Debt Rattle January 28 2025
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Pablo Picasso The artist and his model 1926 • A Cabinet of the Cancelled (Paul Craig Roberts) • US Army Needs Huge Shakeup – Vance (RT) • Trump
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Corporal JD Vance Hamel Bowman Blanton Vance Hamel USMC (fmr) born James Donald Bowman and occasionally J dot D dot and James David now and maybe J.D. on Revenge Leadership
Subtitle: Adolph Hitler was a l.Corporal too
Without so much as a hint of hypocrisy, Hamel Vance said:
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“They’ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that’s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change,” shooting at low hanging fruit, inverted demagoguery, sort of and did he use the GI Bill?
The US has failed to win a single war in several generations despite spending staggering sums of money on its army, Vice President J.D. Vance has said, calling for a major military overhaul.
In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Vance defended the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as the new secretary of defense, which narrowly passed the Senate with a 50-50 tie broken by the vice president himself. Hegseth has faced criticism over his controversial public comments about Islam, limited leadership experience, and accusations of sexual assault, which he has denied.
Vance described Hegseth as a “disruptor” and said he was the right person to usher in long-overdue change. “We fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive,” Vance said as One of Those Guys in Uniform Over Those Losing Forty (his words) Like Tulsi Ritter Hegseth etc.
How should one characterize JD’s behavior?
1. Unironical Herculean Feat or
2.. megalomaniacal Cognitive Dissonance or
3. weak effort to invoke Reaganesque Teflon-like immunity for systemic failures while JD was Cpl Combat Corresponding in that same military system.
4. Disloyal Criticism of Country and Uni?There’s so much to be said for remaining above the fray while having been right at the bottom of the same “unsuccessful” fray.
Maybe VeeP Vance will clean house and recommend CiNC fire Journalism Major and CNO and Admiral Lisa Franchetti under JD’s Rule of The Last 40yrs Were Unsuccessful.
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‘I don’t really care, Margaret!”
I recommend they tap Bruce Meneley for The Top Navy Leadership Position. Hell, let’s help Cpl Vance think “out of the box” even more.
Vance lays it out
• US Army Needs Huge Shakeup – Vance
As Vance pointed out, The Empire of Lies Military Mafia hasn’t won a war since 1945, and the Russians actually won WWII.
95% of German military causalities were inflicted by the Russians on the Eastern front, NOT the Western front.
The largest “tank battle” on the Western Front involved a couple dozen tanks
In high contrast:The Kursk Tank Battle ultimately became the largest tank battle in history.
It involving some 6,000 tanks, 2,000,000 troops, and 4,000 aircraft.
The battle resulted in a decisive Soviet victory, marking the end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and clearing the way for the great Soviet offensives of 1944–45
From Andrei Martyanov’s BlogRegarding the Empire of Lies Military education system and learning from experience.
“… they still fail, because war economies of British Empire and the US, and war economy of USSR, or Russia–are two very different things.But they cannot see the difference and apply wrong lessons to the wrong subject……as per Trump–trash talk.“
The Russians take military affairs deadly serious as vital to the Motherland’s survival.
The Empire of Lies spends a fortune on LOSING OVER DECADES because the Duh’merican military is about stealing their citizens tax money NOT defending the Republic.
“For those [Duh’mericans] who still cannot grasp what is happening–Russian Armed Forces wrote a new book on urban combat and overcoming the largest and most heavily defended so called defensive line in Europe.
They ARE studying this already in [Russian] military academies, in the ones which are not burdened by falsified military history.”
How Duh’mericans roll………..
Here’s Duh’merica in a nutshell
And it thinks it can go toe to toe with the Russians and Chinese and Iranians
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
What a pitiful sack-o-shit the Duh’merica military is.
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I recommend they tap Bruce Meneley for The Top Navy Leadership Position.
i recommend they scrap the entire u.s. navy and leave the world alone.
i kinda miss all the dei stuff with the u.s. military..
after all,
studies have shown that men fussing about their eye shadow are 73% less likely to flatten hospitals and schools with depleted uranium generational poisons.
Why did the bankers flip the script in their dismal jewmelodrama? They gave you the thesis, borderless, tranny, antifa, no sense makes sense communism. Now it’s anti thesis, a Big Brother, top down corporate fascism. The sickle, then the hammer. So what strange beast of synthesis are they shooting for? Both are surveilance states who hate the individual. Both are massive, centralized and censor non conformity. Both bow to the real master,$. The same $ money masters who financed Lenin, financed Hitler. Old game. So how do you want it, Huxley or Orwell?
