I feel overwhelmed this morning. There’s just so much happening in the world, and most of it all comes back to the Globalist plan for a Great Reset in which they take total control. Control over natural resources, over finances, over health and even life.
So 'C' thinks that Putin has now been humiliated and betrayed and his support 'deeply' fractured. He is publicly calling on Russians to come to work for MI6. You can always trust us, he says. As Joe Biden says, "God save the Queen!"
“It’s not something that is likely to occur mistakenly,” Dowd remarked.”
Absolutely chilling. And could this massive increase in US disability rolls - 5 million over the past 2yrs or so - explain the complaint we often hear “We just can’t find qualified help!” from restaurants to auto repair shops?
And isn't each addition to the 'disability' rolls another addition to the Dem voter rolls? In addition to each borrower whose student loans are forgiven? As well as each government transfer payment recipient? How does election by voter subsidy = democracy?
It started with the income tax, when politicians discovered that they could bribe the electorate (Toqueville saw that one, and much more, coming). Which presents us with the question: Is democracy a failed experiment? And why are we trying to export this experiment around the world? For noble purposes or ...?
As to democracy as a failed experiment, depends on where you sit. It is (as in a democratic republic) likely the least worst path to channeling political power and transitions. I don't see it as 'an experiment' so much as a process that can evolve. I think the data says when that form of gov't gets past a certain attachment to both tax-income and progressive decoupling of 'skin-in-the-game' tax consequences, the value of corrupt regulatory capture and rent-seeking drives demagoguery and corruption. Here we are. A roll-back of federalization actions from Wilson-thru-Carter is needed, cap on taxation, transparency --> much smaller federal gov't and much stronger independent state gov'ts.
Regarding the 25th amendment: unless I am mixed up, Lifson contradicts himself in his last few sentences.
He writes: "Should Biden, . . . submit a written declaration that for the first time in history, dementia has been reversed, Kamala reverts to the “powers and duties” of the vice president. UNLESS, that is, [Lifson omits: "the VP and" ] a majority of the cabinet and a two thirds majority of both Houses of Congress disagree. In that case, the veep remains acting president and no vacancy exists in the office of vice president."
Lifson writes, "Note that it is actually easier to impeach a president than it is to restore him or her to power after the 25th Amendment is invoked. A simple House majority suffices to impeach, while two thirds are needed to restore a president sidelined by the 25th Amendment to power."
Me: His first statement is correct that it takes a 2/3 vote of both houses to, in effect, (a) reject the President's claim that "no inability exists," and (b) continue the VP as Acting President [the amendment says nothing about there then being "no vacancy in the office of VP"].
But his last sentence contradicts this by saying ". . . while two thirds are needed to restore a president sidelined by the 25th Amendment to power."
No: the President is restored to office simply by writing that "no inability exists," UNLESS two-thirds of both houses vote to reject the President and keep the VP as Acting Pres. Any failure to get that two-thirds vote from both houses means the President's claim that "no inability exists," prevails, and he "shall resume the powers and duties of his office."
That is, all Biden needs is either 34 senators OR 146 Reps to block the "2/3 vote of both Houses" and get back his office.
I don't see any lanaguage in the Amendment that either (a) transforms the VP from "Acting President" to President, or (b) precludes the "sidelined" President from submitting, over and over, declarations that "no inability exists," and forcing the Houses to go through the same voting process over and over. Wouldn't that be a hoot!
I think perhaps what Lifson intended to write is that it is easier to impeach a President (by simple majority of the House of Representatives) than it is to *prevent* the restoration of a disabled President who wants to be restored (requires two-thirds of the House of Representatives, plus two-thirds of the Senate).
Lifson concludes, presumably referring to the impeachment process, "This would seem to put the GOP House in a superior bargaining position in determining who shall exercise the powers of the presidency."
But I don't think so. The simple majority of the House required for impeachment only amounts to a constitutional indictment. The President remains in office. Two-thirds of the Senate is required to convict and remove. I don't see how this gives the House any bargaining position regarding who has the powers of the Presidency, let alone a 'superior' position.
In case of disability, the 25th Amendment provides in Section 4 that "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." I don't see any role for the House here.
And the House cannot prevent a disabled President from resuming his office if he wants to unless two-thirds of the House can persuade two-thirds of the Senate (or vice versa) to agree with it. How does this give the House a superior bargaining position?
