Posted on 03/14/2024 6:25:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Will our historical era be remembered as the “Age of Fakes”? We have fake news, fake meat, fake elections, fake genders, fake vaccines, fake budgets, fake democracy, fake truths, fake hate, fake Russian collusion, fake insurrections, fake climate emergencies, fake freedoms, fake outrage, fake speech crimes, fake money, fake justice, fake intellects, fake women, fake borders, fake wars, and even a fake president. In some ways, it is a very silly time to be alive.
So much of our fake world has been built on two monstrously fake foundations: fake progress and fake liberalism. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson redefined progress as something that only Big Government can provide. Instead of celebrating human innovation, artistic achievement, work ethic, and private entrepreneurship as the essential ingredients for any prosperous future, progressivism insists that nothing of value can be achieved without a strong centralized government and a bloated administrative Deep State. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt then picked up the Big Government cudgel by redefining liberalism as a collection of freedoms that only government can provide. Instead of recognizing human liberty as diametrically opposed to coercive State power, FDR’s “New Deal” style of liberalism insists that only new laws, new social programs, new regulatory agencies, and newly discovered rights can ever make people free. In the last century of perverse word games, progressivism and liberalism promised progress and liberty and instead burdened Americans with the heavy weight of the government’s chains.
America’s commitment to individual liberty, private property, and free speech once distinguished it from all other countries in the world. When it began betraying those commitments and exporting a brand of “rules-based international order” scarcely different from those devised under monarchical empires of the past, it became a global ambassador for fake freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
When the civil servants become your masters.
The author buried “Fake money” in the middle - its actually the root and cause of all the other “fakes”
Good post, thank you.
Fake news has always been with us. Mark Twain’s memoirs of being a journalist show that.
Social media has given us fake friends. But the problem is spiritual at its root.
Let’s not forget fake religion.
Scientology is the glaring example, but Gaia worship - and the accompanying climate change nonsense - is a less obvious, but still very fake, religion.
Worship of the government as the bestower of rights - the only stance one can take if one is an atheist - is another modern fake religion.
Don’t miss the “It’s a Fake World” attraction on your next visit to Trumpworld!
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
Exhibit A: “COVID”
I have heard it called Trough Politics. It’s not about the country it’s not about civic virtue it’s all about politicians feeding at the trough, from both sides of the aisle! Do not interrupt their feeding at the trough by asking them to actually do the work of government officials, they are too busy making money, receiving kickbacks and creating investment opportunities for themselves.
“They Live”
Here's a post that'll be sure to retract any stray invitations to bad parties. Fun day as it turns out. 2π = full circle.
March 14, 2024
Our Fake, Fake, Fake World
By J.B. Shurk>>>
Note that knowledge is the key here -- not the mere obtainment of some fancy degree. Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Thomas Edison had much in the way of formal education, but both were highly educated men who profoundly shaped this country. Mark Twain's humorous wit is not less remarkable because he never attended high school, nor is the prose of John Steinbeck or William Faulkner less incisive because neither finished college. Degrees mean nothing if the knowledge that they represent is fake.
The author should not "shurk" the hunt for the key loopholes 𓋹.
On π day, no less. It never ends! Coincidence?
Tip of the iceberg,
Yankee Ingenuity for the big win...
Just yesterday I was wandering through my collection over at 1156 (34^2), and in it is the movie title alluded to in the title of this article. Hence the memory-trigger inspiration for this post, even as a continuation from the subject earlier today.
Some of the entries (I never know when this stuff will come in handy):
1156
retrograde: תנועה אחורית
to prescribe a prescription: לרשום מרשם
(symbol for retrograde motion*: ℞... Coincidence?)
JerUSAlem [ירושלים], the sum w/final mem value 556 + 600
מטורף, מטורף, מטורף העולם It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World movie title
תחום שבת "Shabbat limit" Techum Shabbat; i.e. the distance of 1 mil, 2000 cubits
A Passage to Sinai
Perhaps the count toward the number 50 finds its most well-known historic expression in the Exodus and its aftermath.>>>
The number 50 is used as the measure that places something at a distance. The Talmud notes the use of a rope measuring 50 cubits for matters such as measuring the 2,000-cubit distance of techum Shabbos, the distance beyond the city one may travel on Shabbos.
*"Symbol represents the apparent retrograde motion of a planet in an astrological chart"
Yeah, but everyone knows that astrology is basically like anything Chinese: FAKE
Chinese (the adjective, which is synonymous with fake): סיני (sini)
The same spelling, pronounced differently: סיני (Sinai)
Perhaps it explains why few really want to go there. Fear of turning into the wrong 'hood...
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Acts 1
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
It's like
Mark Twain's humorous wit
Matthew 5:41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
That's really quite the road trip. You probably know that "Israel" [ישראל] = 541, but if you literally take Route 541 (Israel) to the end of the road, it ends at Ra'anana Junction [צומת רעננה], which adds up to 911.
Ra'anana (Hebrew: רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is an affluent city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement...
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Remember the picture of that sweet little gal with the special star ID on her forehead? She came prepared, knowing full well
Esther 7
8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Now, if you've been following her on her travels, you'll know that she's currently "back east" (retrograde motion), in a home away from home, through December 31, 2024..
Handy! It's like double prizes for walking on sunshine, for not 1 but 2 miles in a man's shoes, both to and fro, because whosoever compelled her to go a mile, she went with him twain!
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BTW, at this point, maybe someone is wondering how many angels *DO* dance on the head of a pin [י]? Can-DO People know that the answer is one.
~ EZ
Can you believe all of the Debbie Downers out there?
The Dark Side never learns because it already knows everything already. There's even a hieroglyph for the sound of epiphany: o, w:
"AHAS-Я-US"
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It looks like a noose.lol
The director of Pi also directed Noah, fwiw.
It’s certainly false info we’re fed about basically everything
And I do mean everything
I’ve been on a Rowdy Roddy kick this past week.
That guy was something else..
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