This, 100%, which is why I pondered the topic. I resent the term "conspiracy theory" as a derogatory, but I understand more broadly the implications of it: the tendency to see intent and organization where there isn't one out of an overdeveloped desire to form narrative around frustrating or confusing information.
It is POSSIBLE that mishandled classified documents are being found, by the buttload, on Brandon's properties not long after an attempt to scandalize Trump with same. We also have to accept that there's a huge amount of behind-the-scenes movement that ISN'T conspiracy that we don't know.
Mike Pence's recent boo-boo is interesting, too. Allegedly, he sees all this stuff going on, "worries" (again, allegedly) that he might have done the same thing by accident, checks, finds out he has, and hangs it out as quickly as possible to avoid being painted by the same scandal brush.
Pence could have easily had a bonfire in this backyard. “Documents? What documents?” His moves were the most bizarre. So in his case I truly believe someone had a figurative gun to his head. Why out himself? Other than he wants to run in 2024 and the powers that be don’t want that to happen. I’m waiting to see some gargantuan scandal erupt around DeSantis, who is Trumps only real competition. The DC power brokers want Trump to run so they can destroy him again as in 2020.
In the case specifically of the documents, I'd say it was a toss up. My view is that his presidency overall (possibly even his career before that) has almost certainly been a mix of the two. Maybe it started as oddly timed coincidence of incompetence, but They Who Walk Behind the Rows never let a good opprtunity go to waste.
We've never talked about this angle of it before between the two of us, but which did you think (i.e. how did you vote)? Badly-timed thing that was already there or horse's head?
Horse's Head. I've thought about it a bit more since my last comment, and I believe it was absolutely a threat, but the opportunity was presented because of the incompetence.
Biden, like the overwhelming number of people is politics, lacks integrity. Is there any formerly strongly-held principle that he's not tossed aside? Maybe they have something on him (videos of him publicly pawing children are commonplace...and the compilation grows every month, it seems), but at heart he is just another amoral grifter, so common in a decaying government.
If we lived in a culture that valued honor, like Japan's did, seppuku would be rampant in the fashionable districts of DC.
Instead, we are led by men and women grown fat by the betrayal of the citizenry. And endlessly on the lookout to grow fatter.
Do you think a human being who is a politician CAN have complete integrity? Or is this solely the realm of a more-than-human figure like Christ?
Depending on your answer to that question, is the calculus for the rest of us to A) choose the least shitty, or B) stop searching for someone pure and simply build the system to route around shittiness?
At heart, our problems are moral ones. In a world where God is dead, what is morality? What, then, is integrity? The notion of human rights is absurd in such a world and our overlords are in the process of taking God's death to its inevitable conclusion, if our suspicions of where this drama is leading is correct.
Integrity is rare (much rarer than I thought), but those who were forced from positions for refusing to relinquish body autonomy exhibited it. They stood on principle (very wisely in retrospect) and paid a steep price for it, in some cases. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is such a man. If you've not read his book, I strongly recommend it. https://www.amazon.com/New-Abnormal-Biomedical-Security-State-ebook/dp/B09ZJXPYSG
Politics is inherently filthy and attracts those happy to get into the mud, but I was completely appalled at how politicians so easily focused hatred on the unvaccinated and limited their fundamental human rights, in abrogation of basic decency. Complete integrity by a politician is unrealistic, but I would settle for someone who promised to protect these rights which I had naively thought were non-negotiable prior to 2020.
Covid has provided us with an opportunity for a political reset to our liking. The butcher's bill from the vaccines keeps climbing and is increasingly difficult hide. Jeff Childers is correct when he says this provides an opportunity for leaders, untainted by anti-covid measures, to attack the covid villains. This process will take many years, but it's the only way forward via traditional politics. Problem is, we've endured a series of "fortified" elections. What's to keep the democrats/globalists from continuing this moving forward?
I keep moving my hand from side to side in the bathtub, but I am starting to think there's no baby in the bathwater of American politics.
Integrity is scary in someone with power over you, because what if you get in the way of their integrity?
