Open Thread

The Establishment is really going after The Sound of Freedom – the anti-child trafficking movie. They are going ballistic…and that tells you the tale: there really is a huge amount of child trafficking in the Ruling Class. There’s no other explanation for going to hard after the movie. Think about it – they’ll try to scare you into thinking eggs are poison just to get some viewership…talking about this issue would get eyes on TV. They don’t want any eyes on this movie. And that can only be because they know all about it and are afraid it’ll all come out before they can normalize it.

Odd man out?

It has flown around the interwebs…and it might be a little unfair to Zelensky as it might have just been a bad looking moment, but he does appear in many ways to not be part of the club there at the NATO summit.

Solid information about the course of the Ukraine war is very difficult to find. The only rock-solid thing we know about both sides is that they lie. If we have an MSM we’d have people on the ground who could check claims against observed reality but the Russia MSM is as subservient to Putin as the Western MSM is subservient to Zelensky; they both just repeat what they’re told. The proof, then, must be in the puddling – the much anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive ground ahead a short distance, possibly at enormous cost, and now the Russians are starting to push ahead again. The main thing is that this isn’t working out as the Establishment hoped…and that picture might merely symbolize the Establishment realizing that the game is up and now its time to back away slowly and let things play out as they will.

As I said at the start of the war, absent an immediate, deep offensive strike by Ukraine into Russia, this war could only have one outcome as long as the Russians didn’t quit: Ukrainian defeat. Anything short of a very quick Ukrainian victory akin to the Israeli victories in the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars could only end disastrously for Ukraine because they simply lack the numbers to fight a war of attrition with Russia. Some people tried to make out that it was like WWI where the lower-population Germany won a war of attrition with Russia…except it wasn’t just Germany it was Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey and, in the end, Russia won the war of attrition (as they were bound to do). On the day before the Revolution, Russia had won WWI…had won it since they mastered their Great Retreat in 1915. Once the Russian army got away from the Germans after Gorlice-Tarnow, all Russia had to do to win was stay in the field. Keep in mind that the German’s unleashed the U-Boat war because they didn’t perceive any weakening in Russian power and so turned to submarines in a desperate gambit to knock Britain out of the war. It was Russia’s misfortune that at the moment of victory, the Czar was universally despised. Absent that, Russia would have been at Versailles helping to dictate terms to Germany in 1919.

How this particular war turns out remains to be seen – Russia is bleeding a lot, too. How much does Putin want? Be nice if someone asked him…because that might be the way out. If nobody asks him and Putin feels that he can’t stop for fear of losing domestic support then what could have been a negotiated peace in 2023 ends up with the total destruction of Ukraine in 2025.

The Hollywood writers have been on strike for a while now – and it appears that the TV writers may join in.

Absolutely nobody in God’s green Earth cares.

The latest Indiana Jones moving is flopping – partially because they have absurdly cast a geezer as the lead in an action movie, partially because they had to go woke as per usual these days. I came up in 30 seconds with a new Indiana Jones movie guaranteed to break box office records; Reboot Indiana with a new, younger actor (like they do with the Bond movies) and make the story Indy’s effort to save Priam’s Horde in Berlin, 1945. Make the conflict between Indy and Gestapo Muller because given that Muller disappeared on or about May 1st, 1945, you could have Indy kill him in the climactic scene. You’d get youth, killing Nazis, you can cast some Russians as heavies which plays into current politics. Lots of things blowing up. This is the formula…and, sure, it is formulaic. But it is cracking good fun and would make a ton of money. If Hollywood wants to start making money, I’m right here…got buckets of great ideas.

There’s a video Pudding Brain put out in 2020 saying he’s always got time to take a call from his grandkids…with the video showing him talking to same. It is turning out to be a devastating indictment of Biden because he has not – and apparently will not – acknowledge his youngest grandchild by Hunter. Perhaps 100 years ago you could get away with trying to ignore a bastard…but we don’t even use that word any longer. And good riddance to it. Stipulating that we must do far better to get people married first and then have kids, the bottom line is that no matter what the parents are, it isn’t the kid’s fault. Suppose the woman did totally blindside Hunter on it – said she was on birth control, that sort of thing – and further suppose that she’s just the worst person in the world while Hunter is the innocent man (stop laughing!)…none of that matters. The little girl is Joe’s flesh and blood. She’s family. However she got here, she’s here. And Joe – and the rest of the Biden family – have denied her. The more this gets out – and it is spreading around out there – the worse Joe looks. Remember, his whole thing (a complete lie) is “good ol’ Joe”. That he’s at bottom this nice, decent guy. He never has been, but that has been the image presented in the MSM…but you can’t explain away his refusal to welcome his granddaughter. There’s just no possible excuse for it. And it shows Biden to be the utter creep he is.

Now, why is this suddenly spreading? That is, why is the MSM starting to talk about it it just now? The girl has been around for years. It hasn’t been a secret. So, why just now?

The rumor is that the Democrats are thinking about dumping Biden and picking someone else for 2024. All we can do on that is watch and wait.

15 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 12, 2023 / 3:42 pm

    likely fudged numbers…gasoline is still over $4 a gallon here.

