Donald, this like your cherry blossom post...is a joy to read. You have the rare (in my experience) ability as a writer to transport your readers in space and time. Even if you weren't writing my thoughts every week...I would probably still read your work just for the pleasure of reading good writing. Because young folks who's education was really indoctrination, have taken over most of the positions of the online newspaper writers, I'm constantly amazed at what passes for "writing" online these days. Comments sections have always been filled with indecipherable thoughts ...no punctuation, terrible grammer, people confusing there/their and to/too...but these days the paid writers aren't much better than the commenters. And on most sites the writing skills are barely over eigth grade.
Follow the rules and they'll leave us alone doesn't work any longer. Just Remember Randy Weaver (and that was 30 years ago). He moved to northern Idaho, surrounded by grizzly bears, wolverine and caribou...for that very reason...and ended up with a dead wife and son. There really is no place in America 2.0 were one can hope to live unmolested.
I appreciate hearing that, Kris. Yes, there is nowhere to hide. But they did have to try pretty hard to get to Randy Weaver. Their undercover agent befriended him and tried repeatedly to get him to sell him a gun, and then kept wanting it sawed off more. I will not be selling anyone any guns. I agree with you about the horrific level of writing almost everywhere. But I try not to dwell on it too much, because it just depresses me that I can't get any more of my fiction published, which I think is my best work. Thanks!
DJ: I'm not a fan of fiction writing anymore. The non-fiction is fictional enough for me. I agree with the above comment by Kris that this article is some of your best writing. This is the type of writing that I do. What I observe in my life. What else do I really know? No doubt my ex-wives and girlfriends would have an answer to that. LOL.
I appreciate that, Timmy. I have always considered myself primarily a novelist. That's where my heart is. Although it really is cathartic for me to write about all this madness. Thanks.
Up here in Canada I think it's even worse. The last job I had I took after I retired. It was as an instructor in a small local college. Most of the students were ( by my standards) illiterate. Many of their tests looked like they were printed by a 4year old. One young lady couldn't even print her own name. I asked her how she managed to get through a grade 12 academic course that had to include biology. She told me she didn't even go to classes through high school. They just kept passing her on the the next grade. Shocking! Then I asked her how she qualified for this course. She told me a friend did it for her on line. I told her to drop out as there was no way I was going to pass her if she couldn't do the work. She was gone the next day. So sad.
Our education system is dead. Our culture is dead. Our democracy is now a mockery which appears to be a dictatorship. Canada as we knew it is broken. When I bring this up most people just look at me blankly. For the most part they truly are little better than sheep.
I appreciate you sharing your own experiences, Peter. That's a sad indictment of the educational system in Canada. I've written articles about our own laughable educational system for the American Free Press. In some cities, almost none of the students are considered literate, in English or math. Of course, their language and writing are going to reflect that. Thanks!
The U S's has been devolving in the same manner since the early 60's, longer actually. Save for a handful of hard core STEM subjects most degrees are little more than a culmination of kindergarten projects that required enough time and attendance to fill the "requirement". The Progressive movement degraded the concept of developing the brain into a rational, critically thinking mind since Dewey in the 1930's. We now have three generations of generally undeveloped minds who could not re-instate a true classical education curriculum if the society depended on that for its survival. We cannot fix the situation now but will simply languish as we become the Eloi of H G Wells' imagination.
You're right, Marty. It didn't happen overnight. But things were proceeding for decades along the lines of gradualism- the boiling frog analogy. Once "COVID" hit, things seemed to accelerate into warp speed- not just the vaccine. The frog has been burned beyond recognition. For those who were alive in the 1930s and 1940s, I'm sure the changes are even more noticeable. I have to sadly agree that we can't fix the situation. Thanks.
Time to leave Kris. Why would anyone want to continue following the tyrannical orders of such a corrupt, murderous system? Many Texans have figured this out and are actively working to exit stage left from the worst government in the history of the world. Can it be done? Quien sabe? But one thing is becoming more obvious by the day ... we ain't gonna fix this out of control, feral government. There is only one vote that matters now ... the vote for your state to secede. ~~ j ~~
These NWO/WEF Marxists will never quit on their mission to gain control and to enslave the populace. Trying to reason with them is the definition of insanity. There is only one way to end this--and it's not going to be pretty.
On the flip side, amigo, those of us who still believe in god, family and country will never quit in our mission to stop their evil plan. While I would agree that it is likely to be the opposite of pretty, I would submit that there is more than one way to skin this cat, if you will pardon the anachronistic metaphor. Many folks have seen the writing on the wall and are now working to Peacefully leave this hopeless mess. If the tyrants currently running this sh*t show want to make it violent, that's on them. We want peace. And we want freedom, because without it nothing else matters. Taking this to its logical conclusion, our grandchildren are doomed unless we the Tireless Irate Minority make it stop. Best of luck to the Tank, who I have to ask how you got the name ;-)
These Marxists will not stop with their agenda in any peaceful manner. Think June 2020 with Antifa and BLM and the success they had.They spoke clearly on what they are willing to do to get their desired results. We will have to defend our families--its coming to your neighborhood---real soon. Are you ready?
