No evidence of voter fraud but they are pushing the idea
The most profound and lasting damage Trump has done is to make lying accepted as just another feature of society- and the deadly corrosive effects could destroy America. The most unrecognized and underestimated effect of Trumpism- the death of truth.
They are trying to set it up and it looks like they WILL try: Trumps regime will announce the election was NOT fair and try to steal it.
Brianna explains it well: it is not about “us” against Black Lives Matter.
They lie about lying.
My comments: I am sure the Joint Chiefs know what to do- and they have special forces operators (thousands of them) who can and will blow through any kind of private army Trump has and remove him from office. I have worked with these people and it will not matter if they voted for Trump…they will accomplish whatever mission they are given, including removing a president who refuses to leave office. You have to understand the code they live by to know why that is virtually guaranteed. They did not swear any oath to Donald Trump. It is not like in the movies where all kinds of improbable drama happens- that is contrived trash. They will be given a brief and asked if they want to opt out in this case…and none of them will, and then they will go do it. And Putin will be disappointed. Trump will not understand, but likely he has some minions who do, and that is why they are trying to find any way they can to muddy the waters and poison the well. They will either have to somehow prevent those votes from being counted, put in place electors to disregard the popular vote, or start a nuclear war. Or…just wing it and hope the citizenry is so dumbed-down and apathetic they will get away with it. And after working with forever trumpers for the last 4 years I am scared.
The officer corps is college educated and has a far lower percentage of Trump supporters- and they will do what is right: they WILL remove Trump. They will give the orders and those orders will be obeyed. I know this to be true- myself and most of my family are retired military (enlisted and not officers). Guaranteed.
“They are trying to do a political hit and delay it-” …Disgusting Trumpism.
The president of the United States is actually saying his enemies are delaying a life-saving vaccine (and thus actually causing needless deaths). Madness. It is becoming so absolutely clear that Trump is really going to try and steal the election. Less than 40 percent of the citizenry support him and the rest of us want him OUT…and it seems obvious he is going to try and cheat his way into another 4 years. It is happening.
Unbelievable. I am losing it also Sam.
Take immediate action!
The clock is winding down and time is running out.
Blatant- it is now obvious Trump is going to try and steal the election
The right is no longer running against Trumps opponent; they are running against the election process itself. Trump and his republican supporters are going to call the election unfair and try to stay in power. What we only thought happened in dictatorships like Russia and banana republics. It is happening in America right now.
Ironic the side the Russians are supporting happens to be red.
I guess I better buy a black hat Because Lives Matter. What scares me is what the states where the Governors are Republicans, 26 of them, will order their respective National Guard units to do if fighting breaks out.
A map of the RMBS War?
The major military bases will likely isolate themselves by closing their gates and using heliborne forces to secure outside water and power facilities that supply the bases. When the helicopters start landing at water and power plants that will mean the war has started.
This is going to blow up into a civil war going into the election or after if it is not stopped
Trumps personal attorney said 19 months ago there will never be a peaceful transfer of power
“Losers and suckers.” (Killed In Action and all veterans)
“It was a perfect call.” (the quid pro quo weapons deal he was impeached for)
“A made up fake news media hoax.” (Russian bounty on U.S. troops)
“I don’t think science knows.” (climate change)
“-is that supposed to be a bad thing?” (after being told QAnon is…crazy)
“That makes me smart.” (on not paying taxes)
“And so, that’s a very tricky one.” (on the virus being airborne and deadly, 7 Feb 2020)
“-this is their new hoax.” (on the virus at rally, 28 Feb 2020)
“It is what it is.” (Covid death toll in early August at 155,000 and now over 200,000)
“You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you?”(on white privilege)
“You had very fine people on both sides.” (Charlottesville rally featuring Neo-Nazis)
“It’s freezing and snowing in New York- we need global warming!”
“-I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
“I sort of get away with things like that.” (on going into the dressing rooms at pageants)
“-cheating as a way of life.” (Mary Trump on Donald paying someone to take his SAT)
Individual Number 1 (Trump as co-conspirator in the Cohen felonies of paying off a playboy model and a porn star with campaign funds)
“Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam.” (on Trumps personal Vietnam of sexually transmitted diseases in the 1990’s)
“I will be a better warrior than anybody.” (better than John McCain, despite Vietnam deferments and bone spurs)
“He’s against God, he’s against guns, he’s against energy, our kind of energy.” (Biden is a devout Catholic, advocates shotguns instead of assault rifles for self-defense, and 145 progressive groups have urged him to shun fossil fuel lobbyists)
Michael is talking pure Anti-Trumpism by speaking the truth. God, I pray for the Green New Deal and an end to this crazy clown circus administration. This explains a good deal of white grievance.
