Regular unleaded is now back to over $4 per gallon again, courtesy of Trump’s Ahab-like refusal to accept that the war is lost. Like Ahab, he is determined to pursue his white whale to the ends of the Earth, even if it means his own destruction and ours along with him.
AAA says regular unleaded is currently – as of July 30 – about $4.10 per gallon. How much higher will it go as Ahab continues to rail at (and bomb) his white whale? More finely, Netanyahu’s white whale. The real president’s visit is coincident with the restart of the war. The factotum president – who is more a viceroy – did as he was told to do.
And now we’re paying for it, again.
So are the Iranians. We in America ought to reflect that while we are experiencing pain at the pump, the Iranians are experiencing a different kind of pain. That so many Americans are indifferent says a lot about America. There is also something to say about the Republican Party, which is now grossly complicit. It has shrugged both its constitutional as well as its moral duty to reign in the spray-tanned Ahab. That we are at war is self-evident truth. It is insolent to the truth to claim otherwise. Congress has a duty to reign in a president who takes the country to war at his own behest. An illegitimate – a criminal – war. Iran did not attack the United States. The United States attacked Iran at the behest of a foreign state. If this is not a treasonous act then what is?
Clintigula was excoriated by Republicans for lying about his personal business. The GOP never does anything substantive about the public’s business. Then as now. This time is however a different time. Clintigula was popular; this stupid, evil war is not. It is the only war in memory that was never popular. Many Americans initially supported The Chimp’s WarrnnnTrrrr – including the manufactured war against “Saddam,” as The Chimp routinely referred to him. It is worth recalling that it was the same state that got us into that war that got us into this war. Israel fed The Chimp bullshit about “weapons of mass destruction” – and mass destruction did indeed ensue.
The public – including lots of Republicans – eventually soured on The Chimp’s wars, which led to eight years of Barry Obama. Vietnam was another war that – at first – roused the Lee Greenwood Legions. Some 60,000 dead Americans later, they were no longer Proud to be Americans.
This is worse than that. A minority of Republicans, mostly elderly Fox News consumers, support the war. Pretty much everyone else was – at best – deeply ambivalent when Trump started the war and that shifted over to disgusted trending toward enraged as it became clear the thing is not just a war crime but a disaster. Hitler’s war was initially extremely popular – chiefly because he was winning, or so it seemed. By 1943, not so much – except in the hysteric rants of the those-days equivalents of today’s Sean Hannitys and Pushy Pink Peddlers (i.e., Glenn Beck). It did not end well for their analogs of 80 years ago and it is not likely to end well for them, either. No matter how often they play the Lee Greenwood song.
The GOP is at a crossroads. It can do something, while there is still time to do something – before it is too late, in other words – or it can do something do reign in Ahab and (perhaps) thereby save itself from what it otherwise coming.
For all of us.
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Once you understand the heeb wants you dead and gone, you wake up. The whole point of injections was to sicken and kill you, Like the sailors on the USS Liberty or the goyim in the towers when they blew em up, or Kennedy for having the balls to stand up to them. Demons in human skinsuits.
Mike Adams says we lost the war:
Since peace is unlikely to break out any time soon — because truly insane people are in charge of the American empire right now — prepare for supply shocks, higher prices, and war escalation. Decentralized living is the key to survival.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=329475
good read
Trump is making it much worse for us, Trump is an insane maniac and must be removed ASAP
War is a racket; the war is won by the movers and shakers the moment it is declared. It’s how one sells one’s wares at top dollar with zero oversight, on a grand scale. You’re full of shit.
IMPEACH TRUMP: Alex Jones TURNS on The President
Kim Iversen
https://rumble.com/v7dhu8u-impeach-trump-alex-jones-turns-on-the-president.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_f
Impeach Trump? Good idea. Kill Trump? Better idea. Alex Jones wants to impeach Trump, but Alex Jones was the biggest Trump cheerleader in 3 elections. The other was Charlie Kirk.
Trump has literally sold our nation into Jew/Israel slavery. He needs to be removed with prejudice by any means possible. The penalty for treason is death. How many more soldiers are going to die while insane pedo Trump keeps doubling down on his failed war?
Trump is a horrible evil man, he should resign and not allow a foreign nation to compromise our nation. But ego maniac Trump will not resign, he has the nation by the balls because BB has him by the balls.
We all just saw how that sick fuck Fauci (who tortured puppies) enjoyed exercising power over the nation. Trump is doing the same damn thing. IMO both Trump and Fauci should be both immediately killed.
People really need to wake up to the Trump spell, Trump is holding us hostage to his crazy Khazar boss wishes, we would be better off with Trump dead. Just get rid of him. Trump is a problem we do not need to tolerate.
The off ramp to the Iran war is to off Trump.
Best one sentence comment I read this week:
Trump may talk tough but in the end he’s just a sniveling coward who can be counted on to make the worst decisions possible.
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/washington-may-be-learning-to-live-with-iran-ukraine-and-israel/#comment-7712148
You’re promoting Alex Jones and the host is backing you up. This place is what was once known as a cesspit, where trash and sewage was piled high to rot and degrade under the sun and the weather. About as much credibility as “The View”.
Few things, first Iran is lecturing the zionist army (US army) like never before (or like Vietnam did).
Retaliatory strikes destroy three F-35 jets at US-run Jordan base: IRGC
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/07/30/773376/IRGC-operation-nasr-2-US-run-Jordan-air-base-F35
Iranian Army strikes key US base in Bahrain in 26th phase of Operation Thunder
http://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/07/30/773404/Iranian-Army-strikes-key-US-base-in-Bahrain-in-26th-phase-of-Operation-Thunder
IRGC releases photographic evidence debunking CENTCOM’s claims of “zero damage” in Jordan strike
http://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/07/30/773407/IRGC-releases-photographic-evidence-debunking-CENTCOM-claims-of-zero-damage-in-Jordan-strike
IRGC: Drone hangars, fuel depot destroyed at US Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait
http://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/07/30/773390/IRGC–Drone-hangars,-fuel-depot-destroyed-US-air-base-Kuwait
Thursday, 30 July 2026 4:04 PM
Secondly, oil majors are making record profits, same for those bankers who are behind all wars (central bankers and their private owners).
They regularly crash the economy and deprive us of all the essentials we need to exist.
I insist, their goal is not only to fill their pockets with our money but to DEPRIVE us of anything we could enjoy, freedom, free speech, liberty of movement, private transportation, home ownership, decent food, health (as seen with their covid operation), etc…
And while the ultra sock puppet Trump (who was in power during the covid scam by the way) is diverting the world with his stupid behavior and distracting us with his wars (Russia, Iran, genocides in Palestine and Lebanon, etc…), here is what his handlers do:
Digitization and Tokenization The Great Taking of All Private Assets
https://garydbarnett.substack.com/p/digitization-and-tokenization-the
This article by Gary D. Barnett is worth reading as it is the agenda exposed already in 2020 ‘you’ll own nothing and be happy’.
Many might have noticed that the extreme acceleration of crises and oppression from most ‘governments’ (regimes) against people started in 2020 with the covid global attack.
They are at war with Russia, Iran and whoever else, but they’re mainly at war against us and they don’t just want to rob us as usual but take everything from us, even our bodies as they tried from 2020 on.
They want to destroy our societies and transfom us into cattle, and Trump (like Biden or Obama before him) is one of their stooges to do so.
