I heard on the radio (yes, I listen to the radio!) that Ford tried to replace quality engineers with AI...didn't work. They hired back what they call the "gray beards". Older skilled engineers to replace the AI and teach the new engineers!!
The Epoch Times had a good article on this news, also! Yes, I listen to radio also. Never lost the habit, but the news is the same. There is conservative talk radio! Bring back Rush!
Still a lot has to happen to overcome the strong negative feelings of the liberals who haven't a clue yet. My church is full of them. One man let his thoughts out when he had to cover for the pastor yesterday. He mentioned strongly not agreeing with his neighbors, but told himself to remember the command to love above all. He admitted for the first time I've heard him, that the FIFA fans are showing appreciation for this country, and we need to remember that, too. The only opening in the door that I have seen from that hardcore liberal, TDS group!! Something big has to open their eyes at this point. I wait. Hard, but trying to be patient. Thank heavens for some good conservative friends, even if not onto Q.
Keep your liberal friends and acquaintances in prayer, Sandra.
They will need it, when they start to wake up.
It will be a very, very difficult time for them, because to a liberal, their worldview is a key part of their identity. Conservatives have beliefs, liberals are their beliefs.
Q told us NCSWIC -- Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming. Even the liberals will not be able to ignore it.
The issue with "AI" is that is is "just" pattern recognition and pattern replication engines. The "just" quotes are because that capability is... actually *very powerful* in specific application. The issue is that AI has been oversold as the solution to a range of industries and uses that are fundamentally emergent in nature. AI does not do analogous reasoning; it simulates it when exposed to patterns of data for analogous reasoning, but has itself no intuitive understanding to draw upon.
As such, error rates are high (e.g. 30% in basic coding) and there will remain a solid job prospect for subject matter experts who are ALSO able to shepherd their AI agent/robot underlings into some form of reliable performance. This is great for aging experts! It's awful for humans who want to become experts, but need more entry-level experience to qualify as such.
There's an opportunity for governments to get ahead of the social instability curve by recognizing these relationships and planning for the training bridge humans need to use the new productivity tools, however all the money is chasing scaling the models and pretending unicorn companies can find the immense ROI they promised before the literal check comes due.
AI is a productivity tool. It makes employees who use it more productive.
More productive employees are more valuable employees.
Ergo, industry will in the end hire more engineers rather than less, because they will be able to take on tasks that previously went undone because they took more effort than they were worth.
Remember the Xerox office copier machine, which back in the 1960s was going to put all the secretaries out of work? Well, it did that in a way -- many of these people were employed in 'steno pools' whose only purpose in life was mindlessly retyping copies of paperwork -- a typist could generate maybe 5 or 6 copies at a time, using carbon paper (remember that??).
But what the copier machine also did was increase the productivity of office workers. Freed from the need to do all that mindless typing, they became available to do work requiring thought -- much more interesting, and much more productive.
In the end, the number of office workers increased rather than decreasing. The same thing will happen in areas where AI can be used to improve productivity. As sure as the sun rising in the morning.
Oh, agreed: AI as a tool will create opportunities for an expanded pool of productive activities. I could, even now, sit down and do website design that would take days of painful re-learning, in a matter of minutes; it would be adequate, maybe even good results.
It would also have flaws that an experienced designer, reusing code they themselves have tested on other projects, had already ironed out. And the issue is that I, as lumpen-coder, am not presently prepared to catch the problems; I could spend more time checking the code, and in the end it would be less time than would have been spent doing the work solo, but it would not be as efficient as just turning the task over to an agent and walking away from the explosion, to to speak.
And THAT is the problem the issue creates, because AI as a business proposition has been sold as enabling the executive office to walk away from the explosion of their staffing costs since the (cheaper) agents can do the work. That proposition is proving to be untrue at just the moment that extremely large sums of borrowed money are coming due, AND the costs of scaling Western models are hitting serious trade-off points.
The productivity tool is immature, the business sold a lot of things they cannot delivery in their rush, and after the dust settles we're likely to find a good equilibrium, but in the meantime things are going to get awkward.
Correct, JC -- a tool is only useful if you know how to use it.
As with a chain saw, in inexperienced hands it is far more dangerous than helpful.
AI is a very effective productivity tool if you know how to use it. That includes being able to tell when it is creating useful output, when it is jabbering nonsense, and when it is hallucinating. Sort of like trying to get a teenager to mow the lawn.
Maybe the teenager will be more eager to mow, if you feed it more tokens?
[Edit for actual value: most give AI prompts that are... vague... from the perspective of a trillion-weight pattern machine; but, you don't have to. With practice and several pages of curated prompt you can make them do pretty much exactly what you want within a few iterations. Which is powerful--and leverages your OWN experience to get there.]
Training is the key, you hit it on the head! Just like when automation hit factories, workers needed to operate the machines, etc, and do what machines can't do.
Accelerate the end of communism in the American Pursuit of Happiness!
Communism is a system wearing a fake veneer of “equality”…unless it is understood as equality of misery.
Churchill stated, "The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries," contrasting it with capitalism's "unequal sharing of blessings." Later, in 1948, he described socialism as a "philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
To tie several of today’s subjects together, I would say unions are the epitome of Communism. Unions are exact opposites of capital efficiency. They create low standards of production to increase the number of required workers. That creates more union dues payers and supposedly is a plus for the workers.
From personal experience I can report that system creates boredom. Being forced to work inefficiently and slower makes the job less interesting. I never could figure out why anyone would join a union except it was required to be employed and to get a paycheck. The union had inserted itself between labor and management. Meanwhile, I wanted to prove my worth by just doing my job well. I thought that would get me promoted and higher paying positions. Instead, I was told to slow down
Unions were likely needed in 1900 due to terrible working conditions. But in 2026 they are just overhead. Now the largest unions are for our teachers. That has now inserted the unions between the tax payers and the teachers. And we now get inferior results using three times more teachers. That is what Communism does for a society.
You would think the American public would understand this. But, ignorance is created with inadequate education. I am afraid that is by design.
Unions in general have gone way beyond labor issues.
The Teachers Unions are a great example, having been infiltrated by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to promote their glorified (broken) ideas of communism under the softer term “socialism”
Ashe did a piece last week on the DSA candidate that won the primary in CO. She is a Gen Z and many Gen Z are voting for this crap…but consider how they have been indoctrinated by the educational system and we shouldn’t be surprised at how they are voting. How do we rescue captured minds from a system of misery they only see as equality?
Unions did their job too well, but by then certain people had become powerful by doing that job and rubbing shoulders with power people in various clubs (e.g. the Mafia). Now, if the union does its job it would be constantly attempting to kneecap political forces it has long been in bed with, which makes for awkward sleeping arrangements to be sure.
So, unions fiddle around the edges and try to milk the companies they afflict, without regard for markets, regulatory impact, or anything else. They crow about higher wages, which union members do care about, but say nothing regarding lost positions and member interests bid away as bargaining chips for some windmill-tilting negotiation or other.
And this is just regular, for-profit company unions. Anytime public money is mixed in the whole equation goes sideways.
Our government and unions are on the same side. Both extort business for their personal gain. Unions use government and government uses unions. Communism is their common driving force and critical theory is their game invented in Europe around 1930 by Socialists.
The idea is to find fault with any system because no system is perfect. But, politicians are in the business of curbing dissent. Plus, unions are in the business of parlaying dissatisfaction into more dues payers. The question is, “Who pays to fix the problem?”
In America that answer is “Capitalism.” Do you see the conflict? Capitalism is the system that must pay to fix itself. But Capitalism will argue that the system is already about as good as it gets! So the Communists figured a way to make Capitalism pay by inserting themselves between the citizen and his employer with the income tax and the unions. It’s the same old game, divide and conquer. It ain’t new.
Unions are losing membership everywhere except in government.
Government lacks a profit motive -- that economic force that results in improved productivity. There is no restorative force to offset inefficiency; matter of fact to a bureaucrat who is paid on the basis of his total payroll, the incentive is perverse.
100 years ago industrial unions had a place because employees lacked mobility. There was often only one employer in town, and that employer could dictate terms. Unless you had a horse, you couldn't commute to a job in a nearby town. And if you were wealthy enough to own a horse, you probably did not need a union job anyway.
Today, this is no longer the case. Worker mobility, which expanded greatly in the aftermath of WW2 due to the powerful effect of technology developed during the war, allowed workers to take the bus or even drive their own vehicle to the next town. Once employers had to compete for workers, the utility of unions went away. Competition solved the problem.
Government agencies are not subject to competition. (Try to compete with a government agency and see how that goes...) Thus no restorative force pushing out unions. Back in the 60s government workers were generally paid about a third less than private employees, but they enjoyed lifetime job security and better benefits. Today they still have those advantages, but they are paid a third more than private employees.
As you know, I am not a fan of FDR. But, he said government employees should never be allowed to unionize. His rationality was it would place the voters and taxpayers in competition with each other.
In other words the government union would become a middleman in conflict with the citizen. Sure enough, the teacher’s union has come between the parents and the students as well as the parents and local government. It is a double divide and conquer with children as the pawns.
Thanks to your reply I looked up whether memberships have declined in the Teachers Unions. And yes they have! I didn’t know that but I hope the trend is yet another sign of the Great Awakening!
Not coincidentally the lead-in to my post for tomorrow states:
"I may be forgiven for my patriotic reflection on the impact of Liberty on our foundations as a nation. I may not (at least by some) for my insistence that we were not (in fact could not be) founded as a “Christian Nation” – simply because that is not how being in covenant relationship with Almighty God works!
