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    Pablo Picasso The old guitarist 1903-4   • ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’ – Biden (RT) • Democrats Want Biden To Drop Out This Week – Axios (RT) • Bide
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 9 2024]

    #163106
    Dr. D
    Participant

    But really, is a fridge without IoT WiFi always-on microphone even worth owning?
    “Is a Modern, Computer-Less Refrigerator Worth Owning? FFTR1835 Review & 2yr Teardown” –Y0utube

    This was so bat s—t I had no words for it:

    But then, it IS the Lincoln project. First Trump is going to fire all the generals. THEN monitor all 150 million womens’ periods. …Won’t that be kind of hard with no CIA, no FBI, and no generals you just fired? Just saying. …And then aliens fly out my butt. Like everything else in this ad, it could happen. It COULD. …But doesn’t seem very likely though.

    Pool on the “Meme Cycle”, as first, 1) Never happened, 1a) You didn’t see it. 2) So what if he did? 3) If he did it would be a good thing. 4) Of COURSE it happened, we all always knew that! Everyone knows that! That is Narcissism Cluster B disorder, where they Back-Rev reality hourly.

    Anyway, apparently they can’t let it go, so here’s Whoopi saying she poops her pants all the time on The View.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-tl00jU3A TMI, Ms. Caryn Elaine Johnson, TMI. You DID know Whoopie took the name “Goldberg” because of her shocking racism about Jews, right? That’s why the DNC loves her, so, so much, along with all the AWFLs.

    “American, British and Canadian troops in NATO’s forward bases in Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania are being told to prepare for deployment to the Ukraine next year. They are also being warned to expect to fight under heavy Russian artillery, missile, guided bomb, and drone strikes.”

    Fine, Fine, this is Fine. I’m sure that won’t be any problem on Armstrong’s model date exactly, right?

    French Left – so now I have to move to France? Well, let’s see what they DO. I haven’t seen anyone DO in so long I can’t remember.

    (link-bot issues)

    #163107
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “• Democrats Want Biden To Drop Out This Week – Axios (RT)

    Not enough, they need to sell the lie. Maybe this is the new lie they’re selling, that any of this is real?

    And we’re not covering war, oil, or finance anymore? Well I can see two of them: we’re not in trouble with oil, there is no shortage. 50 year contracts signed yearly, new gushers out of Africa, Iran coming online. And Finance is now entirely unreal where at any given moment I fabricate a company that only exists in name and in a few months is larger than all car companies combined and everyone thinks that’s normal.

    War in Ukraine is inside baseball: of course I thought Ukraine would collapse 2 years ago, as you’d have to be a suicidal moron just to get up each day, and march down to the minefield. …To throw yourself in. But nope: they did it, and the next year, month, it’s impossible other Ukrainians hadn’t heard of it, threw themselves in the minefield too. And Russia’s positioning showed they knew that would be the case. So right now they’re taking towns each day, driving Ukraine back along the line, yet just like the last 2 years, nothing ever breaks. I mean sure they got a “Breakthough” this week, but that means 1,000 meteres. So your guess is good as mine what will happen and it’s not worth following each 100 man clash. It’s more when the U.S. sneaks in F16-ready nukes.

    “Biden is cooked, and if he somehow stays in office, we’re all cooked.”

    Yes, he demanded a worldwide nuclear war. Or is allowing the entire apparatus who wants one to run free. However, that’s up to us. Listened to Celente this week, but it’s always the same, and again pointed out he put a fortune in Occupy Peace and kept it warm, also talks to billionaires regularly. No interest. The PEOPLE have to not want/demand no WWIII. If not, what we do won’t matter. They’ll kick him off the stage like they did Trump for HCQ although FAUCI HIMSELF said it was the cure, in his OWN public paper on SARS. Trump could and did point to that paper, people still would believe Fauci and tear Trump limb from limb, that’s the mob. THAT, is precisely what the Founding Fathers Feared.

    And although slightly different, essentially same configuration for “Peace”.

    “Peace. I hate the word/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”..

    In roughest sense, you have two orientations, to Christ or AntiChrist, to #Logos or #AntiLogos, to the #Up or to the #UpsideDown. The PEOPLE are oriented to Evil. To #Self, worldwide, your iPhone, iPad, #MeGeneration, engineered on them for 50 years.