Of course we have to defend ourselves, but those who see only a violent solution play right into the hands of the enemy. Whether I am "ready" or not should be irrelevant for you but tanks for your concern ;-) "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." ~~ Sun Tzu
That is excellent writing and observations, Don. As an older whelp than you, a child in the 50s and a teenager in the 60s, I feel like I was born and raised in a different solar system and/or have experienced Jew, charlatan Einstein's theory of relativity. The ruling class monsters have definitely removed their velvet gloves from their iron fists this century and our planned destruction is in hyper-drive. For each of us, in our individual ways, we must resist these Archons and their sub-human sycophants to the best of our abilities.
Even if he plagiarized his wife, leave Albert alone. While he only promoted nuclear bombs, some suggest Matthew 24:29 refer to incoming nuclear warheads.
"Where do all the white people work" is exactly what goes through my mind. It's so refreshing and rare to read someone who knows, thinks about and writes things that are true. The world is a cosmic mad house, but like you, I dwell in my little island of sanity.
i really enjoy your style of writing....snarky as hell, but quite to the point...is there a solution to this cultural disfunction?...i'm afraid there is....it is called armageddon, and is coming to a town near you...why all this armageddon every now and then?...not sure, but i think it has to do with what they call karma....when you are put in a position of trust, and you forsake that trust, you have to pay it back one way or another...and so we see all of this empire formation and collapse, over and over again, from a micro to a macro level...keep up that interesting writing style...you have pretty closely nailed the amerikan disfunction.
When some people tried that in 1860, almost a million died. We should have the right- the entire War for Independence revolved around the consent of the governed. Lincoln shattered that concept. I don't think these tyrants would ever let us leave. They need us- we don't need them. Thanks.
Yes, amigo, we are all quite familiar with that terrible history and the worst US president in history. I would submit that the price of staying is much higher than the price of leaving.
I wrote extensively about the real Lincoln, and the damage he wrought to the country the Founders envisioned, in "Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963." I'll have even more on the tyrant Lincoln, Grant, etc., in the next volume of Hidden History. Thanks.
Thanks for bringing these essential truths to the fore, my friend. Looks like Jefferson's tree of liberty is about to be refreshed once again, one way or the other ...
Yes! Historically, humans have put their faith in governments (rulers), so yep it's almost always the wrong thing. And since the lying, warmongering, feral US government will likely collapse the economy and/or get us all killed ... why not just try to leave? And as the wheels start to come off this thing, the feds may have their hands full, too busy in damage control mode to kill the citizens of Texas, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Florida, et al, to make them stay in a union that is now thoroughly broken by virtue of their own insane duplicity. Just a thought ... your mileage may vary ;-)
I have listened to you on the radio with C2C and maybe even heard you on our Richard Syrett show up here in the Great White North. I'm so glad I found you on SS. What a happy accident! I could read you all day. If I win the lottery I'll become a paying subscriber and do just that! ❤️
"Why couldn’t they take any of our DNA the same way, and attempt to frame us? So I’m really limiting my interaction with this rigged system."
I have a saying. I didn't make it up and can't be bothered to investigate who it was, but: Yes I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? 🤣
Haha. Felt every bit of that. My Mister used to be the chronic traffic horn blower/ cusser to those just sitting at a light or doing lane things, unaware of their four corners, but thankfully has realized sheesh he might just get shot for even a mean glance.
Not sure what happened at the post office -but apparently it’s that way all over. Pink haired grandma is trying to be relevant with the kiddos, or making her own political statement- maybe she even donned a pink hat and wailed when she thought Hitlery was going to break the glass ceiling.
*Riley has a good life, and I’m sure is responsible for a lot of smiles. 🐾
Karen , you are right on the pink haired grandma. Being relevant with the grandkids. She'll do anything to be "relevant". She'll sell her soul to be relevant.
Well, at least Taylor Swift initially produced some pretty innocent and decent pop music. My daughter was obsessed with the Jonas Brothers, who all wore promise rings on stage and were open about their virginity. It might have all been fake, but that was a good message for kids.
Betty White, like a majority of actresses since the Golden Age, had no biological children. I've talked about this phenomenon before. They trotted her out in her advanced age to mouth whatever new absurd "Woke" platitudes were presently making the rounds. Thanks.
Wow, how we are the same, but how we do differ. I guess not all all of us whackadoodle tinfoil hats think alike.
I grew up in suburbia. You are right that most people in suburbia don't even know the names of their neighbors, let alone talk to them. Later in life I morphed into a redneck. And by golly, I did not think that neighborhoods akin to the one you describe existed anymore. That must be quite the time warp.
These days, I avoid suburban housing developments like the plague. They make for the worst sheeple. People there still think it is the late '70's and act as though Jimmy Carter was president. (At least he, allegedly, knew how to grow peanuts.)
