I was asked recently, what I considered to be the biggest problem of the current moment, and how would I describe it to my future self. My response was, we are living in an era of great pretending, and if you elevate yourself and pause its actually quite interesting to watch.
The pretending issue goes beyond politics, it’s everywhere. Sure, there was always an era where reality was skewed in favor of one position or another by various groups, people and leaders, where denying the obvious was always odd. However, this current state of our national and international disposition extends far beyond politics into almost everything.
A person would ordinarily expect to see cultural or social pretending as an outcome of political correctness. Denying the underlying social construct behind the rules of the urban society has been the norm for several years. However, the pretending has become so pervasive it has recently extended into finance and economics; places where reality -actual outcomes- used to inoculate facts and figures against pretense.
It is no longer uncommon, heck, it’s become almost standard in this new era, to see CEO’s, CFO’s and even entire boards of directors, maintaining a standard of pretense. It is quite weird to see it happening.
Yes, this era -for a host of reasons- has made delusion somewhat of a norm.
In the social sphere, cultural norms now claim men can have babies, people can choose their gender, labels and pronouns, and everyone else bears the responsibility to conform to the delusion. While goofy, that part is somewhat a weird cultural phenomenon of this western era. If we were not pretending people like AOC would have no career opportunities.
In the political sphere, the axiom of politics being downstream from pop culture is perhaps the reason the infection of pretense has overwhelmed congress and the professional bureaucracies of government. The social pretending has metastasized from the federal level to the state level, and now we see efforts to counteract “wokeism” as a social priority for state and local leaders. It’s weird to see so much time and effort being exhausted on combatting social pretense at every level.
But the more stunning development comes in the sphere of economics, where factual outcomes of transactions are matters of simple accounting. A ledger of sales and profits would normally dictate whether a business was successful or failing, and in the bigger picture would show empirical evidence of the financial health of the community of customers who purchase goods and services.
Under all common norms of economics, if a business was operating at a higher cost than its income; or if the income was to shift or disappear quickly; people would seek to identify the underlying cause. However, in this era of great business pretending, an economic mass formation psychosis has led to complete denial of the obvious.
Accepting the state of the Main Street economy as it is – not as we would pretend it to be, CTH shared several months ago that quarterly profits would be far below expectations, and we would see revised projections from just about every business entity who engages in selling durable goods. People just are not buying stuff because the cost of living and buying energy, food, fuel and shelter, has become extraordinarily difficult. It isn’t rocket science to connect economic dots.
As expected, at a macro-level, topline sales for businesses have dropped or collapsed. Inventories of non-essential products are piling up. Consumers are stressed and/or hunkering down, and general economic activity has slowed dramatically.
None of what is happening is surprising. However, what is surprising is that businesses -while faced with empirical results that describe the situation- would continue pretending.
Yahoo Finance – […] The auto giant Ford warned of a whopping $1 billion profit hit late Monday in the form of higher parts costs, with the company blaming vendor inflation. Ford now sees third-quarter adjusted operating profits in the range of $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion, well below Wall Street estimates for $3 billion.
Somewhat oddly in the face of the major warning, Ford reiterated its full-year operating profit outlook of $11.5 billion to $12.5 billion.
The mood on Wall Street is that Ford’s warning is generally a shocker given relatively upbeat comments on demand and the bottom line when second-quarter earnings hit in late July. Now, the Street is scrambling to mark down profit and valuation estimates on the company.
“Vehicles in transit will be seen as transitory, but surprise inflation is always worrying,” said Evercore ISI analyst Chris McNally in a note to clients, adding that he sees Ford’s stock trading down to about $13 off the quarterly letdown. Citi’s Itay Michaeli also appeared stunned by Ford’s warning. (read more)
The great pretending continues…..
It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Need a re-write Ron.
Our liberal friends and family are WILLFULLY ignorant. That’s what makes them so insufferable.
The big lie spoken into the mirror…..
wonder that mirrors are still socially acceptable.
ALL evil starts with a lie. And the demons in our midst swear to it.
Solzhenitsyn described precisely where we find ourselves today and why we seemingly can find no way out.
“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its dense, gray for not even one pillar can be seen.”
Lie upon lie upon lie…or as Sundance calls it, pretending. Until there is no room for the truth.
Because if the truth were allowed to escape into the klieg lights, the whole house of cards that we are would crumble. And the emporers which keep uttering public inanities to protect themselves will soon not have another stitch of clothing to cast off.