I know, I know – when people (at least most…or, at least some of the time) say that we are or were a “Christian Nation” they really mean that this nation was founded on principles that align with Christ’s teachings…or, at least some of them. Or maybe they mean that the founders were all adherents to those doctrines…or that most of them were adherents to most (or at least some) of them."
I know I am a hardliner! This battle against Babylon (call it socialism, communism, globalism, etc. - God specifically calls it the "Mystery of the Great Whore Babylon" - meaning choosing anything over God Himself) will not end by replacing one "man's" utopia for anther "man's" global alliance - or (deep breath) another "man's" golden age! Engaging in that contest - no matter which "D" one is playing (3D, 4D, 5D...) is exactly not the contest that matters. Never has been, never will be.
History - honest history, including the history we are currently living out - proves that point constantly...why else would we all know that "power corrupts and absolute power..." (you know the rest)!
Forgive me or not - I am praying for an awakening at the individual level here and around the globe. The only way to build a stable building is to use solid, stable materials!
May Americans Bless and Honor God so that God May Bless America!!!
I think it is more simple than America being a Christian nation. I think religion of any type was written out of our foundation. What is unique in America’s foundation is our leader is not a human being. Our controlling authoritarian is GOD. That is a concept that was totally new in 1776 and never even considered by any past civilization. All past societies had a king, or a pharaoh, a dictator, or some other lofty title. America has a president! A human who presides over our citizens for a few years and then someone else gets picked to do the job.
The rest of the world has attacked this concept since 1776 because the idea that all humans are free doesn’t fit authoritarian designs. Most civizations think slavery is a better idea. Of course, they never admit that is true. But, we have proven we are right for 250 years so far. But, we are still being attacked by people who want to control us. Their problem is we answer to GOD and not to authority.
I will correct, or at least modify, one of your assertions. The proposal that God gave to Abram and emphasized with Moses was a true God Sovereign system including an economy without inflation or usury. When the people in Exodus 20:19 rejected that idea (which was promoted by God Himself in Exodus 19:5-6), God accepted their choice and set up the priesthood instead. That priesthood became a monarchy some 500 years later. Only to say, the foundation of the sovereignty of God over society was defined and described!
I’m not sure I understand your point exactly…though I would like to.
To me the Golden Age is a shift to a higher level of consciousness. While the connotation includes technological and economic advances, I believe it also must evolve from a higher level of moral, God or Christ centered, principles. To this end, your point about our country not being “in covenant relationship with Almighty God” carries some weight because we as a “Christian” nation have not actually defined what being in a covenant relationship with Divine Presence means.
Nevertheless, identifying as a Christian nation puts the “idea” of Jesus’ teachings in the forefront of our underlying principles.
According to David Hawkins,
‘ pre-Nicaea Christianity calibrates higher than later forms because it reflected the pure, unadulterated teachings of Jesus Christ before they were modified by political compromise and the inclusion of lower-calibrating texts. ‘
So, I think I agree with you in that the focus shifted from direct spiritual experience to adherence to creeds and church authority.
Paying lip service to being a Christian nation doesn’t mean we truly are..still, the idea is kept alive by such declaration…and we as a nation are still a work on progress.
Though you and I respect one another, we operate under divergent calculi when it comes to understanding God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. I have written extensively on the topic and yet understand the difficulties of all one-dimensional (written) communication.
My point may best be stated by noting the heading of today's brief "God Bless America". Which we invoke all the time. The Truth is that God always blesses those who honor Him; to "insist" that God Bless America as the primary idea instead of noting the need for Americans to honor Him puts the cart before the horse and allows us to accept the primacy of the effect instead of the cause - which is embracing the Sovereignty of God.
Thank you, HGV. I guess I didn’t see “God Bless America” as ‘insisting’ but as beseeching. When I say or think the words it means asking God to Bless America…not telling Him to…Bless by guidance according to His Will.
That is certainly a possibility - a person could be beseeching God for His blessings.
If however, God Himself has made it clear what is required in order for me to experience His blessings AND yet I willfully ignore those mandates and still beseech God for His blessings - then, as I see it, my emphasis on the desired effect (blessing) indicates the decision to ignore (even deny) the very means and cause (accepting His sovereignty).
This is precisely the attitude that the Zionists take when they insist that God is required to abide by His side of a conditional covenant even though the other party (the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) have repeatedly violated their conditions - even denying that they were bound by the conditions God stated at all! "God MUST give the land back to Israel or else He is a covenant breaker."
My point is that we all risk viewing God as merely a giver of gifts; that we "play the game" as if we can do no wrong and that He must reward us. We forget that He is Holy. And we want to focus instead on His being Loving - and we insist that He "play the game" by our rules.
In truth - He sets the rules. That is the game above all games - whether we can see it or not!
The great news: He has given each of us all that we need to not only "play the right game" but to win it!
Thank you, Feather and HGV, for this conversation. I have thought that Israel not keeping the covenant was important (unlike most mainstream churches). I like how you stated that He is not "just" a giver of gifts. He is HOLY. His Word, His Covenant is HOLY. There is no circumstance where we should ever take anything for granted with God. (even though I am guilty of doing just that.)
"My point is that we all risk viewing God as merely a giver of gifts; that we "play the game" as if we can do no wrong and that He must reward us."
The word in there that really strikes me is MUST. He MUST reward us. No, he doesn't have to.
I have wondered if Israel is headed for another judgment rather than this being the prelude to Christ's return. In my eyes, the Bride he is returning for really isn't ready. So I find that Israel's provocative actions are outside the bounds of the covenant - and therefore judgment comes when they act outside the covenant.
So, you got me thinking about God’s Covenant in the Old Testament vs in the New Testament.
Out of curiosity, I put the question to Brave’s AI.
“ The Old Covenant was a temporary, physical agreement made with ancient Israel through Moses, emphasizing external obedience to the Law, animal sacrifices, and earthly blessings or curses. In contrast, the New Covenant is a permanent, spiritual agreement mediated by Jesus Christ, characterized by internal transformation, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and salvation by grace through faith for all people. “
I think what you were explaining is the necessity of “the internal transformation and indwelling of the Holy Spirit”
America has faltered on achieving that…not failed outright but faltered for sure.
I am thankful for your reply, GHV, and enjoyed reading it!
It made me realize something:
God unconditionally and freely gives His Gifts…but to receive what is given requires that we do the inner work of receiving, that we are open to receive without our own conditions attached…part of the equation of Free Will and the ego barriers that prevent receiving what is Given. When we ourselves are the blocks to the awareness of God’s Love and Grace, we have a tendency to blame God which just reinforces the ego barriers that prevent in the first place!
I don’t know if you meant all that exactly…but it gave me an insight that resonates 🙏❤️🕊
"you sweaty, cheese-eating and wine-drinking savages.
Enjoy your stay."
What could a civilized French 🇫🇷 citizen answer to this conclusion ??
Just a few lines above, you wrote "This is exactly why the world now despises Israel and its online culture. Not because they are Jewish; Because they consistently possess a rotten disposition while expressing ..."
Maybe you could have a look in a mirror ??
💒🙏🏻🕊️ Where's God therein ?
The phrase "Love one another as I have loved you" is the central command Jesus Christ gave to His disciples during the Last Supper, recorded in the Gospel of John (John 13:34 and John 15:12).
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Has America's greatness already vanished without a trace since it was displayed on screens around the world this past July 4th?
What good or constructive purpose does it serve to look down on a country and its people, if you don't want them to look down on you in return?
I don’t care if they look down on us… their opinion is irrelevant. Also, our opinion of them should be irrelevant to them. Maybe their energy is better spent fixing their problems, some of which were outlined in BB’s writing.
America isn’t perfect but the reaction of all the Europeans here for the World Cup says it’s a helluva lot better than across the pond.
“Welcome to the battlefield, you sweaty, cheese-eating and wine-drinking savages.”
Sometimes things said tongue in cheek don't come across that way when written. I am sure he wrote that with a big grin on his face and a twinkle in his eye. Should we above saying things like that - even tongue in cheek? Probably not, however, I do love me some snarky humor.
I'm sorry this comes across as insulting to you Trumpist. Americans (and Brits too really), relish reducing humanity to caricatures of the real thing to tease. They do this in sports a lot. It's not actually meant to harm, but having suffered it numerous times growing up here, I guess we just grow a thicker skin. Besides, if the cheese and wine is the best, who cares that you're sweating!
As i write this It's presently 86 in my house. Likely to go over 90 in here today because the AC broke last Thurs. Right when the heat wave got here. I've got a bathtub of cool water i have to rest in to cool off throughout the day... point is, I'm sweating my ass off. Lol
You are a welcome voice in our midst, Trumpist, but while you always weigh in on our politics you never say much about the prevailing sentiments over there in France. If I had to guess, I would say it seems you’d rather be an American than a Frenchmen??
Emotional tensions are running high pretty much everywhere in the world these days.
I do respect that the choice of words in BB’s take hit a nerve for you. I hope you can let it go 🙏❤️🕊
Hi Trumpist, many voices speaking at once in this America we fight for. Your point is well taken. But the (humor) sarcasm is understood, too. I recall after 9/11 people were offended by "French fries" and started calling them "freedom fries" so they could continue enjoying eating their favorite food.
