Hi everyone just a quick note to say all is well.
As is always the case in summer, I have been very busy this season and have been otherwise focused on the surreal and strange goings on socially and politically, which has left little time for red pill ponderings
Strange times.
I could not have made up some of the occurances of the past few years and more recently the past few weeks — if I had tried!
Hopefully its all going somewhere that, while messy at the moment, will eventually lead us to more solid ground.
In the meantime buckle up and try to be part of the solution not part of the problems!
On a personal and individual level I am doing good, one day at a time, one step at a time.
When I look back and add up how far things have come since my manosphere discovery days, I’d say while not perfect, I am getting it worlds better than I did before then and life is making much more sense for me and mine.
I hope it is the same for all of you. And that we are all better of for having taken this wild ride together! You’ve each taught me so much and I greatly appreciate each and every one of you!
What do you think of these strange times? Please share in the comments!
Glad to hear things are going well for you Bloom.
Progress comes slowly, but it comes. Best to you and yours.
Politically, we haven’t been so divided since 1860 or 1824. It has gotten that extreme. This is also manifesting outside of politics. The only thing that will keep the lid on this is the realization that the left is a lot noisier than numerous. For all their noise, they can’t carry at the polls. When Bill Clinton was President, I heard him say, “May you live in interesting times.” It is not a kind wish, but a curse of a Chinese proverb. As he said it, my jaw dropped to the floor. I am going to hazard a guess and say that, if things resolve well in Hong Kong, cooler heads are going to prevail elsewhere.
Good to hear that things are well with you, RPG.
Indeed, Fuzzie. And I do believe you are spot on as far as remembering loudest may not necessarily translate into numbers. In fact it seems the more extreme it gets, the fewer can relate — something that seems forgotten these days by the loud.
Interesting re the Hong Kong observation. I have an uncle by marriage who is Chinese raised in Hong Kong and he did not want to discuss it, which is very unlike him. I do know in the late 90s when Hong Kong reverted from British to Chinese ruled there was much trepidation then, as most residents had fled the current Chinese regime a generation prior. There was relief when not much seemingly changed, and there was great hope then that perhaps Hong Kong would influence the mainland, rather than the other way around. I hope like you do that all goes well there and I will be watching that and many other fronts closer to home.
Oddly I think this recent high profile jailhouse suicide (or was it?) somehow red pilled folks of all stripes. I hear it talked of in “woah did that REALLY just happen?!?!” whispers a lot, and people who wrote it all off as paranoid poppycock now really seem to be questioning… has it come to that? Is that how things work? And if so, what does that mean??? Very odd times!
Time made me cold. Death has been following.
RPG,
It has been said that the Chinese invented Hong Kong. Perhaps, they need to be reminded of that. It was a good idea then, as it is now.
We’ll never hear the truth about Jeffery Epstein. My personal, unsubstantiated theory is that everything they had on him was older than the statute of limitations and had already been adjudicated. Still, if this is the quality of justice available to the rich and powerful, what can we expect as ordinary citizens?
Strange times, indeed. What I observe is that a lot of people who never before showed any interest in politics–political philosophy–public policy, have now become politically obsessed and rather *fanatical*…usually, but not always in a Left direction.
Most of them lack the historical and philosophical reference points to evaluate things rationally.
This week, prepping for Hurricane Dorian as it may get closer to where I live along the SC coast. They’ve issued an evac order for my county in Zone A which is where I am, but I’ve decided it’s not worth leaving unless it hits as a Cat 4 or 5. Last year we spent a lot of money evacuating from Hurricane Florence. This year probably just going to ride it out.
Interesting times indeed. But it’s been a long time coming. I’m optimistic. Eventually things will be as they should. 🙂
Also, my fire/LED performing season is just about up for the year. Going to get back to the keyboard. Got a lot of good content cooking up this fall.
Be safe Ash! Hope it blows over!
bg,
It’s not as good as your film, but here is a quick travel video of Greenland.
Runs three minutes.
About Hong Kong, it looks as if cooler heads prevailed. Hope!
http://news.trust.org/item/20190904094108-908ip
This is going to be interesting as it develops. These people showed up for arraignment and all of them were ordered to be held in jail for their trials next month. We are talking misdemeanors, not murder. Kudos to the district attorney.
Not to knock the district attorney, but she is trying to minimize the amount of the judgement that the city will eventually have to pay.
Hi fuzzie
Interesting, did you check out her other youtubes on Greenland? Her trying the local meat was excellent, caribou is absolutely superb. I haven’t eaten Musk Oxen, they are probably protected in Canada because a tough winter wiped out the herds on Ellesmere Island. But I did bring back a skull which the Kiddo wants to inherit ;-D
B g,
That had my mouth watering. I have seen all her stuff, except for what has been released today. Curious, the Rebel must be the only news agency in the world to send someone there.
