Prelude to the Apocalypse

[To Far Away Times]

Ron DeRacist has promised to instigate a war with Mexico if elected president during the republican debate.

We all know he's a fervent racist, but even Bush pretended to care about the Iraqi people when he attacked Iraq.

This isn't a dogwhistle, its a megaphone.

[Sima Tuna]

Mostly everywhere. We have various apocalypses stacking up on top of each other, so it's hard to dodge all of them.

yes, this is true...and remember...the Niger will be called Outer Heaven

Holy shit.

It somehow never clicked for me that Prigozhin, the exiled mercenary warlord, was building a home in Africa for his mercenaries without a home. He really is the Big Boss.

And now he's Punished Prigozhin: A Mercenary Denied His Coup.

[orange808]

One of Mexico's biggest problems is the American market for drugs. I know people don't realize it, they find ways to explain their role away, or they shift the blame, but buying drugs really does fund the gangs. It gives them money and that's absolutely true. I'm sorry if that upsets some people. (It's true. It's not like that "fund the terrorists" thing Dubooyah tried. The gangs sell drugs and Americans buy them. It's real simple.)

I'm not expecting people to live sober. That makes sense and people aren't particularly clever. Apparently, the American term for it is: there's your trouble.

[Sengoku Strider]

"This mugshot needs to be iconic. I'm thinking I go in there and just mean-mug. Right into the camera! I'm talking lips pursed, shooting beady-eyed scorn straight at the viewer. Something that history teachers will be able to pull out a hundred years from now and schoolkids will instantly get an idea of what a total dick I must have been in real life. Should I lurch into the camera? What am I saying here, of course I lurch into the camera."

Ron DeRacist has promised to instigate a war with Mexico if elected president during the republican debate.

We all know he's a fervent racist, but even Bush pretended to care about the Iraqi people when he attacked Iraq.

This isn't a dogwhistle, its a megaphone.

The sickest line I saw dropped on him today was John Nichols: "When you’re struggling to match the dynamism of Mike Pence, you’re not going anyplace—except back to Tallahassee."

I'm a little shocked he's swearing off the debates. Don't know if he even has to show, though. If you were guaranteed a job, would you want to waste your time dancing like a monkey for it?

I mean, that's the value he provides his viewers. So I think he's a crook denying them the show they wanna see.

People who need that in their lives know where to find him, insulting people several times a day on Truth Social. Most of the other candidates weren't going to debate him, they're just auditioning for a slice of his base when he gets retired anyway:

Prodded by the moderators, most of the candidates mumbled expressions of concern about Trump’s assaults on the Constitution, but none of them even attempted to call out Trump’s Big Lie about his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Even Christie, a clear-eyed Trump critic on the campaign trail, lost focus. But there was no lack of clarity on Ramaswamy’s part, as he proclaimed, “President Trump was the best president of the 21st century.” At that, the crowd erupted with wild and sustained applause.

I wouldn't debase myself getting into debates with these sockpuppets either.

[BryanM]

Kyle put up this clickbait video:

The headline: "SHOCK: Iowa Poll Shows Trump May LOSE".

The poll: "#1 Trump 44%. #2 DeSantis 14%."

I was so angry that I farted.

[Lemnear]

I'm scared as fuck about the "extreme-far-right-cultural-movement" of General Vannacci, one of the most decorated soldier of the nation ... he wrote a book that is fascist, racist , misogynist, homofobic, against the NATO and Pro-Putin, that is a best sellers here.
Many people and ministers defend him with "there is freedom of speech", and defend his quote: "I claim the right to hate" !!! (something anti-costitutional!!!).

He served in Russia during the 2021...returning a medal to the U.S.A. for their decisions against Putin after the Ukraine invasion...
I feel the coup near...


PS: i can't deny my love for that Trump photo ahahahahahaha is simply fabolous! a living meme!

[BulletMagnet]

Many people and ministers defend him with "there is freedom of speech", and defend his quote: "I claim the right to hate" !!!

Hopefully folks in your neck of the woods have at least heard of this.

