Marc
-
Posts
2,376 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
48
Content Type
Store
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Gallery
Articles
Posts posted by Marc
-
-
16 hours ago, tmj said:
Well...he did have big shoes to fill..I don't think I'd mind a Sen Desantis
I am afraid that as Senator he would do the flip flop at the last moment. I would accept that once we are 61/39 in the Senate.
Until that, stay in Fla and continue his great job!
-
14 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Amy Peikoff has TDS so bad, she is now going for RFK Jr.
I like Amy's independence, despite her confines of the fundy side of Objectivism.
But I don't think she would ever want to hear from me. Still, I would like to tell her there is a reason Objectivists are so awful at politics. They don't see processes. They only see principles and outcomes, all with no middle. They talk about causality as a hat-tip to the middle, but they are awful at describing the steps of how things happen in reality.
If a specific outcome in reality can be derived from a principle they hold, they are all in. If it is not in line with that principle, they start talking about moral equivalency and so on and make awful decisions that reflect an awful reality when carried out.
That's because reality is not a principle. Reality is reality and it will happen irrespective of anyone's opinions or convictions.
Here is one reality Amy does not see. It's called the Deep State. She doesn't see it even as it took down Parler while she was there.
She was not able to defeat the Deep State with syllogisms then, and nobody will defeat the Deep State with syllogisms now.
You need something in reality to do that.
One thing works really well. It's called a wrecking ball. You have to take a wrecking ball to the Deep State. And not just a buzz-word, but a real wrecking ball that will wreck them in all the relevant reality ways that result in their demise.
Enter Donald Trump.
He's not a principle. He's a super-competent businessman who uses reality--as best as he can perceive it at the time--as his guide. And, no, I did not just describe pragmatism. I don't want to talk about that now (although I could--and talk well). I don't want to get sidetracked
Objectivists are big on talking about context, but the more fundy ones are awful at times on applying that standard.
No problem. We (MAGA with Trump at this time in history) will save America. People like Amy will continue fighting against it unless the method can be deduced from a principle they know and approve of. And I will still continue to like Amy from a distance.
Besides, when someone gets in power, especially the presidency, I like having some nags who share the values of freedom holding his or her feet to the fire.
Michael
I will take that, a vote for RFK is a vote for Trump!
-
3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
I didn't think of this.
LOL.
My God, the ruling class elitists are such dorks and idiots.
They don't see themselves and what retards they are.
Michael
But they are all vaccinated
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, tmj said:
Vivek for AG!
No thank you!
I think the chance of that after his recent antics are slim to none, and slim just left town.
-
16 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Oh my God.
It's way worse than I thought. In my mind, Trump was reading in between the lines with Vivek and making a strategic decision based on the upcoming date and the clock running out. (He's done this before, only to end up as friends after the election.)
But the nasty shit is out there and as blatant as can be. Vivek thinks he is not wounded and Trump is. And he tells a lady that if she votes for Trump, she is sending him to his demise. That he will save Trump.
And he did it right as the primary date is about to happen.
Wanna see for yourself?
Vivek's Controversial Pitch to Trump Voter Surfaces, Sparking Trump's Outrage
RUMBLE.COM
Vivek's Controversial Pitch to Trump Voter Surfaces, Sparking Trump's Outrage — 'Vote for Me to Save Trump, Voting for Him Leads to His...Read all about it here:
Caught on Camera: Vivek's Controversial Pitch to Trump Voter Surfaces, Sparking Trump's Anger — 'Vote for Me to Save Trump, Voting for Him Leads to His Demise' (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
WWW.THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM
A video has surfaced showing Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in a controversial exchange...Dayaamm!
To use an image Diamond (of Diamond and Silk) used to use a lot, Vivek just took out a big-ass cup of stupid and slurped it down.
Michael
Conman just lost his cabinet position.
-
-
9 hours ago, Peter said:
Would Rand Paul make an OK, good, or great VEEP candidate to run with President Trump in 2024?
Well, here is an email message sent to me from Rand Paul.
Peter – I’ve been watching the GOP Primary closely for a while now, and I like various aspects of several candidates.
As I look over the field, I don’t have a first choice yet, but I do know one thing… NEVER NIKKI.
Well Peter, I have been telling you for months and months about your favourite Nikki.
Glad that you finally agree with Rand Paul and I.
