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“It’s a hard rain is gonna blow”
Or fall, even.. my lyric-brain is failing.. unravelling rapidly, like a tapestry with some angry kittens..@WES
The Phoenix vote audit re-starts tomorrow, in case anyone cares.
Damn straight I care.. having passed through angry (I hear you today, V Arnold) and jaded, I’m buying in popcorn on any prospect of telling revelations, wherever they may be (and the US election outcome was so transparently weird that landmines must lie buried in all directions)
I mean, think about it.. Covid has indeed been a “make out like a bandit” opportunity for TPTB, but there are now just so many fronts and lies in play in so many different theaters that the likelihood of maintaining all of the facades in perpetuity has become ludicrously unlikely.
The question is – how will the uber-wealthy attempt to play this out..? The extent of vaccine hesitancy (and let’s admit it, the published stats are going to be BS in the direction of over-claiming vaccination) is a good indicator of the extent that credulous narratives are losing their grip. Which is not to understate the grip and power they retain, but it’s flimsier with every month that passes.
The situation in Gaza is confronting more and more people with the dissonance between the official “Israel has a right to defend itself” and the viscerally felt (some tribes are not like the others..).
It’s a hard rain is gonna blow, as the 80 yo poet said way back.. but when? and how?@ Herr Werner
I echo Madamski’s applause: “I’m pretty sure you win today’s internet. Bravo, sir. Well done.”
@madamski
I agree with your point about Gates, FB etc being more idiotic than willfully evil, and the associated one that the doing of evil is widespread and unconscious.But people need access to real information to make valid moral choices of any kind. Take away that raw data input and it becomes impossible to exercise moral choice.
The greatest evil that Gates, FB, Google and the MSM do is in sabotaging the moral compasses of the world at large with the shear volume of selective and misleading information they pump out. The evil they produce is directly proportional to the resources they throw at the process. As individuals they may be no more of less moral than you or I, but they’re undoubtedly responsible for more evil via their leverage.
“But, getting vaccinated with an mRNA jab cannot make you infectious in itself.”
Indeed, according to theory it cannot, and if the vaccines have been produced in fully sterile and functional conditions then scientifically they cannot. But underpinning that is the untested assumption that vaccine production has been conducted properly, and as various volumes of destroyed and/or spoiled batches have shown, that is definitely an assumption.
I don’t have any evidence that’s happened (or necessarily believe it has), just saying you can’t rule it out – it could be that some batch of vaccines are contaminated with Covid.Re earlier discussion on Craig Murray’s comments, I don’t get how they’re really controversial. He believes (from his personal moral position, which clearly preferences collectivism over individualism) that people should “suck it up” and get vaccinated. I have no intention of getting vaccinated, but his statement of his personal beliefs is free speech in action. He’s honest enough to say that coercion by the state (even when it pulls in the direction of his personal beliefs) is unacceptable and should be resisted to the end. Bravo to that!
@madamski. I wouldn’t characterise churches as particularly conservative – many are fully activist liberal. Churches are churches, full of everything from the pious and the pompous, for good and bad.
I’m talking of conservativism as in the desire and outlook to conserve and preserve as a starting point.. The outlook that instinctively rebelled against the overturning of traditional liberties and modes of operating for the sake of “saving grannie” because it was obvious what reflexively overturning the status quo in a panic would be. The same outlook that says removing voter ID from requirements to vote is a self-evidently regressive move from the status quo.
One of the prime things making liberalism so toxic at present is that outrage-based change is a path to progress, when its really just a path to mobilising mobs of adrenaline fueled imbeciles. “Fire in a crowded theatre?”. The past five years of media shrieking “the deplorables will do us in… be afraid!” whilst meanwhile the “progressives” are wrecking havoc in every conceivable area.
Conservativism can be stifling and toxic too, but in the current political landscape a solid dose is needed.
That De Santis short vid is compelling watching.
Even having read the transcript previously, the emotional reality of juxtaposing the “we said he said” and “he actually said” segments is incredibly powerful – essentially confronting a pathological liar with evidence of their BS.
