I wanted to keep the shows light this month because it is the time of year when we should be in high spirits. This is my favorite time of year. We have the holidays and the year is winding down. We have the start of a new year to look forward to and the culmination of another year. It is a good time to take stock of things, count your blessings and gear up for what comes next. Plus, it gets dark early and the weather is turning to winter. This is the best time of year.
With that in mind I scanned the news sites looking for material and I was struck by a couple of things. First off, the people in charge are miserable. Everything is going sideways for them and they have no idea why. Reading the news items about the economy makes clear that they are in deep denial. We have inflation, shortages and a totally screwed up labor market. This is making their Build Back Better scheme look dangerously ridiculous to the public.
It is not just the economy. These idiots not only created a new cold war with the Russians but may be on the brink of a hot war. This Ukraine fiasco is entirely the fault of official Washington. They got in bed with the Ukrainian crooks because they liked the bribes and they picked a fight with Putin because of Trump. Now the Russian army is on the doorstep of Europe. The Ukrainian people deserve better, of course, but the blame largely lies with the incompetent idiots in Washington.
Everywhere you look, things are crumbling for the regime. The best and most amusing part of it all is that Team Biden is telling the party that they plan to run his corpse again for president in 2024. Of course, the party cannot push him aside because next in line is Kamala Harris, a woman less popular than rectal cancer. The whole thing is a disaster for the inner party and they seem to know it. Given the troubles on the horizon, 2022 promise to be nothing but misery for them.
As I said in the show, the GOP will probably benefit, but people are starting to smarten up a bit regarding their act. Read the comments of their party organs and you see lots of bitterness toward the party. You see this in daily life as well. The old red team/blue team stuff is falling apart quickly. I have heard more than a few civic nationalist types lament the fact that they no longer have a party. I suspect GOP voters are going to be looking at primary challengers in many races.
It is not all puppies and kittens. When the rulers screw up the people suffer and there is going to be plenty of suffering in 2022. Inflation means higher interest rates and that means big trouble for the economy and the stock market. It has been forty years since that has been necessary. Millions of retirees are not going to be happy with how the rulers fix the economy over the next 18 months. The short term is going to be a difficult time for normal people.
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- 00:00: Opening
- 05:00: The Cloud People
- 25:00: The Worst Person
- 45:00: Be Happy
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Perhaps it perverse, but part of me wishes I was 25 years younger and still a PMC. This Ukraine mess looks like it’d be fun time to get work.
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So someone who knows more about this feel free to correct me, but this whole notion of Ukrainian “freedom” seems odd- Ukraine as an independent entity has only existed since, what, 1991 or so? For the the last thousand years it’s been part of Russia/Soviet Union. The fall of communisms just gave the old Ukrainian commie hacks an opportunity to carve out their own Ukrainian hackerama, no?
Ukraine, to paraphrase Bismarck, is not worth the bones of one Ohio National Guardsman
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We have the start of a new year to look forward to and the culmination of another year. It is a good time to take stock of things, count your blessings and gear up for what comes next. Plus, it gets dark early and the weather is turning to winter. This is the best time of year.
OMG you have obviously never worked outside for a living. This is the time of year to wonder how to make it to March again
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I worked outside into my 20’s, so you obviously know less than you think you know.
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Obviously not one of the polio-stock stoics, lol. Winter is a fine time of year. Being outside beats the cube farm anytime!
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I’m a fan of winter, although I do NOT miss the job I had as a young man, trying to figure out where the leaks were on flat factory roofs during a Minnesota winter.
Slightly related to this Murfreesboro story, and certainly not my original observation, is the tone many “journalists” have in their reporting from, say Tennessee or Iowa- the stories are like the reportage from the Orinoco Basin, or darkest Africa in the old NatGeo. The average NYT reporter would shoot himself rather than relocate to (or even visit) Burlington, IA. Well, he would except he doesn’t believe anyone should have a gun.
And… here in College Town, New England, you can say things about Southerners that you can’t say about any other group, except maybe Boers.