[BryanM]

Watched a video that pointed out some of the positives of the boomer generation. Because of the plenty there was to go around, fewer people felt like it was necessary to suppress others. So the civil rights movements were able to make a lot of gains. The birth control pill changed the culture around sex over a generation.

It's all confirming to my world model, people are formed by their environment. I hope the AI stuff leads us to a better world despite the odds, because, jesus christ.

No oil and no sky make Homer something something.

"extreme-far-right-cultural-movement"

It's funny, for all the vile racism and shit I've seen during those years I'd marched in the internet trenches, one of the things that threw me completely off guard was when someone called Donald Trump a "patriarch". A goddamn "patriarch". Fuckin' Donald Trump.

Such a thing is so incomprehensible, it makes you reevaluate everything in life. Is water safe to drink? Maybe up is down? Maybe chiropractors aren't spine-pervert monsters masquerading as doctors? Things you thought were carved in stone, apparently aren't, for some "people"?

A bank puppet that says mean things is a patriarch. A bank puppet that says nice things is the anti-christ. People actually feel strongly about these imaginary things that happen on TV.

... that's another thing the thingy I watched mentioned. The ascent of television.

There was a Canadian town called Notel that didn't have TV for a long time due to the mountains nearby. A study was done on the people there before they got TV, and it found the people there were a bit more empathic and intelligent than in comparable towns.

In books, there's a lot more of people's internal thoughts. There's more time put into the build up to big events. In movies especially, everything tends to be a harsh, simple black and white. To quickly justify the use of horrible, horrible violence. Like in Star Wars.

As I always say, people spend far more time living in the world of TV than this grey coarse world of reality..

[orange808]

There weren't any moving pictures in the middle ages, but there were severed heads on London Bridge. People loved gladiator shows at the local coliseums. For most of human history, people shrugged at things like slavery and child labor (often employed together). I bet "debtors prisons" policies could win a simple popular vote in almost community since Hammurabi. It's not the tellie, it's us.

[Sengoku Strider]

A drunken red-faced Tucker Carlson shlurring hish wordsh did an interview on Adam Carolla's show and went off on a rant about how the CIA is an illegal organization and the elites (democrat AND republican!) are preparing to assashinate Trump because he's too darn popular from all the indictmentsh.



I have three main takeaways from this.

1. Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel are different guys. I had them confused and forgot this one existed. I feel safe to do so again.
2. Tucker is obviously taking post-Fox life hard.
3. After reading about how everyone knows Giuliani is plastered 24/7, I'm starting to wonder how many of these people have to stay drunk to numb the pain and dissonance of being a part of this degeneracy. Only the chosen few are genuinely mentally ill enough to keep it up sober.

[AGermanArtist]

More people should read Chomsky.

edit - particularly Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival and maybe listen to the Massey lectures and read its accompaniment : Necessary Illusions - Thought Control in Democratic Societies.

Trump, Roger Stone (master of the dark arts since Nixon who's had Trump on his books since the 80's) and their 'former' pals put on quite a show for the voting public. To suggest Trump's not an elite is absurd. This is the reality TV performance of a lifetime.

[Sengoku Strider]

Trump, Roger Stone (master of the dark arts since Nixon who's had Trump on his books since the 80's) and their 'former' pals put on quite a show for the voting public. To suggest Trump's not an elite is absurd. This is the reality TV performance of a lifetime.

Elite doesn't mean 'wealthy' or 'powerful' in their particular code, after all Trump's whole brand is based on projecting that. Tucker Carlson has spent his career throwing the word around, and he's heir to the Swanson Foods fortune. Elite in their patois is an empty evocation of the type of neo-aristocratic movie villain they presume their ideological opponents to be cluelessly puppeteered by. Standing in a weird New York art gallery sipping champagne distilled from the tears of kidnapped children, pontificating about how to make middle America completely and irrevocably super gay forever by selling Pride t-shirts at Wal-Mart.