@Dr D Rich
The Orange Jew still talks about the “Free World”, what the fuck is he talking about? He is so out of date, so fucking old, that he is a walking in cold war meme. There is no free world, there is no just world, there is no honest world, there is no morality in the western world governments, and very little in the people, so now the west is waiting for its knickers to be taken down and for the likes of Musk to roger them up the arse.
Don’t expect anything better while you live in the west, Trump has not even contacted the Kremlin to schedule a meeting between himself and Putin, so the 24-hours promise on Ukraine was bullshit, as is everything that Trump does. Oh, he banned DEI in government, so who cares, there is a big difference between saying it and enforcing it, but all the Trump morons cheer and say “America, Fuck Yeah”. But he is still feeding weapons to Israel so that they can ignore their ceasefire and continue to kill relentlessly.
The Orange Jew and Pedo Joe are the reasons why those with forethought ran away, got out of white man’s land, to a place more beneficial to a comfortable life.
Musk is now sueing the EU over tariffs on China-made EVs; so that his cars can be imported from Tesla factories in China, not Tesla factories in America … this is the man doing MAGA with the Orange Jew. Open your eyes fuck heads.
Can’t Picasso afford a model who has her boobs on right?
“Davos: UN Introduces AI As “The Next Existential Threat”
Soooo…the same people who are promoting and paying for it are also opposing it? Problem solved! Hey, you! Who don’t like this. Stop doing this expensive thing you don’t like.
“Will Trump’s Threats Push Putin To Negotiate?
Meta-lie. Putin was always negotiating. And meta-lie, we have nothing to do with this war, right? So why are we involved with ending it?
“Russian Forces Officially Seize Last Strategic City In Southern Donbas Region
What war? And Trump has given Putin 100 free days to go nuts.
“Trump Effect: NATO Chief Pleads For Members To Quickly Step Up Defense Spending
Did Denmark convince them, or what? So much for free health care and August off, I’m sure the people will be thrilled and just dying to pay for it.
“Green Deception: Environmental Activists Serve China’s Energy Agenda
Speaking of, where’s Decepticon, AFKTT go? Rather than engage with evidence (CO2 charts) or debate (Sweden has to go Green while China pollutes at will) he just disappeared. That’s too bad. I can’t understand that behavior when you believe it enough to stand up, act…and are therefore pinned down. You have to defend your logic. Then things can change, you can have to digest new ideas, even if your battle itself caused them to be forced down hour throat. That’s a good and honorable thing, acting, not hiding. Integral, as they are ACTING in accordance with their avowed Beliefs.
Speaking of, this week, ran into a similar one: Liberals saying “All men are hunting down and raping all women” or some such. Hear it so often I forget the specifics. So this particular woman said she never went anywhere without a taser. All the men were like, “So? Who doesn’t? Good idea I should probably add a taser to my carry.” This points up the same investigation: they, that is the Left, the Feminine, declare in the loudest way, top of their lungs, that they totally believe they are in imminent and fatal danger. From Men, from AGW, and from Hitler. Right. Now. !!!!!!!!
…And then do literally nothing. Not. A. Thing. MEN are the ones taking self-defense, the ones doing Concealed Carry. They BEG women to do likewise, the women call them paranoid. …WHILE saying they are the ones most at risk and men’s risk is essentially zero, as they are Privileged, the Patriarchy. Men, and Conservatives, beg and keep open every avenue on this, where they are open to training and arming every communist, every black person, every woman, the entire Left under 2A. Making pantries, stocking up for Hitler’s upcoming holocaust, building saferooms for Trans refugees. …Nothing. Not a single action is taken.
They TALK. That is, perhaps by mass-complaining some * Man * will do it for them so they don’t bother? Very mysterious. This goes into the Funeral with Obama and Hitler yukking it up, virtually no surprise, no response from the Left. Shouldn’t that be concerning to them??? I mean, even if you spin the story Trump-as-Hitler would have Obama killed if he didn’t, wouldn’t THAT be the narrative? Nope. Universal Shrug. Trump is totally Hitler, this week’s actions prove it, but also … not.
So...they both totally, fully, completely, religiously, passionately believe it…but also DON’T believe a word of it, all at the same time?
