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Asses&Villains: Engineering War Edition

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If the Covid lab leak theory being a ‘conspiracy theory’ was a lie and ’15 days to stop the spread’ was a lie and ‘masks work’ to stop the spread was a lie and ‘vaccine mandates will stop the spread’ was a lie and ‘natural immunity is a myth’ was a lie and ‘there are no side effects’ was a lie and ‘safe and 100% effective’ was a lie then you can pretty much bet that whatever the U.S. government is telling us about anything right now is a lie. We would like to know, was the US government complicit in the creation of COVID-19.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters accuses Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland of engineering the War in Ukraine.

Sen. Bernie Sanders on sending more weapons to Ukraine: “It’s not an issue that I’ve been heavily involved in, but I support what the president is doing.” “The United States, NATO cannot sit back and allow Russia’s aggression to go unresponded to.” Bernie Sanders confirms that the takeover of the Democratic Party by the war machine is now complete. There is no more Left, they are all War Pigs now.

The U.S. has charged Russia with Crimes against Humanity as Merrick Garland is in Ukraine. What??Ukraine is in the middle of a war but somehow the entire Biden Administration feels safe enough to take turns visiting.

Sideways view- the Ukraine war truly started in 2014 when the CIA funded and armed a rebel group that went on to overthrow the then president who was working to strengthen ties with Moscow. If you only get your news from the corporate media, you probably didn’t know that.

Reality: There is simply no way to reconcile the fall of Bakhmut with previous Western media coverage of the war which portrayed Russian defeat as inevitable. There is no joy in pointing this out. The point is that the media, especially their neocon pundit wing, is highly untrustworthy.

BREAKING: Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Declassify COVID Origins Intelligence…Unanimously? What changed to make the Dems and the establishment all of a sudden care about the covid origin? Where was this sense of urgency over the last 3 years? Why did we have to wait this long? The math doesn’t add up.

Economy-Pres. Biden has managed to make supermarket staples into budget busters. His economy is doing so “well” that a dozen eggs cost $5 or more.

NOW – Gov. Mike DeWine Says 30,000 Truckloads Of Contaminated Dirt Will Need To Be Removed From East Palestine.

A record 110,000 Americans died of fentanyl poisoning last year, as fentanyl manufactured in Mexico is flooding into our country. This is nearly as many lives — lost in 2022 alone — as the 116,000 Americans killed in World War I. Biden says the drugs came in under the previous administration. Dude, be a man and own it, it is happening under your watch.

Russell Brand is a Hero. Here, he takes out the MSNBC Trash:

Notes on Artificial intelligence (AI)–What we understand as “advanced technology” has always existed—has always shaped our reality as we know it—only now we are being introduced to our own awareness of its existence and the mind-bending capabilities & ramifications of its power. Today’s AI is not new, just new to us.

Asses&Villains: Large-Scale Nuclear Exercise Edition

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“The Vietnamese… we worked with them, made something – something out of nothing… We want to stay here because it’s ours – it belongs to us. It keeps our family together. I mean, we fought for that. While you Americans… you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history.” – de Marais, Apocalypse Now.

On our President’s Day, Joe Biden, the President of the United States chose Ukraine over America, while forcing the American people to pay for Ukraine’s government and war. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden felt it was important to send a message of enduring support for Ukraine in making a trip there. Yeah, we the people of the United States get the message all right.

Simple Math on Ukraine Grift: The US GDP is $23.3 trillion and its defense spending is $1.9 trillion. About 8-9%. Ukraine’s GDP is $200 billion and the US has given them around $70 billion for defense. About 33%. Russia’s entire global defense budget is $84 billion. So we’ve subsidized Ukraine’s defense budget to 90% of Russia’s. This is a money laundering operation.

CHARLES HURT: “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a President…visit a war zone in which America did not have troops invested.”

Note: The 80 million people (idiots) who voted for Biden should be the first ones drafted if we go to war in Ukraine.

President Trump in Palestine, Ohio. America has two Presidents right now: One who can climb a flight of stairs and one who falls up them. One who visits Americans in need, and one who takes pallets of cash to Ukraine. One who leads and one who follows.

Once again, Joe’s supposedly ‘Shinning’ moment speech in Poland turned into a national embarrassment “We got, “Would be you, would we be, would we the, all of our allies would be united, or divided?”

BREAKING: President Vladimir Putin of Russia just announced in a state of the nation address that Moscow is “suspending” its participation in the New START nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the United States. It is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia.

