Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward Curtin
“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied”
Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows”
When the polls closed on Tuesday, November 5th, I was sound asleep, like a baby rocking gently in his cradle, lost to the frenzied rants or joyful shouting of the different political claques. Even though I missed the results of what the mass media had been telling us was the most important election in our lifetimes, I was happily oblivious to their cant.
I remember hearing that nonsense many times before.
I gave up on my country’s electoral system more than fifty years ago. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair and was so even then.
Do most people have a clue that their country is owned and run by a small group of the super-rich and ten or so financial institutions, such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, etc., the big banks and financial interests that in 1947 formed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to spearhead the US warfare state around the world in support of its economy that is reliant on endless war?
The electorate continually puts its hope in the performers that the spectacle’s producers put up to front for their interests, failing to grasp that the rulers’ interests are not theirs. Arguing and anguishing over certain policy differences between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, they fail to see that both exist to serve global capital, not regular people, that exchanging presidents is a counterfeiter’s con-game with the voters the scammers’ marks.
Trump’s current victory is an example of that, as was Biden’s in 2020. If Harris had won, it would have proven the same. They are two sides of one coin. That the system is rigged by the oligarchs should be obvious but isn’t. Or maybe it is obvious but people secretly harbor a perverse liking for it. Stranger things are true, as on personal levels people embrace the symptoms of their neuroses because the symptoms are their disguised solutions, their ways of staying stuck because change is hard and frightening and requires admitting repressed realities.
The cliché that all politics is local has a certain appeal and a trace of veracity, but 99 + % of the truth lies elsewhere. Apprimately 145 + million Americans just lined up to vote like puppies looking for a bone to be thrown their way by the people who own the country. They do get a bone here and there, which keeps them looking for the meat, but that is reserved for the fat cats, as always.
I understand why people prefer upbeat words, but very often the upbeat is really the downbeat of hopelessness in disguise. A coverup. And seemingly hopeless words, such as that our presidents are the public personae of the rapacious oligarchy, are actually far more hopeful, even though they reveal long-held assumptions to be delusional.
Imagine what might happen if a great portion of people refused to vote for the charlatans chosen to run for president.
The fear that there was even a slight chance that this might happen lies behind all the pep talks and moralizing about doing your civic duty, which is such “a privilege.” Vote, even if it’s for the “lesser of two evils.”
But please, let us not mention the great evil that lies behind these lessers. Vote and we’ll give you a sticker. A sticker that signifies your gullibility.
There is a “system,” as young radicals referred to the U.S.’s political-economic structure back in the 1960s. I was one of them, a conscientious objector from the Marine Corps and a graduate student studying sociology, deeply influenced by the work and moral voice of C. Wright Mills and his powerful books, The Power Elite, The Causes of World War III, and Listen, Yankee, and William Domhoff’s Who Rules America, a work that has gone through seven updated editions.
There were (and are) many other books that told the story truly, but even reading them won’t help unless you are willing to dispense with the obvious illusions and face the bleakness of a corrupt system. Willing to take it personally. Willing to recognize the systemic evil that under-girds the System. Willing to accept the void that the Trappist monk Thomas Merton termed the Unspeakable:
It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss.
This void is the fact that the U.S. political economy is controlled by a small group of the wealthiest nihilists and is maintained through lies, a military-industrial economy, and perpetual wars around the world to maintain and increase their wealth. It is a death cult that people worship by their participation.
Although in subsequent years it became fashionable to decry the use of the term “the system,” there was a system then and there is one now, run by the upper class elite whose wealth has increased exponentially over the years throughout Democratic and Republican administrations.
This system is tightly entwined throughout the social structure of the country, part of the everyday fabric of American life. It is fueled by the corporate mass media of all political persuasions. Understanding it helps to explain most of what is going on today, including the farcical election just concluded.
A battle between two candidates who represent the forces that oppress the common people, support the genocide of the Palestinians, and are figureheads for the warfare state.
The system has evolved its methods of control since the 1950s but is essentially unchanged. It is now monopoly global capitalism joined with the steroidal injection of digital technology and the Internet to create a seamless marriage of economic exploitation and non-stop propaganda that has coopted and controlled the working classes and leftist intellectuals alike. Those middle to upper middle classes who like to consider themselves liberal or progressive accept the status quo because it rewards them at the expense of struggling peoples at home and abroad. They can afford to play along and look away, being typical Babbitts. And the right-wing was always in the pocket of the power elites.
Elections are said to be about pocket-book issues, which is largely true, but the oligarchic control of the nation’s pocketbook is not the focus. Small stuff is.
Listen to Peter Philips, a sociologist in Mills’s tradition, who tells the truth that most can’t bear to hear and will never accept. His latest book is, Titans of Capital. Here he is being interviewed by Robert Scheer, These Ten Companies Run Our “Democracy.”
It’s nothing new, but to accept it would require an American revolution, which isn’t coming. No, it’s not coming when so many people “do their civic duty” and vote for presidential candidates fronting for the upper class’s interests.
As I am finishing writing these words, a headline appears at The New York Times Corporation to make me laugh and give me that all-over happy tingle. It reads:
“Popularist Revolt Against Elite’s Vision of the U.S.”
Subheaded with these introductory words: “In the end, Donald Trump is not the historical aberration some thought he was, but a force reshaping the modern U.S., writes Peter Baker in an analysis.”
Not an historical aberration! Then he must not be a deviation from the normal type of American president. Trump is a good old normal American president, claims the Times. Is this a Freudian slip?
The “elite’s vision?” So the Times is also admitting that there is an elite and they have a vision for the common people? I wondered what kind of confession was to follow? So I followed.
The article by Baker has a strangely punctuated title with an ambiguous meaning that its text contradicts: ‘Trump’s America’: Comeback Victory Signals a Different Kind of Country.” It opens with the introductory words I quoted above, as if to reinforce the point. Not an historical aberration, which for anyone who understands the English language means he is normal. But then Baker mixes his illogical word salad with dressing.
He writes, as if there were some logical connection between his sentences:
Populist disenchantment with the nation’s direction and resentment against elites proved to be deeper and more profound than many in both parties had recognized. Mr. Trump’s testosterone-driven campaign capitalized on resistance to electing the first woman president.
Is he not saying that there is an elite that the common people are rebelling against by voting for Trump and that Harris has been chosen by these same elites and as a woman she is the focus of the fat, seventy-eight year-old Trump’s massive testosterone drive because she is a woman?
But if Trump is not an historical aberration and therefore has also been chosen by the elites, then the “popularist revolt” is no revolt at all but a con job played out by the billionaire elite who support Trump. Baker and all the “experts” he quotes are loathe to admit openly that the ruling oligarchy is split; that both Harris and Trump are candidates of the elite who war among themselves but who in the end reap the spoils of the system. That they are allied in an overall goal.