They'll wipe you and the tear they shed about having to wipe you out at the same time.
Malleability, flexibility, compromise an being compromise-able feels lots safer for all around.
Some of our kings of old had great integrity. They also have the greatest bodycount when it came to settling domestic matters like too greedy nobles hurting the kingdom with their robber-baron mentality, or rebellious freemen for that matter.
Why not? If their convictions and principles contain a logically coherent moral structure for murder, they are showing integrity by acting in accordance with their principles.
That their integrity is such a one you or me would disagree with is another matter.
It's the same with rationality; at its root it is personal and therefore subjective.
A person who lies to himself about what he is and why he does what he does, always rationalising so he's always acted right, is a hypocrite.
But a person who does the exact same things without the internal lies is not, he just doesn't share our frame of definitions.
Let's use me as an example: I do not partake of religious rituals, nor do I obey religious commands nor commandments. I do however respect anyone's freedom to pick a god as they please and apply that god's rules to themselves. Meaning I will not put on a jew-hat in a synagogue. Since that is required to enter to show one obeys their power-play, I don't enter as I have no need to enter.
Same thing if I was say invitied to dinner in someone's home and saying Grace was required to eat. Thank you, but that's not happening. I'll offer to either sit in while the ritual is performed or step outside until it is. Same thing if someone would /insist/ on doing that in my house: no. Get. Out. Get. Off. My. Property.
Go do your god-bothering outdoors off the property, then you can come back inside. Do for yourself as for others, can't say fairer than that?
I'm sorry, maybe I'm not making much sense, it's bedtime for this Bozo. But I can't really think of a better small-scale example of showing integrity as in me acting in accordance with my own principles. I figured it might work better than all those huge do-or-die-hypotheticals we (or at least I) are so fond of using all the time.
Integrity implies a set of moral principles. It's hard to accept the murder of human beings as any sort of moral principle. That's like describing hot snow.
Morality needs an external source, but we've murdered it, haven't we. "You and I."
There's no moral outside the human mind, unless a religion with a set code for it is used, true.
But looking at how the most religious peoples in the world (jews, moslems and hindus) act I'd argue it makes no difference; it just adds another layer of possible rationalisation.
Same as climate or feminism or any new religion: humans make a moral code, humans defer the moral code to something suprahuman, humans then argue their moral code objectively true referencing said suprahuman.
That's the inevitable mechanism inside ourselves we have to stay conscious of and fight. To our cost, too. Which is exploitable.
Consider this:
In a conflict between your personal rules, either you break the rules (either by rationalising beforehand or after the fact), the rules break you (you stick to your guns despite what the voice in the desert whispers to borrow from that story, to your ultimate cost) or you and your rules must break what/who is causing the conflict (which will just recurve backwards unless your rules allow for breaking things/people).
And yet many people believe they have moral principle when they condemn others to fry in the electric chair, or believe that it is ok to yank a baby from the womb in the 8th month of pregnancy after crushing it’s skull. I used to wonder at how a German soldier could load other humans onto boxcars knowing full well what the end result was for those humans. It was so mystifying to me. How could so many so evil or without a moral compass?
Then when I heard people clamoring to snitch on their parents for owning guns or not bowing to the echo religion, or as recent as Covid to listen to medical doctors say the unjabbed deserved to receive no medical attention it brought me up short. We humans can convince ourselves of anything if our own perceived “survival” is at stake. Our righteousness makes us move from seeing each other as brethren in the human race to you are the enemy in quick order. First it’s you don’t understand what you are doing, then it’s you are out to get me and destroy my world, then we move on to you are a threat, therefore, you deserve to be punished and it is then a very short step to being dehumanized and your killing is justified because you are a blight on society. Fanaticism in anything does this quite easily, be it organized religion or political.
I’m a volunteer here in AZ working with many of our local Conservative politicians as well as a few house and senate members. There is one in particular who I have gotten to know very well. He is decent. And honorable. And a very kind and honest man. He fights very vocally for us in DC and is resoundingly hated in the House...by both parties. He still meets with and represents his constituents which appears to be a major issue for the swamp creatures. I just wish he was the Congressman for my district!
