Emhasis mine:

Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics, as distinct from the liberal sort, have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance. Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so to some degree, it has lately been greatly expanded, complicated and fortified by identity politics, in which class resentments are compounded and confused by innumerable others hitherto unimagined — and some, indeed, almost unimaginable. Most began as aspects of what was called “grievance” politics, which over the past decade or so has matured as revenge politics: the politics of a bitter, irrational, infantile, implacable, wholly gratifying and fulfilling rage. As the Democratic Party has moved rapidly and resolutely leftward over the past six or seven years, the Donkeys’ political agenda has been narrowed and reduced to one of programmatic revenge: “Let a thousand flowers bloom.”

Since the 1960s, the American left (inspired and aided by the agents of leftism abroad, in Europe, South America, the Soviet Union and in China) had been searching for a fundamental, essential constitutional weakness in American society and the American polity that they could develop as a fatal flaw by exaggerating and exploiting it. What remained of the Old Left thought it was capitalist economics. The New Left agreed, but added what it saw as authoritarian capitalist culture. The inventors of the 1619 Project thought they had discovered it in slavery. In recent years Democrats had a brainstorm and decided it was repressive identity politics. As they were also the institutional propagandists on behalf of multiculturalism and mass global immigration, destructive inspiration came naturally to them here. Americans loved capitalism. Slavery had been abolished a century and a half before, and relations between blacks and whites in the United States were improving drastically — obviously so. Many other countries had histories of economic inequality and slavery, including European and American ones; neither was unique to the United States. …

-Chilton Williamson, Jr (The grievance games of the Left aim for one thing:: revenge)

 

I can summarize this easily – they blame everything that is wrong on everyone else but themselves, using any obscure “wrongness” as a weapon against everyone else.

(H/T: Hot Air)

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I have to confess I stole that title from Tucker Carlson. Tucker is one of my favorite news people because he is fearless. He has no allegiance to the Right or Left, and if his reporting upsets either or both, so be it. Tucker’s goal is to uncover the truth, and because of his quest for honesty, Tucker Carlson lives with a target on his back. The only difference from day to day is the direction of the shots he takes. They come from all sides, including the media. Ironically, all reporters used to be what Tucker Carlson is. The rest just lost their way and nerve.

The Press in America is designed to be free. This concept was so important to our forefathers that they wrote the guarantee of a Free Press into the Constitution. The reason the Press was so important to the designers of our country was to have someone watch the government and protect the people. They were to observe, investigate and report the truth to the American people. The Press was urged to be the watchdog and to keep the government accountable. The problem today is that the government funds the Press, or media, to manipulate the message. The FBI has bastardized the right to a free press, giving Twitter over $3 Million for burying their version of the Hunter Biden Laptop saga.

We have been asking ourselves the same question about a variety of issues. Why are these people doing such irrational things? What is their motivation? The answer may be as simple and obvious as they act as if they are God. We, on the Right, know damn well that these people are not God or anywhere close to him. But this would explain why the Left believes they can control the climate, decide on appropriate gender, and even control people’s thoughts. They think they are immortal, and if we can shatter this thinking, then maybe, we can come to some middle ground of ideas. That is a huge maybe.

This interference by the FBI, DOJ, The White House, or any other government entity cannot repeat. We are learning more each day as Elon Musk and Twitter continue to make public facts about how the government used Twitter to influence the 2020 and 2022 elections. We also know from Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony that the FBI also had contact with Facebook. The House will begin hearings on January 3, and the Press will have to cover the proceedings. This will be the first glimpse that many on the Left will have into an ugly conspiracy that we on the Right have known about for some time. The problem will be accountability. The DOJ under Merrick Garland and a Democrat controlled Senate, will block any attempt at prosecuting those found guilty.

At least the curtain will be pulled back. We must find what Christopher Wray’s part was in this plot and who else in the FBI hierarchy needs to be pulled onto the carpet. The Hunter Biden Laptop has to be opened, and the facts brought to the world. We must find out the extent of how much Joe Biden is compromised. This is going to be a dark time for our government but those who are breaking the rules must now pay the price. We cannot undo the damage created by toying with our election process, but steps must be implemented to make sure it never happens again.

 

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Yep, I have a few of these to catch up on. What started as an observation by TreeHugger author Lloyd Alter that Germans were “gamifying” the use of less energy (“Germans Are Competing With Each Other to Save Energy“), my first thought was “oh, competing to see who could have a worse standard of living faster AND be proud of it?”. He did point out in his third paragraph, however, that some of the techniques were silly, stupid, and could get them killed:

The Journal also reports that Germans are boasting on social media about lowering the thermostats, wearing thermal underwear, and even “lighting outdoor grills and camping stoves in their apartments,” which is a good way to get asphyxiated. They are baking bread in the toaster and “deleting unneeded programs and apps from digital devices,” which will save zero energy.

