@Snode
is being sliced and diced like a Popeil's Veg-A-Matic, into bite size bits to be gobbled up at the appropriate time.

It's a devious plan that is working. We need a preponderance of folks to wake up before it's too late, if it isn't already, and the Vermeer Wood Chipper is wheeled out.

Your post is spot on, especially the last paragraph.

Thanks, man.

To me it has become apparent that what either party in the past wanted was to steer the bureaucracy, like a vehicle, representing the status quo. I don't think either party wanted what is happening today. In the past there were so many little "third rails" that represented guard rails, and limited the damage either party could do. That was the bureaucracy. The democrats religiously guarded the status quo, no matter how it affected the 99%.

The infusion of money by the wealthy changed that. Money essentially bought democracy. The little third rails were still there in theory, but all the 1% RW think tanks cast everything to the wind with endless propaganda. The fat, lazy, democratic geriatric seniority system was satisfied as long as they got theirs, chugging along protecting the status quo.

With Trump, anything goes. He has the republicans in fear of being banished from the prizes he might withhold or the punishment he would visit upon them. My biggest fear is that America is really over. The power that has been taken by the 1% will not be relinquished. The republicans will not step down over an election. There will not be any elections that are not interfered with. If one is held they can stop all transfer of power easily and litigate the results for years, no shots fired, no civil war, just a new way of business as usual, a new status quo. So what can, or will we do about it? As long as the 1% exist most likely nothing.

Personally, I think the more wealth a person accumulates there develops a kind of mental illness, where a great paranoia sets in, where less and less humanity resides in a persons mind to justify having so much power and the ability to control people. Then there develops a pleasure in control and superiority that tends toward cruelty justified by their status over those they view a inferior. 2nd generation, third generation, there isn't even the paranoia, it just becomes inbred.

@orlbucfan
the last couple of weeks. There's no need to ask every week, I'll let everyone know when it's about to happen.

Just watching for your tech updates. Rec'd!!

@QMS
will be snuffed out at the appropriate time. I think we can count on that happening.

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when you hold all the levers of power
MSM, congress, courts, MIC, etc.
the only wild cards are the executive
branch and the internet (aka free speech)
as designed by the constitution.

The blade of the pendulum is designed to
divide the body politic. Seems to be working?

Thanks for the depth of the OT.

@snoopydawg @snoopydawg
meet stick. It sounds too good to be true, because he knows it wont happen. Notice how he kept the income level above what a congress critter makes, sans the funny money anyway.

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Bernie is warming up to his role as sheep dawg for the midterms.

“Sanders reintroducing measure increasing Social Security benefits” [The Hill]. “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is reintroducing a measure that would increase Social Security benefits. Sanders is joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Val Hoyle (D-Ore.) on the bill, titled the Social Security Expansion Act. It would expand Social Security benefits by $2,400 a year and ensure the federal program is funded for the next 75 years through a tax on households making more than $250,000 a year, according to Sanders’s news release. The lawmakers noted that it would not raise taxes at all for households that make less than $250,000 annually, which is more than 90 percent of Americans. ‘At a time when nearly half of older Americans have no retirement savings and over 26 percent of seniors are trying to survive on an income of less than $17,500 a year, our job is not to cut Social Security as many of our Republican colleagues want to do,’ Sanders said in a statement.”

Nice timing, Bernie. Just after republicans passed a tax bill cutting taxes on the parasites for $4.7 trillion.

Weird how he and Pelosi always do this when democrats are out of power. Pelosi sent McConnell 400 bills to help the working class when dems were in the minority, but once they had the majority again…..crickets. How many times will people fall for this?

@enhydra lutris
orange with multi colored polka dots and funny huge shoes. He can name it the Clown Party, although we already have two of those.

Soon, with any luck, we will have a third party representing all of the wrong interests and providing for yet more divisiveness, wouldn't that be grand. The "Florida Man" party, to be created by a Florida Billionaire. A strong Biden backer, he now wants to represent all those who think that nobody represents them. Since Red and Blue are taken, I suggest that these guys be depicted as mauve, or puce.

I grew up playing snooker, if I must say so I was pretty good back in the day. It was a good way to make some money on a cashless Friday night on the prowl. And I must confess that I was a pretty good golfer as well, don't play it anymore though, too expensive and addicting.

I myself am looking for a President who plays snooker or handball, no more golfers.

Personally I prefer Dionysus or Hedone to Ishtar or Astarte, but that's just me.

I'm also fed up with the Christianists and other Abrahamic sects and will only support candidates who worship Ishtar or Astarte.

Howsa' bout Hera who uses Apple, golden of course.

I could, of course, agree to those seeking a coalition with followers of Artemis, but only if they are Android users.

Soon, with any luck, we will have a third party representing all of the wrong interests and providing for yet more divisiveness, wouldn't that be grand. The "Florida Man" party, to be created by a Florida Billionaire. A strong Biden backer, he now wants to represent all those who think that nobody represents them. Since Red and Blue are taken, I suggest that these guys be depicted as mauve, or puce.

I myself am looking for a President who plays snooker or handball, no more golfers. I'm also fed up with the Christianists and other Abrahamic sects and will only support candidates who worship Ishtar or Astarte. I could, of course, agree to those seeking a coalition with followers of Artemis, but only if they are Android users.

Be well and have a good one

@gjohnsit
he has all of the Doge money to bail himself out.

Hi @elonmusk can you please tell us 5 things you did last week? pic.twitter.com/meidkvCXIP

— David Leavitt (David_Leavitt) February 25, 2025

@enhydra lutris
until after the recount or the after midnight ballot dump.

Families Party, one of whom seemingly got elected. Will wonders never cease?

be well and have a good one

@snoopydawg
snoops.

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Lots of great things in this article covering the Covid pandemic going back years. Things that were considered conspiracy theories or disinformation have over time shown to be true.

Empty Gestures

Every major element of the official COVID narrative has been proven false: The origins of the virus, the validity of PCR tests, the suppression of early treatments, the denial of natural immunity, the so-called "safety and effectiveness" of vaccines, and the utility of masks, lockdowns, and vaccine passports. Yet those who questioned any part of it faced unprecedented ostracism and persecution.

The most surprising thing happened:

Perhaps most chilling is the complete absence of informed consent. The crisis revealed how quickly we abandoned our most sacred protections. The First Amendment wasn't just challenged - it was systematically dismantled. Free speech, designed to protect the flow of information and allow people to hear all sides, was replaced with coordinated censorship. The same voices who once defended "speaking truth to power" now demanded power to silence dissent.

Thanks to JTC that did not happen here.
Thank you, JTC!

It’s a long read, but basically covers the things that we covered in the DOSE, but were mocked for it. Now that years have passed I think it vindicates what we said.