Author: tortminder

The reality of muscle flexing

The Supreme Court no longer is a meaningful judicial institution requiring special expertise. The court doesn’t interpret law, it makes it.

Congresscritter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has posited that our politicians need to be radicalized. I have run across a radical idea for the Republicans.

The Supreme Court is the most powerful legislative body in America. It is an entirely partisan institution.

Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

With that in mind, President Trump and the Senate Republicans immediately should nominate and appoint the youngest, most conservative public figure they can find. I recommend Madison Cawthorn, the 25-year-old House candidate running for North Carolina’s 11th District.

Unlike the currently sitting eight justices, Cawthorn is not a graduate either of Yale or Harvard Law. In fact, he doesn’t have any law degree at all.

Even better!

The Supreme Court no longer is a meaningful judicial institution requiring special expertise. The court doesn’t interpret law, it makes it. The people’s representatives in Congress never voted to make gay marriage legal nationwide or to allow abortion on demand. That was left to the nine aged oligarchs on the court. America, in a number of crucial ways, is a kritarchy—a regime governed by judges.

The Republicans have 53 votes in the Senate. The principle of majority rule means they have the right, from the American people themselves, to implement their will. They should use that power to ram through their preferred nominee.

They shouldn’t hold hearings, ask for Democrats’ input, or muse about “qualifications.” First thing Monday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should hold an up or down vote. They should swear Cawthorn in by the afternoon.

Do not stop, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Like the Roman emperor Caligula appointing his horse as senator, the whole point of this exercise is to delegitimize our decrepit institutions. Conservatives still wringing their hands about “decency,” “norms,” and “the rule of law” simply do not understand the world in front of their eyes.

You want to talk about rule of law? Virtually every state in America has been under medical martial law for six months.

Norms? Neil Gorsuch didn’t bat at an eye at finding transgender rights in the Constitution.

Decency? Democrats used an evidence-free rape accusation to try to sink Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.

This is about power. This is about winning. America has been in a constitutional crisis for years, if not decades. Maybe it’s time for Republicans to make it explicit.

Of course, if Republicans had spines none of this would be necessary. Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution states that the Supreme Court only has “appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact,” under “such Exceptions” and “Regulations as the Congress shall make.” In other words, the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter on the Constitution. The three branches of government are coequal in their charge to interpret the Constitution in their respective spheres.

But Congress alone has the special power to remove certain topics from the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction entirely. If Congress doesn’t want the Supreme Court to rule on abortion or gun rights, it could make it happen tomorrow.

The current Republican establishment ignores the powers they have, and simply shrugs their shoulders at the court’s rulings. This is a sign of weakness. It is so much easier for elected representatives to sit back in D.C., collect a sweet paycheck from K Street after leaving office, and look the other way.

Their abdication has consequences. Over the past 50 years, the American Left has used the judiciary and administrative state to impose their will without ever pretending to consult the people. And that street doesn’t run both ways, either. The Supreme Court is only allowed to act as a super-legislature so long as it embraces liberal policies.

If a 5-4 decision came down not simply undoing Roe v. Wade, but banning abortion nationwide using the 14th Amendment, there is a snowball’s chance in Hell the Left would accept the results. Leftists would cry “state’s rights,” refuse to allow executive agents to enforce the ruling, and then use their corporate muscle to undo the decision.

The Left would let this country burn before it would allow conservatives to do to them what they’ve spent the last five decades doing to us.

Enough is enough. Americans need a say in their own government. That starts with this nomination. The Republican Party has a chance to show some fight and to impose its will. Do it. Speculating about precedent for the opposing party in the future is the talk of losers. Conservatives should act as if they will always remain in power. They should act like liberals.

Therefore, the Republican Party should immediately flex its political muscle and ensure the appointment of its president’s nominee. It’s time Republicans started acting like winners.

Rocky Rhodes

It is remarkable how many ‘Rhodes Scholars’, as they are called, go on to become leaders of counties or heads of intelligence agencies, education, and other subject areas important to the Elite, or ‘advisors’ to those leaders.)