Baker tells us about Kamala Harris, who was not chosen by the people but by the elite who control the Democratic party, that
“Once she took the torch from Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris initially emphasized a positive, joy-filled mission to the future, consolidating excited Democrats behind her, but it was not enough to win over uncommitted voters.”
Joy didn’t work. Well what the heck!
Baker also tells us that trashing Trump and emphasizing unity didn’t either because the American people want a strongman.
What? a non-aberrational strong man?
But Baker goes on to castigate Trump as a criminal, a liar, a fraud, a conspiracy theorist, etc. while the joyful Harris just miscalculated and underestimated popular discontent. This is the usual Times’ schtick. Turn to the New York Post for the obverse and have a chuckle at the absurd game the media play on the public.
Baker’s headline tells us that Trump’s win signals that the U.S. is now a different kind of country because so many people are fed up with how it’s being run. Different from 2016 when Trump won?
If only it were a different country, but it isn’t. The same elite money forces run the show. Elections don’t change that. People continue to be suckers.
Baker lets it slip again with these words:
The assumption that Mr. Trump represented an anomaly who would at last be consigned to the ash heap of history was washed away on Tuesday night by a red current that swept through battleground states – and swept away the understanding of America long nurtured by its ruling elite of both parties.
Yes, the “ruling elite.” One elite. Both parties. And nothing was swept away. This ruling elite is just laughing and no doubt secretly applauding the stenographers who serve their interests, such as Peter Baker, who portrays them in typically deceptive Times’ gobbledygook fashion as “perplexed.” Have a laugh!
“Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich stay rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows”
Do they?
Edward Curtin is an independent writer whose work has appeared widely over many years. His website is edwardcurtin.com and his new book is Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.
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PS “Lebensborn” https://pdfhost.io/v/4Uz9W0ztW_Children_of_WW2
https://www.deseret.com/faith/2024/11/12/nazis-disliked-latter-day-saints/
The American “Mormons” have found a kind of saint, martyr, anti-Nazi hero in Helmut Hübener. After all, nowadays, when “Nazi” represents absolute, unstoppable evil, because it endeavored to save the white race, albeit in my opinion by wrong and absolutely devastating means, everyone wants to be an anti-Nazi, which is good for their reputation.
https://www.youtube.com/@truthandconvictiontvseries/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener
No one should dispute this, but on closer examination serious questions arise which are not asked at all within the community of believers, such as whether Hübener’s death was not the fault of the influence of their own doctrine?
Of course, from today’s “humanistic” perspective, it was an injustice to execute such young people for their “deeds”. But we must not forget that Germany was already in the middle of a war at the time, so martial law was in force. Under these circumstances, encouraging young people to oppose such a rigorous system as that of the Nazis in the name of some religious splinter sect is tantamount to calling for suicide.
But not only that. Because here, as always in such cases, there is an incredible amount of hypocrisy involved. After all, America was “allied” with Stalinist tyranny against Germany for years, which apparently posed no ideological problem whatsoever. How communism treated Christians in the Soviet empire of evil, however, is little or not at all discussed in this respect.
Well, Hübener is honored as a saint, while hundreds of thousands of German children who were wiped out by flight, expulsion, hunger, disease, cowardly sneaky area bombing with phosphorus of civilian cities at night, receive no place in the Mormon heaven of God. Just think of the “Allied” sinkings of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, MV Goya and SS Cap Arcona, loaded with over 20,000 refugees.
Allied aircraft systematically “hunted down” fleeing civilians (see Air Raid of Swinemünde and Golm War Cemetery). In Denmark, even after Germany’s capitulation, 10,000 young children died as a result of German refusal to help, fleeing with their parents from the advancing Russians from the East, as the Danish doctor Kirsten Lylloff and others researched as recently as 1999.
The Danes used German boys as human “mine detection dogs”, so to speak, and hundreds died in the process (see also the movie “Land of Mine”). In June 1945, one month after the unconditional surrender, the Americans shot six Hitler Youth, including 16-year-old Heinz Petry and Joseph Schöner, for “espionage”. US General William Hood Simpson mercilessly rejected a plea for clemency.
In the 1950s, the Russians indiscriminately deported 1000 young German men, the youngest of whom were 17 years old, from the central German zone they occupied (now historically misnamed “East Germany”) to a prison near Moscow and murdered them there. Of course, Hitler’s boys were also evil criminals, as the (Jewish?) “historian” Kurlander propagates.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nazi-werewolves-who-terrorized-allied-soldiers-end-wwii-180970522/
And all their own “allied” crimes were of course committed exclusively in the name of good, liberation and democracy, so they could not have been evil war crimes or injustice at all and were therefore never punished or atoned for.
I think they may know behind it all. If not, I think they can feel it.
I didnt vote in 25 years but it was a personal choice and challenge I gave myself. Not because I gave “the system” the f…finger.
Couldnt find my political stand on the right nor the left. Discovered it was nobody’s fault but my own. I had not acquainted myself with knowledge, only beliefs.
We are born as men with a plight to acquaint ourselves with the way this earth and universe function, to stand on the society’s ship as captains and lead this ship safe through storms and sunshines during a lifetime, and protect our neighbours, our girls, elderly and our children. This is men’s job.
Mr. Curtin and Co, we have been there, seen it, done it, tried it. Systems without elections, without votings.
We have seen the slaves, the Gulag camps, the torture prisons, the Military Dictatorships, KKK, the Guillotine, and other similar ugly not so nice groups and systems.
Yes we will never reach the perfect state, not before our Divine Saviour has kicked the anomaly out from this planet who do not belong here.
Some humans need a herd, some people need a Leader, and the worst anomaly need to be neutralised from time to time.
But trust me what you have seen the last 50 years could and can still be much much worse. Thats why I think “the sheeple” give peace a chance.
Willie claims to be “106 years old”. (That would be beyond the absolute average.) For my part, I wouldn’t place too much emphasis on the figures of people who are well past the debility threshold. However, he does give us a good tip for old age.
As a born Aquarius, Willie can be expected to have a great sense of humor, but how far beyond the bounds of decency does the need to take the piss out of the world and its “inhabitants” go? Only one thing is certain: for Willie, this is a clown circus full of extras.
A particularly valuable tip that you can learn from clever old people is to make yourself hard of hearing (no one would ever doubt this). This gives you the advantage of being able to think about a question three times and present a correspondingly formulated answer.
“The cliché that all politics is local has a certain appeal and a trace of veracity, but 99 + % of the truth lies elsewhere. Apprimately 145 + million Americans just lined up to vote like puppies looking for a bone to be thrown their way by the people who own the country. They do get a bone here and there, which keeps them looking for the meat, but that is reserved for the fat cats, as always.”
Try … apprimately 145 + million american slaves
“Philosophers from ancient times to the present have explicitly said that civilization is based on slavery. For example, Friedrich Engels, no fan of slavery, said, “We should never forget that our whole economic, political, and intellectual development has as its presupposition a state of things in which slavery was as necessary as it is universally recognized.” Proslavery antebellum philosopher William Harper went right to the point: “Servitude is the condition of civilization.”
