EDITED to say that people don't need to know my life story, haha.
This is one of the best most thoughtful substack posts I have ever read, on the topic of a house divided. I will miss your posts but I need to take a break from substack and social media for awhile. I hope it will be ok to unsub and resub later down the line, unless I can figure out how to quiet the email notifications.
Your posts are thoughtful and measured and invite civil discourse. You have no idea how much I appreciate that; your posts have been a calm in a storm of reactivity with little thought or effort to find common ground.
The lines begin to blur on what 'freedom' means to each 'side.' Thanks for pointing this out. I see a whole lot of conditioned, misguided people, and a lot of hypocrites trying to control their minds - IMO the aim is the same; profits for the scum puppeteers at the top of the billionaire-controller heap. To me, there's no real difference between any of them - Bill Gates or Elon Musk, for example. Both are unscrupulous profiteers.
I've tried to point out that we would be better served by trying to find commonalities and to look up, higher than politics (the enforcers of the Plans for us all). A few understand; most don't.
I miss the days when we could disagree on politics and not let it ruin relationships - those days seem gone. I feel my time may be better spent out in the world where I might be able to effect some good in my local community, and less on a computer sitting on my ass. If I'm welcome to go and return, I don't have money for a paid subscription but will try to buy you a coffee once in awhile or repost some of your posts. Thank you, Igor.
‘He Had a Rifle!’ Trump Rally Attendee Says He Warned Police Gunman Was Crawling on Roof. So we are to believe a man was able to get that close with a rifle… without being seen or stopped by the police or Trump’s security. And that they ignored warnings of a man with a rifle and allowed Trump to continue to speak?
Multiple shots were fired in the direction of Trump. We are told that one member of the audience was killed. What happened to the other bullets that were fired?
How did they get to the roof and take the guy out so quickly? If the police and security detail purposely ignore warnings, wouldn’t they take their sweet assed time trying to kill the shooter? Wouldn’t they let him unleash at least one full clip at Trump before acting?
The weapon found at the scene was an AR type semi-automatic rifle that generally holds up to 30 rounds. Each pull of the trigger unleashes a round so the entire clip could be easily emptied in well under 10 seconds. Did anyone hear 30 rounds being fired? And if so did the shooter fire only two into the podium with the rest completely missing?
Surely if the shooter was on a suicide mission he’d try to wastes some of the men who were coming for him. Yet we hear not a single shot from the cornered rat.
Popping back to comment after seeing a (local) rise in the appointment of middle aged authoritarians to relatively high positions of power.
I wonder if
there is a decision to appoint such (to operate as a machine would operate), or if
these younger authoritarians are simply the product of the institutionally raised child (those born in the 80s and beyond whose educated middle class mothers were now in the workplace), or if
the growth in authoritarianism is a psychological consequence of suffering authoritarian pandemic measures, passing the experience down onto others as a form of relief.
Japan Fires Its Top Currency Diplomat As Yen Disintegrates, Another Intervention Looms
Incumbent Kanda has been the main figure in handling the government's catastrophic interventions in the foreign exchange market, which have been meant to arrest the yen's slide against the dollar, yet despite spending a record $60+ billion two months ago on halting the yen's implosion, the yen is now at the lowest level since the Plaza Accord.
And while no amount of intervention will prevent the yen from imploding further - to do that the BOJ will have to raise rates to 4% or higher, setting of a cataclysmic collapse of the entire Japanese bond market - the outrage among the populace at the runaway inflation in Japan in large part due to the plunging currency, is finally being addressed now that Japan is facing election in a few months, and scapegoat time has arrived.
We fully expect another intervention round in the coming days, one which sends USDJPY back to the low 150s before the pair resumes it trek higher until such time as Japan finally loses control over both its currency and bond markets. That will be the beginning of the end of the current doomed experiment in neoliberalism.
Igor, another excellent topic where you are asking the right questions and since it has much more depth to it, worth to delve deeper on some points:
1. Action vs inaction: is there a difference?
2. The consequences of action vs inaction to our minds
3. Why is our (in)action the most important element in how the world is about to change?
Before my long elaboration, a disclaimer: I do not think I know it all. Therefore I always approach any discussion with a diverging mind with the humility that my perception of reality could turn out to be different, as in the past it has and I learnt my arrogance from my former self. But self confidence is still key and where there is a marked difference, is when it comes to logic and perception of reality. If someone tries to convince me along fallacies like appeal to authority, ad hominems, or a huge ego just to name a few of the usual ones, I apply my logic to counter their reasoning. So whenever I speak below of "reasoning", it is in this spirit.
Up-front, I have been struggling with how to relate to friends and family who have radically become tyrannic/distant towards me and others due to their convictions, but I came to realize that my struggle with this new situation was partly due to denial in myself: the world HAS changed and it hurt so much I did not want to have it and fought against it. I wanted my relationships to continue like they were and find some solution to preserve them while still continue on my quest for a better world, which I am convinced is nothing more than taking responsibility for what you have come to realize, compared to those who are in denial of reality. When a train is speeding towards your stalling car on the rails, you cannot ignore it will kill everyone inside unless you drag them out of the car and off the rails. Being the only one in the car knowing this inevitability and what needs to be done, is most of all a responsibility, where you have no choice. Realizing how much work, pain and suffering is involved, is the burden we do not want to carry, but have to.
My denial however (of being able to succeed by the same methods of unconditional love) was in vain, I realized in time: what has changed cannot be reversed, as time cannot be reversed. The changes taking place now are tectonic and we all have a role to play, but trying to turn back time is folly. So our role is to adopt and approach things unlike we would like to.
Which brings us to the question: HOW to react to others? How actively, in what way? For sure, it is impossible to do it the way we used to, as not only the environment has changed totally, but people along with it, as they perceive their place in a changed environment that cannot be unseen. Those who are asleep still, are conversely in a dream state in a changed environment, their reactions are that of cognitive dissonance where they want to deny reality and therefore are in constant inner conflict. Which must truly be painful, just think of the vaggz injured who do not want to BELIEVE it's due to the vaxx.
So the challenge is that the people you need to help, with love, are not the same people anymore. As they do not relate to you the same way. So the method has to change as well.
Part 1. Action vs In-action
On the topic of going into such conflict or not: there is no such thing as inaction, as we are sentient thinkers and therefore any information will shape our thoughts, our mind, therefore our emotions and as a result, our actions, whether we like it or not. You can stay peaceful with a family member who is afraid of you because they believe you are spreading a deadly virus and if you don't vaccinate, you kill them. But your peace will have a passive connotation and will shape the other's thinking and action:
- without reasoning with them, they will assume to be right, for lack of counter arguments.