Breaking: Russian navy has placed its Nuclear Submarines on a ‘High-State of Combat Readiness’. Russia has also moved its strategic bombers to an air base closer to Ukraine. Russia will also conduct a “Large-Scale Nuclear Exercise” next week during Biden’s visit to Poland.

Zelensky slams Americans who want to stop funding Ukraine. “If they don’t change their opinion, if they don’t support Ukraine, they will lose NATO and they will lose their leadership position in the world.”

Zelensky also says it is “dangerous” for Americans to question the amount of aid being given to Ukraine because “if Ukraine loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO member states and the U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters to war and they will be dying.”

Biden visits Ukraine but not East Palestine, Ohio. Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell help pump billions of dollars into Ukraine. Is our real enemy our own ruling class?

Biden is asked if he talked to the Mayor of East Palestine. “I can’t recall…I’ve talked to everyone there is to talk to”

Feb 19 – Multiple Law enforcement responded after an 18-inch pipe bomb that is capped at both ends was disconnected on the Train Tracks in Frankford PA and has been reported to have burn marks. Officers advise the pipe is on the train tracks and the bomb disposal unit has removed the device for further investigation

“Look at what they’re doing to their own societies: destroying the institution of the family, cultural identity, perversion and abuse of children up to and including paedophilia being described as “normal” – Vladimir Putin. Putin is right on this stuff. Sorry not sorry, it’s true. The US cannot lay claim to the moral high ground when it has routinized the castration and mutilation of children.

FBI is now warning that “Nazis” could attack our power grid. Not Islamic terrorists, not China, not Antifa, not eco-warriors…no “Nazis” because you know how they’re just everywhere these days and the government can’t possibly blame their own goons.

BREAKING REPORT: New Court Filings Reveal Undercover DC Police Officer PUSHED PROTESTERS TOWARDS CAPITOL, Climbed Over Barricade.

For more than 40 years after leaving the presidency, Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn have lived in a two-bedroom house worth less than $200,000. Contrast that with Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Biden using the White House as a springboard to become generational oligarchs.

A lot of moderate women are one dude in their bathroom away from being conservatives.

Susan Rice has been tapped to lead the Biden administration’s new “White House Steering Committee on Equity” designed to embed a “focus on equity into the fabric of Federal policymaking.”

The Biden administration is reportedly preparing to sign a “legally binding” deal with the W.H.O giving it authority to DICTATE POLICY FOR AMERICANS during a pandemic.

Idiot alert – Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s ‘lawyers are looking into South Park’ after Sussexes ruthlessly attacked in new series.

Asses&Villains: Toxic Avenger Edition

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“The chief principle of a banana republic is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it.” – Christopher Hitchens.

Don’t let UFOs and Chinese spy balloons distract you from the fact a US President ordered Russian pipelines to be blown up without notifying Congress and then misled the American people about it, risking WWIII to defend a corrupt nation where his son Hunter raked in millions of dollars. There are about 5,000 Americans in East Palestine, Ohio, living through a waking nightmare whose needs should be prioritized ahead of Ukraine. But Biden and Mitch McConnell like all other liberal internationalists simply hate Americans (You).

Every dollar wasted on Ukraine was a dollar that should have gone toward infrastructure to reduce the likelihood of tragedies like the one that struck East Palestine in Ohio. It is a shame on every politician who sent money to that kleptocracy instead of investing in America.

East Palestine is 95% white, so, FEMA is refusing to help them. Remember when Kamala told us about race-based disaster relief? BREAKING: Biden announces that US tax dollars will go towards supporting Ukrainian social services, including paying for government pensions. Of course, polling shows that his woke constituents really love his support for Ukraine. Same deal with all the European politicians bankrupting their countries. It plays well with the morons who put them in power.

Stupid alert!! From the NY Times, “After a train carrying toxic material derailed in Ohio this month, Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical of the response, using the crisis to sow distrust about government agencies and suggest that the damage could be irreparable”…oh, come on, there is neither need nor reason to sow distrust about government agencies. It is common knowledge that they are corrupt and have no credibility.

Biden blows up Nord Stream pipeline: 400,000 TONS of gas gushes into the sea. Industrial disaster in Ohio: toxic chemicals spewing into the air and water. Whales dying off the east coast. Where’s the Save the Oceans/Stop Acid Rain/Save the Whales crowd? Greta? Al Gore? Greta? Anyone? Bueller??

From the ‘Nothing to see here’ files’ :

Ukraine “War” in a Nutshell: Russia does not have a Central Bank controlled by the Rothschilds. Russia is not controlled by the UN. Russia is rich in natural resources and is not dependent on the West or NATO for its economic success. And that ladies and gentlemen, is what this is all about.

