Great point about animals and homeless people. When you are closer to nature, you notice things that city dwellers typically do not. A Feeling in the air. So when you see during a wet season a lot of animals moving out of the bottom ground, the flood is coming. Cattle heading for shelter well before the normal time? Look for a storm. A herd circling around the calves? Well, there is a predator somewhere out there that they sensed.
Even non political people in my sphere and acting like a horse that smells a cougar. Skittish, spooky, and frightened. Enough like that you can get a stamped. Because of my field, though I am in a Free State, I am very cautious about stating my political opinions. I run grey in other words. So I hear things that people say that they wouldn't say around team red people.
They are scared. They are convinced that they will get the vid from non vaxed people and die. Some are glad for the vax reactions, as "There are to many people to be sustainable anyway".
My team red clients and vendors? Quietly heading to shelter. Getting supplies. Getting gear. There is a storm coming and predators around. Time to get ready.
I concur, I just wish I was in a place to do more. I am trying to organize my family so we can coordinate together, but ideally we need to leave the suburbs and head more rural to land with good soil and a water supply. Then hunker down until this passes over. I do think it'll be decades, not years though.
It may be generations. Such is the way of things. Find a place (no matter where that place is) where people honestly care about you. I live in what was a "blue" state, that has turned rather red over my time here. While my back home family is not here, I have a support network (and one that also needs me as much as I need them). Never a bad idea to find a place with good water and soil. Gardening is a joy (yes I am odd) as it being with the land. You understand live on a different level that way. For instance, I look forward to the seasons. The biting cold, the horrid heat, the days of perfection, the smell of rain and storms... It humbles you. You realize that no matter what Man thinks, if old mother nature decides to really take you out, it will. We had a storm of over a 100 mile an hour wind last year. Straight line wind. Then -20F in the winter.
Living in S. Florida we are getting massive coverage of the Surfside Building collapse. As of now we have 3 dead and 99 missing. We had the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando a couple of years ago where 49 people were murdered. So of course the media covered that nationally wall to wall because it involved guns! And the victims were (mostly) gays (who are an officially and approved recognized oppressed minority group.) At least the rescue effort is stellar and there is a serious risk the rest of the building may collapse. God Bless the recuse people.
BTW... the nuke issue sure sounds deadly but ask yourself this. If Abe Lincoln had possesed nuclear weapons in 1861 would he have used them on a non-nuclear South and ended the Civil War before it got carried on too long? And Biden did have a point... he's got nukes and I will bet you he would feel 100% obligated to use them to (ahem,gasp) "preserve the nation". And no doubt it would be his version of patriotic. But that's why Civil War II will be more low key where the power's that be rule by day and in fear while the other side rules at night. Or the hackers will rule all.
They are trying to pick a fight. Nothing more, nothing less. They want an insurrection. If one starts, then they'll have reasons to push 2a removal through. If right-wingers shoot a politician, take over a federal building, or anything like that, they will have justification to do so. Gun owners are the most lawful people in existence, and they need to change that. They are planting the seeds of thought that gunowners are bad. They created the enemy in the mind of normal Democrats and they are wanting the fight.
I watched the China Unsensored podcast where they interviewed a North Korean defector. She made the observation that the US citizenry has the same mentality as those that live in North Korea. All is missing are the armed guards and death camps.
If you look at the actions like HR1, the democrats are trying to rig the game to never loose. They will try to win in 2022. They will cheat and steal.
I will ask again. What is keeping you in Kalifornia? Why not leave and go someplace safer? Go someplace where you can have some sort of freedom.
Part of the victim mentality is to provoke a reaction, then destroy the one who did the reaction.
If you have ever worked a bar/party security, you will know the game some women play of "Let's you and him fight!". I learned VERY quickly when that game starts to try to remove the source of the problem. This feels like that. Like the drunk girl hitting on random men so her boyfriend can go beat them up.
Joe wrecked the entire January 6 narrative. If you can only topple the government with nukes and F-15s, then January 6, according to Captain Dementia, was not an insurrection.
