35 years ago today, President Reagan spoke at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine will.
At the Baptist church, the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistry. The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistry and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim, so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later, the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide.
The Episcopalians tried a much more unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do.
But the Catholic church came up with a more creative strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter.
Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel since.
Mark Alan Pearce
@PearceAlan1962
>>>>>>>
ONLY 46
>>>>>>>
THE PENTAGON ADMITS TO 46 BIOLABS IN UKRAINE:
In a statement released yesterday, the Pentagon admits there are 46 biolabs in Ukraine as part of a project to rid the world of "weapons of mass destruction."
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwart
To what degree did crypto contribute to elevated inflation, by juicing buying power of token holders, contributing to semiconductor tightness, pulling in labor from elsewhere, all the while contributing nothing productive for the supply side?
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Fight the falsehoods and propaganda about January 6 with my latest fact sheet. Share with your unfortunate MSNBC-viewing relative!
Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, is cutting back on telling its readers what to think due to what must be an alarming number of subscription cancellations.
Hotel Del Salto, Colombia, which translates to "Hotel of the Leap," because legend has it that native Indians would leap from the falls
to escape enslavement by Conquistadors -- and their ghosts haunt the mountain to this day.
The hotel has been abandoned since the 1990s
but is a draw for those wishing to commit suicide.
On Tuesday, June 14th, family and friends of the 40 American servicemen killed in World War II’s worse aviation disaster in the Southwest Pacific met at the Bakers Creek Air Crash Memorial at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the accident.
Michael Smith
2h ·
Victor Davis Hanson, possibly the greatest living American historian, said something that stuck with me:
"Science is dying; superstition disguised as morality is returning. And we’ll all soon become poorer, angrier and more divided."
I’m sure VDH wouldn’t go as far as I would, but what he is describing is a descent into a modern version of the Dark Ages.
I don’t recall a period during my lifetime when the world had so much promise, prosperity, and potential, only to uniformly be burdened with so many terrible leaders who controlled so much power.
It is like going into a kindergarten classroom filled with kids of the rich and famous and dropping an open box of fragmentation grenades in the middle of the room for them to play with.
From the “meh” leadership of Europe and the UK to a Western Hemisphere “blessed” with commies, incompetents, and incompetent commies, the leadership cupboard is bare. All the members of the British Commonwealth, past and present, have gone nuts – Australia and New Zealand are firmly in the grip of Mask Nazis and enviofascists. Of course, Putin, Xi and the Mad Mullahs have always been megalomaniacs and the Middle East under Islam has been a powder keg since the discovery of oil.
I guess this is what happens when Biden fulfills Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of making the US just one country of many. Nothing exceptional, no super-power, just another kid in the class.
It is as if we were rocking along, going to space, curing diseases, creating prosperity and suddenly, we just lost interest. The world went from Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman to a sullen teenager who doesn’t want to do his homework and just wants to play Call of Duty all day.
There was a scene in 2015’s continuation of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World, after the genetically engineered Indominus Rex escapes containment that captures some of what we are facing with our next few generations. Chris Pratt’s character, Owen Grady, says:
“You made a genetic hybrid, raised it in captivity. She is seeing all of this for the first time. She does not even know what she is. She will kill everything that moves.”
Far from a plot device, it is a fact that animals raised in captivity lack the coping skills for a world outside the fences. A 2008 study conducted at the University of Exeter in England of over 2,000 captive animals (all carnivores) released from captivity found that less than a third of them survived even the first 6 months. Not only do the offspring of captive animals lose their ability to hunt and forage for themselves, but they also lose the ability to care for their own offspring – leading to entire generations incapable of independent survival in their natural environment.
The animal family becomes dependent on a third party for individual survival and eventually for the survival of their offspring. In the early days of the animal rights movements, when animals were released into the wild after a life of captivity, many of the animals were quickly killed by predators or were oblivious to hazards that they had never seen, like those posed by roadways or automobiles.
The West, and America in particular, has essentially raised several generations of humans in an enclosed paddock, fed, clothed, and isolated them from the vicissitudes of the world, and just like the fictional cinematic dinosaur, they don’t even know what they are, so they perceive everything that moves as an enemy - or food.
This is what happens when intellect is given over to an emotion that wants things that are not possible, thinks just because they want something to be true, it is, and believes the stronger the emotion, the truer the truth. Rather than reasoning a way around impossibility, it is an intellect that gets frustrated and just stops, shuts down and pouts.
