I’ve never really understood how large groups of people could get so manipulated by propaganda from a government, political party or a group and others didn’t. People that see through the propaganda are still affected however, they have to live with the brainwashed which can lead to division or worse violence. I’ll never forget this one instance, one of many instances, where people I knew for decades shunned me because I’m unvaccinated.
In 2008 I built a house, a mansion, for a wealthy family on Cape Cod. Years later during the pandemic, on a Friday, I went there to look at some work they wanted done. The whole family, was there for the weekend. When I went to go in the house they all got up and left the 6 bedroom 6 1/2 bath house because I was unvaccinated. They all went outside, stood in the front yard while I was inside. Their kids, their small grand children and all but one of the parents. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by their disrespect, they all went through the college “educated” brainwashing process. I had done large renovations to all of their homes. Although the parents are conservative, the kids are self proclaimed ultra “tolerant” liberals. The blatant arrogance and discrimination, looking down on me, confirmed what in my heart I knew they really were all about.
My back breaking work had made them all millions of dollars which pleased me. I was always good to them, respectful and responsive. They were all captured by government propaganda.
To this day, even with all the facts that have come out, even after being “vaccinated” again and again and all of them getting sick, they haven’t changed one bit and certainly have never apologized for treating me that way. I looked up the appraised value of that house, it’s currently 4.8 million on Redfin.
Isn’t it so human to take something good, drag it through the streets, spit at it, humiliate it, shame it, imprison it and finally try to kill it.
It’s not in my nature, man’s nature, to forgive something I know I’ll never forget, but I do try. Happy Sunday!
Exactly! If most (probably 70%) of the kids in college were even capable of "critical thinking" they wouldn't be there in the first place.
For most of them the ROI doesn't pencil out.... Not even close.
Apparently 2nd grade math is HARD.
The idea that everyone should go to college is ludicrous on it's face. A college degree is like any other commodity. When everybody has one they are virtually worthless.
Also, initially college was for specialized training that was very hard science and inappropriate for anyone except the last 15% that were capable and inclined to go that route. And then suddenly educators who did a great job with no formal training decided they needed a degree. And it soon became (as my great aunt of 104 said many times to me) “bull shit, more shit, and piled higher and deeper” BS, MS, PhD. As proof I give you “Dr” Jill Biden.
I went to vocational-technical school to learn graphic design and printing back in 1974. I have been self employed since 1980 and am "retiring" this September after 52 years in the same industry. You don't need college, you just need motivation and a desire to succeed.
Our spouse keeps telling us that only 30% are unconvinced by propaganda. Unfortunately, only a small -- TINY -- percentage of the unpersuaded speak out.
Everyone in the 30%, please speak out. But be respectful. NO profanity. Ask open ended questions. "Are you vaccinated? Yes. OK, then you won't need to worry if I'm not, right?"
The Pandemic shed a lot of light on people's tendencies and how easily they go along to get along. I was sitting at my son's baseball game after the reopening of sports in CA. Bear in mind that there was crime scene tape blocking off all parks and even the beaches here. It was crazy. Anyways, I was sitting in the outfield in a chair by myself as I simply wouldn't wear a mask and didn't want to deal with anyone. A father of one of the boys who was just a great cool and kind guy came up to me with his mask on. We always small talked at games. He asked how I was and then proceeded to ask if I had gotten the vaccine. I replied "Hell no" as I seem to not have a filter. He asked why and I simply said "I didn't want it." He then volunteered that he had gotten vaccinated so I asked him why he got it. I will never forget him saying "I did it for you." I reacted with a quick response saying "What? I didn't ask you to do that". He just looked at me kind of confused and his eyes were so tired. We never talked much after that.
I believe a big issue is that if you are not ostracized because of your stand on vaccines, you may be ostracized over another issue, and then another… until you eventually find yourself feeling quite lonely in this world.
We seem to have lost the art of communication—and of having peaceful disagreements.
I think if we somehow could go back to the time when parents were not so frantic working many jobs, they might teach manners again. One can just hope. Also, I think manners have to be rooted in something higher than personal satisfaction.
These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. They can be found on the internet through searches, but I don't think that the powerful really like them being known. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Ideally get them posted in school classrooms. Thank You.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Us carpenters have had it rough J. Luckily, I was retired before the China virus or is it U.S. now? I know one thing if there was ever more work to be done for this family that friends and family discount is done. Full rate plus!
Four years of most of extended family gobbling up every weird nonsensical DJT-TDS and then spitting it out with unrequited glee and little actual thought got tiring, to say the least.