Remember, Zelinsky is trying to tie Ukraine/Russia to US-Israel/Iran.
Dems are good with going after Russia that way. After all, the temerity of those Russkies to throw of that drunken sot Yeltsin, installed by the Clintons, in favor of a true Russian Nationalist.
I expect if he can pull it off we’ll see true Bi-Partisanship in action, much to our detriment.
We’re watching history unravel before our very eyes.
I believe I saw this on Larry Johnson’s substack –
Another reason for the ever higher fueel prices is that a good part of diesel and jet fuel is being exported to – you’ll never guess – Israhell, to fuel the war machine and keep the parasite well fed at our expense. Yet another count of treason for this Zionist run administration.
That’s obviously true. Once Iran started targeting refineries, they need something to fill all those KC-135s. They are also sending fuel to Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, for sure. No point in basing KC-135s there without being able to fill them.
“Once Iran started targeting refineries”
What are you talking about, Steve? We know who hit the Saudi refinery and it wasn’t Iran. U.S. (they SAY with Saudi) attacked Iraq, but it wasn’t Iraq either: it was the West either Israel/US itself or one of their ISIS/Kurd proxies conveniently based in Iraq.
“US Central Command (Centcom) said the strikes were against “Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure”.
“Iraq’s paramilitary Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), which is dominated by Iran-backed Shia militias, said at least 20 of its members had been killed in US-Saudi strikes on its bases.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70g6y24d76o
Notice this article is by the BBC. Saudi can’t get out from under the Western powers. Trillions in western banks waiting to be frozen. If they want to sell to the Chinese in Yuan or cooperate with Iran, the JEW bankers of the UK and US will confiscate their money. And when push comes to shove, they will destroy their oil refineries JUST LIKE ISRAEL STARTED DOING (ACTING ALONE) by bombing Iran’s South Pars field (which Iran shares with Qatar!). And if Saudis don’t cooperate with the West (attack Iraq), then they need a regime change and Mossad, CIA, MI6 will assassinate MBS and install a new puppet (just like they did in Venezuela and are trying to do in Iran). You don’t want to sign the Abraham accords? You want a Palestinian state? Then death to you.
P.S. Only reason sending fuel to Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia or Jordan would be to fill U.S. war machine to defend Israel and OCCUPY the Gulf States.
More about the attacks by Israel on Arab oil and gas infrastructure. Did you know the Houthis were operating out of Iraq and instead of taking credit for their attacks un-named officials, from un-named gulf states without evidence tell the (fake news) media.
“Houthis behind Saudi oil facility strikes launched from Iraq, Gulf officials say. Gulf officials (!don’t even say from which state!) say the Houthis, not Iran, carried out attacks on Saudi Arabia launched from Iraq with support from pro-Iranian militias, while Yemen reported another strike on the kingdom Thursday evening. More than a day after the joint U.S.-Saudi strike against pro-Iranian militias, two officials from Gulf countries told Reuters that Yemen’s Houthi rebels were the ones who attacked Saudi Arabia from Iraq, not Iran. Meanwhile, Yemen reported another attack against Saudi Arabia on Thursday evening. The officials said they were basing their assessment on Saudi evaluations that the Houthis carried out the attacks in coordination with terrorists affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian regime. They added that the attacks in Saudi Arabia damaged oil facilities in the Eastern Province, where the kingdom’s main crude oil hub is located.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1vtuxkbze
YNET 7.30.26 “Araghchi on tanker attack in Egypt: ‘Be vigilant against Israeli plots’. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused Israel of attacking a gas tanker yesterday at the Port of Damietta in Egypt. “Egypt is an important friend and partner in the region, and its security is of utmost importance to us,” Araghchi claimed in a post on X. According to him, “We must all be vigilant against Israeli plots and ‘false flag’ operations designed to undermine regional peace. The threat is clear, mutual and fears Muslim solidarity.” No entity claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a drone struck a tanker that caught fire and caused another tanker to ignite.”
Those KC-135s are lined up like ducks in a row at Ben Gurion International airport. But Iran has not taken them out. Why they hell not?
Recent picture of USAF refueling jets in Israel:
https://i.imgur.com/PIgs8W0.jpeg
At any given time 20-50 of these aircraft are parked their, sitting ducks.
Don’t neglect your 5 minutes hate directed at the Jews, before your bedtime. It’s important, it’s necessary, and it’s all that you’re good for.
Max,
Why do you continue to repeat the canard about hating people on account of them being Jews? It is the psychopathic doctrine of Zionism – which many non-Jews hew to – that is the object of hate, at least on my part. Israel is a state. A vile, apartheid and parasite state that commits genocide and earns the hate. The distinction is important.
Hi Eric,
I am not going to wade into the Jewish propaganda because I have said my piece over the years how I think we are all being divided. I think there is something much bigger coming down the pike that we are ignoring….AI.
This is much bigger than man vs woman, black vs white, or any type of religious creed. I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, but AI is a serious danger to mankind and it will not care if one is a bisexual, atheist, white woman, a black Muslim man, or anything in between.
These Flock cameras, the smart phones, the constant surveillance state I think people feel they are being watched by human eyes and maybe they are for now, but AI is getting stronger, smarter, and more deceptive as data center after data center is built. Soon this will be more powerful than anything mankind (including the Jews) can control. The rich are building bunkers. Why is that?
Going after each other is futile. When these machines start plucking off mankind by the thousands it will be too late to fight back. The elite are erecting something they cannot control. We are aiding them by shouting “Squirrel” and participating in their division.
The oldest among us believe they will be dead before this controls our futures…sorry guys you won’t be unless you believe you will dropping in the next 12 to 48 months. This is not the Battle of Hastings where blood was lost because the opponent met the end of a sword or even the Battle of Midway where human beings were taken out by guns shot by other human beings. Humans have survived because other humans can feel compassion and sympathy. Machines don’t. There is no talking to a machine for it to see reason.
Sure we can continue to be split among us, but there will come a time that we will be happy that the person next to us is another human…the rest of it won’t matter.
I feel like Sarah Conner after your comment.
“It can’t be bargained with; it can’t be reasoned with; it doesn’t feel pit or remorse, or fear; and it absolutely will not stop. . .ever!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqW6AkTFYQA
All truth, ML.
You’re right, RG –
I can feel it coming also. What to do? I see a few things, for what it’s worth:
Disconnect to the extent possible; become as self-sufficient as possible; minimize debt to the extent possible; trust only people you actually know, who’ve earned your trust.
I agree with all of that, Eric, but when a machine or drone shows up at our doorstep it will all be for nothing.
I think it is cute though that Zuckerberg believes they aren’t going to find him underground.
Dear Mark,
You helped build it….they already know how you think. Hell, AI probably designed your bunker. 😬
Yup; the Geeks are going to be the end of us all.
I’m not a Luddite. I very much like electricity, indoor plumbing and internal combustion. Such things have greatly improved the average person’s quality of life. What have computers done? What is AI doing? We are told by some these things are also improving (or will improve) life. Really? I’m not seeing it. What I am seeing is the de-personalization of everything. The transfer of wealth to the 1 percent. The systematic loss of privacy and control over our lives. How many who were alive before computers took over and can remember that world would go back to that world, if they could?
Remember the ’90s? The ’80s? The ’70s? I do. For most of us, life was much better, more real. More happy and calm and human. It is not Gen X (or Boomer) nostalgia for the past. It is the truth. A truth those who grew up in this enshitified world do not understand because they have no way to understand it.