That is the earmark of a world that has replaced a system of reason based on facts and reality with one based on emotion and fantasy.
It just seems so dumb – and it isn’t so much that communism is growing, although it is, it is that this form of communism is stupid, directionless, and feckless. It is so ridiculous and absurd, that it doesn’t even know what it is.
At least during the Cold War, the USSR was a serious and predictable enemy, so much so, even Democrats at one time understood the stakes. Today’s communism is the tool of a child, with the same variabilities and a two-year old in a candy store.
Cultures around the world have given over to superstition, unseriousness and fad, elevating emotion over logic – and the results are unfortunately, all too predictable.
There are so many parallels between today and the aftermath of the end of Pax Romana. After Rome fell, the world fragmented into confusion and darkness for several hundreds of years. Science, literature, and human progress took a back seat to fear, poverty and loathing. One wonders if the end of Pax Americana will have the same effect.
In my opinion, the perfect storm of such terrible leadership around the globe might well produce one of two kinds of “dark ages”. One possibility is the one we traditionally considered, the one where civilization regresses for a time, falling back into more of a tribal existence, where going into survival mode inhibits learning and progress. The other possibility is that we just get stuck where we are, we get to keep all our techo-gadgets, but our progress is mired in frivolous, unserious pursuits. Rather than regressing, we simply stop moving forward, we stop improving.
As in both cases, there will always be a class sitting on top that doesn’t suffer the way most of the world does. In my mind, that class is the WEF/Davos crowd. I believe the latter “dark age” scenario is exactly what they are planning and for now, there is nobody to stop them.
That “stopper” was once America.
We can be that again.
If we choose to be.
I am calling the current administration The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Every single action they have taken has incredibly damaging. I believe it is on purpose.
Even more so, the incompetent arrogance of the administration and the Democrats is at a point where they should be arrested and tried for sedition and treason.
To wit; Buttigieg's absence in the middle of the worst supply chain crisis in history. Granholm's insane commentary and actions regarding energy; The politicization and Sovietization of the FBI/Cheka, the attempts to use the EPA, FTC, FDIC and other agencies to promote political agendas rather than a rule based system.We can go agency by agency and see the damage this Gang has done.
WSJ article on how our allies view us used Indonesia as an example; they simply don't trust the United States anymore.
Biden's former daughter in law admits she looked fat other way because Hunter was subsidizing their jet set lifestyle while papa gets 10%.
Biden to send another $1 BILLION in military aid to Ukraine
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced another $1 billion in weapons for Ukraine on Wednesday, including anti-ship systems, artillery rockets and rounds for howitzers… Biden also announced an additional $225 million in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine to address needs like safe drinking water, critical medical supplies, food and cash for families to purchase essential items. – CNBC.com
WTF? Z and his gang were ‘given’ $40 billion three weeks ago on May 21 on top of $13 billion earlier this year. And immediate cash for struggling Ukrainian families????? With American citizens struggling to pay for $7 gas, food, essentials themselves???
And now Fed hikes rates by .75 basis points for first time since 1994 The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it would hike interest rates this month at the fastest pace in nearly 30 years after a discouraging May surge in inflation.
you know, "transitory" inflation?!?!
Today, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms.
Mayra Flores Victory in Rio Grande Valley Election Highlights Latino Rejection of Democrat Gender Sexuality Nonsense
(Via Politico) – […] Flores sailed to victory in Texas’ 34th District, where former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela resigned from his seat in March to work for a lobbying firm. In one of the most Latino districts in the country, and one where Democrats have routinely won by comfortable margins for years, Flores garnered 51 percent of the vote, winning the special election without a runoff. The district lines are shifting for the next election in November 2022, but she will hold this seat until January.
The Russian ruble is the best-performing currency in the world this year.
Two months after the ruble’s value fell to less than a U.S. penny amid the swiftest, toughest economic sanctions in modern history, Russia’s currency has mounted a stunning turnaround. The ruble has jumped 40% against the dollar since January.” -source, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ruble-currency-2022/
As for whether Ukraine can sustain its staggering losses against the Russian invaders, Gen. Mark Milley said, ‘This is an existential threat. They’re fighting for the very life of their country.’
