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The Telltale Signs Of Imperial Decline
Nothing is as permanent as we imagine – especially super-complex, super-costly, super-asymmetric and super-debt-dependent systems.
Check which signs of Imperial decline you see around you: The hubris of an increasingly incestuous and out-of-touch leadership; dismaying extremes of wealth inequality; self-serving, avaricious Elites; rising dependency of the lower classes on free Bread and Circuses provided by a government careening toward insolvency due to stagnating tax revenues and vast over-reach–let’s stop there to catch our breath. Check, check, check and check.
Sir John Glubb listed a few others in his seminal essay on the end of empires The Fate of Empires, what might be called the dynamics of decadence:
(a) A growing love of money as an end in itself: Check.
(b) A lengthy period of wealth and ease, which makes people complacent. They lose their edge; they forget the traits (confidence, energy, hard work) that built their civilization: Check.
(c) Selfishness and self-absorption: Check.
(d) Loss of any sense of duty to the common good: Check.
Glubb included the following in his list of the characteristics of decadence:
— an increase in frivolity, hedonism, materialism and the worship of unproductive celebrity (paging any Kardashians in the venue…)
— a loss of social cohesion
— willingness of an increasing number to live at the expense of a bloated bureaucratic state
Historian Peter Turchin, whom I have often excerpted here, listed three disintegrative forces that gnaw away the fibers of an Imperial economy and social order:
1. Stagnating real wages due to oversupply of labor
2. overproduction of parasitic Elites
3. Deterioration of central state finances
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
To these lists I would add a few more that are especially visible in the current Global Empire of Debt that encircles the globe and encompasses nations of all sizes and political/cultural persuasions:
1. An absurdly heightened sense of refinement as the wealth of the top 5% has risen so mightily as a direct result of financialization and globalization that the top .1% has been forced to seek ever more extreme refinements to differentiate the Elite class (financial-political royalty) from financial nobility (top .5% or so), the technocrat class (top 5%), the aspirant class (next 15%) and everyone below (the bottom 80%).
Now that just about any technocrat/ member of the lower reaches of the financial nobility can afford a low-interest loan on a luxury auto, wealthy aspirants must own super-cars costing $250,000 and up.
A mere yacht no longer differentiates financial royalty from lower-caste financial Nobles, so super-yachts are de riguer, along with extremes such as private islands, private jets in the $80 million-each range, and so on.
Even mere technocrat aspirants routinely spend $150 per plate for refined dining out and take extreme vacations to ever more remote locales to advance their social status.
Examples abound of this hyper-inflation of refinement as the wealth of the top 5% has skyrocketed.
2. The belief in the permanence of the status quo has reached quasi-religious levels of faith. The possibility that the entire financialized, politicized circus of extremes might actually be nothing more than a sand castle that’s dissolving in the rising tides of history is not just heresy–it doesn’t enter the minds of those reveling in refinement or those demanding more Bread and Circuses (Universal Basic Income, etc.)
3. Luxury, not service, defines the financial-political Elites. As Turchin pointed out in his book on the decline of empires, in the expansionist, integrative eras of empires, Elites based their status on service to the Common Good and the defense (or expansion) of the Empire.
While there are still a few shreds of noblesse oblige in the tattered banners of the financial elites, the vast majority of the Elites classes are focused on scooping up as much wealth and power as they can in the shortest possible time, with the goal being not to serve society or the Common Good but to enter the status competition game with enough wealth to afford the refined dining, luxury travel to remote locales, second and third homes in exotic but safe hideaways, and so on.
4. An unquestioned faith in the unlimited power of the state and central bank.The idea that the mightiest governments and central banks might not be able to print their way of our harm’s way, that is, create as much money and credit as is needed to paper over any spot of bother, is unthinkable for the vast majority of the populace, Elites and debt-serfs alike.
That all this newly issued currency and credit is nothing but claims on future production of goods and services and rising productivity never enters the minds of the believers in unlimited state/bank powers. We have been inculcated with the financial equivalent of the Divine Powers of the Emperor: the government and central bank possess essentially divine powers to overcome any problem, any crisis and any conflict simply by creating more money, in whatever quantities are deemed necessary.
If $1 trillion in fresh currency will do the trick–no problem! $10 trillion? No problem! $100 trillion? No problem! there is no upper limit on how much new currency/credit the government and central bank can create.
