Debt Rattle November 9 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 9 2022]Bloomberg mentioned Cairo as the neutral location more acceptable to Russia than Geneva, since Switzerland has joined the US and EU sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict.
Sadly Switzerland – land ot total weirdos including men in shorts in sub-zero temperatures and yes, I have lived there and in Baden-Wurttemberg (German but honarary Swiss) in the past – decided to capitulate on the old privacy and US tax investigations. They still do banking, they still house Davos, they still help non-US citizens evade tax, they still make watches (yawn), so I wonder what their new role in the world will be as their banking secrecy and international neutrality are compromised.
It’s “toe the line” (or “toeing the line”). It means to obey authority, to follow the rules set forth by others. “Tow the line” would mean to pull something.
Truly surrealistic…a brain damaged person, who can hardly read/think, beat Dr. Oz in the home of the Continental Congress 😕
There is nothing more boring than the fake elections that take place in NATOstan nations because the result is determined long before anyone makes a mark on a piece of paper or presses a button on a voting machine.
The winner is always the bankster-corporate-fascist party because all mainstream parties are bankster-corporate-fascist parties and they are the only ones allowed gain access to the lever of power by the bankster-corporate fascists who control the system.
Whichever party wins, the fundamental polices will be more or less exactly the same. more of the same. It’s certainly been that way in NZ since Norman Kirk was assassinated -oops, died in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
So the choice is simply a matter of which snout/snouts will be in the public feeding trough.
The Scorpion has ensured that the path of destruction in NZ that she/it has pursued since becoming PM will continue unabated by reappointing Adrian Orr as governor of the NZ central bank for the next five years.
The National Party pretends to be outraged by this.
There’s talk of the Scorpion losing popularity and not being re-elected.
The Scorpion could not care less. She/it has made a fortune ($25 million to $30 million since being sponsored into position. She/it can either take up a preordained position at the UN, or hang around the political scene in NZ and pretend to be opposed to National, should they be ‘elected’.
It’s all theatre, and not even entertaining anymore.
The real action is in Ukraine, where the fascists are getting desperate.
Much more interesting for me than the fake politics is the origin of the word airport, which was first used by the Supermarine Company of Woolston, Southampton, England, where one of the first overseas passenger services originated (complementing the passenger services of the big passenger lines operating huge ocean liners).
I was always intrigued by the name Supermarine as in Supermarine Spitfire, which was designed and developed at the Woolston factory.
Supermarine was a play on the word submarine, submarines travelling under the water; float planes operated on and above the water.
Supermarine Spitfires are credited with having given the Luftwaffe such a bloody nose they turned the tide of WW2 at a crucial point. History would have been very different if Britain had not held Germany at bay. It would have taken Russia somewhat longer to win the war,
My parents spoke of the air-raids they endured in 1949-41, living just a couple of miles further up the River Itchen, as the Germans repeatedly attacked the Supermarine factory and the port of Southampton.
Southampton was so pummeled, it did not recover until the 1960s and bomb sites were a notable feature of the town when I grew up.
People living in America really do not know what war is.
Maybe that why so many of them like it
I was just thinking. Overseas air travel commenced about 100 years ago, and it very much looks like it will be largely phased out within five years
By the way, the Romans regarded one of eastern the banks of River Itchen as a favourable spot to establish a colony.
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So begins election month(s)?
And I wonder: has my vote been discarded yet? What? I thought this is something everyone agreed on! Russia CLEARLY is deciding all U.S. elections, right?
“Trump Calls For Action Over ‘Complete Voter Integrity Disaster’ At Polls: People are showing up to Vote only to be told, “sorry, you have already voted…”
Well, that’s Russia, so we need to investigate and arrest these Russian agents, right?
Actually no. The Left says it’s the fault of Black men and White women. …I didn’t ask. I already had my punchcard of nonsense full up for the day. So it’s … your … fault? You are the party of these two groups, right? What did you do to piss them off so much?
“New York Concealed Carry Law Ruled Unconstitutional Again”
As yesterday, Republicans keep getting laws and judgments saying certain acts are illegal. Democrats keep doing them anyway, year after year. No one goes to jail. Oh wait:
“Court Orders Release of ‘True The Vote’ Leaders From Jail”
People who ASK QUESTIONS go to jail. Forever, as these two, like Armstrong, were given life sentences “For contempt”. Um…I think that’s not legal? To get life sentences without a jury or appeal? When they get out of jail, their accusers simply accuse them and send them to jail again for something new. I’m sorry; when does this stop? When do you stop playing pattycake with people killing you, your children, your community, your country, your rights, and sending you to jail with $1M legal fees? …If it’s the GOP then never, I guess.