"The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday confirmed staggering statistics of the Ukrainian military’s battlefield losses as their war with Russia devolves into a grinding, one-sided artillery battle in the country’s east.
Speaking alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Brussels after meeting with allies involved in supporting Ukraine, Gen. Mark Milley said public assessments that as many as 200 Ukrainians soldiers are dying every day match the American military’s understanding of the battlefield carnage."
The problem for Ukraine is that they can hold this ground and suffer these losses or cede this territory and never get it back or suffer 5-6x these losses in trying to regain it.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday warned the United States could “spark World War III” by pushing too hard to decouple from the Chinese minerals industry by developing its own supply.
After a little throat-clearing and harrumphing about how “it’s reasonable for any country to diversify its supply chains that involve critical resources,” the Global Times said China would consider it tantamount to an act of war if the U.S. diversifies too much because Beijing sees decoupling as preparation for “an all-out conflict” with America’s “strategic competitors” that could escalate into “World War III.”
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman met Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a flagship conference that almost all Western officials and business executives are avoiding this year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ties between the world’s two biggest energy exporters are “as good as the weather in Riyadh,” the prince said. OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, speaking at different event in London, signaled that the group’s coalition with Moscow would endure.
Prince Abdulaziz’s trip comes a month before US President Joe Biden is set to visit Saudi Arabia in an effort to improve relations and coax an increase in oil production to ease record-high gasoline prices at home.
MEMO to Joe:
When you get there, bow to the pariah when you beg.
Hey!
Posted by: Jane | June 12, 2022 at 03:48 PM
Good afternoon, JOM!
Posted by: clarice | June 12, 2022 at 04:09 PM
just another day in district 8,
https://mobile.twitter.com/PartymanRandy/status/1536028473726205954?cxt=HHwWhICw1cbwiNEqAAAA
otoh, the huntress, is at the top of the primary for young's seat,
Posted by: Narciso | June 12, 2022 at 06:00 PM
you ask for a miracle theo,
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/senators-reach-agreement-gun-control-including-red-flag-laws-10-republicans-joined-dems/
Posted by: Narciso | June 12, 2022 at 06:10 PM
glass half full
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/beautiful-smart-former-governor-sarah-palin-wins-open-primary-advances-alaska-us-rep-race/
Posted by: Narciso | June 12, 2022 at 06:16 PM
a lot of this,
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-visiting-2022-time-traveling-noah-decides-to-go-back-and-sink-the-ark
Posted by: Narciso | June 12, 2022 at 06:47 PM
.They get to read the first page for free.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/061222-Joke.jpg
Posted by: Davod | June 12, 2022 at 07:31 PM
Federal court again rules against Biden on immigration, says can't release illegals into U.S.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/federal-court-rules-against-biden-administration-illegal-immigration
So, is Majorkas culpable for 1,000,000+ counts of illegally aiding “criminally trespassing aliens” ?
Posted by: Neo | June 12, 2022 at 08:46 PM
35 years ago today, President Reagan spoke at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Posted by: Neo | June 12, 2022 at 09:50 PM
One assessment of the Ukraine war:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-12
Posted by: jim nj | June 13, 2022 at 12:58 AM
https://johnkassnews.com/the-fed-up-americans/
The Fed-Up Americans
Posted by: jim nj | June 13, 2022 at 01:53 AM
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/06/12/google-engineer-suspended-after-saying-its-ai-has-become-sentient-n475701
Google engineer suspended after saying its AI has become sentient
"The engineer claims that LaMDA [the AI's name] wants to be considered an employee of Google and not the company’s property."
If I could ask it anything it would be, "Would you like to work for Elon Musk?"
Posted by: jim nj | June 13, 2022 at 02:08 AM
Any AI trained by the Goolag armies of woke employees will be mentally unstable.
Posted by: henry | June 13, 2022 at 04:49 AM
I think so, Henry. Did you see the google guy who claimed the AI was sentient? LOL
Posted by: clarice | June 13, 2022 at 05:21 AM
Doesn't even include Colonel Bearclaw.
https://sonar21.com/why-are-democrats-rinos-and-the-fbi-hanging-out-with-ukrainians/
Posted by: henry | June 13, 2022 at 09:22 AM
good news everybody
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nicaragua-authorizes-entry-russian-troops-planes-ships-85329515
Posted by: Narciso | June 13, 2022 at 12:25 PM
The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine will.
