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Well then. Boscohorowitz has left the building. God bless us all. I*’m off to the diamond mines:
Somebody shut this bloated liar, please. “jewjuice” is getting really close to ye olde blood libel.
Silence when some creep smears his excrement on this discussion forum connotes approval to those reading. I clean up my dogshit when I take it on walks. It’s my neighborhood. I share it with my neighbors. It’s an investment in basic common decency. Same principle here.
While some here waste words psychoanalyzing whether I’m a toxic narcissist, no one takes jerks like celticibiker to task.
It’s not a flattering portrait. But there’s light at the end of this cloaca: keep it up and I’ll be unable to countenance even reading these comments much less contributing. You can get rid of me by accepting jackwads like celticbiker. Winning, right!
rototillerman: pandiculation. Physical therapy technique for our more elderly friend (whose name I forget).
I remember when the big problem was just spam and viruses. Not really bots, just wind-up lice. Now we got full-bore blow-bots spreading virtual bad near-beer breath for that patented human Street Cred(t) aura.
I’m sorry, but it’s hard for me to believe that real live humans are THAT stupid… and I have a rather poor opinion of human intelligence.
How many AI subroutines does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None. AIs can’t screw.
As the bots pile up, polarization happens: a group like us here at TAE at some point must defend our integrity. Since censorship is not (and should not be) allowed here, we must resort to other classically brutal methods, like frequent public stonings of miscreant trolls/bots and other fast food commercials.
But if left to roam amok around here, trolls/bots will make it easy for new readers/lurkers to dismiss our controversial and difficult-to-accept ideas by association with crackpot assholery.
Used to be that ignoring trolls worked best most of the time. Now trolls breed like lice if you let ’em.
A note for the general reading public: we are not at war with the vaxxed, nor even the pro-vaxxed. We do not seek pogroms against vaxxers nor do we wish to miserabilise them. We don’t believe whites are superior to other races or that Jews or any race is inherently evil or inferior or dirty or…
We don’t. By we, I mean most of us. There are ever the degenerate few.
We are at war, instead, with ignorance regarding covid and countless other dire topics affecting global humanity. A deep respect for freedom of speech bids us tolerate these vile troll/bot intrusions so long as they don’t become enormous bandwidth hogs or just plain spam us.
(ahem) So srsly, people of TAE, smack them wackamoles down whenever they spout vicious jive. A simple ‘not true’ will do, especially if several of us do it. Every time. I mostly treat TAE as a lark because I do that with everything in life: lighten up, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, etc. But I take very seriously it’s overall influence on the infosphere. It may be small, but a single grain of rice…
Roaches will take over a house if you don’t keep at ’em when they first start appearing.
chewlticbiker: everyone knows you’re black. It’s ok. We don’t judge people by the color of their skin.or pixel array. That’s your job.
It used to be you’d ask, ‘Is he that stupid or that malicious?’ Now we have to ask ‘Is it that stupid or that malicious or just another AI rabble-rouser?’ Heaven help us when AI learns how to really, truly, convincingly imitate your standard racially bigoted dipshit. I’m not saying that chewlticbiker doesn’t do a bad imitation of this. Pretty convincing to me, but it lacks that mad dog foam-at-mouth of the true Aryan aspirant. One never knows, do one?
But srsly, how does one shut the thing off?
““J’aime les -uifs!” Holland’s foremost painter shouts as he moves through seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s busy streets. The scene, in Charles Matton’s 1999 film Rembrandt, unwittingly recalls another, from the film of the same name made fifty-eight years before by German director Hans Steinhoff. Already well known for his Hitlerjunge Quex, about a Hitler Youth murdered by Communists, Steinhoff had arrived in Amsterdam in 1941, bringing with him the German actors, set designers, cameramen, and costume directors supplied by Propaganda Minister Goebbels. No expense was spared. Rembrandt’s purpose, after all, was nothing less than to show the freshly conquered “Land of Rembrandt” that the artist who represented its highest achievement was, in Hitler’s words, “a true Aryan and German.”