In this instance they represent exclusive things. One is an actual whoopsie that happens to be weirdly/badly timed, the other is that these documents were always in play/placed as needed and were triggered by bad behavior.
It's interesting when I see our respective comments laid out almost adjacent how similar our communication styles are. IRL we have a ridiculous number of telepathy moments.
You were thinking of saying " howdy " to acknowledge your brother's presence at that moment too? How frikkin Monk like is it at that farm? Don't you speak? Gruel for brekkers? Making mead whilst creating illuminated manuscripts?? ..( sorry..what were we talking about?... I segued into illuminate books,and that distracted my wee tiny brain...)
I hate to ruin an excellent comment but I actually meant me and Brothermouth. I looked at his longer comment above ("In the case specifically...") and for a brief moment thought it was one I'd written. We do very often end up saying and writing nearly-identical things and finishing each other's sentences. We have an endearingly dumb ritual of fist-bumping in front of other people when one says something the other one was going to say, word-for-word.
But to answer your questions, Brothermouth, Husbandmouth, and I have offices at more or less opposite ends of the house and don't really interact at all while doing our day jobs. We intersect at lunch which is when we usually coordinate doing the day's farm chores which generally involve 2 of us pairing off before going back to our respective corners. But that's really about it.
When Bmouth and I work together on something we very often fall into a mind meld and barely talk at all unless there's some totally unrelated thing on one of our minds.
On weekends the three of us are more or less around each other continuously until late in the evening and this drives introvert Husbandmouth crazy and he hides.
Yeah, I kinda figured the first, but thanks for ruining my " it's all about me!" playtime...and blowing my fantasy that you might be making mead,or creating one of my only religious interests( of course for the art and techniques only...so ...kinda?) in the bibliophile world...
Next you'll be telling me that the family doesn't wear brown robes and beat themselves in the forehead with written planks Ala Monty Python...
Option one. He's got nothing to lose from playing along, so no gun or hammer to the head needed. Just 10% for the Big Guy and he's happy as a clam, getting to wear the Big Boy pants and muck about the White House a couple of more years.
And the man is going on 80, isn't he?
The Hell else is he going to do? Go sailing around Cape Cod with Nancy and Paul or rig a canasta-tournament in Martha's 'Whine'-yard?
Nah, he's got his feet under the table and his snow-cone right where he want it. I think him alluding to running again was basically Ole' Joe living up to former president Hussein's words "Never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to Fuck things up" -plus it's fun for him to see the movers and shakers and glib gladhandlers and flimflam-merchants run about in a panic.
He's just gaslighting the crapout of them for shits and giggles, basically.
Yeah, I mean he's obviously lucid enough to follow some kind of generalised script, so I think he must have realised how he's being used and given his what, 50+ years in politics, dementia or no his instincts for it must be so honed and natural it's his nature.
Plus isn't it rather common that dementia-sufferers can be quite clear and functional regarding stuff thathappened before the dementia took hold?
And as politics is politics, same today as when he joined in, his intuition for it could be what he's running on.
Plus what's his legacy? His kids? Ain't going to be no Biden-dynasty or New Camelot from Joe and Jill.
I think we can all agree that biden is compromised and the list of people holding dirt on him is long and includes china, russia and ukraine but most of all it is the democrat machine, aka the deep state, holding the gun to his head. "Be a shame if your one surviving son went to prison for the rest of his life and the baby he had with the stripper ended up being the recipient of all his hidden assets, wouldn't it?"
He is compromised 8 ways to Sunday, but that is true of all politicians on the national stage and likely a huge number of those at every other level.
The useful idiot has become not so useful. Maybe his next "booster" will be the poison chalice. No need for hemlock when they have mrna magic juice ready to go.😎
He gets his fill (aka transfusion) of magic juice every extended weekend he spends in Delaware. This has happened almost every weekend since becoming the resident.
Why else would he leave the White House every chance he gets to take the 15 minute helicopter ride to his personal residence? Hell, he even has the balls to charge the republic to house his secret service detail in his personal domicile.
