Another good western flick is Reign of Fire (substitute fire-breathing flying dragons for blackhats & Indians). Just this line about heroes is worth the price of admission:
The river wouldn't go where "it should have gone" so it went here, instead:
“Let the market decide…” would be good.
Now if only “the market” could be found.
It probably wasn’t lost, along with the the drunkard’s keys, under the streetlamp.
More likely lost & (never to be) found is behind the counters & beneath the black rocks of billionaires - who pay for, own & wield the tech - & “the banks*” - & whose demeanor makes the rhyme “wreck” (middle names “Edmund” & “Fitzgerald”).
*”The hundreds of shipwrecks along the Outer Banks have given the surrounding seas the nickname Graveyard of the Atlantic."
This was put into the mouth of an actor playing a billionaire “hedge fund” (hedge we win, tails you lose):
Rian:
The thing about self-help is, if you're getting it
from someone else it's not self, and if you're doing it yourself,
you didn't really get help.
Prince: Carlin. George Carlin. No?
R: Yeah. All-time great.
P: But not quite like Coach Wooden. See, he wasn't an entertainer. He understood life. Codified what he learned, taught it to his basketball players, made it available to the rest of us. As I am now making it available to you.
R: ”Initiative," “skill," it all seems kinda... basic.
P: Not basic. Like what it used to mean.
I met him once, when we won State's.
Fundamental, not basic. It's different.
R: What’d he teach ya?
How to put on my socks and shoes. How to lace 'em up and tie 'em right.
Know why?
R: Blisters?
To remember that every season, we start again from the beginning. We were champions
of this season. Not the next. So we'd better do everything right.
Plus, yeah, blisters.
Not self-help.
Help.
~ Billions, season 6, episode 5
The above constipation-conflation of competition, possibly-but-not-necessarily, & financial fraud, or:
“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin
The big club. Not the market.
Carlin is efficient entertainer fact, here. Corey Stoll - “Prince” - ain’t even the weak form hypothesis.
JR Bonner. Surely saw it, but remember nought. Will hunt it up for a rematch.
The story explores one of Sam Peckinpah's favorite themes, the end of a traditional form of honor and the arrival of modern capitalism on the western frontier. In a memorable scene, Ace and Junior escape from the rodeo parade on Junior's horse, ending up at a deserted railway station, where they drink and despair at the state of the world and their indigency. The film enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the mid-2000s because of retrospectives of Sam Peckinpah's work and the screenplay's predictions regarding capitalist development.[4]
I like westerns (hope Costner pulls off his latest triple scoop … American Primeval was enjoyable & more realistic than John Wayne, etc … & Milch’s Deadwood was top drawer), but …
…Oh, Peck! I’d like to see some embargoing of all the oily auld lang sentimentality re that old time religion-honor (that he wasn’t there for, & knew there was no there there, too, but made some bank pretending up) … & an accurizing of “capitalism”(The Unknown Ideal) to “charlatanism” … which as I type it, seems connected…
… I’d sit in my idling car in a queue stretching around the block to get some of that gas … if I didn’t have gusher wells of the stuff just a pumpin’.
Kamala Clock: what can be unburdened by what has been … or what shoulda been, if Louis L’Amour had been around & omnipotent, but wasn’t around, or omnipotent enough to get back around … fictional ideals convert ubiquitous pots du chicken into never ubiquitous tanks du tiger - - short men who ain’t Napoleon want to compensate, too, & have been known to compensate authors who put lifts in their shoes … like John Wayne did.
Casey: I was bent/lost, but now I am straight like Gary Cooper’s High Noon spine/free. “Gobble-gobble!” (Sgt York reference)
Here’s a good western that transposes days of yore into today’s, & everyday’s, gore & reveals that it’s the same guise hopping around on one pegged leg:
Dallas Buyer’s Club.
(Companion volumes are RFK’s newer book about Fauci et al or or Duesberg’s older book of the same.)
And Hell Or High Water.
Texas is big enough to contain all the stories. So’s a small bookshelf. Or one book. Fractal is the fookery, the snookery & the rookery.
Jacqueline Bisset is not a self-made beauty & Scott Bessent is not a self-made billionaire. But scotty is FOS. And no way Yellen could handle a slicer…
… It’s cold, like Winter can be, so/but what about a chipper, a la Fargo? Janet ran it (& front ran it) & I believe it & that settles it … in drifts of trees chopped into wooden nickels & world-wide debt pickles.