You see, with my brain construction I can’t understand this, but clearly it is as obvious and invisible as water to more than half the nation. It’s like…abstraction. I SIGNAL, I SYMBOL fascists, but I don’t ACT on it any more than I jump when I read a book about ghosts or stock cans when I play a war video game.
“Dan Caldwell, a longtime Hegseth advisor, is being smeared by FOREVER WAR advocates.”
Of course he is: he exists.
Trump was in…both L.A. AND North Carolina? Like I actually thought he did L.A. first, check me. I mean, he was on d—d camera. We are edging a few percent closer to an entirely truth-free world each day. Same as above, both was there and wasn’t, whichever gives me higher social status while speaking that sentence.
And WHYYYYYY, a post-truth world? Why is it in the torture manuals? Because in a Truth-free world the only Truth is POWER. The POWERFUL establish all behavior and reality, law is merely, “Who will beat me less.” It’s easier for psychopaths that way.
Dr. Phil “Sweeps are not occurring.” Yes, but they just report and say they are “We all know” anyway. Entirely post truth. Now Homan could be lying, sure. We’re watching. But there’s not even a passing disinterest in what is the truth or what “Officials” and “Authorities” say. Wait: I thought they trusted Authorities, Experts and we obeyed the Supreme Court? It’s an odd-numbered day?
Homan, “We’ve got all government”. Gee, sounds like ¾ of those agencies should be erased or consolidated then.
I think it was John Brennan here who said, “He didn’t really say the laptop was disinformation, No! He actually said it was true and Russian INFORMATION. Boy is my face red. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IFBkiB0Vxg
Oh wait, we have him on tape 100 times saying the #Opposite? Huh. It’s almost like the CIA trains people in lying.
“Western Allies opened the second front after the Red Army liberated half of Eastern Europe.”
Yes, that is, the only thing they cared about was Russia not taking Europe. Back up one level: the only thing they wanted from Europe, and a Europe united – under anyone, even Hitler, the original EU, yay! — was to attack Russia/Stalin and get it back for London. Zoom out, that’s what I see in every “Mysterious” action and “Accident”. Like Chamberlain.
““During the next four years the fate of America’s constitutional order will be determined.”
Meh. Don’t oversell it. If we lose these four years, we’ll still fight for the Constitution and its values in another process.
“[We] haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive..”
Let me guess, the reporter then opposed this fact and defended the Army.
“”Our job is lethality, readiness, and warfighting.”Great: the entire society you draw from for soldiers are now cowardly, untrained, America-hating sissies. Who can’t meet physical requirements. This was true in WWI and they took measures to cause health, order, etc, in the general population. That is to say, he’s a flash in the pan, we’ll need +20 and possibly 40 years to fix it. …We almost certainly do not have that time. Oh well.
“• Denmark Can’t Protect Greenland – Trump (RT)
I forget who I heard about this, possibly Luongo (or guest) who claimed he was dead serious about absorbing them. I disagree, but I’m listening.
“• The Trump Pardons Trigger Judicial Rage (Turley)
They definitely cannot let this go, and I ethusiastically welcome investigation and objection from the Left. It’s only through them that we can open the records and get it in public.
“• Russia Must Help Overthrow Europe’s Dangerous Political Elites (Karaganov)
Yikes! True, but yikes!
Chinese fire drill on DeepSeek. They’re trying or hoping to tank us, if it hasn’t, it won’t. This will come cumulatively, though, we are priced to have a 90% crash and still be fair value. –No man or event can get around that math.
“• Trump Says He ‘Immediately Halted’ Hiring of New IRS Agents (ET)
CONFIDENCE. Twin of COLLATERAL. They’re tying to stop Europe’s annihilation of us.
“”Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” -Churchill.
““Biden was bad for business but good for prices,” [..] “And Trump will be good for business but bad for prices.”
This may be a way to say “Wall Street vs Main Street”
“• Argentina’s Milei Attacks European Liberal ‘Epidemic’ (RT)
Continues to read as a Wall Street install.
“• EU Prolongs Sanctions On Russia (RT)
At this point they can or try to use this to cause pressure to flip – that is annihilate – troublemakers Hungary, Serbia, and anybody else they feel like. They don’t care if that kills Germany, because that’s only the German PEOPLE, who they hate as violently as all other Peoples.
““Throughout history, censorship has never succeeded. It has never stopped a single idea or a movement. It has a perfect failure rate.”