Some things don't translate well, including humor. 🙏🙏🙏🇫🇷🇺🇲❤️
It's been said that all generalizations are false, and here we see that exemplified. The French and American people have shared a long and close relationship; though our governments have at times opposed each other, we have more often stood together, especially against outside forces. Like a fiery marriage, the hardtack cowboy and la Belle Française sometimes speak unwisely of each other but stand together when it matters most.
Look at this from the perspective of those cheese eating, wine drinking savages. Just go back to 1950 and look at their position. WW-2 was over and they were being rebuilt. Meanwhile the USSR was rebuilding Eastern Europe and the Cold War was in full view. Which side was going to prevail? Capitalism or Communism? It wasn’t clear which way Europe would go, so they went both ways to hedge their bet.
They drank wine and ate cheese and watched. They saw America being moved toward Socialism across the Atlantic and they saw the USSR beat America into space. Surely they were confused. So, today Europeans are far more Socialist than we are. And, I would say it is our fault. We didn’t beat Communism fast enough and we left Europe confused for far too long.
The good news is our President has declared war on Communism because we have still not killed it off totally. But, Europe should not be confused any longer. America has A/C as well as wine and cheese! We can do it all thanks to Capitalism.
The trouble with ideas, once they are birthed is they are not subject to abortion. They can not be killed or made to disappear, only censored or criminal to mention in the collective consciousness. Nazi is an example, never went away and criminal to mention in Germany.
I agree, partially killing an idea is not going to make it go away. But, if we prove beyond any doubt that it is false, it makes keeping it out of common thought more definite.
Socialism/Communism has never been proven to be totally wrong mathematically. People keep pointing to where it has failed but that doesn’t prove it cannot work and Capitalism hasn’t been proven to be superior using math. I say this is the fault of our education system because I know positively that I have the proof and it can be shown in a thirty minute presentation of the mathematical facts. The key is property rights.
If a human being has the right to own things it creates a different motivation and it adds value to those things. Adam Smith wrote about this in 1776 and our founders believed he was correct… and we are proving it every day but few of us understand it.
You cannot prove anything mathematically regarding socialism, capitalism and communism because they are social constructs, not mathematical ones.
Many people think of the study of economics as a hard (numerical) science, so much so that when I was an engineering student at university, economics classes were not considered 'humanities,' of which I was required to consume a certain quota. That belief does not make it so, however.
Economics is, indeed, the most 'social' science of all. At its heart, economics is the study of how we allocate scarce resources. Microeconomics operates at the level of the individual or family, or maybe a small group like a company or sports team. Macroeconomics operates at the level of the overall society, at least a group the size of a city or province/state.
Based on economics, you can establish that communism fails because it short-circuits the feedback (prices) necessary to create the communication that an economic system requires to operate. This is inevitable. There is no way around this, except to allow prices to set themselves -- the definition of capitalism.
Communism and its 'soft brother' socialism are not inherently evil -- they are simply failed social constructs, which can only continue to exist as a result of forced compliance. That force is what makes them evil: to deny a person free will is the ultimate evil.
Thus, while communism/socialism are not inherently evil in and of themselves, societies based on them inevitably must become evil in fact, because without forced compliance they fail. And you can prove that logically, without resort to a single number or equation. QED.
Of course absolute proof is not possible. What I have is mathematical proof based on 250 years of GDP compound annual growth for America compared to the same for Russia from 1917 to 1981 and 1981 to 2026 with out Communism. Capitalism funds prosperity or prosperity funds Capitslism, either way the math shows the superiority graphically beyond doubt.
It also shows how an individual can benefit personally if they understand how Capitalism works. This is what I believe our education system needs to teach our youth instead of the 1619 Project or CRT.
We agree here, Jim. You have compelling factual evidence which, while not absolute proof, is quite convincing nevertheless. My argument does not rest on actual evidence, rather just the logical understanding of how capitalist and communist systems operate, or fail to.
Two sides of the coin -- both logical and factual -- both reinforcing the idea that in a world left freely to organize itself as it wishes, a system based more on capitalism than communism will emerge as the logical result.
The founders pushed for extension of the country’s boundaries from the beginning based on the idea property ownership of land was needed not only to develop the country but give a personal stake in the development. Adam Smith’s definition of property included human beings. (Slavery was still practiced by the English Empire) The Declaration of Independence substituted “pursuit of happiness” instead of property for that reason. Humans are not to be owned. We fought a civil war later to remove the hypocrisy.
Socialism and communism essentially substitutes the government for the slave masters.
All these pro-Israel voices who constantly lecture everyone about "peace" and de-escalation were the first ones out there yesterday posting that the gathering of Iran's top leaders at this funeral was a perfect "target rich environment."
Really? The same crowd calling for restraint and diplomacy suddenly salivating at the idea of a strike that could take out multiple Iranian officials at once?
Lara Loomer, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, y'all out here exposing the script. Those quickest to preach "peace with Israel" seem to be the first one's to cheer-lead targeted assassinations and violence when it suits the moment.
Actions, and tweets, speak louder than their endless peace rhetoric. If it's good for Tehran, why not apply the same standard everywhere? Or is "peace" just a one-way street?
Zionist Israel played a key role in the Assassination of JFK who was adamantly opposed to Israel’s “secret” nuclear weapons development.
Full steam ahead under LBJ.
Then in 1973:
“In October 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel by surprise on the Yom Kippur holiday. Israel was losing badly in the first week.”
“Kissinger’s plan was to let both sides fight to a draw so he could broker a peace deal afterward.”
“Golda Meir ended that plan in one move. She ordered nuclear weapons assembled and loaded onto Israeli aircraft where American spy satellites would see them at Tel Nof Airbase. The message to Washington was simple. Resupply Israel now, or Israel uses the bomb.”
“ Within hours, Nixon and Kissinger reversed course. The largest emergency military airlift in American history began. For thirty-two days American cargo planes flew nonstop to Israel. But the weapons they carried were not spare inventory. They were pulled directly out of active American military units. Tanks taken from American forces in Germany. Fighter jets flown out of American squadrons. Ammunition removed from NATO bunkers that were supposed to defend Europe against Soviet attack.”
“America emptied its own military to save Israel. American forces in Europe were left dangerously short of equipment for months afterward.”
Quotes taken fro Rolf Kvalvik’s excellent multi part series on Who Killed JFK with multiple documented sources
Hummm? LBJ and RMN? Those are two interesting figures in our present mess, but not due to Israel. Think $40 Trillion of debt.
FDR made Gold illegal in our currency in 1933 which opened the door to our fiat currency. JFK was working behind the scenes to go back to a Silver backed currency but he was assassinated in 1963 and LBJ took America in the opposite direction in 1965 by removing Silver totally.
Then, in 1971 RM Nixon told the world about what FDR did in 1933! The world had been left to believe our currency was backed by Gold! That had not been true for 38 years, but we had used the borrowing capacity of our fiat dollar to rebuild Europe and Japan. By 1971 those economies were back and working well enough to be selling us their excess production and the trade deficit was allowing them to ask for our Gold in exchange for dollars they had “earned”. The problem was exposed! Nixon fixed it by merely admitting the truth that those clowns at Bretton Woods knew in 1944, but agreed to accept because they needed America to rebuild the destruction of WW-2. The alternative presented in 1944 by John Maynard Keynes was a common world currency and our folks rejected that crazy idea. Of course, the crazy Keynes idea is still around and it’s proponents are still attacking America.
And, here we are in debt for $40 Trillion. This did not happen by accident. This was done to destroy America financially because we could not be destroyed militarily. And, it almost worked.
But, just look at the progression of the financial damage. We need to just reverse it in 2026 with real assets backing our currency. Anyone in the world can come here and buy those assets using dollars. The dollar will become valuable because there will be no more printing of them by Congress to deficit spend. For, you see, Congress and our government created this mess over the last century to feather their own nest at our expense. We need to stop this craziness.
Great comment altogether, Jim, but I think you missed the point of my comment.
Israel was behind the assassination of JFK not because of gold or silver or fiat currency or our national debt, but because Israel wanted nuclear weapons. LBJ allowed it. Then 1973 they used their nuclear arsenal as leverage to get the US to do their bidding. LBJ did nothing when Israel attacked our USS Liberty.
The same echoes of their leverage over our foreign policy have been playing out now…only Trump is outsmarting them if we have the eyes to see it.
I took your well positioned point and tried to add a different side to the same instigators of our problem.
Kennedy’s killing was a collaboration between a number of interests that we discuss here daily. Israel, the Mafia, the CIA, and a lot of Communist sympathizers in our government. I had no idea in 1962, as a high school senior, how many people wanted him dead. Heck, a bunch of us invited him to our graduation. Jacqueline sent a very nice letter declining saying how sorry they were to miss this occasion due to other commitments. I thought everyone loved them except Fidel Castro.
This whole chapter in the Middle East has been a series of awakening in the Mindscape of humanity…quakes and aftershocks leading to the reason Q posted: We save Israel for last.
The veil of “Christian Zionist” support is thinning at last into the shreds of a multiple decades long psyop. Exposure. Accelerate!!
My late husband, b 1927, older than I, told me years ago that unions only protected the weak workers and the union heads who made the $$ from union dues. AI is the new boss's tool. Also, the public sector unions take money to use politically. I read a few yrs ago, that Trump wanted to ban public sector paychecks from directly taking union dues out and giving to the union. This was taxpayer money providing salary to workers, no right to give it directly to the private union. Let's see if this ever happens.
"Communism is the idea that “the community” (aka the government) owns the means of production and private property is outlawed." - Ashe
Dearest Ashe, based on your provided definition of communism, I'd say we are in communism now.