Fuzzie
What it is really all about:
b g,
I did see that. It’s not good that China would have a lock on the world’s supply of rare earth metals. One other thought, buying Greenland would be the last big advancement of the Monroe Doctrine. With a few small exceptions, Europe would be out of the Western Hemisphere.
This one is for RPG. She gets mad when the press is messed with.
Fuzzie
Canadian Liberals are anything but liberal, they are as dirty and nasty as the worst Democrats. Turdo the Second is worse than his father, both were trust funded pampered fools, but he lacks any sense of reality whatsoever. The only jobs he has ever held were as a part time drama teacher and a ski instructor. I am praying that even the female herd will finally grasp that he is fully anilingual ;-D
b g,
The political momentum will see him out of office this fall. What happened to Kathleen Wynne will be written large across the whole country, unless their opposition really messes up. It’s just that they, the Liberals, could be a little more graceful about it.
I tried to look up “anilingual”. “Of or pertaining to anilingus” was the answer most commonly found. It took a while.
If Justin Trudeau ever goes to the private sector, I hope that he doesn’t get an expense account.
Fuzzie
LOL, I was suggesting the he is a complete and utter butt kisser ;-D
b g,
I think that he lacks the requisite maturity to be a head of state and he’ll never get it. If wearing funny socks was the only thing we could complain about, we’d be doing really well.
It has been a long time since I saw mainstream news condemn police so strongly.
There is another trial coming up in Dallas. A white female officer shot and killed a black male accountant in his own apartment. She thought she was in her own apartment, but she was on the wrong floor.
Are we safe in our own homes?
They don’t learn. Luckily, no one got hurt.
Maybe they learned something. No warrant was issued for this one.
Here is an update from my comment of 4 September. This is incredible. The judge is ordering people held without bail while the district attorney is trying to get cases dismissed. I hadn’t realized that police unions had become so powerful that they could put judges in their pockets.
Here’s something else for RPG. It’s general election season in Canada. Trudeau has banned Rebel Media from everything he can. I don’t think that FDR would have dared to do this to the Chicago Tribune.
Minneapolis has too many police officers.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/minneapolis-slides-downhill.php?fbclid=IwAR10nAt6ApfEJNYalfTKYzZL2pcc2WW7iSGr3jHYOuS-OwjPd82Z7uqwMWI
Fuzzie
You might enjoy one of Canada’s best journalists…yeah, OK, he’s a Newfie;-D:
Liz,
I hope that Minneapolis doesn’t hire any more like this guy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/07/ex-minneapolis-cop-sentenced-12-5-years-murder-unarmed-woman/1382798001/
If it weren’t for the national outrage in Australia, I wonder if he would have been charged? There is something else, what the police used to do to black people alone is now being more equitably distributed across all races and social classes.
b g,
Did you say “Newfie”?
You have to watch it to the end. He is living with dogs even bigger than he is and he loves snow.
Liz, this one is up your alley. Cops order EMTs to administer drugs to “calm down” a suspect. Suspect dies of cardiac arrest shortly thereafter.
To my way of thinking, it is undoubtedly wrongful death and the level of negligence is off the charts.
Fuzzy, EMTs have standing orders for medication administration under certain specific conditions. Nurses do too but the circumstances are generally narrower (obviously nurses working the floor have a physician to give medication orders more readily at their disposal).
I do not know what medication they administered in this case, but more than likely (99.99 percent…I’m not weighing out the .001 percent likelihood they succumbed to orders they weren’t subject to), the situation met those conditions and that is why the medication was administered.
Police don’t have the authority to order medics to administer medication. The news report only mentions that the EMTs were called, and medication administered. Nothing about the police ordering the administration of that medication.
We have a person wearing a ski mask in August. The police were called because he “looked suspicious” and they too determined he looked suspicious and likely unwell so they called the EMTs, who also determined he looked unwell and administered medication (either properly or improperly based on the standing orders/ situational guidelines)
Side note: I like that newfie video. 🙂
Liz,
He’s dead now and all he did was to walk to a convenience store and buy a drink.
We don’t know enough about the situation to form any conclusions.
I mentioned above a lot of people die from medical mistakes. And that might have nothing to do with his death. We don’t know. We do know it’s unusual in the extreme to wear a ski mask in August. No, I don’t believe he was “cold” due to anemia. There’s a lot more to this story.
Fuzzy, you seem to form a lot of conclusions based on partial information.
When Trayvon was killed, did you believe it was because he was walking peacefully holding a bag of skittles?