Nah, it can work. Like any other rigged market. Worked to install the Bolsheviks in Russia then to have it withstand 70 more years. Outsiders NEED markets to be rigged bc you make money by trading the price illogic, then when that trade is done, trade to have the price re-discovered to reality. IDGAF WHAT the thing is, the price, or the distance. The only key is to use VIOLENCE, force, to MAKE the thing un-rational at my command.
So the plan was to have US be the new Bolsheviks/Mensheviks, and collapse, where that censorship would endure in a contient-sized totalitarian state. I mean, obviously. They may have lost but don’t get cocky, there are generations of retards trained to murder everyone, and I can’t swing a cat without hearing – literally everyone – say, “Capitalism” this, and “F—k Capitalism.” Okay, fine. But when you say that, you don’t mean, “Bring back Monarchism”, you don’t mean “Let’s try tribalism”, there is one and ONLY one Uniparty of the Unifuture: Gay Race COMMUNISM. That means like 90% uptake on Communism, 90% hatred of “Capitalism” for two or more generations. We have to wait post-Zoomer, and that only IF you erase every schoolteacher who are 99% communism. And radically anti-family, pro trans. (oddly, wtf does that have to do with math?)
“• Taibbi Hints FBI Communications With COVID Scientists Will Be Exposed (ZH)
Disinfection of sunlight. Same as above, why censor? If it doesn’t work, as he claims. No, it works. Someday it falls, but that’s no consolation to generations before it doesn’t.
“• Devalued Dollar Will Crash the DOW – Martin Armstrong (USAW)
I need to listen to this, pretty sure it’s key. And yes, you can’t escape without punishment for what we’ve done. That is, lied and bent all markets from the TRUTH, Reality. The markets merely return to REALITY, but we won’t call it that, we will call it a collapse, and bad, when really it was the move away from Truth that was the bad period.
“• The Nation That Liberated Auschwitz Is Being Excluded From Memory (Romanenko)
Before 1940 the whole West was totally into this. They loved Eugenics, liked the “Solution” to the “Jewish problem” etc. We got there, 4 years late, dragging our feet, and suddenly Lo! We were against it all along! Who knew?? Suddenly anti-semites like Ford, etc, given Nazi medals of honor were pro-Jewish, I guess? And the Bush’s IBM, Harvard, NY Times….
Lies don’t work? They just retconned open history for 80 years and if I say it, they’ll burn my house.
Subsun: I haven’t seen one, what is it?
I know! It’s been like 10 days, why isn’t everything fixed already? Gawd!
And an American citizen criticizing the military? I never heard the like! Treason, I say.
MOTIVATORS
suppressing opposing views
truth to power.
do more with less
Deepseek – greater efficiency with limited resources.
“cultural battle”
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Truth
Seeking further injury to Russia as a way of ending the stupid Ukraine war — started by us in 2014, thanks a lot Victoria Nuland & Company — since both the US and Russia are just about unconditionally desirous of stopping the damn thing as soon as possible.
It’s had no benefit for anybody but the Raytheon war lobby and the Zelensky regime’s legion of grifters.
Mr. Trump’s recent tough talk has been entirely for show, just a mass of rhetorical lube to un-stick the lingering “Joe Biden” stasis in that sad-sack corner of the world.
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Tucker Carlson
Donald Trump is releasing more secrets than any president in history.
Matt Taibbi on the top ten mysteries we’re likely to solve.https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1883939641499258998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1883939641499258998%7Ctwgr%5Eb451d7fe280ceb5be929580092d8d6672a3c8fbe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F01%2Fdebt-rattle-january-28-2025%2F&mx=2
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Affront to history: The nation that liberated Auschwitz is being excluded from memory
A growing trend of revising World War II history risks erasing the immense sacrifices made by the Soviet Union in the fight against Nazi Germany
By Nadezhda Romanenko, political analysthttps://swentr.site/news/611719-russia-exclusion-auschwitz-commemorations/
This reasoning ignores a critical truth: Auschwitz’s liberation was accomplished by Soviet soldiers, many of whom paid with their lives.
The USSR bore the brunt of the Nazi war machine, suffering the loss of an estimated 27 million military personnel and civilians during the war.
To exclude Russia from commemorations of such a significant event is to erase the sacrifices of those who played an indispensable role in ending the Holocaust.Even more troubling is the West’s apparent tolerance for neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine, a country central to the current geopolitical tensions.