Love the horse head analogy--that hadn't occured to me before but it's intriguing. So here are some random semi-coherent associations (open to corrections from yourself or your sassy informed audience): Hunter had a 'client' who was a Chinese oligarch, who was killed, who he called 'the richest man on the planet.' Brandon gave our oil reserves to China, while Pelosi et al are grandstanding in Taiwan. I've wondered how much China owns Biden, and the DNC. I wonder if China is behind sending US dignitaries to Taiwan itself, as a way of getting the US psy ops out into the public at the SAME time as Ukraine so that the US loses definitively, giving the petroyuan free rein. Thoughts?
I would have subscribed to something like that more unreservedly a few weeks ago, but Russia's suddenly very-aggressive movement towards the digital ruble makes me wonder.
To respond to your theory directly, though, here's something to consider: at least at present, a theoretical petroyuan destroying the dollar would also destroy the value of China's US debt bonds. China would be burning one very sizable investment asset in favor of a bid for currency supremacy that they're not currently positioned to take global. And I don't think that time is here, or even very close.
Ah, you raise a very interesting point regarding the petroyuan and the digital ruble. So what's the one thing all those burnable Treasury bonds would be good for if the petrodollar (already in freefall) crashes? US land, real estate, assets. That would be the only thing that can still be bought only in dollars. And with everyone with an ARM being evicted by the rise in interest rates, they can be scooped up like a whale guzzles plankton. Bringing us back to owning nothing and being serfs. Just a thought.
The power behind the throne looks a lot like his former boss who took up residence not far from the office. There is not much that Biden has been called on to do, actually, other than to sign EOs that were written for him. No thought, no review, no reading necessary on his part.
He does play. A part. A bit part. Distracting attention from the other guy.
Barry once mused that he would rather have someone else be the front man while he did the real work without all the bother.
When I picture the intelligence community, most of the time I picture sociopathic teenagers with the occasional truly diabolic old man in the corner office.
A little bit of threats, a little bit of distraction, but mostly neither one. A well-timed "raid" on any office worker's home(s) would likely turn up some documents that should have stayed at work, so why play this weird little card now?
I propose it's a relatively harmless way for the media to start proving how non-partisan they are ahead of 2024. "We weren't really being mean to Trump. We're treating Biden the same way. We're fair and non-biased. See, you guys? We even found extra documents! You can trust us, pinky swear. <3"
Except so far the media has been exerting a great deal of effort explaining to mouth- breathers like me how this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT and Trump was a very bad evil guy and Brandon made an aw-shucks honest mistake like butt-dialing the FSB during a meeting.
First, on the list of things whose color, texture, and functionality I didn't plan to think about today or ever, Brandon's backside ranks fairly high.
But yeah, it's a good point. Not universally true ime, but definitely mostly. I'm not ready to abandon my conspiracy theory completely though, 'cause it still feels suspicious that the first even remotely negative big story about Brandon was a copy of the TrumpDoc debacle. If they wanted to nudge Brandon to pasture or otherwise threaten him, they could manufacture any excuse or mild transgression - why pick the same classified document bungle?
Priming to get us used to/ bored with mishandling of classified documents, so we won't see it as a serious national security transgression the next time it's already happened?
Lest we forget (as I'm sure Brandon himself has already forgotten), this "investigation" came on the heels of announcing his intent to run in 2024.
To run for what is an open question. Maybe he thought it was County Dogcatcher?
You lucky dogs, you.
This, 100%, which is why I pondered the topic. I resent the term "conspiracy theory" as a derogatory, but I understand more broadly the implications of it: the tendency to see intent and organization where there isn't one out of an overdeveloped desire to form narrative around frustrating or confusing information.
It is POSSIBLE that mishandled classified documents are being found, by the buttload, on Brandon's properties not long after an attempt to scandalize Trump with same. We also have to accept that there's a huge amount of behind-the-scenes movement that ISN'T conspiracy that we don't know.