Pete Buttigieg on Ohio “I continue to be concerned about the impacts of the Feb 3 train derailment near East Palestine, OH, and the effects on families in the ten days since their lives were upended through no fault of their own. It’s important that families have access to useful & accurate information”…so, he means he is “suddenly concerned” after citizens on Twitter have been exposing your incompetence over this disaster and countless others happening under his watch.

Translation: We’re meeting… we’re investigating… we’re investing… we’re concerned… notice how the government reacts and never actually fixes anything but their budgets keep increasing? BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars have gone to US railway infrastructure and safety for decades.

While the government is trying to psyop the country with downed UFO stories a domestic Chornobyl is happening in EastPalestine Ohio since February 3rd. Dead animals, people getting sick, arrested journalists, and MSM blackout.

Tuesday – Officials are responding to another deadly train derailment near Houston, TX. Over 16 rail cars, carrying “hazardous materials” crashed, prompting Union Pacific to monitor air quality at the site of the crash, according to the Splendora Police Department.

What media reported about these days: – Men can get pregnant – Masks are still effective – Chinese spy balloons – Ukraine needs more money What media didn’t report about these days: – Ohio train derailment – Adverse vaccine reactions – Epstein’s client list.

List of countries that pulled their ambassadors out of Turkey 24 hours before the earthquake. ✓Canada ✓USA ✓Britain ✓Germany ✓Belgium ✓Italy ✓Holland ✓France

Real State of the Union – We’ve seen massive retirements of competent older workers combined with a general lowering of national standards. Where does this lead?

The Biden administration on Monday announced another sale of oil from the Energy Department’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), with 26 million barrels set to be delivered to the market from April 1 to June 30, which will take the number of barrels in the reserve to a new low dating back to 1983. The announcement comes ahead of a potential uptick in gas prices as the U.S. nears the summer driving season.

“Biden is front-loading SPR barrels to avoid a summer gasoline price spike,” said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group. “There are growing concerns among the Biden administration that gas prices are headed back to $4 a gallon and the president is fearful of the political heat he will have to take.” 

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant China. Produces 4,120 MW of power. Up and running since April 1 1994. It would take approx. 29,000 acres of solar panels to make that kind of power and a ton of mining. What are we doing?

“Climate religion has become America’s sacred cow. Time to take it to the slaughterhouse. Most Republican politicians are too timid to say this out loud even though nearly all of them agree with me. Instead they settle for making meek arguments about “time horizons” and “costs.” – Vivek Ramaswamy.

“Leaving the Left was not about finding a home in the Right. It’s easy to chase the acceptance of another tribe when you leave one behind. It was about Leaving blind political tribalism behind after seeing the way it costs you the ability to be yourself, true freedom of conscience. I just don’t want to get sucked in by the outrage algorithm. I don’t want to be used as a pawn for whatever advertisers are looking to capitalize on. Honestly? I just want Jesus. Less distraction, more of my King & his kingdom” – Dr. Joel Brown.

Jeffree Star gives the best interview you will hear all day:

“Liberty and equality are mutually exclusive, even hostile concepts. Liberty, by its very nature, undermines social equality, and equality suppresses liberty – for how else could it be attained?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Asses&Villains: Will Green Tech Destroy the Earth

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We all want a cleaner environment, but can we get there without mining ourselves into oblivion, without destroying open space? Can we reduce emissions without lithium batteries? Can we reduce emissions without raping the wilderness and deserts with millions of miles of heinous solar panels? Can we reduce emissions without windmills, that disrupt the patterns of migratory species like whales and birds?

In 2017, the World Bank released a report that took a first comprehensive look at the factors involved in a transition to ‘Green Energy’. It models the increase in material extraction that would be required to build enough solar and wind utilities to produce an annual output of about 7 terawatts of electricity by 2050. 7 terawatts are only enough to power half of the global economy. To get to zero emissions would take 34 million metric tons of copper, 40 million tons of lead, 50 million tons of zinc, 162 million tons of aluminum, and around 4.8 billion tons of iron.

Steve Jobs’ widow Lauren Powell owns a $66 million Gulfstream jet that burns 500 gallons of jet fuel per hour and sails on a $120 million yacht. But she’s funding activists to make sure you can’t own a gas stove.

For neodymium—an essential element in wind turbines—extraction will need to rise by nearly 35 percent over current levels. Higher-end estimates reported by the World Bank suggest it could double.