- without giving them the chance to disseminate all available information, they will not wake up to a reality that is more complete than their echo-chambers (mostly through one-sided media and selective friends), therefore will have no chance to find common ground with you. Nobody is awake right away, we all have a different pace how we come to understand reality.
- by being overly patient with people, the social impact of your message will miss the force it requires to stress the importance of your conviction. When you are saving a life from making a mistake, you cannot do it by treating the topic like the choice between Coke and Pepsi. A slap is sometimes required to wake up people from their reverie and you need to show a different side of yourself so they understand you mean it.
Therefore I do not believe that avoiding conflict is helping in any way. In some cases, in fact in most cases, I believe it fuels division even more. The less time spent with loved ones around a topic, the more they get entrenched and if it's a topic where YOU are the "enemy", inaction will make you even more so. If there's a master plan of Divide and Conquer, avoiding conflict serves the master optimally as without conflict, there is no resolution and no peace. In time, we get estranged from those we used to love and so the manipulative forces have won.
I have come to believe that those that say that there is a war on for our minds rather than our money and bodies, are right. The media, politicians and those forces behind them that lust for absolute power due to their endless greed, want us divided. They can only achieve this by manipulating our thoughts 24/7. By turning us into mindless consumers that live from day to day to only focus on working for their wealth and putting our fellow humans' needs secondary (or last), compensating by material means for the emptiness we feel inside as we have forgotten what the love is that fills our hearts and makes us whole and gives purpose to our lives, they are constantly conveying messages to perpetuate this state of divisiveness. Hell, they may even believe it themselves, as these psychopaths are all without an image of God, they want to be gods themselves, corrupted by their wealth.
So in the endless crises they create, what is most important is what impact that has on our minds. And I think the crucial point here is Demoralization. They want us demoralized, so we give up and give in. Most of the threats they bombard us with, never happens, but it is enough for them if we feel threatened as it will already change our ways. On both sides of the spectrum: those who are culled as obedient sheep because they are afraid of nature's creations like invisible viruses that are part of us, just as much as those who are afraid that their efforts will deprive us of all humanity and make us into slaves.
It is fear that demoralizes as it takes away courage to face up to their manipulation. And therefore it is this fear that we cannot allow them to rule over us with.
So in my personal quest since 2020 regarding the changing world, I have gradually come to realize that the ultimate battle is for our minds, more specifically for our Will. They are fighting on so many fronts to take this away from us. Whether via medical ways (anti-depressants, sleeping pills, tranquilizers that take away all fighting force in you), via the food (less healthy proteins and nutrient deprived food so a weak body results in a weak mind), via education (creating a docile and obedient slave without autonomous thinking), controlled work places (increasingly restrictive to make you feel like you are worthless and without power) or any other display of power over you via centrally controlled means, their intent is to break you. So the most important way to win is to not allow them to break you, to take your will. I have seen so many friends since the plandemic who have rebelled initially but in the end gave in via masking, vaccination, just to have their conveniences, they have basically given themselves beaten from the start. It is much harder to come back from that and for them it will only get worse, as they will fall in the gambling addiction circle of a sunk cost fallacy: "I am not about to give up my freedom now, after I have consented to get vaxed!" But they will realize in time that this was not a singular push, but a never ending force of wave after wave of oppression and coercion. There is no trade-off here, no win-win, they will take all from you. And those giving in at each step will be demoralized more and more at each slap they get, until they are utterly spent. I do not think the increase in suicides globally is a coincidence but a direct consequence of the past few years of conscious demoralization.
Which is why anyone who understands what is going on, cannot and may not ever give in. And as you counter each of their attempts, you will get stronger after each blow, because you realize that they were unable to take from you that which is most important: your Will.
As I have gone through the past years, the pain of losing people (their souls, more often than their lives) has become a part of my life, but I could not imagine a life with giving up my own soul to keep lies alive with people that do not understand just how naked the emperor is. Perhaps other people are able to, I cannot.
So my mind is what counts most. And in this, the conflicts I live almost every day, are secondary to my inner peace of mind, that I remain faithful to my own sanity, my own ethics, my humanity. And as a consequence, the health of my body. So it is not all a negative trade-off: so many people around me suffer from their mistakes, while I am grateful and relieved for not having to go through their ordeal of suffering and not understanding (or denying) that they caused it to themselves by abiding like meek sheep.
Part 3. The impact of our state of mind on the world
Setting aside all personal impact of such conflict, the world is about to change in a hitherto unprecedented way. We can all see that the forces at work no longer care for human life, they do not even care for the false narrative of the broader environment, when they pitch climate change, "nature", etc. They only care for power over other humans. And some of these are truly psychopaths and sociopaths and do not even care for power over others, they want to live alone on the planet and erase all of humanity, for their narcissistic self-image of gods. So we should not be surprised that they will push the world in a third world war and perhaps even beyond that, into total destruction. Because they do not understand the consequences of their actions, as they have no sense of reality, neither that of responsibility. So there is a battle on, where our short lives on this planet are part of a game, that is being played NOW. And we are all a part of it. And contrary to past ages where many have thought that the "end times are near", we now DO have the technological means for total destruction, via nuclear and biological "progress", while our ethical "progress" to handle such responsibility seems in reverse. Shrugging it off as just another crisis in the long history of humanity seems naive to me at this point.
In this, I do not believe that we can stand on the sideline. We cannot afford to put our ego first and pamper our souls for the sakes of the individual relationships we have, with friends and family. I think we are now all responsible for a better world and we need to step up our game to help achieve it. If we would all do this, the world will become a better place. We could climb out of utter destruction, help shape a new world with rules to prevent such power grab to ever happen again, etc. Alternatively, if we only look inside and focus on what is best for ourselves, we could let the horses run the wagon off the cliff. Looking on, while we could have grabbed the reins.
So when we are faced with others that think differently, I think we have a moral obligation to speak the truth, no matter the consequences. No matter the resulting loss. Though I am convinced that in time, we will not lose, but gain with every act of courage. And the losses we had, when we look back at them, we will see as paving stones on our path to our personal salvation in the process. So in a sense, it is still a selfish act, while we serve a broader purpose at the same time. That's quite a win..