Being a Rhodes Scholar is quite an accomplishment and comes with extraordinary benefits.

Not only is full tuition paid, but students also receive a generous stipend to live on, and may receive additional scholarships through Oxford.

This scholarship is quite prestigious and can give a Rhodes Scholar an advantage when looking for employment after completing a degree.

Study at Oxford also presents numerous opportunities for a Rhodes Scholar to network and establish long-term relationships with professors and future world leaders.

It is remarkable how many ‘Rhodes Scholars’, as they are called, go on to become leaders of counties or heads of intelligence agencies, education, and other subject areas important to the Elite, or ‘advisors’ to those leaders.)

A partial list of US “movers and shakers” who are Rhodes scholars include:

R. James Woolsey 1963 Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1993–1995), core member of the Project for the New American Century (1997–), senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (2002–)

Robert Reich 1968 American commentator and author, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993–1997), Chancellor’s Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (2006–)

Bill Clinton 1968 American politician, 42nd president of the United States, 1993–2001, Governor of Arkansas, 1979–1981 & 1983–1993

Russ Feingold 1975 U.S. Senator (D-Wis.) 1993–2011

Mel Reynolds 1975 U.S. Congressman (Illinois), 1993–1995; convicted felon pedophile

Ashton Carter 1976 Former Harvard professor and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (October 2011 – December 2013), former United States Secretary of Defense

Eric Lander 1978 Chair of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, founder of the Human Genome Project, biology professor at MIT

George Stephanopoulos 1984 Moderator of ABC’s This Week and communications director for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign

Susan Rice 1986 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997–2001), United States Ambassador to the United Nations, (2009–2013), National Security Advisor (2013–2017)

Jacob Weisberg 1987 Journalist and editor of Slate magazine

Cory Booker 1992 Former mayor of Newark, New Jersey; 2013 elected Democratic US Senator from New Jersey

Pete Buttigieg 2005 Mayor of South Bend, Indiana

Ronan Farrow 2012 American human rights activist , senior foreign policy official in the Obama administration, U.S. State Department special adviser on global youth issues and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Bruce Reed 1982 Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden

Few people know the origins of the scholarship. Well here it is:
Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.

An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa’s Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.

One of Rhodes’s primary motivations in politics and business was his professed belief that the Anglo-Saxon race was, to quote a letter of 1877, “the first race in the world”. Under the reasoning that “the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race”

So, it could be said that the seed money for the Rhodes scholarships was filthy lucre accumulated off the backs of black people slaving in Rhodes’ mines in Rhodesia and South Africa.

Again, who were some prominent recipients?
Bill Clinton
Susan Rice
Corey Booker
Rachel Maddow
Pete Buttigieg

I wonder if they will be giving the money back since their benefactor was such a loathsome racist.

Not likely.

A new epoch

Today, we have allowed “The Powers That Be” to turn the entire economy into a Wasting Asset.
In my opinion this was as intended.
You can not mismanage things this bad, unless you intend to do so.

As defined by wiki, An epoch, for the purposes of chronology and periodization, is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era.The “epoch” serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided by congruity, or by following conventions understood from the epoch in question.

This year has been the year of “unprecedented”. Everything is unprecedented.

The Fed borrowed 4 trillion this year – that number simply takes the breath away. 4 trillion, poof, out of thin air. And to top that, they spent all of it and want to borrow more.

The government gave over half the population $1200 each.

They told 30 to 40 percent of the population not to go to work . . . and they did!/

They gave people who were not working more in unemployment than they ever made working.

The government decided which jobs were essential and which were not . . . and you believed them . . . even after you found out that pizza delivery was essential.

Gas dropped to $1.50 a gallon

People were told to work from home and both companies and employees loved it and do not intend to go back to the old ways.

And all those companies that supported the cube farm office high rise will never come back – restaurants, dry cleaners, auto sales, convenience stores, Starbucks.