And if history is to be believed, so it will be in NY. Again, gun laws are illegal by BOTH their State, AND the Federal constitutions. They ignore them daily and have for 100 years. Hey guys: there’s a PROCESS. If you want to do this the LEAST you could do is amend the STATE constitution and PRETEND it’s legal. Nope. They would lose as their vast Upstate would veto it, and so they break the law every day for 100 years instead. Every Governor, every Representative. Every Policeman. Every Sheriff. “What is Law?” as Pontius Pilot would say. “There is no Law in them.”
BTC drop with another (fake) exchange going down. Hopefully this is the plunge I’m looking for. Minutia, but you know what’s in the news no one is talking about? Hey how about that Elon Musk takeover, eh?
And?
Hey, how about how Jack Dorsey got off the chain and took his company back for free speech, even though it took a few years cringing under the pimp hand of the bad guys?
And?
Hey, how about how both Musk and Dorsey come from PAYPAL. Or in Dorsey’s case, SQUARE, or “Block”.
And?
Do I have to spell it out? This has nothing to do with Twitter. Twitter is a loss-leader, it’s practically un-monetizable. They’ve been trying to sell it for years and nobody wanted it because it’s a garbage heap that burns cash like a dumpster fire. The only thing keeping it going is free cash from the Derp State. So we have all the DMs from Twitter, between government, Derp State, and Leftist activists, spokesmen and actors. Now THAT has cash value: It’s worldwide blackmail. Or if you’re a White Hat it’s “Hey maybe you should shut up now and not make trouble after illegally selling blue checkmarks at $15,000 a pop for four years.” AND the actors who bought them are ALSO pissed off they could have got it for $8, and are easily outed as accessories to blackmail and extortion racket by paying it. I.e., they are NOT morally superior but status-grubbing criminals who’ll do anything for a click.
…But that won’t really fly unless you want to go full-mafia, like the Derp State was. What both Elon AND Dorsey always wanted was a PRIVATE PAYMENT SYSTEM, going around the banks. And PayPal is now the #anti-system, even WORSE than the banks. And Dorsey is also pissed off at being both their slave and their fall guy for 5 years, after the Derp State board got over on him.
So: two top tech payment guys “start” a new communications company, that day one has a $44B market cap, and between 70 and 400 Million users (active vs inactive). They are complete billionaires and complete private owners, reporting to almost no one. They own the servers so Amazon WS can’t shut them off. And they own the compromat so the Usual Suspects can’t f’ with them.
And while Twitter moves 280 characters, Crypto only needs 40 x2 to transmit. And become the new “PayPal” and “Square” … where these guys really got their money. And as the Supreme Court says: “Money is Speech”. Ask any Canadian trucker.
Don’t be distracted by Musk’s money-burning non-cars, his exploding space flights, or Dorsey’s time-suck with demented text addicts. They are MONEY men, not engineers. And they’re both free speech hackers, going way back.
But I guess we’ll all find out what’s hidden in plain sight. “If the media reports it, it’s a lie.” And if the Media does NOT report it? This most obvious thing? Thousands of articles, cities worth of pixels lit up over this, and not once. No? Huh. I’ll have to do it myself then.
“the Commission confirmed that Warsaw has fulfilled 15 out of 20 milestones necessary for the payments of the first tranche of funds.”
And one of the remaining five is to erase all their judges and courts. They have to become as rainbow limp and morally upstanding as the Narco-state in Amsterdam, stealing 1,000 year land from farmers for condos. Um. No. These are not the “European Values” we were looking for.
“EU ‘Sucking Gas Away’ from Poorer Countries (RT)”
There’s no “borrowing” for zero-use items, that is a lie. I don’t “Borrow” your food for 6 months and expect you to be alive after. You can only “borrow” things that aren’t being used right now. In addition, the U.S. put ANOTHER illegal military base of aggressive invasion on top of the Syrian pipeline route. The UN Cheers! Yay U.S.! You’re so awesome, moral, and caring! Love Bombs all around! Biden, the party of peace and anti war protestors…a generation ago, and pro-war every day since.