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My favorite was “the small town of Ferguson, Missouri”, which anyone who has ever been there knows is ridiculous, as Ferguson is a close-in part of the St. Louis metro area that sits between downtown and the airport. But the coastal press wanted their “Mississippi Burning” narrative of racist small-town southern cops victimizing innocent blacks, so where reality didn’t fit the narrative, they made some adjustments to reality.
It was not the first, the last, or the greatest example.
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Yes but getting older makes it tougher.
One of my family members works in a huge meat warehouse 12 hours a day, four days a week using a man lift in 25 degree environment. No thanks to that.
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Have you ever worked outside in the south or the southwest? The closest I have been to hell was at an East Texas construction site in July with zero wind. Winters there are fantastic though.
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Are American soldiers, sailors, and marines willing to die for President Potato and the Ukraine? Really?
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Well, they died for Bush the dullard and the Luminous One in the middle east, so if past behavior is any indicator, the answer is yes.
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Hopefully not. And they hopefully won’t be willing to die for Taiwan when China invades.
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I’m just hoping they are not willing to die in my Appalachia mountains. Shooting at me. Better get mountain training boys.
Yes, the Murfreesboro, Tenn., story is utter bullshit. The county where it is located has an unemployment rate of slightly less than three percent, and it is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. The alleged dog groomer likely is more financially comfortable than the alleged journalist. She could pull down six figures rather easily.
The dog groomer is a composite, fictional figure without doubt. And you are right the readers of this work of fiction will believe it is true.
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Because he has never been there, he just assumes it is some Appalachian outpost. He picked it for that reason. He knows his readers will have no idea about the place, so they will have no way to check him on it.
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Yes, exactly. Also, the readers also are gullible and easily manipulated to fathom the character was manufactured.
Addendum: you nailed French. Not only is he a pathetic coward, he is the worst type, one who touts his bravery due to his showy military tourism as a JAG in an area less dangerous than the average MLK Boulevard in an American city. From memory, another cowardly cuck, W, gave the Medal of Freedom to French for his kabuki service.
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Let’s just say that I have inside knowledge (or, at least, did have) of reporters and “man on the street” interviews.
It’s usually completely made up or completely set up. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, reporters are lazy. Second, their editors don’t care.
Say a reporter is covering a protest. They used to be expected to get a quote or two from the protesters and maybe a quote from a counter-protester. Now, some reporters would do that, but most people aren’t particularly bright so their quotes are very interesting, so the reporter learns over time to just makes up some interesting quotes and sticks names to them. Everyone is happy.
Then there are the pre-fab stories. An editor or reporter wants to push a certain agenda or someone that the editor or reporter knows contacts them about doing a story pushing a certain agenda. Everything gets lined up beforehand in terms of finding a “random” person to interview about some program or whatever.
Seriously, readers of the MSM are truly idiots. They actually believe that the reporter just found some person who is perfect for the story and gives wonderful quotes.
It’s crazy.
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I’ll ruin my Internet Tough Guy credentials with this, no doubt, but the closest I’ve been to a fist fight as an adult was with a “reporter.” My college used to do intramural sports with the “rival” college across town — totally informal, but we took it seriously, enough to where a journalism major decided to write up the basketball “championship” for the school rag…
The only way I learned about this was when a good friend of mine from the other school called me up, cussing a blue streak about my comments in the paper. I had no idea what he was talking about, I had no idea a “reporter” was even there, so I went down to the newsstand in my dorm and sure enough, there I was, talking all kinds of noise about the other school…
After threatening the “reporter” with grievous bodily harm, he confessed: He made it all up. Then he called up one of his fellow journalism students at the other school and said “Look what these guys are saying about you!” Which was all the excuse that guy needed to write up a story in HIS paper….
I was in college around the time Pappy Bush was president, in case you’re wondering how long this has been going on.
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My favorite line is “according to sources” because it means “totally made up”. Jock sniffers do this all the time. They will “report” some rumor about something like a contract negotiation. Given that no one involved in the deal has any reason to call some rando on a website and give him the scoop, there is zero chance he has a genuine source. Of course, the other “reporters” pick it up and repeat it, also claiming they have a source.