Silver extraction, needed for solar, will go up 38 percent and perhaps as much as 105 percent. Indium would rise by 920 percent.

Trying to power the grid with batteries will be insane, requiring at least 40 million tons of lithium—that’s 2,700 percent increase over current levels of extraction.

Windmills, solar panels, and electric batteries for cars and trucks are not biodegradable, creating a toxic waste storage nightmare.

Open Space will be gobbled up. Bloomberg reports that getting to zero carbon by 2050 would require a land area equal to five South Dakotas “to develop enough clean power to run all the electric vehicles, factories, and more.” A nuclear plant takes up at most 1 square mile of land. Wind and solar farms require hundreds of thousands of acres.

To power up just Manhattan would require paving over nearly the whole state of Connecticut with windmills and solar farms.

Stop the posing and lame rhetoric, and replace myth with solid engineering. Go Nuke, or Go Home.

Asses&Villains: January 22, 2022

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“Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” – Christopher Hitchens.

What do you call a Government that runs up $31 Trillion in debt, then borrows another $140 Billion to send to a foreign country – all while 550,000 of its own citizens are homeless? We’ve seen a lot of cringe in my life but German protestors protesting their way into World War 3 just might take the cake

Status: The Pentagon is asking U.S. forces in South Korea to give military equipment to Ukraine. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1984. Our ammunition reserves are significantly depleted.

The Secret Service does background checks on everyone who meets with the president, but the White House wants you to believe there’s no visitor log at Biden’s Wilmington home. Reminder, Biden has spent 1/4 of his entire presidency in Delaware.

Update: The Secret Service now acknowledges that it has records on who visited President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, when classified documents were kept there.

The White House confirms that there are NO VISITOR LOGS at Joe Biden’s Delaware home where he stored classified documents & spent OVER 192 DAYS vacationing during his presidency. What’s he trying to hide?

“Why was President Trump’s home raided but not President Biden’s? Why did the FBI take pictures of President Trump’s so-called classified documents but not President Biden’s?

They want you to believe that seven years after Biden illegally took classified documents and stored them in a Delaware garage, that someone miraculously stumbled upon them and made proper notifications. Seven years. Nope, they are a distraction for much bigger crimes. What prompted them to look for Joe Biden’s classified documents?

The leftist media are insisting that Joe Biden’s GarageGate scandals are not only different to Trump’s classified documents, but they’re a “distraction” from his “success.” These aren’t journalists. They’re Biden’s PR team.

Biden on documents scandal: “Here’s the deal. What quite frankly bugs me is that we have a serious problem here we’re talking about. We’re talking about what’s going on and American people don’t quite understand why you don’t ask me questions about that.”

Energy: The cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline has already cost the United States thousands of jobs and billions in economic growth while families suffer under the weight of record high energy prices.

The gay movement, in about 7 years, went from “equal rights!” to “go die in a trench war if you don’t wear a pride shirt!”

Asses&Villains: the Classified Corvette Edition

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The great con trick to maintaining political control is to keep the populace alarmed by creating an endless series of scaremongering stories. Once fear becomes the mass mentality, control is then exerted by claiming to offer solutions for safety. That is how the populace voluntarily gives up its freedoms. The libs who made you put on a mask to walk 10 feet from the restaurant entrance to your table, because “science!” Will absolutely 100% outlaw your gas stove if they can. When did Democrats become pro-war, pro-big pharma, and pro-corporation?

Biden stole classified documents and stored them at his think tank while he was VP. The VP does not have any authority to declassify classified documents. And this “think tank” received $54 million in funding from the CCP. Biden on 60 Minutes in September reacting to classified documents being found at Mar-a-Lago:”How does that happen? How could anyone be that irresponsible.”

EXCLUSIVE: Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential office were discovered by the president’s personal attorneys at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
BREAKING: The classified documents found in Joe Biden’s private contained US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran, and UK.

Trump has documents he declassified in a locked storage cage under surveillance in Mar a Lago: FBI MUST RAID HIM!

Biden has classified documents just hanging out in his garage, next to some old little league trophies and spray paint cans: No big deal.

Reporter: “He had a closet with classified information in it that they found. How did it get there?”

Karine Jean-Pierre: “[Biden] was surprised that the records were there.”

Reporter: “But they were there.”

Jean-Pierre: “He was surprised that the records were there.”
Doocy grills KJP on Biden’s classified documents: “How could anyone be that irresponsible? Isn’t that what this President says about mishandling classified documents?”