Smash the machines.
Hi Eric,
You are right. Their greed will kill us all, including them.
Only an idiot would manufacture something stronger than themselves.
Unfortunately, Raider Girl, most of the surveillance technology being implemented in the U.S. is from Israel because of them trying to control the Palestinians. U.S. would be upset if our country were partnering with China who also controls their citizens, but Israel is presented as a democracy and ally. Their technology and intelligence integration into U.S. military is a major concern to anyone concerned about living in a police state.
AI: “Israel-developed surveillance technology is implemented in the U.S. across immigration enforcement, border security, and local policing, primarily featuring mobile device hacking tools, automated towers, and data-sharing software.
“Border Security and InfrastructureIntegrated Fixed Towers (IFT): Built by Elbit Systems, tall metal surveillance structures laced with radars and day/night sensors are used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) along the southern border, modeled on technology tested along Israeli frontiers.
“Drones and Ground Sensors: Unarmed variations of military-grade monitoring hardware and remote ground sensors originally deployed in overseas conflict and border zones have been purchased for domestic border patrolling.
Spyware and Law Enforcement Hacking
Mobile Infiltration Software: Federal bodies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have utilized or acquired access to intrusive mobile hacking and cell-snooping products from firms like Paragon Solutions (Graphite spyware) and Cellebrite to extract data from encrypted smartphone applications.
“Biometric and Data Tools: Field agents increasingly deploy mobile iris scanners, facial recognition programs, and automated license plate recognition data networks (such as systems integrated via Flock-style architecture) that aggregate localized private and public camera feeds.”
_________
Chinese tech used by Israel: “Reversed Dynamics: The flow of surveillance tech is increasingly bi-directional or reversed; Israeli police and critical infrastructure have faced internal criticism and security debates for utilizing Chinese-manufactured automated recognition and traffic-monitoring cameras (such as Hikvision systems).
“CCTV Infrastructure: While intensive fixed-position AI surveillance networks using hardware from firms like Hikvision are heavily documented across East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, Gaza’s monitoring infrastructure relies more heavily on aerial assets, field sensors, and military-grade platforms.”
Hi AJC,
At the end of the day who manufactured it, installed it, and controlled it won’t matter, because the end game is the same.
No human being can stop what is coming unless we destroy it now.
The machines will control the system and they don’t care that someone’s last name is Rockefeller and they control the banks.
Greed has always resulted in the death of innocents, people who didn’t ask to participate.
Machines don’t care about money, religion, or politics. They can’t be bought. Those at the top are so delusional and narcissistic they think once they get what they want they can unplug it.
Silly, silly rich people. It doesn’t work that way.
Exactly RG,
They built Skynet despite the warnings, and now it’s coming for all humans
Also beware the immediate threat, data centers dumped in your rural areas. Just outside Cle Elum WA and 200 ft across the road from a rural residential area is a proposed 100,000 sq ft on 13 acres data center. They pick on large area but small population counties for this BS. Seattle tried this a couple years ago, they wanted to put a garbage/recycling sorting center in the middle of a gorgeous valley east of Cle Elum. Fortunately there are enough well heeled tech bros and other moneyed recluse types nearby a lawsuit put an end to that. We will see how successful the derailment of the data center turns out.
“There is also something to say about the Republican Party, which is now grossly complicit. It has shrugged both its constitutional as well as its moral duty to reign in the spray-tanned Ahab.”
I got a call today from the Alabama Republican Party, no doubt soliciting money. I debated whether just hanging up or saying “are you fucking kidding me”. I chose to hang up.
My congresscritters are awash in joo money. There’s no point in voting. They certainly don’t represent Alabama.
Today the R-party majority Senate rejected a war powers resolution to withdraw US forces from Iran, by a 49-50 margin. All 50 ‘nay’ votes were Repugniclowns, except for Demonrat ‘Fetterman’ who votes the interests of his ethnicity rather than his country. Roll call:
https://tinyurl.com/4dp4sef2
Among the Nay votes were ‘Graham (R-SC),’ meaning that the late Lindsey’s halfwit little sister just proved that she, too, is a foreign agent.
Clearly the Party of
LincolnIsrael is positioning itself as the party of four-dollar gasoline and bloody permawars in the middle east. It needs to be forever erased from the pages of history.‘Lindsey’s halfwit little sister just proved that she, too, is a foreign agent.’
Undoubtedly. The wife and I received a glossy mailer today from the Security Is Strength PAC puffing Darline and promoting her run for the US Senate in a special election next month. In it Trump — drawing deeply from his 300-word vocabulary — lauds Darline, “The sister of the Late, Great Lindsey Graham… a spectacular person, and a true American Patriot”. Darlene “comes from an absolutely incredible family, has been a WINNER all of her life… and has my Complete and Total Endorsement.”
SecurityiIsStrengthPAC.com supports a full US Senate term for Darline with the theme Carry On.
‘“Carry on” focuses on Senator Darline Graham’s mission to continue the conservative legacy of the late Senator Lindsey Graham with the full support of President Donald J. Trump… Endorsed by President Trump… to continue Lindsey Graham’s mission…’
“The GOP is at a crossroads. It can do something, while there is still time to do something – before it is too late, in other words – or it can do something do reign in Ahab and (perhaps) thereby save itself from what it otherwise coming.”
No.
WA state here, diesel in Central WA $6.20 now. Harvest time around the corner. Diesel powered harvesters, farm to processor transport trucks, then the diesel power semi to get your grocery store restocked. Yep, think food is pricey now?
The unknown is how many farmers give up if these costs don’t get passed on? Are they hostage to Big Agra processors? I know the apple growers here get next to nothing in return for their efforts and crop risk.
Best time to revolt and burn it down was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.
On the one hand we have the group loosely identified as “democrats”, a vast mob of disparate interests which agree mainly on their lust for power. As a corollary to this they despise Trump, mainly because he’s been the only effective check on their power in many decades. They embody every form and concentration of crazy from closeted deviant to batshit. No sane person ever wants to see them in power again, the consequences are too dire.
On the other hand, you have the “right” which covers a broad spectrum from lite socialist to reactionaries. The weakness (and delusion) of the right is their addiction to martial greatness, they believe that we won the Cold War, and ww2, and ww1, and every fight we’ve ever been in. They do believe in the state.
Then there is most people, trying to survive and thrive within the chaos created by the delusional fighting the insane. And into the mix are thrown godlike powers of surveillance, analysis, and an endless, unextinguishable paper trail which can be used against anyone at any time.
Welcome to hell. There is no way out of this trap without gnawing off a limb.
Excellent point. A lot of folks, myself among them, are politically homeless and have been for a long while. Support the left – woke, feminist, anti-male, anti-family, socialist, open borders, defund the police, etc. On the right: pro-war, support Israeli genocide, expand the Empire, loot Main Street for Wall and K Streets, and also surprisingly anti-male and anti-family when you look closely.
They both suck beyond words – no amount of loathing is sufficient.
The left right paradigm is false – you’re building a false frame to corral minds down dead end corridors. They’re both in the same club, which we are not in. This has been common knowledge for many years. Are you aware that you’re doing this, and do you care? The same people that want to castrate your children also want to send them to die in a desert. Is it so hard to grasp? Am I speaking rhetorically?
You’re right about that. The paradigm is defined by a spectrum from zero govcorp control to total govcorp control. From anarchy (no rulers) to totalitarianism (complete control by the state). All of the political templates currently extant in the western world are moving in the same direction.