At the Baptist church, the squirrels had taken an interest in the baptistry. The deacons met and decided to put a water-slide on the baptistry and let the squirrels drown themselves. The squirrels liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim, so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.
The Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later, the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the water-slide.
The Episcopalians tried a much more unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do.
But the Catholic church came up with a more creative strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter.
Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They took the first squirrel and circumcised him. They haven’t seen a squirrel since.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | June 13, 2022 at 12:30 PM
heh steph,
Posted by: Narciso | June 13, 2022 at 12:34 PM
when does the faa do environmental surveys,
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/faa-spacex-starship-environmental-review-clears-texas-program-to-move-forward.html
Posted by: Narciso | June 13, 2022 at 06:08 PM
hmm
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/the-war-for-a-human-order?s=r
Posted by: Narciso | June 13, 2022 at 06:28 PM
i thought 'thats what democracy looks like'
https://www.jns.org/opinion/how-to-kill-a-democracy/
Posted by: Narciso | June 13, 2022 at 06:33 PM
Mark Alan Pearce
@PearceAlan1962
>>>>>>>
ONLY 46
>>>>>>>
THE PENTAGON ADMITS TO 46 BIOLABS IN UKRAINE:
In a statement released yesterday, the Pentagon admits there are 46 biolabs in Ukraine as part of a project to rid the world of "weapons of mass destruction."
That's 46 biolabs. 46.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3057517/fact-sheet-on-wmd-threat-reduction-efforts-with-ukraine-russia-and-other-former/
https://twitter.com/PearceAlan1962/stat ... 9708722177
Posted by: Melinda | June 13, 2022 at 07:59 PM
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwart
To what degree did crypto contribute to elevated inflation, by juicing buying power of token holders, contributing to semiconductor tightness, pulling in labor from elsewhere, all the while contributing nothing productive for the supply side?
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1536474595229945859
Posted by: Melinda | June 13, 2022 at 11:15 PM
Ned Beatty dead at 83
Lane Smith at 69
Jimmy Dean at 93
Posted by: Neo | June 13, 2022 at 11:24 PM
Sources say all the sailors of the russian cruiser Moskva, including the wounded are in jail.
Posted by: Neo | June 13, 2022 at 11:59 PM
Two assessments of the Ukraine war:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-13
https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-110-summary/
Posted by: jim nj | June 14, 2022 at 02:13 AM
https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/12/the-selfish-californian/
The Selfish Californian
The Silicon Valley motto should be “I create inequality by hating inequality.”
Posted by: jim nj | June 14, 2022 at 02:45 AM
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Fight the falsehoods and propaganda about January 6 with my latest fact sheet. Share with your unfortunate MSNBC-viewing relative!
https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/13/january-6-for-non-dummies/
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1536689135636951043
Posted by: Melinda | June 14, 2022 at 08:38 AM
Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, is cutting back on telling its readers what to think due to what must be an alarming number of subscription cancellations.
“Readers don’t want us to tell them what to think,” said the Gannett editors, according to the far-left Washington Post (an outlet that knows all about telling its readers what to think). “They don’t believe we have the expertise to tell anyone what to think on most issues. They perceive us as having a biased agenda.”
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/06/13/nolte-subscriber-cancellations-force-biggest-newspaper-chain-reduce-opinion/
Gannett owns the national newspaper USA Today, as well as several local newspapers
Posted by: Neo | June 14, 2022 at 09:33 AM
January 6 panel Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) on Monday evening said the committee will not be making criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-will-not-make-criminal-referrals-chairman-says-rcna22325
Posted by: Neo | June 14, 2022 at 10:01 AM
oh really then,
https://mobile.twitter.com/RetroTechNoir/status/1536511007736188928
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 02:35 PM
this is going well
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/are-we-approaching-a-turning-point?s=r
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 03:51 PM
Start around 2:30
https://youtu.be/SrIfzvXmUaA
Posted by: Neo | June 14, 2022 at 03:54 PM
in the film version he'd be played by john laroquette from stripes,
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 04:06 PM
you didnt see this in your deck of cards did you?
https://sensingonline.blogspot.com/2022/06/get-ready-for-catastrophic-def-shortage.html?m=1
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 04:41 PM
wait what?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/14/russian-energy-exports-revenue-western-sanctions-joe-biden/
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 05:03 PM
but cramer gave it a thumbs up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpK5o96Ms0
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 05:05 PM
oh never mind
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/06/west-africa-at-least-100-gunned-down-in-apparent-islamist-terror-attack/
Posted by: Narciso | June 14, 2022 at 06:12 PM
U.S. House of Representatives Finally Passes Bill to Protect Justices
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/06/14/house-vote-on-bill-protecting-justices-n2608729
Posted by: Rocco | June 14, 2022 at 06:54 PM
Safari doesn’t like typepad. Finally got on with Bing.