Our realities vs their fantasies. It can’t last forever.
Good to know how to navigate by dead reckoning.
That it is…in more ways than one. So thankful I was taught that at a young age.
Thank you Grandpa!
Progressives in liberal enclaves have no idea how to do that. I doubt they even know the meaning of it.
Love you sis. Glad you love the Truth.
John 14:6.
Maranatha Bet!
Amen, my dear brother. I never read Solzhenitsyn that I don’t think of Solomon. And you must know by now I love you as well. BetNM
Well said Mother Jones!
😊…or Jonesy…love it!
Mass formation doesn’t last forever. But while it’s going on, we must “throw sand in the gears” at every opportunity, lest that blind herd stampede straight into the witch hunt / genocide stage.
I keep a watchful eye on the afflicted, but I give my burdens over to Jesus. What these transhuman hybrids cannot grasp is that no one receives eternal salvation and everlasting life but through Him.
They can’t grasp it, Judith, because they say they don’t believe in God.
But in scorning Him, they don’t realize they are actually acknowledging that He is.
And that makes them worse than fools.
it’s probably a small group that actually participated in satan worship…explicitly.
what is most probable is that a very large majority of corruptors simply refuse to accept God period. God less people.
In both cases, God cannot provide his blessings and grace. Salvation can be achieved, but God does not reward or recognize human beings who do not actively express their works with a God centered practice.
So the distinction in terms of outcomes are similar: failure and corruption becomes the leading and lasting character
God Bless America
So what makes you think these companies and politicians are pretending? Imagine they are all in on the great reset, some eggs have to be cracked, and ‘know’ they will come out the other side in some form or fashion in OK shape.
Maybe they are just telling us what we need to hear so that we won’t fight too much as they destroy our life as we know it.
No pretending…just lying to the victims so we don’t fight too much.
I wonder how they’re going to cover for the loss of jobs, the decline in product. And who exactly are they going to sell, what product they do have, to.
My question all along. The end of their games?
More government handouts. If this evil administration is thinking in terms of a 10% increase in the SSI cola for 2023
https://www.fool.com/retirement/social-security/colas/
Looks like a government trying to pacify its seniors when the real increase in cost of living is probably twice that.
The Baby Boomer Generation is who they fear the most, because there’s lots and lots and lots of us. They would have to increase SSI cola…because they’re going to tank our 401’s and investments. These people are EVIL!
Bread and Circuses!
That is just it though isn’t it? They don’t want you to purchase anything other than basic needs, and EV’s
They want you to purchase very little at an extraordinary cost.
Witness generic drugs that rise from cents per pill to dollars per pill to hundreds of dollars per pill.
They don’t want you to have vehicles at all. The EV is just a way to get there.
I don’t think the car manufacturers can wait in the valley that long..they’ve cut off their noses to spite their face a long time ago…now they don’t know they stink.
What an excellent corollary to that familiar old expression – gonna steal it!
1. Blame covid.
2. Blame “the existential threat to the human race necessitating steep cuts in consumption.
3. Blame Russia.
4. Soon? Blame WWIII.
Hopefully it can stop before we get there to Step 4. I guess I need to pull out the handy-dandy Alinsky playbook to see where we’re at.
it appears the plan is to eliminate enough of those pesky humans so as not to “need” so many jobs, so many products, so much food, etc.
As Sundance has reminded us, they are reducing the “need” for energy down to what the windmills and solar can produce
That doesn’t make sense. You get rich not by making a dollar but the nickels and dimes albeit a lot of widgets.
Wind and solar are tax write offs, not viable energy production.
And, amazingly, our Governors are so eerily quiet, as are a lot of legislatures. Very creepy
The RINO Governor we have in blueMA is leaving at end of his term and he’s been a basement dweller ever since he announced it.
A HIPO (hippo) = Hibernating In Public Office.
I’m from Assachuetts and I know well of who you speak! I’d almost rather have a Demonrat as Governor than a Rino. At least you would not fall prey to hopium!
My only hope is that PDJT-endorsed Geoff Diehl pulls yet another “Scott Brown” upset this fall over the detestable Maura Healey. Hope he has your vote too!
P.S. Howie was very confused on this but Grace is evidently the smart one this time.
They also intend to destroy pets. Have you seen the pet food shortage? People need to stock up for their pets.
Starving people will hunt pets. Remember.. they ate the zoo animals in Venezuela!