We never own our property, we rent it from the goobernut. Don't pay your property taxes on "your" home and see what happens. Said goobernut sells it to the highest "corporate" bidder. Oh and who is the largest guarantor of "your" home mortgage......FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Or try and drain that swampy ground and see what EPA has to say?
Industry - the term "public / private partnership" means goobernut owns the outcome.
Like Freddie and Fannie - Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) created by Congress to stabilize the U.S. mortgage market.
The goobernut tells us whats safe or not. OSHA
What a "minimum wage" is.
Business - You have to have the goobernuts permission to start a business. You have to borrow an IOU ($) from said goobernut at what they devalue it to be with unfettered spending ("investing" in foreign entities, a.k.a Allies) and printing. And who loans sharks the investment......SBA? And then controls how much you take home IRS? SEC?
Savings - if you by property, sell it and make a profit.......goobernut takes their cut. You know 53% of "your" money goes to goobernut via taxation. And who is the guarantor of your said "savings" account? FDIC
Retirement - SSA, beg the goobernut to give back what they seized.
Immigration (ICE)- We were just told by the goobernut, if you're born onto the magic dirt......you're one of us, and so is all your family who of course is supported by said goobernut with dues from our property.
Your body. Really, then why does the goobernut tell us what food and drugs are safe. (FDA). And if a needle can be shoved into our children's arms, if they want to attend a goobernut mandated indoctrination center. You know the one we pay dues to on our property we rent.
Time e.g. life - You know the thing we sell by the hour so every April 15th we can grovel, or celebrate that we get back an over payment, sorry investment
Goobernut ownership is so ingrained into the psyche of the Amerikan people......it's replaced God. Why do they call it the "Supreme" court..? Thus they saith, they thus it is. You know homo-marriage, abortion, immigration, gun control, health insurance mandates, etc., etc. ,etc.
They proved JAIL AND DEATH are on the table with J6, COVIDiocy, Russia-gate, etc., etc., etc.
The easiest way to take a country.....convince them they have a choice. Can't wait for those mid-terms.
Gotta go mow my yard now, so the HOA doesn't assess a fine on my "property".
We are living in socialism, yes. The Communist Manifesto outlined ten key points for implementing a Communist utopia. You can read a translation (quickly googled) at https://heidelblog.net/2014/02/the-ten-points-of-marxism/. It's interesting to see how these action plan items align with the interests of international finance... hmmm.
During the USSR, the Party told the people that they were "living in socialism, building communism"--it was a process; a direction. Something attainable. Maybe. And please to be not paying attention to the Party bosses and their perks. (Which were rather meager compared to the West, but significant in context.)
Despite the rabble-rousing street performers carefully nurtured by public education and university halls, current forms of "building Communism" in actual deed are Corporatism, which as Mussolini said is the purest form of fascism. Regardless, the essence of American objections to either Corporatist corrupt infiltration or Communist revolution remains that they replace the US Constitution as national Law (big-'L') with "foreign law". Given that the purpose of war is to assert foreign law over a jurisdiction not your own, the adherents thereby of any foreign law over the Constitution are "adhering to [its] enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Treason.
If they want to replace the Constitution with new law there are clear means to do so legally, defined in the Constitution, via true elections. Obviously, if elections are not true, then the legal foundation is false and we're back to asserting foreign law over a jurisdiction not your own.
Dostevsky wrote the most insightful -- and frightening -- workings of the mund of a true Marxist that I've ever seen. There is the system at the top, but the induced either madness or abject fear in the minions. It is an inversion of the human conscience.
I'm 117% Full-blooded MAGA. So I hate Soccer (Like all real Americans). The game is too slow. If I were made Football Czar, I'd require min of 2 (maybe 3) defending players stand over half court line on the pitch to generate more offense. That said, yesterday's 2 games were F-ing Awesomeness Nationalist Off-da-Rail WWE Dramarama.
The Vikings slayed the Amazonians w/ Erling Haaland scoring 2 goals & banging 2-Beat Victory Drum and stadium doing hyper-MALE Rowing Grunts. Let's all be Vikings & kick some Globalist Ass!
Then, surrounded by 80,000 screaming savages, the Limeys jumped out to early lead ... lost a player due to early Red Card ... & despite being under constant assault for over an hour somehow beat Aztecas. Then an entire nation+++ sang Wonderwall. Look, I recorded both matches. So I could speed 'em up. But Wow! I couldn't touch the jump button during England-Mexico match.
Hopefully this outpouring of nationalistic emotion at these matches will be channeled into removing all the Globalist Scumbag Commie Scourge of the Earth SoBs for livestream Military Tribunals (As part of FIFA Culmination Victory Celebrations) incl corrupt FIFA officials. How can today's Portugal-Spain & USA-Belgium matches top yesterday??? Idk ... but this Soccer-hating American will be watching!
The takes today align with the key topics I am preparing to present on a prayer call this Thursday. Ghost notes the need for discernment. What are we looking to discern? Truth, in a world bent on dis and mis information to deceive we the people. The objective is to make us beg for, what Ashe termed "collectivist novel authoritarianism", what will enslave us. The riots in the street will not be for comfort items but for necessities: food, clothing, water, and energy to cook food and heat homes. President Trump called out these ideologues in his Mt Rushmore speech and again at the Independence Day fireworks show in DC. The enemy is being revealed, the age old battle of good versus evil.
—-Yes. It’s the exact same thing, always disguised in different wrappings, I.e., ‘isms’! Ashe is absolutely right about the purpose, ‘You will own nothing and be happy.’ Genocide is always one of the tools. We must remove this poison from our country.
—-Ghost is the master of the serious, but very awakening machinations in the Middle East. In 💯 convinced that Israel is not an ally; it was never created to be one, just to convince ‘we the people’ of that.
—-BB’s gift has been the key to understanding (to a certain extent) the flow of information and changes in the cabal’s plans for their future global governance. In other words, the cabal is toast and we’re just watching it all play out. We will like the end, the cabal won’t and that’s a good thing!!
—-Ashe stated, ‘It will be interesting to see how long it takes the workers of the world to realize that their organizing entities don’t actually have any power to stop what is coming.’ Unions, created for good, long lost any semblance of meaning other than forced organization for personal and political gain by the leaders.
—-BB, I’ve memorized this for future use and in this war, it’s kind of the bottom line, ‘The Story is Funny. The Story is Scary. The Story communicates a Core Truth.’
—-WOW, the 4th rocked! What a great time to be alive and not living in fear (thanks to God and those here He’s so gifted with the ability to search, find, and gain some understanding of truth)!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Have some fine cheese, wine, and mourn the importation of foreign cultures while reflecting on how French improved the savage "Anglish" roughly 960 years ago?
But seriously, Americans do not understand wine, cheese, or Frankish heavy cavalry.
ASHE you are correct about asking why they are paying dues... unions like government are only interested in seizing wealth and power for themselves. If these institutions were ever useful it was many years ago. I worked in IT in the automotive industry back in the 1970s and robotics were replacing headcount back then, The solution is along the line that Tesla employs in their factories where everyone in incentivized to automate and streamline every thing they can. Back in the 2010 timeframe when my project team interviewed the plant manager at a Caterpillar plant in Winston-Salem, NC as he looked out over the factory floor he stated that the only certainty was in one year the current configuration would look nothing like the future because the workers were incentivized to make it better. you adapt or you lose.
BB had the best & funniest line of the day: "Welcome to the battlefield, you sweaty, cheese-eating and wine-drinking savages. Enjoy your stay."
The only time dues-collecting labor unions were beneficial? IMO, late 19th and 20th century up to 1950. After 1950 big labor became a drag. JFK breathed new life into the dying labor movement; extending big labor into government work by signing EO#10988. ONE-ZERO-NINE-EIGHT-EIGHT paid off JFK's dad's debt to the Chicago mob for fixing enough votes to steal the Oval from Nixon. AFLCIO, AFSCME and every single one of their affiliated unions of today are communist fronts. Some of the members know it. Most don't. Richard Trumka ,Sr. quit United Mine Workers and spent the rest of his life thugging for AFLCIO. Big Labor is a violent crooked criminal scam.
I heard on the radio (yes, I listen to the radio!) that Ford tried to replace quality engineers with AI...didn't work. They hired back what they call the "gray beards". Older skilled engineers to replace the AI and teach the new engineers!!
The Epoch Times had a good article on this news, also! Yes, I listen to radio also. Never lost the habit, but the news is the same. There is conservative talk radio! Bring back Rush!
Sorry, Rush is in heaven with Jesus and I wouldn’t want to bring him back, but I sure do miss him!
I'm aware. But the sentiment is that he is missed on radio so much.
Some people are simply irreplaceable.
Rush was one of those.
So too is Trump.
Still a lot has to happen to overcome the strong negative feelings of the liberals who haven't a clue yet. My church is full of them. One man let his thoughts out when he had to cover for the pastor yesterday. He mentioned strongly not agreeing with his neighbors, but told himself to remember the command to love above all. He admitted for the first time I've heard him, that the FIFA fans are showing appreciation for this country, and we need to remember that, too. The only opening in the door that I have seen from that hardcore liberal, TDS group!! Something big has to open their eyes at this point. I wait. Hard, but trying to be patient. Thank heavens for some good conservative friends, even if not onto Q.
Keep your liberal friends and acquaintances in prayer, Sandra.
They will need it, when they start to wake up.