Well, look on the bright side – after you’re dead, your energy usage goes to zero, right? Unless you want to get as fanatical as some of the THers and claim that they are STILL “consuming” carbon-based energy when the landscapers run their lawnmowers over your grave and trim around your headstone. But Lloyd also brought up my secondary heating source, wood (being primary at night and on cloudy days instead of passive solar). So one conservative wag started the ball rolling with:

Bob Baal: So will this mean fewer articles on TH about the evils of burning wood?

Enviros hate the idea of woodstoves – particulate pollution (e.g., smoke if you aren’t burning “hot”) as well as “using” the embedded carbon and releasing it back into the atmosphere as part of the process of burning it. But given that the article was being positive about it, Bob asked THE question as Lloyd generally is really down on wood as a heat source. Lloyd did say he did have another post against wood the next day but I took that opportunity by the horns…

GraniteGrok: heh!

As I bask, on a couch, in my wood stove’s gentle heat (a Vermont Casting’s Defiant, if anyone cares) with a contented smile on my face…

…as I try to forget what my electric bill is costing me.

And then we were off to the races about capitalism which was kicked off by my swipe against Eversource’s doubling of the cost of electricity (thanks ESG!).  Another Commenter by the name of freedomev decided to show us his ignorance of what Capitalism is – and isn’t.  So I decided it was a most proper time to “learn him some edumacation”. Note: he’s stubborn so this goes long.

And like I have advocated before, we cannot refuse an opportunity to engage in the debate, especially when we know that the other side either doesn’t know what they are talking about (this case) or you want to clear up the misconception (this case again) or create an Object Lesson (triple threat – and those of you who teach Sunday School in churches et al know what an O.L is).

So, we see that freedomev’s premise about capitalism is wrong from the get go – a perfect place in which exploit the debate. Reformatted, emphasis mine:

freedomev   -> GraniteGrok
If capitalism was good you’d have a low temp Rankine closed system motor/alternator making serious power from that stove.
But where are they? We’ve had the tech 90 yrs yet you can’t buy one, a wood/waste fired CHP, a heat/cold storage unit, etc.

So there’s the fault, right of the bat – the assumption that Capitalism is bad. Simply because there isn’t a product on the market as he wants. Nobody is supplying a need that he assumes that capitalism should have already figured out.  But note that an alternative economic system isn’t offered – only that Capitalism is bad.

Tag, I’m it – and showed him how he could make LOTS of money if he’d only take advantage of Capitalism’s democratization of the marketplace

GraniteGrok  -> freedomev

If capitalism was good

Actually, you are proving that it works! Sounds like you have found a hole (or at least a small niche) in the HVAC marketplace, sir! Make it and they shall buy it, right?

I plead ignorance of the tech you speak of – HAS anyone tried before? If the answer is no, it isn’t capitalism that is at fault so your premise is wrong. But you may proceed!

If the answer is yes but were unable to scale it up at a prices that consumers will pay for it, capitalism still worked correctly. You do know why, right?

And we see the next untenable supposition about Capitalism:

freedomev  -> GraniteGrok
Capitalism is supposed to supply what we need, we need those and they don’t so, no it doesn’t.

The tech is the same as in a heat pump, just in reverse as a heat motor, dead simple.

I’m too old, not my expertise, to do that but should and needs to be available as can work from 400F stored heat generating, heating on demand, saving a lot of battery demand and runs off solar, yard, other wastes, etc.

Your explanation of capitalism is so flawed, to be laughable. As capitalism is turning out to be. While we need it, it needs to be more controlled, guided or will eat itself.

Yeah, we’ve all seen what top-down “guided” economies have accomplished and ended up doing. crashing and burning. But yet again, another opportunity:

GraniteGrok  -> freedomev
You have a wrong headed idea of capitalism. Yes, capitalism serves people. This best economic system that has ever been devised (letting people choose for themselves) does supply a lot of things that people want and need.

What it ISN’T is a sorcerer’s box that automatically conjures up new products out of thin air. It DOES provide, however, the ability for someone to think of a new product, design it, manufacture it, market it, and hopefully sell it.

The marketplace (i.e., consumers) will decide if it is a product they want. For instance, the cell phone. Today, few people would be willing to do without it. However, the patent office is full of ideas that consumers went “never mind, don’t want it”.

That’s not a FAILURE of the market, that’s the market saying “we don’t want or need it” in sufficient numbers to make it worth someone’s time, effort, and capital to carry onward with it.