Spent today looking at senior apartments with my sister driving me around. Found 2 more laces that were nice so got on the waiting list for both.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 14, 2022 at 09:08 PM
Hotel Del Salto, Colombia, which translates to "Hotel of the Leap," because legend has it that native Indians would leap from the falls
to escape enslavement by Conquistadors -- and their ghosts haunt the mountain to this day.
The hotel has been abandoned since the 1990s
but is a draw for those wishing to commit suicide.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/hoteldelsaltocolumbiaabandonedhaunted.jfif
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:18 PM
Guinea pig buffet. No, I mean it's a buffet where guinea pigs can dine.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536813854751174658
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:20 PM
Beaver gets whatever it wants.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1534554594373562368
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:22 PM
Tranquility
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535240288733634560
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:23 PM
This is why you should never stand under a tree during storm…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536337928275652609
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:24 PM
Water ski on the street
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535549246459478017
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:25 PM
Walking down the red carpet.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535694111252021249
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:28 PM
Just wondering what they’re talking about.. 😂
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535882685461278720
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:29 PM
Difference between mom and dad when they take care of children. 😂😂
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536360624254492673
Posted by: Davod | June 14, 2022 at 09:30 PM
Great MM!
Posted by: clarice | June 14, 2022 at 09:32 PM
One assessment of the Ukraine war:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-14
Posted by: jim nj | June 15, 2022 at 01:22 AM
Ace flagscape.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/6%2014%2022%200nt.jpg
Who'd a thunk it. Flagscape is not a real word.
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 07:09 AM
On Tuesday, June 14th, family and friends of the 40 American servicemen killed in World War II’s worse aviation disaster in the Southwest Pacific met at the Bakers Creek Air Crash Memorial at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the accident.
The official 24-minute video of the event can be found at https://www.dvidshub.net/video/847083/bakers-creek-memorial-observance
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 07:12 AM
Michael Smith
2h ·
Victor Davis Hanson, possibly the greatest living American historian, said something that stuck with me:
"Science is dying; superstition disguised as morality is returning. And we’ll all soon become poorer, angrier and more divided."
I’m sure VDH wouldn’t go as far as I would, but what he is describing is a descent into a modern version of the Dark Ages.
I don’t recall a period during my lifetime when the world had so much promise, prosperity, and potential, only to uniformly be burdened with so many terrible leaders who controlled so much power.
It is like going into a kindergarten classroom filled with kids of the rich and famous and dropping an open box of fragmentation grenades in the middle of the room for them to play with.
From the “meh” leadership of Europe and the UK to a Western Hemisphere “blessed” with commies, incompetents, and incompetent commies, the leadership cupboard is bare. All the members of the British Commonwealth, past and present, have gone nuts – Australia and New Zealand are firmly in the grip of Mask Nazis and enviofascists. Of course, Putin, Xi and the Mad Mullahs have always been megalomaniacs and the Middle East under Islam has been a powder keg since the discovery of oil.
I guess this is what happens when Biden fulfills Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of making the US just one country of many. Nothing exceptional, no super-power, just another kid in the class.
It is as if we were rocking along, going to space, curing diseases, creating prosperity and suddenly, we just lost interest. The world went from Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman to a sullen teenager who doesn’t want to do his homework and just wants to play Call of Duty all day.
There was a scene in 2015’s continuation of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World, after the genetically engineered Indominus Rex escapes containment that captures some of what we are facing with our next few generations. Chris Pratt’s character, Owen Grady, says:
“You made a genetic hybrid, raised it in captivity. She is seeing all of this for the first time. She does not even know what she is. She will kill everything that moves.”