Thanks to both John and Cassander. I think Lifson's point is that this could end up as the "mother of all constitutional crises". The reason for that is that practical partisan politics will inevitably come to the fore. That is the reason, I believe, that Lifson says that the Speaker is in a superior bargaining position--not because the Constitution gives him a superior constitutional role. Remember, both Lifson and I are presenting our views because of the claims made by Luongo and others that the Dems could simply pull a political game of musical chairs that ends with Zhou the odd man out because he's too slow, or falls down, or whatever. It's just not that simple.
For starters, the 25th wouldn't be invoked without massive Dem support, and that's what puts the GOP in the driver's seat going forward. And the Speaker, given the GOP majority in the House, controls the other constitutional option that will always be lurking in the background: Impeachment. There are ample grounds already for impeaching Zhou. The result is that the Dems aren't really in total control of getting rid of their own president as some like to claim, because do they really want to fold and back out of a decision that they joined and which would require the expenditure of a great amount of political capital (there are Dems who would be sure to object because they like Zhou's domestic Woke agenda)?. In the same way, the GOP was constrained by political considerations with regard to Trump, and ended up going the election fraud route.
There are a lot of possible scenarios, all of them potentially very messy. Would Zhou fight back by writing the letter? If he does, would the House (led by the Speaker) impeach rather than going back to the 25th well? It's really the Speaker's choice at that point
Or would the Speaker agree to join with the Dems to reinvoke the 25th? Presumably the Dems would only have invoked the 25th if Zhou refused to step back from running again. Having been hammered once, would Zhou accept the decision? But the Speaker could still lead a move to impeach the acting POTUS/VP--and I wouldn't be surprised if some grounds could be found to do that. I can't recall specifically off the top of my head, but I believe she's been slapped for some overreach in the past. It doesn't really matter--it would be political. What then? Allow Zhou to reclaim his spot in the OO? And be open to impeachment?
It's not a constitutional thing, it's a political thing using the constitution as an offensive weapon. Which is to say, the drafters of the 25th were probably wildly unrealistic in their expectations of how smoothly such a process would work. But it remains that the Speaker is central to it all. If the Dems want to do this and want it to work relatively smoothly I strongly suspect that, as Lifson says, the Dems will have to "work with" McCarthy. How tractable he might be is an open question.
Not a chance "the Globalist plan for a Great Reset in which they take total control" will ever succeed in America. Todays "TheGatewayPundit" has an article entitled ‘At Least 25-30’ IRS Agents in Tactical Gear Raid Business in Stuart, Florida"" Just a few years back we would have wondered what they had done to merit this raid. Today every comment assumed this was government overreach, and probably political. The Globalists in their stupidity have lost control. They may control politicians and governments but not we the people.
They may control the US government...if not forever, for quite some time. The IRS/KGB may persecute dissidents. Don't be an open dissident. They can't keep hardened criminals in jail. No way they can imprison 200 million citizens, or for that matter starve them out as Stalin did. The blue cities will starve when things get tough.
I think we are...more or less...on the same page. I won't disagree that one can (try to) live quietly and happily...and that The People are catching on to what kind of government we now have. Perhaps you would agree that an increasingly authoritarian and unconstitutional government is...at least...an annoyance...that may persist and interfere with our quality of life for quite some time?
I agree there is no way they can imprison 200 million citizens. But if they imprison only a few without just cause, and god forbid one of them is me, I will probably be very pissed off. In fact, I think they have already done this to more than a few undeserving people.
We do agree, but I would further state that the government needs us. In any crisis, and we are heading for tough times, we will not support them or their programs. The 'woke' nonsense does not affect us, and we will not allow them to educate our children. Be discrete, stay safe, and have a good life.
You remind me of the moment when Mike Bloomberg, running for President as a Democrat, argued, in a debate, if I remember correctly, that Xi Jinpeng, regardless of the electoral obstacles faced by the citizens of China, remains in office at the pleasure of the Chinese people. Bloomberg was undoubtedly correct to a certain extent, but he was nevertheless hooted down by virtually everybody, not in the least by the Leftist American Press.
It would be nice to have have a government, here at least, which is directly answerable to the people.
"there is no way they can imprison 200 million citizens"
Totally unrealistic. They don't have to imprison more than a handful--if that--to coerce compliance. Which is all they want. Two words: Covid Regime. Greatest attack on freedom in, well, recent years. Almost total compliance, and the SCOTUS essentially did nothing except enable the new Regime.
