices were driven even higher as the property developers cashed in. They’ve closed this economically illiterate scheme down now, as I understand it.

    #166873
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #166874
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Psychology

    Bernays

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    #166875
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’m scouting out my Halloween Costume for 2024

    Just before the Fake Election

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    #166876
    Oroboros
    Participant

    She got hired to the FBI straight from SNL

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    #166877
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I tried posting a series of maps from southfront showing changes from 8/7-8/18. Website ate the post with image links. And the subsequent one linking to the web pages there/ So yeah, no southfront linking.

    In that 8/7-8/18 time frame, the Kursk 2.0 bulge is continually growing. New salients are forming as of 8/18.

    So “Russia stopped them within 2 days” is demonstrably a false statement unless they advanced all the way to the 8/18 map on 8/6 and all the map updates between then and now are recognition of those gains being made more and more accurate, just always looking like advances???

    “It’s like The Battle Of The Bulge”?

    https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-ii-maps-military-situation-maps-from-1944-to-1945/articles-and-essays/the-battle-of-the-bulge/printable-timeline/

    Within 8 days of the offensive starting, the Allies recognize that the Panzer divisions have stopped attacking. So withdrawal was already planned at that time and the decision was made even earlier.

    By comparison, we see new attacks being launched and new expansions of the Kursk 2.0 bulge well after the element of surprise is gone. Unless the Russians were further surprised at the amount and quality of NATO stuff being deployed?

    So it does not appear to be like the Battle of the Bulge. Nor Falaise/Mortain.

    Look at how badly they did in the last offensive. With what losses and with what gains? So… what, they’ve decided to go with absolutely MASSIVE losses for these improved gains? Or there’s a new paradigm. What’s the exchange rate and did it change? How much STUFF do they have to attrit to GET an improved exchange?

    One of the last German offensives in WW1 – IIRC either the Ludendorff Offensive or the 2nd Marne – they pulled all their good guys out of their various units and put them in the ones involved in the offensive along with their best equipment.

    They had some success, but they ground down those best guys significantly. And they were absent from all those other army units.

    I think that had a LOT to do with the German army disintegrating at the end of the war – had those Best Guys still been spread throughout the army, it may have held together.

    Or Kursk 2.0 could be similar to the battle of Amiens, where the British finally figured out combined arms warfare. In the last 3 months of the war.

    I haven’t transformed into a concern troll, just trying to figure out what is really going on.

    #166878
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I think that the word “colonizers” is most often used as a merely political pejorative criticism, when in fact it is something else entirely. In actual use “colonizer” is a colloquially legalistic word that is a generic description of a certain genera (or class) of criminal enterprise. That’s all. There are categories of crime and for ease of communication we give these categories certain names such as embezzlement or larceny. So, we have smugglers, hit men, thieves, colonizers and such. The labels aren’t political in purpose. They are LEGAL.

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