Nigel Farage’s final speech at the EU ended very dramatically when he was cut off for ‘disobeying the rules’ ahead of the Brexit withdrawal agreement vote.
Garage's speech is great. What's even better is that the NWO takes a loss in their insatiable quest for power via world government. Notice the awful schoolmarm woman at the end, the kind of pushy rule following bureaucrat who admonishes Farage and the other Brits to 'put away their flags'.
Farage understands rhetoric and symbolism. The head lady's reaction (I'm too lazy to look up who she is) tells it all.
The EU is finished. It was doomed from the start, but this breakaway is huge. Globalists hate this kind of thing. It's good to see them take a loss for once.
This isn't a post on the impeachment farce. This is about something else.
Clown world is officially here. Some googly eyed oddball in the United States Congress wants people only to hear what she believes. If this sounds nutty to you, let me provide you with a picture of who I'm talking about. Look at the eyes, they give the game away:
That's someone calling herself Katherine Anne Castor. She sent a letter to Google requesting that all Youtube videos disagreeing with her view on Climate Change be removed. Apparently, the first amendment isn't something to be taken seriously by this member of Congress.
“YouTube has been driving millions of viewers to climate misinformation videos every day, a shocking revelation that runs contrary to Google’s important missions of fighting misinformation and promoting climate action,” wrote Kathy Castor, chair of the committee."
This is why I call today's society, in America anyway, Clown World. It takes a person of supremely limited intellectual means to ask such a thing. A 9th grade Civics student would be embarrassed asking this. He would know that even the class clown in the back would have a field day laughing at the obvious civil rights violations. Here we have a woman who looks like box wine and pills are heavily consumed, asking a media company to remove videos of people whose opinions she doesn't like. And she's in congress.
These are not serious people. They're not talented, thoughtful, or intelligent. It seems obvious they're incompetent, shrill, emotionally driven individuals on the take.
I don't take them seriously, and neither should you - on any topic. Only in Clown World would they be given any credibility at all. That's why we are where we are.
This is the best video I've seen on how the Corporate Media is able to sway opinion. They don't need to alter facts, or conveniently leave things out. They use what's called "Emotive Conjugation" or "Russell Conjugation".
The emotional connotations that certain phrases have can be tools for those who wish to persuade, or even brainwash:
I am firm. [Positive empathy]
You are obstinate. [Neutral to mildly negative empathy]
He/She/It is pigheaded. [Very negative empathy]
This is how they do it. As Weinstein shows in the video, calling a leader a 'strongman' has certain feelings associated with it. Do a mind experiment as simple as replacing 'Dictator' with 'President'. Even the most oppressive ruler would sound different.
This video is a good example of one that unlocks the secret box of tools the Corporate Media uses to get you to think the way they want you to think. I have used it with my presentational speaking classes and the students now see how our disgusting and repellent Corporate Media does what it does.
See what I just did? I chose the adjectives that get you to feel the way I want you to feel. As people are ruled by their feelings, I can move the needle by ignoring facts, and focusing on feelings.
Break the spell. We've done it in class. Now it's your turn.
Headline: FBI probes allegations of ‘deep-rooted’ academic fraud in NYC schools
I'm not the least bit surprised. You can only fake it so long before you have to make up the numbers.
Here are some of the ingredients in the School Recipe over the last 25 years:
Remove rigor from all the subjects.
Make the NYS Regents exams easier.
Buy into the 'equity' movement, where poor performance = discrimination, and there are no other explanations.
Remove any humane policies, replace them with bureaucratic policies.
Remove practices that worked, and replace them with fads.
Increase bureaucratic / administrative bloat.
Focus all subjects on race, class and gender.
Adopt a focus on Social Justice.
Focus on unimportant things, like social issues, and stop focusing on teaching.
Have a 'student centered' classroom.
Demand high passing rates.