Who knew “interesting times” could be so exhausting? And overwhelming.
So now we have a naval blockade added to the mix. While I have to say that I possess a great deal of confidence in Putin being deliberate and restrained in his SMO actions, I have no such confidence in the Neocons, who are masters of the impulsive, poorly thought out and generally incompetent geopolitical arts. With the addition of the blockade, it’s just one more moving part for them misinterpret, mischaracterize or simply ignore and respond in a self defeating and possibly self destructive manner. My point being that these morons don’t need anything else to push them into a nuclear escalation mode. Stupid people are prone to rash and impulsive actions, a luxury that is simply not an available option with such high stakes in play. If I might paraphrase Mark Twain, I wonder how these people can be so consistently incompetent? Result of practice no doubt.
Thank you for all these revelations, but it is not the end of the world. It may signal the end of America as a Country. The all out war on the American middle class is failing spectacularly. When you have a government that not only doesn't protect you nor allow you to protect yourself, and then fosters things that may kill you, they can no longer keep your trust. Once lost, trust is hard to regain. The battle for the hearts and minds of the American public is over. The government has lost.
Perle, I enjoy your comments. They are to the point and keep the focus on the wild changes happening every day to our families and institutions. The war on the middle class is all part of the fundamental transformation of America. I believed Obama when he said that was his goal.
The thrust of my comments is that they cannot fundamentally transform America. Only we can do that. They can fundamentally transform the government of America, at which point they lose our support. They lose. We roll with the punches, live the good, moral life and survive nicely.
And because of this, they have been aiming at the children for a long time. Even when I was in school, but specifically high school, it was notably underway (graduated in '73). And they have been consistently aiming younger and younger. I sure pray you are right! God bless!
You were right, and you still are. This is heart breaking on so many levels. And a lot of people have had their heads in the sand. But I find the closer we draw to God, the more truth is revealed to us, because He is Truth. Which also explains how so many people can be deceived.
I was watching the whistle blower hearings for a while. Don't know why I bother anymore. I really do believe that most lawmakers are complete sociopaths, it's not just a matter of malfeasance or greed. It's the only explanation for their craving of power, the sewer of lies, the willful acceptance of law breaking. For the sake of their pride the PTB will never stop backing JB because they cannot admit to a mistake on appointing him.
Yes, LJ’s hard-hitting synopsis of the failed state-cum-battering ram known as Ukraine, another in a long list of far-away places the US couldn’t just let alone, leaves you in that “overwhelmed” state…a great antidote to that is the (overly long) conversation with Diessen, Mercouris and the Belarusian Ambassador (to what or where?) Dmitry Melonchik. A polished, well-spoken, clear, perceptive, measured diplomat! Makes me want to catch the next flight to Minsk! Highly recommend a listen due to the rare optimism he expresses about efforts being made towards peace…on the Duran.
If I may a book suggestion. ‘Political Ponerology’ by Andrew M. Lobaczewski. A Polish psychologist who lived through the totalitarian occupations of Poland in the 20th Century and was a member of a group of researchers who sought to explain the totalitarian phenomenon. It is psychology not politics. In particular psychopathy. It sounds like he was the only member of the group who lived long enough to complete the project. The secret police arrived at one point where he was and he burned the materials. New edition out.
Yes, psychopathy is a prime characteristic and it is playing out in real time with the Cultural Marxism on display in the Democratic Party and the disturbed psychos they have unleashed on us. I also thought Hannah Arendt nailed it with her , “Origins of Totalitarianism.” Thanks for the book suggestion!
I do like to know what’s going on in the world but, yes, it gets to be quite overwhelming. Future prospects are awful; what’s happened already is pretty awful. I’m reminded of Isaiah 26:3: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee… For he bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city….”
Russia is clearly winning on all fronts, but Putin has a tricky line to walk. He has to satisfy public opinion and the hardliners without giving the neocons an excuse to push us into WW3. At the moment, the future of humanity seems to rest on what kind of mood Nuland wakes up in. Crazy times.