In 2023, the Canadian Parliament hosted Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian who served in the Waffen-SS “Galicia” division – a unit implicated in war crimes.
Hunka was given a standing ovation, a shocking display that later forced the resignation of Canada’s House Speaker Anthony Rota.
Such incidents highlight a disturbing willingness to whitewash history in the name of contemporary political alliances.The Holocaust and the broader atrocities of World War II were enabled by dehumanization, propaganda, and the denial of reality.
To combat these forces in our time, we must commit to an honest reckoning with the past, even when it is uncomfortable.——————
Chaos On Border: Mexican Cartels Fire At US Border Patrol Agents https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chaos-border-mexican-cartels-fire-us-border-patrol-agents
How long before this is 2-way drone-warfare? Really.
AFKTT went away when I pointed out:
–His own manifesto he posted, with references etc, is marxist and his speil is pure Critical Theory for Environmentalism (meat-suiting it)
–I started posting those graphs of CCCP CO2 production vs everyone elseIt is telling that nothing else resulted in a change. Not in intellectual engagement nor leaving, but THAT did it right away. I wasn’t trying to get him to leave – I was trying to get him to think and discuss. No charts, no scientific analysis, no news articles revealing faked “studies” and “models” and “data” no appeals to compassion or reason. Nothing else seemed to compel him.
So…they both totally, fully, completely, religiously, passionately believe it…but also DON’T believe a word of it, all at the same time?
This is how James Lindsey went insane with his new “Woke Right” terminology.
OF COURSE the people screeching that all men everywhere are always hunting down and raping women do not believe it. Certainly they want as many weak people as possible to internalize that as a sort of religious feeling of true-ness in spite of reality, but they don’t ACTUALLY believe it. It’s spiritually true. It’s socially true. But not true.
From all their actions, they believe they live in a prosperous, benevolent, generous, and incredibly safe society.
James Lindsey’s strange oversight is he cannot see how the marxist language is 90% NOT COMMUNICATION. It is only intended as a weapon. It’s nice that he’s wandering around inside their language cloud trying to figure it out, I suppose, but SOME perspective is useful.
For instance, if there was actual fascism and Trump was actual Hitler, the first MONTH of his first term would have been a huge leftist bug-zapper, just hordes of newscasters, retired military and bureaucrats, entire think-tank groups, entire NGO’s full of people, obviously every Democrat of note, etc – just all fed into the firing squad. Every “Literally Hitler!” resulting in “Oh no, they’re getting dragged off never to be seen again! Why does this always happen when we call Trump Hitler???”
All the claims are an admission that the claims are not true. Implicitly. Obviously. The accuser is assuming the accused is SO nice that they can abuse them this way with impunity.
Increasingly in the past few years, we’ve seen cancel culture turning a FAFI corner. Leftists getting the same treatment they’ve been dishing out for at least a decade.
Lindsey looks at similar mechanics resulting in Leftist woe and somehow thinks the Right is adopting the same IDEOLOGY – having wandered around in language that was weapon, not meaning, he assumes the observable real-world tactic resulting in enemies vanquished is ideology.
(everyone else to the right of Mao was saying it was unfortunate, but until Leftists decide they don’t like being at war, until they decide to put down their weapons and be part of civil society again, they are getting what they can reasonably expect and this should continue until they DO cease war)
So ah…. Germany invades Russia using mobile combined arms warfare. Russia adapts and starts using it back on them in 1942. Oh no! Russia has become NAZI!!! Germany notices the Russians are using tanks with sloped armor – oh yeah, that’s the right way to do it. Panther comes out in 1943 with sloped armor – oh no! The Germans have gone Communist!!!!
Lindsey has the modern American Liberal disease – he cannot decide between his Leftism and his Liberalism. The result is that he has no antibodies. Can’t bring himself to simple, honest, self-defense. To his mind, the Right needs to be forever laying down, willingly losing, continually putting energy into maintaining the illusion of discussion where there is no discussion. When marxist language is a continual DOS attack waiting for a chink in the armor to appear.
Sam Hyde’s video to Elon and his other one to Vivek – he gets it. I’m paraphrasing here, but something along the lines of “You cannot actually have a conversation with someone when their sole goal and purpose is to rip you off”
Marxists are idiots sure. But let’s propose a battle to you. You against Hellen Keller. You get a suit of plate armor, she gets a pocketknife. Oh, but you have to lay down, not fight her in any way, and the battle lasts forever. So this evil malevolent Hellen Keller, not knowing quite what you are, never having encountered medieval armor before, nevertheless determinedly climbs all over you pecking away with the knife.