    NYM
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Cover_of_New_York_magazine%2C_23_August_1976.jpg

    And not to stop engineering hate, they did it again in 2013 which I missed:

    ItsTime
    https://content.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/2013/1101130520_600.jpg

    What is the Christ Consciousness? Only this: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13 Such that if you want the #Opposite of that mind, that world, as a counterfeit with no original ideas, you do what? That’s right, be too selfish to do so, or even be aware that you should. It’s even a Bad thing! So uncool! All the cool kids, large and in charge, all think only of themselves, that’s why they own mansions!

    So the PEOPLE do not want peace, they wouldn’t give up a nickel for it, they are not oriented toward any peace, morality, or logic at all and “Their love of all men grows cold” Matt24:12 even or especially women for their own children.

    Screwing around with the DNC or Biden doesn’t change any of that. YOU are the answer. The answer that you’re looking for.

    #163108
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “• MSNBC Host Calls For Biden Aides To Be ON STAGE With Him At Next Debate (MN)

    Reminds me of Millennials taking their Mom to a job interview. Actually, that’s a closer fit than I first thought.

    ““It promotes conservative family values, restrictions on immigration, and increased power of national governments of EU members relative to Brussels..”

    I’m sorry, what do you mean by this? That’s what government and culture was for the last 5,000 years. NOT doing this is a radical, untested experiment on everyone. Surely if there were some sort of drug, invented yesterday, never tested, no one would take it right? Only fringe weirdos, right? WHat if it had already been tried and 100M died and we had all the data? Would you take it then? (A: Yes, yes, and yes.)

    “• No Promise Ukraine Will Join NATO In A Decade – Stoltenberg (RT)

    They’re keeping your eye on Kiev while laughing up their sleeve about the U.S. conquering Finland. We now can have 15 bases there, and anything that happens, ever, any persons, any amount of land, all are U.S. Courts and rules while Finland says nothing?

    Yeah, reminds me of Ireland and Scotland: throw off the Brits in Independence movements, then instantly subjugate themselves to an English-Speaking government. Just like Gerry Adams, Bobby Sands, and Brendan Behan would have wanted! Well, as long as that government is run by Germany, it’s okay if they speak English, amirite?

    And Thus: Finland. Conquered at last not by Russia but NATO, the U.S. So Proud. Their PM said, “Blwhaaaah!!! I don’t want this responsibility, somebody take it from me!!! I am but a little girl!” Your wish is my command, you cease to exist.

    15 bases and first-strike Nukes are going in there right now. It is suggested that Russia therefore will have to level Europe in just a few months before that’s finalized. Taking out every base that launches into the Black Sea. What are they keeping your eyes off of? For instance, they were desperate to keep your eyes up by Kiev while the far better gains all come from the center, like Chasiv Yar. They encourage Kiev to panic and under-rate and pull men out of the weakest areas. But the point is the misdirection. The collapse, like the banks, never happen where you think because then the Fed would just bail them. So what’s going on in Japan?

    ““..at any moment, the NATO general picks up the phone and, on instructions from Washington, issues a directive to certain units without the approval of their national parliaments..”

    Geez, who’s running things then? Unelected clubs, cartels, and corporations. Democracy is a sham. …But this is the EU, they’re not even hiding it. Which is why Ireland signed up instantly and Scotland is trying to. No democracy and self-rule? That’s for me!! As long as they’re against “Libertie, Egalitie, Fraternitie” France is all in!

    “A Death Squad Ruling” (Turley)

    This response is the most insane among an insane people. At an insane time. Th Supreme Court simply said the same thing they always said, nothing changed, and they didn’t even say it very well. EVERY office is only protected for “Official Acts” down to the dog catcher. If he catches your dog but steals your TV, that’s not an “Official Act”. Nothing changes. Not a thing. Pretend they never ruled.

    Now the problem is WHAT is an “Official Act” and WHO decides? Is killing American children in a drone strike an “Official Act” with no due process, just because the President argues — SAYS one Wednesday morning — he’s a terrorist? Well, it would have to go to court. That’s too wide and too messy to figure out ahead of time, but we would all agree it has to be in “Discharge of his official duties.” Not goofing off, polishing the red buttons. Shows how immeasurably uneducated and uninformed this side is, as they also will die rather than ask or read it. I can point and even mail them the link, but they’d rather die than look. One side sells fear, helplessness, etc. It would blow all that.

    “• US Ambassador To Japan Comments On American Military Sex Crimes (RT)

    We don’t like your military, they’re more uppity than the Japanese people are, yada yada…

    “The Japanese government has acknowledged that at least five such cases took place this year in Okinawa”

    Holy S#%t dude? WTF? And you haven’t hung them all yet? If I were running that base as C.O. I’d say “You better hope the courts get to you before I do.” It will be the last thing you ever do. Bases are dangerous places and accidents happen all the time.