The one thing that Captain Dementia also doesn't get is that an American insurgency would be a nightmare for him and his ilk and anyone who supports them. A population that can infiltrate the military and any government agency, that speaks the same language, knows the land.
I've seen on Twitter that a lot of people think it would be like the Taliban or Iraq.
Oh no it wouldn't. It would be like the IRA in the War of Irish Independence. It would be like events in Romania when the Wall fell.
There would be not a single spot on US territory where those troops who support him would be safe. Any civilian they run into could be an assassin. Those who wonder, just look up Michael Collins and his Twelve Apostles and their war of assassination they waged against British espionage experts.
"But the US has drones and tanks!" the Twitterati scream.
Cool. What's your drone doing to do when I blow up your supply convoys, destroy bridges, mine access roads, infiltrate your ground crews, take their families hostage, etc? And tanks? I was infantry. A tank without proper infantry support, to me, is only one thing: a very sweet roadblock.
I too have been studying the IRA and the troubles lately. Might be useful historical facts. History is key... if you know where you've been, you know how to get where you're going.
I too sometimes turn on my grunt brain and think the thoughts of sweet victorious freedom. It won't be what those who have never seen violence think it will be. And in Iraq I saw a small, highly motivated, group of poorly armed and poorly trained insurgents cripple a super power.
Not just Marcos in the Philippines -- in 1993 the Soviet coup generals ordered their troops to fire on the crowd in Red Square and not. One. Did. There's a pic somewhere on the Internet of a soldier who looks like he's maybe 16 years old, and he's handing his AK to a girl in the crowd. I can't find it again but I know I saw it.
Sure, at Tiananmen Square the Chicoms mowed down their own dissidents. But they tried it a week before the massacre and their Chinese troops wouldn't do it. They had to bring in troops from out West who weren't ethnic Han and could care less about Chinese lives.
So ask yourself -- as woke as the generals are pretending to be, will that kid you know who enlisted last summer shoot Americans, even if he's told they're "right-wing extremists?" Not the ones I know. The regime is going to try to pit us against the army and police, because we are both their enemies. It's going to be critical to resist that temptation.
As to what we should actually DO ... I like another million men in DC, calling for the resignation of the election thieves and refusing to leave until they do. I would be very surprised if the regime survives that, esp. if the ones who don't have to resign (like Pelosi; I'm sure her district really did vote for her) give up the others to save their own selves.
Remember when Hillary claimed the vast right wing conspiracy? That was cover for the vast left wing conspiracy, which was in full motion following the election.
Your point about leftist being lazy is true, although sometimes they make the effort. I am a big fan of Kevin Williamson from National Review. As I used to consider myself a generic conservative he did a great job in his writing of being unapologetic but clear in what he stood for, and the venn diagram of our values overlapped nicely. He was slated to go to the Atlantic to kind of continue that mission and expose those readers to what actual conservatives think. They pulled a quote of his from a podcast out of context to make him look like an extremist and the leadership of that feckless and worthless rag caved, which he took more gracefully than I would. I refuse to read anything from them and probably always will. Now I listened to that podcast regularly so I looked up what it was about because I didn't remember any extremism.... So the topic was arguments against the prolife/anti-abortion movement and he was answering a hard question honestly, being: "If abortion is made illegal, or you think it's murder, would you imprison women who engage in it as well as doctors?" His honest answer was yes, if you believe that then it's not inconsistent to actually follow through, though I don't think that's his actual personal position. I am going from my own memory and any errors in this screed are my own. It was a pretty important moment for me in realizing how heavily the deck is stacked and how worthless being a token conservative somewhere like the NYT is, because if you really threatened their grip on the narrative or their ideas they wouldn't let you participate in their forum at all.
So true. Before President Trump, I . . . like many Americans, I assume . . . thought of all media outlets as relatively fair-minded. Even if they did "lean left," they still maintained a veneer of non-bias. But, the narrative IS all that matters. That has become so apparent over the last four years!