As we've seen recently under NYC Mayor DiBlah and his crusade against the Specialized High Schools, it's important to reward failure, and attack meritocratic success. When you have a system that is lazy and corrupt, the concerned parents leave, as they've been doing for the past 2 decades. Eventually you're left with students who have learned that they can't fail, they don't need any discipline whatsoever, and the teachers will 'make it happen'.
'Social Justice' and 'Equity' are not the reason why there are schools. Focusing on 'race, class and gender' does not help a student learn Advanced Algebra. If you follow the list above, and then demand that the passing rates are high, you're going to need corruption to get the numbers you want. There was already a huge academic fraud scandal in Atlanta. I'm not the least bit surprised at this at all.
As usual, it is the students who lose. Their 'education' has been in the hands of SJW bureaucrats, who base all their decisions on how they 'feel', and are obsessed with race. The young people today are getting shafted.
Some of the best people to read today are the honest leftists. They are few and far between, but they're out there.
Matt Taibbi is a reporter who, frankly, sees the media committing suicide. Even though he leans left, he still has a good grasp of reality. This is rare. Taibbi pinned blame where it belonged after the 2008 mortgage crisis, he was howling at the media during the 2016 Trump campaign, and now he is at it again for the 2020 election cycle.
I get asked often about where to find good sources for news, solid opinions on current affairs, and for people who can write. Taibbi is perhaps the best analyst of the Corporate media today.
Here are some bits of his latest disemboweling of the Progressive Corporate Media Complex:
"The low point came Saturday, when Joy Reid on MSNBC’s AM Joy show had on a “body language expert” named Janine Driver to declare Sanders a liar, because his posture reminds her of a turtle. There’s not much to say about this except it’s the same combo of junk forensics and yellow journalism that Bill O’Reilly made infamous."
And:
"But they couldn’t help themselves, declaring every word out of his mouth a Satanic lie. This made the occasional things that he said that were true, like that Jeb Bush was a puppet for corporate donors or NATO was a bloated and outdated organization, pack significantly more punch. The transparent full-of-shitness of the corporate press reaction to Trump was probably the leading argument for his credibility."
I enjoy not only Taibbi's dedication to reality, but is ability to turn a phrase. I recommend his columns, even with his liberal political leanings.
Lorenzen Wright, Samaki Walker, and Todd Fuller were all drafted before Kobe Bryant. What my younger readers don't realize is that Bryant took a huge risk going into the 1996 draft right after high school. He was drafted 13th, by the Hornets, who had a deal with the Lakers to trade him to LA.
It could have gone badly. While Bryant was a high school superstar, only big men like Moses Malone, Kevin Garnett, and Chocolate Thunder had gone directly to the NBA, and it took a 6'11" Garnett to break a decades long hiatus in prep to pro movement.
Bryant's move as an 18 year old was a risk. 6'6" guards are common. One without college seasoning who is ready for the pro game is, and was, completely unheard of. Bryant's decision underlies one of the basic tenets of success: risk. They all say the same thing. People from disparate backgrounds, with success in radically different fields all have the same message; you have to take risks.
What will be forgotten in the hagiographic articles about Bryant's death is the fact that he began his NBA career by risking everything on the judgement of The Legend Jerry West. West, the Lakers General Manager, saw in Bryant what others did not. It is not only a testament to West's ability to see talent, but Bryant's willingness to risk much in order to get his pro career started.
It was a risky roll of the dice, and it worked. He took a huge risk, and it paid off. We should all be so brave.
When you don't have a dog in the race it's easier to get good information. Looking at the state of affairs in higher education is one litmus test to find out who can see what's going on. For example, the W Bush administration made it so you couldn't expel your student debt in bankruptcy. Regular people, justifiably, went bananas and were angry. The Obama administration made some noise about changing this terrible policy, but did nothing. No one said anything, or complained. I'll be repetitive in saying how easy it is for those at the top of the pyramid to shape opinion.