    “Mansa Musa”

    But wait: no one but white people were ever rich nor ever treated anyone badly. Have I been misinformed? Also CJ Walker, Oprah Winfrey and Obama never existed.

    “while Mansa’s personal escort numbered 12,000 slaves.”

    Big time slavers. The biggest. Of course the whole world was except backward Europe, those stupid Christian people, so…

    Loggerhead: Sure don’t want a snapper that size. They’d bite your head off and eat it.

    #163109
    tboc
    Participant

    The eyes are not here
    There are no eyes here
    In this valley of dying stars
    In this hollow valley
    This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms – Eliot

    #163110
    tboc
    Participant

    when you can’t dazzle em with your brilliance baffle em with your bullshit

    #163111
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The Biden theatre; the owners are obviously fueling this panic and confusion as part of some bigger plan. I suspect that something will come of it that will push the USA further into the dregs of humanity and further weaken their power; after all, you can’t have global government with the USA still running the show.

    The owners never allow things to go this far, and they are obviously keeping the outcome secret from the majority of the patronaged politicians; this bit I find quite interesting because it shows the politicians to be the bitches we always knew they were. Whatever happens, it will be something big and bad, I’m sitting here with my popcorn, ready to go.

    Maybe they are going to pass a new law in congress that will tie the hands of all future presidents? One way to get Trump neutered. But I suspect it is something bigger than that.

    #163116
    poppie
    Participant

    Nato covering Ukraine airspace. This might be Nato’s bait because Russia has declared the right to respond. Russia’s declaration was the bait and maybe Nato took it. Russia will use decoys/bargains and deplete those air defenses, which will fall on childrens hospitals. If not, those bargains will find effective targets. Nato, Ukraine, Russia all know this. So whats the point of the article?

    #163117
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

      Former Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama administration’s “kill list” policy to a group of lawyers and judges at Northwestern University Law School and received not condemnation but applause. Under Holder, the Obama administration fought every effort of the al-Awlaki family to seek information on the killing and insisted that courts had no role to play in such cases. Yet, in the wake of the immunity decision, Holder expressed shock at the implication of the presidential power. Could Obama and Biden be charged with murder for what they did? Most say no, because they were acting in fulfillment of their national security authority

    Sotomayor had no problem with Obama and Holder killing children, ages 9 and 16, Nawar and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki…U.S. citizens and still doesn’t as evidenced in her babbling dissent.

    Holder/Obama and Bush/Gonzalez should be tried for murder and crimes against humanity.

    #163118
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D Rich, who vented about AJ-somebody dissing America’s former-slaves, the blacks and “white trash”, in favor of hard-working-Jewish-folk who never perform demeaning manual labor…

    Some of my best friends in life, especially growing up, were the “white trash” descendants of the indentured servants who used to perform the hard labor on American plantations, and 80% died doing it, so the 20% who lived to have families were the tough ones.
    Here is a song in honor of all those rugged folk, and it’s a rockin’ song, too:
    White Trash (don’t call me that) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZr2Vq825E
    (Peek at the pictures, too!)

    #163119
    a kullervo
    Participant

    The concept of failing god(s) is dyed in the hubris wool.

    The finest trick of The Everlasting Dissatisfaction (aka God) is to persuade you that He does not exist.
    (Rephrasing of the original by Charles Baudelaire)

    #163120
    zerosum
    Participant

    Democracy/the establishment
    NO ONE is running the country,
    NO ONE is listening to the people demonstrating
    Quiet quitting, do your assigned job well and no more
    ———-
    Choice – Poverty reduction
    1. War, destruction, rubble, hate, war of attrition, depopulation
    2. Peace, new infrastructures/roads, new services, new education/training/guidance/help
    ————–
    https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1810320822373962059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1810320822373962059%7Ctwgr%5E14884cf6f02317d2b2244c878a705163421aafd1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F07%2Fdebt-rattle-july-9-2024%2F

    Tucker Carlson: “Letting people die of drug ODs on the sidewalk. That’s compassion.”
    Jo Rogan: “That whole thing is f… crazy…These people that are running “homelessness” initiatives, they’re making hundreds of thousands of Dollars a year, some of them a quarter million Dollars a year.”
    ————–
    Agenda/Objective of Democrats
    Biden’s comments to MSNBC mirror those he made in a letter to Democrats in Congress on Monday. On TV and in the letter, Biden insisted that he “wouldn’t be running again if I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024.”
    ———
    The exposure of Biden’s breakdown calls into question many things beyond the election; it calls into question the very fabric of American government.
    ——-
    What goes up must come down

    https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1810281642721788182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1810281642721788182%7Ctwgr%5E14884cf6f02317d2b2244c878a705163421aafd1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F07%2Fdebt-rattle-july-9-2024%2F
    Ukranian children’s hospital was hit by a Ukranian anti air defense missile.