It will be a very, very difficult time for them, because to a liberal, their worldview is a key part of their identity. Conservatives have beliefs, liberals are their beliefs.
Q told us NCSWIC -- Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming. Even the liberals will not be able to ignore it.
I meant Ford the company
The issue with "AI" is that is is "just" pattern recognition and pattern replication engines. The "just" quotes are because that capability is... actually *very powerful* in specific application. The issue is that AI has been oversold as the solution to a range of industries and uses that are fundamentally emergent in nature. AI does not do analogous reasoning; it simulates it when exposed to patterns of data for analogous reasoning, but has itself no intuitive understanding to draw upon.
As such, error rates are high (e.g. 30% in basic coding) and there will remain a solid job prospect for subject matter experts who are ALSO able to shepherd their AI agent/robot underlings into some form of reliable performance. This is great for aging experts! It's awful for humans who want to become experts, but need more entry-level experience to qualify as such.
There's an opportunity for governments to get ahead of the social instability curve by recognizing these relationships and planning for the training bridge humans need to use the new productivity tools, however all the money is chasing scaling the models and pretending unicorn companies can find the immense ROI they promised before the literal check comes due.
AI is a productivity tool. It makes employees who use it more productive.
More productive employees are more valuable employees.
Ergo, industry will in the end hire more engineers rather than less, because they will be able to take on tasks that previously went undone because they took more effort than they were worth.
Remember the Xerox office copier machine, which back in the 1960s was going to put all the secretaries out of work? Well, it did that in a way -- many of these people were employed in 'steno pools' whose only purpose in life was mindlessly retyping copies of paperwork -- a typist could generate maybe 5 or 6 copies at a time, using carbon paper (remember that??).
But what the copier machine also did was increase the productivity of office workers. Freed from the need to do all that mindless typing, they became available to do work requiring thought -- much more interesting, and much more productive.
In the end, the number of office workers increased rather than decreasing. The same thing will happen in areas where AI can be used to improve productivity. As sure as the sun rising in the morning.
Carbon paper, ugh. The "good" old days. 😎
Oh, agreed: AI as a tool will create opportunities for an expanded pool of productive activities. I could, even now, sit down and do website design that would take days of painful re-learning, in a matter of minutes; it would be adequate, maybe even good results.
It would also have flaws that an experienced designer, reusing code they themselves have tested on other projects, had already ironed out. And the issue is that I, as lumpen-coder, am not presently prepared to catch the problems; I could spend more time checking the code, and in the end it would be less time than would have been spent doing the work solo, but it would not be as efficient as just turning the task over to an agent and walking away from the explosion, to to speak.
And THAT is the problem the issue creates, because AI as a business proposition has been sold as enabling the executive office to walk away from the explosion of their staffing costs since the (cheaper) agents can do the work. That proposition is proving to be untrue at just the moment that extremely large sums of borrowed money are coming due, AND the costs of scaling Western models are hitting serious trade-off points.
The productivity tool is immature, the business sold a lot of things they cannot delivery in their rush, and after the dust settles we're likely to find a good equilibrium, but in the meantime things are going to get awkward.
Correct, JC -- a tool is only useful if you know how to use it.
As with a chain saw, in inexperienced hands it is far more dangerous than helpful.
AI is a very effective productivity tool if you know how to use it. That includes being able to tell when it is creating useful output, when it is jabbering nonsense, and when it is hallucinating. Sort of like trying to get a teenager to mow the lawn.
Maybe the teenager will be more eager to mow, if you feed it more tokens?
[Edit for actual value: most give AI prompts that are... vague... from the perspective of a trillion-weight pattern machine; but, you don't have to. With practice and several pages of curated prompt you can make them do pretty much exactly what you want within a few iterations. Which is powerful--and leverages your OWN experience to get there.]
Aahh! Capitalism in action! I'm not sure that AI would recognize this, for what it is...
Training is the key, you hit it on the head! Just like when automation hit factories, workers needed to operate the machines, etc, and do what machines can't do.
Ashe’s take 👍
Accelerate the end of communism in the American Pursuit of Happiness!
Communism is a system wearing a fake veneer of “equality”…unless it is understood as equality of misery.
Churchill stated, "The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries," contrasting it with capitalism's "unequal sharing of blessings." Later, in 1948, he described socialism as a "philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”
To tie several of today’s subjects together, I would say unions are the epitome of Communism. Unions are exact opposites of capital efficiency. They create low standards of production to increase the number of required workers. That creates more union dues payers and supposedly is a plus for the workers.
From personal experience I can report that system creates boredom. Being forced to work inefficiently and slower makes the job less interesting. I never could figure out why anyone would join a union except it was required to be employed and to get a paycheck. The union had inserted itself between labor and management. Meanwhile, I wanted to prove my worth by just doing my job well. I thought that would get me promoted and higher paying positions. Instead, I was told to slow down
Unions were likely needed in 1900 due to terrible working conditions. But in 2026 they are just overhead. Now the largest unions are for our teachers. That has now inserted the unions between the tax payers and the teachers. And we now get inferior results using three times more teachers. That is what Communism does for a society.
You would think the American public would understand this. But, ignorance is created with inadequate education. I am afraid that is by design.
Great comment, Jim.
Unions in general have gone way beyond labor issues.
The Teachers Unions are a great example, having been infiltrated by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to promote their glorified (broken) ideas of communism under the softer term “socialism”
Ashe did a piece last week on the DSA candidate that won the primary in CO. She is a Gen Z and many Gen Z are voting for this crap…but consider how they have been indoctrinated by the educational system and we shouldn’t be surprised at how they are voting. How do we rescue captured minds from a system of misery they only see as equality?
Unions are a good place to start!
Unions did their job too well, but by then certain people had become powerful by doing that job and rubbing shoulders with power people in various clubs (e.g. the Mafia). Now, if the union does its job it would be constantly attempting to kneecap political forces it has long been in bed with, which makes for awkward sleeping arrangements to be sure.
So, unions fiddle around the edges and try to milk the companies they afflict, without regard for markets, regulatory impact, or anything else. They crow about higher wages, which union members do care about, but say nothing regarding lost positions and member interests bid away as bargaining chips for some windmill-tilting negotiation or other.
And this is just regular, for-profit company unions. Anytime public money is mixed in the whole equation goes sideways.
Our government and unions are on the same side. Both extort business for their personal gain. Unions use government and government uses unions. Communism is their common driving force and critical theory is their game invented in Europe around 1930 by Socialists.
The idea is to find fault with any system because no system is perfect. But, politicians are in the business of curbing dissent. Plus, unions are in the business of parlaying dissatisfaction into more dues payers. The question is, “Who pays to fix the problem?”
In America that answer is “Capitalism.” Do you see the conflict? Capitalism is the system that must pay to fix itself. But Capitalism will argue that the system is already about as good as it gets! So the Communists figured a way to make Capitalism pay by inserting themselves between the citizen and his employer with the income tax and the unions. It’s the same old game, divide and conquer. It ain’t new.
Unions are losing membership everywhere except in government.
Government lacks a profit motive -- that economic force that results in improved productivity. There is no restorative force to offset inefficiency; matter of fact to a bureaucrat who is paid on the basis of his total payroll, the incentive is perverse.
100 years ago industrial unions had a place because employees lacked mobility. There was often only one employer in town, and that employer could dictate terms. Unless you had a horse, you couldn't commute to a job in a nearby town. And if you were wealthy enough to own a horse, you probably did not need a union job anyway.
Today, this is no longer the case. Worker mobility, which expanded greatly in the aftermath of WW2 due to the powerful effect of technology developed during the war, allowed workers to take the bus or even drive their own vehicle to the next town. Once employers had to compete for workers, the utility of unions went away. Competition solved the problem.
Government agencies are not subject to competition. (Try to compete with a government agency and see how that goes...) Thus no restorative force pushing out unions. Back in the 60s government workers were generally paid about a third less than private employees, but they enjoyed lifetime job security and better benefits. Today they still have those advantages, but they are paid a third more than private employees.
As you know, I am not a fan of FDR. But, he said government employees should never be allowed to unionize. His rationality was it would place the voters and taxpayers in competition with each other.
In other words the government union would become a middleman in conflict with the citizen. Sure enough, the teacher’s union has come between the parents and the students as well as the parents and local government. It is a double divide and conquer with children as the pawns.
It's always easiest when the victims (schoolchildren) cannot fight back.
Thanks to your reply I looked up whether memberships have declined in the Teachers Unions. And yes they have! I didn’t know that but I hope the trend is yet another sign of the Great Awakening!
Thanks, WildBill 💖🕊🕊🕊
Not coincidentally the lead-in to my post for tomorrow states:
"I may be forgiven for my patriotic reflection on the impact of Liberty on our foundations as a nation. I may not (at least by some) for my insistence that we were not (in fact could not be) founded as a “Christian Nation” – simply because that is not how being in covenant relationship with Almighty God works!
I know, I know – when people (at least most…or, at least some of the time) say that we are or were a “Christian Nation” they really mean that this nation was founded on principles that align with Christ’s teachings…or, at least some of them. Or maybe they mean that the founders were all adherents to those doctrines…or that most of them were adherents to most (or at least some) of them."
I know I am a hardliner! This battle against Babylon (call it socialism, communism, globalism, etc. - God specifically calls it the "Mystery of the Great Whore Babylon" - meaning choosing anything over God Himself) will not end by replacing one "man's" utopia for anther "man's" global alliance - or (deep breath) another "man's" golden age! Engaging in that contest - no matter which "D" one is playing (3D, 4D, 5D...) is exactly not the contest that matters. Never has been, never will be.