The student debt fiasco is still going strong. Charles Hugh Smith correctly explains financialization, and its role in the college loan scam:
"Financialization is the mass commoditization of debt collaterized by previously unsecuritized assets, a pyramiding of risk and speculation that is only possible in a massive expansion of low-cost credit and leverage for those at the top of the wealth-power pyramid: financiers, banks and corporations."
You don't benefit from the student loan. The loans, pooled together, are chopped up and sold among the ruling and political class, at your expense. While you have a degree in uselessness, the people who run the Fake America make massive amounts of money:
The culprits are easy to spot: the FED and the Federal Government have caused a $1.6 TRILLION dollar student loan bubble that you can't get rid of via bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is germane to capitalism, a system you're taught is terrible. Not only that, you're taught that without a degree you're not going to make it. Additionally, while you're on campus you learn that Western Culture is awful. It's all bathed in "Orange Man Bad" atmosphere.
The Elite did this a decade ago with the Mortgage bubble. Now it's the Student Loan bubble. Those of you who can avoid the Fake R vs. D Cage Match (tm) should make out ok. Those who cannot may be financially ruined.
If you don't pick a 'side', you'll see things more clearly. The adults in your life struggle with this concept. Avoid their mistakes.
One of the good things about being in my line of work is that students come back and show me hope. One of my top students from years ago came back and she is even more intellectually curious than she was when she was in High School. We talked about the Heaphy Report from Charlottesville, the way the Media tries to censor Truth, and the value of knowing. I asked her if she was sure she wanted to see the Heaphy report, as it will ruin the mainstream narrative, and she said: "I want to know". This young woman is 21, trying to find her way, and she is already way ahead of most of the older adults I know.
The article I mentioned by the woman from the Daily Dot, the one who is trying to play gatekeeper for your information and news: https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/bitchute/
I was on the new social media site Social Galactic, and someone posted a wonderfully thoughtful quote from someone named Nicolás Gómez Dávila. I like quotes, and I have many posted throughout my classroom, many of them boldly in front. Good aphorisms have a way of distilling thought into a digestible chunk, easily understood yet generating complex thought.
Dávila's aphorisms stood out. I had never heard of him and when I looked him up I saw that he was classified as a conservative, but in the Latin American mold. He is also seen as a reactionary, someone who had an innate sense that 'new' doesn't always mean better. From the tone of Dávila's writings, he would say that 'new' never means better. I can only imagine him looking at what is going on now, particularly here in America. There are small armies of people who want to destroy established institutions, while not only never asking why they were there in the first place, but also while enjoying the benefits of said institution / system.
It's a caricature, but the Social Justice Warrior Progressive railing against capitalism while on his iPhone is the perfect image. The self identified liberal who is constantly upset about the situation on the US - Mexican border, but only after 2016: Dávila would have had the perfect words to explain such people and the movements they are a part of.
"Whoever says that he "belongs to his time" is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment."
These words fully explain, in a sentence, much of the political thought among Americans today, particularly among the Progressive Left. Dávila would have skewered them in a way that few people are able to do today.
I can't really say it better than my guy Dmitri, so I won't:
"If you are a former industrial power that has squandered its resources on solar panels and wind generators while shutting down your coal-fired power plants (to avoid a potential 4±15ºC global average temperature rise by 2100) as well as your nuclear power plants (because of Fukushima) you need to go to Moscow as well. To smooth out the ragged, intermittent power output from sun and wind you’ll need lots of cheap natural gas imports, and here Russia’s Gazprom is your friend. (The +4ºC is from the IPCC consensus estimate, and ±15ºC is the size of the error bars on that number based on standard error propagation analysis of errors on current climate measurements; so, yeah, it could be +19ºC, or it could be ‑11ºC, or anything in between—take your pick!—though ±19ºC doesn’t look physically possible while ‑11ºC would put us in the middle of the next hundred-thousand-year glaciation cycle.) Your other option is to wait for your “renewables” to get worn out, then reread printouts of this article by candlelight while gently weeping."
