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Funny how "Penumbras of Privacy" don't extend to experimental jabs.

Patrick says

I believe "the wall" was budgeted for 15 billion.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-voters-in-thuringia-democratically?publication_id=268621&post_id=131177765&isFreemail=true

German voters in Thuringia democratically elect a candidate from the populist Alternative für Deutschland party, are denounced by state media and establishment politicians for being antidemocratic

Democracy is when you want what the late-stage liberal system wants to give you, and the system gives it to you. If you don’t want what the system wants to give you, your preferences are undemocratic and the system gives it to you anyway. You’re free to protest the things the system hates, but if you protest the system or any of its agenda, that’s undemocratic and you’ll be water cannoned to protect democracy. You’re free to believe in the principles espoused by late-stage liberal democratic politicians, but if you dispute them, you’re a danger to the free world and should be arrested. ...

“Democracy” has obviously acquired a strange new definition for our political establishment and their academic allies. It no longer denotes the right of citizens to elect representatives of their choosing, but rather their obligation to vote for parties and policies that are already favoured by the political elite. ...

Now, I am myself right-leaning, but you don’t have to be on the right to loathe these developments. The AfD aren’t antisemitic Nazi fascists as they’re often slurred. My American readers would find them very hard to differentiate from MAGA Republicans. What’s more, they’re the only major German party to have opposed lockdowns and mass vaccination, and to oppose the ruinous energy transition agenda and to call for an end to mass migration.

The clear aim is to deny German voters all possibility of mounting any democratic opposition to these increasingly unpopular lunacies. Germany is no longer even interested in democratic pretences. It’s a thinly-veiled oligarchy steered by a closed political elite, whose interests every day wander further from the people they claim to serve.

https://stonetoss.com/comic/

...And suddenly shoplifting is a crime ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/delaware-store-watched-half-a-million-rounds-of-ammo-walk-out-the-door-sparking-major-probe/ar-AA1d7mS1?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=8fca986151bb4b1b8c776a6aa44ee928&ei=13

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/joe-biden-wants-to-crack-down-on-privilege-in-education-he-called-upenns-president-to-get-his-granddaughter-in/

Patrick says

Democracy is when you want what the late-stage liberal system wants to give you, and the system gives it to you. If you don’t want what the system wants to give you, your preferences are undemocratic and the system gives it to you anyway. You’re free to protest the things the system hates, but if you protest the system or any of its agenda, that’s undemocratic and you’ll be water cannoned to protect democracy. You’re free to believe in the principles espoused by late-stage liberal democratic politicians, but if you dispute them, you’re a danger to the free world and should be arrested. ...

Yep, Neoliberal Fascism aka Technocratic Oligarchy aka Globohomo

https://www.leefang.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-splurges-on-private?publication_id=1239256&post_id=133616664&isFreemail=true

Mark Zuckerberg Splurges on Private Security For Himself While Financing 'Defund the Police'
The Facebook founder takes his own security seriously while defunding public safety measures for ordinary Americans.

https://twitter.com/vancemurphy/status/1677753960604794880

https://notthebee.com/article/ben-and-jerrys-wants-us-to-give-back-stolen-native-american-land-this-indian-chief-would-like-to-start-with-their-corporate-hq

Ben & Jerry's ice cream says the "US exists on stolen Indigenous land" and we must "commit to returning it" in July 4th post...

Hilarious. Hey - maybe they should go first:

On Friday, Don Stevens — chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, one of four tribes descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont — told The Post ... that if the ice cream maker is "sincere," it should reach out to him as the company's corporate headquarters — located at 30 Community Dr. in South Burlington, Vt. — is situated on Western Abanaki land.

I mean, it doesn't get much simpler than that, right? Their own HQ is sitting on land those evil white people stole! Ben and Jerry aren't as evil as the rest of us colonizers, are they?? The only proper thing to do would be to hand the deed over to the local Abanaki tribe.

Patrick says

I mean, it doesn't get much simpler than that, right? Their own HQ is sitting on land those evil white people stole! Ben and Jerry aren't as evil as the rest of us colonizers, are they?? The only proper thing to do would be to hand the deed over to the local Abanaki tribe.

Why should the Ben&Jerry do that, when they could just give them cell phones to continue the rituals of their depraved, primitive aboriginal lives? On speed dial.

https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1678732262219628544

https://twitter.com/valeriekeane53/status/1679158004866850817

Our Treasury Department keeps telling us that our banking system is safe and sound. The Federal Reserve just conducted its annual Stress Test of our largest banks, and they all passed with flying colors.

Prior to September 17, 2019 banks used to loan each other money for short periods of time. Since that date, banks no longer loan to each other. If banks need short term funds, they get the loan directly from the Fed's discount window. The banks know that on any given day the system could collapse and their counter party could simply stiff them.

The regulators say everything is fine and dandy, but the market participants know otherwise.

Misc says

The regulators say everything is fine and dandy, but the market participants know otherwise.

The slow moving train wreck is incredibly slow. We have at least a few years left.

Misc says

Prior to September 17, 2019 banks used to loan each other money for short periods of time. Since that date, banks no longer loan to each other. If banks need short term funds, they get the loan directly from the Fed's discount window. The banks know that on any given day the system could collapse and their counter party could simply stiff them.

The regulators say everything is fine and dandy, but the market participants know otherwise.

^^^^^THIS!

In late 2019, the overnight repo rate went from around 0.02% to over 10%. The FED was injecting 50-80 billion dollars a month just to keep the system from completely breaking down. I guess they went to Plan B, and launched the scamdemic, where they could inject trillions into the system under the guise of an "unprecedented global health emergency."

Patrick says

Took me a while to get this. Now I see it as as the sexually deviant new left killing and eating the guts of the old left, the left that used to be exclusively about workers' pay and conditions.

My simplistic take on it is The Left (under ‘Dollar’ Bill Clinton) had to find new funding after union money dried up. They got busy and achieved parity with the Republicans in Corporate PAC funding in around 2009(?). They also had to find a new raison d'être to sell to the muppets, so when they couldn’t embrace the working man anymore it became sexual deviants and any-and-all ethnic minorities. The muppets made the transition without missing a step and now feel great about sharing a bathroom with bearded, leering, ‘women’ and are willing to eviscerate anybody that questions any of it.
Oh, and WAR now they love WAR, and if you don’t YOU LOVE TRUMP.
I could feel them, in real time, leaving me behind.

Robert Sproul says

I could feel them, in real time, leaving me behind.

And if you hang with them, better guard your behind.