    Ukraine shoots up to 3 air defense rockets per Russian cruise missile, all can’t hit the Russian missile … so they land randomly in the city.
    ———
    Out of the box speculation
    “I don’t believe Orban is just making overtures in Hungary’s interests either. He’s an emissary for Trump’s end-the-war plan”.

    • NATO’S Plan For Permanent War In Ukraine and On The Fareast Front (Helmer)

    ———–

    #163121
    Oroboros
    Participant

    When you’re stupid and spineless for decades and you ask the psychopathic Satanic Cabal to treat you better:

    .

    #163122
    Oroboros
    Participant

    To the huge number of Duh’mericans who willingly and with no curiosity or adult instincts whatsoever trusted their near God-like Overlords to ‘protect’ them from the Boogie they/them/he/haw ‘Virus’, I have a News Flash:

    You are truly phucked in the near to mid future.

    The mRNA has and will continue to permanently alter your DNA.

    Yes, that’s right, your DNA, the Family Jewels

    Even assuming you and your kids who also got the clotshot manage to conceive offspring, their genes will be progressively mutated and filled with 404 errors.

    Good luck on that.

    mRNA therapy will produce inferior off spring that need increasing amounts of medical intervention just to exist.


    A Glitch in the Matrix

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    #163123
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Cultural degradation

    Woketurdlandia© kills all the joy in anything it touches

    .

    #163124
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Let’s talk

    Fertility and Feminism

    One country’s experience

    .

    #163125
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Japanese vanish before the end of the 21st century

    R.I.P.

    #163126
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Don’t worry, be Happy!

    .

    #163127

    A bridge too close, a bridge too far-
    I can’t buy gas for my old car.
    My fridge is bare; I try to preach,
    But they abridge my grumbling speech.

    #163128
    those darned kids
    Participant

    shoot, seems like they only want to dazzle us with bullshit..

    #163129

    John Day- It looks like you escaped the power outages?

    #163130
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_5256-1.jpg?w=680&ssl=1

    #163131
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/img_5128.jpg?w=524&ssl=1

    #163132
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    If humans keep using artificially “intelligent” machinery to do everything they used to do for themselves (like drive cars, grow food, make clothes, do basic arithmetic, and THINK) it won’t be long before the only things humans will be able to operate for themselves is an “On/Off” switch, and then they’ll forget how the “Off” part of it works because they’ll never use that setting.

    #163133
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Human stupidity gets ragged on a lot, and deservedly so, but the truth of it is that humans are actually very good at learning stuff when they have to. What it all comes down to is really just a question of motivation.

    #163134
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

      Former Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama administration’s “kill list” policy to a group of lawyers and judges at Northwestern University Law School and received not condemnation but applause. Under Holder, the Obama administration fought every effort of the al-Awlaki family to seek information on the killing and insisted that courts had no role to play in such cases. Yet, in the wake of the immunity decision, Holder expressed shock at the implication of the presidential power. Could Obama and Biden be charged with murder for what they did? Most say no, because they were acting in fulfillment of their national security authority

    Sotomayor had no problem with Obama and Holder killing children, ages 9 and 16, Nawar and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki…U.S. citizens and still doesn’t care as evidenced by her nonsensical, babbling dissent. Turley doesn’t say that nor does he acknowledge it.

    Holder/Obama and Bush/Gonzalez should be tried for murder by the United States and prosecuted at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

    #163135
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_5399-1.jpg?w=424&ssl=1

    #163136
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Once you can get people to agree that under certain circumstances (which will remain poorly defined) BAD things can somehow become GOOD things, then those people are yours, and you can do anything you want to with them.

    #163137
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    …. you see, the precedent HAS been set by prosecuting and tormenting Trump.

    Obama is fair game and so is Bush.
    They deserve no less.
    We deserve to see it.

    If Obama and Bush wish to use as a defense that the CIA intimidated them into such atrocious actions, then I volunteer to hold their trembling little hands the next time to stand up against those ferocious bullies.