What happens next? If men have the dominant voice in society, brutal wars. If women, civilizational collapse. If a balanced society becomes dominant, maybe we can avoid the worst-case scenarios.
I am totally convinced that today’s jews are remnants (survivors) of those wicked who lived before the great flood and sodom and gomorrah. Not all of the wicked perished. They are today’s jews…
Throughout history jews have been experts at devising extremely cruel and horrific torture techniques. Jews are so ethically and spiritually weak that they prefer to go after women and children and their captives and prisoners as chews fear standing up to REAL adversaries.
The Bolshevik revolution, which was a wholly chewish enterprise is but a prime example of extreme torture techniques being used.
Remember Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and other torture sites?
American military personnel were taught torture techniques by these same jews. Jewish torture techniques have already crept into all USA federal agencies (FBI, CIA, ATF, CBP, ICE etc.) and police departments, trainers given “free” trips to israel to :”see how its done”.
Keep in mind that what jews are presently doing in Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, etc. they have the same thing planned for “the rest of us”.
We are all Palestinians now…
“I am totally convinced that today’s jews are remnants (survivors) of those wicked who lived before the great flood and sodom and gomorrah. Not all of the wicked perished. They are today’s jews…”
Interesting thought. The Anakim were said to be extraordinarily tall people. And they are the ones that God directed to be slain, man, women, children, livestock, cats, dogs, etc. Goliath and his four brothers are considered to have been the last of the Anakim. You are suggesting that maybe instead of destroying the Anakim, the Hebrews intermarried or something? David was just a metaphor for them finally obeying?
“We are all Palestinians now…”
Not me. I’m taller than average, sure, but I am no Anakim.
The problem is if you believe the BS about Cain and Abel, Noah’s Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah and all those things you are referencing then you are believing the Jewish mythology. Sorry, you cannot have it both ways. That these tales are treated like actual history by a large percentage of Christians is why we will never be free from the Zionist grip as long as the masses stay on the Abrahamic plantation.
Your real history has been stolen from you, and you will likely never know the real truth as it have been buried under “Bible” stories.
Fair. But if you reject the Old Testament, you are de facto an atheist. Discarding the OT is impossible for anyone who claims to follow Christ.
On reflection, not necessarily an atheist. You could also be a Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Aztec, pagan, etc.
Respectfully disagree…
The Old Testament should have been relegated to the dustbin of history.
Most people miss the real point when they criticize early Roman Catholic leaders who discouraged reading the Old Testament.
The Old Testament “god” is lucifer, NOT the Christian God. The Old Testament “god” demanded that his “chosen” commit genocide on the level of today’s genocide by today’s jews.
One could easily surmise that the Old Testaments was regarded as “violence porn” by early church leaders, and as such was unsuitable for lay people to read without interpretation.
Just my take…
“One could easily surmise that the Old Testaments was regarded as “violence porn” by early church leaders, and as such was unsuitable for lay people to read without interpretation.”
But that’s specifically what they rejected about the teachings of Marcion. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/marcionism
No idea if you will follow the link. Here’s the takeaway:
“Marcion concluded that the tyrannical Creator-God of the Old Testament, Yahweh, was in opposition to the merciful and loving God of the New Testament.”
And he was dead-on correct.
That’s fine. And might even be true. I just know of no sect that believes that way. Catholicism considers it a major heresy, worse than Arianism, because it denies monotheism and embraces polytheism.
Nonsense, Zio-Steve. John 19:30 records that Christ declared “it is finished,” From that point on the OT (which includes the Torah) was a dead letter.
Zionists don’t like to recognize this because that would cut against the nonsense and propaganda phrase “Judeo-Christian.” John 3:16 makes it clear that whosoever believeth in Jesus shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. This new covenant superseded it.
I’m guessing you would accept Paul’s take on it? Flip to Acts 17, where he commends the Bereans for their diligence in checking the Scriptures to make sure it comported with the scriptures. What scriptures? At the very most, they might have had copies of some of Paul’s letters to other churches, as the Gospels had not been written yet.
Take home is that Paul still referred to the OT as scripture, and that’s self-evidently the content of his preaching.
Sorry, dude. You are not Christian. You have fallen prey to the false teachers. Repent.
Sorry. He commended them for checking to make sure his preaching comported to the scriptures.
Sorry Zio-Steve, you’re the false teacher.
I will follow Christ’s words over Paul’s “take” of the OT. It’s not called Paulianity, you know. The new covenant does not require belief in Paul’s take of the Scriptures, just belief in Christ.
Paul was preaching to Jews in a synogogue. That’s why he “reasoned with them from the Scriptures.”
It is finished.
Amusingly, I also discount Paul’s words when they don’t agree with what Jesus said, and I also refer to excessive reliance on the epistles as “Paulianity”. Incidentally, I do not refer to myself as “Christian” either, because that was coined for the church at Antioch, and there’s no record that I know of that explains their beliefs.
And while I agree with much of that, I know of no sect who agree with either of us.
“This new covenant superseded it.”
BTW, this belief in a new covenant that replaces the old covenants makes you one of the accursed dispensationalists. Maybe not in the sense you use it to slander, but in its true meaning, covenant theology.
Steve, “I do not refer to myself as “Christian” either, because that was coined for the church at Antioch, and there’s no record that I know of that explains their beliefs,” you are a laugh riot: you know all about the Anakim (!destroy their cats and dogs!) but somehow you don’t know nuthin’ ’bout what the Jews believe regarding the end of days.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-giant-mystery-nephilim-rephaim-and-anakim-in-the-bible/
You should read the letter of St. Paul to the Hebrews re: the Old and New Covenants especially Chapter 8.
Catholics believe Old Testament Patriarchs were saved by their faith in the coming savior and that everything about the old covenant was a preparation and pointing to the new covenant to be established by Jesus Christ.
I personally don’t know what Jews believe re: an after life. It seems at Christ’s time they were fighting about whether or not there was a resurrection. According to AI: “Jews believe in an afterlife but it is very different from Christian or Islamic ideas. Instead of focusing on eternal reward or permanent damnation, Judaism emphasizes living a meaningful life in the present world.”
“Core concepts: (1) Olam Ha-Ba: The “World to Come” is a spiritual realm where the soul goes after death. (2) Gan Eden: Often translated as the “Garden of Eden,” this serves as a heavenly place of peace and spiritual reward for righteous souls. (3) Gehinnom: Often compared to hell, this is viewed by rabbis as a temporary place of spiritual cleansing and purification (usually lasting no longer than 11 or 12 months) rather than a spot for permanent, fiery torture.
“Key Differences from Other Religions: (1) No Eternal Punishment: Even the most wicked souls are believed to undergo Gehinnom only temporarily to heal or purge spiritual impurities. (2) Focus on This World: Judaism places supreme importance on actions, ethics, and repairing this world (Tikkun Olam) rather than securing a “ticket” to heaven. (3) Diverse Opinions: Because the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) focuses heavily on earthly life, Jewish tradition allows for wide personal variation, and many modern Jews focus very little on literal concepts of heaven and hell.”
Their day of atonement/Yom Kippur is to secure life only for the coming year: (AI) “The Book of Life: Tradition teaches that God inscribes and seals the fate of every person in the Book of Life for the coming year during the High Holy Days, making Yom Kippur the final chance to repent before that book is closed.”