That there might be limits on the efficacy of this money-creation never enters the minds of the faithful. That pushing currency-credit creation above the limits of efficacy might actually trigger the unraveling of the state-central bank’s vaunted powers never occurs to believers in the unlimited reach of central states/banks.
The possibility that the central state/bank’s powers are actually quite limited is blasphemy in an era in which the majority of the Elites and commoners alike depend on the “free money” machinery of the central state/bank for their wealth and livelihoods.
It is instructive to ponder the excesses of private wealth and political dysfunction of the late Roman Empire with the present-day excesses of private wealth and political dysfunction. As Turchin and others have documented, where the average wealth of a Roman patrician in the Republic (the empire’s expansionist, integrative phase) was perhaps 10-20 times the free-citizen commoner’s wealth, by the disintegrative, decadent phase of imperial decay, the Elites held wealth on the scale of 10,000 times the wealth of the typical commoner. Elite villas were more like small villages centered around the excesses of luxury than mere homes for the wealthy and their household servants. Here is a commentary drawn from Turchin’s work:
“An average Roman noble of senatorial class had property valued in the neighborhood of 20,000 Roman pounds of gold. There was no ‘middle class’ comparable to the small landholders of the third century B.C.; the huge majority of the population was made up of landless peasants working land that belonged to nobles. These peasants had hardly any property at all, but if we estimate it (very generously) at one tenth of a pound of gold, the wealth differential would be 200,000! Inequality grew both as a result of the rich getting richer (late imperial senators were 100 times wealthier than their Republican predecessors) and those of the middling wealth becoming poor.”
Following in Ancient Rome’s Footsteps: Moral Decay, Rising Wealth Inequality(September 30, 2015)
We can be quite confident that these powerful elites reckoned the Empire was permanent and its power to secure their wealth and power was effectively unlimited. But alas, their fantastic wealth vanished along with the rest of the centralized, over-extended, complex and costly Imperial structures.
There is a peculiarly widespread belief that Elites are so smart and powerful that they always manage to evade the collapse of the empires that created and protected their wealth. But there is essentially no evidence for this belief when eras truly change.
Yes, Elites have proven to be adept at shifting with the political winds; thus the guestbooks of French chateaux were filled with the names of Nazi dignitaries during the German occupation of France, and with the names of Allied bigwigs after the war ended the 1,000-year Reich.
But the complete collapse of the financial system and centralized power is not a war or financial crisis–these are storm waters which the Elites have the wherewithal to survive. But when a tsunami disintegrates the entire structure and carries it out to a nameless sea as flotsam and jetsam, there is no transfer of wealth from the Old to the New.
The Roman Elites did not become Barbarian elites who just so happened to own the same villas and vast estates they did when they wore togas and dined on super-refined delicacies. They were pushed aside along with everything that supported their wealth and power.
Nothing is quite as permanent as we imagine–especially super-complex, super-costly, super-asymmetric and super-debt-dependent state/financial systems.
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Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog
114 Comments on "The Telltale Signs Of Imperial Decline"
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 6:36 pm
The top 1% have taken so much money,
that the bottom 99% can scarcely
afford old sofa’s to set on fire.
In their backyards.
makati1 on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 6:44 pm
“Nothing is quite as permanent as we imagine–especially super-complex, super-costly, super-asymmetric and super-debt-dependent state/financial systems”
Better to live in a more simple, less expensive, mostly debt free country like the Ps and enjoy the coming events instead of suffering the pain of the high ladder.
BTW: I’ll be off PO for a few days as I am going to the shitty for some business, to visit friends, enjoy a few very good restaurants and to stock up on some more preps. Be back soon! (I didn’t want anyone here to party because they thought that I had died. LOL)
makati1 on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 6:49 pm
BTW BTW: The trip will cost $10 total for a round trip in an air conditioned bus. No hassle. No driving stress.
The same trip in a car I owned would cost at least $100. (~$0.50/mile) and I would have the stress of driving for 2-3 hours.
makati1 on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 6:50 pm
Oh, and I get $1,000 travel insurance for $0.25.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 7:01 pm
Mak
You obviously made a horrible decision moving..Or yow wouldn’t spend every waking hour trying to convince everyone how great of a choice you made..Must be sad being old and all alone knowing that nobody loves you..