“He said that conclusively. He lied; his top advisor, Birx, has stated in public she knew this was not true”
Yes but nobody cares. When my guy lies it’s not a lie. It’s um…look! Russia!
“wear it, even though, in reality, it protects no one. The same goes for vaccination. Both the flu vaccine and the COVID shots are proven ineffective, yet the recommendation(13) to get them continues.”
When my guy lies… I love it! Harder, Daddy!
“claim a team of researchers from Ohio State University” … Who never read the data. On 8 mice. Or Pfizer execs under oath. Or former Pfizer VPs. Or Dr. Birx’s book. But they’re from Ohio, so illiterate boobs, I guess?
Am I NOT supposed to believe Dr. Birx, Pfizer Execs, official research papers, and Fauci and Biden getting the disease on camera? Now THAT seems like an implausible conspiracy theory.
“Reality is what I SAY it is.” “Which is to be Master; that is all.”
““There is a shortage of two million housing units in Poland, so young people have to live with their parents.”
Meanwhile, Russia is paying parents for kids. Might be the only place on earth you’re not SEVERELY punished for it.
Thinking that the COVID-19 pandemic is in some way a hoax could serve as a ‘gateway’ for individuals to engage with more complex conspiracy theories, claim a team of researchers from Ohio State University in the US.
Introductions like that remind me of Captain Scarlet, where every episode he saved the world. This time it is from conspiracy theorists that the intellectuals, who would never admit to have spoken to a conspiracy theorist, given that they are professionals, so naturally unthinking liberals, but they heard someone say something about this on the metro so they wrote a paper and the boss is going to publish it. God it is pathetic, how useless do you have to be to work for, be dependent on, these clowns.
Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Umberto Eco, Italian. Definition of Fascism to him c1990.
The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
1. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
2. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
3. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
4. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
5. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
6. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
7. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
8. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
9. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
10. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
11. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
12. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
13. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”It’s a different list than I use, more focused on the social minutia I would consider local and not “Ur-Fascism”. On the other hand, he ignores both the history and the very word “Fascism” – a bundle united – and their success. With his list many running South American Spanish cultures have many features of fascism, which seems clearly in error. Posting for thought and discussion.
A secret meeting was held between US Attorney General Merrick Garland, a criminal himself holding the highest ‘law enforcement’ position in the Empire of Lies, and former Congress Critter Tulsi Gabbard.
Little is known about what was said during the closed door tête-à-tête other than some Justice Department employees down the hall hearing Garland screaming repeatedly at the top of his tinny little voice, STFU!
But a secret photo has leaked from the Joe Show Regime showing the conclusion of said ‘meeting’.
The Presidementia’s staff were concerned that Tulsi was ‘Harshing their Mellow®’ (HTM) by talking trash about Old Creepy Joe running the country into the ground and enriching his countless sycophants.
Garland schooled her on that point.
Veracious Poet said
Truly surrealistic…a brain damaged person, who can hardly read/think, beat Dr. Oz in the home of the Continental Congress
Good job all these people voted, given that the USA cannot be bothered to put in place an honest voting system so obviously just does not care what the voters think and want to make it easy for them to cheat the vote: a little cheating every couple of years gives them millions in bribes and the rest. How else will these losers ever make any money?
Who is fucking dumb enough to go voting? By voting you just told them their system is valid, worth your time to go vote, your participation signals your acceptance of the result.
FFS. People really annoy me, they are so dumb. I need a dog.
AFKTT said
Supermarine Spitfires are credited with having given the Luftwaffe such a bloody nose they turned the tide of WW2 at a crucial point. History would have been very different if Britain had not held Germany at bay.
Ahh, the winners’ version of the war, reminds me of Escape From Colditz: the Brits won the war you know, nobody else did much to help, the Russians just did some marching in Eastern Europe but the Brits saved them. It was the Brits, without them we would all be Nazis.
Total bullshit history. Go read some real accounts of the war in local museums, you will find that the British Nazis don’t have the manpower to burn down the local museums so there is some actual truth lying around.
Dr D said
Hey, how about how both Musk and Dorsey come from PAYPAL. Or in Dorsey’s case, SQUARE, or “Block”.
Buying paypal is one thing, but there are so many Chinese payment companies that anything that happens in the USA is totally irrelevant. The USA is decades behind the Chinese. For example, AliPay, LinePay, etc so Musk adds TwitterPay. Are you telling me that Musk is now going to be copying the Chinese? This is a total non event.