I asked what do Jews believe happened to Goliath’s soul: (AI) “Traditional Jewish texts do not contain a specific or uniform doctrine detailing what happened to Goliath’s soul after David killed him. Classical rabbinic literature (the Talmud and Midrash) focuses intensely on Goliath’s physical defeat, his arrogance, and his ancestral background as a descendant of Orpah, but it leaves the metaphysical destination of his individual soul unspecified.”
I asked AI what about the people they slew to get into the promised land: (AI) “Judaism has no single official dogma regarding the specific fate of non-Israelites killed in biblical conquests, focusing instead on general principles of divine judgment, the nature of the soul, and an afterlife without eternal damnation.
“Traditional Jewish thought approaches individual accountability and the destination of the soul through several broad concepts rather than a single detailed narrative for those specific ancient groups: (1) General Divine Judgment: Every human soul returns to God for accountability based on individual actions and moral choices, rather than tribal affiliation. (refer to source from Reform Judaism) (2) Temporary Purgatorial Cleansing: Traditional teachings describe Gehinnom, a spiritual staging ground where souls undergo a temporary period of reflection and purification (lasting up to twelve months) before entering spiritual repose. (gotquestions.org)
(3) The World to Come (Olam Ha-Ba): Rabbinic and mystical literature generally holds that RIGHTEOUS people of all nations have a share in the spiritual World to Come, while unrepentant or WICKED souls face varying degrees of FADING, EXCLUSION, or ANNIHILATION rather than eternal conscious torment.” (gotquestions.org) (Luke 13:28 speaks of exclusion from the Kingdom but the people suffer: “gnashing of teeth”)
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Anyhoo, according to the Bible GOD destroyed everyone in the flood and at Sodom. The Jews almost destroyed the tribe of Benjamin but 600 men survived and they got them women (Judges 20-) despite a vow they’d made. The other nations they were told to exterminate many reappeared later in the OT — including the Canaanite woman who obtains the healing of her daughter by the woman’s great faith.
The Jews were rescued out of Egypt about 1000 years after the flood. Jesus is a descendant. The Bible (the Word of God) St John in the Apocalypse and St. Paul in Romans state Jews, descendants of the NT Jews of Jesus’ time, will convert (these were their relatives, friends and countrymen).
I don’t see what is to be gained by contradicting God or the Word of God. Jews are no more wicked than the Babylonians, Romans, or Nazis (and many others who committed genocide (oppressed weaker nations (look at U.S. with Indians and Africans) or tried to conquer the world/region. Chinese communists are as brutal as Russian communists. ICE is pretty brutal and the immigrant detention centers “alligator alcatraz” seem to be pretty heinous. When was the last time any of us visited a U.S. prison? The U.S., supposedly Christian, is funding the genocide in Gaza and directly participating in the war with Iran. Our corrupt politicians are more responsible than anyone for turning Israel into a monster. While everyone is complaining about how bad the Jews are (and I do complain about it a lot), destruction is coming upon us not because of the wickedness of the Jews, but because of our own wickedness.
If everyone here (especially myself) spent as much time praying for the conversion of the Jews and our own politicians not to mention the Muslims and Christians as they did writing comments maybe things would be better (but of course if you’re going to pray you have to live a life pleasing to God: how pray for the conversion of others when should be praying for the conversion of oneself?).
That’s roughly my understanding of Jewish theology, at least up until Second Temple period. It’s roughly the story told in the Old Testament.
I don’t understand their afterlife belief. Dante extended on their model, expanding from 5(?) levels to 9. I don’t remember what they were. Gehenna, yes, but also Sheol. Mentioned several times in the OT. But what each level was for, I never put the effort into it. Like I said elsewhere, I think Jewish prophecy is largely fulfilled, so why bother? (It’s not really an eschatology — there is no end times.)
I made up the part about cats and dogs. Blame Ghostbusters.
One thing that helps understand the OT is that it is a product of time and place. Ugaritic and Babylonian texts about their conquests read as if Trump wrote them. “We demolished the city and all the inhabitants.” and then a bit later are talking about selling thousands into slavery. I think the same with the Bible. There’s a story in Joshua about how they annihilated a city and the very next sentence is about how they took some of the women as brides. Probably not necrophilia, rather just Trump telling the story.
God only commanded the destruction of 4 or 5 cities with all their inhabitants, all hill country cities, and only the ones that are believed Anakim, including the city of Gath. Yes, the same Gath that Goliath is said to have come from. Obviously not all were slain. In all the rest of the conquests, the word used means not destroy, but something more like “displace” or “drive out”.
Incidentally, Jews will convert. It’s right in Ezekiel 38 and 39. It reads much like a shorter, less symbolic version of Revelation. What we think of as the second coming, they think of the coming of their messiah.
Check it out. I think you will find it interesting. Ask AI what the 10 countries who will team up to destroy Jerusalem are called in modern times. It’s also fascinating to see how Islamic eschatology, especially Twelver eschatology ties in.
Bullshit. I reject the Abrahamic god/Yawheh whatever you want to call the bloody bastard. And the “New” Testament does not make any sense without the “Old” no matter what the twisted apologetics claim so I do not care about it either, although it is not quite as vile as the OT.
I do not reject the Greek gods, or the Norse gods, or the gods of other pantheons. I am not an atheist.
Nonsense
good comment, our entire system is being corrupted
If I were a Jew, I would like to strangle you. I’m not a Jew, but nevertheless, I hope you trip on a towel and it clotheslines you horribly. You’re working hard to repeat history, not arguing in good faith, likely working for a 3 letter agency, and are worth less than the paper I scrape my ass with every morning.
What’s going on in the world right now is being pinned on a single ethnicity because scapegoating is what tyrants do best. I’m not arguing with you personally, because you work for the tyrants, just like Eric does. I’m only hoping some young one sees this and thinks a moment about it. The young ones are sharper than we are. If they get one little taste of the truth, they won’t stomach your shit ever again.
Well, Max –
I “work for the tyrants.” That’s a good one! If so, they don’t pay very well.
Never going to work, Eric, except with your faithful. It would be nice if I had a tiny fraction of what people here say I’ve been paid by Israel.
True believers of any stripe are not interested in evidence. They have no need of evidence to support their beliefs, and, even if given evidence to the contrary, will seek out their own prophets to counter it. Almost regardless of the track record of the prophet. If anything, the worse the track record, the more credible the prophet.
Hi Steve,
Well, I can hope! And I can (to borrow a line from Don Corleone) use all my powers and all of my skills to try to get people thinking along different lines. I do not believe most people are bad; I believe many people are badly led.
What is this “truth” you speak of, Max Overhead? Do tell.
‘The thing is not just a war crime but a disaster.’ — eric
‘It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.‘ — Talleyrand, after Napoleon had a duke executed.
Israeli agent Donald Shalom Trumpowitz has caused incalculable, permanent damage to the US. He commenced fresh war crimes after his handler ‘Netanyahu’ dressed him down and barked new orders at him on Tuesday.
In a serious country, Trumpowitz would be facing court martial and potential execution. US military, step up to the plate, and lock up the treasonous f*cker!
