Debt Rattle November 8 2022

 

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  • #120523
    slimyalligator
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    Election day observations new to me. Several unattended police vehicles set up near polling place entryways with no police to be seen. Drove to another ward, same thing. In the past poll workers used to do a great potluck spread for themselves making waiting voters stomachs grumble. None of that this year although the crock pots were simmering away at the last primary election. Strangely there were zero candidates/surrogates outside the polling places handing out vote for me stuff. I assume in person voting is coming to the end.

    #120524
    Bill7
    Participant

    so many Explainers.. which are themselves a sign of pervasive Perception Management. Odd that with such deep insights they don’t also point to any (collective) actions to be taken, for the common good..

    digital gulag, this is..

    #120525
    Bill7
    Participant

    ‘Bring Me Your Love’ by Bukowski and R Crumb is on its way to my temporal residence. Great cover!, which I hope
    is indicative of its overall contents.

    #120526
    aspnaz
    Participant

    jb-hb said

    My point is that, if we can conceivably see Joe faking it as the more rational explanation, then we are REALLY out into weird/awful territory.

    We knew the POTUS position was fake as soon as the deep state started pushing back against Trump and he was left incapacitated. He did not achieve anything other than basically trivial stuff. His power did not exist, the POTUS was revealed to be a sham, so why is this POTUS in a weird/awful place? Trump showed us that the POTUS position is a figurehead position and that other people run the USA regardless of who is POTUS. Why would this come as a shock with Biden? Like saying you are shocked that people cheated in this election, come on, this has been going on for a long time.

    The USA illustrates a very interesting point about society and government, which is that it does not matter how well you set up governments with constitutions etc, those systems will always depend on intangible aspects of societal behaviour – such as social pressure to be honest – and that without those aspects the entire system will collapse. The US government was working fine 100 years ago, but now it does not work because the people have changed and the system can no longer rely on the people to try to be honest and truthful, so it crashes and we are currently experiencing that crash where people try to grab what they can before complete collapse.

    #120527
    aspnaz
    Participant

    This diversity hire’s parents were having a laugh: why would you name your child “Keisha Lance Bottoms”? Mind you, everything she says seems to have come out of someone’s bottom, do they have to keep up this level of delusion in private? That must be tiring … https://reclaimthenet.org/keisha-lance-bottoms-social-media-bidens-accomplishments/.

    #120528
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Now back to your regularly scheduled TAE fearporn, rants, raves, warmongering, hate east/west junk dump/spam fest 😆 EOT”

    I consider VP’s posts to be TAE’s official “regularly scheduled TAE fearporn, rants, raves, warmongering, hate east/west junk dump/spam fest”. Even our trending alleged trolls (currently these appear to be Redneck and chooch) seem to be the currently favorite tag team) can’t even begin to compete with VP’s talent for presenting himself as the Rightest of the Right, which is interesting since he claims his audience is mostly incapable of perceiving the true righteous rightness of VP’s self-serving output. Why tell us if we’re too foolish to understand? Who’s he talking to?

    It’s like a well-bosomed woman wearing a tight t-shirt sans brassiere, which t-shirt bears the words: Don’t Stare At My Tits, You Nasty Tit-Starer… even as they (the aforementioned bosoms) nod and wink beguilingly.

    I find VP to be neither Veracious nor Poetic, but oh well. It takes all kinds. And I take an odd comfort in his predictably reliable lack of self-awareness. I’m sure he’s flattered by the attention.

    ***

    I highly doubt that Joe Biden is faking being as fucked up as he is any more than I think Trump fakes being as fucked up as he is. But Trump has some kind of method to his madness, something that got him elected despite duopoly resistance, while Joe is more an example of madness as a method. Being old and deranged and dementedly senile is what Joe DOES, period, seems to me. Electing mentally disturbed compulsive pedophiles seems to be what the duopoly DOES.

    They can’t keep him locked up in the White House all the time.