I am not merely speculating here: this is the feeling I am experiencing through the past few years. As time passes and I look at the confrontations I have had, the resulting conflicts, loss of relationships, I have seen that time mends everything. And it is wishful thinking that these breaks with friends or family will all be fully mended. We will have to accept that some things will never be mended. But I do feel an inner peace for these losses, as I have remained true to what I believe in.
On a more practical side after such philosophy, I think that speaking your mind results in a certain resilience. At the start, I felt offended and hurt by ridicule and some hateful exchanges even. Now, I see that the mass hysteria is such that I will have to accept this as part of life. I'm not happy this is the case, but by accepting it, life gets easier.
Having said all this about speaking your mind, I think a major difference exists in timing things: I do not go about evangelizing others by being in their face. I do not push my opinion on them unwanted, even when I'm convinced I'm right about matters they are uninformed about. I try to be patient with them and most of the time avoid topics where I see an almost religious faith towards an extreme, be it politics, dietary habits or any other deeply divisive topic. What I do is trying to stay objective with what I read and see, by conveying the thinking pattern behind it and leaving it up to the other person to decide what to do with it. Some examples:
1. I do not tell them that "vaccines are killers". I tell them about statistics of excess mortality long after Covid passed, research papers that have shown negative side effects, public hearings where manufacturers themselves had to admit they were taking action "at the speed of science" without knowing the result, about governments now officially investigating, about personal anecdotes about people who died right after the shots or now have permanent disabilities, etc. Of course all this should tell any sane person that these vaccines are killers, but I will not put it in their mouth, because I do not want to be associated with the thought. I am merely a vessel of a message, this avoids the ad hominems so many of these fights end with. By pointing at the culprits, you also offer them a way out: you were not at fault, you were misled. Which they were, in a way.
2. Even when I'm itching to give my piece of mind on a topic they bring up, I try to wrap it in empathy. Definitely not punishing a vaxx injured for something they did to themselves and are in denial of, as that will only make me the enemy who does not help but is glad he was right. I'm not. When a top fit athlete friend complains about being ill all the time, I try to come with solutions on how to possibly remedy it. I usually start with the need for diagnosis: a possible risk for myocarditis and blood clotting can be checked via tests (D-dimer and Troponin tests), so they might do something about it. I do not even have to talk about my suspicion that it is due to the vaxx, they will figure it out in time anyway. If they are open to diagnosis, I may get into protocols of treatment they can look up themselves: the FLCCC, McCullough protocols, Natokinase for spike protein detox, etc. Most of the time people are in denial and think you just want to be smart, but I have had occasions when someone came back on it, since I was not pushing the subject. In time, many can and will change, at some point may even agree with you.
3. Some people are beyond reason and cannot be saved. In their case, you will have to confront them with their own aggression, tyrannical ways. I usually mirror their actions: when a vegan wants to call me out for cruelty and unhealthy eating as I eat meat, I tell them that if someone walks up to you in two coats and nothing underneath, just to tell you that you should not wear a shirt and a coat because a shirt is sin, then surely they would not accept this either? Or the usual logical fallacies of the vaxx fanatics who tell you to protect them with something that does not stop transmission. If you can do it with a sense of humour, you may have planted a seed. If you make it into a war however of who is "right", you will enforce their belief that you are selfish and it's just two sides of an arbitrary coin.
There are plenty more examples but the gist is that we need to speak our minds. Respectfully. Those that are not respectful towards us however, need to be confronted with this. Patiently first, but if that fails, with the ferocity required to make them understand that they do not rule over us. Never assume the role of victim, because then you have already given yourself beaten.
I've watched this documentary several times; still chock full of information. Maybe sitting down with our families and friends and communities, and watching this, would foster some thoughtful dialogue and help reveal the scam matrix in which we're all victimized. It keeps getting taken down on youtube but people put it up again and it's on Rumble. Still just as good IMO as the first time I watched it.
Great write, Igor, and you have been missed. I hope you took a well deserved break from all the craziness!
Those last lines you wrote about waiting for change instead of forcing it... such wisdom when it comes to families and friends. That is how we operate, even though we are all of different minds. We don't preach to each other. We allow for people to have opinions, and for those to change as more is revealed. We have discussions sometimes; it's never forced, nor one's beliefs forced on another - maybe that is because we love and like each other and believe that we're all entitled to think and believe as we want, even when we don't agree with each other. Let people have their own lessons - their lives are theirs to live, just as mine is. Live and Let Live is the code I go by. That doesn't mean pardoning reprehensible acts such as war crimes or grift. It means, who the hell am I to dictate to anyone what they should think or believe?
I can only align with what my own moral code is. It took me a long time to get to this way of being. It's harder in some ways because I feel sad a lot and my system feels upset a lot about all the unnecessary hating and strife because it means that the agenda from on high - made by the richest people in the world - is working and is sadly, still perpetuating infighting and wars, when our focus should be on what they have done to us and are still doing, and waking up to our own sovereignty and outrage finally placed where it belongs - at those at the very top - and throwing them off of us - withdrawing, divesting, unplugging! Getting outside for fresh air and seeing the world from someplace else besides internet addiction, from which I suffer. On that note... time to get up off my rear and smell the flowers and appreciate what a great teacher and stress reliever the Natural World is.
I understand the dilemma and I agree that some issues aren't worth the arguments and divisiveness created. However, I believe strongly in freedom of speech, the value of critical thinking and healthy debate. I think censorship of the mainstream news is at the crux of why I see extreme differences of opinion. Covid was a perfect example of msm creating dissent between the vaccinated and the not. If the news was investigating any issue neutrally I don't think we would be where we are today. Mainstream supports ideology vs facts and is completely biased.
MSM, Fox. two sides of the same billionaire-orchestrated coin of divisiveness, causing people not even see anymore that we are all being screwed and fighting to throw off all the oppression from wherever it comes. With 'freedom' comes responsibility. It's not obedience to a narrative where others do all the thinking for us. Once we understand that it's all owned by a few billionaires, we begin to see how we've all been used and duped, and begin to wake up and crawl out of the boxes. I never wanted to be in either of these boxes. Others put you there, not looking for nuance or complexity of thought or seeing all sides - because we know 'sides' are an illusion used to control the masses, same as organized religion.
I realize they are the same, I was referring to the digging you have to do on substack, watching house Subcommittee oversight meetings, listening to scientists and doctors on YouTube that are not owned by any narrative. I don't believe in sides either as they are only labels that don't define the nuance of one's beliefs and knowledge. My opinion still is that we must speak to each other and hear each other without constraining that by your "party" of choice or your journalist of choice. We have to share information without expectation that it will change someone's mind.