It was when they rued the Butler, PA wannabe assassin’s aim {sigh} that I’d had enough. Obviously, not the only one in this situation - I hear you James. The blessing in this story arc from a bad soap opera is that I’m not pained by having my immediate family so afflicted. [daughter in law’s family, tho, would fit right in 🤣]
Speakin' of TDS, I had a friend on FB who, during the first Trump administration, shared every anti-Trump meme she came across, usually accompanied by snarky comments. Forty years ago, I'd have said she was very tolerant of differences of opinion. Changed over the years, I guess... And got her opinions from watching MicroSuckNBC. Anyway, when President Trump got infected with Covid, this woman commented that she "hoped he'd suffer from Covid, and then hoped he'd suffer in prison for all his lies". That was enough for me, and I told her so, and then blocked her. Only person I've ever blocked on FB... Differences of opinion are one thing, but to me, ill-wishing a fellow human is enough to make me walk away.
I was telling a mate in church this morning (yes, after service) I’d never heard a person praying to Satan publicly before this past week; then I came across James Carville on YouRube I guess, praying to "God" about his hate of FJT and wanting it to increase. But I’m pretty confident that such a prayer would not only go unanswered it would be discouraged - hence I can only surmise that the "god" JC was praying to is not the God of JC I profess to know.
Sad. For Carville hisself, for his wife, Mary, for the nation and for those who may hear his words and take them to heart. Personally , at 81, I think Carville may have spent too much time amount Biden and caught whatever has turned his brain to much. Can we say dementia?
A sad example of the power of the spell. Having been a builder of things my entire life I feel you pain. The success of the modern propaganda machine is the most challenging threat we face, even more than the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians. Trump was right about Fake News all along, but its not just fake it's evil on steroids and that's how the spell is cast. Context is essential for understanding and identifying deception/fake news.
Regime change. Our own elected and unelected government officials are supporting regime change in the United States by causing pain to us, the citizens. Man alive, I do wish they would stop it. I really don't like being treated like them, puppets.
Kind of a tangent, but wow... I hadn't heard the expression "man alive" since I was a kid in the 1950s! We used to use that one all the time. (Safer than "gosh" or "darn", which were forbidden...)
There's a book with a great story about a plumber who had an interesting way of dealing with wealthy snobs. (Snob: derived from sine nobilitate - without nobility) What's hilarious is that his customers never knew. He didn't sabotage the job; he did it right, with a little extra thrown in.
The book is August People, by Ralph Graves, published in 1985. Likely only available as a used book now, and might be hard to find. But the story is fun, and one that has stuck in my mind ever since I read it decades ago.
"Anytime someone creates something wonderful, there's always someone whose first thought is to screw it up and, more often than not, they get away with it."
I hate the idea of open primaries. They're too subject to sabotage. Firmly believe that a candidate should be chosen by the party he or she represents. Only thing worse that the Dems have come up with is ranked-choice voting. They tried to push that through here, but thankfully, it failed. They'll probably keep trying, though.
You mean the DemoKKKrats, correct? They all walk in synch with each other and have since they started the Civil War, and when they lost, they created the KKK to keep their slaves afraid. Oh, yes, then they created gun control laws, you know "common sense gun laws" so they could make sure their former slaves were disarmed and couldn't defend themselves against the KKK. And when those fell short, they created Jim Crow laws to keep their former slaves separate from the rest of the population. But they finally hit the jackpot with welfare programs. Those programs allowed them to break up the black families and keep enslaved on the government plantation. So now the DemoKKKrats have re-enslaved their former slaves, just on the government plantation instead of the cotton plantation. And those slaves depend on the benevolence of their DemoKKKrat slavemasters for their needs.
I donated to the GOP for decades, and before Trump was elected, I could see little difference between them and the Democrats. Now, I realize the ONLY difference is Trump and his team. I have concluded the goal of most folks in Washington is NOT the welfare of the U.S.A; it's to get a rich as they can as soon as they can.
Polls. Cannot believe them because of bias couched in questions asked and who is asked those questions. An example is,the poll I conducted with myself over who is,smarter, cats or dogs.
Cats and dogs. Often encounter discussions about which are the smartest. Was thinking about that when it occurred to be it may be something of an apple/orange comparison. Consider hunting as a mental exercise.
Dogs are pack animals and they hunt cooperatively. They also are prone to nuturing one another. And that explains how they relate with us...they will accept us into their pack and accept our participation in their hunting. And will come to us with their problems and booboos.
Cats are lone hunters so their decision making is solitary. All planning aspects of the hunt, the capture and disposition of prey is theirs alone. Tho perhaps they include us in their pride, they retain much of their solitary decision making and when upset or ill tend to go off and hide. They simply are much more independent than are dogs.
By that characterization then, dogs behavior leans toward the collectivist and cats are more the ultra conservative. By that criterion, which are smarter?
They have different types of intelligence. Cats aren’t as easily trained, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t smart. Just look at what the universities are churning out. They’ve been trained, but are they smart?
Most household pet dogs if released into the wild will either die or form feral packs with similar behaviors to that seen in "the Lord of the Flies," having lost the genetics of wolf packs.