JuanP on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 8:33 pm
“St. Louis teen posts ‘made it to be 17’ video, gets shot and killed on birthday”
https://www.rt.com/usa/436435-stlouis-17-teen-killed/
fmr-paultard on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 8:45 pm
guys supertards launch stratolaunch which carry maximum 1.3 million vs antonov 1.4 mil lbs
supertards can launch 3 rockets using stratolaunch
clearly we’re slip slidin’ higher.
thank you supertards (pbuh)
JuanP on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 8:53 pm
And, yet another sock puppet joins the fray! Davy must be desperate today! I believe I successfully moderated and neutered him today bringing balance to the board. LOL!
Bloomer on Mon, 20th Aug 2018 9:31 pm
The sky is again blanketed with smoke as it appears the entire Pacific Northwest is on fire. The sun is out but it is a blotted red glow. The playground is empty as are most of the beaches, a lot of people are indoors. Nature strikes back, the Empire is no match for Gala.
Cloggie on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 12:01 am
The empire was founded on an oil monopoly, a de facto alliance with the USSR, a 90% white population and a determined “Anglo-Zionist” over-class to set up a world-empire, replacing the European empires of up to 450 years.
Although the empire would love to control the entire world, it is running out of steam to do so, with all the vectors pointing downwards since Iraq
– oil is becoming problematic, although the empire refuses to acknowledge that
– white competence is being replaced by third world incompetence, seen as a threat by the white population that sees itself replaced and doesn’t like that
– there are rising competing counter-alliances, that successfully resist being incorporated into, c.q. manage to weaken the imperial grip of the empire: SCO (China, Russia), the EU and finally the world of Islam.
China has the most IQ100 people with a civilization of thousands of years old and is rapidly rising and is definately not part of the empire. It tries to avoid conflict, but not at all cost and flexing muscle in the South China Sea
Russia has the most destructive military power, is forced into the arms of China, but really wants to be in Europe, a centuries old ambition. It is currently betting on a victory of populism in Europe.
Europe has been humiliated by the US and USSR in 1945, but still considers itself superior to these upstarts and parvenus from the prairie and is biding its time for the moment to escape from the empire. That moment could not be very far off. Pat Buchanan suggests 2025. An alliance EU-Russia would dwarf everybody else and has always been core strategy of the anti-Anglo French Gaullists. For the moment the horrible Merkel is somewhat blocking a rapprochement with Russia, but her political end is in sight.
Islam. KSA is the key to the strangle-hold the empire has over the Islamic world, tied to oil. But the grip is rapidly weaking. Several countries escaped temporary during the Arab Spring (Egypt!), Turkey is flirting with defection, Pakistan defected to China, Afghanistan can’t be pacified, Iraq and Syria are Iranian sphere of influence. Qatar tried regime change in Riyadh, provoking Saudi anger, but Turkey and Iran came to the rescue of Qatar.
The empire won’t last another decade.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 12:10 am
Clogg
The entire OECD will be at zero growth by 2028..Compound growth has been contracting for four decades.And if we start to run out of oil before then (very likely) even sooner..
Source: World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locati
Now pleas stop ranting you are an ugly low iq moron..You are going to die soon a loser and faggot no woman loves..
Simon on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 4:44 am
Hi Mak.
I think we need to think larger when we are talking about end of empire.
How many of those points refer to ps.
Just saw figures to show income inequality is steadily increasing.
Simon
Theedrich on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:02 am
Sorry, MM stooge. Cloggie is right. The coming collapse of your beloved Globalist-mulatto state is going to awaken Whites who have not overdosed on Merkelism or Yid-Cretinism. In German, there is a saying, “In der Not, frisst der Teufel Fliegen” (“In [extreme] need, the devil eats flies”). When the current world of fantasy implodes, the Deplorables will recognize where their true interests lie, throw off the Yid and Anglospheric yoke, and make the pro-Russian changes necessary to survive. And those changes will not include the likes of you race traitors.
deadly on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:29 am
Imperial decline? What imperial decline? We don’t need no stinking imperial decline. lol
“Throw down your books and pick a gun, we’re gonna have a whole lot of fun.” – Country Joe McDonald
The Romans would be conquered in a day, an hour, if they were around today. The US gov would make sure of that.
All of that money coincides with the availability of oil. No oil, the money is useless. The printed money is for oil purchases, obviously, nothing else. Twenty million barrels each day at sixty dollars equals 1,200,000,000 dollars in oil costs each day.
The printing press is the only source of the money to pay for that oil for distribution hither and yon. The money has to come from somewhere, the US gov will print more to buy the oil. A no brainer there.