He Igor --- how about an open article asking your followers who were vaxxed and later did a 180 and realized the Rat Juice is poison what it was that caused them to change their minds.
I think this would be of great interest because everyone is struggling with how to convince family and friends to stop shooting the death shots
Who has the horse power to connect this to the Death Shots???
A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today
What the cheerleaders are actually claiming is the process of adding zeroes to "money" is limitless, but there are limits on the utility of devaluing currency, too.
CHARLES HUGH SMITH
JUN 19, 2024
How prosperous would the world be if we hadn't collectively borrowed and spent $315 trillion----333% of global GDP? We all know the answer--not very prosperous at all, for production, consumption and profits would all be mere fractions of their current totals if we could not borrow money and could only spend cash on hand. Global Debt Hit $315 Trillion In Q1 2024.
All this money that's been spent/invested has effectively been mined / extracted from future resources, labor and capital. The basic idea is that the interest that must be paid on this debt will be paid out of earnings generated by the productive use of resources, labor and capital in the future. Once the debt matures and the principle must be returned to the lender / bond purchaser, this principle must also be mined / extracted from assets available in the future.
Mining / extraction is the appropriate analogy because nothing is unlimited in the real world. Imagination--yes, it's unlimited. Denial and delusion: yes, both are limitless. But tangible resources that can be recovered at costs the economy can bear, productive labor and capital are not limitless. If we mine the future too intensively, there won't be enough left in the future to spend/invest at the level we enjoy today.
The fundamental assumption behind mining the future is that the pool of resources, labor and capital will continue expanding forever, effortlessly funding the interest and principle due on today's borrowing and leaving more than enough to consume and invest in the future.
But what happens when the resources, labor and capital available to mine in the future shrink?
I'm now a fan of Cuomo on NewsNation where he asserts the two political parties only work on issues that help divide us generally by making us angry about whatever. Media seems to follow that as well. The two are in lock step, conjoined for their own advantages. Most of us are rarely that one-sided IMHO. I'd prefer a government that does as little as possible but know politicians/regulators will regulate forever to keep their jobs. We keep allowing that to our shame because we mostly are ill-informed. Places like SubStack are useful in affirming I'm not alone, a good thing.
I think when friends and family support far left totalitarian, anti-human, one-world government whose only claim to legitimacy is force, when they spread and support lies, censorship, and control... well, I have no need for those people. The only possible rational responses are to either fight them or try to get the hell away from them. They've treated us like crap and demanded they have the right to stomp all over us and our liberties for basically our whole lives.
I say it's f***ing payback time.
Don't get me wrong, the right is often just painfully stupid and naive -- I went to one "reopen" rally in 2020 where this old dude insisted Trump would "drain the swap" in a second term, despite having done nothing towards this in his first one (and having empowered Fauci and Birx two months prior!). The old dude had some weird magical thinking that the second term would allow this to happen, or something. It sounded more emotional than logical to me.
On the other hand, the globalist left is a full-on robotic Borg evil that has to be stopped at any cost, or the spirit of humanity will be extinguished forever and over time, trillions of people will suffer for it. Those lunatics are no longer even safe to associate with for more than five minutes if you appear to be even a LITTLE bit different from them politically, in their eyes.
Damn right I'm pissed and hate them for what they did to the world, and being friends with people like that is like being friends with someone who shoots your cat and stabs you in the foot. They cause irreparable harm to us and inflict endless misery upon us constantly and carry on with a smug, self-righteous sense of moral superiority about it all.
I ask you -- WHY would ANYONE on earth EVER choose to pal around with people like that?
I sympathize. But the fact that you can say; “the globalist left […] has to be stopped at any cost” indicates that you would likely do the very things you accuse them of in order to defeat them. And where does that leave us? There is no ideology that is more important than human connection. I would add that none of what angers you (and me) has anything to do with the left (or right) far or otherwise. This left/right framing only clouds the issue. I have to close now. Perhaps can add more later. Thank you Igor for your thoughtful statement.
See, that's the problem, like my wife, you'll complain about it, but you won't actually really fight to DO anything about it. Humanity is facing down the greatest evil in history, and most people are like deer in headlights who can't even lift a finger to fight back.
I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but at least I worked loopholes hard during Covid times and went as against the grain as I could. And in doing so probably helped pull a small handful of semi-thinking people with me. It wasn't much, but at least it did something. Wife just bemoaned "when can I stop wearing a mask at the grocery store, I hate this." I told her whenever you're ready, but she never caught on.
If it takes being a monster to destroy the monsters, then frankly, so be it. It's still better than letting the monsters just overrun us all, and I have yet to hear anyone with a better explanation. "Human connection?" I just told you, no way in hell am I ever going to connect with the evil bastards who did this to the world, nor their all-too-willing-and-eager accomplices. I spent 20+ years trying to find some kind of peace with them and I can tell you from painful repeated personal experience, IT DOES NOT F***ING EXIST. Every last one of them would kill you where you stand to gain even one millimeter of what they desire, if they thought for a second they could get away with them. In their eyes, if you aren't Borg, you are too be assimilated or destroyed.
One of them I knew - wife's longtime friend - was a hardcore masker, jabber, Xiden voter. I got into a huge screaming match with her over it once. Well she later got fired for disciplining the kids at the school she worked at. It was something pretty tame of her - I can't imagine any rational person objecting - but she was white, they were black, and the anti-racist brigade chewed her up and spit her out. She complained about it, but she STILL could not see how she played a part in her own comeuppance. Because Orange Man Bad or something. And hey, orange man not great, orange-man just suck ever so slightly less than CCP Xiden, Authoritarian with Vaxx Exception RFK Jr, and woketarian Chase. If even the weak-sauce lamester Gary Johnson were running again I wouldn't vote orange man, but at this point, I've had it. Everything is awful, so we might as well punch the crybullies right back in their stupid faces, if only for lack of any better options.
EDITED to say that people don't need to know my life story, haha.
This is one of the best most thoughtful substack posts I have ever read, on the topic of a house divided. I will miss your posts but I need to take a break from substack and social media for awhile. I hope it will be ok to unsub and resub later down the line, unless I can figure out how to quiet the email notifications.
Your posts are thoughtful and measured and invite civil discourse. You have no idea how much I appreciate that; your posts have been a calm in a storm of reactivity with little thought or effort to find common ground.