Way out here in redneck land, nobody cares where your dog poops or pees. One or two lawns I pass by by are immaculate, and my dog knows they are no-poop zones. (I despise stupid laws, but I do have old fashioned common courtesy and horse sense. Normally my dog bombs lawns that have enough on them already that it is basically fertalizing.)
You do hear the roosters crowing though. Roosters are good. Yeah, they can be annoying, but it is a hearty sign that the chicken revolution is well underway in these parts. I can get brown eggs from my neighbors that are twice the size of the pathetic pale things sold at the grocery for about 2 bucks a dozen. They have been at the price for years. Once, they were twice as expensive as the grocery, now they are half the price.
Speaking of the grocery- it is a family run hole-in-the-all affair where I get my dry goods- flour, sugar, salt, some spices, and butter. I get my meat from a local butcher at the farmers' market. I get my milk-raw- from cows I can watch grazing in the pasture. I have a garden full of lettuce and soon pumpkins. The only hyper-processed food left on my menu is pasta. (I could make my own, but that is time consuming, and at just $.89 a box, it's actually cheaper than the flour I have to use.)
At any rate, I can be sure I'm eating wholesome, local food, and not only God knows what is in that box of Cheerios or Pop Tarts.
I used to drive a Ford Festiva but that got impounded by the Rice County Kansas Sheriff back in 2003. No insurance, no registration, and a drivers licence that expired in 1991. I never played by the rules, but I drove safely, and courteously, back in the day. Put 300,000 miles on that car, rebuilt the engine once, and replaced every bearing multiple times. I also discovered that by gutting the catalytic converter my mileage increased to almost 80 miles per gallon. (imagine filling up in Jacksonville Florida and your next pit stop is Houston, Texas, and the next one after that is Deming, New Mexico.) Turned out the law was doing me a favor. Twas right after that gas prices doubled, then tripled.
Sounds like you have a designer dog. I can hardly afford to feed my dog let alone give her half the crap suburbanites think their pets need. My dog's only toy is a pink puppy Kong that she has nearly chewed in half. But she loves it. She is a husky-border collie mix and I knew, from the time she was a puppy, that she was going to be an absolute train wreck but she was the cutest puppy... you know how that goes...
I do share your disdain of everything law enforcement. My last run-in with the law was when I was cutting up a neighbor's fallen tree (no good deed goes unpunished) and was burning a bunch of green pine branches that were giving off lots of smoke. So the cop claimed I was having an illegal fire. (All he was really trying to do was get my personal information.) It was actually hilarious. I ended up getting falsely arrested, then the cop was not wanting to take me down for "booking" (probably so he would not get laughed at). So he called his supervisor, who called his supervisor, who called the fire department, and, after the fire chief laughed, I got released. But these cops do take themselves seriously, and I suppose the next time I will get shot through the head when I don't pay them homage. But that's okay...
I don;t want to live in America 2.0 ten minutes longer than what God wills.
As far as eating out, forget it. If I have a good income week I can score a tuna hogie at a stand in the farmers' market, but the last time I was "rich" I got cheese and pepperoni pizza for 20 bucks. Definitely not worth it.
Suburbia is everything that is wrong with America. Infrastructure costs, local politicians that see every house as a cash cow, corrupt school boards, neighbors calling the cops if you look like a bum... No thanks.
Just hope yours is the last "development" to burn to the ground. Good riddance.
I appreciate your descriptive sharing of your own experiences, White Wolf. I recognize that your way has lots of advantages. My dog is a pure breed and a diva. But I love her. Thanks.
I love my dog too. The best dog I ever had was not a dog, but my wolf, Nanuk. (He looked a lot like a Siberian Husky. I always called him a Siberian, even though he was more than twice the size of the average Siberian.)
You would have loved Nanuk. He thought the whole world was one big friendly pack. He just could not imagine why any dog would want to growl at him, or anybody hit him.
Even the cops loved him.
I could have been walking during a BLM riot, and not get molested by anyone.
I do look forward to the day when we can view the world the way Nanuk did.
The little pooch that is my avatar was my dog Ping, who died in 2002. In July of 1997, I passed through Yellowstone National Park on my way home from a month long road trip to the East Coast. My leashed dog and I were sitting on the veranda of the lodge, when I noticed a huge canine (which could only be a wolf) on the other end of the veranda. He was eyeing my dog with extreme interest, and making a sound which I realized was some type of prey recognition vocalization. Knowing he could break free of his owner and have my dog by the throat in three seconds...I got out of there pretty quickly.
"Wherever I go, it’s seldom a pleasurable experience. As someone who’s old enough to have lived in a different world, this is all very depressing." Yourself.
DJ: Oh, so true. Great article. Thank you for writing it. You actually went to an IHOP on Senior Day? Are you a masochist? LOL.
Here in our little town, a "Brigadoon" in Sonoma County, we still have whites working at the PO and the stores. The Mexicans here speak very good English. They know they will be running this place soon as demographics are on their side. They can wait.
My Dad told me decades ago that old people are the most selfish people on Earth. He was right.
PS: I just spent an hour drinking iced down Amstel Light looking at our garden and yard. Haha.