The Deplorables have been circulating such evidence for years. They know both the evidence of their day-to-day reality and prospects diminishing, and the evidence for how it is achieved. The wonder wasn’t that the Capitol protest occurred, it’s that it was so goddam well behaved on the part of the protesters! For all the hick hillbilly characterisations of them, its the deplorables who demonstrate character when it matters.
Could it be that Conservative values such as self-control actually have some merit? More underlying merit perhaps than ever more hysterical tilting at race and sex-based windmills..?I enjoyed the discussion thread today – whether focusing on positive or negative are more effective.
Have to say I don’t have a horse in that race – it depends on the audience and timing. On te internetz we control little of either, and so it’s a lottery.
For myself – I indulge the angry impulse many time because for this “good” Catholic boy of old, unleashing with venom is therapeutic. I enjoy the darkest of humour on occasion, and it’s a cathartic relief to hear any genuinely savage attack that’s worthy (months later, Ilargi’s “Fauci is a rodent and a wanker” still tickles me.. 🙂
But the Fuller quote resonates, and the reality is it’s harder to be brilliantly constructive than destructive. Though perhaps even that short-cuts the creatively-destructive truth that the status quo genuinely has to be torn down (or at the very less breached) before anything else is possible. And history says that typically involves falling a long way from the peaks before rebuilding.
For myself, a couple of weeks ago I had a fruitful councelling session, and my rage is more now “in a box” – accessible as energy, but not (generally) invoked upon the world around me. The world seems to like me better.. 😉The NZ house price article is pay-walled so I couldn;t read it, but based on the first few paragraphs, it has it typically ass-about-face in another hagiography of Jacinda.
Yes, house prices are through the roof here. But theLabour government is now into it’s second three-year term, having promised at the outset of the first to address the issue and having done worse than nothing about it. In fact they have:
– committed to building 5000 state house in their first term under the Kiwibuild program, then quietly memory-holed the entire thing, having built only a few hundred over the period
– ignored a comprehensive review of tax policy which recommended – surprise,surprise – a capital gains tax on investment property to level the playing field with other investment sectors, and bring NZ into line with most Western countries. In rejecting the tax recommendation, Jacinda explictly refused to entertain a CGT during her term in powerSo instead of actually taking any concrete meaningful action, the deputy PM instead wrote to the governor of the NZ Reserve Bank attempting to make it his problem. And the governor politely responded that it was a political issue the government needed to address. ie, f*ck off.
The social contract between left wing parties and their voters has been shredded by the politicians. Instead of taking meaningful action, they generate flattering headlines for themselves. And the media eat it up, because it’s important to balance fear-porn with fawning royalty-porn.
Great summary.
I want to point out that several of us here were pointing to the potential for this to occur at least a year ago.
The invocation of a Black Swan strategy/response ala Taleb requires the absolutely rigourous standards precisely because what hangs in the balance is the rule of law and society.
It was obvious from around Day 2 that the Imperial College models did not pass those standards, either from historical accuracy, or from the quality of their model. In a robust decision analysis, Option 1 is always “Do Nothing” (or some mildly precautionary version thereof), and should be the default when the other options are underpinned by emotion (fear) rather than quality data.The underpinning psychology of the individual is well layed out here: Conspiracy psychology
“But then Dr D seems to be able to post unimpeded. Weird..”
No aspersions on the good Dr intended, only that the sometimes inflammatory content of his posts seems to survive unmolested.
I’m keen to understand the “dark arts” and vagaraties of te WordPress.
The context of the above link is the Guardian accidentally publishing a truth nugget (though conspicuously burying the lede wrt to the implications.
Imperial College has no qualms about taking MI5 money to develop tools of surveillance. But they’re not thrilled that such links are revealed by the media.
That seems kinda pertinent to the Neil Fergusson led clusterfuckery of the past 15 months..OK, so that posted just fine. I’ll try again with my link:
Imperial CollegeI’m struggling and failing (several times) to get a reply including a link to post today.
Kinda hard to believe this is just a “buggy” software update causing all these issues.