This is what fascism looks like- the strongman leader glorifying the police putting down peaceful protests and his cult cheering him on.
I was speaking with a coworker last night and he agreed any explanation of FT’s (forever trumpers) has to involve extraterrestrials.
I could not “fathom” it till I finally used my O Negative blood psychic faculties and received information subliminally from the creatures manipulating us. My coworker agreed with me on this: there are super-intelligent beings living in the subsurface oceans of the icy bodies in our solar system. Long ago one species realized the radioactive heating taking place in the rocky core of their moon would eventually fade and they would die- so they formed a plan. They looked to other icy bodies and found candidates tidally heated that do not depend so much on radioactivity and decided relocating to one of these more long-lived oceans would save them. The problem was they cannot build spaceships in their environment. They used cryo-volcano cannon to eject micro-organisms on a precise trajectory to Earth. These organisms were designed to genetically engineer primates for greater intelligence and subconsciously influence them. Eventually these primates would build the spaceships the moon dwellers needed.
But at least one of the tidally heated moons was already inhabited by a different race and these other beings, detecting the threat, sent their own micro-organisms to Earth to foil the radioactively heated moon dwellers plan for conquest. And so our minds are being subtly programmed by one or the other of these species. Forever Trumpers are infected with one micro-organism while Progressive Democrats are being driven by the other entities. This is why FT’s and LeftT’s are at odds. The conflict has raged for several centuries but was always building to this, for millennia.
“Trump is secretly battling a global network of billionaire pedophiles, devil-worshipping Democrats and baby-eating Hollywood stars and their “deep state” counterparts embedded in the U.S. federal government’s sprawling bureaucracy.”
“QAnon’s messaging is laced with religious allegory, prophesies, puzzle-solving and an emboldening sense of belonging to the right side of an epic battle of good versus evil.”
“What began in 2017 as a political conspiracy theory has since morphed into a meta-conspiracy movement that in sum aims to account for much of the evil in the world, sweetened by the promise of evil’s swift demise with “The Storm” — the perpetually imminent arrest of tens of thousands of “enemy” Americans — and “The Great Awakening” — the subsequent, Rapture-like new beginning for the world where believers’ faith is recognized and rewarded.”
My own version of this has for years been how to freeze a human being without damage. A Japanese company, Cells Alive, has a machine that can prevent damage by inhibiting ice formation during freezing- and my theory has always been this technology can be used to freeze people without damage thus allowing them to be successfully revived years or even decades later. I would like to think such technology would never be kept a secret but I suppose it is possible. Everything would change. And it would start with some animal, like “Benny”, being revived in a lab, maybe tomorrow:
No need to watch more after 1:45, unless Cruz-Cruise romance is your thing
So… “The Storm” would be what I call “The Great Rescue” as millions and possibly billions are frozen to avoid imminent death and placed in storage. This would subsequently generate “The Great Race” as finding a process to reverse aging is organized and initiated using a majority of the scientific resources of the entire human race. Such a process must be found before storing so many billion frozen bodies becomes impossible. And upon perfecting this process would come “The Great Awakening.” Once all begin to be revived we would move on to star travel as “Sleeper Ships” carrying frozen-again colonists embark on centuries-long voyages to other solar systems.
All it takes is throwing enough money at the freezing technology. For some reason we are not doing this. Could it be that when I use the word “we” there is actually no such collective entity- and only self-interested sociopathic billionaires driving “us” to extinction? Ayn Rand did not approve this message.
“Every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around.”
“The true history of the breakdown of capitalism in the 1930’s is not that a beneficent oligarch by the name of Franklin Roosevelt decided to shower us with gifts. It is that there were powerful radical movements, the progressive party, the communist party, which was white-washed from our history, powerful unions, especially around the CIO- that went to Roosevelt and said, look, it’s not working, people are destitute, and either you respond or you get revolution. And Roosevelt went to his fellow oligarchs and said you better give up some of your money, or you are going to lose all of your money. And that’s how we got heavy government intervention, 15 million jobs, social security, public works- which created the parks, the libraries, the schools, the post offices- many of which we use today, which of course, we are now watching them being closed.”