Seriously Donald... you are a welcome writer who actually understands what has already happened to our country, and the world, who is profoundly perceptive and literately talented enough to describe his recognition. Thank you 🙏
Read his book "Hidden History". Extremely depressing. I don't know how he psychologically survived researching and writing it. I'll probably celebrate when thermonuclear world war arrive.
"Thermonuclear war" was as close as I could come to optimism. Apparently 90% of the population (most all the "Sensing" types, and some of the Intuitive-Feelers as well, perhaps even some NTs) are sold out. And many of the 10% don't want to know, so just put on a happy face. While I already knew most of what is in your book, you seem to have taken a deeper dive. Where's Tim Rifat when we need him? (Disappeared while I was blind with a cataract.) Did you replace him? /Wet rag out!
Yes, that's the problem- people don't want to be confronted with the awful truth. They don't want to have their illusions shattered, and realize the extent of the corruption and evil. I haven't heard of Tim Rifat. Thanks.
Dr. Roberts, I see that you generously opted to become a paid subscriber to my other Substack. Unfortunately, I can't turn on payments for that one. People who are interested can become paid subscribers here. Thanks.
I love this article! So many things about which you wrote are very frustrating to Americans today. Your ability to take us back to the America we used to know and love, while hitting upon our current dilemma's, is superb!
What happens at the long wait for the very short turn signal is the individual can't get their face out of their device...fortunately my explorer xlt with the 5.0 mustang engine doesn't have a problem going around them...have done that a few times however try to keep it to a minimum because I as you have no desire to speak to a bully with a badge, gun and I would suppose little man complex.
I used to honk at them but figured out that it was more fun to let them sit there, sometimes long enough for the light to turn red again, along with their face ;-)
Don, you have given me pause to think about our next luncheon. I think I'm going to have the Strogenoff next time. Enough with Buffalo Chicken and blue cheese crumbles! Funny thing happened on the way to the spell check here for Strogenoff. I left it spelled this way because the spell check suggested "estrogen" in its place. 2.0 was that plan for destruction. Maybe the spell check doesn't want me to think of beef? Good to see you sir!!! Take care of the tire!
Lol. You are in somewhat of a Buffalo Chicken rut. I didn't write about today's experience because it was very pleasant, as it always is. A few hours transported back to America 1.0....
It makes wonder how our predecessors in places such as Italy, Germany and Russia handled their settings as their nations were purposefully driven into the ground. At least we aware and more are shedding their denial. Next time, I will break the diet! :)
Excellent writing (as always), Don. Having traveled all over the country including northern VA, I feel fortunate to have lived most of my life in the very rural upper midwest. People here still mow their own yards and the gas stations are mostly American-owned and operated. Population density and tyranny are almost always proportional.
I'm not much of a traveler- only seen the sites a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights. So maybe I am judging by the way things are in the D.C. suburbs. But I doubt there are any Mayberrys out there, untouched remnants of America 1.0. Thanks!
I’ve traveled the lower 48 -3 million miles over the last 30 years. You would be pleasantly surprised . The real division in this country is urban/suburban vs. rural. That’s something I wish BRV better understood. He reminds of the classic “View from a New Yorker” magazine cover from 1976. Lol But I will concede that America 2.0 is ever encroaching on us.
Excellent article again. Good to hear sensible people unlike the ridiculous commentary writers in the daily newspaper. Sorry you don't have good experience w the post office.
Me, my wife, her sister and my oldest brother are all retired postal employees and I certainly enjoyed my career w them. And no postal employee wasn't American that I know of. Mostly good, hardworking people.
You probably worked there in a different era, Norman. And I guess the D.C. suburbs are probably a lot more "diverse" than many parts of the country. Thanks!
Donald, this like your cherry blossom post...is a joy to read. You have the rare (in my experience) ability as a writer to transport your readers in space and time. Even if you weren't writing my thoughts every week...I would probably still read your work just for the pleasure of reading good writing. Because young folks who's education was really indoctrination, have taken over most of the positions of the online newspaper writers, I'm constantly amazed at what passes for "writing" online these days. Comments sections have always been filled with indecipherable thoughts ...no punctuation, terrible grammer, people confusing there/their and to/too...but these days the paid writers aren't much better than the commenters. And on most sites the writing skills are barely over eigth grade.
Follow the rules and they'll leave us alone doesn't work any longer. Just Remember Randy Weaver (and that was 30 years ago). He moved to northern Idaho, surrounded by grizzly bears, wolverine and caribou...for that very reason...and ended up with a dead wife and son. There really is no place in America 2.0 were one can hope to live unmolested.
I appreciate hearing that, Kris. Yes, there is nowhere to hide. But they did have to try pretty hard to get to Randy Weaver. Their undercover agent befriended him and tried repeatedly to get him to sell him a gun, and then kept wanting it sawed off more. I will not be selling anyone any guns. I agree with you about the horrific level of writing almost everywhere. But I try not to dwell on it too much, because it just depresses me that I can't get any more of my fiction published, which I think is my best work. Thanks!