The New Slavery
An Interview with Kevin Bales
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24752-the-new-slavery
Why I don’t vote in colonial politics Andrea Landry
https://this.org/2019/10/10/why-i-dont-vote-in-colonial-politics/
How to Spot Slavery in Your Backyard
with Kevin Bales
https://bigthink.com/videos/how-to-spot-slavery-in-your-backyard/
“Murray Sinclair is embraced by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon after being invested as a companion of the Order of Canada.” (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
“invested” ?
Murray Sinclair given Order of Canada for championing Indigenous rights and freedoms
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/murray-sinclair-order-of-canada-indigenous-rights-freedoms-1.6467915
“invested”
“Linguistic imperialism has always been a tool of colonization, meant to obliterate history and the visibility of the people who were displaced along with their languages. But five hundred years later, in a renamed landscape, it has become a nearly invisible tool. We forget the original names, that the Hudson River was “the river that runs both ways,” that Devils Tower was the sacred Bear Butte of the Lakota. Beyond the renaming of places, I think the most profound act of linguistic imperialism was the replacement of a language of animacy with one of objectification of nature, which renders the beloved land as lifeless object, the forest as board feet of timber. Because we speak and live with this language every day, our minds have also been colonized by this notion that the nonhuman living world and the world of inanimate objects have equal status. Bulldozers, buttons, berries, and butterflies are all referred to as it, as things, whether they are inanimate industrial products or living beings.” Robin Wall Kimmerer
Speaking of Nature
https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/
Canadian actor Adam Beach walks a fine line as an ambassador for canada 150
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/adam-beach-canada-150-1.4126567
This Reconciliation is for the ColonizerAndrea Landry
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2017/12/01/this-reconciliation-is-for-the-colonizer/
Its called “semantic manipulation” and “perception management”. In those political circles you know. Fraud.
“But when he studied the pictures more
closely he realised that they were not fa-
brications.” https://archive.is/Qdavo
Exactly, that’s quite logical, dude! Why should your
mortal enemies cheat on you? It wouldn’t make any
sense to a communist brain. Stupid remains stupid,
no pills help – except true eye-opening communism!
To paraphrase Darren Allen: ‘choosing the lesser of two evils until all the good is gone’
Slightly OT:
Anyone happen to recall the name of the documentary (BBC I think) where a guy sets out on a quest to actually meet someone from the ‘elite’ – from the Illuminati – and ends up on a wild goose chase around obscure car parks, where people never turn up. Very funny from what I recall.
Ring any bells?
No.
Well gosh, the BBC did a flippant documentary mocking the idea of a ruling “elite”. Colour me amazed.
Now that you know everything is fake, why say anything? That’s what THEY said to me after I saw THEM…lol
The billionaire stuttering Technocracy Twins, Musk and Thiel, want to emulate Argentina’s Javier Milei, who cut pensions for workers, slashed public services (he campaigned with a chainsaw) and opened the country’s resources to foreign corporations. He said, “Everything that can be privatized, will be.” Privatization is the core of fascism.That’s the 50 years of neoliberalism that decimated the middle class. Who wants more of that??
“Since taking office in December 2023, Argentine libertarian Javier Milei has done a speedrun of Yarvin’s and Thiel’s ideas, taking his country through economic shock therapy and privatization in his first year — including cutting pensions for workers, slashing public services (he campaigned with a chainsaw), and opening the country’s resources to foreign corporations.
“Everything that can be in the hands of the private sector,” Milei told a local radio station, “will be in the hands of the private sector.” Earlier this year, Thiel visited Milei in Argentina, with the new president’s agenda underway. After the meeting, Thiel reportedly remarked “Milei’s ideas are as relevant globally as they are for Argentina.”
Musk has championed Milei from the start. Just a month ago, he remarked “President [Milei] is doing an incredible job restoring Argentina to greatness!”—and, with eerie similarity to Thiel’s comments, said this to Milei: ”The example you are setting with Argentina will be a helpful model for the rest of the world.”
Musk quietly incorporated “The United States of America”. Why?
Article: Why Elon Musk’s million-dollar presidential lottery is ominous
By Sam Butler
Every domestic and foreign policy, manipulated erratic weather patterns, enforced immigrant invasions, food additive patents, monetized medical systems, GMOs, Scientism, Common Core, etc., EVERY BAD IDEA that has ever been enforced is due to weird capitalists bribing people to implement them. Period.
Truthstream Media hits the nail on the head, as always:
Rant: This Isn’t Scientific, and It Isn’t American
30 years after the war, the Brits set about
reenacting European history. At least no Je-
wish “directors”, but this is not about cove-
ring up their own crimes in subsequent times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeeHYMdsfWkL2lEk8hHYoO9WHNfP_9fe2
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https://linkmix.co/30744603
We have a ruling class. They are all capitalists. They are not always unified. However, they are unified in their desire to control and exploit and otherwise do things that are harmful (or worse) to us – the vast majority people in the world.
They also have goals, agendas that increase their control and wealth that they want to accomplish. A primary control mechanism of the population is the illusion of democracy. For that illusion to be maintained it must appear to have some legitimacy in the eyes of most people. However, ruling class agendas – which of course serve ruling class interests – have a tendency of putting a strain on the credulity that people have in that illusion of democracy, that is, it’s legitimacy.
Let’s go back to the election of 2000 (US). Most people believe (in many ways, rightly) that it was stolen. However, if we see elections as a mechanism of control, then the fact that Democrats didn’t protest the obvious irregularities and outright frauds, then we can see that Bush administration was installed to prosecute a ruling class agenda. (That agenda was spelled out by the neocons, who are not the ruling class but rather cohorts that want to captain the ship owned by the ruling class.) The neocons, however, were deeply unpopular in the population (worldwide actually). This unpopularity began to challenge the legitimacy of the illusion of democracy so crucial for ruling class control. Obama’s role was to return legitimacy to “democracy.” Recall that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize when he was only a presidential candidate, that is, when he had no actual power to do anything that might end the wars for which the neocons became so unpopular. (Incidentally, there was a sizeable peace movement in the US, from 2003 onward that completely evaporated in 2007, just based on the hopium that Obama represented a meaningful change for the better.) This was about creating an image, or narrative of restoring democratic values. Obama, in office did none of those things; he continued the neocon agenda by less obvious means (like vastly escalating drone warfare).
In my view, that is what happened in the election last week. The agenda the Democrats were installed to advance, its blatant corruption, was putting a dangerous strain on that illusion of democracy, challenging the legitimacy of the control mechanism (“democracy”). Trump is no more a threat to the ruling class than Harris would be. The 1400 point gain in the stock market the day after Trump’s victory is a clear demonstration of that.
Thanks, Tom. This is a great summation. Beautifully put.
Thank you Mr. Curtin. I don’t always agree with you, but I always think that your writing is worth my time.