The stock market crashed in 1929 for the same reason it crashed 77 years later in 2008: Bought politicians and absolute greed. Any money system based on gambling on markets, without strict regulation, will destroy itself, over and over again, as history proves. The wealthy become super-wealthy and buy politicians who deregulate so they can become even more wealthy and gamble with vast wealth. And it must crash due to the greed of those who will eventually break any rule and falsify any numbers for a profit. Eventually the wealth inequality of a very few owning almost everything- and economic downturns- drive revolution and governments fall, often to be replaced by something much worse. The French and Russian Revolutions are examples, with the latter happening less than a decade before the crash of 1929. Poverty was so bad that bloody revolution was a possibility and something the U.S. wished to avoid at all costs.
In the 1930’s during the great depression the United States went to a new political-economic system known as Embedded Liberalism. In this mix of capitalism and socialism a strictly regulated capitalist market was allowed to function on the condition it support a social safety net insuring workers were not left homeless and starving when big business schemes, or the entire economy, failed. This was called “The New Deal” and it was hated by the biggest companies and most wealthy individuals because of the high tax rates necessary to pay for the social services safeguarding the citizenry. In the decades to follow the elites worked behind the scenes on a new ideology to replace Embedded Liberalism and this was to become known as Neoliberalism. The turning point came in the 1980’s with the “Reagan Revolution” and from that point on Embedded Liberalism would be quickly replaced with “free market economics.”
In as few words as possible, Neoliberalism makes money the god of this world. The poor become either useless eaters or a commodity depending on if they can generate revenue and the rich become semi-divine. The few live in luxury while the many live in squalor and Neoliberals consider this the natural order.
In the 1990’s politics in America became purely a matter of money as the 1 percent paid hundreds of millions of dollars for influence and politicians realized they either obeyed or lost office.
NAFTA was signed at the end of 1993 and President Clinton’s signing of it is sometimes identified as a milestone in a rightward shift for the Democrats. https://time.com/5468175/nafta-history/
“The Democrats had long championed workers’ rights, and the Republicans had become a free-trade party; that kind of broke down with Clinton,” Cowie says. “The Democrats got walloped in [the presidential elections of] 1980, 1984, 1988, and they had to figure out how to accommodate the power of the new conservatism in America. There was an old wing that wanted to fight to defend the industrial protections and collective bargaining represented by the New Deal, and a new wing that shifted to the right and Clinton became the standard-bearer of that movement, the New Democrats.”
Cameron echoes that Clinton “fundamentally reoriented the Democratic Party from being the party of the working class and middle class to being a party that actually fought to compete with the Republicans for Wall Street’s favor.”
Ross Perot, the 1992 third-party presidential candidate, famously predicted that an agreement like NAFTA would produce a “giant sucking sound” — meaning Mexico sucking jobs out of the U.S.”
I have voted only twice in my life- once for Perot and once for Obama. I thought Obama might possibly bring the troops home. He did not and I did not vote for him again. Biden will make it three times.
“According to historian Walter Scheidel, both major political parties shifted towards promoting free-market capitalism in the 1970s, with Republicans moving further to the political right than Democrats to the political left. He noted that Democrats played a significant role in the financial deregulation of the 1990s.[29] Anthropologist Jason Hickel contended that the neoliberal policies of the Reagan era were carried forward by the Clinton administration, forming a new economic consensus which crossed party lines.[30]
The only mechanism that keeps humans from being frozen and thawed out decades later when a cure for their illness or a technique to reverse aging is available is ice. Ice crystals forming disrupt cells and cause profound micro-damage to multi-cellular organisms. If we could freeze people without ice crystals forming then when we warmed them up and re-started their hearts they would have experienced “suspended animation.” And the world and everything we know would suddenly change. Everything.
