Great question, Moorea! I imagine every community which has invested participants will have a different approach to dealing with an individual with a Kunlangeta mindsets and psychopathic tendencies. Some might ex-communicate a person and banish them out of their community; some might rehabilitate the errant person; and some might punish them. Ideally, ever community is made up of people who know one another personally. It’s harder to cheat/lie/steal/hurt someone you’re already in relationship with.
I come from a town small enough where most people knew each other. We even knew the names of those that weren’t a great contributing factor to our city; like the local drunks. And somehow just knowing that it was George in that park being a sod on the bench was still enough to have him be a member of our town. Parallel that to my current home town of Chicago where we just refer to those people as the “homeless population.”
We’ve lost our abilities to be in relationship with our communities. I don’t know the names of most of my neighbours. If there was a fire, how likely am I to storm in the house to try and help until the fire department gets there? I’m bringing these up as examples of how dynamics and personalities organise around communities who are in genuine relationships. It’s good to borrow items from neighbours and them to borrow from you because it establishes a social contract, it creates intimacy.
So, back to your question: I read about this tribe (I wish I could remember the name) which would take a person who has transgressed and put them in a center while the rest of the tribe circle them up. They would remind that person about all the ways the community has benefitted by their presence, they would remind them why the community grows having them be a part of it; they would even sing that person songs to bring them back to the babe stage of belonging. This sounds a bit Kumbaya but knowing I’ve sometimes acted selfishly and could have used a tribal intervention, I can get down with this kind of Kumbaya.
But I’m open to the ideas that the community I’m a part of comes up with. How would you handle it? Do you think it’s necessary for Daddy Government to tell us what to do with these kind of people? Don’t most people in Government express the exact quality of imposing their will on the people that you speak of, except perhaps they engage in that behaviour more covertly?
I would profit from an experiment to separate lucid sober diagnosis of what is the case, as I find mostly unerring in your analysis here, from the widely varying inferences what to do about actual power as it expresses - ranging from ‘stick a fork in it, you’re done’ to thinking toward (sorry!) local accountable democracy leveraged through a dense web of minimum cross-reassurance providing global agreements (contracts, not oaths😂), such that the simplicity of violence is out-cultivated with better if more complicated options.
I might be a bit too dim to grok what exactly what you’re saying here, but if I can grab onto this last thought you had about not using violence for problem solutions and look at models that albeit more complicated can yield better results, I’m all for it. And yes, local elections can make a bigger difference, but I’m raging against the entire system because it has been zombofied for so long unless we stop IECing the damn thing and letting the DNR order serve some truth bombs, we’re never gonna fix it. Hi, Stefan! So glad to see you in the comments. 🤗
Hey everybody! This is someone I know in real life!! And he is a goooood egg.
I love the memes! And I love the definition of "Normie" - I've actually been struggling with the concept of defining the term, so that was awesome that you included that.
I think it's totally cool that you are working in that capacity, and I don't see it as a contradiction at all.
A while ago the Last American Vagabond did a video discussion about the architecture of choice which was fascinating. For my part, I still find the whole thing very challenging, I really don't know what conclusion to come to on this difficult topic. This is the link in case anyone wants to watch.
The most pertinent meme is the Woodrow Wilson Sold America Like a Stock one.
The problem is that there are 62 other sister banks in other countries sitting under the Bank of International Settlements that Rothschild Inc. has since taken over.
Using that they bought up all of the corporate world using shadow corporations and organizations, after convincing everyone (Rush Limbaugh a HUGE tool in that regard) that corporations were people too.
They’ve bribed and blackmailed just about every high level federal government traitor;
they own and control the banks via that mechanism;
they’ve gained control of “education” (aka propaganda) in the same manner;
same for the Medical (notice I don’t use the word health) INDUSTRY;
same for the Talmudic system of law that favors them and those with wealth and hinders those that do not; etc.
Meanwhile and through it all, they’ve managed to convince everyone that the value of everything boils down to money and wealth, even over their own children, which should be blatant by now and if it isn’t for anyone then they’re entirely lost, and that all the mechanisms through which they control us are actually good when the truth is that they’re morally fatal.
The single biggest traitors to the US and its Constitution, and enemies of liberty, and the single biggest criminals and lawbreakers, technically constituting a criminal gang, are all federal and state level politicians. They are enemies of ALL that is good, moral, and decent!! They’re paid for and controlled by the above.
Yet, “law enforcement” at ANY level does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about THOSE/THEIR crimes!!
Talmudism = anti-Christian at its core!
That is what controls the world today.
The embodiment of this in the New Testament is Saul, later converted to Paul, the primary author of the New Testament.
Acts 8: 1-3 is a fair summary of his position prior to his meeting with the ascended Christ. Acts 9 is an account of his drastic conversion.
8: 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him. 3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
But those are the two ideologies that are at work in the grand scheme today. People say that they don’t want to believe in God & Christ, but those on that side most certainly do. Christ is their mortal and moral enemy because their father is the devil, whom they literally worship, hence all of the human sacrificial activity in the world.
Other references in the New Testament validate that as well if their own words aren’t enough.
So while they march on to lead the world into hell, the vast majority comply with the devices that they’ve put before us, led by the allure of money, something that we will be finding out very very soon exactly how fleeting it is. When they don’t want us to have any anymore, at least not without complete and total control over us, then we won’t.
Unrecognized by so many due to the their spawned heretical teachings found pervasively throughout most corporations disguised as “churches” in our country, Rev. 20:7-9 is playing out right now.
CERN as they’ve stated is a portal to hell and will unleash something from deep in the bowels of the earth. The vast majority of people, even of the self-proclaimed “awake,” are entirely clueless. This is why the masks are off by the perps, they are gaining confidence from these developments as it appears to them that victory is nigh, and it is from their perspective and from an earthly sense. There’s nothing here anymore for the “camp of the saints” except for persecution.
Among the most heretical and false teachings out there is this idiotic notion that Christ is coming back to prevent people from experiencing this hardship (to understate) and to fix our world, which is most certainly heretical despite its widespread belief. Again, also introduced into the “christian” culture via the Saul side of Paul.
To the contrary in fact, we are sternly encouraged to be faithful unto death and not love our lives unto death. Rev. 2:10 & 12:11. Christ himself told us, the extreme minority that truly belong to him via their faith in him that is, and not in mammon which he told us plainly that we could not worship both, that the world would hate us and kill us but to be at peace because it was him that they were persecuting. …. much as Saul did prior to his revelation of Christ via his meeting with him.
They’ve play the long game! Their father is the devil as Christ himself explains, particularly in Matt. 23. The devil has been around since he was bound and cast into the abyss upon Christ’s resurrection, and more importantly his ascension, which isn’t nearly as heralded, unfortunately. We celebrate Easter and a “sad death,” but nothing re: the glory of Christ being seated in the heavens at the right hand of God.
I hate using Old Testament references for varying reasons, as well as movies, but today is much like the account of Noah’s Ark in the OT, and like the scene from the movie the Ten Commandments when Moses as portrayed by Charlton Heston exclaims, “who is on God’s side, let him come to me!” prior to the majority of the rest perishing, also as historically documented in the OT.