Well, his son-in-law has to do something with his time, and turning Gaza into Atlantic City East seems just the thing. Besides, think how cool this will sound in Hebrew:
If there is one thing I've learned in life - is not to try to fix thousands of year old beef between religions. Ain't going to happen - especially when every party believes they are the chosen race
Hold your horses on the Donald!.....He mouths off a lot, and then sits down for the negotiations. He is a business man, and not a philosophical wonder, for sure, but he now knows we have to get rid of these evildoers. There are 2600 programs and agencies out there that no one really knows what they do, and the average government worker works 3 day a week at home under Biden, if they work at all. I have had friends admit it to me that are in government. We are a bloated mess, and have been since about 2004, and it cannot be done with in 4 years. I will be happy if they get rid of the Department of Education (evil), and most of the 3 Letter agencies that spy on us, and waste money and time. We need to reclaim the Panama Canal from China's interference, and stop Transgender surgeries on kids as young as 5 years old. Trump will do that.
“The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through a complex voting process.”
Or dogigarchs are selected by lives of complex counterfeiting processes.
Before today I saw the “Gaza Resort plan” described in words. The vid clip of “fight-fight-fight!” Clubber trump shows a whipped doggie in a window.
Or that trump, among & along with all the others, is a sucking insect on the rump of a larger beast.
The conquest/ion continues to be affirmed - yes! - just as it has down (down, down) thru all recorded history. Use the “zionism” synonym if you like, it is all the same blood(& treasure)thirsty stuff by the same instru/mentality: “we are the chosen so we get to choose & everybody else gets to lose, but … wanna’ job/ribe?”
The serious-threat billionaires have, are working, plans for both sides of the river ya’ll talk about down there, & the rest of SA, & the rest of the planet, too.
The s/elections are “certified.” The passports, residencies & other bits of decorated fiat paper, too. And still “the magic” of empty symbols & bribes-paid-dispensations & “just-following-orders-jobs” & good cop bad cop gathers them in.
“I’ve never seen a poem as pretty as a tree” turned into paper with symbols printed on it. ~ The Oligarchs
I choose to sit back and watch the movie. Trump is just ushering in the prophetic beast system. The false peace in the Middle East will single the beginning of the end times. Quite fascinating to watch it all come into being knowing that the body of Christ will escape the wrath that is coming on this fallen world.
Yes it is wild. But Trump has done this type of “outrageous” deals in his business dealings many times. Read “Art of the Deal” and you will see this is a tactic he has used before. Call it a head fake, distraction, misdirection or similar term. He will propose a seemingly crazy idea to take your attention away from his real objective. Then when the naysayers are going crazy he puts his real plan into action.
If you hold your fire a bit I think you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise. After all he is quite a showman and has a lot of fun with that identity.
Scott Adams thought it was insane also but changed his mind after sleeping on it. Check his X posts and his pod cast from today. I think it’s a great distraction from him taking down the administrative state.
Perhaps…it is a gambit by Trump to re-frame the forever war between Israel and Palestine; an out of the box solution whereby they no longer share a common border. Watch for interesting counter-proposals from Egypt, Saudi Arabia etc. Unthinkable even a week before.
"I thought that the Donald actually was on some type of mind controlling drugs, or else he'd had a psychotic break."
So, is this the first time you realized somethin' ain't quite right with The Donald? Much as I like 90% of his first 10 (never mind 100) days so far, shit's about to get really real.
I am still big on supporting Trump. Regarding Gaza, there is nothing left. I can see Trump coordinating deals among the people living there. Remember, corruption is the authority these people live under. Extremely wealthy Palestinians around the world. Money is made using the plight of the people. So Trump is taking on corruption in our country, Mexico and Canada and returning Panama to the rightful owners, whoever that turns out to be as long as it’s no China. That same corruption is connected to the Middle East and it needs to be stoped. Can he take on world corruption? Well he has taken on the WEF and they may be irreparable at this time. Can I loose hope in Trump? Sure, but it will need to be a serious issue. I see many of our politicians locked up and their wealth put into the new National Wealth Account. It just exactly what Saudi Arabia did, same type of account and from the same type of people. I see our military getting involved with Tribunals. That thought is a long shot, but it makes me feel good.
Another good western flick is Reign of Fire (substitute fire-breathing flying dragons for blackhats & Indians). Just this line about heroes is worth the price of admission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5uw_UMaemo
The river wouldn't go where "it should have gone" so it went here, instead:
“Let the market decide…” would be good.
Now if only “the market” could be found.
It probably wasn’t lost, along with the the drunkard’s keys, under the streetlamp.
More likely lost & (never to be) found is behind the counters & beneath the black rocks of billionaires - who pay for, own & wield the tech - & “the banks*” - & whose demeanor makes the rhyme “wreck” (middle names “Edmund” & “Fitzgerald”).