  2. Cluster's avatar Cluster July 13, 2023 / 11:30 am

    I can promise all of you that if I am ever questioned by the IRS, or any government agency, my responses will be; I’ll have to get back to you on that; I don’t recall; I think that’s an unfair characterization; I won’t comment on that; that’s part of an on going investigation and I can’t comment on that. They get away with it, so I plan to employ the same tactic.

    Yesterday, Gaetz asked Wray point blank – “are you covering for the Bidens”. Wray’s response? “I just won’t comment on that”

    There has never been an easier question to an FBI director, to which all he had to do was reply an emphatic “No”, but he didn’t. That tells us all we need to know.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 13, 2023 / 2:50 pm

      This is just like your comment on Gal Luft. You just completely miss the issue. Every time. Stop watching MSNBC

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 13, 2023 / 3:05 pm

      You completely miss the heart of the issue. Every single time and it’s laughable. You’re a run of the mill, big Pharma supporter, war mongering, propaganda fueled idiot. Nothing more.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 13, 2023 / 3:11 pm

      There’s a saying going around that says “imagine living through the last 3 years and not being the least bit suspicious”. That’s you Fielding. You have a dormant mind.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 13, 2023 / 5:34 pm

        So fielding et al drag a string and you just have to chase it

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 13, 2023 / 8:32 pm

        I just hope they’re getting paid to drop Regime Propaganda. To be a person who doesn’t question anything is just sad.

  3. Cluster's avatar Cluster July 13, 2023 / 11:51 am

    So we all know now that the coke belonged to Hunter, and every American is laughing at these fools

    The Secret Service on Thursday said its investigation into how cocaine ended up at the White House is now closed without identifying a suspect.

    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/secret-brief-house-committee-cocaine-101811140.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK5g6jiiGwtWcAHB7NbQMn88yYa14-985teyTzGmGgvhSElICVDGYsk7hs-pSK6raJg6-St19lauOSh20XWB3xkiqYCG9s0HenGZ6avhFFBEkMfO2QU7MKAt1v3baXeSlE9PSdOTaLdMq1VVtdqP9sTcOQ3gcvW0_MlkOvlHhB_7

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 13, 2023 / 12:15 pm

      Evidently the theory is that someone carrying a bag of cocaine decided to abandon in where it would be found, and before doing so made a point of wiping off fingerprints and any possible DNA. I did a quick Google search into the value of a gram of coke (that ought to make an interesting addition to my cookies) and found it to average $120 up to $163. So a random person decided to dump something that was valuable, and which probably meant a lot to him or he wouldn’t find it necessary to carry around with him, and took the trouble to wipe it free of fingerprints and DNA first (which would indicate an awareness that it would be found, rather than a plan to pick it up on the way out) and was able to avoid the cameras and facial ID tech in the White House. In an area now recast as a “vestibule”.

      The pressures on the Secret Service must be incredible, but still….. Some day, after the Bidens are gone, the truth will come out, just as it took a few post-Clinton years to have some retired SS agents talk about things like Hillary’s profanity, rages and lamp-throwing. Of course, that was before the State started to openly use its power to crush anyone who gets in its way.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 13, 2023 / 1:40 pm

        Isn’t the Solzhenitsyn quote something like: “They lie. We know they lie. They know we know they’re lying. And yet they still lie.”

        It is just patently absurd to claim they can’t figure out who’s coke it is – there is security everywhere. And this probably does piss some of the Secret Service agents off. They know the drill: what the First Family does is kept in confidence. Has to be that way: it is the only way the First Family will trust the Secret Service sufficiently for them to protect the First Family. But they have to know this makes them look corrupt and stupid.

  4. Amazona's avatar Amazona July 13, 2023 / 12:32 pm

    Among Americans’ most fundamental rights is the right to be free from the restrictions of arbitrary force

    Part of an interesting thread.

  5. Amazona's avatar Amazona July 13, 2023 / 12:48 pm

    Before heading out on another kill mission—the War On Weeds will never end—-there is another funny list of comments on a funny (to many) news story out of Germany. Some eco-activists were protesting something—who knows or cares what, or the supposed relevance of their choice of performative virtue—– but they decided to “protest” by gluing their hands to asphalt. The story isn’t clear about where the asphalt was at the time, since in the photo it is a chunk dangling from the hands of the genius protesters.

    The thing is, they used a combination of epoxy and cement, to make darned sure those cops couldn’t pry them loose. And they were right. In fact, they were so right that there is a chance the only way to separate them from their asphalt will be to amputate their hands. Even if this isn’t necessary, there’s gonna be some pain and probably disfigurement.

    Of all the comments, my favorite is this: What’s German for schadenfreude?

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona July 13, 2023 / 12:52 pm

      Is it something in the water in Germany? Kudos to VW management.

      A group of nine scientists have glued themselves to the floor of Volkswagen’s Autostadt facility in Germany to protest climate change.

      Unfortunately for members of the ‘Scientific Rebellion’ activist group when it came time to close up for the night, VW locked the doors and switched off the lights and heating.

      According to the protesters, the carmaker supported their right to protest but neglected to give them ‘a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued.’

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster July 13, 2023 / 1:31 pm

        but neglected to give them ‘a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued.’

        LMAOOOOO … hey activism has consequences.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan July 13, 2023 / 1:36 pm

      ROFL – saw the picture. And they did it to fight something which (A) probably isn’t happening and (B) if it is happening, short of mass suicide there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

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