But then Dr D seems to be able to post unimpeded.
Weird..@phil harris
I’m struggling to make any sense of his data.
The most recent tweet/chart shows.. what exactly? I can’t see the axis
The next purportedly shows ICU admissions by year, but that makes little sense:
– the supposed 2018 rate (a bad influenza year) multiplies out for a UK population of 58 million, and over a winter period of 10 weeks to 2320 and thus a hospital admission rate of 0.004% (total over period). We assume hospital admission is generally efficacious, so some smaller percentage of that admitted population will have died.
Yet we know from stats the death rate from bad seasonal influenza is of the order of 0.1%
What gives?
I suggest his quote on another tweet shows his agenda pretty well:
“To conclude:
Every day brings more good vaccine news, but it’ll be months (in rich countries) or years (in poorer countries) before people have these vaccines in their arms.
Covid is not taking a break in the meantime.”Covid BAD. Covid DANGEROUS. FEAR the COVID. Take VACCINES. Vaccines GOOD. Vaccines PROTECT you. Suspend DISBELIEF. Or else WE ALL DIE. Stay AFRAID………….
No thanks, I’ll follow other voices on this.
@WES
BullionStar in Singapore still have plenty of silver of various sizes (oz through 1000oz bars) if you’re buying. The trick is to search their site in SGP dollars (other currencies don’t show all their stock.IMO SLV is just one of many fault lines in the “market”.. where will the next quake be…?!
@John Day
Re: the Loose Change video, I just received/watched the new video Seven around the WTC7 collapse, put together by the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth.
It’s very well put together – in contrast with Loose Change (which covered a lot of ground in a sort of once over lightly), it’s sober, careful and tightly focused on the U of A modelling of the WTC7 collapse.
Sadly, I doubt it’ll change many new minds.I have to say this strikes me more and more like an absurdist black comedy. The kind where a small portion of the audience twig immediately to the fact it’s a piss-take, but the general audience sit there in increasing discomfort as the plausible plot steadily becomes more deranged.
They either click one by one, or there’s a set-piece over-the-top moment to clue them in.
Two face masks now mandated on public transport (why not three or four?!): https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/medical-tyranny-cdc-announces-all-travelers-must-wear-two-masks-threatens-arrest
At what point does the average rube click this is a farce, if not now..??
@ilargi
“Who can come up with the craziest headline?”Nothing i’ve seen matches the twitter link you posted yesterday in capturing the evolutionary spiral down the bowl of news/headlines. That animation was pure gold.
Excellent post here around big tech censorship: https://streetwiseprofessor.com
@WES
One thing I have noticed about the brain, is that over time it tends to block out (forget?) the bad things and only remember the good things.Count your blessings. In life’s lottery I drew the opposite cards – I’ve had many good experiences (and some not good at all). But when my brain presses “random select”, the memory it returns is a negative one 95%+ of the time.
I’ve spent plenty of time actively working with my “stuff”, but that random selector has never skipped a beat. Now in my young daughter I see the same process of memory selection – fear etc over joy.
It’s a genetic lottery, which is why the White Privilege idiocy chafes me so bad. So many genetic (and some social/developmental) inheritances we just gotta accept and do our best with.. people work with the material of their inheritance, but ain’t no caste/race/gender whatever gets off universally free..
@Booglaoo
So… if we abrogate personal responsibility, and allow our governments to make drastic interventions without either full information or cost/benefit analysis, then we can as societies all derive the benefits?
I can’t see any problems with that.. can you?Re: Ivermectin, I totally agree. It’s an effective prophylactic and treatment that we could distribute at minimal cost *without any recourse to masks, lockdowns or semi-totalitarian compulsion.
Even better, those that didn’t want the proposed benefits of a long-standing treatment with known side-effects could opt out and take the consequences as they landed.
As opposed to compelling people to take action for benefit of others (not for themselves) off the back of minimally documented or tested science. Ie compel people to act prior to any scientifically-significant evidence.