“There were two problems. First, Rembrandt was not German. Second, he was famously associated with -ews. An emphasis on the essential “racial” unity of the Dutch and the Germans could take care of the first. The second was trickier. Three centuries later, Rembrandt’s friendships with -ews caused uneasiness in the highest circles of the Reich. Steinhoff’s script therefore directed “drei Männer -üdischen Aussehens“—three men who looked like greasy, greedy Semites— to ruin the heroic Aryan, causing his bankruptcy and plunging him into the oblivion in which he died.
“Still, as Goebbels and Steinhoff found, the problem with turning Rembrandt into an emblem of Germanic racial superiority was that he, more than any other artist, was popularly and enduringly remembered as a friend of the -ews.”
from some article out there
“…some theories on why Prigozhin has the green light to talk smack.”
This assumes that Putin has given some kind of permission or that Prighozhin feels he needs it. Initial premises are crucially important for subsequent hypothesizing to be much good.
Putin is not going to do Wagner in Ukraine with massive aerial bombardments or whatever it would take to dismantle them on the field. They still serve a valuable purpose, and the PR would be disastrous.
When they are no longer needed, I think that either Prigozhion will a) shut up, b) abandon the Eurasian sphere, or c) Putin orders cease&desist with promised annihilation if they refuse.
I don’t think Putin gives Prigozhin much thought at all at this point. Prigozhin’s just talking, pissing in the wind. He may have already crossed some red line with Putin and has nothing to lose now.
The only time I recall the Putin admin addressing Prigozhin (since he started bitching)was to tell him, a month or two ago, when Prigozhin first started serious bitching, to stay in Ukraine or be treated as traitors/terrorists. Basically saying, “If you want to come back home and stay out of jail, stay in Ukraine.”
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About nukes, McCarthur, Korean Conflict, Prigozhin: MaCarthur got shit-canned by Truman halfway through the war. MacArthur was talking too freely to the press, and bitching as well. Truman and MacArthur took turns finger-pointing each other, primarily over the use of atomic weapons — accusing each other of wanting to use the weapon while MacArthur also complained of Truman not allowing him to use atomic weapons.
Basically, nutso behavior by MacArthur. MacA got canned, and Truman did too come next election, Eisenhower kicking him aside and then winning by a landslide.
Putin is wise not to speak publicly about Prigozhin. After all, this is a war not a public debate. But elections are coming, and Putin will want to be the kingmaker when this happens. He’ll need to be seen as very credible and competent. Talking to/about Prigozhin only makes him weaker.
I personally think that the odds of nuclear conflict are now very greatly reduced by Belarus acquiring nukes. Especially when Lukashenko publicly and baldly stated that nation joining their alliance will get nukes, period. (Although for now this surely means just Eurasia.) Nations have more reason to cooperate with the Russian axis.
“The problem that is ignored is that the instant that tactical nuclear weapons are used, the strategic ICBMs in silos become vulnerable to a nuclear first strike and they will be ignited first.”
I do not challenge this, just question it because I do not see its logic. Nor am I saying it is illogical, just that it doesn’t tell me why ICBM silos would be more vulnerable to a tactical strike after the use of tacticals elsewhere. I see potential correlation, but not a definite ‘if this, then that’ domino logic chain.
Can you pls clarify? I always take your pithy analyses very seriously.
btw, afewknow, what I like about you vis a vis climate change is that you present consistent data sets and take the time to stack them with logical symmetry and stay on target, whereas those attempting to debunk present rather chaotic data arrays and don’t present (to my eyes) a linear coherent logic trail. But that’s just me, subjectively, and my opinion means nuts.