No oil, you won’t need the money.
Also, 1.2 billion dollars each day is about equal to the interest paid to commercial banksters so the US gov can operate with unlimited debt.
Decline will come when there is no more money, which will never happen as long as the power to the presses never fails.
The only imperial decline is the old Chrysler Imperial rusting away on some lonesome abandoned property. lol
Poor slobs don’t have much money, rich idiots like Trump have lots. Nobody really cares anymore.
Nothing will change.
Once the seaports are attacked, Warshington attacked, the money won’t be much help. The Defense Department will take action and be in full swing in no time. The army, navy, air force, coast guard, marines (the Pentagon) will have to be at the ready and make sure things turn around in a hurry.
The only hope will be to possibly use the nuclear arsenal to maybe contain the damage.
The threat of nuclear annihilation has more value than any amount of money. The nuclear advantage has bargaining power, non-pareil.
You gotta love the bomb, you learn to stop worrying.
If it all goes to hell in a handbasket, Tehran will glow for a day or so and then everything will get back to normal like it should be, fubar.
All of the oil under Iranian soil will still be there and the Iranians will be severely compromised, a cake walk again. All your oil to us belong. The US will take it, all of it.
The Iranian theocratic imperium will decline, they’ll all be dead.
There won’t be any sanctions to impose, the business of war will rule.
Proactive diplomacy is better, prevents scenarios like all out war.
It could all break down and nothing can be done to avoid a war, no sense in losing any sleep over any of it. If it happens, it happens.
The Afghans don’t seem to mind blowing up stuff when it comes to attacking the occupiers.
Get those millennials in the armed forces so they can quit hanging around doing nothing all of the time, they can go fight another Pyrrhic war. The useless dermagraphic art on their bodies will help identify their corpses.
https://fredoneverything.org/decline-in-the-fall-or-late-summer-anyway-by-fred-gibbon/
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:36 am
“I think we need to think larger when we are talking about end of empire.”
Right Simon, these points fit the rest of the people here and there locations. It is just these pissed off people need to point fingers and blame and complain. They whine when I call them an anti-American and explain to them what a mirror is.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 6:44 am
“The Metaphysics To Our Present Global Anguish”
https://tinyurl.com/yco8p7fg
“the world in which we find ourselves … is littered with the debris of utopian projects which – though they were framed in secular terms that denied the truth of religion – were in fact, vehicles for religious myth”…. That history, somehow, was on a convergent course towards some human transformation, and an ‘End’, with fearful retribution for the corrupt, and a radically, redeemed, new world, for the elect. No longer (in today’s world), triggered through an act of God, but ‘engineered’ by the act of Enlightenment man.”
“The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. This belief in a special destiny has been reflected in a conviction that the United States must lead – or more properly, has the duty to coerce – mankind toward that future.”
The aim is a global, cosmopolitan society disembarrassed of religion, national culture and community, gender and social class. Processes of toleration that, formerly, were construed as essential to freedom have undergone an Orwellian metamorphosis to emerge as their antonyms: as instruments, rather, of repression. Any national leader standing against this project, any contrary national culture, or national pride displayed in a nation’s achievements, plainly constitutes an obstacle to this prospective universal realm – and must be destroyed. In other words, today’s millenarians may eschew the guillotine, but they are explicitly coercive – albeit, in a different manner – through the progressive ‘capture’ of narrative, and of state institutions.