So sure, your beliefs and mine don’t coincide. Be as antisocial as you wish, and I will feel free to refute as I see fit.@madamski
Et vice-versa. In a free speech society, such networks are entitled to express opinions and shape opinions thereby. This can lead to them exerting enough influence to get legislators elected who will not regulate the media. If legislators try to control the media before this happens, free screech advocates, real or astroturfed, will throw up their hands and holler.Media has power. Power corrupts. The more power attained, especially by corrupt means, the more corrupt that power becomes and the more that power corrupts other entities of power.
I agree, but it doesn’t change my point. That it won’t happen because facts-on-the-ground in no way changes that it is *possible* to control media via legislation. Witness China re media or the US breaking up Ma Bell.
Whereas control of Covid via legislative mandate was, is, and will never be possible. Lockdowns, masks etc are flailing theatre achieving nothing useful.
@VP
The CCP had full control of Covid
I can’t tell from your remark if it’s sarc, but one of the fundamental rational failures I think is that China controlled Covid via lockdowns. Doc R’s post above (and many others) point out there is no general correlation between lockdown and positive outcome. Therefore it seems very unlikely to me there is a causation between lockdown and outcome in the specific case of China.
OTOH, I observe that Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam also have very good outcomes, despite different approaches. Is there a genetic correlation? Or a climatic correlation? Or a pre-exposure correlation? I have no idea.
But if you mentally/intellectually question the key supposition the Chinese have a superb outcome AND it was caused by their fierce lockdown then we start to get back to the realm of logic.“The B.1.1.7 COVID variant is starting to look as scary as the social media giant censorship.”
Nope. Social media censorship is a commercial/political phenomena that can absolutely be controlled by legislation. The fact that is isn’t/hasn’t/wont be is indicative of the complete and total corruption of the political system. That is hellishly scary.
The B.1.1.7 variant is apparently more easily transmitted but no more lethal than any other variant, ie 99.9% of people will not die from it. That not scary at all.. that’s the price of living, analagous to driving which I personally find quite enjoyable.
Fear in the face of very modest threats is entirely optional and more aptly termed hysteria.
And as Dr D points out, some of us here have been predicting accurately since the start of the year that due to the basic limitations of human behaviour, science and the interconnected nature of the modern world, humans lack the agency to control a highly contagious virus. Which is anathema to a population who’ve become drunk on the illusion of control over every aspect of planetary life.
Cliche’d though it’s become, that reliable ole Serenity Prayer sums it up quickly. And we have never, ever had the collective ability to control Covid, let alone trying to do so without undertaking any const/benefit analysis before embarking on interventions.
As I said somewhere else, what the world has done since Feb was embark on the most epic Evel Knieval canyon jump in history, only we’ve done it without surveying the width of the gap or the landing site. We’re suspended in mid-air, with the costs and outcomes not yet upon us, but with little ability to change direction. And sooner or later the ground is coming up at us………
Re Assange, I enjoyed another bloggers take on the outcome today:
“Once Baraitser decided to take what we can call the British cop-out – refusing to extradite based on the possibility of suicide and what amounts to judicial knowledge of the infamously incompetent/cruel American prison officials, who will do nothing to prevent it (previously used in the cases of alleged autists Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love) – that became the entire basis of her legal position. Her musings about the strength of the CIA arguments, including those about freedom of speech and journalism, are just musings, legally worth as much as if she had decided to give us her views on medieval Provençal literature. This is important – once she went down suicide road, all other issues became moot, unnecessary for her determination, and thus not capable of becoming any kind of precedent. I’m sure she was just trying to stay out of the Thames.”
@ Polder Dweller et al – re Assanga
I had the same thoughts on reading of the verdict – that Trump must have in some manner green lighted it, most probably because pardoning carried too much likelihood of blowback (but also possibly he doesn;t really want to pardon Assange).The subsequent discussion is useful – yes Trump was reflexively against anything Obama had done, which may well explain his switch in position on Assange.
But given Trump’s acknowledged vindictiveness toward those he perceives as enemies, his greatest bile is currently likely to be towards Pompeo, who has attacked him in public very recently. I could imagine trump enjoying immense Schadenfreude over the fury Pompeo will undoubtedly feel over the Assange decision.