So too it is today. What we call “christian” today in the west is largely a disposable plastic version and mask over Talmudic subversion since most of our societal institutions are controlled by the Talmudists in one form or another, and largely administered via Freemasonry using the tenets of Bolshevism/Liberalism. Christ has been reduced to a cheap wish-granting genie in our society, very often with people asking for wealth and creature comforts when the NT preaches contrarily.
Meanwhile, all the institutions of our world center around and focus on wealth. The role of women in society has been diverted to what’s most important and foundational to a healthy nuclear family society, to one where jealously has perverted our culture with women tying their value to the size of their incomes.
It’s tragic, but the greater tragedy is how few people actually understand the reality of what’s going on at that level, largely because their focus is all but entirely earthly for determining what and where their treasure lies.
Jesus stated plainly in Matt. 6:19-21 … Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Our western civilization has focused on and done the opposite. EVERYTHING has increasingly revolved around earthly treasures with that escalating over the past half-century plus, not coincidentally the same time-frame in which the Talmudists have taken complete control over western civilization, starting with the control of the entire world’s economies approximately a century ago.
The focus for anyone at this point in time should be figuring out who Christ is and ensuring that faith. Don’t listen to the 501(c) corporations that may say differently, true faith is all that is required. Luke 23:39-43 sums that up nicely;
"And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us. But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom. And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise."
Christ told those that truly have that faith in him that they would recognize the season. But he also asked in Luke 18:8 …
"And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them? 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
It is quite clear that real faith, the same mutually exclusive faith in God over faith in mammon is certainly an extreme minority thing these days.
History has repeated itself in this regard often, but the big difference this time is that it is documented and they are repeatedly telling us that they are “releasing Satan from his prison” for the end-game. Right now most people with wealth claiming to be followers of Christ are more concerned about their wealth/mammon than they are about their heavenly treasures. That is between them and God/Christ.
Simply because people choose not to believe does not make any difference. Consider all of the conspiracy “theories” that are true conspiracies, that people laughed at just a few years ago, and made fun of people that understood that they were true conspiracies, and as if a Global Government wouldn’t conspire to do a great many things. Talk about a lack of wisdom there, not to mention the extreme cognitive dissonance and overall ignorance.
Anyway, not believing them did not render them untrue.
Again, more drops in the bucket. It's too late now, as a people we haven't paid attention to the warnings, but worse, we've bought into all the anti-Christ(ian) crap that they've put before us. ... the satanic Medical Industry that usurped the neutriceuticals; Central Banking which replaced national banking; Law, based upon Talmudic principles, NOT Christian ones, Jesus even referred to lawyers as such; Government; "Education", etc. It's ALL based upon Talmudic anti-Christ(ian) ideologies.
I’m still making my way through your links. Don’t know why I am afraid to tread in these waters. It seems like it’s pulling on a thread that will dump all the yarn out. But I know it needs to be done. I know. Phone call soon. I had some big news.
After I became a citizen, I threw my vote away on third parties. Then I went normie, and voted Dem. Pinching my nose. Then I quit voting altogether and preached "what if they held an election and nobody came?" Well, that would work if everybody listened to me. They don't. :-)
So where does that leave me? I am sick of voting for the "lesser evil." I think voting is better than not voting at all.
The Harris ticket gives new meaning to the word vomit, to steal from Monty Python.
Trump? Yish. Gah. A bloviating narcissist who knows how to hire all the wrong people...
Nevertheless...
if Harris and the neocons whose puppet she is win:
-- no chance for the end of the war in Ukraine; escalating the war and ongoing nuclear brinksmanship is the name of the game now
-- no chance that someone would stand up the Big Pharma
-- no chance that the guv will stop persecuting people for speaking freely
So I have decided
I am voting for Team Kennedy. Why?
-- because both parties hate him :-)
-- because that team is actually being assembled from both side of the Dem/Rep divide
-- because Kennedy is the only person I can think of who will actually stand up to Big Pharma -- because he already has been -- and for healthy food and ag
-- because Musk and Kennedy and Gabbard will be for free speech -- because they already have been
-- because Bobby is the only person I trust to push for the JFK archives to be finally opened up
That is a pretty inspiring video. And I don’t blame you for being into Kennedy at all. I flew to Boston to watch his presidential bid announcement. But there are lots of reason to be skeptical of Kennedy, Musk, Trump, Tulsi… outside of the fact that I don’t think anyone gets a seat at the table unless they’re compromised, there were Scientology ties to Bobby, there is very problematic military ties to Musk, not to mention his brain chip and transhumanist leanings, Tulsi has ties to WEF… and there is a case to make about the fact that the needle can move a bit on some issues that are dear to my heart such as Big Pharma and Big Food shake ups. But I still think the most palpable change will happen on a local level where we each get involved.
Of course! None of these people can be trusted past of what they actually do. Words don't count. That's what I am going on, and taking the rest with a pinch of salt. A big pinch. But I take the good stuff they have done with gratitude and appreciation in these dark times.
wow... you mirrored my thoughts/feelings pretty much exactly, except I'm not American, so I didn't and can never vote. To my dismay, but not surprise, this morning my local news said a poll shows "most" Canadians would vote Harris. Vomit. Of course I'm not thrilled with Trump either, so... as you said. Great commentary and contribution to the conversation.
Thank you so much! Yeah, Kanada... so sad what's going down...
I meant to make my post more radical, but demurred. But I think we all know which wing of the uniparty is pushing child mutilation, abortion up to the moment of birth, fentanyl galore, and celebration of the mentally ill. What a world!
I am very disturbed by the Democratic party, perhaps even more so because I considered myself aligned with it for so long and feel absolutely disgusted with myself for it.
I too was aligned that way. But then they flipped out. Joined the dark side. I think we were right, and the dark side was on the Republican side for a long time...
Then the Dems became the party of the establishment. Gah! They side with Big Pharma! Jeer and hate on the working class! Undermine freedom of speech! That should be enough for anyone who actually pays attention to realize that the rug was pulled out from underneath them, no?
The Repubs are now the party of the common man, whereas the Dems are the party of luxury beliefs of the professional classes. It's not nothing, but... Neither can be trusted with anything except the effort to climb to power and troughs. I have always voted as Independent.
You know how I tell if the new administration will do anything differently, and more right than wrong? I look at the pick for agriculture. If they pick another "zero experience in ag" lawyer, you know it's business as usual... :-)
Oh man, I don't even know where to begin. Such a great essay, you "hopeless optimist," you. (The brilliance of those two words paired together can NOT be overstated.)
Somehow the argument you're making puts me in a very philosophical mind, asking if our lives indeed are governed by free will or by destiny -- in both life as we know it AND life as citizens of this country. If I believe that the PTB are controlling all the strings, then meh, why vote? You'd have to be correct: it's already decided ahead of time who's going to win this thing. It's "destined." I, like you, am a hopeless optimist, however, and believe there IS such a thing as free will, so I'll vote. I'd rather take action than not.