At the notorious Israeli Sde Teiman prison, around 100 soldiers have gone AWOL due to their Satan signs being torn down (IDF is appealing to parents to send their sons back by 4 pm):
YNET 7.30.26 “Givati battalion commander to soldiers’ parents: ‘I broke Satan signs, those who are AWOL can return by 4 p.m.’ The commander of the Tzabar Battalion in the Givati Brigade sent a message to the parents of soldiers who abandoned the Sde Teiman base in protest against their commanders who removed signs they had hung. “Dear parents. It is clear to me that you are aware of the AWOL incident involving some of your sons,” he wrote. “Those of you who know from your military service the ‘veteran-recruit games’ understand how serious this incident is, and how many soldiers are harmed by the violence and humiliation. I decided to break wooden signs of Satan, the Angel of Death and others. Many of the fighters who decided to leave their weapons and exit the base and go AWOL did so under social pressure. In order to help many of them climb down from the tree, I decided to allow them to return to the base by 4 p.m.”
This link has a video of the soldiers marching out which Israeli media obtained from Arab media (just imagine having this mob “guard” you):
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1v7rn00hgx
Apparently incident has been widely reported in the Arab press who monitor this prison due to the number of Palestinians being held there.
“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Their testimonies reveal the outcomes of the rushed transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prison facilities, military and civilian, into a network of camps dedicated to the abuse of inmates as a matter of policy. Facilities in which every inmate is deliberately subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering operate as de-facto torture camps.”
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell
WIKI: Sde Teiman (Hebrew: שדה תימן) is an Israeli military base located in the Negev desert near the border with the Gaza Strip. During the Gaza war, it gained international attention for systemic human rights violations against its Palestinian detainees from the strip.[1][2][3]
YNET 7.30.26 (21 minutes ago) Revolt in Givati: Roll call at 4:30 p.m. will determine how many soldiers are absent. At 4:30 p.m., a roll call will be held at Sdeh Teiman base to count how many fighters from the Tzabar Battalion in Givati are absent after they left the base in protest against the battalion commander’s decision to remove signs they had posted. A senior military source said that ‘many fighters have begun returning to the base. This is a serious incident that will be handled with respect for the fighters.’ Various officials are trying to influence the fighters and persuade them to return to the base.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/iuw5wt6c4
IDF has posponed the roll call for an “unknown reason” (the are claiming MOST have returned):
YNET 7.30.26 (24 min ago) IDF claims most Givati soldiers who abandoned Sde Teiman have returned; assembly postponed. A military source claimed that most of the soldiers from the Tzabar Battalion in Givati returned to the Sde Teiman base after abandoning it in protest against the battalion commander who broke signs they had hung. An assembly was scheduled to take place at the base at 4:30 p.m., during which commanders planned to check how many soldiers were absent. The assembly was postponed for an unknown reason.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/xobmy9fpa
‘transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prisons into a network’ — AJC
Concentration camps, in other words. Just like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
So what was all that ‘Never again’ stuff about? Oh — ‘Never again to Jews.‘ Got it!
Israel delenda est.
“So what was all that ‘Never again’ stuff about? Oh — ‘Never again to Jews.‘ Got it!”
Exactly. Just as it’s up to us to prevent it in whatever demographics we value. Virginian. American. Western. White. Whatever.
No libertarian should object to someone acting in his own interests.
“No libertarian should object to someone acting in his own interests.”
Are you saying it’s okay to commit a holocaust to prevent a holocaust? So what the Nazis did was okay because they were acting in their own perceived interests? That’s not how the rest of the world defines Libertarianism–seems unique to you, Steve (as most of your comments).
the jewish holocaust never happened…it’s all BS!
“Are you saying it’s okay to commit a holocaust to prevent a holocaust?”
If it is the only effective means of preventing it, of course. Just as it’s OK to kill to avoid being killed.
Pure sophistry. Libertarianism does not admit “acting in one’s interests” to kill, steal, and commit genocide by using force against others.
Nor does Libertarianism condone Americans being coerced into arming and subsidizing such prohibited acts by others.
When it comes to hasbara, you’re just not very good at it. You systematically misrepresent everything. Congrats on your wasted years of talmudic studies.
Tacky psycho PR move at best.
They don’t amount to much in the first place, bot now we discover that only Massie isn’t on the take from the most corrupt, evil and unpopular nation on the planet, and the US fedgov is running a close second.
Maybe jarringly for most here, Lindsey Graham was also self-evidently not on the take. For a guy making $174k, and a military pension of at least $50k, and probably closer to $70k, he died with only $1.4 mil in assets. AOC did better than that in her very first year in the House.
They had Kompromat on Lindsey Graham to keep him a loyal Zionist. This is a perfect example of how it’s done to a senator:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YzyrY4Sy5Q8
I was just replying to the assertion that Massie was the only one who was not corrupt. If Graham truly had that little saved, he’s not part of the corruption. He may still be compromised, though he’s had roughly the same positions since he was chief prosecutor for NATO, or whatever his title was.
Evidence would be nice…
Hi Steve,
I don’t believe that. A Congressman had less net worth than the average American? No way. It says it was in mutual funds and US Treasury bonds. No house, money markets, rental properties or businesses after 30 years. Check the shell companies, the sister, and the attorney. Throw in the accountant for good measure.
If he was truly worth that then he was paying people to keep quiet not because he didn’t associate with the shakedown that Congressmen feel they are entitled to.
Average American…his age, not all Americans.
I agree, it sounds fishy. But I’m one who goes where the evidence leads. If/when some accountant shows otherwise, I’ll change my opinion. But that’s what even MSM is going with now.
You will never know for sure. As LLCs can be structured so his name was never associated with his assets. I’m just glad the war mongering POS is gone. His sister snake sliding into his slot should show everyone that we need a biblical type purge of our federal government.
At this point we would be wise to throw the baby out with the bath water. Assume every single clowngress critter is corrupt. It wont make much difference if 10-15 out of 535 are wrongfully accused and end up in the same boat with the corrupt ones.
I don’t need to know for sure. Circumstantial evidence like expenditures inconsistent with assets and income would be plenty.
You can bet they are looking for that.
British Documentary film maker Orthodox “Hasmonean High School” Jew journalist Alex Holder was following LG around for a documentary (probably spying for Israel). Holder released footage to the WSJ which showed Graham speaking to Netanyahu (Netanyahu is less hawkish than Graham), Zelensky, Jake Sullivan, turning on Trump, Witkoff and Kushner (in favor of Rubio–that would be enough to get LG killed), celebrating the start of the Iran war and with a direct line to MBS. The Newseek article “8 most shocking things from Graham Documentary” concludes: “WORKING (vs DRINKING) himself to exhaustion. In his final weeks Graham looked increasingly exhausted…Holder recalled Graham looking disheveled complaining that noone else was helping him carry the load (!to defeat Russia and Iran!) and insisting there was no way he could die yet.”
(1) Of course, this is a JEW “witness” given to us to make LG’s sudden death more plausible (Oh he was expecting to die! He was working himself to death!). No other witness for this info.
(2) This JEW following LG about released no footage to WSJ (perhaps he’s keeping it for his documentary) of LG drunk–but his drunken appearances on Fox and Hannity have been the talk of the town.
https://music.youtube.com/podcast/KRkOrV5f15Q
P.S. Alex Hunter was also infamously doing a documentary on Trump during Jan 6. 7.7.22 TIME “How a First-Time British Director Scored Unprecedented Access to the End of Trump’s Presidency. “Since details of Holder’s project have become better known in recent weeks, members of Trump World and the U.S. media have expressed shock at the access his crew was able to gain. Holder says those reactions have confused him. “It was absurd,” he says, “because we were so visible…He recalls being in Washington on Jan. 5. The film crew was preparing to capture Trump at a nearby rally on the Ellipse the following day. Holder says he told his cinematographer, “He’s going to tell them to barge the Capitol tomorrow.”