BREAKING: The Second batch of Biden Classified documents were found in a garage ‘storage space’ at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The President just said that the documents found in his garage are in a “locked garage” like his corvette. Who among us doesn’t store classified docs in our garage next to our Corvette? To be fair, as long as the classified documents were next to a Corvette, and not next to a foreign model such as a VW, Volvo, Audi, the security requirements were clearly satisfied.

Peter Doocy: “Classified materials, next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?”

Biden: “My Corvette is in a locked garage, okay?”

But….Why was Joe Biden in possession of classified information after leaving office as Vice President?

This rare 67 Chevy Corvette has a 327 cubic inch, L79 V8 engine rated at 350 horsepower with a 4-speed manual transmission. 0 to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds. Note – it runs on gasoline, not electricity. This one is parked in the POTUS garage next to the boxes marked “Classified”.

Four weeks after leaving the vice presidency, Biden became a professor at Penn, but discussions about his future involvement with the university long predated the end of the Obama presidency, according to emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop. Joe was paid a total of $776,527, which was nearly double what full-time Penn professors made during the same time, Philly mag reported in 2019. The outlet said, “[h]e’s been on campus so infrequently that it becomes news when he actually is there,” which was a total of 6 times.

JUST IN: The Pentagon is looking to bring Ukrainian Troops to American soil to train them on the Patriot missile Defense Systems…What could go wrong here…

“Covid” spelled backward is “Divoc”, a Hebrew word meaning possession by an evil spirit. At what point did you realize that COVID-19 and the lockdowns were just a means to usher us into a communist technocracy?

“Antivaxxers” “Covidiots” “Putin apologists” “Far-right” “Conspiracy theorist” “Climate change denier” This repugnant framing of ‘othering’ language seeks to demonize and marginalize anyone who dares to question or debate the narrative. It’s sinister, disturbing, and bigoted.

BREAKING BBC News: Cardiologist says likely contributory factor to excess cardiovascular deaths is covid mRNA vaccine and roll out should be suspended pending an inquiry.

We have to build alternate systems. We probably can’t completely “stop” them or globalization. But we can choose not to buy their food, take their drugs or weird vaccines and we can be in charge of our own health.

How is it possible that the same people who:

• Orange Man Bad
• Mask Nazis
• Coviots
• Triple Boosted
• Healthy at Any Size
• Abortion is Healthcare
• Everything’s Racist
• Men Get Pregnant
• Stand With Ukraine

Are they all the same? Talk about an IQ test fail.
The University of Southern California has removed the word ‘field’ from the curriculum and academic references because it supposedly has “racist” connotations.

Yesterday, almost every Democrat voted against “legislation that would require immediate medical attention for babies who are born alive after an attempt was made to abort them.” Let me repeat — “babies who are born alive”. 210 out of 212 House Democrats voted AGAINST saving the life of an infant born alive in a botched abortion. Is this considered pro-infanticide?

Asses&Villains: The Decaying Corpse of the American Republic

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In Christopher Nolan’s film ‘The Dark Knight’, the Joker tells the Batman, “You see, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble,” Joker tells Batman. “They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these… these civilized people, they’ll eat each other.” While the Joker’s main goal is chaos, watching the world burn, his philosophy is what essayist Curtis Yarvin would call a cogent amoral realist. 

The Joker understands what Batman, Commissioner Gordan, and Harry Dent refuse to accept. As he gleefully sprays paint on museum ‘masterpieces’, this action is the physical reaction to the realization that progressives in elite academic institutions, media outlets, and the permanent government bureaucracy are the ones that really hold true power in the decaying republic we call America. Meanwhile, the US executive branch has become weak, incompetent, and utterly feckless. When Trump was elected there was all this talk about draining the swamp, but in the end, it was the swamp that drained him.

In 1899, Gaetano Mosca wrote the Elements of Political Science. Mosca claimed that societies are ruled by a select minority which he called the political class. That means that every society could be split between two social classes: the one that rules and the one which is ruled. This is always true, for Mosca, because without a political class there is no rule. The idea of a so-called limited government that we hear so much about does not exist. He does say that there is incomplete government.

The Joker is fully aware of this, a power that is birthed in anarchy. These circles of local power we call crime. So Batman, just so you know, a regime that tolerates crime has merely decided to abdicate some of its power to the criminal element. We saw this during the summer of BLM, where all of a sudden it was okay to gather in masses for the cause of social justice, and if the cause was acceptable, burning and looting is okay. Just be sure not to go full Rittenhouse and try to defend your property and yourself.

The ‘political class dominates’ American society, preaching progressive values to the masses. Democracy never really existed, and the idea of a Republic is a myth–and all myth is a lie.