History - honest history, including the history we are currently living out - proves that point constantly...why else would we all know that "power corrupts and absolute power..." (you know the rest)!
Forgive me or not - I am praying for an awakening at the individual level here and around the globe. The only way to build a stable building is to use solid, stable materials!
May Americans Bless and Honor God so that God May Bless America!!!
I think it is more simple than America being a Christian nation. I think religion of any type was written out of our foundation. What is unique in America’s foundation is our leader is not a human being. Our controlling authoritarian is GOD. That is a concept that was totally new in 1776 and never even considered by any past civilization. All past societies had a king, or a pharaoh, a dictator, or some other lofty title. America has a president! A human who presides over our citizens for a few years and then someone else gets picked to do the job.
The rest of the world has attacked this concept since 1776 because the idea that all humans are free doesn’t fit authoritarian designs. Most civizations think slavery is a better idea. Of course, they never admit that is true. But, we have proven we are right for 250 years so far. But, we are still being attacked by people who want to control us. Their problem is we answer to GOD and not to authority.
I will correct, or at least modify, one of your assertions. The proposal that God gave to Abram and emphasized with Moses was a true God Sovereign system including an economy without inflation or usury. When the people in Exodus 20:19 rejected that idea (which was promoted by God Himself in Exodus 19:5-6), God accepted their choice and set up the priesthood instead. That priesthood became a monarchy some 500 years later. Only to say, the foundation of the sovereignty of God over society was defined and described!
Thank you! That is a fabulous correction and I needed it.
I’m not sure I understand your point exactly…though I would like to.
To me the Golden Age is a shift to a higher level of consciousness. While the connotation includes technological and economic advances, I believe it also must evolve from a higher level of moral, God or Christ centered, principles. To this end, your point about our country not being “in covenant relationship with Almighty God” carries some weight because we as a “Christian” nation have not actually defined what being in a covenant relationship with Divine Presence means.
Nevertheless, identifying as a Christian nation puts the “idea” of Jesus’ teachings in the forefront of our underlying principles.
According to David Hawkins,
‘ pre-Nicaea Christianity calibrates higher than later forms because it reflected the pure, unadulterated teachings of Jesus Christ before they were modified by political compromise and the inclusion of lower-calibrating texts. ‘
So, I think I agree with you in that the focus shifted from direct spiritual experience to adherence to creeds and church authority.
Paying lip service to being a Christian nation doesn’t mean we truly are..still, the idea is kept alive by such declaration…and we as a nation are still a work on progress.
Thank you.
Though you and I respect one another, we operate under divergent calculi when it comes to understanding God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. I have written extensively on the topic and yet understand the difficulties of all one-dimensional (written) communication.
My point may best be stated by noting the heading of today's brief "God Bless America". Which we invoke all the time. The Truth is that God always blesses those who honor Him; to "insist" that God Bless America as the primary idea instead of noting the need for Americans to honor Him puts the cart before the horse and allows us to accept the primacy of the effect instead of the cause - which is embracing the Sovereignty of God.
Hope that helps!
Thank you, HGV. I guess I didn’t see “God Bless America” as ‘insisting’ but as beseeching. When I say or think the words it means asking God to Bless America…not telling Him to…Bless by guidance according to His Will.
Thanks for replying !
That is certainly a possibility - a person could be beseeching God for His blessings.
If however, God Himself has made it clear what is required in order for me to experience His blessings AND yet I willfully ignore those mandates and still beseech God for His blessings - then, as I see it, my emphasis on the desired effect (blessing) indicates the decision to ignore (even deny) the very means and cause (accepting His sovereignty).
This is precisely the attitude that the Zionists take when they insist that God is required to abide by His side of a conditional covenant even though the other party (the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) have repeatedly violated their conditions - even denying that they were bound by the conditions God stated at all! "God MUST give the land back to Israel or else He is a covenant breaker."
My point is that we all risk viewing God as merely a giver of gifts; that we "play the game" as if we can do no wrong and that He must reward us. We forget that He is Holy. And we want to focus instead on His being Loving - and we insist that He "play the game" by our rules.
In truth - He sets the rules. That is the game above all games - whether we can see it or not!
The great news: He has given each of us all that we need to not only "play the right game" but to win it!
Again, thank you for your sincerity!
Thank you, Feather and HGV, for this conversation. I have thought that Israel not keeping the covenant was important (unlike most mainstream churches). I like how you stated that He is not "just" a giver of gifts. He is HOLY. His Word, His Covenant is HOLY. There is no circumstance where we should ever take anything for granted with God. (even though I am guilty of doing just that.)
"My point is that we all risk viewing God as merely a giver of gifts; that we "play the game" as if we can do no wrong and that He must reward us."
The word in there that really strikes me is MUST. He MUST reward us. No, he doesn't have to.
I have wondered if Israel is headed for another judgment rather than this being the prelude to Christ's return. In my eyes, the Bride he is returning for really isn't ready. So I find that Israel's provocative actions are outside the bounds of the covenant - and therefore judgment comes when they act outside the covenant.
I hope I stated that well. It makes sense to me.
Don't get me started LOL! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
I appreciate your reply and adding to the thread, Bleighv! Thank you!
So, you got me thinking about God’s Covenant in the Old Testament vs in the New Testament.
Out of curiosity, I put the question to Brave’s AI.
“ The Old Covenant was a temporary, physical agreement made with ancient Israel through Moses, emphasizing external obedience to the Law, animal sacrifices, and earthly blessings or curses. In contrast, the New Covenant is a permanent, spiritual agreement mediated by Jesus Christ, characterized by internal transformation, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and salvation by grace through faith for all people. “
I think what you were explaining is the necessity of “the internal transformation and indwelling of the Holy Spirit”
America has faltered on achieving that…not failed outright but faltered for sure.
If I may - the temporary nature of the Old Covenants was affirmed when Jesus fulfilled their requirements and replaced the Old with the New. There has not been a moment when a covenant was not in place. The complexity of the covenants all but forces me to leave it there in this thread. If you find the time I would encourage you to read this post https://hisgloriousvictory.substack.com/p/the-everlasting-covenant?r=q0fod&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
I am thankful for your reply, GHV, and enjoyed reading it!
It made me realize something:
God unconditionally and freely gives His Gifts…but to receive what is given requires that we do the inner work of receiving, that we are open to receive without our own conditions attached…part of the equation of Free Will and the ego barriers that prevent receiving what is Given. When we ourselves are the blocks to the awareness of God’s Love and Grace, we have a tendency to blame God which just reinforces the ego barriers that prevent in the first place!
I don’t know if you meant all that exactly…but it gave me an insight that resonates 🙏❤️🕊
Works for me Feather! Beautifully stated!! Thank you!!!
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"you sweaty, cheese-eating and wine-drinking savages.
Enjoy your stay."
What could a civilized French 🇫🇷 citizen answer to this conclusion ??
Just a few lines above, you wrote "This is exactly why the world now despises Israel and its online culture. Not because they are Jewish; Because they consistently possess a rotten disposition while expressing ..."
Maybe you could have a look in a mirror ??
💒🙏🏻🕊️ Where's God therein ?
The phrase "Love one another as I have loved you" is the central command Jesus Christ gave to His disciples during the Last Supper, recorded in the Gospel of John (John 13:34 and John 15:12).
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Has America's greatness already vanished without a trace since it was displayed on screens around the world this past July 4th?
What good or constructive purpose does it serve to look down on a country and its people, if you don't want them to look down on you in return?
I’m sure Ashe was joking, but I get your point. You can call us Americans sweaty cheeseburger-eating, beer-drinking savages! 😁
I don’t care if they look down on us… their opinion is irrelevant. Also, our opinion of them should be irrelevant to them. Maybe their energy is better spent fixing their problems, some of which were outlined in BB’s writing.
America isn’t perfect but the reaction of all the Europeans here for the World Cup says it’s a helluva lot better than across the pond.
“Welcome to the battlefield, you sweaty, cheese-eating and wine-drinking savages.”
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Those are NOT the values I do fight for and thought America is fighting for ...
Sometimes things said tongue in cheek don't come across that way when written. I am sure he wrote that with a big grin on his face and a twinkle in his eye. Should we above saying things like that - even tongue in cheek? Probably not, however, I do love me some snarky humor.
Exactly. We should not take offense, before we are certain it was meant...
I'm sorry this comes across as insulting to you Trumpist. Americans (and Brits too really), relish reducing humanity to caricatures of the real thing to tease. They do this in sports a lot. It's not actually meant to harm, but having suffered it numerous times growing up here, I guess we just grow a thicker skin. Besides, if the cheese and wine is the best, who cares that you're sweating!
As i write this It's presently 86 in my house. Likely to go over 90 in here today because the AC broke last Thurs. Right when the heat wave got here. I've got a bathtub of cool water i have to rest in to cool off throughout the day... point is, I'm sweating my ass off. Lol
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What are the values France is fighting for?
You are a welcome voice in our midst, Trumpist, but while you always weigh in on our politics you never say much about the prevailing sentiments over there in France. If I had to guess, I would say it seems you’d rather be an American than a Frenchmen??
Emotional tensions are running high pretty much everywhere in the world these days.