Global warming is one of my favorite bugaboos. While it has become obvious to me that the power seeking parasites, and the rent seekers in government use CC as simply a lever, many people do not. I find that strange to the point of being funny.
When the techno-archeologists sift through the rubble, they'll look at the Global Warming scam the same way we look at the Salem Witch Trials.
I realize that "2020 Vision" is played out and tired, but I couldn't resist. I promise not to use it again.
There were 3 things that I covered with students this year that are worth reinforcing.
1) People are guided by emotions. In my public speaking class, we learned that rhetoric, the art of using words to emotionally move people, is more effective than dialectic, the words that explain reason. I don't like it any more than you do, but it seems to be how we are made. All levels of HS students understand this, once it's shown to them.
2) People will conform. The Asch Conformity Experiments show that people will ignore evidence right in front of them and go with the group around 40% of the time - even when the evidence is obvious. The key to Asch's findings was that all it takes is one person to speak up, to go against the group, and opinions can be changed. Speaking out against injustice can work. It takes a little bravery though.
3) Do Your Job. On the scoreboard during the New England Patriot's football practice, the coach, Bill Belichick, has "Do Your Job" on the scoreboard. No stats. No quotes. No motivational sayings. "Do Your Job" is a mantra that is elegant in its simplicity. Too often we get caught up in drama, and it's usually because we're hyper about what someone else is (or isn't) doing. Teams can do well, and you as an individual can succeed if you do your job. Belichick's record speaks for itself. My theory is that social media gets us so blitzed about everyone else, we lose sight of ourselves and our job. I think I'm right.
These 3 things are going to be talked about and focused on during 2020. We have been having a great time in room 227. I don't think anyone is having more fun in class than we are!
In this episode I am talking about 3 things that we have figured out at school. The seniors in particular have learned that people are governed by their emotions, not reason and evidence. That bothers many, and it bothers me too. We also have discussed in detail the importance of the Asch Conformity Experiments. People will follow the crowd around 40% of the time, even when it is obvious that the crowd is wrong. Imagine when there is any grey area? That's how you get The Madness of Crowds: Real Estate Bubble, Tulipmania, and the dot com bubble to name a few.
Lastly I talk about the mantra that Bill Belichick uses for leading the Patriots: "Do Your Job". As soon as you focus on what you're supposed to do, or what you need to do in order to live a life of abundance, then you'll be more successful. Stop worrying about everyone else. Stop focusing on other people or things and getting critical. Do your job, and do it well.
Dmitri Orlov has been right a lot. I was reading the links to him at Zerohedge as far back as 2009. There are also videos of him out there speaking: interviews, panel discussions and debates. One of the great things about the internet is you can see the author talk, which allows you get get some insight toward his credibility. Orlov has a lot of credibility.
New year prediction are usually worse than useless. Orlov, who seems to gravitate toward the doom and gloom approach, nonetheless says it like it is, and it's worth paying attention to some key statements, because they're right:
"Meanwhile, a shrinking physical economy obscured by runaway debt remains on a collision course with reality; once the collision takes place, the result will be similar to what happened during the financial collapse of 2007-8, except that the desperate financial manipulations that were then used to arrest it will no longer work at all and the physical economy, which is already languishing, will grind to a halt."
The tools used in 08: QE, Interest Rate Manipulation, a full court press propaganda campaign for banks, bailouts.... there's no way they'll work this time. Peter Schiff says the same thing.
"With regard to politics, the US has already stopped functioning. The ruling elite has split up into two warring camps which are now treating each other with the same viciousness, malice and disdain they have previously reserved for foreigners. This development is inevitable: faced with their own full-spectrum failure, the elites have been forced to search for a scapegoat—anybody but their own beloved selves—and have found… each other, of course!"
As the Elites are scapegoating everyone they can. I noticed it early when suddenly, 'white privilege' and 'invisible backpacks of privilege' became regular sayings around 10 years ago on college campuses. It makes sense. Go to any Democratic Party city, and look around. You can't blame any of those people for Detroit, Flint, Chiraq, poop infested San Francisco.... so you have to blame phantoms.
