Open Thread - 10-03-23 - How to Survive in Today's World
Author's note: I just woke up and realized that today is Tuesday and I promised to cover the open thread for earthling1. I have to leave shortly for a one and a half hour round trip to a neighboring city to get some shingles for the crew that's working on our house. I don't have time to write anything substantial so I'll post this rough draft that I saved as a future OT.
Our so called leaders are showing us how to survive in today's world. Be a crook. Be corrupt. Lie. Steal. Cheat.
It's become increasingly difficult to make ends meet today, unless one is lawless. It's been made obvious that the rule of law is passe. Both petty thieves and hardened criminals are slapped on the wrist while white collar corruption goes unstopped on a massive scale.
The corrupt are thriving while the honest working man sinks lower and lower.
The US has become the leader of the world in corruption. In a time when the last of the resources are dwindling we fight wars to secure it all rather than equity for it's inhabitants.
Want to become rich? Enter government, anything from school boards to the federal government, the higher up the more prosperous. Politicians work for their wallet and not for their constituency, it's ass backwards.
We may call ourselves civilized, but in the light of the last few years it has become shockingly apparent, we are anything but civilized, hell, we are the most dangerous and greedy species on planet Earth.
We are neo-Rapa nui.
Let's face it, crime pays.
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Good morning Free Rangers...
sorry there's not much meat to this morning's OT, I didn't get a chance to flesh this out, hopefully it's enough to give a general idea of it's intent. It is a rough draft.
Hopefully I'll be around later for the comments.
Gotta go!
It's ok, we don't eat meat anymore, so all is okie dokie,
sigh
in case you are in need of another nazi. I offer myself. I blonde, dumb, annoying (some find that attractive) and geesh - female, at least the last time I looked I was, who knows, may be Selenskye or was it Putin, made me a transvestite ? Did spell that to all your satisfaction rightly? It was supposed to be spelled leftly.
Sorry, friends, I guess the game is over. Be well and survive.
I still love this site. I just hate the world.
And may be the more important question would be 'how to we die in today's world- ? living is easy, to die is hard.
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Good morning
Since crime pays so well, why are there no skilled criminal shortages or supply
chain issues? And inflation doesn't seem to effect the industry either. No lockdowns
(or lock-ups) and these bald-faced crooks do not have to wear masks!
This, once again, goes to prove rules are only made for the powerless.
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Small Californian Town Elects Dog as Its Mayor for Third Time in a Row
https://mymodernmet.com/dog-mayor-max-iii-idyllwild/
Thanks for the OT!
question everything
poor doggie, I would look as saddened as he is, i
if I were elected three times in a row to that kind of shit job.
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Good morning Johnny, et. al. Not too much to add or to
say about much of nothing. Spending a ton of time trying to sync stuff across my devices these days; text is a gimmee, but spreadsheets not so. Ah well, not too urgent and keeps me busy and distracts from the fake news and reality, corruption and murderous behavior.
All the propaganda is aggravating, but one can't make much headway against that. The constant lies and corruption that have been this nation's history make it nearly impossible to explicate the totality of our reality because one has to try to communicate the errors of all of the fake history back to the sixteen hundreds else that mythos serves as a fallback.
"Still true" department:
OTOH, it is tuesday and the sun is out, so there is plenty of tuesday stuff to keep one distracted, plus all the any day and every day stuff as well. Time to get to is, starting with breakfast.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
sometimes oldies help me to survive modern times
case in point -
question everything
So, this County Sheriff nearby
started his tenure in office
started his tenure in office with a bang. He raided 8 or 9 illegal slot machine private little illegal casinos. He confiscated machines, cash, every stick of furniture in those rooms. Even mops, tissue, cleaning supplies.
Well, he had to fly out to Vegas for some national cop seminar. He used the confiscated cash for his flight, room, food, and gambling while it was still in evidence and before the formal court proceedings to be awarded his departments share of the proceeds.
The person who reported this to the authorities announced he would run or that office. So, who got arrested? The deputy whistleblower. Several felony cases, all later dismissed. Everyone in office in that county says the whistleblower had a personal grudge against the sheriff. Not a single official word about the expenditures by the sheriff of money taken (illegally) from the evidence room.
Oh...nothing was ever mention about that one game room he missed. It was the one run by the mother of the Lt. Department of Public Safety trooper who lived and had his headquarters in that county.
These sheriff and Trooper mom are way, way above the law.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Obama & the bankers? Hunter & The Big Guy? — as above, so below.
Michelle Obama reportedly received a check for $741,000 for giving a 1-hour speech in Munich about Diversity and Inclusion.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=michelle+obama+munich+741%2C000&ia=web
Makes me want to
throw up.
Her speech changed Germany and the whole world, amirite?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
hell, that's cheap
compared to the gazillions her husband got to further the WEF way
just a down payment to join the big-boy club
suspect they are floating her prospects as a Biden replacement?
question everything
you can't expect the big girls club to get equal pay for equal
bullshit.
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what can be bought
will also be sold
down the river
of life
question everything
Where I live it is 5 minutes before midnight
to the fourth of October. Time to go to bed and miss out the last five minutes.
I say good night. just go to sleep.
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First of all...who's "we"?
― Hannah Arendt
FIAT JUSTICIA, RUAT CAELUM
People are different. There is evil and good in the world, and the good simply need to stop allowing themselves to be hobbled by (as Nietzsche, I think, hit the nail on the head by dubbing it) "slave morality".
Any moral protocol that ultimately makes one a victim and/or pawn of those who are demonstrably contemptuous of that protocol is invalid. I am sick of hearing about "above the law" like that means there's nothing we can do but accept defeat.
NEVER.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Jonathan Cook wrote this.
I took this from an article in joe's 10/4/2023 ebs:
"There is no way to become that rich without being entangled in the inherently corrupt world of transglobal capital movements, without carrying out secretive corporate operations that depend on the collaboration of resource-rich states and their similarly corrupt elites."
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981