DJ: I'm not a fan of fiction writing anymore. The non-fiction is fictional enough for me. I agree with the above comment by Kris that this article is some of your best writing. This is the type of writing that I do. What I observe in my life. What else do I really know? No doubt my ex-wives and girlfriends would have an answer to that. LOL.
I appreciate that, Timmy. I have always considered myself primarily a novelist. That's where my heart is. Although it really is cathartic for me to write about all this madness. Thanks.
Up here in Canada I think it's even worse. The last job I had I took after I retired. It was as an instructor in a small local college. Most of the students were ( by my standards) illiterate. Many of their tests looked like they were printed by a 4year old. One young lady couldn't even print her own name. I asked her how she managed to get through a grade 12 academic course that had to include biology. She told me she didn't even go to classes through high school. They just kept passing her on the the next grade. Shocking! Then I asked her how she qualified for this course. She told me a friend did it for her on line. I told her to drop out as there was no way I was going to pass her if she couldn't do the work. She was gone the next day. So sad.
Our education system is dead. Our culture is dead. Our democracy is now a mockery which appears to be a dictatorship. Canada as we knew it is broken. When I bring this up most people just look at me blankly. For the most part they truly are little better than sheep.
I appreciate you sharing your own experiences, Peter. That's a sad indictment of the educational system in Canada. I've written articles about our own laughable educational system for the American Free Press. In some cities, almost none of the students are considered literate, in English or math. Of course, their language and writing are going to reflect that. Thanks!
The U S's has been devolving in the same manner since the early 60's, longer actually. Save for a handful of hard core STEM subjects most degrees are little more than a culmination of kindergarten projects that required enough time and attendance to fill the "requirement". The Progressive movement degraded the concept of developing the brain into a rational, critically thinking mind since Dewey in the 1930's. We now have three generations of generally undeveloped minds who could not re-instate a true classical education curriculum if the society depended on that for its survival. We cannot fix the situation now but will simply languish as we become the Eloi of H G Wells' imagination.
You're right, Marty. It didn't happen overnight. But things were proceeding for decades along the lines of gradualism- the boiling frog analogy. Once "COVID" hit, things seemed to accelerate into warp speed- not just the vaccine. The frog has been burned beyond recognition. For those who were alive in the 1930s and 1940s, I'm sure the changes are even more noticeable. I have to sadly agree that we can't fix the situation. Thanks.
This!!! ☝️☝️☝️
Well said, Kris. The claws of the beast reach everywhere.
Time to leave Kris. Why would anyone want to continue following the tyrannical orders of such a corrupt, murderous system? Many Texans have figured this out and are actively working to exit stage left from the worst government in the history of the world. Can it be done? Quien sabe? But one thing is becoming more obvious by the day ... we ain't gonna fix this out of control, feral government. There is only one vote that matters now ... the vote for your state to secede. ~~ j ~~
These NWO/WEF Marxists will never quit on their mission to gain control and to enslave the populace. Trying to reason with them is the definition of insanity. There is only one way to end this--and it's not going to be pretty.
It's in my nature to try and reason, even with the most awful people. But you're right. Thanks.
On the flip side, amigo, those of us who still believe in god, family and country will never quit in our mission to stop their evil plan. While I would agree that it is likely to be the opposite of pretty, I would submit that there is more than one way to skin this cat, if you will pardon the anachronistic metaphor. Many folks have seen the writing on the wall and are now working to Peacefully leave this hopeless mess. If the tyrants currently running this sh*t show want to make it violent, that's on them. We want peace. And we want freedom, because without it nothing else matters. Taking this to its logical conclusion, our grandchildren are doomed unless we the Tireless Irate Minority make it stop. Best of luck to the Tank, who I have to ask how you got the name ;-)
These Marxists will not stop with their agenda in any peaceful manner. Think June 2020 with Antifa and BLM and the success they had.They spoke clearly on what they are willing to do to get their desired results. We will have to defend our families--its coming to your neighborhood---real soon. Are you ready?
Of course we have to defend ourselves, but those who see only a violent solution play right into the hands of the enemy. Whether I am "ready" or not should be irrelevant for you but tanks for your concern ;-) "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." ~~ Sun Tzu
That is excellent writing and observations, Don. As an older whelp than you, a child in the 50s and a teenager in the 60s, I feel like I was born and raised in a different solar system and/or have experienced Jew, charlatan Einstein's theory of relativity. The ruling class monsters have definitely removed their velvet gloves from their iron fists this century and our planned destruction is in hyper-drive. For each of us, in our individual ways, we must resist these Archons and their sub-human sycophants to the best of our abilities.
It's nice to be younger than somebody, Hereticdrummer. Thanks!
Bear in mind, Don, that whether you "Roll a 7" at the age of 5 or 150, it is just a blink of the eye in the expance of eternity. Be well.
Even if he plagiarized his wife, leave Albert alone. While he only promoted nuclear bombs, some suggest Matthew 24:29 refer to incoming nuclear warheads.