The lines begin to blur on what 'freedom' means to each 'side.' Thanks for pointing this out. I see a whole lot of conditioned, misguided people, and a lot of hypocrites trying to control their minds - IMO the aim is the same; profits for the scum puppeteers at the top of the billionaire-controller heap. To me, there's no real difference between any of them - Bill Gates or Elon Musk, for example. Both are unscrupulous profiteers.
I've tried to point out that we would be better served by trying to find commonalities and to look up, higher than politics (the enforcers of the Plans for us all). A few understand; most don't.
I miss the days when we could disagree on politics and not let it ruin relationships - those days seem gone. I feel my time may be better spent out in the world where I might be able to effect some good in my local community, and less on a computer sitting on my ass. If I'm welcome to go and return, I don't have money for a paid subscription but will try to buy you a coffee once in awhile or repost some of your posts. Thank you, Igor.
‘He Had a Rifle!’ Trump Rally Attendee Says He Warned Police Gunman Was Crawling on Roof. So we are to believe a man was able to get that close with a rifle… without being seen or stopped by the police or Trump’s security. And that they ignored warnings of a man with a rifle and allowed Trump to continue to speak?
Multiple shots were fired in the direction of Trump. We are told that one member of the audience was killed. What happened to the other bullets that were fired?
How did they get to the roof and take the guy out so quickly? If the police and security detail purposely ignore warnings, wouldn’t they take their sweet assed time trying to kill the shooter? Wouldn’t they let him unleash at least one full clip at Trump before acting?
The weapon found at the scene was an AR type semi-automatic rifle that generally holds up to 30 rounds. Each pull of the trigger unleashes a round so the entire clip could be easily emptied in well under 10 seconds. Did anyone hear 30 rounds being fired? And if so did the shooter fire only two into the podium with the rest completely missing?
Surely if the shooter was on a suicide mission he’d try to wastes some of the men who were coming for him. Yet we hear not a single shot from the cornered rat.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-trump-shooting-was-staged
Popping back to comment after seeing a (local) rise in the appointment of middle aged authoritarians to relatively high positions of power.
I wonder if
there is a decision to appoint such (to operate as a machine would operate), or if
these younger authoritarians are simply the product of the institutionally raised child (those born in the 80s and beyond whose educated middle class mothers were now in the workplace), or if
the growth in authoritarianism is a psychological consequence of suffering authoritarian pandemic measures, passing the experience down onto others as a form of relief.
Those are good questions.
Also ... We now have visual proof that the children are leading the asylum known as the White House.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-biden-cover-up-is-being-led-by
Please consider donating to this fine cause https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/fast-eddys-plan-to-monetize-suffering/
To offer a counter view is not a problem if the collective intent remains consistent. Not to be right but to seek the truth. Family included.
Japan Fires Its Top Currency Diplomat As Yen Disintegrates, Another Intervention Looms
Incumbent Kanda has been the main figure in handling the government's catastrophic interventions in the foreign exchange market, which have been meant to arrest the yen's slide against the dollar, yet despite spending a record $60+ billion two months ago on halting the yen's implosion, the yen is now at the lowest level since the Plaza Accord.
And while no amount of intervention will prevent the yen from imploding further - to do that the BOJ will have to raise rates to 4% or higher, setting of a cataclysmic collapse of the entire Japanese bond market - the outrage among the populace at the runaway inflation in Japan in large part due to the plunging currency, is finally being addressed now that Japan is facing election in a few months, and scapegoat time has arrived.
We fully expect another intervention round in the coming days, one which sends USDJPY back to the low 150s before the pair resumes it trek higher until such time as Japan finally loses control over both its currency and bond markets. That will be the beginning of the end of the current doomed experiment in neoliberalism.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japan-fires-its-top-currency-diplomat-yen-disintegrates-another-intervention-looms
We need the deadly mutation to arrive ... asap ....
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/central-banks-are-in-a-huge-bind
Igor, another excellent topic where you are asking the right questions and since it has much more depth to it, worth to delve deeper on some points:
1. Action vs inaction: is there a difference?
2. The consequences of action vs inaction to our minds
3. Why is our (in)action the most important element in how the world is about to change?
Before my long elaboration, a disclaimer: I do not think I know it all. Therefore I always approach any discussion with a diverging mind with the humility that my perception of reality could turn out to be different, as in the past it has and I learnt my arrogance from my former self. But self confidence is still key and where there is a marked difference, is when it comes to logic and perception of reality. If someone tries to convince me along fallacies like appeal to authority, ad hominems, or a huge ego just to name a few of the usual ones, I apply my logic to counter their reasoning. So whenever I speak below of "reasoning", it is in this spirit.
Up-front, I have been struggling with how to relate to friends and family who have radically become tyrannic/distant towards me and others due to their convictions, but I came to realize that my struggle with this new situation was partly due to denial in myself: the world HAS changed and it hurt so much I did not want to have it and fought against it. I wanted my relationships to continue like they were and find some solution to preserve them while still continue on my quest for a better world, which I am convinced is nothing more than taking responsibility for what you have come to realize, compared to those who are in denial of reality. When a train is speeding towards your stalling car on the rails, you cannot ignore it will kill everyone inside unless you drag them out of the car and off the rails. Being the only one in the car knowing this inevitability and what needs to be done, is most of all a responsibility, where you have no choice. Realizing how much work, pain and suffering is involved, is the burden we do not want to carry, but have to.
My denial however (of being able to succeed by the same methods of unconditional love) was in vain, I realized in time: what has changed cannot be reversed, as time cannot be reversed. The changes taking place now are tectonic and we all have a role to play, but trying to turn back time is folly. So our role is to adopt and approach things unlike we would like to.
Which brings us to the question: HOW to react to others? How actively, in what way? For sure, it is impossible to do it the way we used to, as not only the environment has changed totally, but people along with it, as they perceive their place in a changed environment that cannot be unseen. Those who are asleep still, are conversely in a dream state in a changed environment, their reactions are that of cognitive dissonance where they want to deny reality and therefore are in constant inner conflict. Which must truly be painful, just think of the vaggz injured who do not want to BELIEVE it's due to the vaxx.
So the challenge is that the people you need to help, with love, are not the same people anymore. As they do not relate to you the same way. So the method has to change as well.
