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Incidentally, Hanania presents himself on camera in a relaxed sort of “I’m just a guy” persona that is astoundingly different than his real-world pedigree and work history. I won’t list it all out, just suffice it to say that he has hobnobbed and worked for people at the highest levels of power (like Kings and Presidents and stuff). His employer, Columbia, and his job-description relationship to that employer, goes back to King George II and the American Revolutionary War, and up to Dwight D. Eisenhower as it’s president (he was granted temporary leave from that post to go be Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WW2, but return to work after winning it.
Crazy as a bed bug? Oh, yes, he certainly is. Genius level IQ and “Top Drawer” connections? Yup. Those, too. This creep should not be underestimated.
Richard Hanania is quite the piece of work. His poison is strong, and if I were asked for a snap answer to name an individual who most perfectly personifies a demon in human form I might well call out Richard Hanania as your guy. I’m a little bit surprised that a Moriarty of that caliber has not yet been promoted to a higher rank in the Cabal. That sort rarely presents their face and agenda so publicly. Looks to me that they are coming out in the open to make their play (for world domination by evil incarnate).
Even 10 minutes of watching and listening to that guy made me want to check the household security systems and then take a hot shower to decontaminate.
Did you notice how much he is enjoying himself? He really digs being evil.
America’s touted (and oft repeated) so-called $36 trillion National Debt is the albatross around the neck that will prevent escape from its deadly gravity.
But not for the mathematical and financially described reasons that you might think.
There are two or three reasons, actually, not the least of which is that the $36 T only quantifies what’s on the books. The off-books “invisible” debt is ten or a hundred (who knows?!) bigger than that. It’s in LSD-Alice-In-Wonderland hallucination territory.) Then there is the small matter of people having to continue to eat, no matter what their money is worth (or not worth). I can tell you with high confidence that they cannot eat lame explanations from dumb politicians about why their money can’t buy them enough to eat anymore.
Nah. Let’s not sidetrack into the lesser reasons. Let’s go straight to the biggie.
The so-called “debt” in that silly propaganda about the National Debt IS NOT DEBT!.
It is FRAUD, otherwise known as incontrovertible court admissible evidence of real, prosecutable crimes. The government and bankers (and there’s very little distinction between them, really) cannot retire the “debt” without balancing the books which would nessarily expose the fraud and send thousands of miscreants to prison for life with possibility of parole.
That’s the real reason that the “debt” is going nowhere but up until it physically cannot go any higher, at which point it evaporates the entire fraudulent edifice.
@MyParentsSaidKnow
All in all, a damned expensive carnival ride.
You said it! Or another way of looking at the big budget theatrical production of pre-release advertising is, “All in all, a damned expensive Ad.”
They can’t fake a moon landing in this modern age because there are too many eyes on the project and too much uber-High Technology to sniff out the bullshit. In other words, nobody is going to the moon (or even into the Van Allen Radiation Belt) any time soon. But stay tuned for some more big-budget hype and advertising!
@JohnDay
The skill that you and your wife demonstrated doesn’t have a specific and accepted nomenclature in the society we currently operate within, but in less distracted and brainwashed societies it’s both more common and more accepted as a simple fact of life. Lots of people have it and use it without even realizing what they’re doing. It has saved my life more times than I can easily count (dozens of times at the very least)
I think that it primarily consists of a hyper-awareness or preternatural sensitivity to the things that are simply going on all around us, but which are routinely dismissed by most people for a variety of very interesting reasons (and none of them good.)
The ability looks and feels like “Extra Sensory Perception”, but it’s really just perception, period, and its presence in an individual seems to emanate from the pores like a sort of psychic pheromone that attracts good folks and repels baddies, for good reason in both cases.
I would bet dollars to doughnuts that you have a steamer trunk full of stories in which the ability served you well. I sure do, and lately even more so because necessity, danger and hard times hone the skill to a finer edge.
@ThoseDarnedKids
I toyed with the idea of “old wise guy”, and a couple other possible arrangements, but hey, eventually ya just got to choose one and go with it or else the moment is lost.
@ThoseDarnedKids
About the launch codes:
Your estimate was a case of almost but not quite. Missiles stay in their silos until I reach DefCon “Serious Reservations”.
China and Russia are Pepe’s meal-tickets.
That matters in what he must say, the light he must shine upon things.
Just keep that in mind, as with any information.
All of our “free” information is “sponsored” by somebody with interests, right?
Some of us with vows of poverty just do this out of some compulsive social setting that we may have been provided at birth or something.