But what really riles the globalists is the contemporary trend, manifested most particularly, by Russia, towards a pluralism which privileges one’s culture, history, religiosity and ties of blood, land and language – and which sees in this re-appropriation of traditional values, the path to the re-sovereigntisation of a particular people. The Russian ‘Eurasian’ notion is one of different cultures, autonomous, and sovereign, which, at least implicitly, constitutes a rejection of the Latin theology of equality, and reductive universalism (i.e. achieved through Redemption.) The idea rather, is of a grouping of ‘nations’, each reaching back to its primordial cultures and identities – i.e. Russia being ‘Russian’ in its own ‘Russian cultural way’ – and not permitting itself to be coerced into mimicking the westernisation impulse. What makes a wider grouping of Eurasian nations feasible is that cultural identities are complex and storied: It escapes the prevailing obsession to reduce every nation to a singularity in value, and to a singularity of ‘meaning’. The ground for collaboration and conversation thus widens beyond ‘the either-or’, to the differing strata of complex identities – and interests. Why should this seem so ‘diabolical’ to the western global élites? Why all the hysteria? Well … they ‘scent’ in Russian Eurasianism (and so-called populism, more generally) a stealth reversion to the old, pre-Socratic values:
The fearful élites, in fact, are right: The disappearance in modernity of any external norm, beyond civic conformity, which might guide the individual in his or her life and actions, and the enforced eviction of the individual from any form of structure (social classes, Church, family, society and gender), has made a ‘turning back’ to what was always latent, if half forgotten, somehow inevitable. It represents a ‘reaching back’ to an old ‘storehouse’ of values – a silent religiosity; a ‘turn back’ to being again ‘in, and of’ the world. A storehouse that has in fact remained unchanged (albeit clothed in Christianity), with its foundational myths, and notion of cosmic ‘order’ (maat) still swirling in the deeper levels of the collective unconscious. Of course, ‘the Ancient’ cannot be an ad integrum return. It cannot be the simple restoration of what once was. It has to be brought forward as if ‘youth’ come back again – the eternal return – out of our own decomposition.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 6:45 am
The above is a great look into the deeper elements of the conflict between the globalist and populism we are seeing today. It is with Putin’s way we see the deeper expression of this movement whereas populism elsewhere is more an unconscious reactionary impulse. These reactions are towards immigration or moral relativity of moderism. In Russia with Putin we see the doctrine in practice. Trump does not have the depth of Putin’s intellectualism. We can see that in the speeches of the two men. Trump does have some of the instincts. Trump is butchering the globalist’s tapestry but not with an explicit doctrine like Putin. Trump is closer to pure populism which makes him messy like a sword whereas Putin is honed with definition making him like a shield. The combination of the two along with many others represents forces that will likely turn back the momentum of globalism. It is not at all assured modernize life will be the same if the foundation of the economy of globalism is destroyed by these forces. This is one thing overlooked with the deeper reality of this conflict of the soul of modern civilization. It is one thing to have ideas it is quite another thing delivering the economy.
It is likely Putin’s form of “re-sovereigntisation” and a “reaching back’ to an old ‘storehouse’ of values – a silent religiosity; a ‘turn back’ to being again ‘in, and of’ the world.” Will ultimately win mainly because modernism seems to be peaking on all levels. Trump having the power of the POTUS behind his actions has dealt globalist a defining retreat. Trump may be removed but he has made his mark and allowed people who have been marginalized by the globalist, a rallying cry. MAGNA may be stupid but it has proven effective. The globalist are now on the defensive which is allowing a wellspring of latent populism beyond the control of the top. Many people want their traditional values back but many who have found their human rights from the support of the globalist will not walk away quietly.
The globalist themselves have a network fully planted in the global deep state. This is more than ideas and values also. This is about power and privilege in a world with a shrinking pie. We are talking people who do not have values except for the power urge, now behind the globalist. They are lending support to the globalist because the globalist allow them their wealth and privilege. So these privileged and connected behind globalism are some indoctrinated to the values and others motivated by power and greed. Many of these wealthy see the status quo as guaranteeing their wealth and privilege. These elites will not walk away quietly and they will enlist their foot soldiers of the liberated classes to spar with the foot soldiers of populism. We see this in the politics of victimization today and the reactionary trends of populism of the so called deplorables. Putin has tapped into something deeper. Trump and others smelling the scent of change have capitalized on Putin’s early work. Now the battle will play out and somewhere in between the global economy or its result will need to continue to support the billions who are dependent on a world in overshoot that can ill afford such conflicts.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 6:50 am
“Majority Americans Want Diplomacy With Russia Over Sanctions: Gallup”
https://tinyurl.com/yauecr4a
“Gallup’s conclusion: “Although U.S.-Russian tensions continue to simmer, more Americans are inclined to believe the U.S. is better off trying to improve relations with Russia. Americans are largely convinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election but are divided, largely along party lines, as to whether that country’s involvement changed the outcome.”
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 8:55 am
Delusional Davy “It is just these pissed off people need to point fingers and blame and complain.”
You are projecting again, Exceptionalist! Why don’t you stick to your copy and paste jobs that prove your intelligence and understanding? LOL!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 9:31 am
“China sticks to Iranian Oil Imports”
https://www.rt.com/business/436466-china-iran-oil-us-sanctions/
The US sanctions against Iran, Russia, China, Turkey, and others seem to be accelerating the creation and implementation of alternatives to the US dollar dominated global financial system.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 9:50 am
Theedrich
You are an idiot low IQ conservative…
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 9:54 am
Is that your words or the articles, Juanita? If it is your words hen give some space between the title and link. If it is article content then put parenthesis.