Part 1. Action vs In-action
On the topic of going into such conflict or not: there is no such thing as inaction, as we are sentient thinkers and therefore any information will shape our thoughts, our mind, therefore our emotions and as a result, our actions, whether we like it or not. You can stay peaceful with a family member who is afraid of you because they believe you are spreading a deadly virus and if you don't vaccinate, you kill them. But your peace will have a passive connotation and will shape the other's thinking and action:
- without reasoning with them, they will assume to be right, for lack of counter arguments.
- without giving them the chance to disseminate all available information, they will not wake up to a reality that is more complete than their echo-chambers (mostly through one-sided media and selective friends), therefore will have no chance to find common ground with you. Nobody is awake right away, we all have a different pace how we come to understand reality.
- by being overly patient with people, the social impact of your message will miss the force it requires to stress the importance of your conviction. When you are saving a life from making a mistake, you cannot do it by treating the topic like the choice between Coke and Pepsi. A slap is sometimes required to wake up people from their reverie and you need to show a different side of yourself so they understand you mean it.
Therefore I do not believe that avoiding conflict is helping in any way. In some cases, in fact in most cases, I believe it fuels division even more. The less time spent with loved ones around a topic, the more they get entrenched and if it's a topic where YOU are the "enemy", inaction will make you even more so. If there's a master plan of Divide and Conquer, avoiding conflict serves the master optimally as without conflict, there is no resolution and no peace. In time, we get estranged from those we used to love and so the manipulative forces have won.
Part 2. Impact on our minds
I have come to believe that those that say that there is a war on for our minds rather than our money and bodies, are right. The media, politicians and those forces behind them that lust for absolute power due to their endless greed, want us divided. They can only achieve this by manipulating our thoughts 24/7. By turning us into mindless consumers that live from day to day to only focus on working for their wealth and putting our fellow humans' needs secondary (or last), compensating by material means for the emptiness we feel inside as we have forgotten what the love is that fills our hearts and makes us whole and gives purpose to our lives, they are constantly conveying messages to perpetuate this state of divisiveness. Hell, they may even believe it themselves, as these psychopaths are all without an image of God, they want to be gods themselves, corrupted by their wealth.
So in the endless crises they create, what is most important is what impact that has on our minds. And I think the crucial point here is Demoralization. They want us demoralized, so we give up and give in. Most of the threats they bombard us with, never happens, but it is enough for them if we feel threatened as it will already change our ways. On both sides of the spectrum: those who are culled as obedient sheep because they are afraid of nature's creations like invisible viruses that are part of us, just as much as those who are afraid that their efforts will deprive us of all humanity and make us into slaves.
It is fear that demoralizes as it takes away courage to face up to their manipulation. And therefore it is this fear that we cannot allow them to rule over us with.
So in my personal quest since 2020 regarding the changing world, I have gradually come to realize that the ultimate battle is for our minds, more specifically for our Will. They are fighting on so many fronts to take this away from us. Whether via medical ways (anti-depressants, sleeping pills, tranquilizers that take away all fighting force in you), via the food (less healthy proteins and nutrient deprived food so a weak body results in a weak mind), via education (creating a docile and obedient slave without autonomous thinking), controlled work places (increasingly restrictive to make you feel like you are worthless and without power) or any other display of power over you via centrally controlled means, their intent is to break you. So the most important way to win is to not allow them to break you, to take your will. I have seen so many friends since the plandemic who have rebelled initially but in the end gave in via masking, vaccination, just to have their conveniences, they have basically given themselves beaten from the start. It is much harder to come back from that and for them it will only get worse, as they will fall in the gambling addiction circle of a sunk cost fallacy: "I am not about to give up my freedom now, after I have consented to get vaxed!" But they will realize in time that this was not a singular push, but a never ending force of wave after wave of oppression and coercion. There is no trade-off here, no win-win, they will take all from you. And those giving in at each step will be demoralized more and more at each slap they get, until they are utterly spent. I do not think the increase in suicides globally is a coincidence but a direct consequence of the past few years of conscious demoralization.
Which is why anyone who understands what is going on, cannot and may not ever give in. And as you counter each of their attempts, you will get stronger after each blow, because you realize that they were unable to take from you that which is most important: your Will.
As I have gone through the past years, the pain of losing people (their souls, more often than their lives) has become a part of my life, but I could not imagine a life with giving up my own soul to keep lies alive with people that do not understand just how naked the emperor is. Perhaps other people are able to, I cannot.
So my mind is what counts most. And in this, the conflicts I live almost every day, are secondary to my inner peace of mind, that I remain faithful to my own sanity, my own ethics, my humanity. And as a consequence, the health of my body. So it is not all a negative trade-off: so many people around me suffer from their mistakes, while I am grateful and relieved for not having to go through their ordeal of suffering and not understanding (or denying) that they caused it to themselves by abiding like meek sheep.
Part 3. The impact of our state of mind on the world
Setting aside all personal impact of such conflict, the world is about to change in a hitherto unprecedented way. We can all see that the forces at work no longer care for human life, they do not even care for the false narrative of the broader environment, when they pitch climate change, "nature", etc. They only care for power over other humans. And some of these are truly psychopaths and sociopaths and do not even care for power over others, they want to live alone on the planet and erase all of humanity, for their narcissistic self-image of gods. So we should not be surprised that they will push the world in a third world war and perhaps even beyond that, into total destruction. Because they do not understand the consequences of their actions, as they have no sense of reality, neither that of responsibility. So there is a battle on, where our short lives on this planet are part of a game, that is being played NOW. And we are all a part of it. And contrary to past ages where many have thought that the "end times are near", we now DO have the technological means for total destruction, via nuclear and biological "progress", while our ethical "progress" to handle such responsibility seems in reverse. Shrugging it off as just another crisis in the long history of humanity seems naive to me at this point.
In this, I do not believe that we can stand on the sideline. We cannot afford to put our ego first and pamper our souls for the sakes of the individual relationships we have, with friends and family. I think we are now all responsible for a better world and we need to step up our game to help achieve it. If we would all do this, the world will become a better place. We could climb out of utter destruction, help shape a new world with rules to prevent such power grab to ever happen again, etc. Alternatively, if we only look inside and focus on what is best for ourselves, we could let the horses run the wagon off the cliff. Looking on, while we could have grabbed the reins.
So when we are faced with others that think differently, I think we have a moral obligation to speak the truth, no matter the consequences. No matter the resulting loss. Though I am convinced that in time, we will not lose, but gain with every act of courage. And the losses we had, when we look back at them, we will see as paving stones on our path to our personal salvation in the process. So in a sense, it is still a selfish act, while we serve a broader purpose at the same time. That's quite a win..