In the 1997 movie Abre los ojos (open your eyes) and the remake Vanilla Sky, a TV commercial plays giving a clue to the plot. The commercial is for a cryopreservation company that freezes people with a process that allows the person to be reanimated without damage. A dog is given as the famous example. And on that day, if a lab animal is actually brought back to life from a frozen state, a new age will begin. It will be in truth a new beginning for humankind, a new state of being. Because the possibility of having an indefinite life-span will suddenly became more than just a possibility. It will become the single most important and common collective project in history.
“-the characteristics of a liberal are useless…and Reinhold Niebuhr writes this saying that in moments of extremity liberals are too intellectual, too ineffectual, and too little emotional a force to deal with radical evil- that those who rise up and resist are possessed by what he calls “sublime madness.”
Fighting the Monsters
“We the people” have been stolen from for half a century.
Because of corporate money in the democratic party, it seems the republicans are just the party of the rich vs the party of the less rich. Things like this have historically ended badly for everyone. Guillotines being the most graphic example of that. We are now faced with a 3 part complex problem-
1. Vote out Trump.
2. Get the money out of politics (by exposing Neoliberalism).
3. Remake the New Deal by making it Green.
Chris Hedges: In the end I don’t fight fascists because I will win, I fight fascists because they are fascists.
9:28 “The true history of the breakdown of capitalism in the 1930’s is not that a beneficent oligarch by the name of Franklin Roosevelt decided to shower us with gifts. It is that there were powerful radical movements, the progressive party, the communist party, which was white-washed from our history, powerful unions, especially around the CIO- that went to Roosevelt and said, look, it’s not working, people are destitute, and either you respond or you get revolution. And Roosevelt went to his fellow oligarchs and said you better give up some of your money, or you are going to lose all of your money. And that’s how we got heavy government intervention, 15 million jobs, social security, public works- which created the parks, the libraries, the schools, the post offices- many of which we use today, which of course, we are now watching them being closed. Power concedes nothing without a demand…and they took away the mechanism by which we can make a demand.”
49:02 “This is what happens at the final stages of capitalism, they consume the very structures that make capitalism possible. Marx got that right. I am not a Marxist but his analysis of capital is dead on-“. Chris is talking about all the education being converted to generate profit as a private industry and train workers instead of citizens.
Austerity passed the cost of the 2008 financial crash on to the citizens who did not want the too-big-to-fail companies bailed out 100 to 1. This signaled the end of the citizenry having any power to counter corporate agendas.
Citizens United 2010 Court Case- from wiki: President Barack Obama stated that the decision “gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington”. The ruling had a major impact on campaign finance, allowing unlimited election spending by corporations and labor unions and fueling the rise of Super PACs. Later rulings by the Roberts Court, including McCutcheon v. FEC (2014), would strike down other campaign finance restrictions. Studies show that the Citizens United ruling boosted the electoral success of Republican candidates.[2][3]
While the case allowed labor unions to also contribute this was a farce as the money available to corporations compared to unions was orders of magnitude larger.
20:15 Sheldon Wolin, erased from history- “Democracy Incorporated.”
Inverted Totalitarianism- Power concealed in the anonymous corporation
Notice how high I am holding the shotgun? There is a reflex sight mounted on the other side and it works really well. The gun recoils alongside my face with a couple of inches of clearance. I made that.
I posted this a couple months ago and the hate comments were horrific. I thought I would write about something other than space or futurism or politics and economics for a change so here goes. An individual high in openness like me will innovate as a matter of course so I decided to display a concept I believe is fairly original before someone else comes up with it and gets the credit. I first carried a shotgun in Alaska in areas with bears and trusted in the power of that weapon and on occasions carried them on the job over the years. While I love the elephant gun power, the recoil of magnum loads is, however, a distinct disadvantage. Few enjoy the beating they take from the weapon, which jars the entire body and bruises the shoulder (I hate it). In addition the standard Mossberg or Remington with a shoulder stock is not very maneuverable in tight spaces. Folding stocks have their own set of problems and have never been very popular either. Law enforcement wanted a shotgun that would fit in the front of their patrol vehicles and could be quickly deployed and so have used pistol-grip-only (PGO) shotguns for decades, calling them “Cruisers.” So I have modified this concept into something new- my original post was titled: “Cruiser Ascendant.”