“A massively unpopular President, record inflation, a border in shambles, and yet…we’re just barely going to take the House?”
It used to be normal for a ruling party to lose 50-60 seats in the midterms. Today, very few change sides, though the reasons to do so are glaringly obvious. That paints the picture of US politics. And media. Walking talking dead.
Sorry, should have added an educational link … https://www.adchina.io/chinese-payment-app/.
Dr D said
“The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
What is modern depravity? Is seen by whom? This is a totally stupid statement and would have prevented me from reading the rest were it not for Dr D doing the posting. Umberto Eco is much better at fiction, he writes weird books – although very profitable – but really should stop pretending to have anything to add to politics.
November 9, 2022 at 12:12 pm#120567REPLY
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
“A massively unpopular President, record inflation, a border in shambles, and yet…we’re just barely going to take the House?”It used to be normal for a ruling party to lose 50-60 seats in the midterms. Today, very few change sides, though the reasons to do so are glaringly obvious. That paints the picture of US politics. And media. Walking talking dead.
It shocks me into a catatonic state from which I barely regain some form of sanity; or what?
Nobody is actually doing anything…nobody…
May the gods of reason please intervene…Truly surrealistic…a brain damaged person, who can hardly read/think, beat Dr. Oz in the home of the Continental Congress 😕
I feel the same. I am a regular reader of the comments section at Marginal Revolution so I can have some sort of understanding of the minds that would vote in such a way https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/11/the-election-results.html?commentID=160525251
MR is full of the “smart people”, reading it is like doing anthropological research.
Edward Dowd:
“They don’t. It’s statistically impossible. Fraud is happening. ”
https://gettr.com/post/p1xijtpa02eTulsi, God bless her hart.
I do not question or judge her choice to be in the army.
Lieutenant Colonel is relatively high-ranking position to be just retired at her age, so I assume that she is still under the Army reserve umbrella? Unless, US army officers coming of the conveyor belt are disposable at any age?
Isn’t she required to “cut the crap” and answer the call, unconditionally, to the “sound of trumpets”?“…at least some of these new RSV shots are mRNA based.” Yay! The lipid nanopaticles are on the house!
Adding more yeast to the dough increases the size of the loaf, but won’t increase the number of calories in the bread.
Apparently the garden needs water and the jungle can go thirsty.
With COVID-19, there was this large event that people could not control, so how could they make sense of it? One way is by adhering to conspiracy theories.
I noticed, in the religious exemption request for the shot which does not vaccinate, they wanted documentation that I was following orders from some religious authority figure
when I explained that their requirement that I must be blindly following SOMEONE’S orders was itself against my beliefs and then explained how their requirement was against my beliefs, they replied that I had sent no documentation. They meant no VALID documentation, as they clearly recognized I had sent them …something. 18 pages of it. But I had sent “no documentation”
for people for whom actual critical thought, logic, science, skepticism, free will, are not a thing, they can only imagine “conspiracy theory” being explained as ADHERENCE TO something as opposed to breaking away from something.
You can send them 18 pages of well-considered rational explanation that you have honed over many hours to be as logical and concise as possible, and they will respond that you have said nothing – does not compute. You did not adhere to anything. You were not following anyone’s orders. Therefore you “make no sense” and have “said nothing”
With COVID-19, there was this large event that people could not control, so how could they make sense of it?
The concept that people DID make some sense of it does not compute.
Probably based on an underlying concept that people cannot know or understand anything and only do things because of how they were influenced. A disbelief in human consciousness as the baseline belief.
@Teri: Yeah, “Toe The Line” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
Department of Kiss & Tell: “Grok Truth not propaganda” Ugo Bardi also reads my blog. 🙂
America has not hit bottom and despaired/capitulated yet, so no change yet, just pre-positioning, I think.
The soonest the bottom could be hit seems like 2024, but 2028 would be more fitting to historical trends.
As I have opined before, the appealing uni-party move is to blame it all on senile Joe Biden, let Trump in for another 4 years of probably blame, but manage chapter-11 bankruptcy, then do something else…
It’s dangerous to hope, but I hope for a bottom in 2023-2024. It looks like loss of global-reserve-currency-status will be the blood-splattered-wall.
Optimistic-JohnCurrent buzz hitting telegram channels.
The Russians will withdraw from Kherson city and the west bank of the Dnipro.