Mike Pence's recent boo-boo is interesting, too. Allegedly, he sees all this stuff going on, "worries" (again, allegedly) that he might have done the same thing by accident, checks, finds out he has, and hangs it out as quickly as possible to avoid being painted by the same scandal brush.
Pence could have easily had a bonfire in this backyard. “Documents? What documents?” His moves were the most bizarre. So in his case I truly believe someone had a figurative gun to his head. Why out himself? Other than he wants to run in 2024 and the powers that be don’t want that to happen. I’m waiting to see some gargantuan scandal erupt around DeSantis, who is Trumps only real competition. The DC power brokers want Trump to run so they can destroy him again as in 2020.
In the case specifically of the documents, I'd say it was a toss up. My view is that his presidency overall (possibly even his career before that) has almost certainly been a mix of the two. Maybe it started as oddly timed coincidence of incompetence, but They Who Walk Behind the Rows never let a good opprtunity go to waste.
We've never talked about this angle of it before between the two of us, but which did you think (i.e. how did you vote)? Badly-timed thing that was already there or horse's head?
Horse's Head. I've thought about it a bit more since my last comment, and I believe it was absolutely a threat, but the opportunity was presented because of the incompetence.
Biden, like the overwhelming number of people is politics, lacks integrity. Is there any formerly strongly-held principle that he's not tossed aside? Maybe they have something on him (videos of him publicly pawing children are commonplace...and the compilation grows every month, it seems), but at heart he is just another amoral grifter, so common in a decaying government.
If we lived in a culture that valued honor, like Japan's did, seppuku would be rampant in the fashionable districts of DC.
Instead, we are led by men and women grown fat by the betrayal of the citizenry. And endlessly on the lookout to grow fatter.
My post from a week or so ago (https://guttermouth.substack.com/p/tiws-day-thing-11823) on the subject of heroes feels very relevant to what you're saying, so I have to ask:
Do you think a human being who is a politician CAN have complete integrity? Or is this solely the realm of a more-than-human figure like Christ?
Depending on your answer to that question, is the calculus for the rest of us to A) choose the least shitty, or B) stop searching for someone pure and simply build the system to route around shittiness?
At heart, our problems are moral ones. In a world where God is dead, what is morality? What, then, is integrity? The notion of human rights is absurd in such a world and our overlords are in the process of taking God's death to its inevitable conclusion, if our suspicions of where this drama is leading is correct.
Integrity is rare (much rarer than I thought), but those who were forced from positions for refusing to relinquish body autonomy exhibited it. They stood on principle (very wisely in retrospect) and paid a steep price for it, in some cases. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is such a man. If you've not read his book, I strongly recommend it. https://www.amazon.com/New-Abnormal-Biomedical-Security-State-ebook/dp/B09ZJXPYSG
Politics is inherently filthy and attracts those happy to get into the mud, but I was completely appalled at how politicians so easily focused hatred on the unvaccinated and limited their fundamental human rights, in abrogation of basic decency. Complete integrity by a politician is unrealistic, but I would settle for someone who promised to protect these rights which I had naively thought were non-negotiable prior to 2020.
Covid has provided us with an opportunity for a political reset to our liking. The butcher's bill from the vaccines keeps climbing and is increasingly difficult hide. Jeff Childers is correct when he says this provides an opportunity for leaders, untainted by anti-covid measures, to attack the covid villains. This process will take many years, but it's the only way forward via traditional politics. Problem is, we've endured a series of "fortified" elections. What's to keep the democrats/globalists from continuing this moving forward?
I keep moving my hand from side to side in the bathtub, but I am starting to think there's no baby in the bathwater of American politics.
Thanks for the book recommendation. This looks promising.
Can I chime in?
Integrity is scary in someone with power over you, because what if you get in the way of their integrity?
They'll wipe you and the tear they shed about having to wipe you out at the same time.
Malleability, flexibility, compromise an being compromise-able feels lots safer for all around.
Some of our kings of old had great integrity. They also have the greatest bodycount when it came to settling domestic matters like too greedy nobles hurting the kingdom with their robber-baron mentality, or rebellious freemen for that matter.
Rikard, someone with integrity would not murder other human beings, by the very definition of word.