Sure, it might be like jumping off a cliff and THEN deciding I don't want to fall, but whatever. I think destiny and free will circle around and influence each other, and that all actions ripple into the cosmos in some way. Who knows? Maybe I've got a parachute! 😉
Love Calvin's voiceover -- I hear his mama in his cadence and timbre. ❤️
That was Calvin’s voice before puberty. He sounds like a full blown man now, at 13! He’s a second base in choir. His twin is a tenor 1 so those two apples fell very far apart from each other. 😂
I can always count on you to bring the convo into the philosophical realm (for which I’m grateful!) and I agree that it touches in the topic of free will and destiny. And after years of fighting for our autonomy, who wants to relinquish any agency? But I suppose my feeling is that it isn’t just so much that the candidate is already chosen (not ruling it out, I think the cabal is leaning into trump) but that no matter who is voted in, they’ll dance with the devil. But here is the nub: does it really matter? It’s like in life, you can choose to have kids or to have a career, or jump off an airplane, or whatever path that might have a determined outcome, but ultimately, which one gives you the most joy? Which lets you improv the dance steps? Well, that’s all of them! 😂
Tonika! Your post! Your wit! Your insight! Thank you for bringing laser brilliance to the elections. And I just love that you'll be a judge for election day! Will you be voting for anything on the ballot at all? I plan to research judges and school election board. Other than that, I'm not sure I can stomach voting for any of the bigger name positions.
I just spent time with my family in MN, and my brother was horrified that I'm not voting for Kamala. He still thinks the democrats are doing the best they can despite the "weird happenstance of covid", despite the baddie republicans blocking their every good intention. We had some really good talks though, and that helps with connection. I shared with them Tereza's list of how to have a better argument, and everyone appreciated that list. We patted ourselves on the back for liking each other.
Hey, I was just texting Gillian about that Tereza’s list today. Look at that synchronicity. T would be proud!
I’m so glad to hear you and your brother had a conversation, even if it was in stormy waters. If love is the fundamental value in the relationship, the issue can be understood from the opposite perspective.
It’s funny that you’re voting in the exact opposite way of how everyone else votes. They usually leave the other side blank because they have zero research on the local stuff. I don’t know if I’ll vote on anything. I might do a write in NOTA vote.
Thanks for articulating so well many of our individual perspectives on the multi party system; i.e. ruling members of the GOP, RINOs, ruling members of Democrats, DINOs, MAGA, MAHA.
You most definitely have the tone down - irreverence and humor - for commenting on the stupid we call US politics. Had lunch (well happy hour really) with two friends recently and after 15 minutes of listening to them 'discuss' (and discuss is really too grown up a word for what I listened to) I had to step in and insist they change the subject. (They assumed politics was unappetizing to me, but in fact it was how they talked about politics that I couldn't stomach.)
Let me guess- they also assume you’re voting and sharing the same feelings as them? I get stuck in those conversations quite a bit. I’ve started to say things but here’s the kicker: if you don’t display efficient TDS, you’re automatically a Trumper. And how do I explain, where do I even begin to tell them that I dislike Trump for entirely different reasons than they do? And no, I don’t think he’s Hitler anymore than I think Kamala is Mao.
Yes, I'm very familiar with the assumption that I must be for Trump since I'm not rabidly against him. Ugh. Can't wait for it all to be over - but my guess is post Nov 5, it's a far way from being over.
I was told that Trump is a racist because he doesn't want critical race theory taught to school children, and I must be a racist, too, if I agree with him on that issue.
Great stuff, Tonika. I have this argument with people every election, it seems. I'm pretty sure I lost the partner of my life over the 2016 election--or it least it caused a rift which eventually became too wide to bridge. Tribal identity has such a powerful hold over the human psyche that it destroys the good in your life, as well as functioning as an effective veil for the true structures of power. The Rod Serling meme really sums it up best, I think.
If there's a unifying mission to all of this substacking we're doing, I think its this: awaken to and acknowledge your own power instead of surrendering it to political heroes and villains. There is immense power in what you do in your life, what you give your attention and energy to, and particularly in what you give your assent to, and what you refuse to go along with. Political office seekers are not "leaders", they are parasites on what the public already believe and will accept. What you allow is what will continue.
The political shadow puppet show is meant to distract us from this fact. Great to know there are others who see past it.
PS. I stole all those memes too, so steal away😉
PPS. I couldn't make it through the Tiktok video. Gross, lol.
You’re speaking my language! Waking up and acknowledging our own power is a priority. My third Stackerversary is coming up and I usually pen a post offering a simple summation of where I’m at and why I stack, but its main goal is exactly what you say here.
I am sorry to hear about losing your partnership. So many political and social issues are indicative of a person’s worldview and it helps peel off the layers hiding fundamental values. In the end, better to have it happen early than late. Especially late when there’s children involved.
So, we chose Halloween and Day of the Dead respectively, huh? As if I didn’t have enough little kid October activities already on my plate. Seriously, do you know how many Pumpkin Patches I’ve been to already?
Normie = NPC - I'm inclined toward "clueless" as a more accurate term.
If they make you wear an "identifying badge" as an election judge, I hope you wear some shirt / sweatshirt that has a very good eye opening message!
There is nothing like being in the system to become disgusted by the system (my awakening was in 1992 when I was a candidate for US Congress).
When we talk about the divide between the poor / common person vs the ultra rich, I wish people wouldn't lump in people that are "successful" (have a decent job, a nice home and can afford groceries) with the ultra wealthy. We aren't ultra wealthy, we are getting screwed like the rest of you. Heck, many of us are sure that we shoulder the majority of the tax burden.
Yes, ultra rich is the .00001%. We might not actually even know their names, that’s how rich they are. If you don’t have your own island and aren’t isolated from society, you’re not part of that club.
I really hope you write more about your observations from running for office. It’s a unique perspective that deserves more eyeballs.
I'm willing to even say the "ultra rich" are the top 0.01%.
Not the top 1%, not the top 0.1% but even more exclusive. Top 1% is 1 out of 100 - quite likely that everyone knows someone there. Top 0.1% is 1 out of 1,000 - starting to be hard to know such a person first hand. Top 0.01% is 1 out of 10,000 - very uncommon but that's still 800,000 of the 8 billion people in the world. So maybe we need to go one more step and say top 0.001%, thus about 400,000 people worldwide. Those are the people that control your lives, those are the people that don't care about you, those are the people that control the politicians.
"The "ultra-rich" typically refers to ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs), who have a net worth of at least $30 million" - In my mind that's still a fairly normal person (think movie star or sports star or routine CEO.
To be in the top ten wealthiest people of the world you must have over $100 billion dollars of net worth. That's *billions* not millions!