In regards to the article this alternative to the dollar has been going on for some time. There is nothing new or revolutionary about it. Juanita, if you could show the percentages for dollar denominated trade and alternatives if you really want to impress us. Otherwise you are just telling us something obvious and what we already know. You tend to try to sensationalize your agenda but without showing the backup. You usual whine from your gang is to read the linked article for deeper understanding. That would be fine with normal people but the gang is pushing an agenda. To prove you have brains elaborate with points in the article. Second you should show the deeper facts that you are using to peddle your extremist agenda otherwise you are saying “here see I am right’”. People who peddle agendas do what Juanita does by being lite on facts and big on hype. Fraud!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:06 am
Delusional Davy “Is that your words or the articles, Juanita?”
Unlike you, I know how to write in proper English, so if your reading comprehension is up to par you will be able to read my comments without any problems. You are the only person on this forum that has problems reading my comments or following my links, so maybe you should consider the idea that you are the one with a problem, not my comments. LOL! By the way, using brackets on that comment would be grammatically incorrect, illiterate fool!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:08 am
Parenthesis would be gramatically incorrect, Davy! If you are going to correct someone you should at least know what the fuck you are talking about! LOL!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:11 am
“United by US sanctions: Iran could trade with Crimea using Russian river system”
https://www.rt.com/business/436471-iran-crimea-sanctions-russia/
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:20 am
Delusional Davy “Is that your words or the articles, Juanita?”
By the way, am I supposed to feel insulted because you use a female form of my name, Exceptionalist? Well, I don’t. I think women are smarter than men, so I will take that as a compliment. All that the use of the female form of my name as a pejorative term proves is that you are an infantile, sexist, chauvinist pig. Do you realize how infantile and thoroughly morally repugnant you are? You basically have every possible moral flaw that a man can possibly have! Posting things like that insults you, not me, fool! LOL!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:24 am
Delusional Davy “Is that your words or the articles, Juanita?”
Now, I will deal with the horrendous grammar in your sentence. That phrase should be “Are those your words or the article’s, Juanita?”. You made three grammatical errors in one sentence, and you pretend to teach me how to write? Why don’t you learn how to do it first? ROFLMFAO!
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:27 am
Juanita, chooses to be lazy and ambiguous with his commenting style. This is typical of selfish people who do it their way because they could give a shit about others. Juanita, however your whining ass wants to show an article with title, link, content, and commentary is fine just do it so I know what is article and what is Juanita. I see the gang is using a gangland style that is purposely different from what I use. I am using the style that Ghung proposed years ago. I could care less just do it in such a way that we know what is what. Too often it is unclear what is content or commentary. This has gotten better since I have moderated you extremist.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:30 am
“United by US sanctions: Iran could trade with Crimea using Russian river system”
Another empty article reference by the intellectually lite Juanita. Please Juanita, make an effort to show some content so we know you know what you are talking about.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:32 am
Thanks Juanita. When you see these problems it is because I am working in the field and on my cell. Damn things suck to comment with. thank you for your assistance.
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:37 am
Delusional Davy “Juanita, chooses to be lazy and ambiguous with his commenting style.”
Translation: Davy’s mental problems interfere with his reading problems. My comment was 100% gramatically correct, Exceptionalist! It is not my fault if you can’t understand your own language. LOL!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:39 am
Delusional Davy “Another empty article reference by the intellectually lite Juanita. Please Juanita, make an effort to show some content so we know you know what you are talking about.”
If you want to read the article follow the link, moron. Do you realize that YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE on this forum who can’t do that? LOL!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 10:41 am
Delusional Davy “Thanks Juanita. When you see these problems it is because I am working in the field and on my cell. Damn things suck to comment with. thank you for your assistance.”
Now you are blaming your phone for your illiteracy? LOL! My phone doesn’t make me an illiterate fool. I can write perfectly well on it! LOL!
GregT on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 11:43 am
“The sky is again blanketed with smoke as it appears the entire Pacific Northwest is on fire. The sun is out but it is a blotted red glow. The playground is empty as are most of the beaches, a lot of people are indoors. Nature strikes back, the Empire is no match for Gala.”
