im still told regularly by work colleagues that im a conspiracy theorist, but i only have to say my tin foil hat didnt give me myocarditis and they shut up for a week
should have added kore on my Random hypothesis:: Taverns may have been a way to avoid “we’re not as directly impacted by their suffering and don’t have the emotional connection to really hurt on their behalf”
edit: In this comment we inadvertently typed a word that doesn’t exist. The correct word is “more”. We regret the error and apologize for any confusion which may have been caused. Have a good day.
Taverns have been mentioned frequently when this topic comes up for, I think TWO reasons:
1) the one you/I just mentioned in this post because it brings us directly in contact with people from our community hurt by things and get to talk to them, but also
2) a low-surveillance place to honestly express views that (in the case of the American Revolution) can lead to organized action.
A lot of you guys seem to not get the "edit comment" option on your displays and I can't for the life of me figure out why it's happening.
For reference, when I'm on mobile I'm on an Android (Samsung) phone, and when I'm on my desktop (far more often for substack) I'm on Chrome or DuckDuckGo.
I give this information because I can only assume it's a browser issue- nothing else would explain (to me) why a relative minority of Gutterballs consistently has this issue and others don't.
and with that, i tried again from substack app, and voila. maybe an issue of waiting or there being a reply? so my irkedness has now shifted and grown. i was going to disclose my technique when i discovered this: from substack app click 3 dots on comment to be edited, do the copy link, then go to browser and paste the link and edit there
That makes me think it may also be a connectivity issue, similar to people not seeing their "like" hearts light up.
In my day, it took 15 minutes to download 1 MEG, which was enough time to ride our bikes to the 7-11 and fight the velociraptors for the last Slim Jim.
I would tag on to say; one of the most overlooked data points is real estate holding defaults. Pretty sure we're on the cusp of a tsunami of defaults based on what I see on the "ground". The next data point would then be BK'S - which always closely follow.
Where it gets ugly is when creditors force BK's. That means they've accepted bad debt. Bad debt is always a line item...but when it becomes multiples of the line item...well then the creditors' creditor starts forcing them into BK.
Lots of factors. But I'd watch that. Mainly because it would have the potential to accelerate what you've pointed out.
Ok, Ryan, what's a BK? In my little world it would be creditors are forcing Burger King on people at the banks, which is a mighty mean thing to do, but it wouldn't be that bad.
Bankruptcies, Ryan? Agreed that raising the interest rate, after pushing all new buyers into VRMs, has nothing to do with inflation but everything with Blackrock owning it all. That's why it's curious to me that Ed Dowd has become a dissent darling on exposing the depopulation side of the GR agenda when he has been front and center in the dispossession part of that as a Blackrock investment dude.
re-3... 'Zelensky Prepares for WEF and BlackRock Private-Public Takeover of Ukraine 12/30/2022
Western elites have plans for Ukraine. Very big plans.
One only has to look at the website of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to see the various agenda items they are actively promoting, including openly using the war as a springboard to bring Ukraine into the EU. They are also planning to make Ukraine their ‘beta testing ground’ for Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and Smart City digital control grid.
Unbeknownst the most Ukrainians, the former comedian turned president
is scheduled
to hold talks with BlackRock Investments to negotiate the private-public partnership takeover the country’s postwar ‘reconstruction’.
But this is only the beginning.
As trillionaire sponsors of the WEF and private owners of the large swaths of western wealth, BlackRock, are planning to ‘buy-up’ Ukraine, piece by piece,and integrate it into western fold,
and allow the US and NATO to use it as a beach head to antagonize Russia and maintain a geopolitical strategy of tension.
After living on a sailboat for a year, I can tell you as a prepping strategy, it might not be the best. When the SHTF, there would be few ports worth the dingy ride.
I love your writing and your succinct way of presenting the entire catastrophe we have been forced to endure. Thank you for being the voice that you are...
Me two. I believe gratitude is the key beginning for both. You don’t actually have to BE grateful. You just have to act and express as if you are. The intention follows the act. There is some neuroloscience research to back this up. Dr. Andrew Huberman discusses it. It is making me less cynical and pessimistic.
A military guy told me a story that he couldn’t really believe himself about curing his severe back pain through gratitude journaling. Nothing else helped him. The placebo effect, I guess. Dr. Handscomb has a lot of info on this as well. My recollection from Huberman is that even just seeing someone express gratitude boosts oxytocin and/or serotonin, which can have benefits for general wellbeing, and particularly mental health. I think we have only scratched the surface of how biochemicals and hormones affect our thoughts and emotions. My nurse wife is studying this now.