“The British army is waiting out there
An’ it weighs fifteen hundred tons” – The Clash

Mosca noted that, yes, there is an army and physical threats, but sovereignty is not just physical but also psychological. The regime is a minority and it must obtain psychological consent from its subjects. It does this by managing the stories and controlling the narrative. The narrative is the political formula that keeps power. This convinces the subject to ‘buy in’.

Where does the narrative come from? The Mainstream Media, Social Media Big Tech, and others. With everything we are learning about the origin of Covid-19, the censorship of scientists and political opinion, the media getting paid to promote Big Pharma and Military Industrial Complex narratives, and Big Tech (Twitter, Google, Facebook) acting like deep state subsidiaries, we can see how the narrative can take hold. Just look at how the narrative changed and continues to morph to this day.

Social media companies engaged in censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, the explicit direction of the government. Google frequently makes links disappear, for example. President Joe Biden repeatedly directed his staff to silence Americans on Twitter who disagreed with his policies.

Google’s Trust & Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control “misinfo & hate speech.” Here is the breakdown of government agencies that were embedded:
CIA-27
FBI-52
NSA-30
DHS-50
ODNI-6

Mosca pointed out that the best regimes will use the ‘Medium’ to create a message suitable for each stratum of the ‘culture’. For those in power, the message has to be self-affirming, that they are doing the best thing. It convinces the official class, the bureaucratic worker bees, that they are doing the right thing. For the rest of us, the best formula convinces us to shut up, keep going to work, and hand over our taxes.

We find ourselves in The red pill and blue pill moment where we are offered a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the blue pill (Wikipedia). In contemporary politics,  “the red pill,” from The Matrix movies has created a metaphor for the revelation of a suppressed truth that cracks open progressive illusions and exposes a harsh underlying reality.

Yarvin, in his blog Gray Mirror explains that the modus operandi of American democracy is not founded and sustained by public elections but by “illusions projected by a set of institutions, including the press and universities, that work in tandem with the federal bureaucracy” in what he calls the Cathedral. “The mystery of the Cathedral,” Yarvin writes, “is that all the modern world’s legitimate and prestigious intellectual institutions, even though they have no central organizational connection, behave in many ways as if they were a single organizational structure.”

So, political power is concentrated within a small group of people who are selected not on the basis of merit but through their connection to the bureaucratic functions of the state. American democracy is more symbolic than concrete. The voters, the people hold no real power. They basically elect officials that in reality have little power, and are controlled by other aspects of the apparatus, the Cathedral.

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. The great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’” – Peter Thiel.

Covid, if it did anything, exposed how broken our government is. Didn’t it seem odd how as the narrative changed, places like the CDC, the NT Times, Universities, and ‘The Science’ were all in lockstep with the changes? This is the source–elite academic and media institutions determine what is acceptable political discourse and distort boots-on-the-ground reality to fit the prescribed ideology. While MAGAs continue to see a centralized conspiracy in their cornflakes, it is instead indicative of a shared (liberal) worldview and culture. This should be clear as we watch all aspects of society continue to move to the left.

It has been noted by members of the New Right, that the humiliating fall of Afghanistan was to be expected. It is a metaphor. After 20 years and billions of dollars, the Taliban took control without firing a shot. Yet, nobody assumed responsibility, it was just written off as a bad job. As critics have said, of course, it ended this way, because no one is actually in charge of the government, and the fact that boondoggles like this don’t happen more often is the real mystery.

Tocqueville warned that modern democracy may be adept at inventing new forms of tyranny because radical equality could lead to the materialism of an expanding bourgeoisie, “In such conditions, we might become so enamored with ‘a relaxed love of present enjoyments’ that we lose interest in the future of our descendants…and meekly allow ourselves to be led in ignorance by a despotic force all the more powerful because it does not resemble one”, wrote The New Yorker’s James Wood. Tocqueville worried that if despotism were to take root in a modern democracy, it would be a much more dangerous version than the oppression under the Roman emperors or tyrants of the past who could only exert a pernicious influence on a small group of people at a time.[wikipedia]

Tocqueville somewhat predicted the outcome of our democracy falling to the Cathedral–he could see “a multitude of men”, uniformly alike, equal, “constantly circling for petty pleasures”, unaware of fellow citizens and subject to the will of a powerful state which exerted an “immense protective power”.

Is there any real way to purge the state, local, and federal bureaucracy? Is there a way to end the never-ending political wars, race wars, class wars, and the blue-state vs. red-state conflicts? Left and right are frustrated–the left is frustrated by a weak executive, an outdated constitution, and a supreme court that is too powerful. The right has its own grievances.