The 2000 election farrago was all about installing a Republican government since the Republicans were seen as “the war party” and they were geering up for a new “war” to be initiated with 9/11 which was already on the boiler.
Obviously the “war party” torch had been passed to the Democrats. It will be interesting to see how war is sold to us under Trump.
The much missed Dave McGowan had a theory that the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal was cooked up to distract everyone’s attention from the fact that Bill Clinton’s Democrat government was behaving every bit as aggressively as the Republicans with regard to foreign policy (which is the exact opposite of what happens in that “subversive” movie “Wag The Dog”).
It’s funny how no amount of changes in actual practice seem to impact on the public perception. You’d think that Thatcher’s open admission that Blair’s New Labour was her “finest achievement” would have wised everyone up to the fact that Labour was now effectively Tory 2. But noooooo! Thanks to my work mates, I can vouch for the fact that everyone even considers Starmer’s Labour Party to be a prole outfit.
I am less familiar with British context but in the US this process I outline above happens about every 12 years (at least in the last 40 years or so). There were a lot of shenanigans around the Reagan revolution (the October Surprise which was meant to hurt Carter) but neoliberalism really got underway under Carter and he had the misfortune of being an incumbent seeking reelection during a recession which had to have hurt the Democrats this time too.
So, we get 8 years of Reaganism followed by 4 years of HW Bush who had a hard on to defeat the “Vietnam Syndrome” doing a lot damage to Panama and almost destroying Iraq all with trumped up justifications.
Americans (who paid attention) were horrified and the system was “returned to normalcy” with Bill Clinton (Iraq, whose infrastructure was destroyed by Bush’s Desert Storm was prevented from rebuilding (e.g. water purification plants) quietly by Clinton’s brutal sanctions killing an estimated 500k Iraqi children, then in his second term destroyed the last genuine socialist country in Europe – Yugoslavia with his RTP (Responsibility to Protect) ideology.
Then W is installed, rinse, repeat…
I should have said 8 to 12 years.
Now that was some fresh air!
Guardian:
“At Cop29, we must treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as Covid – history shows it can be done”
Covid and climate. Nothing like giving the game away! “History shows” means, “We fooled the saps before. We can do it again.”
“To avert climate catastrophe, the world needs more climate finance.”
We need to “tackle emissions” and “build resilience”!
We need money! Resources! We need to pour it all into that black hole guarded by that utterly steaming word salad!
Trump will pull the US out of the Paris CO2 pact.
Trump might well pull the US out of Gates’ WHO pact.
Trump might pull the US out of the NATO pact !!!
Trump will pull out of the climate agreements and the WHO.
Trump will strengthen Nato – ensuring that all member states meet their 2% obligations.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/whos-at-2-percent-look-how-nato-allies-have-increased-their-defense-spending-since-russias-invasion-of-ukraine
If they dissuade the reps of “underdeveloped” countries from raising the issue of the overdue trillions of dollars – promised for the last 2 decades or so – then the summit is a success. Instead, there may be more promotion of carbon capture/credit/trading scams.
Is there any research on how much carbon all the international conferences generate yearly?
In the UK, we tried not voting and we got Labour with less than 20% of the vote and the highest number of seats ever. We are fucked either way as there is no one worth voting for.
We voted in – and WON – an entire series of elections/referenda promising the UK would start acting like a sovereign nation looking after its own interests. It never happened.
Throughout 2019 nearly all our politicians came out and said the truth: “Get stuffed, we’ll do what we want not what the people want.”
Then came the coup de grace. They engineered the Boris Johnson landslide so he could take us out of the EU… to hand control of the UK DIRECTLY to the globalists instead of indirectly via the EU. So much more efficient and deadly.
We were betrayed as never before by the greatest traitors we’ve ever known. They should hang.
For covid, I suppose the MPs were working from home. Every law relating to deadly jabs, authority for criminal acts by some government departments, etc. were all above board.
Only $20 decillion? That is (in contrast to six gorillion
or gazillion) finally a clear and easily imaginable size!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-court-fines-google-20-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000/ar-AA1t9EDO
Which means Russia can take over the whole of the United States and Alaska for administration and new taxation area…………………..LOL.
The Democrat vote in recent presidential elections:
2012 66m
2016 66m
2020 81m
2024 70m
Obviously only crazy conspiracy theorists might raise an eyebrow at that 2020 figure….
The Republicans also got 74 million in 2020; their highest turnout. Yet no eyebrows for that either. Maybe Covid was the key factor (?), although Democrat voter Fraud makes a better story
Only crazy conspiracy theorists would think that the whole thing is bullshit and election figures are about as real as elections.
yet people mindcontrol by the alt alternative seem to believe that 2020 was rigged in favour of whoever to upset whoever so they carrying believing in figures and selection must be sssssssssoooooooooooooooo real because there hero did not win.
I bet you 101% you watch alex jones.
In the real world, boats don’t always leak. They successfully get from A to B.
The Captain doesn’t always lie. Fights aren’t always fixed. The poor often grow wealthier. And the rich often lose all their wealth.
So no, not everybody knows.
Maybe expand the reading list beyond Marxist (anti-Capital) and Nietzschean (Anti-God, Anti-authority) authors/thinking
If you have the facility to easily ensure only your preferred candidates make it into office why would you only use it sometimes?
The anti-German ZOG “government” has decided
to “protect Jewish life in Germany” by another re-
solution. The (self-evident) protection of German
life in Germany continues to play the very last role.
https://archive.is/TeESD
Off Guardian does tend towards the conspiratorial. which I’m fine with I consider all points of view. I didn’t find this article particularly informative or compelling. I’ve recently heard a couple other narratives about what’s going on in the world today. Do the commoners have any say, and who wins the battles between the warring Elitist factions? Maybe maybe not I don’t think you’ve made your case for not. At any rate Here is one of the narratives, by a 23 year old, self trained anthropologist, that I do find compelling. it is not conspiratorial and it is quite fascinating. He is convinced we’re heading for Civil War and he certainly makes a good case for it. He doesn’t support it. He’s just giving the reasons why https://youtube.com/live/QMQG0PVHMDU?si=ybLCM-Fp9npZZ9zs
‘The Left and the Right in the US?’
There’s no such thing in the US, or in any Western ‘democracy’.
Greed and self interest rule.
A civil war?
Yep, when the economic shit hits the fan, Trump is seen as a failure by his followers and he blames everyone else, societal chaos could ensue.
Interesting times hey?
Yeah and I noticed the word “modernity” and “nihilism” sneak in towards the end of the video (fast forwarding – didn’t have the patience to go through the whole thing). The implied solution is that we all go back to church.
The good old Christian God solution.
Why don’t they give it a rest?
Please dont insult REAL conspiratorial researchers.