Btw, your favourite Canadian is good with Paul for VP
-
-
16 hours ago, tmj said:
True but she doesn't appear in public as intelligent. And they( politicos) have been keen of late to give the VP all these 'projects' and Czar-apprenticeships and seemingly for two-fold cover, in one way the President looks like they are dealing with a problem and when it eventually goes sideways they can just blame the VP for being a dunce.
In the 'olden days' the VP was a political rival you and the party wanted to dispense with , give them the slot as you shuffle them off into retirement. Somehow we've been convinced it's a stepping stone.
Yeah agreed!
Reagan/Bush
Imagine if he chose someone else.
Also the Pence pick was a good House guy ( until he was'nt)
-
6 hours ago, tmj said:
I think it’s better when the VP is a really good choice for opening hospitals and attending foreign state funerals.
Given a two party political paradigm the VP should be a prominent member of the House .
But there is only one Kamala.
-
18 hours ago, tmj said:
AG or State !
Or VP!
-
Well a mere 8 years ago we had so much traffic here telling MSK et al that Trump had no chance due to "no ground game" and other ridiculous statements by Objectivist Trump haters.
Although those same people lurk and still hate Trump even more ( ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! ) many have turned and secretely admire, respect and love Trump.
I challenge you ( the haters and the reborn ) to come home and post your Trump thoughts, good or bad.
As for the Chinese bots, even they recognize the brilliance of MSK!
-
1
-
-
Wonder what cabonet position he will hold in January 2024.
-
That's why we do 2020 first and 2024 second Mr.Peter wherever you are!
Btw Peter, look how your boy is doing!
-
3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
I never thought I would see this up here in Chicago.
That's worth repeating:
“Trump, come in here and clean this mess up!”
And MAGA grows and grows in the most unlikely places...
Michael
And that's why we are seeing this!
-
5 hours ago, Peter said:
This is a possible answer. Marco Rubio.
-
On 12/17/2023 at 9:06 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
After all the censorship of both, and prison and everything of Jacob Chansley, MAGA comes out stronger. Here is Roseanne with Jacob.
btw - Jacob is running for Congress in Arizona.
There is a subtext in this photo:
Fuck authoritarians.
Michael
Trump-Chansley, what say you Peter?
Who will be our next VP?
-
On 12/17/2023 at 11:23 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Addiction and Gratitude
It's been a while since I have written about addiction.
Let's look at gratitude through that lens for a minute, shall we?
Gratitude is one of the strongest ways out for addicts that I have come across. It's not the whole answer. Instead, it's a portal your mind goes through for you to be able to reframe the cravings and depression. That's how it has worked for me. That's how I managed to stop my addictions--I started with gratitude.
I remember when I finally gave up crack cocaine in São Paulo. I found work in a video company, Continental Home Video. The owner, Edelvan Lourenço, was nuts, ex-military, and really loud. What's more, he was a control freak. So rather than have separate rooms for his employees to work, he had one big room with desks scattered about, mostly against the walls. That way, he could get in the middle of the room, sound off to the small group around him, and everybody had to pay attention to him no matter what they were doing.
I remember when I asked to work there, I took him aside to the editing room (at least that was separate) and told him I was leaving addiction to crack and it was kicking my ass. But I was going to beat this sucker. We had just met. And I said if that was a problem for him, we could part ways that minute and not waste each other's time. But if he wanted to give me a chance, now was the time because I was cheap at the moment. He looked at me and stared for a long minute in silence. Then he said, "You scare me."
We worked out a deal, though. He told me one relapse and I was out of there. To me that was fine.
Now, how does gratitude fit this situation? Well, I never relapsed, but not because of Lourenço's condition. I was not afraid of losing that job. I had an ape on my back and that ape was my problem. I did not relapse because of gratitude.
As a kind of advisor and assistant (the company dealt mostly with English videos), I had to spend a lot of time listening to Lourenço hold court. And did I say he was loud? He was also aggressive and accused people of all kinds of things all the time.
For an addict, that was an extreme situation. Talk about inducing anxiety. And he loved to twist guilt feelings in others. But I tuned it out. As I would be there with everyone listening to him and see the surroundings, sometimes the craving started up and the world would spin.
Rather than fight it, or say anything, I would leave no matter who was speaking, even if they were in the middle of a sentence. I had noticed a sofa in the only small hallway in that big room that provided any kind of privacy. I even remember the rubber tree beside the sofa. I would sit down, take a few deep breaths, clear my mind--or better, try to clear my mind since it was loaded with craving, then send blasts of gratitude to "The Great Out There" just for existing.
I asked for nothing. I was just grateful to be alive, grateful for all of it.