Most cats still have the ability to fend for themselves and live - a shorter life, yes. They’ll also form colonies but not like feral digs which are dangerous.
My own opinion is that’s the result of how long cats and dawgs have been domesticated -minder the influence of hoomans. There’s good evidence that dogs have been "domesticated" upwards of 12-15,000 years, since before man hisself has been domesticated (cities, etc.). Cats, on the other hand, have only been accepted/domesticated since early Egypt, with some recent research indicating cats may have only been adopted for less than 2,000 years. Yes, cats show up in Egyptian art, but I’ve read they were bred for sacrifice 😱. China has some very early history with domesticated cats but that early association faded and those cats reverted to wild cats.
And finally, what tipped me over to the theory that "pet" cats are a recent innovation is their inclusion in Scripture, Biblical scripture, or the lack thereof. The only felines mentioned in The Bible is the large cat, Lion - one search cites over 100 Lion mentions, almost all favorable, notably the Lion of Judah, Jesus, hisself.
Dogs otoh, while present in scripture, are usually mentioned in the most negative of terms/situations.
To me this is just another reason that cats were not a part of people’s daily life 2,000 years ago - for Israelites in Israel or earlier in exile in Egypt.
In conclusion I’ll admit to, as an earlier commenter so admitted, having cat like traits. Speaking of: it’s time for my midday nap 😆
But though dogs are more collectivist, they're not commies. Definitely a meritocracy is operating in their packs. 😎 Zero DEI. 🤣
Cats intelligence is more foreign to humans. It benefits their own propagation, period. At weedom-land, there's a strange, nurse cat who's a loner until another cat gets sick. Then she hangs out with the ill animal and licks him. She's now 16 yo, (and without those jabs, seemingly impervious to FLV and FIP).
Some times cats and dogs become friends and often work together to accomplish objectives. We learn of it mostly via video clips. As one with cat like tendencies, I appreciate the message this sends.
Most people's education is simply a brainwashing to submit to authority. The structure of higher education in most institutions is a little more than rewarding those who can best regurgitate to the professor. No thinking allowed. Richard Feynman said it best ""Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot."
OMG... I had an English class in which I figured out quickly what would please the professor. Sadly, I didn't really have to attend his lectures (but I did...) Just read the material, and write a paper or answer a question on an exam, that regurgitated his opinion! Well, maybe the real lesson was in figuring out people, and what they want... And then delivering what will garner a "reward". In that case, a top grade in the class.
Dear Dr. Malone and lovely wife: it would be an everlasting courtesy and boon to mankind if you never gave another minute of your valuable time showcasing the deplorably stupid Greta. Your consideration of this request will be greatly appreciated.
I appreciate your opinion and tend to agree. But this is the first I'd heard about the Doom Pixie's latest machinations, and the new flotilla project. Had not seen any news about that until today! It was good for a laugh, if nothing else.
The 'young' are becoming sooo incredibly gullible thru corrupt grooming! Most seem to only have the highest aspiration in life of being an "Influencer" at top of mind. My grand niece, at 14 yrs of age, is included here. Thoughts of the Kardashians come into focus. Vapid/mind numbing/misdirected on the one side, evil/misdirected on the other.
Being an "Influencer" means having a ping pong ball mentality. One minute here is important, the next minute over there. None of it really being thought over and none of it is more important than that 15minutes (now stretched to hours) of 'being out there to be seen'.
One example: I watched recently a girl influencer who ended up in emergency room with an eye glued shut. She was afraid of missing her opportunity for prime time on her blog and not finding her eyelash glue, used super glue instead! Uhh, wow.
Greta is just another example of vapid, etc., maybe dangerous...altho she too bounces so much not sure how sustaining her messages are to the others out there trying to compete with all the others out there trying to compete for the almighty facetime. I think of her not, but commend the Malones for showing her for her clone, hmm, clown like abilities.
Well, y'know... As an attorney I once worked with said, "Everybody is entitled to MY opinion!" And the influencers get money for their efforts. So it's a double whammy, and it'll only get worse.
And drive around in electric cars that would never be built without heavy use of fossil fuels to mine the minerals needed for their batteries, as well as all the plastic parts used in their interiors. And have to plug in to fossil-fuel generated electricity to recharge the batteries.
Isn't it time for the Doom Pixie to get a real job? Or is she independently wealthy, and just enjoys bouncing from protest to protest, and creating great fodder for memes?
I hate to be the bearer of bad newz but this won’t work. For a gift to be a gift it has to given w/o any expectation of or any receipt of something of value. Your server (or anyone similarly engaged) is providing a service which if done to your satisfaction may receive a financial gratuity, the tip. But for this association, however temporary or tenuous, you wouldn’t have made the transfer of funds.
And no, I don’t think popping into the restaurant a week or month prior to dining there and bestowing upon the server a financial gift would be accepted either. 🤣
While no longer active, I still remember the gist of this discussion from nearly 40 years ago when taking tax law as a law student. Fun times.
