If 2022 was not the apex year for the era of great pretending, then we remain sitting in a handbasket – destination, full speed ahead.
When asked for the topic of a ‘big picture‘ podcast this 2022-year ending, the obvious answer from me was We Need to Quit Pretending.
For the past two years I can only encapsulate the entire social, political and socioeconomic dynamic that surrounds us by saying we are living in an era of great pretending. Why? Because nothing else adequately explains it.
A recession is no longer two negative quarters of economic growth. Elections are no longer defined by votes cast, but by ballots counted. Meanwhile, women are claimed to have penises and people will argue -strenuously and with commitment- that men can give birth to babies.
Simultaneously, vaccines are no longer about medicines to avoid viruses, and Americans have some moral obligation to fund the administrative salaries, pensions and expense accounts for a nation of European politicians, in a country that few taxpayers could find on a map.
We must pretend the occupant of the oval office is not a dementia patient, at the same time we must pretend the Dept of Homeland Security and FBI is not telling online speech platforms that identifying the dementia patient, as a dementia patient, means you are a domestic violent extremist. The absurdity of the pretenses are off-the-charts.
However, on the upside, we now see even blissfully ignorant people starting to realize something is wrong when their electricity and heating bills quadruple, while the same system of governmental caretakers are telling us to embrace a new earth friendly normal of $12 dollar eggs. We been knew, but more are now knowing – thank God.
History provides reference points, and prolonged pretending never ends up in a good place. So, there is room for optimism on a couple of points.
First, there is more support than ever for the ‘burn it all down‘ approach. Whereby we keep the basic U.S. Constitution in place and shred every other institution created that has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
This includes both the DNC and RNC wings of the UniParty apparatus. I mean, really, at the core of it, what do we have to lose? Why not just get rid of the dysfunctional systems that abuse us.
Second, in a weird way, we are in a rare space where we can feel the history around us. Normally we would have to look in retrospect at the events as they unfolded to recognize the inflection point historians would use – not now. We can look around us right now and have full confidence the most influential voice in the next two decades will be the man, woman or entity that starts openly and publicly calling out this ridiculous pretending.
How messed up does society have to be, and how low to the ground does the actual bar have to rest, in order to realize the most important and influential person in our lifetime will simply be the one who stops pretending? Ultimately, this is the source of my optimism for the future.
When it becomes so easy to deconstruct the madness simply by pointing out the reality, eventually anyone can do it. In an era of great pretending, when you speak factual and pain truth, people thirsting will come for the sanity. Yes, there’s only so much hypocritical nuttery that can possibly fit into the social fabric of a nation, and we’re full.
I see that dynamic starting to play out now. Mainstream media are openly mocked everywhere for being the Baghdad Bob’s they are. The MSM credibility and influence essentially destroyed by the Potemkin villages and Eco-chambers they built around themselves.
The congressional J6 committee is yet another example of a proclaimed thermonuclear ICBM missile that ended up delivering a contrasting reality. The fading whistle & pop akin to a dysfunctional bottle rocket.
There’s no help on this pretending issue coming from the political side of the American spectrum; sneeze that thought into a tissue and flush it.
The big movement that will end this era will come from ordinary people laughing, mocking and belittling the pretenders.
I do genuinely believe this phase is well underway, albeit we are in the beginning phases of the great mocking.
Whenever possible, we should do all we can to fuel both mocking and shame when discussing the great pretenders. There’s only so much ridicule they can take before they must change course. Ridiculing is another way to throw sand in the machinery. Again, I think we are beginning to see that pendulum shift taking place right now.
Evidence for my optimism can be found in the most obscure places, including this paragraph from a recent NPR article:
…[…] “Only 15% of people eligible for the Covid booster shot that targets the omicron variant have gotten it — a rate that is even lower than the perennially disappointing rates for flu vaccine uptake. Vaccine fatigue seems to have spread to other shots, too — including those to prevent measles and polio — according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.”
Think about it. “Eligible for the Covid booster” means that 85% of those who took the COVID-19 “vaccine” are not taking the booster. Eighty-five percent of the people who took the shot have stopped pretending the covid shot had anything to do with public health. That’s 85 out of 100 people who took the shot, not taking the booster. That’s a lot of simultaneous pretense quitting.