Regardless, it seems clear that escalating to nuclear war eliminates or postpones a lot of " pigeons coming home to roost" for Joe Biden. And JB's actions certainly all seem tp point to plans being made for nuclear war. Nuclear war would be adventagous to the goals of globalism, because of the huge destruction and the globalist propaganda that only globalism can save humanity from global warming and Earth's destruction. And JB uses language also used by globalists ("build back better"). And of course the Biden Crime Family immensely desires the money given by a very wealthy organization that BRAGS of placing "agents" in positions of power,and has notable victories of their "young leaders" (like Justin Trudeau for instance) Nuclear war for the Biden's represents no physical danger to them, or to other "leaders" in the US due to the continuing governance of trillions spent to safeguard our "leaders" in the event of nuclear war. And it will be the "New Deal" for Biden "leadership" (more accurately desribed by the word "treason") vis a vie the American population
Nuclear war satisfies the Malthusians/WEF and Kama Sutra becomes prescient, the depopulation due to climate change gaffe meaning when politicians tell the truth. Nuclear war will certainly alter the climate. Blackrock is salivating at the prospect of re-constructing the world. They already are consulting, for fees, the rebuilding of Ukraine what wealth can they imagine for rebuilding the world?
In recent podcast with T Luongo, Alastair Crooke makes some excellent points, I need to go back and listen to it again. If there is a nuclear anything - war, accident, detection - it's because the Neocons want it, they don't need those measures anymore.
The Duran chaps talk in detail about the emails coming out now about Hunter Biden's Ukraine "business". I agree with their solution that Biden's obsession with Ukraine has nothing to do with protecting "democracy" and everything to do with covering the Biden Crime family tracks. As for armageddon, if the neocons think they will survive that, they are sorely mistaken. The Russians know exactly where they are, and among the surviving peasants, there will be a lot of anger.
The working class sees what is happening, and slowly connecting the dots. It's highly suspicious when in 2019 you maybe had one coworker die per year. Now it's one a month.
So 'C' thinks that Putin has now been humiliated and betrayed and his support 'deeply' fractured. He is publicly calling on Russians to come to work for MI6. You can always trust us, he says. As Joe Biden says, "God save the Queen!"
https://archive.md/Nuyvx
“It’s not something that is likely to occur mistakenly,” Dowd remarked.”
Absolutely chilling. And could this massive increase in US disability rolls - 5 million over the past 2yrs or so - explain the complaint we often hear “We just can’t find qualified help!” from restaurants to auto repair shops?
And isn't each addition to the 'disability' rolls another addition to the Dem voter rolls? In addition to each borrower whose student loans are forgiven? As well as each government transfer payment recipient? How does election by voter subsidy = democracy?
It started with the income tax, when politicians discovered that they could bribe the electorate (Toqueville saw that one, and much more, coming). Which presents us with the question: Is democracy a failed experiment? And why are we trying to export this experiment around the world? For noble purposes or ...?
As to democracy as a failed experiment, depends on where you sit. It is (as in a democratic republic) likely the least worst path to channeling political power and transitions. I don't see it as 'an experiment' so much as a process that can evolve. I think the data says when that form of gov't gets past a certain attachment to both tax-income and progressive decoupling of 'skin-in-the-game' tax consequences, the value of corrupt regulatory capture and rent-seeking drives demagoguery and corruption. Here we are. A roll-back of federalization actions from Wilson-thru-Carter is needed, cap on taxation, transparency --> much smaller federal gov't and much stronger independent state gov'ts.
It plainly doesn’t.
Mark,
Regarding the 25th amendment: unless I am mixed up, Lifson contradicts himself in his last few sentences.
He writes: "Should Biden, . . . submit a written declaration that for the first time in history, dementia has been reversed, Kamala reverts to the “powers and duties” of the vice president. UNLESS, that is, [Lifson omits: "the VP and" ] a majority of the cabinet and a two thirds majority of both Houses of Congress disagree. In that case, the veep remains acting president and no vacancy exists in the office of vice president."
Lifson writes, "Note that it is actually easier to impeach a president than it is to restore him or her to power after the 25th Amendment is invoked. A simple House majority suffices to impeach, while two thirds are needed to restore a president sidelined by the 25th Amendment to power."
Me: His first statement is correct that it takes a 2/3 vote of both houses to, in effect, (a) reject the President's claim that "no inability exists," and (b) continue the VP as Acting President [the amendment says nothing about there then being "no vacancy in the office of VP"].
But his last sentence contradicts this by saying ". . . while two thirds are needed to restore a president sidelined by the 25th Amendment to power."