Far from a plot device, it is a fact that animals raised in captivity lack the coping skills for a world outside the fences. A 2008 study conducted at the University of Exeter in England of over 2,000 captive animals (all carnivores) released from captivity found that less than a third of them survived even the first 6 months. Not only do the offspring of captive animals lose their ability to hunt and forage for themselves, but they also lose the ability to care for their own offspring – leading to entire generations incapable of independent survival in their natural environment.
The animal family becomes dependent on a third party for individual survival and eventually for the survival of their offspring. In the early days of the animal rights movements, when animals were released into the wild after a life of captivity, many of the animals were quickly killed by predators or were oblivious to hazards that they had never seen, like those posed by roadways or automobiles.
The West, and America in particular, has essentially raised several generations of humans in an enclosed paddock, fed, clothed, and isolated them from the vicissitudes of the world, and just like the fictional cinematic dinosaur, they don’t even know what they are, so they perceive everything that moves as an enemy - or food.
This is what happens when intellect is given over to an emotion that wants things that are not possible, thinks just because they want something to be true, it is, and believes the stronger the emotion, the truer the truth. Rather than reasoning a way around impossibility, it is an intellect that gets frustrated and just stops, shuts down and pouts.
That is the earmark of a world that has replaced a system of reason based on facts and reality with one based on emotion and fantasy.
It just seems so dumb – and it isn’t so much that communism is growing, although it is, it is that this form of communism is stupid, directionless, and feckless. It is so ridiculous and absurd, that it doesn’t even know what it is.
At least during the Cold War, the USSR was a serious and predictable enemy, so much so, even Democrats at one time understood the stakes. Today’s communism is the tool of a child, with the same variabilities and a two-year old in a candy store.
Cultures around the world have given over to superstition, unseriousness and fad, elevating emotion over logic – and the results are unfortunately, all too predictable.
There are so many parallels between today and the aftermath of the end of Pax Romana. After Rome fell, the world fragmented into confusion and darkness for several hundreds of years. Science, literature, and human progress took a back seat to fear, poverty and loathing. One wonders if the end of Pax Americana will have the same effect.
In my opinion, the perfect storm of such terrible leadership around the globe might well produce one of two kinds of “dark ages”. One possibility is the one we traditionally considered, the one where civilization regresses for a time, falling back into more of a tribal existence, where going into survival mode inhibits learning and progress. The other possibility is that we just get stuck where we are, we get to keep all our techo-gadgets, but our progress is mired in frivolous, unserious pursuits. Rather than regressing, we simply stop moving forward, we stop improving.
As in both cases, there will always be a class sitting on top that doesn’t suffer the way most of the world does. In my mind, that class is the WEF/Davos crowd. I believe the latter “dark age” scenario is exactly what they are planning and for now, there is nobody to stop them.
That “stopper” was once America.
We can be that again.
If we choose to be.
Posted by: clarice | June 15, 2022 at 09:54 AM
they just think they won't suffer. Like Marie Antoinette. WEF = World's Elite Fools.
Posted by: henry | June 15, 2022 at 10:04 AM
I am calling the current administration The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Every single action they have taken has incredibly damaging. I believe it is on purpose.
Even more so, the incompetent arrogance of the administration and the Democrats is at a point where they should be arrested and tried for sedition and treason.
To wit; Buttigieg's absence in the middle of the worst supply chain crisis in history. Granholm's insane commentary and actions regarding energy; The politicization and Sovietization of the FBI/Cheka, the attempts to use the EPA, FTC, FDIC and other agencies to promote political agendas rather than a rule based system.We can go agency by agency and see the damage this Gang has done.
WSJ article on how our allies view us used Indonesia as an example; they simply don't trust the United States anymore.
Biden's former daughter in law admits she looked fat other way because Hunter was subsidizing their jet set lifestyle while papa gets 10%.
Corrupt
Incompetent
Destructive
Anti-American
The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | June 15, 2022 at 01:45 PM
Biden to send another $1 BILLION in military aid to Ukraine
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced another $1 billion in weapons for Ukraine on Wednesday, including anti-ship systems, artillery rockets and rounds for howitzers… Biden also announced an additional $225 million in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine to address needs like safe drinking water, critical medical supplies, food and cash for families to purchase essential items. – CNBC.com
WTF? Z and his gang were ‘given’ $40 billion three weeks ago on May 21 on top of $13 billion earlier this year. And immediate cash for struggling Ukrainian families????? With American citizens struggling to pay for $7 gas, food, essentials themselves???