Most students will never return to a campus education system.

The era of professional sports my be over because they cannot have fans in the stands.

Yes, it may be too early to tell, but the changes invoked appear to be taking root and create a systemic change in our behavior on many levels.

Systemic change – good phrase.

You don’t hear too much about how to manage Wasting Assets.

Think the big business of buggy whips.

Today, we have allowed “The Powers That Be” to turn the entire economy into a Wasting Asset.

The pass/fail test of management at all levels, is in progress.

In my opinion this was as intended.

You can not mismanage things this bad, unless you intend to do so.

The 4 “D”‘s that define the future

The four Ds help us understand why the status quo is incapable of adapting / evolving fast enough and effectively enough to manage a controlled collapse to a much lower level of cost and complexity.

When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust.

Four D’s will define 2020-2025: derealization, denormalization, decomplexification and decoherence. That’s a lot of D’s. Let’s take them one at a time.

I use the word derealization to describe the inner disconnect between what we experience and what the propaganda / marketing complex we live in tells us we should be experiencing.

Put another way: our lived experience is derealized (dismissed as not real) by official spin and propaganda.

The current state of the economy is a good example. We see the real-world economy declining yet the officially approved narrative is that there’s a V-shaped recovery underway because Big Tech stocks are hitting new highs. In other words, we don’t need a real-world economy, all we need is a digital economy provided by Big Tech platforms.

This is derealization at its finest: the everyday world you experience directly no longer matters; what matters is stock prices and various statistics that all paint a rosy picture.

Meanwhile, the wealthiest class is fleeing soon-to-be-bankrupt cities. The wealthiest class has the means to buy the best advice and also has the most to lose, so I give their actions far more credence than official propaganda.

The “New Normal” Is De-Normalization and Here’s Why the “Impossible. Economic Collapse Is Unavoidable:

This is why denormalization is an extinction event for much of our high-cost, high-complexity, heavily regulated economy. Subsidizing high costs doesn’t stop the dominoes from falling, as subsidies are not a substitute for the virtuous cycle of re-investment.

The Fed’s project of lowering the cost of capital to zero doesn’t generate this virtuous cycle; all it does is encourage socially useless speculative predation. Collapse isn’t “impossible,” it’s unavoidable.

The basic idea is that all the structures of the “normal” economy only function at full capacity, as costs have moved higher, unproductive complexity has increased and our ability to pay these higher costs is based on ever-expanding debt.

As a result, “normal” became extremely fragile and binary: it’s either fully funded at full capacity or it collapses. The structures of everyday life are incapable of downsizing to 70% of their previous complexity and cost, much less 50%.

There won’t be any “new normal” because the system has become too rigid, ossified, over-regulated and controlled by entrenched interests and elites. It is incapable of reducing complexity and cost, and bailouts via borrowed money are stopgaps, not actual solutions.

Decomplexification is a mouthful, and everyone inside the machine knows the impossibility of paring organizational complexity. Everyone who is a stakeholder in the status quo (which is virtually every employee, manager, etc.) will fight to keep the status quo intact as is, for fear that any re-organization might imperil their livelihood or security. This is entirely understandable, of course.

Modern life is inherently complex. Representative-Democracy is complex and cumbersome because having a bunch of stakeholders all competing for public resources and advocating for a bigger slice of the pie is inherently messy. There must be oversight and feedback to minimize the possibility of one clique gaining complete power.

Long global supply chains are inherently complex. Managing ever-increasing regulations is inherently complex. And so on.

When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust. We’re witnessing the early stages of this in real time in healthcare and education: overly complex and costly systems are breaking down not just from the challenges of the pandemic but because they’re structurally incapable of adapting or evolving beyond pseudo-reforms and policy tweaks.

As an illustration, consider the current overly complex way our healthcare system funds itself and a system in which customers pay cash for medical care: no insurance, minimal oversight auditing, etc. Regulations boil down to a requirement to publicly post prices for services and actually charge only the posted prices.

