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Tamsin's avatar

Question for friends, Substack comments have begun trying to autocomplete my words. Any way to turn that off? Can't find it in settings. I know we are all here to feed an AI learning beast, but this is annoying!

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Lawrence L.'s avatar

There was a pseudonymous commenter at Richard Fernandez's old Belmont Club blog who called himself Subotai Bahadur. Subotai (c. 1175–1248) was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. Many years ago (10? 12?) this fellow was the first person I saw to use the acronym TWANLOC (those who are no longer our countrymen). With far more clarity and prescience than I can claim, Subotai Bahadur suggested back then that there would be only one way out of the hell we had allowed our culture and country to become: we must go through it.

We seem to be at that point.

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Brother Ass's avatar

Speaking of the need for domestic regime-change (as opposed to merely changing administrations or congressional majorities), Kunstler’s recent diatribe really drove home to me, at long last, that the KGB had nothing on the FBI with regard to monitoring and controlling the population. Vlahos is right. This collective “mind-f*ckery” (to use a Kunstlerian term) has been so effective that nothing short of some kind of Revolution will turn the tide.

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-tool-of-tools/

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Tamsin's avatar

Ouch. Good read.

Fednapping in Michigan. Fedsurrection in DC. The feds have a lot of time on their hands to create problems to solve for the people by restricting the people.

I suggest the latest problem could be the attacks on energy infrastructure in wintertime by "anti-government" people who need to be found and restricted. According to a new doctrine called "stochastic terrorism", the people must be protected from the people who criticize the government. Loose lips sink ships. Lives are at stake. You might kill Grandma when the power goes out at her nursing home. Nobody is safe until everybody is safe. And since we can't tell which muslim, er, white person might actually attack infrastructure after being radicalized by your loose talk, we have to make everybody take off their shoes, er, stop criticizing the government.

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Tamsin's avatar

That makes me really sad. I only knew about the NC and OR "attacks".

Moran's post says the FBI is investigating. Because of course they are.

We can't go on like this.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

What impact will Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter have?

The other censoring entities - mainstream media and other internet giants are ignoring / censoring the revelations.

The left / Democrats and Europe are attacking Musk, since the censorship helps them.

Some advertising boycott of Twitter. I was surprised Apple and Amazon returned. Smart move to avoid controversy right now.

Which revelations will have the most impact?

I expect the revelations to have a huge impact on the lawsuit.

And Florida is mumbling something about Covid big pharma jab liability.

I’m sure there was / is a huge amount of censorship of jab side effects.

The state lawsuit on the covid censorship is moving forward with discovery.

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/elon-musks-new-pronouns-prosecutefauci

I have low expectations of the congressional GOP doing anything meaningful.

Interesting ex fbi people at Twitter:

https://www.independentsentinel.com/twitters-still-a-rats-nest-filled-with-government-agents/

And why weekly meetings with FBI, homeland security, and dni?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/notes-on-the-twitter-files-contd.php

Strange. Leslie Podestra, niece of John Podestra, was on Twitter trust and safety panel / council. I don’t know her background.

Was it her Father that had all the disturbing child umm, art?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/09/23/married-with-art/dee9a0d0-0f0d-4505-b0ef-2f0e1bd1e0e0/

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-twitter-child-porn-failures-crime

Fauci’s daughter was also at Twitter

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Twitter was Wormtongue to the World

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Wars Foreign And Domestic:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

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Tamsin's avatar

Prosecuting Fauci is necessary but insufficient for the enormity of the evil perpetrated by many, many people.

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dissonant1's avatar

"Revolution." "I think that's where we're headin." I wonder. It is true that "you can't permanently marginalize and reduce to a kind of serfdom the majority of Americans." But what will it take to prove that true? When? And what will be the result?

When so many people are "living off the government" (welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, disability payments, Social Security, Student Loans, Federal and State pensions, civil service jobs, government contracts, and on and on) how much will it take for them (us) to willingly give up their (our) livelihoods and potentially their (our) lives against the authoritarian technocratic surveillance and financial control state now headed by the Uniparty? Then there are the U.S. citizens who don't know Russia from Mexico and Ukraine from Greenland (yes, video interviews showing this exist). Will they really see the light about our supposed masters when the truth about the Ukraine is revealed? Who, by the way, in the mainstream media will reveal that?

Whether or not you subscribe to Alexander Tyler's stages of civilization - and I'm quite sure most reading this blog are acquainted with it - I thought this to be a particularly good commentary on it and on where we are in it:

https://blog.adw.org/2016/10/eight-stages-rise-fall-civilizations/

It seems we are somewhere in #7 or #8 (if you accept the paradigm). But is the fall of our civilization inexorable? I will say that in my opinion in the absence of a common understanding of our dependence on God, of His morality, of our own nature, and of the salvation he has provided to us, the outlook is not good. That said, I particularly appreciate the Tyler commentary author's conclusion and I greatly appreciate Mark's commentary about these issues, with which I agree.

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T. Paine Redux's avatar

They say the American Revolution was actually fought by less than 1/3 of the population. The others, to varying degrees, either took the other side or sat around to see who won. I see our situation similarly though I think the percentages would be skewed differently. Revolutionary America was a lot more united than we are.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Only 1000 Frenchmen out of 25 million stormed the Bastille. It only takes a minority dedicated to Freedom. Look at the anti-Covid protests in China.

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I think we are in Stage 9.

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I think Stage 9 is when people LET themselves be dragged off and welded into their Covid jails.