No: the President is restored to office simply by writing that "no inability exists," UNLESS two-thirds of both houses vote to reject the President and keep the VP as Acting Pres. Any failure to get that two-thirds vote from both houses means the President's claim that "no inability exists," prevails, and he "shall resume the powers and duties of his office."
That is, all Biden needs is either 34 senators OR 146 Reps to block the "2/3 vote of both Houses" and get back his office.
I don't see any lanaguage in the Amendment that either (a) transforms the VP from "Acting President" to President, or (b) precludes the "sidelined" President from submitting, over and over, declarations that "no inability exists," and forcing the Houses to go through the same voting process over and over. Wouldn't that be a hoot!
I agree John.
I think perhaps what Lifson intended to write is that it is easier to impeach a President (by simple majority of the House of Representatives) than it is to *prevent* the restoration of a disabled President who wants to be restored (requires two-thirds of the House of Representatives, plus two-thirds of the Senate).
Lifson concludes, presumably referring to the impeachment process, "This would seem to put the GOP House in a superior bargaining position in determining who shall exercise the powers of the presidency."
But I don't think so. The simple majority of the House required for impeachment only amounts to a constitutional indictment. The President remains in office. Two-thirds of the Senate is required to convict and remove. I don't see how this gives the House any bargaining position regarding who has the powers of the Presidency, let alone a 'superior' position.
In case of disability, the 25th Amendment provides in Section 4 that "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." I don't see any role for the House here.
And the House cannot prevent a disabled President from resuming his office if he wants to unless two-thirds of the House can persuade two-thirds of the Senate (or vice versa) to agree with it. How does this give the House a superior bargaining position?
But maybe I'm missing something...
Thanks to both John and Cassander. I think Lifson's point is that this could end up as the "mother of all constitutional crises". The reason for that is that practical partisan politics will inevitably come to the fore. That is the reason, I believe, that Lifson says that the Speaker is in a superior bargaining position--not because the Constitution gives him a superior constitutional role. Remember, both Lifson and I are presenting our views because of the claims made by Luongo and others that the Dems could simply pull a political game of musical chairs that ends with Zhou the odd man out because he's too slow, or falls down, or whatever. It's just not that simple.
For starters, the 25th wouldn't be invoked without massive Dem support, and that's what puts the GOP in the driver's seat going forward. And the Speaker, given the GOP majority in the House, controls the other constitutional option that will always be lurking in the background: Impeachment. There are ample grounds already for impeaching Zhou. The result is that the Dems aren't really in total control of getting rid of their own president as some like to claim, because do they really want to fold and back out of a decision that they joined and which would require the expenditure of a great amount of political capital (there are Dems who would be sure to object because they like Zhou's domestic Woke agenda)?. In the same way, the GOP was constrained by political considerations with regard to Trump, and ended up going the election fraud route.
There are a lot of possible scenarios, all of them potentially very messy. Would Zhou fight back by writing the letter? If he does, would the House (led by the Speaker) impeach rather than going back to the 25th well? It's really the Speaker's choice at that point
Or would the Speaker agree to join with the Dems to reinvoke the 25th? Presumably the Dems would only have invoked the 25th if Zhou refused to step back from running again. Having been hammered once, would Zhou accept the decision? But the Speaker could still lead a move to impeach the acting POTUS/VP--and I wouldn't be surprised if some grounds could be found to do that. I can't recall specifically off the top of my head, but I believe she's been slapped for some overreach in the past. It doesn't really matter--it would be political. What then? Allow Zhou to reclaim his spot in the OO? And be open to impeachment?
It's not a constitutional thing, it's a political thing using the constitution as an offensive weapon. Which is to say, the drafters of the 25th were probably wildly unrealistic in their expectations of how smoothly such a process would work. But it remains that the Speaker is central to it all. If the Dems want to do this and want it to work relatively smoothly I strongly suspect that, as Lifson says, the Dems will have to "work with" McCarthy. How tractable he might be is an open question.
Test trying to make comment
Not a chance "the Globalist plan for a Great Reset in which they take total control" will ever succeed in America. Todays "TheGatewayPundit" has an article entitled ‘At Least 25-30’ IRS Agents in Tactical Gear Raid Business in Stuart, Florida"" Just a few years back we would have wondered what they had done to merit this raid. Today every comment assumed this was government overreach, and probably political. The Globalists in their stupidity have lost control. They may control politicians and governments but not we the people.
@perle
If you subsitute "1965" for "today" and "Soviet" for "Globalist" and "KGB" for "IRS" does the conclusion change?