As a nice note on top, to Lourenço's credit, he never badgered me when I walked away. Nor did he ask what I was doing.
I came to this gratitude practice by thinking through my position in the universe as a human being once I decided to give up crack for real. I noticed that the universe was enormous, much bigger than I would ever experience, and it was smaller, so micro that I did not know how to experience it. I attached the term "Higher Power" to that and realized that whatever was in charge of that, be it force or god, it was in charge of me in the sense that it created me since it created life. I did not create it.
I did not want to put 12 step thinking to this conclusion, so I replaced "Higher Power" with "The Great Out There" in my own mind and that is where I sent my blasts of gratitude.
And what was the result when I did these blasts while working for Lourenço? Sitting on that sofa, as I focused my mind, heart and soul on these blasts, the cravings would dissipate. It generally took about 5 minutes when I started doing that. At the time I left Continental, somewhat over a year later, it would take about 2 minutes for the cravings to go away.
And when they went away, I would get up from the sofa and go back to the honking.
After I discovered that, I started doing those blasts of gratitude each morning when I got up.
By accident, I once saw a Rosicrucian book lying around in the house of a band member I was producing (it was his grandfather's), and I flipped through it. The book suggested drinking a full glass of water when you wake up. I liked the idea and I wedded the two practices. So that is what I do each morning. I drink a full glass of water and I send a silent blast of gratitude to The Great Out There. The trick is not to ask for anything, not even alleviation of pain. I send gratitude for all of it. That frame always sets me right for the morning.
When I started my Writing Journal, I was having difficulty with learning to love revision. So I started writing out a passage of gratitude with each Entry.
I mentioned this in a couple of places.
and
Nowadays, when I write out an expression of gratitude to The Great Out There--it's usually from 50 to 100 words--there is a part that is always the same and a part that I always vary, even thought the substance is the same. I do this because all things sticky in the mind need something familiar wedded to something new.
The results are so impressive in my writing, I cannot recommend this practice, or something similar, enough.
Also, I discovered a new truth by consistently making these blasts of gratitude to whatever is out there. Not only does it serve as a mental portal to go through to help cure addiction, it is one hell of a growth provision. Sort of like sunlight and water are to a plant.
If you are an addict, my advice is to find your own gratitude routine and do it every day, or several times a day. Do you believe in God? That's fine. Or do you just have awareness that some force is greater than you but you don't know what it is? That's fine, too. Do you want to call it reality and leave it at that? Hell, that's fine.
Just find something to be grateful to for your own existence as you exist--the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. On that level, you are fine as you are, so be grateful for it.
Now to the beautiful thing that prompted me to write this post. I never heard a song express my personal conception of gratitude as well as the song below. The music is just OK, happy music, but the words are perfect. (Replace "Lord" if you don't like the word--the concept is the same in this context.) This is what I mean by gratitude.
However, I did not start my gratitude journey thinking the day was so beautiful (to me, beauty is the grace that comes from gratitude). But I gave it a shot anyway. Every day.
Now all my days are beautiful.
With no drugs or addictions.
Enjoy...
Michael
What a beautiful song!!!!!!!
Lord, thank you for President Trump, it's a beautiful day ay ay ay ay!!!!!!!!!
Thank you too Lord for 2020!!!!
-
On 12/13/2023 at 5:24 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
Here's what this looks like without them saying the word "assassinate."
The subtext is the idea that was floated and pumped hard in the mainstream a few months ago that if you could go back in time and assassinate Hitler before he took power, would you do it?
Most people would say yes.
Now that that idea is in people's minds (and in the minds of the crazies), and some time has been given for it to settle, the Predator Class does the following. Except when you compile it, it is hilarious, not ominous.
Friggin' liar-losers...
Michael
Love it!!! Great video and the last tine I saw sonething like this, Trump won 2016, and 2020, and 2024 is a done deal.
#50States
#3rdterm
-
Barbara was the greatest!
I recall taking her for dinner with my daughters and how Barbara was frantic about Obama potentially winning his first term.
Everything that concerned her back then including what he would do to the Constitution is now a reality.
I thought she was pretty dramatic with her concerns, little did I know how accurate those concerns were.
Also, on the same trip to LA we all went to dinner at Nathaniel and Leigh's home where tgey had a small dinner party and a few people who were studying at Harvard at the time, who were debating her over dinner about global warming and she absolutely owned them and destroyed tgeir arguements one by one so eloquantly.
#Barbara
-
1
-
-
Hey Peter, here is your girl.