The problem with PGO’s which they are forever damned for is you cannot aim them. Try looking over the top of the barrel and the gun will eventually smack you in the face, no matter how hard you try to remember to keep it from doing so. It occurred to me about five years ago that a red dot sight mounted on the side of the shotgun might solve my love/hate problem and I began experimenting. Sighting and firing the weapon “bazooka style” worked out well and I have continued shooting and developing the concept for the last couple years while thinking about marketing it in a kit. But…while I am great on ideas and innovation I am worthless at executing business plans and so I have done nothing with this “Offset-sighted Cruiser Shotgun”, or “OC” gun, and eventually someone is going to figure it out just like I did. So why not come out of the closet?
Constantly and forever improve- The rear attach point for my bungee sling took a surprisingly long time to figure out- along with the little velcro tabs to keep the loop from flopping around with the sling off. The sight picture is not too bad but I do not like the knob on top of the sight and the metal ring and as following photos show I removed them. There are a few reflex sights that are cleaner in profile.
My next mod is to fill the dead area between the window and the barrel with a small bicycle helmet mirror so I can see behind me. Have not got around to that yet.
The metal ring attached to the flashlight rail is for a sling but I already figured out the best place for the sling to hook to and I put the ring on just so the gun will sit somewhat upright on a flat surface. * I have since removed the hook ring as the gun still sits less upright and the sight picture is better.
I took the foregrip off and wrapped the tube in softball tape to make it handier and replaced the hard plastic grip with a soft rubber one. I also finally figured out the best sling attach points. I have small hands so the picture does not do justice to how compact this weapon is and with over 3000 foot pounds of energy firing 1 3/8 ounce magnum slugs it is…awesome.
The sight sticks out several inches on the side but the barrel comes off easily and will lay down flat, so this is not an issue in a gun case.
I designed the setup with active shooter response in mind. Loaded with buckshot it is, in my view, superior to any handgun (it is actually a kind of super-handgun). It is also short enough to be transported easily in a vehicle (why police used it) and handles well in confined spaces. Most importantly, it allows the shooters arms to act like shock absorbers so with a soft rubber pistol grip practicing with the weapon is mostly painless. Like any 12 gauge it of course kicks like a mule and I usually put in one random dummy round out of five when practicing to help me process and condition out flinching.
The key component is the BEAMSHOT RF9 mount, though there is a similar cheaper mount available last time I checked. To keep the mount from moving around I filed a slot in the front bottom to fit the barrel mounting nut support. I used a couple little plastic bubble levels and white-out with the barrel in a hobby vice and was very careful (you cannot un-file metal). I planned on accidentally over-filing a little and had some shimming material ready but managed to avoid that. It was difficult but not too challenging. In my experiments over the years I found without the support beam engaging this slot the sight mount is eventually going to move. Different reflex sights and flashlight rail combinations, or no flashlight rail in combination with the mount, can be used. The only requirement is that over 2.5 inch offset between the center of the barrel bore and the center of the sight. If the sight is under that measurement and too close to the barrel the gun is going to contact your head/face and hurt you when you shoot it, which defeats the whole purpose.
There are better lights but this works for me- the quick/mount/release clamp works. It took awhile to come up with the best mounting configuration for the light.
The switch is dual function, lightly press for momentary and push to click for on/off. Many lights do not have the momentary or have several modes to cycle through. The green dot shows up well in the beam.
The hard plastic grip that comes with many cruisers off the shelf is going to hurt your hand. The Mossberg/Maverick supplied grip also has a metal sling attach knob that sticks out of the side- and if you are going to wrap that hard grip with something soft to make it work I would recommend also taking the sling attach knob off as it is not something you want near your face when lighting off this cannon. If you have the offset distance and are using the dot the gun should not hit you but you still want to minimize any possibility of injury. The soft rubber grip I put on had the same kind of sling attach knob sticking out of the bottom and I took that off as it does not help the gun to sit upright on a surface (why I put the sling attach ring on the light rail but later removed it as the gun still sits but at a more severe angle). There are new flip-up dot sights on the market that might make the weapon even more compact and I encourage anyone building an “OC Gun” to see if that is an option. Using one of the cheaper mass produced reflex sights is fine as I used one in my early prototyping and had no problem. In fact, it worked better than the second higher dollar sight I tried. You want as clean a sight picture as you can get without peripheral battery wells and dial covers sticking out.
And…anyone out there talking about the Offset Cruiser shotgun concept, please mention me, Gary Church. Good luck and I pray this will only be used to protect others.