You were Waiting for someone to agree that a tip should be a gift? For how long?
I understand that a portion of reported tips and overtime wages are tax exempt temporarily. Isn’t that nice? I don’t get either, but am just fine with those things not being taxed.
What happens when the taxes get ridiculous? The black market grows. It’s quite huge in the socialized countries. There’s a natural limit to taxation.
I see Greta's Puppet Masters are again using their Useful Idiot to try to rile up the masses. Don't be fooled.... My sister moved to Tennessee from beautiful San Diego (5 years ago *sigh*) after living there 43 years, due to Newscum's hijinxs.... Lastly, I am not allowing "them" to take way my love of rainbows.... Thanks for the Funnies.
It's truly amazing how short peoples memories are. How the doubters and nay sayers complain about Trump. I suppose you'd like Biden and that administration back? Don't you remember how bad it was? Trump isn't even half way though his presidency and the people are complaining because they think they can do better, armchair quarterbacking is so easy when you're not making decisions. I'd like to remind people we don't have access to the real information the President does we really don't know what the risks are and why he hit Iran when he did but, I'm happy with Iran NOT having Nukes. I am disgusted with some of our Republicans, RINO'S, and Congress get off your butts and do your jobs. Republicans you have a messaging problem if you don't fix it you very well could lose the midterms and lastly Thanks to this administration for saving my tax dollars from all of the waste and fraud you've discovered please keep digging and finding more.
Let's give the man a chance, let's be more like the Democrats and stick together.
Greta needs to get another job. I don’t think her protesting has accomplished much. Loved the MUGA meme. Unfortunately, could be said about more than Newsom.
I, too, am worried about the midterms. I pray the war in Iran will end quickly with a positive outcome for the Iranian people, the US and Israel. Am looking forward to the ACIP meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. Praying for a good outcome there as well. Happy Sunday. Thanks, Malone’s.
Oh, Greta, when will she stop this crusade she’s been on for, umm, how long now? I wonder if she walks/runs/paddles/rides a skateboard when she travels from one protest line to another?
I’m already tired of both political parties, & having a difficult time with this back-n-forth drama that keeps going on like an Energizer bunny. Pass the Save Act, & work together is my message- but, both parties are acting like middle school children & they need to just “get-r-done”!!!
We had a snow storm blow in early this morning, with high winds & minimal snow- just blowing snow & no measurable accumulation unfortunately. Springtime in the Rockies has arrived, but not much for the eastern plains. Hoping y’all east of Colorado are safe & staying warm, as the North east looks much worse than what we experienced. Be safe folks.
Greta has been molded since she was very young. I don't think she has a chance to examine her views and decide what is real. Whoever is handling her cares more about getting their voice out than concerning themselves with Greta's well being. She's a weapon, has probably never known childhood.
Yes, that makes sense, & it is a shame she is being used to propagate an agenda of someone else, or an activist group; maybe one day she will realize this.
I’ve never really understood how large groups of people could get so manipulated by propaganda from a government, political party or a group and others didn’t. People that see through the propaganda are still affected however, they have to live with the brainwashed which can lead to division or worse violence. I’ll never forget this one instance, one of many instances, where people I knew for decades shunned me because I’m unvaccinated.
In 2008 I built a house, a mansion, for a wealthy family on Cape Cod. Years later during the pandemic, on a Friday, I went there to look at some work they wanted done. The whole family, was there for the weekend. When I went to go in the house they all got up and left the 6 bedroom 6 1/2 bath house because I was unvaccinated. They all went outside, stood in the front yard while I was inside. Their kids, their small grand children and all but one of the parents. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by their disrespect, they all went through the college “educated” brainwashing process. I had done large renovations to all of their homes. Although the parents are conservative, the kids are self proclaimed ultra “tolerant” liberals. The blatant arrogance and discrimination, looking down on me, confirmed what in my heart I knew they really were all about.
My back breaking work had made them all millions of dollars which pleased me. I was always good to them, respectful and responsive. They were all captured by government propaganda.
To this day, even with all the facts that have come out, even after being “vaccinated” again and again and all of them getting sick, they haven’t changed one bit and certainly have never apologized for treating me that way. I looked up the appraised value of that house, it’s currently 4.8 million on Redfin.
Isn’t it so human to take something good, drag it through the streets, spit at it, humiliate it, shame it, imprison it and finally try to kill it.
It’s not in my nature, man’s nature, to forgive something I know I’ll never forget, but I do try. Happy Sunday!
J.Goodrich
Critical thinking has been trashed by the overpriced college educational system . It has been replaced by indoctrination.
Exactly! If most (probably 70%) of the kids in college were even capable of "critical thinking" they wouldn't be there in the first place.
For most of them the ROI doesn't pencil out.... Not even close.