Yes, 2022 was another year in this great pretending era, but along with it comes a new enlightenment for a whole bunch of people. From where we sit at the end of this year, it looks like the pretending has apexed.
Eyes are wide open; people are starting to be intellectually honest and more curious.
Yes comrade rebels, slowly, albeit painfully slowly, there is hope emerging.
Until the guilty’s heads are on pikes or they are hanging from gallows the innocent and indifferent will remain victims of their own inattention and apathy. THEY cannot do what they do unless WE allow them to do what they do.
Dick Morris is on Newsmax talking about Moore v. Harper at SCOTUS,
while ignoring Brunson v. Adams.
If SCOTUS finds in favor of Brunson, things will become very interesting.
Just wandered onto a British workers’ union FB site — needless to say a very lefty propaganda outlet. I was shocked at the prevalence of woke blue collar folk defending such things as the UK’s open border policy. The NWO shame and blame conditioning of the masses is phenomenal in its deep and lasting imprint on the minds of the unthinking, information-deprived citizens of Western Democracies. The ignorance of their own economic, cultural and political reality was abysmal. The threat of NWO predation, or even its existence, was never mentioned. The reality of so many people so completely hoodwinked boggles the mind, and proves once again the critical importance of control of the narrative.
Orson Wells War of the Worlds and Covid showed just how easy it is the fool some of the people.
Fear is a powerful tool/weapon in skilled hands?
Ignorant [unknowing] people are easier to scare and then control.
That’s why schools don’t teach anything now?
They want people to be ignorant and afraid!
We fought a war to disengage from the Brits- yet here we are 200+ years latter still dancing to their tune. All their psychotic, sociopathic, Pedophelic insanity just continues to flow across the Atlantic and enslave us because they are the financial overlords. And have been for a long long time.
America was their China of today at the start of WWI- our manufacturing powerhouse was 2nd to non. All back by the Bank of London. Lots of wealth created for the few on the backs of cheap American labor.
You wrote, “First, there is more support than ever for the ‘burn it all down'” approach. Whereby we keep the basic U.S. Constitution in place and shred every other institution created that has nothing whatsoever to do with it. This includes both the DNC and RNC wings of the UniParty apparatus.”
Yes indeed. The Uni-Party at all levels of government needs to be dismantled. Will they? Only time will tell.
Mocking and scorn are fine. But more importantly, IMO, is for us to disregard the disinformation that the Uni-Party and its various backers keep pushing on us. It’s nothing but lies, half-truths, and innuendo.
Don’t expect the truth from any of them at any level because it is simply not who they are or what they care about.
What they care about is their agenda(s).
We are just around to fund their schemes and their extravagant lifestyles.
Is there any institution that anyone believes? The media;academia;experts;any Federal agency; Hollyweird; foundations; even religious groups; the military; state and local government; charities?
Burn it down, keep the Constitution but alter it. Franklin said it was intended for a religious and virtuous people; alter it for a venal and corrupt people to safeguard it against the worst elements that gravitate towards power. You know the type; incapable of holding down an honest job; lazy; believe their brillant but can’t tie their own shoelaces; blame everyone but themselves for their failures. People who believe the consel given them by the many voices in their heads. People like Schiff, Ranklin, Pelosi, McConnell, McCarthy, Bush, Biden, Obama, Big Mike, the Hildabeast, all those RINOs like Cheney, Scumer, and Bernie the commie.
“We been knew..”
Yes indeed, we been
When talking about societal stress and break down, the emerging SGSM will expose a major area of pretending i.e.. man made global warming. The recent winter storm “Elliott is just the beginning of what promises to be recurring violent weather events.
Welcome to the Eddy Minimum the third Grand Solar Minimum since the 1600’s. Currently projected to last to 2055 or about three decades. What does a Grand Solar Minimum look like?