There are a lot of things that people, like yourself, complain that “capitalism” doesn’t provide. What you are really saying is “I hate it when others won’t waste their time, effort, and capital to give me what I want or what I think they should be doing for me”.

…but should and needs to be available

That’s merely an opinion – it’s not capitalism. It would be if you got past your idea that you’re too “old”, get off your duff, and get it down. Or persuade someone else to do it – and help them.

“Guided economies”. Yeah, that’s worked out EVAH! so well over the last century and a half. Again, look up the Great Mind Fallacy to see why.

Note in his response he wants others to make economic decisions for him without his input. And a third bad assumption of capitalism – in totally missing my admonition above that individuals make the decisions on their own. He just can’t give up the notion that because a product he wants doesn’t exist, it proves that Capitalism is a failure (absolute nonsense). And look at the “THEY” part – another false assumption:

freedomev   -> GraniteGrok
Guided corporations that is for sure. They promised capitalism would provide and doesn’t come anywhere near right. They force you to take what they give for them.
And when that is poisoning people, oil wars for profit, needs to end.

And no one is forcing anyone to take anything. The marketplace offers; it cannot “force” as he is implying. Again, the socialist/communist influence among the Eco-Socialists.  And this is where I really wind up:

GraniteGrok -> freedomev
WHO said capitalism promised anything.

Remember, the base principle/action of capitalism is this – a voluntary exchange in which each person believes they are receiving a better value than what they are giving.

Example: I am willing to buy your widget because I believe your widget is worth more to me than the money I would give you to pay for it. You, on the other hand, believe my money is a better value for you than your widget does for you.

That’s it. That’s capitalism at its basic level.

Look at the base elements:

– I have money
– You have a product.

A match happens.

Or not as in I like your widget but not at the price you want. I can counter offer your price. You can either accept or not. If not and no exchange of values happen.

NOTHING is ever sure – there is RISK in capitalism of either not having sufficient money (I can’t buy a Rolls even though I need a car) or no one wants your product.

Strictly an economic decision.

Yes, the gubbmint gets in the way of this basic transaction – sometimes helpful, often not helpful. YMWV.

Other systems are both economic AND political in nature and often, the political is primary (your “guiding”).

How can some far away bureaucrat know what is best for either you or me in our transaction? Govt only creates friction in that transaction and often gets details wrong.

And that last question never got answered.

This debate is needful for all of us to have, do, and win. Too often, those on the Left have an ill-composed idea of what Capitalism is and how it works.  Their view is ALWAYS top-down like their view of how our Government should be functioning (e.g., Feds rule over the States that rule over localities) starting with corporations. We need to switch the field of debate to a bottom up one – that Individuals are primary in this.

FreedomEV believes that the “faceless ‘they’ of Capitalism” is always top down and trying to force consumers to buy the things THEY tell them to. We need to make the case that it is individual consumers that are in charge – and should be. We should ALWAYS fight the urge to conflate and intertwine the idea that Government and Capitalism should always be the same.

After all, that’s what socialism and communism do, just as Islam does the same thing with Government and Religion.

Capitalism is the only economic system that is free from either (or should be). It DOES require Individual Freedom to be successful – but it also expands that Individual Freedom as well by putting MORE decision making into the hands of Individuals.

 

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Here is Mitch McConnell telling America that the priorities of GOP-voters … open Southern border, fentanyl, crime, inflation, CRT, 1619, etc., etc., etc. … do NOT matter at all to Mitch and his cronies-in-grift. No; what matters is endless war to enrich the military-industrial complex:

McConnell: "Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That's how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment." pic.twitter.com/NPmzWRzoz1

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 20, 2022

And the omnibus bill, that the GOP swamp-creatures support? Another total sell-out of GOP-voters:

My team and I are reading through the omnibus bill today – all $1.7 trillion and 4,155 pages of it.

Follow along for some of the most egregious provisions in the bill

— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) December 20, 2022

Maybe … just maybe … voters looked past all the annoying text messages from the RNC in the midterms and said, “What’s the point in voting GOP”?

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Forewarned is forearmed.  Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming.  Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.

Please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

For prep materials, please see:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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Top of the fold:

‘Deep dive’ into Biden laptop reveals 459 illegal acts (wnd.com)

Nothing will happen.  And thus the perception of the “common American” that the entire edifice is corrupt and rotten to the core proceeds apace.  Rome, er, America is set to fall.  Related:

Jake Lang Update: Feds Prevent J-6 Political Prisoner Who Has been Locked up for 2 Years from Speaking with His Attorney and Planning His Defense (thegatewaypundit.com)

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Adverse events in Pfizer trial may have been underreported by 10X or more (substack.com)

Pfizer claims no cases of anaphylaxis.  Whistle blower cites at least 10 cases.  These statements cannot both be true.  And if Pfizer lied, that’s fraud, and fraud vitiates all protections.  RTWT.  MHO… even if it’s crystal clear, it’s going to take a judge with some serious cojones to do this, because no judge is going to want to go against The Narrative, not to mention the enemedia scorn plus governmental pressure they will get if they rule that Pfizer did commit fraud.