Apparently 2nd grade math is HARD.
The idea that everyone should go to college is ludicrous on it's face. A college degree is like any other commodity. When everybody has one they are virtually worthless.
Also, initially college was for specialized training that was very hard science and inappropriate for anyone except the last 15% that were capable and inclined to go that route. And then suddenly educators who did a great job with no formal training decided they needed a degree. And it soon became (as my great aunt of 104 said many times to me) “bull shit, more shit, and piled higher and deeper” BS, MS, PhD. As proof I give you “Dr” Jill Biden.
Your great aunt had a good handle on reality!
I agree oldguy!
I went to vocational-technical school to learn graphic design and printing back in 1974. I have been self employed since 1980 and am "retiring" this September after 52 years in the same industry. You don't need college, you just need motivation and a desire to succeed.
EXactly!
Our spouse keeps telling us that only 30% are unconvinced by propaganda. Unfortunately, only a small -- TINY -- percentage of the unpersuaded speak out.
Everyone in the 30%, please speak out. But be respectful. NO profanity. Ask open ended questions. "Are you vaccinated? Yes. OK, then you won't need to worry if I'm not, right?"
Thanks for another good story, King James.
🤔 I’m confused, maybe concerned
"OUR spouse…" is this comment from a bigamist (bigatrix if female?) or is commenter admitting to multiple personality complex/syndrome?
The Pandemic shed a lot of light on people's tendencies and how easily they go along to get along. I was sitting at my son's baseball game after the reopening of sports in CA. Bear in mind that there was crime scene tape blocking off all parks and even the beaches here. It was crazy. Anyways, I was sitting in the outfield in a chair by myself as I simply wouldn't wear a mask and didn't want to deal with anyone. A father of one of the boys who was just a great cool and kind guy came up to me with his mask on. We always small talked at games. He asked how I was and then proceeded to ask if I had gotten the vaccine. I replied "Hell no" as I seem to not have a filter. He asked why and I simply said "I didn't want it." He then volunteered that he had gotten vaccinated so I asked him why he got it. I will never forget him saying "I did it for you." I reacted with a quick response saying "What? I didn't ask you to do that". He just looked at me kind of confused and his eyes were so tired. We never talked much after that.
I believe a big issue is that if you are not ostracized because of your stand on vaccines, you may be ostracized over another issue, and then another… until you eventually find yourself feeling quite lonely in this world.
We seem to have lost the art of communication—and of having peaceful disagreements.
Manners and respect used to be taught by parents. Not anymore. Respectful debate should be a required course, starting in grade school.
I think if we somehow could go back to the time when parents were not so frantic working many jobs, they might teach manners again. One can just hope. Also, I think manners have to be rooted in something higher than personal satisfaction.
These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. They can be found on the internet through searches, but I don't think that the powerful really like them being known. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Ideally get them posted in school classrooms. Thank You.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Copied for later use. Thanks.
I think large groups of people are the easiest to be manipulated, Mob rule, Ability to get away with things individuals can't. Fear of not fitting in.
DemoKracy.
Us carpenters have had it rough J. Luckily, I was retired before the China virus or is it U.S. now? I know one thing if there was ever more work to be done for this family that friends and family discount is done. Full rate plus!
Yeah, there with ya.
Four years of most of extended family gobbling up every weird nonsensical DJT-TDS and then spitting it out with unrequited glee and little actual thought got tiring, to say the least.
It was when they rued the Butler, PA wannabe assassin’s aim {sigh} that I’d had enough. Obviously, not the only one in this situation - I hear you James. The blessing in this story arc from a bad soap opera is that I’m not pained by having my immediate family so afflicted. [daughter in law’s family, tho, would fit right in 🤣]
Speakin' of TDS, I had a friend on FB who, during the first Trump administration, shared every anti-Trump meme she came across, usually accompanied by snarky comments. Forty years ago, I'd have said she was very tolerant of differences of opinion. Changed over the years, I guess... And got her opinions from watching MicroSuckNBC. Anyway, when President Trump got infected with Covid, this woman commented that she "hoped he'd suffer from Covid, and then hoped he'd suffer in prison for all his lies". That was enough for me, and I told her so, and then blocked her. Only person I've ever blocked on FB... Differences of opinion are one thing, but to me, ill-wishing a fellow human is enough to make me walk away.
I was telling a mate in church this morning (yes, after service) I’d never heard a person praying to Satan publicly before this past week; then I came across James Carville on YouRube I guess, praying to "God" about his hate of FJT and wanting it to increase. But I’m pretty confident that such a prayer would not only go unanswered it would be discouraged - hence I can only surmise that the "god" JC was praying to is not the God of JC I profess to know.
Sad. For Carville hisself, for his wife, Mary, for the nation and for those who may hear his words and take them to heart. Personally , at 81, I think Carville may have spent too much time amount Biden and caught whatever has turned his brain to much. Can we say dementia?