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I’ve always wondered why pro sports people tolerate that. It’s a teeny, tiny world. I knew a guy who was involved with “the program” at a mid-major school. You wouldn’t see him on the sidelines, but he was crucial to the biz, and even this guy — who came from one of those schools where you see them in some December bowl game and you go “Oh, I guess that state has another college in it” — knew pretty much everyone who mattered, college and pro, in the country. If he personally couldn’t call up Tom Brady or Bill Belichick on speed dial, he knew someone who could.
Given that, why do they let the jock sniffers get away with it? If it’s a way to negotiate without negotiating, it seems like a stupid, counterproductive one…
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“According to sources” is usually made up (or just some reporters talking to each other what they think is going on).
However, if it’s not made up, you can be 99% sure that the “source” is the named official or whoever quoted elsewhere in the story. The guy tells the reporter, “Here’s what I can say on the record and here’s what I can say a “source.””
People don’t understand how small Washington is and how lazy reporters are. A real Washington reporter would get to know low-level staffers on the Hill, agencies, military, etc., to get a feel for what’s really going on, but that’d take work.
Instead, they usually just wait for the party insiders (and they’re only so many), Deep State representatives and a few think tank guys to give them a call about something. It’s easy. They keep everyone happy. They move up.
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All of the “Russian collusion” stories were handed to Washington Post writers by members of the FBI. The “reporter” just copied the e-mail and pasted it in the story. When Trump called it fake news he was just scratching the surface. Most of it worse than fake.
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Z,
That’s nothing new. All kinds of PR firms, think tanks, party people, etc., send what amounts to pre-written stories to reporters.
A long time ago, those folks would send prepared quotes from experts or politicians to reporters so the reporter didn’t have to, you know, actually call them.
When they noticed how successful that was, they started writing the whole damn story with the quotes included and then sending it to the reporters, who changed a few things and sent it out.
The Russian stuff was pure collusion between the FBI and WaPo, but usually, it’s just laziness of the reporter. Also, the reporter agrees with the pre-written story and it’s probably better written that what he could do anyway, so why not.
Long-time reporters are scumbags. Any young reporter who is even mildly independent-thinking or not a fanatical leftist gets out of the business quickly. I saw it up close with a group that I used to hang out with. The normal ones saw the writing on the wall very quickly and moved on.
Sorta in the same vein……just once I wish, when interviewing the neighbors of a particularly heinous killer, just one person would say, “yeah, he was a weirdo. I always knew they’d find bodies under his porch.”
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It’s sad. Ordinary people are easily led, in part because of laziness and gullibility, but also because no one has the time to puncture every falsity. It’s all too easy for motivated parties to take advantage of this situation; it will take motivated parties to extricate us from this untenable state of affairs.
When you referred to that guy who drove around in his pickup, I thought of Steinbeck’s, Travels With Charley. He has a scene in that where he meets up with an itinerant thespian in the strawberry fields of northern Michigan. The guy puts on a one man show, doing Shakespeare for the mostly Canadian pickers. Then John breaks out a bottle of rare cognac he happens to be carting around with him, and everybody shares a cup of cheer. Totally charming, totally fabricated. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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Strawberry fields of Northern Michigan?
Pretty sure they grow cherries up there:
https://www.traversecity.com/events/summer-events/national-cherry-festival/
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Actually, I think it was potatoes, but he referenced the migrants travelling around to pick other things–i.e., the berries–as well. C’mon Man! It was many years ago, lol!
An interesting comment from a woman who knows David French, sharing her experience of the man in the YouTube comments section: “We live in the same area as David French and know his family socially. The first time that we met David and his wife, he spent twenty uninterrupted minutes telling us about his credentials, the important people he has met, his taste in music and commercial entertainments, how underpaid he is for a man of his educational achievements, and how persecuted he is. He routinely talked over his wife, a genuinely delightful person, and evinced no interest in anything anyone else had to say.
If you enjoy being interrupted, David is your man.
The only time his veneer of self assurance cracked was when he discovered my spouse’s profession and for whom he works. We’ve chatted several times since that initial meeting with similar behavior on David’s part.