OG job is to get thoses who are delusional with the left and do 1000’s of articles or how bad the left is which nudges viewers easily swayed to some fake indy candidiate like Rd2d jr with articles on how ok the right conservatives are compared to the left (3 pro Trump articles about the election again shows the tactics at play) with the contrived usual boring talking points given by HQ MIC which even the BBC in 6 months will mention.
Nothing cutting edge.
Rd2d jr was promoted by the above they even endorsed Rd2d jr book which is endorsement for vaccines lockdown and lableak and quarantine of people.
The Real Anthony Fauci book was also heavily promoted by them and The
Cia operativeCorbin report there guest author.Rd2d jr and the bullshitter name Children defense league is a alphabet agency psyop to get you to believe in church of white coats and government again.
Rd2d jr endorsed the king of warpspeed.
Anyone with half a brain-cell or REAL conspiratorial researcher could see this from the get go!!so how?? does a blog like this overlook this part 3 year ago in the height of covid and with what was written in The Real Anthony Fauci book which THEY this blog and there guests authors promoted.
You clearly know more about our “HQ MIC” special secret orders than we do.
Hmmm, suss
@Sophie – Admin1, this commenter clearly has higher HQ MIC clearance than we do. Could they possibly have hacked the HQ MIC database? Impossible idea, Bill Gates designed those computers himself! No, there must be a mole in the senior staff. We’ve been compromised, Sophie. Lock down this facility immediately. Use deadly force to repel anyone who approaches, be they friend or foe. Trust no one.
Wilco boss, over and out!
OG job is to get “thoses” who are delusional to be able to spell correctly.
I don’t remember reading any endorsement of The Real Anthony Fauci or RFKjr by the editorial staff on this site. Can you point out what I missed?
He makes a case he does not support – on u-tube. Enough said.
Conspiracies make the world go around! (Money is just the tool used.)
To think otherwise implies that most decision making is done publicly and transparently. Which it clearly is not.
Insulting people with the “conspiracy theorist” tag is laughable, even if you attempt to cloak it by using the word “conspiratorial.”
I stated that OG tends towards the conspiratorial, meaning They venture into territory Based more on speculation, than on grounded facts without going the whole hog, I don’t think it was that hard to understand where I was coming from. Unlike all of the people who decided to slam me while none of you seem to be able to string together one Comprehensible sentence between the lot of you.
The true essence of my original comment is the fact that you can read and listen to an extraordinary range of commentary on the web and elsewhere that has a phenomenal amount of varying theories about what’s going on in the world. I’m so glad that everybody on here is so sure that they have figured everything out with your poorly written commentary that tells me absolutely nothing about the world. whereas I learn about 100 interesting facts from watching a 23-year-old self trained anthropologist who apparently you’re all very jealous of or you wouldn’t be so triggered. or here’s another theory… you’re all working for different three letter agencies in the US or one of the five I’s but none of you know that the others are working for one of those agencies because nobody knows what the hell anybody’s doing in this damn world today.
and yes Dorothy, we have our communists, and Nazis, and responsibles just like every other country in the bloody world, so get a grip.
Or one could just reduce life to eat, drink, and be merry.
Well, no disagreement about the fake elections from me. Maybe you will also see that Kris Kristofferson was part of Operation Monarch someday, too. All of your idols–poof!
From Maxwell Quest:
“There is real hope once again, but now comes the hard part. The new administration will be dealing with a population that has been brainwashed for decades, and are completely unaware of what is actually going on in their own country and the world in general. They’ve been living in the Matrix. If that wasn’t bad enough, they’ve been atomized and turned against one another by endless psyops. Their fear and hatred spun up to 11 by the CIA media and late-night monologues where a steady diet of propaganda was disguised as comedy.
So, is now the time to put the past behind us, take the win and move forward? I say, “Don’t even think about it!”
If ever there was a time to lift the veil on the Matrix, now is the time. I think the public is ready. Surely, many more were softened up in this last election cycle in that the outcome was completely the opposite of that predicted by all their favorite media pundits. There are always the die-hards, those who wanted their own rainbow inspired cultural revolution, but they are the minority. The vast majority of average Americans that were taken in by all the lies surely must be scratching their heads trying to make sense of things right now.
So, now is the time to peel back the false reality and follow through, making the top players accountable for past actions. Crimes prosecuted, evidence brought forward, conspiracies exposed, fines, prison, and public shaming. Sure, it will be ugly, and some people are going to “pop” from the psychic whiplash, discovering they’ve been duped and manipulated this whole time.
The alternative is to try and govern a population of ignorant adult children, who, because of their previous brainwashing, cannot fathom that the “literally Hitler” Trump administration is trying to help them become better informed, mature citizens, and save their country from a Maoist style takeover.
The big lies, plus all the evidence to refute them are just lying around in the open. The new admin should carefully choose which ones to expose first, before going on to those that will be more difficult for the massed to digest. It will take some intelligence, finesse, and patience. And by all means, don’t make it appear as the vengeful persecution of one’s enemies. For this to work, the old media will need to be brought to heel.”
Tony? What’s goin down man?
Did the dog eat your homework?
Will the real ‘TONYOPMOC’ please stand up?
Living in the Matrix, you say?
https://youtu.be/qkAh0CCrV9I?feature=shared
When the Uniparty Democrats put forward Kamala to run against Trump i figured they wanted Trump to win – and it appears i wasnt the only one to think that.
https://www.sott.net/article/496003-the-fact-that-the-canidate-who-got-the-most-votes-won-the-election-doesnt-mean-it-was-a-real-election
Thanks Mr. Curtin. I didnt vote in the (S)election again this time.
It’s the right thing for me. I just cant be involved in this wacky system as you have outlined here.
You have been played.. the oligarchs have no power… neither does the Deep State… and of course the politicians are nothing more than actors…
THIS is who has the power https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world
The thing is …
This it was always inevitable that this state of affairs would transpire… look around you at the oceans of morons…. the 6 Billion Vaxxed… the fools who believe we landed on the moon… the Swifty’s!!!
Do you think that the serious powerful men would allow their votes to be cancelled out a million times over by an army of Swifty’s?
Even the so- called smart ones are morons https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/humans-barnyard-animals-and-circus/
“Humans are so easily controlled that they MUST be controlled” Fast Eddy
Of course nothing is perfect … but would you rather have serious, thorough men running the show — man who engage the best circus animals in think tanks to make sure they make informed decisions… decisions that ensure that have resulted in those of us in the G20 nations living large?
Men who are willing to do whatever it takes to ensure we end up the winners (and there will ALWAYS be winners – and losers… feel free to move to Somalia if you are not keen on being on the winning side)… https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/why-war-is-awesome/
Or would you rather have Taylor Swift fans … and imbeciles who spend their time watching Dancing with Stars, American Idol and pro wrestling … ultimately make the decisions?
Those ARE the two choices… it’s either the serious men — or the ignorant idiots. The same idiots who without a second thought injected themselves with an experiment.