We can be spotted…That’s worth saying again, but John’s too modest so I’ll repeat it for him. Really true and really good advice, too.
@JohnDay
On serial TV shows, especially those with a fixed theme and recurrent cast of characters, it is standard practice (carved in stone, actually) to have a thick catalogue of things that must always be done in a certain way so that there is predictable continuity of those characters’ character. Ironically (and no pun intended) this stack of firm policy is called the show’s “Bible”, and to say that is followed “religiously” would be an understatement.
I’m assuming that the Aspie Show (now moving into Season 3) has just such a written-out-in-detail list of Do’s & Don’ts that he has to follow, and that it would include his back-story and many other things as well, including the continual covert (and not-so-covert) undermining attacks on all things Christian. The Blobsters take that objective very very seriously, because it is literally existentially crucial to their goal.
I have a few things to say to you, but have at best medium-to-low confidence in your willingness or ability to simply understand any of them. Nevertheless, fairness demands that I at least give you the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to understand and consequently reconsider your political and theological positions recently expressed.
The Americanistic expression of “having a chip on the shoulder”, isn’t used much nowadays because it hearkens back to a much rougher and tougher day in this country when men more frequently engaged in the bare-knuckle method of settling differences of opinion. The picturesque (but unlikely) notion is that a guy would put a wood chip on his shoulder and dare the other guy to try to knock it off if he felt strongly enough about his disagreement to give that a try. I don’t happen to have a chip on my shoulder, Aspie (III), but it sounds like you do. Keep your damn chip there if you want to, I’ve already done my duty (of truthfully informing you that you’re making a serious mistake about God), so the rest of it is over to you.
Carefully note, however, that the next time you try selling your CCP Master’s ordered anti-Christian propaganda bullshit that it’s pretty likely that I’ll call you out for it again, too.
A couple of other minor items before I let ya go, is that the “bearded guy on a throne in the sky” trope is pretty worn out, especially anywhere outside the children’s sand-box, so you might want to work on stealing some new material. Try using one of those new AI ChatBots that are cropping up everywhere. I’m sure they’ve got some good stuff that will make you look like a clever adult instead of a cognitively challenged 6 year old.
Oh, and one last item. Keep the senility jokes coming. I like ’em. They contribute to my brand as the old wise man of the mountain.
I’ve enjoyed watching Hickock45 for a couple of years now. If he had been my English teacher I reckon that I would rite more better than I do, and probably be a lot less likely to sass back when criticized. Can you even imagine how good of a shot he must have been back in the day when he had the steady hands and sharper eyes of a youngster? If you could even barely hear his voice, way off in the distance, yell “stop or I’ll shoot!” then taking no further steps at all would definitely be the advisable next step to take.
@JohnDay
@DBS: Aww, c’mon Man, puns aren’t bad.
Yeah, I know, but we mustn’t let on to the punsters that we know that. It would only encourage them.
@aspnaz
Yes, basically, it is perfectly okay for me to inform you that there is God, because that information is simply true, but it’s not okay for you to state as fact that it was an idea that I was “…sold some time ago as a comforting explanation of the world…” because that is simply not true. You imagined that in your mind, with no supportive evidence whatever, and then stated it as a fact.That’s a damn near perfect example of your concealing your ignorance with arrogant bravado and grand pronouncements about the things that you are most ignorant of. In point of fact, I came to my knowledge of the primacy of God through quite a different path which was as “comforting” as bleeding out alone in a gutter.
As for implying that I ordered or coerced you in some way to, “…follow my rules or face the consequences… “, well, that’s just going to have to remain as your own private hallucination because I said no such thing and have no such thoughts.
Your open hostility to God in general and Christianity specifically is what’s hypocritical in this conversation. You and your atheistic CCP PsyOp masters are the hypocrites of course. You’re the one with the false identity, hidden agenda and unrevealed intents and purposes. You pretend to be honest but you know you’re a liar, and that makes you a hypocrite. So “China”, so full of malice. It’s like the script of a “B” movie from the 1940’s.