Hit the. Where it hurts. The. They just may wake up. Or not
Any relation to Larry? Don’t see too many with that last name. Just curious.
That’s what they did to Jesus. You’re in good company.
Maybe they will have a termite infestation.
I had an eye mite infestation. Didn’t know there was such a thing.
You were very lucky, James, not to be exposed to all that shedding.
LOL!
A sad example of the power of the spell. Having been a builder of things my entire life I feel you pain. The success of the modern propaganda machine is the most challenging threat we face, even more than the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians. Trump was right about Fake News all along, but its not just fake it's evil on steroids and that's how the spell is cast. Context is essential for understanding and identifying deception/fake news.
Regime change. Our own elected and unelected government officials are supporting regime change in the United States by causing pain to us, the citizens. Man alive, I do wish they would stop it. I really don't like being treated like them, puppets.
Kind of a tangent, but wow... I hadn't heard the expression "man alive" since I was a kid in the 1950s! We used to use that one all the time. (Safer than "gosh" or "darn", which were forbidden...)
Scheeze
I learned what our fellow man thought of all others when I couldn't find any toilet paper anywhere.
The basics never change.
There's a book with a great story about a plumber who had an interesting way of dealing with wealthy snobs. (Snob: derived from sine nobilitate - without nobility) What's hilarious is that his customers never knew. He didn't sabotage the job; he did it right, with a little extra thrown in.
The book is August People, by Ralph Graves, published in 1985. Likely only available as a used book now, and might be hard to find. But the story is fun, and one that has stuck in my mind ever since I read it decades ago.
"Anytime someone creates something wonderful, there's always someone whose first thought is to screw it up and, more often than not, they get away with it."
--Nealstar
The RepubliCANTS are part of the UNIPARTY ‼️
Not all of them and looks like a bunch are leaving. Hope for better replacements.
I pray that they leave or that they're soon replaced because we can't afford the split with our slim "majority!"
I fear that many of the replacements will be Democrats!!!
As long as Texas has OPEN PRIMARIES, we'll keep on getting RINOS‼️‼️
🤷♀️🤷🤷🏻♂️
As I have,said before it is the uniparty critters that worry me more...harder to detect
Exactly 💯 %‼️‼️‼️
I hate the idea of open primaries. They're too subject to sabotage. Firmly believe that a candidate should be chosen by the party he or she represents. Only thing worse that the Dems have come up with is ranked-choice voting. They tried to push that through here, but thankfully, it failed. They'll probably keep trying, though.
I agree 👍
Rank choice should be outlawed‼️🤔
The parties they represent are both corporations.
They represent themselves, not the People.
"Two cheeks of the same ass"
You mean the DemoKKKrats, correct? They all walk in synch with each other and have since they started the Civil War, and when they lost, they created the KKK to keep their slaves afraid. Oh, yes, then they created gun control laws, you know "common sense gun laws" so they could make sure their former slaves were disarmed and couldn't defend themselves against the KKK. And when those fell short, they created Jim Crow laws to keep their former slaves separate from the rest of the population. But they finally hit the jackpot with welfare programs. Those programs allowed them to break up the black families and keep enslaved on the government plantation. So now the DemoKKKrats have re-enslaved their former slaves, just on the government plantation instead of the cotton plantation. And those slaves depend on the benevolence of their DemoKKKrat slavemasters for their needs.
We're all slaves to national debt.
Cuba will be more of a welfare drain.
It's like "they" want the country to be destroyed.
Then, "they" can dominate the world?
"They" use the left-right paradigm to divide and rule.
"If you are sheep, the wolves will eat you."
I donated to the GOP for decades, and before Trump was elected, I could see little difference between them and the Democrats. Now, I realize the ONLY difference is Trump and his team. I have concluded the goal of most folks in Washington is NOT the welfare of the U.S.A; it's to get a rich as they can as soon as they can.
I think there is also an irresistible seduction that comes with the power they weld. Almost more addictive than mere money.
Polls. Cannot believe them because of bias couched in questions asked and who is asked those questions. An example is,the poll I conducted with myself over who is,smarter, cats or dogs.
Cats and dogs. Often encounter discussions about which are the smartest. Was thinking about that when it occurred to be it may be something of an apple/orange comparison. Consider hunting as a mental exercise.
Dogs are pack animals and they hunt cooperatively. They also are prone to nuturing one another. And that explains how they relate with us...they will accept us into their pack and accept our participation in their hunting. And will come to us with their problems and booboos.
Cats are lone hunters so their decision making is solitary. All planning aspects of the hunt, the capture and disposition of prey is theirs alone. Tho perhaps they include us in their pride, they retain much of their solitary decision making and when upset or ill tend to go off and hide. They simply are much more independent than are dogs.
By that characterization then, dogs behavior leans toward the collectivist and cats are more the ultra conservative. By that criterion, which are smarter?