Along the lines of…if you don’t like what you see, change your perspective. No one said it will be easy, but it’s doable. Healing and joy are a choice. Living in fear is a choice. Seeing oneself as a victim is a choice. Those choices all have an effect on the body. It’s not enough to just survive. The goal is to thrive in spite of the odds against it.
I think we are just at the beginning of the backlash against the Oligarchs that is coming. It will ramp up significantly when skyrocketed energy costs and food scarcity set in. People will not take kindly to it for much longer, I suspect.
We're off to a roaring start here in 2023 Colorado...
- egg prices have gone up 60% in the last week; no way it has anything to do with a new state law transitioning over the next few years to requiring cage-free eggs, it's the avian flu doncha know
- state-wide law requiring stores to charge $0.10/bag for one-use plastic or paper bags (I didn't even know paper bags were killing all the dolphins and turtles)
- only gas refinery in CO shutdown for months due to "excess emmisions" and fire and eqpt damage in the recent freeze, Gov. authorizes the activation of the "State Emergency Operations Plan..." including "but is not limited to trucking hours, truck weight limits, and streamlined pipeline transporting regulations." whatever that means, I'm sure it's fine
Dude, WHAT is going on with the eggs. It's the same in PA, with the same excuse, and AFAIK we don't have "cage free" laws coming yet (though the new Dem executive is set to fuck royally with ag in general).
We had the bag thing in NY when we still lived there; it went away during COVID and everyone quietly forgot it. I don't know a single place that enforced it at any point.
...but the gas is the worst of it, and is set to get worse. They will freeze us if they have to; no fucks are given.
"I don't know a single place that enforced it at any point."
They're going to enforce it here by banning single-use bags altogether in 2024. It will be illegal to offer customers the option to purchase a bag for 10 cents.
Yeah, that was exactly the same trajectory NY had in 2020. It all went away within a year, but I suspect it was COVID-related inconvenience that helped it along.
I think this is a solid point. I was recently reminded, and surprised, that Bacon's Rebellion occurred nearly a hundred years before the Revolutionary War, yet was in hindsight an obvious contributor. These things take a long time to sufficiently suffuse through the population, but as you say, once they speed up they seem to keep gathering that speed until it is unstoppable. I hope we haven't gotten to the unstoppable point yet, but damned if they don't seem to be holding down that accelerator. :(
I'm paraphrasing someone else, but the vast majority of Americans have a standard of living that surpasses the 18th Century Kings of France. So it's difficult to muster up the courage to rebel when things aren't that bad compared with prior generations. And leading up to the last three years, life was pretty good. It was and is worse in Europe. https://fee.org/articles/thanks-to-economic-freedom-america-still-outperforms-other-nations-in-standard-of-living/
One of the clearest signs of cracks growing I've seen over here, apart from bitching as you say, is pople no longer volunteering for certain things that has been done that way literally for ages.
One simple local example. Used to be, when an animal was hit by a car but ran into the forest, local hunters would be called up by the police attending and go find the poor animal and finish it off.
On their own time, often in the middle of the night, on a work-night even. And as was tradition, all volunteers had a stake in any meat, skin/pelt or trophy shoud they want to claim it.
Some ten years ago, they started tightening the screws something frighteningly on hunters, regarding guns, ammo, permits and so on. But the real insult was imposing tax on any meat gained from taking care of animals as mentioned above.
So now when the police start calling up hunters, odds are even they are told to Go Fuck themselves.
The same thing applies to snowplowing, used to be handled in a similar way outside of towns and cities: local men owning the machinery would do the job, the municipality paid the for the fuel, sand and salt. Now, after Gods knows how many taxes and fees making up for more than 75% of the price of fuel, people say "Fuck Off". Us what lives here drive 4x4 pick-ups and such, we can drive in 2' of snow okay if we have to.
Same thing happened when people started buying small windmills and solar panels: it was quickly decided that even if they didn't sell any power to the market, they still had to pay the tax they would have incurred had they sold any and also the tax you pay when you buy power off the grid, and the VAT on top of that.
So people have started to install solar panels on the side, paying any local electrician to check the work is done right.
I think it's like with starlings or rooks: suddenly they all turn at once, without warning.
When I think about what America's founding fathers risked (most were quite comfortable and could've easily ridden out King George's excesses) to create our nation, I stand in awe at their raw courage. Soon after I am filled with rage at the immoral, unprincipled grifters who now hold court in DC.