To be in the top 200 you must have over $10 billion. We could potentially say that having one billion dollars doesn't even qualify you as "ultra wealthy". But having a billion wouldn't be too bad! That's 1,000 times more than a million though. How many people reading this have even somewhere close to a million dollars? Nope, we are the working poor! (and thus I resent it when less well off people scoff at me as "rich" - cripes I'm struggling to survive to a level where I can retire to a comfortable normal life of living in a home that isn't falling down and being able to afford groceries - forget about affording "healthcare" - I don't want "healthcare" even if it was free!)
I like that you crunched the numbers like that. I’d say the number of psychopathic parasites that really rule the world is smaller than 400k. I’m betting more on like 500 ppl. I don’t know what that means in terms of net worth. But it’s also about power and length of yielding it. Some of these families have ruled for generations.
I'm sure this isn't a "black & white" / hard line. In reality it is something of a sliding scale. The more wealth you have the more power and influence you have. So yes, the top 500 have more power and influence than the next 500 which have more influence than the next 1000, etc all the way until you get to us where we feel like we have "zero" influence.
There are no doubt a few people who have built a reputation and temporarily wield more influence by just their reputation / words (along with connections) than by their wealth. But yes, you are talking about the generational wealth which is the primary focus / center of the power and influence over the world.
Another point I'd make is that those in power (filthy rich) are humans also and thus are competitive and greedy so they are in a struggle / game competing against each other. We tend to be the innocent casualties that are collateral damage from such wars.
Definitely a power struggle at play. Do you think these people are affiliated with specific countries? One of my line of thinking has been trying to figure out if British Empire and America are fighting over supreme hegemony or if American is just the bully fave of the British Empire which went into hiding. The British-American relationship doesn’t sit right with me at all.
I'm inclined to think it's far more "international" and not one nation pitted against another. More corporate aligned than national aligned. Nations are more their tools and playthings.
The British leaders and American leaders have very close relations. Which actually makes the American Revolution and war for independence quite surprising. So we can look at the American Revolution as a fight over who got the profits, then as soon as the war was over the trade deals resumed and mutual profiting was the norm (with the War of 1812 another manifestation of military conflict over who profits from what).
Given that humans struggle to effectively operate with a group larger than about 100 people, the key group of controlling people is probably under 200 people.
Ok I am halfway thru and itching to comment. The guy in the video.. I actually think it is a much simpler situation. Corporations rule:
It takes money to get elected.
Corporations supply the money.
Candidates are obligated to corporations.
Corporations get bigger, less consumer friendly.. as regulators are also beholden to Industry (Corporations).
My ideas for change:
1. No more political advertising. Have mandatory, repeat, well-run debates and let voters decide based on those and of course actual track records.
2. No more corporate donations. No donations at all.. bc bo advertising. Have some govt agency or independent group provide ballot summaries for voters to review.
I am sure more is needed, but what a hellofa place to start! I kept thinking one party would get wise and donate their ad $ to post-Helene rebuild and take the positive PR from that. Missed opportunity. Noone enjoys the barrage of poliitical ads and texts. And voters should not be making decisions based on advertising propaganda.
Great post and superb video Tonika… you articulate my own thoughts about the two parties, indeed the whole system, very well. Glad you will be there to judge on the day. 👩🏻⚖️
I was a poll worker in March and it was very interesting to observe the dynamics in this blue city.
I remember you writing about that! Yeah, the training was four hours of non-stop information hose and I know for a fact the judges they’ve hired are not the brightest bulbs in the lot. We’ll see how it goes!
oved the little viddeyo--so true! they don't give a hoot 'bout us! us...
Re "normies"--it's a term that isn't (imh crackpotty opinion) just fer those that don't question / those that "trust the science" but I DO like it as a "relative" that's not a fambly relation! As in "normie" relative TO....
Here's how... relative to all who deny gender (chicks with dicks, nursin' daddies...) I'm a normie in that cat fight bein' a laydee notta trannie an' no unspellable identity... Relative ta the cabalists & cabalistas that attend all them fawncy pahrtees an' swap "pizza" an' "walnut sauce," I'mma normie as I don't eat children an' my kinda velly un-fawncy pahtees nowdaze are parent pot lucks where everyone seems ta bring "casserole"... An' relative to the SJWs an' the Mega Magas I'm a normie cuz I don't wear a black mask an' fist pump nor a red baseball cap an' while these proud nihilists an' patriots do their pahrty thang at protests an' rallies if anything this laydee protests too much goin' no no no schpinnin' them wheels fer their "sides"--I'll take the 5th an' watch an old Charlie Chaplin flick... So imho me an' my tinfoil dimestore hat with the hang tab is WAAAAAAAAY more normie than the freakshow that is Amerika that is no longer "love they neighbor".... I do reach out in the darkness often an' try ta bridge that gap... sometimes I git a horker (virtual typically) headed right fer the forehead, when lucky I git a hand back 'er at least a few fingers...
Howevah, I'm still (even as a normie...) CRAZY fer the Red, White, & Blue (& Yellow & Orange & Green!)
😂 Daisy, oh Lordy! Well first of all, I knew that YT clip was gonna be Hair before I even clicked it. Every time I read “red, white, and blue,” I finish with “yellow, orange, and green in my head. A habit, I’m sure, left over from my college days.
Second of all, “cabalists, and cabalistas”- 😂 💀 don’t know why “cabalistas” makes me laugh so hard, but it does.
>>Money Pox<< dang it, why didn’t I think of that?!?
aw, tee-rrific! yer 5 year old then has it down better than ALL them polly-tish-uns that cannot git it inta their thick skulls that waaaay too many are very very bad lol ;-)
And what do we do when individual community members on a power trip try to impose their will on said communities?
Great question, Moorea! I imagine every community which has invested participants will have a different approach to dealing with an individual with a Kunlangeta mindsets and psychopathic tendencies. Some might ex-communicate a person and banish them out of their community; some might rehabilitate the errant person; and some might punish them. Ideally, ever community is made up of people who know one another personally. It’s harder to cheat/lie/steal/hurt someone you’re already in relationship with.
I come from a town small enough where most people knew each other. We even knew the names of those that weren’t a great contributing factor to our city; like the local drunks. And somehow just knowing that it was George in that park being a sod on the bench was still enough to have him be a member of our town. Parallel that to my current home town of Chicago where we just refer to those people as the “homeless population.”
We’ve lost our abilities to be in relationship with our communities. I don’t know the names of most of my neighbours. If there was a fire, how likely am I to storm in the house to try and help until the fire department gets there? I’m bringing these up as examples of how dynamics and personalities organise around communities who are in genuine relationships. It’s good to borrow items from neighbours and them to borrow from you because it establishes a social contract, it creates intimacy.
So, back to your question: I read about this tribe (I wish I could remember the name) which would take a person who has transgressed and put them in a center while the rest of the tribe circle them up. They would remind that person about all the ways the community has benefitted by their presence, they would remind them why the community grows having them be a part of it; they would even sing that person songs to bring them back to the babe stage of belonging. This sounds a bit Kumbaya but knowing I’ve sometimes acted selfishly and could have used a tribal intervention, I can get down with this kind of Kumbaya.