The problem is ingrained, and we see it all the time, even in places where elitist towns like Cape Charles can come to dominate the entire culture of Northampton County. The problem, as JD Vance notes, is that “a well-educated and culturally liberal American elite has greatly benefited from globalization, the financialization of our economy, and the growing power of big tech. This has led an Ivy League intellectual and management class—a quasi-aristocracy to adopt a set of economic and cultural interests” that directly oppose those of people in places like Northampton. These people have no real stake in the “real economy”—the farm and factory jobs that once sustained middle-class life in Middle America. Our government has morphed into an “oligarchy of the educated who care more about competing for status within the system than they do about America’s national interest. Culture war is class warfare”.

The New Right, the dissident right, and the heterodox fringe’s disdain are hog-tied to what Blake Masters would say is a belief that “liberal ideology, growing bureaucratic governments, and big tech are all combining into a world that is at once tyrannical, chaotic, and devoid of the systems of value and morality that give human life richness and meaning”.

Is there hope for the American Experiment? This is a generational question. If the cool kids start coming, maybe there will be a direction. Just as they gravitated towards punk in the 70s, and abandoned corporate rock, maybe they will abandon the current state and do something revolutionary.

Asses&Villain: Kennedy Assasination Edition

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Newly released documents appear to contradict the government’s claims that it had no knowledge of Oswald prior to the assasination of President John F. Kennedy.

The CIA holds documents that show presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in an intelligence operation before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, “We’re talking about smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald,” reporter Jefferson Morley.

Morley claimed the CIA operation involving Oswald took place in the summer of 1963, three months before the assassination. The allegation from Morley, who has written extensively about the CIA in the 1960s, could shake up the history of the Kennedy assassination if it proves to be true.

Morley (a veteran of the D.C. press corps and a preeminent expert on JFK’s assassination with the Mary Ferrell Foundation) told reporters that he and attorneys with the foundation obtained documentation relating to a still-classified covert operation approved by senior CIA officials three months before Kennedy’s death that suggested the agency used Oswald for intelligence purposes several weeks prior to shooting.

Morley claimed that Oswald, a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning to the United States as a supporter of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro, was involved in a pre-assassination CIA operation meant to discredit American supporters of Castro. Morley’s allegations focused on files created by now-deceased CIA agent George Joannides, who was involved with anti-Castro exile groups. Morley said 44 documents in Joannides’s file are still being held by the CIA and could shed new light on the purported operation.

“No one outside of the CIA was any wiser,” Morley said of the effort, which he said involved work to promote Oswald as an unhinged pro-Castro figure.

President Biden has ordered the release of all documents related to Kennedy’s death. That trove should be released early next year.

Asses&Villains: Twitter Files Edition

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The entire democratic party is built upon gaslighting normal people into not believing their own eyes. We’ve little patience for anyone who says “oh this is a nothingburger”. Case in point.

Twitter’s top executives lied. They lied to their users, they lied to Congress, and it is now a proven certainty twitter acted on requests from political actors to suppress speech. That’s a big deal. Weiss: “A new TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.” 

1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.

2. Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.

3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.

4. Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino (@dbongino), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.”

5. Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) to “Do Not Amplify.”

6. Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”

7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.

8. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.

9. “VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches.

10. All without users’ knowledge.

11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.

12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team – Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 “cases” a day.

13. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.”

14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.

15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.”

16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was

@libsoftiktok—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.”

17. The account—which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers—was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichik was blocked from posting for as long as a week.

18. Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.”

19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy.” See here:

20. The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her posts encouraged online harassment of “hospitals and medical providers” by insinuating “that gender-affirming healthcare is equivalent to child abuse or grooming.”

21. Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on November 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10,000 likes.

22. When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: “We reviewed the reported content, and didn’t find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules.” No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up.

23. In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects. Here’s Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety, in a direct message to a colleague in early 2021

24. Six days later, in a direct message with an employee on the Health, Misinformation, Privacy, and Identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding “non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and deamplification/visibility filtering.”

25. Roth wrote: “The hypothesis underlying much of what we’ve implemented is that if exposure to, e.g., misinformation directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce exposure, and limiting the spread/virality of content is a good way to do that.”

26. He added: “We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we’re going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire of policy remediations – especially for other policy domains.”

This story was reported by Abigail Shrier, Shellen Berger, Nellie Bowles, and Issac Grafstein of The Free Press. Keep up with this unfolding story at the website: http://thefp.com.