I am not merely speculating here: this is the feeling I am experiencing through the past few years. As time passes and I look at the confrontations I have had, the resulting conflicts, loss of relationships, I have seen that time mends everything. And it is wishful thinking that these breaks with friends or family will all be fully mended. We will have to accept that some things will never be mended. But I do feel an inner peace for these losses, as I have remained true to what I believe in.
On a more practical side after such philosophy, I think that speaking your mind results in a certain resilience. At the start, I felt offended and hurt by ridicule and some hateful exchanges even. Now, I see that the mass hysteria is such that I will have to accept this as part of life. I'm not happy this is the case, but by accepting it, life gets easier.
Having said all this about speaking your mind, I think a major difference exists in timing things: I do not go about evangelizing others by being in their face. I do not push my opinion on them unwanted, even when I'm convinced I'm right about matters they are uninformed about. I try to be patient with them and most of the time avoid topics where I see an almost religious faith towards an extreme, be it politics, dietary habits or any other deeply divisive topic. What I do is trying to stay objective with what I read and see, by conveying the thinking pattern behind it and leaving it up to the other person to decide what to do with it. Some examples:
1. I do not tell them that "vaccines are killers". I tell them about statistics of excess mortality long after Covid passed, research papers that have shown negative side effects, public hearings where manufacturers themselves had to admit they were taking action "at the speed of science" without knowing the result, about governments now officially investigating, about personal anecdotes about people who died right after the shots or now have permanent disabilities, etc. Of course all this should tell any sane person that these vaccines are killers, but I will not put it in their mouth, because I do not want to be associated with the thought. I am merely a vessel of a message, this avoids the ad hominems so many of these fights end with. By pointing at the culprits, you also offer them a way out: you were not at fault, you were misled. Which they were, in a way.
2. Even when I'm itching to give my piece of mind on a topic they bring up, I try to wrap it in empathy. Definitely not punishing a vaxx injured for something they did to themselves and are in denial of, as that will only make me the enemy who does not help but is glad he was right. I'm not. When a top fit athlete friend complains about being ill all the time, I try to come with solutions on how to possibly remedy it. I usually start with the need for diagnosis: a possible risk for myocarditis and blood clotting can be checked via tests (D-dimer and Troponin tests), so they might do something about it. I do not even have to talk about my suspicion that it is due to the vaxx, they will figure it out in time anyway. If they are open to diagnosis, I may get into protocols of treatment they can look up themselves: the FLCCC, McCullough protocols, Natokinase for spike protein detox, etc. Most of the time people are in denial and think you just want to be smart, but I have had occasions when someone came back on it, since I was not pushing the subject. In time, many can and will change, at some point may even agree with you.
3. Some people are beyond reason and cannot be saved. In their case, you will have to confront them with their own aggression, tyrannical ways. I usually mirror their actions: when a vegan wants to call me out for cruelty and unhealthy eating as I eat meat, I tell them that if someone walks up to you in two coats and nothing underneath, just to tell you that you should not wear a shirt and a coat because a shirt is sin, then surely they would not accept this either? Or the usual logical fallacies of the vaxx fanatics who tell you to protect them with something that does not stop transmission. If you can do it with a sense of humour, you may have planted a seed. If you make it into a war however of who is "right", you will enforce their belief that you are selfish and it's just two sides of an arbitrary coin.
There are plenty more examples but the gist is that we need to speak our minds. Respectfully. Those that are not respectful towards us however, need to be confronted with this. Patiently first, but if that fails, with the ferocity required to make them understand that they do not rule over us. Never assume the role of victim, because then you have already given yourself beaten.
I've watched this documentary several times; still chock full of information. Maybe sitting down with our families and friends and communities, and watching this, would foster some thoughtful dialogue and help reveal the scam matrix in which we're all victimized. It keeps getting taken down on youtube but people put it up again and it's on Rumble. Still just as good IMO as the first time I watched it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rszw-Fi1oTg
Great write, Igor, and you have been missed. I hope you took a well deserved break from all the craziness!
Those last lines you wrote about waiting for change instead of forcing it... such wisdom when it comes to families and friends. That is how we operate, even though we are all of different minds. We don't preach to each other. We allow for people to have opinions, and for those to change as more is revealed. We have discussions sometimes; it's never forced, nor one's beliefs forced on another - maybe that is because we love and like each other and believe that we're all entitled to think and believe as we want, even when we don't agree with each other. Let people have their own lessons - their lives are theirs to live, just as mine is. Live and Let Live is the code I go by. That doesn't mean pardoning reprehensible acts such as war crimes or grift. It means, who the hell am I to dictate to anyone what they should think or believe?
I can only align with what my own moral code is. It took me a long time to get to this way of being. It's harder in some ways because I feel sad a lot and my system feels upset a lot about all the unnecessary hating and strife because it means that the agenda from on high - made by the richest people in the world - is working and is sadly, still perpetuating infighting and wars, when our focus should be on what they have done to us and are still doing, and waking up to our own sovereignty and outrage finally placed where it belongs - at those at the very top - and throwing them off of us - withdrawing, divesting, unplugging! Getting outside for fresh air and seeing the world from someplace else besides internet addiction, from which I suffer. On that note... time to get up off my rear and smell the flowers and appreciate what a great teacher and stress reliever the Natural World is.
I understand the dilemma and I agree that some issues aren't worth the arguments and divisiveness created. However, I believe strongly in freedom of speech, the value of critical thinking and healthy debate. I think censorship of the mainstream news is at the crux of why I see extreme differences of opinion. Covid was a perfect example of msm creating dissent between the vaccinated and the not. If the news was investigating any issue neutrally I don't think we would be where we are today. Mainstream supports ideology vs facts and is completely biased.
MSM, Fox. two sides of the same billionaire-orchestrated coin of divisiveness, causing people not even see anymore that we are all being screwed and fighting to throw off all the oppression from wherever it comes. With 'freedom' comes responsibility. It's not obedience to a narrative where others do all the thinking for us. Once we understand that it's all owned by a few billionaires, we begin to see how we've all been used and duped, and begin to wake up and crawl out of the boxes. I never wanted to be in either of these boxes. Others put you there, not looking for nuance or complexity of thought or seeing all sides - because we know 'sides' are an illusion used to control the masses, same as organized religion.