 

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On the radio, Howie Carr, they were discussing this and how – if this happens – it will “look so bad for the Left”.  Horsefeathers.  They’re so blinded by hate they will burn this country down to get Trump.  To wit:

Dems Vote to Release Six Years of Trump Tax Returns in Stunning Invasion of Privacy – RedState

The Dems of course found a sleazy way around that. The tax code allows the committee to look at people’s tax returns to provide “oversight” of the Internal Revenue Service, and by writing an official report on their findings, then those returns can legally become public as part of the report.

Nice.

 

 

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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):

 

 

And it will be sold to you as a good and noble thing.  Remember, these people have unlimited funds to buy the best psychologists and mass marketers to come up with the slickest slogans.  Related:

 

 

 

And more:

 

 

Quote from the source article:

A Deutsche Bank Research document says that an “eco-dictatorship” will be necessary to achieve net zero.

Tyranny done with the best of intentions – for if saving the planet is not the greatest of noble causes, what could be?  Where have I heard something like this being discussed?

 

(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy.)

 

Remember the Green Police ad (video, 1 minute)?  Related:

The Elite’s Plan For A No-Car Society — Guest Post by Otto Moibul – William M. Briggs (wmbriggs.com)

No car for YOU.  Nor land for you:

 

 

For the Elites, however… that’s a different story.

The Tyranny of the Minority › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

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Elections Have Consequences: This is What New Yorkers Voted For – Here are Few of the Bills Expected to Pass in January (thegatewaypundit.com)

These legislations are direct violations of Constitutional rights and the Nuremberg Code.

 

 

Oh, and that wasn’t an election.  It was a theft of power, and you know it.

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The Sound Of Settled Science – Small Dead Animals

The case for “climate change” was always weak.  And yet, people with whom I discuss this have zero curiosity.  It’s merely accepted on faith – which is what it is.

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The world you once knew is OVER: 12 must-see predictions (and solutions) for 2023 (citizens.news)

Collection of predictions.

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EU Funds Test of Biometric Payments From Digital Wallets

It’ll be sold as convenient and safe.

 

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Protecting Children:

 

 

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Library Board votes to exclude graphic books after MassResistance outrage

It CAN be done.  Meanwhile:

Let’s Go Brandon: Cultural Marxist Biden Regime Targets Texas School District for Removing Sexually Explicit LGBTQ Books (thegatewaypundit.com)

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Seven Hairy Hells what’s being shown to kids???  Done to kids?

The Balenciaga Pedogate Story is WAY WORSE Than You Think it is (rumble.com)

15 minute video.  (May be a repeat.)

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Ace of Spades HQ (mu.nu)

Determined to add “P” to the LGBTQ.

 

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National Security (specifically):

Nothing that tickled my interest found this week.

 

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Shortages (broadly):

Nothing that tickled my interest found this week.

 

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On The Jab (and Covid)

Raconteur Report: I’m Sure It’s Just Wild Coincidence

I’m very afraid for my Jabbed-twice-with-Moderna and boosted (at least once) with Pfizer wife.  Related:

7% of Vaccinated Americans Have Suffered Major Side Effects From COVID-19 Jab: Poll

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NEIL OLIVER: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING ON THE BIGGEST STORY IN THE WORLD – The Phaser

Video – can’t find it on youtube so you need to click through.

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Excess Mortality in Germany, Part One | Gates of Vienna

The data in Germany, and elsewhere, are compelling.  But nobody wants to admit they were wrong.  And the ones doing this deliberately know they did it and don’t care.

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Inflation:

Over 60 Percent Of Americans Now Living Paycheck To Paycheck Thanks To Bidenflation (thegatewaypundit.com)

Middle class is supposed to be beyond such living.  At least, that’s my understanding.  So what’s your line in the sand?

What’s Your Line In The Sand? The $25 Burger? | ZeroHedge

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Small Businesses Report Hardship Due to Inflation This Christmas Season

Goldman Sachs released survey data that found that 52% of surveyed small business owners say that their profitability “has not met expectations. Even while an overwhelming 79% have increased prices compared to last year.”

 

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I’ve actually ordered the book.  Know thyself is a very important concept.

 

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Enemedia:

 

 

“Learn to code”.