"Unless the government does something right now, it's going to be catastrophic!" This article from 2004 deals with my favorite topic, 'climate change' and it uses all the same techniques we see today. As a matter of fact, if I changed the date from 2004 to 2020 I don't think you'd be able to tell, other than the names used.
In case you think I'm being cynical, or unfair, here is my favorite quote of the article, for obvious reasons:
This is a case of paint by numbers when it comes to 'climate change' and 'global warming'. Instead of Trump, they use G.W. Bush. All of the usual logical fallacies are used, as are the same scare tactics that are used now by Greta and the usual cast of scammers and True Believers. We're going on 35 years now of "unless the government does something right now we're all gonna die!".
At some point you simply ignore and mock these people, in the same way we clown on the people who saw the end of the world happening in 1872. If you wish to lend these people credibility, you can. I'll be preparing for the week ahead, as it will be below freezing the whole time.
Ricky Gervais is getting a lot of press and a lot of pushback for his roasting of the Hollywood Elite. I speak often in class and on this site about watching the reaction, as it usually gives you more information than the action itself.
This event is no different.
The rank hypocrisy was exposed fully after the show. We had Jennifer Aniston giving us a message from Russell Crowe about how the fires in Australia were definitely caused by Climate Change. Oddly, there was no mention of the people who have been arrested for arson (CNN source here).
But even if they're right, that human activity has caused rising temperatures, and this in turn has caused the fires in Australia, shouldn't there be some shame among the people who lecture us? The same people who sermonize you about your behavior, guilt, and complicity see no need to put a brake on theirs.
Here is what I'm talking about when I tell you that these are people to ignore, and when possible, mock:
Notice the throwaway line about existing in "their own universe". That bit of rhetoric is put there to get you to dismiss the absurdity of it all. The flowers were flown by jet from Ecuador and Italy to the Golden Globes. Think about that for a minute the next time you give credibility to any of these people. The NY Times, clueless as ever, couldn't help itself: "
“The last thing anyone needed was for the smirking master of ceremonies to reprimand [the audience] for having hope, or taunt the room for trying to use their influence to change things for the better. Gervais, should have been brave enough to drop the tired agitator shtick and, for once, read the room.”
That is exactly what Gervais did. Go forth and do likewise. Ignore their message, mock them, and view anyone who follows their lead as, at best, ill informed.
Well it's official. The Raiders are no longer the Oakland Raiders. They've dropped 'Oakland' from all media material and are simply listed as "Raiders".
I grew up with the outlaw imagery of the Oakland Raiders, and I remember well when they moved to Los Angeles. I hated the move and it made the franchise seem as if it were made out of plastic. Al Davis looked more eager to give the finger to the NFL than keep the zeitgeist of the team and the energy of the franchise's fan base energized.
He eventually moved the team back to Oakland. It was as if the Dodgers moved back to Brooklyn. Davis, who went to Erasmus Hall HS in Brooklyn, realized that nothing could replace the Oakland outlaw history and reputation.
Now that is all over. The Raiders are moving into an incredible stadium in Las Vegas:
"To help with that, the Raiders signed a partnership with Cox Business to bring the fastest optical internet on the market to the venue.
The $2 billion Allegiant Stadium will feature 1,700 Wi-Fi access points backed by redundant 40-gigabit optical internet connections, which Cox Business Vice President Derrick Hill said will have the bandwidth for every mobile device in the 65,000-seat stadium. There will be more than 227 miles of fiber. There will also be 2,200 Samsung screens and signs, powered by Cisco Vision. With the technology, Cox will provide a variety of fan interaction elements, such as virtual meet and greets."
I think Davis would be happy with the move to Las Vegas. He never had much love for the NFL bureaucracy, and the sinful background of Las Vegas and the in-your-face connection to gambling, legal and illegal, is a good way to continually skirt the edge of respectability. It's not a bad move.