I realize they are the same, I was referring to the digging you have to do on substack, watching house Subcommittee oversight meetings, listening to scientists and doctors on YouTube that are not owned by any narrative. I don't believe in sides either as they are only labels that don't define the nuance of one's beliefs and knowledge. My opinion still is that we must speak to each other and hear each other without constraining that by your "party" of choice or your journalist of choice. We have to share information without expectation that it will change someone's mind.
Just because some of your “friends” went grifting, doesn’t mean the beliefs that you had in common are now wrong
He Igor --- how about an open article asking your followers who were vaxxed and later did a 180 and realized the Rat Juice is poison what it was that caused them to change their minds.
I think this would be of great interest because everyone is struggling with how to convince family and friends to stop shooting the death shots
Who has the horse power to connect this to the Death Shots???
A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today
What the cheerleaders are actually claiming is the process of adding zeroes to "money" is limitless, but there are limits on the utility of devaluing currency, too.
CHARLES HUGH SMITH
JUN 19, 2024
How prosperous would the world be if we hadn't collectively borrowed and spent $315 trillion----333% of global GDP? We all know the answer--not very prosperous at all, for production, consumption and profits would all be mere fractions of their current totals if we could not borrow money and could only spend cash on hand. Global Debt Hit $315 Trillion In Q1 2024.
All this money that's been spent/invested has effectively been mined / extracted from future resources, labor and capital. The basic idea is that the interest that must be paid on this debt will be paid out of earnings generated by the productive use of resources, labor and capital in the future. Once the debt matures and the principle must be returned to the lender / bond purchaser, this principle must also be mined / extracted from assets available in the future.
Mining / extraction is the appropriate analogy because nothing is unlimited in the real world. Imagination--yes, it's unlimited. Denial and delusion: yes, both are limitless. But tangible resources that can be recovered at costs the economy can bear, productive labor and capital are not limitless. If we mine the future too intensively, there won't be enough left in the future to spend/invest at the level we enjoy today.
The fundamental assumption behind mining the future is that the pool of resources, labor and capital will continue expanding forever, effortlessly funding the interest and principle due on today's borrowing and leaving more than enough to consume and invest in the future.
But what happens when the resources, labor and capital available to mine in the future shrink?
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/a-most-dangerous-assumption-mining
I'm now a fan of Cuomo on NewsNation where he asserts the two political parties only work on issues that help divide us generally by making us angry about whatever. Media seems to follow that as well. The two are in lock step, conjoined for their own advantages. Most of us are rarely that one-sided IMHO. I'd prefer a government that does as little as possible but know politicians/regulators will regulate forever to keep their jobs. We keep allowing that to our shame because we mostly are ill-informed. Places like SubStack are useful in affirming I'm not alone, a good thing.
I think when friends and family support far left totalitarian, anti-human, one-world government whose only claim to legitimacy is force, when they spread and support lies, censorship, and control... well, I have no need for those people. The only possible rational responses are to either fight them or try to get the hell away from them. They've treated us like crap and demanded they have the right to stomp all over us and our liberties for basically our whole lives.
I say it's f***ing payback time.
Don't get me wrong, the right is often just painfully stupid and naive -- I went to one "reopen" rally in 2020 where this old dude insisted Trump would "drain the swap" in a second term, despite having done nothing towards this in his first one (and having empowered Fauci and Birx two months prior!). The old dude had some weird magical thinking that the second term would allow this to happen, or something. It sounded more emotional than logical to me.
On the other hand, the globalist left is a full-on robotic Borg evil that has to be stopped at any cost, or the spirit of humanity will be extinguished forever and over time, trillions of people will suffer for it. Those lunatics are no longer even safe to associate with for more than five minutes if you appear to be even a LITTLE bit different from them politically, in their eyes.
Damn right I'm pissed and hate them for what they did to the world, and being friends with people like that is like being friends with someone who shoots your cat and stabs you in the foot. They cause irreparable harm to us and inflict endless misery upon us constantly and carry on with a smug, self-righteous sense of moral superiority about it all.
I ask you -- WHY would ANYONE on earth EVER choose to pal around with people like that?
I sympathize. But the fact that you can say; “the globalist left […] has to be stopped at any cost” indicates that you would likely do the very things you accuse them of in order to defeat them. And where does that leave us? There is no ideology that is more important than human connection. I would add that none of what angers you (and me) has anything to do with the left (or right) far or otherwise. This left/right framing only clouds the issue. I have to close now. Perhaps can add more later. Thank you Igor for your thoughtful statement.
See, that's the problem, like my wife, you'll complain about it, but you won't actually really fight to DO anything about it. Humanity is facing down the greatest evil in history, and most people are like deer in headlights who can't even lift a finger to fight back.
I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but at least I worked loopholes hard during Covid times and went as against the grain as I could. And in doing so probably helped pull a small handful of semi-thinking people with me. It wasn't much, but at least it did something. Wife just bemoaned "when can I stop wearing a mask at the grocery store, I hate this." I told her whenever you're ready, but she never caught on.
If it takes being a monster to destroy the monsters, then frankly, so be it. It's still better than letting the monsters just overrun us all, and I have yet to hear anyone with a better explanation. "Human connection?" I just told you, no way in hell am I ever going to connect with the evil bastards who did this to the world, nor their all-too-willing-and-eager accomplices. I spent 20+ years trying to find some kind of peace with them and I can tell you from painful repeated personal experience, IT DOES NOT F***ING EXIST. Every last one of them would kill you where you stand to gain even one millimeter of what they desire, if they thought for a second they could get away with them. In their eyes, if you aren't Borg, you are too be assimilated or destroyed.
One of them I knew - wife's longtime friend - was a hardcore masker, jabber, Xiden voter. I got into a huge screaming match with her over it once. Well she later got fired for disciplining the kids at the school she worked at. It was something pretty tame of her - I can't imagine any rational person objecting - but she was white, they were black, and the anti-racist brigade chewed her up and spit her out. She complained about it, but she STILL could not see how she played a part in her own comeuppance. Because Orange Man Bad or something. And hey, orange man not great, orange-man just suck ever so slightly less than CCP Xiden, Authoritarian with Vaxx Exception RFK Jr, and woketarian Chase. If even the weak-sauce lamester Gary Johnson were running again I wouldn't vote orange man, but at this point, I've had it. Everything is awful, so we might as well punch the crybullies right back in their stupid faces, if only for lack of any better options.
A very good comment