I don't think it was his wife that he plagiarized. Tesla didn't like or trust him. Thanks.
Fuck Albert.
"Where do all the white people work" is exactly what goes through my mind. It's so refreshing and rare to read someone who knows, thinks about and writes things that are true. The world is a cosmic mad house, but like you, I dwell in my little island of sanity.
Thanks for the kind words, Gwaihir!
i really enjoy your style of writing....snarky as hell, but quite to the point...is there a solution to this cultural disfunction?...i'm afraid there is....it is called armageddon, and is coming to a town near you...why all this armageddon every now and then?...not sure, but i think it has to do with what they call karma....when you are put in a position of trust, and you forsake that trust, you have to pay it back one way or another...and so we see all of this empire formation and collapse, over and over again, from a micro to a macro level...keep up that interesting writing style...you have pretty closely nailed the amerikan disfunction.
I really appreciate the kind words, Marty. Thanks!
Well, if armageddon is the predicted outcome, why not just leave this awful union? Got nothin' to lose in that case ;-)
When some people tried that in 1860, almost a million died. We should have the right- the entire War for Independence revolved around the consent of the governed. Lincoln shattered that concept. I don't think these tyrants would ever let us leave. They need us- we don't need them. Thanks.
Yes, amigo, we are all quite familiar with that terrible history and the worst US president in history. I would submit that the price of staying is much higher than the price of leaving.
I wrote extensively about the real Lincoln, and the damage he wrought to the country the Founders envisioned, in "Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963." I'll have even more on the tyrant Lincoln, Grant, etc., in the next volume of Hidden History. Thanks.
Thanks for bringing these essential truths to the fore, my friend. Looks like Jefferson's tree of liberty is about to be refreshed once again, one way or the other ...
well, take a look at history...humans almost always do the wrong thing....so you're right, there is nothing to lose...collapse now and avoid the rush.
Yes! Historically, humans have put their faith in governments (rulers), so yep it's almost always the wrong thing. And since the lying, warmongering, feral US government will likely collapse the economy and/or get us all killed ... why not just try to leave? And as the wheels start to come off this thing, the feds may have their hands full, too busy in damage control mode to kill the citizens of Texas, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Florida, et al, to make them stay in a union that is now thoroughly broken by virtue of their own insane duplicity. Just a thought ... your mileage may vary ;-)
I have listened to you on the radio with C2C and maybe even heard you on our Richard Syrett show up here in the Great White North. I'm so glad I found you on SS. What a happy accident! I could read you all day. If I win the lottery I'll become a paying subscriber and do just that! ❤️
"Why couldn’t they take any of our DNA the same way, and attempt to frame us? So I’m really limiting my interaction with this rigged system."
I have a saying. I didn't make it up and can't be bothered to investigate who it was, but: Yes I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? 🤣
Thank you for all you are doing Mr. Jeffries! 😘
Hearing things like this keeps me going, Toxicanadian. I can't tell you how much it means to me. Thanks!
I'm Canadian too, and not too happy about the pathetic state of this country.
Yes, things seem pretty crazy up in the Great White North, too. Thanks.
Haha. Felt every bit of that. My Mister used to be the chronic traffic horn blower/ cusser to those just sitting at a light or doing lane things, unaware of their four corners, but thankfully has realized sheesh he might just get shot for even a mean glance.
Not sure what happened at the post office -but apparently it’s that way all over. Pink haired grandma is trying to be relevant with the kiddos, or making her own political statement- maybe she even donned a pink hat and wailed when she thought Hitlery was going to break the glass ceiling.
*Riley has a good life, and I’m sure is responsible for a lot of smiles. 🐾
I tell her all the time she's living the Life of Riley. She doesn't get the cultural reference. Thanks, Karen!
Karen , you are right on the pink haired grandma. Being relevant with the grandkids. She'll do anything to be "relevant". She'll sell her soul to be relevant.
Just like grandmas who spring for Taylor Swift concert tickets for their grand daughters! And brag about it.
Well, at least Taylor Swift initially produced some pretty innocent and decent pop music. My daughter was obsessed with the Jonas Brothers, who all wore promise rings on stage and were open about their virginity. It might have all been fake, but that was a good message for kids.
" But ...but...but....I want my grandkids to like me."
Frankly, I thought Betty White was the personification of the "courting the kids" phenomena. One is cool if one panders to the whims of the children.
Betty White, like a majority of actresses since the Golden Age, had no biological children. I've talked about this phenomenon before. They trotted her out in her advanced age to mouth whatever new absurd "Woke" platitudes were presently making the rounds. Thanks.
Wow, how we are the same, but how we do differ. I guess not all all of us whackadoodle tinfoil hats think alike.
I grew up in suburbia. You are right that most people in suburbia don't even know the names of their neighbors, let alone talk to them. Later in life I morphed into a redneck. And by golly, I did not think that neighborhoods akin to the one you describe existed anymore. That must be quite the time warp.
These days, I avoid suburban housing developments like the plague. They make for the worst sheeple. People there still think it is the late '70's and act as though Jimmy Carter was president. (At least he, allegedly, knew how to grow peanuts.)