Trump got a pass because he wasn't a career politician at a time when many right wing voters were feeling alienated by a Neocon-dominated Republican party they increasingly saw as indifferent or even hostile to them. He had spent years building credibility with them through the Obama birther conspiracy. He would call in to right wing radio shows and go on rants about various vaguely and non-vaguely bigoted nonsense. The angry Fox News grandpas saw that underneath all the gaudiness, he was one of them. His vocabulary and manner of speaking didn't go over anyone's head. He spent his life angrily shaking his fist and yelling at clouds. And his particular manner of self-promotion always painted him as in the secret parlours with the elitest elites, who of course all lined up to kiss his ring. But because of this, he knew the truth about the world, and he was there to break the omerta of the ultra-wealthy and reveal who's fault it really was that you, Jim-Bob of Tallahassee FL, are not rich and famous and happy.

But also, y'know, general omega-level stupidity:

[BryanM]

It's not the tellie, it's us.

Yeah, but the point is the utopian world of post-scarcity plenty and infinite comfort we find ourselves in means we shouldn't be quite such assholes, anymore. Women are allowed to own themselves in our society, black people get to be people - all revolutions that happened only extremely recently in terms of human generations, let alone civilization or geological scales.

The television is owned by the very guys who used to own slaves and used to put those heads onto pikes. It serves the same function that the church did/does - propaganda that instills obedience.

If it wasn't a useful and necessary tool for them to maximize their power and share of treasure, it wouldn't exist. It's far more elite than back when any jagoff with a little extra money to burn could make their own newsletter and compete.

That's one of the reasons YouTubers are sneered at; time spent paying attention to them is time spent listening to a heretical priest instead of the kosher thoughts and words.

Me listening to a guy go on about how cool this one little corner in Mario 64 is, is a sin.

[Sima Tuna]

It's not the tellie, it's us.

Yeah, but the point is the utopian world of post-scarcity plenty and infinite comfort we find ourselves in

Huh. Maybe you find yourself in. I look at it as a dystopia of endless false realities. A world of meaningless diversions to distract from the pathological cruelty and inhumanity underlining our systems. As our own animal needs grow greater, we bury them under idle dalliances in virtual worlds.

Only the first world is a "land of plenty," but it is hardly post-scarcity. Scarcity abounds. Drinkable tap water may not be available at all, depending where you live. Clean air may not be available. Affordable and clean housing? You'll be lucky to have a hovel in the slums. There is "plenty" around you, but can you afford any of it? That is the question.

Infinite comfort? Depends entirely upon your definition of "comfort." A quiet neighborhood, free of crime, where the streets are safe to walk in peace? No. A good night's rest? Increasingly hard for most workers to obtain. Workers, incidentally, are more productive than ever. Yet real wages stagnate. The middle class are slowly selling every ounce of generational wealth they've accrued over the last hundred years, in a desperate bid to fight inflation and the other hundred ways the rich separate working stiffs from money. Maybe we can measure comfort in retirement? A comfortable living and an early retirement? Social Security will be a fucking dream by the time I'm old enough to collect it. Boomers are already putting off retirement because they've no savings left. Work until you fall in the grave. That's luxury and comfort.

Given that the supposed plenty and comfort is nothing but illusion, I find it entirely understandable people today remain complete and total fucking assholes. It's hard to care about the world when all of your worry goes towards keeping above the poverty line.

Women get to own themselves and black people get to be people because that's the way it worked out. Once a civil movement reaches a certain inertia, the rich and powerful act like it was their idea the entire time, and work to capitalize upon it. Suddenly, they're pulling the door open instead of pushing it closed. Women and black people get rights? Hey, time to add them to the pool of cheap labor. Fire up the mexican sweat shops! I don't think for a minute that some group getting human rights says anything about people as a whole being more or less assholes. It's a cost-benefit analysis. Hitler was an insane asshole, which was why he wasted a lot of time, effort and money trying to exterminate the Jews. Now, if he had been a sane asshole, he would have pressed them into service as a cheap (or free) labor source to keep Germany's manufacturing strong during the middle and late war years. He screwed himself with his own ideology and made the world hate him in the process when the news got out.

The television is owned by the very guys who used to own slaves and used to put those heads onto pikes. It serves the same function that the church did/does - propaganda that instills obedience.