I'm afraid they may control us...if not forever, for quite some time.
They may control the US government...if not forever, for quite some time. The IRS/KGB may persecute dissidents. Don't be an open dissident. They can't keep hardened criminals in jail. No way they can imprison 200 million citizens, or for that matter starve them out as Stalin did. The blue cities will starve when things get tough.
@perle
I think we are...more or less...on the same page. I won't disagree that one can (try to) live quietly and happily...and that The People are catching on to what kind of government we now have. Perhaps you would agree that an increasingly authoritarian and unconstitutional government is...at least...an annoyance...that may persist and interfere with our quality of life for quite some time?
I agree there is no way they can imprison 200 million citizens. But if they imprison only a few without just cause, and god forbid one of them is me, I will probably be very pissed off. In fact, I think they have already done this to more than a few undeserving people.
We do agree, but I would further state that the government needs us. In any crisis, and we are heading for tough times, we will not support them or their programs. The 'woke' nonsense does not affect us, and we will not allow them to educate our children. Be discrete, stay safe, and have a good life.
You remind me of the moment when Mike Bloomberg, running for President as a Democrat, argued, in a debate, if I remember correctly, that Xi Jinpeng, regardless of the electoral obstacles faced by the citizens of China, remains in office at the pleasure of the Chinese people. Bloomberg was undoubtedly correct to a certain extent, but he was nevertheless hooted down by virtually everybody, not in the least by the Leftist American Press.
It would be nice to have have a government, here at least, which is directly answerable to the people.
"there is no way they can imprison 200 million citizens"
Totally unrealistic. They don't have to imprison more than a handful--if that--to coerce compliance. Which is all they want. Two words: Covid Regime. Greatest attack on freedom in, well, recent years. Almost total compliance, and the SCOTUS essentially did nothing except enable the new Regime.
Who knew “interesting times” could be so exhausting? And overwhelming.
So now we have a naval blockade added to the mix. While I have to say that I possess a great deal of confidence in Putin being deliberate and restrained in his SMO actions, I have no such confidence in the Neocons, who are masters of the impulsive, poorly thought out and generally incompetent geopolitical arts. With the addition of the blockade, it’s just one more moving part for them misinterpret, mischaracterize or simply ignore and respond in a self defeating and possibly self destructive manner. My point being that these morons don’t need anything else to push them into a nuclear escalation mode. Stupid people are prone to rash and impulsive actions, a luxury that is simply not an available option with such high stakes in play. If I might paraphrase Mark Twain, I wonder how these people can be so consistently incompetent? Result of practice no doubt.
Thank you for all these revelations, but it is not the end of the world. It may signal the end of America as a Country. The all out war on the American middle class is failing spectacularly. When you have a government that not only doesn't protect you nor allow you to protect yourself, and then fosters things that may kill you, they can no longer keep your trust. Once lost, trust is hard to regain. The battle for the hearts and minds of the American public is over. The government has lost.
Perle, I enjoy your comments. They are to the point and keep the focus on the wild changes happening every day to our families and institutions. The war on the middle class is all part of the fundamental transformation of America. I believed Obama when he said that was his goal.
The thrust of my comments is that they cannot fundamentally transform America. Only we can do that. They can fundamentally transform the government of America, at which point they lose our support. They lose. We roll with the punches, live the good, moral life and survive nicely.
And because of this, they have been aiming at the children for a long time. Even when I was in school, but specifically high school, it was notably underway (graduated in '73). And they have been consistently aiming younger and younger. I sure pray you are right! God bless!
Not too long ago people thought I was crazy or perverted when I'd tell them, They're coming for the kids, they want the kids.
You were right, and you still are. This is heart breaking on so many levels. And a lot of people have had their heads in the sand. But I find the closer we draw to God, the more truth is revealed to us, because He is Truth. Which also explains how so many people can be deceived.
I was watching the whistle blower hearings for a while. Don't know why I bother anymore. I really do believe that most lawmakers are complete sociopaths, it's not just a matter of malfeasance or greed. It's the only explanation for their craving of power, the sewer of lies, the willful acceptance of law breaking. For the sake of their pride the PTB will never stop backing JB because they cannot admit to a mistake on appointing him.