Regarding he argument that using the military against US citizens wouldn’t make good strategic sense, I think that’s missing the point. I’m reminded of this infamous observation about 9/11: that the point wasn’t to gain a strategic victory, it was the gratification of the perpetrators. I’m getting the same vibe about the affected fear people pretend to have of those nasty, disease-carrying recrusiant Trumpers: that the reasons they give are just cover for the pleasure they want to experience in perpetrating such acts on their ideological foes. https://distilledmagazine.com/stockhausen-9-11/
You want crazy talk? I've got some crazy talk for you - what if Joe McCarthy was actually onto something? What if what they did actually delayed what we are now seeing in colleges, the media and the left today?
Somewhat grim news, but I’m glad I’m listening. How about tossing out a couple of Wyrd stories now and then to lighten things up? Off topic, but if you ever think about starting up the Wyrd shared universe again, I’d be interested in hearing your opinion on this guy’s proposal for how to generate and manage a multi-author shared universe. The whole vid’s interesting, but he talks about the overall aim at about 48:00-49:50, and gets into the nuts and bolts of the ‘management’ side of things in the last 19 minutes and 18 seconds or so. I’m thinking of getting in contact and seeing if it takes off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egocM2jzLPs
More podcasts, not less! Not only encouraging, but I find that your insights and those of Single White Medusa (aka Major Damage) help me to connect some of the dots between the different facts coming out now. Please keep this going! I've never been a fan of paid subscriptions, but I have not regretted being an Insider on this substack or a GE Insider.
Great point about animals and homeless people. When you are closer to nature, you notice things that city dwellers typically do not. A Feeling in the air. So when you see during a wet season a lot of animals moving out of the bottom ground, the flood is coming. Cattle heading for shelter well before the normal time? Look for a storm. A herd circling around the calves? Well, there is a predator somewhere out there that they sensed.
Even non political people in my sphere and acting like a horse that smells a cougar. Skittish, spooky, and frightened. Enough like that you can get a stamped. Because of my field, though I am in a Free State, I am very cautious about stating my political opinions. I run grey in other words. So I hear things that people say that they wouldn't say around team red people.
They are scared. They are convinced that they will get the vid from non vaxed people and die. Some are glad for the vax reactions, as "There are to many people to be sustainable anyway".
My team red clients and vendors? Quietly heading to shelter. Getting supplies. Getting gear. There is a storm coming and predators around. Time to get ready.
Agree.
I concur, I just wish I was in a place to do more. I am trying to organize my family so we can coordinate together, but ideally we need to leave the suburbs and head more rural to land with good soil and a water supply. Then hunker down until this passes over. I do think it'll be decades, not years though.
It may be generations. Such is the way of things. Find a place (no matter where that place is) where people honestly care about you. I live in what was a "blue" state, that has turned rather red over my time here. While my back home family is not here, I have a support network (and one that also needs me as much as I need them). Never a bad idea to find a place with good water and soil. Gardening is a joy (yes I am odd) as it being with the land. You understand live on a different level that way. For instance, I look forward to the seasons. The biting cold, the horrid heat, the days of perfection, the smell of rain and storms... It humbles you. You realize that no matter what Man thinks, if old mother nature decides to really take you out, it will. We had a storm of over a 100 mile an hour wind last year. Straight line wind. Then -20F in the winter.
Still love it. But it isn't for everyone.
Living in S. Florida we are getting massive coverage of the Surfside Building collapse. As of now we have 3 dead and 99 missing. We had the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando a couple of years ago where 49 people were murdered. So of course the media covered that nationally wall to wall because it involved guns! And the victims were (mostly) gays (who are an officially and approved recognized oppressed minority group.) At least the rescue effort is stellar and there is a serious risk the rest of the building may collapse. God Bless the recuse people.