All you have to do is fight back. Bullies will go after you forever unless you push back, and push back hard.
Remember this picture?
I do. It created a firestorm and Twitter went crazy, as did public figures, calling Nick Sandmann all sorts of vile names, the most common being 'racist'. Because the Corporate Media's disgusting Narrative of Divide and Conquer, they released the dogs on this Catholic High School student.
Sandmann and his people are not going gently into that goodnight. Good for them. The current iteration of 'progressive' tech and media companies are finally getting pushback.
I saw information on this story on SocialGalactic, a social media platform that isn't tolerant of SJW progressive stupidity.
Ron Paul will be seen as a voice in the wilderness when the AI archeologists are sifting through the rubble of our age. Dr. Paul gives you more truth in this short column than you'll get in the Washington Post or NY Times. The Afghanistan Papers are out, and the entire operation is completely fraudulent:
"What we learned in what is rightly being called the “Pentagon Papers” of our time, is that hundreds of US Administration officials – including three US Presidents – knowingly lied to the American people about the Afghanistan war for years. This wasn’t just a matter of omitting some unflattering facts. This was about bald-faced lying about a war they knew was a disaster from almost day one."
Remember, Paul is the candidate that the Corporate Media ignored and smeared in his runs for president in 2008 and 2012. Because he was actually anti-war, he was vilified and shunned. When you think about this it's easy to see not only what our Overlords really care about, but also how disgusting they are. A day doesn't go by when I'm not repulsed by what our media has become.
You would expect that people would be up in arms about this. Not so. The rabble are easy to direct and control. Back in those days I had a very active Facebook account (since deleted). My FB contacts were calling him a 'racist', 'conspiracy theorist', and whatever else they were told to think. Maybe the real problem is that the American Herd is so addled by HFCS and soy that they can't think anymore.
Paul's article his here. I recommend it. This 18 year long Afghanistan is one of the worst chapters in American History. Even after the Afghanistan Papers came out, the media's headline was what it always is these days: "Orange Man Bad!"
This qualifies as a "sick burn", a term I first heard on Twitter (and then I got kicked off the platform). Ricky Gervais played the role of the comedian at the Golden Globes, in the traditional sense. It is the comedian's job, as Owen Benjamin repeatedly tells everyone, to skewer and mock Sacred Cows. Ricky Gervais decided to let it fly at the Golden Globes with his opening monologue:
"Hello and welcome to the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel here in Los Angeles. I'm Ricky Gervais, thank you.
You'll be pleased to know this is the last time I'm hosting these awards, so I don't care anymore. I'm joking. I never did. I'm joking, I never did. NBC clearly don't care either — fifth time. I mean, Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars for some offensive tweets — hello?
Lucky for me, the Hollywood Foreign Press can barely speak English and they've no idea what Twitter is, so I got offered this gig by fax. Let's go out with a bang, let's have a laugh at your expense. Remember, they're just jokes. We're all gonna die soon and there's no sequel, so remember that.
But you all look lovely all dolled up. You came here in your limos. I came here in a limo tonight and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman. No, shush. It's her daughter I feel sorry for. OK? That must be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to her. And her dad was in Wild Hogs.
Lots of big celebrities here tonight. Legends. Icons. This table alone — Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro … Baby Yoda. Oh, that's Joe Pesci, sorry. I love you man. Don't have me whacked.
But tonight isn't just about the people in front of the camera. In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world. People from every background. They all have one thing in common: They're all terrified of Ronan Farrow. He's coming for ya.
Talking of all you perverts, it was a big year for pedophile movies. Surviving R. Kelly, Leaving Neverland, Two Popes. Shut up. Shut up. I don't care. I don't care.
