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Wake-up Call
Kunstler.com ^ | 22 Mar, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 03/23/2024 4:59:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

A other y Theodore which describes exactly what is happening today in the US.

“-——Theodore Dalrymple———

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to
reality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think
if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”

Written by Theodore Dalrymple”


21 posted on 03/23/2024 6:33:35 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

[[The craziness has ramped up to a point I find hard to believe.))

The quote by Theodore I posted states the craziness as part of the process that the left use to gaslight the public, and the more crazy, the more they love it when the gaslighted victims succumb to the constant galsighting and agree with them. The crazier they make things, the more power they feel they have when people’s wills are broken and they finally submit to it like servile puppies.


22 posted on 03/23/2024 6:38:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

It seems to me that only about 30-40% of society is going along with all the woke craziness. The left will still have to cheat to win national elections.


23 posted on 03/23/2024 6:58:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Bob434

Imagining what can be, unburdened by what has been (a.k.a. reality) - Kamala Harris


24 posted on 03/23/2024 7:01:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

They are best characrerized as Jacobins. Radical and vicious.


25 posted on 03/23/2024 7:05:07 AM PDT by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: central_va

And that is the problem. Noone wants war, as war is terrible, however, there comes a point where it is inevitable, and the left are pushing this nation right up to that line in hopes of starting one so that they can swoop through the nation with their woke military, fbi, Cia, police etc etc etc, maybe even the now armed irs folks, and lower the hammer on those that try to resist. The left fancy themsleves little hitlers in waiting. Waiting for the opportunity to strike and take the nation by force. They have engaged in a hostile takeover of this nation, and are lacking their chops at a chance to turn that into a violent hostile takeover which will launch their top leaders into North Korea-like positions of power.

They understand that Only a small fraction of patriotic people are willing to risk their freedoms, risk their lives to go up agaisnt such a massive army of well armed leftist obedient soldiers who will happily obey their masters and fire upon civilians who resist. I suspect that is why the left have turned our military so woke, and browbeat those who arent woke until they succumb to it.

The whole Woke movement crap is a very powerful tool in the hands of Satan and his little worker bees. Wokeness is little by little dismantling our inalienable rights and our constitutionally affirmed/protected rights. The left now simply ignore Supreme Court ru,ings, thumb their noses as the law by conducting farcical trials in which the right is not allowed to defend themselves, nor allowed to even appeal u less they pay extraordinarily large sums of money, which by the way is agaisnt the law to Impose, but the left doesn’t care.

They are flooding our nation with violent hostile criminals who have no regard for human life and certainly no form of patriotic drive

Satan is gaining power by leaps and bounds in our woke nation. Are we in the run up to Armageddon? eho knows, but thankfully good folks are still resisting and fighting to keep what remaining rights we have alive and well, and the kfully they are still winning some cases to keep the vipers at bay, for now. But it is getting harder and harder to win cases legally as many judges and juries are controlled by the left, threatened by antifa and blm, etc.


26 posted on 03/23/2024 7:06:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Starboard

Yep- I don’t think even a scant 1/3 anymore will answer the call to protect our nation agaisnt tyranny from within anymore.


27 posted on 03/23/2024 7:07:43 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Lazamataz

Excellent quote by Voltaire- it goes right along with the Theodore quote I posted a few posts back- the goal of the left is to force the nation to accept absurdities- and the more absurd, the better they like it.


28 posted on 03/23/2024 7:09:21 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

Is the frog finally going to jump out of the cauldron?


29 posted on 03/23/2024 7:10:04 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Probably won’t be too long before your option #2 will no longer be an option. We are probably one election away and that election happens in a few months.


30 posted on 03/23/2024 7:10:48 AM PDT by dforest
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To: griswold3

Th3 Venezuelans —were— fighting back after hitting rock bottom. I’m not sure how they are faring now though- haven’t heard much about their uprising lately.