They don’t care. They have golden parachutes and will be able to sell stock before the numbers hit.
They cover by making lame excuses, like Americans don’t want to return to work. Or Putin has disrupted the supply chain.
New World Order globalists conveniently omit the part where Biden tortures those who wish to remain fully human sans mRNA gene edits, and where Ukraine has always been a Nazi occupied, money laundering hellhole for U.S swamp rats, with bioweapons labs up the wazoo.
I think you have a point – give the illusion that this is all temporary – things will be better soon. People can deal with that better than knowing that our country is a goner.
I’m starting to think the mass formation psychosis is working even on the unvaccinated. 😂.
Not me…I’m Rocky…yo, Adrien!!
I agree. mass formation psychosis is a more accurate description. Pretending is a form of lying and the pretender has some sense of what is real but choses to deceive. I live in Mass. and I’m surrounded by people who are so deluded they are incapable of accepting reality and get angry when confronted with it.
Bet a whole lot of small businesses “pretended” when they applied, and received, those Covid relief funds. My former employer got 1.2 million. It was one of many law firms in Seattle that received significant “relief” funds.
And, yes, Perkins Coie was on that list.
The illegally installed illegitimate resident pedophile in our White House pretending to be President will continue to do what he is told and those behind this destruction will not suffer for any of the outcomes.
The “Great Resignation”, “quiet quitting”, lower productivity, loads of job openings, hospitals closing, main street suffering, people losing their homes, etc. all adds up to a massive effort to fundamentally destroy Western life, and that includes some of Europe. (The Kalergi plan at play with the muslim invasions)
To what end? Is massive death and destruction the actual goal? Total control over your money, home and body? These people are just pure evil and they need to be dealt with as they are a mortal enemy.
What remains is whether everyday citizens will turn on and rat out those of us who are opposing the tyrany. IDK. We can expect the Communists to be our adversaries, to the death, but how about the rest of America, particularly the ‘survivor’ class. Will they side with the Communists to save their skins? History can provide guidance of what to expect.
Historically, mass quantities of ordinary people have died to expunge evil from their midst, either in wars or as ‘lessons’ to the rest over long periods of time. I guess we can think it’ll be different with us but I imagine everyone thinks that way throughout time. It won’t happen to them, until it does.
God be with us.
They may simply crouch behind their doors listening to the footfalls in the stairwell pass them by, today. . . . . .
lilith..the night hag.
she comes in the night as a “vampire”
the deception is the beauty, the attraction to the female form (illusory provacateur).
why?
lilith did not submit. And as such was removed from the human race. Not allowed to participate.
and as a demon, her goals were similar to satan manifest: revenge…contempt….sabotage…using lust as a tool to create doubts and temptations.
lilith (the ancient story) is controversial in “modern” theology. I cannot claim the story to be consistent with or against the generally accepted western interpretations…but that facts remains that this figure is named several times with consistent accounting of similar narrations in many ancient scrolls…(I do not want to get this group involved in debate about “censored”books of the bible, only to share a uncommon example of how deception, pretending, luring, and lying are a very ancient narration through the bible…and in books that were not allowed to be published in the bible. (there are several to be clear, all worth looking at if one is interested in understanding the trajectory of bible theology..I am just an amateur, curious. It makes no difference in my faith either way to be clear!)
God Bless America
God Bless America
100%
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
~George Orwell
Quote investigator disagrees that this quote was from George Orwell. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/
This kind of sums it up.
One lies then the other lies—then they compliment each others lies.
Pelosi method. Yeap.
Can’t get this song out of my head:
I was 13 when the Platters did this song; one of their best and so apropos of today.
The good ole days ….
I really do not care that they lie to themselves. I may not even care that they lie to me. What I do care is that they insist that I believe the lie and punish me if I refuse.
These times call for wisdom and discernment…wise as serpents, gentle as doves.
“Come on man! Don’t you know 2 plus 2 is supposed to equal 5?”
That actually works for large values of two and small values of 5.
2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8.
Now round everything to the nearest integer.
Ha ha – math’s got everything, doesn’t it? Whole numbers, please.
Good thing Xiden wouldn’t know an integer from a bowl of tapioca.
That seems to be a recurring theme of communist governments and other forms of governments that desire to rule the people under their unyielding boots of oppression and tyranny.
Truth is treason in an empire of lies…
They want to induce a mental health crisis along with war, famine, pestilence, and death in order to destroy the old order and bring about their new digital slavery system.