Of course the elections are meaningless… as they should be … it is necessary to ensure that the barnyard animals do not realize their is a higher power … because sometimes the Men Who Run the World make mistakes… and we do not want the mob to show up at the Fed with pitch forks…
More food for thought https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-eisenhauer-diversion
personally I’d rather stick with the term “the System”, it’s a less limiting shorthand for oppressive rulers than the Marxist-tinged “upper class”, “billionaires”, “1 percent” which seem to reduce the problem to economic injustice and imply solutions along the lines of the 1917 Bolshevik take-over, which ended up simply replacing one soul-crushing apparatus of control with another
that sycophants and loyal servants of the System can reap obscene material rewards is undeniable, but to frame the whole game in terms of lust for lucre seems to me to miss the point and undervalue the institutional-cultural component, what often is described as technocracy
further out to the left of the New York Times on the media continuum you will find pundits who spin Trump’s return also as the consequence of a conspiracy of the super-rich, but for these camp followers of the Democrats, it was Harris who represented the true will of the people, and the electorate was fiendishly duped by all that filthy money pouring into the Republicans’ coffers
One of the reasons why elections are said to be about pocket-book issues is that, secretly, most people want to be in what George Carlin called the Big Club (and 99%+ of us ain’t in it).
That’s why most are turning a blind eye and continue to participate in this evil system.
“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: ‘After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?’ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
“I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.”
— John Steinbeck
“…and they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder, when they behold the Beast that was, but is not, and yet is.” – Revelation 17:8
Thanks for the links to those books.
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
some even knew that covid was a lie.
TPBS couldh ave that.
So along came RD2d k junior and many ultra naive media sold RD2d k junior as different.
Lets all forget that part as the author never did endorse him.
I’d rather hear rhetoric like this than the BS we hear/d from the convid pimps. Even Trump is saying we aren’t go to be governed by the WHO. Will they actually do anything about it? Probably not, admittedly, but most of us who post on this board agree with this.
RFK Jr will not be running the Department of HHS, says Howard Lutnick, co-chair of Trump’s transition team, a billionaire. Like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz, Larry Ellison……
The lunatics in charge of the asylum.
Gonna turn the 6:30 news into a black comedy show.
And Trump may not even make it to Inauguration Day. Let’s wait and see, eh? To reiterate my point, the rhetoric coming from RFKjr et al is of a more desirable quality than what we’ve been getting before.
… and all of these billionaires who used their “free speech” human aka corporate personhood rights to donate over $12 BILLION to his campaign:
“Getting F*cking Serious” – Billionaires Backing Trump’s 2024 Campaign Worth Over $12B
Trump has FINALLY called the climate emergency a hoax, and is standing up to the WHO.
What does this mean if Trump is controlled opposition? Surely it must still be good. It means they are backing off these absurd pretexts for global takeover.
Of course they’ll have an alternative scheme in the pipeline, but it’s a setback for them that the public and some governments are pushing back.
Did China and India save us from the climate con?
Pipe dreams
As part of its deranged treaty attempting hegemony, WHO mentioned the health of not just people but all species. Unless some major countries reject this subversion of sovereignty, talk of resistance is a farce. BRICS recently produced more double-talk. Some African countries showed more resolve, though WB and IMF are trying to bring them back in line.
China and India are whining, wagging, jumping around on two legs, and howling everytime City of London and NYC Stock Exchange speaks:
“We are like you, we are also like you are doing it”.
Ultra naive media viewers who got sold operation warpspeed then voted again.
ultra naive media viewers at this level of the game who still believe fantasy written twitter messages from RD2d k junior PR team to appeal the ultra naive media viewers in to believing fantasy.
Why would any one agree with a pathological liar politican after covid.
Case closed.
So what problems do you have with his rhetoric/stated goals?
bobby junior, how could you be so naive !!
And you believed Trump ? Doubly naive !!
Not enough people seem to care,
Speak to their eyes and there’s no one there.
what u see in their eyes is the void of despair, the moment they realize they don’t know what to believe anymore.
The system arose from the decision to not know what we know.
Consider this quote for its merits:
Setting up an ‘oppositional reflection/reaction is the basis for the ‘Human Conditioning’. A split mind to which we are held in focus and identification by the weight of a Past that is not here, yet through which our sense of self and world is shaped and driven.
Active ignorance as the masking ego can be seen in different lights -and must be- to maintain its illusion of continuity. In this sense a movie of multiple themes set in motion of completions & contradictions as waves move across the face of the waters.
A wave is a modulation of balanced potentials, positive and negative are relative to a common centre and between different points of a shared condition of change as charge.
I watched Ruben Ostlund’s ‘Triangle of Sadness’ a couple of nights ago. His desire for authentic reflection shares a Shakespearian mirror in which to see or allow into awareness, facets of our self that we otherwise and for whatever reasons had not seen or owned before. But no one is forced to recognise what they are as yet unwilling – again for their own reasons – to accept.
The freedom of will is overmasked by self conflicts projected out and be-lived as praise or blame; good or evil. But it remains at the root of ‘choice’ as the freedom NOT to use it from the mindset that frames us in conflict, fear, guilt and loss – to a driven or compulsive identity as its fruit.
Curtin beautifully sums up what the New York Times knows & Leonard Cohen should’ve put to music… ‘Nothing got swept away’ ( again ).
-JJ ( union electrical worker @ Detroit near Canada )
Actaully, far fewer people would be seduced by all this if they weaned themselves off the MSM in its entirety. Simply gave up watching CNN, MSNBC or whatever; gave up reading the WSJ, the New York Post; avoided Youtube clips coming from MSM sources or MSM journalist podcasts.
The way to find the truth is to free yourself from the brainwashing and start again. Starting by asking questions, then trying to find out information to help in answering those questions. Sometimes that involves data gathering over a couple of decades (gardeners are quite good at this where climate is concerned, because they note when late frosts occur in spring, early frosts occur in autumn, when their first tomatoes are ripe etc etc).
A classic case is the MSM reporting of ‘plucky Maccabi Tel Aviv’ football supporters being ‘victims of antisemitism’.
There’s plenty of non-MSM footage showing them to be a bunch of yobs, disrespecting the people of the country they were visiting, disrespecting the applause for the dead of Valencia region and singing vile songs about dead Palestinian children.
I wonder how long I would last in Tel Aviv if I ripped down the Israeli flag, started singing ‘One man went to gas, went to gas a Yiddo!’ and then daubed the Wailing wall with ‘The Holocaust was for pussies!’?
I suspect I’d be lucky to get out of the place alive….and I’d certainly be on the front page of the MSM calling for me to have 10 years plus in prison.
I wouldn’t have killed anyone, I wouldn’t have injured anyone, I’d just have behaved as a vile antisemitic yob.
But not significantly different to the behaviour of the Israeli yobs in Amsterdam, I might add….
I tried so darned hard to stick with TV news channels. They became near useless in the UK around 2015, looping the same six news stories to pad out the whole hour.