Why not? If their convictions and principles contain a logically coherent moral structure for murder, they are showing integrity by acting in accordance with their principles.
That their integrity is such a one you or me would disagree with is another matter.
It's the same with rationality; at its root it is personal and therefore subjective.
A person who lies to himself about what he is and why he does what he does, always rationalising so he's always acted right, is a hypocrite.
But a person who does the exact same things without the internal lies is not, he just doesn't share our frame of definitions.
Let's use me as an example: I do not partake of religious rituals, nor do I obey religious commands nor commandments. I do however respect anyone's freedom to pick a god as they please and apply that god's rules to themselves. Meaning I will not put on a jew-hat in a synagogue. Since that is required to enter to show one obeys their power-play, I don't enter as I have no need to enter.
Same thing if I was say invitied to dinner in someone's home and saying Grace was required to eat. Thank you, but that's not happening. I'll offer to either sit in while the ritual is performed or step outside until it is. Same thing if someone would /insist/ on doing that in my house: no. Get. Out. Get. Off. My. Property.
Go do your god-bothering outdoors off the property, then you can come back inside. Do for yourself as for others, can't say fairer than that?
I'm sorry, maybe I'm not making much sense, it's bedtime for this Bozo. But I can't really think of a better small-scale example of showing integrity as in me acting in accordance with my own principles. I figured it might work better than all those huge do-or-die-hypotheticals we (or at least I) are so fond of using all the time.
Integrity implies a set of moral principles. It's hard to accept the murder of human beings as any sort of moral principle. That's like describing hot snow.
Morality needs an external source, but we've murdered it, haven't we. "You and I."
There's no moral outside the human mind, unless a religion with a set code for it is used, true.
But looking at how the most religious peoples in the world (jews, moslems and hindus) act I'd argue it makes no difference; it just adds another layer of possible rationalisation.
Same as climate or feminism or any new religion: humans make a moral code, humans defer the moral code to something suprahuman, humans then argue their moral code objectively true referencing said suprahuman.
That's the inevitable mechanism inside ourselves we have to stay conscious of and fight. To our cost, too. Which is exploitable.
Consider this:
In a conflict between your personal rules, either you break the rules (either by rationalising beforehand or after the fact), the rules break you (you stick to your guns despite what the voice in the desert whispers to borrow from that story, to your ultimate cost) or you and your rules must break what/who is causing the conflict (which will just recurve backwards unless your rules allow for breaking things/people).
There are no other alternatives.
And yet many people believe they have moral principle when they condemn others to fry in the electric chair, or believe that it is ok to yank a baby from the womb in the 8th month of pregnancy after crushing it’s skull. I used to wonder at how a German soldier could load other humans onto boxcars knowing full well what the end result was for those humans. It was so mystifying to me. How could so many so evil or without a moral compass?
Then when I heard people clamoring to snitch on their parents for owning guns or not bowing to the echo religion, or as recent as Covid to listen to medical doctors say the unjabbed deserved to receive no medical attention it brought me up short. We humans can convince ourselves of anything if our own perceived “survival” is at stake. Our righteousness makes us move from seeing each other as brethren in the human race to you are the enemy in quick order. First it’s you don’t understand what you are doing, then it’s you are out to get me and destroy my world, then we move on to you are a threat, therefore, you deserve to be punished and it is then a very short step to being dehumanized and your killing is justified because you are a blight on society. Fanaticism in anything does this quite easily, be it organized religion or political.
I’m a volunteer here in AZ working with many of our local Conservative politicians as well as a few house and senate members. There is one in particular who I have gotten to know very well. He is decent. And honorable. And a very kind and honest man. He fights very vocally for us in DC and is resoundingly hated in the House...by both parties. He still meets with and represents his constituents which appears to be a major issue for the swamp creatures. I just wish he was the Congressman for my district!
Who's that?
Congressman Dr. Paul Gosar. His weekly emails show his fighting spirit. He a strong conservative and doesn’t back down from a fight.
Porque no los tres?