Bitter Cold, Extremely Hot, 1000 Year Floods, Huge amount of Snow and Ice some locations, Droughts, High Winds, Very Large Hail, Huge to almost Complete Crop Losses, Starvation, Disease, Loss of Life, Social Upheaval, Human Migrations, Fall of Governments, Electromagnetic Displays, Increased Large Earthquakes, VEI 3 to VEI 7 or greater, Volcanic Eruptions, Atmospheric Compression, and High Cosmic Ray Environment.
“Elliott” the recent Winter Storm is the new normal. Get yourself prepared.
Since the early 2000’s, the thesis that it’s the Sun, not us, that’s responsible for global “climate change” has been enormously strengthened by the research of astrophysicist Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK. Her research of the causes of cycles of solar activity shows the Sun has a “dual dynamo” mechanism coupled with a “quadrupole” magnetic component resulting in three solar cycles:
*The standard magnetic cycle = ~22 yrs (the full 11 year cycle from high to low, then 11 years low back to high)
*The Gleissberg cycle = ~90-110 yrs, avg. 100 yrs
*The ‘Grand’ cycle = ~350-400 yrs
Moreover, we are now at the minimum of all three, particularly the Grand, which she predicts will last from ~2020 to ~2053 (this is the approximate length of the Grand’s minimum out of the 400 years for the full cycle). Meaning we have entered a three decade-long period of Global Cooling, the opposite of Warming.
She explains this in her paper: Modern Grand Solar Minimum Will Lead To Terrestrial Cooling.
This is a science paper published in PubMed Central, but she explains clearly why and how we are headed for another Maunder Minimum (1645-1710) during which the Thames River in London and the Po River in northern Italy froze regularly, and all of Europe and North America went into a deep freeze.
What could we do about it? We could put a lot more CO2 in the air to begin with. I hope Skye in the Forum will suggest other solutions.
Meanwhile – it should be of some solace to those millions of Americans shivering in the cold and dark that at least it’s Mother Nature causing their suffering, and not some depraved evil monster shelling with artillery their electricity grid.
Perhaps at this point we should note the irony that Dr. Zharkova is Ukrainian, graduating from Kiev National University and gaining her Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the Main Astronomical Observatory in Kiev.
References: Dennis Delaurier “Surviving the Super Grand Solar Minimum”
Jack Wheeler “The Point News”
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But, but, but…Greta? s/
The people left after the jab-die-off will not want to freeze to death.
We know where the oil and gas are and those people will be demand access to them? To survive?
Drill baby drill!
The stern, deadly-serious, humorless faces of that J6 collection of cretinous Congress critters says it all.
Liz always looks like she is about to start crying?
Kinzinger always looks like he is crying?
Adam always looks like the idiot he is?
So, tell me, is this the year we’re finally going to stop pretending that voting works?
In 2020 there was every reason to accept at face value the claims that the COVID vaccines would end the pandemic. The skepticism was primarily due to the fact they were rushed through R&D, there were no long term studies, and the disease itself had proven to be far less deadly than initially feared.
In that scenario, many people made a rational and informed decision that an experimental vaccine was worth the risk.
Fast forward to 2022: We now know that not only are the jabs at least as dangerous as original COVID, they aren’t effective against new variants which have become a cold on par with seasonal influenza.
Literally no good reason to get a booster of an unacceptably dangerous experimental drug against a cold.
We can pretend that Joe Biden was elected President, with 81 million people voting for him, we can pretend that the Vice-President and his entire Cabinet were chosen for their qualifications, and not because they checked the right identity boxes, along with all having embraced the “woke” ideology. We can pretend that “Climate Change” is settled science, and that carbon, in all it’s states, is poison. We can pretend that it’s only coincidence that the Corona virus broke out in Wuhan province, China, right next to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where they were doing gain-of-function research on Corona viruses. We can pretend that the disease is actually naturally occuring, and started spreading from a seafood shop in a “wet” market, nearby. I think the term “Occam’s Razor” is more relevant and pertinent today, than at any other time in human history!
“Elections are no longer defined by votes cast, but by ballots counted. ”
AND by who programs the voting machines. Remember they said the machines couldn’t connect to the Internet and now they have admitted that they can and do. Unless you have the ability to see electronic pulses, voting machines are NEVER transparent and should never be part of our elections. (Getting rid of machines would save a whole lot of money too!)