Way out here in redneck land, nobody cares where your dog poops or pees. One or two lawns I pass by by are immaculate, and my dog knows they are no-poop zones. (I despise stupid laws, but I do have old fashioned common courtesy and horse sense. Normally my dog bombs lawns that have enough on them already that it is basically fertalizing.)
You do hear the roosters crowing though. Roosters are good. Yeah, they can be annoying, but it is a hearty sign that the chicken revolution is well underway in these parts. I can get brown eggs from my neighbors that are twice the size of the pathetic pale things sold at the grocery for about 2 bucks a dozen. They have been at the price for years. Once, they were twice as expensive as the grocery, now they are half the price.
Speaking of the grocery- it is a family run hole-in-the-all affair where I get my dry goods- flour, sugar, salt, some spices, and butter. I get my meat from a local butcher at the farmers' market. I get my milk-raw- from cows I can watch grazing in the pasture. I have a garden full of lettuce and soon pumpkins. The only hyper-processed food left on my menu is pasta. (I could make my own, but that is time consuming, and at just $.89 a box, it's actually cheaper than the flour I have to use.)
At any rate, I can be sure I'm eating wholesome, local food, and not only God knows what is in that box of Cheerios or Pop Tarts.
I used to drive a Ford Festiva but that got impounded by the Rice County Kansas Sheriff back in 2003. No insurance, no registration, and a drivers licence that expired in 1991. I never played by the rules, but I drove safely, and courteously, back in the day. Put 300,000 miles on that car, rebuilt the engine once, and replaced every bearing multiple times. I also discovered that by gutting the catalytic converter my mileage increased to almost 80 miles per gallon. (imagine filling up in Jacksonville Florida and your next pit stop is Houston, Texas, and the next one after that is Deming, New Mexico.) Turned out the law was doing me a favor. Twas right after that gas prices doubled, then tripled.
Sounds like you have a designer dog. I can hardly afford to feed my dog let alone give her half the crap suburbanites think their pets need. My dog's only toy is a pink puppy Kong that she has nearly chewed in half. But she loves it. She is a husky-border collie mix and I knew, from the time she was a puppy, that she was going to be an absolute train wreck but she was the cutest puppy... you know how that goes...
I do share your disdain of everything law enforcement. My last run-in with the law was when I was cutting up a neighbor's fallen tree (no good deed goes unpunished) and was burning a bunch of green pine branches that were giving off lots of smoke. So the cop claimed I was having an illegal fire. (All he was really trying to do was get my personal information.) It was actually hilarious. I ended up getting falsely arrested, then the cop was not wanting to take me down for "booking" (probably so he would not get laughed at). So he called his supervisor, who called his supervisor, who called the fire department, and, after the fire chief laughed, I got released. But these cops do take themselves seriously, and I suppose the next time I will get shot through the head when I don't pay them homage. But that's okay...
I don;t want to live in America 2.0 ten minutes longer than what God wills.
As far as eating out, forget it. If I have a good income week I can score a tuna hogie at a stand in the farmers' market, but the last time I was "rich" I got cheese and pepperoni pizza for 20 bucks. Definitely not worth it.
Suburbia is everything that is wrong with America. Infrastructure costs, local politicians that see every house as a cash cow, corrupt school boards, neighbors calling the cops if you look like a bum... No thanks.
Just hope yours is the last "development" to burn to the ground. Good riddance.
I appreciate your descriptive sharing of your own experiences, White Wolf. I recognize that your way has lots of advantages. My dog is a pure breed and a diva. But I love her. Thanks.
I love my dog too. The best dog I ever had was not a dog, but my wolf, Nanuk. (He looked a lot like a Siberian Husky. I always called him a Siberian, even though he was more than twice the size of the average Siberian.)
You would have loved Nanuk. He thought the whole world was one big friendly pack. He just could not imagine why any dog would want to growl at him, or anybody hit him.
Even the cops loved him.
I could have been walking during a BLM riot, and not get molested by anyone.
I do look forward to the day when we can view the world the way Nanuk did.
The little pooch that is my avatar was my dog Ping, who died in 2002. In July of 1997, I passed through Yellowstone National Park on my way home from a month long road trip to the East Coast. My leashed dog and I were sitting on the veranda of the lodge, when I noticed a huge canine (which could only be a wolf) on the other end of the veranda. He was eyeing my dog with extreme interest, and making a sound which I realized was some type of prey recognition vocalization. Knowing he could break free of his owner and have my dog by the throat in three seconds...I got out of there pretty quickly.
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"Wherever I go, it’s seldom a pleasurable experience. As someone who’s old enough to have lived in a different world, this is all very depressing." Yourself.
DJ: Oh, so true. Great article. Thank you for writing it. You actually went to an IHOP on Senior Day? Are you a masochist? LOL.
Here in our little town, a "Brigadoon" in Sonoma County, we still have whites working at the PO and the stores. The Mexicans here speak very good English. They know they will be running this place soon as demographics are on their side. They can wait.