In this instance they represent exclusive things. One is an actual whoopsie that happens to be weirdly/badly timed, the other is that these documents were always in play/placed as needed and were triggered by bad behavior.
Howdy,Brothermouth!
It's interesting when I see our respective comments laid out almost adjacent how similar our communication styles are. IRL we have a ridiculous number of telepathy moments.
You were thinking of saying " howdy " to acknowledge your brother's presence at that moment too? How frikkin Monk like is it at that farm? Don't you speak? Gruel for brekkers? Making mead whilst creating illuminated manuscripts?? ..( sorry..what were we talking about?... I segued into illuminate books,and that distracted my wee tiny brain...)
I hate to ruin an excellent comment but I actually meant me and Brothermouth. I looked at his longer comment above ("In the case specifically...") and for a brief moment thought it was one I'd written. We do very often end up saying and writing nearly-identical things and finishing each other's sentences. We have an endearingly dumb ritual of fist-bumping in front of other people when one says something the other one was going to say, word-for-word.
But to answer your questions, Brothermouth, Husbandmouth, and I have offices at more or less opposite ends of the house and don't really interact at all while doing our day jobs. We intersect at lunch which is when we usually coordinate doing the day's farm chores which generally involve 2 of us pairing off before going back to our respective corners. But that's really about it.
When Bmouth and I work together on something we very often fall into a mind meld and barely talk at all unless there's some totally unrelated thing on one of our minds.
On weekends the three of us are more or less around each other continuously until late in the evening and this drives introvert Husbandmouth crazy and he hides.
Yeah, I kinda figured the first, but thanks for ruining my " it's all about me!" playtime...and blowing my fantasy that you might be making mead,or creating one of my only religious interests( of course for the art and techniques only...so ...kinda?) in the bibliophile world...
Next you'll be telling me that the family doesn't wear brown robes and beat themselves in the forehead with written planks Ala Monty Python...
Option one. He's got nothing to lose from playing along, so no gun or hammer to the head needed. Just 10% for the Big Guy and he's happy as a clam, getting to wear the Big Boy pants and muck about the White House a couple of more years.
And the man is going on 80, isn't he?
The Hell else is he going to do? Go sailing around Cape Cod with Nancy and Paul or rig a canasta-tournament in Martha's 'Whine'-yard?
Nah, he's got his feet under the table and his snow-cone right where he want it. I think him alluding to running again was basically Ole' Joe living up to former president Hussein's words "Never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to Fuck things up" -plus it's fun for him to see the movers and shakers and glib gladhandlers and flimflam-merchants run about in a panic.
He's just gaslighting the crapout of them for shits and giggles, basically.
You're saying that amidst his dementia, Brandon is using his remaining operational lifespan to troll?
Interesting.
Yeah, I mean he's obviously lucid enough to follow some kind of generalised script, so I think he must have realised how he's being used and given his what, 50+ years in politics, dementia or no his instincts for it must be so honed and natural it's his nature.
Plus isn't it rather common that dementia-sufferers can be quite clear and functional regarding stuff thathappened before the dementia took hold?
And as politics is politics, same today as when he joined in, his intuition for it could be what he's running on.
Plus what's his legacy? His kids? Ain't going to be no Biden-dynasty or New Camelot from Joe and Jill.
Hadn’t occurred to me about threats, makes sense too.
Why just point out the one at 3 AM? You got something against 3 AM? Love all your weird thoughts.😀
I'm a firm believer that not everything is worth sharing and I try hard not to mimic the behavior of people I accuse of being vainglorious or vapid.
You probably wouldn't love ALL my weird thoughts. :) Or maybe you would?
Maybe it's his best shot of having his child killed (Hunter)?
Wow.
Or vice versa?
Not sure. Maybe the media would just say that's character assassination?
I think we can all agree that biden is compromised and the list of people holding dirt on him is long and includes china, russia and ukraine but most of all it is the democrat machine, aka the deep state, holding the gun to his head. "Be a shame if your one surviving son went to prison for the rest of his life and the baby he had with the stripper ended up being the recipient of all his hidden assets, wouldn't it?"