Many talented people of color were snubbed in major categories. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that. Hollywood Foreign press are all very racist. Fifth time. So. We were going to do an In-Memoriam this year, but when I saw the list of people who died, it wasn't diverse enough. No, it was mostly white people and I thought, nah, not on my watch. Maybe next year. Let's see what happens.
No one cares about movies anymore. No one goes to cinema, no one really watches network TV.Everyone is watching Netflix. This show should just be me coming out, going, 'Well done Netflix. You win everything. Good night.' But no, we got to drag it out for three hours.
You could binge-watch the entire first season of Afterlife instead of watching this show. That's a show about a man who wants to kill himself cause his wife dies of cancer and it's still more fun than this. Spoiler alert, season two is on the way so in the end he obviously didn't kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he's your friend but I don't care.
Seriously, most films are awful. Lazy. Remakes, sequels. I've heard a rumor there might be a sequel to Sophie's Choice. I mean, that would just be Meryl just going, 'Well, it's gotta be this one then.'
All the best actors have jumped to Netflix, HBO. And the actors who just do Hollywood movies now do fantasy-adventure nonsense. They wear masks and capes and really tight costumes. Their job isn't acting anymore. It's going to the gym twice a day and taking steroids, really. Have we got an award for most ripped junky? No point, we'd know who'd win that.
Martin Scorsese made the news for his controversial comments about the Marvel franchise. He said they're not real cinema and they remind him about theme parks. I agree. Although I don't know what he's doing hanging around theme parks. He's not big enough to go on the rides. He's tiny.
The Irishman was amazing. It was amazing. It was great. Long, but amazing. It wasn't the only epic movie. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, nearly three hours long. Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere and by the end his date was too old for him. Even Prince Andrew was like, 'Come on, Leo, mate.You're nearly 50-something.'
The world got to see James Corden as a fat p****. He was also in the movie Cats. No one saw that movie. And the reviews, shocking. I saw one that said, 'This is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs.' But Dame Judi Dench defended the film saying it was the role she was born to play because she loves nothing better than plunking herself down on the carpet, lifting her leg and licking her [expletive]. (Coughs) Hairball. She's old-school.
It's the last time, who cares? Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. Well, you say you're woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?
So if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and f*** off, OK? It's already three hours long. Right, let's do the first award."
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Greta, Hypocrisy, Epstein, Farrow - the hard shots are good ones. There were some serious sacred cows that got obliterated with that monologue. Pockets of the Future has the best take on the speech and the reactions. Check it out:
I'm not sure the Deep State will get the buy in they're used to getting.
20 years ago, they were able to get the American people to buy into any foreign military action imaginable, simply by saying how scary and threatening the people over there were. It sounds silly now, but Sean Hannity was able to repeat "they hate us for our freedoms" and get swaths of the population to wave the foam finger and shout "America #1" as troops rolled into the Middle East.
The reactions I'm seeing lead me to believe that things are changing on the Forever War front.
In the Corporate Media, Fox's biggest draw Tucker Carlson gave the case for NOT going to war with Iran. Remember, Fox was one of the channels that pushed for war in the Middle East under the W. Bush regime. They worked hard to shape the American mind, and to get it to think the way the Deep State wanted.
Not so much anymore:
At the end of the 3 minute clip Carlson lets you know that the threats that were stopped were not on American soil. This is the key. Easily digestible bits of information like that were always ignored previously. The fact that you have a talking head on Fox explaining this plainly proves that the Old Narrative isn't holding up. The second part is here. It is even harder hitting. I recommend you watch it.
Vox Day on his site isolated the money quote: "Before we enter into a single new war, there’s a criterion that ought to be met. Our leaders should explain to us how that conflict will make the United States richer and more secure. There are an awful lot of bad people in this world. We can’t kill them all. It’s not our job. Instead, our government exists to defend and promote the interests of American citizens. Period. That’s why we have a government. So, how has the killing of Soleimani done that? Maybe. No one in Washington has explained how."