This is the same purpose served by public government displays of "morality" or "humanity." The establishment will throw some human rights at a group, just to reaffirm the status quo and order all the little plebes to stop fighting and destabilizing the cash flow. Truly righteous behavior is what happens when nobody is watching. We've all seen too much political corruption in the first world nations (and the others may be even more corrupt) to believe for a second our governments are that kind of place.

[BryanM]

Huh. Maybe you find yourself in.

Obviously I'm talking about the terms of resources, and not how we've chosen to allocate them. I'm constantly crying about the waste we've done with the incredible treasure our finite supply of oil has given us. We're gonna Matrix the sky, and for what? To make someone shuffle a couple tons of metal and fiberglass back and forth to their job at the dildo factory/shop.

(One of the first jokes in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that the aliens think cars are the dominate lifeform on the planet. It comes and goes a bit subtlety that most people overlook it.

But yes. On a spiritual level we exist so a few Epsteins can enjoy themselves. On a material level, we exist to shuffle cars around.)

This is the same purpose served by public government displays of "morality" or "humanity." The establishment will throw some human rights at a group, just to reaffirm the status quo and order all the little plebes to stop fighting and destabilizing the cash flow.

Yes, the upper caste needs around 10% of a population to support itself. Whenever it starts getting a little thin they go on a recruitment drive for more Mr.Smithers.

A most risible example being the expansion to the definition of what a "white person" is in the U.S.

[Sengoku Strider]

Huh. Maybe you find yourself in. I look at it as a dystopia of endless false realities. A world of meaningless diversions to distract from the pathological cruelty and inhumanity underlining our systems. As our own animal needs grow greater, we bury them under idle dalliances in virtual worlds.

Then the Blessed One, having understood, "This is Mara the Evil One," addressed him in verse:

You have wandered through the long course
Creating beautiful and hideous shapes

- SN 4.2 Hatthirājavaṇṇa Sutta

[orange808]

Obviously I'm talking about the terms of resources, and not how we've chosen to allocate them.

Very true. We aren't using our resources.

Reminds me of your previous reference to British ruled India and famine.

Churchill sure was a racist fat fuck. No shortage of food on Downing Street and he didn't observe any war rationing or restraint. Maybe he ate the Germans. Anyhow, the racist fuck suggested that famine in India was due to over population. Even then, others around him knew better.

The problem was logistics and desire, because famine didn't starve people in the most populated areas. Starvation bit hardest in rural areas. They died because the British didn't care. The British overlords could have upgraded the infrastructure and made efforts to better allocate the resources they had on hand. They murdered people with famine because they didn't care. Put simply, all Brits wanted was tribute payments. They didn't care about murder. Ah yes, the glories of empire. Let's all sing a round of god save our person. I'll save my Irish roots for another day, but this particular story rhymes with the great famine in many places.

In India, Sir Richard Temple discovered the political and career costs of doing the right thing, addressing the logistics, and getting food on the move. Fortunately, he corrected his mistakes later and made sure plenty of people starved the next time around. What was he thinking?

[Sengoku Strider]

The future's descent into a digital miasma of lies continues. Some rando podcast did an interview with "Trump" that sounds for all the world like an AI. Trump was promoting the interview on Truth Social, so this happened on purpose.

It's posted here on Rumble, AKA anti-matter universe YouTube: https://rumble.com/v3dko8c-president-tr ... lomon.html

[Lemnear]

Probably the Metaverse is something that one day , will connects the few superstits sparse far around the world.

[Sengoku Strider]

Whenever Tucker finally splats against rock bottom it's going to be amazing.

[Sima Tuna]

I think Obama could have done better in 1999.

[Sengoku Strider]

I think Obama could have done better in 1999.

Apparently this guy is a lifelong con man who did jail time, and originally tried to sell this story back in 2008. He took a lie detector test and - shockingly - did not pass it. So my head canon is that he made a pass at Obama at an S Club 7 concert in Chicago in '99, got shot down and has been bitter and vengeful about being denied his fairy tale romance ever since.