I don’t know if the globe will warm or cool from the disturbances we’re creating in the earth’s thermal albedo, but I dov know that the weather is currently behaving very erratically which is what happens when you nudge a large, majestically complex system with the same chaotic attractor over and over and over and over…
I don’t hardly care about climate change theory because, per said theory, we’re already too late and headed for the anticipated toaster (although I think it’s as likely that we oscillate rapidly between mini Ice Ages and mini hot house climates… which would be even worse than the classic ‘sea levels rising’ doom predictions.
But I do care about consistent data presentations, and for my personal money, you do that really really well.
But then, I think that Hillary Clinton was hot when she was 50, so you know there’s something not right with me. 😉
For those lurkers who are new to TAE: we ain’t like celticbiker. IN fact, many of us are black or Jewish or, as in my case, from Saturn.
What I really dislike about derogatory racial bigotry is not its meanness or judgmental dismissiveness:: humans are often mean and judgmental.
It’s the stupidity. They need color-coded people to know whom to look down on. If they’re white, like Jews, then you have to look at the tips of their dicks before you can say, ‘Ah. A helmet head. You are vermin scum, root of all problems.’ blah blah blah
It’s fantastically dumb.
Finally, Germ points his finger-gun at genuinely deserving targets.
Finally, VP says what he really means. As word salads go, it’s kind of monotonous, but a little dressing should do the trick.
Second in a series:
Top Ten Myths About China – Part 2 What are the myths about China floating around the West?
Speaking of words (it’s a semi-tautology, yes?), I have always felt about the words ‘aurora borealis’ the way I do about a pretty girl by a campfire under starlight.
Words are the very devil, the key that opened Pandora’s Box and locked us out of the Garden, but that’s not their fault. Of themselves, words are wonderful.
Well, it’s one way to stay warm… (dedicated to Afewknowthetruth)
Pertaining to the Writers’ Guild strike in Hollywood:
“One of the main focus points in the labor dispute is the residuals from streaming media;[5] the WGA claims that AMPTP’s share of such residuals has cut much of the writers’ average incomes compared to a decade ago.[6][7] Writers also wanted artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT to be used only as a tool that can help with research or facilitate script ideas and not as a tool to replace them.[8][9]”
(reading a bit on Carlton’s departue from FOX):
“In his private communications to a colleague, Carlson called Powell an exceptionally vulgar and denigrating term for a woman.”
‘an exceptionally vulgar and denigrating term for a woman’ is a LOT of letters for a 4-letter word, and there’s nothing wrong with the word ‘cunt’. It’s another word for ‘vagina’, and vaginas are lovely things. In a culture in which ‘fuck you’ is an insult based on the concept of rape, of unwanted sex), I am amused by the hysteria focused on cunt (a very insulting term, btw, associating women with insanity via the Greek word for uterus, hystera).
Wadda buncha dumb cunts!
Q: What is wrong with the previous sentence?
A: Not the word cunt but its malicious intent.But then, we endure the nonsensical concept of hate crime, which itself I could handle but only if we also made it a crime to hate, period. What’s another stupid law among a zillion? But hate sells almost as well as sex, so hate is functionally encouraged even as we blabber mouth-noises against it.
Don’t you just hate hate?
Maybe JC was on to something when He said, “Love thine enemies?” (lest you become like them?)
Meanwhile, I think this is something to watch:
Ignoring Russia’s demographic crisis would be ill-advised
I’m curious what effect on Russia’s cooperation with the WHO (via its native “Faucists — a Faucian deal) might come from this growing, effectively populist, awareness might.
Hotez California
– Relax said the vaxx man, we are programmed to inject
– You can check out any time you want but you will stillbe wreckedinfect.Tasty nit I picked there. Yum. Originally, I just felt that “you will still be wrecked” was a tad clunky for TAE Sum’s usual concise elegance. But then, I realized that the alteration was more correct. I know of many people multiply vaxxed who are in fine shape two years later, who could catch a covid variant tomorrow and spread it around just swell. Just as the vax doesn’t work reliably to protect from covid, it also doesn’t reliably produce harsh side effects.