BTW... the nuke issue sure sounds deadly but ask yourself this. If Abe Lincoln had possesed nuclear weapons in 1861 would he have used them on a non-nuclear South and ended the Civil War before it got carried on too long? And Biden did have a point... he's got nukes and I will bet you he would feel 100% obligated to use them to (ahem,gasp) "preserve the nation". And no doubt it would be his version of patriotic. But that's why Civil War II will be more low key where the power's that be rule by day and in fear while the other side rules at night. Or the hackers will rule all.
The VC own the night my dude. NVGs will only get you so far when even the trees are hostile.
Pulse had to disappear from the conversation because the shooter and his ideology were inconvenient for the Narrative.
It seems like only 30 episodes ago that this podcast began its baby steps.
Baby all growed up.
They are trying to pick a fight. Nothing more, nothing less. They want an insurrection. If one starts, then they'll have reasons to push 2a removal through. If right-wingers shoot a politician, take over a federal building, or anything like that, they will have justification to do so. Gun owners are the most lawful people in existence, and they need to change that. They are planting the seeds of thought that gunowners are bad. They created the enemy in the mind of normal Democrats and they are wanting the fight.
I watched the China Unsensored podcast where they interviewed a North Korean defector. She made the observation that the US citizenry has the same mentality as those that live in North Korea. All is missing are the armed guards and death camps.
If you look at the actions like HR1, the democrats are trying to rig the game to never loose. They will try to win in 2022. They will cheat and steal.
I will ask again. What is keeping you in Kalifornia? Why not leave and go someplace safer? Go someplace where you can have some sort of freedom.
The action is the juice.
Part of the victim mentality is to provoke a reaction, then destroy the one who did the reaction.
If you have ever worked a bar/party security, you will know the game some women play of "Let's you and him fight!". I learned VERY quickly when that game starts to try to remove the source of the problem. This feels like that. Like the drunk girl hitting on random men so her boyfriend can go beat them up.
Joe wrecked the entire January 6 narrative. If you can only topple the government with nukes and F-15s, then January 6, according to Captain Dementia, was not an insurrection.
The one thing that Captain Dementia also doesn't get is that an American insurgency would be a nightmare for him and his ilk and anyone who supports them. A population that can infiltrate the military and any government agency, that speaks the same language, knows the land.
I've seen on Twitter that a lot of people think it would be like the Taliban or Iraq.
Oh no it wouldn't. It would be like the IRA in the War of Irish Independence. It would be like events in Romania when the Wall fell.
There would be not a single spot on US territory where those troops who support him would be safe. Any civilian they run into could be an assassin. Those who wonder, just look up Michael Collins and his Twelve Apostles and their war of assassination they waged against British espionage experts.
"But the US has drones and tanks!" the Twitterati scream.
Cool. What's your drone doing to do when I blow up your supply convoys, destroy bridges, mine access roads, infiltrate your ground crews, take their families hostage, etc? And tanks? I was infantry. A tank without proper infantry support, to me, is only one thing: a very sweet roadblock.
I too have been studying the IRA and the troubles lately. Might be useful historical facts. History is key... if you know where you've been, you know how to get where you're going.
I too sometimes turn on my grunt brain and think the thoughts of sweet victorious freedom. It won't be what those who have never seen violence think it will be. And in Iraq I saw a small, highly motivated, group of poorly armed and poorly trained insurgents cripple a super power.
You're right, it is indeed time to be the grey man. There is something in the wind going on soon.
Not just Marcos in the Philippines -- in 1993 the Soviet coup generals ordered their troops to fire on the crowd in Red Square and not. One. Did. There's a pic somewhere on the Internet of a soldier who looks like he's maybe 16 years old, and he's handing his AK to a girl in the crowd. I can't find it again but I know I saw it.
Sure, at Tiananmen Square the Chicoms mowed down their own dissidents. But they tried it a week before the massacre and their Chinese troops wouldn't do it. They had to bring in troops from out West who weren't ethnic Han and could care less about Chinese lives.