Covid the Jab…A Hockey player for the Penguins just had a stroke at 35, an NFL player just had a stroke at 31, and another NFL player just had blood clots at 23. What the heck is going on here already?

Press Secretary Jean-Pierre: “We believe that it is a mistake” to repeal the vaccine mandate for the military. Pfizer documents show they knew it was 12% effective after 2 months.

Imagine being someone who still thinks January 6th was an “insurrection”…How embarrassing.

Don’t buy the cake, fool. If Christian values offend you so much, don’t go to a Christian baker for your same-sex wedding cake. Choose a baker who shares your values instead of trampling on someone else’s religious rights to try to destroy their livelihood and make an example out of them.

“Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet.”~ Prince Harry. A bit rich coming from a man who boarded a private jet from a polo match in Aspen, Colorado, to his home in Santa Barbara, California and also flying by private jet to give a sustainability award.

Asses&Villains: Dec 4 2020

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BREAKING: After a two-year disappearance, the flu is back. Nearly 3,000 people have already died from the flu this season. They called it Covid last year. The great thing about The Science is that if they provide scientists with just the right social and economic incentives, The Science starts agreeing with them.

Democratic political establishment and big tech censors had colluded destroy free speech and bury stories that would have damaged Joe Biden.

Elon Musk released Twitter executive emails that explore some of the internal debate at the social network over a controversial decision in 2020 to restrict access to a New York Post article about a laptop purportedly owned by Hunter Biden.

In late 2020, in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Twitter decided to restrict a New York Post article containing unverified claims about Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine. Twitter said at the time that the Post story included screenshots and images that violated the company’s “Hacked Materials Policy,” which forbids users from sharing images of hacked materials on the site. The company blocked users from sharing the article on Twitter.

Then-Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey later tweeted that blocking the links without providing more context was “unacceptable.” The company also changed its policies soon after restricting the Biden story, saying it would “label tweets to provide context instead of blocking links” to stories. Dorsey also answered questions about the incident before Congress in November 2020 alongside Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The emails also revealed that the Democratic National Committee demanded that Twitter censor 75-year-old conservative actor James Woods, among others. Woods announced on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that he would be “suing the Democratic National Committee no matter what.”

Twitter data showed that “celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party.”

The Pentagon lost track of another $2.1 trillion, the world’s 2nd largest food producing country is having 3,000 farms closed by their govt, they’re instituting vax passports & piloting a social credit system digital currency, but sure let’s keep Ye trending…See this:

Sam Bankman-Fried: I don’t know where $10 billion dollars went.

The Pentagon: We don’t know where $2.2 trillion dollars went.

The IRS: You just sent $601.37 via Venmo and don’t forget to report it.

OCTOBER 21, 2021: Biden said he hasn’t visited the border because he hasn’t “had a whole hell of a lot of time.” Since taking office, Biden has spent 268 days on vacation.

San Francisco police clarified that it would not arm robots with guns. Instead, they would be equipped with explosives.

What in tarnation is going on here?

The endgame of the “electric vehicle revolution” is NOT the same number of people driving around, except using EVs instead of gas-fueled cars. The endgame is sharply restricting or eliminating personal transportation for the middle and lower classes.

What happened to the Paul Pelosi/hammer guy story?

Interesting exchange-Doocy: “Kevin McCarthy says that he invited President Biden down to the border…We know the president has never been down to the border.”

KJP: “He’s been to the border.”

Doocy: “When did he go to the border?”

KJP: “He is taking action.”

NSC’s John Kirby: “We aren’t in the business of telling private companies how to execute their initiatives.”

Martha MacCallum: “Twitter’s a private company too so why is Twitter getting one treatment and Apple’s getting another?”

Kirby: “Those are … two different circumstances.”

Dom Lucre – I’m 28 years old and I still haven’t been lucky enough to experience the racism and oppression that LeBron and Oprah experienced that made them billionaires or the segregation that made Obama president…

Washington this week is in full wartime footing. No, it’s not over the Russian invasion of Ukraine or North Korean missiles or even Chinese expansionism. It is about Twitter and the threat of Elon Musk to restore free speech protections to social media…How did the Democrats lose track of 20 BILLION dollars that they gave to Ukraine?

It’s not just Apple that’s in bed with Communist China. Big Business, Big Hollywood & Big Universities are in bed with Communist China.

I’m not old enough to remember when the left was anti-war, anti-government, anti-MSM and anti-Big Pharma but I’ve heard legends. What happened?They became pro enforcement of all things once they grasp the positions of power.