Certainly, David gives the impression that he loves God. On the whole, he seems to love himself, his own opinions, his own voice and words at least as much.
No one loves David like David loves David.
However, his wife is a thoroughly lovely person and a model of long-suffering patience.
This is one individual’s personal experience. If it seems unprovoked, remember that David freely, publicly, and frequently pours out bile onto those with whom he disagrees.”
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Wow. That certainly bolsters Z’s description of French as a narcissist. The comment strikes me as a real account, too. Of course he talks over his wife. I look forward to the messy divorce when he leaves her for another man after a highly publicized coming out, which, of course, is totally needless.
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Your last bit there about the misery of the Cloud People was a bright ending. The only way we Dirts can avoid massive violence and deprivation, if it is even possible, will be if the Clouds start to suffer as well. I would love to see China nationalize American assets in the PRC and our people just laugh about it. A lot.
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It’s always interesting how the US manages to get into a panic about Russia at every possible opportunity, and especially when they need a distraction to what’s really going on in American politics.
No one here in Europe is the least concerned with Russia or Putin. In fact, unlike the roller-coaster ride of American politics, Putin’s consistency is one reason why we’re not worried.
Poland, Czech and Hungary are more concerned about hordes of immigrants and the EU pushing their liberal agenda on them than they are about Russia. The US military wanting to place missiles into Poland is the real source drama and rightfully so. Now that the US military is out of Afghanistan, the political machine that promotes the industrial military complex is intentionally stirring up trouble anywhere and everywhere it can seeking a solution to it’s own made up problems.
Everyone here knows Russia has no interest in rolling west. But the USA is always poking the Bear for no real reason and of course American news media jumps on that band wagon at every opportunity. FJB and his clown show should worry more about the real effect China has had on the American way of life. I challenge you to name one thing Russia has done in the last 20-years that’s caused any problems American families. China on the other hand – there’s your real international threat.
I just got back from shopping with my wife at Aldi and Edeka (our most popular grocery stores) and all the shelves are full. I also tanked on the way home and fuel prices have actually dropped. Two or three weeks ago, diesel was up to 1,57/ltr. and it’s currently down to 1,43/ltr. So whatever supply issues and fuel crisis is going on in the US is not happening here in Germany.
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It must German logistics keeping your stores stocked, because the Aldi in our neck of the woods is also fully stocked. My guess is that the “empty shelves” stories are either fiction or regional. Either way, it’s not a general problem.
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Not the least bit fictional, but certainly regional and peculiar to certain chains. Here in Greater Lagos, one store will be out of mayonnaise for some reason while the other store has pallets of it, but is out of cat food. Next week the shelves will be full at every store.
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It’s screwy. The small, regional grocery stores that we’ve been in have never been out of anything, but go to the local Walmart and there are huge bare spots. The local Dollar General has a seasonal section that has been mostly bare for nearly a year and their fridge/freezer section fades in and out (stuffed to the gills one week, half empty the next).
It needs to be pointed out that from a revenue standpoint these stores are expecting product on those shelves. At a place like Dollar General that’s a 5%-10% hit to what would normally be sold, that’s a lot.
Most people will respect the Groypers for their ruthless bullying of the Con Inc. gatekeepers and basically destroying their tour for an entire semester. The problem with eceleb is you have very limited time once your reach your peak before you fade away. At that point you can either make a decent living catering to your smaller but loyal audience, or use your peak the create a larger organization. The latter takes a lot more foresight and keeping your ego in check than the former.
Nick will make a decent living with his loyalists, but I doubt he’ll reach last year’s peak. The Gab incident and his pathetic comment about being off Twitter shows he doesn’t understand how things have changed.
That being said, his cozy.tv is some of the alternative tech our side needs, though that was more through necessity than foresight..
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“These idiots not only created a new cold war with the Russians but may be on the brink of a hot war. This Ukraine fiasco is entirely the fault of official Washington.”
If anyone has loved ones in the military, beg them to get the hell out now!!!
Desert, if necessary, but get OUT. The notion that your sons, brothers, and friends should die in a foreign shithole for the benefit of an empire that serves everyone except its own citizens is outrageous!