But I’m open to the ideas that the community I’m a part of comes up with. How would you handle it? Do you think it’s necessary for Daddy Government to tell us what to do with these kind of people? Don’t most people in Government express the exact quality of imposing their will on the people that you speak of, except perhaps they engage in that behaviour more covertly?
I would profit from an experiment to separate lucid sober diagnosis of what is the case, as I find mostly unerring in your analysis here, from the widely varying inferences what to do about actual power as it expresses - ranging from ‘stick a fork in it, you’re done’ to thinking toward (sorry!) local accountable democracy leveraged through a dense web of minimum cross-reassurance providing global agreements (contracts, not oaths😂), such that the simplicity of violence is out-cultivated with better if more complicated options.
I might be a bit too dim to grok what exactly what you’re saying here, but if I can grab onto this last thought you had about not using violence for problem solutions and look at models that albeit more complicated can yield better results, I’m all for it. And yes, local elections can make a bigger difference, but I’m raging against the entire system because it has been zombofied for so long unless we stop IECing the damn thing and letting the DNR order serve some truth bombs, we’re never gonna fix it. Hi, Stefan! So glad to see you in the comments. 🤗
Hey everybody! This is someone I know in real life!! And he is a goooood egg.
I'm. not gonna lie - this all makes my head spin. I'm going to go sitwiththetrees. 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲XOXO
Best you can do for yourself and humanity. Thank you for doing so. 🙏
I love the memes! And I love the definition of "Normie" - I've actually been struggling with the concept of defining the term, so that was awesome that you included that.
I think it's totally cool that you are working in that capacity, and I don't see it as a contradiction at all.
A while ago the Last American Vagabond did a video discussion about the architecture of choice which was fascinating. For my part, I still find the whole thing very challenging, I really don't know what conclusion to come to on this difficult topic. This is the link in case anyone wants to watch.
https://rumble.com/v5fjwbv-debunking-the-false-binary-with-the-independent-media-alliance.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
I’m putting it in my cue, thanks Jen! And I appreciate that you absolve me of my hypocritical admission. 😂
The most pertinent meme is the Woodrow Wilson Sold America Like a Stock one.
The problem is that there are 62 other sister banks in other countries sitting under the Bank of International Settlements that Rothschild Inc. has since taken over.
Using that they bought up all of the corporate world using shadow corporations and organizations, after convincing everyone (Rush Limbaugh a HUGE tool in that regard) that corporations were people too.
They’ve bribed and blackmailed just about every high level federal government traitor;
they own and control the banks via that mechanism;
they’ve gained control of “education” (aka propaganda) in the same manner;
same for the Medical (notice I don’t use the word health) INDUSTRY;
same for the Talmudic system of law that favors them and those with wealth and hinders those that do not; etc.
Meanwhile and through it all, they’ve managed to convince everyone that the value of everything boils down to money and wealth, even over their own children, which should be blatant by now and if it isn’t for anyone then they’re entirely lost, and that all the mechanisms through which they control us are actually good when the truth is that they’re morally fatal.
The single biggest traitors to the US and its Constitution, and enemies of liberty, and the single biggest criminals and lawbreakers, technically constituting a criminal gang, are all federal and state level politicians. They are enemies of ALL that is good, moral, and decent!! They’re paid for and controlled by the above.
Yet, “law enforcement” at ANY level does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about THOSE/THEIR crimes!!
Talmudism = anti-Christian at its core!
That is what controls the world today.
The embodiment of this in the New Testament is Saul, later converted to Paul, the primary author of the New Testament.
Acts 8: 1-3 is a fair summary of his position prior to his meeting with the ascended Christ. Acts 9 is an account of his drastic conversion.
8: 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him. 3 But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.
But those are the two ideologies that are at work in the grand scheme today. People say that they don’t want to believe in God & Christ, but those on that side most certainly do. Christ is their mortal and moral enemy because their father is the devil, whom they literally worship, hence all of the human sacrificial activity in the world.
Other references in the New Testament validate that as well if their own words aren’t enough.
So while they march on to lead the world into hell, the vast majority comply with the devices that they’ve put before us, led by the allure of money, something that we will be finding out very very soon exactly how fleeting it is. When they don’t want us to have any anymore, at least not without complete and total control over us, then we won’t.
Unrecognized by so many due to the their spawned heretical teachings found pervasively throughout most corporations disguised as “churches” in our country, Rev. 20:7-9 is playing out right now.
CERN as they’ve stated is a portal to hell and will unleash something from deep in the bowels of the earth. The vast majority of people, even of the self-proclaimed “awake,” are entirely clueless. This is why the masks are off by the perps, they are gaining confidence from these developments as it appears to them that victory is nigh, and it is from their perspective and from an earthly sense. There’s nothing here anymore for the “camp of the saints” except for persecution.
Among the most heretical and false teachings out there is this idiotic notion that Christ is coming back to prevent people from experiencing this hardship (to understate) and to fix our world, which is most certainly heretical despite its widespread belief. Again, also introduced into the “christian” culture via the Saul side of Paul.
To the contrary in fact, we are sternly encouraged to be faithful unto death and not love our lives unto death. Rev. 2:10 & 12:11. Christ himself told us, the extreme minority that truly belong to him via their faith in him that is, and not in mammon which he told us plainly that we could not worship both, that the world would hate us and kill us but to be at peace because it was him that they were persecuting. …. much as Saul did prior to his revelation of Christ via his meeting with him.
They’ve play the long game! Their father is the devil as Christ himself explains, particularly in Matt. 23. The devil has been around since he was bound and cast into the abyss upon Christ’s resurrection, and more importantly his ascension, which isn’t nearly as heralded, unfortunately. We celebrate Easter and a “sad death,” but nothing re: the glory of Christ being seated in the heavens at the right hand of God.
I hate using Old Testament references for varying reasons, as well as movies, but today is much like the account of Noah’s Ark in the OT, and like the scene from the movie the Ten Commandments when Moses as portrayed by Charlton Heston exclaims, “who is on God’s side, let him come to me!” prior to the majority of the rest perishing, also as historically documented in the OT.
So too it is today. What we call “christian” today in the west is largely a disposable plastic version and mask over Talmudic subversion since most of our societal institutions are controlled by the Talmudists in one form or another, and largely administered via Freemasonry using the tenets of Bolshevism/Liberalism. Christ has been reduced to a cheap wish-granting genie in our society, very often with people asking for wealth and creature comforts when the NT preaches contrarily.
Meanwhile, all the institutions of our world center around and focus on wealth. The role of women in society has been diverted to what’s most important and foundational to a healthy nuclear family society, to one where jealously has perverted our culture with women tying their value to the size of their incomes.
It’s tragic, but the greater tragedy is how few people actually understand the reality of what’s going on at that level, largely because their focus is all but entirely earthly for determining what and where their treasure lies.
Jesus stated plainly in Matt. 6:19-21 … Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Our western civilization has focused on and done the opposite. EVERYTHING has increasingly revolved around earthly treasures with that escalating over the past half-century plus, not coincidentally the same time-frame in which the Talmudists have taken complete control over western civilization, starting with the control of the entire world’s economies approximately a century ago.