As disturbingly misguided and/or corrupt and/or insane Monsieur Hotez may be, there may be hope for him yet. Maybe if he loses that bow tie. Hey! It worked for this guy:
And his bow tie had polka dots. While he wore a plaid jacket. A seemingly hopeless case. But he got his head bashed by a professional comedian (Jon Stewart), and it turned some kind of light on?
“It’s better to speak the truth than to get elected, Bobby”
Everyone lies. EVERYone.
Choosing when to lie and what about is about as good as we get.
As a recovered junkie, BobbyJ surely knows how dangerous lies are. Put you in a backroom with a needle in your arm before you can stop. You could see how much he hated it. I think BobbyJ will show us some interesting things yet. He may not rise above the blatant moral compromise he’s making. Odds are against him, imo.
But at least it’s political theater that I can watch as if it it just might matter at some point. Say what one will about BobbyJ’s sincerity etc., he mos def has major skin in the game, including his own.
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“Everybody says Russia will push westward to the Polish border, but Putin does not say that”
Why would he want to inherit a failed nation, especially after bombing it to bits? Russia has a depopulation problem, now exacerbated by its foolish submission to the covid nightmare. So does Ukraine. For human purposes, land without enough people to work/hold/protect it is just a burden.
Putin/Russia ARE willing to absorb Ukraine into the fold, but only on Russia’s terms, and at this point, Ukraine couldn’t meet those terms even if it wanted to.
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It’s in the bag. Shaman power!
I echo the praise for the Vermeer. From an article John Updike wrote when I was wee:
“”For my own money, Jay, the French are the people to beat. We have four Degas ballet dancers in our living room in Chicago, and I could sit and look at one of them for hours. I think it’s wonderful, the feeling for balance the man had.”
“Yeah, but don’t Degas’s paintings always remind you of colored drawings? For actually looking at things in terms of paint, for the lucid eye, I think Vermeer makes Degas look sick.”
Uncle Quin said nothing, and my father, after an anxious glance across the table, said, “That’s the way he and his mother talk all the time. It’s all beyond me. I can’t understand a thing they say.””
GISFOS
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Nice to see JD get some kudos. He not only sacrificed a career, he lost countless patients-as-friends who in turn lost a doctor-as-friend.
Love those Wise Old Owl eyebrows and how his wife looks like she’s fully recovered from her health challenges. Downright radiant, she r.
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In our new digs, I rapidly became patron/ friend to a local crow couple raising chicks.
We had a freakish hail storm three days ago. 1 inch hail. Raised welts where it hit.
I didn’t see the crows next day. I worried. Two days after, the storm they showed up as I walked the dog, landing in a tree above and cawing gleefully.
‘ We survived! Thanx for the corn bread. What happened to the ever lovin sky!?!?!’
Seems they hid under shelter for a day, terrified to come out?
I’m so happy they’re still with us. That hail coulda crippled/ killed them with ease. Delightful couple. ALWAYS together, never solo.
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Classic but lesser known MOdern Era composer:
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We’ll see lots more of this. Not just from general anomie, but strategic power. Can’t afford the rent? Kick in the doors. Copycats see the news story and follow suit. Property values fall, so does rent. Affordable hovels at last!
Developer pulls out of Portland after four decades: ‘What does a property owner do?’
As for Who’s thechewdi and who ain’t: we’d have to do some interesting forensics of any Khazari mummies we could find in order to see if they’d clipped their tips:
“The Khazari race seems to lie behind the Ashkenazik Jews of Eastern Europe.