@zerosum
So I asked a nurse and she said that a 300% reduction in bed-pan disposal sounded like a miracle, no shit.@zerosum
Mockery isn’t an argument, in fact it isn’t even relevant to the argument. It’s a lot like puns because it’s purpose isn’t to entertain the audience, it’s to gratify a sadistic streak in the perpetrator. Combined with deliberately farting at the dinner table it completes the “dark triad” of humor, and the people who do it without shame or regret are the same kind of people who light farts and shout crude remarks from car windows at pretty girls and laugh like that’s funny or something. Hint: it’s not funny. It’s the “or something”.One bad thing about democracy and religions like christianity is that they encourage people to think they have power; christians have the power to talk directly to god (the imaginary man in the sky) and voters have the power to elect the next POTUS. Of course, both beliefs are fantasy, but they encourage people to get involved in other peoples’ business, they bring out the worst in people. For example, the christians are busy converting others while believing that their leader is a god who is above government, or any authority here on earth.
You suffer from the same intellectual bravado as the last “aspnaz”, and for the same reason. You are ignorant, and do not know that you are ignorant, and seek to compensate for that ignorance with bravado and grand pronouncements about those very things that you are most ignorant of. That’s the larger part of what arrogance is, the aggressive concealment of ignorance.
You have lived your entire life, so far, within a self-admittedly nondemocratic society. That’s not a fault, it’s just a fact. Likewise, you’ve never studied nor practiced Christianity. That’s fair enough too, and for the same reason. As the inheritor of free will those are your choices to make.
Ironically that free will of yours is purely a gift from the very God who you mock. If you don’t think so then I challenge you here, now and in public to tell me how and where you got it. I’m all ears.
Nevertheless, getting back on topic, in my opinion you made the wrong choice in both cases, but that’s not your biggest mistake. Your big mistake is that you presume to know, and proclaim to know, things that you demonstrably do NOT know.
I advise you to learn them before you mock them, for three good reasons. Firstly you will avoid the embarrassment of being shown up as a fool in public. Secondly you will become a better person, and more valuable to those around you. Lastly, and by far the most importantly, you will become more aware of what is the most fundamental of all possible truths, which comes in pretty handy when you get right down to what really matters.
Anybody (and everybody, for that matter) with a keyboard can contact their nearest favorite AI System to quickly and easily work out a plan for doing the logical and reasonable things which would either cure or at least ameliorate the United States’ current financial and geopolitical woes.
I’m pretty sure that Team Trump has access to the latest and best of such systems at his disposal. If not then Elon can just loan him one for the afternoon and they can work it all out by lunch time.
Clearly they are not working a plan with even a remote chance of pulling Americans’ bacon out of the fires they started. Say, you don’t suppose that it is possible that they ARE working the plan that such a system has provided to them to assist in achieving the objectives which they fed into the AI System, asking it to whip up a do-list for how best to achieve those objectives?
I think probably so. Which means, of course, that the plan is working just fine in producing precisely the objectives that they desire(otherwise they would use an AI System to help them revise the plan.)
Such a possibility does raise the unsettling question of what their objectives are, but answering that question ain’t exackly rocket science. Or rather, it IS rocket science but they’ve got rocket scientists out the wazoo to help them answer it. Reverse engineer what they actually are achieving (and it ain’t pretty!) and what you find will be the objective that their plan was designed to achieve.
Bingo! Or maybe I should, craps!
China will continue to import into the USA as the cheapest goods, but now the Americans will be paying twice as much, the second half as tax.
You nailed it.
Now, moving on to question #2 (and then #3 immediately thereafter):
Did Trump do such an incredibly stupid and destructive thing on purpose? And, if so, what might that purpose be?Side note: If the suicide was by sheer hubristic stupidity (possible, though less likely) then Trump & Co. are just too stupid for words and can (should) just be ignored as irrelevant background noise hence forward.
The Jews finally beat the Romans.”
Yeah, but the irony is that they had to stop being Jews to do it. Sweet irony, though, because the process involved moving upward from being “the people of the book” (Torah) to becoming “the people of God” (Christian).
Those who refused making the leap stayed Hebrew and consequently got (and still get) their heinies kicked out of everywhere they try to set up shop. Slow learners, I guess.
And as double irony many of those who attempted the leap, but didn’t quite make it the full distance (Constantine’s crowd), started acting like Romans. Holy Roman Empire, and all that.
Fortunately, though, the game’s not over yet. Still time for stragglers to catch up. Even Chinese guys if they’re attentive to history.
Another unforeseen and thus unexpected consequence of shutting down China’s access to American markets is that such pressures might accidentally force China to learn how to survive without them, such as by buying and selling things elsewhere, including to its own vast regions and enormous populations. Once that is accomplished (albeit not an easy task) it will never be at the mercy of foreign markets again.