I was reflecting a little more on comments de jour, and the crux of it seems so well encapsulated by pop culture. Hollywood had been schooling everyone via the super-hero myth that we can simultaneously have both the child-like naivete to self-identify with whatever gender preference of 50-odd piques our interest on any particular day + the ability to be protected from all threats – physical, emotional or biological – by the constant oversight of “super-beings”, who remain vigilant, uncorruptable and powerful.
Politics isn’t a trade-off where we weigh the value of our personal liberties against the risks of autocracy but the benefits of group protection. Nosiree.. we deserve it all and want it all. A material that is both pliable and plastic, but almost infinitely rigid. Achievable! Believeable! Science can do it.. instead of costs, benefits, optimisations and tradeoffs.. the true and real limits of our options.
When the world offshored a large part of it’s production to China, a (perhaps unspoken) consequence was the need to keep borders open. When nations such as NZ built a large part of their GDP on the back of tourism, the same applied.
Hence the push towards the Great Reset.. partly because it allows powerful capital to consolidate it’s gains, but also because within the thinking of many of those (eg Bill Gates), the world is mechanistic, and can be controlled by the right combination of power and foresight.
Whereas for those of us on the other side of the fence, true resilience lies in diversity and autonomy. On precisely the *lack* of control which means that one stupid decision affects an entire population.
Trying to keep *everyone* alive perpetuates the stupidity. Who knows exactly what works, amidst all the variables? This is exactly where the model of the capitalist system excels. Provide options, allow people to choose. Let the market decide. It is vastly more capable of optimising than Fauci or Tengell. Humankind either doubles down on interconnectedness or retreats into isolation. Me, I don’t care. But sitting on the fence pretending we can have the best of all worlds is killing our society. Choose. Choose cautious conservativitism (valuing preservation of the past) or optimistic progressivism (favouring change). You can;t simltaneously have both. And/if where your polity can;t choose, then separate into groups that can make a choice out of shared values.
That’s where we are. Seems too few want to acknowledge that future or make that choice.@madamski
“I quite agree. That doesn’t mean we aren’t able to contain pandemics. We know how. We have, in fact, done so in the past. We had our chance with this one. We screwed it up.”On this we disagree. World trade and travel are now in volumes very incomparable to the past.
Yes, we can use the old methods. But only if we return to similar conditions, as NZ has eg by closing the borders. That in itself requires the consent of the governed. The impacts of reverting to older times have completely predictable consequences in the new world where supply chains stretch across the globe.
That’s one of the key and obvious points that myself and others have been arguing from Day 1 – every one of these interventions, even if they’d been historically efficacious, were going to have profound and entirely predictable consequences on the current economic reality. As they have.
That politicians are f*ckwits is a given, but they never ever had the latitude of response available that you’re imagining they had.@VietnamVet
Love your comments and we’re still ultimately on the same side, but once again going to disagree with you..
Unless you can find a way to tow your country out into the remote ocean, and believe it’s realistic to close you borders for the forseeable future and/or rely on insufficiently tested vaccines, underpinned by corporate immunity (plus today’s recurrent observation that vaccine approval wouldn’t have even been possible without the marginalisation of effective protocols using long-standing medications (Ivermectin, HCQ etc) then DON”T FOLLOW NEW ZEALAND. Our leaders don;t know sh*t.And interestingly, it’s been interesting in post-election NZ where Jacinda et al were elected in the first (and perhaps only) post-MMP non-coalition government off the back of their Covid “success” that finally criticism is emerging in a variety of media. House prices are through the roof (off the back of post-covid stimulus amongst other things), there is negligible accountability (somehow the report into the Christchurch shootings found no-one to blame – even the GCSB/SIS, where hundreds of millions of dollars goes to die each year without preventing a major terrorist shooting…
Biden is faced with exactly the same issue.. he’s about to be holding the baby. And it’s ticking..