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Addendum:
Several months ago I posted this and the mockers and trolls sitting in mommies basement seemed to have found something they could giggle and pee their pants about so I took it down. Disgusting creeps. I thought the spacex muskrats were bad…these guys are like a whole other legion. The Tucker Carlson white power hour is obviously getting them too wound up. It is back up so those of a more progressive view might take a look at my other posts.
For those actually interested and not trolling I have put a couple hundred rounds through this gun over the last couple years developing it and it works. It is different and will be difficult to get on target very fast at first and never quite as fast as shouldering and looking straight down the barrel- that is one of the trade-offs.
This setup is designed to allow sighting of a PGO shotgun, the difficulty doing so being the main drawback of this type of weapon.
A much cleaner sight picture after removing the mounting knob on top of the sight and the ring on the rail below. The sight is bore-sighted with a laser and is offset to the left approximately 3 inches. This requires me to aim that distance to the left of whatever I am shooting at. It is not difficult with a little practice to visualize those few inches at whatever range I am shooting. It works.
The sight is bore-sighted with a laser and is offset to the left approximately 3 inches. This requires me to aim that distance to the left of whatever I am shooting at. It is not difficult with a little practice to visualize those few inches at whatever range I am shooting. It works.
The dot is not centered when shooting; it is on the left edge of the window to help keep the face from contacting the weapon during recoil. Which is what this is all about. Keeping the V of the thumb and index finger and wrist properly aligned will prevent a sore thumb and help direct the weapon in a straight line alongside and clear of the shooters face. Be warned the clearance between the weapon and the shooter’s face is “minimal” during recoil and large hearing protectors will get knocked off your head. Beware of shooting glasses possibly being clipped also. I use earplugs and directly “face” the target and this keeps my glasses clear. The minimal clearance is one of the trade-offs and caution must be exercised. My previous prototypes were close to 3 inches between bore and reticle but this one is as close as practical. This is where the dot belongs when firing and the target would be slightly to the right in the window. How far to correct to the right depends on the range as the weapon is laser bore-sighted in a straight line with the dot set a few inches to the left. At longer range those few inches bring the target closer to the dot. The trick is scale, keeping in mind what that almost 3 inches represents in the sight picture at any given range. It sounds difficult but after much trial and error in my opinion this arrangement is fairly easy to effect and the least trouble. One drawback is the sight seems more vulnerable to damage mounted on the side and the glass in this one is cracked from being dropped once. But after shooting a couple boxes it is still working.
In conclusion, a Pistol Grip Only (PGO) shotgun is more compact than a stocked weapon, making it easier to store in and deploy from a vehicle (why the police originally used it) and is more maneuverable in confined spaces. It also does not punish the shooter anywhere near what a stocked shotgun does. The hard plastic grip provided with many off-the-shelf cruisers does hurt the hand and a soft rubber after-market grip like the Hogue Tamer solves that problem. The main problem is aiming it. An offset sight is a trade-off as it adds complexity and due to the sight sticking out from the side of the barrel is not quite as easy to store. The “bazooka” position is also a quite different technique compared to “shouldering” and aiming requires an unorthodox offset sight picture. In my view the pros outweigh the cons.
I talked to a coworker who I thought was one of the more critical thinkers and might finally be crossing the line and becoming a NT (never-trumper). I asked him if he was going to to the polls with me on election night and he said I would be disappointed who he is voting for. I asked him if it was for the guy who called us “losers and suckers” (we are both veterans). He immediately responded “That’s a lie.” I said, “No it’s not.” He said, “Yes it is.” I said, “No it’s not.” And I walked away in disgust. I am going to need a drink on election night either way it goes. More than one. And I don’t drink.
I would say he is going to lose due to the simple fact there are likely about a hundred million people in America who are completely mystified at our fellow citizens who support Trump. We are all confused and afraid and are all going to vote. I am not alone in just not getting how the FTs (forever-trumpers) can continue to support someone who has so egregiously disgraced the office of the president. What spell has been cast? Notice I did not say what spell has “he” cast because it is obvious he is not smart enough to be classified as some kind of magical intellect.
It has become truly Orwellian: the truth is a lie. The one network the FT’s think is not fake news is actually…fake news. The people who are telling the truth are the “enemy of the people” while our leaders are lying about almost everything.