 

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Migration / Immigration

Biden Administration Sues Arizona For Building Border Wall…

It’s clear to anyone with three or more brain cells that talk with each other that this invasion is deliberate.  More:

Border Patrol Union Blasts Biden, Tweets ‘This Is Not Leadership, It’s Cowardice’ – RedState

Governor Abbott: If Title 42 ends “it’s gonna be total chaos” at the border – HotAir

55,000 migrants begin to mass toward the U.S. southern border – American Thinker

Reports: Illegals Are Taking Over Streets In El Paso, And Soon Will In Yuma | Blog Posts | VDARE.com

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At Real Clear Investigations: Europe Shows a Clear Link Between Immigration and Crime — Like the One the U.S. Seriously Downplays (crimeresearch.org)

The link is clear.  If you’re willing to remove the ideological lenses.

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England’s migrant transformation is even bigger than America’s – American Thinker

Goodbye England.  And America.  This, below, is not sustainable.

Tyranny by omission – American Thinker

Illegal immigration a larger problem in the West – American Thinker

Unprecedented Migration Crisis Continues as the White House Must Replace Disenfranchised Americans – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

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Workers would face 40pc tax on pay to fund new universal basic income – Independent.ie

Prioritization of the aliens over the natives.

Replacement Migration: Your Government Hates You (bitchute.com)

Video, about 15 minutes.

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MSNBC Reporter: Illegal Immigrants Told Me “They Just Walked Right In” To The United States…

And yet, the administration says the border is not open:

WH: “It Would Be Wrong To Think That The Border Is Open. It Is Not Open.”

Democracy Dies in Darkness: Biden Regime Forbids US Border Patrol Officials from Releasing Total Daily Illegal Alien Apprehensions on Social Media

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Diversity is our strength? French city of Nice now features emergency buttons in churches after Islamic terror attacks (rmx.news)

IMHO better to react with some well-placed high-velocity lead poisoning.  Followed by wrapping the perps in a pigskin as they’re buried.

 

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Know your Leftist / Globalist / Jihadist enemy:

Hollywood Lib: Biden “Most Successful” President In Last 60 Years…

Liberalism is truly a mental disease.  Two books on that:

Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder

The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

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Leftists Aren’t Capable Of Surviving Economic Collapse – Here’s Why

Not in the main, no, but… they do have military people on the Left.

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Why Are Communists Determined to Destroy the US? – American Thinker

Only MISSIONARIES can hold onto a belief like this, intergenerationally.  Until we understand that this is truly a religious war against an enemy that BELIEVES, we will certainly lose.

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California college trustee wants to ‘cull’ conservative faculty, ‘take ’em to the slaughterhouse’ | Conservative Action Alerts | conservativeactionalerts.com

They don’t think of you as human.  And I’m learning to embrace feeling the same way about them.  Alas.

 

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Economy at large:

 

 

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Debt as a millstone around our economic necks

I have tried to teach my kids that there is no “good debt”.  There is necessary debt, but no debt is “good”.  More:

Everything Is Fine… Until It Isn’t | ZeroHedge

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Major Economic Contraction Coming In 2023 – Followed By Even More Inflation – Alt-Market.us (link in original)

My position is that the central bank has a global agenda that eclipses any national loyalty, and that it requires the decline of the American economy in order to expedite the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) linked together through the IMF. So far they are getting exactly what they want and they are perfectly aware of what they are doing.

US Leading Economic Indicators Plunge Most ‘Since Lehman’

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The real economic facts are hidden beneath the hype

Insightful.  Thoughts I hadn’t considered.  From the same site:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Prostitution as a sign of economic decline

Making ends meet financially by making ends meet literally.

 

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US Stability (broad catch-all):

Our Parasitic Generation › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

A nation in decline.  Related:

Striking New School Students Demand All A’s

Invert the old saw – now it’s “Never trust anyone under 30”.  Especially if your life is on the line and it’s a young doctor.

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Report: CDC buried study at behest of gun control advocates – Bearing Arms

Understand – government has, can, and will lie to you.  If you trust government, you have a crisis of trust.  More:

The FBI Has Lost All Forms Of Trust And Credibility After ‘Twitter Files’ Revelations

Most medical professionals don’t believe the public health establishment – HotAir

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Google Wants the Races Separate and Hating Each Other – PJ Media

You want more race hate?  Because this is how you make more race hate.  More:

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/122/939/679/playable/64ba412c8789d319.mp4

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/122/946/779/playable/274cab4f4c582650.mp4

 

Never mind the initial, utterly savage attack.  How the follow-on people going by ignore this injured woman and actually force her to move so they can open the door.  And some of the others – high velocity lead poisoning is warranted in some instances IMHO.

Heads up and be situationally aware.