In higher education the campus and its entire bureaucracy becomes superfluous. Classes, embedded apprenticeships and in-person workshops are organized online. The entire scheme of accrediting colleges is jettisoned in favor of accrediting each student.

And so on. You can see the problem: eliminating unproductive, obsolete layers of costly complexity will eliminate millions of middle-class jobs that can’t be replaced with new expansive bureaucracies.

Yes, paying cash for healthcare and campus-less, mostly automated universities are oversimplifications. So where is the middle ground between current costly complexity and some “new normal” with half the costs and complexity? There’s no way to accomplish this while retaining the payrolls, priorities, processes and structures of the existing systems.

The point here is that when the money runs out or loses much of its purchasing power, overly costly complexity collapses whether we like it or not.

Decoherence is an interesting word. In science, “Decoherence can be viewed as the loss of information from a system into the environment, since every system is loosely coupled with the energetic state of its surroundings.”

Decoherence refers to the loss of systemic coherence between narratives, values, processes and systems. Simply put, stuff no longer works right and it no longer makes sense.

What worked in the past has been transformed by two systemic drifts:

1. Systems that evolved to function in a specific socio-political-economic context continued adding complexity and cost because debt-based funding was available, not because they were becoming more efficient or effective.

2. The socio-political-economic context has changed and so the status quo systems are mal-adapted, i.e. obsolete.

These two systemic drifts occur so slowly that we aren’t even aware of the loss of coherence unless we compare the current system to a previous set point or look at it from the perspective of starting from scratch: what would the most sustainable, lowest-energy consumption, most efficient and productive system look like if we designed it from scratch? It certainly wouldn’t be the system we have now,

The four Ds help us understand why the status quo is incapable of adapting / evolving fast enough and effectively enough to manage a controlled collapse to a much lower level of cost and complexity.

The status quo can’t even admit the need for a controlled collapse, much less manage it.

We can add a fifth D: denial. The four Ds are already in motion and denial is only accelerating systemic decoherence.

Visit Missouri

if you want to talk to God in Missouri …it’s a local call.

Ever been to Missouri?Yes, there is a huge state between Kansas City and St. Louis and it is called MISSOURI .

It has some beautiful cities, and is also full of MANY, MANY small towns and abundant farm land which we call Rural MISSOURI. Here is someone’s take on “Rural Missouri” and it’s quite accurate.

THE RULES OF RURAL MISSOURI ARE AS FOLLOWS: Listen up City Slickers!

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Turn your cap around straight… your head isn’t crooked.

3. Let’s get this straight; it’s called a ‘dirt road’ No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus.. Drive it or get out of the way. I drive a pickup truck because I want to.

4. They are cattle. They’re live steaks. That’s why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? I-70 and I-29 go west and south… use ’em.

5. So you have a $60,000 car… we’re impressed. We have $250,000 combines… to harvest corn and soybeans…that are driven only 3 weeks a year.

6. So every person in rural MISSOURI waves. It’s called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.

8. Yeah, we eat meat, taters and gravy, beans and biscuits, and homemade pie. You really want sushi and caviar? It’s available down at Jim’s bait shop.

9. The ‘Opener’ refers to the first day of deer season. It’s like a religious holiday, held before Thanksgiving.

10. We open doors for women. That applies to all women, regardless of age.

11. No, there’s no ‘vegetarian special’ on the menu. Order steak or chicken. Or, you can order the Chef’s salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey.

12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices…salt, pepper, and ketchup. Oh, yeah… We don’t care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat… IT AIN’T REAL CHILI !!

13. You bring ‘coke’ into my house… it better be brown, wet and served over ice.

14. You bring ‘Mary Jane’ into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

15. The Missouri Tigers and high school football are as important here as the Royals and the Chiefs, the Cardinals and the Blues – and just as much fun to watch.