The French be.eive it or not are resisting- they have a .group called the “Yellow Vests”, but the group is small, and I don’t think the gov there fears them too much

The Greeks did resist by employing massive trucker blockades on major highways, refused tk deliver food and goods, and the gov there did have to back down eventually, so in a sense, they did win a pretty sizeable victory- the people I mean

Also there is a massive uprising of farmers somewhere (can’t remember now where) where they are also blocking traffic, dumping fertilizer on gov property, spraying liquid fertilizers on those trying to stop them etc etc etc. They are having some success there agaisnt tyranical gov policies meant to drive them out of business- dmenadinf,that the ranchers kill off their livestock to “save the planet”

There are more examples, but those are the ones thay come up in my brain fogged mind right now.


31 posted on 03/23/2024 7:16:11 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: glennaro

The two traditional political divisions, liberal and conservative died with Covid. Now there are simply the sane versus the insane.
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Kuntsler does a great job and gets close to the core cause of the current state of chaos when he identifies those behind it as fiends. Yes, these individuals are evil, but the truth is they are who they are because they are demonically possessed. The fiendishness began in earnest with the Great Reset and Covid. It used to be there were relatively few of these individuals in society and the most were institutionalize in insane asylum. Religious orders also performed exorcisms on some who were demonically possessed. Alas, today all the demonically possessed pretend they are the only ones sane as they run around free in society. To make matters worse they are labeled heroes by world religions and public media. Rest assured, underlying it all is Biblical teaching which states the Devil is real, demons and those demonically possessed have always existed, there is such a thing as ‘good’ versus ‘evil’ in the Universe and the only pathway to maintaining one’s sanity and assuring salvation is by worshiping the Triune God.


32 posted on 03/23/2024 7:17:05 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: ClearCase_guy
I know people who think everything is fine. Everything is normal. Nothing has changed. Things have always been this way.


33 posted on 03/23/2024 7:20:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Common sense would,tell us that this nation has become so sick of the left that they could never win another election in decades at the very least, and that the gop would reign for those decades...

But sadly too many can’t see the writing on the wall which is so plain to you and I. It’s right there in front of them, but they can’t see it.

The next election, by all rights, should be a complete demolishing of the liberalism with landslide win for Trump. Sadly thougn too many people are just stone blind.

The cheating though is a major concern- there is no way that biden, who had only a few dozen turn out to see what few rallies he did at best, got “the most votes of any president ever”- Trumps rallies had 20-30-50,000 people attending g every rally, and common sense o ce again indicated that the election was gonna be a landslide- but nope, counting was shut down for days, and miracu,ously Biden gained all kinds of votes while Trump lost all of the remaining districts, some by 100% which never happens really.

I will never believe that biden got “the most votes of any president ever”- never- it just defies all logic and credibility to say he did.


34 posted on 03/23/2024 7:25:16 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: iontheball

[[Yes, these individuals are evil, but the truth is they are who they are because they are demonically possessed. ]]

Exactly. Even if they haven’t consciously given themselves over to the evil one, they have subconsciously done so. They have dedicated their whole lives to serving a very evil agenda that seeks to destroy what God has built up, and to destroy those who resist.

They are drunk on power! And Satan is giving them more and more, and they are insane with power now, willing to destroy their own nation, one of the greatest on earth, all for the sake of more power.


35 posted on 03/23/2024 7:29:49 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

The other purpose of their gaslighting is to identify those who refuse to go along with the lies.

Then, they decide what is to be done with such people.


36 posted on 03/23/2024 7:31:29 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo (cockroach_magoo did not formally deprogram himself.)
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To: Bob434

Do you believe a miracle occurred late at night while election officials all slept?


37 posted on 03/23/2024 7:32:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

Yes, good point. It identifies the weak who will succumb, and the strong who will resist. No wonder the states are trying to usurp the rights of the people and ,eave them defenseless.


38 posted on 03/23/2024 7:35:02 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: alexander_busek

“Further, I am not as sanguine as the author about Western Civilization now finally “waking up.”

Waking up may slow the decline but doesn’t stop it. The fact that FJBs polling is not in the single digits shows the effectiveness of the Leftist propaganda machine. The DemocRAT party is a fanatical hate-America cult, and they will fight to the death to see it destroyed.


39 posted on 03/23/2024 7:35:04 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve got a few meme that highlight what took place during the election- ill post them after I get home- they compliment the one that you posted


40 posted on 03/23/2024 7:37:11 AM PDT by Bob434
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