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40% of students at liberal arts colleges now identify as LGBTQ, study finds – American Thinker (bolding added):

Why did God bother to make us male and female? (“Male and female He created them.”) It appears fewer and fewer people wish to mate with and/or spend their lives with members of the opposite sex, though a rapidly growing number of folks want to be a member of the opposite sex. This is surpassingly strange and could only have happened with the concurrent collapse of Christianity and the ascent of “higher education.”

Why do you think there’s been such a systematic assault on religion?  It’s to hide the new religion in the skin of the old:

Church Erases Jesus & Nativity in Christmas Carol, Replaces Them With “Queer” People – Summit News

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Kari Lake Expert Witness: Missized Ballots That Caused Election Day Chaos Could Not Have Been An Accident › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Agree.  And the question is where were those ballots used?  Lake-leaning areas?  Related:

Mail-in Ballots Forever › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

RTWT.  And:

Trump Was a Mistake › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  (Italics replaced with underlining.)

But from the Republican perspective, it was better to lose the presidential race and have a Democrat in power with whom they could work—one who could play the game and be part of the machine—than it was to have someone who couldn’t be controlled. They never again made the mistake of nominating a man who wasn’t under their thumb. At least, not until 2016.

So remember: The GOP isn’t really our party. It never was. That is the central truth that the Trump phenomenon has exposed—or exposed anew. It’s a political machine, just like the Democratic Party, and it wants to run itself, not be run by “ordinary” people like you and me. Trump’s nomination the first time around, from the GOP’s perspective, was a huge mistake, just as TR’s had been. And they have no intention of repeating that kind of mistake.

The GOP and the Democrats and the media are all agreed on one, central point: Trump cannot become president again. All these power groups’ motivations are different, but their interests are aligned, and the stakes are practically existential.

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So, be prepared to hear nothing about Trump’s candidacy, nothing about his massive rallies, nothing about the unwavering enthusiasm of his supporters. Be prepared to hear only one thing: That the “people” don’t want him. But don’t believe it. Remember which people are doing the talking.

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10 Steps to Save America › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Good steps.  The trick is to get them done.  And I don’t think they can get done.  IMHO we’re well past the event horizon of being able to climb back from the collapse without “discontinuities”.

 

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World Stability (broad catch-all):

“How Close Are We to Something Awful?” – Tucker Carlson Explains that US Patriot Missiles Sent to Ukraine Will Require US Troops to Run Them (thegatewaypundit.com)

What happens if / when US TROOPS are directly involved in the shooting down of a Russian plane?  Related:

British general admits UK deployed troops to Ukraine — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Related, and scary – if you have a survival instinct:

 

 

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There can be ZERO trust in any federal agency at this point.

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US Sends Infantry Unit To Base Just Miles Away From Russian Border In Estonia | ZeroHedge

Provocation.

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India deploys 50,000 troops to Himalayas, prepares for conflict with China | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

A possible flashpoint most don’t think about.

 

 

And an assessment from one flashpoint:

World order on verge of cliff – first Israeli national intel assessment – Israel News – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

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BREAKING UPDATE: Multiple people dead after gas pipeline explodes in Russia’s Chuvashia – Euro Weekly News

This is HOW MANY such “incidents” in Russian energy?  And incidents with Russia in general:

Russian City Suffers Casualties – 14,000 Without Power After Ukraine Cross Border Attack | ZeroHedge

 

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(Language)

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/067/348/658/playable/1d037020969494ca.mp4

 

As I understand it, not only did he die under “strange” circumstances, but the coroner who did the autopsy did as well.

 

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Specific to energy:

The Black Old Deal: Global Coal Demand Hits All Time High | ZeroHedge

The Global Gas Crunch Is Set To Worsen As China Reopens | ZeroHedge

Germany’s Gas Reserves “Emptying At Record Speed” As Country Struggles To Keep Warm, Lights On

Germans Must Prepare to Shiver in the Dark | Gates of Vienna

Britain Braces for Rolling Power Cuts: Arctic Blast Leaves Households on the Brink of Outages and Blackouts as Officials Blame ‘Wfh’ Met Office for Failing to Predict the Severity of Our Latest Big Freeze

Grid Bottlenecks Could Derail Europe’s Renewable Energy Boom | ZeroHedge

This is Scary

Squeeeeeezed.

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Americans Face Elevated Winter Power Outage Risks From Tight Fuel Supplies, Faltering Grid: Report | ZeroHedge

A fragile system.

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Huge fire engulfs Russian oil refinery in suspected sabotage attack | Metro News

Any number of possible actors.  And as I understand it this is three attacks in a week.  Poking the bear.