    Concept: conspiracy theories like this rely on our faith that the charlatans in charge have a clue of what they’re doing and how to accomplish it. Maybe they do. But evidence available to me convinces me otherwise. I think Kurt Vonnegut captured my feelings on such things:

    “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

    I’ll add that, in a business de facto policed by kompromat, an old pro like Joe surely has his share of kompromatt on the Gotham Mob, etc. Trump was naming a few names and spilling some beans too. He did it almost as incoherently and erratically as Joe, but still, he was as loose a cannon as there ever was. Joe is actually a safer expose’ risk than Trump, imo, because it is obvious that he is failing. Nuts as Trump is, he could say things like how he could “shoot people in the street and still get elected”… and still get elected.

    Also, Joe is now president. Fact. He can tell his handlers to fuck off any time he wants and they know it. Life is not a video game. The only character one can control is oneself and, as we’ve often mentioned here, self-control is more of a wish than an accomplishment for us humans.

    My personal theory: Joe rammed Jeffrey Epstein’s dossier of dicks up the DNC’s ass so hard they had to give him the nom.

    Welcome to Earth, Suckahs!

    The planet of my dreams
    The earth, my earth
    Is bulging at the seams
    The earth, my earth
    It’s full of many schemes
    And as the sunlight beams
    The glory of our sciences
    And militant alliances
    Reveal their basic worth
    Along the mounds of dead appliances!
    The planet of my dreams
    The earth, my earth
    I hear it’s muffled screams
    The earth, my earth
    And though it often seems
    From television beams
    That ignorance is rampant there
    And governmental goons don’t care
    I know that I shall not despair
    And cheat like all the rest
    I’ll just keep on
    With what I do the best!
    Cheat-cheedly-cheat! go ahead!
    I can’t do it!
    Cheat-cheedly-cheat! go ahead!
    I can’t do it!
    Cheat-cheedly-cheat! go ahead!
    I can’t do it!
    Cheat-cheedly-cheat! go ahead!
    I can’t do it!
    <end>

    And now my ego and I will resume our mutually antagonistic but utterly codependent pretense of being in control while ignoring the other… we both know it’s a facade, but it get us to cooperate at least a little bit.

    #120529
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “so many Explainers… … Odd that with such deep insights they don’t also point to any (collective) actions to be taken, for the common good..”

    I suspect this isn’t welcome coming from me, but: I totally agree.

    #120530
    Bill7
    Participant

    Ralph Vaughn Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis / Sinfonia of London / John Barbirolli, 1963:

    https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=dbnlhCizyj8

    Don’t try listening unless you can give it all of your self. There might be a better recorded performance of this timeless piece, but this one is very, very good.

    #120531
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Bill7 said

    Odd that with such deep insights they don’t also point to any (collective) actions to be taken, for the common good

    There is no collective so how can there be any collective actions? People are looking out for themselves and they are willing to “kill the unvaxxed” or whatever else it takes for them to get what they want, fuck the rest. That is the problem with society, there is no cohesion and hence no collective. The progressives are quite happy to steal the election because the result is all that counts, they don’t care about democracy, so how do you dream up “collective actions” to include these people? You don’t.

    The only solution is to let the system die then “build back better” which, if this happened organically, would result in a new working system good for the majority. With WEF offering the new “Build Back Better” system, they will preempt the organic “build back better” with a bastardized system that suits them and not us.

    #120532
    Bill7
    Participant

    Thanks for sharing your perspective.

    #120533
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Feeling a bit down and in need of a laugh?

    Try this joke from the Gawdian:

    ‘Cop27: ending war in Ukraine necessary to tackle climate crisis, Zelenskiy says

    Ukrainian president says Russia’s invasion has forced dozens of countries to resume coal-fired power to alleviate energy cost’

    #120534
    Bill7
    Participant

    Why should a medium of communication have private owners? That’s not innate, not at all.. yet this Digital one surely does. Isn’t that a bit strange? So many oddities have been ‘normalized’ since the Digital Age bagan..