    Not killing children is the very least an adult can do. Yet, there’s Turley and Holder and Obama making the case for it ex post facto.

    #163138
    John Day
    Participant

    @MPSK: Austin did not even get rain or wind. Yoakum, between dirty-wet Houston and sunny-dry San Antonio got lots of rain, but I finished the 5 hours of lawn-mowing Saturday morning and left things closed and turned-off, except refrigerators. Yoakum has power go out fairly often, at least every other month, so nothing new there if it happened.
    We’ll check tomorrow if the clocks on the stoves are blinking the wrong time again.

    #163139
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ DBS
    Human learning

    I think that, very often, systems/products are designed deliberately to hide the control mechanisms so that humans — who *are* very good at learning, especially the young ones — don’t inadvertently run across them.

    Very often, the older folks that I work with in my business express the belief that the young folks (40s and younger) can do wonders with smartphones and computers…and they *can* easily install apps and use them…but they often do not know:
    – how to manually configure a network adapter, a router, an email client, etc.
    – how to code a website..or anything else for that matter
    – how to use Boolean search terms in a web search (have never heard of the term “Boolean”)
    – to type in a full web address rather than a keyword search
    – the file system structure outside of the user profile “libraries” and an attached thumb drive.
    – how to use command prompt, the Windows Registry, group policy/local policy, local user accounts (rather than a Microsoft account,) terminal, Remote Desktop, VNC, SSH, etc. (I am not an expert in all of these things, but I know what they can do, and I look up what I don’t know. Most young folks don’t realize that these things EXIST.)
    – that smartphones can be “rooted” or “jail-broken” and apps side-loaded

    …but they are familiar with installing BlueStacks and simulating an Android environment on a Windows PC to play a phone game on a PC!

    Young people have been distracted into believing that computers, tablets, smartphones are merely toys, and that everything “under the hood” is akin to rocket science, too hard to understand, or that have inculcated anxiety about breaking it.

    We could have been teaching young people how to master these systems/devices. Instead, they have been hoodwinked into being enslaved by them.

    #163140
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Yeah it’s weird. I do a recent job interview in which I casually mention I’ve manually configured routers and email clients, done a DNS flush, running dual boot Linux on a couple machines, various other things. Nevertheless they continue to act like I must be Boomer instead of GenX. (They asked me “describe your home network” earlier in the interview and I described the various machines and peripherals I have networked together with multiple UPS’s but apparently this too left no impression)

    I mention using physical medium for storage and the interview clearly takes a shit. Definitely not getting the job. Open sneering at some length. WHY DIDN’T YOU USE CLOUUUUUUUD STORAGE?!??!? Repeated attempts to, in a mild, professional manner, to answer the motherfucking question, explain why I would at times use physical storage in my own personal control ruthlessly interrupted and prevented. Never allowed to answer the question. They could have just said “interview over” when I said “physical storage”

    lol all millennial women interviewing me. Increased sneering at the sentence fragments I got out about data security – against malicious action AND data rot – the very IDEA that safety concerns should inconvenience! I suspect that, with some GenX grey showing in my goatee and being male, they were just waiting for SOMETHING. Hard to tell these days, but that was the feeling.

    But no, really you are out there on your own (GenX talking…) and you will have to take care of your own safety and security (GenX talking…) it is your own responsibility and no one else’s. You can luxuriate in Being The Victim if you prefer. Maybe your life is such that there is no data associated with you worth saving?

    #163141
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @jb_hb
    If you think tech talking to those folks is frustrating, try talking to them about sourcing water, heating their home, making clothing or obtaining food in the absence of grocery stores or restaurants. They will stare at you slack jawed as though you were an incoherent madman.

    #163142
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The same sort of folks, lamenting The Homeless, The Housing Market. Medical Expenses etc when you spell out that 20-30 Million extra people affect who has access to resources: “No, that cannot be”

    You SERIOUSLY think 20 million less people would NOT affect home availability and pricing? You seriously think 20 million less people being subsidized would leave more resources to help the homeless?

    No, that cannot be. They’re living in the housing americans don’t want to live in. They take the subsidies americans are too lazy to take. It isn’t possible that everyone pulls from a single pool of finite resources called reality.

    #163143
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://tass.com/defense/1814199
    MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE
    8 JUL, 10:29
    Russian Defense Ministry: first Ukrainian chemical lab found during special operation

    Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov speaks ahead of the 106th session of the OPCW Executive Council to tell about a chemical weapons laboratory of the Ukrainian military that was discovered near Avdeyevka, and multiple cases of the use of chloropicrin by Ukraine near Donetsk, Gorlovka and Artyomovsk. TASS is providing the full text of Kirillov’s briefing.