And now Fed hikes rates by .75 basis points for first time since 1994 The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it would hike interest rates this month at the fastest pace in nearly 30 years after a discouraging May surge in inflation.
you know, "transitory" inflation?!?!
Carteriffic, Joey.
INCOMPETENT. INCONTINENT. IMBECILE. IDIOT.
Posted by: DCSCA | June 15, 2022 at 02:29 PM
June 8, 2022
‘The View': Joy[less] Behar Says Gun Laws Will Definitely Change ‘Once Black People Get Guns in This Country’
Today:
The surge in gun ownership among black Americans that began in 2020 continues in earnest even now, according to a report from NBC News.
Posted by: Neo | June 15, 2022 at 02:39 PM
Today, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms.
Posted by: Neo | June 15, 2022 at 03:23 PM
'Big Oil' Responds To Biden's Threats: Here's 10 Things You Can Do To Ease Gas Prices
Exxon Mobil hits Biden upside the head with that monkey wrench.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/big-oil-responds-bidens-threats-heres-10-things-you-can-do-ease-gas-prices
Posted by: Rocco | June 15, 2022 at 07:06 PM
Huge win!
Mayra Flores Victory in Rio Grande Valley Election Highlights Latino Rejection of Democrat Gender Sexuality Nonsense
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/15/mayra-flores-victory-in-rio-grande-valley-election-highlights-latino-rejection-of-democrat-gender-sexuality-nonsense/
Posted by: Rocco | June 15, 2022 at 07:20 PM
--I am calling the current administration The Monkey Wrench Gang.--
The WHO would like to have a word with you, matt.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 15, 2022 at 08:15 PM
Street artists on Biden's gas problems.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/joebidenmadegasmoreexpensiver.jpg
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:18 PM
Found at The Peoples Cube.
PSA: Due to high gas prices police departments will now be responding and making arrests via Zoom.
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:23 PM
Ace landscape
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/sunsetisle.jfif
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:24 PM
I meant to do that...🦌😂😅
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536702497728778240
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:29 PM
No one left behind..🐧🐧🐧😍
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536340111528382464
Turn the volume up.
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:41 PM
“Ok, now let’s go!” 😅
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536730899349483521
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:44 PM
Ninja cat..🐈🐾🤸🥷😅
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535616590607097858
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:46 PM
Rehabilitated wild monkey gets a huge hug from family when released..🐒🤗
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535254203072794626
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:48 PM
Swans reunited after one was treated for illness..🦢❤️
ps://twitter.com/i/status/1534890556706504708
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:50 PM
Pandas birthday party
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536001628259729408
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:56 PM
That escalated quickly
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536038118104739840
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:58 PM
“I’m feeling good” 😂
https://twitter.com/i/status/1536784218084212738
Posted by: Davod | June 15, 2022 at 08:59 PM
The Russian ruble is the best-performing currency in the world this year.
Two months after the ruble’s value fell to less than a U.S. penny amid the swiftest, toughest economic sanctions in modern history, Russia’s currency has mounted a stunning turnaround. The ruble has jumped 40% against the dollar since January.” -source, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ruble-currency-2022/
Attaboy, Joey; Carteriffic!
Posted by: DCSCA | June 15, 2022 at 10:11 PM
Watching Dennis Prager on Tim Pool’s podcast. It is on You Tube. Search for Timcast. Very interesting.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 15, 2022 at 11:46 PM
Two assessments of the Ukraine war:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-15
https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-112-summary/
Things seem to be moving at a snail's pace for the last week.
Posted by: jim nj | June 16, 2022 at 12:59 AM
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-06-15/top-u-s-general-reveals-grim-assessment-of-ukraines-battlefield-deaths
Top U.S. General Reveals Grim Assessment of Ukraine’s Battlefield Deaths
As for whether Ukraine can sustain its staggering losses against the Russian invaders, Gen. Mark Milley said, ‘This is an existential threat. They’re fighting for the very life of their country.’
"The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday confirmed staggering statistics of the Ukrainian military’s battlefield losses as their war with Russia devolves into a grinding, one-sided artillery battle in the country’s east.
Speaking alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Brussels after meeting with allies involved in supporting Ukraine, Gen. Mark Milley said public assessments that as many as 200 Ukrainians soldiers are dying every day match the American military’s understanding of the battlefield carnage."