Ultimately, the story of the COVID tyranny and now the Ukraine war is the story of betrayal and treason from within—a fatal condition that a nation cannot endure for long, which is why countries are falling into ruin en masse. But how are these treasonous back-stabbing politicians being dominated by their overlords? What are the methods of command and control that the WEF is employing, and why are these methods so effective at turning these politicians into their puppets?
There are two primary control mechanisms with which the puppet-masters employ to control all politicians: money and blackmail…
https://tritorch.com/treason
I invariably describe it to friends and family as “The Age of Bullshit.”
We have gone from The Tulip Bubble to the Bullshit Bubble. The propaganda teams are having a field day, operating now in a field where they trust that absolutely anything, regardless of how outlandish or absurd, will be believed by the peons (that’s us, ya’ll) after amplification and distribution by the Official Media.
More important now, more than ever, to unplug from the TV and Cable, and search out sources of Truth. Be skeptical, believe nothing that you haven’t thoroughly vetted by your very own inquisition and investigation.
Yes, and you can really get to a lib when you say, “And YOU are the bullshit eater. You like its taste, for some reason.”
Liars are despicable – regardless of party, function or affiliation.
It takes years to earn respect but one lie can lose it.
Further, we all have experienced how properly planted lies and group think can destroy a target’s otherwise respectable and moral appearance. Such machinations are elemental in propaganda. Lawfare is a great example of that. Professional liars doing what they do best.
Your four sentences are spot on.
Propaganda in politics, regardless of political party affiliation, is still despicable in my eyes – but such is life.
In my opinion, targets are military in nature and should be eliminated with prejudice.
Lawfare is the ENEMY and should be treated as such.
I believe we have entered the season of the anti-Christ. Good is evil and evil is good, the masses want their ears tickled while the holy spirit departs leaving unbelievers void of truth and discernment. People isolate, encouraged by the governments of the world as depression and suicide sky rocket. Drug use is out of control and their are no workers to work the vineyards. The planet in increasingly moving towards socialism and world government as our monetary system is collapsing. In desperation the masses will look for a savior and choose the anti-Christ. The sign will be Israel laying down her defenses to an international body and focus her resources in other areas.
Exactly correct! I would however remove the formal capitalization from the name ” christ “. There is only one Christ and the false one should never be formally given the respect by capitalizing its name. Just my opinion. You are absolutely correct in the full out efforts to form a one world government with central control. The anti-christ will emerge at a time when the world is in such a sad state that many will be looking for a leader to take control.
I agree, I fell for spell check.
And the people will be astounded as to who this new player (anti-christ) on the world stage is. People will see him and his signs and wonders as the real deal. Accept no substitutes! Only Jesus of Nazareth is the one, the only, Son of the Living G_D! Please return soon Lord!
one can add ivermectin and nurients vs. Covid vaccine to this
Israel sacrificed her own people to the shots.
If that’s laying down her defenses to an international body, “the sign”, then it is already started.
The first and second beast of Revelation may not be what most think.
First beast: Arises from the sea, most interpretations say the sea is humanity.
Could be the supra-humanity augmentation harnessing physical power, of the first and second industrial revolution. The beginnings of “cyborg humanity”.
Second beast: Arises from the Earth.
What is the second most common element in the Earth’s crust? Silicon.
Could be of the third and fourth industrial revolutions (digital electronics, internet; AI, biogenetic engineering, transhumanism) taking “cyborg humanity” to the next level.)
And see Rev 13:16-18: The mark of the second beast could be more than one thing. For example: Biomarker of genetic manipulation injection, or nano-biotech, or implanted digital ID. All of these are, or soon will be reality.
The signs are everywhere. While there are many antichrists, the two beasts represent antichristian churches and antichristian governments. Both have been active for a long time. Now it seems like a matter of degree. Satan does get released at the end to deceive the nations, and he is furious because he knows his time is short.
The answer as always, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”
I would add that most major businesses, governments, institutions, even scientific and engineering societies , have completely embraced the validity of the global warming/climate change hoax. “Experts” who should know better, and perhaps do know better, have discarded the scientific method and will defend the climate hoax to their dying breath.
Apparently it is bad for one’s career to speak the truth. I just started a book called “Unsettled” which details how science has been grossly misrepresented to further the climate change agenda and how no one will speak against it even though they know it is bogus. Similar to how Bill Gates has crackpot ideas but no one will tell him he is off base because he funds so much research.
truth is people will not accept 45% yoy inflation like is happening in Europe.
by spring Europe may look very different.
pay attention AOC et al.