That truth about vaccines/ Covid is leaking out now brings little solace to me. The Covid Production went off as planned and its producers are pleased at the results. The lid could've been sealed on the truth now, as it was 18 months ago, so I think whoever's behind this feels that revealing facts now is unimportant to the next phase. In fact, truth about the poison will roil and destabilize governments further. That might be exactly what they desire.
What we in the outraged community lack is leader who will gather us in and create a potent force to oppose what's coming. Gato often writes that we must individually become ungovernable, and that's absolutely true. But that simply throws sand in the gears and does nothing to smash the machine. Without a leader, we would be like Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, resisting mightily, but fighting a battle whose end is preordained.
im still told regularly by work colleagues that im a conspiracy theorist, but i only have to say my tin foil hat didnt give me myocarditis and they shut up for a week
It would be great if it worked in such a way that you could just say it every Monday and everyone would shut up forever.
I really want that on vid.
The revolutionary war happened because there were Taverns.
AND no tea.
should have added kore on my Random hypothesis:: Taverns may have been a way to avoid “we’re not as directly impacted by their suffering and don’t have the emotional connection to really hurt on their behalf”
edit: In this comment we inadvertently typed a word that doesn’t exist. The correct word is “more”. We regret the error and apologize for any confusion which may have been caused. Have a good day.
No, I completely understood.
Taverns have been mentioned frequently when this topic comes up for, I think TWO reasons:
1) the one you/I just mentioned in this post because it brings us directly in contact with people from our community hurt by things and get to talk to them, but also
2) a low-surveillance place to honestly express views that (in the case of the American Revolution) can lead to organized action.
it irks me that i can’t change kore to more from this app and too busy atm to go to the web to do it
A lot of you guys seem to not get the "edit comment" option on your displays and I can't for the life of me figure out why it's happening.
For reference, when I'm on mobile I'm on an Android (Samsung) phone, and when I'm on my desktop (far more often for substack) I'm on Chrome or DuckDuckGo.
I give this information because I can only assume it's a browser issue- nothing else would explain (to me) why a relative minority of Gutterballs consistently has this issue and others don't.
and with that, i tried again from substack app, and voila. maybe an issue of waiting or there being a reply? so my irkedness has now shifted and grown. i was going to disclose my technique when i discovered this: from substack app click 3 dots on comment to be edited, do the copy link, then go to browser and paste the link and edit there
That makes me think it may also be a connectivity issue, similar to people not seeing their "like" hearts light up.
In my day, it took 15 minutes to download 1 MEG, which was enough time to ride our bikes to the 7-11 and fight the velociraptors for the last Slim Jim.
On Safari/iOS I can see edit option when i click 3 dots on iphone, as well as mac mini. I don’t see edit option using substack app on iphone.
Why do you think they closed the bars?
I'm always surprised at how long it takes the frogs to boil. And it always amazes me how oblivious they are along the way.
Applause.
You nailed this one.
I would tag on to say; one of the most overlooked data points is real estate holding defaults. Pretty sure we're on the cusp of a tsunami of defaults based on what I see on the "ground". The next data point would then be BK'S - which always closely follow.
Where it gets ugly is when creditors force BK's. That means they've accepted bad debt. Bad debt is always a line item...but when it becomes multiples of the line item...well then the creditors' creditor starts forcing them into BK.
Lots of factors. But I'd watch that. Mainly because it would have the potential to accelerate what you've pointed out.
Ok, Ryan, what's a BK? In my little world it would be creditors are forcing Burger King on people at the banks, which is a mighty mean thing to do, but it wouldn't be that bad.
Ball Knot.
😱
Lol.
Id rather suffer bankruptcy (bk) than a burger king burger
Note: I'm specifically talking about commercial holdings.
Oh, I get it, and honestly, that scares the absolute most, because the only direction that road leads is acquisition and consolidation.
Blackrock will be Leviathan, and the Fed will simply be its security contractor.
Spot on
Bankruptcies, Ryan? Agreed that raising the interest rate, after pushing all new buyers into VRMs, has nothing to do with inflation but everything with Blackrock owning it all. That's why it's curious to me that Ed Dowd has become a dissent darling on exposing the depopulation side of the GR agenda when he has been front and center in the dispossession part of that as a Blackrock investment dude.
You got it
Worst first?
1 Digital Wallets, Social Credits and abolition of protest?
2 GainOfFunctioned ChildKillerVariant?
3 Ukraine Escalation and Nuclear War ?
4 something else? (What?)
Place your bets!