My Dad told me decades ago that old people are the most selfish people on Earth. He was right.
PS: I just spent an hour drinking iced down Amstel Light looking at our garden and yard. Haha.
I know that Whites work in retail in many parts of the country. Just not much here. Thanks, Timmy!
Seriously Donald... you are a welcome writer who actually understands what has already happened to our country, and the world, who is profoundly perceptive and literately talented enough to describe his recognition. Thank you 🙏
Read his book "Hidden History". Extremely depressing. I don't know how he psychologically survived researching and writing it. I'll probably celebrate when thermonuclear world war arrive.
Lol. Yes, most of what I write is depressing. You can't describe what's going on optimistically. Thanks.
"Thermonuclear war" was as close as I could come to optimism. Apparently 90% of the population (most all the "Sensing" types, and some of the Intuitive-Feelers as well, perhaps even some NTs) are sold out. And many of the 10% don't want to know, so just put on a happy face. While I already knew most of what is in your book, you seem to have taken a deeper dive. Where's Tim Rifat when we need him? (Disappeared while I was blind with a cataract.) Did you replace him? /Wet rag out!
Yes, that's the problem- people don't want to be confronted with the awful truth. They don't want to have their illusions shattered, and realize the extent of the corruption and evil. I haven't heard of Tim Rifat. Thanks.
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=%22tim+rifat%22&sa=Search&domains=rense.com&sitesearch=rense.com
Wow. I will have to bring Tim up with Jeff. Thanks!
It means a lot to hear that, Maureen. Thank you!
Everything that you say is true, but I don't know know whether I feel more nostalgic or depressed. Give your dog a big hug for me...
I will, FLSherri. Thanks!
Another home-run sir, excellent and a pleasure to read because it is well said, and spot on.
Dr. Roberts, I see that you generously opted to become a paid subscriber to my other Substack. Unfortunately, I can't turn on payments for that one. People who are interested can become paid subscribers here. Thanks.
Thanks, Dr. Roberts!
I love this article! So many things about which you wrote are very frustrating to Americans today. Your ability to take us back to the America we used to know and love, while hitting upon our current dilemma's, is superb!
That's so nice to hear, Donna. Thank you!
What happens at the long wait for the very short turn signal is the individual can't get their face out of their device...fortunately my explorer xlt with the 5.0 mustang engine doesn't have a problem going around them...have done that a few times however try to keep it to a minimum because I as you have no desire to speak to a bully with a badge, gun and I would suppose little man complex.
Yep, texting is usually the culprit, although I remember complaining a bit about this even before cell phones. Thanks.
I used to honk at them but figured out that it was more fun to let them sit there, sometimes long enough for the light to turn red again, along with their face ;-)
If their face turns red it would be from a radiation burn unable to extricate it from the skrying mirror
Don, you have given me pause to think about our next luncheon. I think I'm going to have the Strogenoff next time. Enough with Buffalo Chicken and blue cheese crumbles! Funny thing happened on the way to the spell check here for Strogenoff. I left it spelled this way because the spell check suggested "estrogen" in its place. 2.0 was that plan for destruction. Maybe the spell check doesn't want me to think of beef? Good to see you sir!!! Take care of the tire!
yours in liberty,
Vince
Lol. You are in somewhat of a Buffalo Chicken rut. I didn't write about today's experience because it was very pleasant, as it always is. A few hours transported back to America 1.0....
It makes wonder how our predecessors in places such as Italy, Germany and Russia handled their settings as their nations were purposefully driven into the ground. At least we aware and more are shedding their denial. Next time, I will break the diet! :)
Maybe we'll go down swinging, my friend. Thanks.
I'm sure of that! Like an Irishman defending his mother's reputation!
I could not have thought of anything more vital to share. LOL. You bring a smile to my face. (Not an easy thing to do today!)
Excellent writing (as always), Don. Having traveled all over the country including northern VA, I feel fortunate to have lived most of my life in the very rural upper midwest. People here still mow their own yards and the gas stations are mostly American-owned and operated. Population density and tyranny are almost always proportional.
I'm not much of a traveler- only seen the sites a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights. So maybe I am judging by the way things are in the D.C. suburbs. But I doubt there are any Mayberrys out there, untouched remnants of America 1.0. Thanks!
I’ve traveled the lower 48 -3 million miles over the last 30 years. You would be pleasantly surprised . The real division in this country is urban/suburban vs. rural. That’s something I wish BRV better understood. He reminds of the classic “View from a New Yorker” magazine cover from 1976. Lol But I will concede that America 2.0 is ever encroaching on us.
Excellent article again. Good to hear sensible people unlike the ridiculous commentary writers in the daily newspaper. Sorry you don't have good experience w the post office.
Me, my wife, her sister and my oldest brother are all retired postal employees and I certainly enjoyed my career w them. And no postal employee wasn't American that I know of. Mostly good, hardworking people.
You probably worked there in a different era, Norman. And I guess the D.C. suburbs are probably a lot more "diverse" than many parts of the country. Thanks!