*”The hundreds of shipwrecks along the Outer Banks have given the surrounding seas the nickname Graveyard of the Atlantic."
This was put into the mouth of an actor playing a billionaire “hedge fund” (hedge we win, tails you lose):
Rian:
The thing about self-help is, if you're getting it
from someone else it's not self, and if you're doing it yourself,
you didn't really get help.
Prince: Carlin. George Carlin. No?
R: Yeah. All-time great.
P: But not quite like Coach Wooden. See, he wasn't an entertainer. He understood life. Codified what he learned, taught it to his basketball players, made it available to the rest of us. As I am now making it available to you.
R: ”Initiative," “skill," it all seems kinda... basic.
P: Not basic. Like what it used to mean.
I met him once, when we won State's.
Fundamental, not basic. It's different.
R: What’d he teach ya?
How to put on my socks and shoes. How to lace 'em up and tie 'em right.
Know why?
R: Blisters?
To remember that every season, we start again from the beginning. We were champions
of this season. Not the next. So we'd better do everything right.
Plus, yeah, blisters.
Not self-help.
Help.
~ Billions, season 6, episode 5
The above constipation-conflation of competition, possibly-but-not-necessarily, & financial fraud, or:
“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin
The big club. Not the market.
Carlin is efficient entertainer fact, here. Corey Stoll - “Prince” - ain’t even the weak form hypothesis.
JR Bonner. Surely saw it, but remember nought. Will hunt it up for a rematch.
The story explores one of Sam Peckinpah's favorite themes, the end of a traditional form of honor and the arrival of modern capitalism on the western frontier. In a memorable scene, Ace and Junior escape from the rodeo parade on Junior's horse, ending up at a deserted railway station, where they drink and despair at the state of the world and their indigency. The film enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in the mid-2000s because of retrospectives of Sam Peckinpah's work and the screenplay's predictions regarding capitalist development.[4]
I like westerns (hope Costner pulls off his latest triple scoop … American Primeval was enjoyable & more realistic than John Wayne, etc … & Milch’s Deadwood was top drawer), but …
…Oh, Peck! I’d like to see some embargoing of all the oily auld lang sentimentality re that old time religion-honor (that he wasn’t there for, & knew there was no there there, too, but made some bank pretending up) … & an accurizing of “capitalism”(The Unknown Ideal) to “charlatanism” … which as I type it, seems connected…
… I’d sit in my idling car in a queue stretching around the block to get some of that gas … if I didn’t have gusher wells of the stuff just a pumpin’.
Kamala Clock: what can be unburdened by what has been … or what shoulda been, if Louis L’Amour had been around & omnipotent, but wasn’t around, or omnipotent enough to get back around … fictional ideals convert ubiquitous pots du chicken into never ubiquitous tanks du tiger - - short men who ain’t Napoleon want to compensate, too, & have been known to compensate authors who put lifts in their shoes … like John Wayne did.
Casey: I was bent/lost, but now I am straight like Gary Cooper’s High Noon spine/free. “Gobble-gobble!” (Sgt York reference)
Here’s a good western that transposes days of yore into today’s, & everyday’s, gore & reveals that it’s the same guise hopping around on one pegged leg:
Dallas Buyer’s Club.
(Companion volumes are RFK’s newer book about Fauci et al or or Duesberg’s older book of the same.)
And Hell Or High Water.
Texas is big enough to contain all the stories. So’s a small bookshelf. Or one book. Fractal is the fookery, the snookery & the rookery.
Jacqueline Bisset is not a self-made beauty & Scott Bessent is not a self-made billionaire. But scotty is FOS. And no way Yellen could handle a slicer…
… It’s cold, like Winter can be, so/but what about a chipper, a la Fargo? Janet ran it (& front ran it) & I believe it & that settles it … in drifts of trees chopped into wooden nickels & world-wide debt pickles.
Well, his son-in-law has to do something with his time, and turning Gaza into Atlantic City East seems just the thing. Besides, think how cool this will sound in Hebrew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSddD6w5SKc&ab_channel=TheDrifters-Topic
If there is one thing I've learned in life - is not to try to fix thousands of year old beef between religions. Ain't going to happen - especially when every party believes they are the chosen race
Hold your horses on the Donald!.....He mouths off a lot, and then sits down for the negotiations. He is a business man, and not a philosophical wonder, for sure, but he now knows we have to get rid of these evildoers. There are 2600 programs and agencies out there that no one really knows what they do, and the average government worker works 3 day a week at home under Biden, if they work at all. I have had friends admit it to me that are in government. We are a bloated mess, and have been since about 2004, and it cannot be done with in 4 years. I will be happy if they get rid of the Department of Education (evil), and most of the 3 Letter agencies that spy on us, and waste money and time. We need to reclaim the Panama Canal from China's interference, and stop Transgender surgeries on kids as young as 5 years old. Trump will do that.