This kind of assertion can, of course, be debated. The real problem in the
discussion is the notion that Jewishness is a blood or racial phenomenon. It is
not.Biblically speaking, a Jew is someone who is covenanted into the people of
Jews by circumcision. . . .All these people were Jew, but only a small fraction actually had any of
Abraham’s blood in them. . . . What this demonstrates is that covenant, not
race, has always been the defining mark of a Jew.4from THE KHAZARS AND THE JEWS Tom’s Perspectives by Thomas Ice
The quest for some entity or group on whom to blame the evils of our world seems inexhaustible.
The history of every single major polity I’ve read is vile beyond redemption. But the Jews do have a way of drawing unwanted attention to themselves, and as a group, were the primary de facto banker’s guild, sort of the financial IBM>>>Microsoft of the Western world. There is a curious historical reason for this that is rarely mentioned or discussed, not so much cuz it’s deliberately a giant secret, more because scholars are too busy either defending or (not often) attacking historical Jewry, vis a vis the money-lending usury history of Jewry in Xtiandom to look at why Jews did so WELL at banking.
Before usury and banking, money-changing was where Jews excelled in dominating the currency game wherever they lives. Julius Caesar was hep to it too. (I think it was Julius.) The diaspora placed them in a unique position to profit by the price differences between gold and silver in coastal China and the Western reaches of Roman/Byzantine Xtiandom.
Jews were, through their knowledge, better at running the financial shell games that ALL races, creeds and ethnicities practice. But let’s make something clear: Jews merely FINANCED the wars of goyim. They didn’t start the wars. That didn’t begin to happen until the age of conquest and all that (especially with all that silver coming from South America), and even then they didn’t actually drive war itself until quite recently (Ziionistas/911 neocons). They were merely happy to finance and profit from goyim wars, but it is the goyim who wanted/started those wars.
This mostly secret knowledge probably contributed to goyim’s tendency to view Jews as being in pact with the Devil.
No one I know has met the Devil. Or God. If no one can look on the Face of God and live to tell about it, imagine how viciously lethal the Devil is about people learning His Secret Identity. In the end, speculation is speculation however much we insist it is true.
“All of you , today, are witness to a slow motion genocide. ”
I think it’s a not so slo-mo suicide, but if you want to give the chewish full responsibility for human affairs, knock yourself out. Humanity is killing humanity. Few of the bad things being done to our planet are done at gunpoint. They’re done for wages and investment profit.
btw, if you spend money, you are obviously a chewish minion chewtoy. Why you despicable chewish accomplice!
It is SO obvious that das negros and them dirty wiggers are the ultimate force behind all this, taking over the minds of men and minions with nonsensical jive with a clunky backbeat. Haven’t you read the Protocols of the Elders of Autotune?
“For example, many humans believed the earth was flat: how could you rationally believe the earth is flat when the moon, the sun and other visible objects are not flat? Because humans think they are special: globe world for the aliens, flat world for us.”
People who don’t live on very flat steppes or near a very large body of water never get to see the curvature of the horizon. Meanwhile, gravity makes everything seek out the level, peneplains, what have you. It’s logical to think the world is flat and the heavenly objects revolves around us. It made common sense at the time. No need to project psychological assumptions onto people long dead. Believing this requires an act of, what’s that word? Oh yeah: faith.
“Wow, you are starting a new religion.”
I’m all for people taking matters into their own hands. Unsubstantiated dogma, of course, is problematic, but ambiguity displeases most folk, seems to me, so we tend to speak in absolutes even though we lack convincing proof.
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“LA McDonalds Robbed by Flash Mob”
Inevitable. Coordination is crucial to successful campaigns of aggression. New tech yields new modes of activity.
“…why give your enemy what they say they want, EVER?”