The empire hates – DETESTS – the very people it’s sending to war, under the idiotic pretense that your granny and granddad can’t sleep safe in their beds at night unless Ukraine is in NATO.
Glad to see so-called conservatives finally waking up to the fact that the lies and garbage they’ve been fed from the MIC for decades was a joke, and the joke’s on the conservatives. They fought a bogus cold war, spent trillions, and sacrificed their children in places like Korea and Vietnam to fight the Communists, and meanwhile the empire did nothing while Marxists took over the universities in its own country, and by extension, took over the whole bloody country.
Now the USSA wants to reign death on Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Belarus…. (the list is too long to write) so its Marxist elites and oligarchs can enjoy the fruits of high living standards, and absolute power.
Send the GOP a message: Stay home next November, and continue to do so until they become a party of the people again (if they ever were) and not the Pentagon Party.
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Regarding interest rates, the fed is, obviously, in a bind. It’s finally acknowledging that inflation is not as transitory as they thought. However, private sector debt levels make raising rates a dicey proposition. (Private debt is the area to watch.)
Households aren’t too bad with debt-to-GDP at ~75%, about where it was in the early 2000s when interest rates were much higher. So, households probably could handle higher rates.
But corporations are absolutely loaded with debt. Corporate debt-to-GDP is ~80%, which is down from 2020 and early 2021 but that was caused by GDP falling. This 80% is with GDP fully recovered. In the 1990s that figure was in 50s and in the 2000s and 2010s, it was in the 60s.
Corporations have a lot of debt. Granted, their profits are through the roof, but still, raising their financing rates is a serious problem.
The fed is probably pretty damn pissed at Biden and Congress. Their never-ending stimulus packages are fueling the on-the-ground inflation, forcing the fed’s hand. Raise rates to keep inflation under control and you risk tanking the economy. Let inflation run wild and you risk tanking the economy. The fed is trying to find a middle ground, but what if a middle ground doesn’t exist.
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Always have imagined the Federal Reserve people out in the wilderness in red robes, throwing chicken bones on the ground and deciphering the message on whether to increase or decrease rates.
The reality is, though, that they pretend to consider complicated papers and forecasts and then basically go by their gut feeling.
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True.
Part of the problem is that they serve too many masters. If they have one job, say keep inflation at 2%, they could focus on certain data and make at least somewhat reasonable decisions.
But they now have responsibility over inflation, employment, the stock market, etc. The government and the fed have involved themselves in some many aspects of the economy that their decisions have to take all of them into account and it’s simply impossible.
The fed can’t run the economy – and the fed knows it. So, yeah, they’re left going with their gut because they’re having to anticipate how everyone will react, i.e. they have to try and predict human emotions and there’s no chart for that.
Btw, an interesting fellow to read/follow is Joseph Wang aka the Fed Guy. Used to be the senior trader for the fed’s open market desk. He knows the plumbing of the system.
“First off, the people in charge are miserable. Everything is going sideways for them and they have no idea why”
Bluntly: They went home from the bar at closing time with a 10 after getting massively drunk hating their Orange Haired Ex, woke up, rolled over, and found out (s)he was a 2.
And the alternative is to date the wing (wo)man, a 1.
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And a good chunk of the useful idiot cloud people now have AIDS from all those vexxy penetrations.
Luckily the overlords have a few cocktails already in the fridge that they can take for the rest of their miserable lives to keep them out of the grave but entirely dependent.
I guess those pozz demons back in the early 90’s were right. We will all get AIDS, so best let the fags take those boy scouts camping you bigot.
The problem with the cloud people burning in on re-entry from their cloud cities is that it is always painful on us proles.
When reality has had enough anti-reality and brings Gaia’s hammer down, she is not as discerning as we would hope. That said, bring it baby. I can already hear the bagpipes in the distance.
A great microexample of miserable Cloud People is found in the handwritten daily affirmations of Theranos’ Lizzie “Borden” Holmes and her Pajeet sidekick Sunny Balwani:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bizarre-handwritten-notes-detail-daily-affirmations-theranos-co-founder-holmes-and
The thought processes and penmanship are both around a 3rd grade level.