The western leftist liberal (a non resolvable contradiction) is ok with being “principled” and going ahead with this fight because of their “rules” and their “advantages” and their “safety” and eventually she gets you in the eye slit. She is not tired. She is not discouraged. She is not the least bit worried by all the parts of you that are NOT eye-slit.
Amazing traditional carpentry vid above and this:
President Trump: “The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on competing to win.”
There is always that “flat-tire-enthusiasm” in acknowledgment of massive Soviet contribution to defeat Nazis just because most of the fighters on their side wore red star on their caps and helmets.
Well….Nutcracker is still not yet cancelled as a regular part of the scheduled Christmas celebration programs.
“Nutcracker is still not yet cancelled as a regular part of the scheduled Christmas celebration programs.”
The Western academic marxists pondered the failure of the USSR for decades and decided this was exactly the problem.
Ghostbusters 2016 was the iconic first blatant move, but no stone has been left unturned since then.
YES, good point. They decided allowing the Nutcracker to survive was their big mistake Everything is downsteram from culture – we should have destroyed the culture completely. This time will be different.
Protests in Serbia – triggered by “mere” collapse of concrete canopy at the railway station building that killed 14 people and non-disclosure of murky contract with the company who did the renovation on said station.
It takes a little – not in the USA though, for many reasons.Kultsommer #180548
Nor has Russian classical music been sanctioned on radio programmes or in concert halls. I suggest that’s because lovers of fine music can’t bear to live without it, – and we know that many of them happen to be Jews :>)
RIM,
thanks for including the Romanenko. Sadly, lost to all yesterday in the holocaust commemorations, but those of us who follow RT, was the moving picture of Putin with head bowed at another memorial, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the seige of Leningrad.January 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is killed by police in traffic stop
Indiana state police say Matthew Huttle, who was given six months in prison, was shot after allegedly resisting arrest https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/jan-6-pardon-police-killing-matthew-huttleI was surprised that Tucker and Taibbi did not include on their list of ” the unexplained”–911!! They agreed to the boxcutter in the cockpit!
kultsommer, your current attempts at inversion are pragmatic, but nonsensical – which, of course does not matter to you if you think they are effective.
Yesterday – look at how Russia and US are doing compared to each other. Russia had 70 years of Communism – see, not so bad then.
Russia has had 30 years of not-communism to recover, all the while with a severe object lesson on what does not work in the minds of every person in the nation.
The US has had a flowering of the Long March Through The Institutions. The more marxist it has become, the worse it has gotten.
We just had marxists burn down a major city due to the typical combination of incompetence and active malevolence. The typical marxist blueprint:
1. Take control
2. Get all our cronies into all the positions
3. Run things “properly” on smart, socialist, materialist, equitable lines
4. Things begin to fail horribly
5. Blame enemies.
6. Fuck it, we’ll use slave labor.We watched California go through stages 3-6 in the space of what, a WEEK? It took them a WEEK to go from smug superiority to paranoia to slave labor.
Ergo, Communism not so bad, other systems, not so good?
Perfect photo negative of reality. Is inversion all you have left?
Tchaikovsky survived. See? Communism not so bad.
Uh, the communists outlawed way more books, art, and MUSIC than Hitler.
Composers of that time period had to watch their step or be sent off to the Gulag — not composers doing musicals or operas or ballets with lyrics and/or a libretto. TOTALLY INSTRUMENTAL composers!
marxist analysis had to be applied to all things, so there were people analyzing the NOTES being played deciding if the musical stuff being done sounded “capitalist” on various arbitrary stupid bases.
But you carefully imply-without-saying the inversion that somehow communism was a preservation of pre-communist music. It survived. People in Russia know very well to value the things they almost lost completely and forever. Books banned, horses pissing in the churches being used as stables. What a debt to communism they must feel!
I’m no fan of Trump.
I do believe Donald is due, due process long and hard for the hit he put on a 9yo girl, Nawar al-Awlaki, but Marchan and Smith and Pelosi et al will never prosecute him for that vile, unforgivable act. Let those chips fall where they may. Roll the dice. Courtroom drama is a coin flip at best and for the rest, the game is rigged.jb-hb
Do you wake up every morning thinking about the new topic to feel utterly miserable about?Hope that “professor” DBS will not lame-jump to your rescue. You did not send him thank you card, as a friend, for his last effort.