“Never interrupt your enemy when it is busy destroying itself.” Sun Tzu
What the enemy wants is tactically/strategically useful info, but that’s it. What your enemy wants is of itself of no interest to its opponent except as stick’n’carrot manipulations on the enemy might be applied through knowledge of what they want. Which brings up another Sun Tzu quote:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of WarA moment of respect for those who lead by example:
“While listening to a draft resister, Randy Kehler, speak in 1969, Ellsberg was feeling patriotic pride for him and for America, when Randy calmly stated that “he was very excited that he would soon be able to join his friends in prison”. His two year prison sentence was about to commence. Ellsberg experienced a sobbing epiphany from Randy’s profound altruistic action, which brought him to consider revealing his own detailed knowledge of the corruption, immorality and hopelessness of the Vietnam War.“
Yup. It’s you, uranian. 😉 You’ve led an evil life. Buy my book and I’ll show you how to cleanse yourself of guilt!
The links work work. You are probably being punished for your sins in a past life. (examines the flight log of Epstein’s Dead Now Airways… oy. U bin a bayyad boy, uranian. 😉
Let me try a more alt link of yours:
We were told to conform to Communist ideals but we opted for My Favoriter POny.
Seeing as how our currency/economy/most everything is crashing, we might want to start exploring what that other form of love at large might be.
Well, that’s weird. It’s almost like this paragraph means something?
I know what it is for me: honor. Love cannot live without mutually reliable trust, and without the love of money (based on trust, nyet?) to bind us together as one great unhappy family, trust seems to be the starting foundation of whatever new form of shared love we will use to create positive consensus.
uranian: Try logging out. Shut down PC. Bury your posts in attendant verbiage (maybe italicize it so we can tell).
I had your same experience and now, voila, have posted alI intended to.
And easy on any links today. WPress has difficulty swallowing them today, it seems.
Unless TAE gets major press, I doubt we’re worth shadowbanning. Not that we’re nothing, but not that big; meanwhile shadowbanning would just further cionvince us that Big Bro is Everywhere.
Wordpress is having a hard time today. Must be bad internet weather around its core.
We love war almost as much as money even though we absolutely hate its consequences. We love it so much that, to steal from W. Gibson, it has become “so popular it’s almost legal”. In fact, it IS legal. We enacted Just War doctrines to be sure we butcher each other en masse PROPERLY.
Experimento:
babaganoujski il cicitarita monsieur
Money and war go hand in hand, as we all know. War arises from surplus, rarely from lack. (Lack is more prone to produce highwaymen and such. Outlaws.) Unneeded wealth, like a standing army, gets its “owner” (ha!) into mischief. Slavery is virtually impossible without money, for with or without money, you need to have a well-ordered society in order to hold and control slaves, and we don’t know HOW to have well-ordered societies, beyond 150 people max, without money. (This is based on me accepting Dunbar’s # as proven theory, even fact, so your mileage may vary on that one.)
But my remark is still true even without Dunbar’s Number, because today it is factually true: we all require money to socioeconomically exist. Show me the money is the quintessential credibility of civilized homo sapiens for at least 5k years. Work done on the basis of mutually shared trusting cooperation and sharing of harvest is SO neolithic, man.
We rail against capitalism or socialism oo la la when it’s ALL moneyism. (This is one thing, probably the only thing, that compulsive chew-bankstah bashers get right.)
One needn’t believe in Jesus as a literally supernatural (and divinely endorsed) superhero to see that He knew some serious shit about society: “The love of money is the root of all evil.” Some people say they use money only cuz they have to, but chronic usage is love just as a happy marriage is doing the same things over and over (especially boinking) so long as those things are decently good or at least not too bad. I tell my tribe that family is a function of frequency and proximity, not intent or sentiment or heritage. A man who sees the same whore frequently is entering into some kind of serious romantic relationship whether either of them admit it or not, whether she reciprocates the feeling or not.
Judging money by its frequency/proximity to our lives and hearts, I see money as our essential Family of Man. In God We Trust, but in money we believe and act with the trust sense of certainty we accord gravity. We are absolutely, completely, head-over-heals in love with what Lester Young first coined (oops) as “dough*.”