I think this guy might be related to the gay orgy murder part of the sham/weirdo/pervert sphere of the "I do my own research" Obama biography venn diagram:

[BulletMagnet]

Apparently this guy is a lifelong con man who did jail time

Guess that solves the issue of Trump's running mate. Or at the very least DeSantis's next state ethics board appointment.

Off to the side, I really wish there was more talk about how pretty much every single major conservative organization in the USA has proudly signed on to this absolute horror show.

[Sima Tuna]

Trump-era conservatives want to gut the “administrative state” from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.

I've never heard of this novel approach to government reorganization! How fascinating!

And if Trump wins a second term, the work from the Heritage coalition ensures the president will have the personnel to carry forward his unfinished White House business.

“The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state,” said Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official involved in the effort who is now president at the conservative Center for Renewing America.

At the White House, the book suggests the new administration should “reexamine” the tradition of providing work space for the press corps and ensure the White House counsel is “deeply committed” to the president’s agenda.

To push past senators who try to block presidential Cabinet nominees, Project 2025 proposes installing top allies in acting administrative roles, as was done during the Trump administration to bypass the Senate confirmation process.

Mao would be proud.

[Sengoku Strider]

And if Trump wins a second term, the work from the Heritage coalition

When I was in high school, I knew a guy whose dad was in something called the Heritage Front. I didn't even have to know what that was to know it was mega racist.

Mao would be proud.

Y'know, Mao was not a great dude, but I can at least respect that he had an ethos. He was what Trump pretends to be with all his Alex Jones 'Deep State' nonsense. The Cultural Revolution was him trying to clean house to stave off exactly what China became after his death - a bourgeois kleptocracy.

And no matter what else I might feel about the guy, I cannot disrespect the fact that the Long March was legitimately one of the most epic and badass campaigns in military history. He only had 8000 starving disease-ridden communist skeletons, yet for 5600 miles and an entire year they fought off/faked out the national army, half the warlords and seemingly every ethnic militia in China with an axe to grind along the way.

Captain Bone Spurs, on the other hand, told his zergs to go "Fight like hell, I'll be right there with you" then turned around, went to the office and watched it on TV instead. And then pulled the "No, I don't know her" on all of them the moment it failed.

Mao would have despised every square yard of Trump's guts.

[Sengoku Strider]

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

- Revelation 17

Spoiler

What are you even doing Alabama

[BIL]

Maine checks out, that's the great state that gave the world #1 singing pedo Lorne Lynn Armstrong!

[Sima Tuna]

And no matter what else I might feel about the guy, I cannot disrespect the fact that the Long March was legitimately one of the most epic and badass campaigns in military history. He only had 8000 starving disease-ridden communist skeletons, yet for 5600 miles and an entire year they fought off/faked out the national army, half the warlords and seemingly every ethnic militia in China with an axe to grind along the way.

Mao reportedly took great inspiration from one of my own favorite stories: The Water Margin. A tale of heroic and honest outlaws fighting a corrupt government. Just a shame that he became what he claimed to oppose after taking power.

Spoiler

But yes, The Long March was an incredibly impressive moment of badassitude that will live on in human history. Multiple tv dramas have been made about it in China. It cannot be said Mao didn't suffer or fight for his ideals. He's just... Still a huge asshole.

Who even knows what stories inspire Trump. Wolf of Wall Street? Catch Me If You Can?

[Sengoku Strider]

WARNING! Leading Palm Beachologists warn of impending money recall. DO NOT BELIEVE ANY BILLIONAIRES ASKING FOR YOUR FAULTY MONEY! THAT WILL BE A TRICK!

Who even knows what stories inspire Trump. Wolf of Wall Street? Catch Me If You Can?

Literally all you have to do is imagine the hair:

[BulletMagnet]

So McCarthy has, predictably, kowtowed to the Freedom Caucus and opened a nonsensical "why didn't we get one too?!" impeachment inquiry against Biden, and incredibly quickly found out what happens when you attempt to pussyfoot around authoritarians instead of acting like a human being and telling them in no uncertain terms to fuck off.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but seriously, every time I think the "mainstream" right - whatever the hell that even means anymore - couldn't possibly debase itself any further it always finds a way to fail to meet even my own rock-bottom expectations.