Coming from a different angle, Black Twitter erupted in memery at the news of the Iranian drone strikes. The mockery is important because our Overlords hate being made fun of. You have to appreciate the open laughter and howling and lack of seriousness that Black Twitter has for the Rulers.
The #WWIII hashtag took off like a rocket, and showed how little regard the Fam has for those at the Top of the Pyramid:
The Washington Post, by this stage of the game, is good for not much more than a lens into Late Stage Collapse Clown World. As America is probably within a decade of some kind of crack up, the Post is worried about ... the race of teachers in America. Not only that, it feels that there are too many White Teachers.
The quote that got my attention is the one that perpetuates the same myth that has bounced around schools of education for the past 40 years, the myth that if the race of the teacher matches that of the student, it's "better". Here is Prof. Seth Gershenson explaining things: “Representation absolutely matters and it matters for … almost every educational outcome you can think of,” said Seth Gershenson, a public policy professor at American University. I checked Prof. Gershenson's CV. He has taught a total of 0 days at a public high school of any kind, let alone a public high school in the Bad Neighborhood.
I learned that this myth is patently false within the first month of teaching in the South Bronx in 1997. One of our Teacher Assistants lamented that there were not only too few Latino teachers, but that we didn't read Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets. Her belief was that students needed teachers and authors who look and sound like them.
None of that is true. The race of the teacher is completely irrelevant. Students want quality instruction, from someone with passion for the craft. Students, like everyone else, don't want their time wasted. The 'expert' quoted above is not only wrong, he's destructively wrong.
Only in race obsessed Corporate Media and Academia would a quote like this one pass the editor's desk: "A classmate, Sebastien Jean, 17, who is black and Hispanic, remembers that his elementary school teachers were all white, so he started acting what felt like white, absorbing what he called the “Caucasianness of it."
“I sort of lost my flavor,” he said.
That created tension with his mother. “I would go home and start talking about the weather and gas prices and my mom would be like, ‘Where did you get that from?’ ”
When they look back at Clown World, they'll see mindless anecdotes like the one above, and wonder how it all went so badly so quickly. Everyone knows that talking about the weather and gas prices is destructively White. The 'caucasianness' of it ... so terrible. Of course the obvious irony is that the Cloud People keep trying to bus more Black and Hispanic students into White neighborhoods. The Post seems unaware of the obvious contradiction. This is an example of The Narrative being maintained, even where there is obvious inconsistency.
Another piece of evidence archaeologists of the future will use is the picture above. The white liberal teacher with the glasses is the problem. She thinks she can help, but her paternalistic philosophy only harms students. She and Prof. G. continually promote these myths, with the help of the Washington Post. Despite the obvious failures of their idiotic race based philosophy and the system's collapse, they eternally beat the same drum.
As usual, the only people who lose in this toxic cauldron are the students.
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"Sensible children do not wish to be incomplete adults." -- John Taylor Gatto
Sometimes the media actually prints the truth. It's so rare, you have to catch it when it happens. I wasn't planning on this being the first post of 2020, but it is one of those instances that demands attention.
One of my best 'mental hooks' as a teacher is the grounding philosophy of 'everything you've been taught is wrong'. It works for me, students like it, and I provide evidence.
One of the Big Lies is that women want a nice guy. This is totally false. There is no evidence to prove this assertion. They want a guy who is bad. An exciting Bad Boy with a motorcycle, multiple other girlfriends, and a mean streak is the ideal guy for most of the women on earth. You'll never hear this the real world, so when it is voiced and printed it needs to be noticed.
This article in the International Paper of Record, The Sun, explains the real philosophy that women hold:
Here's the key quote, one that every man should memorize, as it is the distillation of the way things really are: "I married Mr Perfect anyway, but his ridiculous moral compass has come to be a bone of contention. Simply put, I’m bored of being married to a paragon of virtue."
The key word is 'bored'. This poor guy is 'nice',doing it right, and his wife is 'bored'. Fellas, every relationship book in the world won't serve you better than this one article. Memorize it.