They don’t need to pay attention when failure is the goal.
Trivial question, I know . . . . Ever notice how often memes have spelling or grammar errors? It’s weird.
Yes, I’m recognise it. May be need to go to hospital..😏
I’ve noticed it, as a lifelong grammar geek.
But I notice spelling and grammar errors absolutely everywhere online now.
The only situation in which I bother to call them out and make fun of them, however, is when they are in the Pravda media…
And sometimes, very rarely, here. I don’t want to be impolite at our host’s table, but some mistakes are simply so unintentionally funny I can’t help it.
(One of my favorites is advice to “get voters to the poles.”
I always want to ask “Which one first, north or south?”)
If I got a dime for every time I saw “YOUR” instead of “YOU’RE”…..I’d be living in Buckingham Palace.
Love it! It’s (not Its) true.
this insight makes me want to vomit
Perception has become reality.
Folks are going to be SHOCKED when reality become reality again.
When I was working for a weekly news paper, my publisher said that to me. “Perception is reality.” I looked at her like that was the craziest thing I had ever heard. And it took me some time to assimilate the concept. I still don’t accept it but I understand it.
News sells advertising to advertisers and they publish those ads and try to be as effective as possible. Perception is reality in the advertising game.
In my somewhat autistic mind, however, perception is only a fraction of reality. But the more I explore reality, trying to perceive more and more of it, the more I see the more I see that I don’t know anything.
The people who think they know things because they were told things? Those people bother me deeply. People who think martial arts is about “chi” and other things metaphysical bother me. We live in a physical world where “placebos” can do amazing things at time simply because we don’t believe we can do things without beliefs. I can’t do beliefs. I can only do knowledge and understanding.
I would say this era is similar to the Medieval Era, in that the Church, or at least, many important people IN THE CHURCH, decided it was better to lie about the conclusions of mathematicians, astronomers, studiers of the physical realms, rather than risk their “subjects” (face it, that is how the Church viewed their flock, as subjects) questioning the Church’s position on anything and everything
They felt they could not let people hear the notions and conclusions of those who studied the heavens: the Earth is NOT the center of the solar system, much less NOT the center of the universe???? Hell, no, we can’t let them hear such heresy.
Throw them in prison.
Ah, the Inquisition.
That’s where we are today. The Elites claim heresy: these people are out to kill democracy. Jail them!
They frame people. Lie. Then attempt to jail the dissenters.
It’s all very Medieval.
And now, welcome to the Inquisition 2.0
We here are all Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei now.
What we’re experiancing is no laughing matter, but maybe this will help remind us to keep our heads when all around us are loosing theirs:
There are actually two sides to this. There’s the act of pretending, but also the crime of noticing. It’s not simply the refusal to pretend that is getting people jacked up by the FBI. Noticing things is now a crime. You’re not supposed to notice that the election in 2020 was rigged by the Government. Btw, you’re never, ever, ever, ever allowed to notice bad things about POC. Never share statistics about crimes committed by minorities. You’re not supposed to notice that not only is the covid vaccine a joke, you’re not allowed to notice that the drug companies remain protected from lawsuits for the side effects. You’re not supposed to notice that your friend with no significant health issues 6 months ago now has stage 3c lung cancer out of nowhere, or that several of your coworkers have been sick with heart problems, having been “vaccinated” 4 times now. You’re not supposed to notice that there’s a massive problem with illegal immigration. You’re not supposed to notice that the DOJ and FBI routinely fake crimes to accuse people of in order to silence opposition. You’re not supposed to notice that the current White House occupant is a mental vegetable who gives bizarre Hitlerian speeches in front of fake US Marines and a Communist blood-red light show. Or that men cannot have babies. Or energy-driven inflation. Or the fact that the Republican Party is 100% corrupted and not salvageable. You Just Need to Vote Harder!
You see it at work and in social settings when you make an observation about any of the above. People will look at you funny, squirm in their seats, then blurt out something stupid like “Well, that’s not what I heard from the Science.”
The new thought crimes are mainly crimes of noticing.
The purpose of the pretending, in most cases, is to identify fellow political ideologues in a group and to cast out the unbelievers. Initially, mask-wearing was a good example. But masks are stupid and even Liberals hate wearing them. So now it’s stuff like the “vaccines” or maybe you’re not wearing your Ukraine lapel pin.