British Columbia has declared a state of emergency. There are now over 600 wildfires burning throughout the province, out of control. Yesterday, visibility here was reduced to a couple of hundred metres as the smoke billowed through the forests, and the fires are hundreds of kilometres away. This morning I am staring directly at the sun. A dark orange orb in the sky. Most of the ground cover is all dead now from drought,and glowing that same dark orange.
Surreal, sad, and troubling, all at the same time. Mother Earth is just starting to get warmed up now, it’s the bottom of the ninth, and the bases are loaded.
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 2:00 pm
“Black Lives: Struggle for Racial Justice in St. Louis”
https://rtd.rt.com/serial-episode/black-lives-struggle/
It seems like St. Louis has become America’s butthole.
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 2:03 pm
“One Minute to Midnight: Latest US Sanctions Propel Nations to Risks of War”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/08/21/one-minute-midnight-latest-us-sanctions-propel-nations-towards-risk-war.html
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 2:21 pm
Juanita, I would say south Florida takes that prize.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 2:23 pm
“One Minute to Midnight: Latest US Sanctions Propel Nations to Risks of War”
Extremist talk
Anonymouse1 on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 3:32 pm
Oh, he is working in this ‘field’ today is he, ROFL. Holy fooking shit, are you ever full of it dumbass.
You not standing in any ‘field’, doing any ‘work’. Normal human beings, especially ones with ‘farms’, as you keep claiming, do not stand around checking their discount cell phones for the latest buzz on PO.com, while, ‘working’.
Clearly you have no conception of what ‘work’ either means or entrails, dumbass. Given your delusional state, I suppose that is hardly surprising.
What you are doing, is sitting on your dumbass, doing sweet-fuck-all, just waiting for the next opportunity for to indulge your insane delusions with the rest of us.
But seriously, tell us dumbass, what kind of…..dumbass stands around in the middle of a field pecking out those cut and pastes of yours AND flinging poo on the interwebs, WHILE (allegedly), ‘working?’ If by ‘work’, you mean starting blankly at all the weeds, old refrigerators, and rotting tires that dot your yard, then, yes, good work, dumbass.
Tell you what ‘we’ call what you are doing dumbass. ‘We’ call it, ‘lying’. Something you clearly never outgrew a a child.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 3:46 pm
“Germany Calls For Global Payment System Independent Of The US”
https://tinyurl.com/ybaputr7
“In a stunning vote of “no confidence” in the US monopoly over global payment infrastructure, Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas called for the creation of a new payments system independent of the US that would allow Brussels to be independent in its financial operations from Washington and as a means of rescuing the nuclear deal between Iran and the west.”
“Maas’s stark warning against US domination of global payments comes with relations between Germany and the US in their worst state for decades. Mr Trump has chastised Berlin over its large trade surplus, its relatively low military spending and its support for Nord Stream 2, a new gas pipeline that will bring Russian gas directly to Germany. Meanwhile, Berlin has looked on in dismay as Mr Trump has withdrawn the US from the Iran deal and the Paris climate treaty, imposed import tariffs on EU steel and aluminium and appeared to question America’s commitment to Nato. In short: Europe has finally had enough and it plans on hitting back at Trump where it truly hurts: the money.”
GregT on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 3:55 pm
“One Minute to Midnight: Latest US Sanctions Propel Nations to Risks of War”
“Extremist talk”
Listen the the board moderate JuanP.
Only he understands that imposing sanctions and economic hardship on other nations, is an act of generosity and kindness, the heart of diplomacy, and never ever leads to wars.
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 4:18 pm
“You not standing in any ‘field’, doing any ‘work’. Normal human beings, especially ones with ‘farms’, as you keep claiming, do not stand around checking their discount cell phones for the latest buzz on PO.com, while, ‘working’.”
Well, Asperger, I do work and you don’t. If you did do something then you may actually not be afraid to talk about it. You are anonymous for a reason. You are embarrassed to show your true self IOW a pussy. You might be in an institution for all we know, lock in. Today I replaced a water hydrant. I put up fence. I also did my daily animal chores. My wife is gone to Italy so I have extra work she would do. I been in the garden today. I took a hay rake to the neighbors to get a new drive shaft put on. I do enjoy having my cell phone contact with the world while on the farm. I do a lot of boring redundant work. It nice to take breaks and checking in to PO dot come has been enjoyable. BTW, the attention you pay me is great. It means I am achieving my goals of irritating an extremist anti-Americans. You are among the worst of the extremist. At least the others make comments with content. You just troll. Your last comment was 7/28. Since then you have said nothing at all just trolled like this comment.