16. Yeah, we have golf courses.. But don’t hit the water hazards… it spooks the fish.

17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have Missouri University, Missouri State College, Community Colleges, and Voc-techs. They come outta there with an education plus a love for God and Country, and they still wave to everybody when they come home for the holidays.

18. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump crap ain’t music anyway. We don’t want to hear it any more than we want to see your boxers. (Refer back to #1.)

19. Four inches of snow isn’t a blizzard… it’s a flurry. Drive in it like you got some sense, and DON’T take all our bread, milk, and eggs off the grocery shelves. This ain’t Alaska! Worst case.. you may have to live a whole day without croissants. Anyway… the pickups with snowplows will have you out the next day.

20. If you’ve never been here, come visit our friendly folks and enjoy our spectacular scenery… lakes,farmland, great fishing and hunting, wineries, museums, lots of history.

21. By the way, if you want to talk to God in Missouri …it’s a local call.

A true Missourian will send this on!!!HAVE A GREAT DAY!FROM RURAL Missouri With Love and God’s Blessings

Truth

Don’t be a willing participant in you, your family and neighbor’s deaths.

Don’t be a willing participant of Globalist plans.

We’re Experiencing Issues On A Level In America That We Have Never Before Seen…

-Fake fraudulent and fabricated lies and daily omission of the truth has become news,

-The Covid-19 ‘pandemic’ and Individual Rights violations on a huge scale by government officials eager to enforce draconian laws,

-Mass rioting

-An ongoing attempt at election fraud by ‘Americans’ who hate this country,

-An enormous effort to disarm Americans

-American corporations donating massive amounts of money to anti-American organizations,

-The inability to have a civil discussion of politics or ideology without it turning to violence even in families,

-White people actively advocating the genocide of their own race and acting as the majority race members of a ‘Black Lives Matter’ organization,

-The militant wing of the Communists ANTIFA becoming more and more violent,

Did I cover them all?…what’s next?

Don’t be a willing participant in you, your family and neighbor’s deaths.

Don’t be a willing participant of Globalist plans.

WAKE UP!

Truth for Monday 9/21/2020

Today’s truth from a trusted source:

The media is complicit.
The “Fact checkers” were created to reinforce the same narrative [propaganda] they themselves created.

Social media censor-terminate-silence anti-narrative accounts.

Social media and broadcast media echo the “approved” Deep State narrative.

It is a long-established system of control.

It’s Mission: keep the public controlled and in the dark through Information warfare.

Observations on a late Supreme Court Associate Justice

One of my Orthodox friends said; “This is then quite prophetically significant since she was a judge- a wicked judge being removed before God righteously judging and dividing between His own and those who don’t have allegiance going forward into the Kingdom Age prior to “the end.”

Some observations on the late Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Ginsberg died 45 minutes before sundown, the start of Rosh Shahana. Note the Shofars were being blown within 45 minutes of Justice Ginsberg’s passing, Sundown at 7:15 pm EST.

One of my Orthodox friends said; “This is then quite prophetically significant since she was a judge- a wicked judge being removed before God righteously judging and dividing between His own and those who don’t have allegiance going forward into the Kingdom Age prior to “the end.”

“The Mishnah contains the second known reference to Rosh Hashanah as the “day of judgment” (Yom haDin). In the Talmud tractate on Rosh Hashanah, it states that three books of account are opened on Rosh Hashanah, wherein the fate of the wicked, the righteous, and those of the intermediate class are recorded. The names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life and they are sealed “to live”. The intermediate class is allowed a respite of ten days, until Yom Kippur, to reflect, repent and become righteous; the wicked are “blotted out of the book of the living forever”. “

A prophecy; I the Lord created Life and I the Lord God can take life, and as the greed rises as the entitlement rises as they are inflated with a puffed up greed and humility is fleeting, be in prayer for mercy for tragedy shall strike, a tragedy of their own making. A tragedy from fulfilling people with darkness, for there shall be a split they will draw lines within movements and the movement will oppose.