    #120535
    Bill7
    Participant

    ..The Opaque nature of this medium-as-instituted is one of its very creepiest aspects, I think. It’s a one way-window, and the hoi polloi, curiously, don’t get to see.

    #120536
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Chris Martenson (the very good Crash Course) describes the current predicament as the ‘Doom Loop.’ And it has been activated.

    ‘The U.S. Government is facing an impossible financial future. The Doom Loop has been activated. It’s a death spiral that ends with the destruction of the U.S. dollar or a depression so bad it might as well be called Dark Ages II.

    This is what happens at the tail end of decades of really piss-poor decisions, made by get-along-to-along bureaucrats of feeble intellect and weak integrity.’

    https://peakprosperity.com/the-impossible-financial-trap-that-leads-to-the-great-reset/

    We have known that for at least a decade but it’s s nevertheless good that CM is shouting it from the rooftops.

    That damned exponential function 🙂

    #120537
    Bill7
    Participant

    Recently I’ve had recurring, vivid dreams of owning a V-8 powered, small English roadster. You’d have a hard time stuffing a V-8 into an MG Midget, which is the only car in that category
    I know anything about (Lucas electrics included; I basically rewired the whole damned thing in my ’67.). Then I was reading about the old ‘Get Smart’ series with Don Adams, Barbara (ooh, la-la!) Feldon, and Edward Platt; and realized that it was a Sunbeam Alpine I’ve been pining for- or something. No more cars for me, TYVM, but the idea is nice. I’d much rather have Barbara Feldon..

    #120538
    Bill7
    Participant

    Barbara Feldon discusses rehearsals for ‘Get Smart’: https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=xJLmih623oU

    #120539
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    I should’ve known when I tossed that YT rock that I’d hit the cross-dresser in the audience 😆

    BTW, midway into that trailer Turdeau is announced & makes a strange appearance (guess the show has the PM’s thumbs up)…

    #120540
    John Day
    Participant

    @Bill7: Sunbeam Alpine had 6 cylinder. Sunbeam Tiger had V-8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Tiger

    Original Shelby/AC Cobra was that way, just a little bigger.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Cobra

    #120541
    John Day
    Participant

    Nice to see you back, Robin. I hope you are feeling well.
    Christopher Robin

    #120542
    Bill7
    Participant

    Re: Sunbeam automobiles, I wrote ‘Alpine’, but meant ‘Tiger’. The Alpine models I remember had inline four-cylinders engines, though maybe there was another, later six-cylinder model.

    Inline sixes were always my favorite engines; smooth by nature, and torquey.

    #120543
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    @TheMarkster #120501

    Your comment struck home. We share your Russophilia. Classical ballet is wonderful, and what dancers the Russians have churned out through the decades. Our great love is for Russian music. Somehow it portrays the ‘sadness and majesty’ (‘To Dance’ Panov autobiography 1978) encapsulated in the country and its history.

    Indeed, stick with Raul for news. Bardi called it right.

    #120544
    Bill7
    Participant

    Matt Taibbi: Tim Robbins and the Lost Art of Finding Common Ground:

    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/tim-robbins-and-the-lost-art-of-finding

    What’s facinating to me is how since the “pandemic”, humans congregating has been de-normalized: Stay Safe! [and essentially Dead!] Robbins has a few courageous things to say about that, though he, too, has to pull his punches.

    we live in a carefully designed New Dark Age.

    #120545
    Bill7
    Participant

    > Indeed, stick with Raul for news. Bardi called it right.

    I would not doubt that assertion for a millisecond. Both are unimpeachable sources.

    #120573
    Noirette
    Participant

    Veracious Poet, Yeah I usually use Firefox w. blocker but was on Safari (which is actually better for some searches) and the clash between mad consumerism and Anglo war poetry sorta struck a chord? Heh…:)

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