Meanwhile I'll be thinking about yacht-prepping but not actually doing it. And checking out Latin America (but actually doing it again)
re-3... 'Zelensky Prepares for WEF and BlackRock Private-Public Takeover of Ukraine 12/30/2022
Western elites have plans for Ukraine. Very big plans.
One only has to look at the website of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to see the various agenda items they are actively promoting, including openly using the war as a springboard to bring Ukraine into the EU. They are also planning to make Ukraine their ‘beta testing ground’ for Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and Smart City digital control grid.
Unbeknownst the most Ukrainians, the former comedian turned president
is scheduled
to hold talks with BlackRock Investments to negotiate the private-public partnership takeover the country’s postwar ‘reconstruction’.
But this is only the beginning.
As trillionaire sponsors of the WEF and private owners of the large swaths of western wealth, BlackRock, are planning to ‘buy-up’ Ukraine, piece by piece,and integrate it into western fold,
and allow the US and NATO to use it as a beach head to antagonize Russia and maintain a geopolitical strategy of tension.
The final plans are now being hatched at Davos…'
21stcenturywire.com /2022/12/30/zelensky-prepares-for-wef-and-blackrock-private-public-takeover-of-ukraine/
Holy Shizzle - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/
After living on a sailboat for a year, I can tell you as a prepping strategy, it might not be the best. When the SHTF, there would be few ports worth the dingy ride.
Yes and in 2020 I saw the irony of avoiding lockdown by choosing to live alone on a boat!
But If option 1 is going on I would and there are no ports worth the dingy ride.
I love your writing and your succinct way of presenting the entire catastrophe we have been forced to endure. Thank you for being the voice that you are...
I'm working on hope and patience. If it splashes on people I actually like and care about, so much the better.
Me two. I believe gratitude is the key beginning for both. You don’t actually have to BE grateful. You just have to act and express as if you are. The intention follows the act. There is some neuroloscience research to back this up. Dr. Andrew Huberman discusses it. It is making me less cynical and pessimistic.
I've read it, and I hope it has more weight to it beyond fueling my confirmation bias, but I suspect it does.
A military guy told me a story that he couldn’t really believe himself about curing his severe back pain through gratitude journaling. Nothing else helped him. The placebo effect, I guess. Dr. Handscomb has a lot of info on this as well. My recollection from Huberman is that even just seeing someone express gratitude boosts oxytocin and/or serotonin, which can have benefits for general wellbeing, and particularly mental health. I think we have only scratched the surface of how biochemicals and hormones affect our thoughts and emotions. My nurse wife is studying this now.
Along the lines of…if you don’t like what you see, change your perspective. No one said it will be easy, but it’s doable. Healing and joy are a choice. Living in fear is a choice. Seeing oneself as a victim is a choice. Those choices all have an effect on the body. It’s not enough to just survive. The goal is to thrive in spite of the odds against it.
I think we are just at the beginning of the backlash against the Oligarchs that is coming. It will ramp up significantly when skyrocketed energy costs and food scarcity set in. People will not take kindly to it for much longer, I suspect.
We're off to a roaring start here in 2023 Colorado...
- egg prices have gone up 60% in the last week; no way it has anything to do with a new state law transitioning over the next few years to requiring cage-free eggs, it's the avian flu doncha know
- state-wide law requiring stores to charge $0.10/bag for one-use plastic or paper bags (I didn't even know paper bags were killing all the dolphins and turtles)
- only gas refinery in CO shutdown for months due to "excess emmisions" and fire and eqpt damage in the recent freeze, Gov. authorizes the activation of the "State Emergency Operations Plan..." including "but is not limited to trucking hours, truck weight limits, and streamlined pipeline transporting regulations." whatever that means, I'm sure it's fine
Dude, WHAT is going on with the eggs. It's the same in PA, with the same excuse, and AFAIK we don't have "cage free" laws coming yet (though the new Dem executive is set to fuck royally with ag in general).
We had the bag thing in NY when we still lived there; it went away during COVID and everyone quietly forgot it. I don't know a single place that enforced it at any point.
...but the gas is the worst of it, and is set to get worse. They will freeze us if they have to; no fucks are given.
Same here, both with the plastic bag tax, the eggs and the rest.
It's almost as if there's some kind of infomation network co-ordinating operations on a semi-global scale.
Almost.
"I don't know a single place that enforced it at any point."
They're going to enforce it here by banning single-use bags altogether in 2024. It will be illegal to offer customers the option to purchase a bag for 10 cents.