The focus for anyone at this point in time should be figuring out who Christ is and ensuring that faith. Don’t listen to the 501(c) corporations that may say differently, true faith is all that is required. Luke 23:39-43 sums that up nicely;
"And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us. But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom. And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise."
Christ told those that truly have that faith in him that they would recognize the season. But he also asked in Luke 18:8 …
"And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them? 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
It is quite clear that real faith, the same mutually exclusive faith in God over faith in mammon is certainly an extreme minority thing these days.
History has repeated itself in this regard often, but the big difference this time is that it is documented and they are repeatedly telling us that they are “releasing Satan from his prison” for the end-game. Right now most people with wealth claiming to be followers of Christ are more concerned about their wealth/mammon than they are about their heavenly treasures. That is between them and God/Christ.
Simply because people choose not to believe does not make any difference. Consider all of the conspiracy “theories” that are true conspiracies, that people laughed at just a few years ago, and made fun of people that understood that they were true conspiracies, and as if a Global Government wouldn’t conspire to do a great many things. Talk about a lack of wisdom there, not to mention the extreme cognitive dissonance and overall ignorance.
Anyway, not believing them did not render them untrue.
Wilson dragged America into a pointless war after lying about it all during his campaign. Then he sealed the betrayal with the Fed. Scum.
And then he moaned about how this was a bad thing to do... long after the fact. Scum.
Of course, but even that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the treasonous behavior that's pervasive throughout our Government today.
People simply don't understand, cognitive dissonance in a major way, that our government is our mortal enemy.
It'll become quite clear very soon.
Here are a couple of links/channels if you're not familiar with them that at least address some of it.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/sgWvbgPuKGME/
His channel's good as well.
And this guy's ...
https://old.bitchute.com/video/egNnyfG1xxgV/
That Jeremy Clarkson segment has been out for decades and available.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/iNcs6UNhj3dj/
Again, more drops in the bucket. It's too late now, as a people we haven't paid attention to the warnings, but worse, we've bought into all the anti-Christ(ian) crap that they've put before us. ... the satanic Medical Industry that usurped the neutriceuticals; Central Banking which replaced national banking; Law, based upon Talmudic principles, NOT Christian ones, Jesus even referred to lawyers as such; Government; "Education", etc. It's ALL based upon Talmudic anti-Christ(ian) ideologies.
I’m still making my way through your links. Don’t know why I am afraid to tread in these waters. It seems like it’s pulling on a thread that will dump all the yarn out. But I know it needs to be done. I know. Phone call soon. I had some big news.
Cool, can't wait to hear!!
Very timely, Tonika.
After I became a citizen, I threw my vote away on third parties. Then I went normie, and voted Dem. Pinching my nose. Then I quit voting altogether and preached "what if they held an election and nobody came?" Well, that would work if everybody listened to me. They don't. :-)
So where does that leave me? I am sick of voting for the "lesser evil." I think voting is better than not voting at all.
The Harris ticket gives new meaning to the word vomit, to steal from Monty Python.
Trump? Yish. Gah. A bloviating narcissist who knows how to hire all the wrong people...
Nevertheless...
if Harris and the neocons whose puppet she is win:
-- no chance for the end of the war in Ukraine; escalating the war and ongoing nuclear brinksmanship is the name of the game now
-- no chance that someone would stand up the Big Pharma
-- no chance that the guv will stop persecuting people for speaking freely
So I have decided
I am voting for Team Kennedy. Why?
-- because both parties hate him :-)
-- because that team is actually being assembled from both side of the Dem/Rep divide
-- because Kennedy is the only person I can think of who will actually stand up to Big Pharma -- because he already has been -- and for healthy food and ag
-- because Musk and Kennedy and Gabbard will be for free speech -- because they already have been
-- because Bobby is the only person I trust to push for the JFK archives to be finally opened up
And... well, this too:
Finish the story, Bobby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okl2kVfi2WY
What do you think? Feedback welcome.
That is a pretty inspiring video. And I don’t blame you for being into Kennedy at all. I flew to Boston to watch his presidential bid announcement. But there are lots of reason to be skeptical of Kennedy, Musk, Trump, Tulsi… outside of the fact that I don’t think anyone gets a seat at the table unless they’re compromised, there were Scientology ties to Bobby, there is very problematic military ties to Musk, not to mention his brain chip and transhumanist leanings, Tulsi has ties to WEF… and there is a case to make about the fact that the needle can move a bit on some issues that are dear to my heart such as Big Pharma and Big Food shake ups. But I still think the most palpable change will happen on a local level where we each get involved.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
Of course! None of these people can be trusted past of what they actually do. Words don't count. That's what I am going on, and taking the rest with a pinch of salt. A big pinch. But I take the good stuff they have done with gratitude and appreciation in these dark times.
Thank you too! :-)
wow... you mirrored my thoughts/feelings pretty much exactly, except I'm not American, so I didn't and can never vote. To my dismay, but not surprise, this morning my local news said a poll shows "most" Canadians would vote Harris. Vomit. Of course I'm not thrilled with Trump either, so... as you said. Great commentary and contribution to the conversation.
I thought Canadians were polite. 😂 what’s this cackling tyranny they’re supporting?
The more I learn the more un-impressed I become with my fellow Canadians.
Thank you so much! Yeah, Kanada... so sad what's going down...
I meant to make my post more radical, but demurred. But I think we all know which wing of the uniparty is pushing child mutilation, abortion up to the moment of birth, fentanyl galore, and celebration of the mentally ill. What a world!
You cheered me up. :-)
I am very disturbed by the Democratic party, perhaps even more so because I considered myself aligned with it for so long and feel absolutely disgusted with myself for it.
I too was aligned that way. But then they flipped out. Joined the dark side. I think we were right, and the dark side was on the Republican side for a long time...
Then the Dems became the party of the establishment. Gah! They side with Big Pharma! Jeer and hate on the working class! Undermine freedom of speech! That should be enough for anyone who actually pays attention to realize that the rug was pulled out from underneath them, no?
I’m just not sold that the repubs are compromise-free.
The Bad Cat has just done another great write up!
My mind exactly.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/genghis-trump
The Repubs are now the party of the common man, whereas the Dems are the party of luxury beliefs of the professional classes. It's not nothing, but... Neither can be trusted with anything except the effort to climb to power and troughs. I have always voted as Independent.
You know how I tell if the new administration will do anything differently, and more right than wrong? I look at the pick for agriculture. If they pick another "zero experience in ag" lawyer, you know it's business as usual... :-)
Oh man, I don't even know where to begin. Such a great essay, you "hopeless optimist," you. (The brilliance of those two words paired together can NOT be overstated.)
Somehow the argument you're making puts me in a very philosophical mind, asking if our lives indeed are governed by free will or by destiny -- in both life as we know it AND life as citizens of this country. If I believe that the PTB are controlling all the strings, then meh, why vote? You'd have to be correct: it's already decided ahead of time who's going to win this thing. It's "destined." I, like you, am a hopeless optimist, however, and believe there IS such a thing as free will, so I'll vote. I'd rather take action than not.