@Madamski @ DocR
The US may indeed have an excess death count this year, but many (most?) other countries don’t. That implies to me that the US is the outlier, rather than Covid. Why might that be? Perhaps the correlation between an unhealthy population, a ludicrously ineffective healthcare regime, and a polity in the process of collapse that couldn’t manage it’s way past a closed door.I lay my vote for more hyperbole from Dr D.. I personally don’t it difficult to distinguish meaning/intent from the rhetoric, and it’s a welcome relief from the pseudo-analysis in the media. As others have observed – if you ain’t angry already, you just don;t understand what’s going down.
I grew up with the adage – “we don’t know if socialism works – it’s never been tried”. Literally true, but also a fig leaf for the intellectual failure of the ideology. It’s not generally said, but the same is also true about capitalism (it generally gets the more positive version – “its the least worst system”.
But nowhere in the history or the future of the world do we get to observe these systems free of human greed, power, coercion. Government and financial systems are like electron pairs – not only are they interdependent, one doesn’t exist without the other. So all talk of the theoretical merits and advantages of one vs the other is just farting in the breeze.
Personally I think Piketty (and his rich vein of intellectual predecessors) was spot on the money in saying that unchecked capital tends to monopoly. I’d go farther and say it’s self-evident. And where a modicum of competition persists, it becomes oligarchy instead. Which is precisely what the incentives would predict.
However – capitalism unleashes human creativity in ways socialism can only dream of. That speaks to human motivation, and some humans are born with an outrageous amount of individual drive. Capitalism harnesses that drive, whereas socialism homogenises it away, diluting it towards the norm for the sake of conformity and “equality”.
I’ve not been able to shake the brilliance of the insight since I first heard it (hat tip Caitlin Johnstone, though she may have plagiarised it) that the system of choice where you need more of something is capitalism. It delivers in spades. And the system of choice where you need to optimise something (as opposed to incentivising growth) is socialism. Which is why socialised medicine over almost the entire planet is vastly more efficient than US capitalised medicine (which in it’s constant focus on growth might better be characterised as a cancer in its own right).
One of the most toxic changes of the last couple of decades has been the expansion of the Intellectual Property (IP) industry. To be clear – fuck IP. As originally conceived – to protect innovative investment for a moderate period to incentivise R & D – excellent. As weaponised by the metastacised legal industry in the US – utter and complete insanity. Write a book, film or song and enjoy windfall profits for 70 years +? Utter, utter, utter madness, at a cost of stifling human growth and ingenuity.
Unconstrained Capital – through power – weaponises the political and legal system to it’s advantage. That’s perhaps a third of all history, paraphrased.
It seems to me that Twitter, FB, Google have in hindsight taken a large commercial risk in openly declaring their partisanship around the election. It’s one thing to be known to be influencing one way or the other, and another to be seen so blatantly censoring “wrongthink”.
There was a steady stream of conservative voices eg Kunstler moving to alternate platforms such as Parler. As the “war” breaks out for real, I expect the trickle away from usage of the openly partisan FANGS to turn into a herd migration. FB, Twitter, YouTube – what drives their value (I use that word very loosely) is the ability to monetise eyeballs to advertisers. But what drives value for their users is the presence of other users they relate to. Take away the presence of their peers, and even the most non-partisan platform user will lose interest and move away.
Of course, US-based users are only a small percentage of the total user base of the big platforms, and their loss wouldn’t be hugely material to the platforms (though it may open legal challenges from shareholders whose interests have been neglected by Zuck, Jack et al). But the availability and motivation of those users to move opens the door to new competing platforms to break the current cosy monopoly, which is a new development. With luck we may finally see the viability of competing platforms.
If Trump is somehow able to hold onto power (unlikely, yes but not impossible), he will also ratchet up pressure on the FANGS as utu for their actions in the election. I still have my fingers crossed for some “creative” to occur within the impending destruction.
heh, heh. It’s starting to get fun hanging here around waiting for the near-daily drive-by ad hominem for all those FILTHY DISBELIEVERS..
@ My Parents..