It’s all a matter of perspective and preconceived “notions” anyway. There is no need to bring in “fresh money from outside”, because “outside” is not an actual or real thing in the first place. It’s just one’s illusory perspective about how far away something has to be in order to be far enough away to be considered “outside.” The next town down the road or the province next door is plenty far enough if you want to think of it that way. The BRICS have a combined total population of 3.25 BILLION people. I think one could learn how to scrape by somehow with a market of that size, not to even mention the realizable savings and efficiencies of shorter transportation.
The other thing about Rome that strikes me as deeply interesting is that everybody talks about the fall of the Roman Empire as if it were somehow a bad thing to have happened and that the reasons it fell were all mistakes of one kind or another.
That’s really a peculiar way to look at things. It’s as if people were of the opinion that maintaining a tiny corrupted monstrously deviant homicidally compulsive slave master elite, at dire cost to everyone else, was somehow a good thing to keep doing.
Rome wasn’t a high point, people. It was a living HELL that laid waste to half of the planet. Yeah, they dressed cool and built magnificent monuments to themselves, (and wrote of themselves that they were just the PINNACLE of human development, but hey, you could say the same thing about the Nazis and Pharaohs.
News flash: 1% of a population can live quite high on the hog by using 9% of the people to steal everything from the remaining 90%. That’s not civilizational advancement. It’s something else altogether and I dearly hope that y’all know what it is and are properly remorseful for being a part of it. Please don’t make it worse by lamenting the demise of yet another Rome.
The sedimentary layers of past empires lay like the pages of a tragic book. Just close the cover and try to write a better story next time.
@Maxwell Quest
I concede that I may have been prematurely harsh in my assessment of Emile Durkheim, but on the other hand, and if he weren’t so dead (and Jewish) (and French), he should count himself lucky on that count. If I delved more deeply into his philosophy, it’s pretty likely that I would have been even harsher, so by just leaving him and his ideas relatively uninvestigated I’m more able to grant him the benefit of the doubt. As things stand I can just presume that he was a nice man and a good cook with a cool accent and leave it at that.
Here is what Britanica has to say about Monsieur Emile Durkheim:
“Durkheim was born into a Jewish family of very modest means, and it was taken for granted that he would become a rabbi, like his father. The death of his father before Durkheim was 20, however, burdened him with heavy responsibilities. As early as his late teens Durkheim became convinced that effort and even sorrow are more conducive to the spiritual progress of the individual than pleasure or joy. He became a gravely disciplined young man.As an excellent student at the Lycée Louis le Grand, Durkheim was a strong candidate to enter the renowned and highly competitive École Normale Supérieure in Paris. While taking his board examination at the Institut Jauffret in the Latin Quarter, he met another gifted young man from the provinces, Jean Jaurès, later to lead the French Socialist Party and at that time interested, like Durkheim, in philosophy and in the moral and social reform of his country. Jaurès won entrance to the École Normale in 1878; one year later Durkheim did the same.
Durkheim’s religious faith had vanished by then, and his thought had become altogether secular but with a strong bent toward moral reform. Like a number of French philosophers during the Third Republic, Durkheim looked to science and in particular to social science and to profound educational reform as the means to avoid the perils of social disconnectedness, or “anomie,” as he was to call that condition in which norms for conduct were either absent, weak, or conflicting.
He enjoyed the intellectual atmosphere of the École Normale—the discussion of metaphysical and political issues pursued with eagerness and animated by the utopian dreams of young men destined to be among the leaders of their country. Durkheim was respected by his peers and teachers, but he was impatient with the excessive stress on elegant rhetoric and surface polish then prevalent in French higher education. His teachers of philosophy struck him as too fond of generalities and too worshipful of the past.
Fretting at the conventionality of formal examinations, Durkheim passed the last competitive examination in 1882 but without the brilliance that his friends had predicted for him. He then accepted a series of provincial assignments as a teacher of philosophy at the state secondary schools of Sens, Saint-Quentin, and Troyes between 1882 and 1887. In 1885–86 he took a year’s leave of absence to pursue research in Germany, where he was impressed by Wilhelm Wundt, a pioneering experimental psychologist. In 1887 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, where he subsequently became a professor and taught social philosophy until 1902. He then moved to the University of Paris, where he wrote some of his most important works and influenced a generation of scholars.”
That sez it all, or at least enough for me. In brief, Durheim was one of the guys we have to thank for all the wonderfulness of modern society.