Sure, it might be like jumping off a cliff and THEN deciding I don't want to fall, but whatever. I think destiny and free will circle around and influence each other, and that all actions ripple into the cosmos in some way. Who knows? Maybe I've got a parachute! 😉
Love Calvin's voiceover -- I hear his mama in his cadence and timbre. ❤️
Also, gotta love the “hopeless optimist” oxymoron and wear the label proudly. :)
That was Calvin’s voice before puberty. He sounds like a full blown man now, at 13! He’s a second base in choir. His twin is a tenor 1 so those two apples fell very far apart from each other. 😂
I can always count on you to bring the convo into the philosophical realm (for which I’m grateful!) and I agree that it touches in the topic of free will and destiny. And after years of fighting for our autonomy, who wants to relinquish any agency? But I suppose my feeling is that it isn’t just so much that the candidate is already chosen (not ruling it out, I think the cabal is leaning into trump) but that no matter who is voted in, they’ll dance with the devil. But here is the nub: does it really matter? It’s like in life, you can choose to have kids or to have a career, or jump off an airplane, or whatever path that might have a determined outcome, but ultimately, which one gives you the most joy? Which lets you improv the dance steps? Well, that’s all of them! 😂
Tonika! Your post! Your wit! Your insight! Thank you for bringing laser brilliance to the elections. And I just love that you'll be a judge for election day! Will you be voting for anything on the ballot at all? I plan to research judges and school election board. Other than that, I'm not sure I can stomach voting for any of the bigger name positions.
I just spent time with my family in MN, and my brother was horrified that I'm not voting for Kamala. He still thinks the democrats are doing the best they can despite the "weird happenstance of covid", despite the baddie republicans blocking their every good intention. We had some really good talks though, and that helps with connection. I shared with them Tereza's list of how to have a better argument, and everyone appreciated that list. We patted ourselves on the back for liking each other.
Hey, I was just texting Gillian about that Tereza’s list today. Look at that synchronicity. T would be proud!
I’m so glad to hear you and your brother had a conversation, even if it was in stormy waters. If love is the fundamental value in the relationship, the issue can be understood from the opposite perspective.
It’s funny that you’re voting in the exact opposite way of how everyone else votes. They usually leave the other side blank because they have zero research on the local stuff. I don’t know if I’ll vote on anything. I might do a write in NOTA vote.
Thanks for reading, Marta!
I love the synchronicities so much!!! That's more exciting to me these days.
Thanks for articulating so well many of our individual perspectives on the multi party system; i.e. ruling members of the GOP, RINOs, ruling members of Democrats, DINOs, MAGA, MAHA.
🙌
You most definitely have the tone down - irreverence and humor - for commenting on the stupid we call US politics. Had lunch (well happy hour really) with two friends recently and after 15 minutes of listening to them 'discuss' (and discuss is really too grown up a word for what I listened to) I had to step in and insist they change the subject. (They assumed politics was unappetizing to me, but in fact it was how they talked about politics that I couldn't stomach.)
Danka Tonika! Best to you. xo
Let me guess- they also assume you’re voting and sharing the same feelings as them? I get stuck in those conversations quite a bit. I’ve started to say things but here’s the kicker: if you don’t display efficient TDS, you’re automatically a Trumper. And how do I explain, where do I even begin to tell them that I dislike Trump for entirely different reasons than they do? And no, I don’t think he’s Hitler anymore than I think Kamala is Mao.
Thank you for the generous comment, Kathleen. 🤗
Yes, I'm very familiar with the assumption that I must be for Trump since I'm not rabidly against him. Ugh. Can't wait for it all to be over - but my guess is post Nov 5, it's a far way from being over.
Humor helps! :-)
I was told that Trump is a racist because he doesn't want critical race theory taught to school children, and I must be a racist, too, if I agree with him on that issue.
Because it’s easier to dismiss you for your “character” than for your beliefs.
Sure does!
I see what you did there: literally giving yourself prime position to Enjoy the shitShow 🍿
😂 learned from the best. Got the kettle corn popping?
Great stuff, Tonika. I have this argument with people every election, it seems. I'm pretty sure I lost the partner of my life over the 2016 election--or it least it caused a rift which eventually became too wide to bridge. Tribal identity has such a powerful hold over the human psyche that it destroys the good in your life, as well as functioning as an effective veil for the true structures of power. The Rod Serling meme really sums it up best, I think.
If there's a unifying mission to all of this substacking we're doing, I think its this: awaken to and acknowledge your own power instead of surrendering it to political heroes and villains. There is immense power in what you do in your life, what you give your attention and energy to, and particularly in what you give your assent to, and what you refuse to go along with. Political office seekers are not "leaders", they are parasites on what the public already believe and will accept. What you allow is what will continue.
The political shadow puppet show is meant to distract us from this fact. Great to know there are others who see past it.
PS. I stole all those memes too, so steal away😉
PPS. I couldn't make it through the Tiktok video. Gross, lol.
You’re speaking my language! Waking up and acknowledging our own power is a priority. My third Stackerversary is coming up and I usually pen a post offering a simple summation of where I’m at and why I stack, but its main goal is exactly what you say here.
I am sorry to hear about losing your partnership. So many political and social issues are indicative of a person’s worldview and it helps peel off the layers hiding fundamental values. In the end, better to have it happen early than late. Especially late when there’s children involved.
Thanks for the comment, James!
My third is coming up too: Nov 1st. Great idea about the stackerversary post! Got me thinking…
Looking forward to reading it!
So, we chose Halloween and Day of the Dead respectively, huh? As if I didn’t have enough little kid October activities already on my plate. Seriously, do you know how many Pumpkin Patches I’ve been to already?
James, I'm sad to hear that the 2016 had such an effect on your partnership. I feel so much empathy; Covid almost did the same to mine.
I love your comment on this piece. You've said what I would have, but more beautifully! Thank you!
And I couldn't stomach the Tiktok thing, either. 🤮
Oh you guys! AI is just wildin’!
😂 I know, I know. But garbage in, garbage out I say.
Normie = NPC - I'm inclined toward "clueless" as a more accurate term.
If they make you wear an "identifying badge" as an election judge, I hope you wear some shirt / sweatshirt that has a very good eye opening message!
There is nothing like being in the system to become disgusted by the system (my awakening was in 1992 when I was a candidate for US Congress).
When we talk about the divide between the poor / common person vs the ultra rich, I wish people wouldn't lump in people that are "successful" (have a decent job, a nice home and can afford groceries) with the ultra wealthy. We aren't ultra wealthy, we are getting screwed like the rest of you. Heck, many of us are sure that we shoulder the majority of the tax burden.
Yes, ultra rich is the .00001%. We might not actually even know their names, that’s how rich they are. If you don’t have your own island and aren’t isolated from society, you’re not part of that club.
I really hope you write more about your observations from running for office. It’s a unique perspective that deserves more eyeballs.
I'm willing to even say the "ultra rich" are the top 0.01%.