Then came the non-stop climate propaganda ticker scrolling across the screen. Which morphed into covid propaganda then BLM worship then Russophobia. Basically pushing every sick globalist agenda in the most asinine and offensive way possible.
Laughably, only Russian propaganda RT News remained as anything resembling an actual news channel. So they banned it.
I was a TV addict for decades. Now it makes me vomit. It’s dead to me, I’ll never go back.
Even the light entertainment shows are just a vehicle for propaganda, not just the news.
Instead your now watching more pro gram me TV in MSM alt media under the guise of blogs and comment boards and alternative media and still vote and believe in fantasy like government is there to protect you.
The 3rd/4th gen Maroccan-Dutch Muslim boys are disrespecting the Netherlands for decades, carrying two passports. Back in Marocco their behavior wouldn’t not get a chance due to lack of softy Left wokies: the racism/ sexism / victim con has 0% chance there.
Next time vote for me. I will launch Operation Warpspeed 2.0. All men will be forcibly injected with testosterone.
Never skip
leg dayyour boosters!Aging men are likely to be low in it. They should preferably get it through good food and supplements. But it is much more profitable to treat the resulting illnesses.
It seems the only way to boost T naturally is to lift heavy several times a week and/or do HIIT. Supplements may help but the work is necessary.
I suck at both but I’ve set up a small home gym with a powercage. I consistently do deadlifts, squats, benchpress, shoulder press, pullups. Progress is happening.
Most people don’t get anywhere near enough protein, especially older people who can’t process it as efficiently. It’s another way we’ve been lied to by nutrition “experts.” 40g protein per meal, several times a day, is not excessive.
Beyond age maybe 50, such exercise is likely to raise the risk of significant wear/damage and slow repair. Partly because one reduces physical activity as affluence/convernient increases.
One writer recommended protein at
.- for growing/active people, 1.0-1.6g per kg body weight
.- for healthy adults, 0.8g
.- for age >65, 1.2-2.0.
However, Dr. Mercola recommends 1.76g per kg target adult weight. He says half should be the amino acids that build cartilage.
” support the genocide of the Palestinians” .
You lost my support with that assertion Edward.
Of course. Just because Israel has levelled 80% of the housing in the region, it doesn’t mean Israel is erasing Gaza and its people in a genocide. Israel is the real victim here. They always are. Because they are the good guys. By definition they are always justified in their actions and anyone opposing them must be bad. Therefore killing these bad people is good, ergo Israel are the good guys.
The circle of this logic shines like a golden halo above Netanyahu’s head.
Or are you suggesting that Trump is not Israel First?
apartment genocide, yes.
Refuse to let you drag me down in my fits of joy. https://youtu.be/AlSjx6F5Pl8
..people do look genuinely happier since the 5th.
And speak more freely about stuff.
Yes they do! Should have seen me and and my butcher today. My mouth is still sore from grinning….
They are learning slowly. Baker’s tangled mess of contradictions reflects the Room Full of Mirrors that the elite have trapped themselves into through their indeed nihilist, frothing greed. When you tell someone a fact they never heard before and they are surrounded in contrary propaganda, how many times do they need to hear or see the fact in operation before they initiate personal response? Over and over until they begin double checking everything broadcast at them. Then we get grass root action. Imho, it’s happening… slowly.
Maybe after this democratic party failure and when people see how much of a failure Trump is in his second term, there will finally be enough people that “know” and we’ll finally be able to do something about it.
Wait, nah, never mind. I heard Gavin Newsom is gearing up to run next when it starts again next March.
Good article.
The illusion of politics is a front to protect the predatory system which allows $50 trillion, that’s 50 000 000 000 000, to be controlled by ten companies.
Insane inequality when over half a million people a month are dying for lack of food or basic medical care
The scamdemic was their and the banks’ work. It transferred around $16 trillion from public to private and essentially bailed out the banks again, as was done in 2008. And of course couldn’t be done the same way as that would prove to the general public, that nothing had changed since for all their claims.
As most here realise, the scamdemic was the biggest con in history and hardly anybody in our brave and inciteful mainstream media has called it out as such, which has proved the fourth estate no longer fit for purpose.
It is worth reading Fabio Vighi who has detailed it correctly throughout for years and far more clearly than many alt-media sites. His writing is academic dense, but very concise.
Off-G should interview him. Worth going back to his articles from the convid years.
Fabio Vighi, Author at The Philosophical Salon
Guardian:
Yup you guessed it! Trump has morphed into a hostile weather system!
I wish a typhoon would hit the Guardian
Well, you have connections to those above, “In the beginning was the word and the word was God”-
So you must be able to make it happen!
Trump, no doubt, is yet another symptom of global warming. 😂
He’s full of hot air.
‘Climate Change?’ We’ll see. But don’t hold your breath.
I guess “Typhoo Tango” would have breached trademark rules?
Damnit I meant typhoon, now I’ll have Big Tea hunting me down
The Guardian have really been caught with their pants down. They were calling Trump a dictator and a fascist in the months before he easily won the election. They can’t alienate their American readership by insulting half of the population and they can’t complain of conspiracies when they were supposed to be the preserve of the right. And look at how thin the Guardian’s below the line comments are these days, as that bastion of free speech blocks almost anyone with an opinion that doesn’t match the badly defeated Harris’s narrative.
The Gaurdian just happens to have an article today!on narcissists-and-you guessed it-Trump was mentioned right at the end with the Menéndez bros.
Such a wet mop of acrid drivel .
My favorite line from this Cohen’s song is that “old black Joe is still picking cotton for your ribbons and your bows.” Curtin’s well constructed essay can best be summarized by that old saw,”if voting made a difference, it would be illegal.”
To understand government, one must go deeper into the very nature of psychopathy. When one does, one realizes that the control of wealth is simply a ubiquitous tool for control of the 99%. In truth, the Gucci Rolex toys and yachts are simply symbols which only confer the most transient satisfactions. The need for the elitists for total control is based on fear. But it is also based even more strongly on their intense desire to inflict continuous physical and mental pain on the 99%.
The more fundamental question is not how the elitists control the 99%, but from where does this psychopathy stem from? It is not a craving for the means of survival, as with a fair and rational economy, every individual on the planet could live in a reasonable degree of security and comfort. And why are the elitist psychopaths capable of such cooperation with each other over the generations and centuries, while your non-elitist psychopaths are incapable of cooperation with others for a month?
“ ..where does this psychopathy stem from..” Satan !
Excellent documentary, Minds of Men, about social engineering and mind control by Truthstream Media.
The one absolutely essential prop every presidential election needs is, of course, a jock strap. (This is where a female candidate will always be at a disadvantage.) The greatest PR coup in American history was the elites’ equating elections in the public’s mind with sports. It’s no accident the Democrats and Republicans are constantly referred to as Team Blue and Team Red. Blue and Red are the colors of their jerseys.