I do respect that the choice of words in BB’s take hit a nerve for you. I hope you can let it go 🙏❤️🕊
Hi Trumpist, many voices speaking at once in this America we fight for. Your point is well taken. But the (humor) sarcasm is understood, too. I recall after 9/11 people were offended by "French fries" and started calling them "freedom fries" so they could continue enjoying eating their favorite food.
Some things don't translate well, including humor. 🙏🙏🙏🇫🇷🇺🇲❤️
👏 Very nice! ❤️🇺🇸🕊
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It's been said that all generalizations are false, and here we see that exemplified. The French and American people have shared a long and close relationship; though our governments have at times opposed each other, we have more often stood together, especially against outside forces. Like a fiery marriage, the hardtack cowboy and la Belle Française sometimes speak unwisely of each other but stand together when it matters most.
Look at this from the perspective of those cheese eating, wine drinking savages. Just go back to 1950 and look at their position. WW-2 was over and they were being rebuilt. Meanwhile the USSR was rebuilding Eastern Europe and the Cold War was in full view. Which side was going to prevail? Capitalism or Communism? It wasn’t clear which way Europe would go, so they went both ways to hedge their bet.
They drank wine and ate cheese and watched. They saw America being moved toward Socialism across the Atlantic and they saw the USSR beat America into space. Surely they were confused. So, today Europeans are far more Socialist than we are. And, I would say it is our fault. We didn’t beat Communism fast enough and we left Europe confused for far too long.
The good news is our President has declared war on Communism because we have still not killed it off totally. But, Europe should not be confused any longer. America has A/C as well as wine and cheese! We can do it all thanks to Capitalism.
The trouble with ideas, once they are birthed is they are not subject to abortion. They can not be killed or made to disappear, only censored or criminal to mention in the collective consciousness. Nazi is an example, never went away and criminal to mention in Germany.
I agree, partially killing an idea is not going to make it go away. But, if we prove beyond any doubt that it is false, it makes keeping it out of common thought more definite.
Socialism/Communism has never been proven to be totally wrong mathematically. People keep pointing to where it has failed but that doesn’t prove it cannot work and Capitalism hasn’t been proven to be superior using math. I say this is the fault of our education system because I know positively that I have the proof and it can be shown in a thirty minute presentation of the mathematical facts. The key is property rights.
If a human being has the right to own things it creates a different motivation and it adds value to those things. Adam Smith wrote about this in 1776 and our founders believed he was correct… and we are proving it every day but few of us understand it.
You cannot prove anything mathematically regarding socialism, capitalism and communism because they are social constructs, not mathematical ones.
Many people think of the study of economics as a hard (numerical) science, so much so that when I was an engineering student at university, economics classes were not considered 'humanities,' of which I was required to consume a certain quota. That belief does not make it so, however.
Economics is, indeed, the most 'social' science of all. At its heart, economics is the study of how we allocate scarce resources. Microeconomics operates at the level of the individual or family, or maybe a small group like a company or sports team. Macroeconomics operates at the level of the overall society, at least a group the size of a city or province/state.
Based on economics, you can establish that communism fails because it short-circuits the feedback (prices) necessary to create the communication that an economic system requires to operate. This is inevitable. There is no way around this, except to allow prices to set themselves -- the definition of capitalism.
Communism and its 'soft brother' socialism are not inherently evil -- they are simply failed social constructs, which can only continue to exist as a result of forced compliance. That force is what makes them evil: to deny a person free will is the ultimate evil.
Thus, while communism/socialism are not inherently evil in and of themselves, societies based on them inevitably must become evil in fact, because without forced compliance they fail. And you can prove that logically, without resort to a single number or equation. QED.
Of course absolute proof is not possible. What I have is mathematical proof based on 250 years of GDP compound annual growth for America compared to the same for Russia from 1917 to 1981 and 1981 to 2026 with out Communism. Capitalism funds prosperity or prosperity funds Capitslism, either way the math shows the superiority graphically beyond doubt.
It also shows how an individual can benefit personally if they understand how Capitalism works. This is what I believe our education system needs to teach our youth instead of the 1619 Project or CRT.
We agree here, Jim. You have compelling factual evidence which, while not absolute proof, is quite convincing nevertheless. My argument does not rest on actual evidence, rather just the logical understanding of how capitalist and communist systems operate, or fail to.
Two sides of the coin -- both logical and factual -- both reinforcing the idea that in a world left freely to organize itself as it wishes, a system based more on capitalism than communism will emerge as the logical result.
Glad I came back to read all your comments, WildBill…that was a great one!!!
The founders pushed for extension of the country’s boundaries from the beginning based on the idea property ownership of land was needed not only to develop the country but give a personal stake in the development. Adam Smith’s definition of property included human beings. (Slavery was still practiced by the English Empire) The Declaration of Independence substituted “pursuit of happiness” instead of property for that reason. Humans are not to be owned. We fought a civil war later to remove the hypocrisy.
Socialism and communism essentially substitutes the government for the slave masters.
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Hypocrisy much?
All these pro-Israel voices who constantly lecture everyone about "peace" and de-escalation were the first ones out there yesterday posting that the gathering of Iran's top leaders at this funeral was a perfect "target rich environment."
Really? The same crowd calling for restraint and diplomacy suddenly salivating at the idea of a strike that could take out multiple Iranian officials at once?
Lara Loomer, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, y'all out here exposing the script. Those quickest to preach "peace with Israel" seem to be the first one's to cheer-lead targeted assassinations and violence when it suits the moment.
Actions, and tweets, speak louder than their endless peace rhetoric. If it's good for Tehran, why not apply the same standard everywhere? Or is "peace" just a one-way street?
Zionist Israel played a key role in the Assassination of JFK who was adamantly opposed to Israel’s “secret” nuclear weapons development.
Full steam ahead under LBJ.
Then in 1973:
“In October 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel by surprise on the Yom Kippur holiday. Israel was losing badly in the first week.”
“Kissinger’s plan was to let both sides fight to a draw so he could broker a peace deal afterward.”
“Golda Meir ended that plan in one move. She ordered nuclear weapons assembled and loaded onto Israeli aircraft where American spy satellites would see them at Tel Nof Airbase. The message to Washington was simple. Resupply Israel now, or Israel uses the bomb.”
“ Within hours, Nixon and Kissinger reversed course. The largest emergency military airlift in American history began. For thirty-two days American cargo planes flew nonstop to Israel. But the weapons they carried were not spare inventory. They were pulled directly out of active American military units. Tanks taken from American forces in Germany. Fighter jets flown out of American squadrons. Ammunition removed from NATO bunkers that were supposed to defend Europe against Soviet attack.”
“America emptied its own military to save Israel. American forces in Europe were left dangerously short of equipment for months afterward.”
Quotes taken fro Rolf Kvalvik’s excellent multi part series on Who Killed JFK with multiple documented sources
https://substack.com/home/post/p-205003433
“We save Israel for last” - Q
Hummm? LBJ and RMN? Those are two interesting figures in our present mess, but not due to Israel. Think $40 Trillion of debt.
FDR made Gold illegal in our currency in 1933 which opened the door to our fiat currency. JFK was working behind the scenes to go back to a Silver backed currency but he was assassinated in 1963 and LBJ took America in the opposite direction in 1965 by removing Silver totally.
Then, in 1971 RM Nixon told the world about what FDR did in 1933! The world had been left to believe our currency was backed by Gold! That had not been true for 38 years, but we had used the borrowing capacity of our fiat dollar to rebuild Europe and Japan. By 1971 those economies were back and working well enough to be selling us their excess production and the trade deficit was allowing them to ask for our Gold in exchange for dollars they had “earned”. The problem was exposed! Nixon fixed it by merely admitting the truth that those clowns at Bretton Woods knew in 1944, but agreed to accept because they needed America to rebuild the destruction of WW-2. The alternative presented in 1944 by John Maynard Keynes was a common world currency and our folks rejected that crazy idea. Of course, the crazy Keynes idea is still around and it’s proponents are still attacking America.
And, here we are in debt for $40 Trillion. This did not happen by accident. This was done to destroy America financially because we could not be destroyed militarily. And, it almost worked.
But, just look at the progression of the financial damage. We need to just reverse it in 2026 with real assets backing our currency. Anyone in the world can come here and buy those assets using dollars. The dollar will become valuable because there will be no more printing of them by Congress to deficit spend. For, you see, Congress and our government created this mess over the last century to feather their own nest at our expense. We need to stop this craziness.
Great comment altogether, Jim, but I think you missed the point of my comment.
Israel was behind the assassination of JFK not because of gold or silver or fiat currency or our national debt, but because Israel wanted nuclear weapons. LBJ allowed it. Then 1973 they used their nuclear arsenal as leverage to get the US to do their bidding. LBJ did nothing when Israel attacked our USS Liberty.
The same echoes of their leverage over our foreign policy have been playing out now…only Trump is outsmarting them if we have the eyes to see it.
I took your well positioned point and tried to add a different side to the same instigators of our problem.
Kennedy’s killing was a collaboration between a number of interests that we discuss here daily. Israel, the Mafia, the CIA, and a lot of Communist sympathizers in our government. I had no idea in 1962, as a high school senior, how many people wanted him dead. Heck, a bunch of us invited him to our graduation. Jacqueline sent a very nice letter declining saying how sorry they were to miss this occasion due to other commitments. I thought everyone loved them except Fidel Castro.
GBPH is on fire with his Takes 🙏🌟
This whole chapter in the Middle East has been a series of awakening in the Mindscape of humanity…quakes and aftershocks leading to the reason Q posted: We save Israel for last.