“Sure enough, Trump would infamously tell his supporters in that address to go to the Capitol that day—when Congress was set to officially certify Joe Biden’s election victory—and “fight like hell” or else they would lose their country.” [He had to turn film over to Congress.]
PPS: Not sure how he died with less than $2 million in net assets when he has a home in Seneca SC worh $1 million and one in DC worth $890k. Maybe he was packing it away in Epstein Virgin Islands. 2.24.26 Epstein-linked donors appear repeatedly in Graham FEC records Charleston, SC — Today, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews called on Senator Lindsey Graham to return campaign contributions from donors with documented ties to Jeffrey Epstein and commit to rejecting similar contributions going forward.
Federal Election Commission records show Graham’s campaign has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from several individuals who have been publicly reported to have connections to Epstein, including Leslie Wexner, Leon Black, John Paulson, and Carl Icahn.
“Jeffrey Epstein ran one of the most horrific abuse and trafficking operations in modern history. The people who enabled him and moved in his financial orbit helped create the conditions that allowed that harm to continue for years,” said Dr. Annie Andrews. “Any campaign money tied to that network is dirty money.”
“Andrews is calling on Graham to refund those contributions and donate equivalent funds to organizations supporting survivors of trafficking and abuse.
“Leadership means drawing a line,” Dr. Andrews added. “If Lindsey Graham refuses to return this money, he’s choosing campaign cash over basic decency. South Carolinians deserve a senator who knows the difference.”
Actually I just pulled up the Seneca home and it is valued around $366K per Zillow. The county has it appraised for $223K.
The DC townhome is valued around $560K.
I knew these politicians were not smart, but for Jesus sakes why would these people not hold their assets in an LLC? Why the hell would someone have their freaking name on their house (or other assets) if one is holding a high position in business, government, entertainment, sports, etc.?
These are the people making decisions for the rest of us!?!?
Some assets are sacrificed in order to preserve and keep secret others. It’s a smart strategy spreading risk around.
Made you all believe he was poor. Poor, poor, lipsey. Sold his soul for less than nothing. He probably had palatial estates in Jewkraine and Isntreal..
Amen, Norman –
I don’t understand this apparent defense of the man. He was scum. Far worse than poor ol’ Julius Streicher – the infamous publisher of Der Sturmer. He was hanged, even though no one accused him of ever having killed anyone. How many people have been killed at Lindsey’s behest?
Hey, Eric. Probably at least as many killed by Linsey as McShame, which we know for certain was tens of thousands of innocents. On the low side
Amazing how everyone has gone soft on him. Maybe that was the point. To use his death to wage broader war, especially on Russia. After all, ‘it’s what he would’ve wanted.’ Makes me sick to think about.
Yesterday, $1 million seneca home was first thing that came up re: his net worth–now it’s gone and when you try to google it get this message: (AI) “The claim that Lindsey Graham owned a $1 million home in Seneca, South Carolina, is false; public records show his modest 3-bedroom ranch in Seneca was purchased for $164,000 in 1993 and assessed at roughly $213,000.” !!!! In 30 years the home has not appreciated at all. !!!! (AI) “While exact localized city-wide median price tracking specifically for Seneca, SC starting precisely in 1995 is limited in public multi-decade datasets, broader state and regional metrics show typical home values have roughly tripled or quadrupled. State averages and local data point to median home values in Seneca currently resting around $314,000 to $344,000, up from national/regional medians of roughly $114,600 in 1995.” [$100K more]
AI: “Lindsey Graham’s D.C. house was estimated to be worth around $890,000 prior to his passing, originally purchased as a 1,254-square-foot brick townhouse in 1997. (NYPost)”
Not surprised they are jacking down the price of the DC home also given the low net worth they are giving this single bachelor lawyer who made $174k salary, $35k military pension.
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article245584920.html
But maybe he spent it all on alcohol and prostitution (?) Wonder if they killed him because he was spilling too many secrets/ security risk due to his advancing alcoholism.
There were concerns LG would not win his primary but go to a runoff. However at last minute a PAC “Palmetto Action” stepped in to run negative ads against another candidate. PAC will not disclose donors til later this summer. One blogger, “Regular Joe Grand Strand,” speculates it was LG himself (maybe that’s where his money went) because “The Treasurer for Palmetto Action PAC is a person named Danny Pepe. His mailing address is a Staples Store in Aiken, SC. His email address indicates that he is employed by a high- powered DC based PAC creator/advisor named Crosby Ottenhoff Group.”
NYT: 6 .9.26 “In mid-May, a super PAC called Palmetto Action — which was newly created and has not revealed its donors — began running ads against Mr. Lynch. In one, the group said Mr. Lynch had “a rap sheet fit for a convict, not a U.S. senator,” a reference, in part, to the candidate’s drug charges in the 1980s. (Mr. Lynch has said he pleaded guilty, went to rehab and turned his life around.)
“The super PAC has spent $3.2 million on television and video ads propping up Mr. Graham, according to data as of Monday afternoon from the media tracking firm AdImpact.
“This month, American Mission, a super PAC aligned with the artificial intelligence industry, also jumped into the race, spending nearly $300,000 on ads that promote Mr. Graham and feature Mr. Trump calling the senator a “good man.”
“Mr. Graham’s campaign also ramped up its spending on ads in the final weeks of the campaign.
“In total, Mr. Graham’s campaign and groups supporting him have spent more than $18 million on ads.”
This article says $27 Million: “Graham has spent an astounding $27 million on his reelection campaign, according to Federal Election Commission filings, and that’s even before his primary next week. His five GOP opponents — none of whom has a high statewide profile ― combined have spent less than a fifth of that. By comparison, Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who is in a bitter reelection fight, has spent just $5 million.”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/145933618544170/posts/1098441746626681/
I don’t think more expensive gas is just an unintended consequence of the Iran war. I think this was one of their goals. $4.00 gas is now the “new normal” (to borrow a hideous phrase from the Covid hoax).
There are folks on other comment sites who say gas would need to be $6.50/7 a gallon to be as high as the $4+ gas under Obama in 08-09 when adjusted for inflation. Now, these tend to be obnoxious pro-OF warmongers but there is some truth to it. Everything else has seemingly doubled in price. It won’t be long until we look back fondly on the days of $4 a gallon gas. The last 46 oz container of orange juice I bought for $5 means OJ costs around $14 a gallon now.
Kind of like the way we look back on ammo prices in 2020…
All politics aside; the only effect we can have is trying to lower our cost of driving.
Saving Gasoline, Saving Money an article from AGCO might help.
https://www.agcoauto.com/content/news/p2_articleid/26
I wish it weren’t so but at this point no matter how and who we complain too it won’t change things so all we can do is hang on and adjust. If enough of become ungovernable it might work but considering how many rolled up their sleeves to get a novel and minimally tested mRNA concoction injected into themselves I’m a little doubtful that things will improve as fast as we hope.
Enough reports are out there regarding agricultural output that indicate that food prices will be going even higher so perhaps stocking the pantry even higher might well be a good idea.
Yep. And it’s not so much the high cost of driving, but rather what we got used to, and how rapidly that changed. Canadians have been paying $5 for a long time. Euros have been paying even more. The world did not end for them, they just adjusted. So will we.