I have a friend whose daughter died in her sleep at 19. All she did was lay down for a nap. Weird stuff happens all the time. Especially when we have the internet to cover everything 24/7 and people add their own bits of baseless opinion stated as fact. Did he seem to be having a violent psychotic incident? From the reaction of the medics, it seems likely. Either way, we don’t know.
-Okay, done.
Liz,
He died while in police custody. They can’t lay off the responsibility on anyone else. What is tragic is that those who are responsible will never be called to make restitution.
@fuzzie: logic, man. Logic.
If He died while in police custody. They can’t lay off the responsibility on anyone else has to be true –
then so also must this be true:
He lived while in police custody. They can’t lay off the responsibility on anyone else
Let’s praise the police for all the people they have allowed to live. Those who have lived far outnumber those who have died.
RichardP,
It would be all right to feel that way if police thought as law abiding citizens. The problem is that they want to escalate every encounter to justified homicide. They have their own agenda, they hold the Rule of Law in contempt, have less regard for the Constitution, and have to dominate every situation. They are having trouble hiring. It doesn’t sound like something sane, law abiding people would want to do. So you are aware of it, one thousand unarmed people are killed by police each year. Very few police die in gunfights. It’s more dangerous to be a garbageman.
One more thought, to them, the law is only a club to beat over the head of the public. It never applies to them.
I knew that I couldn’t be the only one who felt this way. However, I think Kurt Schlichter’s percentages are too optimistic. Hat tip to Bob’s Blog.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/09/19/violate-your-oath-and-turn-on-american-citizens-at-your-legal-peril-gun-grabbers-n2553286
According to that link, Fuzzy, 80 percent of police and military would not carry out illegal orders. That is nothing whatsoever like what you claim. That is basically the opposite of what you have maintained here, with assertions like:
to them, the law is only a club to beat over the head of the public. It never applies to them.
It would be all right to feel that way if police thought as law abiding citizens. The problem is that they want to escalate every encounter to justified homicide. They have their own agenda, they hold the Rule of Law in contempt, have less regard for the Constitution, and have to dominate every situation.
And on and on.
Liz,
That is why I said that his numbers were optimistic. Based on what I have seen of how police handle open carry activists, I think they would all step all over the Constitution. The point is, he can see it coming.
20 percent, when questioned, say they would obey an order to confiscate firearms.
80 percent say they won’t.
You state, by contrast, that most law enforcement care nothing for the law at all and act like jackbooted thugs with impunity, and you’re taking a big risk to your own life if you ever call them for any reason.
There is nothing in common with this writeup and your assertion.
Do you own a firearm, Fuzzie? We probably own over 30, and I’m far less concerned about law enforcement than you are. Most of our friends who own firearms, in fact, are either military or law enforcement (or retired from either).
Liz,
Those are Kurt’s numbers and don’t have faith in them. I think he is optimistic.
As for jack booted thugs, the only thing this guy was guilty of was recording evidence of police wrongdoing.
It’s getting bad, Liz, and there is no restraint on the cops. While a citizen can sue, taxpayers have to eat it.
As for owning firearms, it may be best for all of us to keep quiet about that. We have already had one man killed over red flag laws.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/11/05/fatal-officer-involved-shooting-in-anne-arundel-county/
Feminists don’t want people, usually men, to have firearms. In Switzerland, they tried to make so they had to be stored at an armory rather than at home. All men are in the reserve.
Officials said Willis answered the door while holding a handgun.
Willis then placed the gun next to the door.
When officers began to serve him the order, Willis became irate and grabbed his gun.
One of the officers tried to take the gun from Willis, but instead Willis fired the gun.
The second officer fired a gun, striking Willis.
He died at the scene.
Grabbing a gun and firing it when a police officer asks you not to touch it, is a good way to get shot. What would you have done in their position? Think I’m done arguing this. I’m going to say something I’ll regret. If you spent more time around people in these professions, you’d probably have at least a more reasonable assessment of the risk of saying you own a gun online, Fuzzie. Most of the gun store owners I know were former law enforcement or military. Most of the firearms experts of all types are either law enforcement or military. It was law enforcement that took the government to court against their magazine capacity laws here in Colorado.
This is the last I’ll post on the subject here.
LIz,
He was in his own home and thieves were going to steal his gun. That they had badges was a secondary consideration. The second amendment’s writing is pretty clear.
I just had a terrible thought. While it is unlikely that the sheriffs had body cameras and that the homeowner died at the scene, we have only their word.
It is a comfort that I am reminded of one of the last things Christ said as a free man, “Those that live by the sword, so shall they also die by it.”