The purpose of the pretending, in most cases, is to identify fellow political ideologues in a group and to cast out the unbelievers.
That is profound.
Puts a perspective on conversations one might choose to avoid but also take note of those ideologues who are quite insane, mark them in your mind and get out!
Wish I could upvote this more than once. A truly brilliant response/analysis.
👏 👏 Pretending by omission and commission
Of all God’s creatures, man is the most ridiculous.
Gosh! Just cannot wait to see the new digital dollar.
How exciting!
Sure hope I don’t do anything untoward against the regime. I’ll lose my pop-tarts.
That’s just it, isn’t it? You can’t actually see it, or hold it, or smell it – although it stinks.
A wise caution about pretending that Sundance offers us. We pretend even on the most personal of matters. How many pretend we have children who do not use drugs? Or how many pretend we have spouses that are 100% faithful? And how many of us pretend that we are absolutely true to our Christian faith? The list of pretends is indeed long.
A lot of pretending is denial.
Best part of Cutting the Cord in 2005!! I haven’t missed much. If anything!
None of this nonsense is happening in Mexico! F Y I…
It will be interesting if a brain drain of middle class, trades type people from US and Western Europe to BRICS+ countries begins in the next few years.
Years ago I had the great good fortune to live in Guadalajara. I just now checked the Guadalajara American Consulate website and the following is listed under “Alerts”.
“Event: Local authorities and media are reporting multiple road blockades, burning vehicles, and shootouts between Mexican security forces and unspecified criminal elements in various parts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area. Police have been deployed throughout the metropolitan area and are limiting movement to support incident response. The U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara has instructed employees to follow the advice of local authorities and to shelter in place until further notice. Please read the state summaries in the State Department’s Travel Advisory for Mexico for other safety and security information related to your specific travel destination.”
Mexico is very corrupt so not much of a step up in my opinion.
Thank you, Sundance!
Brings to mind a full-page ad in today’s WSJ:
The CEO of Philip Morris asks “Does the world want 1.1 billion people to stop smoking – or not?”
Oh, yes, I see – PM is doing great work in developing alternatives to smoking, in developing smoke-free techonology for tobacco consumers.
In the ad, the PM CEO is touting his company’s efforts and is urging collective action against smoking tobacco, as smoking is the most harmful means of using tobacco, per the ad.
My Mom and I just thought it was bizarre, though. . . wondering how PM is actually doing and if the things hurting other areas of agriculture have been affecting Big Tobacco?
Sundance, this is a brilliant, succinct, and useful article. I’d argue that the pretenders act out of a confluence of ignorance and fear. For the “educated” it’s tribal fear. And that fear justifies any atrocity.
I recall a student, decades ago, telling me that, “the one thing I learned in high school is that there are no truths.” I asked her if she thought that that was true.
But the darkness of her sentiment was a forewarning of the “breaking of minds” that we now contend with.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/2791/great-pretending-denial-truth
Timely that Sundance would drill down on this pretending at this moment. I had noticed that Janet Yellen has become particularly stupid lately.
She started stupid, she’s now off-the-charts stupid.
She’s one of the many that has to pretend not to see or know things – in order to keep her job in this maladministration.
A great example of this dynamic is the pending indictment of Trump for supposedly absconding with “classified documents.” We have to pretend Clinton, Bush and Obama didn’t take documents with “classified markings” (and pretend that these are the same as “classified”); and moreover we have to forget the plenary power Presidents have over classification generally, in order to arrive at a place where the DOJ actions are anything but outrageous political persecution.
How about Obamunists kept taking classified documents after Jan 2017… the big Deep State FU
Speaking of Ford…..
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/13/ford-plans-new-build-to-order-system-to-reduce-the-cost-of-electric-cars/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/ford-gives-dealers-an-ultimatum-on-ev-sales/
Generous Motors does the federal vehicles I think and states/locals use Ford–or a lot do.this will be a study in consumerism and what the customers want…
I doubt any pretending will help the numbers…as this EV scam moves forward.
“Ford CEO Jim Farley will meet with dealers next week in Las Vegas to describe changes to the sales process for its electric cars.”
If I could sum up the meeting he had with dealers, and the rest of the report, in 3 words: “You are fired.”