Not the top 1%, not the top 0.1% but even more exclusive. Top 1% is 1 out of 100 - quite likely that everyone knows someone there. Top 0.1% is 1 out of 1,000 - starting to be hard to know such a person first hand. Top 0.01% is 1 out of 10,000 - very uncommon but that's still 800,000 of the 8 billion people in the world. So maybe we need to go one more step and say top 0.001%, thus about 400,000 people worldwide. Those are the people that control your lives, those are the people that don't care about you, those are the people that control the politicians.
"The "ultra-rich" typically refers to ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs), who have a net worth of at least $30 million" - In my mind that's still a fairly normal person (think movie star or sports star or routine CEO.
To be in the top ten wealthiest people of the world you must have over $100 billion dollars of net worth. That's *billions* not millions!
To be in the top 200 you must have over $10 billion. We could potentially say that having one billion dollars doesn't even qualify you as "ultra wealthy". But having a billion wouldn't be too bad! That's 1,000 times more than a million though. How many people reading this have even somewhere close to a million dollars? Nope, we are the working poor! (and thus I resent it when less well off people scoff at me as "rich" - cripes I'm struggling to survive to a level where I can retire to a comfortable normal life of living in a home that isn't falling down and being able to afford groceries - forget about affording "healthcare" - I don't want "healthcare" even if it was free!)
I like that you crunched the numbers like that. I’d say the number of psychopathic parasites that really rule the world is smaller than 400k. I’m betting more on like 500 ppl. I don’t know what that means in terms of net worth. But it’s also about power and length of yielding it. Some of these families have ruled for generations.
I'm sure this isn't a "black & white" / hard line. In reality it is something of a sliding scale. The more wealth you have the more power and influence you have. So yes, the top 500 have more power and influence than the next 500 which have more influence than the next 1000, etc all the way until you get to us where we feel like we have "zero" influence.
There are no doubt a few people who have built a reputation and temporarily wield more influence by just their reputation / words (along with connections) than by their wealth. But yes, you are talking about the generational wealth which is the primary focus / center of the power and influence over the world.
Another point I'd make is that those in power (filthy rich) are humans also and thus are competitive and greedy so they are in a struggle / game competing against each other. We tend to be the innocent casualties that are collateral damage from such wars.
Definitely a power struggle at play. Do you think these people are affiliated with specific countries? One of my line of thinking has been trying to figure out if British Empire and America are fighting over supreme hegemony or if American is just the bully fave of the British Empire which went into hiding. The British-American relationship doesn’t sit right with me at all.
I'm inclined to think it's far more "international" and not one nation pitted against another. More corporate aligned than national aligned. Nations are more their tools and playthings.
The British leaders and American leaders have very close relations. Which actually makes the American Revolution and war for independence quite surprising. So we can look at the American Revolution as a fight over who got the profits, then as soon as the war was over the trade deals resumed and mutual profiting was the norm (with the War of 1812 another manifestation of military conflict over who profits from what).
Given that humans struggle to effectively operate with a group larger than about 100 people, the key group of controlling people is probably under 200 people.
Exactly my thinking, yes.
Ok I am halfway thru and itching to comment. The guy in the video.. I actually think it is a much simpler situation. Corporations rule:
It takes money to get elected.
Corporations supply the money.
Candidates are obligated to corporations.
Corporations get bigger, less consumer friendly.. as regulators are also beholden to Industry (Corporations).
My ideas for change:
1. No more political advertising. Have mandatory, repeat, well-run debates and let voters decide based on those and of course actual track records.
2. No more corporate donations. No donations at all.. bc bo advertising. Have some govt agency or independent group provide ballot summaries for voters to review.
I am sure more is needed, but what a hellofa place to start! I kept thinking one party would get wise and donate their ad $ to post-Helene rebuild and take the positive PR from that. Missed opportunity. Noone enjoys the barrage of poliitical ads and texts. And voters should not be making decisions based on advertising propaganda.
It’s not complicated.
Rant over.. for the mo
Great post and superb video Tonika… you articulate my own thoughts about the two parties, indeed the whole system, very well. Glad you will be there to judge on the day. 👩🏻⚖️
I was a poll worker in March and it was very interesting to observe the dynamics in this blue city.
I remember you writing about that! Yeah, the training was four hours of non-stop information hose and I know for a fact the judges they’ve hired are not the brightest bulbs in the lot. We’ll see how it goes!
lol, a MONEY POX on both houses! l
oved the little viddeyo--so true! they don't give a hoot 'bout us! us...
Re "normies"--it's a term that isn't (imh crackpotty opinion) just fer those that don't question / those that "trust the science" but I DO like it as a "relative" that's not a fambly relation! As in "normie" relative TO....
Here's how... relative to all who deny gender (chicks with dicks, nursin' daddies...) I'm a normie in that cat fight bein' a laydee notta trannie an' no unspellable identity... Relative ta the cabalists & cabalistas that attend all them fawncy pahrtees an' swap "pizza" an' "walnut sauce," I'mma normie as I don't eat children an' my kinda velly un-fawncy pahtees nowdaze are parent pot lucks where everyone seems ta bring "casserole"... An' relative to the SJWs an' the Mega Magas I'm a normie cuz I don't wear a black mask an' fist pump nor a red baseball cap an' while these proud nihilists an' patriots do their pahrty thang at protests an' rallies if anything this laydee protests too much goin' no no no schpinnin' them wheels fer their "sides"--I'll take the 5th an' watch an old Charlie Chaplin flick... So imho me an' my tinfoil dimestore hat with the hang tab is WAAAAAAAAY more normie than the freakshow that is Amerika that is no longer "love they neighbor".... I do reach out in the darkness often an' try ta bridge that gap... sometimes I git a horker (virtual typically) headed right fer the forehead, when lucky I git a hand back 'er at least a few fingers...
Howevah, I'm still (even as a normie...) CRAZY fer the Red, White, & Blue (& Yellow & Orange & Green!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2gyWE0M0k ;-)
😂 Daisy, oh Lordy! Well first of all, I knew that YT clip was gonna be Hair before I even clicked it. Every time I read “red, white, and blue,” I finish with “yellow, orange, and green in my head. A habit, I’m sure, left over from my college days.
Second of all, “cabalists, and cabalistas”- 😂 💀 don’t know why “cabalistas” makes me laugh so hard, but it does.
>>Money Pox<< dang it, why didn’t I think of that?!?
ha ha! or as the great Dr. Seuss said...one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish...
Some are red, and some are blue.
Some are old and some are new.
Some are sad, and some are glad,
And some are very, very bad. (REPEAT that line lol!)
Why are they sad and glad and bad?
I do not know, go ask your dad! (or Alexa or the bus driver!)
An' that 'bout sez it all!
My five year old knows that Seuss book by heart. 💓 but to your point, some ARE very very VERY bad.
aw, tee-rrific! yer 5 year old then has it down better than ALL them polly-tish-uns that cannot git it inta their thick skulls that waaaay too many are very very bad lol ;-)