Every time that the price of gold sloshes back and forth by 100 bucks (in both directions!) some really nefarious creeps pocket a few more billion dollars. Where do you suppose the tipping point will be when the value of those dollars drops far enough. Zimbabwe levels? Weimer Republic? The Confederacy?
What I find interesting about Kash Patel’s “Job Placement Disorder” is that he has somehow managed to keep the FBI job after being very publicly Bitch Slapped out of ATF. Watch carefully how well behaved he’s going to be from now on. Not that there ever was any real chance of FBI becoming anything other than the “Federal Blackmail Institute & Evidence Cleanup & Destruction Crew” that it has been from day one under Hoover.
Still waiting on the P Diddy, Epstein and PizzaGate debacles to produce something better than lurid headlines in the grocery checkout isle tabloids at the local Piggly Wiggly.
@jb_hb
Who knows, maybe it existed in hominids before humans.
I reckon it did, and it’s worse in homo sap mostly because Cluster-B and the “Dark Triad” personality disorders are exacerbated by the capacity for abstract reasoning. The ability to think bigger and faster includes the ability to lie bigger and faster.
Looks like Kash Patel stepped on someone’s toes (by showing interest in the wrong skeleton-filled closet). Notice the brazen lack of transparency surrounding his removal from ATF. It would have been so EASY PREASY to make him look like a genius hero who had found top talent to fill his shoes. Instead he was publicly spanked and made to look like a guy who got sacked.
Sends a message, don’t it?
The weak point in the argument about how Socialists are the root of all evil is that evil was invented a LONG time before socialism. Maybe there’s something about Socialism that evil people find attractive? Or maybe there’s something about evil people that makes Socialism attractive to them. I dunno about either of those two possibilities but there’s one thing I know for damn sure. If you make the word and practice of Socialism unattractive enough the evil people will just give their brand of evil a new name and keep right on doing it.
I suggest that you point out what makes “Socialism” evil and discourage people from doing whatever that is. Going after a label is a waste of time and energy. Like Nazi’s for example. Does anyone around here think that there are fewer folks around who think JUST LIKE the old WW2 vintage stone-cold-killer Nazi’s used to behave? Or has the club just changed brand names?
His heart is pure, and his sole mission is to help humanity. ”
Gee that rings a bell! Someone else said something just like that about someone else at some time. I just can’t quite come up with the names. Right on the tip of my tongue, too. Gimme a minute and I’m sure I’ll remember.
Watching Team USA vs Team China is like watching a couple of hormone soaked hot-rod-driving teenagers in a game of chicken. Don’t expect a good outcome, just call the First Responders (and don’t forget the Coroner’s Office.)
I’ve been trying to grok what the markets are doing round-the-world today and I have so far only come up with one piece of really useful advice to give you. Be extra careful out there today. Instead of boots I recommend chest-waders with a flotation device because the bullshit is really deep.
Locking out people who you don’t like works (more or less) fairly well until one has locked out more than half of the total number of people. From that point onward the only thing accomplished by locking people out is to make their side bigger and one’s own side smaller. Not a good long-term strategy, size-wise. Especially when they already outnumber you by roughly 5:1.
Just sayiin’.
@WES
The incredible things about the incredibly shrinking elite buying incredibly shrinking Bonds with incredibly shrinking dollars to save the incredibly shrinking Empire is that eventually everybody realizes that it really and truly is just incredible, and then POOF! It’s all incredibly gone.@JohnDay
.. The term “psyops” is being rebranded as “nudging” …
Having been earlier called lying and originally known as sin.
@MaxwellQuest
And so we find ourselves coming back to that same old moral choice that such situations always present to people who set out to do a good thing. The question is just how far one is willing to go to succeed in winning that presumably good thing. Is one willing to do a BAD thing in order to achieve that good thing?
If they are, then they have stepped onto the slipperiest of all slippery slopes, and we all know where that leads, and it’s not a good place. That’s why the place has so many rich criminals in it, and a fair share who will swear on a stack of Bibles (and mean it!) that they are just trying to do a good thing.
I’m not pleading innocence, and I’m not riding any kind of a moral high horse. I’m just telling it like it is.
Larry just hit the nail on its head. SMACK! Exactly right, Larry. That’s why the US/Israel play to goad Iran into a preemptive self-defense military action of any kind. Such a move would probably keep Russia out of the fight, and that new trade route would not be built. If it IS built then the US doesn’t need Israel much anymore because such a trade route would largely OBSOLETE the Suez and Bosporus choke points, and free the BRICS from depending on those historical enemies for shipping goods to the world.