Sergei Shoigu and Sergei Surovikin announced that Russian forces will begin to withdraw from the right-bank of the Dnipro in Kherson. https://t.co/Iejev36DUhhttps://t.co/ALUFxcYRsU pic.twitter.com/F2H65dhAGv
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) November 9, 2022
RINO Mitch is very pleased with his election counting results.
Now we know why joe and the Dems were not worried about the election.
They knew the electiin results before the voters even voted!
Susmarie 108:
Good to hear you are almost ready for winter!
Nobody will know how messy your wood pile is because you will soon be burning the evidence!
The midterm results are hilarious.
OF COURSE Americans love runaway inflation, not being able to afford a home, unemployment, weird fascist medical regimes that destroy lives, families, societies and cancel everything that is fun, demented presidents, brain-damaged senators, the threat of nuclear war, the inability to speak freely, sending billions and billions of dollars overseas while not spending billions to rebuild the small businesses that were destroyed by the policies they love, not spending billions to stop repeated shipments of enough fentanyl to kill the entire country, not spending billions to fix the mounting homeless or crime problems, not spending billions to fix the crumbling infrastructure.
Sure, makes sense. You just have to realize the demographics of America have changed. You just don’t have the same political concerns or blocs in America anymore. Just look at that pie chart. See that huge pie slice of People Who Love Punching Themselves In The Face Continually has now reached a size to swing any election? You just have to understand a modern electorate.
Historically, Americans would vote for The Other Party when things become intolerable. Even when that isn’t really a solution. But not this time kids. Maybe next time.
On this video Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu orders a General Sergei Surivikin to begin withdrawing Russian forces from the western bank of the #Dnipro river (from #Kherson city area). He said this is because "the lives of Rus soldiers is always a priority for us." pic.twitter.com/9AI790CmvP
— Viktor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) November 9, 2022
Truly surrealistic…a brain damaged person, who can hardly read/think, beat Dr. Oz in the home of the Continental Congress 😕
I believe Fetterman, a trust fund baby, was complaining that Dr. Oz had earned too much money in his life?
Researchers performing mental gymnastics and purportedly unaware of it:
researchers considered conspiracy theories to be beliefs that aren’t supported by any evidence – and which are actually contradicted by the evidence that does exist. These can be anything from believing the Moon landing was staged to thinking that legitimate elections are rigged
-> there IS evidence that the moon landings were staged
-> there IS evidence that “legitimate elections” are rigged (never mind the oxymoron present in that statement(Which means that, according to the study, neither qualify as “conspiracy theories.” Oh, you mean “evidence that really exists” is code for “officially recognized evidence” — because we aren’t supposed to recognize evidence that isn’t part of the narrative.)
There is also evidence to the contrary.
Evidence that is contradictory suggests that the truth is more nuanced than the mainstream narrative allows.
That is supposedly one of the bases for scientific inquiry — to figure out why reality/truth is more complex than our models suggest.Election trends and rumors:
Senate stagnant with slight Dem. majority due to VP Kamala Harris deciding vote.
House: Probably small Rep. majority.
Contested votes here and there.
Republicans ahead some in governorships.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/republicans-see-gains-midterms-red-wave-hopes-fade-democrats-outperform
Stagnation for 2 more years.
As with the stock market, bad news is good news going forward (Epimenidis : “All Cretans are liars”.)@Phoenixvoice: You read Stranger-In-A-Strange-Land, too?
Grok.It’s “toe the line” (or “toeing the line”). It means to obey authority, to follow the rules set forth by others. “Tow the line” would mean to pull something.
Toe the line may mean “obey authority” now (language changes), but it used to mean to get ready to compete. I heard it on the Daniel Boone show in the 1960’s. Two men disagreed (one was Boone I think) and a line was drawn in the dirt and the men were told to “toe the line” where they stood and fought until one could no longer stand at the line and fight which made the other the winner, kind of a trial by combat. Google says it originally meant to move to the starting line of a race which is similar, but I like the Daniel Boone metaphor better.
If I understand correctly, the Biden admin’s midterm results are better than both Obama and Clinton midterms?
re. twitter from June Slater, up top. “V de Leyen under investigation”…
Ursula von der L.’s husband was a low – or medium-level wheel in the bio-pharma sphere. Gained higher status I guess since Wifey rose to power! *Heiko von der Leyen.* (See wiki, etc. Idk anything particular about him.)