He is compromised 8 ways to Sunday, but that is true of all politicians on the national stage and likely a huge number of those at every other level.
there was no option for a muppet so i voted for my fellow space buddies
The useful idiot has become not so useful. Maybe his next "booster" will be the poison chalice. No need for hemlock when they have mrna magic juice ready to go.😎
He gets his fill (aka transfusion) of magic juice every extended weekend he spends in Delaware. This has happened almost every weekend since becoming the resident.
Why else would he leave the White House every chance he gets to take the 15 minute helicopter ride to his personal residence? Hell, he even has the balls to charge the republic to house his secret service detail in his personal domicile.
Let’s go, Brandon. It’s time for your pill.
"Let's Go Brandon, I agree."
Love the horse head analogy--that hadn't occured to me before but it's intriguing. So here are some random semi-coherent associations (open to corrections from yourself or your sassy informed audience): Hunter had a 'client' who was a Chinese oligarch, who was killed, who he called 'the richest man on the planet.' Brandon gave our oil reserves to China, while Pelosi et al are grandstanding in Taiwan. I've wondered how much China owns Biden, and the DNC. I wonder if China is behind sending US dignitaries to Taiwan itself, as a way of getting the US psy ops out into the public at the SAME time as Ukraine so that the US loses definitively, giving the petroyuan free rein. Thoughts?
I would have subscribed to something like that more unreservedly a few weeks ago, but Russia's suddenly very-aggressive movement towards the digital ruble makes me wonder.
To respond to your theory directly, though, here's something to consider: at least at present, a theoretical petroyuan destroying the dollar would also destroy the value of China's US debt bonds. China would be burning one very sizable investment asset in favor of a bid for currency supremacy that they're not currently positioned to take global. And I don't think that time is here, or even very close.
Ah, you raise a very interesting point regarding the petroyuan and the digital ruble. So what's the one thing all those burnable Treasury bonds would be good for if the petrodollar (already in freefall) crashes? US land, real estate, assets. That would be the only thing that can still be bought only in dollars. And with everyone with an ARM being evicted by the rise in interest rates, they can be scooped up like a whale guzzles plankton. Bringing us back to owning nothing and being serfs. Just a thought.
Not dementia, folks, but happy pills.
The power behind the throne looks a lot like his former boss who took up residence not far from the office. There is not much that Biden has been called on to do, actually, other than to sign EOs that were written for him. No thought, no review, no reading necessary on his part.
He does play. A part. A bit part. Distracting attention from the other guy.
Barry once mused that he would rather have someone else be the front man while he did the real work without all the bother.
But that would be a CT or a coincidence.
LOL. "teenagers having a ball while a corpse babysits them"
Excellent
When I picture the intelligence community, most of the time I picture sociopathic teenagers with the occasional truly diabolic old man in the corner office.
A little bit of threats, a little bit of distraction, but mostly neither one. A well-timed "raid" on any office worker's home(s) would likely turn up some documents that should have stayed at work, so why play this weird little card now?
I propose it's a relatively harmless way for the media to start proving how non-partisan they are ahead of 2024. "We weren't really being mean to Trump. We're treating Biden the same way. We're fair and non-biased. See, you guys? We even found extra documents! You can trust us, pinky swear. <3"
Except so far the media has been exerting a great deal of effort explaining to mouth- breathers like me how this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT and Trump was a very bad evil guy and Brandon made an aw-shucks honest mistake like butt-dialing the FSB during a meeting.
First, on the list of things whose color, texture, and functionality I didn't plan to think about today or ever, Brandon's backside ranks fairly high.
But yeah, it's a good point. Not universally true ime, but definitely mostly. I'm not ready to abandon my conspiracy theory completely though, 'cause it still feels suspicious that the first even remotely negative big story about Brandon was a copy of the TrumpDoc debacle. If they wanted to nudge Brandon to pasture or otherwise threaten him, they could manufacture any excuse or mild transgression - why pick the same classified document bungle?
Priming to get us used to/ bored with mishandling of classified documents, so we won't see it as a serious national security transgression the next time it's already happened?