Yes, LJ’s hard-hitting synopsis of the failed state-cum-battering ram known as Ukraine, another in a long list of far-away places the US couldn’t just let alone, leaves you in that “overwhelmed” state…a great antidote to that is the (overly long) conversation with Diessen, Mercouris and the Belarusian Ambassador (to what or where?) Dmitry Melonchik. A polished, well-spoken, clear, perceptive, measured diplomat! Makes me want to catch the next flight to Minsk! Highly recommend a listen due to the rare optimism he expresses about efforts being made towards peace…on the Duran.
Dmitry Mironchik is Ambassador to Sweden (and Norway) from Belarus.
https://sweden.mfa.gov.by/en/embassy/ambassador/
That makes sense!
I saw that but was too absorbed in the Dowd video.
I'm also overwhelmed at the moment. Thank you for the excellent summary; I clicked through every link and learned a lot.
I bought Ed Dowd's book when it came out and have been following him ever since. It's all quite horrifying.
I'm going for a walk. That's one of the few things that keeps me sane these days.
"I'm going for a walk. That's one of the few things that keeps me sane these days."
My daily ritual. Most days. Today I spent hours manicuring the lawn.
What if I raise pit bulls and just let them loose in cities in my effort to reduce gun violence. That’s for the common good too.
If I may a book suggestion. ‘Political Ponerology’ by Andrew M. Lobaczewski. A Polish psychologist who lived through the totalitarian occupations of Poland in the 20th Century and was a member of a group of researchers who sought to explain the totalitarian phenomenon. It is psychology not politics. In particular psychopathy. It sounds like he was the only member of the group who lived long enough to complete the project. The secret police arrived at one point where he was and he burned the materials. New edition out.
Yes, psychopathy is a prime characteristic and it is playing out in real time with the Cultural Marxism on display in the Democratic Party and the disturbed psychos they have unleashed on us. I also thought Hannah Arendt nailed it with her , “Origins of Totalitarianism.” Thanks for the book suggestion!
Yes it’s all so overwhelming.... the information overload, the corruption, the evil . I can only look to Jesus for peace of mind
I do like to know what’s going on in the world but, yes, it gets to be quite overwhelming. Future prospects are awful; what’s happened already is pretty awful. I’m reminded of Isaiah 26:3: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee… For he bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city….”
True that...
Russia is clearly winning on all fronts, but Putin has a tricky line to walk. He has to satisfy public opinion and the hardliners without giving the neocons an excuse to push us into WW3. At the moment, the future of humanity seems to rest on what kind of mood Nuland wakes up in. Crazy times.
Regardless, it seems clear that escalating to nuclear war eliminates or postpones a lot of " pigeons coming home to roost" for Joe Biden. And JB's actions certainly all seem tp point to plans being made for nuclear war. Nuclear war would be adventagous to the goals of globalism, because of the huge destruction and the globalist propaganda that only globalism can save humanity from global warming and Earth's destruction. And JB uses language also used by globalists ("build back better"). And of course the Biden Crime Family immensely desires the money given by a very wealthy organization that BRAGS of placing "agents" in positions of power,and has notable victories of their "young leaders" (like Justin Trudeau for instance) Nuclear war for the Biden's represents no physical danger to them, or to other "leaders" in the US due to the continuing governance of trillions spent to safeguard our "leaders" in the event of nuclear war. And it will be the "New Deal" for Biden "leadership" (more accurately desribed by the word "treason") vis a vie the American population
Nuclear war satisfies the Malthusians/WEF and Kama Sutra becomes prescient, the depopulation due to climate change gaffe meaning when politicians tell the truth. Nuclear war will certainly alter the climate. Blackrock is salivating at the prospect of re-constructing the world. They already are consulting, for fees, the rebuilding of Ukraine what wealth can they imagine for rebuilding the world?
In recent podcast with T Luongo, Alastair Crooke makes some excellent points, I need to go back and listen to it again. If there is a nuclear anything - war, accident, detection - it's because the Neocons want it, they don't need those measures anymore.
The Duran chaps talk in detail about the emails coming out now about Hunter Biden's Ukraine "business". I agree with their solution that Biden's obsession with Ukraine has nothing to do with protecting "democracy" and everything to do with covering the Biden Crime family tracks. As for armageddon, if the neocons think they will survive that, they are sorely mistaken. The Russians know exactly where they are, and among the surviving peasants, there will be a lot of anger.
The working class sees what is happening, and slowly connecting the dots. It's highly suspicious when in 2019 you maybe had one coworker die per year. Now it's one a month.