People just got used to Amazon Prime. You get your shit next day, heedless of how much more fuel that takes.
I think you will find this as frightening as I do. Walmart and other large global retailers are adopting digital programmable pricing. It is already in many stores. It will eliminate everyone without a smart phone from being able to purchase basic necessities. This includes a lot of seniors, families and others who don’t want the problems these phone bring including privacy and security issues, bad influences, as well as expense. Many people have also adopted VPNs specifically to protect their privacy online and help reduce identity theft and outside marketing influences but those protections will be prohibited, too.
This is another step towards the Chinese-style social credit system.
Only 3 states have banned these so far. (It’s not Texas.) These systems collect and use personal data, including your location, and behaviors and are another wicked use of AI. The Tech Times article link discusses the patents that Walmart just got for these, as well as the security flaws already found. A Consumer Reports investigation found that the cost of basic staples vary as much as 23% from shopper to shopper in the same place.
https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/coming-soon-to-a-big-box-store-near
https://www.inc.com/kevin-haynes/another-state-approves-ban-on-ai-powered-surveillance-pricing/91380212
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317279/20260527/walmart-surveillance-pricing-push-alarms-68-americans-three-states-now-banned-it.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfKuD7U1kGM
Indeed, Sandy –
This is a 1775 Moment – by which I mean the time to actively resist/fight back has arrived. These people and institutions are an existential threat. They must be treated accordingly.
Hi Sandy,
I have been watching and reading about this over the last year. I believe all Walmart stores are supposed to be fully digitized by year end. Lidl has also gone in this direction, but not as crazy as Walmart.
I do not own a smart phone. I am constantly jumping through hoops because I don’t. So far businesses have been willing to make exceptions, but I know sometime in the not distant future that my lack of participation will cost me. So I have tried to befriend and establish relationships with people like me…small farmers, tiny cafes, businesses that make house calls, etc. that are willing to buck the system a bit.
I wish places like Walmart would be boycotted, but the inconvenience of doing so isn’t worth it to most.
I’m in the same situation, Raider. Had a burner when my Dad was going though his last days, but pitched it before the ink on the death certificate was dry.
I buy mostly from a mom & pop who still put stickers on everything, and key in the price. Lots of others in the community buy there, too. Important to keep them going. But it’s mostly us old farts keeping them going. They are doomed as we age out.
I have a flip phone which I find myself carrying less and less. I am the only person in the doctor’s/dentist’s office reading Southern Living magazine from September 2022. 😳
I am not yet 50 so I hope to influence a few kiddos of the dangers of being connected to everything before I settle in for a dirt nap.
“This is another step towards the Chinese-style social credit system.”
Oh for fuck’s sake. That system will exist in Europe and North America long before it does in China. What’s with American peasants who love slurping down fear and war propaganda like an OF girl slamming jizz shots at a bukakke party? China ain’t no paradise (no country is), but they definitely learned a few things from their last go-round with the totalitarian state.
Never heard that metaphor before. I actually did LOL.
Agreed. Not because China learned any lessons. They didn’t. But because of the West’s collective ADD, 15-second attention span, and inability to perform critical thinking at even a basic level. Those silly Euro women are still holding up signs welcoming the rapefugees.
Anything worth doing takes some effort. Even something as mundane as going to the gym. Increasingly, few bother to do anything to save their own communities, but obsess about stupid shit halfway around the world. The other part of “think globally” is “act locally”. Not “sit in your basement eating cheetos and whine about how unfair it all is.”
“Not because China learned any lessons. They didn’t.”
Covid bullshit disappeared in China about five seconds after the peasants started protesting for real, apparently. And reportedly the choice to NOT implement a social-credit score system was made in the oughts, due to leadership concerns over its dystopian nature. Can’t point to any definitive links on the matter, but go here for a look at China as it actually exists, from a guy who lives there: https://thesubwayphilosopher.substack.com/
It is unfortunate that more don’t realize they are being fed a lot of fear porn about China. While China is far from ideal, they have high speed trains that are a very efficient way for people to travel from city to city. Their AI has practical applications and is not just bloated Israeli spyware. And if one of their bridges gets destroyed for whatever reason they are quick to rebuild it unlike a certain bridge in Maryland.
The US is now a 3rd world country at best.
Absolutely. No Chinky-dinky ever called me racisthomophopicIsllamofacsit. China, Russia, even Iran are not my enemies. The enemies of freedom and human progress are mostly congregated in DC, city of Londonistan, and of course Tel Aviv. Or, wherever Rothschild family and their agents are currently calling home.
Thirty years ago I drove occasionally over the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan, dodging construction cones and potholes large enough to swallow my car without a trace, nary a worker to be seen. The tolls were heavy (repairs cost money!), and last I heard the bridge still hadn’t been fixed. But I’ll bet the tolls are higher than ever. Do you think that bridge in Maryland will ever be re-built?
The Praetorians and the legions only care about a paycheck. Their job is to be unthinking killing machines, and unthinking people who will engage in mindless behavior for pay can NEVER be counted on to defend any principles. Plus, most of the new legionaries are barbarians now, from lands with no history of reverence for freedom. The only person who can save you is in the mirror. But humanity can easily give itself a bright future. Easily. No more compliance with any of it, and its over. Why should the sheriff foreclose on you, when he is threatened with owning nothing too? It seems everyone can keep what they hold. The cars are problematic, yes. Maybe an industry can arise ripping the digital tech out. Cheap new homes could be reinforced and bolstered for working fireplaces and wood stoves. Food will be the biggest issue. Everybody who can grow vegetables and keep chickens could do so though, once we’re no longer asking for permission to survive or do what’s best. If we do this, at least the kids have a wide open future of possibilities again. If we don’t, they have promised us the forecast for our children is unending misery.
“Maybe an industry can arise ripping the digital tech out.”
If Officer Friendly’s car pings yours and it doesn’t reply, you are caught.
People saw the need for phones that were not compromised, and there are now dozens of them available if you look around a bit. “But that’s hard, Steve.”
Screw the half measures. We need to just stop asking permission to drive vehicles that don’t comply. But en masse. Being an early adopter just gets you killed.
How do you build up a base of people willing exercise their freedom? The most optimistic estimate of people with libertarian leanings, which included social liberal, economic conservative was 24%. Maybe enough, but you can’t afford to alienate any of them with irrelevant purity tests.
Yeah, but police won’t be tolerated in their current form if people decide to take their freedom. As they are, they literally ONLY exist to jam up rule-followers/tax slaves. When it’s Anthony Weiner’s or Hunter Biden’s or the Epstein Club’s CSAM, or Debbie Wasserman-Shultz/Awan brothers stuff, they see nothing. Hold them to crimes with a victim, only, and only if people want their help. If they want to keep shaking people down for tickets and speeding and arresting people for finding loopholes to get more counterfeit, unconstitutional “money” from unconstitutional government programs from unconstitutional government agencies, I’m sure people would disable their cars. Their tires can be flattened anonymously, from a distance.
I wish I were so optimistic. I saw college kids wearing masks to their cars, and not removing them once inside with the windows rolled up. I know of otherwise sensible people rolling their sleeves for the jab. I know people who will go pull a building permit for anything more than maintenance. Inside their homes, where it can’t be seen, for pete’s sake! Like it or not, most people will not make waves.
That’s why I think it’s so important to not deliberately alienate anyone who could potentially be on our side here. We can do purity spirals later, but only if there’s enough people involved to set the state back a peg.