The Great Pretending => Loss of Ethics
The single greatest factor that has led to the demise of the nation, the destruction of the Constitutional Republic that we once lived in, has been it’s depletion of ethics, its dereliction of moral behavior. Ambivalence and complacency factor into the mix (we should’ve all been aware of election fraud as it has ben going on for many years), but it’s the lack of morality that has led to the loss of this once-great nation.
If you have not seen the documentary “2000 Mules”, then you should look it up. It underscores the fact that there were literally THOUSANDS of people involved in the election fraud that got the current regime in power, and will likely lead to their maintaining their grip on power. This is why there is no realistic hope that the republic can be restored.
We will not vote our way out of this.
The only viable option at this point is for States where sanity and integrity still prevail to assert their right to self-determination, to gain (or regain) their independence. The Texas Nationalist Movement is leading that effort in Texas.
texitnow.org
tnm.me
There are similar movements in other States, particularly in New Hampshire.
We entered this era in the late 19th century – the time of Marx, and Nietzsche and Darwin.
God is dead, so man becomes god.
Inspired by the apparent miracles of science and the industrial revolution, man could clearly do anything.
The great pretending is positive thinking and aspiring to anything and everything.
And money? Ersatz Keynesian economics validates the most profligate spending.
The circle was closed by FDR, who believed government (bureaucracy) could do all, solve all. The fatal conceit so despaired of by Hayek and Tom Sowell.
This conceit burns stronger than ever. The people who worship the evil troll Fauci suffer from the fatal conceit.
If only they were pretending..
Everything changes when Freedom of Speech is framed as a Mental Health issue. Limiting freedom of speech has become a norm. The constant shrinking of the Overton window has transformed from a custom, crystallizing into a norm (in International Law speak). By framing freedom of speech as a mental health issue, it provides a baseline for people to have the courage to begin to speak and stop self-policing.
It is imperative that freedom of speech be framed as a mental health issue. Dr. Chloe explains the mental health aspect far better than I can. Dr. Chloe Carmichael, “Free Speech May Benefit Mental Health: The Importance of Open Dialogue,” https://www.drchloe.com/blog/free-speech-may-benefit-mental-health.
“King’s Row” – speaking freely was “the cure” – not being forced/compelled to keep secrets
I see it as people with the personality disorder of Nihilism and/or Diabolical Narcissism.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2016/03/06/diabolical-narcissism-gaslighting/
Mark Twain nailed Democrats and RINOs, way over 100 years ago, when he wrote “The Lowest Animal”.
“The Lowest Animal”, also titled “Man’s Place in the Animal World”, is an essay written by American author Mark Twain in 1897 or 1905. Twain describes fictional experiments he did with animals in which they showed greater civility than humans. He uses satire in order to criticize humanity’s continuous lust for power.
Summary
“In the essay Twain satirizes human nature by describing a series of experiments he supposedly conducted at the London Zoological Gardens. Twain takes Darwin’s evolution theory that humans evolved from earlier ancestors, or “lower animals,” and reverses it. He describes deeds done by powerful people against the helpless [think all the hundreds of J6 political prisoners] , and states the many ideas that made him ponder about the lack of humanity. He ends the essay with these words: “And it is full of a grim suggestion: that we are not as important, perhaps, as we had all along supposed we were.” “
It certainly is the season of the antichrist as another has noted.
Many people have been given over to a delusion.
Indeed what ails most is disregard for the source of justice in this life. It’s like trying to have a moral compass that does not reliably work. Disaster ensues.
I refer to this time aa the Era of the Great Delusion. And, for what it is worth, I have been watching this unfold, all the little pieces coming together, for decades, and even writing about it for the last 11 years in my blog. It’s been mostly me talking to myself but I can’t not write. So, here’s my take on this: http://bagsallpacked.blogspot.com/2022/07/good-meet-evil.html
Bless you for sharing Meema! I would respond, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” D. Bonhoeffer
Indeed!
Thanks 👍 👌 Meema
✅️ Excellent A.W. Tozer quote to close your fine post 📫
Tozer, Austin-Sparks, Oswald Chambers, Havner … my go to’s.
And then there is the pretending that of all God’s creatures in the entire almost infinite Universe, man is His favorite.
“God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility… this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.” DB
Where do you get that we are God’s favorite? He loves us, yes. Favorites? How can we possibly know that?
2 + 2 = 5
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
Four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
– George Orwell
Biden Didnt Win. Keep The Truth Alive.
Well said, just sickning.