Yeah, that was exactly the same trajectory NY had in 2020. It all went away within a year, but I suspect it was COVID-related inconvenience that helped it along.
I await with jittery anticipation.
"Shot-resisters of the world,
Unite and take over..."
I should institute a thing where I close comments after someone drops one of these.
A sort of scorched- earth grand prize.
I think this is a solid point. I was recently reminded, and surprised, that Bacon's Rebellion occurred nearly a hundred years before the Revolutionary War, yet was in hindsight an obvious contributor. These things take a long time to sufficiently suffuse through the population, but as you say, once they speed up they seem to keep gathering that speed until it is unstoppable. I hope we haven't gotten to the unstoppable point yet, but damned if they don't seem to be holding down that accelerator. :(
And the population behind Bacon's Rebellion was comparably TINY and very directly impacted, to a man and woman, by the forces involved.
This is good stuff. I like your longer posts too💞
I'll still do those, I promise. I'm trying to teach myself to work on Really Big Stuff in the background and still be productive in the meantime.
I'm paraphrasing someone else, but the vast majority of Americans have a standard of living that surpasses the 18th Century Kings of France. So it's difficult to muster up the courage to rebel when things aren't that bad compared with prior generations. And leading up to the last three years, life was pretty good. It was and is worse in Europe. https://fee.org/articles/thanks-to-economic-freedom-america-still-outperforms-other-nations-in-standard-of-living/
Yes, there are many quality of life metrics besides freedom.
Right, like real per capita GDP.
Oh...it will. I hate that we'll get to have any of it happening to us. However, it will.
* sigh*
It was going to anyway. At least it'll go somewhere.
Ps- I'm watching the Speakers Vote bullshit...and Democrats remind me of Fan Girls,complete with shrieking, pompoms, and jumping up and down.
Republicans remind me of craven,delusional imbeciles, for the most part. I'm so glad I haven't eaten.
Insightful. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for being a part of it.
One of the clearest signs of cracks growing I've seen over here, apart from bitching as you say, is pople no longer volunteering for certain things that has been done that way literally for ages.
One simple local example. Used to be, when an animal was hit by a car but ran into the forest, local hunters would be called up by the police attending and go find the poor animal and finish it off.
On their own time, often in the middle of the night, on a work-night even. And as was tradition, all volunteers had a stake in any meat, skin/pelt or trophy shoud they want to claim it.
Some ten years ago, they started tightening the screws something frighteningly on hunters, regarding guns, ammo, permits and so on. But the real insult was imposing tax on any meat gained from taking care of animals as mentioned above.
So now when the police start calling up hunters, odds are even they are told to Go Fuck themselves.
The same thing applies to snowplowing, used to be handled in a similar way outside of towns and cities: local men owning the machinery would do the job, the municipality paid the for the fuel, sand and salt. Now, after Gods knows how many taxes and fees making up for more than 75% of the price of fuel, people say "Fuck Off". Us what lives here drive 4x4 pick-ups and such, we can drive in 2' of snow okay if we have to.
Same thing happened when people started buying small windmills and solar panels: it was quickly decided that even if they didn't sell any power to the market, they still had to pay the tax they would have incurred had they sold any and also the tax you pay when you buy power off the grid, and the VAT on top of that.
So people have started to install solar panels on the side, paying any local electrician to check the work is done right.
I think it's like with starlings or rooks: suddenly they all turn at once, without warning.
I like the imagery of a mass flight of birds...the liquid-like flow,whirl,yet concert of movement ,despite each individual doing their thing...
Right on, Guttermouth.
When I think about what America's founding fathers risked (most were quite comfortable and could've easily ridden out King George's excesses) to create our nation, I stand in awe at their raw courage. Soon after I am filled with rage at the immoral, unprincipled grifters who now hold court in DC.
That truth about vaccines/ Covid is leaking out now brings little solace to me. The Covid Production went off as planned and its producers are pleased at the results. The lid could've been sealed on the truth now, as it was 18 months ago, so I think whoever's behind this feels that revealing facts now is unimportant to the next phase. In fact, truth about the poison will roil and destabilize governments further. That might be exactly what they desire.
What we in the outraged community lack is leader who will gather us in and create a potent force to oppose what's coming. Gato often writes that we must individually become ungovernable, and that's absolutely true. But that simply throws sand in the gears and does nothing to smash the machine. Without a leader, we would be like Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, resisting mightily, but fighting a battle whose end is preordained.
It will get worse, and more people will understand the need for freedom.
But it will get worse first.