"Dogs have owners, cats have staff."
They have different types of intelligence. Cats aren’t as easily trained, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t smart. Just look at what the universities are churning out. They’ve been trained, but are they smart?
We had a cat who would fetch and loved to be flipped in circles until my husband's leg got sore....
Most household pet dogs if released into the wild will either die or form feral packs with similar behaviors to that seen in "the Lord of the Flies," having lost the genetics of wolf packs.
Most cats still have the ability to fend for themselves and live - a shorter life, yes. They’ll also form colonies but not like feral digs which are dangerous.
My own opinion is that’s the result of how long cats and dawgs have been domesticated -minder the influence of hoomans. There’s good evidence that dogs have been "domesticated" upwards of 12-15,000 years, since before man hisself has been domesticated (cities, etc.). Cats, on the other hand, have only been accepted/domesticated since early Egypt, with some recent research indicating cats may have only been adopted for less than 2,000 years. Yes, cats show up in Egyptian art, but I’ve read they were bred for sacrifice 😱. China has some very early history with domesticated cats but that early association faded and those cats reverted to wild cats.
And finally, what tipped me over to the theory that "pet" cats are a recent innovation is their inclusion in Scripture, Biblical scripture, or the lack thereof. The only felines mentioned in The Bible is the large cat, Lion - one search cites over 100 Lion mentions, almost all favorable, notably the Lion of Judah, Jesus, hisself.
Dogs otoh, while present in scripture, are usually mentioned in the most negative of terms/situations.
To me this is just another reason that cats were not a part of people’s daily life 2,000 years ago - for Israelites in Israel or earlier in exile in Egypt.
In conclusion I’ll admit to, as an earlier commenter so admitted, having cat like traits. Speaking of: it’s time for my midday nap 😆
Yaaaa, apples to oranges.
But though dogs are more collectivist, they're not commies. Definitely a meritocracy is operating in their packs. 😎 Zero DEI. 🤣
Cats intelligence is more foreign to humans. It benefits their own propagation, period. At weedom-land, there's a strange, nurse cat who's a loner until another cat gets sick. Then she hangs out with the ill animal and licks him. She's now 16 yo, (and without those jabs, seemingly impervious to FLV and FIP).
Some times cats and dogs become friends and often work together to accomplish objectives. We learn of it mostly via video clips. As one with cat like tendencies, I appreciate the message this sends.
Most people's education is simply a brainwashing to submit to authority. The structure of higher education in most institutions is a little more than rewarding those who can best regurgitate to the professor. No thinking allowed. Richard Feynman said it best ""Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot."
It's programmed into people that submitting to authority is the highest virtue.
It's an illusion of authority.
The Constitution keeps the government (the creature) in a cage.
It'll take a lot to get it back in.
Or,....
See how Law comes before government is the remedy.
Again, it will take a lot of time, but well worth it for liberty.
We need more people to step up, so people that are challenging authority aren't picked off, one at a time.
Course is half way through
https://www.wethepeople2.us/the-rule-of-law-power-authority-and-accountability-2/
We are trained from early childhood to respect and submit to those in authority.
Were...not any longer. Had I ever called a teacher by first name would have been introduced to the electric paddle
OMG... I had an English class in which I figured out quickly what would please the professor. Sadly, I didn't really have to attend his lectures (but I did...) Just read the material, and write a paper or answer a question on an exam, that regurgitated his opinion! Well, maybe the real lesson was in figuring out people, and what they want... And then delivering what will garner a "reward". In that case, a top grade in the class.
Geez - I thought that's what all my college courses were about...
Dear Dr. Malone and lovely wife: it would be an everlasting courtesy and boon to mankind if you never gave another minute of your valuable time showcasing the deplorably stupid Greta. Your consideration of this request will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards, A devoted (and sane) subscriber.
I appreciate your opinion and tend to agree. But this is the first I'd heard about the Doom Pixie's latest machinations, and the new flotilla project. Had not seen any news about that until today! It was good for a laugh, if nothing else.
The 'young' are becoming sooo incredibly gullible thru corrupt grooming! Most seem to only have the highest aspiration in life of being an "Influencer" at top of mind. My grand niece, at 14 yrs of age, is included here. Thoughts of the Kardashians come into focus. Vapid/mind numbing/misdirected on the one side, evil/misdirected on the other.
Being an "Influencer" means having a ping pong ball mentality. One minute here is important, the next minute over there. None of it really being thought over and none of it is more important than that 15minutes (now stretched to hours) of 'being out there to be seen'.
One example: I watched recently a girl influencer who ended up in emergency room with an eye glued shut. She was afraid of missing her opportunity for prime time on her blog and not finding her eyelash glue, used super glue instead! Uhh, wow.