Part one is the Culture war. McTurtle and McKev are our party’s General McClellan, just totally useless. All our institutions have been handed over to the left. 70 years in the making.
Part 2 is the Debt and bailouts, oh ya ”Investment”. It started with W. Bush and then Barry Soetoro. When the goberment does nothing but bailout companies, recall TARP and ”too big to fail”. then they are owned by the know nothing clowns who are incharge of cutting the checks. Trump didn’t want to bail out businesses, States, Cities during Covid, oh that wouldn’t do, Trump had to be replaced by any means…..election fraud.
Failure has been the goal for quite a while IMO.
The people with the worst track records are retained over and over…
“When the goberment does nothing but bailout companies, recall TARP and ”too big to fail”. then they are owned by the know nothing clowns who are incharge of cutting the checks.”
‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader – the barbarians enter Rome. – Robert A. Heinlein
So true.
This is an interesting watch. History repeating itself. Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
makes me wonder about 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
People who do not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior, fear death. It is quite possible a strong delusion came upon the masses afraid of dying as Covid was manifested upon the world, and they would easily be manipulated by a lie.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12:
2Th:2:10: And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th:2:11: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th:2:12: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
We were taught pretending is lying in Catholic school. Not the same in communist Democrats world?
“None of what is happening is surprising. However, what is surprising is that businesses -while faced with empirical results that describe the situation- would continue pretending.”
I attribute this to the fact the individuals running business are ideologues first, and businessmen an extremely distant second. As zealots they will accept the means to justify the ends.
“Stolen elections have consequences” …………What Constitution?
The “Take the elections away from the states” bill should be up for a vote soon…….#Buraqgate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/election-reform-bill-liz-cheney-democrats-may-get-house-vote-next-week
Quite extraordinary to see Germany is paying $1,500 per barrel of oil. Have the industries been promised large manufacturing contracts in the “Build Back Better” regime? The deindustrialization of Germany is quite stunning to watch! They have raised interest rates to 45%
In the latter days of World War II, FDR’s cabinet seriously discussed turning Germany into one big sheep pasture.
Better that than World War III.
Germany has been for at least two centuries the incubator of seriously bad ideas. And young intellectuals, from across the west, used to visit Germany – the Frankfurt School. Evil exists to propagate.
Now we have Klaus Schwab, and the great reset.
Iran has nothing to offer except oil. Germany has nothing to offer except.. cars?
Not all people are equal. Leave that prejudice to the leftists.
Postmodernism:
There is no such thing as objective truth. Truth is whatever you say it is.
Moral relativism:
There is no such thing as fundamental morality. The individual decides right and wrong. The ends justify the means.
Add mass marijuana use inducing mass psychosis in the blue states.
And here we are. Though the looking glass? Falling down the rabbit hole? Yes.
We are in the last days: (see Deception)
As far as earnings as a whole, the CEO’s and cfo’s have been all over the place with their forecasts. With the companies having to pay more in wages, and in many materials, there will be only 1 way they can come close to meet their earnings. And that is to raise their prices even more.Even with that, fdx and ups have raised their prices quite a bit in the last 18 months and still fdx came out with a 35% earnings cut.
Also, something I haven’t seen discussed to much. With 1 year treasury bills now near 4%(started out Jan.1 around .50%) and 10 t. around 3.60%, with the country in debt(31 trillion at last count) it will cost us( the us taxpayer) MUCH more to carry this debt. So is this a death debt spiral? And there is 1 GOOD side to this. To all the savers who have suffered through the last 4-5 years trying to get 1% on cds and other so called safe investments, the 3 to 4 % that many retired folk (moi included) should help with all the increase in all those other bills. Just trying to live my best life and looking at the glass half full. Pray and pray more
Just look to the lies of CDC, NIH and local,State boards of health. Also includes the medical community who retreated rather than face the lies and save lives. Right now someone is being given remdesivir while their kidneys shut down. Ivermectin is a poison and the lies continue. The winter weather will have a major hit on families but don’t worry the blame will be placed on global warming and the still masked sheep will believe every word while the freeze with an empty fuel tank. FJB
This winter, “Putin killed them” instead of Biden, NATO/EU, flu Covid, vaccine…
Blah, blah, blah. Our entire government is is run by criminals and weirdos. There in short is it all.
what happens when the world goes “splat” against the brick wall of reality? What happens then?
50% survive because the other half can’t handle it.