That is a jewel. Made me lol.I’ve just been repopulating a few books on my shelf which I’ve reread and loved but which have been loaned out never to return. One was “The Golden Gate” by Vikram Seth. A well-observed novel, but written entirely in verse. Reading it is hypnotic.. like a well-composed photograph with a foreground, middle ground and background story. There’s the narrative arc of the story in the background, and the repetitive rhythm of the verse in the foreground. And in between, a few “perfect verses”, which you can read over and over and marvel at their standalone perfection.
@ Doc R – Thanks for your post a couple of days previous deconstructing and contextualising the vaccine success rate stats. I found it very helpful.
@ Ilargi, @ Dr D, @ Madamski
Bravo, and thank you – this is precisely what a healthy communal response looks like to me, ie
“take your shame and stick it somewhere the sun doesn’t shine”. Show us the evidence, or f*ck right off. After everything that’s happened this year, excessive politeness is a luxury we can ill afford anymoreI enjoy interacting almost daily here with art that I’d normally not experience. For whatever reason (cost, distance, timing?) there’s very little classic European art in NZ galleries (let alone my poor attendance therein). And perhaps mellowing with age a bit helps too – I used to be far too quick to judgement, as opposed to being able to “hang out” for a bit with an image and see if it resonated or grew on me.
Unrelated, I came across this article just now and immediately thought of Dr D. Familiar themes, and well articulated: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politics-positivism-science-tyranny
@John Day
Many thanks for that Sidney Powell link.
“Release the Kraken” was a strange, incongruous statement from her given her tight lipped precision in speech.
It makes 110% sense in this context.
Watch for all discussion of mythical sea monsters to be censored from Google, FB and Twitter as of today..@Geppetto
Instead of taking them back, you could repurpose them.
The scene you evoke is a rather nice metaphor for John Day’s exposition.
In the big picture, Capitalism is as much a spider crawling up our leg as it is an omni-devouring monster.
And sometimes we do just need to keep our gaze on the sun a little more.@Suiemarie108
Although described as ballots, I wouldn’t assume they’re all necessarily physical or mail-in ballots as opposed to electronic vote records.
Bev Harris at Black Box Voting was documenting the way Diebold voting machine records could be manipulated without trace over 15 years ago. There was little doubt in my mind at the time that this was not a bug, but an intended feature.
And Greg Palast in “the best democracy money can buy” documents other instances and methods of extensive voter fraud, again a good decade ago.
Spoiler alert – neither one mentioned ze Russians as the naughty culprits.. 😉
Its the age-old story.. when being deceitful, don’t go small. Make the crime huge, make the lie huge.. and a large number of people will reflexively reject the possibility it could be true, because the corolory – that the world really contains *that much evil* is a reality too devastating to admit.
I haven’t felt this excited about a new TV show in ages – Powell and Kraken vs the Deep State.
Bring. It. On!… and taking that thought process a couple of steps further:
Trump may be a NY millionaire, but his base is close to natural instincts – Joe Sixpack. WWF, reality TV et al.. Trump is them and they are him. And that base is the one that pays the costs of military adventurism, without benefiting from the financial wins of it.Obama, Hillary and Biden (having eliminated pro-Sanders socialism from the Democratic agenda) are the exact opposite. They pay no price for military adventurism, but enjoy the bounce in their Lockheed Martin stocks. Sanctions OTOH, rile their woke base. No surprises they’ve wound up where they are.
So Obama was quite content to luxuriate in the manufactured approval and moral solace of his European and Australian elite compadres in launching his Libyan fiasco. He associates with them, cares about their opinion, and cares little for that of the Deplorables.
Trump OTOH, feels no association with that class. He launched his first term on reducing military conflict, so he can;t subsequently embrace it without alienating all his support base. So he chooses more covert means – eschewed by the more woke populace for the lethal violence that it is – to strengthen his hand at “negotiating”.
Liberals convincing themselves that Trump is the ultimate Satan and that the Coming of Biden heralds the redemption, are little different than the Christian evangelicals looking for the rapture.
It’s insane. Beyond insane. PTL that TAE helps facilitate the conversations that make these things visible..