It has been clear for a long time that V der L was in cahoots with Big Pharma, note she, and the EU Com. are unelected, it is a buddy-buddy pick yr friends kind of scene. She was prev. Def. Min. of Germany, heavily disapproved of, and then ‘kicked sideways and upstairs to be the Head of the EU Commission.
There was a similar ‘essai’ in France, re. Swine Flu, 2009. The Health Min. Roselyne Bachelot (originally a pharmacist!) ordered XYZ – huge nos. of vaxes from various Cos. but the State surveillance and Regs. held up and after about under 30 vax deaths, the vax was banned, and Bachelot quit / was forced out. This exercise provided a lot of info, imho, for the next try, Covid 19.
I’m guessing – purely hypothetical – that Big Pharma undertstood that the corruption of the WHO (which has been going on for a long time, 20 years at least), was the way to go. The WHO could declare ‘a pandemic’ of world scope, and overide National Gvmts. Advisory for vax application, etc. would be part of the package..
What if he really just wants to talk about freeing-money?
Even worse?
German Politicians Move To Block Musk From Restoring Free Speech Protections On Twitter
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-politicians-move-block-musk-restoring-free-speech-protections-twitter@ John Day
Yes, read Stranger… and several of the sequels a dozen years back.Ah…and it looks like my day just became busier and I will have to peruse TAE comments later.
We talk a lot about East vs West of late. Concerning that, I like this:
“Russian culture has much to offer us. The Russians know the darker side of humanity, but they also understand the extraordinary capacity of the human soul for sacrifice and love, and they have the ability to accept both sides of man with greater equanimity than we in the West. They know how to take a long view, something we have all but forgotten in our anxious desire for immediate gratification.”
Land of the Firebird, 1980, Suzanna Massie
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Ah, VP’s straw-clutch obsession with his deliberately self-misinformed concept of my relationship with gender and social dress norms.
Sorry, VP. I ain’t putting out for some pampered princess daughter of the Ming in your mind. I choose fire (if only to light this reefer in front of me). Since I genuinely am veracious (and fairly poetic as well), I’ll seriously note that you’re deeply suffering inside, and that thing won’t heal if you don’t stop picking at it.
Why are we here? Dr. D often says it is to maintain our sanity. I think he’s close except in his assertion that any of us are sane. Ah, sanity, that mysterious human concept whereby we judge our interpretation of reality to be superior to someone else’s, apparently because we lack sufficient pride in being whatever God(t) made us, and so we therefore feel the need to dismiss someone else as being cuckoo in order to convince ourselves that the bats in our belfry know for whom the bells truly toll.
I feel sorry for VP but I also feel sorry for me, and you, and that funny-looking chap in the corner with the hunting cap. Everyone is suffering. Maybe if VP stopped projecting (insert possessive pronoun of choice) suffering onto others, some healing might commence.
But it’s hard to let go. If I should publicly say that I hope your suffering eases, that can only sound condescending in this setting, but the truth is like that, and the truth is I wish you healing, VP. I smack you a bit when I feel the mood, because you are to me an extremely obnoxious muddle of self-deluding narcissistically self-imprisoned bullshit braggadocio, but I also pray for you (as well as for po po pitiful me) because, well, we’re all suffering.
But so long as you feel disposed to throw your particular flavor of self-glorifying animosity around, I will periodically succumb to the temptation to remind you that not everyone believes your bullshit… beginning with that face you see in the mirror.
Plus, you hit like a girl. I call you a deceitful hack and the best you can come back with is that I, like most males, look funny in a dress? Especially an itty bitty doll dress worn over my face to supposedly protect me from toxic nano-bugs?
We could bounce our silly ass egos off each other all day if we chose to, VP. But fomenting schadenfreude in ourselves and pain in others will only keep picking our respective wounds.
Here’s my Rx, VP: stop publicly telling people how much better you are than them and you won’t experience so much public ridicule from folks like me.
Oh. I almost forgot. Part of my established online persona is sharing songs cuz I succumb to the delusion that I have great taste in music:
Cross-Dresser Blues She wears cowboy clothes pretty good for a girl, though.I go now to enter the apartment of someone freshly diagnosed with covid. I doggy-sit her pooch on her workdays. I intend to inhale deeply and touch all the physical surfaces that I can without appearing too acquisitive. Keep my immune system strong even if it kills me like a runaway vakzine running wild down a government forced giveaway program.
P.S. The RVWilliams was most excellent. This, neither choral nor classical, is my counterpoint.
Why yes, I’m bored. Why do you ask?
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