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Russia Receives Oil Delivery Requests from Poland and Germany Despite EU Sanctions (financial-world.org)

If it were up to me I’d tell these countries to go pound sand.

 

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“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.”

– Ai Weiwei

 

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Big Tech in general:

Anti-chippers are the latest group of awful people we now have to worry about – IQfy

I so desperately want this to be satire.  But… poking around the site a little, I don’t see indicators that it’s a satire site.  Can people really be this eager to be marked and tagged like farm animals?

 

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Catch-all miscellaneous:

Russians adapted to US-made HIMARS systems, top Ukrainian general claims — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

War is the best of schools, wherein those who don’t adapt and try to outpace the other side… lose.

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To hell with Iran, China and Hunter: Americans are suffering (freewestmedia.com)

Amen!

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Miscellany – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Multi-topic post.  All good.

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WHY JEWS HATE GUNS (jpfo.org)

Of all peoples, you’d think we would be into arms like nobody else.  Yet we’re not on average.  A good write-up.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

Simple: Merry Christmas.

 

 

And happy Chanukah!

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

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I’ve had any number of interviews where I got the feeling they were looking to have me solve an existing problem.  BTDT, made that mistake once.

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Please check out my MEME collection.  Here’s the last one.

 

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We’ve visited and revisited numerous issues relating to the alleged COVID vaccines, their efficacy, side effects or harms, and especially policy like mandates or passports. But there’s one point, in particular, we need to revisit.

When Donald Trump was president, most progs said they wouldn’t get the vaccine because – get this, science! That was their messaging, up and down the fourth estate. And it showed up in polling.

 

Media/left’s attempts at undermining a possible pre-election Wuhan coronavirus vaccine are working, according to a recent CBS News poll: https://t.co/YwHhQ6Vhl6 pic.twitter.com/Ixp6tJ0nNt

— Sister Toldjah (@sistertoldjah) September 10, 2020

 

Trump didn’t have anything to do with the actual science behind the vaccine, but non-supporters expressed concern which, for the more vocal, translated into no damn way.

 

“I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about,” Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash around the same time.

 

That sums up the establishment Left’s position until Biden set foot in Oval Office. At that point, the same vaccines (and science!) would be so fabulous that everyone would want them. Need them. They said, everyone. If you dared to take their pre-election position, you were (much like with elections) a denier.

The term, like opinions, only applies to political opponents who oppose the current position of the Democrat machine. And there is no denying it. This was never about public health, and after two years of living with their demands, we know that to be true.

Harms are irrelevant in the wake of preferred policy, and that’s never going to change. The question is, and continues to be, how much damage will it take before a super-majority of voters accept that and cast more ballots to remove them than they can fake?

 

 

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Yes, a blast from my past. I was playing with these things when it was common to have to do this:

Standardization?  Sure – but only to a point. Frankly, I hated printer cables. Period. And serial cables were often on my “oh, crap” list especially when Device A HAD to connect to Device B for the CFO who had to get something done a half hour ago.

I remember having a bag a bag of “converters” like that shown in the image in trying match up the pins and then the genders (male and female – plugs and holes). I also remember having, at times, having to do some really weird gymcrackery to get some situations to work. And yes, a “three plug converter chain” was a rather simple one.  I’m betting that there are those of you out there with heads going “yep, that’s right”.

And I’m also sure that there are those of you out there going “what ARE those things?” as you never had to deal with this. USB has made life much easier – and WiFi/Bluetooth have made it  almost a no brainer.  You folks will never feel the frustration at having to do this and will never share in the victory of seeing your “redneck technology” actually make those two devices talk to each other.

CERTAINLY, some of you out there have a history like this, yes?

(H/T: Cheezburger)

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A decade ago, when Democrats said they wanted to let biological men use the ladies’ room, we made the obvious point. Predators will abuse the opportunity if you allow men into women’s safe spaces. Women will be physically or mentally harmed. But the Party of Women* didn’t care.

Privacy, as it turns out, means abortions, and safe spaces mean a “place where we can silence political dissent.” Democrats are committed to erasing the former and taking the latter nationwide.

Meanwhile, actual women (and girls) continue to be harmed by their fascination with letting sexual predators get off at their expense. Today’s lesson is courtesy of the famous (infamous) Wi Spa in Los Angelos. A man claiming to be a woman used their trans-acceptance policy to parade naked through the “private” women’s areas of the spa, exposing himself to women and children.

Some women at the spa who did not have a penis took offense. It might have been penis envy, but the beautiful people on the left saw it for what it was. Bigotry.

 

“She was within the women’s section, which, you know, is exactly where she should be,” said Jae Red Rose, an organizer for San Diego Trans Pride.