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My personal take-away from the last two years is that the DS can do ANYTHING to the general population and they will never rebel. However, that could just be my own deeply pessimistic nature affecting my judgment. I actually believe that either the arrogance and stupidity of the "elites" will collapse the whole system, or that there will be some kind of rebellion. Maybe a few of the Red states will grow a pair, join together and formally secede from DC. Or maybe they will do it under the counter, paying lipservice to DC while increasingly ignoring their diktats.

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Somewhat paradoxically the current crop of elites intentionally "collapsing the system" (especially economically) might be the one thing that brings about their own demise. It would motivate and liberate people toward revolution. After all, when you've got nothing, you've got nothing left to lose.

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The majority only rebel when day-to-day conditions become unbearable and they start seeing their loved ones suffering directly. So, yes, collapsing the system might be the catalyst that destroys the "elites". However, on a broader level, the Great Reset has already failed because ever larger chunks of the world are saying thanks, but no thanks to Schwab and Co.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

The open border may be a ploy to undermine the middle class and replace them with more government dependents--or outnumber them. Revolution usually comes from the middle class, so the open border could be intended in a sense to head off revolution.

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The amount of illegal immigration since since Biden took office is huge. Including the catch and release.

Swag - 3 million?

https://news.yahoo.com/illegal-immigration-soars-under-biden-200400500.html

Plus the existing illegal population that has been under counted.

Official estimates are 11 million.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undocumented_immigrant_population_of_the_United_States

An anti illegal site is 15 million:

https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/2021-update-how-many-illegal-aliens-live-united-states

My guess was 20 million. Wow, 2018 estimate from Yale / MIT was 22 million. I’ll up it to 25 million then.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/09/21/ivy-league-study-illegal-population-is-22-million-double-estb-estimate/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/27/count-of-illegal-alien-population-excluded-from-u-s-census-data/

US population is 331 million.

25 million of 331 is 7 1/2 %. And about half of the legal immigration.

And the Black community, US born, hates illegal immigration. Unfortunately their elites need to toe the party line, or they will be canceled.

Ca is not building more housing. This is creating a huge housing crises. And how is the us economy / work force absorbing these people? Or did the Covid jab remove so many people from the work force?

What impact on the new irs rule on $600 aimed at independent contractors?

Looks like both parties are ignoring the size of this issue.

Home Depot daily labor rates, unskilled, in So Ca are $20 cash an hour plus lunch. With skill is more.

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There's no doubt that both sides of the uniparty are for open borders. However, it might not be the game-winner they anticipated. Not all hispanics are pro-Democrat and if the social welfare system is overwhelmed by immigrants, that could indeed spark off some kind of revolutionary upheaval among the native population.

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I've always thought that for the Republicans it is new "slave" labor; for the Democrats it is a means to dissolve the traditional culture of the U.S. and to get new voters.

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Very much so. And they show why Leftists hate the teaching of real history. For them, human life is just one big linear leap towards maximum inclusion and diversity as the baddies like those nasty white people are kicked out of the way. The study of history, by contrast, shows that it's just the same old cycles turning, getting wobblier and squeakier each time. I always laugh when I hear "liberal" commentators talking about how things like transgenderism are great steps towards a brighter future, when in fact, they are just typical Stage 8 behaviour as a civilisation heads towards the junk yard.

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That answers the question I posed in my earlier comment: what happens next? No one has had the nerve to say that. Thomas Jefferson said it was necessary every “X” number of years. I don’t remember his “X” in the quote.

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I believe it was every generation.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Or maybe Iran won the Iraq war.

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I don't believe they will ever leave us alone. Controlling every aspect of our lives is how they get their kicks.

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The Elephant in the Room is Jab Side Effects, including permanent disability, death, and infertility.

If this becomes widely known / believed by the US Population, that would be a game changer.

Florida is also pushing the issue of Vaccine Side Effects:

https://www.tampafp.com/florida-surgeon-general-finds-new-allies-to-support-his-position-on-covid-vaccines/

I wonder - one of Trump's huge political weaknesses is the Covid Vaccine. Will this impact the release of Vaccine Side Effects? With the goal of blaming Trump for them to destroy him politically? Or is the Biden Administration their with Covid Vaccine Mandates too much at risk politically?

I am surprised, but so far I have not heard of any, lawsuits against companies due to their Covid Vaccine Mandates causing employee injuries. Will this change as more materials on the side effects are released?

Related, but not as important:

The continued GOP Establishment vs. their voter fracas continues....

Gavin Wax on the uniparty at New York Young Republican Club Gala- under 2 minutes and a great listen:

https://twitter.com/robsmithonline/status/1601794344440238081

Dissection of establishment hit job on New York Young Republican Club.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/89276980

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Swept under the rug not just due to propaganda but the intentional hair-brained Birx record keeping system. Like, dying with COVID vs of COVID. How do we even begin to unravel those stats?

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The sleeper issue, it seems to me, is infertility. CHD.TV had a nurse whistleblower on who said she just couldn't watch passively as the number of stillborn babies at the hospital where she worked just increased massively, and everyone around her just 'wondered' why, and yet took no action. More compelling is Dr. James Thorpe, whose practice concentrates on pregnancy, stillbirths and reproductive toxicology. His analysis will curl your hair. He projects conservatively that we reach near-zero population by 2050, not by people dying, so much, but by just not replacing the ones who do. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/friday-roundtable/nurse-whistleblower-reveals-shocking-increase-in-fetal-demise/

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