Trumpism has become the most serious domestic threat to democracy in U.S. history.
All those lawyers resigned because it compromised their integrity. Huge red flag. But it becomes a little red dot in a crowd of lies and corruption all wearing MAGA hats. No response from the administration concerning Russian interference. You can see Strzok visibly shaky when he states Trump is compromised- he is scared. As he should be. Trumpism is all about fear and vindictive bullying.
6:20 If it “washes over” the country at least a million people will die, but it will probably be far more, as Rachel says in the clip above. Crazy and crazier every day. I cannot believe this is happening. 6 million dead? It is like a new American holocaust- getting rid of the useless eaters. The elderly, people with pre-existing conditions, and minorities are the main victims. Creepy.
“You’ll develop like a herd mentality.” Crazy. I see that same pompous arrogance on Atlas’s face- just like Pompeo and the Fox talking heads. Crazy.
“Maybe it’s a good thing; I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people.”
So…because she kept her mouth shut that means now she is not credible. Riiight.
The Wizard of OZ
Why not throw in a word on political extremism from a conservative favorite?
Typical scams the unions are always blamed for: giving 300 million to a vendor providing telemarketing and marketing when it should be 150 and paying twice as much for “widgets” like NRA hats pins. Pouring gas on the fire…gun owners don’t have a problem with background checks but the NRA considers it blasphemy because they pander to their lunatic fringe. All smoke and mirrors; no well-oiled lobbying machine. Just stuff like a 6 million dollar house for Wayne. And…Joe Biden and the black helicopters are going to take your guns.
15:25 “Folks have bought into this Wizard of Oz- What they miss is the fact that of a hundred million guns owners in this country 96 percent of them are in favor of passing a more substantial background check law. What they end up doing is pandering to this extreme fringe of things.”
God (the prosperity gospel) guns and guts… and the meritocracy is not what it seems.
“-the rich, and the richest kids, win the meritocratic competition, and everybody else loses.” There are two ways to look at it:
It is not good to make social policy based on exceptional cases. A fair society has ordinary people doing well in ordinary circumstances. This is not happening.
When meritocracy was practiced in the early and mid-20th century it worked- and those people who succeeded trained their children really hard.
Princeton tax subsidies work out to about 100,000 dollars per year per student.
Rutgers, not an Ivy League College, works out to about 12,500 dollars per year.
Essex County Community College gets about 2500 dollars.
Taxi Drivers used to make a middle class living, now it is a “impoverished job.”
Inequality in education drives the transformation of work into bipolar elite and impoverished occupations. This explains the feedback loop making Neoliberalism the dominant ideology in this planet.
“The system that we have will not get undone unless we can persuade the elites it is not working for them either.”
It is likely the last argument is going to be the guillotine.
17:50 I finally figured out why the FT’s are so brainwashed.
Thank you Professor Markovits.
In conclusion:
College educated liberals were not being offshored and suffering stagnant wages from the Reagan Revolution of the 80’s on so they went along with it, thinking it would all work out. It did not. Not until around 2010 did a few democrats start standing up and blatantly stating what was going on was wrong. “Let’s at least get back to what we were doing in 1976.”
“Talk to me November 4th and I will either be a hopeful American or some new stage of hopelessness I have never experienced.”
Systems fail in a final cascade after a certain amount of fault corrupts their operation. It can be a large fault or many smaller faults or any combination. If the system is self-correcting then time becomes the most important factor as the small faults can be corrected one at a time as they occur but usually will be overwhelmed by too much at once. The human race does not seem to be dealing with various problems in any logical fashion and it does not look good for us.
Amazon women on the Moon might save us but we have wasted way too much time. There is of course not a hint of anyone seriously proposing any kind of off-world survival colony. I revised my list a few times with an impact as number one for a few years after Chelyabinsk but an engineered pathogen has always returned to me as the most likely extinction level event.
Along with an engineered pathogen and impact event, there is the Earth itself working against our continued survival with climate change and volcanic activity. Zombie fires are one of several feedback loops that could end up killing most of the human race by making it impossible to grow enough food for the soon-to-be 8 billion people on Earth.
Trump quoting the President who made America great with the New Deal is…disgusting. I know I said in my last post I was going back to writing on space but this is just too much.
Ice on the Moon 