*about upcoming gigs, he’d say, “The work is good but how does the dough rise?” He didn’t want to work for no flatbread.Money-love may be a love born of Stockholm syndrome, but it’s love. There are, I believe and know first hand, better forms of love. Not just at home where we still have some semblance of a clue, but love at large.
Seeing as how our currency/economy/most everything is crashing, we might want to start exploring what that other form of love at large might be.
“In exchange for the pain of getting it wrong a lot (by lying, killing and stealing too much or lying, killing and stealing too little) we get to survive for a while in a world that spins along on a course of swirling and yet exquisitely balanced good & bad, truth and lie, pleasure and pain, and so on. In this process we grow spiritually, and slowly slowly slowly discover what a tough job the Author of the Universe has taken upon Himself, and the pain He experiences each and every time we fail, and all done SO THAT WE CAN EVEN HAVE A WORLD TO ATTEMPT, FAIL, LEARN AND GROW IN.”
This is pretty much my essential take, too.
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A general message, replete with mispelling:
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from comments on the Greenwald/RFK, Jr. debate:
“Kennedy’s explanation is as clear as mud. It is obvious he knows if he dares to cross the Israel lobby, it will ruin him and his candidacy. Criticizing Israel in ANY MANNER is a third rail. radioactive position, as Kennedy says.”
You can tell that Bobby Jr. is struggling with the Izzy thing. Politics is making deals, and in late-stage imperial politics, deals with the devil are part of that negotiation suite.
RFK has an aspect the other candidates don’t. He already takes measures (he says) to avoid CIA assassination. Perhaps he doesn’t want to anger Mossad. Maybe Mossad is part of his protection package? Strange bedfellows.
He is obviously having a hard time selling the half-truths he does in the Greenwald video. He’s literally choking from the effort.
I like this guy’s take: Third Rail Burns
I confess to enjoying, if only superficially like a slight breeze on sweaty skin, a flush of optimism watching BobbyJ. Nothing I want to take to the bank but enjoyable nonetheless. Maybe that’s why he reminded me of Lando Calrissian muttering, “This deal stinks worse all the time.”
BobbyJ doesn’t enjoy being a quisling. It seemed physically painful to him. Maybe he’ll do something surprising. I’m in the mood for a surprise.
Corporations taking over government was a natural evolution of democracy i.e. humanity. (Hominid evolution is a democracy run by human agency under a genetically-defined constitution.) People vote with their money far more than their suffrage. We will financially reward any entity that gives us more for less even if it ruins our parent’s mom’n’pop business. Ruthless* entities seeking profit uber alles use this to herd us all the way to the fleecing banks and slaughter houses (war, for example).
*many maybe most of them unconsciously so… and after all, how can you be good at bullshitting the masses if you can’t bullshit yourself?But we pay their way by opting for the best deal, because goldarn it, I work HARD for mah munnee! An unhappy family is okay if it has money, and a happy family is still looked down on if it’s poor.
We put the corporations in charge, not the government. Gubmint goes broke if unfunded, hence mandatory taxes. But we voluntarily concentrate our wealth into the control of the corporate few. All that funny money the Fed prints means nothing if people don’t circulate it, right? They could give their .0001% crony favorites money all day and it would do no good if we didn’t accept it as payment from them (good-paying jobs, for example) spend it on them (Ford employees being able to buy their own cars was, as Ford always said, just good business savvy) or reinvest it back into them (
petropeasantdollar recirculation.The tower of greed is composed of living beings. Like an enormous gymnast pyramid. Said living beings being you and I (all other living beings being the suffering sentient mush bleeding under our weight). No one wants to leave the pyramid. Having done so myself, in the process socially and economically crippling myself in weird ways hard for people to understand, I can attest that it is indeed painful in many ways… but oh so very rewarding in others. I wouldn’t go back and change a thing (except riding down that hill in a giant tractor tire tube and breaking my wrist from it. Ruined me as a drummer and I can’t hold a boogie-woogie pattern in my piano left hand for shit cuz of it.)