So ask yourself -- as woke as the generals are pretending to be, will that kid you know who enlisted last summer shoot Americans, even if he's told they're "right-wing extremists?" Not the ones I know. The regime is going to try to pit us against the army and police, because we are both their enemies. It's going to be critical to resist that temptation.
As to what we should actually DO ... I like another million men in DC, calling for the resignation of the election thieves and refusing to leave until they do. I would be very surprised if the regime survives that, esp. if the ones who don't have to resign (like Pelosi; I'm sure her district really did vote for her) give up the others to save their own selves.
Remember when Hillary claimed the vast right wing conspiracy? That was cover for the vast left wing conspiracy, which was in full motion following the election.
Your point about leftist being lazy is true, although sometimes they make the effort. I am a big fan of Kevin Williamson from National Review. As I used to consider myself a generic conservative he did a great job in his writing of being unapologetic but clear in what he stood for, and the venn diagram of our values overlapped nicely. He was slated to go to the Atlantic to kind of continue that mission and expose those readers to what actual conservatives think. They pulled a quote of his from a podcast out of context to make him look like an extremist and the leadership of that feckless and worthless rag caved, which he took more gracefully than I would. I refuse to read anything from them and probably always will. Now I listened to that podcast regularly so I looked up what it was about because I didn't remember any extremism.... So the topic was arguments against the prolife/anti-abortion movement and he was answering a hard question honestly, being: "If abortion is made illegal, or you think it's murder, would you imprison women who engage in it as well as doctors?" His honest answer was yes, if you believe that then it's not inconsistent to actually follow through, though I don't think that's his actual personal position. I am going from my own memory and any errors in this screed are my own. It was a pretty important moment for me in realizing how heavily the deck is stacked and how worthless being a token conservative somewhere like the NYT is, because if you really threatened their grip on the narrative or their ideas they wouldn't let you participate in their forum at all.
So true. Before President Trump, I . . . like many Americans, I assume . . . thought of all media outlets as relatively fair-minded. Even if they did "lean left," they still maintained a veneer of non-bias. But, the narrative IS all that matters. That has become so apparent over the last four years!
Regarding he argument that using the military against US citizens wouldn’t make good strategic sense, I think that’s missing the point. I’m reminded of this infamous observation about 9/11: that the point wasn’t to gain a strategic victory, it was the gratification of the perpetrators. I’m getting the same vibe about the affected fear people pretend to have of those nasty, disease-carrying recrusiant Trumpers: that the reasons they give are just cover for the pleasure they want to experience in perpetrating such acts on their ideological foes. https://distilledmagazine.com/stockhausen-9-11/
You want crazy talk? I've got some crazy talk for you - what if Joe McCarthy was actually onto something? What if what they did actually delayed what we are now seeing in colleges, the media and the left today?
McCarthy did nothing wrong
MCarthy was more right that wrong...
Somewhat grim news, but I’m glad I’m listening. How about tossing out a couple of Wyrd stories now and then to lighten things up? Off topic, but if you ever think about starting up the Wyrd shared universe again, I’d be interested in hearing your opinion on this guy’s proposal for how to generate and manage a multi-author shared universe. The whole vid’s interesting, but he talks about the overall aim at about 48:00-49:50, and gets into the nuts and bolts of the ‘management’ side of things in the last 19 minutes and 18 seconds or so. I’m thinking of getting in contact and seeing if it takes off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egocM2jzLPs
More podcasts, not less! Not only encouraging, but I find that your insights and those of Single White Medusa (aka Major Damage) help me to connect some of the dots between the different facts coming out now. Please keep this going! I've never been a fan of paid subscriptions, but I have not regretted being an Insider on this substack or a GE Insider.
Honestly, I wish I could up it to the Founder's level, but I just can't swing that at the moment. Maybe someday . . .
stupid questions:
1) if i buy this substack, can i download the files? i don't trust substack any more than fb to keep your content live.
2) have you also considered unauthorized.tv?
just figured out how to use gpodder to grab the epsisodes. gonzo.
(2) stands.