When you understand the morphing of choosing a President with winning the Super Bowl, then you understand why people vote and will continue voting till such time as the elites get bored with the shtick.
“Which side did you vote for dad?” Junior asks, in anticipation of the day he can participate in the match.
“Well son, once you’ve seen the Donald in a jock strap, there’s only one way to vote!”
And the truth shall set you free! Or. Freedoms just another word for nothing you can’t loose.
Yout clarity, is much respected!
Money men dictate 95-99% of our government’s policies. Our elected representatives get to pretend-govern with the remaining few percent.
Yet, as we’ve seen before and after 2020, those few percent of decisions can make the difference between “normalcy” and dystopia.
That alone makes it worth voting, despite how grotesque it all is.
But perhaps better than that, you get to decide who gets their nose kept out of the trough. You have no idea how delicious it was to vote the treasonous Conservatives out this year.
Thankfully I had the option of voting non-uniparty (so it was a ‘wasted’ vote thanks to the sheep) but if the only two options had been Labour and Conservative I would have held my nose and voted Labour, despite knowing they’d accelerate the harm. They at least are open about despising Britain and setting out to destroy it, whereas the Conservatives are like a murderer stabbing someone to death while claiming to be a surgeon saving their life.
P.S. The most comically absurd theory is that withholding your vote has a strategic advantage and is somehow a win. If zero people voted, even THAT would make no difference either. The system just doesn’t care if we tell it it is illegitimate. More importantly, most of the public are unresponsive to the illegitimacy too. There will be no rebellion.
If not voting makes you feel smug, that’s great. It doesn’t make you a hero or visionary though.
I am amazed to see that at this moment 7 readers have voted your correct comments down .
Using the vote is the only tiny sliver of power we plebs have . If every registered voter had voted for Reform or Independent candidates our ghastly Parliament would have been transformed in one election day . Even writing I will not comply is valuable as all spoiled ballots are counted.
FPTP voting needs ditching but Lab/Con will not allow that !
I expected some to dislike what I said.
Although I am blackpilled like them, I accept that there are many unknowns – and that leaves room for hope. It’s not healthy to give up.
Hope for what? Voting to change anything?
So life under Biden was identical to life under Trump???
You’re skilled at ignoring the evidence of your own eyes aren’t you!
Well, some people like Pepsi better than Coke (and visa versa). For them, life is better. Maybe this group gets some crumbs rather than that group getting some crumbs. Nothing of real substance changes. This is not cynicism, it is a honest reading of historical reality.
I bitterly regret voting No in the 2011 referendum on the alternative vote system, which would have made it so much easier for new parties to flourish.
I can only say sorry. I was ignorant and couldn’t conceive of the absolute treason that was already happening back then.
I do believe we are heading toward the end of the money supply business, and what a business it apparently has been.
The free silver movement that advocated no limits on the amount of coined silver saying it would speed up the economy, to the gold standard folks who believed to much free silver would only increase prices, and to control prices you use the money supply, was to only allow so much gold to be coined at the mint, and then sent into circulation each year so as to keep prices low.
By 1896 the gold std won the debate and the money supply only grew slightly, and even that didnt last long as even it was abolished in the 1930’s to be replaced with another not so publically trackable currency the paper dollar. Now to todays inflated electronic money and prices one wonders what would have occurred if they indeed did coin silver to the moon, I guess we will never know.
Any physical medium of exchange provides utility and reasonable stability. Even when cigarettes were used.
Fiat currency on the other hand is an abstract thing, instantly devalued by printing more. A clever scam by government. At least it would be – if it wasn’t handed on a platter to privately owned central banks who reap the rewards.
CBDC though… that’s a whole new level of abstraction. Even if they make it fungible, they will abuse it to control our wealth and our spending. Plus everything is tracked.
Careful what you wish for. Have you read Rakovsky’s interrogation? It’s titled “The Red Symphony”
Rakovsky is a very interesting character, at the center of the international communist revolutionary movement in the early 20th century. The Red Symphony is reportedly the transcript of his interrogation (under influence of drugs) by Stalinist police in 1938.
This post has some highlights, showing the whole revolutionary movement was being directed by the capitalists, with a link to the full paper at the bottom:
The Red Symphony: Rakovsky’s Testament to Rothschild Hegemony
Ok but then why not:
But if OmG is not an historical aberration and therefore has also been chosen by the elites, then this “dystopian depression blog” is no revolt at all but a con job played out by the billionaire elite who support OmG.
If this “dystopian depression blog” is a con job (and I am not saying it is), then its role would be to keep you reading and commenting and giving you an outlet to let off steam, rather than thinking about solutions and getting involved with others to be a part of the solution.
Since, you have been commenting here since at least 2021, it is doing its job well if that were the case.
The mighty ‘Ant’ has been commenting almost since time began, in this location: probably also in his mother’s womb, as she fed him, umbilically . . . 😂
Ok antonym, but then why not:
But if Antonym is not an historical aberration and therefore has also been chosen by the elites, to contribute BTL to this “dystopian depression blog” from the Getgo, this is no revolt at all but a con job played out by the billionaire elite who support OmG & you, inc. Antonym, see ? Are you finally conceding that somebody is paying you to monitor every word published as Agent Provocateur AP@OffG ? 😂
After all, over the years your angle of approach has changed, but you
Are still here … Disseminating Abstract 🌱 Seed of vague intelligence.
I . S . S . I suspected Soros was originally behind you in some form, if not W.H.O.?
Maybe Preston Rabl, a better guess. If so, do let me know, especially
his Birthday, please… ✌
https://youtu.be/fkBQAvAFjus?si=oJwLfvZhZ5xx1Okj
It takes one to know one…
Well it’s a willful ignorance I suppose
Thanks for the new information sources book references
pending.. previous comment. wonder why.
Lost respect with OD,
Within the first paragraph Edward Curtis decides to insult the Off guardian readers by “Lying” like a politician.
Complete utter bollocks!!
Less than two years ago, you on this blog and your blog. YOU was heavily promoting RFK as the next president savior and you was shilling the endorsement of vaccines and lockdown and lableak fake cover story with RFK supposedly censored book Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense ) which RFK CIA?Mi6/dassom ghostwriters wrote that crap that was so allegedly censored LOL it only made the New York best sellers list!!! and got 20.000 sales on amazon thanks to shills like you promoting it and HIM.
I have not read all Mr.Curtin’s articles but I know his name is not Curtis. I read one article by him where he was giving an “et tu, Brutus?” to RFK (maybe perceived before that moment as not a part of the corrupt system). It is possible to have sometimes expectations only to be dissapointed. Anyway, I have not read much “shilling” in OffG about vaccines or lockdowns so I choose not to believe that statement.
I respect Curtin and consider his writing worth the read. However, to your point, I suspect he has a bit of unexamined social democrat in him.
Thank you ! I just read the articles for their aesthetics, I don’t try to get sooo deep into the “hidden intentions”, my bad, I pass onto you the great task of revealing them.