Greta is just another example of vapid, etc., maybe dangerous...altho she too bounces so much not sure how sustaining her messages are to the others out there trying to compete with all the others out there trying to compete for the almighty facetime. I think of her not, but commend the Malones for showing her for her clone, hmm, clown like abilities.
Loved the eyelash story. "Can't let people see me without that eyelash!" LOL... I just hope it was a learning experience for her.
Well, y'know... As an attorney I once worked with said, "Everybody is entitled to MY opinion!" And the influencers get money for their efforts. So it's a double whammy, and it'll only get worse.
I always enjoy seeing the no oil crowd show up in clothing made of oil.
And drive around in electric cars that would never be built without heavy use of fossil fuels to mine the minerals needed for their batteries, as well as all the plastic parts used in their interiors. And have to plug in to fossil-fuel generated electricity to recharge the batteries.
This "green" movement is a pathetic joke!
Greta who?
I think that Greta should quickly hop on her sailboat and go save Cuba!😂😂
I doubt that Castro II would let her land.
Exactly! I almost forgot about Greta- darn it!
Isn't it time for the Doom Pixie to get a real job? Or is she independently wealthy, and just enjoys bouncing from protest to protest, and creating great fodder for memes?
Poster child for stupid shit
Winner: The tip is a gift.
We use cash for these kinds of things, for as long as it remains.
Ahh, was waiting for this.
I hate to be the bearer of bad newz but this won’t work. For a gift to be a gift it has to given w/o any expectation of or any receipt of something of value. Your server (or anyone similarly engaged) is providing a service which if done to your satisfaction may receive a financial gratuity, the tip. But for this association, however temporary or tenuous, you wouldn’t have made the transfer of funds.
And no, I don’t think popping into the restaurant a week or month prior to dining there and bestowing upon the server a financial gift would be accepted either. 🤣
While no longer active, I still remember the gist of this discussion from nearly 40 years ago when taking tax law as a law student. Fun times.
You were Waiting for someone to agree that a tip should be a gift? For how long?
I understand that a portion of reported tips and overtime wages are tax exempt temporarily. Isn’t that nice? I don’t get either, but am just fine with those things not being taxed.
What happens when the taxes get ridiculous? The black market grows. It’s quite huge in the socialized countries. There’s a natural limit to taxation.
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I see Greta's Puppet Masters are again using their Useful Idiot to try to rile up the masses. Don't be fooled.... My sister moved to Tennessee from beautiful San Diego (5 years ago *sigh*) after living there 43 years, due to Newscum's hijinxs.... Lastly, I am not allowing "them" to take way my love of rainbows.... Thanks for the Funnies.
Another Sunday of side Stiches and belly laughs!
Well done
It's truly amazing how short peoples memories are. How the doubters and nay sayers complain about Trump. I suppose you'd like Biden and that administration back? Don't you remember how bad it was? Trump isn't even half way though his presidency and the people are complaining because they think they can do better, armchair quarterbacking is so easy when you're not making decisions. I'd like to remind people we don't have access to the real information the President does we really don't know what the risks are and why he hit Iran when he did but, I'm happy with Iran NOT having Nukes. I am disgusted with some of our Republicans, RINO'S, and Congress get off your butts and do your jobs. Republicans you have a messaging problem if you don't fix it you very well could lose the midterms and lastly Thanks to this administration for saving my tax dollars from all of the waste and fraud you've discovered please keep digging and finding more.
Let's give the man a chance, let's be more like the Democrats and stick together.
Greta needs to get another job. I don’t think her protesting has accomplished much. Loved the MUGA meme. Unfortunately, could be said about more than Newsom.
I, too, am worried about the midterms. I pray the war in Iran will end quickly with a positive outcome for the Iranian people, the US and Israel. Am looking forward to the ACIP meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. Praying for a good outcome there as well. Happy Sunday. Thanks, Malone’s.
Happy Anniversary to you both 💕
‘You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.’ – Winston Churchill
Oh, Greta, when will she stop this crusade she’s been on for, umm, how long now? I wonder if she walks/runs/paddles/rides a skateboard when she travels from one protest line to another?
I’m already tired of both political parties, & having a difficult time with this back-n-forth drama that keeps going on like an Energizer bunny. Pass the Save Act, & work together is my message- but, both parties are acting like middle school children & they need to just “get-r-done”!!!
We had a snow storm blow in early this morning, with high winds & minimal snow- just blowing snow & no measurable accumulation unfortunately. Springtime in the Rockies has arrived, but not much for the eastern plains. Hoping y’all east of Colorado are safe & staying warm, as the North east looks much worse than what we experienced. Be safe folks.
Greta has been molded since she was very young. I don't think she has a chance to examine her views and decide what is real. Whoever is handling her cares more about getting their voice out than concerning themselves with Greta's well being. She's a weapon, has probably never known childhood.
Yes, that makes sense, & it is a shame she is being used to propagate an agenda of someone else, or an activist group; maybe one day she will realize this.