 

Antifa took the outrage as an opportunity to beat up people who thought it was wrong for penis-endowed women* to parade naked in front of little girls. You know, doing the work most Americans don’t want to do. But after much gnashing of teeth and many months of defending the creep, we discover that the “woman” exposing her penis to the ladies and girls at the WI Spa “is a registered sex offender who, get this, likes showing his d!ck to women and underaged girls and is Living His Life to the Full as a Transwoman and using his new gender to do so.”

In other words, “she” gets off on it, which, if I’m not mistaken, is similar to what cost Jeffrey Tobin his job at the New Yorker.

Just another side-effect of the culture war in which one political party wants healthy Americans to present a “vaccine card” (for a vaccine that doesn’t do what they say) to access everyday life, but if you require a man who says he is a woman to provide some proof he’s seriously in transition before being allowed to wander (naked) with naked ladies that violates their rights.

This is according to the party of women. So, this won’t be their happy ending.

 

A transgender person wanted for exposing their naked, half-erect penis to women in two separate changing room incidents in Los Angeles has been arrested after more than 15 months on the run.

The suspect, 53-year-old Darren Agee Merager, had been charged with five felony counts of indecent exposure for the incidents – including an infamous altercation at Wi Spa, where Merager exposed herself to several women, including an underage girl.

Merager – a convicted sex criminal who identifies as a woman – had previously rebuffed the allegations, claiming to be a victim of transphobia.

 

If you let men into women’s safe spaces, predators will abuse the opportunity. Women will be harmed. And the Party of Women* will not only not care but will also defend that risk and label it a greater good regardless of the cost.

 

 

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SLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT, FOLKS, YOUR CONGRESS IS ON THE JOB: Illegal immigrants are flooding across the border, China is kicking our butt around the world, the government faces a $31 trillion debt and today Congress is working getting rid of gendered pronouns from the U.S. Code.

“Regular Order” is passing the appropriation/spending bills on a department by department basis – they just announced a $1.7 TRILLION Omnibus spending bill just CHOCK FULL of earmarks to cover the entire fiscal year. This one bill because they couldn’t get their jobs right and once again we heard them yammering that we just CAN’T let the Federal Government shutdown.

My response is “let it – we’ve got 50 more governments right behind it and most of them would get it mostly right. You Federal chuckleheads don’t deserve your seats if you can’t do your job.  Too much jawboning, back room deals, and mugging for the press and the “cool” cocktail parties.

But the Blogline also points out that these nitwits have a problem with Priorities.  And for that, they all should be fired, both Republicans and Democrats.

(HT: Instapundit)

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One of the burning questions that follow the Left’s love affair with so-called green* innovation is, what about their love affair with taxes? EVs pay no gas taxes, and while they’ll get dinged with utility taxes, how do they replace the lost gas tax revenue?

The pat answer, rarely said out loud near an election, is to raise the vehicle registration fee. In Illinois, one Dem proposed making it $1000.00/ year. That seems a bit much, but you get the point. Mitigating CO2 (for no reason) shall not mitigate revenues. They will find their pound of flesh.

That problem, as applied to rooftop solar, has California Regulators approving new rules in the name of green and social justice (the green being money).

 

“…[R]ooftop solar customers aren’t paying their fair share into the rest of the energy grid, which many still rely on for power when the sun goes down. Power rates also include things like transmission equipment and wildfire prevention work, and regulators approve a set amount of money that utilities can recover from customers.”

 

“May still rely on power?” How about, please don’t charge the EVs we’re telling you to buy after sunset “reliance.”

 

Utilities and consumer groups have argued the incentive payments have unfairly favored wealthier consumers and harmed poor and low-income households.

 

According to the report, the approved plan reduces the rate paid for rooftop solar, which could cut payments by as much as 75%. The new rate would be at or near the wholesale price utilities pay to meet green* energy mandates in the open market. And while most EVs are owned by the top ten percent of wage earners, solar isn’t just a boutique item for guilt-ridden limo-libs. Some folks were tricked into a no-fi install with a 20-year lien on your residence (which might make it unsellable). They only got solar for the revenue incentives, and the State is clawing it back.

 

“I’m strongly opposed to the CPUC’s proposed changes that would make it more expensive for everyday people to put solar panels on their roof,” said caller Carol Weiss from Sunnyvale, “My husband and I are both retired and we would never have invested in rooftop solar under these proposed rules.”

 

What is the State’s response? They are telling homeowners to buy expensive backup batteries. Store your extra daytime power to use at night, or you can sell it to the grid after dark for significantly better rates. Instead of the $0.05 to $0.10 per kilowatt-hour, they could get from .040 to 1.00 per kilowatt-hour after hours. A green justice solution that only the well-off will be able to afford.

 

 

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