-
1
-
1
-
-
19 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
American top universities are a mess with the Jewish situation.
They take money from liberal Jewish donors, yet they promote antisemitism.
Like all contradictions, there comes a point where this no longer works.
This is relevant to the Israel-Hamas situation because American institutions of higher learning are indoctrination centers. Since their students tend to be from ruling class families, what they believe impacts American foreign policy.
Here is one feel good situation about this hypocrisy.
A tale of two videos and a news story with University of Pennsylvania's Liz Magill.
First her congressional testimony. Just watch Magill smirk at Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as she answers with weasel-worded statements. (These elitist people despise "commoners.")
Then oopsie... The backlash...
Ross Stevens withdrew his $100 million donation to the university.
Where did her smirk go? To instant groveling. That's where it went.
In case that X post gets removed, you can read about this here.
I would love to say that Magill had a change of heart, that she rethought her contempt for "commoners," that she adopted principle over bigotry and so on, but I doubt it. People like her who get power almost never change their vanity.
So this is ending up as follow the money and little else.
Note: The people who follow the money in the backrooms are not a forgiving sort.
UPenn Reportedly Requesting University's Woke President Liz Magill to Resign on Friday Over Antisemitism Testimony in Congress | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
WWW.THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM
The University of Pennsylvania is bracing for change at the top, as the school’s president, Liz Magill, comes under intense fire...
An old saying come to mind. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Or how about something from a leftie poet a century ago since people like Magill are lefties? Ezra Pound said (here) : "... my worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along, that spoiled everything..."
It continues to spoil everything, at least for Liz Magill...
Michael
Self hating Jews are nothing new ie Soros, Kissenger and Bobby Fischer to name a few and the ones in Beverly Hills, Long Island and Toronto as a few examples who chant for Israeli restraint minutes after Jewish babies heads are rolling on the street after a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.
While Israeli girls 18 and Israeli boys 19 do their army time these Jews in North America ( not all obviously but some ) chant for peace and restraint while these Israeli soldiers gallantly fight for Jews everywhere.
While any country in history keeps land gained in a defensive war, Jews must give up this land for peace.
Peace to an enemy that says Jews cannot exist, not in Europe, nor Israel nor anywhere.
From the river to the sea, sung happily by self hating Jews.
#Kahane
-
On 12/7/2023 at 10:49 AM, Strictlylogical said:
MAGA folks must embrace RFK, not as one to elect, but as a darling presence for the election outcome.
MAGA folks and the far-right MUST be incredibly vocal about how GOOD it is that RFK is running, about how he sheds light on some truths while also splitting the vote of the left... they MUST state they LOVE the fact that he is in the mix BECAUSE it HELPS Trump.
Why?Because he is a thorn in the side of the Predator Class, because he is also (like Trump) standing in the way ... between Them and You... and because if They could cause him to "go away" and somehow blame the far-right extremists... i.e. set him up as a martyr for the left while simultaneously blaming and putting a stain on MAGA folks and the right... they absolutely would.
So MAGA folks MUST loudly and clearly cry out for all to hear undoubtedly that they LOVE the fact that RFK is running in the 2024 election... laying any plausible explanation for any misfortune clearly at the feet of the left and the predator class.
Plus, I kinda like the guy.
I think MAGA folk can literally save his life, win the election, and secure the future of America by being vocal about this.
Could not agree more although with one caveat.
We must embrace him as he will only help MAGA as either a way to take more votes from the election stealing Dems ( yes Peter, we must fix 2020 and never forget, especially since a minimum four elections have been overturned by the Courts recently ) or as a running mate for our beloved President Trump.
What we cannot do is embrace him so much that MAGA voters vote for him with zero chance of winning.
-
8 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:
One of the old guard of the Deep State, almost a Founding Father of the Deep State and architect of endless wars for profit, has passed away.
BREAKING: Henry Kissinger Dead at 100 | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
WWW.THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has passed away.I want to say something nice and humane, but I just can't.
This man promoted too much death for profit over decades.
So I'll say nothing.
Michael
Well, during the six day war in Israel the story goes that he refused to give more ammunition/weapons to Israel as Golda Mier was having a nervous breakdown by day two or three and he said " let them bleed" in regards to Nixon helping Israel.
Oh, sorry, you wanted something nice.
Deep State Unraveling
in 4 - Politics
Posted
Wow!!!!! Trump is so far ahead of everyone mentally and funny but the press played this like Trump had some sort of cognitive issue.
Classic Trump.