    Go read full text

    #163144
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img_5408-1.png?w=328&ssl=1

    #163145
    Noirette
    Participant

    On, NATO Is Approaching Russia’s Borders From The Other Side (Gevorg Mirzayan)

    Link is to Helmer, it is mostly about the Baltics, Orban’s peace-seeking moves (is he an emissary of Trump?) and China’s role, position.

    ‘The other side’ as I see it, is Finland, which is now a member of NATO, and where the US is set to create 15 military bases (with the usual diplomatic total immunity and no oversight by host country)…(see also at top sex crimes US milit. in Japan.)

    See for ex, Globalists Are Prepping FINLAND To Be The Next Proxy-War | Prof. Tuomas Malinen — interviewed by Pascal Lottaz at Neutrality Studies.

    https://tinyurl.com/mrxkssha

    #163146
    kultsommer
    Participant

    In the news:

    Coming off back-to-back national championships, (FYI state) UConn men’s head basketball coach Dan Hurley has a new $50 million contract that will keep him in Storrs through the 2029-30 season.

    All springs from the thought, almost by default: “If they offered it to me, I would take it”. Then you get angry reading the news like this

    #163147
    zerosum
    Participant

    Saudi Arabia threatens to dump all its EU securities if $300 billion in Russian assets are confiscated– Bloomberg

    #163151
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Hey Ai, what’s University of Connecticut’s revenue from football?

    According to the search results, the University of Connecticut’s football program generated approximately $15.2 million in direct revenue in the past fiscal year

    Hey Ai, what was that uh, contract about?

    Dan Hurley, the head coach of the University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team, has agreed to a new six-year, $50 million contract

    Hey Ai, what’s 50/6?

    8.3

    15/8?

    1.875

    I’m getting a little confused here, Ai. Is 8 more than half of 15?

    Yes, you idiot.

    Over half the value of UConn football is generated personally by its coach!!!!!

    Hey, didn’t Aristotle, employee of the Argead dynasty, assure his pupil, Alexander the Great, that royal rule is justified, so long as the aretḗ (greatness) of the ruler is more than the greatness of all his people put together – then his rule is justified? …and that the Argeads’ aretḗ was, Cosmic Covenience er, Coincidence, just so happened to be, greater than that of all Macedonia?

    This is like everything everywhere right now. The Argeads of Macedonia were full-spectrum intimidated by Greece. Militarily, culturally, etc. They looked south and saw a bunch of democracies and republics – and whatever Sparta was. For his OWN sanity as a prideful Greek, Aristotle had to find some way to justify being a lackey of culturally inferior Macedonian despots.

    Same guy who argued that Democracy kills itself as soon as it realizes it can vote endless benefits on itself. (To reassure the insecure Macedonian royal house, looking south at all those Democracies and their citizen hoplite armies) …when in fact, it has always been autocrats and oligarchies, contemptuous of common people, who throw bread and circuses at them, actively degrade them. Every time!

    Long ago, I got a half tuition scholarship for how I played the 1st movement of the Hummel Concerto.

    To maintain this scholarship, I had to march in the marching band. Spending half a saturday or sunday I could have spent studying or in a practice room, putting time towards carrying my 22 hours plus hours of required peer recital attendance instead of glorifying a bunch of football players I care nothing for carrying 16 hours of basketweaving and remedial english and math.

    Also couldn’t be in Cross Country without the scholarship because it conflicted with Marching Band.

    Met with the Dean of Music. I proposed that I run Cross Country and the football players come cheer me on or lose their football scholarships. Followed that up with a proposal that the football players must attend and cheer on all jazz band, concert band, and orchestra concerts or lose their football scholarships. That didn’t go over too well.

    Football generates revenue for the school. Great. Might be better to just split the college ball off of education into Minor League Football …but the least you could do is not go around thinking other parts of your school exist FOR the football team.

    Dudebro. You are already the football player, getting teh chix. NO. MOAR. GLORIFY ME. CHEER ME ON. WHERE IS YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT? Oh, okay, then you can go to the next production of Italian Opera, listen quietly and attentively, cheer us on with Bravo! when we indicate it is appropriate – school spirit bro.

    I always thought the world was the result of everyone doing their thing, the result being something beautiful. Free play and honesty. The free choice of my fellow human beings being paramount to every interaction – else I lose their contribution! Ah, sophomoric wisdom. still correct even if wrong.

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