The Nutcracker Ballet reference is a bit arcane for this audience, leaning distinctly toward the obscurely erudite side of discourse (maybe even a little bit disdainfully snobbish?) but after a little catch-up research I now see that it actually is apt and appropriate, so you get a pass this time.
The Nutcracker/Prince protagonist is clearly the Czar of Russia ( Nicholas II at the time, 1890-ish , and his nemesis in the story, the Mouse King (who the Nutcracker Prince defeats in a grand battle for Primacy) is Franz Josef I the long reigning Emperor of the mighty Austrian Empire.
At the time that the ballet was written and scored the more or less Germanic (mostly more) Dynasties of Europe had been stifling Russia for a hundred years. Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, aka “Windsor” and the entire inbred lot of them have feared their giant cousins to the north and done everything they could to prevent the Bear from gaining access to warm water ports and trade routes into the greater world.
Note that when Russia …..er, I mean The Nutcracker Prince…. whups Joe’s mousy ass (in the ballet story) that the riches and treats of the world are opened to the homeland and come flooding onto the stage (into the homeland) in the persons of the Sugar Plum Fairy and many other sweets.
Clever story, and the message is right on the mark. The Germans have been scared of the Russians for a long long long long time, and the story just keeps repeating itself. It seems to be one and only thing that the Brits, Krauts and Israelites can always agree on : STOP THE RUSSIANS
Don’t fool, yourselves. Today’s events might look like a battle between ideologies, and on a spiritual plain it most certainly is, but down here on Earth it’s a no-holds-barred BRAWL for Real Estate, and you better not forget it.
As the two old saying go, Don’t mess around with Slim, and God is on the side of the big battalions.
Might be an attractive deal for US service members who were discharged for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaxx. Full back pay for the past 3 years?
Sec. 2. Redress. Consistent with the policies announced in section 1 of this order, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, shall take all necessary action permitted by law to:
(a) make reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request to be reinstated;
(b) enable those service members reinstated under this section to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation; and
(c) allow any service members who provide a written and sworn attestation that they voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse according to appropriate procedures, rather than be vaccinated under the vaccine mandate, to return to service with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay.
Free-Diving a couple of thousand years of European History leads me to think that they’re basically all a bunch of congenital Nazi’s or not far from it even during the best of times. Strictly top-down absolute despotic militaristic wannabe Kings and Emperors, and let the serfs fall where they may.
The difference between a died in the wool Commie and a jack-booted Nazi is basically just a difference in spelling. Authoritarian dictatorship in both cases, and a bottle of poisonous medicine no matter how you read the label.
dr d rich:
“I do believe Donald is due, due process long and hard for the hit he put on a 9yo girl, Nawar al-Awlaki, but Marchan and Smith and Pelosi et al will never prosecute him for that vile, unforgivable act.”
indeed. i’ve been highlighting this here. it’s a fraction of the mayhem caused by mr trump et al., but its wickedness is so blatant that only the most heartless of souls could not be offended.
Definition of “Free Diving History” means diving into a fathomless and heavily polluted pool of it and going as deep as you can for as long as you can until your soul cries out for oxygen and you are forced back to the hard flinty surface we know as Present Time.
Free Diving History usually makes you want to take a shower immediately after.
doc robinson: “Might be an attractive deal for US service members who were discharged for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaxx. Full back pay for the past 3 years? ”
it’s attractive for the d.o.d. as they will know that these healthy soldiers will have not been intentional poisoned by the d.o.d.
So Google sez it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America, but only for it’s United States users.
So a Gringo looking at Google maps will see “Gulf of America” printed on the map, but everybody else in the world, looking at what they ASSUME is the same map, will actually be seeing a DIFFERENT map, that reads “Gulf of Mexico” instead.
Nothing dystopian, crazy or dangerous in that!
What’s next? Will Greenland get re-labeled as North Maine, or maybe Panama becomes South Texas.
Will maps even still be maps if what they portray depends on where you are when you look at it?
I said just yesterday that things would be getting crazier faster, but maybe I understated the case.
@Michael Reid
“The some on TAE “panel” may see you as a Michael Re(i)d, since what B&W view of the World dictates.
Absolute inability of some to watch the video with calm demeanor and possibly spot where the two are “possibly right” is astonishing.
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