“The Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life through a complex voting process.”
Or dogigarchs are selected by lives of complex counterfeiting processes.
Before today I saw the “Gaza Resort plan” described in words. The vid clip of “fight-fight-fight!” Clubber trump shows a whipped doggie in a window.
Or that trump, among & along with all the others, is a sucking insect on the rump of a larger beast.
The conquest/ion continues to be affirmed - yes! - just as it has down (down, down) thru all recorded history. Use the “zionism” synonym if you like, it is all the same blood(& treasure)thirsty stuff by the same instru/mentality: “we are the chosen so we get to choose & everybody else gets to lose, but … wanna’ job/ribe?”
The serious-threat billionaires have, are working, plans for both sides of the river ya’ll talk about down there, & the rest of SA, & the rest of the planet, too.
The s/elections are “certified.” The passports, residencies & other bits of decorated fiat paper, too. And still “the magic” of empty symbols & bribes-paid-dispensations & “just-following-orders-jobs” & good cop bad cop gathers them in.
“I’ve never seen a poem as pretty as a tree” turned into paper with symbols printed on it. ~ The Oligarchs
“If you can doge a wrench you can doge a ball.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peUyLXrgYZ0
And if dupes could dodge doges the situation wouldn’t be SNAFU.
I choose to sit back and watch the movie. Trump is just ushering in the prophetic beast system. The false peace in the Middle East will single the beginning of the end times. Quite fascinating to watch it all come into being knowing that the body of Christ will escape the wrath that is coming on this fallen world.
I agree, the Levantine riviera was already in Lebanon and Israel already ruined it
Yes it is wild. But Trump has done this type of “outrageous” deals in his business dealings many times. Read “Art of the Deal” and you will see this is a tactic he has used before. Call it a head fake, distraction, misdirection or similar term. He will propose a seemingly crazy idea to take your attention away from his real objective. Then when the naysayers are going crazy he puts his real plan into action.
If you hold your fire a bit I think you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise. After all he is quite a showman and has a lot of fun with that identity.
On the last podcast I asked if it's OK for the US to take over Greenland, Panama and Canada, is it OK for China to take over Taiwan.
This just confirms it!
Between sanctions and tariffs etc this presidency is simply confirming every thing that the world outside the US thinks about Amerika!
Don't be surprised if the BRICS proceed with their own currency...
If you study history, it's evident that any country or kingdom of influence has made plays to expand their dominion.
Remember Great Britain, The Romans, Greeks, Soviets, Vietnamese, Mongols, Japanese, etc? Yeah, they did that too.
Scott Adams thought it was insane also but changed his mind after sleeping on it. Check his X posts and his pod cast from today. I think it’s a great distraction from him taking down the administrative state.
Perhaps…it is a gambit by Trump to re-frame the forever war between Israel and Palestine; an out of the box solution whereby they no longer share a common border. Watch for interesting counter-proposals from Egypt, Saudi Arabia etc. Unthinkable even a week before.
"I thought that the Donald actually was on some type of mind controlling drugs, or else he'd had a psychotic break."
So, is this the first time you realized somethin' ain't quite right with The Donald? Much as I like 90% of his first 10 (never mind 100) days so far, shit's about to get really real.
With Greenland apparently the USA has been thinking about it for a while due to its strategic location in the event of war with Russia or China
Gaza I don't understand but hope there is a better plan underneath it
I am still big on supporting Trump. Regarding Gaza, there is nothing left. I can see Trump coordinating deals among the people living there. Remember, corruption is the authority these people live under. Extremely wealthy Palestinians around the world. Money is made using the plight of the people. So Trump is taking on corruption in our country, Mexico and Canada and returning Panama to the rightful owners, whoever that turns out to be as long as it’s no China. That same corruption is connected to the Middle East and it needs to be stoped. Can he take on world corruption? Well he has taken on the WEF and they may be irreparable at this time. Can I loose hope in Trump? Sure, but it will need to be a serious issue. I see many of our politicians locked up and their wealth put into the new National Wealth Account. It just exactly what Saudi Arabia did, same type of account and from the same type of people. I see our military getting involved with Tribunals. That thought is a long shot, but it makes me feel good.
I say he should just let the Israelis deal with it. They burned it down, now it's their problem.
We don't need another Vietnam/Afghanistan war.
OMG the Gold ton discussion now makes perfect sense Doug thank you very much .... its bugged me for a long time.