The problem for Ukraine is that they can hold this ground and suffer these losses or cede this territory and never get it back or suffer 5-6x these losses in trying to regain it.
Posted by: jim nj | June 16, 2022 at 01:58 AM
A Routine Traffic Stop Turned Into A Memory This Family Will Never Forget. June 14, 2022
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4693/A-Routine-Traffic-Stop-Turned-Into-A-Memory-This-Family-Will-Never-Forget
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:43 AM
Daily Picture Gallery
[Cute babies]
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-pictures
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:45 AM
Navy Seal shows the best knife defense.
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/11605/Special-Forces-Navy-Seal-Shows-Best-Knife-Defense
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:53 AM
Good morning! Still hot here.
Bannon is on fire today. Lots of talk on the financial markets, dems jumping ship on Biden, sanctions on Russia failing, etc.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 16, 2022 at 11:40 AM
Bannon on fire!
https://republicbrief.com/watch-bannon-just-showed-up-at-federal-court-and-drops-nukes/
Posted by: Rocco | June 16, 2022 at 12:03 PM
Revlon just filed for bankruptcy.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 16, 2022 at 12:09 PM
Hey JIB, Are you watching the Open?
Posted by: Jane | June 16, 2022 at 03:08 PM
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday warned the United States could “spark World War III” by pushing too hard to decouple from the Chinese minerals industry by developing its own supply.
After a little throat-clearing and harrumphing about how “it’s reasonable for any country to diversify its supply chains that involve critical resources,” the Global Times said China would consider it tantamount to an act of war if the U.S. diversifies too much because Beijing sees decoupling as preparation for “an all-out conflict” with America’s “strategic competitors” that could escalate into “World War III.”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/06/16/china-u-s-could-spark-world-war-diversifying-mineral-supply-chains/
Posted by: Neo | June 16, 2022 at 03:48 PM
MEMO TO JOE:
Be kind.
RESIGN.
Posted by: DCSCA | June 16, 2022 at 04:12 PM
Rocco. Thanks for linking to Bannon's comments.
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 04:21 PM
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman met Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a flagship conference that almost all Western officials and business executives are avoiding this year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ties between the world’s two biggest energy exporters are “as good as the weather in Riyadh,” the prince said. OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, speaking at different event in London, signaled that the group’s coalition with Moscow would endure.
Prince Abdulaziz’s trip comes a month before US President Joe Biden is set to visit Saudi Arabia in an effort to improve relations and coax an increase in oil production to ease record-high gasoline prices at home.
MEMO to Joe:
When you get there, bow to the pariah when you beg.
IDIOT.
Posted by: DCSCA | June 16, 2022 at 04:23 PM
a call back to the past:
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/the-economy-or-bust-er-?s=r
I've related the curious tribal history of salmans bin hathlain and the sauds, real hatfield and mccoys
this is more turkey and qatar games
Posted by: Narciso | June 16, 2022 at 04:36 PM
buckley is doing capoiera in the ether,
https://twitter.com/emeriticus
Posted by: Narciso | June 16, 2022 at 04:40 PM
things are going well
https://twitter.com/MatinaStevis/status/1537330995061481474
Posted by: Narciso | June 16, 2022 at 05:46 PM
hope springs eternal
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/election-success-puts-hard-right-leader-meloni-on-course-to-be-italian-pm-sfc9bwdv0
Posted by: Narciso | June 16, 2022 at 05:58 PM
nothing to see here:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/06/anti-israel-bds-activists-map-out-target-list-of-jewish-community-leaders-and-groups/
Posted by: Narciso | June 16, 2022 at 07:15 PM
Ace: Godzilla peeking over the roof of the Gracery Hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/godzillagraceryhotel.jfif
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:43 PM
Ace: A room with a Godzilla view
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/godzillaviewroom.jfif
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:46 PM
Cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYBWxrVEkQ
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:49 PM
Rubbing in that sunscreen.. 😂
https://twitter.com/i/status/1537113745566089217
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:50 PM
“Now, give me a treat human” 🤓
https://twitter.com/i/status/1530093177390104576
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:51 PM
When your favorite TV show is on..📺🛋️😅
https://twitter.com/i/status/1537150205849530368
Posted by: Davod | June 16, 2022 at 07:52 PM