"And it must be tough to be a Republican during their Cult Period."

I just feel bad for Bev...

- get all of you to talk about me.

At least you know your priorities.

And it must be tough to be a Republican during their Cult Period.

Nixon was the opposite of charismatic... and he was a secret Crook, not a Mobster/Carnival Barker in your face Traitor/Criminal.

#5

I feel better now... thanks! I think.

Though Shady is a rogue Girardian.

Jordan Peterson & Peter Thiel

Carl Schmitt Is Not Your Friend

"Less than a month before Douthat spoke with Thiel, I posed the exact same question to Palaver, and it elicited more of a response.

Why was Thiel, given his fixation on preventing a one-world state, building surveillance tools that a totalitarian dictator could use to seize power? Was he on the side of the katechon or the Antichrist?

"Palaver has decided that he has to pick his battles with Thiel. "We have different political views of the world. That's quite clear for him and for me," he says.

But matters of religion are different. "That's where I hopefully can have an influence on him," Palaver says. Ultimately, Thiel needs to choose who he is going to imitate.

"In the end, you have to decide: Are you really going to be a Christian in a proper sense? Or are you a Schmittian?"

"By February of 2025, Thiel's Armageddon tour had gotten to the point where he was handing out T-shirts that said
"Don't Immanentize the Katechon." (This was a nerdy Thielian play on the anti-utopian quote, "Don't immanentize the eschaton""meaning don't try to manifest heaven on Earth.)

In a recent interview, Thiel was asked whether or not Donald Trump might be the katechon, and he refused to answer.

His reticence to name a katechon is a lesson he seems to take directly from Palaver's account of Schmitt and Hitler.

"If you identify too much as one thing, that can go very wrong," Thiel told Cowen. "There's always a risk that the katechon becomes the Antichrist," he said, echoing Palaver's 1996 paper."

;;

"Throughout Thiel's strange circuit as an itinerant preacher, he and Palaver have been in frequent touch.

The first time I spoke with Palaver, he'd recently emailed Thiel to express his disgust over JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference, where the vice president called for greater inclusion of nationalist populist parties like Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany.

Thiel engaged with Palaver's criticism of Vance without really conceding it, Palaver says. Whether the message trickled down to the vice president is unclear."

"It was a fairly shallow gloss on Girard's theory. But to many Girardians, it suggested Vance knew exactly what he was doing when"two months after Donald Trump selected him as a running mate"the nominee began tweeting that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating domestic pets.

And when, on the campaign trail and in televised debates, he contorted himself to blame nearly every American crisis on immigrants."

;;

"For some Girardians, this was a breaking point. The mimetic theorist Bernard Perret lambasted Vance and his billionaire mentor in a French political journal, accusing them of "casting a shadow over Girard's legacy."

Within months, several more prominent Girardians followed suit.

"It's difficult to claim Girard, who fundamentally believes that violence is linked to exclusion, and at the same time to accuse Haitians of eating dogs," Girardian scholar Paul Dumouchel told a Canadian newspaper.

"Either you didn't understand Girard, or you're a liar."

"Instead of the United Nations, filled with interminable and inconclusive parliamentary debates that resemble Shakespearean tales told by idiots," Thiel said, "we should consider ... the secret coordination of the world's intelligence services, as the decisive path to a truly global pax Americana."

This surveillance supersystem, Thiel wrote, could act as "a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks."

;;

"Sitting down the seminar table from Thiel, Palaver had no idea that Thiel had more than an academic interest in spycraft.

Just a year earlier, Thiel had quietly incorporated a new company called Palantir Technologies, where he would spend the next two decades developing some of the most sophisticated surveillance infrastructure in human history.

At the time of the conference, the firm was still in its infancy. But it would soon land its first major client: the CIA."

"Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as "training grounds"

After President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested cities like Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov. JB Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying "there is something genuinely wrong with this man."

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war, or that indeed there's some sort of internal war going on in the United States is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health," Pritzker said Tuesday afternoon.

"There is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked."

#33

Her Superman hero was a child murderer and serial killer:

"Ayn Rand was infamously fascinated with William Hickman, a child murderer and serial killer, whom she described as a heroic Nietzschean "Superman". In the 1920s, Rand began writing a novel called The Little Street based on the Hickman murder case, but the work was never published.

In her notes for The Little Street, Rand wrote at length about her admiration for Hickman, seeing him as an exceptional, brilliant individual misunderstood by the masses.

She described him as a "Superman" archetype, a man who "really stands alone, in action and in soul".

Rand was impressed by Hickman's complete disregard for society's moral rules and norms, a quality she associated with the Nietzschean "bermensch, or "superman"."

AI Overview
The claim that more Americans died from COVID-19 after vaccines became universally available is false.
The rise in deaths among vaccinated people later in the pandemic was an expected result of vaccination rates increasing, not an indication of vaccine ineffectiveness. The vaccines have been shown to prevent a significant number of hospitalizations and deaths.

As long as there's Dems being 'owned', Trumpers will be ready to sacrifice to Lard Trumpy.

Jobs, food, health, education.... justice under the Law; whatever it takes.

#9

Well... some posters here DO seem like the result of trillions of years of a Mindless Process (see #4) but not everyone and everything. But glad to have your OPINION.

In a real war there would be EVIDENCE of who those killed were, and that they actually had drugs in the boats.

Had Edgar Cayce or Nostradamus written these predictions, people would be going apesht over them:

dammit!

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"Gestapo Tactics"

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Gestapo tactics included the use of arbitrary arrest and detention through "protective custody" (Schutzhaft), where individuals were imprisoned without judicial proceedings, and the secretive disappearance of political prisoners under the Night and Fog Decree.

The organization also utilized surveillance, manipulation, and intimidation to crush dissent and control the population in Nazi Germany and occupied territories.

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Out of seconds, even?

We'll have to order you some!

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For when it's all ya gots.

Or, if you only have a few seconds...

#2

Iron Age, actually. And a fabulously wealthy kingdom at times.

Perhaps a reset to current intel rather than the old, tired, worn out 'New Atheist' propaganda that was frankly irritating even to atheists.