The veil of “Christian Zionist” support is thinning at last into the shreds of a multiple decades long psyop. Exposure. Accelerate!!
My late husband, b 1927, older than I, told me years ago that unions only protected the weak workers and the union heads who made the $$ from union dues. AI is the new boss's tool. Also, the public sector unions take money to use politically. I read a few yrs ago, that Trump wanted to ban public sector paychecks from directly taking union dues out and giving to the union. This was taxpayer money providing salary to workers, no right to give it directly to the private union. Let's see if this ever happens.
"Communism is the idea that “the community” (aka the government) owns the means of production and private property is outlawed." - Ashe
Dearest Ashe, based on your provided definition of communism, I'd say we are in communism now.
We never own our property, we rent it from the goobernut. Don't pay your property taxes on "your" home and see what happens. Said goobernut sells it to the highest "corporate" bidder. Oh and who is the largest guarantor of "your" home mortgage......FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Or try and drain that swampy ground and see what EPA has to say?
Industry - the term "public / private partnership" means goobernut owns the outcome.
Like Freddie and Fannie - Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) created by Congress to stabilize the U.S. mortgage market.
The goobernut tells us whats safe or not. OSHA
What a "minimum wage" is.
Business - You have to have the goobernuts permission to start a business. You have to borrow an IOU ($) from said goobernut at what they devalue it to be with unfettered spending ("investing" in foreign entities, a.k.a Allies) and printing. And who loans sharks the investment......SBA? And then controls how much you take home IRS? SEC?
Savings - if you by property, sell it and make a profit.......goobernut takes their cut. You know 53% of "your" money goes to goobernut via taxation. And who is the guarantor of your said "savings" account? FDIC
Retirement - SSA, beg the goobernut to give back what they seized.
Immigration (ICE)- We were just told by the goobernut, if you're born onto the magic dirt......you're one of us, and so is all your family who of course is supported by said goobernut with dues from our property.
Your body. Really, then why does the goobernut tell us what food and drugs are safe. (FDA). And if a needle can be shoved into our children's arms, if they want to attend a goobernut mandated indoctrination center. You know the one we pay dues to on our property we rent.
Time e.g. life - You know the thing we sell by the hour so every April 15th we can grovel, or celebrate that we get back an over payment, sorry investment
Goobernut ownership is so ingrained into the psyche of the Amerikan people......it's replaced God. Why do they call it the "Supreme" court..? Thus they saith, they thus it is. You know homo-marriage, abortion, immigration, gun control, health insurance mandates, etc., etc. ,etc.
They proved JAIL AND DEATH are on the table with J6, COVIDiocy, Russia-gate, etc., etc., etc.
The easiest way to take a country.....convince them they have a choice. Can't wait for those mid-terms.
Gotta go mow my yard now, so the HOA doesn't assess a fine on my "property".
We are living in socialism, yes. The Communist Manifesto outlined ten key points for implementing a Communist utopia. You can read a translation (quickly googled) at https://heidelblog.net/2014/02/the-ten-points-of-marxism/. It's interesting to see how these action plan items align with the interests of international finance... hmmm.
During the USSR, the Party told the people that they were "living in socialism, building communism"--it was a process; a direction. Something attainable. Maybe. And please to be not paying attention to the Party bosses and their perks. (Which were rather meager compared to the West, but significant in context.)
Despite the rabble-rousing street performers carefully nurtured by public education and university halls, current forms of "building Communism" in actual deed are Corporatism, which as Mussolini said is the purest form of fascism. Regardless, the essence of American objections to either Corporatist corrupt infiltration or Communist revolution remains that they replace the US Constitution as national Law (big-'L') with "foreign law". Given that the purpose of war is to assert foreign law over a jurisdiction not your own, the adherents thereby of any foreign law over the Constitution are "adhering to [its] enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Treason.
If they want to replace the Constitution with new law there are clear means to do so legally, defined in the Constitution, via true elections. Obviously, if elections are not true, then the legal foundation is false and we're back to asserting foreign law over a jurisdiction not your own.
Ah! Westminster! Clark. Some good men there.
Thanks for posting a great summary from a very obscure source!
A hair's breadth away from completing every one.
Dostevsky wrote the most insightful -- and frightening -- workings of the mund of a true Marxist that I've ever seen. There is the system at the top, but the induced either madness or abject fear in the minions. It is an inversion of the human conscience.
Again, thank you very much for the post and link.
We can discern a lot about why communism never overcomes its failures from this quote:
“𝘿𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠, 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙚, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚.” --Karl Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,” in Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, 313-14.
I'm 117% Full-blooded MAGA. So I hate Soccer (Like all real Americans). The game is too slow. If I were made Football Czar, I'd require min of 2 (maybe 3) defending players stand over half court line on the pitch to generate more offense. That said, yesterday's 2 games were F-ing Awesomeness Nationalist Off-da-Rail WWE Dramarama.
The Vikings slayed the Amazonians w/ Erling Haaland scoring 2 goals & banging 2-Beat Victory Drum and stadium doing hyper-MALE Rowing Grunts. Let's all be Vikings & kick some Globalist Ass!
Then, surrounded by 80,000 screaming savages, the Limeys jumped out to early lead ... lost a player due to early Red Card ... & despite being under constant assault for over an hour somehow beat Aztecas. Then an entire nation+++ sang Wonderwall. Look, I recorded both matches. So I could speed 'em up. But Wow! I couldn't touch the jump button during England-Mexico match.
Hopefully this outpouring of nationalistic emotion at these matches will be channeled into removing all the Globalist Scumbag Commie Scourge of the Earth SoBs for livestream Military Tribunals (As part of FIFA Culmination Victory Celebrations) incl corrupt FIFA officials. How can today's Portugal-Spain & USA-Belgium matches top yesterday??? Idk ... but this Soccer-hating American will be watching!
The takes today align with the key topics I am preparing to present on a prayer call this Thursday. Ghost notes the need for discernment. What are we looking to discern? Truth, in a world bent on dis and mis information to deceive we the people. The objective is to make us beg for, what Ashe termed "collectivist novel authoritarianism", what will enslave us. The riots in the street will not be for comfort items but for necessities: food, clothing, water, and energy to cook food and heat homes. President Trump called out these ideologues in his Mt Rushmore speech and again at the Independence Day fireworks show in DC. The enemy is being revealed, the age old battle of good versus evil.
Are 'dirges' played at funerals purposely off key and painful to listen to?
—-Yes. It’s the exact same thing, always disguised in different wrappings, I.e., ‘isms’! Ashe is absolutely right about the purpose, ‘You will own nothing and be happy.’ Genocide is always one of the tools. We must remove this poison from our country.
—-Ghost is the master of the serious, but very awakening machinations in the Middle East. In 💯 convinced that Israel is not an ally; it was never created to be one, just to convince ‘we the people’ of that.
—-BB’s gift has been the key to understanding (to a certain extent) the flow of information and changes in the cabal’s plans for their future global governance. In other words, the cabal is toast and we’re just watching it all play out. We will like the end, the cabal won’t and that’s a good thing!!
—-Ashe stated, ‘It will be interesting to see how long it takes the workers of the world to realize that their organizing entities don’t actually have any power to stop what is coming.’ Unions, created for good, long lost any semblance of meaning other than forced organization for personal and political gain by the leaders.
—-BB, I’ve memorized this for future use and in this war, it’s kind of the bottom line, ‘The Story is Funny. The Story is Scary. The Story communicates a Core Truth.’
—-WOW, the 4th rocked! What a great time to be alive and not living in fear (thanks to God and those here He’s so gifted with the ability to search, find, and gain some understanding of truth)!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Once again, you guys and gal are ON FIRE! BB, your characterization of the French is hilarious! :)
Hello from France 🇫🇷, Ann !
What could a civilized French 🇫🇷 citizen answer to this conclusion ??
What good or constructive purpose does it serve to look down on a country and its people, if you don't want them to look down on you in return?
Have some fine cheese, wine, and mourn the importation of foreign cultures while reflecting on how French improved the savage "Anglish" roughly 960 years ago?
But seriously, Americans do not understand wine, cheese, or Frankish heavy cavalry.
ASHE you are correct about asking why they are paying dues... unions like government are only interested in seizing wealth and power for themselves. If these institutions were ever useful it was many years ago. I worked in IT in the automotive industry back in the 1970s and robotics were replacing headcount back then, The solution is along the line that Tesla employs in their factories where everyone in incentivized to automate and streamline every thing they can. Back in the 2010 timeframe when my project team interviewed the plant manager at a Caterpillar plant in Winston-Salem, NC as he looked out over the factory floor he stated that the only certainty was in one year the current configuration would look nothing like the future because the workers were incentivized to make it better. you adapt or you lose.
BB had the best & funniest line of the day: "Welcome to the battlefield, you sweaty, cheese-eating and wine-drinking savages. Enjoy your stay."
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
The only time dues-collecting labor unions were beneficial? IMO, late 19th and 20th century up to 1950. After 1950 big labor became a drag. JFK breathed new life into the dying labor movement; extending big labor into government work by signing EO#10988. ONE-ZERO-NINE-EIGHT-EIGHT paid off JFK's dad's debt to the Chicago mob for fixing enough votes to steal the Oval from Nixon. AFLCIO, AFSCME and every single one of their affiliated unions of today are communist fronts. Some of the members know it. Most don't. Richard Trumka ,Sr. quit United Mine Workers and spent the rest of his life thugging for AFLCIO. Big Labor is a violent crooked criminal scam.