“Clearly you have no conception of what ‘work’ either means or entrails, dumbass. Given your delusional state, I suppose that is hardly surprising.”
Explain yourself Asperger you are not making sense. You are making a statement without context to back it up.
“What you are doing, is sitting on your dumbass, doing sweet-fuck-all, just waiting for the next opportunity for to indulge your insane delusions with the rest of us.”
“sweet-fuck-all”. LOL, I know when you extremist say “fuck” you are pissed. I am going to indulge in your discomfort to the bitter end Asperger. You are enemy number one. You serve no purpose on this blog but to act as the gimp for the rest of the gang. At least the rest of the gang tries to be somewhat respectable by making comments with ideas and facts. You rarely say anything. If you do make a real comment it is barely a comment because it is so mixed up with bizarre dialect of an extremist Canadian anti-American jew baiter. The gang loves to see the gimp come on and dish it out. So for the most part you are entertainment for the extremist. There is no substance to you. You could be called a clown but that is too happy and nice. A gimp is ugly and nasty and that is you Asperger.
“But seriously, tell us dumbass, what kind of…..dumbass stands around in the middle of a field pecking out those cut and pastes of yours AND flinging poo on the interwebs, WHILE (allegedly), ‘working?’ If by ‘work’, you mean starting blankly at all the weeds, old refrigerators, and rotting tires that dot your yard, then, yes, good work, dumbass.”
Stupid, maybe you got “the field” lost in translation. You being a west coast Canadian dumbass I would expect that. The field means out of the house or office. Since you probably rarely go outside I can see how this concept is alien to you. In the morning, at lunch and in the evening I am on a real computer and that is when I can copy and paste articles. Something I guess you are not capable of. I don’t think you have ever presented an article on this board. That shows how worthless you are to the board except that is as the extremist as a gimp.
GregT on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 4:33 pm
“A gimp is ugly and nasty and that is you Asperger.”
A ‘gimp’ is offensive slang for a person who is physically disabled Davy.
Gimp
noun
1. US and Canadian offensive, slang
a physically disabled person, esp one who is lame
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/gimp
dave thompson on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 4:36 pm
Outcast, I am with you on this one. I have a stockpile of old sofas,recliners,all sorts of plastic lawn furniture castoffs abound, with a mountain of old tires taboot. All for my sustainable back yard rocket furnace. I power all of my needs. A fleet of electric golf carts provide me with the transportation to accumulate my fuel supply. Aint life great?
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 4:50 pm
Greggie, Asperger reminds me of the gimp in Pulp Fiction. Does that help you visualize?
Anonymouse1 on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 4:54 pm
Since comprehension is not your strong suit, here is it again.
You are not working in any ‘field’ not, figuratively, nor literally. Dumb-ass. Your ‘field work’, consists entirely of what you are doing now. Furiously mashing the refresh button on your discount cell-phone.
You are a habitual liar, and prone to fits of wild exaggeration, and self-aggrandizement. A feature, not a bug.
Dumbass.
Your ‘articles’ such as they are, consist almost entirely of zerohedge cut and pastes that no one reads, that you hide behind tinyurls. The other half of the time, you steal other words, and cut and paste them without even attempting attribution.
When you are not doing that, its a endless torrent of delusions, rants, and bile form the boards resident mental case. If not from you directly, then form one of sock-puppets.
Its a busy ‘work’ schedule indeed, exceptionlturd, and one, you clearly take, just a little too seriously….
GregT on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:04 pm
“Greggie, Asperger reminds me of the gimp in Pulp Fiction. Does that help you visualize?”
You have quite the active little imagination there Davy.
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:06 pm
Delusional Davy “BTW, the attention you pay me is great.”
I am glad you like the attention, Exceptionalist! There’s more where that came from! LOL! A whole lot more!
JuanP on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:08 pm
“The geopolitics of energy”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/08/21/geopolitics-of-energy.html
Davy on Tue, 21st Aug 2018 5:11 pm
Asperger, I tell people who I am and what I do. There is a reason why you don’t. Your life likely is horrible because that is your regular demeanor on this board. You are angry, mean, and purposeless. You have been here for a few years and have never let us see inside who you are. I have been consistent which generally shows honesty. I am nothing special but you make me into much more by your constant hate rants. This is great. The gimp really does hate me. Mission accomplished.